WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1931.
SPORT NOTICES
LAMMERT BROS.
'Phone 20022
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,
and
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
FOR
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Twenty-five Words three inser- tions prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three insertions.
All replies under this heading must be called for.
WANTED.
WANTED. Good House Boy.
Know-)
ledge of Valeting essential. Apply Boxi
No. 8, e/o "China Maif."
COLUMBIA
FOR SALE
GRAMOPHONE
Cheap,
RECORDS for Sale. to 211, Winchai Road,
RAFT
PROGRAMMES
DR ENTRY FORMS for the Public Auctions -
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE Undersigned have received
TH
WILD ORANG AS A DOCTOR.
Wounds of Animals "Dressed."
HIS OWN DENTIST.
Was the first doctor a monkey?
FOURTH EXTRA RACE MEET- ING to be held on SATURDAY, 2nd May, 1931, (weather permit- ting) may be obtained at the instructions from Mr. John S. Race Course, Hong Kong Club, and Smith, the proprietor of the Sta- Causeway Bay Stables.
tion Hotel, to sell by Public Auc-Animals doctor themselves when tion,
they are sick, but there has been at least one monkey who tried to doctor other animals. Kia namo was Dick, and he
from Borneo.
Entries CLOSE at 12 o'clock Nuon on THURSDAY, 23rd April,
1931.
Hong Kong, 20th April, 1931.
GENERAL NOTICES
DANCE.
BENEFIT, DANCE, arranged by the Warrant Officers and Other tanks of the Royal Army
FOR SALE-Victrola Cabinet Gramop.m. sharp. phone in excellent condition with 200 records. No reasonable offer refused, For further particulars apply to Box, No. 689, en "China Mail.'
TO LET.
ADMISSION: Gentlemen Ladies by courtesy.
$2.
Tickets may be obtained at the various Clubs and Messes, from the Secretary. Dance Committee, Ordnance Office. Queen's Road Eust, or upon entering the Hall.
ON
THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY,
April 23, 24, and 25, 1931. commencing each day at 10.30 a.m. at STATION HOTEL, Nos. 65 and 67. Nathan Road, Kowloon.
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
Teak
FURNITURE
Chatra,
Came
is told by The story of Dick Joseph Delmont, the German novelist and big game hunter, in a new book, "Catching Wild Beasts Alive," which is published by Hut chinson's.
AUSTRALIA'S NEW TRAMPS.
Stowaways on the Railroads.
SEEKERS AFTER WORK.
The unemployed crisis in Aus- tralla has placed more tramps on the road in search of work than at any other time in Australian hie- - tory.
The old-time "swagger," with hia bundle of blankets, tes billy, and inevitable dog, has always been 4 part of the country landscape.
apent These men
their lives wandering from station to station, doing odd jobs here and there, but never staying in one place long. They generally timed their arrival at a station as the san was sinking, and for that reason were known 28 **sundowners," picturesque characters of whom the poet Henry Lawson sang.
Mr. Delmont has captured thou and Ordnance Corps, will be held in comprising: Apply the Garrison Lecture Hall, Wel-
Matatand, Chesterfield ¡lington Barracks, on SATURDAY, Conch and Chairs, Large Arm-aands of animals during years of
To-day the roads are thronged April 25, 1931, commencing at 8.50 chaira, Bookcases, Side Boards, travel in all the continents of the
with a different crowd, earnest Folding Screens, Long Mirrors, world. He says that he is seized seekers after work, mostly, a mot Pictures, Clocks, Brass Fenders. Brass Ware, Ornament, Carpets, with remorse to think that he has ley crowd of every trade and call. of clothes and Rugs, Curtains, Flower Stands, etc. deprived so many animals of free-ing. in all sorts
Teak Dining Tables, Round and dom, and that he would never again carrying every kind of baggage, from the familiar blanket roll to Square Tables, Dining Teak Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, capture animals in order to keep suitcases.
Unemployed Camps. Chests, Ice
Filtors,
Dinner them behind bare.
Many, of course, travel only with Crockery. Glass
He tells the story of Dick in a Ware, E. P. Cutlery, Table and Ceiling Fans, chapter on "Animals of the wild as the clothes they stand up in-all they possess. Nearly every coun- doctors." He himself caught.Dick try town of any size has its un- Teak and Iron Bedstead, Teak
orang-employed camp, an area set apart Double and Single Wardrobes with in Borneo. Bevelled Mirror Doors, Mantle outang, the largest of three, and for the use of these unfortunate Pieces, Dressing Tables, Marble the times).
Jack London's stories of "The Top Washstands, Chest of Drawers, One day Dick had a battle with a Road" have a parallel in the his- Desks, Rattan Ware, Linen and
Australian tapir, and soon all the denizens of tory of many of the Blankets, etc.
No longer are they con- Fittings, the yard were fighting. Many were tramps. Electric Lights and
tent to walk or take a lift from Porcelain Wash Basins, Shanghai wounded.
some kindly motorist when it offers. Having no money to pay railway
TO LET.-Ground Floor, No. 8n, Des Voeux Road Central, recently in the occupation of the Netherlands India! Commercial Bank. Can be divided to suit tenants' requirements. Apply to David Sassuos & Co., Ltd.
