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sympathy a few of the sneers morning at the Kowloon Magis- as a world-wide traveller and ex- directed from the columns of the tracy before Mr. Schofield, for the plorer, died recently at Santa Cruz "Hong Kong Observer" at the theft of a blanket and watch, end de Teneriffe, Canary Islands. alleged plagiarisms of certain additional artioles of clothing from January last Mr. and Mrs. Clifton other local papers-and have 31, Nanking-road.

left their Scottish home, Kildalton drawn my own conclusions as to

Inspectors Fallon stated that the Castle, Islay, on a journey of ex- the reasons for their being insert-accused had climbed, the backyard ploration through Africa, but when ed.

It is therefore with some degree nining admittance to the room French Sudan, Mr. Clifton became scaled up the drain pipe, they had reached Bamako, in the of satisfaction that I now draw

fan-light. The your readers' attention to the through A

oc-seriously i He was taken with intest spectacle of an "engineer cupants of the house at the time all speed to

the Canary Islands, holst with his own petar."

were two women who being arous-where he underwent an operation In a recent number of the ed from their sleep by "auspicious about a fortnight ago. The body

sounds, got up in time to "Hong Kong Observer" there ap-

a will be brought to England. peared an article entitled "Cele darkly clad man make his escape expressed a wish before he died to brities on Toast-Mr. R. E. Lind-through the fan-light.

- be buried at Lytham. where so sell," which your readers will dis- In the early hours of morning in many of his ancestors lie. cover, upon reading Volume 1 the district of Mongkok, a Chinese Mr. Clifton was born on Dec. 1, No. 1 of "London Calling," a home constable saw the accused with the 1868, the eldest son of the late Mr. publication, to be an adaptation stolen articles on him and detain-Thomas Henry Clifton, M.P., for almost word for word of an arti-ed him. He later proved to be the North Lancashire, and Madeline cle entitled "Celebrities on Tonst: burglar.

Diana Elizabeth, eldest daughter of

Ace

He

Jack Hulbert proposed by Dion His Worship was informed that Sir Andrew Neet Agnew, eighth Titheradge." In these circum-defendant had committed a similar baronet. He was educated at Eton stances it is not surprising that offence in the name district four and Magdalene College, Cambridge. the sketch of Mr. Lindsell's char months ago, using the same method from his earliest days he showed acter was as ludicrously out of of gaining drawing as it was in bad taste. months' hard labour was the

The Editor of the "Hong Kong tence. Observer" has evidently forgot

admittance.

Five

that passion for travel which dis- sen-which he was well fitted by his tinguished him to the end, and for

stature-6 ft. 2 in.-and general physique. By the time he

been twice round the world, once in his yacht BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS IN "Soprano," and then he became a

ten the adage referring to dwell- H.I.M. THE EMPEROR twenty he had

ers in glass houses.

Enclosing my card,

I am, Sir,

Yours, etc.,

TRUTH. Hong Kong, April 28, 1928.

COLONY.

TWO RECEPTIONS.

WAS

cowboy in Wyoming. When he [came of age he succeeded his grandfather, Colonel John Talbot Clifton, M.P. He undertook a The birthday of His Majesty series of explorations in Africa, MR. JACK HULBERT, the Emperor of Japan was cele- and discovered a new route be

brated by the local Japanese com-tween Ujij and the Victoria munity yesterday. National flags Nyanza. He was the first English- were in evidence at every Japan-Iman to navigate the Lena River, ese home, and business places, Siberia, and found on the shores which, of course, were closed in of the Arctic Ocean a new species The consensus of opinion, experti

[By Dion Titheradge] honour of the occasion. Japan-of wild sheep, some of which were Below is the article to which a ese and other ships in harbour presented to the British Museum as well as lay. undoubtedly correspondent, "Truth," refers to were "dressed." favours the Government's policy, day-

Mr. Y. Murakami, the Japanese twelve months he

and named Ovis Cliftonii. For

tish holders of rubber shares. It

"CELEBRITIES ON TOAST."

was visible. A friend of his

CONSUL-GENERAL.

gan next year.

