SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927.
FERRY TENDERS.
KOWLOON CITY, SHAUKIWAN SERVICE.
A "GAZETTE" NOTICE.
JUNK LOST.
CAPSIZED IN, HEAVY SQUALL.
OCCUPANTS SAVED.
It is announced in the "Gazette" The loss of his trading junk (No. that tenders will be received at the 1894) is reported by the master
exclusive maintenance of the ferry Chau and Macao on July 21.
THE
ARMSTRONG SCENE.
SHAREHOLDER CALLS FOR "A REVOLVER!"
MILLIONS OF LOSSES CUT.
on-Tyne.
CHINA MAIL.
THE SMALL BALL..
WHYSALL TALKS ON CRICKET.
PROMISE OF LARWOOD,
Before the season
Apa
The slow bowler? Well, there is ono man who stands alone for beat- ing the batsman by sheer craft- Roy Kilner of Yorkshire. It's no use trying to describe what happene when Roy is bowling, because he bas
many tricks up his sleeve and he trots them out at will.
I'll let you into a little secret of mine. If 1 score 50 against York-
any other county. Runs take some
opened I A painful scene was created at thought a lot about the smaller ball shire I consider that I have done as Colonial Secretary's office until who, together with the crew of the meeting of Armstrong, White and what might happen (writes well as if I had hit a century off neon on Wednesday, August 21, for four, was saved on the boat cap-worth, and Company, the big en-W. W. Whysail, the Notts and Eng-getting when you are opposed by a licence for three years for the sizing in a squall between Cheung gineering business, in Newcastle-land Batsman, iв "All Sports Kilner, Rhodes & Co.
Weekly") and frankly, was not The occupants were saved by a Giving his name as Mr. Bere that it was going to do so
A Great Match-Winner, Graham, of Gateshead, and much as people expected, though it
It would not be fair to leave off passing Gabing junk..
speaking with emotion, a share certain that the experiment is here without mentioning one player holder said he was 75 and had interesting both to the spectators whom I consider a great match- worked for Armstrongs over 60 and the players, I think that it winner-Patey Hendren, of Middle-
will to
Breat extent favour the ex. I am never tired of telling the "I could take a revolver," he batsmen, but I know this is not the story of when Notts left Middlesex cried excitedly. "and shoot the atras opinion, and that it is in 500 ruas to get at Nottingham-on direct opposition to its intention. Middlesex wanted that number
Difficult to Face.
service for the conveyance of pas-]
between Victoria, Hung sengers Hom. Kowloon City, Salwanho and Shaukiwan.
The schedule is to provide for not less than one departure every 45) minutes daily from each of the
The value of the junk is $225 and that of the cargo, $400.
following piers between 5.15 am. MEDICINE OF LIFE.
and 6 p.m.: the Ken Shan Wharf, Victoria: Hung Hom ferry wharf; Kowloon City wharf and wan or Saiwanho wharf.
Nine Ferry Boats,
Shauki
Not less than 9 ferry vessels are
The licensee of the ferry or group of ferries may demand and take for every passenger fares not exceed! ing the following rates:-
ANCIENT TRADITION ABOUT THE PEARL.
2nd class 7.
Between Victoria City: 1st class 10 cents, 2nd class in Syria. Syrian writers, de
and Kowloon medical work which has survived |
G cents.
2 cents.
Between Hunghom and Shauki wan or Saiwanho: 1st class 10
cents, 2nd class cents.
Between Kowloon City and Shau kiwan or Saiwanho: 1st class 10, cents, 2nd class & cents.
years.
SAILED INTO PORT AND
VANISHED.
Player With A Future.
Д
I think we have some fine young players coming along, and we have no need to trouble on this score. It takes considerable time to make a really great cricketer, and the effects of a long stoppage auch as we had during the War are far-
POISON IN COCOA.
DETECTED. WHEN SPOON TURNED BLACK.
WAE
lot who caused Sir William Arm-1
when Patsy came in to bat. He strong to turn in his grave.
