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MONDAY, JULY 30, 1928.

A REPRISAL.

KEROSENE IN WATER

PIPE.

DIVERS' SEARCH,

|10,000 DIAMONDS IN SUNKEN

CHINESE FINED,

a reprisal for having been

red of water by

tenants

odour of kerosene,

Only One Cent ! The Magistrate: Is it possible to remove the tap without using an instrument?

The defendant: I was not pre- sent when the water was taken.

The Magistrate: That is worse still for the water gives a strong taste of kerusene a few hours It is disgusting. afterwards. You are convicted 011 both charges.

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SINGAPORE BIRDS.

INTERESTING. BOOK PUBLISH- ED BY RAFFLES MUSEUM.

proper to have contaminated the dollars, which is a reasonable figure water of the whole house?

The first defendant was fined

ed fr receive 8 strokes with the birch.

THE STARS.

ASTROLOGY IN A DIVORCE SUIT.

THE CHINA MAIL,

LORD MERRIVALD'S VIEWS.

In the Divorve Court, on June 22,

deiled.

Mr.

the dissolution

Lord

CHAPLAIN'S DAUGHTER,

Merrivale, aumming-up.

1922.

Re

IL

as the work consists of 247 pages and is histrated by thirty-one

read has

Pover.

hi

had ever

attructive coloured

Mr. Hume

was

MONKEY GLAND.

DR. VORONOFF'S FIRST WOMAN PATIENT.

A FAILURE.

FOR AFRICA.

PRINCE LEAVING IN SEPTEMBER.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

LOVELY MADELEINE.

VERY MASCULINE "SPIRIT."

FRENCH FARCE.

usual

Paris, June 18,

At the end of November the The braces were gripped by the re- slow journey southward through porters, who found that the

wearer Rhodesia to Capetown will be be was the gardener-medium.

Then came the astonishing part gun.

The Royal brothers will reach of the adventuro. The anger of the Cape Town during the third week audience was vented not on the in December. Christmastide will medium or his sponsors, hut on tac be spent with the Governor-reporters, who were belaboured by General, the Earl of Athlone, and the audience, and had to fight their the Countess of Athlone.

way out of the house, escaping only with blackened eyes and bruised bodies.

STRAITS FINANCES.

INCREASING DEMAND FOR PUBLIC WORKS.

be satisfied.

MRS. PACE.

DRAMATIC MEETING AFTER THE TRIAL,

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"I am sixty-four years ok! but 1 The "Evening Standard" is re- the More than 10,000 diamonds, the hearing was concluded, before feel a thousand. I am miserable, quested to state that the Prince of the house, valued at millions of pounds, Lord Merrivale and a special jury, weak and helpitss. I can hardly of Wales, accompanied by the young girl proved to be a man Is How the "spirit" of a beautifui Chinese living at No. which were being shipped from of the petition brought by Mr. walk, I can hardly see. I sit all day Duke of Gloucester, will leave for told in "Le Journal" to-day by two 1 On-terrace, fourth floor, un- the Belgian Congo to London Thomas Josiah Hume, manager to long and every day by my window their tour in East and South reporters who attended a seance at yed the tap and poured kero- and went down with the Belgian a firm at Singapore, formerly of here in Paris to catch a little of the Africa during the first week of Nantes.

into the pipe so as to con-liner "Elisabethville" when she Barton's Causeway, Tiverton, and sun and the fresh air. ate the water supply of the was sunk in 250 feet of water off now of Rookery-road, Staines, who the ilay's of my health and vigour, as announced in some quarters tation to attend a seance at the

I yearn for September, and not in November

The journalsts received an inv!- house. The case was re- Belle le by a German submarine sought d to the police by the other in September, 1917, is the objecmarriage because of alleged adul

recently. of his so recent, yet so far away, and I

The statement that the Prince house of two Spiritualists who are ints of that house with the tive of an Italian salvage ship tory between his wife, Mrs. Dorothy only dream now of getting back to and his brother will make a mator said to be well-known to the Spirit- t that a man named Lam which left here this afternoon! Elsie Hume, and two co-respon-

my home and family in America." trip from Kenya to the Cape is allat community throughout the was brought before Mr. R. E. with a crew of expert deep-sea dents, Mr. Ernest Lionel Atherton, recognise, if they did not know the by railway to the Cape, where About 20 other people were present Not even the most intimate would also inaccurate. They will travel world-M. and Madame Alexandre, sell at the Central Magis- divers,

madical botanist and cateopath, of on Saturday. He was French Insurance companies: ged with contaminating the which covered the vast loss of the Ryal York-crescent, Clifton, Briss, a shrunken, wizened, fragile that is possible, and the motor at the seance, at which the medium

tol, and Mr. Murahall of that house and unlawful ship are financing the expedition, Brown, classical master at a King journalist and dramatic critic, full

creature, as Carrle Van Deusen car will be resorted to where was a gardener named Blaise, Ernest

King, one-time American woman there are no railway facilities.

