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MR. LAMBTON'S RACING

MEMORIES.

The forty years' unrivalled turf experience of the Hon. George Lambton, the famous trainer, is providing reader of The Weekly Dispatch, with a rich fund of racing memorica.

Mr. Lambton, who is the brother of the Earl of Durham, has scen the dramas, comedies, triumphs, tragedies, and changes of British racing in three reigns.

He has also seen them from three points of view; mucially, as a rider, and as a most successful trainer. During the past reason aluno horses entrusted to his clunge won the extraordinary total of £38,255 in stake-money.

Tako ope example of the origi nality and courage of Mr. Lambton. When secret "daping" of horsat threatened to becoine a scourge of the Sport of Kings, he himself, in the broad light of publicity, doned Faceborsos in order forcibly to draw the attention of the stewards to this He had the pernicious practice. satisfaction of knowing that his bold measures did much to put a stop to horec-doping.

Stories of great racing coups, great men, great riders, and great horses are all drammatically blended in this notable record of modern British racing. Mr. Lambton's de lightfully intimate style, as well na the arresting nature of his material, grips the reader straightaway, and appeals even to those who normally do not follow racing. The articles form a most fascinating study of human nature in moments of enormous stress.

WAYS OF GENIUS.

REMBRANDT, PAINTER AND

MAN,

LUSITANIA

DISASTER'S EIGHTH

ANNIVERSARY:

LADY RHONDDA'S VIVID STORY.

STONES IN COURT:

THE CHINA MAIL

MRS JUSTICE ROMER'S ESCAPE

Mr. Justice Romer had just taken his seat in the Chancery Division It is right years since the great it the Law Courts when a middle Cuard Haer Lusitania" was sunkged man, whose name was given by a German submarine off the Oid Head of Kinsale, Under head fig" May 7, 1915, Lady Rhondda contributes to the current issue of the Spectator a vivid and striking story of the disaster.

Lady Rhondda, who was return- ing with her father from a trip to America, mentions that, following the publication in the American papers of the general waraing Issued by the German Embassy ai Washington, it was generally accepted that there would be a attempt on the vessel, and it was Imagined that the reatest danger would arise during the crossing of the frish Sea on the last night of. the voyage. On the Friday (the "Lusitania" was due at Liverpoo on the Saturday), just after lunch, Lady Rhondda's father suggested spending the night on deck to "sec if we get our thrill."

"I had no time to answer "Lady Rhondda writes. "There was a dull, thud-like, not very foud but unmistakable explosion.

"I had days before made up my mind that if anything happened one'd instinct would be to make straight for the boat deck (it is r horrible feeling to stay under cover even for a few moments in a boar that may be sinking,) but that one must control that and go first to one's cabin to fetch one's lifebelt

and then on to the hout deck.

I ran up the stairs the boot was Already heeling over."

Arthur Henry Ravenhill, of Kirby, near Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, rose at the back of the court, and with a loud exclamation threw three handfuls of pebbles in the direction of the fudge.

The stones fall all around Mr. Justice Romer, some narrowly issing his face, and clattered gainst the oak panelling and upon the judge's Bench

They narrowly missed Mr. J. H. Califfe, KG. and other counsel, and several people in court were hit as the stones rebounded.

The man was at once seized by ID usher and taken out of court.

Mr. Cunliffe said that perhaps the missiles were for him. Mr. Justice Römer laughingly replied that it coked more as if the man aimed at the Bench.

The judge then ordered the man to be brought back into court, and sternly told him that he had bee guilty of a contempt of court and would be committed to Brixton Jail.

A tipstaff took the hon away. It is stated that Ravenhill was an unsuccessful litigant in an action heard about 12 months ago by Mr. fustice Romer, and also lost his appeal.

Attacks on those engaged in the administration of justice are rite, writes a legal correspondent. The Ante Lord Halsbury, when Mr. Hardinge Giffard, appearing as counsel at the Old Bailey in 1854, A FRENZIED RUSH.

was shot at in court by an-insane After putting on her own lifebelt:lergyman, who fancied he had a and carrying one for her father. grievance against him. The clergy- Lady Rhondda made her way to nan was sent to Broadmoor Crimin-

d Lunatic Asꞌlum.. the boat deck.

