Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 9, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july close friends9 offered glimpse of Queens lifestyle London up Queen serves a great the cakes and pastries Arent half but the Monarch does keep Pink flamingos albeit live ones her backyard at Buckingham her personal military band likes to mix its stirring marches with old British favourites such As somewhere Over the Rainbow Swanee River Hes making eyes at and has anybody seen my and the old Palace sprouts at least eight to antennas on the roof could do with a Little sandblasting on its timeworn exterior these and other Choice titbits of life behind the massive Iron Gates of one of the worlds most famous landmarks could be seen by about of the Queens closest friends yesterday at the first of her annual Garden it was a gala affair As Only the British can do the Bright red uniforms of the Pike ear ing Beefeater guards clashed sharply with the Grey or Black of the aristocracy and the conservative Blue suits of the Lucky Bankers and Media scribes who won the draw for a handful of purple Robed Bishops sat next to diplomats in Arab headdress and multicoloured african the unusually robust july Sun refer led crazily off the Gold braid of a Kaleidoscope of military uniforms and the pearls and Dia monds of the wives and unmarried Daugh ters allowed to accompany the almost exclusively male whether the unmarried daughters Man aged to find a gentleman to escort them around the luscious grounds strewn with a riot of color from the pansies and Lilac was a subject of gossip almost As intense As who actually got to speak with the for the Monarch didst have the time during the two hour party to say hello to everyone she invited the fact her lord chamberlains Gold trimmed invitations assured All and sundry that he had been commanded by her majesty to summon a few Lucky ones who had received Royal appointments within the past 12 close personal new envoys from Commonwealth for example got to shake her hand within the confines of the Royal the rest had to be Content with gawking from behind Crow control ropes and trying to identify their that sex King Constantino and his one heavily jewelled Matron and theres lord never mind her Friend shot Shirley gone for a walk with the son of lord you know Over there were other All and sundry were Given the privilege of setting foot in at least one room the 1853 Bow room with its Glass encased collection of porcelain of the Palace the Tea was so delicious that even one hardened opponent of the normally insipid appliances and tvs appliances and tvs f the Choice is yours pick the Price that Best fits your then pick the style you want love seat at no to cd me soft now special priced Only contemporary Quality built sofa and love seat features hand quilted durable 100 Cotton Palliser modern 4piece Quality bedroom suite in Golden Oak suite comes Complete with triple tall Arch Chest Matching hurry in top Quality 5piece Dinette set featuring 4 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genuine chiropractic the Popuri posture perfect sets this set features a 312 Coll mattress with the famous Spring Wall Edge support full size unit 299 Queen size unit 349 twin size sep unit on appliances and tvs either Defehr will pay your 7 provincial sales to on you can pay for your Purchase in Lull by january 1988 and pay not 1 cent of Mieres Oil ice selected furniture and Clear outs Are not included m this Oiler Defehr Breaks records every Day with unbeatable Low Low prices 70 Princess 1750 Ellice brew was moved to ask the serving Lomeii for the Queens special he got Only a Blank stare for his the Tea sandwiches were the cakes and sugared fruits were quickly gob bled and if you moved real you could even take them and the Bone China serving set to the Edge of the nearby Pond where the flamingos and several families of errant ducks preened themselves in Caritis of the temporary Queen Victoria started the tradition of annual Royal Garden parties in a Buck Ingham Palace spokesman said the present a Strong advocate of maintaining the ties Between Royalty and the common puts up with three annual invasions of to Magazine Purchase completed Toronto up financier Conrad Black has completed the Purchase of Money losing saturday night scorching a report that the Deal was in deep Hollinger Blacks holding said yesterday that there had been no major snags in negotiations for the acquisition of the prestigious Magazine from saturday night a division of a Scon investments of no financial details were there were the usual details arising from the previously announced agreement which required clarification but the whole negotiation has proceeded expeditiously and has been entirely Hollinger said in a Brief the announced june was to close june 30 but officials from both sides said later that discussions were the Toronto Star reported last week that the Deal was on the Brink of collapse with each Side accusing the other of misunderstanding their the announcement of Blacks Pur Chase of saturday night last month led to the resignation of editor Robert who worked at the Magazine for 19 reports said he expressed concern about fears of losing editorial control and requests for financial Norman one of Gascons principal said Hollinger is not going to run it adding that noted for his right Wing views bought the Magazine for its High Quality and the currently celebrating its 100th is also losing publisher John Macfarlane who has not been asked to stay Toronto based Hollinger said in the statement that appropriate personnel appointments will be announced Hollinger has changed its focus in recent years and sold off its Energy and food store interests to concentrate on the company has been on a buying Binge in the last year but the Purchase of saturday night is its first foray into the Magazine Man gets 14 years on heroin charges up a Man who claimed a woman tricked him into bringing million Worth of heroin into Canada was sentenced to h years in prison Gurdial the president of a sikh Temple in was found guilty last month of smuggling 447 Grams of heroin into the country from India on March he was also found guilty of pos session of a narcotic for the purpose of Sandhu told a Peel District court jury that he had a Brief affair with a women while he was in India and that hours before he left to return to Canada she gave him two Winter Coats to take to her customs officials at Pearson International Airport found More than 90 packets of the powdered drug sewn into the lining of the jackets and a packet inside his the woman told court a Man paid her to strike up the relationship with Sandhu and gave her the Coats to pass on to u in my you a Princi pal in a business said judge Robert v tougher fines studied for tavern employees Toronto up Ontario is cup sideling tougher fines for workers who serve liquor to inn paired patrons because judges Are letting people off too con Sumer minister Monte Kwinter Ontario liquor s gating the death of Toronto Man Kurober who was victim of a hit Andruj earlier this week after collapsing Orif the Road outside a tavern when he had been drinking the dead mans family and friends say they blame the tavern for letting Dodo drink so although the tip up licence act says a taverns licence can be suspended and the courts can impose1 penalties of up to and a year in jail against bar owners and ant Kwinter complained that the to fines usually imposed Are inadequate and be said in should be handing tougher a ;