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Howard, the mother of the Duke "One thing, no one can ever say

of Norfolk, to chaperone her dur- ing the London season. In another instance a telephone message was received purporting to come from a Duchess,

Poelle Letters.

I strove for a title or to catch a lord's son for my ward.”

Tea

ON THE SOUTH CHINA COAST.

[By Small Steamer to a Strange Island Port.]

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Then I went back to dinner in the traditional Green Street man- ner. Clear soup, turbot, saddle of) mutton, game followed by sweets! We are coming up the turgid little Kwelyang, find a clean and Mr. Eastwood then read extracts and cheese straws.

waa Huang-pu at sunset of a cold, clear comfortable cabin, polite Chinese AMAZING DECEPTION. * from a mass of letters, some inter- brought" In on the heavy silver winter day. The river is an in-"boys," British officers, and satis- spersed with poetry, sont by the tray. I measured the China tea credible medley of all sorts of craft, factory “chow." I "book" for Singa. of Shareholders will be held at

An amazing story of a typist girl to Shekor.

from the Queen Anno caddy..... such an animated picture of marine pore, or Bangkok, or anywhere I may the Omees of the undersigned on posing as a millionairess and dup-

One letter ran:

Everything la feverish excitement, life as the world cannot equal. determine later to tarry for awhile, FRIDAY, the 16th May, 1930, et ing a man who thought he was go-

We must stick it and get and I expect you will be bored by Junks and sampans glide about us, and recall whimsically the detailed Noon, for the purpose of receiving to marry an heiress was re-through; to part would be no all this rot, but it is an example across our bows, under our stern as "itinerary" which Messrs. The Asso- ing the Report of the General lated at London Sessions in mail remedy, whatever. It would only of the nothingness and the plati- our engines reverse, cloar alongside,ciated Tourist Bureaus wished tổ Agents, together with a Statement week.

bring more sadness and we would tudes which make up. the days of everywhere, with calm, fatalistic compile for me. of Accounts for the year ended

Hilda Lewis, aged 19, a short, be wronging ourselves. I would the idle rich.

disregard of consequences. In spite the 31st December, 1929,

slim girl of pale complexion, still go on living, visiting, and én-

of our huge bulk, unwieldly now as Spur of Her Wealth, described as a clerk, of Priorytertaining, and spending much Sheker, giving evidence, said the tugs nose us about, their owners

So, then, here I am distinctly Road,

Kilburn, N.W., pleaded money, but in reality I would be that he was employed by a firm of leave it entirely to us to avoid them, in one of the strange ports I guilty to stealing £138 belonging to a. beggar, just slipping through paper merchants, and his first ac- squatting unconcernedly at their sought. It is called Hoihow, and it her employers, Messrs. Baines and life and missing its real beauty. quaintance with Lewis was when steering ours and gazing upward at fa on an island off the South China Scarsbrook, printers, and publish When I think of the life that is she telephoned orders from the our towering sides, as who should, coast. There are many junka cruis- ers, of Fairfax Road, Hampstead, so surely before us we shall walk printers. He denied that he knew "This is Chiria and this is a Chinese ing aimlessly about, their strange

through It side by side perfectly the cash-boxes were stolen.

river. Our ancestors sailed here sails made of squares of matting Her sweetheart, Bernard Louis united, sharing the same hopes "I liked her very much, but, of even as we are sailing ere ever a roughly sewn together, their Asiatic Sheker, aged 29, a clerk, of Church and aims and desires, enjoying the course, the fact that she was white man so much as knew there crows regarding us speculatively. Street, Stoke Newington, N., plead-same sunshine and weathering the wealthy spurred my designs," he was a China. Therefore, do not Perhaps they are pirates. Or, if ed not guilty to an indictment sume storms. I have a vision of said. "It has taken my breath spurn us beneath the prow of your not, possibly they would not overlook charging him with receiving the happiness which fills me with joy. away to find that she is not an steel machine,!”

the opportunity to be. Last night A letter to Mrs. Sheker ran: heiress."

It Is Shanghal! A pall of contat dinner I asked the captain about Mr. L. A. Byrne, prosecuting,

Both Wednesday and Thursday Members of Sheker's family sald smoke hange over the vast city, it. He observed casually that a have been for me days of extreme that they were completely deceived screening the modern "skyscrapers" steamer, of this same line was cap- to have been opened with a key high nervous tension and strain. by the girl.

along the world-famous Bund. tured right here at anchor in and the contents were missing. Bernard often talks of his home. The jury, at this stage, inter- Through it the descending sun Holhow harbour a year ago. The Subsequently the girl made a con- ... I love him very dearly. The vened and returned a verdict of gleams crimson, while the sky above junks swarmed down upon her and SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEET-feasion that she was the thief. times I spent with him are ones of Not Guilty against Sheker, who turns to gold and then to soft rose- their crews clambered aboard, even ING to be held on SATUR- Sheker, when seen by a deter- great happiness to me.

was discharged.. A GODOWN at Whitfeld Road con- DAY, 7th June and MONDAYtive, said: "I did not know it was

red. The great factories and oll us the Shanghai hotel "runnera" "Lady H. Arrives."

