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COMMERCIAL.
CROMWELL UNLIKELY TO MERCURY MINE IN EWEL
BE AMONG THEM,
CHOW.
ARMED ROBBERS.
PLUCKY WOMAN ESCAPES.
EXCITING AFFAIR.
THE CHINA MAIL.
LAWN BOWLS.
SHANGHAI FOUR WIN FINAL MATCH.
QUEER CLUBS.
HOODED MEN AND WOMEN IN CITY TAVERN.
The Shanghai bowling team Which is London's. queerest [brought their programme here to a club? An unusual development in the close yesterday in a match against madus operandi coupled with un-the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.drawn to a luncheon club, the Attention has recently been foreseen pluck on the part of two The visitors won by 21 mints to 9embers of which, after a pleasant women forestalled an armed rob- At the close of the game the meal, indulge in the fascinating bery attempt in Yaumati yester Commodore of the Royal Hong-pastime of making and solving day. About 145 pan. two men, one kong Yacht Club, the Hon. Mr.acrostics.
with the other
No. 106 where the
brandishing revolver, rushed A. R. Lowe, congratulated the This club is only one among the the stairs of No. 106. Portland teams on the fine sporting game many strange and curious ones Street. They dragged a woma which they had put up and handed which carry out their peculiar and occupant across the common land-souvenir spoons to the winning Hitle-known existence in London, ing to the next house, No. 108 four. Mr. J. Shaw briefly replied, writes a correspondent. Here they bound her together thanking the Yacht Club for the One of the most interesting is inmates. Four invitation and remarking that the the "Fireside Club," which con other robbers then entered green played very well having resists of literary men, among them
inmates
gard to the fact that it was only well-known writers, who just st were overpowered. Before laid down a year ago.
round a fireside and talk. they could collect any loot, one of:
The teams and detailed progres»! the women in No, 108 broke loose sive scores were as under:
At a certain Ciy tavera there meet at regular intervals the sur in spite of one of the desperadoes
X.H.K.Y.C.viving members of a club founded clinging to her. Making her way Shaw.
Brayfield, into the street, the plucky woman Cheetham.
some time ago. Although some Ross. at once raised the alam. Oa this the Tomlinson.
members have died, the sapie numi- her of covers are laid every year, jwould-be robbers decamped.
Edwards. and targe photographs of the dead Shots Total
members appear in their places.
SHANGHAI
No, J.
No. 2.
No. 3.
Be-Veitch.
Skip
Shots
Total
fore this, one of the women in No.)
| 106 who straggled, was stabbed in
the hand.
Within a few minutes a police! cordon had been spread but the miscreants escapeili
CHILD ON FIRE.
FRENZIED DASH THROUGH)
STREET.
As Ivy Victoria Smith, aged 12, of New Hinksey, near Oxford, was helping her grandmother to make a cake, her dress taught fire. The grandmother, who is a cripple, wis helpless, bat an H-years-old sister) tried to put out the flames,
In terror the child picked up the cake which had just been placed in? the tin and rushed into the street. A woman who was passing threw la chat overber head, hot she rmu on,
still grabbing the cake, into a shop. | Before the shopkeeper could getį to her she once more rushed into the street, where another woman threw a coil over her.
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INTERPORT TENNIS.
HONG KONG TRIO SAIL TO-DAY,
In the same tavern meets strange assently of hooded men and women, the object of whose gatherings is a mystery.
"The Grimes Club" is perhaps better known to the public thin some of these strange clubs, although its meetings are kept ver secret. It is limited to 60 members, who meet three times a year at a London restaurant and discuss crime. Its members among whom are many well-known men including peers, legal authorities, and writers, are keen crimino- logists.
Negroes, Italians, Frenchmen, Japanese, all have their clubs, while there are clubs for people interested in wy engines, model steamers, and sailing boats.
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THEATRE
SLUMP."
BAD TIMES FOR TOURING COMPANIES.
The Hongkong interport tehnis Again she brake away, but was death left by
Managers and agents connected i the "Empress of caught eventually by men who Cumula for Shanghe toulay, with provincial theatres are com- wrapped her fa some bågs.
accompanied by the best wishes of plaining of bad business all over all ford sportsinen for their success the country.
An exceptionally bad time-- at this northern port.
The team compnses thres mem-one of the worst I remember," said Tors-Messrs. O. Runjab, S. AMr. Blackmore, a dramatic agent; the unemployment among actors | Kunjal and 11. 1. Romjalin.
She had received severe injuries, and died later in hospital at Oxford,
LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. The first two are brothers and the and actresses, particularly those of last-named a cousin of this other and more serious experience,
is very great."
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+37 All are players who have! com into prominence during recent
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charge.
Hongkong luas won the Interport Tennis for the past three yours against Shanghai, and it is hoped that the record of successes will remain unbraken.
Many of the recent new plays
On this aversion, there will be a trophy to fight for, as Mr. J. If Taxpart, managing director of the Hongkong Hotel Co. Ltd.. haare not of a nature to appeal to the genely given a silver cup to be provinces, and this lack of new competed for. Hitherto there has plays, in the provinces means that been un Interport, trophy.
a good many old ones are going round. And there are many rubbishy revues being toured.
the great month for the starting out Once upon a time August was
of touring companies. This year The Interport games are to start the number of companies which in Shanghai on October F and will have set hopefially out "on the last for a werk. There are there road" is comparatively small. And, ports competing-Shanghai, Hong with few exceptions, the patronage Ehurna, (A.P.C.) from Tarakan kong und Tieitsin. The contests being given to even really first- -North Point.
will be ene doubles and two singles class companies is meagre. Tiisalak, (J.C.J.L) from Kobe.- tur each tenen.
