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CARELESS LONDON..

LARGER PREMISES FOR LOST

PROPERTY OFFICE..

1,229 LOSSES IN ONE DAY.

London travellers are growing in creasingly careless in their habits. Last year they contrived to leave behind them no fewer than 163,079 articles, which ultimately found their way to the Lost Property Oce, and the forgetfulness is in- creasing so rapidly that the authori-

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15th, 1927.

SHAKESPEARE IN MODERN

DRESS.

DESDEMONA IN, AN OPERA CLOAK.

·COURAGEOUS LONDON

AMATEURS,

The King's College (London) Dramatic Society, following the

PROFESSOR AND DOG NEW YORK MANNERS AND | LİBERIALISM IN ECLIPSE.

CHARGE.

MAGISTRATE'S VIEW..

·OUGHT NOT TO HAVE BEEN

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CUSTOMS

DANCE. PARTNERS HY CARTURE

STRANGE LONG DRESSES,

SOCIALIST ROWDYISM'

INCREASING.

A study of the figures in the recent Smethwick by-election, which resulted in the return to Parlia

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Holy Communion at 8

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The case concerning the purchase One of the Cambridge underment of Mr. Oswald Mosley, shows of dogs for experimental purposes graduates who, with 20 others, are that. Mr. E. Bayliss, the Liberal, by University College, Gowerstreek, paying a social visit to New York, succeeded in detaching from the fashion of the times recently, camb St. Pancras, W.C., recently cams ‡ thus describes the manners and Conservativa saly 2,800 anti-So Address by Rev. & 7. Vanh, X.X,Ca forward with a modern Othello before the magistrate at Clerkenwell customs of the natives:- (- Franco-Italian uniforms, evening Felice Court. Georgs Fhipps,

cialist votes and he therefore We met our hostesses directly we forfeita his £150 and he therefore dress, whisky-and-soda.

Labourer, of Albert-street, Kilburn, landed. We are now marvelling at forfeits his £150 deposit Personally, writes Mr. Hubert

ja. One of us was so occupied in Apart altogether from the ordi- gazing around him that be felinary expense of contesting an down four flights of marble stairs election, Liberal candidates during to everyone's amusement.

ties have thought it advisable to grifth in the Evening Standard N.W., was charged on remand with the wonderful houses wo are living

the

obtain larger premises for the recep- tion of what travellers abandon.

Hitherto the collection of things London forgets, accumulat ing at the rate of about 450 a day, has been boised at Now Scotland Yard. This office has been closed, And applications are now made at the new building at 109, Lambeth-

road.

the modern dress manner of doing stealing a wolfhound mongrel, the Shakespeare seems to me incompar property of Mr. Frederick Smythe, ably the finest stroke that has been

at Doughty-street, St. Pauctas, brought to the service of the un fortunate bard, since the first mis W.C., on November 19th. A sum guided enthusiasts had the unhappy mons against Professor Verney, of idea of dressing him up in clothes the college, for receiving the dog that no one understands, and play. ing him as though he were a was also heard. mystery that neither they nor the fathom audience could possibly expected to

Mr. Ernest Wetton, prosecuting, said that what he would have to satisfy the magistrate on was that Professor Verney had the dog in been stolen.

Soon after landing on Monday we attended a dinner at which 40 people were present, given by Mr. Vanderlip at Pierre's, and this was followed by our coming-out dance at the Ritz-Carlton.

the past year have lost £1,050 in forfeited deposits. The £150 de posit, which must be lodged with the returning officer, is returned only if the candidate polls more than creeighth of the total votes rather awed us and especially did elections, the deposits of the Libers! The six hundred people there chat. In 7 out of the last 1a by: the presence of three times as many Dumbartonshire, Darlington, Both- men as girls But the astonishing well, North Hammersmith, Walis candidates have been for feiled at

about in groups all over the hall room door, leaving little room to dance.

*Stage" And Cutting In. They call these men "stags," the whole group the stag line.".

