* STAMP NEWS *
TH5EE
CENTS.
3
CENTS.
19. 1879 Postcard provisionals
As a member of the Postal Union: Hongkong was under an obligation to issue stumped postcards.
Before supplies of definitive postcards were received a number of 16c. and 18c. stamps were surcharged 3 cents and 5 cents.respectively for affixing to locally made plain postcards.
These cards were sold to the public with stamps already affixed and the stomps were only valid in the post when used on the postcards.
The provisional postcards were placed on sale on May
1, 1879.
Before the definitive postcards were received there was a sudden shortage of the 3c. provisional card, and a small number of 5c/18c stamps were overprinted with the word THREE in large sans-serif capital letters.
1879 postcard provisionals
3c. on 16c. yellow (May, 1879); 5c. on 18c. lilac (May, 1879); 3c. on 5c/18c. (October, 1879).
A BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Bustling along the Central District,
I encountered a friend, amidst à crowd of people,
A friend I had not seen for a long time,
The sort you know is quiet and simple,
But an agreeable type with a knowing smile of dimple,
We discussed this, we discussed that,
The Common Market, Textile Question, Cuba, Kuwait,
And the irrationality of employers and teachers, Unrecognising our hidden powers which are not there,
And the judgment they meto out is I suppose fair. We talked of the bleakness of the world's future, We raged simultaneously in the middle of Queen's-road,
Raging that the previous generation had · made such)
muddle of things,
That we might have had to suffer for senseless,
consequences,
Though they may claim themselves blameless for such
ceaseless sequences.
Speaking loudly and not too gently,
We began to draw critical stares,
Faces showing such expressions of irritations,
As naturally as any grown-ups would be,
哈
When overhearing brash statements made by such
young brats as we.
-Peter Leel
What the teacher can't see!
Helen's new hau-style
I praise Helen's
because
Credit card to Martina Leung.
H.M.S. Centaur
Credit card to Geoff Fong.
ZOO'S WHO
THE AMERICAN EEL LAYS EGGS ONLY ONCE; BUT IT MAY LAY AS MANY AS 10,000,000 EGGS-
Martine
GEORGE
·SCARBO
THE MUD EEL,OR THE GREATER SIREN IS FOUND IN DITCHES, MUDDY PONDS, STREAMS AND LAKES EX-; TENDING FROM WASHINGTON, DC.WEST TO ILLINOIS,' AND SOUTH TO TEXAS AND FLORIDA „THEY ARE AL-' MOST-TWO AND A HALF FEET LONGARE BLACKISH- IN COLOR-
ROY FAY
"Mmmmm
this part is very good"
Credit card to Roy Fay.
MUD EELS HAVE FOUR TOES AND NO BACK LEGS, THEIR GILLS RESEMBLE SVALL RED OSTRICH PLUMES SWAYS ING IN THE WATER THE EYES ARE COVERED WITH A SKIN. THEY BURROW AND HUNT THROUGH THE MUD FOR LARVAE. WORMS AND TINY WATER-ANIMALS-ATNIGHT WIEL CRAWL
OVER DRY GROUND FROM ONE POND TO ANOTHER.”
NEW
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