FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928. MISS MACKAY.
WHY FLIGHT WAS KEPT · SECRET.
TO AVOID GIVING PAIN,
without any
being alive.
London, March 24.
not only by her family and large
DRAMATIC SUICIDE.
HÚSBAND'S REQUEST: "SHOOT ME.”
TRAGEDY OF THREE.
SE THE CHINA MAIL,
INDIA'S ARMY.
"HOTEL" DIVORCES.
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divorco judges New York. In the presence of Nearly a fortnight has passed her husband, a motor-cycle police the discussion on the Budget in henceforth pursue the stricter
To-day World Theatre; ""The nows of Mins Elsie man named Thomas Weeks, and a the Council of State, Mr. Alma method of dealing with what are Mackay and Captain Hinchliffe, male companion, Mrs. Anna Weelts Latifi expressed the deep grati-known as "hotel divorce cases," White Rose."
To-day- Star Theatre: "Hell killed herself after Weeks had tude of the Punjab in respect of indicated by the President recent who left Cranwell Aerodrome, Lincolnshire, on March 13 to fly the handed her his servico revolver. Sir Basil Blackett's finance policy. ly, the effect will by-and-by be Bent Fer Heaven."
To-day Quarry Bay Dance, at with a request that she should By relieving the province of con- seen in the divorce statistica,
It 7.30 p.m. Atlantic in their aeroplane
kill him. The tragedy was wit-tributions to the Central Govern-writes a legal correspondent. Endeavour, and little hope is now held out by their friends of theiressed by their little son, & years ment it had brought to the dis- is notorious that a very large pro-
of age, who was sitting on the tricts of the province amenities portion of divorce, suits are stage-Y.C.M.A., at 7.30 p.m.
managed in the preliminary steps," Miss Mackay la mourned deeply lap of Jane Cuthbert, a friend of which had not been hitherto en- and are designed more for the re-
joyed.
May 5-H.K. Jockey Club fourth Mrs. Weeks.
lief of the guilty than of the in- extra race meeting. Weeks and his wife were re- In strongly combating the
Not very
May 18-Eighth extra race meet- circle of acquaintances, but also by sidents of Brooklyn, and were pessimistic accusations of neglect jured and innocent.
long ago Mr. Justice Swift, when ing of the L.R.R.C., Macao. her father's retainers, and she is married eleven years ago, but launched by the Swarajlst.
Lammerts Auction. missed, too, by the many animals quarrelled recently and separated. Lokenath Mukherjee, Mr. Lati trying matrimonial suits at
May 8-At Sales Room, Duddell- she owned and loved. One of her The other night the husband told the story of an occurrence in Assizes, remarked that half the. nowadays are intimate friends said yesterday: drove to his wife's apartment his own division of the Punjab,
Few people realise what a won-with the object of attempting to where, five years ago, a distract brought by the guilty party-that st., a valuable collection of postage May 9-At Sales Room, Duddell- derful character Elsie had. He effect a reconciliation, but she led father sought from sunrise to is to say; he or she wrote to the stamps, 5.16 p.m. friends called her the fairy god-was not at home. When she ar- sundown for medical relief for injured and deserted spouse, stat-
Land Sales. mother. She had a heart of gold, rived she was escorted by a man, his sick child. Now, owing to the ing that upon inquiry ample st, household furniture, 2.30, p.m.,
evidence would be found at some and spent her life in trying to help and when the policeman protest-extension of the local dispensary hotel of a clandestine atay there May 7-Two lots of Crown land others and in being kind to animals. ed there was a heated argument, system, a man could find such re- with some person unknown, and at Lai Chi Kok and Kowloon City. When she left London at Christmas Finally Weeks unbuckled his lief within ten miles, and soon he time for her father's seat, Glenapp revolver and handed it to his would be able to find it within accompanying this would be a respectively, F.W.D. OMees, 3 p.m.
hotel bill for two persons. Moni- Castle, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, she wife, with the remark, "Here, four miles. toak with her more than 1,000 pre-Anua, shoot me. I am in your Sir Pheroze Sethna paid a tri-festly such cases are, as the judge Bents for the people of the estate. way. I am keeping you from be-bute to Sir Basil. Blackett's described them, a "perfect farce,"
Elale adored animals. Her, greating happy. Let's end it."
management of the finances, but unless amply substantiated.
