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THE CHINA HAHL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1936
HOTEL CECIL
WEDDING
CHAN NG
LARGE NUMBER OF GUESTS
PRESENT
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Today's Short Story
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ORANGES
By William Saroyan
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THEY told him, Stand-on-the Luke, his uncle Jake said.. Some-
corner with two of the big-times you can laugh, can't you? gest oranges in your hand and Not him, said Jake's wife. All A Chinese wedding of great in-when an automobile goes by you Falkensteins are alike. If you terest was solemnised at the Hotel smile, and wave the oranges at weren't such a coward you would: new number of the over. Stamps on the new water-Cecil yesterday, when Miss Ng them. Five cents each if they be out selling them oranges your- Te Crown
Bulletin marked paper should be available How-ring, niece of Mr. Ng Hons want one, his Uncle Jake said, self. You belong the same place Agents'
oing. became the bride of Mr. three for ten cents, thirty-five your brother is, she said. In the shows us that Plate 28 is being very shortly.
Chan Wai-kuen, of Messrs cents a dozen.
Smile big, he ground. Dead, she said. brought into use for the few
It was this that made it hard colonies which still employ the Northern Rhodesia-It is rum Melchers and Co. The ceremony said. You can smile, can't you,
to for him to smile: the way this old standard designs, the fol-oured that a new issue is to be was performed by the Hon. Dr. Luke? You got. it in you lowing items having been print-made for this Colony. No con- Ts'o Seen-wan.
smile once in a while ain't you? woman was always talking, not firmation is yet forthcoming from The bridegroom. is the eldest
He tried very hard to smile the words only, but the ed from it:-
son of Mr. Chan Shau-ting, a well-and his Uncle Jake made a terrible news in her voice, always picking Fiji 28. and 3d. Mauritius 2, 6. official sources.
known merchant and a brother of face, so he knew it was a bad on his uncle Jake. How did she 10, 12, 20, and 25 c. 1 and 5 rupees,
St. Lucia St. Lucia's new post-; Mr. Chan Wai-chuen, manager of smile. He wished he could laugh expect him to smile or feel all lage stamps will appear on the first the Hotel Cecil. He was educat-out loud the wRY some people right when she was always telling As the new St. Lucian pictorials next month. No new generaljed at St. Paul's College, where he laughed, only they weren't scared them they were no good-the whole will be on sale next month, the issue has appeared here for about was a scholar and a fine. volley the way he was, and alway mixed-family no good? old 3d and 62
St. Lucia, 3d and Gd; and Sey- chelles 6 e and 20 c..
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blocks showing
in plate number 22 years.
Plate No. 23
ball player.
Values and designs are as fol lows:-
d. 2, 4d Port Castries.
should be useful property. “
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Bermuda.--A new set of stamps is in preparation, states the Crown Agents Bulletin, in the following values and colours:--
Green.
la. Black and red.
1d. Black and Brown.
2d Black and state-grey.
2d. Light and ceep blue.
2d. Black and red.
6d. Red and mauve.
Is Green.
1d. 23⁄41⁄2d, 6d Columbus-qquare, Castries.
imp.
Entering on the arm of the I never did see such a serious bridegroom and carrying abey in all my life, his uncle Jake bouquet of white sweetpeas, the said. Luke, Luke, he said. bride looked charming is a white His uncle squatted down so his She was attend-head would be level with his, so sown of satin.
and 1d. 3d, Ventine Falls, Sou-ed by Miss Rosemary Tang as her he could look into his eyes
hridesmaid, who carried a nose-italk to him. friere.
1st. Fort Rodney, Pigeon'gay of pink gladioli and wore a Luke, he said. They won't buy dress of powder-blue satin. The oranges if you don't smile. Under-
Island.
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MONDAY'S STORY
be will Monday's story "Life At The Sandwich Bar." by Granville Ham- merton.
