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AMATEUR

FOUR ACRES OF DISSENT.

LORD OF MANOR AND PARISH COUNCIL.

VILLAGE CLAIM.

of

Whether some four acres ground now used as'allotments are part of the village green, or the freehold property of the lord of the manor, is exercising the minds Tuf Içkenham ratepayers,

The parish council seeks to establish public right to the allotments as well as to the green; the lord of the manor—Mr. David Pool- claims that the ground be longs to aim.

At the moment the dispute has renched a deadlock; Mr. Pool com- plains of the way in which the parish council has treated him: no body apparently is paying rent for

the allotments. -

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CINEMA NOTES.

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"LES MISERABLES" AT THE

QUEEN'S.

SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928.

WHEN THE ROMANS HAD GREYHOUNDS!

MUSEUM OF IDEALS IN KENT,

Ospringe, Apr. 28. Truly did Sir Henry Miers, re- porting to the Carnegie Trustees about the sad luck of museuns in towns, point to this little village and praise its collection of Roman and prehistoric remains.

"Les Miserables," regarded by most people as by far the greatest work of Victor Hugo, transferred to the acreen by the French, is having its final screening to-day ture contains at the Queen's Theatre. The ple- many memorable scenes, and the acting of M. Gabrio as Jean Valjean is that of Chancellor of Manchester Univer Sir Henry, until lately Vice

worthy for the fact that the ma-with populations of over 20,000 a great artist. The aim is note-ity, has stated that over 110 toyas iority of the exteriors were taken have no museum at the same places as mentioned by theifamous anther in his book. tiwing to the great length of the film, “1.0s Miserables" will be shown at 2.30, 5,00 and 9.15 p.m. only.

World Theatre.

INJURED GIRL'S PLUCK.

TRAPPED 40 MINUTES IN A LIFT.

"During the forty minutes sho was pinned down the never made murmur; she just grinned and bore. It," said Mr. A. E. Shakesby, an osteopath, who was present while firemen cut away part of a lift to release Marjorie Bridge- land, an 18-year-old clerk, who was trapped between the lift and.

Society in Upper Baker street, Abbey-road Permanent Building the floor at the offices, of the

London.

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This afternoon I discovered, in Waterlane, a

An official of the Society said that Jacobean house labelled "Museum," past which while the firemen were cutting motorists hurried as if panic-through the steel framework of the tricken by the suggestion of anti-lift Miss Bridgeman, though bad- quity and inediavalisni.

ly crushed and lacerated, made no complaint. Shu merely asked how long It would take to get her free.

Rights for £25, Major Flavell, chairman of the parish council, says there was no doubt that at one time the allot- iments formed part of the greeny Tom O'Brien, Louise Lorraine.useums should be run.

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To this ignored spot came two "The Frontieranian," which is schnadboys from Sittingbourne, to be shown at the World Theatre each with a thirst for knowledge. for the last time to-day, is a story And, however much adults may based on the Creek Indinn war disbelieve it, the lads kept Mr. and the exploits of Gerieral An- | Whiting, the curator, talking drew Jackson, in his endeavour to archeology until his voice was promote peace between settler and husky and his throat as dry as the Indian. Colonel Tim McCoy and bones in his show-cases, Claire Windsor, who have the

It Was leading roles, are ably supported

an example of how It was, too, archeology with the lid off a talk of perknives and pence,

· Star Theatre,

graves and greyhound racing. and bracelets, a bangles, beads Also showing to-day for the baby's feeding bottle, flint-saws, "Our contention is that these al- last time, at the Star Theatre, is | dice and counters, hobnails, mirrors, lotments are still part of the green "The Boy Friend," an excellent cremation, and the mystery of the and that they should revert to the comedy in every way. Jolin Saxon woman who lived with the green.. The lord of the manor paid Harros and Marceline Day hend a Romans at Ospringe long before the 225 for manorial rights; it is in-cupable cast which includes also | Saxons came. conceivable that for that sum he George R. Arthur, Ward Crane,, should obtain four acres of free- Gertrude Astor and Gwen

Lee, hold ground worth probably £250 The picture in an amusing satire

on the book of etiquette.

"There is an old document in existence which makes that point quite clear.

an acre."

Mr. F. G. Oliver, chairman of the Residents' Association, says?——

“You see, boys," said Mr. Whit- |

found a ing confidentially, "we Roman cemetery a little way up the | rond few years ago, and when we dug there was all this stuff.