I base my opinion upon the fnet got 200 not out, and when he made "Change the name, for God's that with the smaller surface ex-the winning hit he ran off the field Apused to wind resistance, the ball with on air that said: “That show- At a meeting of the Manches- sake. My capital is gone.
revolver, Mr. Chairman, a re-will not swing about so much, Aled you how to get them !" He had; volver!"
swinging bail is one of the most it was a glorious knock when every- to be provided of not less than ter Egyptian and Oriental So-
Mr. J. Frater Taylor, the vice-difficult that any batsman can face thing seemed against his side. 30 feet overall measurements with ciety, Professor Maurice Carney suitable beam not less than 16 feet gave an address on "The Pearl chairman, presiding in the ab-and if there is less likelihood of
Lastly, but by no means least, and a speed of not less than 10 as the Medicine of Life."
sence of Lord Southborough, the this, then it will help the men who our captain, Mr. A. W. Carr is one knote, fitted with navigation bridge
of the greatest sportsmen in the Among ancient peoples, he chairman, through illness, had ad- make the runs. and water-tight bulkheads, etc.
The Kowloon Dock Service which said, it was believed that pearls!mitted in the course of his speech! Against this, I must confess that game. Notts have had some good | were formed from rain-drops, or that the annual report was far such as Kilner, Richmond, and, the reputation of the past great I think it will assist slow bowlers skippers, and Mr. Carr lives up to runs between Queen's Pier, and dew drops, or rays of sunlight from satisfactory and said that Freeman when the wickets suit men. A great captain can do more the Docks at Hung Hom not being which fell into the gaping valve the views expressed by Sir Gilbert them. They will be able to get a make a great side than anything i a service run for payment or re-
The dew Garnsey and himself were turning Ermer grip upon the ball and so else, and, take my word for this, ward shall not be interfered with of the pearl shell."
to be sometimes out to be true.. or hampered in any way by the drops seem
obtain greater spin. But then Notts have this asset. licensee: the currying on of such thought of as tears. Pearls have service shall not be deemed to in- been held also to be particles of he continued, to the necessity of when conditions suited them, and Consideration was being given, these men could always spin a ball
fringe or affect the rights of the of moon-substance. They were substantially writing down the the batsmen were nearly always in licensee or to give rise to any claim credited with a magical potency, plant and properties and invest-trouble, so there will not bo whatsoever by him.
In Palestine they have been worn ments, particularly the company's great change here. Rates to be Charged.
In these days, when Interna- by Arabs and Jews alike as interests in the Newfoundland tional cricket is again coming into amulets. They were supposed to Power and Paper Company, which its own, it is good to look around ward off evil and to cure disease. had been compelled to curtail its to see where our young players are In Syria, India, and China operations in view of the excep coming from to uphold the honour Between Victoria and Shaukiwan' they appear often in medical tional conditions that had develop which was regained last year, for| A story of poison being detected or Saiwanho: 1st class 12 cents, prescriptions. The lecturer gave ed in the trade during the last six England. At times there is a pes in a cup of cocoa as a result of
the ingredients found in a months.
simism which is worrying, but 1.in spoon turning black was told at for one, am not going to subscribe Manchester Assizes, when Bazil to any such idea.
Anthony Constantinides, aged 31, scribe other things as pearls, and THE GHOST SHIP.
of Garswood Road, Wilbraham! Between Victoria and Hunghom: call them also the Medicine ofj
Estate, Manchester, a Greek. 1st class & cents, 2nd class 4 cents. Life and Life-giving. Suchi
found guilty of attempting to en- Between Bunghom and Kewloon:
danger the life of Michael O'Dea, of City: 1st class 4 cents, 2nd class; things include the sacred word
over Street, Chorlton-on-diedlock and the read and wine of thei
e was sentenced to three yer.rs Eucharist. Jesus is said to have
The port of Reyhjavik, Iceland,
penal servitude. been known as the Pearl and the which is at present very much
Mr. Justice Roche said he would Life-giver. He is spoken of also frequented by Faroe fishing cut-reaching.
