WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1928.
ZOO SNAKE
'CANNIBAL WHICH EATS RATTLERS
IMMUNE FROM POISON
THE CHINA MAIL,
"STUDENT PRINCE” SHADOWS BEFORE
ROYAL ROMANCE OF OLD HEIDELBERG
TO-DAY AT THE QUEEN'S
COMING EVENTS: 'ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL.”
To-day-Queen's Theatre; "The Student Prince.”
To-day-World "Theatre; "Beau Geste."
To-day-Star Theatre; "The Grand Duchess and the Walter."
October 25 First Chamber Con
cert of the season, Helena May In- stitute, 5:30 pm. (postponed).
Among the recent additions to
Ramon Novarro, the handsome the London Zoological Society's hero of "Ben-Hur," and beautiful reptile collection is a 7ft long Norma Shearer are the leading specimen of a South American players in "The Student Prince," non-poisonous sunke known as the a magnificent picture complete Cribo, a species which foods on-with faithful reproductions of the trels on other suckoa, poisonous castles of Old Heidelberg and as well as harmless.
ther massive settings, which will
October 26-St: Peter's Church The Crito is the arch enemy. of be screened at the Queen's Thea-] the justly dreaded Fer-de-Lance tre from to-day to Saturday. Young Men's Club dance at Loné and rattlesnake, from the polson World famous us a stage play, Crawford's restaurant, 8 p.m.
To-day-Theatre Royal; Plano of which it is immune, and is this wonderfully sweet romanco capable of overpowering and of the Prince and peasant maid, Reeltal by Moiseiwitsch at 9:16 p.m. Oct. 28-29—Queen's Theatre; swallowing specimens as large as has at last been brought to the itself. As a result of Its can-screen through the genius of the "Senorita.".
Oct.
Theatre: 28-29 --- World nibalistle tentioncles it receives eminent director, Ernst Lubitsch. Government protection in the State In addition to the principals, a "Love's Greatest Mistake." of Sao Paulo, where the Fer-de- huge supporting cast has been Oct. 28-29-Star Theatre; "Spe- Lance is specially abundant.
chosen and includes Jean Her-cial Delivery,"
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Theatre;
Oct. 30-31-World Theatre; "The Cat and the Canary."
In certain parts of Brazil a pre-sholt, the character actor, George Oct. 30-31-Queen's inium of fourpence per head was K. Arthur, noted comedian, "The Thirteenth Hour." formerly placed on every Fer-de-Edward Connelly, Lionel Belmore, Lance. The payments, however, Otis Harlan and Edythe Chapman, had to be discontinued owing to all well-known players with many the fact that the natives starled screen successes to their credit. to breed the anaku in captivity and Hundreds of colourful costumes the Fer-de-Lance brings forth broods of up to seventy young.
The Cribo is not the only snake that is iminune from the bites of its venomous compatriots; our com- mon, grass snake is not affected by the poison of the adder. Recent experiments have proved that, amongst mammals and birds, the hedgehog, mongoose, dormouse, and secretary bird are more or less immune.from normal doses of snake poison.
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Oct. 30-31-Star Theatre; "The Fall of Babylon.”
Nov. 1-3 Queen's "Knock Out Reilly,"
Theatre;
Nov. 1-0-Work Theatre; "We're in the Navy Now"
Nov. 1-3-Star Theatre; "Honour Bound."
November 2-Dance in City Hall in aid of H.K.W.G. and M.C.L..
(Police branch), 9.15 p.m.
Land Sales
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IN OTHER PLACES
-CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO JAVA
Adviser, Kukub, and Mr. S. N. King, M.C.S., as First Magistrate, Johore Bahru.
Mr. E. D. Fleming, M.C.S., has been posted to Kedah as acting Protector of Chinese in place of Mr. G. R. Sykes, M.C.S., who has
Benno Moiseiwitsch is en route to Hong Kong where he is to give
Mr. E. A. Ross, M.C.S., has been recitals. He will be playing at the two lots of Crown Land at Sham-appointed to net дв Assistant Theatre
Royal
Wednesday shuipo and Mataukok, 3 p.. on October 24 and Saturday, October 27 under the direction of A. Strok. He is no ordinary planist-ho is a thorough master of the technique A further grant of probate (limit-of musfe, whose playing is a re ed to the value of settled lands velation. He has perfected his art only) has been issued in respect of and is still a young man. Brilliant the late Baron Kenyon, of Gred- and difficult compositions are inter- The preted flawlessly, delicacy of touch ington, Whitchurch, Salop. value of the settled lands is re-in this, massive ponderousness. In turned at £8.114. The unsettled that, and all the time the art of estate was returned in February Moiseiwitsch reaches out to em- last as of the gross value of £25,-brace with the ardour of an old 215, making the total value of the friend. As an indication of his popularity in this part of the Property £8,320.
