NEWS FROM ABROAD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 450, 16 December 1930, Page 2

NEWS FROM ABROAD

Four Talented Sisters Four talented sisters met again for the first time for twelve years at a luncheon at Ciros Club, Orange street, Leicester Square, recently. Dame Clara Butt was reunited to her three sisters before she sailed for an extensive tour in the Far East (states the Daily Mail). Before Dame Clara Butt achieved fame as a contralto singer, she and her sisters, Mrs Stuart Anderson (Paulline Hook), Mrs Percy Heming (Hazel Gray) and Mrs E. Argent (Ethel Hook) used to tour the country singing quartets. Mrs Anderson is now settled in Canada; Mrs Heming teaches singing in Clifton, Bristol; and Mrs Argent appears on the concert platform.

A Roman City. The important work of excavating the site of the Roman city of Verulam is being carried out by a woman, Mrs Wheeler, the wife of Dr. Mortimer Wheeler, keeper and secretary of the London Museum, states an English exchange. Mrs Wheeler is the chief administrative officer of a party which includes her husband Dr. Davies Price, a number of voluntary workers, and , about 20 labourers, who have already made a number of important discoveries. Besides organising the work and instructing the diggers, Mrs Wheeler is responsible for sorting and marking the pottery and other relics which are being found. Lost: A Wedding Ring.

Before the altar in a church at Cuckficld, Sussex, stood the happy couple — the groom, a policeman, tall and handsome, the bride, petite and pretty, says an English exchange. The •ceremony was nearing its end. On the Bible lay the ring, and the minister was about to hand it to the bridegroom when it slipped off the book and disappeared. Search was made, members of the bridal party crouching down and groping about. But it was useless. The little golden band had vanished. Then, when the situation was beginning to look serious, the minister showed his resourcefulness/ He had two rings on his hand and tugged at one, but it would not move. He pulled at the other, and after a struggle off it came, and with this ring the ceremony was completed. Another search was made for the lost trinket, this time successfully. It was in one of the ‘turn-ups’ of the minister’s trousers.