Denny Comedy Tomorrow,

"If the lord of the manor has)

The popular British screen

"Take ureyhound racing. People really secured such a good bargain cromedian, Reginald Denny, will be think it is a new cruze. But look as he claims, I for one wish him seen in his latest picture, "That's at this old crasp-knife we found in good luck, But the rate payers My Daddy," at the Queen's Thea-a, grave. It has an iron blade, a fold very strongly to the view that tre to-morrow and, on Monday river, and fits into a shepth just All he actually acquired in the The picture, which is full of like your penknives.

"This sheath is a metal cast of a purchase of the manorial rights amusing complications, was direct- was the usual rights over commoned by Fred Newmayer, who direct-rey had chasing a hary,

The chase must have been a Jan, which includes lekinhamed many of Harold Lloyd's films.

The large cast includes Lillian popular sport to be remembered on "On this vase is a stag being Mr. Pool, lives in a delightful Rich, Tem O'Brien and Charles the bandle of a pocket-knife.

chased by greyhounds, and here on old house formerly the ROT house, which dates linck to the 14th

a bottle is another picture of a century.

Green."

"I do not dispute," he назгу, "that the allotments once formed part of the green-in fact, I enn give you the date when they first 'ceased to do so.

Ancient Records.

Coleman.

'THREE ROMANTIC

·BENEFACTORS.

‚ MÁGNIFICENT. "ANONYMOUS

DONATIONS..

"But the old documents in my A vell of anonymity still screens possession show conclusively that the names of three members of a for nearly 80 years lords of the family who have given £100,000 manor have been receiving rents for for the extension of the Fitz these allotments, and thus the free-william Museum at, Cambridge. hold belongs to me.

" acquired the manorial rights for sentimental reasons more than anything else. My great-grand- father was baitin' to ta previatis Jord. The Court Rolls go back to 1416 and the land itself is mention ed in the Charter, Rolls of 1253, which are kept in the Tower of

Lontion.

"The greén is leased to the parish council for 19s, a year. They first tried to cunteng that this lease also covers the allotments,

When first it was known that £100,000 would be required to wet the cost of the extension there came dagations of £30,000, £20,000 and £20,000, and the only lue made public as to the door was that they were "members of a family connected with the versity."

Your by year the fund rose, but still only through Pifts from the same generous three.

A1 Cambridge University Friday it will be propused-

on

bound after a hare.

Dr. J. W. Davis, 'who adminis- tered morphia to relieve the girl's suffering, said that when she was released she said it was not neces- aary for her brother to accoin- pany her to hospital as she was All right.

Miss Bridgeman, whose home is in Belmont-street, Chalk Farm, lies in a critical condition in St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington.

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12 Slash.

14 Mark of a wound, 15 Coloured clay.

10 Walking stick.

17 Said of the arm.

19 Sprinkle.

21 Bearing.

22 Fish of the shark kind.

23 Bail supports on vessels. 20 Ocean.

'ALICE-BLUNDERLAND RUSE OF THE TRAPPERS. Eighty-two City pigeons, roused 27 Vascular net-works of vessels

‚“. (Anat). from their sleep outside St. Paul's 23 Cover with a crust. Cathedral and the Royal Ex-30 Cider is made from it. change in, the early hours of the 31 Mock.

32 Portuguese coin, morning recen

14 Cattle rearing farm. Looked into mirrors placed in 37 Mate (slang.) their midst, Mistonk their refice- 38 Burdons of ships. lions for other pigeons, Stepped 42 Yard. forward to make friends, and-44 Incline.

46 Long violent speech. Were trapped. ..

47 Pertaining to the god of the winds. This ruse, witnessed by a hand-49 Superintend the publication of. ful of early City workers, was the 50 Revolving part of an electric

generator: latest development in the official campaign, started last December, Otherwise, to reduce the City's pigeon popula-2 Executed:

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Within a couple of hours 82 had

captured.

"We have lots of these bottles, many, of blown glass. This one was pieced together by a schoolboy.been We gave him a spadeful of earth, La pick out the bits, and be had them for three months before he had puzzled it out.

"This skull has been examined by Sir Arthur Keith, who says it is that of a Saxon woman. How did Roman. grave? she get into a There's a mystery for the wit of man!

Since December Mr. W. Dalton bus trapped about 1,500 pigeons. le hopes to capture from 500 to 1,000 more in the next few months.

