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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1936.

BISHOP ADVISES DIVORCE REFORM

£900,000 WILL OF A

VISCOUNTESS All-Millionaire Family Descended From A Poor Scottish Boy

THE £923,525 estate of Viscountess St. Cyres, whose will was published recently, reveals another vast fortune of the "Lucky Morrisons," one of Britain's richest and lenst known families.

Lady St. Cyres was Dorothy Morrison, daughter of the late Alfred Morrison of Fonthill.

If her fortune had touched the million mark she would have been the eighth Morrison to die a millionaire in recent years.

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She inherited £200,000 in 1922 from her

uncle, Colonel Walter Morrison, a shy old mau who lived quietly in Yorkshire and left £2,000,- 000.

In the last quarter-century the Morrison family has paid about £0,000,000 to the Govern ment in death duties.

Yet this family of milllons and modesty goes no further back than Walter Morrison's father, James Morrison, a poor Scots boy, who came to London to seek his fortune.

SAVED HARD

He went to work in a humble post in a drapery warehouse. He worked hard, saved hard, and set up in business for himself as the Fore-street Warehouse Company. His business prospered, he invested his money shrewdly, and died worth £4,000,000.

To his son Charles he left £2,000,000. Charles

did not rest.

Ile TALA the most mysterious

figure in the City in his day.

He lived a frugal Me. He dress-

ed shabblly, did not snake, drank

only a tile light claret.

nrver

entertained, never attended pubile functions of any kind.

he died

31 Jeft When £11,000,000. His will made faur more Morrisona millionaires. They

WETE:

Cyres' uncle,

£2.350,000.

His nephew Hugb-who repre-

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AIR

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ALLIANCE PACIFIC

PLEA BY AN AUSTRALIAN

San Francisco, Nov. 20. An aerial alliance between the United States, England and Australia for the defence of the Pacific is being advocated by Capt. C. E. Toovey of the Bank of Aus- tralia and former chief technical officer of the Handley-Page firm of British airplane manufacturers.

Toovey is now

"SHOOTING A MAN IS DAMNABLE”

-Says War Minister

His brother Waller-Lady St. TT is not a beautiful thing or a desirable thing-indeed,

"IT

it is a hateful thing and a damnable thing to think Elster Ellen-who left

we should have to shoot our fellow-men, but, as it has to be done, it had better be done well," said Mr. Duff Cooper, Secretary for War, speaking at the dinner of the English Twenty Club in London.

sented Salisbury in the House or Commons and died in 1931 leaving £1,750,000.

His nephew Archibald-Major J. A. Murrison, when died two years ago. Lady St. Cyres inarried the only son of the second Earl of Iddenleigh and cousin of the present cari. died last month,

Sne

His remarks on killing followed a reference to the way in which English people had developed the handling of a rifle to defend their country into a national sport.

"In this country," he continued, "there is a charming little anat called the fox, which does some good and a great deal of harm. He hus

She left her estate at Walhamp-t he kept down, and in order to keep him down, the English people have ton, Lymington, Itants, and the rest] developed the great art af fex-hunting. due of her property to Charles

"Abollsh it to-morrow, and the fox would I shot and anally Andrew Morrisog, second son of her exterminated." nephew.

PEER'S GARDEN.

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For the education of the present Viscount St. Cyres, nged four, she left £5,000 to his father, the Earl of Iddlesleigh.

The largest single bequest is £25,000 10

Michael her cousin, Robert Wright-or, if deceased, £5,000 to his wife Esther.

Other bequests include:- £7,000 to Lealle Hamilton Watts,

catate manager.

£2,000 to her butler, Ernest Crookes, and his wife, Rose, my dear housekeeper."

£1,000 to the Rev,-Pa1-McCormick

in friendship."

£1,000 to Lady Victoria Herbert.

£500 to Lord Harder, "in the hope

that he will use it for the garden ho loves so well." £1,000 to her head gardener,

William Honess.

£500

to the Rev. Fother C. C. Martindale.

£500 and a cottage lo Alfred E. Wood, her husband's nurse, "for

his devoted care,"

About £5,000 to doctors and nurses

who attended her.

£5,000 for British Legion cottages at Walhampton, to be occupied by ex- service men.

clnuse

A in the will "forgives all. loans and debts due from personal friends and relations."

Mr. Duff Cooper said that in fax-huntingt they had exemplified the human characteristic of being able to do unpleasant things in such a way, that they became an art.

Priest Says He Is Girl- Wants Operation

Belgrade, Nov. 10.

But Church Must Have Own Discipline

THE need for changes in the

divorcć, laws, and a statement of the" : Church's attitude to divorce were voiced by Dr. Cyril Gurbett, Bishop of Winchester, recently.