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CLAIM FOR WAGES,

WANCHAL CHINESE THEATRE SUED.

Claiming a sum of $57 for wages due, an Indian watchman named Bella Singh sued Lee Hing Fat, managing partner of the lesses of the Cheong Lok Theatre, Wanchal in the Summary Court this morning,

KOWLOON'S PROGRESS,

PLACE OF WORSHIP DOOMED.

On June 22 "Bhuddist" in the course of a letter to the China Mai. ||| wrote:"There la in the peninsula of Kowloon a house which has been purchased by a guild of Chinese worshippers with funds subscribed by thousands of people. This is not a temple but a sort of home where members of the fraternity 18sociate to offer prayer and to live in when it suits their convenience. Notice has been received that as the Government wish to build a road, the land will be resumed. Could not an exception be made in the case of a place of worship as Sir Henry Pottinger. promised an be half of the British Government to respect Chinese customs?"

Outlining, the plaintiff's cose, Mr. C.A.S. Russ explained that his client was claiming at the rate of $30 per month for his services as watchman from February 15 to May 11, less a sum of $29 which had been, paid. The Cheong Lok theatre secured permis sion to stage plays and, through the offices of an Indian police sergeant, the plaintiff was engaged as watchman... The theatre was closed for some To ascertain tus official stand- reason after about a month and the point, a representative of the China plaintiff had considerable difficulty Mail interviewed Mr. L. C. Parker in getting his wages. The defen Rees, principal land-surveyor of dantinsisted on the plaintiff remain the Public Works Department, this ing of duty at the theatre to look morning. Mr. Rees stated that after the chairs and other property although the property in question thère and in response to continued is not strictly speaking a temple, requests for his wages the defend the usual procedure will be follow- ant promised to pay in the future. ed. That is to say, land of a similar Oa May 11, after solicitors' letters or larger area will be given to the had been exchanged and the de- Chinese guild of worshippers, on fendant had dealed liability for which to erect a place of worship. any services performed after The value of the present building March 14, the plaintiff again asked will be paid to the owners, Mr. for the money due to him. The Rees added that he had never defendant offered him $10, which known an occasion on which an was declined, and the plaintiff amicable arrangement had not then decided to leave as he did not been reached. He added that faacy the idea of working for "Bhuddist" and his friends had o nothing.

real grounds for grievance, as in The defence put forward by Mr. the event of it being found neces C. H. Lyson was that the plaintiffsary to reclaim land on which a was employed at a rate of $1 a day Christian place of worship stood, from February 16, to March 14, the procedure would be exactly when his employment ceased. It similar. was explained that the $29 paid to the defendant included a Chinese New Year cumshaw" of $2 and 27 days pay..

His Honour the Pulsne Judge Another time, a disappointed after hearing the evidence decided- itigant in the Chancery Court that the plaintiff was entitled to brew an egg at one of the vice- the sum clatmed and accordingly chancellors, whose comment was: entered judgment for that amount

Obviously intended for my in his favour.

rother Bacon,"

In 1911 Mr. Justice Kidley was

"As I reached the deck a stream of steerage passengers came rush- ing up from below and fought their way into the boat nearest us. which was being lowered. They were white-faced and terrified; 1 think they were, shrieking; ther was no kind of order-the strongest it on the forehead by a stool hur! THE JEMADAR'S got there first, the weak were pushed from the dock by a prisoner at ed aside.

Birmingham Assizes. The man sald it was meant for a witness.

Imprisonment for co tempt of court involves being locked up without hard labour. The length

"Nu.one else except that white faced stream' seemed to lose con- trol.

"While we were standing I un-

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GAMES OF CHANCE"

COLONIAL SECRETARY

INTERVIEWED.

