Rome. July 1.
The Supreme Court of Cassation to-day will begin hearing of an unprecedented appeal arising from the action of a civil court in Florence which rejected an ecclesiastical nulment granted in Tientsin of the marriage of Signor Antonio Riva and Sonora Emilia Corradi, The appeal was based on the grounds that prior to their marriage In Florence in 1921 the two parties signed an agreement to prevent procreation afler their marriage.
The Tientsin court granted the fennulment on ths grounds of "Is accord." "The Florence court Tused to annul the civil marriage fon the grounds that the marriage contract could not be broken or Sffected by "mental reservations."—United Press.
London, July 1.
'The death has occurred of the Rev. J. C. Curnow, former pioneer missionary in West' China.—Reuter, The China Inland Mission recently. received news of the passing of three rans who have been for some rs retired in England.
its. S. Clarke came to China in 1878 and served for many years with her late husband in the province of Kweichow. She died on June 1.
Mrs. G. F, Easton, who is survived by her husband, arrived in this land 1881, Me. and Mrs. Easton under took missionary service in the Northwest and retired home in 1990. Mrs. Easton's death occurred?on June 26, Mrs, J. N. Hayward, the widow of late Treasurer of the Mission and fat one time known to many (Shanghai, was in China from 1889 to 10916. ' After Mr. Hayward's death she served on the Home Staff of the Mission in London until her health became impaired. Recently she has been cared for in the Mis-slon's London Nursing Home. She: died on June 24,
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