lived alone

He was a war correspondent dur ing the Russo-Japanese and South

He also owned 17,000 acres in the Isle of Islay. (Sd.) C. CLEMENTI, In 1907 he married Violet Mary, Governor, etc. daughter of the late Mr. William

the Consul General for Japan:dinary in Fery, Ecuador, and The following letter was sent Nelthorpe Beauclerk, British Minis- by the Hon. Colonial Secretary to ter Plenipotentiary and Extraor- I am directed to acknowledge Bolivia. He leaves two sons and get the receipt of your letter of April three daughters. The eldest son

as it is of course realised that they Ladies and Gentlemen,-I am Consul-General held a reception among the Eskimos far north of did not move in the matter with nervous. I am not good at toasting in the morning at the Hong Kong Hudson's Bay, trying to discover people. Toasting Mr. Jack Halbert Hotel, which was attended by some of the remains of Sir John out first having weighed the pros is the devil's own job and I have members of the Japanese com Franklin's ill-fated expedition. and cons very thoroughly. But no doubt it will be thoroughly at-munity as well as Government

By a chance he missed becoming wisdom is not alone confined to tended to later on. Mr. Hulbert officials, members of the Consular the owner of gold mines in the Research Committees and that it started as soon as he was born.

has had an extraordinary career Body and prominent foreign and Klondyke. In 1897 he travelled

Chinese residents. being the case it is practically {

the Yukon, One very severe summer's day in C. C. Luard, C.M.G., C.B., proposed camp occupied by two

His Excelleney. Major-General with a sleigh into

where he came across a small certain that, notwithstanding the latter years of the last century

or three their victory in the debate, the the cry of a baby was heard in the the toast of H.I.M. the Emperor miners. On his return to England cathedral town of Ely. Mr. Hulbert Governor was represented by gold before certain friends in the

of Japan. His Excellency the he Government might not be unwill-was born in Ely; in

placed the samples of fact, Mr. ing to reconsider the question Hulbert

Capt. A. J. L. Whyte, A.D.C. City, offering at the same time to WAR that baby. His from angles other than those anxious mother, notteing that there Ho Tong, Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, others with £6,000 were forthcom- Others present were Sir Robert put up £6,000 as his share if two which have mainly occupied its was something peculiar in the tone Mr. J. P. Braga, Lieut.-Col. attention. All the more will they diately sent for the doctor. There locul foreign and Japanese firms. Yukon. Nobody wanted to put of this lachrymose effort, imme-Robertson and many heads of gold in the Klondyke, nor in the ing. Nobody had ever heard of be willing to do so with the Gen-was no doubt that the baby was in |eral Election steadily advancing, pain, but the local practitioner: and with the knowledge that his howls had a peculiar and bar-

made the startling discovery that H.K. NAVAL VISIT. down money. The great rush be Mr. Clifton had also made trips though the House of Commons' barie rhythm. In modern music 1 GOVERNOR'S LETTER TO THE through India and South America. debate ended in their favour, the believe they call it five-four time. vote was not of such a reassur tattoo on the end rail of his cot. His feet, too, beat an agonised

In connection with the recent African Wars, and during the early {ing character as to cause them to The doctor predicted immediately visit of the Japanese Fleet, the part of the Great War he carried feel absolutely sure if new facts that his young patient would die of following letter has been sent by despatches for the King of the are brought forward by political syncope. The doctor was wrong-HE. the Governor to H.E. the Belgians, and afterwards served as opponents at election time.

he has lived by syncopation.

British Naval Commander-in-a lieutenant in the Royal Naval We

Apart from his feet, Mr. Hulbert, Chief:-

Volunteer Reserve. He was a Fel- can imagine no more dangerous has one

"I have the honour to acknow-low of the Royal Geographical and other peculiarity. This "slogan," to the present Govern- also manifested itself in babyhood. edge the receipt of Your Excel- the Zoological Societies. ment than something to the effect. It was just auch another day when 1928, regarding the recent visitishire Include the whole of the

lency's letter No. 2328 of April 17, Mr. Clifton's estates In Lancz that under their administration perambulator swathed from top to young Hulbert was lying in his

of the Japanese Fleet.

frechid of Lytham, St. Anne's.. or "mal-administration" £250-toe in a sufficient amount of knitted the Colony and I am glad that acres of agricultural land, some of The visit gave great pleasure to and many thousands of adjoining 000,000 were lost mainly by Bri-wool to counteract the severity of Your Excellency was able to be which are held by grant from

the summer. Only one feature in Hong Kong when it took place. William Rufus. might be argued on, the Govern-mother's remarked admiringly that I have, etc., The unexpectedness of the Bri-ment's side that if any attention he had "his father's nose." That, tish Government's decision to is to be paid to such a statement too, was a mistake. She was look- withdraw the restriction on ex-it would be simply because it With dancing feet and a chin like

ing at his chin,

ported rubber, which had been means that the policy is believed a sign-post, it was obvious Jack generally regarded throughout by many to have been brought Hulbert would go far, and he the Empire, ever since it had forward in an untimely manner was Cambridge. He went there to visit to the Colony of the First succeeds to the estates.

