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LOVE SICK SWAIN. ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN
Tokyo, February 21. With the arrest and confession of Tsunajiro Naruse, a farmer residing in the neighbourhood of Nagoya, the mystery has been solved of the attempted wrecking of the train which was conveying Opposition members to Tokyo on January 31
The wrecking of the train pre- cipitated the Diet dissolution.
SIR RICHARD MUIR
CAREER OF A FAMOUS
CROWN COUNSEL.
Sir Richard Muir, whose death after a very brief illness is an-- nounced, was born in Greenock 67 years ago. Before and for some time after he was called to the Bar he worked is a journalist.
He was called to the Bar in
1884. For some years he made comparatively little progress in
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Girls nowadays do not want jobs, they want careers, declared Miss G. A. Burlton, late general man-' No more eloquent taken of "ger of Peter Jones, Ltd., drapers, respect could have been paid to of Sloane-square, S.W., at a meet- the memory of the late Rt.ing of the Association for Educa Rev. Dr. Domisico Pozzoni tion in Industry and Commerce at
the than in
vast
throng of University College, Gower-street, mourners who attended the Roman. Catholic Cathedral and the
Miss Burlton added: pay Cemetery this morning to
take their last homage and
If you want your girl to carve a part in the final rites.
career out for herself make her a Yesterday morning the last remains were removed to the saleswoman. A good saleswoman Roman Catholic Cathedral to lie in can earn anything up to £500 a state before the main altar. Dur-year, and there is always a demand ing the day hundreds of people for her services, besides which she || came to pay their deep respects has better opportunities for promo- and vigil was kept all night long.
The service in the Cathedral,tion and more of then!
Con- Mr. F. W. Goodenough, chair- was specially impressive, ducted by the Bishop of Macao, man of the British Commercial Gas Bishop da Costa Nunes, assisted Association, said that employers by the Procurator General of the French Mission, Very Rev. Fr. L. did not want teachers to send Robert, the Procurator General of them boys and girls as "the the Spanish Mission, Rev. Fr. finished article," "but they did Noval; the Chinese Pastor, Rev. want then! fired with ambition and a determination to be "triers," and Fr. Paul Lu, and other priests.
Headed by a troop of Boy Imbued with the belief that in the Scouts, the solemn procession ranks of industry and commerce! of mourners extended for over a they can make themselves first- mile and in various parts of the city, class éraftsmen, clerks, salesmen, traffic had to be stopped to allow or managers. He continued: their progress, Virtually the whole If educationists-administrators of the Catholic comniusity was as well as teachers and trainers- present There were members knew anything like as much of the of all creeds in the procession, all inside of industry (on its human as silent with grief over the loss of well as its material side) as of the one of the Colony's most highly inside of books, they would be of respected men. Among them vastly inore service to their pupils, were Government officials, includ- and their pupils' parents, when it ing. Sir Claud Severn and Mr. came to starting the young people A. G. M. Fletcher, Mr. G. St. on their life's work. There should Lawrence, representing H. E. be a comradeship between school the Governor, Lieut.-Col. W. N. teacher and employer. Nicholson, C.M.G.. representing the Army, Pay. Lieut. B. OF. Gregory, representing the Navy, Mr. Hornell, Vice Chancellor of the University and Mr. Teesdale Mackintosh, the Register, the Lord Bishop of Victoria, Dr.
Duppuy, the Rev. G. T. Walde- grave, the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.O.. the Hon. Mr. A, R. Lowe, the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemps K.C., Mr. R. Wood, Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Mr. E. Ralphs, Senhor. A. L. guese Consul General. represent- Cervcim de Albuquerque, Portu his profession, but at last his uning H. E. the Governor of Macse, It appears that Naruse was jilt-remitting industry won its re: Senator Francisco A. Silva, repre- the Macao Govern- ward, and he was made counsel senting for the Treasury at the Northment, Commander-Carrara, vopre
Consul- London Sessions. A little later senting
Italian members of the he was appointed counsel for the General, Treasury at the Old Bailey and Anny and Navy and a fully repre- senior counsel in 1901. By virtue of that position he took a leading part in most of the great criminal trials of the past 16 years.
ed by a girl on the night of Janu- ary 30, and he left for home in a state of despair and anger.
He saw a train rumble past, and decided to wreck a train to relieve his wounded feelings, .
He inboured nightily, placing an obstruction on the track, and then hid to watch results.. --
PASSENGERS.
EXPARTURES.
Per A.O.L .s. Pren. Jeffersen" on
Feb, 22-Mr L. Candia, Mine D. Bos, Mr L. G. Humar, Mr H. Diehr, Mrs G. R. Douglas, Mr A. S. Clark, Me and Mrs D. E. Ross, Dr. C. F. 8. Lincoln, Mrs C. F. NeRe, Missos G. Lindley, A Lindley, Mr K. O. Hansen, Mr J. O. W. Kinr, J. Kay, Mr J. H. Dollar, Mr A. B. Dollar, Mesaro P. H. Bordwell, F. O. Codlipo, L. W. Straws, Mre H. A. Enew rth. Mrs 2. F. Miller, Mr G. Pitke, Mr and Mrs
the
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DOYS WHO SUCCEED. Major T. Knowles, staff trainer of Boots Pure Drug Co., said that no-subject in the world had been so much experimented on as the boy, and added:
But in spite of it all, he manages to grow and develop. Formerly, many parents gave less considera- tion to the choice of a suitable career for their boy than to the selection of a pair of shoes.