The first spirit that appeared king off the tap.

and they have every hope of sue-!

At St. James's Palace there has was

that of a aton (Surrey) school.

former realdent. e defendant pleaded guilty cest. They have finally located Petitioner alleged that his wife of vitality, with a keen brain and been gathered reports on climatic In the house, who died in he first charge but denied the the wreek after a year of drag-he was a widower when he marria vigorous personality.

conditions and maps. The Prince 1911. This *pirit performed d.

ging on a sandy bottom ten miles! ed) was extravagant, and mis-, This shred and shadow of woman has been studying these before the

m'racles associat- W. R. N. Andrews of the south of Belle. Ile, directly west.

hood has now only one claim to the making any final or tentative pro-jed with Spiritualist seances, and with the 20- c Works Department, was 'of St. Nazaire The Italian conducted herself

then gave way to the spirit of called to give evidence. He stated, steamer "Arpiglio of Genca," respondents at her address. Teign-attention of her contemporaries: gramme.

mouth-road, Brondesbury, Tomei Mario,

Noril she is the first woman in the world The party will consist of the "Madeleine" a beautiful young. that he had been to the top floor under Captain

to have a Voronoif monkey gland. Prince and the Duke of Glouces-girl. of the house and saw that the tap which has already recovered trea- London, where the co-respondents

"What made you do it?" Mrs. ter, three personal servants, one "Madeleine" tripped into the had been removed. He also found sure from sunken ships in the visited, they being mutually inter- that the water bore a strong Mediterranean, has been engaged ested in astrology. Adultery was king was asked: were you it or of his secretaries, and three or darkened room clothed in a white

in danger of losing your faculties four friends.

garment of filmy gauze. Too filmy, During the tour in Kenya Sirin fact, for beneath the gauze the "I do not think that we shall

Atherton "treated". Mrs.

"No I was just crazy, that's all," Edward Crigg, the Governor, will reporters could see a pair of braces i have any difficulty," said Captain Hume and other people, and had a repiled the poor creature in the be in attendance.

just Mario

for armchair. "I was in the full glow before his ship room in petitioner's house left for the scene this afternoon, patients."

..or life and vitality, physical and Witness: No, not without the "The diamonds are in a small

mental, and may eyes were bright aid of a spanuer.

safe in the captain's cabin, of

and sparkling. But I had heard The defendant then intimated which we have a plan. We shall said the jury had to consider a very pulse seized me.

about Dr. Voronoff, and a mad im- that he had only put in one cent how open the cabin with dynas

I think it was worth of kerosene, but the Magis-mite and then try to reach the employed in the East and married just the spirit of adventure. trate replied that it must be more safe. When the safe is located the daughter of a British chaplain

Just Wanted to See. or else the water would not have the salvage ship will lower a in Yokobunu. They lived in the

"I suddenly hit on the idea that tasted as it clic.

powerful electric magnet and East until the wife came home in would be the first woman in the Twa bottles of water taken bring it up. If the cabin is full of

world to test this claim før reju- from the second and third floors mid the magnet will serve to

Early in 1927 Mr. Hume wrote venation and see if it was really were produced in Court

locate the safe."

to the co-respondent Atherton from true that the transplantation of the

The scances have been conducted. the East with reference to meetings Kinnd of the monkey restored the

since 1922, and although they have referred to as a "circle." held at full vigour of youth to a human

been attended by well-known Teignmouth-road, in which the wife being past the prime, or what is took part, asking that she should called the prime

Spiritualists, well as a large number of sceptics there has never not take part in further studying "Not that I felt old in the slight- The Colonial Secretary, in his been before any doubt expressed as the occult, no he was. sure it had est degree-on the contrary I felt 1927 report on the Straits Settle-to the genuineness of the manifes- Nature lovers will be pleased to affected her. Mr. Atherton was a then, when I was afty-nine, that I ments, says: At the close of 1926, tatlons.. The defendant was fined $25 or published a popularly written book and was interested in astrology.

learn that the talles Muscum has herbalist with a substantial business should easily live to be one hundred. there was a surplus of $62 mil. 14 days on the first charge and on the Lirds of Singapore. The

I just wanted to see what effects the lions, This, was reduced by the $10 or 7 days on the second.

