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-The Diocesan Boys' School Boarder Prefecta, 1934-5, photographed with the Headmaster, the Rev, C. B. R. Sargent, seated centre.-(King's Studio).
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1935
MONSTER SHOT
IN GALWAY
Creature Weighing
Three Tons
DESPATCHED BY LIGHTHOUSE
KEEPER
for STAMP
COLLECTORS
By A B L
A monster stated to be 50 fee: Nowledwable of philatelists, cords of the rural philatelist's pro-
TO one, even among the most. From that time onwards the re-
long and 20 feet in circumference.
and to weigh three tons, was killed can ever hope to estimate the bene-gress are abundant. fîn Galway... last month, ".
fts that have accrued to Philately At the beginning of 1892 the The creature was first noticed from the life-long interest taken in Dake of Edinburgh, through his by fishermen in Galway Bay and stamps by His Majesty, writes the private secretary, enquired if he when seen by Mr. John Crowley, GSM. They are berend measure.might purchase a copy of the Phila- the Mutton Islazd lighthouse It is sufficient here to say they telic Society's work on the stamps keeper, it was close to the shore have raised-the status of the whole of the West Indies for Prince Mr. Crowley fired five shots into subject of stamp collecting and George: the Society offered the the monster's head. It churned lave established Philately among work to His Royal Highness and it the water and caused big waves the intellectual recreations of the was acknowledged by the Prince on before it died.
world It will be appropriate at March 7, 1892. A year afterwards, The body was hanled out and this Jubilee season if we attempt a on March 10, 1893, the Prince in- large numbers of people visited brief review of the King's philatelic timated his desire to join the So- Canteen-will be at Island Bay the island during the week-end to career: it would be a task beyond ciets, and graciously accepted the jour.compass to attempt any alle-position of Hon. Vice President, his Iquate description of His Majesty's uncle the Dake of Edinburgh being PREHISTORIC REMAINS collection
(since December 19, 1890) Hon President. 100,000,000 Years Old that the King became attracted to association
It has been generally understood Thus began the long and close between the Royal Skeleton
the pastime as a youth, and he was Family and the oldest and most in- collecting in his midshipman days.fvential of the philatelic societies. At the London Exhibition of 1912'Of inestimable benefit to the So-
H.K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK
Orders by Lieut-Colonel H. B. I. Dowbiggin, Q.BE- Coramain- dant, Hong Kong Volunteer De- fence Corps.
Hong Kong.
Friday, 7th. June, 1995,
GENERAL
STRENGTH.
Corps Orders No. 21:35 para.
Dr 9 a
Machine-Gunner's Badge
Badges will be awarded only to
who qualify on the and pass Schedule 3 of the Ma-
those
Chine Gun Battalion Test,
range
Range Allotment Miniature Range-14th June 0. C. Reserve Company.
Transfer
No. 1879 CSM. G. E. Dudley from No. 3 (MG) Company to Re serve Section B (Corps Headquar
see it
ง
MEET THE LABYRINTHODONT
Sydney.
A Labyrinthodent, one of the
of 23rd. May 1935 is cancelled in so far as it concerns No. 792 Privateters Staff) with effect from 1635 earliest amphibia known to man. EJ. J. Spradbery, Armoured Car: Section.
PARADE
Ist. Battery
Layers Class-This will start at! Belcher's Fort on Thursday 13th.)
*
*
Many trial engravings and proofs were made before our first stamps came into being. Here is seen. (left), a stamp with the Queen's head, but with a background which was rejected in favour of one in the form shown on the right, but without the head. (From His Majesty's Collection), ~ari
No. 2005 Pte. C. A. Braga from kind, has been discovered by work No. 13 Platoon, 'No. 3 (M.G.). Comen at the Beacon Hill quarry, pany to 1st Battery with effect near Brookvale: New South Wales. from 7.6.05.
It is a magnificent specimen, în Leave & Return
complete fossilised preservation. Captain H. R. Formth. No. 2 measuring 11ft in length and is June at aša Dress-overalls and Scottish) Company granted T estimated to be at least 100,000,000 | blue Caps. It is expected that mouth's leave from 1.6.25 to 1.1.36. years old. those who have volunteered for No. 1665 Sen. K. C. Hamilton.
