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DEATH.
GOLDRING.-At Shanghai,
May 13, Philip Goldring, aged 53.
Hong Kong, Monday, May 14, 1928.
LONDON-PEKING BY AIR.
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MR. P. W. GOLDRING.
WELL KNOWN SOLICITOR DEAD.
17 YEARS IN COLONY."
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MONDAY, MAY 14, 1928.
LOUVRE REPORT.'
X-RAYS TREATMENT FOR OLD MASTERS.
THE DOUBTFUL"
The following is written by W. G. Monzies in the London "Daily Mall":-
A cable reached Hong Kong yes- terday conveying the sad news of the death in Shanghal the same | morning of Mr. P. W: Goldring, a Serious art students will learn well-known solicitor who had prac with regret that the findings of the tised in Hong Kong for seventeen committee, of experts now testing years prior to going to Shanghat the authenticity of the 9,000 paint- about sight years ago. Mr. ings in the Louvre by X-ray ex- Goldring's death occurred after a amination are not to be published. vory short illness.
All those taking part are pledg Born some fifty-three years ago, ed to secrecy, more especially an the deceased Was à native of it is already well known that there Cronch End, Middlesex and was are quite a number of paintings at educated at Woking School and the Louvre, the genuineness of Clifton College, afterwards going which has been for, a long time to Trinity College, Oxford' where suspect.
P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOTI
Him: "I wish I dared to ask you
a very important question." Her: "Why don't you?"
Him: "I see a negative in your eyes."
Her: "In bath of them?" Him: "Yos."
Hor: "Don't you know that two- negatives make ({})----?
Why, Charlie, how dare you!"
The old lady had deposited most of her savings, which amounted to a matter of five hundred pounds, in a certain bank.
A few weeks later she approached a cashier and demanded her money.
he obtained his B.A. in 1896. He In fact there is not a public or So the cashier counted out the was admitted to practice as a sell private collection of any magnitude five hundred pounds and handed the citor in England three years later, which does not contain certain bundle of notes to her. By this and came out to Hong Kong a little doubtful worka, and for a gallery time several people had formed up later to join the local law firm of of the importance of the Louvre to behind the lady, waiting Impatient Brutton, Hett and Goldring. In continue to keep on exhibition fly.
་་ 1906 he started practice on his own paintings which the X-ray test may With great deliberation she and carried on until 1920 when he have proved to be false, will go counted the money and handed it went to Shanghai.
far to rob it of its world-wide im- back to the cashier. portance.
During the war Mr. Goldring served with the Hong Kong Volun-
teer Corps for one year. Then he National Gallery Changes,
was for six months connected with
"It's all right," she said; "I only wanted to make sure you still had it all,"
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A rich business man was recently married, and was accompanied by
his wife as he entered the dining- room of the hotel famed for its excellent service. His order was"
At our own National Gallery at- the Chinese Labour Corps, and subtributions are frequently being sequently served for two years changed. There are hanging in with the Hong Kong Police Re- the Gallery in Trafalgar-square serve. He married on January 25, nearly fifty pictures which are now 1919 to one of the Misses Luchung, attributed to artists different from whose family was at that time very those whose work they were aup attended to promptly, but the fried well-known and popular amongst the younger generation of local Chinese.
NERVOUS STRAIN.
PLEA ON BEHALF OF A COLLEGE GIRL.
STUDIED WHILE A GOVERNESS
posed to be when purchased, and there are many works which have been bequeathed of which the at- tributions have been altered.
chicken he had been telling his wife so much about was not in evidence.
"Where is my chicken?" he asked, somewhat irritably.
The waiter, leaning over and bringing his mouth in close pro- ximity to the man's ear, replied: "If you mean the little girl with the blue eyes, and fluffy hair, sho doesn't work here now.”
Even now the attribution of many of these is not definitely settled. A notable instance is No. 757, "Christ Blessing the Chil- dren," which, now placed to the school of Rembrandt, and possibly by one of his many pupils, was bought for 27,000 in 1866 as the work of that master.
