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MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1929.

FIRST PARLIAMENT

GODDARD MONEY

SHADOWS Before.

MILLENARY CELEBRATION OF THE £12,000 CLAIMED BY THE COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCEB

ICELAND'S ALTHING

STRICT REPUBLIC

CROWN

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It is announced that the iceland- The Crown has laid claim to the ers in America have already book-$12,000 formerly in the possession ed two Cunard liners to take them of Ex-Station-sergeant Goddard and to the celebration of the thousandth seized by the police at safe de- year of the Commonwealth Legisla-posita during the inquiries which tive Assembly, the Althing of Ice-led to the prosecution of the ser land, which is to be held in the sum-geant on bribery charges. mer of next year. It has been Mr. Freke Palmer, solicitor to claimed for the Althing that it was ex-Sergeant Goddard, stated that he the first of parliaments, and if it had received the following letter be read in a loose sense the claim from Sir Ernest Blackwell, legal may, perhaps, he substantiated. It Assistant Under-Secretary, Home quest." happened that some half-a-century Office: after the Scandinavians had begun

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No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 4th April will be subject to rent.

All claims agains the vessel most be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 14th April or they will not be recognized.

Apr. 6, 9, 11, 12, 13-Theatre to coloniae Iceland and had found of State to inform you that the Com-Dover Road."

"I am. directed by the Secretary Royal; HI.K.A.D.C. production "The there the remains of the Irish her-missioner of Police of the mits who had been there before Metropolis has handed to "him Apr. 2-At P.W.D. Offices, one them, a certain Uldjotr, a settler of your letter of the 30th ultimo, ap lot of Crown land at Mong Kok royal descent, persuaded himself plying for the return to you on Tsui, 3 p.m. that I was time Iceland had a behalf of your client, ex-Sergeant

Home Maila code of laws.

Goddard, of the sum of £12,471.10s. To-day-Inward from Europe via He went in 927 home to Den and certain foreign notes now in Siberia "Calchas."

All broken, chafed and damaged mark, and in 930 returned with his the possession of the Commissioner. To-morrow Outward for E.Goods are to be left in the Godswins, code. He was able to persuade

where they will be examined on the fam to eclose herewith the Africa and Europe via Marseilles, 4th April at 10a.m. by our sur his follow-squatters to divide them-copy of a letter which the Se- "Calchaa," 2.80 p.m. and Europe via veyors Messra, Guddard & Douglas.. selves into twelve constituencies and cretary of State has caused to be San Siberia "Tenyo Maru," 6. p.m. No Fire Insurance has bent effect to elect in each constituency three sent to the Commissioner, and I

Lammerte Auction delegates. The thirty-alx memam glad to say that the Treasury April At Standard bers of the Althing thus elected Solicitor has been instructed to Installation, Laichikok,

Instruction to Lord Byng

.:

.

Oil Co.'s surplus

cd,

by

used to meet each year, in June, prepare and take the necessary stores, etc., 10.30 a.m.. at a place which came to be known proceedings." - as the Thingvalla, and which was chosen, partly because it was at the junction of the tracks that cross the desert of the interior, but more because it could be had for nothing: since the land had been taken from the former owner, who had com mitted murder.

Sports To-day-Second extra race meet- The copy of the letter of Lording of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Byng is as follows:-

Happy Valley. 2 p.m. reference to April 13-Third extra race meet- ing of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Happy Valley.

Court of the Althing

BASKETBALL

certain ALL-CHINA TEAM ARRIVES IN

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"My Lord, With the letter addressed, to you on the 30th ultimo by Mr. Freke Palmer, the solicitor to ex-Sergeant Gad- dard, applying for the return to him on Goddard's behalf of the The Althing made laws and est-sum of £12,411 108. and

the "Court of the Al foreign notes, now in your pos- ablished thing," which tried all disputes. A session, I have, the honour, by direction of the Secretary of State, Speaker, or "lawgiver," was ap-

The All-Chian Basketball team pointed, whose duty

it was to to inform

you that these moneys arrived here from America on Fri recite publicly the whole law. Tore claimed by the Crown, and you day by the "Empress of France." therefore, required not to They played nine matches in Ameri- him, too, all who were in need of are, a legal opinion or of information part with these moneys, but to hold ca against the various States as to what was and was not law them, for and on behalf of his Champions and lost only three.

