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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 22,
GOLF STARTING TIMES
Sunday's Pairings For Fanling
The following are the Roya
Golf Club starting
next Sunday
OLD COURSE
9.00 am. H. E the Governor.
9.16
EXPLORER DIES IN BARGE
Tan Who Rescued
Nansen
STROKE ON NEW OF
AIR TRAGEDY
One of the great adventurers of
S. H. Dodwell, K. S. Morri: this century, Major Frederick George Jackson, explorer, soldier,
son.
9.20 E. Laidlaw, J. W. Mayhew. author, died recently at the age 78
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9.24
9.28
Hong Shang Naga- Empress Kong hai
of
Leave Arrive
Van-
saki Kobe
Leave Leave
hama Honolulu
Leave Leave
conver Victoria Arrive
9.32
9.36
Canada Apr. 29
Russia May 13
Japan
May 1 May 15 May 17 May 27 May 29
May 4 May - 6 May 13 May 19 May 21 June 1 June 3 June 10
May 18
9.40
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May 30 June 15
9.44
9.48
9.52
9.56 10.00
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17 Days HONG KONG to VANCOUVER BY DIRECT EXPRESS ROUTE FROM YOKOHAMA 18 DAYS VIA HONOLULU, PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC
Air-conditioned equipment on C.P.B. Trans-Continental Trains. Frequent Canadian Pacific Atlantic sailings to European ports.
TO MANILA -
Empress of Canada on Friday, April 22nd.
AT 6 P.M.
Canadian Pacific
Union Building
SPANS THE WORLD
Telephone 20752
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10.12 10.16
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10.20
10.24
R. G. Cray, I. P. Tamworth.aboard his sailing barge Mar-
J. J. A. Sherry, W. J. Gor-guerite, moored in the Thames, near
the Tate Gallery.
don.
S. J. E. Fox, J. H. M. An- drew.
Maj. Jackson had lived on the barge only for about a year, yet all
P. B. Heavens, C. A. King-along the waterfront, writes a cor-
RS. W. Paterson, A. B. respondent, I found friends and ad- Purves.
mirers of his, skippers of sailing barges and others, with tales to tell of his character and strength.
J. D. Danby, J. G. Cotes- worth.
A. E. Lissaman, E. T. Mc- Mullen. Capt. Smalley.
Holmes, W. N.
E. Nelson, L. J. Fielden. A. D. Humphreys, L
Geare.
He was a well-known figure, to Althose who use the river. In the mornings they would see him, wearing an old army jacket over his pyjamas, picking up pieces of driftwood.
A. T. Lay. G. C. Worrall J. G. Campbell, A. H. Mc-¡
Bride.
J. Petrie, R. Stock.
He died as the result of a stroke which, his friends believe, was
J. B. H. Leckie, D. Hum brought on by the news that his
phreys.
T. A. Pearce, 0. E. C. Mar-wife's nephew, Mr. Hernu, and niece, had been killed in an air ac- cident at Lympne.
ton.
N. D. Lloyd, L R. Cramer 10.28 B. G. Leighton, P. S. De-
lany.
57
37
10.32 W. J. E. Mackenzie,
Overy. J. T. Brown, P. Jackson.
NEW COURSE
10.36
77
H.
9.52 a.m. Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Smalley. 10.28 Mrs. Leighton, Mrs. Delany, 10.32 Mrs. Mackenzie, Mrs. Overy.
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K.B.G.C. TEAMS
FOR TO-MORROW
The 'plane in which they were travelling crashed and caught fire. Mr. W. E. Davis, managing director of the Cinque Ports Flying Club, and another woman passenger, Mrs. Cross, were also killed.
ARCTIC FLAG ON BODY
Major Jackson's body lay in the dark cabin of the Marguerite, covered by the same Union Jack The following teams have been se- which he had carried with him to lected to represent the Kowloon Bowl-
ing Green Club, in a friendly bowls Franz Josef Land, in the Arctic, in match, against Craigengower Cricket 1894. It was on this occasion that Club, at Happy Valley to-morrow:--
R. P. Phillips.
A. Macfarlane.
A. Hyde Lay.
C. B. Hosking. (Skip).
John Watson.
S. M. White. --
E. W. Lines.
R. Duncan (Skip).
D. W. Watertop.
A. J. Hall
J. S. Logan.
G. E. F. Thompson (Skip).
E. V. Searle.
G. C. Norman.
K. C. Hamilton.
J. G. Meyer (Skip).
H. Cooper:
C. Wallis..
T. Armstrong.-
W. S. Drake (Skip)
he rescued Dr. Nansen, who had been missing for many months.
Filling every inch of space on the bulkheads and tables in the cabin were the felics of Major Jackson's adventurous-life..
Stacked in one corner were spears from Africa, and newly- sharpened harpoons. Firearms, knives and ammunition of all des- Icriptions abounded. ·
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