1931-07-07 — Page 7

TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1931,

'BACHELOR GIRL'S” MARRIAGE

Effect of the East on Husband's Nervės.

THREAT TO SHOOT.

Allegations that

former Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Foreu throatened to shoot his wife the second night after their mar rings and attempted to strangle her on the third and fourth nights were made and denied in a petition for judicial suparation, the hearing of watch was concluded in the Divorce Court recently,

The petitioner, Mrs. Iris Newton, who, is living with her mother at Ingle Lodge, Addlestone, Surrey, alleged cruelty by her husband, Mr. Thomas Henry Newton, D.S.C., former Squadron Lender in the Royal Air Force, who gave a London

hotel address,

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ROMANTIC STORY OF STRANGE COLONY IN

[SHIPWRECK: “

SUSSEX EN

Scottish Assembly and Yarn in the Best Style Funerals Welcomed by

Restatement of Faith.

any

INTERESTING DECISION.

of Ballantyne:

HOW BISHOP FARED.

Bahamas,

"Coklers."

AUSTERE RELIGION.

"To te a popular phrase, he is a man who has lived dangerously." said his Lorship.

One of the most interesting de- "He is a man

The strangest religious commun- An absorbing real-life story of trionte ability.

of no small his-cisions of the General Assembly of shipwreck on a tropical island inity in the world has its home in a It is an education the Church of Scotland is that ap the best traditional style of Ballan-remote corner of Sussex. in the art of histrionice Squadron Lender

to hear proving of the preparation of a tyne has just reached London. It The mombers wear early Victorian nounce the word 'murder.'

Newton. pro- brief popular atatement of the was told by the Right Rev. R. G. clothes, regard marriages with gloom he says it, one understands the full the view that the beliefs of the yacht Livonia sank in a storms on recognise no other interest in life When faith. Several speakers expressed Sheddon, Bishop of Nassau, whose and funerals with gladness, and meaning of the word. I think if he Church should be expressed in May 9 off Eastern Plans Cay, outside their dally work and the used it in the presence of a woman terms familiar to the present age.

oven

observances of the most austero u. woman of courage-she A call for more foreign mission might well quail before it."

The Bishop, with his sister Miss religious principles. aries was made, the need for whom Shedden, Father Knowles, and six The key to and the solution of it was stated, was very pressing.

Every Sunday and Bank Holiday the whole situation, continued his

others, intended to sail for Maya- they close the shops they own, even Lördahip, was the incident which

Sleeping Dogmas.

guana to Crooked Island-a distance shutting off the taps of their road- took place on the second day after Church of Scotland adopted the de-covered a third of the distance they rest of the world is making holiday. The General Assembly of the of about 50 miles. When, they had side petrol pumps. Thus, while the the marriage the incident of the liverance of the Committee on the put in at Eastern Plana Cay to get they worship in a little chapel on automatic pistol." Mr. Newton denied the charges. produced to his

The respondent Revision of the Creed, which re-some wood and, if possible, some the hillside behind the village, with His version of the alleged strangling automatic pistol, and told her with brief popular statement of the the crew.

loaded comments the preparation of turtle's eggs to vary the diet of intervals for meals and sleep. incident was that he had a night-that dranintie intensity of which he'faith, and suggests that a short)

Officially the name of this com-" mare and dreamt that he was ight was the unconscious master, and declaration of the substance of the

A 'Heavy Storm.

munity is "The Church of the De jug natives. His nerves were said with a voice of singular power, that Christian faith and statement of again a heavy storm burst upon

As the yacht was about to leave pondents," but everyone in that to be affected by service in the he had the intention of committing the Church's message, to the world them. A violent squall of

part of England calls them East.

wind 'Coklera.' Mr. and Mrs. Newton were. mas murder. Mrs. Newton. was frighten ought, to be before the mind of the almost overturned the boat, the rain How this name 'originated is not ed on that occasion. She had the Church. A recommendation is also came down in a blinding deluge, and clear. People who have studied the ried at Kensington Register Office idea that her husband was threat made that the name of the Commit the vessel xan on to a shoal. In a in July, 1928, and afterwards lived ening to

history of the sect say that it is a murder her, various holele. They parted Lordship was satisfied that he was mittce on the Restatement of the under

but his tee should be changed to the Com-moment the floor of the cabin was corruption of cocoa drinkerg' the at after three weeks.

water. The boats waro name given to the members when Mrs. Newton's counsel stated be-

Church's Faith. "Not a Bad Man." !

hastily lowered, provisions and as they began as a temperance move- fore her marriage she was "a Mr. Newton was not a bed man. submitting the deliverance, said the ferred from the yacht, and the pas

The Rov. Professor Mackintosh, many belongings as possible trans-ment 75 years ago. modern bachelor girl."