Whenever a stag" wants

Tanging from a baby's feeding bottle: College Dramatic Society was not his possession knowing it to have thing was that the extra men hung end, Central Hull, and now Smeth

During the fifty-seven years of its existence the old office has received a remarkable assortment of articles,

to jewellery worth hundreds of pounds. On one occasion, as is ex. plained below, an African bear was once in the collection.

sioner of Police. He has said:

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Hr. Smythe, giving evidence, said Barry Jackson's Hamlet," where that he visited the college on

A feature of the recent by- everything very neatly was. The November 2nd. He went to a Othello himself (Mr. E. W. Beck) courtyard where there were some

elections, to which the attention of How a Scotsman left His Bear.

was good. He has a fine, booming sheds divided into compartments

is the organised hooliganism and the Government is being directed, It was in the year 1850 that the voice, which he, nevertheless, keeps Professor Verney was sent for, and police were made responsible for well in control. The Desdemons, he (Mr. Smythe) gave him a descrip-

interference at anti-Socialist meet articles left is public vehicles, and Miss Sanya Bercacenet, was charm. tion of the dog and he went up to dance be merely walks up to 4 proving-qaito inadequate to secure ings. The Public Meetings Act is the Lost Property Office was estabing in her earlier scenes, then lost the end of the courtyard, opened couple dancig and takes the girl a fair hearing for anti-Socialist ished in 1880. Since then London's it again, and only recovreed in time the door, turned up a light, closed away from her partner-a curious speakers, and many who would at losses have continued to increase to do the final duologue with Emilia the door, and then came back and custom which seems hardly cricket tend their meetings are discouraged to a remarkable extent. In the first and the "Willow Song" perfectly said he was very sorry but he could to u year 2.000 articles were deposited in beautifully. The Ingo (Mr. T. Dod do nothing without the provost.

from doing so by the fear that there We never got much chance to may be a violent disturbance. The the office. By 1991 that figure had man) was mostly good (wherever

Very-Fond Of It." risen to over 56,000. The las avethe part has interest).

talk, as after about twenty steps question "is one which may well-re "I told him that I was very fond we were "cut in "by someone else.ceive consideration by Ministers 10 services and visit the Reading Room. years produced an increase of 100 per cent, or that total. On one day

indeed of the dog," said Mr. If we were lucky we got half-way the near future. this year zo fewer than 1920-de- It was an uneven performance, Smythe. I said. I was 76 years of round the room with a girl.. posits were mide; on another there then. An amateur performance age, my wife was 70, and the dog were 606 umbrellas banded in The rarely anything else, or can be er. was practically the only thing wa office deals with about 930,000 pected to be. The point is, that had left to us callers a year.

Professor Verney found that the owing entirely to the modern approvest had gone, apologized to Mr. Sir William Horwood, Commis.proach to the play implied in the Smythe for the trouble he had bad, modern dress, the performance as a The removal of the Lost Property roughly ten thousand times

whole, and with all its faults, was and asked him to call again the

it was all about. next morning. Office to Lambeth will serve a two stimulating as any professional com

One does not sit out unless one Mr. Smythe continued: I went foki purpose. It will enable the pary (in tights and wigs) would d). I saw the provost (Sir T the girls dance steadily from 11 again on Tuesday morning he is very friendly with a girl, and police to improve their efficiency, have made it, and whole heavens Gregory Foster), Professor Verney p.m. to 4 or 5 A.. without a break based on the most popular of all "Hine Hoa," a delightful film and at the same time will mean a above anything I have ever zaving to the London ratepapers any amateur company achieve.

seca and Professor Lovat Evans. I told except for suppezi.

Maori legends and the first full- Incidentally, I may eny that so far

the provost I wanted my dog, and At supper, when dark bottles with length film drama to be produced. No true comparison is really pos- and after some time he told me he gold foil round the top appeared in New Zealand, was recently shown as the ratepayers are concerned, I aible. Say it is the weakness of our must admit that about 11.39 on the we rose to drink to and paas a vote privately at the New Gallery, think it would be only fair if the stage, or say it is the weakness of Friday they received a dog some of confidence and approval in the Regent-street, W. lovers of articles paid some percent- our imaginations: the fact remains what answering to my description American girl, only to find that it age on the value of each article in that the mere circumstance of Des-It was ultimately decided to fetch was sweet cider.

