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Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENT.
May 16-Coronet Theatre;"
"The Four Horsemen ofthe Apocalypse."
May 16. World Theatre William Mack's "The Valley of Doubt."
May 16-Star Theatre" Danger- ous Hours."
May 16-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidye and W. E. Holloway's London Co, present "Bull Dog Drummond "at 9.15 p.m.
May 17.-Theatre Royal'; Robert) Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway's London Co., present "Ambrose Applejohn's Adventure" at 9.15.
May 18.-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway's London Co., present The Man from Toronto" at 9.15 pm.
May 19-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway's London Co., present their closing performance" The Bat" at 9.15 p.ti. May 22.-City Hall, Farewell Recital by Alexander Sklarevsky, world-famous pianist, 5-30 p.n.
-SPORTING-EVENT:
June 2.--Third Gymkhana of the Hongkong Jockey Club... Race Course.
COMPANY MEETINGS.
May 23--Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., annual, ordinary general meeting at the Hongkong Hotel at
11,00a.m.
May 95.-Extraordinary general meeting of the Hongkong Lond Lavestment and Agency Co., Ltd., at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., at 11.30a.m.
May 25.- Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd., annual shareholders' meeting, Union Build- jag, noon.
May 25.-Extraordinary general meeting of the Hongkong Central Estate, Ltd., at the offices of] Mesare. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Fedder Street, at noon.
May 25.--British Traders' Insur- ance Company, Ltd., annual share- holders' meeting, Union Building, 12.15 p.m.
May 25.-China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., annual shareholders' meeting, Union Building, 12.20 p.m.
May 30,-Hongkong Hide and Leather Co., Ltd, extraordinary general meeting at the Company's Office, 67-69 Des Voeux Road Central, at noon.
OTHER MEETING.
May 17.Meeting of members of the Hongkong Radio Society at Volunteer Headquarters, at 5.30) PAR.
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MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT,
Artificial Complexions.
More Russell Evidence?
Is barrister to represent him at the Behind the scenes, the lawyers inquest. It is a sad story-pathetic are still hammering away at the for the bereaved mother and Russell case, Steps are being taken
to test certain fresh evidence which naturally distressing for the novelist has come to hand from abroad, and and his charming wife. The rules of various Arkansas we shall hear very shortly something school boards prohibiting girl stu- definite as to whether there is to be Crime And Wireless dents from using powder and paint another trial or not. I fancy, says have been upheld by the Arkansas Home paper writer, the next
Crippen was the first murderer to
Supreme Court as just and reason-development will be in the nature be tracked by, wireless, bis presence Jable, four justices concurring and of a surprise.
on the "Montrose with Miss' Le Neve being detected by the one dissenting, Miss Peart Pugsley Do You "Mah Jong?” was expelled from the school for! Everybody nowadays seems to ship's captain after receipt of patick whereupon she commence have taken up "Mah Jong," the warning from Scotland Yard I re- fighting for her rights, and fascinating Chinese card game that sent through the ether. attained national prominence and is seriously competing with bridge that he was dumbfounded. when he member Crippen said afterwards falso much sympathy is the country says a Home paper. It is, of
where climatic conditions do not course, the great card game of could reach out of the empty air realised that this uncanny agency favour good complexions,
China, and much in favour in Cruelty To Convicts.
Government offices. One game can and locate him, says a Glasgow
Herald writer, But now Scotland | As a result of the death of last for a month, while the possibili-Yard is wringing the last ounce of Martin Talbert from the effects of ties are practically limitless. It is being beaten, two grand juries of to be hoped that it doesn't get into se out of wireless in the tireless Florida are
our high-brow Whitehall depart-effort to track down the criminal. investigating Dow
I believe the Lessons in wireless are held daily charges brought against the Floridamental "bureau." system of leasing out convicts as word "office" is now obsolete in at Scotland Yard, and experiments ar being made to see if pocket wine. labourers to private corporations. these circles,)
low sets will be of any practical uso
The affidavits have disclosed a start- Tax On Napoleonic Estate.
