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BAND MASTER AND HIS WIFE.
In the Court of the General Ses-
sions, at Melbourne, John Richard Hamblin, band master of Yarraville hand, appealed against an order for 30 a week made against him at Williamstown in July for the | maintenance of his wife, Florence, | Mallda Hamblin.
A CRICKET
NESULTS OF GAMES
YESTERDAY,
BILLIARDS.
NEW HONGKONG LEAGUE FORMED.
The Hongkong Cricket Club Grit | At the V.R.C. Inst evening, a and second terms each proved vic-meeting was held for the purpose of farming a Billiards League in rius in their matches yesterday Hongkong. The chair was taken The first leven defested Shameen and the second string proved too by Mr. R. C. Witchell, and repre strong for the K.C.C.
H.K.C.C. v. SHAMEEN.
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sentatives from the different Clubs and the Services were in attend- ance. It was eventually decided to form a league.
At the outset of the meeting Mr. was in existence a billiard league Witchell said he understood there
among the Services, but it had been felt that it would be a good thing Colony was brought into existence, if a league taking in the whole It was for that
purpose the meeting was held. If the 48 league were formed he would suggest that it be can under 75 the auspices of the Victoria Recreation Club, and matches 20 would be played on that club's | table, He added that he had been & able to procure a silver shield as n trophy, and the names of the win- 2ners, season by season, could be
inscribed upon it.
Mrs. Hamblin said she had left Playing on their own ground, the her husband in June because he was home sid: won by an innings and
driving her mad." For four years St runs. Socres-- they had hardly spoken to cach other, and for two years her hus. R. A. Webster, 1.b.w. Duncan
k.c.c.---1st Tunings. band used to say only "So long!". R. More, e Rend, b Baskett.. in the morning when he left, and "What ho!" in the evening when he Owen Hughes, e Basket. returned home,
b Duncan.... Whenever she spoke to him he told her not to P. J. R. Mitchell, « Duncan, b
bark." He was the owner of the
Rodger trombones, two cuphoniums and a flute, which he played every night. Her daughter had to take her meals in the bedroom to escape the noise. Witness was worn-out by the music, and her health had been seriously affected. A neighbour W. Halloway, blaskett being ill on one occasion, she had L. D. McNicoll, b Gordon asked her husband to stop playing A. L. Guen, upt, out but he refused. The neighbour died.
Extras.... (Laughter
F. Miller, 1 King R. H. Wild, b Baskett
A. V. T. Dean, e Gordon, b
Baskett
W. W Mackenzie, a Bend
Gordat
y
Humblh expressed his willing ness to live with his wife. He admitted having stopped 10 a week from his wife's housekeeping money because on one occasion Gol she had left bim.
women,
b
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7
10
25
The idea was generally support-
ed by those present, and Mr.
| McReynolds, representing the Ex- Active Service Men's Association (1914-18) proposed:
"That a 237 Barls Association be formed,
to lie controlled and ran under the auspices of the Victoria Recreation Club, matches to be played on that 2 Club's table, during the winter) 4 months."
Total
Bowling Analysis.
0. M.
.19.5 2
11. 42
15
45
10 + 53
2
7
(
30
# 0
15
0
2 ( 17
Basket Judge Dethridge said Hamblin
Danean had shown lack of tact in handing
King (Laughter) However, there had beep actual desertion Benson by the husband The leaving of a
Rodger husband by a wife was not justified SHAMEEN-1st Innings. by incompatibility of temperament. E. Baskett, b More ..... The old doctrine that they took 3. Rodger, and b More applied. In other words, they each. 1. Wahl, e More, b Hughes.
H. 8. Gordon, c and ↳ More bought "pigs in pokes." The wife had not proved that her husband. H. Benson, b More........ had been guilty of such cruelty to-1. V. Read, st. Gars, balore.... wards her as to justify her leaving 15. G. Beare, I Hughes...... He accordingly allowed the appeal. E. King, cand b Dean and quashed the order.
each other "for better or worse"
£1,000,000 GIFT.
LORD LEVERHULME'S OFFER OF ISLAND OF LEWIS.
6. R. Danean, run out......
V, Olive, je Webster, b. Dean. 7. H. Lainer, not out
Thank
Extras
This resolution was seconded
1 and carried unanimously.
