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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1923, Page 3

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SCOTSMEN “ON THE MAKE.” LONDON, Auk “20 The Prince of Wales yosterdiy !e----voted it tliiv of his Highland liolitlrlv to >. ditty, when lie unveiled the Seafur'a Highlander's tvtii' memorial at !'<>■•■ George, the regimental depot in 1 1 shores of the .\ioray Eirth. anti open 1 a bazaar at Nairn in aid of the Iota! regimental eltth. This is the it s' nuio the Prince has opened a bazaar. At Nairn the audience bad a gkmp'-e of the Prince's famous smile "ten he told them : “Our great Scottish playwright, bir James Itarrie, has put it on roeo'-.l flint tliero were few more impressive sights in this world than a Scotsman 'on the make.’ (Daughter.) ‘•What would he say, T 'vender, :t i.e were to see, as we are going to see ui this hnzanr, a whole Scottish ■ ginio.o ‘on the make’ —-a whole Scott id: .'<' iz: - j ncut, strongly reinforced by a !»«:: i.ior. of Scottish ladies, each of whom is determined to let nobody pass her stall without suffering a financial cas i ii;y (Itenewed laughter.) “That is an impressive sight it you like, and it is all the more impv-stivc when you remember the very goon object which we have in view. “The Scaforth Highlanders' A.-so.m tion set an example to the whole l!rdish Empire fourteen years ago, when it opened in Edinburgh the first regimental club in existence. East year it g t tvo the Empire a second barrel. so to speak, by opening the first reg. Mental club in London —another instance f suppose, of the Scottish invasion we hear so much about in London these days." (Laughter). men man’s romance. LONDON. August :n. The romance of a wealthy man who learned just before his marriage that supposed father and mother were not his parents and who has discovered where his real mother is. was told in the London “Evening News” yesterday. Mr .1. T. Robbins, of Sideup. Kent, who sails for South Africa to-day, to meet his mother, said yesterday; . All I can remember of my childhood ■* lam now 38—is that the people with whom 1 was living were in poor circumstances. [ thought they weie in\ parents. I used to see ;■ handsome ]„dv occasionally at the cottage where we lived, and T was told that she was my aunt. When I was S she disappeared. As soon as T left school I started work as an errand U>y at a grocery and provision shop. Now I own ~-i grocery and provision businesses. V, hen I was able to marrv, my supnosed parents, who wore always very good to me. void me that I was not their son. and that niv mother was dead—which thev thought was true. .... Eighteen months ago T met a .South African who told mo lie knew mv mother, hut he did not know her mldress. I immediately ret to work to discover her and found that an agent had sold some property for her in l,ondon some time back. Then mv was published in a South African pn- . per. and. to my great happiness, I received a letter from my mother, who is jiving in Johannesburg, I shall bring

her hack to live with me if she will come. My foster parents are living at the lodge on my estate :u ."idea:'-. GIRL- WHO CANNOT COOK. _ LONDON. Augii't A caveat to forbid the marriage of his daughter on the grounds tluu “she has neglected her mother, will not interest hhiself in cooking, and does not even know how to purchase and < omt a dinner" lias been entered by a lather in several London register olhees. He also declares that she appears to lie fond of dancing and pleasure. The eirl, who is IP. has. it U stared, been engaged for several months without her parents' consent to a commercial traveller whom she met m a da neohall Her father has been unable to find that any notice of marriage has been given, hut he fears that the couple will shortly attempt to lie married. A caveat, which costs os., is a warning to those "ho have, power to authorise or perform a marriage ceremony, end is used chioilv by parents or guardians who fear that u minor intends to get married secretly. Caveats have been particularly numerous this year.