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THE Undecalyped have recares (mezeno) klone to sell be Pabllo Anoon. An

SATURDAY, 19th July, 1984.

commanding at 11.30 mm.

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1924

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PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE

of a

VALUABLE LEASEHOLO

PROPERTY

aitose and boing

Rural Building Lot No. 54 and Kellett

Lodge. No, 180, The Peak

aituate theroo:

to be sold under the instruction.of The Executor of the will of the Hon. Mr, Arthur Rylands Lowe, deceased

by

PUBLIC AUCTION

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WEDNESDAY, 23rd day of filly 1924.

at 3 o'clock p.m. subject to a Easerve Price by

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Auctioúaers,"

at their Auction Room, in Duddell St......

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of sale apply to

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or to

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The Auctioneers,

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Hongkong, 10th July, 1924.

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AMERICA REVISITED."

LORD BIRKENHEAD'S' BOOK.

EARL'S ESCAPE!

SHOOTS CHARGING WILD BEAST.

Few of bur public men have the

The Earl of Athlone, Gavemor capacity of stating a case quite so an exciting adventure in the wild- General of South Africa, has had amely or so engagingly as the est part of the Messina district of explained to him (says John "o" Earl of Birkenhead. He leaves Northern Rhodesia while riding London's Weekly), and when he the ordinary minal. with little with. Princess Alice Countess of saw the crowd. "hurrying to excuse for confusing any issue Athlone,

Derby

A local farmier named Stubbs Epsom On

Day, he which he may present to it, or for observed "That one horse emissing the implications that have signed a Wildebeeste bull, which go faster than another has long forced themselves upon his sncom-the earl shot and wounded. been known, but why go to Ensommonly acute perception America The Infuriated animal charged, to see it?" The attraction of and Co., Ltd., publish, will not

Revisited," which Messrs. Cassell and there was no cover for the

party. national outing on Derby Dy lessen the reputation for direct Independent of racing had not expression which the ex-Lord struck this monarch.

Chancellor has won for himself, Lady Curzon'a Colours. "The

Marchioness Carzon of Kedleston has now registered her colours under the rules of racing, London Evening News tells us 1984 are "pink and brown halved jacket, and can," and were carried

for the first time at Newinarkot hy her two-year-old gelding. Swanage Hitherto her, horses

her

have raced in

trainee's colours. In modern times at least, Lady Curzon is the first wife of an ex-Cabinet Minister to take an active Interest in the Turf, for which she is showing increasing enthusiasm,

Author's Dramatic Suicide.

Peter Clark Macfarlane, a well. known American author, wrote the final chanter to a long and brilliant career by walking into the Morgue at San Francisco and calmly and deliberately shooting himself, Notes left by Macfarlane discios ed the stoic philosophy with which he accepted defeat in a long battle with disease: "I have bean broken on the wheel of the

soul's effort to express itself," he

"Nothing remains but to wrote. dynamite the ruins."

The Gold Coast Policeman.

Dignity is one of the first essentials for an efficient police man, and one would go far to find. a more dignified specimen of the species than the Gold Cost

rectorial

"At 30 yards' range the Eafl and the farmer shot and killed the beast, The Princess remained cool throughout.

A

.

"would be affcctation to expect that a volume which harbours withi its covers the famous speeches

On his which he made in the United perspicacious self, States last year, and above all the authority we may at last give all "Glittering

Prizes"

credence to the astonishing revolu oration at Glasgow now impeni tion which has been going on in the United States in the last tently reproduced should escape)

Relaxationa are at criticism. Even in his studiously decade or so.

last permitted in the dreadful uncontroversial, moyients and on one ime, that of Protection, the round of money-making which we effort is amusingly betrayed-Lord had come to regard na the inevit- Birkenhead, fighter that he is,able lot of the Anterican business Hone and eqnable would welcome just a soupeou of man opposition. Critics, however, will philosophy of life has come withi find no cause of complaint in the the phenomenal rise in popularity spirit which animates this book.of golf. Gone are the thousands It is written with evident sincerity of febrile dyspeptics who, ne- and in a tone of enger appreciation cumulated vast fortmes before the of and friendliness for a great age of 60, and too often left then people. Lord Birkenheid acknow for the enjoyment of their wives regges handsomely the personal debt and beautiful daughters. They with which he left America, as he have vanished, in this bloodless does the immense obligation which revolution, victims in the swathe, the civiliscil world incurred for not of grape-shot, but of the

zeal which made the American war that whole-hearted and sacrificia! | ashie-niblick.

could have chosen no berter -effort so overwhelming in its effect. thod of repaying the personal debt than that of ensuring that the aspirations of Amérien should be sympathetically explained to people on this side.

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PROBINITION.

1

Lord

C01-

ceded, a chapter of its own.

Prohibition demands, and is gon Birkenhead can be assumed to have heard all shades of American opinion on the subject, for he re- cords that hardly a meal passed in the course of his three months' There could scarcely be a fairer visit when the subject could be or noro tolerant summing up of the successfully avoided. The prohibi- policeman at Wembley (says the American attitude, for example, i tion campaign, he says, might not Morning Port: The other after than that contained in the follow have succeeded but for a curious First moon this dignity had one of the lines of the preface of combination of conditions.

