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K.M.A. TROUBLE ON RANGERS RETAIN

RAILWAY.

QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.

ADVANTAGE.

SCOTTISH LEADERS ALL SHARE POINTS.

HONGKONG SHORTAGE. LINCOLN DROP BACK.

London. Apr. 22

soccer

London, Apr. 22. In the House of Communi to-day, The last match in the interna- tournament :H Mr. A. M. Samuel asked what tions!

Wrexham at

between steps were being taken by Mr. Ar- played thur llentierson, the Foreign Secre- Ireland and Wales to-day, result tary, to see that British interests ing in the first Welsh victory ni in the Chinese Kailan Mining Ad-the senson, by the odd goal of five. The final table, with England ministration were fairly treated in relation to transport facilitles over and Scotland bracketed as cham-

pins, follows: the Peking-Mukden Railway.

Mr. Henderson replied that Sir Miles Lampson is in close touch with the Kailan management, and had made representation to the Chinese authorities, The Britlali Minister in China would do his ut most in assist.-Nemer,

Local Position.

While they advertise a shortage of coal and inability to make de- liveries of household coal, Mersen. Dodwell and Co. Ltd. Hongkong agents for the Kailan Mining Ad- ministration, have had no inform- tion as to the cause of the disagree

England Sections water Ireland

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1931.

FUGITIVÉ MUST RETURN.

HANDED OVER TO ESCORT FROM RANGOON.

LEGAL ARGUMENT.

The ease concerning Tan Ka- tin, a Fukienese, who in "wanted" at Rangoon for alleged criminal brench of trust involving the Hum of 76,000 Rupees, was again before Mr. Schoßeld at the Contral Police Court this morning.

For the accused, Mr. Hinahing Lo argued that the Court had to go further than in a mere extradition

LORD LANGFORD

MYSTERY.!

MARRIAGE IN VICTORIA REPORTED.

ROMANTIC STORY.

A remarkable development In the already romantic story of the Kucession to the Irish batony of Landford in reported.

It will be recalled that the sixth baron, died in Corales in January, his heir being his nephew, Mr. C. W. Rowley, who is in Australia. where he has been earning a living

W. D. L. F. A. Pt. ense, and satisfy itself that the as a farm labourer,

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provisional warrant was backed by a proper original warrant duly endorsed.

Furthermore, the Court had to Ko further than the laws of the Colony-it had to satisfy itself that the stated offence was One against the laws of the place from which the fugitive escaped.

Mr. Lo elted the provisions of the Fugitive Offander's Act or 1881 under which the present pro- ceedings were taken, showing how

Burmah and

Before he went to Australia he married, in Dublin, in 1922 Miss Florence Shiel, who has since been earning a living us a waitress In a London tenshop in the Strand.

husband's On hearing of her succession to the peerage, she left for Dublin, and it was understood to be her intention to visit the Summerhill, Langford estate al Co. Menth,

ment, beyond a telegram from the tenue ames, affecting the cham-into the facts before the wanted, rai's office in that city a cortificate |

Administration offices near tsin, on April 7.

Ticu-

This was in reference to an item

LOCAL RADIO.

RELAY OF ST. GEORGE'S CONCERT.

To-day's radio programme to be broadcast by Z, 13. W. on a wavelength of 255 metres.

0.10.8.30 p.m. Chinese Studio Con. cert.

7.00 p.m. Stock Quotations, 8.00 p.m.

Wanther Report, Local Time, etc.

8.30-10.45 p.m. Approximately. Relay of St. George's Concert from the Lee Theatre.

During Interval thero will be n recorded programme from the Studio, The Victor Records used in the programmes pro above European kindly suppiled by Mesare. Trang Pook Piano Co.

Close

30.45 p.m. Approximately. Down.

£700,000 GIFTS TO A WOMAN.

MR. M. NAPIER'S BEQUESTS.

An unexpected millionaire estate,; with a woman as the principal bene- ficiary to an estimated extent of Recently The Dully Mail re- £700,000, was revealed when pro- reived by cable from Melbourne bate was granted of the will of Werthe statement that there had been Mr. Montague Stanley Napler, of

discovered in the Registrar-Gene-Villa des Cistes, Cannes.

Mr. Napier was formerly chair- which shows that on June 10,

man and joint managing director 1930, a marriage was celebrated af Messra. D. Napier and Son. Ltd., by the Rev. John A. Crockett, at motor-car and noroplang engine designed the the Presbyterian Church Elatern-manufacturera, who wick, Victoria, in which the contengines fitted in the Gloucester- tracting parties were:

Napier aeroplanes built for the Clotworthy Wellington Thomas Schneider Trophy contest.

