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A Police Problem. Frank d'Aquino, a Portuguese Mr. E T. Raymond, whose vagrant who has become a fami. volume of "unpublished portraits" liar figure at the Magistracy, was attracted wids notice two years again before the Magistrate this ago, has just produced a similar morning on a charge of absenting ralume, but whereas his firstihunself without leave from the Demand treatise was concerned with con.House at Detention to which he 10 d/s temporary figures he now casts had been previously consigned by 50 dis back two or three decades, so his Worship.

The defondant pleaded that he may be said to deal with an

Portraits of had been sick and was discharged Civil Government the earlier generation."

(Unwin.

153.) from the 'Nineties

we Hospital as recently as the 17th. 10 show how far serves

since those inst. have travelled days. The book deals largely with political personalities, and of the men who were then to the fore. only Mr. Balfour on the one side

His Worship: But you said and Mr. Asquith on the other still

The you were discharged on the 17th. tigure on the active list.

The defendant: I was dis

the House of latter caused a sensation by his appointment to the Home Secret-charged from aryship at the age of thirty-nine, Detention on the 18th to go into a member of the Cabinet being er Hospital. I came out four days

The Magistrate asked where

he had been the rest of the time.

The defendant: I Hospital

器

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T Shanghai TT Singapore.

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NT Japan T/T India...

11316 200

Damand, India ...... TT San Francisco)

& New York.f T/T JAVA.eeve T/T Marks T/T Francs Demand, Paris ......

5414

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4 infs, Marks....

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pected at that time to have attain-480.

Mr. Franks, Superintendent of ed the dignity of grey hair, or no

that the dofendant wan hair. In the nineties, until the the Gaal and House of Detention. General Election at the close said brought the total up to elevan, never sent to the Government there were but two Labour mem-Civil Hospital from the Detan-

4 m/s. Francs 6 m. Francs......... 825 bers of Parliament, Mr. John tion House. He was given leave Burna and Mr. Keir Hardie (Mr.of absence until 4 pm. on the

the 11th instant, but did not retur Demand, Germany. Thos Burt, who became

The Magistrate again ques-Demand, New York 343 Father of the House," was reckon-

***...... Noco.

200 ed as a Liberal). It is an oft-told tion the defendsat as to his star TT Bombay

Demand, Bombay ... T/T Calcutta tale how the member for Merthyr, outside. on bis first appearance within the precincts, was arrested by the

Demand, Calcutta policeman on guard, who mistook the cloth-capped legislator for athe House of Detention yon mus: Demand, Manila"

obey orders.

D'Aquino: I did not want to

tramp.

01ore

D'Aquino: I stayed with friend after leaving the Hospital. The Magistrate: If you live in

There was perhaps glamorous ray shed by the go ther

Mr. Fraks said that it would footlights over the stage of public life in the nineties than there is be useless to send the defendan to-day: the first in pression of Mr. to gani as he was not of very Rasmi contenis table is that sound cold. He was really not criminally inclined. During the A Beto a istoguished set of names. Gladstone. Salisbury, Har. right years witness had known him the defendant was a standing court, Rhodes, Rosebery, Rin- Cap Churchill, Morley, Cam-joke with every inmate of the Fram, Battour-the politicians House of Detention, and was getting into trouble.; is theme Ives are a "galaxy," to always

Sub-Inspector Grant, in charge) use the word that best expresses the general sense of dash and of the case, suggested that the brillianec. Has the breed fallen Portuguese community should do of. or bas the putlic changed something for the defendant. its spectacles? Mr.

Raymond

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SUBSIDIARY COINS.

His Worship re erred the caskong 50 ct. piece 1/10% p remarks upon the political de- to the CS.P. and was subsequent- cline of the historic families informed that the C.S.P. at tal present could think of nothing in

Democracy

10 5

1/2 pm.

par. 16.6% dis

abte bt may

the way of helping the defendant. Canton sub coins

•hrow up

interesting per-

It was suzested that d'Aquice sonalites as any "old order," but their pathway into politics is not should return to the House of De. Hanekone Oct. 28, 1921.

ve: a plain one. The easiestention until other arrangements

could be made.

D'Aquino: don't want to back to I want to go stay here. Macao.

