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|GAMBLING AWAY THE In the interior shooting scenes, being affected by rain. The meet-
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SIAMESE PETITION.
and is going home via SouthJng brought to light a case for the Africa, as that seems off the revision of the rules, The rules beaten route. His place is taken provide that horses not intended to in the bank by Mr. F. L. Haymes, be run in a race must be scratch- who comes from the London agency ed the evening prior to the races, with a reputation for cricket, and and if the declaration is not made, at the Polo Club by Mr. F. L. Cave and the horse not run, the owner Penny of the A.P.C.
has to pay Tes. 500. The horse in South-West Monsoon Breaks.
question went lame, and somehow To the relief of everybody the
or other the declaration at the south-weat monsoon seems to have acratchings W08 overlooked or broken and the intense heat of the omitted. At the time of the race hot dry season has passed. It must the owner produced his animal, de- not be assumed that the nationale clared him unfit but was not allow- of the country are, indifferent to
ed to scratch it on the course, The Ten residents of Bangkok this hot weather; they suffer just unfortunate public knowing noth- have submitted a petition to H.R.H. † as much as those from coldering about the horas not being fit the Regent asking him to check climes, and as many as can seek backed it on the tete, and rather the liberty allowed card players to spend the sultry days by, the than a fine of Tes. 500 the owner "to gamble away most of their seaside. Hua Hin has this year let his horse canter round the waking hours without thinking of been on an average ton degrees course a great distance behind the their health or their work." The cooler than Bangkok. Just how field. On the course were several President of the Chinese Charaber hot it has been may be instanced officials of the local Society for the tories. Under the new regulations the northern capital Chiengmaal. Owners of lame horses running on of Commerce le one of the signa by the temperatures recorded at Prevention af Cruelty to Animals.
Bangkok, May 18.
his age have such a fund of me," said Mr. Sayer. "How do Fm going to get grub like this all and the drawers of a dressing table, folk can play cards in their homes From Apríl 20; till May 3, the the streets are fined by the courts,
homour and vitality.
us was Mr. T. Lewes Sayer, who recently retired after forty-nine years' service at the Mansion House. Mr. Deighton figured largely in his recent book of City reminiscences, "Gog and Magog and I," and the 'conversation was naturally of the "Do you remem- ber
" variety, with myself silent and all ears.
his heart's content but the ordin
r
horse had no earthly chance and was not fit before they started to put their money ap.
a bit of all right!"
News' correspondent: "When my the morning. This regulation or 103 Fahr, On three out of the It was in a West End club chaplain at an instant's notice to
to run, lame racing horses. The stand behind the judge's chair? that we were lunching, and with One never sees a' chaplain in the ous as that," Mr. Deighton con- midnight, we found the chain on the playing of cards. Before it went to 306, and on one to 106%, the other question as to the wisdom "There are plenty more as call-husband and I returned, just after permission has simply regularised fourteen days the temperature Racing Association will take up precincts of the court during the cluded. "Perhaps this is rather the front door.
We tried for a was introduced, the Prince in his All who 'could fled to the uplands of modifying the heavy fine attach- jury's deliberations,"
an old story, but you may not time to open the door; and fually palace and his family did play of the mountain which keeps ing to an accidental omission to said Mr., Deighton.
"He's there, all the same," have heard it. A very deaf pri- burst it open.
cards without Interruption on tho, watch over the city, and five thou-scratch. The public feel sore But ho
soner was being sentenced to "My bedroom was in a state of part of the police; a game of cards sand feet up amid the pinca and about the incident as punters feel comes in plain clothes. As soon death, and as the judge put on great disorder. The doors of the was part of the recreations of high the oaks, they forgot the torrid- they might have been told the as the jury have decided on the the black cap, he leant over the wardrobe were open and the draw society every day; likewise the ncss of life in the plains below.' case, the foreman tells the usher: front of the box and with his ers of the dressing table had been foreigner at his clup could play to
Fire Season Flourishes. and if the verdict is guilty, the hand to his ear said in the pone-opened and the contents strewn usher tells the Under-Sheriffs, trating voice of the deaf: "What's about. who hurries off to find the chap-the old bloke saying?" lain and tells him to put on his robes,”
""H'ssh said the usher Talk turned to the various shocked tones, His Lordship eminent counsel of the past sentencing you to death!" twenty or thirty years, and Mr.
"The prisoner glanced again at Deighton gave it as his opinion the judge and remarked, 'Gloomy that the two greatest were. Sir old bloke, am't he?"Mr Din Edward Marshall Hall for the de-Evening News.. fence and Sir Richard Muir for the prosecution. "But the late Lord · Birkenhead perhaps the most brilliant of all,”
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Mr. Johnstone said that silver usad at a dinner party he had given in the flat earlier in the evening
Departures and Changes.
L
A Quiet May Day..
