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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1936
TREASURES OF G.P.O. MUSEUM Unpublished Letter Of McAdam
RECORDS OF POSTAL HISTORT
HAPPY AGAIN
HORSEMAN ORDERED MISS MELVILLE
TO PAY FINE
Dangerous Riding Charge
SUNDAY MORNING SCENE ON A COMMON
Snowed Under With Stage Offers
GOOD TO BE SOLVENT!
In the basement of the G.P.O..
In the hall here, at the age of headquarters is
Melville won & ***...uniment 2
A young horseman, R. G. Mars-ixteen, Winnie zoom" which, it is hoped, will den, of Glasbury-road, Fulham, singing competition and a job st}]] shortly become the nucleus of an was fined £ at Wimbledon ́ last #2 108 a week; she has staged a official G.P.O. mascum. It cou-month for riding a horse danger-come-back that is to put her ou tains priceless, records, of postal ously on Wimbledon Common. | her feet, after four years of por history from the seventeenth cen- A Common keeper. Frankerty-stricken obscurity, and pay tury onwards.
Townley, describing the incident her bankruptcy creditors in full. | said. "Hundreds of peoplé
“Since my appearance at the Among its treasures are: Victorian pillar-box, 8ft high, about when I saw Marsden, on his Pler: Pavilion, Worthing, the first for more than four years, I' have been snowed under with offers for sbe further stage appearances,” said last month.
surmounted by a crown.
Victorian pillar-box, with compass painted in black.
Household accounts of Queen
Anne.
wert
horse, galloping across the plain.
"He galloped across a road and I had to shout to pedestrians to stand clear.
"If there had been any nurses
A mail coach watch for setting with children about it would have As it correct G.P.O. time throughout meant death for someone.
was the horse stopped on top of an England and Ireland.
Self portrait in oils of a Lon- elderly man.” dos postman, 1911.
The General Postmaster's min- ute book, 1672.
Print of the night mail attacked by az escaped circus lioness.
Post Office advertisements in early newspapers. -
"We Were In Great Danger*
"The offers have come from all over the country, the West End, and even America.
"On the spar of the moment. I] decided to accept the American en- sagement and booked a passage în Mr. Frank Shackleford, barris-the Queen Mary for last Wednes- ter, of Putney, said that the horse. day. But then I decided that I which was galloping at full speed would rather come back in my own towards him stopped on top of him country, where once I was earning before he could get out of the £350 a week." way. "We were all in great dap-
"Over For Good"
Miss Melville was so overcome Portrait of the first. "Master of ger," he said. the Post" Brian Take, 1316.
Marsden wrote to the court say by the reception given her at Wor ing that when cantering at a con- thing that it was rumoured
Royalist Postmasters
ALHAMBRA
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THREE CHEERS FOR LOVE"
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John Mellany sma hilty ten
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Of especial interest in view of trollable speed the horse broke had collapsed again and would the centenary of MeAdam's death away and he tried to pull it up, but have to rest
"It was only momentary," she last month is an unpublished do-not being a very experienced horse- cument addressed to the Postmas-man he tugged, at the reins and said. "After all, the occasion was ter-General and signed by Mc-achieved an effect opposite to what one in which it was difficult to bald emotions inn check Now I am Adem in 1823. McAdam asked he wanted.
for £6,357 to reimburse him for reconstructing the roads in Bris-
tol and district, with the result
that the mail coaches travelled
more quickly in that part of the country.
England
DARTMOOR PRISON MUTINY
Sentences To Be Reviewed?
HOME SECRETARY'S STATEMENT
all set to sign contracts that will enshle we to pay my creditors. Not all at once, of course. It will
take time.
"It will be so good to be solvent and successful again, after the years of nightmare and poverty.! I'm the happiest Woman in the world now.
"No, even if I do go to America again, I don't suppose. I shall see An imy husband, Derek Oldham.
that is over for good.