Will you The Magistrate:

there?

D'Aquino: Yes. I have no wish!

WEATHER REPORT.

access to the House of Commons today is for the trade union fficial or the manied arriveste, and neither type is given 15) parkling. Some of the Victorian notabilities might have to face

Oct, 28d. 11h 15m-Pressure Jifferent tests to-day, bet in the

to stay in Hongkong any more. bas decreased moderately over ars of being interesting, at any

taving been i decision

central Japan. and slightly la rate, they have not been passed

arnved at the defendant by their succeR÷018.

inacin referred to the C.S.P. As other districts. cut their It may be that they

je Aquino left the court he was Ngate, to some extent, by shirrest, remarsing to his guide

This

Chins

The anticyclone over has weakened slightly and the ing and passing on to us tasks on mind you give me back litepression to the north of the My bags, purse Bonins is moving E. Prash! all me property.

mnasson wit' continue along the watches, rings and money,"

S.E. coast of China, and the N. China Sea.

which they should have made in They were earlier beginning. 4-faulters both in national defen and in social reform, "of the w.. the world was going," ur author) -one what justly says, "of the real forces at work, the nineties ad) lit eorception." The Eriu-b

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a distinctive ring. The Duke remained silent for en minu'ra Then he suddenly exclaimed: "Good God!"

people's interest in war in those The distinction between Cham

retained throughout"

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dass was "ather like a virtuousberlain and the highest orators is -pinister's interest in wickedefined as his inability to make FORECAST FOR "THE 24 HOURS ness, and the insight of its rutes the hearer feel that there was ISG AT NOON. TO-MORROW, into the responsibilities of Empire more in the speaker than he coulc was not upon the whole, more ever articulate." Lord Morley profound. A curious feature of the has time is the position frequently indefinable suggestion of the

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Mr. Raymond has studied his an understanding of the Japanese Formosa Channel strong. subjects with attention and if his mind is that which has been tran- details are seldom novel, or his slated under the title of "Diaries perceptions original. bis apprecia-of Court Ladies of Old Japan tions are mainly just in substance (Constable. Is. net.) It contains and happy in phrasing. He the journals of three ladies! Ascribes Lord Rosebery's defeat moving in the highest circles at a in politics fairly enough to the time represented in English is missing "babit of unresting, un-tors by the reigns of Ethelred and intermitting exertion: of com-Canute. The entries are thickls plete devotion to the thing in ponctuated with these epigram- Cecil Rhodes, again.matic poems which were the "was strangely content with the currency of polite interesurse a H.K. Observatory, Oct. 28, 1921, companionship of quite inferior the time, but they also containi it thus happened that personal portraits, ertei-ms of manners. descriptions ftress and be was deprived of sound and di interested advice when it would ceremonial, acd in one case a pro- millennium, bat Mr. Cuthbert have been of the greatest set-longed record of amoreus ex Edward Baines. In “The Black rice." The gulf across which the perience. The tone and spirit of Circle," which won the priza in typical Englishman reposed to these ladies of a thousand years Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton's strong a trust in the Duke of ago will extori admiration. They First Novel Comnetition, pictures bé no Yuu Devonshire is happily suggested get high standards of conduct for it differently. When England be and cultivated a came a place of happy and pro- in a story that was well worth themselves.

conscience in the speroussmallholders-itis allsup- digging up, whatever its degree sensitive

disturbed. realising of them. Bat they did posed to take place in 1940-biz Mon. 24 m 136 of truth-

The Duke had seen in the not withhold from each other's financial interest Wara paper that somebody had given attire the attention common in a Contented people living in the T1523 a certain bride a set of napkin western and later world, and country no longer spent money Wed. 254163 rings. He worried about the touches of gossip creep into the in towns, and this did not suit

the most the financiers. So there were Thar. 21 6 5 6.5 me: ning of this until he came records

plots against Cauldonite, the fertiliser, across a knowledgeable, man, fatidious.

What would be the result of millennium-bringing who, he thought, could explain what napkin rings were. The the discovery of a vast deposit and all sorts of exciting amateur sat 29 explanation was given that in of fertiliser so rich that it enabled detective work is set on foot to

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