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SIR HENRY WILSON.
SIR WORPEN'S NEW
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Interesting piemories of Sir Henry Wilson, the great Ulster soldier (who was assuminated by Irish fanatics in London last June) aro contributed to the June num-
ber of the Empire-Resiow by Sir Ting, Wanchal Gap Road. Willinny Orpen, R.A., who painted a notable picture of the Field Mar- shal during the sitting of the Fence Conference at Versailles.
Apply to 32 Kennedy Road,
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A MEETING will be held (weather permitting) st Happy Valley, SATURDAY, July 7th, commonelng 8.30 p.m.
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Each member has the right of in- troducing 2 nou-mambore to the tuembers' enclosure, tiskote for whom can be obtained from Messrs. Linatend -♬ Davis at -80.each up to FRIDAY
July 8th.
The Stewarda invite the Ladies of) Hongkong to be present.
Hongkong, June 27, 1923.
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mornings--a sort of huah spread over all the little crowd waiting| for the train to take them to their daily tasks in Dublin:
Buch perfect clothes, such per- fect figures, pata to wonder sb, boots to dream of Sir Henry always with a rain-cost thrown over bis shoulder, always with yellow gloved hands clasped be hind him. Him wo called Rake Face Wilson; bis brother was Droop Eya Wilson.
While I wou painting him," Sir William goes on lo suy
even know this Europe, which we are dealing with to some extent. Sir Henry We loveled, to his mother, his home, and his country.
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ITEMS FROM FAR AND -NEAR
I remember him telling me in 1919 that neither he nor hig :bro-- thera. had missed one day in 25| Crossing the railway line at New- year it willing to their mother, market to go to his allotment, Isa and she never missed, one day Raymond was kicked down a writing to them,
killed by a train.
AN OMINOUS
POSSIBILITY
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UNKNOWN COUNTESS:
MARRIAGE HIDDEN.
· FOR 7 YEARS.
A train containing 100 winering home” collided with an engine near Stoke on Trent. Four carriages were de railed, but no one was injured.
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marriage were S Roger and G. Rowley.
Although to the world ho was "regarded as a bachelor, his wife. was at Bournemouth' daring' hits Illness and watched at his bedside. for days.
for seven years has been kept a A romance of the peerage which
HEIR A DISTANT COUSIN. secret is disclosed by the death. In several accounts published of of the Earl of Breadalbane after a the earl's death ho was described long liness in a Bournemouth purs-as unmarried. According to the reference: books the new eart is Jain Edward Herbert Campbell, Captain Charles William Campbell, 8th Earl of Breadalbane, succeeded who was distant cousin to the 8th to the title last October on the death earl of his uncle. Although much space Now that the secret is a secret is devoted to the Breadalbane no longer all the reference books family in Debrett, Burke, Oliver will have to show the late earl as a and Boyd's Almanac, and other re-married man and give his widow, who for 7 years has, so far as the peerage is concerned, had no official existence, the iltle of Marte Countess of Breadalbane.
While the ear lay dying in
"Pretty bad fire you hait here last night," commented the recent- He gave me his views on the ly arrived guest brains and inorits of many of the
*Theyah!" replied the landlord Between $500 and £600 worth of Delegates--views full of wit and of the" Petunia tavern. The fixe inge, lockets, and bracelets were Ho-nover could koop his sense
brilliant criticism. With all his company had it pretty nearly put stolen from the premises of Freference books, the earl does not fun, Sir Henry, was a deep thinker out, and then the mayor came and derick Dixon, jeweller, 304, Oxford- figure as a married man of humour down--not even when ho wished to cover it up by sitting
and towered over the majority of took personal charge of the constreet, W.
The secret was known to a few only. On September 18, 1916, as on it. Think of the Peuce Con- frocks" by his personality, big Bagration, and yelled orders till he
outlook and clear vision.
got the firemen so mixed up that Many villages war devastated lain Edward Horbert Campbell, a ference and his word picture of
Sir William naked Wilson what they couldn't do anything,. And I and bundreds of their inhabitanta naval lieutenant and bachelor of Bournemouth, the quiet, patient. thio politicions; "The little
a great reckon if it hadn't begun to rain killed by a violent earthquake which 31, he married in St. Giles register Frocks, little Frocks in great his opinions were about surroundings, all making a mess British leader of the Fence Confer directly the whole town would have bos ocuired, at Tarbat-I-Hadari, office, Bloomsbury, Miss Marle woman who watched beside his
been holocausted. But I s'pose it
Laura Reeves Hunt, 26, a theatrical bod was known as Mrs, Campbell. of everything, dear little Frocks."once, and he said;
might have been worse----”
artist, of 25, Marchmont-street, Before her marriage she frequently When he was a child, Sir Wil-
Bloomsbury. His address at the appeared on the stage in sketches, liam says, he used to see Wilson and
The house of the Dowager Lady time-of the marriage was given as bis brother often in Dublin.
Mainwaring, at South Ascot, Berk- 22, Bernard-street: W.C., in the shire, was ransacked, and rings and marriage certificate he is described other articles to the value of about as the son of John Campbell, a
When You Eat Too Much. £120 were stolen.
captain in the Cameron Highlan-relieved by taking one of Chamberlain's Distress in the stomach after eating že ders. The bride's father, who is Tablets Try it the next time you ost dead, was described as a building more than you should. For sin by all
The witnesses to the Chemists and Storekeepers.
I remember well when they appeared on the platform in the
MARKET
Well, little woep, he's a funny How could it have been worse?" but a very olever little fellow. "Why the governor or a con- He comes from a very small gressman might have come and place, and knows very little about took charge instead of the mayor, the world at large. He doesn't and it might not have rained.
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