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| SURVIVORS OF LUCKNOW, Were the fourteen gentlemen who lost five morning coats, oight-dress London, Sept. 20.
coats and one frock, cost all mem- A man and a woman who were bers of the same cheerful party! children living in the Residency at Lucknow during the Indian Muting various. Quantities of bicycles and The other losses are superbly seventy-six years ago, when Gen-perambulators, gramophones, Bax)- erals Outram and Havelock cat phones, fifty-two cut-throat razors, through the mutineers who were
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EVENTS
TO-DAY
(October 19)
(IX Moon. Ist Day) Auctions-Sale of Leasehold Pro- perties, China Auction Rooms," 3 p.m.; Lammert's Sale of Leasehold Properties in Heard Street, Sales Room, 3 pm; Oil Paintings by the late Capt. T. G. Purvis, Sales Room 11, a.m.; Miscellaneous and Sundry Goods, Sales Room, 10.30am.
Exhibitions. International Ex- hibition, Varsity Photographic Club, Union Assembly Room, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m."
Meetings-Theosophical Society,
6 p.m.; Hong Kong Union Church Miscellaneous.Whist Drive, Civil Service Cricket Club, 8.45 p.m.: Tenders for Stores " closea 4t Colonial Secretary's Office, noon.
Social Functions-St. Andrew's Hockey Club Dinner and Dance:
Theatres."
King's: "Moonlight and Pre-
tzeis."
Queen's: "Disgraced.“ · Central: "Penguin Pool Mur-
Oriental: "Man About Town." " World: "Flesh.” Star: Infernal Machine." Majestic: "Dangerously Yours."
binging the city and joined hands long, houtlepet fifty yards ther with the British garrison before seventy-two garden rakes
of whisky, and being themselves invested, met at random sample.
4 reunion dinner at Cheltenham fast night.
Area
There were twenty-six unfortan-
SUPERB ORATORY
actually won.
It was an informal party. The Mrs. Annie Besant's career, the players came"straight on from the storm and stress that accompanied Oval, and apart from the royal theosophic calm, will make her a toast there was only first-rate subject for the bographer. proposing the
one speech of #The Action rather than contemplation Team." was certainly her true métier. She was a superb orator.
I happened to be in Hombay in 1919, when she gave three lectures in the largest theatre in India's Reformed Constitution, Sandhism at the time was young and vigorous, and a Mrs. Hosinta then among the Moderates, le students from the University, who were pro- Gandhi to a man turned up in force, determined to prevent her getting a hearing
health
A VIRGINIA WOOLF
HOUND
Books about dogs are numerous; there is no subject on which the Englishman can become so senti- mental, unless it be the horse. But the dogs written about this for have been imaginary or have been the authors' own pets, seen through too forgiving eyes.
They are Mr. Arthur F. Dash-tes who left their false teeth
behind them. wood, of London, who was born during the siege, and Mrs. Rath- leen Haynes, daughter of Thomas Henry Kavanagh, whose heroism in escaping through native lines in disguise and guiding Sir Colin Campbell's relief force into the city was rewarded with the Victoria Cross. It is staed that of all the children in Lucknow at the time only nine now survice. NEW ASSISTANT POLICE
COMMISSIONER Scotland Yard last night issued the following:---
"The King, on the recommend tion of the Home Secretary, has approved the appointment of Bri- gadier James Whitehead, C.M.G., D.S.O., as Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Polica.
"With the approval of the Secre- tary of State Mr. George Abbias, O.BE is promoted to the rank of os, howls. and hand-clapping of a dog has ever been-treated in -Deputy
Assistant Commissioner. made her inaudible. Clad in a this way before, The book comes The appointment will date from long, flowing, white robe, the old out next month. September, 50.”
indy, with snow-white, hair, stood Brigadier Whitehead is Deputy in statuesque calm amid the hideous Assistant Commissioner of the dis- din... trict which embraces the greater Presently it died down, and, in part of the West End of London. her thrilling, still beautiful voice, Mr. Abbiss, at present chief she spoke two or three sentences, constable at Scotland Yard. is the Again the storm broke loose, and Erat man for a number of years again she waited. who has been promoted from a policeman working in the streets to an executive position at Scot-
land Yard.
&
A CONTEST OF WILLS
As soun
as she rose to speak pandemonium broke loose. Shouts
Mrs. Virginia Woolf, however, has just written a biography of a dog. "Flush: a Biography is the title, and Flush was the spaniel owned by Mrs. Browning. I do not think a real historical character"
THE MASTER OF
·KİNNAİRD
beautiful seat in Perthshire, will be Rossie Priory, Lord Kinnaird's
heir, the Master of Kinnaird, comes en. fete "to-day, when his sis and
of age.
tion of his house by being engaged The Master carries on the tradi- in banking. Like others of his fa mily, he is keenly interested in re- ligious work.