J

This morning a China Mail re- porter called upon the Colonial Secretary with a copy of the letter received from "Querist," which is published in this issue. The GOAT. Colonial Secretary said he thought

A FIVE YEAR OLD SALE CLAIM

hooked my skirt, so that it should ome straight off and not imped ne in the water, I felt frightened it the idea of jumping so far (i: ws, I believe, some sixty feepology or, where the contempt is Gompertz) in

ormally from "A" deck to the ser), and told myself how ridiculous I was to have a physical fear of the jump when we stood such grave dangeras we did. And then suddly I saw that the water had come over on to the deck,

THE SHIP SANK

"I saw the water green just about up to my knees. I do not remem ber it coming up further; that must all have happened in a second The ship sank and one was sucked rigt down with her.

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refusal to obey an order of the court, by obedience.

An apology will not always bring immediate release; though it will usually result in the court's fixing the term during which the prisoner,

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THE KING'S AND QUEEN'S PRESENTS.

The first of the royal parties in

the games of chance at Stanton's Midway Show had alreedy been suppressed and reiterated the state- ment that the government is deter- mined that they shall not continue, of the imprisonment may be fixed ioned at Shaukiwan appeared as such games should be allowed in An Indian lance sergeant stats it is highly undesirable that 1 the time of committal, or it may ontinue until the prisoner purges the defendant in a case heard be- the Colony especially upon Crown

The China Mail man was: is contempt, either by a humble fore the Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice Land.

the Summary referred to Mr. L. C. Parker Rees, Court this, morning. The of the Public Works Department. plaintiff, an Indian watchman, Mr. Rees informed our representa- claimed from him a sum of $49, tive that the present permit. held $45 representing the price of a by Mr. Stanton expires on June 30. money Mr..Rees drew attention to clause goat and a kid and 44 deposited with the defendant. 3. which reads: "Permit to be The plaintiff's, case was that he renewable at the discretion of the sold the defendant a goat and a Director of Public Works." kid for $45 in June 1918 Our representative gathered and also deposited $4 with him from the remarks of the Colonial Portsmouth command for money lent. Following carlier Secretary that the matter was really changed hands on April 28, when requests for payment the plaintiff one for the Police, but if they felt Admiral the Hon. Sir Somerset made a further effort in March of unable to suppress the games, the Gough-Calthorpe, G.C.B

this year to get the money, and the Government had the power to The next thing that I can re- succeeded by Admiral Sir Sydney defendant undertook that if the revoke the permit

From the remarks of the officials meniter was being deep down un-Fremantle, K.C.B., who during the plaintiff 'would lend him another

would remit the two interviewed by the China Mail it der the water. It was very dark; war held commands afloat, both in $50 be

eary black. I fought to come up the Grand Fleet and at the Darda- amounts to plaintiff's home in appears that the Colonial Secretary one who has

Dr. J. Walter Carr, consulting some part of the ship and kept Commander in Clef at Portmouth do and the present action follow the power to stop gaming, since physician to the Royal Free honour of the marriage in West- I was terrified to being caught orelles. It must be very rare for a India. This the plaintiff refused to is the only

the Police are guided by the opin- Hospital, giving the annual oration down. That was the worst mo- to be flying his flag there during

Evidence was given for the de-ion of the Crown Solicitor. It is of the Medical Society of London minster Abbey of the Duke York ment of terror, the only moment of the lifetime of his father, also an

Admiral. This is the case with fence that a she-goat was purchased understood that the Crown Solicit drew an alarming picture of what with Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon acute terror, that I knew,

was held at Buckingham Palace, Everything that happened after Sir Edmund Fremantle, G.C.B., by the defendant on behalf of his or's opinion is that the submarine to expect in a medical Utopia.

He pictured England under the Guests representing ail classes of one had been submerged was a CM.G. Rear Admiral of the Jemudar for $20 and the plaintiff game, as worked until Saturday

Sir Edmund accepted this amounted in full night, was a breach of the gaming despotic rule of the Ministry of little misty and vague; one was United Kingdom.

Settlement.

Act. The police apparently made Health, exercising a benevolent society were invited to meet the slightly stupefied from then on, is now 87.

