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FANLING GOLF.
STARTING TIMES FOR
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The following starting times for the old course at Fanling have been drawn for the holidays. It will in- terest golfers to know that the Kowloon Canton railway are running a motor coach on Sunday and Monday leaving Kowloon for Sheung Shul at
8.59.
Saturday.
9.16 a.m.-A. Richio and R. Young
9.20 am-E. Des Voeux and T. C.
Monaghan.
9.24 am Yates and J. Conly
thart.
9.23 am A. E. Lisaaman and
N.
Littlejohn.
9.32 4.m.-J. Lorzimer and S. S.
D.
Ferry. 9.36 a.m.-O. D. Brown and W.
Harris. 9.40 a.m. H. Geare and J. F.
9.44
SATURDAY,
APRIL 19, 1930,
QUEER COLLECTIONS OF ARTICLES.
GHOST IN SILK AT OLD CASTLE.
GIRL'S FATE IN FIRE DRAMA.
TELEPHONE CALL FROM A FLAT.
MAN WHO HAD THOUSANDS WOMAN WHO RUSTLES PAST
OF MATCHDOXES.
AND IS GONE.
The man who was reported the A woman in a silk dress is said A few seconds before she was ancient castle of fatally burnt in a fire in a top- other day to have collected over to haunt the
near Nuneaton, and floor flat in Edgware-road, W., 40,000 railway tickets, all dif- Hartshill, ferent, is not the only collector ranny local people are afraid to while a helpless crowd looked on,
approach the place after dark. a girl telephoned for assistance. with a strange hobby.
In The castle, built in 1135, is
the flat, over premises There is even u Match Label)
owned by Mr. J. Moore, whose occupied by Messrs. Cunningham, Exchange, the hon. secretary of which states that many collectors family inherited it 200 years ago. electricians, lived Norah Steven-
10,000 It is now disused, and the grounds son, aged 15, and her mother. have from 5,000 to
Shortly before 9 p.m. Mr. Cun- "I have seen the lady with the examples. A Brighton collector are cultivated as a small holding. boasts over 15,000 specimens.
Margaret Cunningham, went collected over 220 grandfather Moore told a Daily Chronicle repre- the shop to collect some letters. The late Mr. D. Wetherflold silk dress hundreds of times." Mr.ningham and his daughter, Miss The telephone bell rang and Miss and other clocks, which, at his sentative.
She makes a sound like the Cunningham heard Norah Stoven- death, were sold for £30,000, a
son saying, "It is getting very sum that showed a big profit on rustling of leaves. Several mem-
bers of our family, and people in hot up here: I think there must
her. the village, have also seen
be a fire. Will you send a man the original outlay.
When my brother was a lad of 18
up?" "My father went to the Bishop, Mr. Cunningham dashed up the
PiA. H. Ferguson and G. C. H. T. Hawkins, of Portland-he saw her in broad daylight.
E. Costello.
Foz.
9.48 a.m.-M. G. Mills and S. J. H. 9.52 am.-R. F. Moodie and H. V.
Parker.
9.66 m.-H. C. Strubsole and
A. Lammert.
Cassidy.
H
10.00 ..-R. A. Stuart and P. S.
The collection of the late Mr.
place, has already realised near-
to
and
ly a quarter of a million pounds, who told him to say, 'In the name staircase, but found his way to and many objects are still unsold. of the Father, the Son, and the the flat barred by fames
During the last 25 years of his Holy Ghost, what troublest thou?' smoke, through which he vainly life he never spent less than But he never had a chance. You tried to fight his way.
The fire brigade was summon- 10,000 a year on his hobby and hear the rustle, she brushes closel gathered together over 1,000 by, and is gone."
A white thing without legs, ed, while a crowd gathered, at- jewelled snuff boxes, 800 minia- tures and wonderful porcelain about three feet high, is also said tracted by the screaming girl at
a top window. Ellis.
and books. As a side to have been seen moving along 10.08 am-D. M. Macdougall and pictures
When the firemen forced their line he collected over 800 unset the top of the garden wall. My- F. A. Redmond.
other precious sterious noises have been heard way into the burning flat, they 10.12 a.m.-A. C. I. Bowker and Adiamonds and
the stairs, and in and out of the
10.04 a.m.-J. N. Grant and D.
