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NOTICE.
THE STORE OF
NIKKO
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1923.
CONSIGNEES
THE PENINSULAR · AND
ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.,
STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, & BOMBAY,
KING INVITED BY RAISULI,
Moroccan Bandit's - Castle - Is Ready. Madrid:-Intense interest has
CHELSEA VETERANS'
STORIES
DANCER : LOSES CLAIM:
Annulment of Marriage Set
How We Charged at
Axide for Frand. Inkermann Although their ranks are fast
Nyack, N. Y. —Evan Fontaine been created by the receipt hare diminishing, there are still a few marriage with Sterling Adair wa
Barrowes annulment of her of a letter from the notorious survivors of the Indian Mutiny vacated by Justice Tompkins Moroccan bandit Raisali, offering campaign and the Crimean War in the Supreme Court here submission to the King and în- In the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, when he sustained charges of viting King Alfonso to vizitare 15 old soldiers who served in Morocca
the Mutiny, and 14 who suffered Vanderbilt Whitney, son of Harry fraud brought by - Cornelius The letter, brought to Spain by the hardships and privations of Payns Whitney, in defense of a WHICH CONTAINS THE THROUGH BILLS OF LAD General Burguette, expresses the Russian campaign.
unreserved adhesion to the One-Private James Moore, $1,000,000 breach of promise suit monarch and says that, in the late of the 7th. Hussars-bas the ought against him by the event the King goes to Morocco, prond distinction of baving fought
dancers Raisuli will immediately offer his in both; while Private William castle and his own ascort in Piner is one of the fawr survivors Alfonso's bonour.
of the Crimes wearing four bars The bandit leader expresses to the medal-Alma, Balaclava, THE Steamer JEYPORETM" optimism relative to Spain's pro-Inkermann and Sebastopol,
Private Piner, who is 90, has will be despatched from this says firm fusion of the two coun- had "bie portrait painted for the port at Noon on SATURDAY,tries can be realized. He also ex Royal Academy. A fine old man, the 24th March, taking Cargo for presses belief that the ransom of he retold to a Daily Chronicle the above Ports.
the Spanish prisoners bald by the representative the story of Inker- Moroccans can be easily affected. mann.
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Parcels will be received at the
THE MIKADO.
.
petrated on the Court," Justice “A gross fraud has been per- Tompkins wrote in his decision. Perjury has been committed by both complainant and her mother and deceit and concealment
resorted to and irregular and im the plaintiff's attorney of record.
proper practice indulged in by
Charles Firestone."
Miss Fontaine, obtained the annulment on statements: that? OVER-STATED HIS AGE.
she did not live with Adair after` In those days of long ago, as their marriage. The affidavits during the Great War, men over submitted stated their ages in order to enlist. Whitney included several letters by counsel for Piner's officia! age does not co-alleged to have been written by New York: The luncheon respond with his birth certificate, the dancer to Adair, in which a
Story Of Tune Origin.
Ofice until 3 F.M. the day before party in the downtown club bad for he joined the Army when he plan of collusion to set aside their sailing. The contents and value the Englishman spoke up:
reached coffee and cigare when was little over 17.
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I enlisted in the 16th. Foot, Marriage was outlined.
Miss Fontaine had an interna-.. The Hirado, but I am certain he said. "I was afterwards trans- created
“I suppose you all have heard now the Bedfordshire Regiment,"
tional reputation as a dancer and that you are not aware how its ferred to the 63rd. Foot (now the when she introduced weird Indo- B sensation in 1920 music came to be written, the lat. Manchesters), and fought Chinese movements to the stage rift in diplomatic relations be-with them in the Crimea.
Lia this country. tween Downing street and Japan "Upon my discharge I re- it nearly cansed and the part the enlisted in the Rifle Brigade and the annulment in July, 1980, 110 Justice Tompkins, who granted late Sir Francis Bartie played in served with them for eight years.ordered the District Aftorasy to NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. the whole affair."
Animation came into the old bring before a Grand Jury all Let's have it by all means," soldier's voice as he related the recorde in the case, with a view. said one American, and the fight which took place in the fog to indicting Miss Fontaine and others leaned back in their chairs on Inkermann Hill.
her mother for perjury.--- to enjoy a new morsel of inside. We were half starved, with
The Court further recommend- HONOLULU, JAPAN FORTS dope for which this English-only hard biscuits for food, except ed that the New York Bar
man is far-famed.
when the cavalry brought up & SHANGHAL
"I had the details direct from bit of meat, which we tried to practices of Firestone, attorney Association investigate the Sir Francis bimself during the cook on the spot and ate nearly for the dancer. Philadelphia TH
"HE abore camed Steamer World War time, when he was raw," he said.
"Ourclothes ware Public Ledger. having arrived Tuesday 20th.
the British Ambassador in in tags, and we were nearly frozeu. March 1923. consignees of cargo Paris," he began. "It had been are hereby notified to present his private joke for many years
VOLLEY, THEN THE CHARGE.
"It was about 7 o'clock in the their Bills of Lading for counter-until the rude awakening came morning when, in the mist, the signature, and take immediate
on the occasion of the visit of the Russians began to drive our out- delivery from alongside steamer
TOYO KISEN KAISHA. 8. S. "SHINYO MARU" From SAN FRANCISCO via
DEMAND FOR ROMANCE,
for the Company's Godawn, where Japanese Crown Prince to Lon-posts in. We doubled.from outcious appetite of a romantic and
all cargo impeding immediate discharge will be landed at con Bigoee's risk.