Mr. Atherton) was given operation would have, so that end of the year under review to authors are the late Sir John Buck-facilities by the husband to see could tell the world of this wonder- $61 millions Man and A Roy,

As a result of the. Bill (formerly Chief Judicial Compatients at the house There was another case inmissioner in the Federated Malay mouth-road and this

in Teign-ful discovery which would lead to year's working. The financial posi- which a man and a boy of No. 18. States and Chief Justice in the was not withdrawn until some time

permission the rejuvenation of the human race. tion is therefore sound: but, in Stanley-street, third Boor, were Straits Settlements) and Mr. F. N..

"I believed Dr. Veronoff-that view of the fact that the annual- charged with committing the Chasen, Curator of

later. the Raffles

was why I had the pluck and con- recurrent expenditure is over- same offence.

The co-respondent, Mr. Brown, üdence to plunge into the adven-taking the normal annual re- Museum, but the preface indicates Both defendants pleaded

was a schoolmaster whose name the lure. I think even now that he is venue, the future is likely to A dramatic meeting took place "guilty" and made no reply when Mr. Chasen is mainly respon-wife mentioned in her letters to her a wonderful man.

I admire him see a steady diminution in the aur-between Mra. Paco and her brother- Mr. R. E. Lindset suid:~# it be for the book. The price is fivehusband. Mr. Brown, who had because I think that for animals his plus balances, if the increasing de-in-law, Elton Pace, who

appeared in person and conducted process of regeneration may be

mand for large public works is to prominent witness for the prosecu- on case, repeatedly asked sound, but for human beings, any. In spite of the fall in rubber

tion at the murder trial.

The latter WAS working in a $10 or 10 days and the boz order faloureci plates; it is bound in cloth witness after witness whether they way for women, it is impossible, and prices there was little diminution stone quarry near by, when Mrs.

seen anything which

13 for living to 140-well. What caused them to suspect there was chance have I in this state? I have and prices of town and auburban the orchard overgrown with weeds, in the activity of the land market Pace returned to her home to find. The work starts with a chapter on anything wrong between him and good reason not to believe in this lands continued to rise, although the windows of the house broken, Note: Complaints have been fieldwork in

Mrs. Hume, and the answer in every operation now, which migratory made tlist during the

pheocha and hints ou observation Instance was in the negative.

Look at me-in-agricultural land was not in such and pieces of stone removed by bour: for which the rider

With regard to Mr. Brown, the sunk into physical senility before areas were acquired, as the pur-

stead of leaping into youth, I have demand as in 1928. Ein general from a local point of view

Considerable morbid sightseers as souvenirs. mains are turned on daily,

Mrs. Pace, aceing Elton Pace, the

given. Next, the birds of jury had to consider whether he was pressure is such that

nu enthusiastic, honest young man

my time.

chases for schemes of town improve. smiled and nodded, but Elton, lean- Terrible Change. upper floors get no water, or the Singapore are considered from n

geographical aspect und the or a crafty adelterer,

ment approved in 1925. wore, com-ing on his pick, looked atonily at occupants of lower floors monopo-

Well, without any of my friends pleted during the year under re-his brother's widow, then resumed mysteries of technical namenciature lise the supply. This kerosene

"FANTASTIC STORY."

knowing anything about.it I under-view, und

as large acquisitions work. pouring is believed to be a reprisalare il bare. The actual structure

The judge referred to the opaning went the operation. I felt all right were also made for the military Mrs. Pace wiped away her tears, for withholding water from those a bird then clains attention, statement, in which counsel suid after it. I did not feel any younger authorities. above.]

after which all the succeeding chap that in connection which the "circle" or more vigorous; indeed, I could The revenue for the year 1927) "Aye," said Elton, "she did a bit ters are devoted to descriptions of the common birds. Every bird like-Mrs. Hume was known as "Salome," not, because, as I said, I was youth-amounted to $87,602,081,.exceeding of smiling, but I have no smiles

the co-respondent Atherton ly to be found on the island is de-Karma, the second Messiah," and feel any adverse effects for a time, the expenditure was $39,253,272

as ful, and healthy before it. Nor did the estimate by $2,612,037, whilst, for her."

