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POSTAGE STAMPS.
WEEKLY NOTES FOR COLLECTORS:
HONG KONG" POSTMASTER'S HATRED OF PHILATELISTS.
[BY "W.S.").
The Office of the United States would probably have replied" (as would any other Office)" How do you propose to bring such corres-, Fondence to account 1" and the sbance of any special arrangement for the purpose, or the fact that |-the-few-but-possibly important, letters to be forwarded were not numerous enough to justify a com
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plicated and perhaps expensive THE Undersigned have received system of accounts, was everywhere regarded as a conclusive reason why Now, The year-1873 has nothing to offer letters should not be sent. us in the way of stumps, but the however,
every Union Office is duty devolves on me now to intro bound to forward as a matter of duce Mr. A. Lister as Postmaster- course all Union correspondence General. Mr. Mitchell having re-received by it, whether in closed tired in April, 1875, Mr. Lister was mails or à découvert, by the best appointed to the post vacated. route open, leaving questions of
Whether Mr. Lister had craved account for subsequent considera- Ar No. $39, LAICHIKOK ROAD, the position of Postmaster-General tion. In other words, the principla
2ND FLOOR, is not known, but if conclusions of service bas become, transmission
.
TUESDAY, JULY 29, COMMENCING AT 11 A.M.
HOLD FURNITURE,
ON VIEW From MONDAY,'
the 28TH JULY, 1930.
may be drawn from his annual re-first; question as to payment, after- A QUANTITY OF HOUSE- ports, one must assume that he had. wards... Amongst other advantages Judging from his reports, he op gained by the public as a result pears to have been possessed of an of the Enid Treaty, are a general intense belief in the maxim, "Ifand very considerable reduction of you have a good job and wish to postage and an extension of hours keep it, grumble about it."".
for posting."
The plates for the postage stamps TERMS-CASH ON DELIVERT. of the Portuguese, Nyassa Company, 1021 issue, have been defaced. It is certified by the printers, Mesers. Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., that no stamps have been printed from the above plates since July, 1927. The values of the series number twenty, ranging from cent to 5 escudos. This is good hews to general collectore, as it indicates the im possibility of reprints being made and stabilises the value of the supplies on the market.
A Consistent Grumbler. He grumbled about everybody and everything, with possibly one exception the Post Office Depart ment which, under his control, was beyond reproach. He expressed his opinións regarding the public of Hong Kong very forcibly. The mail packett, the agencies, the shipping companies, the postage-rates, and many other things were all wrong but the worst of all were those wretched stamp-collectors! The number of sleepless nights endured over these terrible persons" cannot be definitely stated, but they must have been many.
of revenue.
with a commemorative issue of four Russia again appears on the scene
values. This time. it is to com- memorate the tenth anniversary of the formation of the Red Army. Stamp-Collectors a Nuisance.
The designs show Red Cavalry in Mr. Lister had no time for collec-action, each denomination depict
ing a different incident. tors, and was not even disposed to look upon them as an evil which might be tolerated in the interests A new rotary-press, of German manufacture, has been installed in He preferred to gaze the works of the Government on them with scorn, not even pity. Printer at Pretoria, and the "Erst as being subjects void of. intellect. stamp to be printed on the new In his annual report for 1676 he machine, is the 1d. value, Ship type, states: It is hoped, however, as before. The stamp is a great that sending letters round the world improvement on its predecessor, from which it is easily distinguish- may not become a popular pastime, able by the shading of the sky, dr it will constitute as serious a This is new quite light, with the nuisance as the incessant demands result that the ship' stands out much of postage-stamp collectors. The more clearly. It is printed on serders seem to forget that green-Head of Springbok (Multiple), and white wove paper, watermarked
backs, or the stamps of their own perforated 144 by 14. South-West CHINA BIOCHEMICAL CO. country, are not available every- Africa has the old 1d. stamp, over- where, and that the trouble they printed "S.W.A." at the top of the give leads to no practical result of stamp in black, only this stamp is printed from the flat plate and is any kind."