Hine Mos, Was order to defray the cost of recovery,

a charming, demona being in an opera cloak the dog, and he was brought in at

bronze-limbed maiden, daughter of At the present moment, apart from makes her, both for us and for the the end of a chain. I scarcely re

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a chieftais, who fell desperately in overhead charges, the Lost Property actress, a living, breathing reality Office costs £8,000 a year, and the instead of a leaf out of a dusty crawling into the room; he seemed on the height of girls but, for the and had been defeated in a combat cognised the animal as he came passed a vote of censure by himself Tai, a warrior who admired her One of us, nicknamed " Shorty," Tutaneksi, on a visit to her father. love with a young chieftain called only thing the losers are called upon book. to pay is a small percentage which ingly, and listened to accordingly. Bob," he flex to me and did every-with really tall girls. The men are to throw blame on the hero for the an immense amount of interest and

She can be played accordo differedt. When I cailed forms the reward paid to the finder. And wherever the great passages thing to show that he knew me small compared with uk

rest of us, it was a treat to dance of strength by Tutanekai, contrived The removal from the Yard will of the play coincide with even enable the police to release, pre moderately good pieces of acting Smythe said that the British Union Replying to Mr. Oliver, Mr.

theft of some tabu" food, and is exactly the kind of British We find the girls delightful. They had him banished. ・at a cost of the effect is the most overwhelming for the Abolition of Vivisection sug- are so full of life, so natural and £2,000 a year, and will secure our I have known in the theatre. For gested that he should go to Mr. E. jolly that we felt really quite at condemned by Hine Moa's father

Dansen, Mai 1 for BĀZ JADOS & GRETENIIN, JAKKE DE BARGAIN, I DR. En Cente Tutanekar's road, which he was Dominions to furnish u

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ense almost at once... Perhaps it.

WEET SVEST, BAX FILMPRODA our efficiency is affording elever co other way."

to see any classic performed in any I had lost my dog and I want. because they all do more than their to take, lay through choking. operation

ed legal help and financial assist share of the falking and seem to sulphurous quagmires and boiling WITHOUT FURE BLOOD HEALTH IS IMPOSSIBLE ance, added Mr. Smythe..

be so interested in us, the English-Hine Mos, faced with a forced springs, but he crossed them safely. Mr. Oliver: I suppose they are men. HARVESTING SUGAR CANE,Paying the costs for you!-Yes.

Strange DresSCE.

marriage to an elderly potentate, It does not seem to have very We were surprised by the dresses long distance across Lake Rotorua crept away one night and swam-the much to do with them whether your-full ankle-length skirts, tight to her lover Tatanekej, and dog was stolen or not I should waists, and no back, and the story ended happily. think so. I had lost my dog, and dancing-well, the old-fashioned of vivisection. I am as dead against the thing. The Charleston died it was taken there for the purpose chase and "skip-step is very much

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Many are the strange "finds " which have reached the office at the Yard From time to time there have been received mice, rats, cats, parrots, and Eve and dead fowls. One unusual deposit was an African tree bear brought to England by a Scotsman, en route to the Glasgow Zoo. Arriving in London with the bear, the Scotsman took a cab to his hotel. He went to sleep, and was bastily awakened by the cabbie. He overlooked is animal friend, which had also fallen asleep, and it was eventually, deposited at the Yard by the driver.

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it about to take place in Queensclosed the magistrate (Mr. Dum given for us. Many debutantes were After the case for the prosecution Recently a tea reception was land," says the Industrial Ausmett) asked Mr. Wetton: Where is invited to meet us and we had our tralian.

It is the invention of Mr. Ralph possession of Professor Verney? best talk with the American girl in play most naturally. "Hine Mon VETARZO

the evidence that the dog was in frst ever acted before, though they S. Falkiner of Brisbane, and was You say that Professor Verney went two million surplus women do not dancer called Maata Murihanganui, worked experimentally at the end to some kennels and came back and exist here, and that men are much while the hero's part was taken by herself is a well-known Maori of last season, when it gave" a said he was sorry but could do more numerous than women in the Mr. Akuhate, an amateur wrestler highly satisfactory performance. nothing because the provost had social whirl.. harvester will save £800,000 a year vost was concerned.

He claims that the use of the gone. It seems to me that the pro-system exists, and on it the girla

And so the present of splendid appearance. base their popularity and attrac (Continued on next Columin).

We are being most wonderfully

entertained.

on n 4,000,000 ton crop. Its capa Mr. Wetton said that Mr. Smythe tiveness by the number of "cuts" city is 40 tona an hour, and the was referred to Professor Verney, the ot cost for fuel an hour is 58. Mr. and the description of the dog was Falkiner says that the company will given to him. He went to the ken- ut, top, and load for 4a. 6d. a ton. pels and then came out again, ard The average cost a ton last year he (Mr. Wetton) asked the magis- trate to infer that therefore he knew He added that the world's crop of the dog.

Was 86.

