A NOVELISTS ART EXHIBITION.
HOME OFFICE VIEW AND QUERY IN THE HOUSE.
LOCAL BILLIARDS.
SOLIDERS' CUP LEAGUE.
The Police and the Portuguisc Company of the Hongkong) Volunteer Defence Corps, who] inet
the Arat round of Soldiers'
Riards Cup League, at the Seldiers' Club on very close struggle for honours Mandlay and last evening, had a which eventually went to the Police by a margin of 76 points. Scores:
London, July 4. Following complaints against authe exhibition of paintings by Mr the Warren Galleries, Maddox- D. H. Lawrence, the novelist, at street, W., the matter is, says the Press Association, being consider
ed by the Home Office.
Objection is taken, it is under- stood, on the ground that a hum- ber of the pictures are unsuitable for public exhibition.
A question will be asked in the House, it is stated, and the attitude) of the Home Office authorities is likely to be explained by Mr. Clyne, the Home Secretary.
At the Home Office yesterday an official said the department had nõj Statement to make.
It is pointed out that the Home Secretary has no power lo censor the exhibition. Any action would have to be taken either by the police or a member of the publie through the polles courts..
No Official Complaints. The Exhibition has been open) since June 14.
"During that time," an official of the Warren Galleries said yes-1 terday, "about 8,000 people have visited the galleries.
"We see nothing objectionable in the pictures, and we have re- celved no complaint from any official source," he added,
CAUSE OF EMBANK- 'MENT SUBWAY FIRE.
DEFECTIVE L. C...C.
CONNECTOR.
Dr. F. J. Waldo, the City! Coroner, and a jury recently con eluded the inquiry into the enure of the fire-on June 6 in the tele-i phone subway under the Victoria; Babinkment.
The jury returned a verdict that the fire was accidental, and was raused by sparking at a defective porcelaid ennnector temporarily used by the LCC.
Bradsell Fender Ellis
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY
CHURCH OFFICIALS, ON
STRIKE.
REFUSAL TO INDUCT RECTOR CHOSEN BY PARISH.
AMERICAN STOCKS.
CABLED QUOTATIONS FROM
NEW YORK.
"MONSIEUR B.
CAUGHT.
31, 1929.
CLEVER WORK BY PARIS "YARD."
The following quotations as at the Cadleigh, July 3. clear of the market on Tuesday have
Havre, July 3. Remirkable detective work by Because the Bishop of Exeter has been received from their correspon refined to induct the rector they dents Messrs. Hayden, Stone and
Culbertson and Fritz, Sassoon House, has led to the captura of Charles ringers, the wardens, and every Shanghai (cable address: "Swan Bourde, aged 29, a French thief, chose, the Churchwardens, the bell. Co. of New York, by Messrs. Swan a "Paris Scotland Yard" inspector one except the sexton lave gone stock, Shanghai), who are not res-who admits having operated under on strike in this small parishponsible for the cable mutilations. various names, niways beginning
After many years the old rector, The quotations are subject to, con the Rev. W. French, retired, at the 'firmation:
age of 85. The Rev. G. H. Davies,
of Swansea, came to help, and Anaconda Copper endeared himself to the parishion- Bethlehem Sicel
Everyone thought he would get the living-a estrall one, of £250 a year and the rectory. Mrs. Squires, the patron, offered it to him, and he accepted.
I. K. P.
1200
200 .200
Blakey
200
ers.
Sherry
200
Whant
119
Bowers
175
Wynne
92
1386
H. K. V. D. C.
E. Vas
189
111
66
15%
192
200
cials,
200 200
1310
L. Antonio
M. F. Baptists
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11. Barras
*F. Sequeira W. Ogley M. Silva.
Steel-Coulson, Cup.
The Police met the Somersets at Police Headquarters last evening, the former winning. Scores:
Ella
1. K. P.
Bradsell
Blakey
160 150 150
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136
150
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Somersets.
Leigh. O'Hare
130
19
Wisher.
Pr
Jukesnam
150
150
144
707
Trickey Stacey
Pleas and Pelitious.
to the The Bishop, however, amazement of the parishioners, re fused to induct him. No renson was given, although letters and petitions were addressed to the Bishop by Cadleigh church offi-
The church council and the war 'dens resigned, and the bellringers, many of whom have tolled the bells for nearly 20 years, refused to work.
A series of negotiations follow-| ed. Two petitiona were sent by the counell to the Rishop, but the replies were not considered satis- factory..
Everyone having resigned, the Bishop appointed the Rey. C. L Buckingham from a neighbouring parish as a sequestrator. The Bishop sent netice of his intention to institute the Rev. J. H. Harvey, It the churchwardens refused to sign the document. So the seques- trator did so and hung it ap him- self in the porch of the church.
Last Sunday it was noticed that the bottom right-hand corner of the notice had been torn off-the piece containing Mr. Buckingham's signature.
