THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,
HONGKONG WELCOMES ITS NEW GOVERNOR
Excellent panoramic view of the entrance to Queen's Pier on Thursday morning, when His Excellency the Governor (Sir Geoffry Northcote, K.C.M.G.,) made his oMcial landing upon arrival to take up his office here. His Excellency, necompanied by a retinue of Naval and Military high officials, can be seen inspecting the Seaforth Highlanders Guard of loncur, while large crowds watched the impressive and colourful ceremony. (Photo: King's Studio).
His
THREE-MONTHS-TO-LIVE GIRL HAS FOUND NEW FRIEND Unspoken Sympathy, Sweet and Precious
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Explain Stockbroker In Bed
"I Cannot
About Him"
(By Marjorie Hudson)
SINCE that day when a London specialist told me I had only three months to live I have had a week in Paris and now have come to the Riviera to find what happiness is still-left for me before I die.
III As Hammer
Tells Of Failure
London, Oct. 4.
And I have found happiness. Not only that, but beauty and THREE hammer blows sounded from the rostrum of
friendship.
There are hundreds of sympathising letters from unknown friends before me. They are from Sunday Chronicle readers.
Since I came to France I have scon Paris, I have come to a luxury hotel where I am work- -ing in my own room, surrounded with flowers, but best of all I have met Harry, a sales man-
ager.
if I
can
I don't know
explain about Harry, except to say that knowing him is making a tremen- dous difference to these last happy hours,
UNSPOKEN SYMPATHY
He is not young and is much more serious and quiet than the modern young men I knew in London.
There is a kind of unspoken sympathy between us, sweet and preciou
I feel he understands just why I am greedy for all the galety and sunshine and happiness I can achieve.
Hela on leave from his firm for a few weeks, and has come with me from Paris to the Rivicen.
Last night at the Casino I won all the time. By the end of the evening I was £40 richer than when it started.
Forty pounds! It was wonderful to win It just this time, for my
little own
nest-egg ก been dwindling
So fast. I have been extravagant. I admit, In Parla I bought clothes and hats quite reck- lessly.
The thrill of spending money
on myself for the first time In my life is a little too much for
110.
My friends in Paris overworked themselves to give me a gay play- time. We went to fiftie cates in Montmartre and Montparnasse. We went to expensive restaurants, night; clubs, cabarets.
Here it is cold and windy, and my cough, is worse. I begin to get ured so easily that most of my time Is) spent in resting. My friends aro Insisting that I must have some sun-
shine, so they are taking me to Algiers next week,
BEAUTIFUL LETTERS All this may sound
as if I am
the London Stock Exchange yesterday. All busi- ress ceased on the instant; in tense silence members stood still in their tracks.
There followed the traditional
devoting my time and thoughts to ceremony that every one of the
trivial things. But that is not so. 15,000 members dreads. A uni- HUSBAND'S
pray every night, and find great formed waiter read out in re- comfort in
So
Some of the letters sent me by Sunday Chronicle readers are beautiful that I have cried. I am awed that there is so much kindness
in the world, prompting strangers to offer me help and comfort.
Since I have been here I have written some poems, to try, and ex- press some of my emotion.
Here are two:
THANKS
Thanks for the hands that help
ine when I call,
Gently caressing, yet surprising
strong. Hands that are ever at my beck
and call,
Guiding my steps from dawn to
evensong,
Thanks for the lips that kiss
away my tears,
Banishing pain as cloudlets in
the sky;
Lipa that have smiled and sung
along the years,
weary
hours
Cheering the
through which I tie Thanks for the love you give me
night and day,
Well knowing that so soon we
two must part;
Unto the very end with me you'll
stay,
And I shall po held close against
your heart.
MY FRIEND
Whilst wandering down Life's
duty lane,
I Igoked for a friend, but found
nie notte,
Until, when the day was on the
wane,
And the Sun's warm rays were
well nigh gone,
At last did I see, in the distance
smile,
A cheery face with a
dim,
So I quickened my welcome him, Hoping and trusting
willo
cheery
pacc to
all the
That I would not fall at my
Journey's end,
In my humble efforts to try
and be.
Worthy the love of my new
found friend, For eternity,
-
sounding tones the fate of an old-established firm of stock- brokera:
"Messrs. George Thomas Lockett and Maurice Clifford Seawin, trading as Thomas Roberts and Co., have informed the Commit- tec of the Stock Exchange that their they cannot comply with bargains,"
In these words Thomas Roberts and Co. were named defaulters, and two men Yo, between them, hnd tione business on the Stock Exchange for thirty-three years, found them- selves barred from carrying on their work.
There was a buzz of hushed tulk, then business went on again, but in a subdued atmosphere.
It was settlement day yesterday, when ellents and to meet their dif ferences.
The drop in securities caused by the recent panic on Wall-street and the situation in Chinn and
Spain
£30,000 CUT TO
£1 A WEEK
-If He Weds
MRS. MARY ELIZABETH *WETJEN, of Addiscombe, Surrey, whose £30,000 will was published recently, left her forluno in trust, the income to be paid to her husband so long as he does not marry again.
If he remarries he will receive a pound a week, and the property will had led to dificulties in some quar-pass to his children. The reason for ters.
'CLIENTS GAMBLED"
There was a funereal silence in the
'this bequest was devotion.
Mr. and Mrs. Wellen lived at Red-
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ofces Thomas Roberts and Co., roofs Fitzjames-avenue, Addiscombe, RECOMMENDED
in London Wall. In the inner offles a large house, with their son and two
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UNITED. FAMILY
the two men who since the war had ¦ daughters, all grown up. carried on the firm eyed each other haggardly. Every night for the past week the lights had burned in their room while they were trying to save the firm.
is in
They cannot practise ая stock brokers again until their debts are pald. Mr. Lockett's home Leigh-on-Sea, Mr. Scawin livea in small Burnes. Their fallure was one, and caused no repercussions in the day's trade.
Yesterday Mr. Scawin was ill in bed. His son xaldi-
"Some of my father's clients rambled by stocks and were un- able to pay up, The firm found Itself facing obligations beyond its resources."
They were a happy, united family. Mr. Wetjen still lives with his chil- dren.
daughtera Bald One of his recently: "Father and mother wers so devoted that the Ides of either remarrying if one should die was out of the question.
"Mother and father oflen talked of what might happen if one of them were left and they always dismissed remarriage as being almost impossi~ ble.
This Is the second time this year
"Mother made this provision in Stock Exchange firm has been hammered. On September 13 it was her will to cover a possibility which announced that Mr. William Edward she regarded as so remote that she Pooley, a member since 1920, had at provided a norminal suni, of n not compiled with his bargains. pound."
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