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DELTA Shoes for Men

No.1848

DEATH OF EARL OF ROSEBERY.

(Continued from Page 1.)

at the Home Offee, but resigned when Conservatives objected to the post being filled by a member of the Upper House.

After two spells as Foreign Secretary where his excellent re- cord gained him much honour, Lord Rosebery at the comparativo- $21.00 y early age of 46, because Prime

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Minister.

His "Lonely Furrow."

He embarked on his brief form of office with plenty of trouble in the air. Internally, the Cabinet was not a happy one, and when the final smash came in June, 1805, the Prime Minister regretted it least of all.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FANLING "GOLF.

RESULTS OF WHITSUNTIDE

COMPETITIONS.

At Fanling, over Whitsuntido holidays, Captain the Hon. W Leveson Gower (10) won the Begey Pool with a score of 3 up. There were in all 34 entrios, and the other scores were:

K. S. Robertson (6) 2 up O. E. C. Marton (4-1) 1 up *T. C. Monaghan (9) A. H. Ferguson (2)

* All 'square.

Medal Round.

TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929.

'MISSING GIRLS.

NEW THEME IN MOTION PICTURES.

Divers reasons for the strange action of modern youth have been suggested by many people interest- ed in the subject. Noted nove lists have written stories of Flaming Youth and the Restless Sex. Peculiar conditions arising out of the World War have been blamed; then the mode of the. modern girls attire; automobiles and jazz.

Freskish solutions have been 0. E. C. Marton (74-4-1-76) advanced by scfentists and me- won the Medal Round. There dical men, and enlarged thyroids were bleven entries, and Captain, and the

presence of piluitary the Hon, W. Leveson Gower (83— glands have been solemnly point- 1073) submitted the same carded to as the cause of the unrest as for the Bogey Pool. Other among the now thoroughly restless

scores were:

sex.

T. C. Monaghan ..85-9-76, ED. Matthews ...89-10-79 Where do these countless girls The Fourball Foursomes were go? Do they seek adventure?

insufficient Tiro of school? Resent enncelled, owing to

disci- entries.

pline? Sack "careers?" Become victims of forbidden love? The subject has become a world-wide problem.

Shortly afterwards he fell out with Mr. Gladstone over the Turkish question and resigned, his farewell and momentous speech being delivered in Edin- burgh in October, 1896. To quolu his own phrase, he gave up active no less so in the world of litera-

Now comes a well known motion politles to plough his lonely fur-tare and sport. Ife has contribut

producer, Walter E. row-one of his most historic ed to historical literature works picture

which deserve to be considered Greene, who has minde a study of dicta..

for several years classics. His love of the turf the situation During the Boer War, when manifested itself even in his carly with a view to dramatizing the He Campbell-Bannerman www not days at Eton (as is shown in his possibilities of this theme. proving popular, many Liberais prophetical remark quoted above), has produced a sensational photo-

Ltd. turned hopefully to Lord Rosebery and at Oxford the Dean was con- play, showing the perils and pit-

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but by this time his Imperialistic fronted with the phenomenon of tendencfes hul alienated him to an undergraduate keeping a stud a great extent from the views of of horses. his old party. Time only widened the gap, and his famous speech on the 1909 (Lloyd George) Budget made the gap a yawning gulf.

There, it may be said, his political earcer came 'virtually to

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end. But it must not bo thought his interest in politics has evaporated; Indeed, it is only a few weeks since he was address ing inconvenient questions regard-

g party funds.

For the youthful turf_devotee it was a choice between his degree and his dobbins, and he showed hie strong spirit of independence | by choosing the latter. Accordingly. he left Oxford minus a degree he could have obtained with ease had: he cared to go in for it.

With his horses Lord 'Rosebery has won practically every race of any importance, including the Derby three times-in 1894 with Ladas, the following year with Sir Viato, and in 1905 with Cicero,

Last of the Orators. Lord Rosebery has been called the last of the Victorians, but he might more truthfully be called the Inst of the orators. The 444+ memory of his golden voice and the charra of his personality was one of the most abiding Parlia mentary impressions he left, and Won for him the name of "the Orator of the Empire."

He was never suck an orator as Gladstone; he never had his energy-perhaps, as one writer says "he had too many gifts"— but he belonged to the great com- pany. of verbal spell-binders. There was one quality be bad, however, in overlowing measure, and that was charm is words never poured from him is a wild, whirling, and sometimes involved Sentences-they usually flowed like a placid stream catching light and shadow, and reflecting his own thoughts clearly and distinctly.

Hirst adventure in public speaking was at the tender age of 14, when he spoke at a luncheon to Volunteers given by his grand- Father. Many who heard that speech predicted grent things of rim,

His first entry into public life was a triumph. Entrusted, at the age of 29, with the task of second- ing the Reply to the Address in the House of Lords, he delivered a maiden speech which wrung ua-

rudged admiration from gyarter.

every

His great chance to shine in oratory cume in 1897, when he in- vited Gladstone to stand for Mid- lothian, and for a week, we are told, literally "hosted, toasted, and ronsted" his illustrious guest. When the rampaign was over that the everyone recognised "Grand Old Man" had found a worthy successor.

Many of the Rosebery orations were memorable one in particular, his address au Lord Rector of Edinburgh University in 1982. Another grent speech was

that delivered in the House of Lords on the death of Mr, Gladstone in

give them the 1898, when he paid a noble and

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eloquent tribute to his late chief.

Links With Edinburgh. The career of Lord Rosebery is bound up indissolubly with Edin- burgh and Dalmeny. There he took his bride after their wedding FA welcome of the to receive warmest cordiality. It was Dalmeny, too, that there occurred the great tragedy of his life when, Rosebery Was in 1890, Lady ericken with typhoid,

Residence at his Midlothian seat

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naturally brought him into the closest connexion with Edinburgh. As Lord-Lieutenant of Midlothian, hon; Colonel of the 8th Battalion Royal Scots, Lord Rector of Edin- burgh University, and a prominent figure in many other spheres of activity, he was closely Identified with men and affairs in the Scot- numerous titles there was added that of Earl of Midlothian.

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In the Realm of Sport.

Illustrious as is Lord Rosebery's Inamo in the realm of politics it is

falls of the modern flapper, with- out preachment, called "The Port of Missing Girls," which is the attraction at the Queen's Theatre to-day and to-morrow.

NO COSTS FOR MAN. ACQUITTED.

APPLICATION DISMISSED IN

MYSTERY CASE..

An application for costs against the Crown on behalf of Walter Read, aged 32, who was acquitted on a charge of assaulting a staff maid at

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THE LATE EARL OF ROSEBERY.

The late Earl of Rosebery, one of the most brilliant of Victorian statesmen, and wellknown racehorse-owner, whose death is reported to-day at the age of 82 years. This por-" traft was faken when he was' still a force in British politica.

the Reform Club, was dismissed at the Old Bailey.

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Read had previously been dis- charged by the Bow-street magi- atrale, and the case was brought by the Director of Public Prosecu- tions under the fint of the Attorney; General through a bill to the grand jury after Sir Chartres Biron had not sufficient held that there was evidence to commit.

The Recorder said he could seo no circumstances to suggest that the

intervention of the Director was either frivolous, vexatious, or in any way tyrannical. The man had been acquitted, and properly ac- quitted, by a jury.

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