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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY

(November 10).

11th day of Rejab. Mamak Hockey Tournament: Tamar

1st H.E.S. Battery Marina), 4 p.m.

Ladies' R.H.K. Golf Club, Moet ing at Helena May Institute, 11

3.m.

Meeting of Legislative Council,

2.30 p.m.

Taits Manila Carnival, Kow- joen

PRIEST RUNS A TOTE TAX GATHERING IN.

CLUB

** MY MEN GET A SQUARE DEAL NOW !*

NIGERIA

ALARM THAT ENDED IN COMEDY

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Qturpko (Nigeria)-I was tired. I had been' talking most of the day -thrents, eurses, wheedlings, praise,

A tote club organised by a Roman, Catholic priest, Father Carless, rec- tor of St. Ann's Church, Borwick- road, Custom House, in the heart of dockland and a stone's throw from the West Ham Greyhound Rac. ing Stadium, was opened by Alder man Lellinge, chairman of the Westall directed to one and, to get this backward Pagan area in which I Ham Education Committee.

bad boos touring to pay their taxes, For several days the various ham. Heads had been soming to me and explaining the most wonderful. and amazing things that had hap pened to them and their villages, and how they were unable to com- plete the payment that day, but, assuredly as the sun would set, they' would bring in their tax to-morrow evening:

The Berwick-road tote club has al ready a membership of more than Annual Hong Kong Boxing 1,200, including 200 women. The Asixiation Menting..

men are lockers and other working men belonging to St. Ann's Social Club, which Father Carless has or ganised and developed.

Theosophical Society Mest, 6 p.m. Lammert's Sale of Postage Stamps, 5.15 p.m.

Oriental:

Theatres

"Yellow Ticket." Queen's: "Innocents of Chicago." King's Sunshine Susic" Star: The Rosary." Central: "Night World."

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Dances:-Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel Dinner Dances at Peninsula and

Hong Kong Hotels and King's

Nestaurant

Sunrise: 6.3 2.1..; Sunset: 3.42

Tides:--High at 7.35 and 20.15; Low at 1.15 and 13.15.

FRIDAY

November 11).

12th day of Rojab.

Armistice Day..

St. Martin (Martinmas).

0.30 ..

Cost £11,000,

|

He started his club is a tiny tin but nine years ago, St. Ann's Club

They would come as arranged, but is a spacious building with a fully unfortunately another amazing ex- Licensed bar, dance hall, converterienes would have befallen them room, a roof garden, ar open-air which had prevented them bringing boxing arena seating 3,000, a first- class kitchen and facilities for hot baths. Membership for the tote costs 1a, a year.

in the promised money.

After several days of this my patience was as sorely strained as "Nearly all our members back was their ingenuity in finding fresh excuses. I was sitting outside my horses and dogs,” said Father Car- | rest-house in the evening, when a less to a Daily Express representa mesonger arrived with, the English tive, ** It is one of their pastimes--mail. laside a bulky pareol I legitimate pastimes in my opinion.found some gramophone records. As I wanted to see them get as fair luck would have it, I had my gramo. chance as possible. That is why Iphone with me on tour, though I organised this tate club. Under the bad never played it. I knew all the tole the man who risk their hard-scratched and dusty collection, of earned money will be the ones who records by heart. will get most of it back.

"The profits will be used first to pay for the club itself, which has cost £11,000, and later to improve their social life.

"I may seem to some an unortho-

Stealthy Figures.

Later that evening while I was trying the new records, I saw a dusky form stealing stealthily amid the shadows at the further end of

King Victor of Emmanuel 111. of dox move for a clergyman to orga-the compound. I gazed intently and Italy born, 1809.

nise a gambling club, but my men saw another, then another; in short, Service in St. John's Cathedral, were gambling in the streets, and I there were a great many noiseless

wanted to see that they got a square forms creeping about in the dark. Ceremony and Laying of Wreaths deal. They are getting it now un-

der the tote." it Cenotaph, 13 n.m.

Charity Football Match, Prob able Luterport team . The "Rest " Clate in Club ground, 4, p.m. nid of Earl Haig's Fund.

Mamak Hockey Tournament: Incognitos" e. Phoenix (Navel ground), 3.30 p.m.; 12th Battery r. Royal Signals (Sookunpoo), 4.36 p.m.; R.A.M.O. v. Radio (Caroline Hill),

p.m.

Kowloon Chess Club Meet.

Ex-Active Service Men's Dianer and Smoking Concert as the Penin sula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.. Queen's: ** The Chicago."

Theatres.

Inocents

of

Not quite sure what it was gli about, I called my boy, but without avail. No help was at hand, so I rotired inside and barricaded the oper mud doorways. I saw that my revolver was loailed and that spare PAGAN KING'S HOMAGE TO rounds were clore at hand.

SAINTE THERESE

ROYAL SCEPTRE GIFT

Now that I came to think it over, perhaps I had been a little abrupt and incredulous of their lateat ex- cases. That was the reason, of

COUISE,

I am not a brave man, and it was

Paria, Oct. 1.-A loyal scoptre offered in homage to Sainte Therese has just been placed in the There- sian Museum of Lisieux, Normandy therefore with a feeling of reliét The donor is a native ruler in that I discovered next morning that Afrion, Zounon Medjc, "King of the I had not been murdered. In fact, Night," of Porto Novo, Dahomey after breakfast, I was feeling very The sceptre. is of chony, decorated much alive, so I truculently inquir with silver, and was accepted by ed of the village Head what the Monsignor Francois Picaud, Bishop meaning was of last night's episode.

of Lisieux.

King Zounon Medje, though a pa King's: "Deadlock." Queen's: "Innocents of Chicago." gap, is a great admirer of Sainte Therese, and this gift is an expres Star: The Ghost Train." Central: "Night World." sion of gratitude for the humanita Oriental: The Yellow Ticket."rian work done by the Carmelite

Order in his kingdom.

Dances-Tea Dances at Glouces tor, King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel; King'a Restau- rant; Peninsula Hotel, and Glou- vester.

Suprise: 4.34 a.m.; Sunset: 15:42 1.DB.

B.M.A'S NEW MEDICAL SECRETARY

ATHLETE AND SURGEON

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Magic Box.

At Arst he denied all knowledge, but later admitted that certain Braves of the village had crept up to listen to my "Magic-Box-that-sang." Seizing this as a heaven-sent in- spiration, I explained to him that my Magic-Box would sing again to- night if "so much" of the tax were forthcoming.

In three days I had the whole of the tax collected.

The triba I had been visiting had been noted for its lawlessness, so neg

Dr. G. C. Anderson, deputy medi-long afterwards I was again in the Tides: High at 8.90 and 20.35; cal secretary of the British Medicalaren. To my amused surprise, I Low at 2.01 and 10.41.2-.

Association since 1919, has suscoal-found many of the people peaccably. Inward:~Eudore eia Negapatamed to the post of medical secretary employed in making wooden boxes. which they filled with stones that by Kator Maru

of the naacciation upon the retire-rattled when they turned a handle.

This music may not have bad the ment of Dr. Alfred Gox.

subtlety of electrical recording, but Before joining the contral staff of assuredly it had "charms to soothe the association, Dr. Anderson had the savage breast."-London Morn considerable experience in general ng Post. practice in Fifeshire, and was medi-

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