The labyrinthodont was one of these classes will do their utmost L M. G. Section, returned from the carboniferptis creatures that) to be on parade puncipally.
leave on 275.35.
walked the earth and the seas in No. 2049 A/Pipe Major JA, the Triassic Age something in the
Band.
form of a giant lizard or crocodile. granted
This fossil, along with many he was shown a rather choice ex-fciety, that close link with the reign- others of great scientific interest hibit of Trinidad szamps sent in ing House has given a prestige and was found by workmen digging in by a boy. On being told that the fencouragement to the study and the quarry. Recognised as some young exhibitor was a midshipman collecting of stamps to
thing unusual, they
beyond com- were handed the King remarked that his pocket-putation as above will take the place of STRUCK OFF THE STRENGTH over to the Australian Museum money when a shipman would not D. L. runs
P. E. Barker. Others finds include fish of the bare enabled him to make so fine a at Belchers during). No. 698 Pie-
Armoured Car Reserve, oz 7.635.
same date in perfect preservation. show. ibe surimer months).
STRENGTH
every scale and pin ray being easi- No. 256, Private .L. A. J. Larly distinguishable. Some of the Parade at Corps Headquarters Ford M.G. Ba. (A. Car Section), finest are small, probably the an- EARLY INFLUENCE
Corps Engineers-
Monday, 10th June-Farade at Riach. Scottish
Miniature Range at 520 p.m.
leave from 126.35 to 18.7.35).
No 1699 L/CL S.. C. Salter Engineers, xTarted 9
from 22.6:35
Thursday, 13th, June.--D). Le lec-¡ ture at Instruction Shed, Welling- Corps ton Barracks at 5.30 p.m.
month's leave
Notice Bi-monthly lectures 21.3.36.
Corps Signals
at5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 11th. June for Signal Instruction.
Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 12th. June -for- Drill
“Machine Gun Battalion
Troop
Parads on Tuesday 11th. June at 5.30 p.m. at Causeway Bay Stable;
The following will represent the Troop for the 2nd. stage of the 31. G. Competition to be Sred on Sunday June 16th. at Island Bay- for details see para. 4. sheet 2.
Sergt. Ferguson, A.-Cpl. Field. -L/Cpl. Camming. Tpr. Tolmie
Tpr. King. Tpr. Hunt.
Tpr. Nigel
4.6.35
(Szd) P. S. M. WILKINSON, A
Adjutant. H.K.V.D. Corps.
Captain.
CAN A DOCTOR SPEED?
British Courts Say
."Yes"
cestors of the modern sardine.
BURGLAR "TAKEN QUEER"
Served With Tonic By Victim
The aus unterst in stamps was
IRISH FREE STATE: The Post Office is considering a sugges- tion that the design of the 28. Gaelic Athletic Association stamp shall be brought into permanent use
can scarcely be doubted that among those of the current issue.
KENYA, UGANDA AND TAN- much encouraged by the King's|GANYIKA-The 41 stamp of the uncle, the Duke of Edinburgh, also new unified issue will be printed în a sailor Prince. The young Princes red as previously advised. Some of! were constantly meeting their uncle black and red instead of purple and even on their travels, and he enter-jother values have been despatched ed heartily
London their youthful from
to British East sports. The Duke had long been a Africa, but the remainder are still Prague.
collector, and it was he who first "On Order.” Returning home from an after-proclaimed the news that Prince
COSTA RICA: noon walic a professor at Uherske George of Wales was a collector, Hradiste, in Moravia, was surprised
of a special 10 e stamp will be issued this mouth to commemorate! the 50th anniversary of the local Red Cross Society
to find a strange man in his bed.
The man admitted that he was a burglar and had broken into the
He explained that while;
queer."
POLICE SUMMONSES DISMISSED
When Dr. Frank Henry house.
No. 2 (Scottish) Company' Mather of Haywards Heath, was there he had been "taken M.G. Competition, 2nd. Phase-summoned at Brighton recently. So he undressed and got into the Members of the team entered for for exceeding the speed limit. it professor's bed.. this competition will parade at was alleged that he had · driven The professor mixed him a tonic Headquarters on Tuesday 11th. his car at Patcham at 45 miles save him a good meal and then inst, at 17.30 hours.
asked the burglar how he felt Gons and spare parts cases to Mr. J. B. Buckwell, defending."Fine!" said the burglar "Now.I be used in the 2nd. practice will be said the doctor had had to go to am ready for the police" drawn and checked. Full-atten-jan urgent case at Portslade, and
dance is requested.
Machine Gun Competition-1st
Phase
an hour.
was going back to Haywards Heath to perform an operation.
The bench dismissed the case
Motor. Machine Gun A Section on payment of costs. --1,000 points.