The truth of the matter seems to By
Me. S. E. Green was to have beenbe that, whether for goed or only Seven skulls and many lipses The mercury mine * Donge an Yunnan, (B. & S.) from Pakhi member of the term and to have as a passing phase, a great many were dug up by workmen at the hsiers, Kai-elow, says the Chinese C41.
raptasted it. Fle is, however, an people have given up theatre-going junction of Marble Archi and inversamet Bora of Benomic Kasara,(Luen Fat) from Swatow, jakde to make the journey, and Mr.in the provinces, especially during Edgware-road, near which at one Information, has been in operation-Co's Wharf.
BABY YORIS. If what the natives Yingchow, (P. & S.) from Shang. Kanojahn will therefore be in the spring and the summer. The post-war boom in outdoor games, time the Tybum gallows sturd
tennis, has A Daily Mail reader writes that a dependable, their ancestors lai-B12.
particularly lawn reacted against the theatre. So has suggestion that Cromwells' skuli were engaged in mereary mining in
the Ming Dynasty (1868-1641 may be among these found is silly.
dancing, so has the motor-coach. The slender thread on which he veins are found in the line-
so has the kinema theatre. To a very large section of amusement- the story is hung," he writes, "is stone strata and in isolated juleles that Cromwell's body was disur pockets. The methods used in
seekers these counter-attractions interred from his grave in West-opening the mine and in smelting
now appeal with greater force than minster Abbey after the Restora-the mitral are very poor and crude.
does a visit to the theatre. tion and hung on the gallows at la opening a mine hoks are thrilled Tyburn. The head was then set retain depth, and into them up on a pole on the top of West- 2 or 3 lb. of gunpowder age The reait of the naster Hall and the trunk buried intrxlaced. under the gallows,
jesplosion after the ignition of the "Actually the name Tabura was gutipendre is 20 lb. to 300 lb. of given indiscriminately to the spot preury ore. After breaking up where the gallows was set up. It the rocks into small particles, these As an undoubted fact that the ans paak into the nativo furnace for 23. gallows was shifted from place to smelting. The farms consists of
lace.
three bailers wad one sarthenware Only a few years before the basin. Over the brick foundation of exhumation and gibbeting of, the fence the first boiler is placed-September 22. Cromwell, the gallows was at the and the secanul boiler upside down Holborn end of Fetterane, mear on the first, 12-in. hole being Red Lion-square, and Train its centre, might have been still there in 1661, hiter is covered with and held in The second when Cromwell's body wis 50 plate by a bamboo notwork and basely treated.
"The bodies of Cromwell and: "pen this the third boiler, abo with freton were brought in carts, o, third miler is then covered by an-September 23,
a hole in the centre, is placed. This the night previous to their exposure}] on the gibbet, to the Red Lion lan,thenware basin. After heating, Holborn. There could have been the angry is evaporated and con- reason for this had Tybren brendensed on the entire surface of the moved by that time to the righ arthenware besin. This is rubbed folf and put into bamboo tubes. The "Lastly, it is not certain that it tenary obtained in this way is really was Cromwell's body on ready for sale.- Engineering. which the restored Monarchy wreaked its spite.
"There are many stories to the Captain Angus Buchman, who, contrary. But Bie tale I like bestet in 1922 on a topographical, is that, by his dying wish, his lady botanical, and zoological expedition was buried at the dead of night angeruss the Sahara Desert under the
Copper plaques embodying the the field of Naseby, where he had anspiers of the Royal Geographical obtained his greatest victory and Society, reached. Carrasset at principal details of the London glory,
the aid of March with his compan-Troops Momorial at the Royal iou. ME. T. A. Olover, luving Exchango were presented at the | travelled over 3,000 miles on camels.Mansion House to London units by 6.5. company is now in dock with
Hourhood of Marlile Arch.
What is believed to have been an altempt to wreck trains on the Chatham and Dover Railway at Allington, about a mile and a half i froni Maidstone, has been reported) to the police. "Iron chairs" weigh- ing between 301b. and 40lb, had bren placed on both the up and down metals and one of these was cut in two by a fast train. Another was noticed by the driver of a slower train, which was brought to a standstil! within a few yards of the obstruction. The boat train passed the spot not long after the discovery was made.
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Hok Canton, (Hong. On.) for
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Per P. & D. 8 8. "Donzol" on Sept. 91-Miss Harvey, Min D Mollison Miss E V. Sherwin, M E S Furber,
Lient H 4. Stovení. Mr C Burjumin, Miga S. Aall Master W.J. Bourne, Stra. J. Ginson. Mr and Mm G. F. Maltbe, Mc A. W. no Cullum, Mr. M. Dolan, Roy Elmer Root, Mr Ha Holl ng is Hollerbach, Mr W. Lucas, Miss W. M. Mollison Mr and Mrs W.J. Tarleton, Me Balderson, Mrs C. D. Harvey, Master P.
9. Van West, Mr and Min Noble, Mr 31. G. Wallace, Mr E J. Bourne Mr P. C. Van Zon, Mrs R. Stanley Smith, Mr F. Wheeler, Mr.O. A. Leggatt. Air Residents in adjacent Chinese H. Peares, Mrs Rot Miss territory seem to be making it a Cottingham, Miss V. A. Loigree, MA. practice of coming into the Colony R. Thidapi, Mrs D. Hemingway, Miss La whenever they receive gun-shot Muir, Mr M. G. Lavin, Drs A. Barf t wounds. Yesterday, a young man Mi-a C. Watkins, MrBD, Nezann. M was removed to hospital from a B. Ganso, Master PW. Boucat, boarding-house with wounds in the forearm and thigh. native of Ping Hoi and had arrived the day before.
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