Lady Lugard, wife.of the GovernorGeneral of Nigeria, will be better'remembered as Miss Flora. Shaw, the famous colonial specialist to the Times, and confidante of Cecil Rhodes. She tells an amusing story of a fiery old colonel's visit to an Indian village barber. The officer bounced into the shop, placed his-sword beside a, chair, and said : "Shave me, sir; and beware, if you cut mo I will cut your head off." The barber promptly got to business, and when the operation had been satisfactorily performed the colonel inquired : "Weren't you frightened at all?" "No, sir," was the reply. "If I had cut you at all, I should have had first chance. 1 should have finished you off for safety." The last blow to Gretna. Green as a clearing house for marital romance was dealt i_ 1856, when the Scottish law made it necessary for one of the contracting parties to reside three weeks in Scotland before the marriago could bo performed.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 130, 4 June 1919, Page 7
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