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JUNE 14, 1929.

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LM. AM.

Kowloon.Dap. 8.401.03

Yanmati. Dep. 6.49 Shatin...Dep. 7.41 Taipo Dep. 7,15

Taipo

Market.Dep. 7.20 ling.Dep. 7.So

shai...Dep. 7,35

Shum

chun...A.7.428,45

Canton Arr.

STATIONS

12.06

UP TRAINS

F.ioo. No. 15 No. 14 No. 16 No. M'N«18/N6,36N0,28 N6,30 A. [..] M. P.M. J.M. P.M.) FM, P.X. FM, P.X.

Buns, de Hulis only

8.30 9,15 10,00 12,10 1.152.81 3.20 4,50 5,407,35

3.25 10.08/12)

4,38 10,00 12,30

WEDDING ROMANCES AT VILLAGE FORGE.

GRETNA GREEN BLACKSMITH'S REMINISCENCES.

WHERE MARRIAGES SOMETIMES COST NOTHING.

HOW YOUTH OVERCOMES PARENTAL DISAPPROVAL.

9 63 10.38)12,43) 1.48) ---

(4,88 5,487,43 4.50 5.00 7.55 6.04

8.13 8.08

5,05 6,17 8.12

5.168.27 8.93

6,235.52 8.25

If a man loves a girl That's his business.

9.58 10.37 12.47 1.35-

10.1010,47 19.57) 2,02;

9.07 10.15 10.39 1.02 2.07 3.09)

9.13 10,91 10.53 1.08 2,133.154.00 6.29 8,388.31

5.48

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8.10

| 5,47 | 5.43 117, 11,47 2.53 4.89

11.33 3.014488.54 12.00 3,064.50 5.58 19.11 8,17 5.00 6.09 14.16 3.22 5.04 8.33 12.308.38 5.17 6.26. 12,43 | 8,48 | 300 | 6.38|

7.07

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9.03 10.34 8.11 10.41

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9.02 11.32 12.07 19.48 3.24 5.55 6,44 7,20

7.49

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If a girl loves a

ĮBy RICHARD RENNISON.]

She had been told plainly, she a-back, but I answered that pos said, that unless she came homesibly they might. He then asked at once she would be disowned by me how much it would cost. her parents, while the young fellow had been warned that his father would cut him out of the business in which he had given him an interest unless he gave up the idea of marriage.

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Romance and Gretan fireen are one and the same thing. Over the

I told them to dry. their tears and anvil in my blacksmith's shop I

make the best of it by obeying their have joined together in matrimonyarents' wishes, and perhaps some all types of couples. But in one day fortune would smile upon their respect they were all alike.. They love. They took my advice,

were all seekers after romance.

I missed the fun when, in true i storybook style Mr. Hector Mappin and his eighteen-year-old heiress

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bride arrived at Gretna the other day after their exciting elopement. I had gone away early to deliver lecture in the evening, and I never for a moment anticipated that my wife would have to deal with no fewer than, three couples before I got back.

But that is the way at Gretna Green. You never know the mo- ment when a runaway pair. are going to appear in the shop and demand to be married.

Surprise Request.

I am pretty well able to guess whether a couple meaa marriage or not when they appear, but some times I am taken in.

One day a fine metor-car-one of those that costs four figures-pulled up at the door. Out came a lady and gentleman, very stylishly dress- ed, and walked into the establish- nent. They both looked, perhaps,, between thirty and forty years old, and I made my way forward to serve them with any

curios they wished to purchase.

I locked at him for a moment and asked how much he was pre- pared to give. He told me what he had in his pocket-a few abill- inga-and said he was willing to part with it all if daly I would marry them. "Look here," I said to him, if you wait till the visitors are cleared away I'll marry you for nothing."

A look of gratefulness passed over his face, and he said they

would wait Shortly afterwards I called them in and married them. They then took the road on foot as they had come, and in their countenances there seemed to be àn oven brighter light than I had ever seen on the faces of the more well-' to-do..

