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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WEDNESDAY APRIL

* GLEN" LINE LIMITED. WOOED ABOARD LINER. NAVY'S SILVER PLATE.

NOTICE TO CONS'GNERS.

From United Kingdom and

Straits.

Consignees are hereby notified

DIVORCE SUIT AGAINST PURSER HUSBAND S

DISTRIBUTING TROPHIES OF "SCRAPPED". SHIPS.

A four-day's courtship aboard that owing to a Fire in the After a liner, which was followed by Hold a General Average has been the marriage of the ship's purser doclared. It is therefore nooés- and an heiress to £18,000, was sary for the Average Agrooment mentioned in the Divorce Court to be signed and a Deposit of 15% recently. " paid before Bills of Lading can be The heiress, Mrs. Ruth Made- countersignod,

lino Cavendish, of Abingdon Goods damaged by Fire or court, London, petitioned for a Wator will bo surveyed by divorce on the ground of her hus Messrs. Goddard & Douglas on band's alleged misconduct with 1st April at 10 a.m.

two women.

The Steamship GLEN- Miss Margaret Moreau and Mrs. SHANE" having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Dorothy Brand intervened, and cargo by her bro hereby informed the husband. Mr. C. A. W. D. that all goods are being landed Cavendish, denied the charges. at their risk into the hazardous Mr. D. Cotes Preedy, K.C., for and/or extra hazardous Godowns Mrs. Cavendish, said she came of the Hongkong and Kowloon from an ancient Irish family, but Whart & Godown Company, was born in Australia. Limited, whence, and/or from

Her husband was employed by the wharves, delivery may be the P. and O. Steamship Company Goods not cleared by the 5th He was 35 at the time of the mar- April 1926 at Noon will be subject ringe in 1914, and she was 21.

obtained.

to rent.

Courting in Liner.

All broken chafed and damaged

The previous year Miss Smith, packages are to be left in the Godowns where they will be ex-as she was then, sailed in the

SHARE PRICES.

TODAY'S QUOTATIONS.

Banks.

The following is the Hat of looal Though the Navy List may be share quotations issued to-day searched in vain for "Officer Com manding Silver Plate," the Navy must own a record collection of the silversmith's arta collection richer than the most splendid prize ever taken on the Spanish main, | When the "County" class of cruisers were built before the war,

and the Admiralty paid a county the compliment of naming a ship after it, that county usually, res- a challenge trophy for the crew, or ponded by presenting the ship with a piece of plate for the officers' mess, or both.

Then came the war, the Navy grew so rápidly that the Lords Commissioners spent sleepless nights thinking out new names for ships. Place-names were used so frequently' that the Navy List read like a gazetteer, and generally there were presentations symbolle of civic or county pride.."

Canada's Silver Returned. With the end of the war came a wholesale scrapping of warships. Before the war, when a ship went out of commission, she deposited

ing-off part, where they remained, till another ship bearing her name

rame into the feet.

But under the scrapping policy there disappeared from the Navy dezens of place-names that could) never hope to be revived, and the question arose of what to do with the collections of silver that were turning officers' messes at the chief naval ports into museums,

amined in the presence of Con-steamship Mooltan, and was much her plate and trophies at the pay- signess by Messrs. Goddard & attracted to Mr. Cavendish. With Douglas on 1st April 1926 at 10 in four days they were engaged a.m. Claims against the steamer to be married. including those for cargo short: At that time she was under age, delivered must be presented on but he gave her a signet ring the special form provided, and bearing the coat of arms of his must also be submitted with in family, and she returned to Aus- 30 days of arrival otherwise they tralia, She suggested that Mr. will not be recognised,

(Cavendish should buy a home, but he explained that he was, for the moment, embarrassed financially. When Misa Smith reached 21 she was to come into £18,000 under her grandfather's will, 20 she agreed to cable Mr. Cavendish £1,000 to provide a home.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.

Bill of Lading will be coun- tersigned by

JARDINE,

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Agents. Hongkong, 30th March, 1926.

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THEOSOPHY

"BEINCARNATION, THE LIGHT ON LIFE'S DIFFICULTIES,” · will be the subject of this week's public lecture of the Hongkong Lodge The Thaosophical Society, 7, Daddell Strout, on April 8th. et b p.m. The Meeting is open to the public.

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 11, Ica House Street, in, the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

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The Admiralty decided on redistribution, and some of the plate and trophies belonging to vessels that had little, while suit- "dead" ships were lent to other

the Sports Board for use as prizes. able pieces were handed over to

Some were returned to their donors. For instance, 30 splendid of silver presented by

She later travelled from Aus- tralia, and they were "married at St. James's Church, Westminster. She then found that only a part pieces

of the £1,000 had been spent on Canada and Canadians to HM.S.) the home, and they had to go to Dominion (scrapped adme years an hotel.

Her husband's salary was £600 a year with perquistes of another £600, and her own income £1,100 a year. This she spent on main taining herself, and later their two children. :

"Charming Lady."

ago) have been sent to the Navy Department at Ottawa, "and thef New Zealand's ensign (with a great gaping hole torn by a 12-inch shelt at Jutland) has gone to the Wei- lington museum.

London's Cruiser. When the new cruiser London is At the end of 1921 Mrs. Caven-she will receive the splendid col- ready to take her place in the fleet dish received a letter from her lection of silver presented to her husband, speaking of & Mrs. namcanke scrapped after the war. Dorothy Brand, a charming lady, The old London had who had been aboard his ship. presentations from the city of her and who, he said, had stayed in name, including cups, shields, a the same hotel in Sydney as he ship's bell modelled on the Bow Bell, and a silver replica of the Tower of London, used as a centre-) piece in the officers' mess.