Big Offer for Life Story. than the es-; Mrs Pace has been offered a large Full accounts of the plumage are Mr. Brown as "John the Baptist." But suddenly I began to get old. being $696,694 less included and not only is the exact That was said at the beginning. The face that was formerly taut and timate. The revenue was $1,136,-sum for rights of publication of

868 more than that of 1926, while INSURANCE FUNDS TRACED status of each bird on the Island but not a scrap of evidence had full sagged.

TO THE U.S.

Indicated, but

been given in regard to it. the geographical

"Dr. Voronoff operated on me expenditure was more than thei range of the species is given as It had also been said that Birs. again to cure this, and after that I 1926 figure by $2,297,632. The ex-sands of letters and telegrams have Judment was given on a claim well; so the book should prove itself Hume had declared she was in love completely went to pieces. In two cess of expenditure over revenue reached her from all parts of the by the liquidator of the Greater useful not merely to the residents with Mr. Atherton, and wished he rears' time I had shrunk into what was $1,651,191 as compared with world, many giving authentie ex- Britain Insurance Co., Limit-of Singapore but to others over a

was free. That was the fantastici am now-I am nearly blind and $490,427 in 1926.

amples of arsenical poisoning, con- ed, one of the companies involved wide area of Malaysia, also.

without physical vitality."

There was an increase of $1,486,- tracted while dipping sheep in an in the City Equitable Fire Insur-Thus, we read of the Malayan He added that Mr. Atherton had Dr. Voronoff is understood to 380 in oplum revenue, and the total arsenical preparation.

There have also been an extra-C.2560-No. House-Swift, very numerous in treated Mira. Hume professionaly have assisted Mrs. King financially receipts under "Licences" exceeded He applied for an order direct- Singapore and easily the commonest Yet it had been suggested that his when she declared that her health the 1926 figure by two hundred and ordinary number of letters from ing that the liquidator of the awit on the island. It breeds free-was a discreditable occupation..

some of considerable seventy-two, thousand. The estate medical men, City Equitable Fire Insurance ly in the town and nests exist in

The jury had to consider whether she was without means.

was breaking down again, and that duty collected in 1927 amounted to repute, supplying information on Company should pay him £89,486, convenient places in some of the it was thought to be so when the

$1,668,217 as against $2,420,759 in many scientific questions or such sum as had been traced large buildings in the busiest and husband gave Mr. Atherton per LOST. TOWN CLERK.

would have had to bo discussed to the United States as being purt nulsiest spots of the commercial-mission for Mrs. Hume to be treat-

The Increase under pensions, re-fully had the case for the defence of £17,520 paid by the Greater quarters." Notes on the identifica-ed. Mr. Hume returned home early

tired allowances, gratuities, etc., is been opened. Britain directors to the City tion of the various birds in the field, this year, and within two weeks was THE MYSTERY OF MR. A. W. due to commutation of pensions Equitable Company.

the nesting habits, song and food charging his friends Atherton with

under the Pensions (Gratuities) Mr. Justice Romer held that are also given.

adultery with his wife on hearsay.

Ordinance: 1926. The Increase] the applicant was entitled to

Christchurch, Hampshire,-Police under education is due to addi- 11 Books on the natural history of The judge went on to say that charge on £96,597, which repre- Malaysia

that all the members of the "circle" were searched the beach and carried out tional appointments of teachers. few BO sented remittances from the one

welcomes the appearance interested in astrology, and in order dragging operations in an effort The larger defence contribution is DYING United States to the liquidator of of this Dew work, especially that the people could be understood to trace Mr. A. W. Harley, town attributable to the enhanced cost the City Equitable as the result as It is likely to appeal to it was necessary for the nature of clerk of Christchurch, who, re- of the Garrison Co-operative so- of sales of securities bought with a wide public, for the common low- the study to be considered.

ported, has been missing,

cieties and medical, social hygiene Greater Britain money.

Hand birds of the Peninsula and the Mr. Brown declared that astro-) Mr. Harley's clothes were found branch, are new items of expendi The Greater Britain Company, great Malaysian Islands are essen-logy was one of the most ancient on the sands near the lagoon be ture. The increase under Public Miss Hilda Thewlis, aged he nail, possessed readily realis-tially the same as those found in studies, and he was right. It was tween Highcliffe and Mudford Works Department Extraordinary thirty-eight. of Branch-street, able securities to the value Singapore. A pleasing feature is common knowledge that for many nearly 12 hours after he was last is due to crection of new buildings Huddersfield, was killed when she of about £400,000 and this at-the abrence of technical terms, for centuries men attached great imeen in Christchurch. With the and other works in Singapore, fell over the cliffs, which are tracted the attention of Gerard the book is written in popular style portance to it, but whether it should clothing were Mr. Harley's false Malacca and Dindings. Lee Bevan.

throughout. It is intended for the be revived was another matter. teeth, visiting cards, and about 88. "It is not unreasonable to sup- use of the uninitiated, Loth real- Where did the jury think the in silver.