He was addressing the Winchester Diocesan Conference.

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Dr. Garbett said that the Church could not remain indifferent to the way in which in some quarters mar- riage was spoken of as a temporary 'union, which should be easily use solved, or to the bitter scorn, and contempt which some novelists poured upon it as an institution,

There is no reason to think," ho said, "that in our country, concep tion of marriage as a life-long union is seriously threatened,

"We must not be unduly alarmed by the unsavoury and intimate de- talls which come popular

writera give of the sex life of themselves and their friends.

"Unfortunate”

"Their experiences have been un- fortunate, though no doubt they obtain some compensation by work- Ing them into novels, which have become best-sellers, but it must not

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"But there are sufficient grounds SSSSSSCSEPELESSCESSES. for Bome change in the

divorce laws. Those who are best soquainted with their working are convinced that amendment la re- quired,

Dr. Garbett said that in adminis-

"It will be a mistake it, as Church- any and every proposed change in men, we offer a rigid opposition to these laws. We must insist on the right of the Church to exercise ila the Church on this should be free." discipline over its own members;

on his waytering the Church's discipline he home to Australia after a year of consultation in England with indiscriminately the guilty and in- oleials of the British War noent parties of a divorce. Office. He is a veteran of the they could necept as innocent those

"Broadly speaking, he gyptian, Gallipoli and Western whom the courts regarded as such." Front campaign in the world war,

"World peace depends on peace in the Pacle, says Toovey, "and that depends in turn on the United States, Australia and England speeding up their air defence and aerial commu- nications.

" is absolutely necessary that air communications be established be- tween the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The future of the Pacific is in the hands of these nations and is me they get together for further defence of the Paciile.

it impossible to class together

thought

Arabs Stole

A Briton's Rifle-But

IT CAME BACK

Jerusalem, Nov. 20.

Military detachments arrived in

"War in Europe is imminent at A RIFLE 10 an Arab is as a window- ful of gems to a smash-und- any time. America, Great Britain grabber-irresistible. and Australia should combine in att

But he is learning to resist tempin- English speaking Union to preserve |tion. And the British Army is his the peace of the Pacific and let tutor. Europe take care of itself."

a An Arab mob in village near Jerusalem overpowered £ British Toovey expressed great satisfac-soldier and stole his rifle. ton at the progress being made in the building up of Pacific air lacs. the village. In addition to the Pan American airways from San Francisco to Cunton, via Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam and the Philippines, and the lines of the Imperial highways and

Australic with London and all Euro- pean centres, Toovey stated that ut least two other fundamental · lines are now under consideration.

They warned the natives if the rifle was not returned at noon next day their houses would be blown up.

At 11.45 next day a 15-year-old

A SENSATION has been caused in Bulgaria by a

young priest of the Orthodox Church who declares the Dutch airlines that connect Arab boy appeared at the military that a mistake was made over his sex when a child and that he is a girl.

He walked into the clinic of the Medical Faculty at Soft nd demanded a doctor's authority for his change of sex.

An operation is to be performed on the priest, whose esignation from the Church will be demanded.

TRIPLETS-NOW QUADS

Kovno, Nov. 20,

Quadruplets have just been born to Frau Wasilauskiene, of Mariampole, Lithuenia, who was already the mother of tripleis.

The quads-two boys and two girls-are all doing well. So iz the mother.

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"These Pacific Airways" declared Toovey, "constitute the first step in the building of an adequate nërlal defence in the Pacific."

Television Heard at

Johannesburg

ALEXANDRA PALACE

PROGRAMMES

Johannesburg, Nov, 15.

A local amateur, Mr. Pleass, lo making radio history, regularly picking up the London television transmissions from the Alexandra Palace...

Since October 13 he has been hear- ing London's television girls on- nouncing and listening to program- mes, including the tour of Southamp- ton docks and other items.

The vision sounds were also

}picked up, but as Mr. Pleass has not latélevision receiver he has not

utilised them.

Local radio, engineers are amazed. as those seven-metro transmissions are designed only for reception with- In a 40-mile radius of London after which they were believed to vanish into space-or to cur

Mr. Pleass, who was an early radio pioneer, is getting London tele- vision with strength and consistency equalling normal" Daventry trans- missions. He also heard a Caluorn- jun transmission on five metres, but is uncertain whether it may bỏ the harmonies of a higher wave length, Ho la awaiting postal confirmation.

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my wife, I would consider it a great compliment to me if whe married again, if so disposed, and Is wish her every prosperity and hap pinces.

So reads the will of Mr. R. G. Francis, of Penarth. Glamorgan, who left the whole of his £1,668 estate to his wife absolutely, "in recognition of her unfailing devotion and loyalty during our married life."

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