The membera live in a world of His letters read sincerely and Committee were not proposing in sengers and crew returned to the their own. They deny themselves Mr. Justice Langton, giving judg-genuinely. He was capable of ment, described the cree as "the charming moods, and of writing, Westminster Confcasion of Faith. after weighing anchor the yacht Theatres, cinemas, even wireless senge to lay hands on the island. Three-quarters of an hour all iuxuries, sport, and amusement. most lamentable. I have heard in a excellent and charming letters, but now Confession of Faith of the sank in about two fathoms of water. are unknown to them. Their only court of law.” He had formed, he there was an occasion when an ac same type or dimensions would not A fire was lit and the Blahop and reading is the Scriptures. said, the conclusion that the re-quaintance, had unfortunately by a alleviate a single difficulty, and his companions set about drying spondent was a man of strong, un remark instilled into his mind might create many new difficulties. themselves. Meanwhile, the captain lip sticks, allort skirts and other Shingled 'hair, powder puffs and governable emotions. That did not horrible suspicion of jealousy. mean to say that all the faults of the which his Lordship found to have lay, Glasgow, in seconding the returned to the wreck and were their women folk. As soon as they The Rev. Professor A. R. Macau, and four members of the crew had changes in fashion mean nothing to case were on the side of Squadron been wholly without foundation. Leader Newton.

Mrs. Newton said that on two there were some he knew who were, tresses, Blankets, etę, ...........

adoption of the deliverance, said engaged in diving to retrieve mat-pass the school-girl age they adopt The petitioner was a young and occasions she awoke to find her hus-diaposed to say, "Let sleeping dog-

the sort of costume our great- modern woman, who went on her band's hand on her throat, and she mas lie." (Laughter.) It was no hours Joe Taylor, the Captain, said, black or dark blue, and a tightly When they had been away two grandmothers wore, long skirts of ewn Initiative, and, no doubt, alieged he was attempting to against her mother's wishes, to live strangle her, but there was no mark exaggeration to say that that was "I know my Lord is getting anxious. Atting bodice buttoning high in the in London with her half-brother in

on elifer occasion.. Squadron tended to do. (Renewed laughter.) went down and

precisely what sleeping dogmans I'll just make one more dive." He neck. Their hair is plaited and Leader Newton's version was that it was well within the mark to say, The crew waited for the best part straw bonnet.

never reappoared. rolled in a bun beneath a small he had the same nightmare on both that if they slept-a long time, for of an hour and two fruitless at- occasions and had dreamt that he a few centuries perhaps, they lost tempts to find him were made dark colours of homespun cloth.

The men, too, dress soberly in

the virtue they once had of being When the Bishop was informed be Among the staunchest adherents able to give expression to the led the party to a point on the the spinster is, esteemed more than trutli.

Island. nearest to the vessel and the married woman. Marriages are the Rev. Dr. W. W. D. Gardiner, reminding them that the hull of the only one Colder's wedding-in the An amendment was proposed by conducted a short funeral service, not. frequent. Sussex remembers hill on her, own wilk and was very unaccommodating to those who

His Lordship added that be was

Edinburgh, declaring that the time Livenia, which Taylor had loved so past four years. differed from her. She was golist satisfied that since July 5 Squadron has not arrived for the revision of much, was just the coffin be would Births are not hailed as occasions ical. The letter in which she Leader Newton had suffered from Church;

the subordinate standards of the have chosent.

for special rejoicing. But death, elaimed an allowance of £300 out, the obsession, which had. become!

ar for the systematic

Camp Pitched,

representing the birth Into the of £700 a year, and graciously said almost a delusion, that his wife, her in a new statement. Te ask them, western end of the taland, which gladness.

formulation of the Christian faith They party then set out for the higher life, is approached, with that she would spend something or mother, and half-brother were in he said, to engage in their Pres- they reached after a two hours the house, showed her to be a per league against him. It was utterly

When one of the brethern dies son of a distorted view of the possi-unfounded.

byteries in disputing with regard tramp. "There," said Bishop Sed- there is no mourning and no flowers, bilities of married life. Squadron I think this lady was in reason to faith and secking to make faith den, "We pitched a camp ona nor is a headstone set up above the.. Leader Newton was accustomed to able apprehension and therefore the was surely simply to ask them to stretch of open sand. Mosquitoes grave in the cemetery behind the exercise authority and to demand lamentable result of the lamentable divide again into their two com were terrible. We had nothing dry chapel. obedience, He would not easily case is that there must be a judiclal ponent ports.

to lie on, the sand itself was very. Some of the old people in Sussex brock interference with his will. separation with costs."

This amendment was seconded damp and hard. Wo could only remember, when the doctrine of the by the Rev. Dr. J. G. Sutherland, crowd in as close to the fire na we Dependents began spread in that Mr. Huntley's case was

joint-elork who said they had such could to let smoke drive the mos- part of England. cluded, and evidence was called big questions before them in their quitoes from us and get fitful It started when John Sirgood on behalf of the Bishop of Nor-nited Church, that the time had snatches of sleep. We said prayers gave up cobbling in Clapham and scarcely come to enter seriously; altogether before we turned in."; migrated to Sussex. There he

1927. There she met Squadron Leader Newton, who was a man of proved courage, with the not very remarkable income of $700 a year.