It was a contest of will-ber's, against the mot's. And she won- Each time the shouting died down she spoke, and cach time she spoke for a little longer before the noise broke out anew. In the end she The twenty-first anniversary of was speaking in perfect silence to the Rev. Hugh Gough, vicar of St. One of his sisters is the wife of the foundation of the Honourable an audience that hung on every Paul's, Bath. Fraternity of Ancient Masons-the word.
WOMEN FREEMASONS
only. all-women's Freemasonry MRS. BESANT'S SON movement--was marked last night
of 'the
by the consecration and dedication Mrs. Besant's son, Mr. Arthur at St. Ennin's, Westminster, of Digby Besant, retired only last the new headquarters of the April, at the age of 4, from the fraternity. The ceremony was work: position of general manager of the ed by the Grand Master, Mrs Clerical, Medical and Genersi Lite Elizabeth Baswell-Raid; who
Assurance Society and was one of the original founders of the General Reversionary and Invest fraternity, and she was assisted by ment Company. He is now living Mrs. Seton Challen, the Deputy at Hampstead.
He a Fellow of University Grand Master; another of the original founders, and Mr. Fier Collega, London, and was chairman Dyer, the Pro-Grand Master of the Life Offices Association and At the conclusion of the conss-a member of the Royal Commision oration ceremony the Pro-Grand on National Health Insurance. Ha Master, on behalf of the fraternity, has written a number of books on presented the Grand Master with fiance and insurance. ́ ́ ́ the jewel of her office & sun is THE KING AND L.G. rose diamonds with a sapphire in the centre. THINGS PEOPLE FORGET
The Southern Railway's annual clearance sale of goods left in trains will take place on Monday The catalogue, which I have ex- amined, is a monument to man' forgetfulness.
Another, Miss Anne. Kinnaird, joined the Salvation Army. Some years ago she went to live in a devote herself to work among the small house in Barking in order to
poor.
FASHIONS IN SPECTACLES
London, Sept. 2. It was noted to-day that many of the spectacle-makers with stalls at the Optical Trade Exhibition had successfully abandoned their usual professional austerity, and had the have appot of men who know how to break down. Bieg TERKINI The explanation was evident in the c bibition in the hundreds of pairs of spectacles of many colours, of al- most every conceivable shape," which t The King received through the an expert salesmaar could hope ta are so unusual-looking that mily post, at Balmoral Castle this morn, press them upon the ordinary pub- ng, an autograped copy of Melio that is "onliged to wear specta Lloyd George's War Memoira
The publishers had prepared. The trade" is firm in its belief
oles special leather-bound copy which that the day of the fortoisabell they had, intended to give to Mr. frame is an end. Tortoiseshell Lloyd George himself. The book frames were made popular by au wae taken down to Churt, Ita au- American opticians shortly after the thor sized his name, added a warm war, and to day in the West Indies tribute to the King's services to there is a shortage of tortoiseshell Tho, smart glasses are of light-col- oured tortoiseshell, almost, amber colour, which is the scarpest of all The newest spectacle frames, which green to scarlet, are of plastic ma range from white to jet, from jade Batur Terials. One set seen to-day was of multi-coloured metal. The notion that voor spectacle frade should match the colour of your clothes. dinner Spectacles are now being made to The dinner was grym at le Ba. In "well-cut pair the top edga When blend with the curves of the face. voy Hotel by Sir Charles Sykes, of of the lone should, follow the curve Huddersfield, and Mr. Clifford of the eyebrow line, one Hart, of Leeds, and Bir Chatles the side of the nose, and said that, so certain had he been edge. fits into the
I sympathise with the umbrella Losers, who easily bead the list. For the benefit of statisticians I his people in the war and read record the fact, the result of pre-dressed it to Balmoral longed calculation, that women THE CHAMPIONS" outnumber men in this clam by t
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ta. 3.
A total of 4906 female how formed a table centre - at a "ohubby" umbrellas-there apparently no hers was felt in
dinner party in London trains during the past year, and day night. They rep only 2051 male. Of the latter nineteen county seven wern bookmakers tour of borien of the them slightly faulty.
team, m whose was give
ABSENT MINDED SAILORS But umbrellas, and even sticks gloves, mackintoshes and hate 162 ladies and only nine men' are the common stuf of forgetful ness it is, the more intimate articles of apparel that defeat ma
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he had made arrangements for the cism, "A modern opt
How did sixty sailors come to dinner and invited other guests tiklied this hi overlook he loss of their trousers long before the championship was though tất
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