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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932.

TRISTAN DA CUNHA

THE "ISLAND OF PARADISE.”

Loneliness Joyless Perfect Unknown Weddings · Teeth

SUPERIOR MEN.

is the buying of coal sweep umbers at the annual and extra ace meetings in Hong Kong. "We are never lonely." This reoccupied by men; the women, sat Apart altogether from the fact ply was invariably given by inha at the back. This is meant to illus- that a certain contribution is bitants of the lonellest outpost of trate one of the strange beliefs stili made to charities by the Hong Cunha, when the question of their superior to woman! The bride- the British Empire, Tristan Da, prevalent in Tristan, that man is Kong Jockey Club in the course remoteness from the rest of the groom-Joseph Glass, aged 24, ar of a year, we never expect to see world was suggested to them by rived, dressed in his best clothes s big head line in a local news-who has just visited the place on

Reuter's special correspondent,' a dark suit with a white collar and a black tie. Then a hymn started. "Here Comes the Bride." While the hymn was being chant

Paradoxes.

paper: "The Great Hong Kong board H.M.S. Carlisle. Gamble." Let us, therefore, be equally tolerant and charitable Many strange paradoxes were re ed, the young bride, Miss Elsie in regard to the Irish Sweeps and

vealed in the course of a brief tour, Swain, aged 22, came clumping up of investigation. the many hospitals that are beyoung men of the island were invit little feet were incased in a pair of Some of the the alale. Clumping-because her ing mightily helped during this ed to seek their fortunes in the men's black boots. She wore the world-wide -period of unprece- great world beyond the South At-only bridal veil on the island and a dented depression and misery!

lantic,

white dress that fell to the ankles. "Never!" was the unanimous re- Both bride and groom wore an ex- tort. However tempting the oppression of severity throughout the portunities held out to them, they ceremony-altogether a very seri all declared that nothing could perous affair, suade them to leave the little island "When we offered the newly-

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News in Brief.

One imported case of amallpox and .one case of cerebrospinal fever were notified yesterday.

K

"

Although

of their birth. Nobody seemed in married couple our congratula.. the least curlous to know about tions," reports Reuter's correspond- other lands.

ent, they showed signs of consi- At the meeting of the Sanitary Or had they heard of the condiderable amazement. Board yesterday, a motion relating tions ander which the world is la- shadow of a smile crossed their seri

At last, the to dairies was unanimously passed. bouring to-day?

oua faces." The Land Without a Toothbrush. -The-total-output-of-the-Kailan-The physical condition of the happy-looking couple resumed the After the wedding, the not-very- Mining Administration's mines for islanders is remarkably fine. The normal duties of their every-day the week ended February 27,idea that constant intermarriages life. amounted to 63,490 metric tons, had produced a degenerate race is brations to mark the event.

There were no joyous cole- The China Mail.

and the sales to 89,150 metric tons proved to have been definitely'

The Padre. penses. Some totalisators, book-

wrong.

Inside the little church is a beau Mesara. Wong Kwong-tin and Hong Kong. Wednesday, Mar. 16, 1932. makers, cinema houses, and foot L. C. F. Bellamy were appointed by sound; and they are never cleaned. A Miracle, 1930."

Their teeth are extraordinarily tiful shrine, erected "In Memory Of ball Clubs may report a slightly the Sanitary Board, yesterday, as Immense amusement greeted the ates an adventure which befell a

It commemor lower inflow of revenue compared to consider the proposed changes in be a useful article. The excellence some 20 miles across the sea to unofficial members of the Committee suggestion that a toothbrush might party of islanders when they went Sweep Sentiments.

with a year ago; but the fact re- the Sanitary Department's Ex of the islanders' teeth is all the inaccessible Island. A sudden mains that the masses must have timates for 1983, With our local nual race their amusements in

more astonishing when it is con- tempest overtook them as they were meeting a pleasant or unpleasant with the wealthy and that self-charged before Mr. Wynne-Jones contradiction to the dental maxim by their padre, the Rev. A. G. Par- sidered that they live on soft foods, returning. Their frail craft seem- When a Chinese mendicant was fish, eggs, milk and potatoes; a flated bound to be engulfed-when, led memory from the angle of cash denial, rigid self-denial, is ob this morning, it was stated that he that "hard tack" is essential to den-, tridge, the members of the expedi- sweeps, with extral meetings served in the breach. ahead of us, with steeplechasing for one moment advocated that to the fact that the soldiers had re-