Tord Bir it presented itself to a big section severest tests it has ever had "America Revisited." One of them was persuaded by kenhead, after a reference to the of reasonable opinion as his wife to tempt the delights of memorable conditions of his war venient but risky method of dyna- the Whip All went well for visit to the United States, writes miting the disreputable saloons of three rounds of this elevating It would have been unreason-the great cities. Secondly, it pastime, but the fourth roundable, on a visit paid at a moment gained the support of the em- proved too much even for a

Ak to its of navoidable. War reaction and fployer's, of labour, policeman's dignity; forgotten was the King's uniform and the might disillusionment, to hope that one effects, he admits that the working of Empire which it represents might recapture all the spirit of classes próbably do better work The policeman smiled, surely the the old days. There exists in then before, but he points out the largest smile in the Empire; he Anerics to-day a great and general notorious fact that alcohol has not laughed, he put his arm round apprehension that the country muy been expelled from the country, his wife, dignity went to the still be entangled in European and that accom to it is largely a winds, and he enjoyed himself.

politics. And this apprehension is matter of money and wits, Meist Wayside Crosses.

strengthened by the tnfavourable damaging evidence against the view which most Americans have efficacy of prohibition is to be adopted of the present tendency of-found in the contempt-which it those politics. In the Arst place.; has inspired for the law. So far, they are naturally not well an- the results of the experiment formed as to the mances of the justify the conclusion that "a law European developments. which intolerantly imposes upon adult citizens an abstinence they dislike by prescriptions which they consider tyrannous, can never effect a periment improvement in human morals."

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With the increasing use of motor cars and the char-a-bancs, the high ways and byways-of England are becoming more familiar to all classes. The sight of crosses by the roadside and also crossroads latest often gives rise to many conjec. They see around the little evid. tures as to their meaning and origin enca of European resettlemem: (says John London's Weekly.) Bet everywhere they hear of wars and ween Norwich and Cromer there rumours of wars; they see no pro- is a battleheld cross, which marke mise of a freal dawn; and in the the spot where John the Lifster gloom which perhaps precedes the who styled himself "King of the dawn they congratulate them Commons," was pverthrown by the

selves once more that they rejected Bishop of Norwich during the the roay and glowing visions of

Peasants' Revolt in the fourteenth century, Funeral crosses are re- presented by some of the memoṛ- 1als set up by Edward L., at the halting places of the procession in which the body of his Queen Eleanor was borne from Hardeby,

President Wilson.

THE BLOOD TIE

This attitude, the Ead of Bir- kenhead makes haste to point out,

in

Lord Birkenhead is America's very candid friend in pointing out her her responsibility to Europe, but he admits that any proposals comparable with Pre- sident Wilson's have been rejected- for all time by the American people. He is certain, however, of

is consistent with a very sincere the existence of a great and grow- spirit of friendship to this country. Ling body of opinion in the co- in Northamptonshire, to Westmia: The extent of that friendship must try which will insist on that ster Abbey. The only Eleanor cross on the open road is on the not, however, be exaggerated. To responsibility being recognised hy London Road at Hardingstone, any millions in the United States any method which does not conflict near Northampton. It was perfect it is still hardly a recommendation with a principle of foreign policy until the Commonwealth, when it to a visitor that he should be an that they regard as axiomatic. was decapitated." From the custom Englishman.. The talk, so popular

CANADA'S FUTURE,

Ireland.

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of erecting crosses at crossroads a few years bucit, of blood being Of Canada, the Earl of Birken. sprang that of burying suicides thicker than water is more plainly head treats in a glowing chapter. there. People who had committed than ever obsolete, after an added He has no doubt of her superb self-murder were excluded from

musa of immigration from Ger- future ultimately as stupendous KING EDWARD HOTEL the rites of the Church, and were

BOS CENTRAL LOCATION buried at the foot of a crass on the many, Italy, Scandinavia, and as that of the United States."

EL ELECTRIU TRAMA-PASI Extrasse, Elas- more rupid development in popula-A STE KUNA TATU ast Lighting, Zuropean highways, this being considered

Bache and Sanitary Siilings, Elot_and_Coldj The conditions of our friendship | tion would bring to the Dominion er fystem thrungbeat Best of Food an♫] next in sanctity to consecrated ground. One wayside grave is at with the United States the author & swift and very great accession of

Tel. Can y a spot about four miles from Wis of this book summarises in the wealth. It is the great problem, and the solution of it ought not to chester, know locally as the "Three following way: Maids." Here, tradition states, Many of their citizens have in- be beyond the contrivance of three sisters were buried alive for herited our blood and share the statesmen here and across the murdering their father by pouring traditions. of the England of Atlantic. Lord Birkenhead" he molten lead in his ears. It is more Shakespeare and Milton.

Many lieves the subject might be probable: however, that this is the others are in broad agreement with examined again by the leaders of grave of a suicide. Another cros

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roads grave is near Poulton, in our outlook upon world affairs. the Socialist party, who have Gloucestershire. The traveller con- Almost all educated. Americans. hitherto brought little enlighten- sulting the guide-post is startled to whether our friends or not, have ment to the subject. One thing is see on one of its arms the words, a generous admiration for the hie-essential. "A strong, central com

Betty's Grave" followed by a tory, achievement, and traditions mittee of British and Canadian Agests rude cross and by the roadside of a country so small; of which the experts, with brenches both at signs of a grave. According to population during that achievement home and in tlie Daniinion, must the focal legend Betty made has been relatively so inconsider make it their business to see that wager that she could reap an acre able. But these, and them alone, the right kind of emigrants is sent of wheat within a certain time. are the considerations, which we to the right kind of place." She accomplished the feat, dropp. ed dead, and was buried where the most-treat as actual, and, as ever One of the most sprightly_and_ fell. The true version is that the in human allaire, that which is characteristic chapters is that in polson and died from its effects.portant than that which is sent Was a woman of Poulton who, took actual is, on the whole, more im-

winch Lord Birkenhead laments

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