Edward Rowley, age 44; and

The estate is valued for the pur- Summer- Gertrude Anderson

of the English grant JOSEA

with net £1,243,578 gross, sinalty £1,200,208.

A number of league matches | Hongkong were also played to-day including grouped in the same legal division, three very important Scottish | enlling for a closer investigation

pionship, or rather, which might man was surrendered from the have affected the championship one place to the other. The local all the three leaders had not Court haut to adhere strictly to its own procedure irrespective of the point whether the derased WILK or was not guilty of The adTence for which his return whS 1 Nough,

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vermneular} drawn, published throughout and English papers in China to the effect that Tientsin was threatened i

the with a coal shortage beeative Kailan Mining Adinigistration were having some disagreement with the La co- Peiping-Liaoning Railway nexion with the renewal and revi. sion of the transportation agree. ment.

There

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Sections of the King's Order-in-

1 Conuri defining the legal status of Burmah. of the Indian Pebal Code upon which Burmah's criminal law was based, and of the Fugitive Offenders Act were ex- tensively read.

Division 1 (South).

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Division 1tl (North).

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The Administration. stated th.st although disagreement did exist be Iween the Administration and the Railway on other mattere, had been no discussiem eoncerning

The shortage freight rates. -Kniplug coal in all markets was solely due to the failure of the Railway Company to provide suli-Peltie cient beatatives for the Adminis- tration's traffle.

TAIPO ROAD NOW

OPENED.

AVAILABLE FOR LIGHT TRAFIC,

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Southern Section.

Merton We are informed by Mr. E. W.

Leith Carpener, Assistant Director libernians Public Works for the New Terri

Ay tories, that the P.W.D. has offert

Eust Fife ed temporary repairs to the wash| oat on the Taipo Road, where r Farr had such a narrow esvape when his ear sank through the roadway to a depth of nearly eighty Palace feet on Monday and that it is now Southend open for use by light motor rallie. Narthampton which must not exceed a ion in Brentford weight.

Nets

P. W. D. L. P. A. Pts. 40 24 10 6 95 41 58 41 20 7 13 101 70-47 40 21 574 75 N 47 11 72 65 16

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Northern Sectjón,

Lorries will have to unload their goods, cross the repaired section empty, and relond on the other; side, but buses will not be able Chesterfieli

Liboin to use either the Shatin or the Castle Peak Roads beyond the l washouts until further repairs have been effected?

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P. W. D. L. F. A. Pt. 41 25 6 10 94 56 54 40 24 7 9 98 53 65 10 24 6 10 110.69 54

ROYAL LIFE-SAVING SOCIETY.

For the police. Mr. Somerset Fitzroy said the requirements, bad" all met. They had the original warrant, produced by a prater authority, and the Section of the Indian Penal Code ander which proceedings were taken.

After the police escort from Rangaon, Sub-Inspector Li Ting fing had duly sworn to the validity of the warrant, the Court ordered the return of the fugitive in the custody of the witness.

WEST INDIES PROBLEMS.

FINANCIAL ADVISER TO

the

hayes, age 47.

bride Un, the certificate room was described as a widower while the since June 8, 1929, bride was described as a musician, born in London, and stated to have been divorced an May 28, 1929, and to have oat child by her for- mer marriage living.

at per-

The duties on the property at this valuation and according to the dispositions of the will, will amount

are:

about £570,000.

Among Mr. Napier's bequests

1,000 to each of his secretairies, Peernge Annle Reference to Burke's

Parrington

Edith and ,uinton; discloses the fact that the unusual the bride. Christian names of

£10,000, his properties at Dieppe room in the Melbourne certificate and effects there and all his house- North are those of the new Lord Tang-hold effects at Cannes ford, who is recorded as having Mary Fryer:

Eileen Misa Florence married Shiel in Dublin in 1922.

There la, however, one discre pancy, The reference books state that Lord Langford was born on June 1, 1885, which, in June 1930, the date of the Victoria wedding. would make him 45, and not 44, as stated on the certifiente.

Visited in London by a reporter: yesterday, Mrs. Shiel, mother of she could Lady Langford, said not understand the matter at all.

