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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
"DOPED" WOMAN'S
ESTATE.
ALLEGATION THAT WILL WAS A FORGERY.
TO SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU, SHANGHAI,legates of
KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
"THE SUNSHINE BELT."
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FRIDAY, JULY
22
1927.
BEAUTIES OF THE. CALANCHE.
CONSIGNEE NOTICE
HOW THE GODS ENTERED
VALHALLA.....
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. AND
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM
NAVIGATION, CO., LTD,
Consignees per Company's Steamer "ADRASTUS"
From UNITED KINGDOM vis SINGAPORE.
DISPUTED SIGNATURES.
A. GORGE IN CORSICA.
Serious allegations were in- "It would be by such a way that volved in an action in the High the gods entered into Valhalla," Court, London, in quall week, said the viola-player when words concerning the estate of Mrs. were sought to describe the red Augusta Mary Madeline Coke, granite labyrinth of the Calanche Claverton Street, Pimlico, who de Piana. The comment came died on April 24, 1925.
from a recollection of a Covent The plaintiffs, the governors of Garden setting for Das Rheingold, are hereby notified that the cargo will Wharf thu. London Hospital, Whitechapel but no painter for the stage has be discharged Into Holt's Road, claimed to be residuary put on cloth such a shining array Kowloon, where it will lle at Con- П will executed in of pinnacled, perforated, scooped-signeo's risk and subject to terms and January 1914, and propounded out; twisted, and incredibly fantas-conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf that will as contained in a draft tie rock masses as some long past The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 20th July. and asked that probate of an convulsion piled in confusion to
Optional cargo will not be landed alleged will of April 21, 1926, make this maazing mile of Corsi here, unless notice has been given should be revoked and pronounced can scenery. It is said that artists prior to steamer's arrival, but carri against,
who visit the region of the Colan-ed on from port to port to the inal ehe look at the brilliant maze, ac part of call to which the option cept its defunce, and depart for oxtonda. the softened loveliness of Porto or for Evies, where boldness is not beyond translation. There are Corsican landscapes in the Paris Salon his year, and a collection of local water-colours is for sale in an. hotel at Piana, but no picture of the Calanche is among these works. A P.L.M. railway poster can be seen throughout France, and even in Piccadilly, showing a fragment of the pass at a point where it has the character of & corniche. The sheet betrays
The defendant' Mr. Martin Harcourt Waters, said to be an auctioneer of Salisbury, did not appear and was not represented.. Mr. D. Cotes Precdy, K. C., for the plaintiffs, said that Mr. Waters obtained probate of the alleged will dated April 21, 1925, three days before the death of Mr. Coke A very serious issue was raised of forging of a witness's name to the last alleged will and, said Mr. Cotes Preedy, he was not surprised that the defendant was not present.
newspaper a report of an inquest touching her death, and it then transpired that Martin Harcourt Waters had given evidence that he was residuary legatee named in the will of which he eventually probate dated April
Mrs. Coke, who had been licence, but it does not overstate, married twice, had quite a con- for imagination could not lend siderable estate when she died.anything to the Calanche. Mr. Henry Philip Ensell, a The village of Plana straggles solicitor's managing clerk, made over the flattish crest of a hill. and the draft of the 1914 will which has a higher bill for background. was executed in his absonce. A fair road, which leads to the reil From
Mr. Ensell went to the war, and gorges, is so quiet that green Arriving ut N. York
he did not see anything more of Bizards sun themselves at its side, Mrs. Coke until 1919. Subse- and are only disturbed occasion- Aug. 24 Obrg-B'hapte Aug. 30 Sept. 3 'brg B'hmptu Septently in 1925 he read in the ally by a passing motor-car or the Sept. 6 Pmth-C'brg Sept. 12
slow tread of a burdened donkey. Supt.
17 C'brg 'hmpto Sept. 23
Away to the left the rocks of a Sept. 21 C brg.bmptn Sept. 27
ravine dropping sharply to the sea, 1Cbrg-8'hmpin Oct Oct.
1,300ft, below, offer an attractive Oct.
18 Cheg: Shmpin Oct. 11
though, for this part of Corsica, Det 16
Curg B Oct. 31
not a remarkable outlook. Un- Oct. 22 brg S'hmptn Oct. 28
usual flowers, including the white Oct.
obtained 20 C'urg S'hmpta Nov. 4 Nov. 2 bri-Shipta Nov.
sistus, the rock-rose which domi- Nov. 12 C'brg S'bmjitu" Nov. 18 Mr. Ensell was supicious of the nates the scented Corsican maquia, capacity of the deceased lady in fringe the road. "Walking on a view of the statoments made at morning when the sky, overhead the inquest. The Governors of the is intensely blue is pleasant, and London Hospital had it brought the air has a gift of exhilaration to their attention that a will had which is absent late in May at heen left in their favour, and they Ajaccio. A great cherry-tree had said counsel) taken up the loaded with ripening fruit is pass- attitude that it was a public dutyed at a turn in the road, and then. to bring the matter before the little more than a mile from the Court.
village, a bridge over a tambling. sireath is crossed and as abruptly s if one had passed through door the first stretch of the Calan- che is reached.
TO SEATTLE AND VICTORIA. VIA SHANGHAI,
KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,
THE FAST SHORT ROUTE"
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PRESIDENT ADAMS
PRESIDENT GARFIELD PRESIDENT BARRISON
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PHENT PIERCE
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Sailinge.
21, 1925.
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Glowing Red Rocks.