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with "B."
He had been ""wanted" during the last three years for three Paris burglaries in which 432,000 worth of jewels were stolen.
He was arrested in his cabin on board the liner Paris, arrived from New York.
Three "B's,"
The first coup ascribed to the prisoner was in April 1926.
M. Godillot, who has a big ápart- ment near the Eiffel Tower, engag ed a valet named Lucien Bourbing, Botirbing gave excellent refer- ences; but two weeks later he dis- appeared with £3,200 in money and jewellery.
In June 1927 the Marquia de Ganay was robbed of £24,000 worth of jewellery by a young valet nam- ed Michel Brignon, whom he had engaged a few weeks before.
In June 1928 Major Keith 144 Trevor, the well-known sportsman and husband of Mme. Jeanne Mar- nac, a Paris stage star, engaged a valet whose aurname began with a "B."
206
119
ung.
A few days later, when Major' Keith Trevor and his wife return- church, but they feel that if theyed from the theatre, they found could not have had the rector they their bedroom ransacked, desired they had a right to a rea- son for the change.
Mr. Harvey, the new rector, was upset when I called on him. Au indication of his position is found In his first address which he gave on Sunday.
After months of vain quest, a detective was struck by the fact that in each case the name, under
which the thief had been engag- ed as a valet began with the letter "B."
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"Clothes Make The Man"
-Very very
mad.
Such a thief, the delective opin- He took for his text the "asange.ed, would be sure to have his own from the revised Psalm, "I will car. He looked up all the driving wish you good luck in the name of Hicenses in Paris, and found that (whose one Charles Bourde" the Lord." Mary Prince and her sister have "In some way," he said, "I have photograph corresponded to the carried the church duties an. come to this parish under circum-description of the thief given by When I was at the church to-day stances which are not happy; but his three viktims) had had a
It was
that then discovered cabiles carrying over 200 volts le Mary, who is a sunny little Devon- this I can say every one I have license.
Bourde, who posed as a commer- rentoved from the subways, that shire girl of 15, was practlaing met and talked with has wished all dormant cables be removed, and voluntary on the organ for to-mor-me good luck."
Fow's induction by the Bishop. Mr. Harvey is hopeful of a set-cial traveller, had a room in a that all subways should be per- Her sister Betty, 12 years of age, tlement of the affair. The par-small Paris flat.
Two Inspectors were at Havre mariently wired for lighting nc-
ishioners are eagerly awaiting a At the time when the Paris de-name (whatever it was for the cording to the Institute of Electri-Was acting as blower..
All those who have resigned, statement which the Bishop maytective investigations and deduc- nonee) began with a "B" was on when the passenger liner arrived, cal Engineers' rales, so as to eli-
got thus far, It was his way back from New York on and they found They also aided rider's recomminate all portable means of il- und with whom I have talked to make when he comes here to-mor- tions had
learned that the man whose sur-board the Paris. day, declare they love their old row. mending that all · high-tension] lamination.
They recommended that the Exchange Telegraph Company be requested to replace the gutta percha insulation of their cables by a more recognised and efficient
method of Insulation.
~ or very very glad!
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cabin.
the man in his
LINE NUMBER ONE
SOCKS
Dozens of pairs of Summer Socks
in Artificial Silk, Liste, Cotton or
Cashmere to be cleared at
$1.00
PAIR
MACKINTOSH'S LINE NUMBER TWO
FIVE LINE
SALE
TIES
Foulard, Crepe, Poplin and Fancy Silk Wide End Tics, usually priced at $3.00 to $4.50. Good colourings all at
$1.50
EACHI
WEDNESDAY
JULY 31st
THURSDAY
AUGUST 1st
FRIDAY
AUGUST 2nd
JUST THREE DAYS
LINE NUMBER THREE
PYJAMAS
About a Hundred Suits of Light Weight Pyjamas, all broken ranges and discontinued numbers. Originally $8.50 and $10:50 now
$5.00
A SUIT
Having had a record season we are not having a general sale. We do not have a summer sale just for the sake of the thing. But we have got FIVE LINES which simply must be cleared. These are sucks, ties, pyjamas, K shoes and a few solled huts. They have been reduced heartily to ensure that they go-1
—p.d.q.!
LINE NUMBER FIVE
SOFT FELT HATS
Scotts Heath Ritz.
$5.00
All Slightly Soiled
MACKINTOSH'S
TO
ALEXANDRA BUILDING
Des Voeux Road
WEDNESDAY
JULY 31st
THURSDAY
AUGUST 1st
FRIDAY
AUGUST 2nd
JUST THREE DAYS
LINE NUMBER FOUR
K SHOES
When ordering a new stock of
K Shoes we found fifty pairs of numbers not now stocked; these .' and a full range of Dress Shoes will go at
$9.50
PAIR
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