"I am to enclose for your in-three.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned DODWELL É CO., LTD.,

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Hong Kong, 29th March, 1929,

NOTICE TO' CONSIGNEES.

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MARSEILLES.

The Steamship.

"CITY OF KHIOS”- having arrived. Consignees of Carge by her are informed that all goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Go- dowas of Holt's Whar, "Whence deli- very may be cbtained.

No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns, and all goods remaining undelivered after 5th April, 1929, will be subject to

had a right to turn during the meet-Majesty, pending further instrue-

From Manila to America, they rent. ing of the Althing. To him a

tions.

played 21 matches and lost only A Claims against the Steamer sort of presidency or precedence at

must be presented to the Undersigned the Althing was conceded, but with formation the copy of a letter which This is the third time Mr. C. C. on or before 12th April, 1929, or they a care which marks how jealously the Secretary of State has caused Lim, the sporting philanthropist, will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed and damaged the young Republic guards itself to be sent to Mr. Freke Palmer on has financed a touring basketball goods are to be left in the Godowna,

this subject." against bestowing too great power

t2cm. This American tour cost where they will be examined on any A writ claiming the return of him close upon $80,000. As the Tuesdays on its chief officer he was expressly

Fridays; between the excluded from all share in the the $12,000 was served on Feb. 15 gate acceipts go to the YMC.A. hours of 10.45 am, and nonn, within on the Police Commissioner (Lord and charities, he does not get a cent the Free Storage period of One Week. Byng). by

executive.

gense.

Mr. Freke Palmer, back. solictor to ex-Sergeant Goddard.

Under the code of Ulajotr Ice- land was a republic in the strictest

Goddard was sentenced by Mr. Any man over 25 so long as he paid his taxes and had no Justice Avory to 18 months hard been in prison-had the right to labour, and ordered to pay a fine stand for election. Eventually of £2,000 and the costs the Althing was divided into two prosecution.

Goddard

of the An estimate of these

houses, the upper house having and his own costs. is about $2,000. twelve and the lower house twenty- four members.

The Thingvalla plain, where the Althing will meet again in. ats) thousandth year, is famous for its wild beauty. It is eight miles long and six miles wide, with mountains at one end and a lake at the other. The Althing meets now in a less |- romantic, but more businesslike, fashion in a room at Reykjavik. It met with fair regularity through the centuries till 1720, and in 1843

was sentenced in the police bribery case in respect of sums amounting to over £900.

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LESSON SERMON Mr. Ahn Chang-ho, Mrs. Thorgas Bardon, Mr. Gustav Ballers, Miss

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, Margaret Clayes, Mr. and Mrs.

SCIENTIST, HONG KONG Louis Codina, Mr. Herbert A. Cohen, Father J. Duvall, Mr. and

"Reality" was the subject of Mrs. W. S. Fraser, Messrs. Willen: the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches Gens, O. R. Gomez, Horatio Gutierez, of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, and Gaw Lim, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. March 31. Kirker, Mrs. Sara Kent, Messrs.

The Golden Text was: "Thou Ọ Alec, F. Lees, Leung Haan-kwan Lord, shalt endure for ever; and The wives of clergymen in the and F. R. Maass, Mr. and Mrs. thy remembrance unto all genera- Diocese of Southwark are combin G. A. Malcolm, Messrs. C. Tony" (Psalms 102: 12). ing to form an association "for the McClellan, Roque Moraga, Isidro

Among the citations which com-

..

