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TODAY.
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Entries Close for Trinity College of Music, London, Local Examina- tions.
Bachelors' Dance at Crnigengower Cricket Club,
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I KNOW A REAL TREASURE
ISLAND.
CHESTS FEED WITH JEWELS,
SACKS BE PIECES OF EIGHT-
MY GREATEST ADVENTURE FAILED,
BUT I'D LIKE TO TRY AGAIN.
BY SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL.
"My greatest adventure:?
Bor equally weddened man slit the Sir Malcolm Campell,, famous for throats of Lima's governor and Happy his perilous exploits or motor church dignitaries, and of the chief racing, tracks, has described his officials of the city and their wives treasure-seeking voyage same years and daughters, who had entrusted ago to Cocoa Island, in the Paside. themselves to his caro, na they had Another attempt, but, to him great entrusted the golden cargo. With regret, without him, in to ba mads Bloody Bonito, he aniled to Cocon to discover the treasure supposed and buried his goro-stained booty in to be buried there,
A CAVO
There wore boxes packed with bars of gold and silver cheste stuffed with gorgeous jewols; sacks of pieces-of-sight nearly 300 Jewel- led swords, and-most wonderful of all-knered vessels of gold, and two great images of the Virgin, and Child fashioned of solid gold, from Lima's cathedral.
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Criokat-First Division Indian R.C. Kowloon C. (L.), Waiver: aity » Navy (L), Craigengover v. Civil Service (T.); Secord Divi- sion: Kowloon C.C. v. Indian R.C.
In a perfectly grossis.
6. mood I (L.), Civil Borvice. v. Craigangowersat before the dre in my country |(...), Royal Engineers and Signale home the other night, and thought
University (F.). -
of nothing but motor-cars, while my fingers idly dicked the pages of Football-1st Div.: Navy . 8. book they had chanced upon..... + Joseph's Junior Shield: Boyal Air Suddenly a name, prang from Force Navy, Twelfth Battery v. that book which sent my thoughts RA.O.C. Kowloon. v. Börderers: careering down the paths that lead
to the destination of avery school-But Thorapson was never to be Third Division: Borderers
1.boy's dreams-adventure. Recroio,
Magically, the sound of the wind British News Reels at King's rushing over the moonlit country
aide became the voies of the surf Theatre, 11.45 a.ra. "
foaming along a lonely tropie shore. Queen's Theatre: The Rosary. It wafted me norosa thousands of King's Theatre "Ladies of the miles of ocean to an island of mystery in the Pacific where no Big House."
mai dwells but which my memory Tarzan the is for ever haunting.
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Central Theatre Tiger."
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any the richer for it all; his ship was captured soon after he sailed from Cocos, every man of the crew, save one, we axecuted, Bonito, com- maistod suicide, and Thompson was taken back to the island to reveal whore he had hidden the treasure.
Once on Cocos; however, he man- aged to escape from his captors.. and cluded them until they tired of THE SPOILS OF LIMA.- Searching and went away; leaving. For the name that leapt to my him with his secret still unwrested casual glance was Bonite, and in from him. Eventually he was taken a Bash I was thinking of that off the island by a ship which put Bonito Bonito of the Bloody in for water, and he ended his min Zimmy the legless wonder at Sword"-a pirate and baneer spent days in Newfoundland. King's Theatre,
Star Theatre: Coquette." World Theatre: "Say It With Songs."
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Tea Dancas,, at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner Daners at Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant..
who, recorda say, had an il-gotten Harmaton's Circus at Wanchal,hoard on Cooos and bade a hand also in hiding thers the great and 4.13 p.m. and 9.15 p.m.
dazzling treasure of Lima
For a century and more that treasure has lured the adventurous; and about six years ago I myself orazy with the fever that burned in their blood, was following in their track And, like most of them, I failed to find the merest speck of gold..
SUNDAY.
(February 29.),
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ANOTHER CHANCE.
parted his secret to a man named Not long before he died he im Keating, who went to Cocos and. But actually found the treasure. proved Intal. He and the captain onco more overpowering greed of the ship that carried him to Cocos fled from the crew when they elamoured for shores," and hid on the island,
but there was never any trace of Keating got away in a whaler, his companion. It is believed that Kenting shut him up in the cave and left him to a horrible fate. His ghost, it is, add, guards the treasure of Lima to this day...
Tet .I am convinged that Cocos Third Sunday in Lent.
conceals auch riches as. would make Meeting at Union Church, Kowa dozen mea millionaires. Appar loon, at Conclusion of Morning ently I am not alone in bolding Church.
this belief, seeing that at this very Golf: Final of the Royal Hong moment a big expedition to Cocos Kong Golf Club Captain's Cup. is being organised in Vancouver.
It was with the clue given to How did the vast riches of ther Football (Charity Match): Armypital of Peru come to be damped Keating that I and a few friends #. Chinese (Caroline Hill) 4.30p.m. away from sight in this uninhabit
set out six years ago to find the Central Theatro: "The Age fored island of Cocos, four hundred treasure. I have said that we fail- Love."
miles off the coast of Colombia od but there is nothing I moro Queen's Theatre: "Guilty Hand."Tn 1891, when the curtain was fall deeply desire than another chance King's Theatre: "Canaries Soms,ing on the final nennes of Spanish to succeed. I would set sail again lominion in South America, and now, if circumstances made the nd times Sing."
Bolivar the Liberator was march-
venture possible; but, they do not. ing on Lima, the governor and bishop had the contents of the city's coffers and the treasures of the cathedral atowed away in the British merchant ship Mary Dier, lying in Callao harbour.
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World Theatre: The Sea Lion" (Chinese picture).
Star Theatre: The Age for Love."
British Mews Reel at "King's Theatre, 11.48 4.2.
Harmaton's Circus at Wanchai, 4.13.p.m. and 9.16 p.m.
Tea Dances at King's Restaurant
MADDENED BY GOLD. That vessel's Scots master, Cap in Thompson, was transformed
and Repulse Bay Hotel; Dinner from an honest mariner inte Dances at Hong Kong Hotel. Pen-ruthless demon by the sight of so insula Hotel and King's Restaurant, much gold, and, in the night when the ship sailed away, he and his
If ever I go again. I shall be far better prepared for the quest: I shall take up-to-date ma chinery with me to make the gruel." ing task of exorvating easier and I shall certainly take that most essential thing of all-electrical metal-divining ipparatus. Even with the best of clues. you do not know how deep to dig; you might well get within a foot of the trea sure and then give up. The divin ing apparatus will tell you exactly (Continued on Page 3.)
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