¡ bad.

From that time his manner to wards his wife was altered. From

many

Repulse, which during their tours with the Prince of Wales had riches poured upon them at almost every port of call.

a passionate man he became Two of the luckiest collectors of colder, He continually came silver are the Hood and the. home fate, and used to say that he had been to the club.

Early in 1923 Mrs. Cavendish's sister brought to the house a Mias Moreau, who had come to England The Hood boasts, among many in the Narkunda. To Mrs. Caven.trophics, a buffalo's head, an ole- dish's surprise, her husband greet-phant's tusk, and a Bible, the latter ed Miss Moreau with "Hallo, gift from a British Columbia Margery"

Bible Society, and believed to be Shortly afterwards Mrs. Caven-unique. among battle-cruisor

trophies. dish told her husband that she was going to leave him, but, with

tears in his eyes, he begged her

not to do so, and to forgive him, and then he gave à definite pro- mise to give up Mrs. Brand.

Mrs. Cavendish, finally left her husband in 1924, and, although she wrote to him later, offering to forget and forgive all for the sake of the children, he refused

to return.

The Reading dog which is in the habit of accompanying his mistress to church is evidently influenced by ancestral momories, for in the 18th and oven early 19th. centuries dogs were such frequent churchgoers that a special official, the dog-whippor, was appointed at many places of worship to eject them. Painful experience had taught those whippers-out

Hongkong, $1,055 b.. Chartered, £211 n..

Morcantilo A. and B., £30 b. Mercantile O., $134. b. P. and O., £91 n. East Asia, $80 b

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North China, Tls. 145 n. Canton Ine, $625 b. China Underwriters, $1,95 b.

Unions, $2814b. Yangisze, $40 n.

Fire Ins.

China Firos, $170 ̈b. Hongkong Fire, $550 b.

Shipping.

Douglasue, $28 n.

Steamboats, $241 b. Tugs, $27_n. Indo-Chinus, $38 Shell Trans., 87; b. Star Ferries, $63 b. Waterboats, 815 n. Oriental Nav., $250 n.

Refineries.

"China Sugare, $22 ̈n.

Malabone, $35. 1.

Mining.

Benguets, $1.75 r. Kailana, 42/- b. Langkats, Tls. 231 b. Shai Explorations, Tis. 5.10 ea. Shanghai Loans, Tla. 5 b. Raubs, $5.00 b. Troncho, 61/- b.. Ural Caspiana, 8/- A.

Docks, etc.

Kowloon Wharves, ⋅ $131 Whampoa Dooks, $60 n. Hongkowe, Tis. 162) b. New Engineorings. Tls. 5.30 b. Shanghai Docks, Tla, 100 b.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

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Cottons.

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Tramways, $25 sa.

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MARITIME. CONFERENCE.

SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS EXAMINED.

Brussels, April 5. ̧. Light Switched off.

Sixteen countries were repre-i Last June private detectives that haphazard grabs at elusive sented at the opening of the Inter- employed by Mrs.

Cavendish animals were futile, so they national Maritime Conferenca watched a house in Clarges-street, armed themselves with for here. Piccadilly, from A car, one ofmidable dog-longs for holding M. Vandervelde, In an inaugural them posing us a chaffueur. them at arm's length. There is address, emphasised the need for Mrs. Cavendish was called, and a sot of those tongs preserved at unity of maritime law, and a con when she arrived they knocked at Bangor Cathedral, where, as ba-ference of the world, inter alia, the door, which was opened by fits such a curiosity, they are to examine conventions regarding kept in a glass case. They are

Miss Moreau.

room doo

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They got inside, but Missfully extended-they are collapsi- mutual assistance by ships, and strongly made of oak, and when rules in the case of collisions, Moreau turned out the light ble, like a movable telephone also the connection between ship When it was switched on again,arm-are about three foot in mortgages and bills of lading, and said counsel, Miss Morcau was length: At the "business end" furthermore, the question of the standing with her back to a bed-there are formidable teeth, cruel immunity of State-owned vessels, teeth to modern ideas, for getting in which connection the Confor She then locked the outside door a good grip on struggling doze. ence must decide whether it is and suggested that they could A Carnarvonshire sot is dated as possible to retain the old legal look in the bedroom, but no one late as 1813. was there, and Misa Morena sar-

conceptions as regards State- castically suggested that Mr.

owned vessels-Reuter. She did not know that her hus- Cavendish, being a small man, band had, known Mias Moreau's, might be hiding in a trunk which father for 20 years, or that Miss was in the room,

Mr. Cotes-Preedy said that be-when she came to England on the od two imported cases of small- Moreau had been put in his charge days onded the 5th, instant show- hind a curtain in the room was Narkunda. another door leading to the hall. Before the marriage she was and one occurrence of cerebro- pox, two cases of typhoid fever An action for slander was threat-aware of her husband's assocla- spinal foror. All wore Chinese. oned by Miss Moreau but nothing tion with a lady whose name be came of it.

In

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The health return for the five

gan with an E, but he promised. The Wah Tze Yat Po contains cross-examination, Mrs. to have nothing further to do with a report to the effect that, as a Cavendish denied having boen her. Since the marriage she had result of agitation in Bwatow, very friendly with a man named discovered !. nletter. ending, martial law has been doclared "Jim" or that she had flirted with "Ever thino, E."

there. Enquiries made this morn him.

The hearing was adjourned. ing fail to confirm the news,

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