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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY

LUNDY ISLAND'S COINAGE.

GOVERNMENT" TO OPPOSE

RIGHT OF ISSUE.

It is understood that the Gov-

ernment is to contest the right of

to

A FUSS ABOUT A FORTUNE.

LUCKY GIRL WHO FAILED TO UNDERSTAND.

£20,000 SURPRISE.

17, 1930.

£20 A SEAT POLO TESTS.

WHAT RICH · AMERICANS ARE 'PAYING.

Twenty pounds is being paid by wealthy Americans for a seat atl the America Y. Britain polo matches. on the Meadowbrook' Left a fortune under the will of ground, Long Island, in Septem- Mr. John Samuel Newlyn, Miss ber. The ground holds 40,000 Marjorie Joyce Clementson, people. daughter of the rector of Staple- The British public will be able hurst, declared in an interview to see good palo for a fraction of that she did not know what all this price, for the Roehampton this fuss is about."

Club has decided to open a second Miss Clementson, who is 24 and ground with a shilling gate. These were two of many a lover of outdoor life, is living at Knoll House, the former home of teresting facts disclosed by Lord Mr. Newlyn. It is a lovely old-Cowdray, chairman of Hurling- world dwelling, standing in its own ham Polo Club Committee, and grounds and bidden from the road Major Lister, manager of the Roe-

hampton Club.

Mr. Martin Cojes Harman, the pre- Bent owner of Lundy Island, Issue special coins and postage stamps for use on the Island..

Last year Mr. Harman's issues attracted laterest among philate lists and numismatologists. The coins and stamps were based on the denomination of a puffin, with a half-puffin, the puffin being a sea-bird common on the island where it is known as & Lundy coins is the head of the owner, while an inscription runs round the edge, "Lundy Lights Hudby trees." Leads."

Parrot" On the obverse

of the

Mr. Harman bought Lundy for $16,000 on October 21, 1925. He contends that the owner of the is- land has always been permitted to administer the island according. to his own will. He points out

"Mr. Newlyn was a friend of mine," Miss Clementson went on. "He had lived here many years, and became very great in time we friends. That is all..

"Enormously Surprised."

In-

They were discussing the forth coming tour of the British rolo team in America.

Gate Money for Expenses.. A percentage of gate-money at the matches for the Westchester

that Lundy is a west-pocket-size "I was enormously surprised Cup, it was revealed, is being set Self-governing Dominion. like when the legacy, was announced, aaide to pay the heavy expenses of Canada or Australia." But there for I had no idea that any such the English team.

is a difference, in that, according fortune was coming my way.

to

The English team will consist

the Representation of the "My father has been rector here of Captain Tremayne (captain), People Act of 1918, the islanders for nine years, and it was really Captain C. T. Roark, Major Phipps and Mr. Humphrey who were qualified have had the through my being superintendent Hornby,

franchise. They have voted at of a Sunday school mission about Guinness, with seven ́"spares" one election on the island itself, two miles away that I became Captain Richard George, Major but since then on the mainland at friendly with Mr. Newlyn. Going Atkinson, Mr. Gerald Balding, Mr. Instow, near Barnstaple. At pre-backwards and

Aidan Roark, Colonel T. P. Mel- sent there are four names on the Sunday, as I did, I often used to ville, Mr. Stephen Sanford and

Captain Sanderson. voters' list for the Barnstaple call in here for tea, Division, one being that of Mr.

Mr. Harman states that if the his action regarding the issue of coinage is challenged he will ap-

YET TO-DAY IT IS NO PROBLEM AT ALL peal direct to the King.

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The players are to practice at Mr. Newlyn's wife died in 1925, Harman himself and the other and afterwards he was a very lonely the Beaufort Polo Club ground being a service man on the absent man. My father had been. friends they will play in trial matches at near Malmesbury till May when voters' list.

with him for many years-long Hurlingham Club, Ranelagh, and before I knew him..

Roehampton till early in July, "Detaila published regarding the when their 30 ponies will be legacy are in some cases incorrect. shipped to America. The estate has not yet been com- On August 11 the English team and at the will have its pletely wound up,

first practice in moment I cannot say definitely America and the first of the three what my income will be.

matches for the Westchester Cup will take place on September 6.

Well Endowed Sport. "American polo is in such flourishing condition that large funds are available for interna-] tional matches and helping young polo clube," said Lord Cowdray..

An inquest, the only one ever held on Lundy, was conducted re cently by the North Devon coroner on the island. Last week the ashes of Mr. Walter C. Hudson Heaven, a former owner of the Island, were placed in a vault ou the island. He died in Australia. but at his wish the ashes were

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"Transporting an English team with its ponies to America is, of course, a very costly business."

"One of the great drawbacks

Lundy is not the only part of the

"I am going on with my parish British Isles enjoying "Home and social work. My father has no Rule." The Calf of Man and curate, and my sister and I do all Brownsea Island, near Poole, are we can to help him. Among lots privately owned, and have special of people around here we are known privileges, Feudal conditious as 'the assistant curates."" also survive on Herm, one of the; Miss Clementson was reminded that we have to face," Captain smallest of the Channel Isles. of the condition in the will that she Tremayne told the Daily Chronicle, In the thirteenth century Lundy must forfeit the house and the in-is the great heat, to which was held in demesne by the Crown, come if she marries, and of the fact American ponies are accustomed. but has changed hands many times that English law would not allow The match has to take place in since then.

September, and the heat is terrific. such a condition to operate..

"In any case the stipulation does not matter, for I am far too happy to, well-

LINER STOPS TO SAVE DOG.

RESCUE IN THE BAY OF BISCAY.

The humanity of a Liverpool ship's captain in turning his ship round in mid-ocean to save the

"But if I ever do want to get married," she added, "I certainly shall not allow this place to stand in' my way."

VANISHING CLERGY.

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The commander was Captain A D. Turton, in charge of a Clan! liner carrying a number of valuable foxhounds from Livepool to Bom- bay.

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"When the vessel was crossing the Bay of Biscay." writes a friend of the captain, "the fex hound had just been exercised round the deck and was tied up on the after deck.

"About eight a m. it was missed. It must have slipped its collar and fallen overboard.

"The chief officer noticed the collar hanging empty. A search was made, but the dog could not

be found.

"Half an hour passed before the loss was reported to the captain, but as soon as he learned of it he turned his ship round and teamed back the estimated distance travelled since the mishap, plus an

extra mile.

"The dog was not seen and the vessel turned round again and Isteadied on the southerly course.

The dog was then sighted.

"Captain Turton hove to while

in boat was lowered and the dog was hauled aboard exhausted. A few hours of careful attention and it completely recovered."

"I WANTED TO SEE MUMMIE.”

WHY BOY OF NINE CAME ALONE TO LONDON.

"I wanted to see mummy. hasn't been to see me for wecks."

She six

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That the number of clergymen was decreasing at such a rate that they threatened to become extinct in England and Wales in 30 years, was the declaration of Mr. C. E. M. Joad, at the National Union of Students Congress at Cambridge.

Churchmen, he said, were absorbed in controversies over technical matters of no interest to the layman.

Young men and women to-day. found it impossible to accept the old idea of religion. Whenever they went into a church they were required to leave their intelligences in the porch.

Captain C. W. Hume, of Lon- don University, said Mr. Joad's attack could not be taken seriously. With the present conditions of pay, only a martyr would become Church of England clergyman.

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"Newspapers, from. being the luxury of the few, have become a necessity for all," said Mr. J. R.

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