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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,

MRS. DYNE'S AFFAIRS.

MEETING OF CREDITORS: NO!

ASSETS.

THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928.

FLOWER PEST IN BENGAL

WATERWAYS CHOKED, CROPS DESTROYED.

OXFORD TRADITIONS.

CLINGING TO ANACHRONISMS CHERISHING ANOMALIES.

Oxford, June 29,

The creditors of Mrs. Aminta Marjorie Bradley Dyne, described

In 1897 a jute merchant of The ancient institutions of tho as lately of Mount-street, Park-

went to University are defended In an line, W., a dealer in foreign cur- Narayanganj, Bengal,

"The rency and exchange, met on June Austraila for his honeymoon. He editorial article in the Oxford

Undergraduate journal, 25, ut the Bankruptcy Court. brought back with him a couple of

Tais." The Official Receiver reported flower pots containing' a beautiful

Oxford, it states, must cling to that Mrs. Dyne declared that her aquatic plant and a flower like a

hur anachronisms; cherish her only, creditor was Messrs. Iron-fargo blue hyacinth. That plant, anomalles. They will be the say- monger and Co., the foreign bankers, of Angel-court, City, the water hyacinth, is now known ing of her. "Matives of self- They had lodged a proof of debt fer as the "blue devil" and "the pest of preservation demand that we con

tinue to endure, all those smail £40,971, less security, which was Bengal."

costs.

a

valued at £6,186, and represented "From the garden of the fute things that no 100 per cent. Twon- Century educational ear Judgment obtained for $38,938 merchant the water-hyacinth spread tieth

with amazing rapidity, choking tablishment would put up with for The solicitors for Mossra. Iron-waterways, gaining a strangle-hold a moment. We must go,ón \cram- monger "and Co. stated that they over vast areas of East Bengal and ming our brains with the requisite proportion of utterly useless know. surrendered the security.

doing Incalculable damage, Se

ledge, which almost every amination compels us to acquire.

OX-

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The Official Receiver stated that In the view of an Oxford Mission in her preliminary examination worker at Barisal, if the water- Mrs. Dyne stated that her transac-hyacinth goes on increasing at the Lions in currency and foreign ex-ame rate as in the last thirteen college, (the editorial continues) LONDON SERVICE change were personal transactions, ears, within another 13 years there pay heavily to lodge in discomfort. except when they were carried on will be large areas depopulated and if we live in College,

"

we must

on behalf of frienda-namely, Mr.locomotion will have become Im-cheerfully renounce our hopes of a

bath

afternoon, Sunday on. Gregory, Mr. O'Malley, and Com-possible.

'divyera' we must do with a smile, mander Maxse, who had been con

The kachuri, to give it its and go on doing it till we pass nected with the Foreign Office, and one small transaction with a Mrs. Bengall name, grows rapidly, and, Oura, in short, not to reason why." McClelland,

in a country that is entirely under She' commenced to speculate in floodwater during the rains, is car her own ac-ried by wind and flow all over the foreign currency on count in February, 1924, without land.

weed, and think yourself happy when you have got a few hundred yards of clear water.

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her husband's knowledge. At first There are many thousands of she made a profit, but, after her re-neres of swamp-land given up now "The magistrate of Faridpur, NEW YORK SERVICE turn from the South of France entirely to water-hyacinth. If for the one oficial, as far as I know, early last year the result had been any reason land is uncultivated one who has really put his nose down disastrous and culminated in a loss year and the water-hyacinth gets to the problem of actual practice, of £38,938.

a real hold on it, it will be very drew up a wise scheme of dealing PASSENGER SERVICE

The Governor

"ARNEAR" Her hushand, who had previously difficult ever to get this lund under with the scourge.

"BARPEDON" hold a conference and the scheme assisted her, refused to help her cultivation ngain.

was killed on the ground that it! further, and she was sued for that

In places one may walk across was impossible to put any more amount, and on the facts becoming known to the Government a com- the solid kachuri, and water locomo-tax upon the people, although they

many parts of had readily agreed to pay. mittee was set up to inquire into tion, which in

"Until some Government schemo Le matter the result of which," Bengal is the only locomotion, la Raid the Official Receiver, "you becoming more and more difficult. for the whole of Bengal, and Assam

The same Mission worker adds: know."

Mrs. Dyne, who stated that she had no assets, attributed her posi- tion to the losses mentioned.

too, is put in hand, there is nothing that individual or local effort can Locomotion Diflculties,

do. Meanwhile we sit by and see "With a double or treble crew our crops diminished, our water-

A trustee, was appointed to ad-you force your boat Inch by inch way stopped up, our country des minister the case in bankruptcy.

through the masses of floating troyed."

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