It is not came here about five days ago, hav-tal health. ing run away from Shanghai, owing!

tion prayed for deliverance, and, by Old Sam's Tale. at Kwanti, pony racing and grey- the people should abstain entire-quested him to be a coolie in con- man on the island, has been de

what seemed a miracle, managed to Samuel Swain, aged 75, the oldest, reach Tristan safely. hound racing so near to us as ly from patronising race meat- nection with the "war business,"clared a dental marvel. He has a

The Tristan Trot. Macao, we can afford to sit backings, cash sweeps, bookmakers,

and he had objected. Defendant perfect and complete set of teeth rather seriously, the islanders are they take things and reflect and moralise, may be, cinémas; and football matches:

was cautioned.".

not one showing a sign of decay. very hospitable people. During on what a

contemporary de- to do so would be a sheer absurd. On a summons for allowing her fisherman Old Sam tells many the "Carlisle was entertained to a He is still a keen and vigorous sea] the warship's visit, a party, from scribed in a head-line as "The ity as tending to place still more Miss E. B. Blackburn, of 55 The tragedy in his eyes, be recalis Trot was given by local adepts. dog to be abroad without a muzzle, tales of shipwreck and storm. With dance. A display of the "Tristan Great Irish Gamble." This persons out of employment. Peak, was fined $6 by Mr. Wynne-the greatest disaster in Tristan's The steps consist of a rapid move- savours almost of a challenge or There must somewhere be the Jones in the Central Police Court history when the island became a ment of the legs, rather like mark an invitation to the "unco guid" proverbial happy mean between hired that it was rather unfor-less children. It was in 1889. striking the floor in time with the this morning. His Worship re community of widows and fathering time at the double, the feet to initiate a newspaper contro-saving on the one hand and tunate that this should have hap- Sarp's father and 14 other men set music. The measure is varied versy on "those dreadful race spending and giving to charitypened just before the suspension of out in a small boat to board a pass with an occasional twirl. sweeps" the while some of the on the other hand. Britain was the regulation by the Governmenting steamer. Terrific seas were participants in the controversy once called a "nation of shop-

There were no encores to these. are purchasing cash

running. The Police not pressing the case,

They never returned. dances which lasted only a min sweep keepers"; a Napoleon of finance and not even saking for confiscation

My Oldest Woman,

uta at a time, There was no ap. tickets on local or Macao races. might to-day describe it as a of the weapon, Mr. Wynne-Jones in is Mrs. Mary Glass, daughter-in-sang songs. The islanders listened The oldest woman on the island plause. Then some of the guests Inconsistency is a common falling nation of hypocrites. What ing imposed a fine of $10 on a young founder of the Settlement. She is to contribute songs of their own to the Central Police Court this morn-law of Corpora! William Glass, the in silence. But they readily agreed of human nature. Thousands of shall it persons throughout Great Bri- if

profit the nation Chinese shop loki, who admitted 92. it condemns Irish Hos-possession of a B.S.A. air rifle,

the programme. tain purchase Irish Hospital pital sweeps in or

one breath. and without a permit from the L.G.P. Reuter's correspondent was pri-dated back to the time of Napoleon. A Wedding Without A Smile. Some of the songs they aang sweep tickets; but the narrow initiates prosecutions of offen-cently returned from Batavia, and ing. At 6 s.m. the church bell sum-der and sudden death-but most of It was stated that defendant re-vileged to attend a Tristan wedd Some of the themes were of mur vision of the British Government ders of "the law," and, in the was on his way to the country for a moned all the inhabitants to the them were about shipwrecks.--. does its best to stultify an next breath tolerates totalisators, holiday. He carried the rifle very church. All the front paws were Beuter. effort in a good cause the while Derby sweeps, Calcutta sweeps, openly, and was obviously ignorant It permits totalisators and book bookmakers, raffles, lucky dips,

of local regulations. makers to operate and function and gambling in private Clube? within its jurisdiction. Up to a "Let he, who is clean cast the Freser at the Kowloon Magis- Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Mather left few years ago the Australian first stone" at race lotteries with tracy yesterday, Mr. G. K. Hall for Home yesterday via America Commonwealth Government for in the Empire promoted and con- revision of sentence on two of

