STORY OF TRIPLETS

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1935, Page 6

STORY OF TRIPLETS

“BROUGHT BY AN AEROPLANE.” BISHOP GWYNNE'S ANECDOTE. How he was believed by the natives to have “brought triplets to a Greek woman” by aeroplane was one of the stories told by Bishop Gwynne, Bishop of Egypt and the Sudan, at the annual meeting of the Egypt and Sudan Diocesan Association held at London recently, says the News Chronicle. “My (arrival at El Obeid, Bishop Gwynne explained, “coincided with the arrival of triplets to the wife of a Greek there. As my aeroplane arrived at the same time there was no doubt that 1 must have brought them.” Inquiries later revealed that there were “two boys and one girl, all doing extraordinarily well. Bishop Gwynne, acknowledging the assistance of the Governor-General, said that he had accomplished much of Ins work by flying. “I find, in my increasing years, that flying is the best form of transport.” He told of a visit to a tribal chief who had once visited London, ine tribe lived in, a nearly waterless desert. In London, the chief had stayed at Claridge’s, where the principal thing that had impressed him had been the bathroom Governor-General of the Sudan, Sir Stewart Symes, spoke of the work of the Church of England in the Sudan, and said he had been struck by the keen personal interest shown by all denominations. 1 The Rev. E. Gordon Parry, of the Church Missionary Society, Cairo, described the work that had been done in the quarter of Cairo known as the devil’s university.” It has a population of about 70,000, conspicuous for the number of people who take drugs. ... The Bishop of Ripon, Dr. Lunt, said that a special problem had been created by Britons who had stayed in Cairo after the war and had married non-Bntish wives. There were about 250 families, most of whom would have to be repatriated.