1939-04-25 — Page 14

Tuesday,

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH

April 25, 1939.

SCOTS WON'T HELP

LOST

TOURISTS

If It Happens To Be A Sunday

IF TOURISTS TO SCOTLAND LOSE THEIR WAY ON A SUNDAY AND, ON ASKING A HIGHLANDER, RE- CEIVE NO ANSWER, THEY WILL HAVE TO THANK THE 70-YEARS-OLD REV. EWAN McQUEEN,

Mr. McQueen hus banded Highlanders together to refuse any Sunday tourists: Water for ten, any information, and

food.

"I don't care whether people hate me for my opinions or not, but I will continue to fight against what people call Sunday excur- sions," he declared.

·

"The word has no meaning to me. I recognise only Sabbath. It is a day which should be kept strictly.

"FANATICISM"

Minister Paints Church For Bride

A

Bedfont, Middlesex.

GIRL of 18 and a boy of 19 enlled on the Rev. J. Wickes, Baptist minister at Bedfont, Middlesex, and asked his advice about getting married.

The boy said he had nobody to guide him, and was worried about the responsibility of it all, as he was corning

only

309. a week. vas Miss Lilian Hart, The girl was daughter of Mrs. Hart, of Kingston- avenue, Bedfont; the boy, Private E. Keeling, of the R.A.S.C. depot at Feltham," Middlesex."

Neither la a member of Mr. Wickes'

the church.

"Almost the entire North of Scotland is against Sunday|| travel, and we are going to try to maintain that state of affairs.

Sir William Goodchild, of the Scottish Economic Committee, said that this "Keep the Sunday Traveller Away" campaign was just another of those waves of fanaticism which sweeps the Highlands every now and then.

**IL IN a completely fatuous - tor example of how people in these parts. are dominated by the elergy," he added, "it will wear itself out just like the other stupid campaign for: long bulling costumes incl their examples of Brundyism."

REDECORATED CHAPEL But Mr. Wickes agreed to marry them and the wedding took placz re- cently.

And in honour of what he calls the most romantic wedding of his experience, he redecorated Itis chapel.

"I took the young couple under my i wing," Mr. Wickes said, "and I did everything for them.

Earl's Heir Cited By Edgar Wallace's Son

Bomb-Proof Shelters VISCOUNT HASTINGS, thirty-eight-year-old son and heir of

For Eton.

LONDON,

the Earl of Huntingdon, is cited in an undefended divorce sult which is being heard at Bristol Assizes.

Phones 5 Years

Late

The petitioner is Mr. Bryan Wallace; son of the late Edgar Wallace. His wife is Margaret Lane, the authoress. Every boy's house at Eton College Viscount Hastings was married in. will be provided with a bomb-proul 1925. His wife was held captive| shelter before the Summer Half be with her companion, Laby Marian gins in May. It was originally in Cameron, the viscount's sister, In tended to dig trenches in the playing their hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, felds but this idea has been aban-three years ago. They were released doned, much to the delight of the on condition that they left the School Ofleers' Training Corps, who country. had been given the job of digging them. The Shelters will complete the College's A.1.1. arrangements so that in any future crisis Eton will be able to carry on as usual.

Durban. Natal. Farmers in some parts of Natal who made application for telephone They were said to have gone to lines tive years ago are still waiting Brazil to get into touch with Com-for them in some cases, it is revealed munists. Their object, actually, was by the Divisional Controller for Natal to take notes for a travel book they in a letter the Natal Indian Con- were writing.

gress.

Primo Carners, former world's heavyweight boxing cham- pion, with his bride, the former Pina Cavazzi, after their wed- ding in Trieste, Italy, Bride was a former postal employee. Primo

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A WOMAN gave away £1,000,000—and no one knew. By leaving only £89,812 (net personalty, £29,496), in her will published recently, Mrs. Florence Evelyn St. George. of Cam House, Campden Hill, Kensington, W., stands revealed as one of England's greatest philanthropists.

In 1931 her father, George Baker, f £1,000,000 of his 15 millions. What "Sphinx of Wall-street," third richest happend to 17

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"Her Anancial affairs she left in the hands of her secretary, who did absolutely everything for her, from ordering meals to ac- companying her on trips abroad."

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London County Council crented af now £2,000-a-year job recently,

They agreed with members of the establishment committee that the council's architect needs an assistant. The post is to be advertised, and will have a salary starting at £1,000 a year, rising to £2,000.in two years.

The assistant architect will deal with town planning and the designing of new London County Council build- ings.

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