TO LET-To prospective visitors to England ident accommodation in the West End of London, Centre of theatre land, etc. Good English fare. Clarendon Moderate charges. Road, Holland Park, London, W.11. G. B. Colson.
TUITION GIVEN
PRIVATE LESSONS in English, French, Shorthand, Typewriting and Music for Ladies and Children. Terms Austin 6. Aimmi Villas, moderate. Road, Kowloon.
ENGLISH LESSONS given to Students with particular attention to pronunciation, by Engilah Barrister (Middle Temple). Apply Box No. 680, c/o "China Mail,"
HOME TUITION,
WESTOVER-STEVENAGE
Withio
an hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarderr received in the House of the Principal Individual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
For
(Camb. Higher Local), Camb. Teachers' Diploma).
MISS GERTRUDE TURNER,
(National Frodel Higher Certificate).
MISCELLANEOUS
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly
printed."Ching" Mail" Office, No. 8A, Wyndham St.
phone 20022.
Tele.
ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE
For the best Permanent Finger and Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Maalcure for Ladies and Gentlemen. Pedder Bldg. 1st floor. Room 5. Tel. 25169, Opposite entrance H.K. Hotel.
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES
Price Moderate.
+
A Trial Order is Sollefted.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. 23459. 26.A, Des Voeux Road, C Hong Kong.
· OUR · LADIES' TAILORING
DEPARTMENT -
undertakes to execute orders FOR MAKING DRESSES & GOWNS on latest styles with in 16 hours..
CLAREMONT
PRIVATE HOTEL. Austin Road, Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club. Four minutes from ferry by bus.) Suites of rooms (single and double), hot and cold water system, all modern vanitation, private bathrooms attached. EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European management.
Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the finest locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet easily accessible.
Terms very moderate.
Reserva-
'tions by letter or cable.
CLAREMONT Tels.: 57389 & 57385 (Private). Telegraphic Add.: "Fern" H.K.- Our motto is "SERVICE."
DON'T RUN FOR A DOCTOR
Pop an EVANS' PASTILLE - into your mouth instead. Their antisoptic vapours will soon relieve you of that cold.
etc.
He was am
Baths, Cooking Stove, Gas Stove, While," say Mr. Water Tanks, Plants and Ferna in
Pota, etc.
also
Chubbs Safe. Piano by Moutrie,
and
A Quantity of BLACKWOOD WARE. Terms: Cash on Delivery. On View from Tuesday, April 21, 1931.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, April 13, 1981.
THE Undersigned have received
Tinstructions to sell by Public
Auction,
ON MONDAY, April 27, 1931, commencing at 10.30 a.m.,
at No. 4, Humphrey's Bullding, Kowloon.
A Quantity of
YALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Delmont.
men.
under-
"I was sewing and binding the fares, great numbers of them travel left my side. by train without observing that wounds. Dick never
preliminary. Some do long He assumed an air of great import-
journeys clinging to the ance and kept arizing my hand, puckering his lips, and lecturing slung rods beneath the carriages; me on the way I should work, until some creep into empty gooda vane or beneath the tarpaulins covering I was on the point of having him full, open trucks: others, who have caged up so that I could get on."
sufficient nerve and self-confidence, Mr. Delmont bound Dick's finger. and whose clothes are still suff- A little later there was a scream, ciently presentable, take a chance and he saw Dick holding a guenon even in the passenger carriagea, monkey. Dick had torn off a ban hiding under seats or in lavatories dage that was on the screaming or anticipating the movements of monkey, and was pressing wet clay the ticket collectors. into the wound.
In is no uncommon thing to see Systematic Work.
20 or 30 men before the courts in "During the following days," he large country towns on charges says, "Dick wae extraordinarily of travelling on the railways with- Railway officers busy, The big monkeys had con-jout paying fares. tinually to defend themselves nay that they are unable to cope against his efforts to treat them, with the problem. and Dick was always in trouble."
"Dick" says Mr. Delmont, "went
very systematically to work with "HOLY CAVE". IN
his eures. He would wash the; wounds with his tongue and with wet leaves off betel nut... Dick
On View from Sunday, April 26, never used any other leaves." 1931.
Terms:--Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, April 21, 1981.
Undersigned,
Auction
One day Dick sat on a log with
cheek.
DANGER.
£6,000 Wanted to Save
St. Benedict Relic.
Sole
Take A Tip From Mel
ALWAYS MIX YOUR COCKTAILS
WITH
BOLS
Silver Top
DRY GIN
Distributors: H. RUTTONJEE & SON.
Benedictines are doing their ut- most to raise the rest.