to man on duty. Already a descrip
ling story of cruelties practised The estate of Jerome Napoléon tion of a wanted man has been sent upon convicts, and a State Legista-Bonaparte, grandson of the brother out broadcast, and all principal tive Cominittes has been appointed of the first Napoleon, has been police stations are being provided to muggcat measures for ameliorat-appraised at New York thirty years with a receiving apparatus. At the ing peonage conditions. According after his death, which occurred at same time criminals are not letting to-the-evidence-the-leased convicts Washington. Because of failure to opportunity slip. A neatly-dressed were whipped and treated generally pay the New York State inheritance man called recently at a mansion to like slaves.
tax, the estate has been penalised to "inspect the wirofom outfit for the the extent of 300 per cent, spread Post Office." Left alone for a few Miss Alma Cummings, a vegetar-over the thirty years. Only about moments, he annexed jewels and ion, after duncing continuously for £6,000 of the estate, however, is money worth some hundreds. fifty hours and thereby beating her locatable in New York State, the previous record of twenty-seven bulk of it being in France. The Eleventh-Hour Reprieves. hours, rested amid the applause of failure of the estate to file details to light following the
Another Dancing Record
a big audience, including six utterly came wornout partnera. As a memento death
What is the best instance of an
of Jeronic Bonaparte's eleventh-hour reprieve? asks a
of the event aho was presented with daughter, the Countess von Moltke-writer in the Glasgow Herald.
silver cup worth £25 with an in- Hvitfeldt, at Biarritz, on January am looking up my notes on this scription declaring her the winner. It is understood that the total subject after reading of the mid- in physical endurance and terpe value of the estate exceeds $100,000. night dash of Mr. Stern into Shrop ohorean grace.
Miss Cumminge Jeroma Napoleon Bonaparte perved shire to locate tho Home Secretary for a last-minute appeal on behalf declares that she bases her power in the French army
of Mrs. Thompson. The Nawgate of endurance on a vegetarian dict. "Stella Maria.”.
Calendar the gloomy mirror of the She now ranks with such stunt It seems to have escaped com- crimes of the "good old days”—ra- luminaries as Dan O'Leary, who ment that the heroine in Locke's cords on instance of a pardon arriv- walked 105,000 miles; and Hans beautiful novel, Stella Maris, is ing for a man who was actually Hockenschmidt, who shoved a man Miss Sheila Itosemary Baines, the struggling in his last agonies. He in six seconds without mortally girl whose adoption by the Lockes was cut down, and restoratives wounding the victim.
is said to have been responsible for being applied he was saved. After- the suicide of her father, says awards, he was transported." Mrs, A hitherto unknown Raphael Glasgow Herald writer. In the Maybrick heard the news, of her picture has just bean discovered at novel, the ill-health and devotion of escape from death on the Inst day Montpellier. It is a picture of the Bheils will be found set forth with that she thought she had to live. Vingin nurang the Infant Christ, the masterly touch of this great Rayner, who shot Willian White- and was bought by its present literary artist. For a long time, ley, was told by the Governor that owner, M. Fiquebard de Roseville, close friends have known that mat he had been respited on the even- over thirty years ago from a second-fore were very strained between Mr. ing proceding the morning fixed for hand dealer's shop at Meaux. M. and Mrs. Baines and Mr. Locke, the execution. But, as a general do Roseville recognised it be a work and efforts were made to arrange rule, the bows in conveyed to the of extraordinary beauty, but in spite matter satisfactorily by a dear condemned within five days of the of lang research was unable to trace friend of both partios. Needless to day fixed for death. In 1850 a man Pavilong ni ilahishezfakta diad my, the news of the tragic death of named Bootle of Nottingham, wom cover the name of the artist. A hry,
prostarsicum rempited wasny bug wis beugun piez news (pared for death by the chaplain" on
A Valuable Picture.
committbe of artists and experts the Locked household, who have just made a micute Arriving by cablo with no detail the morning appointed for him to examination of the picture Later, in response to an urgent die. Loo, the Babbidambe now declared that it is beyond all
the full story was t derer achieved the rood Fök-being
and M
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After they und doubt a particularly no Raphael of grohes
Eto hang inestimable value.
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