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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9′ 1924.

PRINCE OF WALES:

BROKEN COLLAR BONE.

SURGEON'S BULLETIN.

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[BY JOHN SINCLAIR.]

CLUB SELLING SWEEPS..

tic news from the experts.

That mysterious clement J. Scott Harsion, W. L. Pattendon

With less than a fortnight to go The onlinary Annual general Miss Winterbottom (pronounced before track enthusiasts wend their meeting of shareholders of the Vangtairbottoom) has thrown away to Happy Valley for Hong-Humphreys Estato. and Finance This morning's Reuter cables bombshell in the Boarding House, kong's annual race-meeting, which Co., Ltd., was held at the Hong reported that the Prince of Wales My future, past and present has extends from Wednesday the 20th kong Hotel this morning. Mr. had broken his collar bone. The faded away into thin air with the to Saturday the 23rd, interest is Heary Humphroys presided and he injury was slight and he was re-explosion of the prim little typist's stealert for the least bit of authen- was supported by the Hon. Mr.

steadily growing and cars are on turning to London. According to announcement. I am no longer.

A. O. Lang. Father Robert, Messrs. later cables, Sir Stanley Hewett, the cynosure, the second best topic Surgeon to the Royal Household,

H form", in issued a bulletin yesterday after around the surreptitious dining tables-the first being the menu. noon that there were no compli Miss Winterbottom has taken the the shape of the selling-sweeps at and J. M. Alves (Directors).

assumed more the clubs, has

After Mr. G. Rapp, the Secretary, cations and the Prince was pro limelight and now there is some definite shape although inclement had read the notice convening the gressing favourably.

thing solid to talk about, something to juggle with and con weather since the holidays has

The report and statement of ac- jecture. She is going to get marri- been against gauging the possible mooting, the Chairman said :- ed, to exchange her single life for prowess of the steeds that will connubial bliss, her bottom drawer carry the hopes of the various counts with auditors' report having being filled to the top and her stables. At any rate, pronounced been in your hands for the past. prospective mate two days away Views were indicated at the bid-

LONDON, February 8.

The Prince of Wales' collar bone is broken. The infury, a fracture, was surgically attended to in London by a specialist.

The Prince is in bed at York House. He is as comfortable as circumstances permit

Earlier cables stated H.R.H. The Prince of Wales broke his collar-bone while exercising his

hunter at near

Ascott.

known to turfites as

three

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THE FORTIETH ORDINARY AN-

NUAL MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at St. George's Bullding. Chater Road, Victoria, on THURS DAY, the 28th. February 1924, at 11 o'clock am for the purpose of receiving a statement of accounta and the report of the General Man agers for the year ending 31st Decem ber 1923, and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors,

The Transfer Books of the Come pany will be closed from THURSDAY the 21st. February 1924, until THURSDAY 28th, February 1924, both days incluafve.

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ESSRS. LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

Hongkong, February 9, 1924. '

PUBLIC AUCTION

instructiona "to sell by Public

Anction.

on some boat from Hongkong. As ding for ponies and the usual twelve days I propose, with your Hongkong, 9th February, 1924. a selfish bachelor who has so far large crowds were present to permission, to adopt the usual pro

cedure and take them as read. escaped the perils of the stormy ensure keen attendances.

Interest seems to be monopolised sea of matrimony,Miss Winterboi-

As regards tho accounts I think tom's bombshell did not have that at present by the candidates en- you will agree with the that they same cataclysmic effect on me astered for the Derby, the Blue are quite satisfactory. They call for Chartered Accountants,' an- it did on the Old Lady and her Riband of Hongkong racing. little comment. Profit on sales of precocious grand-daughter. No. At the Tam Un Club last night, all property is $25.933.26 less than last nounce that they have removed They have begun to look upon me.

draws for the big race your, on the other hand revenue their offices to the 1st floor of

C from rent shows an increase of Alexandra Buildings. as kind of Trappist Monk in the evoked more than average house in a sort of nobody-will-ever thusiasm even if they were only $45,552.21.

by stable." Taking the offers. marry-him attinide.

