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Hongkong, 29th August, 1925,
"RUGGER."
A MEETING will be held in the
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB Pavilion on TUESDAY, September 11th 1923, at 5.15 p.m. All Persons interested in Rugby Football are: requested to be present.
Hongkong, 6th September 1923.
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
THE THIRD YEARLY DRAWING
of 20 Lebentures (1920 issue~~~ $500. each) of the HONGKONG Club, Payable on SATURDAY, the 29th September, 1923, will be held in the Club House at 11 o'clock, AM, on: SATURDAY, the 8th September, 1923.
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MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND
NEAR..
THE CHINA MAIL.
John Henry Savage, marine fire- man, was executed at Edinburgh for the murder of Mrs. Jemima
Grierson in a house at Leith.
Landon's new public golf course at Richmond Park was opened for play and a large number of golfers took advantage of the facility.
A
third folio Shakespeare, printed in 1664, from the library at Arundel Castle, the Sussex seat of the Duke of Norfolk, was sold for £200 at Sotheby's.
While the children were assembl ing for school at Kidlington, near Oxford, the schoolmistress, Mrs. Macarthy, fell dead in the porch.
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Emigrants numbering 15,000 have left Scotland for Canada and the United States since January, ac- cording to consular estimates in
Glasgow.
Estimates effecting a saving o Is. 2d. in the £ in the rates were approved by the Nottingham City Council, which a month ago reject- ed estimates showing a reduction of 6d. in the £.
The barking of his sheep-dog led to the discovery, of the body of Frederick Stark, 65, a bailiff, drowned in a pond in Crowcán:beat £10,108, Park, Somersetshire.
Said to have been married at 14, Mary Elizabeth Millerick, 32, was at Brighton committed for trial on two chargés of bigamy. She has six children.
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POISON LETTERS.
SOCIETY PRESIDENT
ACCUSED.
a
£20,000 STOLEN
DAYLIGHT ATTACK ON MESSENGERS,
One of the most remarkable briefs four men were shot and about A battle with bandits in which Henry Jefferief, Frederick Jordan,courts was filed by the Assistante, financial centre of Toronta. Four 16 years-old hand boys, the history of New York criminal 20,000 in cash wit lu olceinbe Jolin Barlow, and Thomas Marcroft, Public Prosecutor, Mr. William D. were at Aldershot sent for trial on Malonry, in a cass against Mr. sirtly before 10 o'clock. charges of breaking into the garri Genge Maxwell, president of the
A procession of bank inessengers, son kinema and stealing chocolates; American Sriety of Authors, Comme on foot and come in ears, yoro chewing gum, and cigarettes valued posers, and Publishers, who king their daily pilgrimage from accused of being the author of an of them, betonging to three different the clearing house when three pairs amazing series of "poisen letters Mr. Sidney Humphris, aged at, relating to women prominent innks, were simiftaurusly attack- the son of a Thame, Oxfordshire, society during the past 20 years.
jed. All were armed and some ra hurned the, bandits' attack with re- Mr. Maxwell, through comsel, draper, was found unconscious at Chilworth Tura, on the Oxford moved that the indictments against ever shots, but the handils all gob main road, and died a few hours him be dismissed. The opposing way after securing the bags of later. He had been riding a motor-this motion Mr. Maloney sub-currency and cheques, Corporation it was decided to At a meeting of the Nottingham
cycle, of which the front tyre burst.mitted a brief enntaining extra- One baudit struggled with a meg Major-General T. O Marsden, allocate £51.500 from the profits of who has returned from Constant-
ordinary allegations relating to Mr.ger, felled him with a blow on the gas, tramways, and electricity nople, where be
At the annual speech day at Maxwell's infinney with nime than the end, shot down another mea was General Merchant Taylors' School it was A dozen women whom he named,ger who was rushing to help, FRENCH LESSONS.-Ex-departments in relief of rates. Officer Commanding the British stated that three members of the and declaring that Mr. Maxwell's threw a bag into a waiting motor
perienced lady teacher is
troops, has taken up his appoint-Government are old Merchant method of ending these intimacies, and with his companions slowly willing to take a few more pupils. Three days torrential rain has ment as General Officer in Com-Taylor boys-Viscount Cave, the was to cause scurtilus letters to be drove away, pursed by shots Pañí Reply Box No. 1445, c/o "China resulted in the flooding of the low-mand of the 53rd Welsh Territorial Lord Chancellor; Sir William written to their huslands
the wounded and prostrate mes Mail."
lying districts of the States of Division, in succession to Major-Joynson-Hicks, Financial Secretary friends concerning them.
senger. Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, General Sir A. A. Montgomery, to the Treasury; and Sir Laming The suggestion of the Public;
Three messengers and one by- 3,000 peuple having been rendered who has assumed command of the Worthington Evans,
Postmaster. Prosecutor was that Mr. Maxwellstander were wounded. homeless at Arkansas City.
1st Division at Aldershot,
General.
simultaneously caused similar let- ters to be addressed, to himself to
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NOTICE.
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livert spicion from their real when he demonstrably was it în author. When shown one of the bed. Mr. Maxwell in 59 and was poison letters by an irats husband, born in Glasgow. He started life Mr. Maxwell, the prosecutor con-as a piano tuner in the No tended, out-did him in expressions Wight. He separatni! from his wife of disgust and produced a similar 19 years ago.
muissive received by himself.
The letters, the prosecutor de.. clared, wero modelled after the Court letters, which at the begin-
INDICTMENT OF SOCIETY PRESIDENT QUASHED.
ning of 1900 rocked the foundations In the Cunt of tienersà Hessiona of society in the Imperial Court of fat New York, Mr. Judge McIntyre Germany. It developed finally that quashed the indictum against the missives came from the Baron Mr. George Maxwell, prisideng về von Kotz, who attacked the reputa the Society of Composers Ambors tion of Court kudies and to avoid and Publishers, who was deeused of suspici sent simile epistles to being the author ofta geries of himself.
"poison letters" reboting; tà promin“ Mr. Maloney informed the court lent women during the best years. [that Mr. Magwell between 1902 and The decision was arranged after 1907 lived in New York with an Mr. Maswell, through Commel, had opern singer, who after her marriage applied for the disting of the to another man was the subiect of charges and the Ach taut Publio a mumber of poison lofters oddressProsentor, Mr. W E. Maloney,. Fed to her husband.
had filed a brief futi » Jodiendinary charges.
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FATM, SHOCK TO BUSHAND, She was surreded by another
The judge declared shot fberg was wanan and, desiring to tid himself nothing in the mints of Be grand of the intter. Mr. Maxwell, the pro-jury to justify prosen flop or eg- sventor alleges, caused letters to be necting Mr. Maxwell directly or sent to her gsband, who suffered acireumstantially with authorship fatal shock from the disclosures; of the letters,
After reciting the relations of Mr. Mrs. Albert Halldin, one of the [Maxwell with two other women prominent women na alioned in Mr. subsequent to 1914, relations which Maloney's brief, issued a atoment invariably fed to the receipt of to the Press decling theit she mor poison letters by their husbands, the Mr. Maxwell only use times at serufor narrates that the late dinner, ne of the dinners being victim was a Mrs. Ryan, who met given by herself and lesbod at her Mr. Maxwell in April, 1929.
home.
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