SOCIETY, "FOR BETTER ACQUAINTANCE"

it was re-established, but only as furtherance of better acquaintance," Moraga, Jose Moraga, Ng Yim-pun, prised the Lesson-Sermon was the an advisory committee. It was not by which the widely-extended K. Ogasawara, and Masanori Ogawa, following from the Bible: ""For till 1874, when Iceland was given parishes of the diocese may te Mrs. Poa Chia, Mr. Joseph E. Rus-though we walk in the flesh, we do again her constitution, that the brought into touch with one another. sell, Mrs. H.A. Strickler, Mrs. S.. A not war after the flesh; (For the Althing was revived in its old The idea originated with Mrs. Sears, Dr. and Mrs. Montgomery

warfare are not weapons of our glory, and, finally, in 1918 the Act Darlington, wife of the Vicar of St. Thomas, 193 Helan Thomas,

carnal, but mighty through God to

of Union between the two severelga Mark's, Kennington. She was Messrs. Shuza Takano; Tso Iu, and the pulling down of strong holds); States of Denmark and Iceland moved to sympathy for the young Yum Yum-sun. was passed.

Before Columbus The Althing now has a cabinet which consists of three members; the Premier, who at the same time ie Minister of Justice, of Ecclesiast- ical Affairs, and of Public Instruc-

tion; the Minister of Industry, and the Ministry of Trade.

wives of clergymen, who often find themselves in parishes where they are complete strangers,, and her suggestion won the approval of Mrs. Garbett, mother. of the Bishop of Southwark,

The rural deans of the twenty-one deaneries in the diocese were ap- proached and invited to co-operate, The Althing dates from the cen- with the result that nearly all the deaneries have been incorporated. tary of the greatest of sagas. Scholars say that the saga which Only Battersea, Clapham, Godstone, tella of the discovery of Vinland-Greenwich, and Wandsworth now: America-ia a little younger than remain outside the movement.

the Althing and perhaps the re- publican United States will now

In a circular letter the associa-

tion states that its intention is not prefer to think that America was to add in any way to the arduous

discovered by republicans and by protegees of a king.

THE ANTARCTIC

not

EXPLORER PERFECTING PLANS IN ENGLAND

Another Antarctic expedition is foreshadowed in the arrival cf Sir Douglas Mawson, the famous explorer, in England..

work of busy lives; it is concerned solely with the promotion of mutual [fellowship among the wives of the clergy. At least three meetings are to be held every year, and for these, Mrs. Garbett has offered the hos pitality of Bishop's House. It is felt that those who live in deaneries. as distant as Caterham and Reigate, should at least be able to make these three visits to London.

An honorary general secretary has been appointed, and secretaries have been elected for each of the daanaries. At the meetings discs

Sir. Duuglas, who was the leader will be worn, bearing on one side Seeping through the wall of silence of the Australian Antarctie Ex- the name and parish of the member, that has enclosed Gloria Swanson since pedition of 1911, states that so that formal introduction will not Director Erich Von Stroheim wis dis- anissed from her, current production nothing definite has been settled be necessary. The annual member comes a whisper that this flicker may yet, although he hopes to be able ship subscription is to be a shilling, never be finished. It is said that to secure Captain Scott's ship "Dis- and sisters and daughters may be "Queen Kelly" is now in eighteen reels.

Ar-elected as associates:

That is only a little more than one- covery for the expedition.

third complated. rangements are being made, he Twe informal meetings have adds, by the National Research already been held. de is hoped that Council in Australia, and Sir at these meetings members will Douglas expects to spend several discuss the problems of Church months in England perfecting affairs, which always face the wives arrangements.

of clergymen, and that useful It le probable, Sir Douglas suggestions may result. thinks that the starting place will

be Hobart, Lasmanis, in November Owing to illness the King of Scientific re- Sism was unable to attend at the

* 4In the Bangkok Sparts Club recently to newhere-southaaf i present the prizes won at the go

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