The subject of rules was then
1 brought up, and the following were
decided upon:
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That the number of each team entered to play shall be six.
That the competition he run under the "knock-out" system.
That the mumber of points shall The 250 up per player.
3
12
6
That the games shall last two sights per match.
Entrance fee to be $10 per team. Mr. Witchell remarked that an-
O other important point which arose
3 was as to the qualifications nécess- 21ary for a man to play for a Club. He added that the subject had 100 arisen in the Press over another branch of sport, and thought it bet- ter that they should be quite clear w.before starting the league.
It was eventually decided that a player had to be a resident, in the
Total
Bowling Analysis.
f).
M.
H.
15 3 20
0
1
13
} 43
5
3.1 0 12
2
4
he was playing for a period of six months before being allowed to play, this rule not to apply to 4Services.
...
way, e Wild, b More Beare, van oud Wall, b Calloway .
Owen Huglies Lord Leverhulme, who has offer-Webster Ised the island of Lewis, in the Mers
Outer Hebrides, as a free gift to the people of the island, said in making the offer at a joint meeting SHAMEER-2id Tranings of the Stornoway and Lewis Baskett, i Maro. district and parish councils: [Rodger, e Owan Hughes, b More
I never was attracted to Lewislerdon, le More as a sportsman or fisherman, orby King, & and b. More i gane shooting or deer-stalking. I am really therefore now ft without any object or motive for remaining here. For me to come each year as ar ordinary visitor to the Castle, and knowing that I could take no interest in fishing er sport, would be meaningless. 1 am like Othello, with my -occupation gone, and I could only he like the ghost of Ham- let's father, hunting the place as a shadow
end, a Wild, by More Bryson, b Mora Lammert, e aud b. Mor Olive, not out
Extras
His offer is stated to represent M nearly £1,000,000,- nd the Nicoll authorities concerned will coa- Gulkany sider it at meetings.
Tots!
Colony and a member of the Club
Entries close on Saturday, Octo- ber 30, and games will be cont menced on the 1st November. -
Rules under which the games to be played to be Billiards Control 14 Club rules.
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Referees were also appointed, and Clubs invited to tender
O gaminations also,
A nominal fee of 20 cents willbe
g charged to members of the public wishing To see the matches,
41 soldiers and sailors being admitted
at half price.
Bowling Analysis
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2.2 0 7
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I call in the evening-see him alone.
I say: Look here, old man! It's an awful ramp, you! know! All these thonsand and one 'diseases.' and the ridiculous high- „falutin' pamer we give tom All I am a doctor, and I am is a we've got to do is to learn how to dreadful way.
I am on the horas cure consti- No, don't inter- of a dilemuraa. It is this: I have mpt! We can't do anything of doubts-grave donhts. To make a the sort; otherwise why Art clean breast of it, I suspect modern there millions of people sufler. medicine is all rot. Think of it!ing from: ir? H they Montern Medicine!
didn't need to suffer from it-that There is a conspiracy of silence, is to say, if we or any cather lads do you think people Every hundred years or so an could cure honest- hasten to say intellee- would go on suffering? Don't be tally honest-doctor arises, and an ass, old thing! 1, beg your!
He says that thère | pardon, but let me have my say~ gives tongue. is really only one disease, consti nobody can hear 115. Well, it well, in motoring parlance, choked stands reason, if people have their i He proposes that the farms, exhaust; and that if we doctors cylinders choked up all their life, lands, and sporting areas within 7 cald care that, there would be they must go wrong. 'behave miles of Stornoway should be made precious few diseases left 10 wrongly? ali over the place. And over to the town council and the bother humanity. I should say if we can't care their constiNo, remaining area to other trustees here, I have no financial interest don't humbug with me! We can't, from next November. He suggests In Curem's Salts, tasteless in otherwise people wouldn't make that: tripe, or any other laxative. I wish fortunes out of pills and things, and Stornoway Castle should be
used as a town hall and library. E. Hallunds, w. Rarmacy,
T.K.C.C.-1st Ings. d) But before the I.H. you wouldn't be so hard, Well, I doctor can get the public interest say, if we can't cure jolly old In-
T. W. Riddell, « Phillipson, b ed and let it know the truth, the testinal Stasis, to give it its HO-
The surrounding property as a
Ramsey public park. pack-no, I withdraw that--the ashore name, what's the use of
Lord Leveral me has owned the 12. Reid, c'Barnshaw, b Ramsey Profession are down on him, and pretending we can cure any of its before you can say "knife" (still results. Oh, talk sense, old lad! island since 1918, and his offer is a. H. Piercy, by. Earnshaw. less "scalpel") he is onted-1orn You don't seriously mean to say it's sequel to the aba.domen of nis F. G. England, b Earnshaw.....
