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ENGINEER'S WEDDING

Mr. E. M. Joffe Marries Miss M. E. Murray

A WEDDING of much interest

June 23, 1939.

Stone Thrown 2,000 Years

Ago In Museum

'was solemnised at the A GOAT, a calf, several dogs and a barnyard fowl are Registry, Supreme Court, yester-immortalised in exhibits at the new Verulamium Museum, day afternoon, when Miss Mil-built by the Corporation of St. Albans and opened recently licent Evelyn Murray became

the bride of Mr. Eugene Max by Lord Harewood. Joffe.

The bride, who is well-known,

in Hongkong, is the daughter of Mr. Thomas Murray. She went home to West Norwood, London, some time ago, and arrived ·back In the Colony on Wednesday for her marriage.

The bridegroom, who is the son of Mr. Max Joffe, chemist, is an engineer of the China Light and Power Co., Ltd., stationed at Hok Un, Kowloon.

Mr.

J. Gould, Deputy Registrar of Marriages omeinted

ated at the cere mony, und the witnesses were Mrs. C. Crofton and Mr. V. H. Freeman.

The reception was held at the Parisian Grill, where the customary toasts were honoured by the many friends of the happy couple.

Chinese Coremony

The wedding also took place at the, Registry yesterday before Mr. T. 3. Gould, between Mr. Yee Lim, grocer, and Miss Ma May-ho, of 282 Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong. The witnesses were Messrs. Chan Ying and Lo Yiu.

Silver Wedding

A cocktail parly will be given in honour of the sliver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur William Grimmitt

at the Hongkong Hotel on July 4 at

noon,

They stepped on some unfired roof-tiles fresh from a Roman workshop nearly 2,000 years ago, and left their footprints behind.

One large red tile 18 inches long tells an unmistakable story. At one end are the shallow paw-marks of a dog standing, and beside them, Imbedded in the clay, a big flint pebble which must; have scored a hit. At the other end are the deep paw-marks of the dog in full flight.

The museum houses all the finds that lay hidden since the end of Roman days in Britain until the five- year excavation begun in 1830 by Dr. R. E. Mortimer Wheeler and his late wile."

FLOORS ROLLED UP

£11,000 To Animals And Birds

Three almost perfect mosaic floors OVER £11,000 has been left to from rich men's villas, between 12 to institutions caring for animals 14 feet wide, are set like pictures and birds by a Clacton-on-Sea jagainst one of the museum walls.

We had to bring Italian workmen doctor's widow, Mra, Maria to lift them intact from their position Slimon, whose estate totalled underground," explained the curator. £109,000. Mr. Philip Corder.

The process, known only in Italy, included drying the mosaico out for weeks with stoves, covering them with sticky material and then canvas,) and chipping away the cement under- neuth.

Here are the principal legacies:

.. Battersea Dogs' Home £3,000, Home of Rest for Horses £3,000, Iloyal Society for tho Protection of Birds £3,000, North London Dogs' Home £1,000, Dumb Friends' Learus £1,000.

Then they were rolled up like carpets and reset in now cement to receive £500. Mrs. Slimon kept The Dodsworth Pit Pony Society is without disturbing, even by the fracher garden as a bird sanctuary, and it Mr. Grimmitt is the Acting Chieftion of Ln inch, the position of is to remain so, Proventive Officer of the Revenue single tessera. Department and is due for retirement in 1941, MIS.

Grimmitt Is the cldest daughter of the late Mr. Patrick Henry Murrey, formerly manager of North Point

Installation, Asiatic Petroleum Co., Lid.

FINE COLLECTION

The collection of household objects is remarkable.

She also left £450 to Clacton police i miniature rifle club to perpetuate a trophy for which the police have competed annually and which she presented in memory of her husband. TRADESMEN REMEMBERED

There are tumbler locks with keys of all sizes, a lamp chimney, jugs, On February 6, 1911 Mr. Grimmitt dishes, cups, pens and writing tablets, joined the Hongkong Police Force, pins and needles both of bone and

The milkman, grocer, baker, and on January 1, 1920 was appoint- bronze, all ed First Class Revenue Officer. He games, bits of window-panc, domed in his will by Mr. William Beasley, a sorts of counters for paper boy have all been remembered Lutcher, window-cleaner and news- Is a member of the Cralgengower nails, a roll of wire, domestic guds of Lelcester solicitor's managing clerk, Cricket Club and a keen Lawnpipe-clay, and anti-splash bathroom Bowler,

Mrs. Blankley, a sister, sald that her brother was always very friendly Among the women's jewellery are with the tradesmen who came to the two or three bronze brooches that

ook as if they might have been amount," she said, "as he would have shall distribute the "clips."

wished."

Half A Snake Bites, Too

moulding,

Tollet articles include spoons which BRISBANE, Australio. are almost Identleat with those used A bite from half a snake is just as by women to-day for scooping out unpleasant as a bite from a whole face powder. one, according to Alan Heath, a Townsville farmer, now recuperating

ROUGE IN A SHELL

in a hospital, Heath was plowing One Roman woman kept her rouge when the plough dissected a large snake. The head portion leaped Into the air and bit him on his great to

in an oyster shell, for here it is with a quantity of strawberry-coloured pigment in it.

Nearly a thouasnd St. Albans people were packed in St. Michael's

LATE NEWS schoolyard and along the roadside to

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the will were aware that they would None of the people mentioned in

be remembered.

Preaching Helps Collegians

NEW CONCORD, O. the ceremony, which was held

Six Muskingum College students In the open air in front of the are literally preaching their way through college. Their work not The crowd stood above the exact only benefits them but also their centre of the ancient Roman city, congregations, which in most cases where Watling Street crossed its high can't support a full-time minister. street, and a few yards from the To be eligible for such service the Roman Forum which lies under the student must be approved by a board churchyard.

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taken to city hospital for Xrays.

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