10.16 a.m.-C. H. Bradley and watones, which at the sale realised of people walking up and down found the girl on the floor suffer-
T. Lay.
M. Thomson. 10.20 a.m.-C. W. Jeffries and L. J.'
Blackburn.
10.24 a.m.-N. Croucher and J. S.
MacLaren. 10.28 .m.-S. C. Feltham and C. J.
Waddell. 10.32 a.m.-P. Morrison and J. g.
Drummond.
Voeux.
Sunday.
9.16 a.m.-A. B. Purves and E. Des A.m.-E. N. Monie and E. Stonu.
9.20
9.24 a.m.-J. Macknight and T. C.
Monaghan. 9.28 a.m.-A. D. Humphreys and O.
9.32
over £20.000.
Peer's Bad Bargains.
was
rooms.
Mr. A. Moore, a nephew of Mr.
A less successful collector of J. Moore, states that he had seen jewellery
the eccentric the big oaken doors of the castle Marquis of Anglesey, whose fly open, and then shut again, al-
£100,000 though securely bolted. collection realised over
Mrs. Moore, his mother, states in 1904. He was a most reckless buyer, A pair of sapphire sleeve that she has heard the rustling of links, for instance, which made ja silk dress on the stairs, but has £1,380 at the sale, cost him ten never seen anything..
times that sum.
A well-known society woman collects earrings, and already Possesses 200 pairs. One pair is in the shape of golden rats which
A Leach and H. U. hang by their tails. Ireland, 9.36 am.-F. A. Redmond and J. F.
Pilcher, 9.40 am-11. G. Mills and J. A
Collis.
A few years ago a man admitted in the Bankruptcy Court that nearly the whole of his large. fortune had been spent in form
THE FATEST FLIER CRASHES.
ing from severe burns, from which she died shortly afterwards. Panic-stricken by the spread
of the fire, she had apparently rushed from the window and tried through the to force her way doorway, when her clothing caught fire.
Before going out her mother had given her some money to ga to a cinema
UNLIMITED DESIGNS FOR ARTISTS.
WEALTH OF SUGGESTION IN TINY SEA PLANTS.
LIEUTENANT ATCHERLEY IN PLANE SMASH.
Flight-Lieut.
the Atcherley, Schnieder Trophy pilot, had a
when flying of
9.41 3.m.-N. K. Littlejohn and J./ing a collection of butterflies and wonderful escape
G. Campbell.
9.48 n.m.-W. C. Shields and Comdr.
Priestley.
9.52 n.m.-R. Young and E. D.
Lawrence.
9.56 a.m.-A. H. Musson and E. D.
Matthews.
19.00 a.m.-13. M. Macdougall and
F. J J. R. Mitchell.
Gilmore.
10.04
a.m.-D. Forbes and D.
J.
10.08 a.m.-H. A. Mills and
F.
Lobel.
10.12 a.m.-W. M. Thomson and J.
S. Maclaren.
10.16 a.m.-A. Sommerfelt and T.
Low.
10.20 a.m.-P. S. Grant and J. R.
Lanyon.
10.24 a.m.-G. W. Garrett and H.
Graves.
10.28 a... M. McTavish and K.
S. Robertson.
10.32 a.m.-A. F. Judd and J. H.
Ashworth.
10.30 a.m.-W. A. Butterfield and
D. G. McAvoy,
10.40 a.m.-A. C. 1. Bowker and R.
P. Moodie.
10.44 a.m.-G. E. Eliams and J.
Coulthart.
10,18 a.m.-A. Ritchie. and H. C.
Shrubsole.
10.52 a.m.-D. J. Keogh and R. J.
Cherrill. 10.56
am. H. Spicer and Thayer.
J.
11.00 a.m.-J. W. Franks and F. J.
de Rome.
11.04 a.m.-W. J. S. Key and D. S.
Edward.
11.08 a.m.. Harrop and M. N.
Cochrane.
11.12 a.m.-I. H. Geare and G. E.
Costello.
11.16 n.m.-J. Ralston and S. S.
Perry.
11.20 a.m.-W. J. Clerk and S. J. II.
Fox.
11.24 a.m.-S. T. Butlin and O. D.