Storage will be assessed or cargo Tamaining undelivered after Tuesday 27th. March 1923.
All broken, chafed and damaged
ined for nobody then knew why, "Sir Francis, in his youth, had been an attache of the British
In trying to satisfy the vort
royalty-loving public eager to have. all the details of the doings of the Duke of York and his finances, few things that were susceptible London newspapers have said &
appearance and yet she is always charmingly dressed.” This con.... tribution was signed by a friend
The Daily Herald comments on
don immediately after the form-camp to lokermann Hill, and the British Japanese there formed a line, lying down in ing of alliance, when the Mikado' went open order, under the ban, and was discon-
had passed through, we were "As soon as our outpost med ordered to fire a volley, then shout and charge. And such a shouto more than one interpretation. One remarked, "Lady Elizabeth packages will be landed into the embassy in Tokyo, and returning it was! I have never heard has little that is modera in her to London in the early eighties, anything like it. We chargad Company's Godown, where same will be examined on Tuesday he ran into his old friend, Sir and drove our bayousts into the Arthur Sullivan, who was think-Russians and battered them as. 27th, March 1923. at 11 am.
No claims will be recognised ing of making a journey to Japan they retired. We were close on after goods have left the steamer in order to gather some of the to them, you see, and they began the latter as a paradox to women.
musical atmsephere of the Cherry to give when the Blossom land.
The battle lasted until well engagement, saying the public is bum over & few of the tunes to into the afternoon. One cannon the royal love-match to such an surfeited with the intimacies of be heard in Japan: and Sir ball struck down a captain nearby. Arthur, who was exceedingly Both our General and the Colonel extent that the general good quick at catching a tane, played were killed. When I went out wishes for a happy marriage are revolt several of the arias, and among with the regiment it was 1,120 likely to be tainted by those. The Chonkina, a decided-strong. By the time I was sent against the silly pretention that ly gay geisha song.
away there were only about 30 it is the only thing which counts W, S. Gilbert had done the left.
in the world to-day." libretto and was pressing to have "And I never reported sick for the music of the opera written. s eingle day,” added the old mka The upshot was that the entire proudly.
entertained if presented later than three weeks after arrival of steamer.
No fire insurance whatever will be effected.
Y. TSUTSUMI,
Manager. Hongkong, 20th. March, 1923.
"MAD MESSIAH"
ENGAGED. ·
*Sir Francis volunteered to
fired.
THE OLDEST. V.C. Sergeant George Richardson, Berlin-Hauesser, the "Mad background for 'The Mikado' There are at least two survivors
a veteran of the Indian Matiny, Messiah, who has a remarkable came from Sir Francis, and the of the famous Light Brigade, and the oldest holder of the following in Germany as the lead-melody of the march, where the Troop Sergt. Major Hughes (82), Victoria Cross in the British er of ultra-communists and re- Mikado enters in the piece, was who lives at Blackpool, and Empire, has died in the Military ligious fanatics, has announced that of The Chonkina song. Frivate Pennington (89), of Stoke Hospital at Ontario. bis engagement to the forty-year- elaborated upon, of course, but Newington.
old daughter of Admiral von enough of the original melody The Royal Hospital containa a
Pobl, Nationalist, and during the left to be instantly detected by dozen old pensioners who enlisted DON'T BUY GLASSES war chief of the admiralty staff. any one who had been to Japan. in the Great War, and surely the as you would shoes. Many de Hauesser, who is regarded as de- Sir Francis for many years record for understatement of age fects of the eyes are revealed only mented, bas attracted a following after he returned to England must be held by Private John by a careful examination, and can through his claims of being the used to attend the performance Bennett, now 77, and formerly of only be corrected with specially strongest man spiritually in Ger of the opera and chuckle im- the 16th. Lancers, who, by dyeing ground lenses. If your eyes many and the saviour of the coun-moderately to himself when the his moustache, passed himself off trouble you, have them thorough,
Mikado made his grand entrance. (as a man in the forties. try in the bour of distress.
ly examined and scientifically. guage are requested to write care of an agricultural life was predicted by
He appears barefooted, clad in "Some time after the Crown
.- tested in the refracting chamber a deputation of the National flowing robe, and preaches Prince of Japan left England the HOUNDS KILLED ON RAILWAY. of the Hongkong Optical Cor Union of Land Workers who singular mixture of impassioned ban was removed, and now even
While Lord Tredegar's hounds successors to Clark & Co., manus before the Government communism and religion, with at Japanese will laugh at this were hunting in the neighbour-facturing and refracting opticians Agricultural Tribunal recently.tempts at an addition of patriot-musical incident in the opers, hood of Machen Plas, near New-(the only competent optical Unless help was immediately ism to his curious creed. He is but how it got there I am telling port, the pack crossed the Brecon manufacturing house In the forthcoming, it was said, farm now evidently attempting to st for the first time."
and Merthyr Railway, and two colory) located in 53, Queen's labourers' wages may drop to tract a nationalistic following And they say Englishmen have of the best "animals were cut to Road Central, and a pair of through his projected marital no sense of bumour-Philadelphia | pieces by a train coming from lenses be specially ground to less than £1 & week.
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