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LOCAL WILLS.

SHAUKIWAN WIDOW LEAVES $15,000.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17. 1928.

FRA "ANGELICO.

INTERESTING LECTURE ON

DOMINICAN, FRIAR..

BAD

MILK.

TYPHON EPIDEMIC IN

SHANGHAI.

That In many respects the Probate of the will of the late There was a good attendance at epidemic of typhoid fever which Mrs. Cheung Kau-mul, alias Tsang the Helena May Institute last is at prosent in existence in the Cheang-shi widow who died at her evening when Father Finn, S. J. Settlement, principally among the home at No. 4 Talwong Street, delivered an interesting lecture Chinese, is directly traceable to in- Shaukiwan, on April 9 of last year, on the famous master of religious ferior milk bottled outside the has been granted to her daughter-art, the Dominican Friar, Fra Settlement and sold by Chinese in-law, Teang Cheung-shi, widow, Angelico (1887-1455),

Inside the Settlement without the. who has been appointed executor. The lecturer with the help of knowledge of the Municipal Health The estate, amounting to $15,000 many lantern-slidea told the story authorities, is the opinion of is to be held on trust for the de-of the master's life and activity. Inspector Bloom of the Shanghai conect's two grandchildren until Even the artist's name needs ex-Health Department. He express the attainment of their majority,planation for it is really the posed this opinion in the Provisional Provision is made for a legacy of thumous telbute to his angelic Court when he prosecuted a $2,000 to the deceased's younger qualities both in life and art, a Chinese for solling milk in the brother, and an amount of $500 contrast with most of the masters Settlement without a Municipal to each of her two daughters.

of the Italian Quatrocento.

licence.

!

Fra Giovanni lived in a stirring time and in restless cities, and the lecturer did not forget that ele ment of the story amid the ecstacy and the bliss which the pictures have caught as none others in the history of art.

TASTY oh yes!- THRIFTY

The Late Colonel Greer."-

The prosecution asked for a heavy fine in view of the dangers A resealing was granted by the

from this practice and the Court Supreme Court in connexion with

imposed a fine of $50 and com- exemplification of the probate of

acated nine bottica of milk found the will of the late McGregor

the possession of the accused.. Greer. a retired Colonel In His

The Inspector informed the Majesty's Forces, who died on Fra Angelico's glimpses of Hea- Court that the Health authorities. July 28, 1926, at his residence Theven are now the common posses were doing everything possible to Demeane, Limavady, in the County sion of the Western mind but at trace the source of much of the of Londonderry, Northern Ireland. their first revelation his angels typhoid in the Settlement and The Colonel who had served at one seemed to have "been rained downstated that a great deal of it was time in Hongkong and China, left gross estate in Great Britain vala.rom heaven" said Vasari, the due to the sale of infected milk. historian-painter-and even Michael Most of it comes from outside the ed at £5.695. 59, 3d, and in Ire-Angelo stille dd frame the pretty Settlement and is brought in by coolics and sold in various dis-

land, valued at £400, 108.

conceit that ue painter must have! got special license for sittings, of heavenly models.

The deceased, who is survived by a brother. Major Greer, and sister, Miss Ellis Greer, left £300 to the latter on trust for use during Father Finn followed the deve her lifetime, and after her death,lopment of the master's style and to be given absolutely to a cousin, Mrs. Mortimer, the wife of Mr. A. R. Mortimer, of No. & Jardan Street. Toronto, Canada. There were legacies ranging between £50

tricta.

The accused admitted that the milk had come from the Chinese City but stated that he had been tried within the short time at his selling it in the French Conces- disposal to make its qualities feltsion and only crossed the bound- by comparison with the work of ary at Thibet Rond to use the predecessors, contemporaries or telephone. artists of the next generations-the

to £200 bequeathed to other rela-High Renaissance. Among other diva and also friends.

names, occurred that of Fra Bar- The resealing was granted to Mr.tolomeo, one of the greatest artists GIG.N. Tinson, attorney for the of the Florence of early sixteenth excentor. Mr. Badley Meares, of century; the lecturer pointed out 18. Hatherley Road, Sidcup, in the the unique distinction of the Con-. County of Kent,

vent of San Marco in owning two such great names added to those of St. Antoninus and Savonarola, all four within the space of one cen- tury being friars of the one con- vent.

INDIAN OIL WAR.

STANDARD OIL COMPANY'S

THREAT.

