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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1928,

A PROBLEM

POOR MEN WITH RICH WIVES.

INCOME-TAX POSITION.

THE OLDEST M.P..

THE CHINA MAIL

TO-DAY'S FILMS.

SIR JAMES AGG-GARDNER THE VOLGA BOATMAN” AT

THE QUEEN'S;" PASSES AWAY,

LINK WITH DISRAELL

SHOWING UNTIL SUNDAY. A

| SHADOWS BEFORE. | PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

To-day--Queen's Theatre; "The Volga Boatman.

FIRE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

Auction

ON SATURDAY, 16th September, 1928, commencing at 11 am. Cases Cigarettes Rie Sze" Brand:

10 Cases Cigarettes

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1 Case Fan! Spares

6. Rölla' Rubber Tyres

17 Sacks Flour

7 Plécek White Shirtings

1 Bag Copra Meal

4 Bales Old Newspapers

pay and

To-day World Theatre, "Spollers of the West”.

"The We regret to announce the Cecil B. De Mille, the man who "It occurs to me that it is ad- visable to bring home to poor men death of Sir James Tynte Agg-directed The Ten Command-To-day Star Theatre

September 16-18-World Thea- who marry rich wives the fact

treTwo Arabian Knights." SA that they are responsible for their Gardner, Conservative M.P. for ments," brings to the screen and Fair Co-Ed"

le for the Cheltenham, and the oldest mem- other vivid drawn in The Volga

ber of the House of Comments. Rotman, which tre from today September 26-27-Star Theatre; wife's income-tax,

The Midshipman Registrar Francke, when sus-He was found dead in his bed- the Queen's Theatre from to-day.

September 17-22-Queon's Thea- room at the Carlton Club annexe to Saturday. The story starts on pending the discharge of Lord Robert Innes-Ker, the husband of early on the morning of August 9. the Volga before the Ruslan re-

volution and swinga Into ils stride tre" Chang Miss Jose Collins, for two years. He was wearing evening dress.

The State was the poorer by

General Baird, secretary of the when the overturning of the Czar September-18 Entertainment In

A Quantity some £20,000 because of the Carlton Club, stated to a "Mornist rule turns the nation Into Cheer 'O Y.M.C.A. City Hall, by

Personal Effects and

Sundry Fürültüre. bankruptcy, the Registrar con- ing Post" representative that Sir seething cauldron. The dramatic H. MMFoxglove" Concert party, September 19-22-World Thea- tinued. Applicant's extravagance James was accustomed sometimes interest centres around rough 7.80 p.m.

boatman of the Volga' and a beau

Terima Cash on Delivery, e was shown by his going to money to stay at the Club.

LAMMERT BROSATO lenders after having spent all his

"He dined there the previous tiful princess who fall in love with tre; "The Birth of a Nation."

Auctioneerà. income and incurring debts for motor-car hire and for hotel bills, night, General Baird added, each other. These two macounter Septembar 18-18World Then-

September 20-Theatre Royal; Hong Kong, Sept. 13, 1928: while doing nothing himself. He "and on retiring asked to be call-many thrilling adventures leading tre; "Are Parents People?" did not appear to have taken any ed at 8.30 a.m. When the ser- to a tenso climax. before they ar

THE Undersigned have received steps to check his extravagance. vant did so he found Sir James finally united. Other members of Miss Cecilla Hansen's farewell vie

Auction It occurred to him (the Regis lying dead on his bed. His death the big cast are Victor Varconi, lin concert, 9.15 p.m. tta that he should make an ex- came. as a great shock to his Julia Faye and Theodore Kosloff. September 20-22-World Theatre; instructions to sell by Public ample of persons who lived in friends, and to all the members Mr. De Mille has exerted all his "The Third Degres.”

artistry in telling a powerful story. September 21-Promenade Con- luxury and did not pay their in- of the Club"

Sir James had been living re-in "The Volga Boatman," which is cert at Volunteer parada ground,

apoken of as being one of the 9.15 p.m. famous director's finest achtove cently at Cheltenham.

come-tax.

The adjudication was dated Murch 31 last, when the appli- cant was described as of White's Club, St. James's.

COMMONS CAREER. Sir James Tynte Agg-Gardner Was one of the best-known It was stated by Mr. Wheeler, Official Receiver, that the rank-figures in the House of Commons,

monta,

f

WESTERN "THRILLER"

ing liabilities of the applicant though he was seldom seen on the The popular new. Western hero, political platform except in his Tim McCoy, will be seen from to day to Saturday at the World He had represented. that Theatre in "Spoilers of the West

This extremely exciting picture bough, with certain interludes,

had been returned at £31,825. In his opinion, however, they did not exceed £23,331, applicant having

over-estimated an amount due for

native town of Cheltenham..

Land Sales September 17-At PW.D Offices, Crown lands at the junction of Broadwood and New-rd, Morrison |Hill-rd, and Taltam Village, 8, p.m. Lammerts" "Auctions.