Not only has the Sacro Speco a claim to fame through its con- nection with history, legend, art, and culture, but it is also a religious centre and place of pil- grimage of great natural beauty Only a and of unique interest. footpath leads to it up the steep gorge of the torrent-river Anio, where twelve little monasteries once sheltered twelve disciples On the of the young Benedict. opposite side can be seen to this day the remains of a brick villa built by Nero where he used to flsh with a golden net four hundred years before the com- ing of the Benedictines.
All these monasteries have disappeared; only the Holy Cave of the Saint remains, which is reached higher up the gorge through a dark wood of gnarled and twisted ilexes belonging to
the
A time of Benedict. monastery, an upper and lower church, a labyrinth of chapels supported on arches against the cliff, cluster round it, forming al- together what is known as the, Sacro Speco..
STOWAWAY SENTENCED.
Travelled 3,174 Miles For The "National."
Stanley John Clarke, aged twenty-one, of Liverpool, was sentenced at Southampton Police Court to four weeks' imprisonment
for stowing away in the liner
Aquitania at New York.
The solicitor prosecuting for the Cunard Company said that it ap- peared that Clarke made a bet with a man in New York that he would
reach Liverpool in time for the
Grand National.
The distance from New York to Southampton is 3,174 miles.
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*** ALGIE" BENNETT,
An interesting book of Cartoons depicting "Happenings" on the China Coast
PRICE $1.00.
Now on sale at
BREWERS
His hand his head on one side. was hot and his pulse irregular.
"What's the matter, Dick?" asked The Sacro Speco (Holy Cave) Mr. Delmant. Dick opened his of St. Benedict at Subiaco, near mouth. He was given medicine. Rome, is in great danger owing Next morning Dick sut in the to a tendency of the cliff to split crumble away. Bits of Tinstructions to have received sun, with both hands on in the to a
rock sometimes fall close to pil- grims at prayer in the chapels.
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW Infiltration of water is believed
EXCELSIOR BOOK STORE. to cause the trouble; and it is
OVERSEAS AGENTS WANTED. estimated that some £6,000 is by Rritish firm doing Mail Order Re-and at the Publishers
en tail Trade in Cloth and Garments needed for the necessary
Competitive prices gineering work of restoration. for Men's Wear. The Italian Government is ex- in English. preferred.
-liberal commission. Correspondence The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.
Apply, with
China Mail Building. pected to contribute perhaps a references: Box 100, Whitehall Agency,
and the 16, Whitehall Road, Leeds, England. REUTER¶¶||||||||||| third of the sum,
ON TUESDAY, April 28, 1931, ⚫ commencing at 10.30 a.m., at No. 99, Humphrey's Building (Kowloon).
"When I came to him," says Mr. Delmont, "I noticed to my astonish- ment, that he had smeared the left half of his face with wet clay and was holding a big lump of clay pressed to his left lower jaw. His mouth was also full of clay.
"He looked at me mournfully, glanced at my hand as though look On View from Monday, April 27, ing for something, and began to chatter, the clay running over his under lip.
1931,
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
.LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, April 21, 1981.
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
EVANS T
Pastilles
ANTISEPTIC THROAT
From Chemists avargirkan.
Made in England to a form of
5 the Liverpool Throat Hospital
YOU
ARE INVITED TO INSPECT OUR STOCK OF
ASIATIC FOREIGN AND COLONIAL
POSTAGE STAMP IN SETS, SINGLE PACKETS, BAGS AND IN APPROVAL SHEETS.
GRACA & CO., Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philatelic Goods, Picture,. Postcards, Toys, &c.
∙19, WYNDHAM STREET," PO, Bor No. 32. HONG KONG
LOVELY SILK STORE QUALITY PRINTING
Stanley Street! Tel, 22109. Adjoining D'Agullar Streek)
WithQuick
Service
Auction
ON WEDNESDAY, April 29, 1931, commencing at 10.30 a.m.,
at No. 5A, Luna Buildings.
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Cure Or Kill! "I noticed that the left half of the orang's face was swollen. He had a severe gumboll and was cur- ing himself with cold clay,
"Three days later he himself pulled out the alling tooth and brought it to me, beaming with de- light.
"Dick spent a good deal of his. time reporting to me the ailments of other animals. He was the first to discover that one of the orang or- phans was sick with tuberculosis. Dick carried the little invalid about
On View from Tuesday, April 28, the whole day like a mother." 1981.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, April 21, 1981.
GET Frères
PIPPERMINT
The Queen
Creme Menthe
An excelent digestion Cahanmuut
The most refreshing,
long drink when
Laken with
Soda Water
4 at Rivax, (HiSaronne). FrancE EWHO GET Frames:ainen 17955)
The little orang was given medi- cine three times a day. Dick noticed this.
L
One day he stole the creosote bot- tle and gave the little orang a dose. It killed the little orang. "One thing WAS
beyond all doubt, says Mr. Delmont. "Dick knew at once when an animal was ill...If there was nothing at band with which to dose the patient he would try, and cheer him up with all sorts of feats."
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY
AH. CROOK, CHE. MA
W. KAY, MA.
W. L. HANDYSIDE, MA, B.Sc.
PRICE: $2.00.5
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