recommend Constantinides for de- as the Medicine of Life or Our ters, believes that it has been Let us look at some of the Portation, Medicine of Life,
Mr. J. E. Singleton, K.C., for the visited by a "ghost ship," the younger players and start away by The lecturer considered a re-story being reminiscent of the discussing Larwood, of my own prosecution, said Constantinides markable fragment which has old tales of "The Flying Dutch-enough last season to convince all On January 18, Mrs. O'Dea found a This young player did had lost an action against O'Dea. been preserved in the Syriac man." which suddenly appeared that he is one of the most promis-sample packet of cocoa which ap- "Acts of Judas Thomas." This and was believed to presage death in men, though perhaps it wouldparently had been put through the fragment has become known as and disaster for those who saw it. be better to say he has lived up to the contents for her husband's sup- letter box. She was going to use "The Hymn of the Soul." because One evening in April a func- his promise. Everybody knows it has been taken to be an oid tionary of the port, Kristjan what his bowling is like or at least water noticed that the spoon in the per, but on mixing it with hot gnostic hymn which found its Jonasson, saw an Icelandic traw-knows the effect of his howling and way by accident into the Acts ler enter the harbour. Sailing he has, moreover, the right tem- cup turned black. of Thomas. Professor Carney alongside was a Faroe fishing pernment for any game.
it was not a cutter with two boats in tow, in Further, Larwood has the mak. How the ancient processes of submitted that
Inge of a good bateman. mummifying the body, or making gnostic hymn at all, but a legend one of which were two men in ounicking up knowledge in this sec- tabloids of the poison was found in an image of a king, conferred based on ancient mythological skins. It anchored alongside five upon him a new existence and a material. It should be described other Faroc cutters in the har-ton of the game. and he has at an office jacket belonging to Con
times proved his worth to Nolts in stantinides. divine personality which enhanc- not as the Hymn of the Soul but bour.
ways other than bowling. His Several Witnesses. ed his powers of ensuring safety as the Song of the Pearl, the
fielding, too, is really good. Yes. The harbour pilot had boarded Larwood is a good player of.the. and prosperity for his subject, central theme being the quest of was described at a meeting held a unique pearl, the Medicine of the trawler, and he, the crew of future for England. at the Welcome Historical Medi- Life, which was to he found in the trawler, and the crew of the
Leyland's Nerve. Yorkshire have a left-handed cal Museum by the Royal Anthro- the sea, guarded by a terrifying pilot boat all affirm that they saw
dragon or serpent.
the cutter but that no one was to batsman called Leyland. Have you pological Institute.
In conclusion, a reconstruction be seen on board. The cutter car-seen his calm walk to the wicket Professor G. Ellitt Smith, in of the legend was presented in ried the letters of identity F.D.when going in to bat? He is coal- COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED an address, said the Museum con- which the fragment becomes an but no figures: F.D. means that neas personified. I don't think any- tained a vast collection of charms, old folk-song or fairy tale.
the cutter belonged to Fuglefjord,thing worriea him or aver will amulets, and elixirs of life, used
When the cutter anchored Mr. Test player. It needs nerve to play worry him. Leyland will become a Jonasson telegraphed to the port in these big games, just as it does by people of every race and clime, and of every time from the upper
doctor to go on board to make the to play with the county, but I police boat with the doctor, Mr. Las imperturbable against Australia July 23-Star Theatre. Kowloon; Jonasson, and an engineer neared as he would against Notts.
"The Wrong Mr. Wright." the spot where the cutter had! It mer sound strange to say that
July 23-Tea Dance, Cafe Res- most of these givers of life was
been she had vanished.