"Wayward and Very Wilful” In his Lorship's opinion Mrs. Newton was A wayward and very wilful person, who insisted to the

"NOT A BETTER

· MAN.” -

Woman and Inhibited,

Rector.

APPEAL AGAINST SENTENCE.

was struggling with natives.**

His Lordship said he entirely ac quitted Mr. Newton of any desire to strangle his wife. In his Lord- ship's view. Mr. Newton's act was

an Involuntary one.

wich.

con-

A

..

Mr. Arthur Philip Wharton, a upon a great subject such as this. On the next morning three of preached in the chapel at Loxwood farmer, of Bircham Tofte, who

The amendment was rejected, the party set out in one of the and in the neighbouring hamlets. was churchwarden of the parish and the deliverance carried by an boats to an island five miles away. Soon he had gathered round him a

while from there they were to sail large band of followers. for nearly 40 years up to 1926, overwhelming majority.

to Acklin Island, another village, five miles from the neatent another 12 miles Now Loxwood, anoid-world

*

said that from September, 1929, The Danger Of Retreat.”

The remainder prepared to settle railway station, is the headquarters

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AFTER · BÜLLETS

BANANAS, N

to the following June there were The Assembly Hall was crowded on. no services at Bircham Tofts later when consideration. of and services were very irregular the report of the Foreign Missions down.. Soon, however, a sail was of the movement. Here the De- in the two preceding years..

Committee was taken up, and many scen. Then," said the Bishop, "we pendents run their own farm and a woman gavo evidence for asked Mr., Wharton about a meet-

Mr. E. Gorst (for Mr. Huntley) were compelled to stand:

hoisted a small garment of my large store supplying everything the Rev. S. A. Norris Huntley,ing of the Church Council:

The Rev. Dr. Robert Forgan, slater's on to a pole for a flag and from groceries to petrol. Rector of Bircham Newton and "I left the meeting," said Mr. In presenting the report, said the

Joint Convener of the Committee, set about looking for fresh water

and collecting firewood.""" Bircham Tofts, Norfolk, when Wharton, "because Mr. Huntley real growth of a mission was not *** Stowed on Board: |

The sull belonged to a small boat the hearing of his appeal against sat with his feet on the table to be measured merely by numeri-

showing his legs," a sentence of inhibition passed daughter made a remark about of the report, would, he was sure, The shipwrecked party of eight When my cal increase. Any careful reader of only two tons with a crew of five. on him by the Bishop of Norwich it, he said, 'I'm not showing as find ample evidence of genuine pro selves on board and by noon the

however, managed to stow them was continued in the King's much leg as you are, and I said, gress. Bench Division.

'We had better leave. We walk-

next day they reached Crooked In several of their fields, he oh Island. Here Father Knowles set The appeal, which is being Asked why he turned the Rec- for its continuance at the present with Nassau for help, Finding the

ed out."

served, the work was dependent off for Long Cay to communicate heard by the Archbishop of Can- tor out of his house on a subse-time upon the courage and per wireless.etation there out of com- bury and Mr. Justice Talbot, quent occasion, Mr, Wharton said severance of a considerable num mission, he returned in his own the parish for about two years, of whom had definitely stated that slater and the remainder of the that the Rector had not been in ber of veteran missionaries, some motor-boat and took the Bishop, his and had not visited him at all.

The less of a fortune means little they were struggling on at their party back to the shelter of his posta anxiously awaiting the aprectory at Long Cayer who Invented the explosive bullet to John Pomeroy, the New Zealand- pointment of their successors. Blahop, 3hedden, who is a son of which drove the Zeppe away from

But where were they to find Sir George Shedden, Chairman of London, to d

Appeal Dismissed.

The appeal was dismissed.

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was the first of its kind under the Benefices Act (1926), Mr Huntley's complaint being that the Commission, upon whose re- port the Bishop of Norwich in- hibited him, acted without juris- appeared to him impossible to the Committed resolved to make 10 minent Anglo Catholic, and attended £25,000 in all. Then, after the war, Mr. Justice Talbot said that it their successors? Early this year the Tale of Wight Bench, la a pro His Invention brought him about diction in that he did not receive doubt that the ecclesiastical appointments, but in face of their the Lambeth Conference last year... the necessary written, notice. duties of the united benefice anancial difficulties they had to It was learned that he had re- he lost every penny in new 'Inven- Mr. Huntley denied the allega were inadequately performed reduce the number to six men. On signed his See and was on his way States Now he philosophically tions and speculations in the United that Mr. Huntley used obscene appoint a larger number. As far

He thought that the allegation the women's side it was hoped to tp Britain in the Mauretania, pashes a peripatetic coffee stall, and expressions was abundantly prov- as they could sea at present, how called a retre

Tatakes his reputation on his pork ever it was doubtful if even the called a retreat. It was not a reples and saveloys

a six men required could be secured.ront; it merely indicated that a How do I feel about losing that breathing space was? Aken little pile of mine?" he said. Well, Mary Slessor once said "If you"!

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