Septembar 16-At Sales: Room, Cigarettes and miscellaneous goods, 11 am, -

September 18-At Sales Room,

income-tax. It did not appear since 1874. But for those breaks tells the story of the attempts made household-furniture, 2.30 p.m.

that there were any assets.

In 1906 the applicant obtained

a commission in the Army, and

a com is the British and Egy tian Armies until 1918, when he retired with the rank-of-major,

Meetings, in his Parliamentary career he to enforce the famous Laramie...

To-day-Seaplane Club meeting would have been the Father" of treaty on the Indians in the early the House, for none of his, col-seventies. Tim McCoy appears as for local: enthusiasts, in Messrs leagues. had periods of service a Baring officer of the government Jardine, Matheson's board room, which went back to so distant a who is sent out to preserve peace 5.30 p.m. date. He had been candidate for

September 18-H.K.V.D.E. Ser Indians and settlers. among the

ON. TUESDAY, 18th September, 1928, commencing at 230 p.m

at their Salos Room, Duddell Street.'

Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE. · „Comprising:-- Jung

Hatstand: with Bevelled Mirror, Teak Book Case and Desk combin- ed, Roll and Flat Top Desks, Ches- terfield Couch and Armchairs, Car- pats Roga, Gramophones" and "Re cords, Looking Glasses; Pictures, Oil Paintings, Brass Ware, Curloar stel eten, it

Teak Dining Room · Suite" (by Lane Crawford, Ltd.). Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Ice Chests,

and was in receipt of a wound Cheltenham on no fewer than 18 Marjorie Daw is the heroine, and geants' Mess Meeting, Volunteer Crockery, Gläsk Ware, Cutlery, etc., pension. He was engaged, from occasions; thrice unsuccessfully takes the part of a beautiful-gir} | Headquarters; 0 ̃pai „ith AS

Jose Collins's Income.

and 10 times with success.

SILENT AND RETIRING.

iu

whe encounters not a few alarm

torical events depicted in the pic-

COLLEGE FROLICS,

September 17--Hockey meeting af* room, 5.30 pm

September 24-Kowloon Football Club annual meeting. 6 p.m.

.:: Sports: *** Overa September 16-Seventh annuk); Prison departments at V.R.C3 Aquatic Sports of the Police and

p.m.

September 22-American tournaṀ. ment, Ladies Recreation Club, Peak-road, at 2.30 p.m... Charming Marion Davies sur

Miscellaneous. tnousand college To-day--Presentation to rounded by a students arrives to-day at the Starw. J. Hill, M. I. Mech, E. at Theatre in "The Fair Co-ed." The Engineers' & Shipbuilder Institu- story opera with Marion refusing tion, 6 p.m.

Mr.

etc

Teak and Iron Bedsteźds, Ward- Doors, Dressing Tables, Marble Top Washstands, Chests of Draw ers, Tollet Crockery Chamber Stands, etc

also

A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE and

One Collage Plano One Sextant:

One Box Doctor's Instrument One Motor Cycle "Sparkbrook." Catalogues will be issued.

On. View from Monday, the 17th

September, 1928.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers: Hong Kong, Sapt 19, 1928.

1918 to April, 1920, as the re-

His first attempt to secure elec- firm of picture dealers, Return-tion' was made in 1868. He wasing experiences before success re Volunteer Headquarters lecture robes with and without Glas presentative in New York.of a

tion was filmed in the picturesque ing to Britain, he worked with among the supporters of Disraeli wards true love. Most of the ac of stockbrokers until sent to Westminster in 1874, was country of Wyoming where the his a firm April, 1921, on half commission, defeated in 1880, but re-elected in After that he was without re- 1885, 1886, and 1892. He did not ture actually occurred.

His stand in 1895, but was the suc muncrative employment.

overwhelmed in the tidal wave in the battle scenes which have insolvency he attributed to living cessful candidate in 1900. Being thousand Sioux Indians take part beyond his means. ;

which swept so many Conserva- been realistically filmed. tives into "the wilderness" It was in November, 1921, that 1906, he was not a candidate at he married Miss Jose Collins, either of the elections of 1910, and he had since that time looked ct re-entered the House at a by- after her interesis. Her earn elcction in 1911, and was again until returned in 1918, 1922, 1929, and ings, he had said, were,

As her 1924. Knighted in 1916, he was 1927, very substantial.

of the Privy Council in husband he had been assessed for sworn

to enter college because motor car September 14-H.K.V.D.G (Ma- income-tax in respect of her in-February, 1924.

rides are banned by the dean. chine Gun Co.) dinner at Head- come, However, none of that tax

The little lady changes her mind, quarters, 7.45, pm mlack that the had been paid, and no application