It
Jake was his father's younger
29. 6d. Monument to the In- duties of the bestman were dis- stand? People like to see a little niskilling Regiment on Morne charged by Mr. Chung Yu-wing, boy smiling, selling oranges. Fortune
while the Misses Tang Yiu-fun, Hoimakes them happy. 5s. Government House, Morne Ching-ha and Ip Chor-hang wers He listened to his uncle talkins brother and he looked like, his fa- uncle's ther. Of course, she always had Fortune.
flower girls and Master Ip Tal to him, looking into his 10s. The Crest of the Colony, tak was the page.
eyes, and he understood the words. to say his father was better off What he felt, though, was: Jake dead just because he was no good Guests Present
She was always South Africa-I read that the
the jis mixed up, too. He saw the man at selling- stuff. Among those present at
groan, telling Jake. This is America. signs, details, of which have not sale of the Voortrekker stamps beer announced except that has realised little more than £4,000, Wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Ho stand up and heard him portrait of His Majesty is to figure and the Monument Committee of Kam-tong, Mr. and Mrs. She Tat- just like his father used to groan. You got to sell things. You got in the top right corner of the 1d the Orange Free State has decided cheung, Messrs. F. Zimmern, Ngj 1gd. 21 d. and, 1s, values.
1s. 6d. Brown.
They will be in six different de
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PRIZE
FOR LOCAL RIFLE ENTHUSIASTS
Chak-wah, E. Zimmern. GTHE GOVERNOR'S to appeal to all public bodies in the Province to help raise more: Schuldt, W. Sporlader, L. Pracht, H. Schmidt, W. Welsing. Misses Egypt. The first supply of the funds.
A. Schutte, N. Zimmern, Messrs. latest m. Xmas Military Seal
Straits Settlements.-I. find in The Yu-chuen, George She, Hon proved insufficient to meet the-de-
Mrs. Ip Kam-shing, Mr. and mand, and, while a fresh printing the Crown Agents' Bulletin a note) was being made, the 1935 1 p that a postage due set, inscribed Ching-suen. Mrs. Wong Kam carmine Military Seal was Bur-Maliyan Postal Union" has been fook. Mrs. Ho Yiu, Mrs. H. Leung, Mrs.Ho Wing, Mrs. H. Chenk. charged locally. "Xmas 1935-despatched: values and colour. Ho Ki. Mrs. Ho Kwong, Mr. Mrs Tang Man-kui, Messrs. Tan Man-chun, and Tang Man Iwab.
Milliemes."
being as follows:- 1 c Purple
Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika: 4 c Green I notice that although a numbers e Ped
of the values of the current pic-
10 c Orange
12 + Blue 50 c Black
These are intended for use in
torials are being reprinted, the 65 Pahang, Perak, Negri Sembilan and Selangor as well as in Straits c. is not among them..
Malaya:-The new stamps have Settlements.
all been printed by Messrs De La Bue & Co., in "sheets of
100
(10 x 10), and all have the Plate YAUMATI SCHOOL
No. 1 in the bottom sheet margin,
but the issues of the various
States differ from one
another
slightly in the positioning of the
ATHLETICS
imprint and plate number as fol- Mrs. E. S. Murphy Gives
Away Prizes
Jows:
Pahang.-Thomas de la Rue & Co., Ltd., London, imprint below last four stamps of the
plate number beneath fourth stamp.
KEEN COMPETITION
to get around and meet and make them like you.
people
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And Jake was always saying. Make them like me? How can I make them like me? And she was always getting sore at him and
If I didn't" saying O you fool have this baby in my belly, I'd go out and work in Woolworth's azd keep you like a child. You At a recent meeting of the ain't fit to be somebody. Council of the Hong Kong Rife Jake had that same desperate Association it was announced that look his father had, and he was His Excellency the Governor, pa- always getting sore at himself and tron of the Association, had pre wanting, other people to be happy. A dinner was held at the Kwong sented a cup to be known as "His Jake was always asking him to Chow Restaurant, West Point, in Excellency the Governor's Prize" smile.
All right, Jake said. All right, the evening and was attended by-which would be shot for at the a large gathering of relatives and forthcoming Prize Meeting- all right, all right, kill me, drive friends. The happy couple will Conditions for this would be me crazy. Sure I'should be dead. spend their honeymoon at Canton. the same as those in use at the Ten boxes of oranges and not a Imperial Meeting for His Majesty penny and nothing to eat.. I should the King's Prize, with the excep be dead. Should I stand in the tion that in the final stage the street, holding oranges? Should I 'distances would be 700 and 800 get a wagon maybe and go through yards, in place of the usual 900 the street? I should be dead, be and 1,000 yards, the target dimen said. sions being reduced proportionate- 15.
KOWLOON GOLF CLUB DANCE
Over 170 Persons Enjoy Annual Function
The Kowloon Golf Club held
Favoured by good weather their annual dinner dance at the some excellent sport was witness- Peninsula Hotel last night when annual athletic over 170 persons thoroughly ex- meeting of the Yaumati School joyed the dance music supplied by held at King's Park yesterday. the Hotel orchestra.