Rubens's "Miraculous Draught The only son had just announced of Fishes" was bought as a Van to the family his engagement. Dyck; Filipino Lippi's "Vision. of Ma: "What, that girl! Why she St. Bernard" as a Masacciu; El squints." Greco'a "Luigi Cornaro" DB
A plea that the succumbed to a mad impulse under the strain of working during the day as a gov erness and study at night for B.Sc. degree, was put forward on behalf of Dorothy Maud Jenkins, Tition, at the Hamilton Palace sale style."
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Sister: "She has absolutely no
when she was accused on remnand picture. a Portrait of Compton-crescent, Chiswick, in 1882; and the German School' Auntie: "Red-headed, Isn't she?”*
of a Medical Grandma: "I'm afeerd she's
at the Marylebone Police Court of Professor, from Richard, the deal-flighty." stealing two books, value £2, from er, as a Holbein for £630 in 1845. Uncle: "She hasn't any money." the Bedford College for Women al Immediately after the purchase First Cousin: "She doesn't look Regent's Park, where she was for
strong." merly a pupil,
after
of the last named, the fraud was discovered and an offer of £100 Detective Oxland said that Mles was made to the dealer to take the Jenkins called at the college and picture back. This, however, he took away twelve books and 2
refused to do. £1 note. She sold some of the
Bought Under Other Names. books, and returned the remainder
Three of our five works by that Palma and the missing Treasury note to great Venetian painter, Miss Tuke, the principal,
Vecchio, were bought under names, Misa Tuke had written to her. and Boitincelli'a "Adoration of the Magi," No. 1,033, was bought för Counsel said that Miss Jenkins, 800 in 1878 as the work of his 1925 for a B.Sc. degree, had a ner- while studying at the College in
pupil, Filippino Lippi. vous breakdown and had to leave. tion of the Shepherds," No. 232, is The authorship of the "Adora- Her father died. She then took anot definitely settled. position as a governess, and for two years she had supported.
Bought as a Velazquez at the her Louis Philippe sale in 1858 for mother. So eager was she to ob- £2,050, and tain her degree, however, that be- probably a very early work influ- still believed to be sides doing her work during the enced. by Pacheco, it is also attri- day she continued studying at buted to that master and Zurbaran: night, with the result that she was worn out with nervous strain.
the space of an hour. If only that
The theft all happened within AT THE GUILLOTINE. hour could be eut out from her life WOMAN LAWYER KISSES HER there would be nothing against her.
Mr. Hay Halkett. But what an hour! Imagine a man educated at a college returning to the college and robbing the students.
fewer air fatalities than either on rail or sea, though of course there could be no comparison between the vast numbers carried by steamer or train with those car ried bÿ ăir.. It is very doubtful, no matter how safe aerial travel may prove to be, if ever it can possibly vie with the old familiar. methods of land or sea. For safety's sake every species of air- craft must travel at an average height of at least 1,000 feet, and that very fact will always have a |deterring effect..upon thousands of people who are quite at ease when sailing on the ocean perhaps a mile or so deep or dashing along in a compartment more or less nicely adjusted upon two metal lines of varying gauge.
But air travel will undoubtedly always commend itself to those who wish to travel rapidly; to those to whom time is really money and, for a long time yet, on to those to whom the fare is not Wallace the most serious consideration. The statement that the Dutch concern which is about to start a service from Holland to Batavia will charge. their passengers £300 shows that at present and By far the most absorbingly for some time to come aerial interesting telegram that Reuter fares will be practically three has sent us for many months on times the amount of steamer the ever-increasing evidence of fares-a very serious considera- aviation's rapid progress is that tion Indeed, so far as the general which we published yesterday in travelling public is concerned. our contemporary, the "Sun- It is, however, not without, a The telegram thrill that we now read of the which we allude is of fast approaching realisation of course that which mentions the dreams and the long-cherish- that "an experimental air service, ed hopes of those who were more between Moscow and Peking will frequently regarded as dreamers be run this summer, with the ob-rather than as practical indi- ject of providing & regular Ividuals. Even fifteen-years ago through night and day service passenger aerial travel from, the from London to Peking in 1929." Netherlands to Batavia or of Lon This followed closely a Reuter don to Peking seemed as remote telegram of almost as much im as travelling from the Earth to "Enough for one if one's enough" portance, namely, the cable that the Moon. Now apparently prac- referred to the fact that a Dutch tical steps are to be taken to carry company had practically complet-passengera by air from the ex- ed arrangements for "a regular treme West to the Far East.