Postmasters all over write to the G.P.O. for informa-i tion about local history. Newcas tle's postmasters have been traced back as far as 1672. Durham's to 1673, and Manchester's to 1625. The records show that many Roy- alist postmasters were turned out by Cromwell, but that-Charles II:
Sir John Simon, the Home Sec- took care to reinstate a number of retary, in the House of Commons them or their sons on his Restorast month said he had considered tion
the question of reviewing the sex- tences on the men involved in the Dartmoor Prison mutiny of 1932) Of the 22 men who received, sen- tences of varying lengths, several The Hon Mr. N. L. Smith, Co- lonial Secretary, to be chairman had already been released on the
for of the Licensing Board expiration of their extra senten- period of three years,
NATIONALIST ADVANCE
"Continued, from Page 1) The Peguelo sector, where large number of Red militiamen ces. had been concentrated as a relie.
GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS
"
in
The following appointments are: notified
the Government Gazette:
2
33 from
There were still twelve in pri-November 26, 1936.
Mr. W. M. Thomson to be As force for the Red Garrison of Elson, of whom six would be releassistant Superintendent of Imports
and Exports, as from Escarial, which had been fored during next year in the
14 some time cut off from all com-dinary course.
with the munications
outside
LAST 4 TIMES TODAY world, was also heavily shelled.
HERE'S A GHOST WITH A SENSE OF HUMOUR! This ghost made love to every girl be met, he even trailed a pretty girl across the ocean, and then obligingly disappears when she meets her flesh-and-blood sweetheart.
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AND HOW THIS GHOST COULD LOVE!
.THE MOST- ROMANTIC: GHOST YOU'VE EVER SEEN!
DAYS ONLY
ROMANCE RUNS RIOT.
ROBERT
DONAT The GHOST GOES WEST
JEAN PARKER EUGENE PALLETTE:
TO-MORROW & MONDAY
MORE TERRIFYING-THAN FRANKENSTEIN:
A terrifying thriller of the electrocuted convict who returned from
the dead to avenge his own murder!
HE DIED A MAN AND RETURNED A MONSTER!
KREEPY KARLOFF
HICLEDS
CORTEZ
EÐILAR GYEKE
"THE WALKING
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"Not Justifed"
Mr. W. J. Carrie to be Senior Some of the prisoners had not Assistant Treasurer and Assistant ARMS FROM FRANCE? . yet begun to serve the additional Collector of Stamp Duty, as from Paris: The detachment of Bed-sentences Imposed in 1932, and December 15. Catalan airmen who recently others were only at the beginning Mr. J. S. MacLaren, to be Deputy arrived in this city are now re of their extra sentences.
Estate Duty Commissioner and from ceiving
Treasures, instruction in piloting "In these circumstances I should
Assistant at the military not feel justified in taking any December 16. bombing planes air-arm of Orly, according to an immediate action," he said. “I have Miss Olive Susanna Jeffery, to assertion made by the journal come to the conclusion that it would be Nursing Sister, as from Novem-
the matter ber 25 Echo de Paris, which also report be right to take-up that 400 tons of war material, of again with a view to a decisión to- which 200 tons have already been wards the end of next year.” delivered, has been ordered by
the Spanish Reds from a single French arms factory.
£50,000 GIFT TO TOWN
Almost
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FIRE HERO
The journal also states that wari
smoke, overcome by material recently sent to Bar-
It was announced at the Nelson James Powell, 17, à junior clerk. celona by the factory in question
for Town Council that a gift of £50.- struggled down two flights included 14 tons of shells mines, 22 tons of air torpedos and 1000 had been made to the town stairs in à Leeds affice to warn his several trench mortars. Trans-for charitable and public pur colleagues of fire. He then col-
poses. The name of the donorllapsed, and Ocean. Service.
would be made known later.
Shells Drop 300 Yards Short of U.S. Warship
Gijon: Three shells fired by the Nationalist cruiser Espana fell about 300 yards from the Ameri- can cruiser Erie. The Erie show- ed her faz, whereupon the Ec- pana turned tail and steamed Jaway.
Other Spanish ports on the south-east coast have been bom- barded by insurgent planes. Renter's Bulletin Service:
TREASURY FILLS ISSUE
London, To-day. The total amount applied for in tenders for £45,000,000-treasury bills "was £80,385,000. The average rate, per cent for bills at three months was 18/1.360,
20/ 41d. a week agoBritish Wire- Lees Service.
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