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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(March 90.)

Dedication of Happy Valley Cemetery Chapel, 8.45 p.m..

Chinese National Holiday (anni- voruvry of the death of the 79 Martyrs at the Yellow Flowers Hill, Canton, 1911.) ww

· Closed | Mieting, Rotary Club Tiffip, Lané, Crawford's Restaurant, 1 p.m.

Sale of Crown" Land, P.W.D., 3

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Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.13 p.m. E. K. Automobile. Association. Yourly meeting, Jarchine's Board room, 5.30 p..

Hockey Radio H.E.S.B.R.A. H.K.CC. Tonais Tournament ;

OPEN SINGLES,

T. Honda

Ng Sre, Chaug.

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP.

WITHIN A WOMEN'S PRISON

FAMOUS GOVERNOR AND HER CHARGES

· INSTITUTION THAT SHELTERS AS

WELL AS IMPRISONS.

We are standing in a sunlit yard. writes Joon Woolloombe in the London Telegraph. Towering walls Surround "as, and the yard, itsolf is. patterned with tiny strips of garden that barely hide the geomo

A. L'Sullivan, Dr. D. J. Valentrical lines of the old exercise paths,

tino.

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HANDICAP BINGLES

f. J. Brice (red. 1/9). v. N. Railton (roo 1/8).-

L. J. Ride (owa 2/6) or J., G. Lecky (owe 1/8) v. R. E. Valentine (uwe 1/8).

HANDICAP SINGLES “8.” A. E. Mc. Bride (ur.) v. E. H. Williams (roc., 4/6),

HANDICAP DOUBLES.

D. B. Robh and E. M. Bryden (rec 13) az A. H. Pann and J. R Collis (rec, 4/6) v. G. W. Beyall and L Wright (owe 30).

J. C. Lecky and J. J. Waste (ow 3/8), 5. J. H Fox and G. W. Stabb (rec, 4/6),

Another murderess served her term here, some of is under the sims Governor. She has emerged from prison to take her place again, this time as the trusted servant of a professional woman, her past erased as though it had never been,

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This, and the sinister walls above living with a friend of the Govar- us, serve as a reminder that it is | nor?""

Three of 18 are talking the Governor, who is the only woman Governor in Britain, the others a convicted murderess, and myself It is, however, the life sentence con

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the yard of a prison, one of the The usual cruciform prison most famous prisons for women building, Aylesbury Gaol, also abel- serving long, or life, sentences. ters long sentence prisoners, any thing over two years. Here it is strange to look round a corner in the grounds and see, standing in the sunshine, three prams. Several babies born hare are allowed to re- main for their very early days ne guests of his Majesty. And as guests they have little of which to complain.

rich, who leads the conversation, Band, most strangely, this deals with C. the vagaries of pedigree rabbits, of whom we we an impressive collec tion in their ne

whitewashed

W. M. Barton, and C. Bradley (owe 1/6) v. D. D. McKay and C. P. F. James (or)

FÆ Redmond and Mrs. Jänes (owe 20) D. J. Mackie and Mrs. Muckie (owa 4/6).

King's Theatre: “The Spider." Queen's Theatre: Hook, Line and

Blinker." -

Along one corridor all the cell doors are open; plein little ro decked with homely gadgets. · In The Governor, too, shows a leas one of them the occupant lies in surprising, knowledge of these croc bed, and, as we came in, she has tures, since it was she who first in-fly ill, who raises harself with an "been listeningin; a pale girl, death"

attempt at a.smile.

Central Theatre: "Around The terested this little woman in their World In 80 Minutes.

Star Theatre: Strictly Uncon- | upkeep. For, if the Governor be ventional."

World Theatre: "Springtime."! famous, so also is the murderess. Tea Dances at King's Restaurant She was condemned to death for and Hong Kong Hotel Dinner Dancas at Hong Kong Hotel, Poninsula Hotel and King's Ren- taurant.

Europeau Mail:-Outward: Europe via Biberia (Pres. Wilson) 2. p.m.; Europó via Suez (Perseus) 2 p.m. Europe via Marseilles (Te lix Boussel 3.30 p.m.:

WEDNESDAY, (March 30.)

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dreadful murder and attempted suicide, and, after her trial, con- demnation and' subsequent reprieve, came here for life.

MÜRDERESSES--AND A PATIENT.

THE WOMEN'S BORSTAL,

"And who, naka the Governor, is the most spoilt young woman in this house?" Me, Ma'am,"

the prisoner patient instantly, and smiles. It is evidently an old joke. Then we see the cause of the 'trouble kicking his heels in the air

at the end of her bed.

Across the field, but entirely de tached, is another "Big House” She has been saved from melan-Experts from all over the world cholia by her rabbits na mach as have been interested to see it-this Mootings: The Hong Kong Rope anything else, for the horror of the institution for the naughtiest girls.

Old Alloyniad Dinner, Hong Kong Hotel, 8 p.m..

„Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 11.30

4.m.; The Hong Kong Fire Insur-erime and trial had taken their toll ance Co. Ltd., noon; Union Water-

hont Co., Ltil, 3.p.m.; Society of of mind and of broken body. Now,

St. George, Jardine's Boardroom, and here. she is at least sheltered from a world that held nothing fur- Whist Drive at Seamen's Institute ther for her. It may be that she

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and Kowloon Dock.

H.K.C.C. Tenis Tournament: has one regret even now, and that Open Doubles Championship: E. Cis for her goat, a pedigree goat, Fincher and L. Goldman v. H. A. Barres and E. J. Remedios (Stand by all accounts, but deemed event Court).

undly, to be, too obstreperous.

of all-Borstal. It is interesting to follow the Governor on her rounds,

sturdy tailor-made woman of middle age, with a resonant voice and a laugh that is infectious.

Ord. paset that aids her is a readier wit and repartee than one nasociates. even with the classic Continued on Poge 2)

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