perishing ribbons. No damn- quite natural and salubrious to have industrial schemes on the island A. C. I. Bowker, b Hyde ing with faint praise, any the old trouble all our
and of his Stoniowy towa-plan- D. H. F. McMaster, e Green,
Jyde fooling about like that. The know that's what the profession ning project. Some of the pro Profession simply pronounce that tell people, but, really, between posals had met with oppositina R. G. Lummert, e Lindsell, b
locally and from the Scottish Office. Rareey. Doctor Truthful is so devoid of ourselves, now?"
H. Griffin, run aut
or
lives. I
He inks at me in a pitying kind,
of way, and I subside into his best
and
1
chair, limp. It isn't all beer being SUSSEX VILLAGE MALADY, a Bolshi, believe me.
11.K.C.C. v. R.CA.
The H.K.10. Recond eleven visited Kowloon, where they won on the first innings by 11 runs. Scores:
A. R. F. Haven, b Ramecy... J. R. Way, not out
Extragars
hrains that he is incapable of under- standing the mysterious depths and difficulties in the unravelling of all the multifold actiological factors, diatheses, environmental ciremm-
He speaks. "My dear chap, stances, etc,, necessary to the for- have you read Dejerampt between fifty and sixty people have The Central News reports that mulation of a diagnosis, and so the Psycho-neuro-pseudo-splenico heca take in at Bhingshurst and reaching the appropriate exhibition Diathesis, its Prophylaxis, and Five Oks, in Sussex, through of therapeutical measures,
Therapeusis, with an fotroduceding shrimps. After this, Dr. Truthful "takestion by M. le Docteur Cooee, the shrimps were sold is the villages Earnshaw.
It is said that the Ramsey the count." And the Profession author of 'Le Tushe'? I thought by a hawker, a.id fnat after eating Hyde continue to profess,
Now, I believe the Dr. Truthfuls of side still farther late them many villagers were violenty Fletcher are right, but I dare to say so. it/the chair.) "You see, my dear sick and suffered from severe país | Fraser is as much as my place is worth. chap, you mustn't think you em the stomach. A tocal practitioner believe me or believe me not. Th-apply common sense to the pro-was keep
would say No, no! It can't be done. I can't face it.
blems that confront Modern
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CHARLES RAY AT STAR.
"A TAILOR MADE MAN."
Charles Ray's happy comedy of bor- the young adventurer in a rowed" dress suit caused much laughter at the Star last night. Ray's style is quiet and restrained but, in the language of the theatre, he gets across all the same.
There are thrilling moments in the course of the story, when John Paul Bart, the hero, is attacked by labour agitators as he is taking an Important message that brings about an amicable settlement of a 19 big shipyard strike.
A Tailor Made Man" will be 9 shown for the last time to-morrow.
28
9
18
.x...2nd innings.
| Reid, e Lindsell, b Fraser..
8
6
Piercy, b.w. Fraser
20
Englund, not out
65
143
Raven, not out
20
Extras
8
+
: Total........
Bowling Analysis,
2. W.
a 2 26 5
78
20
2
4 0 650
19
83
Ramsey
Prasor
10 1
0 Green
Sumuners
Bowker......
DOLOD
Total (2 wkis, dec.)...121
Bowling Analysis.
צן
U. •MA R.
0 14
0
12
2
15
1 0 32
11
2 0 ย K.c.c.2nd Innings.
