BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 February 1935, Page 4

BREEZES

Irish! She (anxiously): “Why are you going so quickly?” He: “The brakes won’t work, so I want to get home before we have an accident. ’ ’ « * * * Same Complaint. Clerk: “Do you prefer a red necktie or a green one?” Customer: “I’m sorry, but I can’t say. ’ ’ Clerk: “Shake, old man! I’m married, too.” ’ * » a * Speed Off Mark. Sunday School teacher: “What do we mean by the quick and the dead?” Small Boy: “Them as gets out of the way of motor cars is quick, and them as don’t is dead.” * * * * Bride Leaves by Back Door. Traveller, mountaineer and former M.P., Lord Conway, of Allington, who is 77, was married at Caxton Hall, Westminster, recently to Mrs Iva Lawson, a widow, aged 32, of Hytlie. Lord Con’ -ay’s first wife died in 1933. A "ter the wedding the bride left by the back entrance, and the bridegroom by the front door, with one of the women guests. * On being asked if a photograph might, be taken, Lord Conway remarked (referring to his companion): “Yes, but this is not the bride; she has gone.” It was not disclosed if a reception was held, or where the honeymoon would be spent. * * * * Raids by Cat Burglars.

Two raids on country mansions, involving the theft of jewels worth altogether about £IO,OOO, have been under police investigation in England. .In each case a ladder was used to enter the premises. From the home of Lady Mabel Bonsor, widow of Sir H. Cosmo Bonsor, Bart., at Tadworth, Surrey, jewels worth about £3OOO, including a valuable pearl necklace, were carried off. They were taken from a bedroom immediately above the library in which'members of Lady Bonsor’s family were taking coffee and listening to the wirelfcss. “The burglars brought treacle and brown paper with them,” stated a member of the household, and after climbing the ladder which was taken from the garden, placed a treacle 'plaster’ on the window before smashing the glass.” Lady Bonsor was not in residence, and the house was being used by Major-General and Mrs Hildyard, her son-in-law and daughter. The other place raided was the country house of Lord and Lady Desborougli, at Panshanger, Hertfordshire. A pearl necklace and several valuable brooches were among the things taken. Lord and Lady Desborough were dining at the United States Embassy in London at the time.

“The nightwatchman, when going on duty, found a ladder which the burglars had apparently brought from a farm some three miles away,” stated Lady Desborougli. “It was not long enough, and to reach the bedroom window they tied it to another one which they found in the garden.”