Life Savings. Another strange story is that of a London stage hand who left his life's savings in a tram. For some reason the man had for years boarded his savings in a biscuit tin underneath the stage in the theatre where he worked. Eventually workmen were engaged in the theatre, and the man decided to take his board, which by this time had amounted to close on £800 in notes and gold, to his home.

LABRADOR'S RESOURCES. He boarded a tram with his tin and 150,000,000 tone of sugar care The magistrate ́ asked Mr. Oliver went fast asleep. Upon arrival at has up to the present been all cut what his view was

BUTTER FROM WHALE OIL. his home he realised what he had by hand.

Mr. Oliver: I am very loth to let left behind, and in an agitated mood

The efficient performance of this the case go off on this ground, and "Butter will soon be made from spent the entire night haunting the work by machinery would make net it be suggested that that was whale oil, which will be equal in tram depot. The tin was ultimately tremendous difference to the sugar the only defence I had that Pro- ritamin content to the best dairy brought to the Lost Property Office. industry."

fensor Verney was not technically butter," declared Dr. Wilfred Gren "When the man came along and

in possession of the dog. This is fell, founder of the Labrador saw his savings being counted out.

monstrous proposition."

Medical Mission, in lecture at his face," said one of the assistants, in January, and the Receiver's on public duty, and it seems to me Street, W. He revealed some of The Magistrate: I am sitting here the Polytechnic Hall, Regent was a picture of joy, but when he Stores, the removal of which will be that if the prosecution have not the wonderful resources of Lab was asked to pay 224 for the reward completed early in February. These proved their case it is my plain duty rador, which most people regard as myface changed. He grumbled, but is also a large motor garage. when we reminded him that he was

to say so without any reference to a frozen waste, but which is rich the luckiest man in London he paid in a fire-resisting structure,

The new building, of five floors, the merits of the case on either in valuable timber and furs and

side.

has wonderful whale and Mr. Wetton submitted that it fisheries. Dr. Grenfell spoke of the cod With the exception of the asphalte was quite clear that there was difference wireless has made to life The new home of the office stands to the roof all the materials used evidence that on the Monday (the in on & historic site. It was acquired are of British origin and manufac- 22nd) the dog was under Professor always the Christmas of the greet a land where Christmas is for Metropolitan Police purposes in ure. The fitting are of steel, and Verney's control 1980, when it was occupied by the there are over six miles of steel. The magistrate zaid that he did we in

ing cards for in derelict buildings of the old Lam-shelves- total of 11,000 repre- not agree, and he should dismiss the as well as you can in London.

We can hear

Big Ben striking beth distillery, dating from the benting approximately 20 tons

can tune in to a concert in Havana beginning of last century. Further,

and hear a sermon from the Dean back the historic residence, Norfolk the metropolitan area will be taken House, stood there. This was the to the new office by a daily trans Mr. Oliver: I know that one does of Boston better than the people bone of the Earls and Dukes of Port service. Practically all lost not object to a successful acquittain his own gallery." Norfolk up to the reign of Queen articles above the value of £ are but here is a case where the Low The lecture was to help raise Elizabeth. The Duke, whose life restored to their owners, and of the has been deliberately abused, not £300,000 for hospital work in Lab- was saved by the fact that Henry residue less than 3 per cent are by this poor old gentimas, Mr. ador. Already £200,000 has been VIIL died on the night before the worth over 10s., whilst 50 per cent. Smythe-

collected. day fixed for his execution, lived are under is in value. With the The Magistrate; thers, and 2160 his son os pret now premises, it is claimed that he nominal prosecutor. He is th

up.

Historic Bite."

Earl of Surrey, who, however, did

not escape execution.

with

steel framework and concrete doors.

Articles left at police stations in

summons.

College Attacked."

return of property intact and un-paying, the costs. The college were suggest that this is an abuse of the effort will be spared to secure the Mr. Oliver said the society were Verney has received the dog. I The new buildings present an im articles restored will be increased. operations under proper superrfest scandal He is brought here damaged, and the percentage of carrying out the whole of their process of these courts and a per- posing appearance, and, in addition The rewards paid to drivers last son. to the Lost Property Office, will year amounted to £10,000. Callers Being unable to attack it in any deter this sort of thing, I ask you Ton a serious charge, and you should afford ample accommodation for the at the office range from Cabinet other way, I suggest that the society to say that it is not right that this Public Carriage, Office, which will Minister to those who can only make have put up this poor old gentle gentleman of the University College operate from the new centre early their mark when asked to sign for man to suggest that Professor should be put to the expense of this

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