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AUCTIONEERS, AFPRAISEER AND SURVEYORS,
-Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned hare received instrue
are the Auction.
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WIDNESDAY, November 2, 1991.
commencing at 11 am,
their Sales Rooms, Duddell Strees, A Selection of Elgh Grade Cashmere and Tweed Sult Lengths. Superior Overcoating, etc.
Also
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LAMMERT BROS., Ameribocer.
Blouson October 18, 1921.
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SAD ACCIDENT,
MR. SMEATON'S UNTIMELY DEATH.
Mr. E. T. Raymond's "Portraits of A singular and distressing accident the 'Nineties," published (T. Fisher cured on the French Bund, Shang Lewis, 15s.). proves that late events.bai on Thursday evening last Oct. 21 have rushed at each a pace that even resulting in the death of Mr. Thomas those who were alive, as it were, yes- Gibb Smeaton. of Messrs. Jardine, terday, seem far away. Three of Mr. Raymond's models, however, still live-Mr. Balfour, Lord Rosebery, and Mr. Thomas Hardy.
Lord Rosebery is Mr. Raymond's
Matheson & Co.
£125,000,000 PLOT,
GIGANTIC SCHEME TO TRAP LONDON INVESTORS.
A plar originated in Chicago to organise a gigantic swindle by the formation of a £125,000,000 corpora- tion with a parent company in Lon den and branches in Victoria (British Mr. Smeaton was on his way home, States and Canada has been revealed Columbia) and throughout the United in company with a inend, and had the in papers seized by the Federal intention of boarding, a tram car authorities at New York while in- starting from a point near the French vestigating the doings of Charles W. Consulate. The pavement here is French and seven other persons who At Eton he is said to have declared littered with huge paring stones; in were arrested on charges of fraud. to a chum his three great ambitions- some places they were in piles, and
first silter.
Confessions obtained alter the
to marry a great heiress, to win the along other parts of the side wall collapse of the Michigan Avenue Derby, and to become Prime Minister. they lay singly, being thus not only Trust Company indicate that the That would seem enough for most an inconvenince to pedestrians bat, American financial markets were to men, withoat being Prime Minister as the unfortunate event proved, he deluged with millions of bad notes, twice. But the real drama of Lord dangerous, especially as, at the time stolen bonds, and bogus trust deeds. Rosebery, it was then seen (after the of the accident (about 7.30), this Banks and business houses from the great Liberal victory in 1905], bad particular spot seems to have been Atlantic to the Pacific were to be ended in the nineties when he laid badly lighted.
duped. Securities to the value of down the Liberal leadership
Seeing the at
tram-car approach, £400,000 have been recovered out of Edinburgh in a speech which remains Mr. Smeaton started to run for it.:
ja total of £1,500,000 stolen. His friend shouted a warning to him to beware of the paving stones, but just
as one of the most cuLou and
mournful monuments of political failure. The rest was merely an epilogue.
taliate....
■ A MAN OF ABILITY.
SEIZED DOCUMENTS. at that moment Mr. Smeaton tripped sum of £125,000,000 was to be put According to documenta seized the and fell heavily to the ground. It into the London office of the proposed Of a man of no speech but great was seen at once that he had sustained organisation while scores of building action Mr. Raymond says:
severe internal injury and be was con- companies ware being organised in Personally, Rhodes was not, indeed, vered home with all speed. After Canada and America. It is stated without a vein of vulgarity. He had having been seen by Dr. Billinghurst that many prominent London invest- a passion for diamonds and a con- and Dr. Marah, Mr. Smeaton
was ors were approached, the name of Mr. tempt for women; he loved not merely taken to the Victoria Nursing Home J. B. Morgan being used as a bait, appreciation but Battery of the grosser
where he died during the night.
but this was dropped when. Mr. kind; he was strangely content with
Morgan denied all connection with the companionship of quite inferior
The deceased, who was 27 years of the project. men; he was not exempt from that age, was a native of Dundee, and was
The scheme originated in a mush- very bad failing, a tendency to bully educated at Edinburgh University room corporation called the American those who were in no position to re- Never a man of strong physique, he Rubber Company, started in a dingy But no Beit or Bar- tried in vain to enter the army during shop in East 63rd-street, New York, nato could ever tell when his mater- the war. Failing in this, be decided to under French's management. Scores ialism or his mysticism would pre- come out to Shanghai, where his re- of bogus companies were floated in latives knew the late Mr. D. C. Dick. various cities, and thousands of Mr. Raymond paints two core Pre-He was engaged by Mesura Jardine, people were persuaded to invest their miers. Of the first be ways. If Matheson and Co., joining their ex savings in them. there was one man in Engiand for port department, and in this office elaborate headquarters at the Waldorf whom religion was a reality, it was he displayed singular ability which Hotel and lavishly entertained pro- Mr. Gladston Of the great Con- led him to rise very quickly. Mr. spective investors, servative leader: "Lord Salisbury Smeaton was a member of the The names of the concerns which died in the unhappy certainty that all Shanghai Scottish, and also of St. were to be dangled before the eyes of his attempts to satisfy Germany had Andrew's Society, i nd was one of the British investors include the Pacific failed of their purpose.
stewards at the last ball. He leaves Steel, Pacific Coal Company, Pacific awile and two young children, for Trust, Pacific Guarantee Company, whom the deepest sympathy wil be Pacific Railway Company, Pacific Equipment Company, Pacific Power Company, and the Pacific Realty Company.
dominate.
The late Duke of Devonshire: The young fellow of the nineties paw simply a large, dall man, with a large, dall way of talking, a maʊ incapable of saying a witty thing or doing a picturesque thing.
"And in some ways, no doubt, thé young fellow was right."
felt,
The deceased was buried with military bonours,
foolishness of moving at all, except in Of Herbert Spencer: "How much the manner known as marking time. he would have gained or lost by an "People like Wilde (the author of occasional thrashing, balanced by Reading Goal] had sense to detect. Gulliver and the Arabian Nights, is a and virility to denounce, certain poor question for curious speculation." players of old tricks they had not
In a chapter which they share: the courage to be themselves quite
Mr. Chamberlain was no doubt & genuine people; they contented then marvel of demagogic art. Mr. selves on the whole with dopewer Balfour was firmly convinced of the tricks."
French set up
Among the papers seized was a book containing the names of hundreds of British and American investors whom it was planned to spproach.
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