Ferak: Imprint below Nos. 5 ed at the 19th to : plate number as last.
Negri Sembilan.-As Perak. Selangor.-Imprint below Nos. 4
The prizes were distributed by Mr. H. H. Mundy, the President -
Mrs. Mundy to 7 (e. central plate number in Mrs. E. S. Murphy, a member of of the Club, and right band sheet margin opposite the staff, who has been connect were hosts to Mr. and Mrs. Stab- seventh horizontal row. In connec-jed with the school for the past ley H. Dodwell, Mr. and Mrs. R. tion with the use of these stamps, 13 years and who will be soon S. W. Paterson, I am told that, although naturally going on retirement. each state only sells its own stamps, they can be employed in-
BLIND SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCE
War-Time Comrade "Heard On Radio
Brighton.
was
eve:
Then Jake made a face, so sad It looked like nobody that sad in the world, not even him, and he wished he didn't want to cry because Jake was so sad. On top of that Jake's wife got sorer than ever and began to cry the way she cried when she got real sore and you could just feel how terrible everything was be cause she didn't cry sad, she cried sore, reminding Jake of all the
come
A war-blinded patient at St. bills and all the hard times she Col. H. D. and Dunstan's Brighton, listening to the had had with him and all about Mrs. Matthews, Mr. A. C. Lwireless, recognised the voice of a the baby in her belly, to
as that of his former jout, she said. Why, why, what good
is another fool in the world? The following were the results:-Bowker, Mr. W. A. Stewart. Mr. comedian 100 Yards (Senior):---
F. C. Barry, Mr. E. Cock, M.B.E., sergeant-major.
There was a box of oranges on 1. Wong Shin-ling 2 Lai
Fook-Mise S. Browning, Mr. and Mrs The two are Stainless Stephen,
Company Sgt. Maj. the floor, and she picked up two discriminately in any of the four tong: 3. Cheung Fok-hang.
J. R. Collis, Miss Linnartz and formerly that 100 Yards. (Junior):-
Baines, of the York and Lancaster of them, crying, and she said, No states, I also understand
1. Pok Wan-chung: 2. Chan Hok-Miss Henderson.
Thomsan (Vice Begt, and Mr. Jack Bannister, fre in the stove, in November, all Mr. J. D. kwong. 7.
Wan-pun 7. Back
of us freezing. The bonse should Shelmersdale, Boys')
President) and Mrs. Thomson, and of Clayton-street,
when the new Straits Settlements
issue has appeared they will also100 Yards yee: 2. Ma Kwok-pin: Mr. A J. Dennis (Captain of the Lancs., formerly a private in the be fall of the smell of meat. Here, I
be usable in this territory.
1. Tsang
I shall incidentally, be interested 3. Ip
High
Ping-kwong.
2. Lui Fook-tained.
to learn why the name of the state
1. (Senior);- does not appear in English on the tong: 3. Cheang Fox-hang.
Selangor stamps.
Morocco Agencies-The new 10 Kwok Wa (Small Boys) :—.
she cried, eat Eat your oranges. Club) and Mrs. Dennis also enter- same regiment.
Eat them until you die, and she Mr. Bannister heard the same cried and cried. Shin-ling:
again in a Brighton There were two Cabaret items voice
Jake was too sad to talk. He High Jump (Junior):-
sat down and began to wave back 1. Pun Sai-on,
2. Ng Chi-chik; 3. which were much appreciated, Mr. theatre, and afterwards was led Eric Nelson rendering humorous behind the stage.
and forth, looking crazy. And laugh. And centimos on id G. B. photogravure Flag Race
songs and Mears. J. C. M. Gren- I was told that when Stainless they asked him to stamp show the V34 control and)
1. Choy Yak-ting: 2 Chan Fuk ham and W. C. Simpson keeping Stephen saw me he was delighted." Jake's wife kept walking in and vec: 2 Hui Yin-wal
the large crowd in high spirits said Mr. Bannister. It was one out of the room, holding the or- cylinder No. 25. This means, in-
Long (Senior)
of the happiest moments of my life cidentally, that the stamps are, of Cheung Hok hang; 2. Ng Chi- with an excellent duet.
when I heard him shout Jack and anges and crying. the intermediate size.
chik: 3.
