for STAMP
COLLECTORS.
By A EL
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1935
PRESENTATION OF
SILVER DRUMS
250th Anniversary Of "The Lincolns”.
UNIQUE CEREMONY
To-day's Short Story
The End Of
The Girdle
By Michael Kent
T corridors of the Hotel She was tall and angular with
des Colonnes,
at
Nice, hair, still black, parted in the cen-
A unique ceremony in connee-bisect the building through its tre above a salow oral face of that tion with the 250th anniversary entire length. They are flank-Italian type which inspired the slip is too absurd to make stamp is the size of our regular celebrations of the Lincolnshire ed by walls pierced only by Madonna tradition Time has
No is und to, and special de fire, sist
was
Regiment was witnessed at Shain doors except where the gratidao stradition.
druma..
the discovery that the current six-in value and violet purple in shuipo Camp yesterday morning staircase, corkscrewing round her beautiful, yet there is about groschen stamp in Austria repre- colour. The design of the stamp when Major General CB Simp the lift, invades the middle of her a quality that impels notice sents a peasant "with his ears back is taken from a picture looking 800, CE, Colonel of the Begi- the rear wall, leaving a lighter and remembrance. Her stillness to front" has sent prices soaring at the face of the dam.
ment, presented a set of silver space. All the rest of the cor-ever suggests force rather than ridor is meagrely lit, which inaction. Her eyes are brown and The most famous of these mishaps On November 1, 1935, the Gov-
the one by which, in the ernment
On arrival at the Camp at 11 gives, with its narrow path of ad will issue a 3c purple
Her mouth tells of repres stamps issued by King Peter of stamp in honour of the 100th an ceived by a Guard of Honour - wood, an impression of still and revolt-held in leash.
am, General Simpson was re-carpet bordered with polished sion, love lost, ambition defeated, Serbia after the cðup of 1903, the niversary of the statehood of design, when held upside down, Michigan. The stamp will go on
der the command of Captain C. greater length and austerity. Among themselves the hotel star
Opposite the lift gate is a table call her the Sphinx revealed the face of the murdered sale at Lansing, Michigan, on that Pennack, with Lieutenant A. Wall King Alexander. This was pro-date and will be on sale at Wash After inspecting the Guard, the chair, and, on the wall above table in the draughty, il-fit cor- carrying the Regimental Colour, covered with a white cloth, a hard So she sits very upright, at her bably no accident, and there seemington on November 4 as well as General joined the battalion, fire extinguisher, a bell indicator ridor, wielding her crochet hook ed a certain danger that. even at other post offices. The design which was without political intention, im of the new stamp has not been formation in rear.
formed up in close and a fuse-box, precisely disposed, with the quick stabbing movement
He then ad-vaguely suggesting an altar. pecunious states may be tempted selected as yet. It is said that
of a hird picking up grain, ready That spot is the nerve centre of at every ring of a bell to attend to print incorrect stamps for the the new stamp commemorates the in the course of his speech the the floor. There, when she is not the clients, a special coffee for zake of the reverse from beginning of the struggle of General said, "Comrades, I am at work in the rooms, sits the Madame Two Hundred and Six, a philatelists.
Michigan for statehood, as Michi-here to-day for the presentation, chambermaid on duty. On the bath for Madame Two Twenty, an gan was formally admitted into
or rather the handing over, of a second floor, five nights in each extra pillow for Mademoiselle Army Telegraph Stamps
the Union in January, 1837, aset of silver drums. The occa-week, Herminie Sciaparelli sit MONG the war relics exhibited though opinion is divided as to the sion is unique, as it is perhaps there waiting the summons of the When the lift disembarks
Thirty-one. the State during the the first time, in the history of bells and redeeming the time with in the United Services status of Museum, Whitehall, is a
of period of 1835 and 1837.
guest she lays aside her work, set
the Army, at which a regiment needlework destined for the church army telegraph stamps used in the
has purchased for itself a set of or the presbytery of the Sacred standing demurely with downcast Orange Free State in June, 1900.
eyes, bleating if anyone greets her a mechanical "Bonsoir Madame” in during the South African War:
{a cadence invariable as
a. clock two stamps which
A
were to have.