"I was present." she said, "at London, Apr. 22, The Se retary of State for the my daughter's marriage to Mr. Colonies, has, with the conrur Rowley at the Church of the Star rence of the Treasury, appointed of the Sen, Sandymount, Dublin, Sir Sydney Armitage-Smith to in 1922, and, of course, my daugh

to the ter is still alive and has never undertake mission Leeward Islands and to St. Lucia buen divorced from her husband. in

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"ller marriage to Mr. Rowley was performed by a Jesuit, but be-

A life annuity of £1,500 to his Hon Carlli Stanley Napier;

An annuity of £1,000 to each child other than, his daughter Phyllis, who is to receive an an- ulty of £600, these annuities to be- gin on the death of his wife, Alice Caroline Mary.

Cancer Research.

He also left an annuity of £1,000) to his brother, Walter Percy Na-i pier and the residue of his property upon trust for Norah Mary Fryer for life with remainder.

for the advancement of know.. ledge and the benefit of mankind by research, whether in the United Kingdom or abroad, with the object of ascertaining the cause of cancer (including correspording or allied disenses) and the means of its pre-

the discretion of his trustees.

He will submit # report on fore he would marry her he avention, cure, and alleviatios, las

and expenditure. and sisted on a cable being sent to examine the possibility of in- New Zealand to see if Mr. Rowley proving the financial position of had been married in that country, the Colonies in the question of but he had not. I really know difficulties dar mainly to depres- nothing more about the matter." sion in the sugar industry and the hurricane in Dominica last-

He will also, with the Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands, form a Commission about to be into the appointed to enquire

The work done up to the present has been the clearing of the slips and filling in the washouts on the coastni road, while certain repairs, allowing. for its use by very light | HONGKONG INSTRUCTION TO recent disturbances in Dominica. traße, have been mit into opera- tion on the bridge.

RECOMMENCE SOON.

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The Department is still working A copy of a letter written by Sir on the roads so as to ensure in Frederick Ponsonby to Lard the quickest possible time a suf- borough, K.G., G.C.V.O., in con- ficiently strong thoroughfare to nexion with the Royal Life Saving allow for heavy through-traille, Society, has been revolved by Mr. We are informed by the Hong-R. J. Hunt, of the Hongkong Police, Kong Tramways Ltd., that the on the Chief Secretary of the emergency motor bus service to Society in London. Shath will be discontinued after 7 o'clock to-night.

ST. GEORGE'S DAY OBSERVANCE.

"RETREAT POSTPONED BY REASON OF RAIN. Owing to the possibility of rain, and the sodden condition of the Hongkong Cricket Club Ground, the "Retrent," which the South Wales Borderera were to perform this afternoon, in accordance with the usual St. George's Day custom, has been postponed.

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RETURN OF THE

LIMCHOW.

WHITEKING OF VOODOO ISLE.

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He charged his children to accept the dispositions of his will, bùn directed that in the event of any of them disputing its provisions such one should forfelt all interest thereunder.

the

Mrs. Norah Mary Fryer, principal beneficiary under the will, is living in the south of France. The residue of Mr. Napier's pro. perty which Mrs. Fryer has been left on trust for life after all other may bequests have been paid, amount to about £700,000.

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York Building, next to Moutries, Just Received Consignments

OF

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ALSO

A very Large Selection of Lacquered Panama Hats

AND

Pastol Shades in Crinolines Buitable for Bridesmaide.

We do not know of her having It's times like these you need-

RUNAWAY BOY.

New York, Mra, 27.

Miss Annie Parrington, one of A romantic story of a Pennsyl SS. vanta farm boy who became King the two women secretaries to whom of the Voodoo Island of La Gonero he left £3,000 each, died about twe off Haiti, was told here to-day years ago.

A member of the firm when Faustin Wirkus, otherwise of Messrs. D. Napier and Son. Ltd., "King" Faustin, returned to his said:

of his regal native land shorn splendours.

Wirkus, who ran hway from home to join the marines, was sent to Haiti some years ago and there rose to command of the work on La Gonave,

The fat old native queen of the Island beheld in him the reinear- emperor and the nation of the natives crowned him king with elaborate ceremonini.