The amount at credit of special last night as a criterion of what repairs and renewals account bas those who follow the trainingbeen reduced to the low figure of Yet when I think of little Miss think, one of the ponies belong $1,188 as shown in the accounts: W-her name is too exasperating ing to Messrs. Morriss and your directors therefore propose to THE Undersigned have received to repeat too many times I feel Marshall stands an excellent umnsfer-a-sum of $10,000-from more and more convinced that she chance of carrying off the honours profits to the credit of this account. deserves her Frankie. She has Between whispers dropped from typhoons and Hoads of 1923 tapped out her frail fingers to the groups in the room it was heard especially the latter caused some bone for many years on some that the renowned 'Hill kad

dawcago our properties, parti- callous firm's typewriter. She has promised to stear these mounts, those out the May Houd level, arrived prompt to the second at Another old-timer confidently The proposed transfer of $10,000 her office every morning and expressed his faith in the pony to the credit of typhoon and floods sharp to the minute

every with a pronounced streak of insurance fund will be more than meal. In sheer sympathy ane Russian blood in him, believing sufficient to repair the damage. evening invited her to have him capable of doing the mile and I trust the proposed allocation of: just one small cocktail. It was a half, with Hill up, in a manner $50,000 to reserve fand, and the the same evening of the fortune which could have only one result.proposed distribution of profits will telling episode when I had to be According to the offers for this most with your approval, sociable more or less. She constable in the three draws last I have no further remarks to make sidered the offer for a hesitating night, the odds accepted by the nad now propose that the report and minute or two, then she gazed at bidders were just about evens or statement of accounts as prosented me with a far away look in her slightly under, for a win, while he adopted, After this has been eyes and

ordered a glass of they would not even get back their sconded I shall be pleased to milk. Evidently she was think- ing of Frankie then. I did not lay out if only second and third answer any questions in connection

places were annexed.

with the accounts shareholders may press the point. but let her have

milk and

wish to n. dream of her

her Romeo,

at

Running the Shanghai stable very closely were the ponies owned by that veteran sportsman, Sir Paul. From behind a chart of training times and a mass of calculations, a tipster was heard to remarks that trainer Curreen was sure to pull it off again this year and as the draw was "by stable" respective merits of the first and there was no need to discuss the second strings. About 4 to 3 would be the average of the odds white cap" took first plece, and backers would just get their money back if they had to be satisfied with second and third.

Mr. L. S. Greenhill, seconded, No questions were asked.

The Chairman proposed and. Mr D. H. Seth seconded the resolution that Moses. J. Scott Harston, W... Puttenden, the Ror. Father Robert, Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang sed Mr. J. M. Alvos be re-elected as Directors of the Company.

Mr. H. Percy Smith and Messrs. Linstead and Davies were elected auditors for the year at a romunera tion of $250. Mr. D. E. Clark pru

seconded.

I suppose I shall be invited to the wedding. But I shall excusa iny-! self. My tail cost and blithesome pants are deep down at the bottom of my trunk and they bear some painful memories. They last saw a good pal of mine in Shanghai, the light of day at the wedding of It was the parting of the ways: His rash act broke up a happy in the three draws if the "straw and posed and Mr. M. Fernandez trio and the two of us left erected tombstone in his memory and never the same again. were He was a good fellow and for Billington Manor, many years had been careering He, spent the dangerously on the verge of marr night at Mentmore Mansions with age until a "faxnat'n i Noo York Lord Dalmeny, prior to the meet gal" simply swept him off his feet. of the Whaddon Chase, Hounds at He lost his head in a critical moment. Whether or not he was acting under the inspiration of the of a fair demand for Mr. A. H. much boosted Anglo-American Carroll's ponies, friendship idien, I do not know, but this stable were disproportionate, my single reflection was that if our the highest being one which would his horse fell. The Prince of diplomats were the same as Bive about 440 1 for a win alone and I to 2 for second place. The is, the Foreign Office Wales was pitched on his shoulder, he, but immediately rose and tried to may as well put their shutters up. best bargain for this stable was in But the pair are happy, I have a series in which the odds were only met him once since that fate- about 12 to 1 for first place, 100 to ful day when I nearly insulted him 35 for second and nearly evens by wearing a black tie as best for third. man. He nearly broke my back in his congratulations of his doubled existence, as it were.

