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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

NOVEMBER 26,

1988.

Hall Caine's 1,300-Page

Life of Christ

Beven years after his death, Sir Hall Caine's Life of Christ, the book upon which he spent his last 10 years and refused to publish during his lifetime, was given to the public recently (Col-: ins, 10s. 6d.).

He left behind him more than 8,000,000 words of toxt and notes. After

sovero compres- sion, the book, as published, runs to nearly 1,300 pages.

"Every age has made the Jesus it wanted," wrote Sir Hall Calne in his introduction

He endeavoured to make a 20th century portrait by "stripping away all the accretions of the earlier een- turies" and getting back to "the naked historical Jesus."

LONG RESEARCH

Territorial

Shot In

Drill Hall

A private of the East Surrey Re- giment Territorials, Edward Halford (19), of Tooting Grove, Tooting, was shot in the back at the miniature rifle Inflnite research and vast crud-range in the St. George's Road drill tion went to the making of this book, hail, Wimbledon, recently. which begins with the Creation and j

Another Territorial said: "Halford

reaches the Birth of Christ only was at the target end of the range. There were several others standing after 250 pages.

about.

The greatest fict In the story of the human family," Sir Hall Caine wrote,

"Is the silent and perhaps un- conscious growth of the Christ hope In the heart of man"

gone through

manas

In this spirit he the Gospels, rejecting some of the records, reinterpreting others. But Let us not think we have dis- credited the Birth, that we have found it out, because we have discovered some of its errors and contradictions.

"Someone picked up a rifle, fred, and Halford fell down."

He was taken to Nelson Hospital. Merton, with a 22 bullet in his back.

They Wept For "Miss

Bubbles"

Golden autumn leaves were seat-

William

By no means all Sir Hall Caine'stered by the breeze on the coffin of conclusions will inspire general con- cent. Some will be widely resented, beautiful Miss Diana James, 10- such as his rejection of the Virgin years-old daughter of Sir Birth and of the story of Christ de- ("Bubbles") James, when she was baling with his elders in the Tem- burled recently in the churchyard of

St. John, Churt, Surrey.

Misa James, whose father was the Sie Hall Caine's purpose, in his

origin of the famous Millais picture own words, was "not 10 separate "Bubbles," died suddenly shortly be Christ from humanity, but to unitsfore she was to have been married to him to it."

book Mr. Maurice Whinney, of West Hum-

In this spirit he wrote a

which is unique and which cannot ble, Surrey.

All preparations for the wedding

Inli to arouse controversy through had been made, and the villagers of out the Christian world.

HER LAUGH LASTED

Iourn

buy

вет

Churt, where Miss James lived with her father and mother, had subscrib. ed to

a wedding present. But later they filed the church to

her death. Mr. Maurice Whinney, who was with his flancee when she died, was WIS too distressed to attend. He

Brinn, ls brother represented by who burst into tears as the committal

When one of the wrestlers at anzentences were uttered. all-in wrestling match at Croyden fell out of the ring Miss Helen Me- Kec, aged 25, of Howley Road, South Croydon, started to laugh.

The wrestler climbed back into the ring, but Mis McKee kept on laughing.

Foundry Worker Strong At 80

Ravenna, O.

No one could stop her and so the Croydon ambulance was sent for and An 80-year-old machinist and in- she was taken, still laughing. to ventor, J. L.. Heller, thinks he is too Croydon General Hospital, and from young to relire from his foundry Job. there to Mayday Hospital, Thornton He has been absent from work only

pute Heath, where she spent the night

during his 18 years. at the ຕານ refuses to permli Sho was back at work at the foundry, LP.T.D. canteen in Croydon the day younger men, to assist him on differ- after.

ent jobs.

JEAN BOROTRA GIVES

AWAY HIS BERET

-To A Baby He Has Never Seen

When Jean Borotra returned to the clubhouse after winning the covered court singles championship for the ninth time at Queen's Club recently, he presented his beret to a little girl he

had never seen.

