THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931.
MYSTERIOUS SWAMP IT'S A-B-C PARTIES
NOW.
THE END OF MRS. GRUNDY.
OF BRAHMAPUTRA.
What Strange Beasts
Fancy-Dressing to the Alphabet.
New Freedom of the Sands.
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Lurk in the Depths?
NO GIGANTIC FALLS.
that there are
MYSTERY SOLVED.
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In pursuance of Section 188 Great Britain's seaside resorts of the Companies Ordinance 1911. have decided that the reign, of that Mrs. Grundy must cease.
to do so.
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U.
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PUBLIC AUCTION,
Without
ernor, of ano Lot of Crown Land
I am sick to death of that mys tery of the Brahmaputra which is
General Meeting, of the PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS Members of the above-named Com-of the Sale by Public Auction connected with the course of the
to be held on MONDAY, the Hna Londen been having Letter Bathors this Summer will bopany will be held at the offices of river between the point at which
day of May, 1931, at Parties?
4th Paris is enjoying them allowed much greater freedom than Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth & il leaves Tibet and the paint at
1s greatly. especially the British in the past. Sun-bathing is to be Fleming, 6. Dea Voeux Road Cen- p.m., at the Offices of the which it enters British territory,
Colony, which takes them in two fostered, and visitors who wish to tral, on SATURDAY, the 30th day Order of His Excellency the Gov- Public Works Department, by writes "Kim" in the Calcutta Statesman. 1 am convinced, now, languages. You are given a letter walk down to the sea from hotels or May, 1931, at 12 o'clock Noon,
bas to and boarding-houses with mackin-for the purpose of having an act Shamshulpo, in the Colony no gigantic fall and everything you wear
the toshes or cloaks over their bathing count laid before them showing and that the river descends from begin with that letter-even the Himalayas in a series of cas-withing, because a committee of dresses will generally be allowed the manner in which the winding of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 up has been conducted and the 1898, with the option of renewal years, commencing from 1st July, cades after the manner of other your own sex will nee to that.
And it is surprising how difficult The following reports show how property of the Company disposed Himalayan rivers. Far more mys terious and wonderful than its
The most beautiful British some of the chief seaside resorts of, and of hearing any explanata Crown Rent to be fixed by woman in Paris went to a party of will encourage bathing this Sum-tions that may be given by the King, for one further term of 24 the Surveyor of His Majesty the vagaries in tribal territories ате
Liquidator and also of determin- the vagaries of the Brahmaputra this sort one Saturday in five drup-mer:-
ed bandanas (mouchoirs), with Rournemouth. Cloak-bathers ing by Extraordinary Rosolution years less three days. World's Biggest Swamps.
mules (French bedroom slippers) and sun-bathers are to be given the manner in which the Books, Do you know that this river is her feet, and a mantle, mittens, adequate facilities this Summer in Accounts and Documents of the Company and of the Liquidator responsible for creating the big-and a mantilla.
thereof shall be disposed. gest swampa in the world? I 777 not including the delta which it makes-with the Ganges. I refer to the swamps in Assam. At all kinds of add points the river ha thrown out an arm which embraces
after it enters Assam.
hundreds of square miles before it luches the original trunk again. That sacred part which the As
it is,
j>pecial areas, but the use of motor Her husband had caught the cara na bathing machines will not
P. and wore be allowed. awkward letter
jamas, the Pink of his own hunt, Pumps, and-Puttees! It is true were made of that the puttees black satin, but still . . . . .! Pejantas are thin, but he was quite fe in wearing Fants below them. I know a man who is wailing to be
given K. in order that he may go in a Kilt, a Kriss, and These belligerent Scots!
Poole-To make sun-bathing available for all, a "paper-bag sys- tem" is to be adopted. A bather using a corporation tent will put his clothes in a bag, which is then sealed, numbered, and handed to an attendant. The tent is then
vacant for others, and the bather
arrangements
samese enlla Majauli, comprising
a Kukri en slay on the sands as long sa about five hundred square miles of
The or she likes before dressing. sandbank and swamp, is the re-
Ever since Madame de Nouilles Eastbourne. Laat year's free- sult of the Brahmaputra throwing!
bathing out its waters at one print and re-became the first woman to be made and-easy ceiving them again at another Many of the swamps have never been penetrated by man, parti, dering, as cularly, by the European.
The waters lie, silent, sluggish and dull, as unknown as the alleg. ed falls. Monstrous vegetable growths keep the sail together, myriads of wild fowl scream over head. and when the waters are disturbed by a ripple there are no note what that human eyes to animal was whose anout protrud- ed for a moment.
Legendary Monsters.
I remember suggesting once that in these swamps, if anywhere, was ta be found that giant iguana or
you
"Hey, come back; don't know this is the tenth floor?"
Suicide: "Good of you to tell me. I thought it was the fifteenth, I'll go higher."-
Smith's Weekly, Sydney. iguanadom of which indian forest legends tell--the real, the original bis-cpbra. To-day the bis-cobra has dwindled down to the harm- less lizard that shrills tuck-too,
a Commander of the Legion of will be continued this year at re- Honour, Paris has been wan-duced charges. Mackintosh bath. 1 have related,ing will be allowed until 9 am. where and how she will wear the After then such bathers will be re-
Well, поду we know.quired to use stations where cravat.
for, small fee will be charged.
a
1931.
Dated the 11th day of April.
S, HAMPDEN ROSS,
Liquidator.
Copies of the exclusive pictures
of the TRAIN DISASTER ap-
pearing in the "Sunday Herald"
of April 26, can be obtained
from K. FUJIYAMA, the official
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Inland Lot No. 1155.
No. of sale.
Registry No.
Locality.
Many thanks to Van Dongen Ilastings-Mackintosh bathing "Sunday Herald" photographer, P
telling us. Having some sense, al- though a poetess, she has decided will be allowed, and sun-bathing to wear it where cravats are worn, will be fostered under the supervi
especially as it is becoming).
sion of the medient officer of health.
So Van Dongen has painted her (for that spoiled child of the easel Folkestone. The hours during cannot be out of anything), all which people may
bathe without complete with the new decoration. the use of a tent has heen extend. It rives a sort of 1885 effect to hered at certain parts of the beach. costume, and she has her hands On the East Cliff sands bathing clasped in a kind of ecstasy of sub- from the beach is permitted at all mission.
hours, and bathers may undress in But she is looking rather pleased hotels or motor cars. with herself, and that is partly Ramsgate. To enable bathers to the fault of the photographer who reach the sea without crossing the flash-lighted poetess, pointer, and front road, a bathing promenade is picture. The talk-tongues of Paris brought up to date, and the regula-| say that the camera has recorded|tions are contemplated. what the artist
was suppressing. Broadstairs.-By-laws are being But those who have soon the pic-brought up to date, and the regula- ture say that he has not suppress-Lion requiring women bathers to be ed it at all. We live in odd timea clothed from neck to knee will pro- when portrait-painters, far from bably be abolished. hiding unfinished work, invite ori Brighton. The regulation submit to the visit of photogra-jquiring bathing costumes to extend phers.
from neck to knee has been abolish-; 19 hard on the ed. For years Brighton has turn-
And
it
Te-
sitter to have the flashlighted a blind eye to "offences" ander to face. Minus the self-the old bathing by-laws The new satisfied hands, her closed give a Napoleonic calm to her face There will be no
eyes ones are based on modern views.
Van Dongen comes out best in the bathing. photograph of a canvas which will be the centre of interest at the next Salon. Trust him!
That Serious Census.
Soon large numbers of very tuck-too from the walls of bungs bored young typists of both lown in Eastern Bengal. but the sexo, who have never heard of us, legendary bis-cobra is larger than and hope they won't, will know
a king-cobra and heavier than exactly how old we are, if we ever crocodile. It spits poison.
had
moro
a measte, and many kindred matters. In other words, Anyway, sportsmen who hare haunted the edge of the swamps the Census is upon us, and it's all say that sometimes they have very well to laugh, but it is more' caught a glimpse of some vague
As head of a household-and and shadowy thing that might well '
one-one has to have been an iguanadon. But now there's got to be
swear that at midnight on March
serious than that
veto on sun-
Woymouth. There will be no petty restrictions, and mackintosh bathing will continue.
Bognor Regis.-Bathing will be allowed from motor cars in private parks, but not from cars parked on the pubile highway.
BYZANTIUM'S WALLS.
Proposed Demolition
Controversy.