Mr. Thomas Field, of Aylesbury, world, Moiseiwitsch is the only goldsmith, founder and for many artist who has returned to the years hou. organising secretary of Orient within the space of fourteen months. Two very popular pro-
the National Association of Gold- smiths, die fenving property of
October 25-At Sales Room, Dud dell st., valuable household farni-gone on leave. ture, 2.30 p.m.
Meetings.
October 26--Half yearly general meeting of members of Hong Kong Jockey Club, in Jockey Club Room, Hong Kong Club Annex, 5.15 p.m.
al sineral meeting of members of October 31-Twenty-fourth an-
On the occasion of the Queen of the Netherland's birthday 1,500) prisoners were granted amnesty and a further 7,000 were granted remission of their sentences, says the Batavia correspondent of the "Free Press."
The "Pinang Gazette" give cur rency to a rumour that Mr. A. Cavendish, Director of Co-operative Societies, 8.8. and F.M.S., wilt British shortly be appointed Adviser to one of the Unfederated Malay States. Mr. Cavendish, {t} may he added, was acting British Adviser to Perlis as long ago as 1910. He accompanied the Sultan of Kedah to England for the Mr. J. L. McFall, Deputy Public Corporation in 1911 and on his re- Prosecutor at Penang, was admit- turn to Malaya was appointed As- tod to the Penang Bar, without the statant Adviser to Kedah, a past customary waiting period, by Mr. which he held until May, 1916, Justice Stevens, in the Supreme He is now in Class 1B of the Civil Court recently. Mr. Crabb Watt re- Service and will be 50 on Dec. 1 of
this year. Penang Bar Committee, represent- The Monicipal Health Officer in commended his admission and the
the gross value of £18,512, with grammies have been selected for hathe Royal Hong Kong, Yacht Club, ed by Mr. Ross, offered no objec-his report for the week ended).
recitals here and it is generally ex- net personally £13.784. He gave:
pected that Muiseiwitsch's short To Gertrude Ellen Kulght, a director and secretary of Field and season in Hong Kong this month Soù Lid. 100 Ordinary, shares in will eclipse even the extraordinary the the said company; he, appointed reception tendered him, on Thomas Wiliam Field and James occasion of his last appearances in Henry Coales governing directors Hong Kong.
of Field and Son Ltd. and stated:} . "It is my earnest wish that the
"Marigold," the play with the
at the
Club House, North Point, 5.45 p.m.
Sports
tion.
September 29. states that the total number of deaths recorded was 256. Of this total 211 were Chinese, 20 Malays, 19 Indians, 2 Eurasians, 2 Europeans, and two The chief of other nationalities. cause of mortality was. pneumonia Convulsions with 33 deaths. caused 30 deaths, phthisis 26, malaria 23 and beri-beri 22, Three deaths occurred from enteric fever
The Malayan "Daily Express" reports that Mr. Mel Lan Fong, To-day--Victoria Recreation Club China's greatest actor, and world Harbour race, 5 p.m.
renowned Impersonator of female October 27-First championship characters, is expected to, visit race for Racing Yachts.
Malaya shortly on a $180,000 con October 31 Tenth bi-annual tract and that a wealthy Chinese race for ships' lifeboats (Royal merchant in Swalow, who has ex- firm of Field and Son Ltd. shall longest run in London-it has pase-II.K.Y.C., Travessa Traphy), 4 p.m.sive business connections in contiune the repairs, winding, anded its 600th performance
November 6-Snooker (Billiards) Malaya, is financing the tour. and one from small-pox. Thirteen regulating of clocks at the Royal Kingsway Theatre-is again being Bucks Hospital, Aylesbury, and the played by its original London com- For a fortnight the touring supply of spectacles to ophthalmic pany. patients in the hospital who are company eut the play going, but Solders of hospital orders, free of now the full cast, including Miss Angela Baddeley, in the name part, charge,"
Miss Moun Cadell, and Mr. Hubert Harben, is back, and "Marigold" is in full bloom again.
Its success
re-
Championship, Palace Hotel, Kow- loon.
November 10-Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club opening cruise.
November 10-Seventh extra race meeting of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Happy Valley.
Miscellaneous.
