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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

STATIONS

Kowloon

TIME TABLE.

UP TRAINS

No. 2 Na, E. No.10 No. 1. Na, 19)Na, 14

A. LX. A.M.) A.M, "A.M. | Þ.AL. - P.X. || PJJL) PE, PE||FIL

Dep. 840 8.05 8.30 9.30/10.00/12.15 1,15 2.33 8.00) 4,30) 8,43

Yazmati...Dep

6.48

Bhatin Dep. 7.61

Taipo Markel Dep, 7.16

Taipe

...Dep, 720 -

Fanling ..Derp, 7.30

Bheangshui Dep. 7.25

3.20 10.08.14.241.31 - 8310.2012.86 1,88 —

9.28.14.39 12.49 147 9.6310.3713.63 1.51 |10.0510,47 1,03% 2,01

9.0710,1010.53 1,03 2,06 3.14

BAEmeans...Arr. 7,41 8,48 0,13 10.18.10.58, 1.14 2.12 3.20 3.40

Canton ...Arr.

12.40

5.38-

17.28

438) 6,50 450 6.09) 5.04 8.15 8.0

5.08 6.198.07 5,18 0.80) 8.17

5,93 6,35 8.21 1,39 6,41 8.37

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No. 1o. 3 A.M.A.M,

No. 7 A.M

1.3.

No, & No. 18 No.17 No.10 No. No. 23. }}

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P.X. P.X.

#

Canton... Dep.

$.20

8.05

Shamchun...Dap. 7.19 1,05.10.35 11.49, 11,56 2.384,39 6.49 6.45 Shaqarahri.Dep. 7.25 12 10.48 12.03, 5.08448 8.56 6.32

Fanling .Dap. 7.30 1,16 | 10.47 Taipo Market Dep. 7.40 3.28 10.57 Taipe ...Dep. 7.44 831 11.01 Shatin Dop. 7,57 5.44; 11,74 Yamati...Dop,R11 18 11 28

Kowloon ...ATT, B.17 9,03 11.32 (12,29

19.18 3.215.00 8.10

12.07 3.10 4.60 6.00

12.22 3.26 5.04 6.75

12.36 8,39. 5.17 6.28

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12,48 | 3,51 | 5,29 | 6.40

7,04

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HIGH-SPEED DIVORCE.

PROCESSION OF THE “UN- HAPPY IN LONDON COURTS.

40 DECREES IN A SITTING,

The decrees nisi granted in cases numbered 1 to 200 in to day's list are hereby made ab- solute."

This is the brief judicial formula of a few seconds' duration by which in the Divorce Division the

judge every week puts finis to the drama of a batch of matrimonial mesalliances-an act involving the personal destiny of hundreds of men, women and children.

It is, so far as the Court is con- cerned, u mere formality of pro- cedure, and yet upon its execution depends more than could easily be expressed.

Six months is the peried which the law usually recognises between the decree nii and the decree ab. solute the faal decree is nuto

to

ESTABLISHED 1857.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3rd, 1928. 伍拜雞

BLACK "CHIEF'S 'WHITE SLAVES.

NO DESIRE TO LEAVE A DESERT

MEN WHO STEAL THE LIONA PREY

[BY W. J. MAKIN, the Daily Matt Special Correspondeul with the British expedition into the

Kalahari Desert.]

MAHALAPYE; Bechuanaland It is curious how legends and romance surround the unknown. Here, on the edge of the least known of all African deserts, 1

have gathered many strange stories from hunters and prospectors who claim to have wandered, in this wasteland.

There are stories of unlimited wealth in diamonds, platinumn, and. radium to be found in the desert, and that in the swamps round Lake 'Gani our expedition may Sad the mythical graveyard of elephants with its treasure of ivory buried in the swamps.

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(August 3rd.)

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I wonder if there is in the world matic unless in the meantime the any more extraordinary story than King's Proctor has found occasion that of the white slaves of Mole Bowling Green . Kowloon CC.:! palale? Molepolole is a native kraal ruled over by a black chief, Taikov. Kowloon Dock. Division 11. Civil Service . Craigengowe"; buried some miles in the desers. In East Point v. Taikoo; Kowloon that kraal are two families of C.C. . Kowloon Bowling Green; tek many years ago into the desert, Recreio "A v. Recreio "B"

Tennis:- Third Division: Harried by wild Bushmen and R.A.O.C. . Chinese "B"; R.A.M.C. lack of water, a few survivors of the white caravan staggered into

r. South China; Chinese “A” r. the kraal. There they have remain ed ever since, and to-day the descen- dants of the Dutch pioneers are erls of the native chief.

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They are perfectly content with their lot. They have no desire to leave the native kraal.