Brown.
11.28 a.m.-C. H. Bradley and D.
Ellis.
Monday.
9.04 ... S. Hillier and W.
Paterson.
9.08
.m.-F. C. Barry and I. B. Trevor-
9.10 a. C. E. Moore and C. J.
Waddell.
9,20 a.m.-A. H. Ferguson and. L
R. Andrewes.
9.24 am-E. Stone and
a.m.
J. P.
Sherry. J. Keogh and S. C.1
9.28 a.m.-D..
Feltham
9.32 a.m. Capt. Bloxham and L.
G. S. Dodwell
9.36 a.m.-H. R. Sturt and W. A.
Butterfield.
9.40 a.m.-A. D. Humphreys and H.
A. Lan
Lammert.
9.44 a.m.-W. F. K. Telfer and J.
B. Lat
Lanyon.
9.48 a.m.-W. N. Fleming and D.
S. Robb 9,52
N. Currie and E. M. Bryden. 0.66 a.m.-H. C. Shrubsole and G.
Castle. BMC.
10.00 hrane.
N.
G. Lorimer and M.
moths..
They are composed of trans- parent crystal and vary in design
Eight thousand different species diatoms-tiny single-celled plants so small that 200 would af Farnborough (Hants).
He had flown from Kenley hardly cover a pin's head-have aerodrome with Sergeant Marinow been identified, reports Dr. When a horse drawing a milk-an R.A.F. mechanic, and tried to Albert Mann, of the Carnegie In-
stitution, Washington. art, taking fright at a piece or land on Farnborough Common in Cobbold-road, the recognised landing ground for paper, bolted Shepherd's Bush, Police-constable all Royal Air Force pilots. Warran seized the reins, but was
for 21 successful from a spider's web, or a honey- thrown to the ground. He then landing were sprang ou a motor-car, overtook favourable but when the plane pattern. the horse, grabbed it by the ears, was nearing earth and forced if to the side of the road, complete somersault and crashed where it quieted down. A cyclist upside down. was knocked over, and several people had narrow escapes.
10.30
a.m.-D. Forbes and Young. 10.40 am-A. C. I. Bowker and
Wright.
10.44 am-Capt. Davison and
Des Voeux
R
Conditions
in every sense combed dise, to a curious-gridiron
it turned a
ex-
Lieutenant Atcherley was tricated and was found to have escaped with superficial facial injuries.
Was
not so Sergeant Martin was Tortunate and
to taken Whospital in an ambulance, but his E. condition is not considered dan-
10.48 a.m.-O. D. Brown and V. J.
Atkins.
10.52 a.m.-F. Black and F: R.
Burch.
10.55 am.-C. H. Bradley and
K. Littlejohn,
11.00 a.m.-K. S. Morrison and
D. Lawrence.
11.04 a.m.-E. N. Monie and S.
gerous.
The plane was wrecked.
bulletin they multiply so rapidly
According to the Institution
that in the English Channel off Plymouth the annual yield of dia- toms in the water-layers beneath one nere of surface amounts to five and a half, tons.
Dr. Man has been studying these minute plants through the microscope for nearly 6 years. They build for themselves the most marvellously designed "houses."
He illustrated the value of the
In the race for the Schneider Trophy at Calshot last September artistry of these plants to archi- Lieut. Atcherley created a world tects and artists at a recent ex- N. record for the 100 kilometres hibition of specimens at the Ins- Eclosed circuit at an average speed titution.
of 330.44 m.p.h., beating Wag He suggests that they should be s.horn's record of 330.32 m.p.h. studied more from the artistic
he point of view, as He was disqualified because
they offer a 11.08 a.m.-V. V. Gleeson and J. S. failed to pass "round one of the wealth of suggestion practically
Drummond.
mark pylons.
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10.08 .m.-G. W. Garrett and P.
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Cassidy.
10.12 a.m.-I. H. Gears and A, E.
Lissaman.
10.10 a.m.-M. G. Milla and S.J.
H. Fox.
10.20 a.m.-A. G. Coppíri and A. D.
Coppin 10.24 a.m.-P. Morrison and K. S:
Robertson.
10.28 a.m.-M. G. Marriott and A.
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C. Shields and
Comdr. Priestley.
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