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Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1925, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

ALL-DOCTORS WEDDING. LONDON, .March 7

A wedding, in which the bride, the bridegroom, a bridesmaid, and the man who is to give away the bride are doctors and all the principals and most oi the guests are associated with the medical profession is to take place at Christ Church, Hendon, N.AV., to-day. The bride is Dr .Margaret Howell, lately on the stall' of the North-Eastern Hospital at Tottenham, of Prinecs-park-avenue, Holders Green; the bridegroom is Dr J. tV. Mann, who is in practice at Norwood, S.E. The first bridesmaid is Dr Elsie Mann, sister of the bridegroom ; and Dr J, IJ. Howell, medical officer for Hammersmith, W., uncle of the bride, will give lier away.

The second bridesmaid, Miss-Nancy Howcl, the bride's sister, is a medical student, aTid the best man, Mr George .'.atm, brother of the bridegroom, has also been a medical student, although be lias not pursued the profession. PHONING TN MID-OCEAN. LONDON, March 7. Mrs L. Sitiilh, wife of the Governor of New York State, talked with her husbimd in New York by wireless and land telephone its she crossed the Atlantic in the Cnited States liner Leviathan.

Chief Radio-Officer Pickerill, ol the Leviathan. told a reporter yesterday, when the ship reached Southampton, that he believed Mrs Smith was the first woman to telephone from a ship on the ocean to the shore.

“It cost her £- to get through to the coastal station at Deal beach, Now York.’ - he said, “and the call then went on ihe ordinary land telephone lines. “The transmitter used is primarily a telegraph set hut it can lie converted into a telephonic one. The experiments in conversations from the ship to the land have so far been successful.”

DAD LAUNDRY WORK. LONDON, March 7

The complaint of the inferiority of the work of English laundries compared with those in France, has drawn a reply from the managing director of a London laundry. He writes:-—“A imml.-er' of English people send thenwork io Paris, because it is expensive and it gives them something Lo talk about when they are entertaining their friends. 'There nre at least half a dozen laundries in London turning out a superlative quality ol work who have a considerable wailing list. A- to the statement (hat a dress shirt eomes hack from a Eren-h laundry with the fronts and culls “dclightlul'y glossy.” a shirt front should have no gloss whatever. The ideal Ijui-li is a matt or dull surface. No shirt can he perfectly dressed except by band, but tin' number of expert shirt irouers is becoming smaller and the demand L larger than the supply." Another London, expert said yestor,l:iv ; “A dress shirt can he done as well by machinery as by hand. Dad work is turned mil by English laundries because there is a lack ol crallsmanship and enthusiasm on the part of {he laundresses, many of whom do not even know their work properly.

;(•_>(; PER GENT LOAN. LONDON. March 7

During his bankruptcy examination at Manchester yesterday. Mr l'redciick Duncan Ferguson, of Oxford-avcn-uc. Marlon, Dbu-kponl. formerly manager ol the I- alsiatl Hotel, Manrhe-.t cm said his dealings with money-lend-ers began with live loans of £1 , 7) | i each, for which ho gave in each case a bill for £3.->().

The OHiiial Receiver. Mr J. Grant Gibson: You got £1 .‘Jutl and actually paid lh<- money lender Cl.iotl. How could you lie so mad as to make such terms!'—l was hoping against hope and desired to prevent exposure. Don’t you see that it you were paying this interest of 1-10 per cent, you ivero robbing other people or your wife and family or laithh Aon obtained £OIO Irum money-lenders in duly la-1, you have paid £l.lBO and you are row threatened with a writ for £370 from other money-leaders. Mr K-ergiisoii said he got two leans h,' r-J.'iil on which the interest was at the rale of two per 1 old .

TRAIN STOWAWAY. LONDON. March 7. I I earin'.: limit ic shouts in the Is van I at Alorolnit I lamoM cad, Dohon. yesterday. parlors Inn oil thorn to a t ruik nl' I ooi liny; si nil' consigned in » local farmer. When tin* covering was no j i il II youth 111 Jo was [oniiil m a very weak i audit ion. 110 on\-o Ills iiiiiiio a* Ai*l.lmi* Dicks, a farm worker nl. Minimi CliariorImnso. noiir Hath, ami said that on Sal in ilay last lie ilmvo s'Hiio sheep i<> tin.* railway slalimi ami instead nl returning, sol iiff tnwar.ls llri-lnl. On Tuesday ho oiilorod a truck standing on Siam* sidings in an oll'nrt la leave llio district,. The truck was alterwards securely oavored and he was tinahle to escape al the journey's end. Tie had been without food and water dll ring the whole period.