ST. PETER'S DEBATE.

RICH AS A RESULT OF CHANCE.

.

A lively debate on the motion that "a man becomes rich as a result of chance rather than abi- lity of industry" was held by members of St. Peter's Young Men's Club last evening.

Simple and Pious. The lecturer summed up his subject by quotidig the passage in Vasari that describes Fra Angelico;

The subject, which is a wide New York, Jan. 16.

the life of this really angelic' The Standard Old Company of father was devoted to the service one for such debates, produced a New York, in replying to Sir Henri of God, the benefit of the world number of topics ranging from Deterding's criticisms of its policy and his duty towards his neigh-striking oil to winning an heiress, One member spoke feelingly of in purchasing oil from Russia as bour, Virtue so great and so re- against the interests of humanitymarkable should not and could the unstability of the local share and trade honesty, declares that not descend on anyone of a life market while another sympathised that is the company's inten-less. holy than that of Fra Ange with the hard-working newspaper- carry ust. its con-lico, "for those who work at the man, whose hours were long and tracts. "It will be in nowise things of the Church and, of the whose remuneration little. Other be swerved by such desperate Saints must themselves by of the speakers struck a balance in destructive measures as are being Church and of the Suints. followed in India and threatened He was of simple and pious man-

tion

to

favour of chance.

Mr. P. Sanda, M. A. the proposer in other parts of the world." ners. He shunned the worldly in of the motion, submitted that The Standard O alleged that all things and during his life was chance was not regarded in the the Royal Duteh-Skoll group had such a friend to the poor, that I sense of winning the first prize in started price cutting in In' in think his soul must now be in a lottery, but rather he viewed it September and ia started the practice of "secret rebut never set hand to any subject dividual that necessary impetus or Novner Heaven. He painted unceasingly as a stroke of good fortune or an opportunity which gave the in- bates" on sales and bonuses. The net saintly. He might have had momentum where industry, and Standard Oil Company had met wealth but he scorned it and used these measures partially and if

After further discussion by the this form of competition continu-to say that true riches are to be ability would do the rest.

He might ed it would annually cost the found in contentment. Royal Dutch and its subsidiary have ruled over many (48 Arch-position, led by Dr. F. A. Ashton, Burmah Oil Company G312,760,- bishop of Florence) but would not, M. D. the motion was sustained by saying that obedience was easier and 000.-Renter'a American Service.

less liable to error. He might

BETTER WEATHER.

CYCLE OF WET YEARS COMING TO END.

London, Jan. 16. Sir Napier Shaw, the dis- tinguished meteorologist is guard-

23 votes to 17.

The Chairman (Rov, Halward)

the

have enjoyed high dignities but then made a brief speech in which he eared nothing for these things, he welcomed the presence of a new saying that he who would practise speaker at their debates in painting has need of quiet, and person of Dr. Ashton. He re- should be free from worldly cares,

ferred to the impending departure and that he who would do the from the Colony of Mr. T. J. Price, work of Christ must live continúa popular member of the Club, who had the reputation for being a ally with hirm,

very witty and humorous speaker. at Home and hoped he would be They all wished him every success He with them once again to take part

He was never known to be im- patient with the brethren thing to me almost incredible!

edly optimistic about this year's never admonished but with a smile. in their debates from which he

This father whom no one can

Amongst those present was Sir Robert Ho Tung, who is one of the patrons of the Club.

weather prospects. Although he considers it will be a long time praise too much was in all his would be very much missed. Oefore the kind of weather coming dealings and arguments modest be and humble and in his works free in any particular year can foretold with certainty, he and pious.

The saints whom he depicted ́expressed the view to the West- minster Gazette that we are pas had more of the air and semblance rented the crucified Saviour but sing through a cycle of wet years of saints than those produced by that his tears coursed down his and anticipates a change, for the any other. He never retouched or cheeks. One may then judge from altered anything he had once the featured and the attitudes of Every seven years, he says, it finished but left it as it had turned his figures the perfection of his goes through a cycle in which its out, the will of God being that it grand and sincere belief in the

This should be sp...

Christian faith." That was activity waxes and wanes. year the sun will te approaching its period of maximum activity and that should make for better weather.-British Wireless.

better.

how Some go so far as to say that the High Renaissance thought of Fra Giovanni never touched a brush the brother whose paintings glow without having first humbled him with Heaven's rainbows on angels' self in prayer. "Ile never repre- wings.

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