NOT LIKELY TO ARRIVE TILL SATURDAY. Sir Frederick writes as follows:

Enquiries made at Messrs. Sing "My Dear Desborough--I have and Infore the King the Annual Re-Ree & Co. the local agents of the the Royal Life Saving Limehow, which grounded off port- of

Pochim Pageda recently and has Society, which, his Majesty pleased to hear. has had another now been reflanted, revealed that bad weather in Hainan Straits has very successful season.

delayed the work of the resens tug "The King read, with much in- Heary Keswick which is towing

of the brave the Limehow back to Hongkong. terest. the record deeds and rescues performed by It was stated yesterday that the haklera of certificates, and feels Henry Keswick was due here some that these practical results of the time to-day or to-morrow, but in- Society's instructions must be most formation has now been received gratifying to you and those who to the effect that she will not be work with you in all parts of the here until Saturday at the earliest. Empire.

"His Majesty was glad to learn that the elementary schools are taking keen interest and is convinc-

USE OF HARBOUR BUOYS.

"King" Faustin ruled very eff- clently, according to travellers who ponerated his mysterious kingdom.

There was apparenty some have among his subjects that he would. marry a white girl to share his throne, but news of "King" Faus- tin's activities came to the ears of President Borno of Haiti, and be complained of the introduction of

republic.

in this most necessary necomplish« | INTERESTING POINT AT THE white monarchy Into the black

The customary St. George's Dayed that the instruction of children concert will be held as arranged in the Lee Theatre to-night.

Members of the Committee of the

ment of life saving will have very far reaching results."

MARINE COURT...

An interesting point arose at the Marine Court this morning when

A big, hulking man, Li Yee, was

any relatives to whom her legacy from Mr. Napier might revert. Mr. Napler and his two secretaries, Miss Parrington and Miss Quinton, worked together confidentially and privately apart from the chlef of. fices of the firm.

Miss Quinton left the employ of the firm about 1908, but I under- stand that her private work for Mr. Napier continued until quite recently.

BIG BEN GOES PINK.

FLOOD-LIGHTING EXPERI

MENTS.

London, Mar. 28. Big Ben went pink last night. Then St. Stephen's Tower also went plak-to the astonishment of passing crowds.

It was the first of a sorics of flood-lighting experiments by ex- perts, as part of the programme for the International tilamination Congress, to be held in London next September.

As a consequence the American St. George's Society assembled at With the approach of the sum

authorities relieved Wirkun of his the Cenotaph this morning, to lay mer months instruction in life the coxswain of the motor boat official assignment to the island a wreath on the steps. Those pre-saving will be recommenced and it Yuen Sang was summoned before and he rejoined the Marino Corps. sest included Mr. L. Cock (Prest is hoped that last year's interest the Ilon. Commdr. G. F. Hole, R.N., dent), Mr. H. D. L Dowbiggin will not only be sustained but sur for mooring to buoy without a (Vice-President): Hon. Mr. C. G. passed. particularly among

the permit from the Harbour Master.

Twelve flood-lights were placed Alabaster Lieut. Col. L. G. Bird, schools and the surlous troops of His Worship said he had gone charged before Bir. Hamilton, at the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton and Mr. Boy Senuts. Mr. R. J. Hunt, Hong- into the case in Chambern and had Kowloon Magistracy, this morning in the garden of the Speaker's T. E. Pearce (past Presidents), and kong Police, who is stationed at decided that the charge was not with having assaulted a small boy, house, and when they were operat Messrs. C. B. Johnson, F. G. Hall, the Central Police Station, is the an offence. Anybody was entitled Taze-nul, at the Yaumati Marketed the tower was filuminated. L. C. F. Bellamy, W. A. Cornell, local representative, and he will be to mour to Government buoys but yesterday. The deferlant and he F. Aucott, and F. J. Sherwell pleased to supply any information when they did so, they were liable only smacked the boy on the face. the (Committee), and Mr. P. S. Cassidy regarding the classes.

to charges for such buoys. The The incident occurred because (secretary.)

Last year no fewer than 60 cercharge for a "B" buoy, to which boy refused to take some ment, which he sail was tough, and the defendant Cant. T. A. I. Coltman, A.D.C. tificates and bronze medallions, six defendant's boat was moored. was slapped him, saying "take it or leave to the Governor, also laid a wreath awards of merit, one diploma and $12 for one day or part of a day. A fine of $5, or seven days'

obtained in Hongkong.

The case was dismissed.

imprisonment, was imposed. on behalf of Ha Excollency:

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The effect was magical. Tho bright light of Big Ben's dial faded out as the clock glowed with a rosy pink colour. Then the ex- porta tried several other colours.

These experiments lasted for nearly an hour.

EXIT

A round on the King's Miniature Golf Course,

Roof Garden, Kings's Theatre.