Brutton applied for a by the s.s. President Coolidge. bade the use of the Post Office ducted by a responsible body of the constables who were involved A Director of the Goodyear Tyre for the tickets in Tattersall's public-spirited citizens in aid of in the case where a number of & Rubber Company, Mr. T. R. Sweeps, drawn on a steamer out the humanitarian work of hos- ing "squeeze from hawkers, left Hong Kong yesterday for men were charged with extract Geddes, accompanied by his wife, side Hobart, but did not forget pitals and of alum clearance. to pounce down on winners with Many years ago the great sentenced to six months and four sident Coolidge,

The two men in question were America by the Dollar liner Pre- in its jurisdiction for its pound General Booth, the founder of tively. His Worship fixed March months imprisonment, respec-

Mr. W L Marshall, Assistant of flesh in the shape of tax, the Salvation Army, shocked the 23 for the hearing of argument General Manager of the Standard Ecclesiastical gentlemen all over "unco・・ guld" of his day goose Oil Co. of New York in Hong Kong, the world indulge on every pos by declaring that he would The Rev. E. L. Allen, M.A., and Mr. and Mrs. V. W. Davis and sible occasion

In invectives accept. money from the Church, Kowloon, was the speak Oil Co. in Canton left for America Fh.D., Pastor of the Union family, connected with the Standard against race sweeps and lotteries Devil himself to promote the er at the tifin of the Rotary by the 8.3. President Coolidge in general, but take care that cause of relleving suffering hu Club yesterday He made a

yesterday.. every bazaar, fete, or sale of manity. Pennies placed in the sent day capitalian, saying that The King has approved the ap-

atrong indictment against pre-

To-day's dollar is worth 2/5,5/16. work has raffles, lucky dips, collecting boxes of Salvation the capitalistic system, which pointment of the Rev. William lucky wheels, shooting galleries, Army lassies in public houses by had brought many benefits dur Thornton Featherstone, M.A., Tato-

Awakened at about 5.20 this and so forth to help to swell men who have already had one ing its reign of a century and a ly head master of the Diocesan mong by a noise in his room, Mr. the funds for "deserving causes"

half, gave ominous signs of im Boys School, Hong Kong, to the Summers of "The Bungalow Tal- over the odds cannot possibly pending disaster, and had shown vicarage of Hook, Surbiton, vacant ko, say a Chinese breaking open Owing to universal depression be included in the category of itself utterly unable to meet the by the cession of the Rev. Jenkin

his wardrobe, Mr. Summars «im- hospitals in every part

mediately jumped out of bed to money as the Gen needs of the present world situa. Alban Davies, MA Empire, except the Irish

tion. It was being challenged in

grab the man, who swung round, fendeavoured State

antaltogether new way by the

The death occurred at his and, striking him under out.yen the part proceeds fact that Russla had set out to sidence, 69, Main Str

with a jemmy, he was using, caused Aberdeen, show the world that there was

peate

I wound one Inch long Chan Sik an ali ave to it

haps

are “suffering, from funds.The.ax ruthlessly applied in

......

Appearing before Mr, J. ‘A.

for divores

obtainable

Personal Pars.

ernoon,

"COME TO BRITAIN” DANES.

An extensive scheme to bring

Danish tourists to Great Britain

is being canvassed in Denmark.

Danish motorists and their cars

would be embarked on a liner from Hamburg, and would land at South-

ampton.m

Then they would tour England in their own cars, finally re-embarking at Southampton to return to Den markd

A reciprocal arrangement to en mark is also planned,

the British tourists to see. I

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "Chins Mall”

March 16, 1922.]

Ars, Chan Inch deep, Befő

in the

In 1885.

could recover his

dashed Into the

initians

by forcing the