In these "hotel" cases a good friends were her dogs. Her favour- The wife took the weapon and criticised the rupee ratio and the ite was Rumple, a cross between an fumbled with it for a moment, Reserve Bank policy, the effect of deal goes by inference, and up to pug. while the husband and the other which, he said, would be known in far too often drawn and acted recent years the inference was Aberdeen ferrier Rumple always went to Cranwell man looked on silently. Then, two years from now. Sir Pheroze with Elsie. Duff, a big mastiff, with a quick gesture and her Sethna strongly condemned what upon that, because two people of was her second favourite. When- eyes on her husband, she turned he termed to be the absolute opposite soxes occupied one bed-general meeting of shareholders of ever a coal cart stopped outside her the revolver to her own breast, turning-down of the unanimous room for a few hours, there must the Canton Insurance Office, Ltd., home in Seamore-place, Mayfair, pulled the trigger, and fell dead. report of Sir Andrew Skeen's necessarily have been misconduct. at Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's
This inference was sometimes offices, noon. W., Elsie would run out with an Apple for the horse.
and
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For Britain's Benefit.
Some of Miss Mackay's most recent latters illustrate her motives fn making the light. In October she wrote:.
:
I want to finance an Atlantic! fight and go myself. I want to do something that is going to benefit Britain nil British aviation, and if I could do this, without my
name appearing I
should be delighted. She declared that she would like to be able to land in Hyde Park upon her return so that she could Grouse a greater national interest in aviation.
Her friends declure that she trusted Captain Hinchliffe's skill and judgment implicitly. On the Monday night before she left for Cranwell, whence she was to depart in the morning, she wrote:
Captain Hinchliffe has told me that we can leave in the morning. and by the time you get this, we sbali be well away. I know we shall get there!
"The only reason why Elale kept Buch close secrecy about her inten- tions, her friend added yesterday: "was her unselfishness. She did not want to give any pain."
OFFICER'S DEATH.
RIFLE ACCIDENT AT DOVER.
RICH MAN'S WILL.
MILLIONAIRE BREWER'S "BEQUEST AND LEGACIES.
Mr. Edwin Pope, Mentone Lodge, Dorchester, a director of Eldridge, Pope, and Co. Ltd., the Dorchester Brewery, who led, in January,
of the aged 83 years, left estate gross value of £1,491,994, with net personalty £1,462,015.
The duties on the property at this valuation and according to the dispositions of the will, will amount to about £530,000,
His bequests included:
£5,000 to the Dorset County Hoa- pital, Dorchester, upon trust for in- vestment and to apply the income in some distinctive charitable pur- pose in connection with the insti- tution..
Committee.
Sir
Meetings. To-day Extraordinary general meeting of the Kowloon Bowling Green Club, 6 p.m.
May 14 Annual meeting of the H.K. Auxiliary of the British & May Institute, 5.30 p.m. Foreign Bible Society, at Helena
May 17-Forty-seventh ordinary
May 25 Fifty-ninth annual meeting of the China Fire Insur
drawn in the rather less suspi- May 25 Fifty-fifth annual meet- Sir W. Birdwood's Reply, cious circumstance that there ing of Union Insurance Society of
William Birdwood, the were two bed-rooms with a com- Canton, Ltd., Union-bldg., 11: a.m. Commander-in-Chief, in a brief municating door. and most effective speech, com- bated the view that the proposals of Sir Andrew Skeen's Committee had been turned down absolutely. Sir William said:-
a few ance Co., Ltd., Union-bldg., 11.15
un-ja.m.
Miscellaneous.
To-day-Exhibition of pictures, and water-coloura, at
November 19— Matriculation,
Senior and Junior Local exams. at the Hong Kong University."
May 14-Opening of a new class for beginners in Chinese Language, school, in Chamber of Commerce boardroom, 5.15-0.15 p.m.
A Respondent's Admission, An example occurred years ago in a remarkable
May 25 Sixty-second annual defended suit, in which a well- known public man, anxious to be meeting of British Traders' Insur- Lord Rawlinson held that it divorced, was the respondent. ance Co., Ltd., Union-bldg., 11.20 was impossible to judge of the The wife obtained her decree nisi, a.m. fitness of Indians for military and immediately after it was command except by, the eight made absolute the respondent per unit system, which must
wrote to the newspapers in order pastel have a full and fair trial. The to point out the absurdity of the Messrs. Komer & Komors, 9 a.m. Government were unable to fix divorce laws, declaring that, al- to 5 p.m. the date for the creation of an though the two rooms were occu- May 7-Pinnoforte recital by Indian Sandhurst until they pied by himself and the Mr. Harry Ore's pupils in St. were certain that the numbers co-respondent, the communicat- John's Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m. of Indian cadets qualifying ing door was locked and never Now, al-opened all night, and no miscon- justified the step. though they sent ten boys each duct had actually taken place. year to Sandhurst, they were So far from there being any unable to fill ten vacant com-evidence of a chambermaid or a missions.