There was some disscussion suggestions whereby the game autocracy, keeping its grip on the bride and bridegroom and to see a When I came to the surface I found

between Mr. C. A. S. Russ, who does not come under the Gaming citizen from the ante-natal period selection of the wedding presents. that I formed part of a large,

The gifts, arranged in the Picture appeared for

plaintiff, Act.

till the time when, at a ripe old round, floating island composed of

age, his remains were hygienical Gallery, included a number of the and the Puisne Judge as to whether

500 HOUSES. ly disposed of in the municipal cre more important presents which an oral acknowledgment of a debt would be sufficient to exclude it

matorium. The young couple about have not previously been fully

described. from the Statute of Limitations. Mr.

to marry would have undergone Among them were: GOVERNMENT ASKED it seemed to make one almost Russ claimed that by virtue of a

FOR SITES.

a complete medical examination,

The King to the bride: PRAYING ALOUD.

delirious. I should say that almost judgment 'given by Mr. J.R. Wood

and both would be provided with "Many people were praying alt of us down there were a little an oral acknowledgment was

The Government's scheme to aid certificates of fitness for matri-erine.cape and a suite including aloud in a curious, unemotional drunk with the heat and the light sufficient. "It always seemed monotone; others were shouting and the joy of knowing ourselves to me," said Mr. Russ to be an prospective house builders by mony. The expectant mother a tiara, a necklace, a brooch, ear- and pale Persian for help in much the same slow, to be alive. We were talking at extraordinary decision and the granting leases for forty years has would be received in the municipal rings, and hair ornaments of

borne fruit. Thanks to the efforts maternity hospital, and would be impersonal chant: 'Bo-at bo the tops of our voices and laughing learned judge was probably going of some of the officicials of the required to take her infant every

The Queen to the bride: A neck- -at... boat.... I shouted a great deal.

on the strict wording of the Chinese Tenanta Protective as-week to the infant clinic until the

sociation, a company is to be child reached school age and was let of diamonds and sapphires with His Honour decided to reserve formed which has in mind the handed over to the school medicala bracelet, a ring, brooches, and match and an erection of 500 houses suitable for officer. Before he reached school pendant to Chinese tenement. The company is age, however, it would be neces-old lace fan with mother-of- to be known as the Yik Kwan Yau sary to consider what superfluous pearl frame and handle.

Queen Alexandra to the bride: Hiu Co. and it will have a capital parts of the organs it was desir

Anecklace of pearls and amethysts of $1,000,000. Denominations have able to remove. The appendix not been decided upon yet but it would be removed as a matter with a heart shaped amethyst is expected that the amount will of routine, and Dr. Cars pendant set in brilliants. To the not exceed $10 to enableall classes suggested that mankind would bridegroom: A very for antique

silver box to participate. Shareholders will benefit by the complete removal of have no privilges but preference the entire colon, since they had the The hot weather in Hongkong will be given to their applications for stating that owing to man's highest surgical and other authority during the summer months keeps for houses. many people away from places of An application has been ent to most unfortunate assumption of the use the hot weather will not the chilots suggested being at tended to become responsible for amusement, but one place Colonial Secretary for 500 erect posture the large intestine

At Queenstown harbour Lady

trouble them is the Coronst. An Tai Hang, where about 100 many of the most serious and fatal up-to-date cooling system has been houses can be built, and at disenses to which man was liable that I might lose cofsciousness. Rhondda was asked if she could 80 installed. Leading from the Coronation Road, Mongkok the tonsils, and one of the questions necklace of diamonds and pearls don't know how long after that it ashore. N

Operations would also be made on was that I did lose it, but that is

basement are a number of pipes; where there is believed to be the last thing I remember in the in one tiny blanket. Modesty passed over ice. These pipes run hundred houses. One of the the second teeth, at or soon after dress watch-chain of platinum and

"I sald certainly; but not wrapped containing air, which has beep accomodation for three to four of the future would be whether it The next thing I remember is which had been completely absent into the Theatre and keep the founders of the company estimates lying naked between blankets on for foe hours, was beginning building cool, even during the thunders of the combat sunless their first appearance rather than Princess

Princess Mary and Viscount: faintly to return.: I said I could a deck in the dark. I was, disy do it if only I had a couple of hottest weather. The Inside teme than $20 per month to bring in a have to remove them one by one Lascelles to the bride and bride- A quantity of finest bed. covered later, on a tiny patrol cafety pin to fasted the plan perature in waveral degreen lower tears of Dean provide fund for Interionak yat teamter named The Bluebell") together very hottast nights it is bogible to expenses. A

than that outside, and during the repairs, rates and taxes, and other The greatest danger in a Línea. activhits as art dealer, his doubt Gradually memory came back. The idea of safety pins on A 100 pictures In coolness and com- RUTTER STEERT TENANTE

JOY OF LIFE.

man's ship produced bouts, of "There did not seem much laughter, and anally someone west fort at the Coronet.

