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ENGINEER'S WEDDING
Mr. E. M. Joffe Marries Miss M. E. Murray
A
WEDDING of much interest
June 23, 1939.
Stone Thrown 2,000 Years
Ago In Museum
was solemnised at the A GOAT, a calf, several dogs and a barnyard fowl are Registry, Supreme Court, yester-immortalised in exhibits at the new Verulamium Museum, day afternoon, when Miss Mil-built by the Corporation of St. Albans and opened recently licent Evelyn Murray became the bride of Mr. Eugene Max by Lord Harewood.
Joffe.
The bride, who is well-known, in Hongkong, is the daughter of Mr. Thomas Murray. She went
homo to West Norwood, London, some time ago, and arrived back In the Colony on Wednesday for her marriage.
The bridegroom, who is the son of
Mr. Max Joffe, chemist, is an engineer of the Chinn Light and Power Co.,
They stepped on some unfired roof-tiles fresh from a Roman workshop nearly 2,000 years ago, and left their footprints behind.
One large red tile 18 inches long tells an unmistakable story. At one end are the shallow paw-marks of a dog standing, and beside them, imbedded in the clay, a big flint pebble which must have scored a hit. At the other end are the deep paw-marks of the dog in full flight,
Ltd, stationed at Hok Un, Kowloon. The museum houses all the finds; Mr. Τ. J. Gould, Deputy Registrar that lay hidden since the end of
of Marriages, offeinted at the cere-Roman days in Britain until the five-
mony, and the witnesses were Mrs, year excavation begun in 1930 by Dr. £11,000 To Animals
C. Crofton and Mr. V. H, Freeman, R. E. Mortimer Wheeler and his Into
The reception was held at the wifo. Parislan Grill, where the customary toasts were honoured by the many friends of the happy couple.
Chinese Ceremony
The wedding also took place at the Registry yesterday before Mr. T. J. Gould, between Mr. Yee Lim, grocer, and Miss Mn May-ho, of 283 Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong. The witnesses were Messrs. Chan Ying and Lo Ylu.
Silver Wedding
A cocktail party, will be given in honour of the silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Willam Grimmitt at the Hongkong Hotel on July 4 at
noon.
FLOORS ROLLED UP
And Birds
Three almost perfect mosule floors OVER £11,000 has been left to. from rich men's villas, between 12 to institutions caring for animals 14 feet wide, are set like pictures and birds by a Clacton-on-Sea against one of the museum walls, doctor's widow, Mrs. Maria
We had to bring Italien workmen
to lift them intact from their position Slimon, whose estate totalled underground." explained the curator, £109,000. Mr. Philip Corder.
The process, known only in Italy, Included drying the mosaics out for weeks with stoves, covering them with sticky material and then canvas, and chipping away the cement under- neath.
Here are the principal legacles:
Battersea Dogs' Home £3,000, Home of Rest for Horses £3,000, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds £3,000, North London Dogs' Homo
Friends' £1,000. Dumb League £1,000.
The Dodsworth Pit Pony Society is
Then they were rolled up like carpets and reset in new cemento receive £600. Mrs. Slimon kept without disturbing, even by the frac her garden as a bird sanctuary, and it
is to remals so.
FINE COLLECTION
Mr. Grimmitt is the Acting Chieflon of an inch, the position of a Preventive Officer of the Revenue single tessera. Department and is due for retirement in 1041.
Mrs.
Grimmitt
the cldest The collection of household objects doughter of the late Mr. Patrick is remarkable. Henry Murray, formerly manager of
She also left £450 to Clacton police miniature rifle club to perpetuate a trophy for which the police have competed annually and which she presented in memory of her husband. North Point Installation, Aslatic There are tumbler locks with keys
TRADESMEN REMEMBERED Petroleum Co., Ltd.
of all sizes, a lamp chimney, jugs, On February 6, 1911 Mr. Grimmitt dishes, cups, pens and writing tablets,
The. milkman, grocer, baker, joined the Hongkong Police Force, pins and needles both of bone and butcher, window-cleaner and news- and on January 1, 1820 was appoint-bronze, all sorts of counters for paper boy have all been remembered ed First Class Revenue Officer. He games, bits of window-pane, domed Is a member of the Craigongower nails, a roll of wire, domestic gods of his will by Mr. William Beasley, a Leicester sollclter's managing clerk. Cricket Club and D kcen Lawnpipe-clay, and anti-splash bathroom Bowler.
Half A Snake Bites, Too
BRISBANE, Australia.
A bite from half a snake is just as unpleasant as a bite from a whole one, according to Alan Heath, a Townsville farmer, now recuperating
moulding.
Among the women's jewellery are two or three bronze brooches that look as if they might have been "elips."
Tollet articles include spoons which are almost identical witli those used by women to-day for scooping out face powder.
ROUGE IN A SHELL
in a hospital. Heath was plowing One Roman woman kept her rouge when the plough dissected a large snake, The head portion leaped into the air and bit him on his great toe.
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Wider ClaimsTM In Tientsin
LONDON, June. 22.-Japanese sources were to-day indicated that the surrender of the four accused Chinese in Tientsin will no longer satisfy Japan.
The Japanese have accused Britain of frustrating the Japanese currency. problem and harbourng Chiang Kai- shek's agents in the British
condes-
The transfer of deposits on Chiang Kai-shek's Government account in banks in the British Concession at Tientsin to the Japanese controlled Federal Reserve Bank at Peiping s considered likely to be one of Japan's ccnditions for lifting the blockade.- United Press.
INSIST
Genuine
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Mrs. Blankley, n sister, sald that her brother was always very friendly with the tradesmen who came to the house. "I shall distribuie the amount," she said, "as he would have wished."
None of the people mentioned in the will were aware that they would be remembered,
Preaching Helps Collegians
not
Nearly a thouasnd St. Albans people were packed in St. Michael's
NEW CONCORD, O. schoolyard and along the roadside to watch the ceremony, which was held Six Muskingum College students in the open air in front of the fare literally preaching their way museum.
through
work college. Their The crowd stood above the exact only benefits them but also their centre of the ancient Roman elty, congregations, which In most cases where Watling Street crossed its high can't support a full-time minister. street, and a few yards from the To be eligible for such service the Roman Forum which lies under the student must be approved by a board churchyard.
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