.:
LOCAL NEWS
·BREVITIES
dressed the battalion,
silver drams. occasion we
You all know the Heart. are commemorating
“Adam And Fallen Man"
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG
3
to-day. It marks the close of 250 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE that strikes the quarters. been issued by the Bepublican The number of emigrants leav-years Loyal Service.” Great care. Government in Ireland (1916); aling the Colony for the Straits and trouble has been taken to get LESSON SERMON
In the staff hall they say that she is strange, that she does not abeet of the first Latvian stamps Settlements during the month of the drums out here by this date, printed on the back of a German October was 8,403
follow the seasons as they do, fit- and, as you see, it has been done:!
ting north like the swallows when j staff map:
I will now call upon the– Drum i German post office
summer comnes. stamps and seal from the Cam-
They say when His Excellency the Officer Ad Major to take over the set of
the winter season ends that she eroons, buried at the time of the ministering the Government has drums." British occupation: a. set of decreed that the Dangerous Drugs Selected drummers then step-
goes to a village in the hills, St. Justin. One can learn a little from Egyptian Expeditionary Force Ordinance, 1935, will come into Ped forward and took up the set of new drums. When this was
the labels on luggage, which is a stamps, etc.
operation on January 1, 1936.
completed the Regimental March
book of many chapters to the hotel This was followed
"Adam and the Fallen Man" servant, but from Herminie "her- One-Day Sale
Mr. Horace Morgan Miller has was played. commemorate the anniver-been appointed a member of the by marching and counter-march-will be the Lesson Sermon in all self one never learned anything at Yet it is remember- veral tunes being played
led that one morning Louis, the As a conclusion to the
The Golden Text will be: "Lord, valet of the second floor. saw cere- mony the battalion marched past who shall abide in thy tabernacle? beautiful young General Simpson, who took the Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? ravishing that one, emerge from
woman, oh, but
He that walketh uprightly, and the lift, throw her arms round the worketh rightousness, and speaketh chambermaid, and address her as
Tarpor morates that amour a ing by and counter-march-Chudes of
King Alexander. the Yugoslav effect from October 31, 1935. Government issued a set of post-i
age stamps. They wert on sale Two cases of diphtheria and one for one day only October 9. of typhoid fever were notified as The stamps bear a bust of the having occurred in the Colony dur- King in naval uniform inset in aling the 24 hours ended on Thurs- laurel wreath. Underneath is the day. legend: October 9, 1934
Only a limited
The Consul General for Italy, number of the stamps were printed.
Signor A. Bianconi, will hold They were printed in a series reception at the Consular Office, of five, the values are 75 paras, Exchange Building, from 11.30 150 dinars, 175, 3.50, and 7.50 am to 12:30 pm. on Tuesday next. dinars in colours of green, vermil-in celebration of the birthday of lion, chocolate, blue, and bordeaux. His Majesty King Victor Emanuel
Progress Of Railroading
*
*
A dinner dance will be held at
salute.
}INOTTUW.
PORTUGUESE LADY the truth in his heart." Psalms "Mere Herminie.”
LAID TO REST
Death After Short Illness
FUNERAL YESTERDAY AT HAPPY VALLEY
Tshown on the new set issued and 3. learn leave Repulse Bay at Cemetery,
to
1
(15-1,2)
Among others, the following citations from the Bible will be read: "And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called Ito Adam; and said unto him, Where art thou?" (Genesis 3:8-9).
Eddy:
Lesson To Be Learned
“Above error's awful dia, black-
MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story will be “The Verge,” by - Michael- Kent.
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had thought.
Monsieur Polycarp Duhamel ar-
The young woman, was not stay- HE progress of railroading is Repulse Bay Hotel this evening The funeral took place last
ing in the hotel, she bat came to a tea-dance to-morrow. The evening at the Roman Catholic Happy Valley,
pay a visit to the Spirinx, and all by Belgium. The set pictures the
The Lesson Sermon will also in-that day Herminie ́haď bright i am and there will be a half-Father early type of steam engine. Le hourly service to-morrow after Mrs. Elfrida Maria da Silva the Christian Science textbook cheek. The staff smiled know- Rossi officiating, of clade the following passages from eyes and a touch of rose in her Belge," and the most, modern, the nooi
Baptista who died at the early science and Health with Key to ingly and opined that after all the streamlined engine of today.
age of 31 at the French Hospi-the Scriptures by Mary Baker Sphinx was more human than they A whist drive in aid of the tal yesterday morning after a Boulder Dam Issue THE United States Government Seamen's Institute at 9 pm on Mr. C. O. Baptista, is employedstill calls: Adam, where art thou? rived at the Hotel des Colonnes ou
Sheklung lepers will be held in the short illness. Her husband, T
fittingly celebrated the com- Monday. The launch Dayspring by the Hong Kong and Shang- pletion of the large Boulder Dam will leave Shamshuipo at 8 pm hai Banking Corporation Consciousness, where art thou? a day in January. He was not on the Colorado River with the and the Kowloon public pier att
She is survived by her hus Art thou dwelling in the beef pleased to learn that a chent had issuance September 30 of a 8.30 pm retuming at 11:10 pm. band and two young sons.
that mind is in matter, and that been inconsiderate enough to have special commemorative stamp. The
The principal mourners were evil is mind, or art thou in the a heart attack in his favourite It is notified that the Christmas Mr. C. O. Baptista (husband), living faith that there is and can room on the first floor and so could mail for Great Britain will be Messrs. J. R and A. M. G be but one God, and keeping His not be moved to suit his pleasure. closed in the General Post Office Gomes da Silva (brothers), commandment Until the lesson The news spread-quicidy. The at 5 pm on Friday next by the Mrs. A. M. Osmund and Mrs. M. is learned that God is the only sommelier of the second floor re- ss. Rawalpindi. The public are Rozario (sisters).