Jack Hobbs has a rival at cover-taurant Parision, 4.30 p.m. shown to be unfounded, many of
As barely 15 minutes elapsed point, but I think he has in Hutchin-
July 23-Isako's Circus, New Re- them still survived in popular in an empty field and a deserted before the police boat arrived, it on, of Derbyshire. Perhaps clamation Ground, Wanchai, 0.15) estimation, but, being stripped of avenue of trees are all that remain was impossible for the cutter to would go so far as to say that p.m. Matinee: 4.30 p.m. any justification for their reputa-9-day of the bid made 200 years have reached so far as behind the Hutchinson is the best cover-point
July 28-Launch Picnic, for the tion, fell into the category of Witham to rival Bath and Chelten- Reykjavik message to Copen-player who will have good 2.30 p.m. respectively.
ago by the little country town of islands lying off the harbour. In England
Derbyshire, ton. have another Pier, and Polica Pier at 2.15 and services; parties to leave Queen's as a fashionable watering Another aspect of essentially place. Dr. Taverner, a physician hagen says that it has been im-future. Worthington is his name. July 26-Entertainment of song the same process was displayed of eighteenth-century Witham, was Fossible to find a natural explana- This cricketer stands six feet high and dance by the J-Pans in Sun- and weighs something like 13 ft.. men's Institute, 21 Praya East, 8.30 in the practice of mummy-responsible for the making of the tion of the occurrence. making, the use of relics and
land, my word, he can hit a ball. He is also a useful bowler, and in
ELIXIRS OF LIFE.
POPULARITY OF CHARMS IN ALL AGES.
He is
paleolithic age to Twentieth KILLED BY A SHEEP. usual examination. but when the should say that Leyland would be
Century London, for the purpose
of self-protection. While the original excuse for the efficacy of}
magic.
MISFORTUNE OF AN ESSEX TOWN.
A square of railings round a well
bant
Ile noticed the medicinal proper-
When the contents of the cup were analysed, 13.2 grains of cor rosive sublimate of mercury were found. A bottle containing several
July
Shadows Before.
IN THE "MAIL"
Entertainments. "Shoulder Arms."
23-Queen's
July 2B-World
Tongues of Flame."
p.m.
Theatre;
Theatre;
magic bundles, and the imitation ties of the water coming from a MEN'S WAVED HAIR. the field never gives anything Lammert's Auction.
of medicine-men. The pretence well outside the town. and wrote a
away.
of mummification in the case of long book to urge the claims of CAMBRIDGE UNDERGRADS'ter this season, and I am very riad a king already referred to-was Witham as a spa.
the essence of the initiation of a le realised that the town would medicine-mar, giving him new derive more prosperity if visitors,
came to them and accordingly prov-
Pump Room.
"FASHION."
These all-round
pro-
(ground floor). 2.45 p.m.
July 28 Valuable household Derbyshire seem to be doing bet- furniture at No. 9 Queen's Garden
but not surprised. They have August 4-5-Household furniture, found some useful players,
pictures, curios, etc., of the late name and new powers of life and ed that the water of the spring was bridge undergraduates is to have The latest fashion among Cam-
A Notts All-rounder. Mrs. M. J. D. Stephens, No. 5. Penk death; and the symbol of his volatile that it could not pos- their hair waved.
We, at Nottingham, have another Road, 12 a.m. powers was the magic bundle, sibly be bottled.
clev- all-round player in S. September 15- Valuable which was the actual mummy or
While old Cambridge men up Staples. In the slips or anywhere perties in the New Territories, at Messrs. Lammerts' Sales Room, 8, the pretended relic of his pre- The town followed his lead Afor May Week are inclined to sniff round the wicket he never misses & decessor. In the wonderful re- pump room was built, and a large at what they regard as a sign of catch. He can get runs and is no Duddell Street, 3 p.m. Meetings. productions of a chronological ball room erected. Visitors began to foppishness. Miss Cambridge does mean trundler.
July 25-Meeting of Indo-China series of pharmacies could be planted under which the fine indies, her mind on the question. Some and Staples to one of the best.
come, and an avenue of trees was not seem to be able to make up players are very useful to a side,
Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., Messrs. found a dramatic demonstration and gentlemen might wk after of the women frankly admire the mond, of Gloucester, was ill last
It was a great pity that Ham-Jardine. Matheson's Offices, 11 a.m. of the historical links between they had taken the waters. Witham, young giants whose exquisitely season, for he has quickly showning. 4.15 p.m.