It happened thig way. Mr. Hamilton Price, the referee, handed Borotra a telegram which rend: "With love and best wishes," signed "From the Cradle."

He tried to guess who

This puzzled the famous Frenchman. "was pulling his leg." Then

Here's contrast in transportation. Union Pacific's wood-burner of the 80's, en route to Iron Springs, Utah, for a movie role, happens alongside the modern stream lined train, City of Los Angeles.

HORLICK HEIR

OF POISON

'My Mother Was Prisoner

In K. C.'s Home'

Toronto.

A statement in which a doctor is quoted as saying that Mrs. Mabelle Sidley, heiress to the Horlick millions, "might have been slowly poisoned" was read in the High Court here recently before Mr. Justice McTeague.

Mrs. Sidley died in July at the Toronto home of Mr. Perkins Bull, the wealthy Canadian K.C. Her will, disposing of a fortune estimated at between £2,000,000 and £4,000,000, left to Mr. Bull £50,000 and a third of the residuary estate.

Her son, Mr. William Sidley, who inherits the bulk of the estate, is contesting this will, alleging that his mother, after her sojourn in Mr. Bull's home, was not mentally capable of effecting proper disposition of her estate.

"WHITE TABLETS".

It was Mr. Sidley who made the stalement put in at Court in the course of a hearing of a motion by the executors who are endeavouring he has to halt the Inquest which demanded.

Mr. A. G.

Crown Blacht, Counsel, opposing the mation read

statement. Mr.

Sidley's which said that Mr. Perkins Bull had been seen to give Mrs. Bid- ley "pills and round white ta- Bleis" about three times daily. Mr. Sidley, while visiting the Bull home In 1937, asked Mr. Bull to give him the prescription of these pilis

swerk

"RIFT BETWEEN PARENTS"

ment:

TALKS

GAVE AWAY HIS OWN LEGACIES

Addressing 105 of his employees at a diamond-jubilee-of-business dinner at Salisbury recently, Mr. C. J. Woodrow, an ironmonger, 82

anid years old,

"I remembered in mu

you wili, not expecting to be here to- it was suggested to me day, but that instead of waiting until z had passed away for my execu- tors to present certain cheques in my absence, it should be done In my presence and yours.

"I will ask

there- you

now, fore, to open the envelopes and see what the souvenir

On the plate of each employee had been laid an envelope ad- dressed in Mr. Woodrow's writing. Each contained

letter of oppre- ciation of service rendered-per- sonally written by Mr. Woodrow

and a cheque.

Quarrel Over the Parish Pump

MIDDLETON, near Saxmundham. Disputes over the pump standing' on the village green are disturbing the calm of this usually peaceful Suffolk parish.

Though the pump is on the village

PARISH'S CLAIM

India Increases

Irrigation.........

SIMLA, India.

as compared

with

now

only

STOLEN FROM THE SOUTH SEAS MAIDEN

The government is steadily enlarg and tablets, but, the statement al-green, property of the parish, it be leges, he was met with evasive an-longs to one of the villagers, Mrs. Wing the field of cultivation in India Baker, wife of a seaman in the Navy, by large-scale irrigation schemes.

About a dozen of her neighbours Areas under state irrigation have no water supply of their own, total 31,000,000 acres, or one-eighth Mr. Slaught commented on a fur- but on payment of 3s. a year each of the total cultivable area of British ther extract from Mr. Sidley's state-they are allowed by Mrs. Baker to India,

use the pump.

10,300,000 acres in 1878-79. "He makes it clear that there was a rift between his parents caused by Bull."

All went well until about two Mr. Sidley had told the Toronto months ago die village school author- coroner, Dr. Lawton, that he beities, finding their own water supply

leved that his mother might have Hed from slow polsoning. He felt of a "suspicious" quality, applied to that she had been "imprisoned" in Mrs. Baker for the use of her pump.