A solicitor appearing for a sur- No. 1 Company C Section-geon at Clerkenwell later said 939 points.
that his client was going to an No. 1 Company A Section urgent case.
Mr. Metcalfe, the magistrate:
924 points.
points.
But the professor let him go. BRITISH COALER FOUNDERS
Crew Reach Shore Safely
Xo. 1 Company B Section-surgent case." and there will best. Brelade's Bay, Jersey, last
into
FORMER POPE'S FORTUNE
Inherited By Poor Woman
NEAREST LIVING RELATIVE
500,000 copies
CZECHO“ SLOVAKIA:-The 50 hand 1 k new Masaryk commem- oratives are printed in normal sheets of 100: (10 x10) with the plate number 1 or la) at the bottom left, but the 2 k and 3 k although also in sheets of 100, have a most strange arrangement, the first row comprising 16 stamps and being followed by six rows of 14 stamps each with a blank perforat-} fed label at each end. The plate Mrs. Olga Fedorovitch, an old number (again 1 or la) occurs twice widow living on a meagre pension per sheet (at each side at the bot ¡in a suburb of Czernovitz, is about|tom) together with the date
to inherit the fortune of Pope Pius ( III, 1935"). IX, who died in 1878.
Czernovitz (Rumania).
the
The old woman is the only per No. 1 Company D Section--800 The trouble is that doctors will vonia, 1,131 tens, sailing from San nearest living relative of Pius D The Workington steamer Si-sen who can prove that she is the all come and say, "This was an derland with coal, struck a rock in
Her great-grandmother was no end of it. They will be say-
Pope's only sister, ing. "We were in a hurry be month and foundered in eight The tribunal of Barcelona has cause the patient was dying." minutes.
been The Solicitor: Some doctors
considering the case for The crew reached the shore in many years, and although hundreds Jare honest!
small boats.
jof persons claimed the fortune,
points.
Machine Gun Troop 803 points. No. 2 Company-262 points. Motor Machine Gun B' Section -49 points.
Machine Gun Competition-2nd
Stage
Date Sunday, 16th June, 1935. Place Island Bay.
Dress Shirt-sleeve, order. Nos.
21& 2 will wear equipment.
The Silvonia "was cruising in the which includes a large estate near bring Barcelona and numerous jewels, (none could show sufficient evidence
of their relationship.
Mr. Metcalfe: My experience! of country doctors is that the only bay waiting for a pilot to they are going to play golf time they are speeding is when her into harbour at the time. However, I will accept what you say.
The summoris was dismissa Parade Teams will parade under the Probation Act. complete with guns and stores at Headquarters at 6.45 am. and be ready to embus at 7am. Each team is responsible for drawing its own guns and stores and preparing them for action. They are fur ther responsible for returning them to Store on completion of the Competition. No lorry will leave Island Bay without permission of
the Quartermaster,
POPULATION OF NANKING
High Growth In Past Year
Nanking
THAT GOLD STANDARD
Woman Profits When Paying Fine
Newcastle (Natal). An old native woman living in Newcastle is still mystified by the fact that a fine for a small offence has ended in proft for her.
She reluctantly paid a fine of 10s.
AMBASSADORS TO CHINA
Shortly To Present. Credentials
Nanking
GERMANY:-The 30 pf Postage and Air stamps have recently been (President Hindenburg, S.G. 508) suddenly withdrawn.
HUNGARY:-Some special "Paz- many" stamps will appear in September, the values being 10, 16, 20, 32, 40 and 50 eta filler.
FOUGHT LEOPARD WITH STICK
Courageous Native Herdsman
BADLY CLAWED
Bulawayo (Southern Rhodesia.)" Armed only with a stick, a native herdsman at Zimbabwe tought and drove of a leopard which attack ed one of his cattle
The animal came in broad day
According to information from light and sprang at a call felling During the past year, the popula-with a gold severeign, long hoard the National Government House, it The last transport will leave tion of Nanking has increased ed. The court oficials sent it to a Mr. Lin Sen. Chairman of the Na- The native dashed to the rese Headquarters at 7 a.m. Any enormously. According to the late bank, which bought it for £1 12s. 6d. tional Government, has appointed and, after a desperate member of a team arriving after est census figures, the population in currency this hour will armage for his own now totals more than 960.000, which The officials handed 1 26, 6d dates for the prese
next Friday and Saturday as the the leops
repu
an increase of over 200 or before 000 as compared with last ves
back to the old woman, who could
not be made to understand the term tia
on the gold standardi
ion of creden-
ése and RE
Ming respe
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