May Day passed off very quietly
ary plain man or woman could not The fire season seems by no "My jewel-case, containing prac-have a little-flutter without, it means to have come to an end, and Ceremony of the Black Cap. “I can just remember,” said
intically all my jewellery, and a fur caught, being hauled before the that which took place in Bangkok
stole and a mink coat were missing, police and the courts and heavily recently, disposéessed thou-throughout Siam; there were abso- Mr. Deighton, "though I was five
The burglars, had apparently not fined. Now all can play certain sands of the poorer class lutely no incidents, and indeed it years old at the time, the excite
card games openly, and without in from their homes, auch ns may be wondered whether to ment caused by the last public
'gone into any other room."
terference by the police.
they are, with the loss of their bits the great majority of the hanging in London. Five Fenians
his of effects, and will cost the insur people, in
peaceful land, tried to release some fellow con-
day Mr. F. D'Arcy, sole partner in ance companies, both European the spirators by blowing in the gates
conveyed anything. had not been touched.
the old established firm of Harry and Chinese, another pretty penny, Which fb CA it should be. of Clerkenwell Prison, and the
"Nothing was heard of the bur A., Badman and Co., and Mr. A. C. Over four hundred homes were The Siamese have
a pretty full explosion killed some passers-by.
glars by the occupants of adjoining Moore of the Siam Commercial destroyed, and the majority of the calendar of festivals of their own The murderers were hanged out side the prison, and I saw about
flats," he said. My little dog, Bank Ltd, have left for home by burnt-out property had only recent which they observe with devotion three years ago in The Evening he added, "and the most charm-.
which had been left in the flat, had the Dollar line, and Mr. H. E. M.ly been erected. But buildings of and happiness. The only one they News that, a poor blind fellow ing and unconventional in private The French private radio stations well.
been doped, and is still far from Martin, forest manager of the this type, built of soft woods, 6ther have adapted from a foreign calen- peddling bootlaces, or something life.
I sincerely hope they have Anglo-Siam Corporation Ltd., has than teak, with corrugated iron, dar, and which looks like continu of the sort, in Holborn had turn-"After a dinner some two years difficulties. Their revenue consiste
have often to cope with financial not given him a slow polson. gone home via the Pacific, An-once they get alight, burn with Ining to be mare widely observed, is The stolen jewellery includes a other departure is Dr. G. Gayetti, credible ferceness. The landlords Christmas. Even Chinese Now ed out to be one of the people in ago I was leaving the Cecil by chiefly of payments for radio trans- diamond ring, a platinum and die who after a residence of many are practically all Siamese and the Year makes no appeal.Singapore jured in the explosion. Of course, the Embankment exit, which missions, and these payments have mond wrist watch, a large single years and two previous attempts to rents of the destroyed shop houses Free Proas. he was only a little boy at the was rather dark. Secing a sta proved indufficient for defraying the stoned diamond pendant, a diamond leave the country for good declares vary from. Tcs. two to twenty a time, and the poor little chap had tionary figure, I said, "Call me a his sight destroyed.
taxi, please-thinking,
expenses of good programmes. It bracelet, a diamond and enamelled this is really a final farewell. His month. In the week there were
Poultry keeping is on the increase is for this reason that many of the vanity case, diamond earrings, dia- friends who went to ase him off also two more fires in the pro- "There is a very wrong impres- course, that I was address stations, such as Radio-Toulouse, mond links, platinum and diamond frankly refused to believe his as vinees, one in Pattani did damage in Canada. The total number of sion in most people's minds," he ing a commissionaire. Certainly have to limit their programmes studs.
sertion, and expect him back in to the extent of Tes. 150,000 odd, poultry on the farme in the Domin due coures. He has been medical and another at Tarua has wipad lon at the end of last year was adviser to the State, Railways for out the market town of that name, cetimated at 60,795,000, of which several years,
This is the jumping off point for 66,247,000 were hens and chiclceris; Changes continue in the comthe thousands of pilgrims who 2,309,000 'turkeys; 1,160,000 geese position of the foreign community, twice yearly visit the mountain, and 989,000 ducks. The value of all Over 1,600,000 pounds of salmon Mr. P. A. MacDongall of the Hong where Buddha is supposed to have these birds is placed at $54,852,000, were caught in the coastal waters Kong and Shanghai Bank, who has set the imprint of his foot in the Two years ago the total number of and rivers of the Province of been secretary of the Foto and Rid- course of one of his pilgrimages. poultry was 68,779,000. Poultry: Quebec last year, or 616,000 pounds ing Club, is going on leave. He is a A Racing Point,
are successfully raised commercial- more than in 1929 Tho Quebec keen rider and an enthusiastic cino The Sky meeting at the Sports | ly in all of the provinces of Canada,* salmon is a great delicacy and finds camera expert. Before saying Club has passed off successfully. The principal centre of the industry aready market.
good-bye he is visiting the towns only one afternoon of the three is the Province of Ontario.
went on, in connection with the death sentence. The com mon Idea is that a judge puts on the black cap, which is merely a triangular piece of black cloth, only on the occasion of a death sentence. They seem to think it's n sort of Judicial mourning No thing of the kind. When the Lord Mayor is sworn in on November 9, all the Judges of the Lord Chief Justice's Court were the black cap -- and the
of
Mister Under-sheriff, answered
a voice I knew only too well, almost entirely to transmissions of though I fear I shall receive no gramophone, record musto. Radio emolument from the hotel Lord Paris is one of the few French Birkenheadse
private stations which frequently That "Gloomy Old Bloke!" brondessi: good programma. Here "Another time I was showing too, the shortage of money has some country cousins round the resulted in a decision to discontinue Houses of Parliament, and we all afternoon transmissions. Plans were admiring the statue of exat, however, in France to re Cromwell outside the House of organise broadcasting entirely and Commons When I felt a whack to give the Franch broadcasting between the shoulder blades. As I organigation a more coherent form,
Detectives who have searched the at have failed to discover any finger-prints
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