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HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.

[ORDERB BY LT. COL. C. D. BIED, D.S.O., COMMANDANT.]

No. 334 1.-Arms,

All rifles and bayonets will be handed into store immediately for the anaual inspection.

1-Corps Band.--

All ranks will parade na strong na possible at Corps Headquarters at 3.30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19th, 1928. "

3. Battery,

Lecture on Theory. This will be given at Corps Headquarters on Thursday, at 0 p.m. This is a volun- tary parade.

4-Mounted Infantry Company. Parade at Stables at 5.45 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19th, 1929. Plain clothes.

Parade at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Friday, June 15th, for M. Instruction. Plain clothes, Field Day. There will be a field day on Sunday, June 24th, 1999, Parade at the Dragon Garage at 9 4. Further details will be given

later.

5.-Motor Cycle Section. Monday, June 18th. There will be a practice run in the New Ter- ritories Parade at Kowloon Rail- way Station at 5.30 p.m. Dress: Mufti

6.-Infantry Company. The following parades will be held on Fridays as hereunder at 5.30 p.mat Corps Headquarters, dreas for recruits mufti, belt and side arms, for N.C.O.'s multi,

EA TO KILL A HUSBAND.

CHARGE AGAINST A WIFE,

DETECTIVE PLAYS GUNMAN,

New York. Michael Henchard, in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Caster- bridge, cold his wife for five guineas. The police of Patchogue Long Island, roves! an even grin mer episode of a woman who is said to have sought to hire an astasein to kill her husband for £4, with the promise of a good spa hetti dinner if he were successful.

This is the story the police re late after arresting Mrs. Is Aus tin, 23 years old, and her boarder, Arthur Abadore, a labourer, of the same age, on a charge of attempt ed murder.

Somewhat naively, it is alleged. the woman confided, her desire to obtain a gunman to a neighbour, who thought it wise to inform the police. To obtain better evidence detective decided to impersonate the gunman and offer his services, He was welcomed with alacrity, the he suggestion being made that should shoot the husband while be was at work so that insurance for £800 could be collected.

Closing The Deal. To this the detective "domarred and proposed killing the unfortu- nate Austin in lonely spot not far from his home. Then, say the police, Abadere came in and im proved upon Mrs.» Austin's grim proposal by suggesting that if the masquerading guaman would also dispose of his wife the two plotters would be able to marry and pre-

Recruits June 15th and 22nd-sumably live happily ever after.

Squad drill with arms.

wards, N.C.O8-June 15th and @2nd-

Vickers Machine Gun. All those who wish to qualify for promotion are invited to attend these N.C.O.'s classes. "

7.-Scottish Company, Musketry Part I. All ranks of the Company who are liable to fire Part I. and have not already done so must do so at Taikoo Range on Sunday, June 17th, 1928, at 10a.m. This is the last opportunity."

Range. Officer: Capt. K. S. Morri

son.

Transport. Motor truck will leave Corps Headquarters at 9.30 a.m. to convey those who are firing to the Range.

Dress: Uniform.or mufti optional, but rifle, bayonet, pouches, braces and belt must be worn.

Arms will be drawn from Corps Headquarters on Friday, June 15th, between 9 a.m. and 12 noon, or 2 and 4 p.m. or 5 and 6 p.m.; and on Saturday, June 16th, between 9 1.m, and 1 p.to.

Vickers Gun Class of Instruction will be held every Monday at Corps Headquarters at 6 p.m. commencing Monday, June 24th, and it is hoped the class will be well supported.

8.-Portuguese Company,“ Friday, June 15th, 1898. Recruits will parade at Corps Headquarters. at 5.30 p.m. Dress: Mufti, belt, and frog, rifle and bayonet.

For his double deed Abadore, it is stated, offered to pay £40 The detective asked for something on Account to close the deal, and when the money was handed to him he slipped out two pairs of handcuffs and arrested the two tempters.

Austin, who is a gardener, wha working when informed of his wife's arrest.

He remarked that he had suspected something of the sort, and with shrug of the shoulders turned to his task of watering flowers.

DIVORCED DUKE AND DUCHESS.

JOINT-HOSTS.

BALL FOR DEBUTANTE DAUGHTER.

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An historic house in Mayfair was the scene on May 17th of a brilliant ball which was given by a million-

aire duke and his former duchess,

who divorced hint

The host and hostess were the Duke of Westminster and his first wife, now, married to Captain James Fitzpatrick Lewis. The ball was given to celebrate the coming out of their débutante daughter;

15th, 1928.

BRITISH GIRLS' SMILE,

NOT TIGHT-LIPPED AND HARD,

WHAT WOMEN ARTISTS SAY.

British girls smiled at an Ameri- can's description of them as bard of expression and tight lipped." And British men smiled too.

The American "had visited the Royal Academy after a seven-ysaTI absence from England, and he told a Daily Mail reporter that he portraits of the girls, whose faces noticed a marked change in the lacked, he said, sweetness and soft-

People said they had not noticed it, and as for the American's chil

engo to find one happy, smiling girl" well, as one girl who most certainly was smiling-said, "Look

and see.

The American did not get the slightest support from the many women artists exhibiting in this year's Academy!

Far Happier.

They told a Daily Mas reporter that they readily accepted the American's challenge to find happy and smiling girls. Two of the views were:

Miss Dorothen Sharp, who is ex- hibiting two pictures: What na unfair criticism of English girls! I have been to the United States, and know that English giris com pare more than favourably with their American sisters. They have much better complexions, their figures are as slim, and their ex- pressions are far happier, and' they have no trace of Transatlan- tic hardness English girls are more often neat than over-slim, As the American suggests. Mias F. Lion, a painter of girls: Every woman will agree that the American's impressions are false. I am certain from my experience that English girls are the sweetest in the world, and I think I would rather paint them than any others.