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persons died who had been less than three months resident in Mr. K. Evas, writing in the Singapore. The infantile death "Financial Times," expresses thei hope that some shareholder of the late was 227.7 per mille per aumain. Mr. James Alexander Henderson, Miss Emily Rosa Parbury, of
Nipah Distilleries of Malaya will challenge the item preliminary merchant, of Colombo, has left Lealholm, Langton Green, Tun
expenses-£17,000 in various pay £42,700. Income from his pro bridge Wells, left estate of the
ments, apart from under-writing-perty in Ceylon to be paid to his gross value of £29,862, with net in London at a theatre which has
often been unfortunate is
These payments, he says, represent sister, brothers and wife's sister personalty £23,564. She gave:
The play came into October 25-Weekly public lec- about 20 per cent. of the cash and subject to such life interests £100 to Dr. Frederick Balley markable.
to the Colombo Chamber of Com Mansor, "H8 small
of London quietly and it is very little tures of the Theosophical Society, received from shareholders. token
talked about in theatrical circles.16 p.m.
merce to found a fund for relief gratitude for his kindness."
October 25-First Debate of the Misa Helen. Findlay, of Belmont-but it has already taken more than
During September 15,872 Chinese of persons who are or had been en- October 26--Investiture at Gov-
(as compared with 27,112 in the stitution carrying on business in erument House, 9.15 pm..
November 3-St. Peter's Y. M.'s same month last year), making a Caylon and who have been over- Club holds Garden Fete.
total of 242,347 to date (as com- taken by misfortune through no : November Inaugural cerepared with 291,490 last year). fault of their own. He hopes niony of the Macao Charity and During the same month 14,868, deck that other firms and merchants will He gives Sunde," Mr. Eden Commercial Fair, at Macao, 9 p.m. passengers left Singapore, (against supplement the fund.
17-H.K.W.G. 17,386 in September last year), the his silver and plated cups won in they think best; and the residue of Phillpotta's Devonshire comedy, November
Court M.C.L's "Fun O' the Fair," at Lee total departures to date being Ceylon to the Ceylon kennel club.
107,837 against 112,060.)
Mr. Henderson has left all his English property (after provision of £800 as bequests) to Mrs. Alice Mayfeist, "my friend and nurse, as a token of deep appreciation for the great kindness to my late wife, her family, and myself."
terrace, Newtyle, N.B., left personal £60,000 at the box-office, and it has Season (European YM.C.A.) 9 P. immigrants arrived in Singapore gaged in firms of European con-
estate in Great Britain valued at at least another month to run at £6.938. The testatrix left:
the Kingsway Theatre. Its success its simple £500 each to the Foreign Mission appears to be due to of the Church of Scotland and the charm. It is, moreover, a "clean" Kirk Session of Newlyle Paris ploy.
Church, to be expended on behalf "Yellow
of the church and congregation as
the property to the Kirk Session of has been revived at the the Parish Church of Newtyle, the Theatre, S.W.
income therefrom to be applied in
augmenting the stipend of the
minister of Newtyle.
ROMAN COINS
BOY'S FIND IN LONDON GARDEN
Between 500 and 600 old Itoman silver coins were found by a nine- year-old schoolboy, Gerald Dennis- Grimsdell, while digging in his garden at Cranley-gardens, Mus- well-hill, London, N.
They are apparently contained in an earthenware vase, which was in pleces. The coins when cleaned were found to be in 'n splendid· state of preservation. They are
l about the size of a sixpenny. piece and the authorities at the British Museum say that they are, genuine.
In accordance with the law the coroner for the district has been"} informed of the discovery, and has summoned a jury to decide whether the coins are treasure trove and what shall be done with them./
The forthcoming marriage is announced of Mr. Edward Moore, engineer, of No. 1, Stanley-ter- zace, Quarry Bay and, Miss Elizabeth Robertson Dow, of No. 7 Royal-street, Gourock, who is coming to Hong Kong on the “Naldera
The Hong Kong Electric Com- pany's showroom at 2 Queen's road Central will be removed to 12 Des Voeux-road Central von October 2
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NOTICE.
THE DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL,
HONG KONG
of
THE FOURTH PAYMENT
School Fees (1928-9) is due on THURSDAY, November 1st.
Annual Examinations will be held in November and Promotions made the last week in November;
November is a good time for New Boys to join the School
The New Year's work begins an The MONDAY, December 3rd, new Syllabus will be fasted" Ini November, French will be added as a Class Subject In the senior Classes Chinese is compulsory for all boys. " The Chinese New Year Holidaya will be from about WEDNESDAY, February 1st to about, MONDAY, February 27th, 1929,
JAM W. T. FEA JERSTONE, LEASE Heddainstor
Hong Kong, 23rd Oct, 1923.
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