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months. Furnished 4roomed Mass, the cortege proceeded to the fat or small bungalow. Peak district Cemetery. The casket, beautifully or May Road level preferred. Sstate enshrined with a mass of flowers, terms-Captain MONTANARO, East was carried by sailors and officers of the Italian unboat
sentative gathering of civilians. WANTED early March.
Surreys. Calabria "
It was the trial of Dr. Crippen, who was condemned to death and executed in 1910 for poisoning his wife, that first made Mr. Muir who pulled the hearse to the he was not knighted until 1918 Cemetery. At the Cemetery, the a notable public figure. His mar-last remains of the late Bishop shalling of the evidence in that were revererily laid to rest in the case and his cross-examination of Chapel where candies were burn. Crippen-deadly in accuracying in accordance with the Roman The ceremony Catholic creed. established his fame.
few was simple and after a minutes, the mourners filed out of He prosecuted Stinie Morrison, the narrow gate at the entrance. who was convicted of the murder It was one of the most strikingly of Leon Beron on Clapham Com-impressive ceremonies seen in the mun: he prosecuted Seddon, who Colony for many years. Poisoned his lodger, Miss Barrow, Wreaths
Scrupulous Fairness.
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were sent by the
H. B. Fowler. Mr. and Mrs C. W. Haislic, with arsenic extracted from fly-following:-H.E. The Governor," Mina D. Haislip, Mr F. W. Fuller, Mr papers. As recently as last year Sir Claud Swern, Cerveira de and Mrs 0. S. Y. Branch, Mc A. Ehe prosecuted Mason, who was Albuquerque, Consul General of Edgecomb Me A. G. Kopf, dies E. Bfound guilty of the murder of Portugual, The Court of the Hitchin Mr R R. Agner. Mins T. MeDoaa, Miss M. McDonald, Mr Dickey, the taxicab driver, at University of Hongkong. The Brixton. He appeared in the case Jewish Community, Banque de Frioder, Mr E. S. Beyer, Misson J. Faloor, L. Fritz Gerald, Mesars J. when Lord Alfred Douglas was Indo Chine, Ho Fook. Ho Kwong, W. Hasserman, A. E. Framley, Miss sent to prison for libelling Mr. M. Kabn, Mr H. D. Kneeler Mrs Winston Churchill. 1. Webber. Mrs F. B. Walton, Misses A. E. Pratt. E. C. I. Pratt, 31r J. Fer. xori, Misena V. M. Gibus, A. da Sansaare, Me F. F. Townsend, Mrs M. Marchand, Mr and Mrs Cyrne Wood, Mias M. Boyd, Mr and Mrs E. W. Faurkhem. Cast had perhaps given him a cold, R. Braga, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Mr. and Patsy Nicol, unflinching manner, and he cer- Blackmore, C. E. Gay, Dapkne and
Hill, Mr M. H.Swan, Mr and Mrs Fre- weo, Mrs Owvang, Misses B. Owing, Uwyang, Mt and N. Kumpor, Messrs W. A. Lin, N. Georges, G. Ginoum, N, B. Balesh, B Ridille, J. W. Barber, 1. Luke, Miss H. M. Smith, Meara E. W Bay, H. A. Evans and U. Aṛthar.
MOVEMENT OF STEAMER.
It cannot be anid of Sir Richard that he fought for convictions. He was always scrupulously fair. Long years as a Crown prosecutor
Pedro v. Botelho, D'Almada and Mason, Mrs. A. F. Ramsey and family, Mr and Mrs U. Gonella, Mr. and Mrs. E. V. M. R. de Souza, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. B. Silva, Mr. and Mrs. Anicet Becker, Mrs. J.
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Sitting, in the Court of Criminal Association, Catholic Union Clubs Lucky Policemen... are vod at Nagasaki to day at -2.30 am. left Nagaraki to-day at 150 p., and is Appeal, the Lord Chief Justice A. P. de S. Mutuos, The Rock, Cheloo Notes.. due at Ahanghai tomorrow at. 3 p.m. said the practice of the law, Fred Bunil, The Pupils of Kailap Bishop Pozzoni Sho will leave Shanghai on Feb. at spm.especially the criminal law. was School, R. H. Murray and family Supposed Piracy.
the poorer through being deprived Lewis Guy Woo, W. G. Fitzgibbon, Shareholders of the Hongkong of: Sir Richard's excellent J: P. Braga, Lieut. Norari, H.LM.S. and Shanghai Banking Corporation accuracy, industry, patience, and Calabria" and many others." are reminded that the Bank's knowledge, s meetings take place to-morrow at 11.30 am, at the City Hall.
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Mr. W. T. Rushton, founder and for many years head of Rushton's Brewery Limited, Birmingham, 'left estate of the 'gross value of £429,590. The will of Mr. J. D. Williams, chairman of the Rhand da Valley and Ely · Breweries Limited, has been proved at £152,997 gross.
In his speech to the United Pro vinces Legislative Council, Sk W. Marria, the Governor, welcomed "the Swarajisis as a new element in the Council, The Government would face the new Legislature on the assumption, that all the mem-
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