Lewis was ordered to be kept in works and warehouses which line the clambered aboard our sisting about 2.500 sq. ft. hext to

traps-Pacific (weather per.

Extracts from Kwong Sang Hang Class Factory. 9th June, 1930

other letters custody until next sessions for #river, farther and farther down to-liner. "What happened?" I inquir Please apply to Kwong Sang Hong, mitting) may be obtained at the wrong. I thought she was a mil-

Honairess. She brought me foar |

medical report.

ward its junction with the Yangtzeed, endeavouring to be as casual as Race Course, Hong Kong Club and

cash-boxes.

Dear Bertard. . . . Lady H. has Sir Robert Wallace, K.C., the each succeeding year, are aglow with our China coast skipper. "Oh, they Causeway Bay Stables.

just arrived. I do not know why, chairman, at the end of the case lights as the darkness falls. Like took us to Blas Bay, relieved us of but I do not want to go to Green observed, "Who has the copyright 10,000 fireflies, the lanterns of small all we had that they wanted, and let Street. I dread the place.... of this remarkable romance?"

craft and large gleam along the us go. But there WAS one of That awful great house, the long

shadowy river, ever moving, ever Douglas's boats that didn't get off weary nights, the monotonous

dancing, ever darting here and so easily. Just the other day, too, empty days which I have lived

there as every kind of vessel known and only a few miles from here." through with a sort of spiritless

to man threads its way through the

On the China coast! We are still patience, but I must not write like

most crowded roadstead of all the at anchor off Hollow as I write. It this or let my fears run away with

Seven Seas. There is a babel of is a lovely morning, just within the me. That's being a coward, and I

noise. Tugs and launches shriek, tropics, soft and warm and enlm. know in my heart that whatever

linera bellow sullen warnings, anchor Nothing particular is going on. The happens I will bear it.

chains rattle and winches grind, town itself is off in the distance, while above all the clamour of a reached by a river which is nearly thousand boatmen riscs and falls in dry when the tide. is out. It is, I rolling waves of gound.

expect, like the average Chineso town. Possibly I shall go ashore by and by in one of these junks with the Shanghai once more! Ere our matting sails. There is no hurry. trans-Pacific ship is docked at all We have been anchored here sinca Shanghai throngs aboard. Even as this time yesterday, and will very the boarders swarmed in some sea likely still be anchored here at engagements of old, Chinese Shang- this time to-morrow. I don't know hal swarms' aboard us, as aboard why, nor have I inquired. No cargo Messrs. M. Lello, J. G. Lum, Lee every liner entering the muddy is being or unloaded. We are just Wing-sum, Miss H. Lillie.

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"One I opened with a key. I forced the others with a hatchet, hammer, and chisel. I changed some of the postal orders and notes and converted them lato War Savings Certificates."

Tea Planters Heiress Mr. J. F. Eastwood; defending, described the caso as a moat in credible one.

For more than 18 months the girl had completely de- ceived Sheker, his parents, and re- latives by stories of an amazing character, which they believed. Sheker thought he had fallen in love with a millionairess, and despite the objection of his parents, he being a Jew and the girl a Christian, was willing to

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I have kept Lady H. auch a long time, the car has been chug-chug- ging away outside all the while.

The reason I have so many friends is the money.. you talk of money. If you had it you would wish you were free of it. If I could give you a thousand pounds He believed that he was court-I would willingly do so simply that

you could realise your ambition,

marry her.

Girls' Hunt for Titles. Another letter read:→

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No one without a badge will being a girl who was far above his atation in life-a Society woman. admitted to the Members' Enclo- She produced expensive photo-

Dearest Bernard-On the whole graphs purporting to show the in- sure.

terior of her luxuriously furnished I cannot grumble about my day. I house in Green Street, Mayfair, will now bore you with a slight im- and she made presents of costly pression of the events. Simmonds flowers to Sheker's mother. Onco-supposed to be a detective who she appeared in evening dress, and took an interest in society, inter- suggested that she had just manag.polated Mr. Eastwood)—took me a ed to slip away from some smart short drive; had an appointment; party.

so dropped me outside a shop rus by two society girls; spent quite an enjoyable half-hour with them. A young lady came in.. It is well known she is fast ruining her

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Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admfited half price.

but men will always settle their bills.... On the way to Green Street met another young lady who

has been for some time in the mar

and bequeathed her all his money on condition that she did not marry without the consent of her guardians or until she was 25.

She gave the names of the sup-riage market. However, she is at posed guardians, "but as she could last engaged. not produce them" commented Mr. Eastwood, "they very conveniently died off, one na the result of an accident."

Lewis claimed that she spent part of her time at her residence in Mayfair, and only acted as a typlat because it was something to do until she came into her fortune. | She mentioned that her guar- will not be permitted to operate dians wanted her to marry a titled within the precincts of the Hongman, but she would not do so. Kong Jockey Club during the She also asserted that an arrange- ment had been made for Lady Race Meeting.

Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, &c.

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The days seem composed of meals with Intervals for indiges- tion, my walks home for lunch, my drive and home invariably at 5 to sit in state and receive callers.

Some of the ladies at tea were discussing marriages in Bociety, and how mothers again this season would

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May 12, 1930,

Mr. T. C. Britton. Mr. E. J. Carmichael, Mrs. and Mias Copyn.

Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Elphinstone. Mr. R. D. Gall.

· Mr. G. E. Hanaford.

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Huang-pu. Lang bamboo poles with here, that is all, somewhat as grappling hooks attached find holds the man in the absurd old song. I Mr. and Mrs. Oel Yoe Tin. along our steel bulwarks, and with have just been talking to the Scot- Messrs. W. Smith, F. G. Sellers, incredible agility young Chinese tish engineer. He says he will be C. M. Shaw, H. Schall, Jas. W.scramble up. Eagerness for custom, glad to get back to Singapore where Simpson.

keen competition, inspires this re it is warm. "A mon likes the war- Mr. C. R. W. Thomson, Mr. and markable energy, for these arer-mth when he's used to it," he ob- Mrs. Tong,

"runners" for numberless Chinese serves. After we have topped at A Singapore for awhile we are going Messrs. G. F. Wheatecroft, C. T.hotels and boarding places. Wu, H. T. Wong, Mr. and Mrs. B. tumult incredible arises

as they on to Bangkok "You king of the Bangkok is a str-range mon," the J. Watcham.

commence negotiations with hundreds of steerage passengers. engineer says. "He wants to be a Scores of porters follow, and some European. He's just had a go'f what more lolsurely the represanta-course made for him. Would ye tives of world-encircling tourist Ken that? Gof at a hundred in the bureaus, accompanied by very polite shade!" agents of the great hotels of Shang- hal. These are persone of indeter- It is very pleasant lingering here, minate extraction, talking many in the quiet harbour of Hoihow, languages, having at their tongue's where no world-cruise-de-luxe liner tip the complete schedules of every has ever penetrated or is likely to. railway and afeamship line east of The weather is like that of an Suez. I hold converse with one of August afternoon off Boothbay Har them, inquiring as to passage to the bour, Maine, and there is a similar south, along the China coast to Indo- atmosphere of tranquillity, supple- China, Siam, and such, alluring mented by an eastern unconcern as to all things. The "boys" are prepar- places.

STANDARD TIMES

Sunrise And Sunset In Colony

Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for May (Standard time of the 120th Meridian, East of Greenwich) are as follow:--

Sunrise Sunset

May

14

10

16

a.m. p.m. 5.44 6.55 5.43 6.55 5.43 6.56

17

5.42 6,50

18

5.42

6.57

Д

19

5.42 6.67

20

6.41 6.58

21

5,41

6.50

22

5,41

6,59

23

5.41

7.00

struggle piteously with daughters who failed to catch husband last season. At one ma- ment, A's bead went up with such a proud movement, and her beautifully toned voice remarked:

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"Ah," says the representative Ing the noon-day meal, chatting in unlike of Messrs. Thus-and-So, Limited, a dialect new to me and as "there is a P. and O. steamer to that of Hong Kong as Hong Kong morrow, a fine new German ship the Chinese is unlike that of Peking. I day after, and a-".

believe the captain has gone ashore

But I have had enough of great in a junk. In fact, nobody at all is liners, having come already some in evidence, except that the junks 7,000 miles on one. I erave a return are cruising aimlessly about and still to my usual, and favourite, means of regarding our little ship.speculative. seu transport, a very small craft,ly. But I am not in the least con- and such as penetrates Into un-corned, and I am glad that I am familiar places, carries few, if any, here, confident that this is the other passengers, offers no luxury best way to cruise the China coast- and consequently doesn't require to or any coast.-M. T. G. in Christian be paid for it. And so I remon- Science Monitor. strate,with the person from Messrs. Thus-and-So. "But I want no ¡P. and O. Kiner, neither Messageries Maritimes, por yet the fine new ship of the North German Lloyd. What' I do want is a little coastwile steam- er which proceeds. leisurely and seeks out strange ports. And if perchance she should encounter pirates and be haled off to Blas Bay, why, then.

But he has turned away in scorn from such strange vapourings as this and is endeavouring to placate an American tourist with three trunks, two suit cases, a hatbox and a bag of fourteen golf clubs of the latest model and all-steel shafts, who has heard me any "pirate," and is not comfortable with so

many voluble Chinese clambering up baza; boo poles and over the eldo,”

However, somewhat later down in Hong Kong, where the weather, now resembles a sparkling May morning. In New England, I search about and find just such a craft as I crave. True enough, no steamship office admits to any knowledge of it, but all point out the insecurity of travel in small craft on the China coast, emphasising the desirability from every point of view-definitely in cluding their own of taking pas sage on a large ship such as no pirate julks from Blas Bay have yey had the temerity to interfere with. But I am not convinced, being" quite familiar with the line of argu- ment postearably offices. With consummate satisfaction 1-seek the

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