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Our London Letter.

THOMAS HARDY'S

FUNERAL.

THE ARRANGEMENTS AT THE ABBEY.

MR. ARNOLD BENNETT'S PROTEST.

CHALLENGE TO PHILIPPINES TRADE IN HEMP.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ]

Lowpus, Jaa. -lat.

My reference to Thomas Hardy in last week's article was written at the moment when it was believed he had recovered from his illness. But he was a very old nan, and, suffering a relapse, his end came very suddenly. The papers have been full of his work and his place in Eterature. There could scarcely have been more written in the way of homage on the passing of a popular king.

ENGLAND'S PREMIER PEER.

THE YOUNG DUKE OF NORFOLK

KEEN ALL ROUND SPORTS. MAN

all Butts of West Sussex will end one of the county's greatest rents of the year on Friday night the ball, given at Arundel Castle by the Duchess of Norfolk. says the Evening Standard of Junie 18th.

It is expected that the gathering wi number from 800 to 1,000 people..

The beautiful Baron's Hall, where the ball will take place, is nearly 200 feet long, and the scene will recall the splendour of other days.

The young Duke of Norfolk who a great hunting man, is not 21 till next year. He is head of the rage of England, and hereditary Earl Marshal

Arundel a prophe ace in this function something pția return to the old splendoar that has been

DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day.

Golf: Berry Pool, Fanding. H.K. Jockey Club Annual Race Meeting (fourth day, gymkhana),

Yachting, 2.45 p.m.

Kowloon Bowling Green Club Closing Day and Distribution of Prizes, 3 p.m.

Civil Service C.C. e. Kowloon C.C.; Cricket League:-Division I.:

Royal Navy Royal Artillery, Division II.: Club de Recreio e. University 2nd XI Civil Service C.C. XI. t. Kowloon C.C. End XI.

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Hockey-Sim Shield Final:

overshadowed; of late years because NAV), Army. U.S.R.C ground. KING EDWARD

of the necessity for economy fol- Towing payment of the heavy death Dake's the late on The remarkable fact in this can. duties nection is that Hardy was a retir. £17,000,000 estate. D

Round Arundel no one spenks ing modest man who hated, pub-except in terms of the highest licity, and for years never emerged praim of the young Duke. from the seclusion of his home near

Dorchester. It is not many years since his photograph was first published He had the telephone at his house, but he never used it himself until 1021 when he spoke by telephone for the first time his life, and he was as pleased në A child with a new toy. He med to ring up his friends for the plea sure of the thing. The incidebt is trivial, but it throws a ride-light on his mode of rec

Ai>A. Hovalist, There has been a great deal of writting about Hardy as a novelist, But I doubt very much whether he is read to my extent by the pre- sent generation In the 'nineties, however, he was a "best-seller," though the phrase had not then been coined. There is a marvelous power in his work, but it is all over- shadowed by a profound pessimiem. Hix stories have been compared with Greek tragedy, the characters playing their-appointed parts, and the drain of life as he eww it and presented it moving to its inevit able and "destined end. like the de- crce of Fate. One wonders whether posterity will accord him the place in literature given him by his con temporaries as the greatest writer of his time.

The Abbey Burial,

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9th Ordinary meeting of the Bank of East Asia, 10, Des Voeux Road, 3,30 p.

Tes Dances: H.K. Hotel and

Hotel Savoy: 1.30 p.m.: Lane,

Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30

P.; Cale Regent. 5-6.30 p.m.

Cafe Regent and King Edward Hotel dinner dances, & p.m.

"He is a splendid fellow, pood looking, an athleter an excelent shot, and good at cricket and lawn

Repulse Bay Hotel Carnival. South China Command lat An- tennis," a resident said to me to- day. He is as fond of motoringnual Boxing Tournament. R.A.S.C as he is of riding a horse.

The Duke is also a splendid dancer, and he is looking forward keenly to the bolt on Friday. His interest is shared fully by his sisters and the whole pounty. The gathering, however, boked on as a strictly private brent.

*** The Duchas litrileen - respon. siblo personally for all the ar rangements.”

a business frm with no qualifica tions for the delicate, task allotted to them is a question Mr. Bennett cannot understand.

As things turned out, only two tickets were sent to the Society of Authors, two representatives of Literature, being apparent can sidered all that was required at the rational funeral of the foremost figure in Literature. Perhape, it is not surprising that there were a undred vacant places in " Poet's Corner, while of course all the available accommodation could have heen filled many times over had the ceremony been managed differently.

