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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1927, Page 4

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DIVORCE & WEDDING IN 20 MINUTES. NEW YORK, May 30.

Live minutes after obtaining a divorce at Livingston, /.Montana, from his second wife. Mr. Walter Hill, son of the late railway king. Janies J. Hill, yesterday married his third wife. Tho wedding was performed by a magistrate in a room adjoining the one in which the decree had just been pronounced. The bridegroom had been ordered lo pay his second wife £5.000 cash, an additional £5,00J. in live years, and £2OO a month for life. The divorce proceedings lasted 15 minutes; the marriage less than half tiiat time. The third wife of the heir to the Hill millions is an actress who is known as one of the beauties of the /tegleld Lollies.

TIIE EK AC KIT'D LIFE. D FDA REST. May 30. A young man named Andreas Kindi was sentenced here to three months' imprisonment for disorderly behaviour and two days later received a message lo come to prison and undergo his sentence. It was not. however. Andreas Kurdi juu., but his father, Andreas Kurdi sen., who went to the prison and served the sentence. The fraud was not discovered until tho time had come for the prisulici s discharge, -and although the prison officials sympathised with him for doing what was presumably an act of parental affection they took proceedings against him. The judge asked him why lie had impersonated Ids son. “Lor years," he replied, “I have almost split my head trying to think of some way in which 1 could escape, if only for a little while, from the hell in which I and my wife have lived for the past 25 years. J seized with both hands the chance of leading a peaceful life.” The judge was so touched that ho aeuuiltcd the man, remarking: “Volt understand yt.u are acquitted.” ‘T understand the sentence very well," replied Kurdi, “and am exceedingly sorry. To have been acquitted is no advantage to me—it only means that I must, go bails to my wife.”

NEW FLOWERS. LONDON. May 30. There was a record attendance at ri ■. opening yesterday at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Show held in the gardens of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, SAY. .\Khmigh twiie as much space as formerly had been used in housing Die exhibits, the grounds and tents became so crowded in the afternoon that thousands of people had to he content with merely a distant view cf Ihi‘ wonderful masses of Hewers. Manv people disheartened by repeated attempts to get near the exhibits left the grounds without, seeing them. The heavy scent of *!•■> flowers, combined with the oppressive atmosphere of a close day, a tin fed numbers of women, many of whom preferred to

' -it d out" in the gardens rather than remain in the tents. For the first time in the history of the shew a yellow Daphne has appeared there—a shrub-like little plant, whoso tiny flowers seemed to shrink in Untidily in the presence of a host of gorgeous hot-house blooms. The Daphne, which has gained a first-class eerlifuaie in the class of new and taro plants, was raised in the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens from seed collected abroad by Mr G. Forrest, a noted horticultural explorer.

At another stand there is a miniature plantation of Japanese dwarfed trees, which include a gnarled oak that has taken -10 years to attain a height of 18 inches, a 2ft high wisteria in bloom llint. is 00 years old, and a 15-years- Id pine that stands, in its little pot, barely -1 incites. The export in charge of these novelties, who declared that they arc rapidly becoming scarce, said: “Tile Japanese growers devote a life-time to their more treasured plants, and then hand them on to the next genera lion.

“The" have very jealously guar Hie secret of dwarfing, ft is a mystery to evervbodv else.”

THE PttTNTE’S PEEL. r.OVPnN. >!n> 30. The Prince of Wales, clad in full Highland costume of Boyal Stuart til rtf! li. led with much vicinity the opening eightsonie reels sit the hrilliiuit Caledonian Pull, which was liolcl at the Hotel Cecil. W.C.. lest night. As he il mi ceil to the lift i n p: music of the bagpipes with the Hiichess of At.hnll 11s his partner, ho was watched with admiration hv a m-eat company of guostf; standing round the room liehind the ropes held ! - commissionaires. These ranks of spectators, who later danced themselves, made a harder of tray colours, for the men were attired in highland costume, naval and military dress uniform, or evening dress with coloured facings. while man' - <>i the women had draped from their shoulders a sash of tartan. Later the Prime of Wales look part in a sixtoonsomo reel with Aliss Stun IT.

of Ardvorlich, a cousin of the Duchess of Atholl.

There was a brilliant display of gems and many of the women wore familv heirlooms.

QUARREL OVER A CONFESSION. NICE. May 30. Mile. Marguerite Bottifax. daughter of a highly respectable family of Nice, who was studying for the stage, made the acquaintance of M. Paul Andrau. a journalist. Tlieir friendship had a sequel in the birth a week ago of a child. - But Andrau was a married man. and the Bonifax family compelled Andrau to sign a document admitting tho paternity of the child. This morning Andrau called upon Mine. Bonifax, the girl’s mother, and demanded the return oT the document. A violent discussion arose, during which ’Time. 'Boniiax rushed to tho window and called for help, whereupon Andrau shot her dead with a revolver.

M. Bonifax returned Amiran’s fire but missed him, whereupon Andrau shot- himself dead.