LETTER GOLF.

These diese of glass? Ah, they Don't show your, HAND but caused ELFI argument up in keep your best FOOT forward. London. I believe that the Romaus used to cover these bits of glass with thin layers of lead Such and use them as mirrors.. mirrors were unknown before the th century when they were in- Vented in Germany.

"Then we discovered these tiny hits of glass which actually have the shining lead on themid........”

Hobnails from Roman sandals, bracelets, dice and counters, hair- pins and safety pins, buckles, jet and -coloured beade, 24 Tamily "As to the idea that the allot- That the thunks of the Univer- porridge dish and many other re- ments are part of the green, the sity be convoved to the threemarkable relies came under a tife- document whereby the land was anoymous benefactors who, by less schoolboy inspection,

respectively £17,000, demised to the council states that adding

It was rewarded by a secret. the green consists of all that open, £7,000 and £6,000 to their previous The curator explained that only unenclosed land, whereas the al contributions of £20,000, £30,000 poor men had been buried in the lotments are enclosed by a hedge and £20,000, have most generous-cemetery, and whispered a sugges- and a ditch, and ave been so en-ly subscribed the required total tion to the boys. closed longer than the oldest in- of £180,000 for the extension of habitant in the village can remen- the Fitzwilliam Museum, now in bur,"

Mr. Pool hints that had the parish council adopted a different attitude he might have taken a course which would have settled the matter without dispute.

progress.

The extension consists of a two-

The Ospringe Mystery.

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2 Demands as due,

3 One who lives in solitudo. 4 Faint.

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9 Ring.

10 Sacred hymn.

11 Bootle,

13 Early period in life,

18 Supliented.

20 Packet-book,"

24 First letter in the Greek alphabet.

26 Bed of sholl-fish.

20 Relating to the ear.

28 Overthrow.

33 Sameness.

84 Reging to the nostrils.

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36 Hampers of wicker work.

39 Assert.

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43 Brood of eagles.

44 Concise.

46 Object of worship.

48 Deadly species of viper,

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"The real mystery of Ospringe 1 The idea of letter golf is to is a rich man's cemetery...some change one word to another and Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who

If it is possible to prove by storied black of four galleries at schoolboys several pots...de it In par, a given number of in 1926, in the House of Lords, in- right-angles to the Marlay Cal- when we get some money we shall strokes. Thus to change COW to troduced a Bill to amend the law satisfactory evidence that a per- leries. The ground floor, it was dig...the place is a bank near..." HEN, in three strokes, COW, as to street offences gave evidence son was solicited in the streets

The boys exchanged intelligent HOW, HEW, HEN. suirgested, should be given up to glances and bid the curator good-

recently before the Street Of- for immoral purposes would you 2-You can change only one fences Committee..

still regard that as conduct of eeramics tnd the first flour to pic-

letter at a time.

which the law should not take byc. tures.

"We have about 1,000 visitors a 8-You must have a completa. He stated that in his view, un- cognisance 7-Yes, unless the per- All is planned so as to form

news. jump. Slang words and abbrevia- ed for immoral purposes in the annoyed. me. "Boys spread the Grove Lodge site.

There will be a lot of them from tions don't count.

street were actually annoyed there 4-The order of letters cannot Sittingbourne now. In time we might even get some of the endless be changed. procession of motorists passing One solution is printed, on through the village."

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I DON'T SEE WHAT BILLIE

IS MAD AT AE FOR!! GES,

I MENER DONE ANYTHIAS

TO MAKE HER MAD= MEBBE OSSIE TOLD HER.

SOME LIES ABOUT ME!!

I'M GOING TO WALK DP TOWARDS HER, HOUSE ANY MEBBE (I'LL GET A CHANCE TO SEE HER STILL, IF SHE SAW

ME MEBBE SHE WOULDN'?"

EVEN TALK TO ME!!

An Idea!

"

The Chairman (Mr. H. P. Mac- millan, K.C.)-It in auggested that

IF I COULD ONLY THINK OF SONG WAY THAT I COULD TALK

TO HER WITHOUT HER

KNOWING WHO

I WAS!!

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That would strike at a great deal of existing legislation?----It would strike at the law against a "common prostitute" as such.

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I KNOW!! Ill DISGUISE AYSELF AN SKELLYHAK I'M SOMEBODY ELSE, THEN I'LL GET HER "TO TALK ABOUT ME!!