WOMAN SELLS A THEATRE:

CHARLIE CHAPLIN IN "PETER PAN."

£120,000 DEAL.

Mias, Violet Melnotte has at last succumbed to one of the many offers made to her for the Duke of York's Theatre, London, since the death of her husband, Mr. Frank Wyatt, a few months ago.

She has sold it to Mr. William

which owns the original lease of the London Pavilion, and until re cently chairman of Buszards. The price is said to be in the neigh bourhood of £120,000.

Hutter, chairman of the company

"My husband and I built the Duke of York's Theatre thirty-six. years ago, calling it The Trafal held at 66, Brook Street, the two called me Mad Melpotte' for gar," said Miss Melnotte. "They century-year-old mansion which is doing it. Sometimes I think they now used chiefly as offices by the were right. Running a theatre is

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VICHY-CÉLESTINS

Obtainable at Hotels, Clubs, Chemists and Stores, or from the

Sole Agents :

Monday, June 18th, N.C.O.'s and Nos. 1 and 2 of Lewis Gua Sections will parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. for Lewis Gun Instruc-

tion. Dress: Mufti.

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9---Strength.

The following recruits are taken the strength and posted as

under-

No. 1338 Pte. S. E. Edgar, No. 2 Platoon, as from June 8th,

1028, No. 1337 Bandsman L. Fernandes, Corps Band, as from June 8th,

1028,

No. 1338 Bandanan F. Danenberg, Corps Band, as from June 8th, 1928,

No. 1330 Pte. A, Xavier, No. 10 Platoon, as from June 8th,

1029.

No. 1340 Pte. F. X. S. Remedios, No. 9 Platoon, as from June 14th, 1998.

10. Promotion.

No. 1185 L/Sergt. A. W. Hay- ward to be Sergeant and Platoon- Sergeant of No. 1 Platoon, es from June 12th, 1928, vice No. 1130 Sergt. H. C. B. Way resigned on leaving

The French Store the Colony.

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KEATING'S

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administrators of the duke's estate. More than four hundred men and women, including members of the leading families in England, were present at the ball. The duke and the former duchess received their guests standing at the head of the curving stone staircase.

a great strain.

Charles

For eighteen years Frohman leased the theatre, and he was actually on his way sign a renewal of the lease when he was drowned in the Lusitania, Then I ran it myself.

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$930 DAY. Hong Kong Fire 7*0 wat Day.............7 I have grown tired of walking. Staabote..... up the long flight of stairs to my HK. It is many years since the duke office at the top of the theatre. Indo-Chinas (Frol) buy.

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KENYA'S FINANCIAL PROGRESS.

NAIROBI, East Africa, No. 073 Bugler B. F. G. Jones

Lieut.-Col. Sir E. Grigg, the and No. 1001 Bugler C. S. Pile, from Governor of Kenya Colony, ad- No. 2 Platoon to Corps Headquar- dressing the Legislative Council, tera, as from June 8th, 1928.

announced a surplus balance of Heference Corps Order No. 333 £883,000 at the end of 1997 compar para. 18 No. 1060 Pte, W. D. Owened with a deficit of approximately is transferred to No. 1 Platoon and not No. 2 Platoon.

22-Struck Off The Strength. *- Having left the Colony- No. 1130 Sergt. H. C. B. Way, A No. 1 Platoon, as from June

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1. A. WOLFE MURRAY, Major,

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NOTICE.

the same amount at the end of 1923.

He contradicted statements that any native taxation was spent in services for other sections of the community. He foreshadowed in- creased expenditure on education with facilities for all races, and | anadunced that the Government would consider the Native Land Trust Bill, the Land Bank Bill, and a compulsory cattle cleansing ordinance in June.

Corps Sergt.-Major H. Westlake, D.C.M., Bombardier L. F. Nichol son, The Battery, L/Corpl. D. M. Richards, Infantry Co., Pto, A. D. Wyllie, Scottish Co., one member of Portuguese Co., and Fte, A. Morley, Reserve. Co.

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SALE OF METHUEN & CO.

NEW OWNER HAS "NEVER READ A BOOK."

The Daily Express announces that the purchaser of Messrs. Methuen & Company, the pub- lishers, the sale of which firm has been eagerly discussed in financial and literary circles, is Mr. George Roberts, of Wimbledon, a retired London business man.

The price paid is in the neigh- bourhood of £300,000, and the desi closes a spirited battle between in- dividuals and many of the foremost publishing firms, which has been in progress for many months.

Mr. Roberta was for more than twenty years a director and man- ager of Mesare. Peak Frean & Co.. ther biscuit

Re manufacturers. was the inventor of the well-known "Pat-a-Cake "biscuits.

*Moderate Moana,” "Now that you have discovered me," said Mr. Roberts to a Daily Express representative, "please cor- reet the rumours that I am # speculator or financier. I am mere- lya privata man of moderate means. I have bought the shares of Methuen & Co. firstly as sa in- vestment, and secondly as a matter of private interést. I was persund.. ed to purchase by the fact that since the death of Sir Algernon Methuen this famous firm has made greater progress than even during his life- time.

"My meetings with the four men who control the businessMr. E. V. Lucas, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Muller, and Mr. Kilby-quickly. convinced me that my investment could not be in betto keeping. It is possible that new blood, in the person of a young fada well known› in the literary world, may join them.

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