Estate "Probably Dissipated." The defendant having had possession of the state since 1925 it had, with the exception of some pieces of property in the joint names of solicitors, probably Above, below, and all around are been dissipated. Owing, however, the mighty rocks, glowing rel to the seriousness of the allega- masses of granite and porphyry. tions that one of the witnesses Here and there is a pinnacle or an to the alleged will never signed isolated hump whose shape has the will-the Governors thought produced an accepted name. it a duty to luy the facts before the Court.
There is a Bishop, seated on his throne with mitre and staff; a The will executed in 1914 had group known as the Virgin and the not been found. Mr. Coles Preedy Child, a bear's head, a dragon, a said that a document dated April dog, a calf's hend, "le cure et ses 16, 1925, purporting to be a will vicaires," and many others in the of the deceased, and making Mr. unique defile. They are labelled Waters her sole heir and also her trifles in a panorama which sug- executor, was signed "G. Gibb" and gests a multitude of images. "E. Fenner," the two witnesses in Every change of light provokes the last will, but it was alleged fresh comparisons. Tracing pic- that they never signed the docu-tures in the fire when the curtains ment. Counsel added that he have been drawn is a modest.pas- would satisfy the Court that the time contrasted with the play of will was not only a forgery, but the mind'stimulated by this lavish that it was not properly, executed. spread of material. Turrets and Mrs. Edith Emily Fenner, the spires, gargoyles, portraits-there wife of Mr. George Richard Fen- is a definite head of Poincare- ner, who uses the name of Gibb beasts and birds emerge, and are said that in January 1925 Mrs. lost again, Morning mists rising Coke occuppied furnished apart-between dark red walls make a ments in her house in Claverton witches' cauldron, while half-a- Street, Pimlico. She was nearly mile away across a gorgé sparkl-. always under the influence of ing sunshine lights up towering morphia and drugs, and was not fit rocks which can be nothing but a to make a will. The signature on citadel. A sitting Buddha, the document of April 21, "Edith sphinx, 1 scowling Chinaman, Enity Fenner," was not her (witpicked out on one visit, cannot be nesu's) signature, and the other found when, with the sun nearing signature was not that of her the west, the rond is traversed husband.
again. Unchanging as they are,
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Dr. Frank Gotla, St. George's the rocks always seem to alter be-1 Square, London, and Dr. A.tween morning and afternoon. Abrahams, physician to the West-
Half-way through the Calanche minster Hospital, were called to the road rises to a point where in prove that in April 1925 Mrs. Coke its construction, a way had to be was incapable of business. Dr. blasted through the granite, To Golia described her as in a cordi- pass through the gap is to leave tion of "dope" under the influence one phase of enchantment for an- of morphin.
other: Rugged escarpments give Mr. Henry Philip Ensell; the place to a second sweep of mug- solicitor's clerk, who made a draft nificence beautified by the loveli- of the 1914 will, gave' evidence of ness of part of the Golfe de Porto, Lustruction he received, and of the The rocks are still red, still fan- capacity of Mrs. Coke at the time, tastic, but beyond a more verdant Yusang. Fri. 29 July at Daylight. The President, in his judgment, gorge than that which comes into Hangsang Fri, 22nd July at 1a.m.wild the case raised very serious the first half-mile lie the serene Cheongshing Fri. 22nd July at 5 p.m. questions. He held that it was blue waters of the Mediterranean. The astonishing scenery of the Mingsang Satur. 23rd July at 8 am 1925 the testatrix was incapable Calanche ends almost as abruptly
abundantly clear that in April TSINGTAU Swatow & S'hai Kwaisang Satur. 23rd July at 10a.m. of making a testamentary paper as it begins. The rocks thin out a SHANGHAI
..Chakeang Sun. 24th July at 10 am that could have any testamentary bit; more Bowers appear; new TSINGTAU Swatow & S'hai Ifangsang Wed. 27th July at 10 a.. effect.
rlimpses of the bay are. given. SANDAKAN
.Mausang Wod. 27th July at 3 p.m.
He pronounced against the will One more among the many bends STRAITS & Oaloutta
Laisang Thurs, 28th July at 3p.m. of April 21, 1925, which bequeathed of the road brings into view a last TSINGTAU Swatow & S'hai Yatshing Sun. 31st July at 10 a.m. the estate to the defendant. He assembly of pinnncies. As they OSAKA viɑ Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Į Kumsang Tuos, 2nd Aug.at 7 a.m. was satisfied that the will of 1914 ere approached they take the shape
Yokohama & Kobo
was duly executed, but it was not of red giants, grotesque and deri- TSINGTAU Swatow & S'hui Kwongsang Wed. "3rd Aug at 10a.m. in existence. The difficult ques- sivo. A few steps and they have BANDAKAN
...........Hingang Fri. 5th Aug ut 3 p.m. tion arose whether it was in force been passed. The bay opens up! STRAITS & Calcutta .....Hosang Satur. 6th Aug at 3p.m. at the death of the testatrix. Ho the castle of Porto squats on its TSINGTAU Swatow & S'hai Waishing. Sun. 7th Aug at 10 a.m. found that she revoked it, probably jutting cape: all around is brack Kobe via Amoy, S'hai,
J Kumsang Wod. 10th Aug at 7x.m.
by destruction.
en and the maquis, amid which Moji & Yokohama
The paper in the case, he added, dainty wild cyclamen is flowering, would be sent to the Public Pro- A lark sings overhead. All that secutor. There was strong prime is here fa exquisite. But the my- facie evidence that fraud had been stery of the Calanche soon calls. committed.
The visitor is drawn back to the red rocks.
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