The new stamp surface-printed. This is not too bad, as he con- above described for South Africa fines his remarks to the offenders, is also in use, but the overprint of but in his report for 1880 he makes" S.W.A." is at the foot of the
stamp. 1 very poor attempt to ridicule
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collectors generally by resorting to A varied programme of business 80, DES VEUX ROAD WEST. TEL 22972|| cynicism. It is difficult to make and pleasure was arranged for the
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FOUND ON SENATE STEPS IN POSSESSION OF LIQUOR.
the votaries of the great science delegates to the seventeenth of Philately understand that post-Philatelic Congress of Great Britain offices exist for any other purposes held at Torquay, last month.
The chairman W35 Mrs. D. than to supply them with every Field, who is president of the local conceivable variety and shade of society, and known throughout postage-stamp. Tae object of a England for her knowledge of postal administration, en the other philately,
The Mayor of Torquay (Mr. E. hand, naturally is to get rid of mil H. Sermon) officially welcomed the odds and ends, temporary or obdelegates at the first business solete issues, and such like, as quickly as possible."
Early Surcharges.
Bession.
Problems of stamp collecting, post-marking, dealing, and electro- typing formed subjects of discus-
INQUEST QUASHED.
In 1876, a, change in the postage-sion at the business vessions. rate to England by British packets necessitated
stamps of 28-cent value, and to meet t this requirement, the 30-cent stamps were surcharged 28-cents, but as it was, anticipated that another change would soon be made, it was considered inadvis
CONSTABLE IN THE JURY
*
ROOM.
able to requisition stamps of this
An inquest conducted by Mr. Thomas Ottoway, the St. Albans value from England. Such change coroner, on motor mechanic was effected in the following year, named Bertie Reginald Perrin, at
15
Liverpool export and import trader victed in federal court here. to-day postage-rate, and the 18-cent value awaiting trial at Herts Assizes on
a charge manslaughter.
A strange story of an escapade Washington, July 15-George with the result that the provisional Welham Green, Herts. Just April, by three youths one from the pro-Cassity, the man with the green-stamps were in very small demand was quashed by a King's Bench
Divisional Court last month who was arrested last Octo- and the stock soon ran out. vinees who was said to have want hat,' ed to see a bit of life" was told bor 21 on the steps of the Senate In 1877 another provisional value of Mr. Douglas Allen Bowie, of The motion was made on behalf at Marylebone last month.
building, where he was allegedly
was required, due to a change in Victoria Road, Kilburn, who disposing of illegal liquor, was con- Albert Horton (20), son of
was chosen since they were in least Henry Jones (20), and Alfred Fox
demand. These stamps were eur charged 16-cents in thick, heavy type, and us it was considered the demand for this value would be great, regular stamps of this value were requisitioned from London?
Hong Kong Enters Postal Union.
THE WING ON CO., LTD. (21), pleaded guilty to stealing a
(Music Department).
of possession and transportation of Liquor motor-car value £100, the property. Sentence will be pronounced next,
Monday.
of Colin Edmondson, Belmont- street, Huddersfield, and taking The case achieved wide notoriety from, the Bay Hotel, Seaford, cigars, because of the fact that charges had and cigarettes worth £23 88. and a previously been made of open sale of liquor to members of the House motor-car; ete., value £18.
A detective said the prisoners had and Senate. When the arrest was told him they stole a car from i made, it was construed as substan- Jermyn-street and drove to Seaford, tiation of these charges. how they could break into an hotel there.
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Mr. H. J. Wallington said Bowie was testing a high-powered motor car on the Barnet by pass road, with Perrin as mechanic. The jury found Bowie guilty of gross negli- gence that amounted to manslaugh ter.
The objections taken to the in- quest wore that a policeman who It was on April 1 of this year had given evidence stayed with the that Hong Kong entered the General jury in their private room while Postal Union, and it is interesting they were considering their verdict, to know something of the advan that the coroner misdirected the tages, gained under the Treaty of jury and that he read to the jury Berne Mr. Lister writes: The a letter from the dead man's father great advance, effected by the that was of an inflammatory rature Treaty may be said to be this: that and was calculated to prejudice whereas before that Treaty the their minds
Fox got over the garage wall,
He told him (counsel) he went to through a window and admitted Seaford for the excitement of the the others. They broke automatic run. He did not know housebreak machines open and left Seaford in ing was intended, and he meant to another car which was in the garage. slip away during the evening. Be transmission of correspondence was Mr. