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SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928.

BRISTOL'S NEW

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OPENED BY PRINCE OF WALES.

STAND GIVES WAY.

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SPELL OF VICAR'S

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Avonmouth, May 24 History teaches us that some Another big step forward in the women have a subjective influence prosperity of the City of Bristol over men, and modern science and the expansion of our mari gratuitously informs us that the time trade was made here to-day sex appeal la the most dominant when the Prince of Wales, dress-force in life.

A woman need not bo beautiful ed in the uniform of a captain in the Merchant Navy, officially to exercise this compelling power. opened the Royal Edward Dock ex-She can have a devastating or an tension, which provides for six inspiring Influence; she can make new deep-water berths, and was or mar men. built at a cost of a million and a quarter pounds.

The case of,Mrs. Theresa Richie Irwin, decided at London Scsalons recently provides one of the most enthralling stories heard in the courts for many years.

She is a brunette of 37, looking

The Princo, In his unfamiliar uniform, drove through the crowd- ed fing-decked streets of Bristol, and was given a real West Coun- try greeting before embarking younger than her age, a woman of on the Bayano, one of the famous medium height enjoying a good, Elders and Fyffes banana boata,natural complexion and possess. in which he sailed slowly towards ing a pair of brilliant, challenging dark eyes, sparkling with a sense the new dock

of humour. There are laughter lines about her mouth, and she has an impertinent retrousse nose.

As the bows of the Bayano broke the crimson tape drawn across the dock the choir of children began to sing "God Bless the Prince of воол taken Wales," which Was up by the whole audience.

Bandstand Gives Way. Just as the tape was broken there was an alarming incident. A large number of people had taken posession of the bandstand, which partly collapsed under the atrain.

Police and ambulance" men rushed to the rescue, but happily there were no more serious casual ties than a few bruises and no panic. In fact, so loud was the singing that comparatively faw people noticed the incident.

As the Prince left the ship for the Royal dain his Standard was broken above the stands, and the cheering broke out afresh.

The Town Clerk of Bristol rend nn address of welcome, in the course of which he reminded the Prince that it was from Bristol that the discoverers of North America set sail, and. It was at the same port that the first steam ship was built and launched.

The Pioneers.

Declaring the extension open, ble Royal Highness said that he was proud to be In Bristol as Mas- ter of the Merchant Navy, (Loud cheers.) The port had played an Important part in the history of the Empire as we knew it to-day, and the opening of the new dock marked an important step forward in the development of that great

Western port

She is the sort of woman that a' man would instinctively accept as a "pal," a woman who would be- Ket confidence even as she ins- pired passion,

Known Since Childhood. Mrs. Irwin in the daughter of a Sheffield doctor. She married the Rev. George Freeman Irwin, vienr of St. Paul's Cheltenham, whom she saddled with a county court clafmi for nearly £60 for night- dresses.

Mrs. Irwin returned to Sheffield to live with her parents. One of the most popular and famous doc- tors in Shefeld was Dr. George Henry Pooley, now aged 60, an ophthalmic surgeon who during the war had worked miracles in in grafting.

He had an established practice that brought him an Income of £5,000 year. But his finances were failing when Mrs. Irwin con- sulted him about her eyes. He had known her as a child, and he engaged her as secretary, and In the words of M. H. D. Roome, hie counsel, he "Bacrificed his in- come, his home, his career, his reputation, and his honour and position for a lamentable infatua tlon. He says he is to blame, and ho does not desire that the slightest aspersions should be cast on Mrs. Irwin, who is the dearest person in the world to him."

The pair left Sheffield and tra- velled the country, staying at rat-class hotels as man and wife. They ran up bilis which have since been paid by Mrs. Irwin's father and Dr. Pooley's friends

They were arrested on account of a worthless cheque given by

"As a Freeman of the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol," he added, "I recognise to the full the enterprise of those, ploneers him as an undischarged bankrupt who sailed from here to explore to the manager of the Artillery

the new world, and in so doing laid the foundations not only of the British Empire but also of the British Merchant Navy."

Mansions Hotel, S.W., in settle- ment of a bill for £32 138. 6d.

Unreturned Greeting.

Then the Prince Inspected mem-

Dr. Pooley, a typical profes- hers of the Mons Club, the British sional man with a clean-shaven, Legiou, Toc H. and the boys from studious face, looks his age. He the Portishead Nautical School, wears gold-rimmed spectacles, bo- stopping often to chat with men hind which are the eyes of a who caught his eye and exchang- thinker. His lips are thin and his ing reminiscences with veterans mouth tightly closed, and he has of the war.

The Banana Trade.

the delicate, sensitive hands of a skilled surgeon. Throughout the hearing he hung bis head, and had At the subsequent luncheon, the appearance of a man suffering and for which the Prince made a severe mental torture. quick change into a tweed suit, There was a medical suggestion the Prince made an amusing im-that his mind had become un- promptu speech. Alderman E. M. balanced to an extent that affected Dyer, chairman of the Docks Com- his judgment, and Sir Robert Wal- mittee of the City Council, had relace, the Sessions chairman, put ferred to the enormous banana him back until the next Sessions trade of the port, and explained to obtain a further medical with pride that bananas were port. often being sold in London before

the unloading of the ship which

re-

When Dr. Pooley left the dock

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brought them was complete. Their Mrs. Irwin showed some agita- banana trado, he urged, must blon, and she reached out her hands to him as ho followed a grow still more.

without a background warder "We have been advised,” replied glance.

Mr. Walter Frampton, for Mrs, No. 318, Top Floor, Wyndham 8. the Prince of Wales, "to eat more

fruit in the shape of bananas. Irwin, said that she carried Hongkong.

This, I feel sure, we shall all do Dr. Fooley's practice with the ald if only as some recognition of the of a locum tenens when he was hospitality we have received here. He challenged Mr. Reome's to-day. I have from time to time statement that she had infatuated advised people to keep up to date the doctor, quoting the accepted and go in for progressive neliods

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In view of the competition there equality of the sexer. is in the world today. I sincere- ly hope that this enterprise of yours will bring increased pros- perity to Bristol,"

THE GIRL DECIDES.

MAN'S CHANGED VIEWS ON MODERN MARRIAGE.

New York, May 23.

The chairman postponed sen. tence for three months, and, re- leased Mrs. Irwin on her own recognisances to await a report from the probation officer which, If satisfactory, will mean that Mza. Irwin will be bound over.

the judge's views, as, indeed, from the business standpoint he should be.

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Thereupon Mr. Fitzgerald forsook Warren Fitzgerald to marry.

Mr. Fitzgerald was lately the his modern thesis, resigned his manager of Judge Lindsey's debat-managership, and took a job as O ing tour, when that famous apostle real estate salesman.

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