NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1923, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

IN LOVE WITH A PHOTOGRAPH. NEW YORK, Jul\ 5. The loins nee of a pretty 19-ycarx-okl English girl, Miss Ala title Reeves, of 118. Rosl.vu-road, Tottenham, "ho came lane recently to marry a rich grocer named Harris, has had an unexpected ending. When the prospective bridegroom came to Ellis Island to claim her the girl, according to the immigration authorities, shrank hack in dismay, exclaiming, “Oh, he is not at all the man I loved. His picture showed him to he handsome. He is twice the age I fancied him. Ii would be a mockery for me to marry him : we should both lie unhappy.”

She turned pleadingly to the ollieinls, saying. ".Semi me hack to niv mot her. Deport me to England. It lias all been a dream, and the dream is

Before the Board of Inquiry Harris wept, begged the girl to relent, and described lhi* fine home that he had purchased lor her on Long Island, •■ear New York. She remained adamant, however, and returned him the diamond ring that he had sent her, receiving in exchange her own photograph. The immigration official then wrote Oil the records tile simple statement. ■•Excluded, declined to appeal,” and Miss Reeves was escorted to the White Star liner Majestic. ROME UII.M WKDDI.NO. ROME. July 10. Mr Lionel Barrymore, younger brother of .Miss Ethel Barrymore, one ot ihc leading American actresses, and bim-elf a well-known actor, was married in Rome to-ilav, in a room at the Grand Hotel, to Miss Irene Fenwick, the American actress ami film afar. Their guests were the east, ol Sir Hall Caine's film "The Eternal City,” which is being made here. The newly wed couple left for Venice on a hooeymoon of three days, the maximum period for which (hey can he .spared from their work.

ROMANCE OF INDUSTRY. LONDON. July 1(5 Sir Thomas Thornhill Shaun died at bis borne at Formby. Lancashire, yesterday, aged 70, after a long illness. When eight years old he was earning Is (id a week as a half-timer in a spinning; mill, hut at 22 he was a greycloth merchant. He was a member of the .Manchester Royal Exchange for 50 years, twice lord mayor, and for 25 years chairman of tho Manchester Licensing Committee. He was knighted in 1005. LEAP FROM TRAIN. LONDON. July 17 The engine-driver and fireman had to leap for their lives from a goods train on the Great Western Railway, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, on Saturday. The track is at present being doubled from Welshpool to Forden, about f! miles away, and the train was running on the new metals. The driver. Joseph Hampton. of Llanidloes, assumed that it would he deflected by the points on to the old track, hut it ran on. and, realising that it would be impossible to pull up the train before it ran off the end of the new metals, he and the stoker jumped from the footplates. Beyond being badly bruised and shaken, they were uninjured. The engine, tender, and one truck went over the end of the metals and were overturned.

STRIKE OVER. A BARONESS. BERLIN, July 12. A number of countesses and baronesses in reduced circumstances are employed at a chocolate factory at Saaltield in S.axe-Afeiningen. They work well and give themselves no airs, hut they refuse to join tiie Socialist trade union to which the other workers of the factory belong. So here has i>cen a struggle between patricians and plebeians.' Tn happier days the countesses and baronesses were ladies in waiting at the Court of the Prince and Princess Gunther of Schwarzburg, wiiose [.riiiiilality disappeared in 1918, and it was too much to expect them to turn Socialists. A tactless member of the union committee pestered a baroness during work to join the union. She complained and the Socialist was dismissed. The union hands then struck and the manager of the factory declared a lock-out. The battle raged for a few days, and then the plebeian forces gave up the struggle. FAITH. LONDON, July IG Sir Thomas Inskip, the SolicitorGeneral. speaking on “Faith” at the AVestbourne Park Chapel, Porchoslorroad, YY., yesterday, said that nothing was too wonderful to believe so long as we understood if only a little, about the way it was done. Science could do almost everything in the material realm, hut it had never yet dissected or even defined the soul. It could not sav exactly what life was, any more than it could produce life. Alan was a. more complete and perfected whole by admitting into bis life convictions that there were some things that he would never understand, and which must he received without resort to reason or proof to support them.