Bervice between Holland, The journey via Siberia should be India and the Dutch East Indies." easily accomplished in consider It is all very wonderful, even ably less than a week, permitting though we have, of course, heard of ordinary stoppages at night much as to aviation's potentiali-London-Berlin one day; Berlin ties. We are indeed in the thres-Warsaw less than
4. day; The funeral takes place hold of the aerial age, regarding Warsaw-Moscow. a
day: Mos afternoon. which visualisations, more or less cow-Irkutsk a day and accurate, have been made times half, Irkutsk-Harbin without number. To day, how-Harbin-Tokyo or Mukden a day; fever, we are well away from the Mukden-Peking half a day. By fanciful" stages of aviation, as fexpress, in the big sleeping "cor to-day machines of various kinds rider" aircraft that are also pro- can remain aloft for hours and mised, the journey could,of course seem to be almost as safe as be considerably reduced. Un steamers or railway trains. Indoubtedly we are on the threshold deed, if we mistake not, statistics of a period when distance prove that there were last year fast becoming annihilated.
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Second Cousin: "She's stuck up." Third "Cousin: "She's an extra- vagant thing,"
The Son (thoughtfully): "Well she's got one redeeming feature, anyhow."
Chorus: "What's that?"" The Son: "She hasn't a relative on earth!"
her."
'Pa: "Grab her, my boy, grab
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the other day he was highly excited, Pitson is fond of his joke, and"
for he had had a terrible. Christmas dream. Breathlessly he related how in his dream his house had been:
night before Christmas and he'd burnt, down to the very ground the.
had a very narrow escape.
"Oh, what happened then?" said his office colleagues. :',
"I was at the top of the house
and I had the goose in one hand and my insurance policy in the other. The stairs had just fallen
'in and-and I was cornered-no- escape possible. But suddenly a bright idea struck me. D'ye know what I did?"
"N-No!" chorused his colleagues. "I plucked the goose and-and? got down!" said Pitson.
Paris. For the first time in Mr. Hay Halkett said he had re- Paris a woman accompanied a con- manded her in custody because he demned man to the guillotine re- was a very serious matter to re-heads fell in less than 40 seconds tomers to his window. Snipp, the thought she needed a lesson. Itcently when, in the grey dawn, two With a view to attracting cus- turn to the college where she had on the pavement outside the Sante taller, had received all the advantages of edu Prison.
a loud-speaker placed rob the students. She would now and Zinzuck, the two leaders of the Snipp and wanted a suit on the cation and social intercouse and
over his front door. They were those of Pachowsky The other day a man called upon be discharged under the Probation Polish murder gang sentenced to weekly payment system. Every- of Offenders' Act.
death for по fewer than 12 thing, apparently, being in order, murders, and they walked to the Snipp measured him, accepted a SEGT. MACFAGDEN.Erlich, the 25-year-old barrister customer to the door.
guillotine escorted by Mile. Sonia amall deposit, and accompanied his sister of Mr. Erlich, deputy for
"Your suit will be ready next Paris. There Was dramatic week-end," said the tailor, "and" scene when Mile. Erlich, who was then Zinzuck's counsel, embraced him The death occurred at the Gov-as he stepped from the prison van,
Just then the weather forecast ernment Civil Hospital yesterday drawn by two horses, which had and from the loud-speaker came the was being given on the wireless, afternoon of Sergeant. MacFagdon rattled the two condemned men over words: "Further of the Hong Kong Police Force.
outlook the 200 yards of stone setts from The deceased who had been in the Inner courtyard, of the prison Indifferent health for some time, to the point where the guillotine had been a patient at the hospital had been set up. there were hopes of his ultimate prison van to walk the half-dozen for about two months. For a time When Zinzuck stepped from the recovery, but early last week ho races to the guillotine he whis- took a turn for the worse, and sink-pered to the girl advocate as ing gradually, reached the climax she embraced him: "good-bye, yesterday when he passed away. Madame!"
DIES AT GOVT. CIVIL HOSPITAL
Force some three or four years ago, fate, he shouted in a loud voice: The deceased joined the Police Then, walking bravely to his and had been a very capable officer. "Good-bye, gentlemen!" popular with his comrades in the Of, & genial disposition, he was very Force.
settled."
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