waiter, or the finding of the pro- Replying to the suggestion that verbial hairpin, to controvert a "fifty-fifty" plan of Indianisa- this explanation, there were tion, as prescribed for the Civil several other circumstarices which £1,000 to the incumbent and Services, could be applied to the seemed to establish its correct- churchwardens of each of the fols army, Sir William Birdwoodness. It is the weakness of such lowing
five parishes: Holy strongly disagreed. If such a cases that has caused the judges Trinity, Dorchester: St. Peter: plan produced inefficiency in the more recently to hesitate before Dorchester; All Saints, Dorchester: Civil Service rectification was basing inference on such bare Fordington St. George; and West possible, but no such rectification and unconvincing circumstances. Fordington, near Dorchester, for was possible with the army, with as those mentioned. "Edwin Pope's Gifts," upon trust which risks could not be taken. The matter is one in which the for investment, and to apply the As the American said of the re-proprietors and managers of well- income in the purchase of coal for volver, so he said of the army: conducted hotels are entitled to distribution amongst the deserv-"Tou, only want it once, but you be considered. They quite natur. ing poor of the parishes in Decem- want it darned good.".
ally resent their establishments ber of each year, as the incumbents Dealing with complaints made being used for the manufacture and churchwardens may select, by Mr. Jinnah and Sir Pheroze of bogus divorce cases, and them without distinction of creed. Sethna that the report of their selves, or their servants, being £1,000 to the Mill-street, Fording-sub-committee was not published, dragged into the unsavoury at ton, Mission, upon trust for invest-Sir William said that the report mosphere of the divorce courts, ment, and to apply the income from was based on the evidence given' £500 for some distinctive chari- by officers by courtesy of the War table purpose in connection with Office, which desired that the
Dover. A verdict that he "died of gunshot wounds caused by the accidental discharge of a rifle" was recorded at the inquest on Lieuten- ant George Stanley Stapleton, 1st Lincolnshire Regiment,' stationed at Dover, who was found shet in his mission.. room at the Castle..
His father, Captain A. Stapleton, Quartermaster of the depot of the Lincolnshire Regiment at Lincoln, said his son was 20 years of age, and wrote home cheerful letters every week. So far as he knew he had no troubles of any kind.
I
MONKEY TRICKS IN ZOO. SHIP.
PATHETIC STORY,
STORY OF ILL-HEALTH AND UNEMPLOYMENT.
PUBLIC GENEROSITY,
Mr. H. C. A. Bingley, the Maryle- bone magistrate, announced that he had received many letters can. taining money for Charles Good- year, the ex-soldier, whose serious plight had been reported.
Good-
year was brought before Mr. Hay Halkett and charged with loitering at Maida-vale with Intent to com
358, by fraud.
the mission, and from £500 for the evidence should be treated as con- ON A 'BLUE FUNNEL:mit a felony, and with obtaining
fidential. The report, moreover, general charitable purposes of the contained personalities which he £1,000 to his trustees upon trust very much disliked, and of which the publication could do no good. for investment, and to apply the In- Sir Basil Blackett, in his vale- come for a tea, with suitable re-dictory speech, winding up the freshments, on Aug. 23 in each debate, expressed amazement year, for children aged from 7 to that the Government's proposals
ORANG-OUTANG'S ANTICS.
Three orang-outangs which with
dealt
"I can say nothing about the cust," added the magistrate, "be- cause it was not before me, but having received all these letters containing cheques and postal orders, I wish to thank the public 13 years, of poor and deserving for the Indianisation of the army; various other denizens of the wild, for making the case known.
for their generosity and the Press All persons resident in Dorchester, going so far as they did,, and and which children have been in being so generous, should have reached London in the Blue Funnel these letters will be acknowledged, Lieutenant R. Harvest spoke to attendance at one of the public met with such carping criticism. steamor "Perseus," enlivened the of course, and properly seeing Stapleton with a rifle in his elementary schools in Dorchester Looking to the future, he declar- voyage from Singapore by their with."
a Goodyear, hand and playing about with the for the six months preceding.
cabinet- ed that India's financial future "monkey-tricks."
