THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15,
1989
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"GIRL PREACHERS TO FILL CHURGHES"
"Girls in the pulpit" is the answer to the problem of thinning congregations, says Miss M. Oldfield, organising secretary of the Society for the Ministry of Women, and so she is now arranging the tenth annual conference of her society.
"Many churches are filled almost entirely with elderly people listening to elderly preachers," she says. "Fewer young men are coming up for ordination, but young people still want those of their own generation to lead them. I am convinced that many more young women would come to church services if there were more women preachers,” she added. "It is the older women who oppose us.”-
PRESENTED FROM COURT
Heard in London courts:-
Man at Willesden: Am. I will- ing to go back to my wife? Yes, but I want one last week on my own.
have Woman at Highgate: I been tapping on the dining-room table.
Man at Hammersmith: This man used to be a friend of mine, but about a month ago I lent him five shillings.
Defendant at Strathford: After I have settled my wife's debts. I. shall have nothing left except my wife.
MAN FINED £11,111,111 28.
Modern women thinks Miss Old- field, do not want interpretations of spiritual thought from older people,
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WHEN THE RULE WAS 'MEMBERS MUST BE CLEAN'
Several centenarian friendly so- cieties, and others which had al- most reached. 100 years, were dis- solved during 1937, according to the annual report of the Chief Re- gistrar of Friendly Societies.
LORD NUFFIELD HAS A DAY OFF-Lord Nuffield on May 2 paid a visit to Bertram Mills Circus, at Oxford, where he greatly enjoyed himself. Photograph shows Lord Nuffield feeding one of the elephants.
BOMBED CONSTANTINOPLE
Major Kenneth Stevens Savory,
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D.S.O., flying`ace of the Great War, has died in London following operation. In 1916, in a flight of over 400 miles, he bombed stantinople, scored a direct hit on the German battle cruiser Goeben and sank a Turkish destroyer,
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RAID TEST SATISTIES B.B.C.
war
Broadcasting House recently un- derwent an A.R.P. test under conditions. The alarm was given at about 10.30 a.m., and fire parties, decontamination squads and aid detachments ceased their
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THE FORGOT
Tim, the Post Office speaking clock, has been working overtime because many people forgot to forward their clocks by an hour.
From 8 a.m. Saturday, April 15, until 8 a.m. Sunday approximate- ly 54,000 calls were made to Tim, as compared with the normal 40,000.
During the following twenty- four hours 30,000 calls were made, as against the normal 26,000.
or HE HAS WINNING HAND
Some of these organisations had dinary duties and hurried to their novel, even amusing, provisions in appointed posts. Verdict: "Perfect- their early rules.
ly satisfactory."
The Shepherds' Friendly Society (Hunmanby, Yorks, 1839), for ex- ample, decreed that: "The M. (Min- strell) shall see that officers brethren be clean and decent."
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COUNCIL BAN ON RELATIVES The heaviest fine ever imposed by
Richmond (Surrey) Council the Italian Government-and pro- bably any other has just been in- not in future to take into their em- flicted on Signor Remo Adriani, ployment relatives of Council mem- who was found guilty at Milan of bers or of senior Council officials. smuggling Italian currency abroad. He was fined 1,000,000,000 lire (£11,111,111 2s.).
ROAD SAFETY RESEARCH
Minister of Transport Burgin said
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NIGHTDRESS FIRE: GIRL DIES
The Hon. Mrs, Clay, daughter of Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, has given birth to a son at Nyeri, East Africa.
Formerly the Hon. Betty Ba- den-Powell, she was married in
How are these for hands? Mr. A. Snell, of Hopetown, Victoria, Aus- tralia, visited a dairy shop and challenged the owner to sell him a handful of eggs at the price of one
dozen. The owner agreed.
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Snell proved he could hold than two dozen eggs in one hand,
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1936 to Mr. J. C. Clay, District FIRST WHITE CHILD IN Commissioner in Northern Rho-
AMERICA desia. A daughter was born in 1937.
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A stone, believed to have marker for the burial place of Vir- ginia Dare, first white child born in the New World, has been found
Acton GRANT TO PREMIER'S WIDOW by Mr. Thomas Shallington, coun-
Eunice Spicer, aged eight, of Horn-lane, Acton, died in Hospital from severe burns, receiv- in the Commons that he was con- ed when her nightdress caught fire a at her home. Mrs. Marvier, who sidering suggestion to establish
the lives in a flat below the child's road safety research board in light of the report of the Select home, heard her screams, rushed Committee of the Lords on mea- upstairs and put out the flames with
her hands. sures for reduction of accidents.
ty surveyor of Columbia, Carolina. An annuity of £500 for life is to It is inscribed, "Virginia Dare, b. be granted to Dame Enid Lyons, Aug. 17, 1587, d. 1597." widow. of the late Prime Minister. A similar annuity for the children is to be granted until the youngest, now six, is twenty-one.
The fate of this child and other members of the colony planted on Roanoke Island by Sir Walter Raleigh is still one of the myster- ies of American history. Within recent months two other stones have been found, indicating that this "lost colony" was wiped out by Indians.
Downe House School Be
including Bisley: Photo
BRITISH SHIPS SOLD ABROAD
Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, told the Com- mong that the total gross tonnage of the ships of 100 tons and over registered at ports in the United Kingdom which were transferred on sale to foreign owners during 1986 was 422,000 tons. The corres- ponding figures for 1987 and 1988 were 666,500 tons and 395,000 tons respectively,
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