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SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1928.

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HALF YEAR ending 80th JUNE, 1948, at rate of 2/- per T 15 HEREBY NOTIFIED that

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ON

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NOTICE.

GRAND TATTOO.

Emblem Competition

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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, HONG KONG

July 15, 1928.

6th Sunday After Trinity. Holy Communion, 8.a.m. Children's Service, 10.15 a.m. Peak Sunday School, 10 am. Matias, li a.m.

Preacher: Rev. H. V. Koop. Holy Communion, 12 noon. Evensong, & p.m. Preacher: The Dean.

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LORD OXFORD'S WILL

LEGACY OF £2,500 FOR MRS. HARRISSON.

"DEBT OF GRATITUDE."

The will of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith (some details of which have already been given) which has now been admitted to probate, dis- closes the gift of $2,500 to "his friend, Mrs. Hilda Harrisson, of Sandlands, Boxcambe Hill, Ox- ford,"

The object of the gift (without creating any trust in the matter)

TAKE A TAXI

They are Dependable and British.

the testator states, in that the SHANGHAI DIVORCE.

may provide for the education of her two children-Pater and Ann." Mrs. Harrisson's name will be familiar to those who read "The War from Downing-strect.”

DECREE GRANTED ON

DESERTION & CRUELTY.

The petition of divorce by Isobel

Queen's Road East.

Lord Oxford himself, in, the in-Burt v. Arthur Raymond Burt was stalment of his diary published on granted by Judge Milton D. Purdy Sunday Services: Morning; 10.15 May 28, told the story of this in the U. S. Court for China on the

friendship and acknowledge the 8th inst. Preacher: Rev. J. C. Knight debt of gratitude he owed to it. Mr. F. J. Schuhl represented

He wrote:

petitioner. In 1915 1 formed a new friend- Mra. Burt said that she had been Rev. J. C. Knight ship to which I have ever since living in Shanghai for 10 years. been greatly indebted. A young The last time that she had seen her couple, Roland and Hilda husband was in February, 1927, at - Harrisson, took a farm in the the Hotel Plaza, where they were Sunday, 3 p.m., Men's Bible Class. neighbourhood of Easton Gray in residing at the time. Petitioner did Sunday, 8.15 p.m., Gospel Meet-Wilts-which had long been the not know where her husband had ing for Service Men.

home of my sister-in-law, Mrs. gone, and he left her without any Graham Smith. Roland Harrisson money. and without paying for the was a professional solicitor-a, hotel bill. She had not heard from major in the Royal Artillery--and him by letter, or telegram, nor had but for the War would have gone she received any remittance from [Branch of The Mother Church, with his battery to India. He was him. The only money petitioner The First Church of Christ, Sclent-mobilised and sent to the Front in had when her husband left was $35, ist, in Boston, Mass., U.S.A. France, where he fought, with oc-which she paid to the hotel for a casional intervals of leave, until he couple of days' charges. Her hus- was killed in action in the summer band had continually ill-treated her, (of 1917.

struck her on the face, blackened her Both he and his wife came from eye, and cut her lip. After her Liverpool, where his father was a husband's departure she had been Wednesday Evening Meeting at well-known surgeon, and his wife's for six months in hospital. The father a solicitor in good practice. only reason petitioner could assign Her maiden name was. Hilda for his going away was because ha Grierson. My acquaintance with was heavily in debt.

In answer to the Judge, petitioner her ripened after the death of her husband when, In the course of said her husband was a publisher, Monday and Thursday 6 to 7 p.m. 1918-19, she came to live with her and that he had been connected with The Public is cordially invited to mother, Mrs. Grierson, at Boars Mr. Carl Crow on a salary and com- Messrs. basis. With. and visit the Hill-only a few miles from Sutton mission

Courtney; we became regular and Powell and Crow he had published intimate correspondents; and she a book, and at the time of his going has preserved a large number of away he had been trying to push Her husband's my lettera upon which she has al- the sale of it. lowed me to draw for the purpose parents lived in St. Louis, U.S.A., Re-of my narrative.. They go back for but he had told her that he had ten years, and with the exception not heard from them since he was of what I have written to my wife 17 years old. In order to maintain they are the nearest approach to a herself she had been engaged in diary of any record which I stenography." possess. In this and the following Mr. Jacques. Klass, manager of chapters I shall quote from them the Hotel Plaza, said that Mr. Burt.

left an unpaid bill of $398, and that,

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that I could not go on without dis-husband's attacks. honour

or impotence, or

both.

And nothing could have been worse

for the country and the war. The

Hia Honour granted the petition.

King offered me the Garter, which CARRERAS' OUTING,

1 refused.

I am glad you are reading the book of Job. I think I must re- fresh my memory of it.

Estate of £9,345.

Aitchison,

Violet

.

CIGARETTE GIRLS AT

HASTINGS.

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trainloads of

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personalty £9,168. The bequests, set up their headquarters at a

to addition

that to Total

Mrs. huge marquee, 400ft. long, on the ... 422095 499.33 in.

Games Oval of White Rock Gar Consumption of water in Kowloon Harrisson, include: in millions and decimals of gallons £100 to his private secretary, dena, overlooking the sea. during the month of Jane.

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the balance of his personal effects was as smart as the proverbial to his widow. faction,

now pin for the holiday occasion. £250 to his cousin, Charlotte T. Special arrangements had been Copland, and

Įmade by the directors to provide The residue of his property upon free amusement facilities in the concert These were trust for the children of his first town. marriage (or their fasue, if de- parties, dancing, the piers and ceased), stating that his widow and the band-stand, and, above all, the daughter, Elizabeth (Princess sky, the sea, and the aun to en- Bibesco), were provided for by set- sure that there should not be an Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong tlement, by the late Sir Charles empty moment in the day.. during July, 1928, standard time Tennant.

An original note was added to for the 120th meridian, East of The will is dated Sept. 19, 1900, the general galety by three Greenwich, is as follows:-

with two codiella, dated Oct. 11, human-sized black cats carrying Sunrise. Sunket, 1916 (following the death in ac absurd parasols, who met the 1.10. p.m. tion of his son Raymond), and Jan. party on its arrival and prowled the 5.47 7.116, 1928, and the executors are Mr. mischievously through 5:48 7.11

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Lord: Oxford is described as of 283 amallpox cases were notifed- The Wharf, Sutton Courtney, and in England and Wales recently, Bedford-aquare, Bloomsbury, for the smallest number since the week. many years Prime Minister, hold-, endhig January. 7.

ing that office, with that of Secre

7.06tary for War, during the first part

Bir Colville Barclay, retiring

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the Regent.