Then the storm broke, Mrs. the Bull home.

For the executors, Mr. D. L. Me- Baker, according to Mr. W. Hatcher, Carthy, K.C., protested, that, had retired farmer and chairman of the there been

of foul Parish Council, demanded a fee any suspicion

have allowed Mrs. the 50 children of the village school. would

And further, Mr. Hatcher told his Sidley's body to be taken out of

fellow councillors when they met to Canada, for burial at Racine, Wis-discuss the matter, Mrs. Baker de- consin.

of

somebody whispered that a baby fore. Mr. Barclay is chairman Play, it was inconceivable that the 10s. a year for supplying water for

girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. of Queen's Club. Douglas Barclay the night be

In case

of a

Sore Throat

take.

FORMAMINT

When Borotra grasped the situa- lion he Immediately gave his herot to Mr. Barciny. "Please give this to my little friend," he said, "with my best love and kisses from the luckiest player to have won the champion- ship."

CONCEDED 11 YEARS

Every available space was occupied

by spectators to see Borotra play D.

coroner

He contended that, in the absence of the body, there could be no in quest.

The hearing was adjourned.

BABY DROMEDARY

AT ZOO

London.

clared that she was going to raise

"I'll have to take you back to 1905 the price to all users to 10s, a year. to explain why any money at all came to be charged for use of the "pump," grey-haired, moustached Mr. Hatches champion of the pump users, said,

which now belongs to Mrs.

**The man who bullt the cottage repaired the pump, and mid to the parishioners, "Now I've put the old pump in order, you'll have to pay me is. a year lo cso

"At that time the Parish Council refused to pay for the repair of the There is a new baby camel at the old pump, which had been broken Butler in the final. It was thought zoo. The dromedary Fatma, one of down during the building of the cot that the handicap of years (he was the four camels presented by King tage conceding 11) would tell against Borotra. But his old-ume speed and Ibn Saud of Arabia last winter is Baker.

female the happy mother. The calf sagacity gave him victory by 3 acts

bables is one of the

oddest looking to 1.

ever Leen in

menagerie. the stands 4ft. tall and has He is a miracle man on covered She courts. Nine times the covered court exceptionally long and slender less. cont is black and woolly. champlont That is a record which Her will probably never be beaten. The She is a very healthy infant and was previous best was seven by E. W. standing up within an hour of her birth. This the fifth dromedary to Lewis, who won his first victory a year before Borotra was born.

be born in the Zoo during the last 100 years. The last was Noel, born on Christmas Day 1934.

“ONLY DOUBLES NOW"

This year Borotra will probably become president the French Lawn Tennis Federation in place of Pierre ¦ HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE

Gillou, who is retiring. But Dorotra

is not giving up active lawn tennis.

"I will not play any more alogies

in major championships," he said. "I will confine myself to playing doubles and in endeavouring to help my_young_countrymen to improve.” Reflectively he added: "I was 40 last August, and man cannot go on for ever.***

But those who saw him play in the championships_cen ́ „hardly realise that he is 40. There are many more ́years of tennis in the most popular player who ever'swùng a racket.

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

'The Annua! General Meeting of the Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children will take place In the Helena May Institute, on Tuesday, December 13, at 5.15 p.m.

Anne Crozier,

Hon. General Secretary

"After that the price doubled, then the properly changed hands to Mrs. Baker, who charges 3s. a year.

"The real controversy is over. the claim that the well of the pump and the land on which it stands belong to the parish.

"So we have asked the rural district council to help us to put u pump- of our own Into the well. We have the support of the medical officer of health, Dr. W. M. Burns, to do every- thing we can to get the people of Middleton a tree water supply

that

Mra. Baker firmly denied

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"We have deeds going back to use Tattoo Powder, Rouge and

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In buying the cottage, bought the

well and pimp also," she declared.

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