Tipped the Landlord.

A fashionably dressed lady and gentleman drove up in a 'can, and came into the curio shop. Though the woman poke English to me the They looked at them, but seemed conversation with the gentleman, preoccupied all the time. At last was always in French. the gentleman turned to me,and, to my surprise, asked if they couldplacing them in the right position. There was a great deal of fun be married. Of course, I said theyAt last when I came to the question could, and we lost no time in put of whether she would take the ting them through the ceremony.

Stopped by Parents. The full story of this latest elope ment has come out now, and people are amazed at it. But there is romantic and exciting story behind most of the couples who come to be

When it way over the lady spoke married here--storice of which the

confidentially to Mrs. Rennison, public, as a rale, gets no hint.

You would not think it, but and told her that her husband was religion is sometimes the cause of the son of a very wealthy and in young people coming to be married Fuential gentleman in the city. as Gretna. If a pair of lovers The ceremony that day, she said, happen to be of different religious had afforded her much relief of persuasions all the influence of mind, as they had three children," and she wished their alliance, which parents and friends is often brought to bear on them to have was unknown to her husband's peo- nothing to do with one another,ple, put on a legal footing.

The result is a runaway, race to Gretna.

I have had three cases of the kind recently, and two of them came of all right. The third couple,

however, were now so fortunate.

For Nothing.

Shortly afterwards I had another couple of a vastly different type. In this case there was no motor-car

flying up to the door. I had noticed them hovering about the Being both residents in England place in the afternoon. They were I had to inform them that one would require to reside in Scotland a youngish pair, and they were for at least twenty-one days. It rather shabbily dressed.

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gentleman for her husband, she said, "No, I can't."

I then realised that she was caly showing her French friend how it was done in Scotland. I joined in their laughter, and cracked some jokes with her about the risk she had pearly zun

I looked at her amazed— "Look-see!"-the exclaimed, as she pulled off ber glove. There' was a wedding-ring on her finger. She insisted upon paying me the usual fee for a wedding, and seem- ed delighted with the exhibition her friend had obtained of a wedding at Gretna.

On their departure we had a little laugh on our side at her expense. Going up to a poor drover who was standing near she handed him five shillings-much to his surprise. Turning to another onlooker she gave him the same. The only other man left was an elderly chap sit ting on a seat. He certainly did not seem any more prosperous than the others.

was then arranged that the young Late in the day, when the visitors lady should stay, and lodgings at were thinning down and I Gretna were seenred for her. taking a breath of air at the door, It was only natural he should the young fellow came timidly up receive five shillings, too, and he got it. He was the proprietor of to me and inquired if they might the estate of Gretna and the Old be married. I was rather taken Blacksmith's Shop

But their parents were on their track, and next day the pair came to me in great distress.

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day

(June 14.)

Queen's Theatre: "The Wind." World Theatre: "Drums

Love."

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Star Theatre: "Don Juan." Tes Dances: HK Hotel and Peninsula Hotel," 4.30 p.m...

Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

European Mails:-Inward: Europe vid Siberia (Yokohama Maru).

Saturday. (June 15.)

Civil Service, Kowloon Bowling Green v. H.K. Electric

Sunday. (June 18.)

3rd Sunday After Trinity.

Golf: Bogey Pool, Fanling. European Mails: Outward

A.ID.

Tennis:A" Division: M.B.K. Recreio, Indian R.C. v. Hoog Kong C.C., South China v. Crai- gengower, University v. Kowloon C.O"B" Division:-Kowloon 0.0. Indian R.C., Y.MO.Av. Europe vid Siberia (Yingchow), 9 Recreio, Nippon. R.E. and RS. ["C" Division: R.A.0.0, v. South China, B.E. and R.S.. Craigen. gower, Civil Service Recreio, Indian R.C. v. Chinese R.C.

Queen's Theatre:"The Wind." World Theatre: "Drums of Love."

Star Theatre; "Don Juan.", Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

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Monday.

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