OVERSEAS WEDDINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 80, 1 October 1940, Page 11

OVERSEAS WEDDINGS

(By Air Mail—From "The Post's" London Representative.)

LONDON, September 9,

The marriage took place on June 26, at St. Saviour's Colonial Church, Lagos, of Miss Elsie Cotes, second daughter of the late Mr. H. Cotes and Mrs. Cotes, of Auckland, and Mr. W. K. D. Macray, Colonial Administrative Service. Nigeria, son of the Rev. W. R. Macray and Mrs. Macray, of Woodbridge, Suffolk. The bride was given away by his Excellency the Governor, the Hon. C. C. Woolley. Owing to the war, the reception was cancelled" and an informal gathering was held at the Chief Secretary s Lodge. The honeymoon was spent in Jos. The bride left England nearly a year ago and took up an appointment in Nigeria as secretary to the Governor and official reporter to the Legislative Council. She met her husband in Ni-; aeria Mrs. Macray expects to "return to New Zealand with her husband for a short furlough in the near future. KHANDALLAH BRIDE. I The marriage took place quietly on August 12, at Acton registry office, of Lieutenant William Brian Young, B'.Ch. R.A.M.C.,' of Acton, W., son of Pilot Officer S. C. Young, R.A.F V.R., and Mrs Young, and Miss Peggie Shennan Khandallah, Wellington. The bride wore a two-piece of dusky blue woollen cloth, the coat trimmed with dyed brown ermine. Her hat was of blue felt to tone, with a brown veil. Newman, and Heppleston; produce, Mesdames Cracknell, Baker, and McCormac; cakes, Mesdames Edgar, Smith, Cook, and Noble; flowers, Mesdames Boniface and Ralph; tearoom. Mesdames Gourley, Clift, Gittings, and Miss Lemmon. Gave His Weight in Gold. The Maharajah of Gondal recently gave £7500 for the benefit of evacuated children in England. According to a writer in the "Cape Times" he is one of the most remarkable men in the East. As a youth he risked the loss of caste and kingdom by crossing the sea and studying medicine in Edinburgh, where he took the degree of M.D. His State is the healthiest as well as one of the best-ruled in India. Years ago he abolished all taxes. The State is run largely on the revenues of the railways built by himself. His personal expenditure is negligible. Five years ago, when he was 70, he followed the old Rajput custom of celebrating his jubilee by giving away his own weight in gold to charities. He has published a 2,000,000-word dictionary of the Gujarati language. It took him ten years to compile.

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