Whatever Dr. Bede, Dr. Fried lander, Dr. Hofstede de Groot, and the scores of eminent art experts who have devoted themselves to the study of the art and life of Rembrandt may think of the critical opinions and conclusions about individual works by the master embodied in "Rembrandt's Paintings" (Methuen and Co., 3us. net) by Mr. D. S. Meldrum, there can be little doubt that nothing more illuminating has been written on Rembrant's psychology, the working of his mind, and on the ways of artistic genius in gen- eral, than the closing chapter of this remarkable study. Mr. Mel dnim's book is, indeed, the most

people and debris of all sorts, lying matism. A sailor said he thought I so close together that at first there had better go below, as it would was not very much water notice-re warmer, able in between.

1

'The warmth below was delicious;

for a minute or two, but it was ob At one time I was talking and section." vious that there was no chance of laughing with some women when

y boat responding, so I soon a sailor came in and asked if we his decision. desisted.

had lost anyone in the wreck. I can

"At maments I wondered remember the sudden sobering

whether the whole thing was perwith which we answered.

ir portant contribution to Remhaps a nightmare from which I

brandt lore produced by a British student.

Rembrandt the artist scaled to such heights that one almost-re grets the raking of the rubbish heaps of printed and written records for information about his private life. He started with brilliant promise, was hailed as à genius, and overwhelmed with commissions when he moved frora his pative Leyden to Amsterdam, but lost his popularity and pros" perity, by refusing to compromise with the taste of his patrons. "His practice, even professional, was a long series of experiments." Therein lies the inexhaustible: appeal of his art. His sordid lations with his son's dry-nume Geertje, bisfilicit union with Hendrikje Suffels, his problematic

ful money transactions, his

bankruptcy, we unessential title tttle which thrown but one-sided light on what manner of man he

Mr. Meldrum's book is superbly illustrated with reproductions by gory all own, palotings of Rembrandt

THE LAST STAGE.

KEEP COOL

should wake, and once-half- "As to the interval, I afterwards laughing. I think I wondered, looking round on the sun and psle discovered that I had been picked CORONET'S NEW COOLING blue sky and calm sea, whether I up at dusk by a rowing boat.. had reached heaven without know and transferred to The Bluebell." trg it and devoutly hoped I hadn't.

"Presently I was a hundred yards or more away from anyone else. I looked up at the sun, which was high in the sky, and wished

water.

"I was handed up along with a lot of dead bodies, but the midship- | man who handed me on board said: I rather think there, some life in this woman; you'd letter try and seat. Sothey did."

wrong with me except that my ashore and Borrowed a British

whole body was shaking violently warm: LEN

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diamonds

turquoises.

An

The Countess of Strathmore to

bracelet and, a diamond, and peast her daughter: A diamond and pearl

ace in match.

The Earl of Strathmore, to his tiara and a rope necklet of pearls- daughter. A diamond and platinum

The bridegroom to the bride: A and diamondsh

with pendant to match.

The bride to the bridegroom: A

groom

see England free than perfectly Healthy: A medical despotism first and foremost on obedience to would be do exception to any other larma It was not sufficient answer to Bay

MÖTEMENT OF STEAMER.

A large matshed is to be erected at Pound Lane to provide temporary accommodatión: for Street Ftenante

medical autocracy, he concluded, would be that of loss of freedom, He believed they would rather

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and my teath were chattering like "Clad in this, with the blanket castanets, as I had never-supposed tucked round niy walst teeth could chatter and that I had it, and wearing the capt

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