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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1928.

LONDON LIGHTS UP AMERICAN CITY.

1,"

- ROMANCE OF A FORMER

HUDSON BAY FORT.

SEANCE HELD IN A.

DRESSING-ROOM.

SPIRIT OF TERRISS FAILS TO WALK.

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A unique ceremony, unwitnessed The ghost of murdered William save for a few officials, was con- Terrias did not walk one night at

the Adelphi Theatre, when ducted in silence at 4 am. one cance was held in June's dress- morning, in the Board Room ating-room by the Society

for Hudson's Bay. House, Bishopsgate, Pyschical Research. London.

Mysterious rappings have been heard by Juns in her dressing- By pressing a button, Mr. Charles room, to which Terriss was taken V. Sule, governor of the Hutson's when he was murdered, and this Bay Company, turned on the lights seance was held to snare the in the city of Vancouver, Washing ghostly noises. ton, U.S.A., & distance of over 6,000 milco,

"I conducted the investigation,' anid Mrs. Eve Brackenbury to Daily Chronicle representative.

try again later..

:

A direct cicctrical impulse had been arranged over a complicated "Nothing happened, but we are to system of telegraph wires and cables in itself a great achievement in or ganisation.

In the Gloamin'.

"As far as possible the conditions were reproduced under which June and an American woman friend have heard the rappings on and att for the last two months.

The hour, according to Pacific Coast time, was then 8pm:

Originally a Hudson's Bay Com pany post, Vancouver, Washington

"The lights were turned out, (not to be confused with Vancou- there was a bright fire burning and ver, B. C.), is proud of its origin. wa three just chatted in the gloam- When its authorities sought to Ing, or remained silent on and off mark tha city's enterprise betiyeen 6 and 7 o'clock."

in installing what is cinimed to be While the seance was on a Daily the most up-to-date system of street Chronicle representative spoke with lighting in America, they turned for Miss Cicely Courtneidge, who oc the inauguration to the great trad-cupies the adjoining dressing-room. ing company whose fort on the "The most remarkable story of head-waters of the Columbia River all," declared Miss Courtucidge, "is has become the city of to-day, that of one of the night fremen.

Baptised in Rum.

The Mystery Bell.

"He was alone in the theatre It is exactly 103 years ago, since when, about 2 o'clock in the morn George Simpson, then governor offing, he heard a bell ringing on tho the Hudson's Bay Company, found-premises.

ed Fort Vancouver, as recorded in "The sound was in the theatre the following extract from his itself, but eame from a part where diary, dated Märch 19, 1826 :---- no bell is!

At Sunrise mustered all the "The thing baffled him. He was people to heist the Flag Stalf of the so certain he had heard the ringing now Establishment, and in pre-that he telephoned to the police, Bence of the Gentlemen, Servants, in the end the theatre was searched Chiefs and Indians, 1 Baptised it without any result.

by breaking a Bottle of Rum on the "The fireman firmly believes that Flag Staff and repeating the follow-the mysterious ringing is just one ing words in a loud voice:

of the many manifestations, now

"In behalf of the Houble, Hud-taking place in the theatre, sons Bay Company I hereby Name "I am Lold that June's dressing- this Establishment Fort Vancou-room is the room where ver God Save King George the Terriss was taken after he | 4th." with three cheers.

inurdered. The room was not his

poor

was

Gave a couple of Drams to the dressing-room, but was a room in people and Indians on the occasion. the house next door, which at that The object of Naming it after that time was no part of the theatre it- distinguished Navigator is to in- self."

dentify our claim to the Soil and

Trade with his discovery of the

River and Coast on behalf of Great OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.

Britain.

MUST BE WRITTEN IN CHINESE.

The settlement of boundary lines: between the United States and) Great Britain, under the terms of the Buchanan-Pakenham Treaty of 1836, necessitated 'the abandonment by the company of Fort Vancouver,

Shanghai, Apr. 18. which was included with the United:

The Finance Ministry has cir- States territory; but the city has never forgotten its founder. It has cularised the Superintendents of preserved "the oldest apple tree in Customs instructing them to notify the north-west, grown from sced the Commissioners, that all bills brought from London, England, and vouchers, notices, documenta, and planted in 1826 by the Hudson's accounts, cic., should hereafter, Bay Company"

Ibe written in Chinese-Router.

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~OP 1928/

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A doctor said the girl scratched CATTLE USUALLY THE ONLY her finger 18 months ago, and had

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