Ascott.

Early in the morning he took his hunters to Billington Manor, the residence of Sir Richard Cooper, and he was jumping a fence when

remount.

His Equerry said, "I believe you have broken your collar-bone!" and the Prince of Wales replied, Yes, have me taken to Leighton Buzzard!" He was given medical treatment, and subsequently driven back to Mentmore with his shoulder bandaged, but smiling.]

TRAIN ROBBERS.

A REPORTED HOLD UP ON NEW YEAR'S DAY.

the on

line, а

train

You don't know you are alive until you get married, John t" he exclaimed I do not know how many times.

Marriage is just the thing. I said Ahem,"that's all.

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Messrs. Stephen and Still's

Reuter cables from Tokyo that stable was made third favourite at slightly better odds than Sir Paul's the Japanese general elections will

at beyond these three there was take place on May 10. little doing" with the exception

The offers for

Other stables which found sup- Porters here and there and may be described as including the out- siders' chances were those of Mr. A. A. Alves, Mr. H. Birkett, Mr. Henry Humphreys, Lady Chater and Mr. Dynasty.

There was also a draw for the Victoria Stakes, also by stable, with Sir Paul's and Messrs Stephen's and Stitt's hot favourites Miss W. could not have done a Only two others were bid for these more in discreet thing than to broad-being Mr. Dynasty's and Mezers. cast her approaching nuptials. The Morrise's and Marshall's. Between Shui Tong and Shang Old Lady has become garrulous. Only moderate support was Pok

Samshul-Canton She remembers to a stitch what forthcoming for the Chater Cup railway

was she wore hundreds of years ago at (by stable) draw. This race is for brought to standstill on Tuesday, her wedding, how her husband gymkhana ponies and popular received by blushed when he kissed her in the opinion favoured the following A.. report the China Mail this morning.) village church, how the party stables in the order given:- and robbers held up the pas consumed thousands of bottles of A. H. Carroll, Dyer and Beith, sengers. The metal way had drinks, how the fiddler fell off his A. A. Alves, R. J. Wilton, Albert been torn up for a distance of perch drunk, half way through the and Arnold, Potts and Croucher.

Miss abcut 40 yards and the train ftpin merrymaking and so on. Canton overturned. Fortunately W's wedding has struck a chord in none of the passenger cars the Old Lady's Heart, which is overturned.

reverberating from floor to roof. Aye," she says, "I wish I were young agen."

says

It is stated that the robbers took away ten first class Chinese pas- sengers, evidently to hold them for ransom. Last year a similar] incident was reported from the

same spot.

There were no foreigners on the train and nobody was killed.

New York, February 7The Indignation aroused throughout America by the neglect of the Ger- man Embassy to half-mast the flag In honour of the late Mr. Wilson, The Landlady is already mak-is reflected by a statement in the ing preparations for the event. A Tribune saying that some financial reception at the house etc. Miss circles are of the opinion that the W. So in a continual flutter of incident may seriously affect the excitement. I have already ade prospects of any German loan, la vised her to resign from the America-Reuter, office, but like the discreet little woman she' is, she will not sever"

London, February 7-It is her business connections until she is actually in dear Frankie's understood that the employers, arms, I don't blame her. She who conferred yesterday, are prepared to meet the dockers' will make the best of wives.

half way in regard to the demand

London, February 7-It is understood that yesterday's meet Ingief Unionist leaders, convened by Mr. Baldwin, and including Earl Balfour, Lord Birkenhead and Mr.. Austen Chamberlain, resolv Marriage must be a wonderfall for a two, shilling, increase. "The ed, in view of the verdict of the thing to make girls get like this. I prospect of averting a strike is

therefore regarded with hope. electorate, to eliminate the general always thought Miss Winterbottom Refere Protectionist policy from the Party's lacking in emotion until two days programme, but to advocate a ago. I am wondering if should thrill to protect particularly defeat the amb or whether of not pressed fodustries which prove the my heart has hardened too much necessity therefore to the Batteunder the burning tropical suns to pres faction of the Board of Trade:also prevent somalatain the principle of arrow to Imperial preferenca within the what my Jimits fild down by the Imperial If its

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