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SHIPPING NOTES,

The total number of deck passengers en- tered for the twenty-four hours anded at 9 a.m. yesterday was 118, of which the s.s. "Zok Sun (British) from Sandakan, carried 168, and the as President Taft (American) from San Francisco and Shanghai 446.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 171E, 1926

CRIME REVEALS A SECRET.

MOTHER'S THREE-FOLD MURDER."

THE OTHER "MAN'S CHILD.

A tragic story of a father who waited in Devonshire for his two children to arrive on their first visit to him while Some interesting reports regarding they and their mother were hanging dead weather, encountered en route to Hong in a cottage in Hertfordshira. was unfold- kong were made yesterday to the Hared on August 18th at Patmore Heath, a bour Office by masters of the steamers village near Bishop's Stortford. At the concerned. The Patroclus from Liver-inquest on Mrs. Mary Magdaleno Halse, pool and Singapore encountered fine aged 27, Clay Halse, 13, Marguerite Halse, weather; the Fickow from Tientsin and 12, and a younger child of about ave Weihaiwei struck N.E.winds and rain. known as Patty Halae, who were found The Indus from Singapore and Amoy dead in their cottaga Chez Nous on Tues- encountered light S.W. winds and in day morning. The children, who were in E.N.E. well; while the .. Lok Sun their night attire, were hanging from a from Sandakan and Jesselton experieti- | beam in the kitchen, and the mother, who ced very favourable winds and smooth was fully dressed, was hanging from a seas. This, by the way, was the Lak nail driven in the wall near the staircase. Sun's second trip from Sandakan and Jesselton since she has been running to there from Hongkong. The report of the Kojun Maris from Dairen read that a typhoon was met with off Shanghai and ordinary weather experienced.

The Master of the a.s. Anhui (British) from Singapore and Amoy, reported to the Harbour Office yesterday that during the voyage a coolie deck passenger died from beri beri.

Dangerous goods manifested in the shipping returas of yesterday included 30 tons of chlorate of potash und 13 tons of medicine, etc., on the a.. Amur Maru from Bremen and Singapore..

The Superintendent of Customs at Swatow gives notice. that the medical inspection of vessels arriving from Pak- hoi has been discontinued.

Mr. Francis William Halse, wine mer chart, of Bank-street, Newton Abbot, Devon, who identified the bodies of his wife and the two elder children, said, the youngest was not his, and he had not known of its existence.

He and his wife mutually separated in 1919, and since then he had not seen her, He had allowed her first, 23 53. a week. and then, from 1991, £3 a week. She had also the interest on £1,000 which her grandfather had invested for her.

There was a provision in the deed of separation that when his two children reached the age of 9 they should be allowed to visit him" for a month in the year.

Children Seat For..

He had never exercised that right until this year, when he wrote to his wife through his bank on June 26th asking her to allow the children to spend their holidays with him, and it was arranged that last Blonday he should meet them at Exeter. He sent £10 to cover their travelling expenses.

The following report was received at the. Harbour Office yesterday from the master of the s. 5. Luk Sun," which arrived Last Saturday he received the follow- from Sandakan and Jesselton:-"Ining telegram from his wife:

Impos- Lat. 044 N. Long, 117.22 E., spar about sible Monday; could not change cheque. 15 feet above the water, fpating in nearly in dime.-Mudge.' upright position, apparently attached, to something in the water. This position is about 00 miles West of the Island of Palawar."

A Widow." Mr. Lott said that Mrs. Halse told him that she was a widow, and that her has- band, had been drowned.

Shipping is warned that gun practice "It seems to me fairly plain," said will be carried out from Stonecutters the coroner in summing up, what the Island on September 2nd, 27th and 30th cause of this tragedy is. The woman had and October 4th and 7th over air area been separated from her husband for six 5. 22 W. to 78 W.. from the Western years. This year the husband exercised extremity of the Island. Similar prac-his right to have the children for a tices will also be carried out in the month.is is manifest that when the two. Lyemun area on September 3rd, and children got to their father they would 29th and October 1st, 5th and 6th in the naturally talk of the small sister at an insurance area contained between the line joining home, who according to Tak Sha Wan to Hai Ti on the North policy was born two years after husband It points very and Lao Shu Pai to Slope Island on the and wife separated. South. Shipping is warned to proceed strongly I think to that being the reason with caution when nearing this' area.

of this terrible deed."

The Superintendent of Customs of Tientsin and the Treaty Power Coasals have declared Canton cholera infected. Masters of vessels going there from Can-

sanitary regulations for the ports on Tientsin and Chinwangtao.

The jury found that Mrs." Halse mur- dered her three children and committed suicide while of unsound mind.

What goes to make a great picture ? Is it the Story ? Then.-

"THE SPANISH DANCER"

Should hold its own with the best; for the Story is that of the famous Don Cesar de Bazan immortalised in Maritana."

Is

If the Cast P If 80-~~~

"THE SPANISH DANCER"

leads them all; for it features POLA NEGRI, ANTONIO "MORENO, WALLACE BEERY, ADOLPHE MENJOU, KATHRYN WILLIAMS, GARETH HUGHES and a dozen other well known players

Is it the Director ?

"THE SPANISH DANCER”

was produced and directed by HERBERT BRENON

Who has had fifty successful pictures to his credit since he made "A Daughter of the Gods."

If so-

Is it the Settings that count ?

"THE SPANISH DANCER ranks among the twenty-most expensive pictures ever filmed, for it cost nearly $1,000,000.

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ton are to abide and be governed by the HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE 9.15 Commencing Monday, September 27th.

The Harbour Office warns shipping that for two months divers will he em- ployed at Kennedy Town in the erection automatic self-recording tide gauge. Vessels using the Sulphur Chan- nel are therefore requested to proceed on slow speed:

of

The master of the 3.s. Shirela (British) from Calcutta and Singapore, reported to the Harbour Office yesterday afternoon that during the voyage one Chinese deck passengers died from heart failure. A report from the s.s. President Medison (American) from Seattle and Shanghai, deaths had occurred stated that two

among steerage passengers. On died from heart failure and the other from tuberculosis. There was also a case, of broken arm, and a case of broken fingers on board.

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The President Madison, by the way, encountered very rough weather on her trip from the North to Hongkong.

SHOE-SOLE CHARM.

WIDOW'S LOVE" POTION" FOR MAN SHE ADORED.

VIENNA, August 12th.

A bigh State oficial in Belgrade could not find his patent leather shoes when he was about to go to a ball. He found one, hidden away, but sole-less., His housekeeper, a young widow, professed amazement. The official reported the matter to the police.

The housekeeper has now confessed that a gipsy told her that if she mixed the sole of the man's right shoe with his coffee daily, chopping up, a small portion each morning till it was all drunk," he would fall in love with her. She loved him so much that she would cot use a dirty old role, so took one of his best shoes, He had already had nearly half the sole in coffee.

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