Sir James was a quiet, retiring, however, when she learns that a September 17-Reopening of had been made for a separate assessment of his wife.. As his reticent man, whose voice was certain young man is to become a Central British School income when he married was only seldom heard in debate, though student. When she arrives at col- £700, he could never have been in early in the present century he legs the fun and adventure begin. a position himself to pay the tax. became somewhat conspicuous by and after an amusing series of It was added that claims for moving the second reading of a events, a hilarious climax is reach super-tax Women's Enfranchisement Billed, with Marion winning the heart income-tax and amounting altogether to £19,671, It was not until May of this year of the boy she loves. In addition had been made in respect of the that he again spoke on a Bill in to the star, excellent support is years 1919-1928, and applicant the House. He then moved the given by Jane Winton, Thelma had asserted that had the income-second reading of the Hire-Pur Hill, Gene Stone and many others.

But he was almost**: tax authorities. pressed for pay-chase Bill: ment, no steps, however ex-constantly treme, would have been success- Westminster while the House was ful in recovering anything. Ap-in session, and in recent years he plicant had said he would admit had been an assiduous and popu- that he had lived extravagantly.lar Chairman of the oddly-named The household expenses had heen Kitchen Committee--the body of members which takes charge of provided by his wife.

The Official Receiver reported, the catering arrangements of the in opposing the application, that House.

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in attendance at · U.S. PRESIDENCY.

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KISSING AND NON-KISSING CANDIDATES.

New York Mr. Hoover an- nounces that in his fight for the Presidency, he will kiss no babies

the applicant had contributed to His answers to questions and of fond mothers, for publication.

ON THE BROADS.

TWO YACHTMEN'S DEATHS:

September 17-Agent of Java- China-Japan-jin "at Home" at his office from 11 am to 12.30 p.m. on the occasion of the firm's 25th An niversary.

September 20-Presentation of medals and labels to members of St. John Ambulance Brigade by H. E. the Officer Administering the Gov-

ernment at Govt. House, 6 p.m.

300 YEARS OLD. ANCIENT TREE COLLAPSE IN HYDE PARK.

An elm tree, believed to be over

his bankruptcy by unjustifiable complaints concerning the supply Mr. Al Smith, the Democratic 800 years old," "crashed to the extravagance.

of food and the dining-room ar-candidate, promptly replies that ground across a footpath in Hyde" The tree, which was hollow, stood Mr. Tindale Davies addressed rangements showed him to be the he will kiss babies, for publica Park recently.

a fund of dry tion or otherwise. He is the the Court in support of the appli-possessor of

of the Serpentine It snapped about cation for discharge.

humour, by drawing, upon which father of a big family, he says, opposite the boatliouse on the bank he was often able to disarm his and in good practice. critics. In May, 1924, in recog-In the Southern Statea a ten feet from its base, the girth of nition of his services on the Com-strong committee of "drys" has which was about twenty-five feet. mittee, he was entertained at been formed to support Mr. It had previously been found neces- dinner by members of all parties Hoover. In the North, an equal sary to give the tree wooden sap- in the House of Commons, the ly strong committee exists to run ports owing to decageren van de Mr. Smith, who believes in re Speaker being in the chair..

The eldest son of the late James vising the Prohibition law in The "Gentral China: "Post"-" an- Frank Clegg, aged 19, of Mid-

nounces that the interp dleton-road, Heywood, Manches Agg-Gardner, of Cheltenham, Sir favour of the moderate West ter, and Robert Hanson, aged 21, James was born at Cheltenham Asked whether he would match between Shanghai and Ha Langton Arms, Miller-street, on November 5, 1846, and educat pose for the cinema in akow will take place on Septe Heywood, were drowned in the ed at Harrow and Trinity College, bricklaying act, Mr. Smith re- 20 and 21. The Hankow tha New Cut, near Reedham, Nor-Cambridge: He was called to the plied: "No, I am a rotten, brick-not been chosen at the me folk. They were members of a Bar of the Inner Temple, and layer, and every man in the writing but it was anno party of ten from Manchester, became Chairman of a West of union would be antagonised." and had just started a week's England brewery company. He

Hankow would be with

cruise on the Norfolk Broads, -. was Lord of the Manor of Chel- A new hospital, entitled the their best menT. U- Clegg, a non-swimmer, attenham of which borough he was Yokohama Doal Byoln, of four who is Incapacita tempted to stop from a motor the first Freeman; was on the stories bullt of ferro-concrete was who will be away boat, the "Sen Wolf," into a Commission of the Peace for dpened in Minami-Yoshidacho, dinghy containing other members Gloucestershire, and had been an Yokohama, on September 1. It has of the party, which was in tow. Alderman of the Gloucestershire Been constructed with thế" $500,000 He fell in, and Hanson dived to County Council For many years contributed by the U.S. Red Croas rescue him...Both disappeared he was on the Grand Council of Society to the Kwanto earthquake, the Primrose League. He was sufferers The floor space of the and were drowned.

unmarried.

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