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TO-DAY
(October 9%),
21st day of Jemndi-al-akhir Lammert's Auction. 18 Ice Houss Street, 10 o.m.
Charity Bazaar and Fete, Yuan how Street, Shamshuipo. Opening of Roof Garden, Hong Kong Hotel Oriental Night."
Whist Drive: China Light & Power R.C., § p.m.
Anniversary Dinner, Hong Kong University Union, & p.m.
Old Blues Founders Day Dinner.
Sport.
Aquatics: H.M.S. Devonshire Sports.
Lawn Bowls:Craigengower C.C. Closing Day,
Lawn Tennis:-Interport, Hung Kong . Shanghai (Kowloon C.C.),
gp.m.
Division: St.
LONDON LETTER
CENTRALISING THE UNIVERSITY
MORRIS' 85,500 FEET OF SHOW
ROOMS
IRAQ PREMIER IN TOWN
(BY TOWNSMAN)
London, Sept. 20.
A $100,000 Gi.
The Senate of London University has already received more than ene substantial donation towards the scheme for the centralisation of all the colleges and administration offices in one large building in Bloombory, the latest being a sums of £100,000, granted by the Court of Common Council of the City of London. At present the colleges and classrooms of the University are scattered throughout various districte at inconvenient distances
FORGIVENESS TRYST AT AN ALTAR
CHURCH BELL RUNG AS SIGNAL TO HUSBAND
Holmfirth. The Res. H. G Wilks, Vicar of Upper Thong, from |the vicarage head the church bell
toll once.
He went to the church to investi gate.
There he saw a woman, a strang er to him, kneeling at the altar. Soon afterwards a man, also
to him, entered stranger
the
and looked round, church
He went to the kneeling woman and said: "I am here!"
They conversed before the altar, and the woman was heard by the vicar to say: "I forgive," and they kissed,
"They were evidently happy in their reunion," said the vicar to me to-day, "and they readily con sented to tell me what it was all about.
Wedding Anniversary.
"They
were married in the
Racing-Twelfth Era Race Meeting (Happy Valley).
Football:-First Joseph's v. S.W.D. (St. Joseph's from each other, the Senate having ground); Recreio . Linoolas. (Reactually to most in a borrowed church many years ago, but there creio ground); Navy v. RA. (Kow-building, and the students have no been s mutual separation.
which they cau|They came
to an understanding that if the woman ever felt dispos ad to forgive she should make a sign on the saniversary of their wed ding day at St. John's.
proper centre
ground); Club e. Kowloon (Club ground).
Second Division: Club e. Eastern foregather... (Club ground); St. Joseph's Kowloon (St. Joseph's ground); South China . Taung Tsin (Caro- line Hill); Navy r. S.W.B. Kow- loon); R.A. . Chinese (Sookun- poo) Lincoins Ewo (Chatham Road),
Rights of Surviving Spouses. The National Council for Equal Citizenship are determined to have applied to Eond the Scottish law that noreping spouse and children can be wilfully left.penni lean by a testator, and are appeal Signals . Lincolns (Chatham Rd., ing to every M.P. this week to 4.30 p.m.); Taikoo r. St. Joseph's choose a Bill for this purpose, (Chinese, 4.30 p.m.): S.W.B. should they be lucky in the ballot University (Navy, 3 p.m.).
for private members' Bills.
Third Division: Radio . RAF. (Chinese, 3 pin.); Reersin. South China (Recreio, 3 ..); B.E. v. Chinese (Sookunpoo, 4.30 p.m.);
Oricket:-First Division: Army
» Civil Service (Friendly). Second Division: Club de Recreio r. Oivil St. Service (F.): University Joseph's College (F.); Police e. Diocesan Boys' School (F.)..
Hockey:-Mamak. Tournament: H.M.S. Wishart. Radio Sports (Caroline Hill). 4.30 p.m.
Theatres. King's: "My Bin." Queen's: Lady."
Oriental: "The Last Love." Star: "Midnight."
The Frightened
Dances: Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances
p.m.
At
Peninsula, Hong Kong and Repulee Bay Hotels and King's Restaurant, Sunrise: 6.22 a.m.: Sunset: 6.63 Tides: --High at 20; Low at 9.34.
Principal Malls. Outward:-Europe via Marseilles by Naldera, 10.30 h.m.
SUNDAY
(October 23).
22nd day of Jemadi-al-akhir.. 22nd Sunday after Trinity. Bazaar and Fele at Yusa Chow Street, Shamshaipc.
Symphonic Concert, Peninsula Hotel, 8.45pm.
10 BJ.
p.m
11.