Some Turks, who dislike being reminded of the past glories of
I have a new idea. There has reg certain people were under one's Byzantium, as indicated by the old cently been discovered a new species of rhinoceros in Java. It roof and certain people weren't.
is known as the scaled rhinoceros, ! Onc
supposes that
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Miscellaneous. To-morrow-Whist Drive and picturesque walls which still H.K.S. Brigade, R.A., Sergeants' Census surround Stamboul, auggest that Mess. Gun Club Hill, 8.45 p.m.
and it is found in the fever. officials know all about Ananias these walls should now be de- Saturday Prize distribution, swamps of the south, swamps which and Sapphira, and make a reduc-molished and that the materia! Wah Yan College, 2.30 p.m. resemble in all particulars those tion for them. But this year some-should be used
Assam.
to rebuild the
formed by the Brahmaputra in, body has thought fit to say that all ruined quarters of the city, de NEW YORK'S WATER.
this numbering of people (which stroyed by caught a spot of bother when the Old Testament was in process of
Thrilling Book.
The existence of the
scaled
fire during recent
The subject is being discussed
years.
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rhinoceros was auspected in the building) ought to be most serious-in the Press, but it is clear last century. Mr. Joseph Delmontly taken by the French nation, be that those in favour of demolition in his "Catching Wild Beasts cause the information thus reare few in number. Their argu Alive," an exciting book printed celved will be so useful to thement is to the following effect: Governor Roosevelt has signed by Hutchinson, says that in 1894 officials who are going to bleed the "Let us get rid of these old ruins, the Cornaire Water-Power an expedition set out for the Java French national good.
French nation in the name of the which only form a blot on the committing the State of New swamps in the hope of taking a
landscape, and use the stones to York to a G$171,000,000 hydro- scaled rhinoceros alive. The lead-
Well, well, we'll see.
build modern houses. Have not electric development scheme on er set out with a hundred follow. There is a Gauguin Exhibition in the French pulled down the walls the St. Lawrence, in which the ers and returned with only fifty, Paris, and everybody is rather which once surrounded Paris?" Canadian province of Ohtario 18 fever and desertion having ac bored with it. Now, I remember.
-American Those of a contrary opinion, participating.-Reuter's counted for the rest, He had the time when you had to eee however, raply, "All countries re-Service. caught nothing, The first scaled Gaugin (like Naples) and die. Ispect and preserve the monuments rhing was shot in 1920, the second remember also, at an early London of antiquity existing within their in 1921. In both cases the sports show, a harassed elder sister of territories, no matter to what race
to be held on MONDAY, were Americans. In the the sheltered classes trying to deal or religion they belonged.
4th day of May, 1931, Becond case the hide was brought with a younger one, who said that old walls form imposing and inter- in as a trophy, and set the doubts a particularly frightful brown lady esting relies of ancient Byzantium,
a p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by of all the naturalists at rest. surrounded by orchids of a nasty and they continue to be of great
Order of His Excellency the Gov- nature "was like something rather Interest
Stockholm, Yesterday, Why Not?
to the thousands of Why should not the scaled queer out of "The Mikado.""
tourists who visit our city every
The well-known airman Ahren-ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land rhinoceros also be found in the The present collection reminds
berg departed at mid-day to search above Coombe Road, in the Colony year. Assamese swamps? To those who nobody that Gauguin was одсе
"Stamboul is not cramped by for Mr. Augustine Courtauld, who of Hong Kong, for a term of 21 smile at the question, I say: "Do looked upon as a Messiah in paint these walls, as there is much space has been lost on the Greenland Year you remember the case of the g. It only reminds us of the still available within the city. Be-icecap, while accompanying the takin?" One or two planters on amusing stories with which he sides, we must not forget, the Royal Geographical Society ex- the Sadiya alde had the skin and provided us, and which have lasted economic point of view. These pedition which to planning an horns of the beast, purchased from longer than his paintings have, tourists bring money into the coun- Arctic air route. Heuter. Abors and Mishmis, but for the in the opinion of Paris. This try, and we should do all we can to rest nobody would believe in the French bourgeois banker, who went attract them by preserving these existence of an animal, which was painting in Brittany, and then to old manumente.
men
half a goat and half a buffalo. the South Seas, came back again "The walls of Paris were noti To-day there is a takin in the zoo and went to ask for a job from a
in London, and as Ministers
monuments of antiquity, and they formed an obsince to the azpad-
son of the city,
What about the okapi? Theró It sounds very sensible. But was a time when people refused he was dressed in yellow and In the end, the disputants have to ballare in the gorilla, and Du green, with coloured ribbons, khaki
come to the conclusfun that these Chalifu was called allar in the trousers--and tie was asking for a walls should be preserved as they best scientiae circlen.
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