Mind governing man, mortal beceived it as he waited for his roliz kindly requested to post early. Those present included lief will be afraid as it was in the and butter for the breakfasts. This mail is due to arrive at Lon-Messrs. A. P. Pereira, D. C. beginning, and will hide from the "Not a ten per cent. monsieur, this
Castro, F. A. Rozario, C. M. demand, "Where art thou?"
one; exigent, but he pays." Franco, R Xavier, D. Baptista **This awful demand, “Adam,
The sommelier passed it to Louis Professor Hsu Ti-shan, MA B.F. Baptista, M. F. Baptista, H. where art then?" is met by the ad- and Louis, making the beds with issue of The LITT. will give a lecture on "The Hindman, C. A. Rodrigues, Fmission from the head, hearth, Herminie, told her the glad ta- Navy the organ of the Navy Taoist Idea of Peace to the Hong. de Eca, F. Ribeiro, C. A-stomach, blood, nerves, etc To, inga
Kong University Arts Association Rodrigues, A. de Eca, F. de Yca, here I am, looking for happiness "Monsieur Cent Quatorze est de We look forward to receiving in on Tuesday. at 8.45 p.m. in Room Jose de Eca. E Soares, L. V. and life in the body, but finding due course a copy of "China-Side of the University Main Build Xavier, F. A Remedios, Conly an illusion, a blending of false A client is known by the num- This is an ambitious little venture ing All interested are cordially Xavier. A. M. Eca, L. J. Bar claims, false pleasure, pain, sin, ber of his room to the stair and which deserves every
reira, AV. Ribeiro, F. P. de sickness, and death.” encourage invited.
(Page Monsieur-Duhamel had stayed a Eca, C. A. Ribeiro, J. F. Ribeiro, 307:31). ment
month every winter in number one hundred and fourteen.
"CHINA-SIDE"
A Local Naval Product
JOURNALISTIC EXPERIMENT
The October
League, says:—
don on December 19.
"China-Side, edited by Pay- Admitting a summons for driv
John A ing motor-cycle No. 175 at
master-Lt. Commander
S Souza, and many others.
No flowers were sent by re
Moore, R.N., of HMS. Medway, Cheungshawan Road without a quest, but a few wreaths from MODESTY HAS ITS will appear quarterly, and accord-valid driver's licence on October relatives were laid on the grave,
REWARD ing to the particulars we have re- 24, Private Arthur Shord, of the ceived will be "a really good class Lincolnshire Regiment, was fined Wei-bai-wei this morning. magazine" with contributions from $10 by Mr. E. 1 Wynne-Jones at
Lamplighter Asks For *well-known writers and artists the Kowloon Magistraty Jester-Man, 53, earth coolie, were 6d. Rise & Gets Double
both naval and civilian.”
day morning.
HMS. Sandwich sailed for
retour
Herminie tamed the sheet over the blankets with meticulous care.
"Monsieur Cent Quatorze?
The big black beard who has. so many friends," leered Louis. friends. One knew oz, this mun-
He used the
sieur and his games
Hermine :: stared across
his
"He has comesto door?"
fined $25, or, in default, cone. It is to be hoped, however, that
month's hard labour, by Mr. The lamplighter to the Foul the outside element will not over- Mra GM Eclater, of room No. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon ridge Lancs, Farish Council asked room, seeing nothing. whelm the local talent which must 12. Airlie Hotel, Kowloon, was yes Magistracy yesterday. Three others for Ed. a week increase, exist in a Fleet of the size main terday summoned before Mr
playing wage..
ach;
The council w "amused" at his hree modesty
They gave him an increase-of-
America Leads
men were charged tained on the China Station Magistracy yesterday afternoon for with the
Wynne Jones at the Kowloon fantan and were It is remarkable that in the allowing a dog abroad without a days hard duction of this type of maga mozzle and allowing it in the $2.12 picke zine we lag far behind the United Children's Playground, Middle Foor Box
Some of our larger Boad, on October 25. On the first
ace their own journals, count a fine of $25 was imposed. are easily eclipsed and a caution was registered on
ar America vessel
are printed in
and contain eze
iment is one
be emulated am
the second-
For keeping
Commo
new Central Br
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