Once the authorities in South Africa offered to place them on other landa nearer to civilisation. The offer was refused. They have lost all touch with civilisation.

intervene. Sometimes special circumstances have induced the Courts to hasten the decree ab solute, but this is rarely granted.

Although the extension of coun- try aisire divorce has taken enormous number of divorce cases out of London-it is estimated that the asaize in the country are now handling 2,000 divorce petitions in year-London still remains in one sense the home of divorce, for all decrees absolute" have to be granted before the three Divorce | Judges sitting in the Law Courts. There have been occasions when 400

It is suggested that in the swampa divorces have been thus confirmed of the Okavango which the expel f

one movieat, which certain- tion is to traverse, we may find (4.30 r.m. only), || 1 approaches

an automatic many of the raystery animals of Africa now believed extinct. There system af divorce, and if pre- are actually rumours of a bronto sent indications are any guidesaurus having gone north from the it looks as though the hear-Orange River. In the region of the Orange River natives tell stories ing of the actual divorce petitions a beast of the veld that they call will in the future become even the groot slang," and Cornell, specdier and more systematised.

the South African explorer, is the one white man who professed to The Judicial Formula,

have seen the gigantic beast. Forty decrees, ziel ura often granted by one Judge in a single sitting Early in the century dozen matrimonial cases a list was looked upon as fairly heavy, and couasel 10 those leisurely days would open the case with a detail ed statement before the calling of evidence.

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Most interesting of all the secrets Now when Brown . Brown is that the expedition will attempt to called, the petitioner rushes to the salve is that of the nomadic Bush- witness box just as the Judge has form of inan exist in a desert with- inan. How can this most primitive pronounced a decree nisi in the previous case, and the formality of out water! We know that he lives proving the marriage and the good deal on melon and that he charge is accomplished in less than conceals, water in

eggs buried in the sand. five minates. The decree granted

For food he often follows the with the judicial stucento Decree, costs, custody," wife or husband, kill his prey, and then stares-it spoor of a lion. He lets the beast petitioner leaves the Court with

Away. Half famished, as he usual- the witnesses, waiting friends in the corridors greet them and they is, he falls upon the kill. procession movet away to pass other little family "crowds" who are dexterously making for the same place of relief under similar- domestic circum- unhappy

stauces.

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Queen's Regimental Band Concert,

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Queen's Theatre: "The Red Mi!

World Theatre: "Heaven on Earth."

Star Theatre: “After Midnight.” Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, 4.30

P. King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.

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Sunday:

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Queen's Theatre: It" and "A Day's Pleasure."

World Theatre: "California."

"Wild Horse Star Theatre: Mest,"

Ten Dance: HK. Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Monday. (August 6th.) Golf: Captain's Cup and Bogey Fool, Fanling.

Queen's Theatre: "It" and "A Day's Pleasure.**

World Theatre: "California." Star Theatre: Wild Horse

Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

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Star Theatre: "Forbidden Para- dise."

Burging Crowd On A Busy Day, On a busy day when the three Divorce Courts are sitting and

Tea Dance: H.E. Hotel, 4.30 p.m. perhaps 150 cases are listed, the

Madame Acrore Lauth-Sand, Principal Mails:- Outward: vestibule in the new Divorce annex grand-daughter of George Sand, Europe vid Marieilles (Gloucus), is often packed with a surging the famous French woman novelist, 2.30 p.m.; Europe vid Victoria mass of people-apart from coun has lost her case againet M. Jac B.C. (President Cleveland), 10.30 sel and solicitors there are the ques Boulanger, critic and liberary a.m.; Europe vid Siberia and vid parties in the matrimonial suits, historian, who in a recent book Vancouver B.C. (Empres of Cana their witnesses, MANUFACTURED BY ·

relatives and recalled her grandmother's love da), 5 p.m. fricads, while babies are often affairs with illustrious people of RIGAUD, PARIS tucked away in corners on the her time.

seats to repose or cry while the M. Boulanger in his work refer- divorce drama within the court red to George Sand's liaisone with doors-which, aknown to their in such famous perens sa Alfred de nocent minde may so intimately fuset, the poet, Jales Sandeau, son affect their lives--is being enacted. the playwright, and Chopin, the

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The divorce mill grinds on im perturbably and remorselessly. In a week of this term the judges have heard about 500 divorce cases and passed the 2,000 total since the year opened.

And hundreds more are already down for trial.-Lon don Daily News,

Mme. Lauth-Sand complained that this constituted an attack against her family's name.

The Paris courts decided that when the fame of a writer has made of him a histories! person- age, the whole of his life is open to review and comment, provided always that this is dont truthfully and without malice.

As no error of fact or malicious intent had been proyed against M. Boulanger, it was declared that Mme. Lauth Sand had no grounds for. her suit

Wednesday.

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World Theatre: "The Boy Friend."

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