July 26 Sanitary Board Meet- the magle of the past and the was to become a centre of fashion. wave hair gives them the ap- in the present campaign that he is science of to-day.
Visitors fell off, however, after
July 29-Annual meeting of mem- of the first rush of the curious, and pearance
the. A cordial message of greeting died away almost to nothing.
traditional a player of the highest order. bers of the Peak Club, at the Club. The matinée idol; while others scoff at Three consecutive hundreds are not G p.m. country round Witham was not as them as being effeminate. A few easily gained in county cricket,
Miscellaneous. Mr. Henry S. Wellcome, who is a attractive as that around Bath, oves are jealous, as some of the Here I endorse the general opinion present in the United States, and and the water did not taste suffi- men have a better wave to their that Hammond le one of England's Bathing picnic, Queen's Pier, 3.15
vote of thanks to him was ciently unpleasant.
hair than they have themselves. future mainstays. Again, the n.m, moved by Sir James Berry, Witham began to realise that as
July 24-Social gathering at St. A Cambridge hairdresser told player is a great fielder. spa it was a failure. The ball-a Daily Mail reporter that he sconded by the Earl of Onslow, room was pulled down and the had never known so many under-play against. I have the most sin-
John's Cathedral Hall after even- Respect for All Bowlers. and carried.
With regard to the bowlers I song. The President of the Institute disrepair.
pump room was suffered to fall intoj
grrduates have their hair arti- spoke of the appointment of Eventually an inquisitive sheep ficially waved as at present. He cere respect for every one. Don't Captain 1. W. G. Malcolm as wandering into the pump room fell said:-- curator of the Museum, charac-down Rrd choked the well. and{ terising him as a well-known an- finally ended Witham's brief bid to thropologist, who would ensure be a British apa.
to the Institute was received from
the continued growth of the col-
lection and their study upon sound historical lines.
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ITS QUALİTY · THAT COUNTS.
July 24-Theosophical Society
+
The third year is the testing time of all parliaments-Mr.
NOTICE.
believe that there are any easy bowlers in county cricket. Take It has just become the my word for it that there is none. fashion. I cannot say why. Some, of course, are more thun The men have their hair wayed others and of the fast merchants I Lloyd George. regularly about every nine or have played against perhaps Mac- ten days.. We do this, of course, donald, of Lancashire, is the most with hot irons, in the same way dificult. He, like Larwood, is full as we wave the women's hair. of "devil." You never know what Many of the men are just as is coming next. A short one will fussy about their hair as the follow a "vorker" and then he will
On TUESDAY NEXT, 26th July, And one that "fizzes" off the pitch and spins in. You have to make at 8.30 p.m., in the SEAMEN'S IN- up your mind quickly when playing STITUTE, 21, Praya East, The Good manners are the outward against Macdonald and when once "J-PANS," led by MISS VIOLET expression of an Inward attitude it is made up you have to stick to CAPELL, will give an Entertain- of mind-Professor Winifred it. He bowls too fast to allow any ment of Song and Dance. Admia- Cullis,
Becond chance.
castro da unapoon (16823 koje
women,
LEO PODOLSKY
assisted by
MME. VERA MIROVA The famous premiere danseuse will give one concert only
on
MONDAY, AUGUST 8th at 9.30 p.m.
at
The Queen's Theatre.
"Poet at the Piano.”
One of the few and rare personalities in music," He has an expressive lyricism which charms the ear, and which depends upon subtlety of rhythm, touch and tempo-to make his music agreeable to the fancy and to the judgment at once."
"Podolsky's talents are worthy of exploitation in the artistic holy of holies. fter hearing him play the Bach-Liszt Wailing, Crying, Moaning, Sighing and little heard "Davidsbuendler Taenz" it was easy to foresee that his career in the United States is assured."
The above excerpts from the leading papers of Chicago when Podolsky recently performed there at the Studebaker. Theatre speak for themselves.
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