FAMOUS FOREST. pose," added Mr. Justice Romer, dents and visitors, who wish to saying came from or "born under The Mayor of Christchurch, Mr. "that it was an irresistible attrac know something of the birds they an evil star" or "when the stars H. J. Martin, said that he saw Mr.

Mr. Ernest Thewlis, the bro Harley driving his-motor car in the

TREE THAT DANTE AND tion, and he proceeded to get con- may see about them, and is written in their course are falling?"

ther, raced to the signal station. trol of the company by methods not so much for the ornithologist

BYRON LOVED. Lord Merrivale added that for his direction of the town. Mr. Harley

and four men with ropes and which were not without their in-who makes a business of seeking part he would like to cut that part waved his hand cheerily. The car

grapnels went to the spot. One genuity."

famous plae-wood of of the men, named O'Connor, was These methods, he said, includ- meet them.

birds, as for him who is content to out of the case altogether, but it was left outside the town hall. “

could not be done. The jury mightbers of the counell can suggest a free beloved of Dante and Byron, Miss Thewlis dying, with

Mr. Harley's relatives and mem; Ravenna, containing the "pineta, lowered over the cliff, and found ed the formation of another com-

not believe in astrology, 'but others pany, the City Equitable Asso-| Major C. A. Lutz, a U. S. Marine and Mr. Brown did. Mr. Brown had reason for his disappearance. He fois to be moved nearer the sea, saya boulder lying on her arm clated Company, the transfer of Corps airman, and Lieutenant H. T. referred to

A stretcher was lowered. The For the information of visitera the Bible, and made know, however, to have been wor-8 British United Press mensage shares, and the formation of a Bushy, who started for Managua, other references on the subject, red lately by a serious motor-car from Rome,

tide was washing round the feet the following, list of some of the finance committee, all the tran- Nicaragua, in a three-engine tran- The astrologer regarded a human accident to his daughter. He was Signor Celso Calvetti, Podesta of of the rescuers, who were in dan-highest points on the Island and sactions being covered by book sport machine,wers killed as pre-creature as an item in the great greatly assisted in his municipal Ravenna, in a report on the nine, ser of being swept away They Meinland is published:- entries made by the direction of suit of their machine Crashing at circle of life; that the fate of it duties by another daughter, Busi wood, says that "the natural alte or climber hand-over-hand to the

1.Vjetorin Peak Bevan to cover up his own defal- Bowling Green, Virginia. Major was influenced by external naturalness at the town hall is temporarily the maritime pine is the seashore cliff top where another rope was

Signal Station Luts was to have taken command of agencies, especially the course of held up, as Mr. Harley combined and if the sea withdraws the pine procured, and O'Connor STAS

Bit. Parker the duties of town clerk and ac dies the United States Marine air the stars,

agula lowered to an

an overhanging

Mountain Lodge forces operating in Nicaragua. And so, they had these people in countant

For this reason a commission has ledge, where the stretcher had The Eyrie

become janimedeg During a rainstorm at Newport

been appointed to replant a portionCommor had to swing against /th_ja efrcumstances. The question

Pepk Hotel (Mon.) Mrs, Emily Edith, Jarvis, I have a fire school In West- was did they really believe in' the *,

of the coast where the sea has gone the cliff face, gulding the stretch- agod 34, was opening her umbrella minster but no garden, and I can-subject of astrology as they pro- was the "frete a there opportunity back, with new pine trees which in or which repeatedly caught in while crossing a road, when she act suppress my envy of you fessed. Were they people of clean for the Indulgence of althy habits? time will form a new wood replace the jagged rocka, jakog karak was knocked down by a char-a-bane, Cardinal Bourne at Gipham garden minds following an Inrocent, even The jury then retired"Dallying the old which is destined to dis- Miss Thewlis, was dead when

fete.

I some thought foollab,study, or Telegraph,

GERARD LEE BEVAN.

ance Company crash.

cations.

and killed.

Varu

seribed in detail,

.

are

story of a servant.

HARLEY.

1926.

The

appear,

re-entered the car and drove off.

her life story.

Her solicitor states

that thou-

which

RESCUE DRAMA.

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June 17.

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ahe reached the cliff top.

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