off early in life. His first stop 21, 1928, regarding the recent Mr. Harry Talbot de Vere Clifton, been introduced by the late Lord and that the determination of the take a degree in rowing, I think. Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Clifton is the authoress of “Pil- Stevenson, as having saved the Government to accept the Re- However, he was soon thrown out Navy. industry from utter collapse, has search Committee's recommenda. of the College boat. The long,

grims to the Isles of Penance" and His Excellency the Governor The Islands of Queen Wilhelmina," beer of such a nature that it is tion was also inopportune.

regular sweep of the oars was highly appreciates the sentiments which was descriptive of an ex- against his nature; he tried a to which you give expression and tended tour recently made by her- difficult to believe that with the So far, the Government have ayncopated stroke, and kept close of last week's debate in the not disproved, the contentions to catching crabs.

on desires me to state that the visit self and her husband through the

has left most pleasant recollec- Dutch West Indies. upheaval has been reached. wiil run a big risk at the General his time at Cambridge'

Footlights Club, and the rest of has, he feels sure, contributed in When one who is so highly com-Election of finding that it is then in trying to persuade the Univer-friendship of the Japanese and was spent no small degree to the traditional petent as Mr. William Duncan, too complicated to disprove. It sity authorities to award a half-British nations. the newly elected chairman of the seems to us that notwithstanding course, but it proves how much in blue for dancing. He failed, of Rubber Growers' Association the fact that the Government advance of the times he has always Lewis Carroll's famous phrase of. London, to pass judgment on were of course honestly convinced been. Only last year a great "reeling, writhing, and fainting in the new policy, does not hesitate that the Stevenson Restriction American University gave us all coils"! to say that by its introduction Scheme was not longer admissible,

But if Jack Hulbert's hobby is Yale Blues.

Eventually, the Footlights Club work, his work is taking moving £260,000,000 has been lost chiefly yet they might have been more came to London to give a perform- pictures. I have never met a man by British subjects,, one must in tactful in launching such a veritance and, when they returned to so indefatigable with & Baby Ciné. consequence regard the matter as able bolt from the blue. It is Cambridge, they left young Hul. He once dragged me all over the one that must be considered from probable that the Government's career. He has been careering ever the Casino at Monte Carlo. He Mail" appear half a dozen questions bert behind to start his theatrical rock of Monaco, to get a "shot" of From day to day in the "China every point of view before it is proposal may ultimately prove to since."

overnwed me. I know Instinctively of a general nature, for which too late. The new policy does not be sound, satisfactory and profit- Mr. Hulbert's hobby is work. He that a man who will take a moving acknowledgment is due to the come into force until the end of able for those it is intended pri-playing in one of his own successful object is not to be argued with.

is never so happy as when he is picture of a thoroughly stationary "Daily Sketch," Answers will be the year, and though the Gov-marily to benefit, but, so far, what rescues with three matinees a week

found on page 9 of this inaue. After all, why should one argua ernment are doubtless quite con- has been done cannot be said to and, at the same time, as a side with Mr. Hulk ? If the Cheino 1. For what sum Cape Colony vinced as to its soundness still it be conclusively convincing,

line. producing two musien) didn't move, thá camera did. It was acquired by Great Britain? comedies for London and three made a beautiful. purring noise, 2. What king gave his name to Couring revues, He is MID-YANGTSZE BANDITS.

without rhythmical and satisfying. That monumental tombs? could be shown by which the

doubt the finest dance-producer in symbolises his life organised, al- 3. Of whom and what was it Government's proposal to with-

the kingdom. Look what he has waya working and well oiled. And written, "If you seek my monument, Hankow, Saturday, draw the restriction scheme would In order to suppress the activi, admit it. After one of his long gests the object of this speech

done for our chorus girls. They that reminds me "well ofled" aug look around"? be at least untimely it is incomes of bak is operating in this rehearsals I have heard many a girl Ladies and Gentlemen, charge your prehensible that the Government Ho-ting has been appointed Anti- How they work under his direction! Hulbert....

part of the englaze Valley, Liu say she was absolutley dene for. glasses and drink to Mr. Jack would not be willing to reconsider Baudit mımisaladar —— -British 2 many diy lagging bad fine question: de

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