young bolt. He said to witness: "It is £1,000 to the directors of Eld-was bright provided practica) "Berthed" In the fore-cabin with maker, with a wife and two chil all right." It was quite probable ridge, Pope,. and Co. Ltd. upon principles were applied, and one a short-tempered black panther, a dren, living in one room at Lad- that he was practising at the time, trust for investment, and to apply step at a time was regarded as mirthless hyena, a homesick tapir, broke-crescent, North Kensington, as he was going in for a musketry the income in providing annually satisfactory instead of six. . two wild cats (true to name), two was said to have travelled all over examination. He was in his on Aug. 23 a dinner, to which all
seasick storks, eighteen flamingoes, England and Wales in a vain. pyjamas and dressing gown waiting members of the staff and all work-
and hundreds of Java sparrows search for work. His disability, for his bath when the tragedy men in the service of that com-
(all, of course, in cages consider he said, seemed dead against him. occurred.
pany, and resident in Dorchester,
ately placed apart from one an- According to the police he had other), they quickly decided that been operated on thirteen times
been reduced from 16s, to 8s, a Their chance came when they week, and a visit to his room after dicovered that the Java sparrows his arrest showed that he had no were being carried as fresh meat food and that all his wife had for the wild cats.
was 2d.
The night before he appeared be- Astonish fore, the magistrats he had kept
Stapleton's servant spoke to hear are to be invited; and if there
NAVAL EPIC.
ing the report of a rifle and on go-should not be sufficient of them to SOME FACTS ABOUT THE BIG their shipmates needed, cheering | for war wounds. His pension had
ing to his room found him falling warrant the full expenditure of the
over on his left side..
Lieutenant Genders, 2 close friend of Stapleton, said he did not know of his having any private troubles of any kind. He was very popular and got on well with the regiment.
income in any year, the 'directors' are to invite others to make up a sufficient number.
FILM.
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Neither trouble nor expense was To each member of the staff of spared in making the famous the company (including travellers British naval film, "The Battles of One day the men in charge of and district managers) and each Coronel and Falkland Islands," the
two
werd
Captain Eager, commanding. "B" of the workmen in the service of which is the big attraction at the ed to see a small flock of the spar-vigil at the bedside of one of his Company. Lincolnshire Regiment, the company at his decease, if of Queen's Theatre to-day and to- rows flying, round and round the children who was said to be dying stated that It was absolutely twelve months' service, one month's morrow. To obtain effective shell ship. A watch was kept, and one from bronchial pneumonia, in St. against regulations for Stapleton to waged
explosions and gua discharges, of the orang-outangs-known as Mary Abbot's Hospital. To each of his female domestic elaborate tests. and experiments "Old Soldier was seen to have live rounds of ammunition in his quarters, but he was entitled to servants in his service at his do- were carried out in conjunction squeeze himself out of his cage, have a rifle.
cease and not under notice, if of with Messrs. Brook, the fireworks siip across to a bamboo basket con-" six months' service, one month's and explosives experts. Depth taining sparrows, and attempt to In the early days of the World wages, and sultable mourning, la charges detonated by electricity, undo the fasteninge. Surprised in the discretion of his trustees, nad throwing columns of water into the act, he dashed back to his cage £200 to his groom, Charles the air, represented shells falling and put on an air of innocence Shiner, if still in his service and into the sex Smoke bombs gave personified.
"
One day whon unexpected com- pany came to dinner, little Betty was told privately that she and mother would have to have oyster
soup without the oysters. The
this sacrifice to hospitality, and
apparently disappointed when she
found one small oyster in her por-
War the officer in charge of a Bri- tigh post, deep in the heart of Africa, received a wireless mes Bnge from his chief
War declared Arrest all
not under notice, and 10s, per week effects of discharges of hits. For A few days later: "Old Soldier for. life to his former gardener, the sea scenes in the Mediter-was seen roaming the decks and enemy allena: in your district." child was flattered at her share in Fred Solman.
ranean 80 tons of explosives were there began a great chase. He A few days later the chief re taken to Malta. Over 85 ships, In- was cornered in an alley-way oft. ceived this communication:--- cluding the mighty''super-dread-" Soon afterwards the other orang-Have, arrested sevûn Germans, "nought," "Barham," "wers" em- outangs were caught "out of three Belgians, Four Spaniards,
the ... pic. bounds: afte
five Frenchmen, a couple' Sweden an Arrentinian, and American Plesso Inform whom we are at war with."
Sithout"
tion Holding It up on the spoon, Quarantine restrictions Imposed ployed in makin she Inquired: in a stage whisper: against arrivals from Sourabaya on ture, which Is
"Mother, shouldn't Mrs. Smith account of plague have been re- tion the greatest naval
moved. have this oyster, too?"
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quesThe tapir died of his homesfel spectacle ness just as the ship reached Lon“
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