Mr. Ernest Philip Henry Lang knew he had recognised me. Long
1. Fonk Woon-cheung; 2. Chan Ho-resumed duty as Registrar, Su- last saw each other at Bourlon New Zealand.-I read in the
viu; 3. Chan Chak-man. Bulletin of the N. 2. Philatelic So- Egg and Spoon Race (Small Boys)preme Court, Registrar of Com- Wood, in France. in February ciety that the latest Health stamp 1. Chan Fuk-yee; 2. Lee Tim-tak; panies, Official Administrator and 1918, and thought each other
Official Trustee on February 21. 'dead." was printed in Melbourne at the 3. Yuen Man-wah. Commonwealth Stamp Printing,
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Three-Legged Race (Open);—
1. Yeng Shao-wing and Yeung Sai- Works. This would appear to be, kwong: Man Sing-yu and [Chan
the first time Australia ́has done Hok-kwong: 3 Ng Chi-chik and Wong Buch work for her sister minion.
Do-Kwok-cheun.
300 Yards (Senior) :--
We
After a while she stopped cry- ing..
Now take him to a córner, she aid, and see if he can't get
little money.
2
Jake was just about deef it looked like. He didn't even lift his bead. So she shouted.
1
Ordinances Not Disallowed Take him to the corner. Ask
him to smile at the people. We got to eat.
What's the use to be alive when
1. Wong Shiv-ling; 2. Man Sing-| A Gazette notification states that Ordinance. No. 44 of 1935.--An The value of the forthcoming. 3, Lui Fook-tour.
His Majesty the King has not Ordinance to provide for the Pro-everything is rotten and nobody Anzac stamp will be aid + 1d 300 Yards (Junior)
Jnows what to do?" What's the 2." 1. Fook Woon-cheung: one, the premium going to the
Lambeen advised to exercise his powervention of Cruelty to Animals;
of disallowance with respect to Ordinance No. 47 of 1935---Anne to go to school and learn arith- fund for the relief of distress Yuen-chun; 3. Kwok Wzi-pun.
200 Yards (Small Boys)
Ordinance to provide for the In-metic and read poems and paint 1. Tsang Fuk-yee: 2. Ip Ping-kwong: the following Ordinances:
of The Hong Kong eggplants and all that stuff? What's the use to sit in a cold
among returned soldiers.
Ordinance No. 21 of 1935-An corporation Ordinance to amend the Crown Travel Association;
Stamp booklets containing 3. H Yai-yung stamp of the new 1d. "Kiwi type Sack Race (Open)
1 Ng Chi-chik, Lai Fook-tong: Solicitors Ordinance, 1912, and to Ordinance No. 50 of 1935-An room until it is time to go to bed were placed on sale on November
13. Lee Kim
repeal the Crown
Solicitors
18. A special plate has been a Mile 2 Leong Chi Amendment Oriknance,, 19247
made for this booklet issue and I 1. Lai Fook-tong: understand that the original die kwong; * has, been deepened
W Shiu-ling. Consolation Race (Handicap)
Owing to the difficulty in ob-wai; 3. Caan Ki-sing
1. Lee Fak-kes; 2. Leung Hang- taining a correct register of the 400. Yards (Past Pupils). watermark on stamps of the pic-| 1. Yau Sai-kin; 2. Ip Chi-hung: --3: torial issue, it has been decided to Tabs Hon-in
Inter-Class Relay Race (Befor) z print future supplies on paper |
Won by Class 4A (Man Sing-in, watermarked “N Z and Star" all Long Chi-kwong, Char Hok-lewong
And-Chan Bo-vin). Inter Claas Relay Race (Junior) ---
Won by Class B (Wong Wai-ling Chan Shiu-sing, Leung Ting-on and Họ Trung on). Tag of War (Open);---
Won by Yellow Houna.
Ordinance to regulate the importa and hear Jake and his wife fight-
(Continued on Page 111** {tion and the removal of sand;
Ordinance No. 62 of 1935,--A Ordinance to amend the Ferries Ordinance, 1917;
Among the passengers who ar Ordinance No. 58′ of 1935-Anrived in the Coloury this morning Ordinance to provide for the in- by the mv. Asama Maru was the corporation of the Administrator Most Rev. Francis X. Ford and who in Hong Kong of the Catholic the Bev. Cody Eckstein, Mission of Macao-
joined the ship at San Francisco.
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