6 Phillipson, b Hollands
6 Barnsbew
7 Hyde, c Hollands, b Rowker
4 Ramsey, b Lammert
Ismert, b
10
t. 3. Lindsell, b Bowker
L. A. R. Duncan, a Bowker b
Iammert
R.C.0.Et inning. busy administering Sarpet would arise and curse me. Medicine, and that defy our best his saop opes all night to cope W. Hydo, b Lammert......
enetics, and a coemist had to keep R. Earnshaw, e Bai, b Lammert
3. Jex, e ltoid, b„Lammert The Journal of the British Secule efforts." (Here he runs his de- with the demand for medicines Medical Association would dann Hate fingers through his log and drugs. Women and chidrea. Frier, Held Bawker ne. And what Harley Street hair) "It is not quite so staple, were among the victims, some of A. W. Summers, Bowker..
my dear chiap."
whom were seriously ill. An ia A. W. Ramsey, A curious thing is that when I He then says in rapid succession spector from the Ministry of Health express my conviction to laymen these words-with, I admit, a pre- has been sent to investigate, and D. S. Green, b Bowker. they listen with interest. Thary position here and there, and a co-spine of the shrimps have been sayOf course common sense! Junction or two Vis medicatrix taken possession of by the authori Stands to reason if your engine's Natura, diapedesis, diathesis,tes for the purpose of examination. got a choked exhaust, it must go to vicious circle, hygienic faucuces, pot in no time. Bung up your baineological effects, bacterio cylinders-loss of power, pre-igni- logical mutations, immunological Llon, difficulty in starting, climbing variations, cyclical intensifications, ability diminished, excessive fuel fura, fauna, Baginae (Yes, bonestly, with my coat, keeps an eye on hist Consumption for even slow he does), neuropathic, psychas umbrelia, and shows 'Good-aight, old chap." ning a dozen diseases" before thenic,, anaphylactic, etc." The you know where you are. Same only thing he doesn't say is in the human body, or any other abracadabra. It has gone out how "body" or engine, I've not the days but psychoneuropathic isn't alightest doubi. It's an engine, a bad substitute. Isn't it? Different kind of spark, that's all,"
The out.
J. C. Fletcher, min qui
1. Phillipson, not doi
Extins.
Total -Bowling Analysis.
Now, who's going to help me off Bowker the horns of the dilemma?, Lag mart daren't move myself. I'm a doctor, Roide....
When he's said all that he drags you see. Ime out of his chair, helps me on
Orifu
D: A
Saminers," st. MoMaster,
Ravon ....
0 Karnshaw, run out
2 Jandsoll, b Raven
Freer, not out
0 Duncan, not ont
20
16
18
102
Patru
Toin) (7 wickets)....
Rowling Analysis.
Bowker .R.. W. Lammert".
34
Reid... 44 36 4 Griffin
7 0 Hollands
0 Raven
h
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BOY SCOUTS,
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not represent moral sanity, or its members would not shoke at the immature age that sonẻ' They would not be seen lounging la laurs or bidiærd
REFLECTING REFLECTION of them do
It was our impression that the rooms. The Boy Scout movement
does not represent manliness and "'- primary objects of the Boy Scout discipline, or its members wand
A movement were the inculcation of | drill and train at least once a week. 8manliness and patriotism in the Nor does it build character, for few 77 coming generation. We had al-scouts, observe the rule "to do one good tura a day." No, sad ways thought the iden to be the as we feel at the thought, it 12, provision of men unafraid of hard-must be confessed that the Boy O ship. well-disciplined, and with a Scout movement is now shora of 2 love of country such as to fit them nasty rough camping out, its trou
its good turns, its trek-carts, its
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+7 for carrying on our work when we blesome drills and examinations, are no more. In short, an insurance and is a kind of children's club, against sfothfulness, yice, and in- administered by the party which 125. difference to civic duties in the has always stood in the way of
mon of to-morrow.
Progress, Thé party which we be But we were mistaken. The Boy lieve would even welcome a retura. Scout movement at least represents to the old regime, A nice satin: '. patriotism, as there was ɗrally of banner with a silver tipped staff some thirty scouts on October and letters in gold thread and
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5. last, the anniversary of the spangles. A'nice polished'cabiner emancipation of the notion from to lock it up in. A para-le on 1 the thraldom of priests and kings, public holidays. And nothing
But the Boy, Scout movement does giore. From O. Liberal.
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