1939-08-14 — Page 3

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

August 14, 1939.

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WIDOW TOOK CASTLE FOR SON'S SAKE Bringing Him Up To Suit "Expectations"

A WIDOW who took a castle in the North of England in order to bring up her son “in circumstances com- patible with his expectations" appeared in London Bank- ruptcy Court recently.

She was Mrs. Agnes Mary Hills (widow), lately residing at Cireus Road, St. John's Wood, N.W.

Her statement of affairs showed liabilities of £3,608 against assets £21.

Replying to Mr. II. H. Gaine, Olleial Receiver: Mrs. Hills anid that she was married in 'October 1914 and lost her husband in the War.

She had since been receiving a living_beyond her income from 1932 widow's war pension of £140 a year. to 1938, principally due to the ex- Her husband had a reverstonury pense Incurred in bringing up her Interest 1 T family trust under on. which she became entitled to an- other £300

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HELPED BY RELATIVE In 1923 the WALK iso left annuity of £100 under the will of her father-in-law.

Mr. Gaine: In addition to that money, from 1923 to 1933 certain: relative assisted you with gifts amounting to about £2.000 a year?- Yes, but promiscuously.

And when he died, you received | a legacy of £400 and an annulty of £300 a year did you not"-Yes, from 1932.

You later tool il castle in the North and did a considerable amount of entertaining of your friends?-Not my friends. They were my son's,

Why was that? was atting him and bringing him up in circumstances compatible with his expectations.

"I realise it was very wront of me to be so extravagant," she said.

The examinalon was concluded.

2,000

"POOR CHILD"

When 1,200 of Acton's "poor children" returned from a trip by motor-coaches to Littlehampton there was a car waiting for one of the

youngsters as he left the

coach.

This was the report of an official of the Fund which arranged the trip at a meet- ing of the helpers,

He said the outing was abused by some parents, and it was deelded

that special steps should be taken to pre- vent mis-use of the outing in future.

WORDS IN A BOOK THIS SIZE

MR. C. A. LUSTED. 21-year-old clerk, of St. Paul's Road. St. wealthy American collector of curios on holiday in England, to Leonards, has been commissioned by Mr. A. K, Grant, n copy a 2,000-word history of Sussex into a book measuring a quar- ter of an inch square,

This will be nothing to Mr. [than 100 books In 1933 and 1934 you were living Lusted, who has written more inch square.

at the rate of £3,000 a year?-Yes,

"VERY WRONG OF ME"

Mr. Gaine: When

your Income

dropped to £240 a year, you found t impossible to live within your means, did you not?-1 am afraid so.

Your son became entitled to an estate under his grandfather's will?-| Yes,

Clock Kills Alligator

less than one

Some can only be read with a magnifying-glass. The smallest is tenth of an Inch.

UFS

Here's a New York Fair lature without Grover Whalen, J. Cornellus Rathborne, society polo player, and his wife Nancy were stranded five hours, 150 feet up, in Parachuts Jump. Me- chanic untangled cable.

Antiques "Dog Fight" Won By A Woman

LADY (JOAN) DUFF-ASSHETON-SMITH successfully resist- 'ed a claim made in Westminster County Court by John A. Pearson, Ltd., antique dealers, of Knightsbridge, for £173 in respect of furniture said to have been supplied to her new house in Norfolk Street, W.

TOO MUCH STRAIN Mr. Lusted said: "This history of Sussex will be about 60 pages, but ASHLAND, Wis. (U.P.)--John C. I cannot go on for long at a stretch. Chapple lost his pet alligator in n

Mr. Alban Gordon, for Pear-Jarmchairs and couches on sale Does he intend to help you in the strange way,

"It is too much strain on the hand son, Ltd., stated that as Lady for return from other dealers, bankruptcy?-Yes, he is prepared to from his hands while he was winding

An alarm clock slipped and the_ryes,"

Mr Lusted Is writing

Duff-Assheton-Smith pay everybody in full.

a royal valuable it and struck the ofligator in the mid-history, which he hopes will bel Mrs. Hills attributed her failure todle.

pieces of Both stopped going.

accepted by Queen Mary,

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period Lady Duff-Assheton-Smith selected stools, pieces priced at £173 and the articles were taken back to Pearson's to be redecorated.

Lady Duff-Assheton-Smith

called

at Tearson's shop and saw the furnl- ture with a Mr. Ayscough, a con- noisseur in furniture, and later wrote complaining of the price.

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Pearson, Lid. wrote asking for payment and she replied: "I con- your letter is impertinent. It is not my dog fight anyhow as the matter passed out of my handy some time ngo."

Through Mr. E. C. Lehmann, who introduced Lady Duff-Assheton- Smith to Pearson Ltd. £75 was paid for twelve chairs.

Lady Dull-Assheton-Smith, in evi- dence, said she was horritled when told she had bought the pieces of furniture.

Judge Austin-Jones:

You are sald

to have bought all the places. What do you say? I only said they were very pretty.

The Judge held that the goods In question were merely sent on appro- val and gave Judgment for Lady Duff-Assheton-Smith with costs."

The Rolling Pin Test

DR. TWISTON DAVIES, der- matologist at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brigh- ton, said at the Medico- Psychological Association con- ference at Haywards Heath, Sussex, recently:

"Where I suspect a neurosis, 1 usk the patient suddenly: "Do you hit your husband over the head with a rolling pin or does he hit you?"

"If she laughs, all well and good; but if she looks annoyed, bursts into tears or perhaps replies, "Well, as a matter of fact, my mother-in-law comes along and hits us both on the head with the rolling pin," then I send her to the psychiatric clinic. -(Laughter.)

Ferdinand Goes To Show

SALT LAKE CITY (U.P.)-Ferdi- nand was the first entry for the inter- mountain junior fat live-stock show to be held here in June. Ferdinand is owned by Grant Bleazerd of Tooele," Utah.

Schoolhouse Bought For $1

· Brunswick, 'Me. (U.P.J-Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet and educator,: paid only $1.to become owner of the ittle brick school-house on Prince's, Point road which he attended as a boy.

Africa Has Arms Factory.

Pretoria, South Africa (U.P.)- South Africa's first ammunition factory In Pretoria is working to capacity and is producing one million rounds a month nt cost of 3 cents cách.

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