NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1928, Page 5

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

CALLED HLS OWN BANNS

The Rev. Tudor Thomas, vicar of Holy Trinity, Gravesend, recently called his own banns. Mr Thomas was married to Mrs Shurey, widow of Mr Charles Shurey, of BlackliCath, at St-. George’s, Hanover Square. V

fishing SPARROWS

In the Surrey Commercial " Docks there are thousands and thousands of small fishes, and recently from the deck of the steamer Anglos, sparrows were seen hopping about on the pieces of timber, which float in the docks, one sparrow amongst them was especially expert in seizing small fish; after beating them on the wood with its beak, it would fly away, apparently to feed its family with .them. One spaiTow did this six times.

WAVERLEY ABBEY.

Waver ley Abbey, which has just celebrated its eighth centenary, gave its name to the famous Waverley novels, but beyond The name itself there is no connection between the Abbey and Sir Walter Scott’s romances. Waverley, however, has its own important place in English monastic history. It was the chief of all the Cistercian abbeys in England, which included famous names like Tintern and Fountains. The Cistercians, if they contributed little to the sciences, as compared noth other orders, helped considerably in the development of domestic industries, farming in particular.

AN OLD ESTABLISHED DOG market.

Club Row, Bethnal Green, of .which it has been aptly said there is nothing in London quite so like the Mouski in Cairo, is one of the oldest of metropolitan open-air street markets. As regards its main feature, the selling and buying of dogs, a large encautie-tile painting on a public house in the neighbourhood, entitled “Club Row in Olden Days,” serves to show that as it is today so it was a century or more ago. Thoro .are the same cloth-capped nudfler throated men with big dogs on leads, and smaller dogs stuffed in their coat pockets, as may he seen any Sunday morning nowadays. Nothing seems changed, says the “Daily Chronicle*