Two Oak Chests, In bis wildest flights of "imagino There have been a good many tion Thomas Hardy never expected mysteries connected with the pier that he would find a last resting at Southend-on-Sea that stretches place in Westminster Abbey. He for over a mile from the shore. wish was, in fact, often expressed Passengers on the P. &. hoats that he should be buried in the bound for abroad know it as they churchyard at Stineford, a place he leave the Thames, looking like loved. As a Dorset man he made thin streak of indigo on the estuary. the Wessex country famous, and

But there bas never been a more many think that it would have been perplexing mystery to visitors to fitting had he been buried there. Southend than that of the two oek But the offer of & grave in the theats. They have been bolted to pational Valhalle was accepted by the decking of the pier at its ex his wife the lady who was hie treme end in a position to allow the recretary, and whom he married tide to wash in and out of holer after the death of his first wife. with which they are perforated, A compromise was, however. And for a year at intervals savants made: Hardy's heart was buried have arrived from London and at Stinsford in the grave in which looked inside. his firat wife was interred, and after cremation his ashes were laid by the side of Charles Dickens in Poet's Corner. Dickens was the last eminent.novelist who W45 buried in the Aitey.

Parade Ground, Whitfield Barracks (third night and finals). 8 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Magic Flame."

World Theatre: "Tolanda." Star Theatre: Tin Gods" The Banyard Musical Comedy Company present Queen High, Star Theatre, 9.15 pm

Principat Mail - Oorward; Ептора cia Marseilles, (Khyber). 10.30 m: Europe Siberia (Shantung), 3.30 p.m

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Golf: Bogey Pool, Fanling. Dress Rehearsal for Miss Violet Capell and her pupils annual danc ing display, Queen's Theatre, 10.20

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Fanling Hunt: Paper Hunt. Sheung Shui Police Station, 11.30 a.m.

Yachting: 3th Championship Race for Cruisers.

Theosophical Society Lecture, Crawford's Restaurant, 6 Lane,

p.m.

Queen's Theatre Topsy and Eva"

World Theatre: "The Man Upsairs."

Star Theatre; "The Night Cry." The Banvard Musical Comedy "Review of Company present Revues," Star Theatre, 9.15 pm.

Principal Mail:-Inward: Canada, U.S.A., vtc. (President Taft).

Monday.

Rain Water (I»«Shwi). Golf: Captain's Cup (ladies) semi-final: South China Command Golf Meeting.

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Kowloon Besidents' Association 8th Annual Meeting, St. Andrew's Church Hall, 8 p.m

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The chests contain hundreds of yards of Seal hemp and Manila hemp, both kinds being subjected to the action of sea water as a test. Hitherto it has been held that Sisal rope rots in sea water

Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8 p.m. Arrangements Criticised. more quickly than Manila benip,

St. Peter's Church Young Men's it would not be surprising if the and that it swells more when wet Club Debate That a University way in which such things are done fed. Henes the prolonged experiEducation is not a necessary pre

ment. The final report has just lide to Success," 8.30 p.m. in the future was severely revised. The offer of a burial in the Abbey Department for Overseas Trade, Eva."

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An Imperial Question. Thomas Hardy the astounding prac- There is an Imperial aspect to tice was adopted of putting the the two oak bests, us will be ap

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Mr. Arnold Bennett has made a spirited protest. He declares that used on ships for hawaers comes the Society of Authors was the from the hemp grown in the Philip obvious and proper body to be en- pines. But the result of the ex- The Dances: HK Hote! and trusted with the allocation of places neriment at Southend gives ground Hotel Savoy, 14.30 p.m.; Bice Larie. for the funeral in Westminster for the belt that the trade will Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.

4.30-6.30 Abbey. The Society includes in its be diverted, and this would mean Crawford's Restaurant, membership every author of note in two millions sterling per annum for p.m.; Cafe Regent, 5-8.30 p.m. the country, and besides Hardy a new British Empire industry. Hockey Club 2nd XI. Tamar; was its President. Why the public The Philippines are of course under B.N.O.S.C., King Park, 6 pm. at largo and those associated with American control, and the mono- uthorship bould have to apply to poly of the hemp business seems in (Continued on next Column.) a fair way of being ended -HB.

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