Sport,
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Now Morris Showrooms. The High Steward of Oxford (Lord Saye and Sele) recently opened the new Morris Motor show rooms and garage on the west side of St. Aldater The new building has in its three storeys a total floor of 80,500 square feet, and the most modern equipment has been installed. Showrooms and a repair ing department are on the ground floor, while more showrooms and garage occupy the second floor, and the top contains offers and a de- partment for second hand cars. The building contains an electric lift and petrol pumps worked by compressed air on every door.
Yesterday was the anniversary. The man was to be near the church at two o'clock in the afternoon, and if he heard the bell toll once he would know that his wife was will. ing to forgive.
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"The man accordingly came to the church at the appointed time, and, hearing the bell, went inside, where, to his delight, he saw his wife
1 noticed that there was a mo toren waiting on the road above added Mr. Wilks. the church,' "They entered the car, and I pre- sume they have gone for a second honeymoon.
I imagine they both came from a distance, for although I have been Vicar of Upper Thong for a number of years, I cannot recall having seen either of them before. Judging by appearances they are each in a good station of life."
north of London approximates a4 closely to that state of perfection: Sir William Morris pointed out, as, engineering skill can make it. that great care has been taken to This line is 44 miles long, and has give the building a frontage befit- tunnels four miles in length which Sir have been constructed with such ting the City of Oxford. William said that on looking back easy curves that passengers will to his beginning in Oxford in 1901 experience the minimum of vibra he found it difficult to believe that tion and noise. The line, at a cost such a bailding as this could have of several million pounds, has been the outcome. He was satis- taken two years to build. and has fed that the firm was now produc-given steady employment to 3,500 ing ours which could dompetemen. successfully with any that were being manufactured abroad.
Remarkable War Play,
The Premier of Iraq.
The last time I had seen, thy Prime Minister of Iraq, General Nuri Pasha Al Said (who is not
A play of more than usual inn London for a few days before terest will be staged elaborately at going to Geneva, where he will the Embas Theatre. It is to be head the Iraqi Delegation at the Miracle at Vordun, the war play ceremony of Iraq's admission into by the late Hans Chlumberg, the League), was at the memorial yourg German author who met
service in 1929 to the late Sir tragic death quite lately. It deals Gilbert Clayton in a little Surrey S.C.A.A. Sports, Caroline Hill, with European affairs in 1936, and village Then he was the enthu shows the dead rising from the giastic Arab soldier, whose career Mamak Hockey Tournament: battlefields of Verdun. On return had been spent almost wholly in University Incognitos" ating to their homes they find the military matters. But now that I Caroline Hill, 10 am. Police v. new generation as well as many have seen him in London I can Kowloon Indians at. Marina, 4.30 members of the old gathering arms state that his experience during his for wet another war, and realize Premiership of the last two and Interport Tennis-Hong Kong that the old danger is reasserting a half years has evidently made a e. Shanghai at Kowloon C.C., 10.30 itself. There are more than a dozen statesman of him, capable of taking
aceres, and the characters number world view of affairs. (Club about a hundred, Beveral of the Ho srbke of this hardwork in parts must be doubled, but an ex-front of his nation. Iraq intends, Volun-tremely competent company has he said, to improve her ronds and been selected by Andre Van Gaye communications, generally, to irri gham, whose work at the Embases gate the land by means of barrages, I usually distinguished...
and so forth. For these develop ments, he went on, the country was. "In the first now quite ready. place, our politicut difficulties, with which we have been preoccupied The underground railway com panies in London are continually for so many years, are now at an. conducting experiments in hac end, and secondly, we have now deavour to reduce, as far as is certain revendes, from the oil con- possible, all boises on their tube cessions, which were formerly luck systems. While they have not yeing.
p.in,
Football: Interport Trial (Ch
ground), 4 p.m.
Cricket: University. tenrala
Theatres.
Queen's "Arsene Lupin.” Oriental:"The Last Love." Star: Free Soul"
King's: Aren't We All!".
Dances-Tea Dances at Repulse Bay and Hong Kong Hotels and King's Restaurant,
Holzeless Tobe.
Bunrisa: 63 a.m. Sunist: 8.62 succeeded in constructing a com It is to be hoped that large oil pletely naiseless tube, they claim revenues will not make the Tragic Tides:-High at 1.14: Low at that their latest extension to the turn away from the real source of (Continued on next column.): the country's, wealth-agriculture.
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HONG KONG ANNOUNCES
FINAL SHOWINGS T1-DAY AT THE QUEEN'S
THE FRIGHTENED LADY
by
EDGAR WALLACE
featuring
GORDON HARKER, CATHLEEN NESBIT
NORMAN MCKENNEL, EMLYN WILLIAMS
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BELLE CHRYSTALL
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"Impressive Acting"
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another picture with
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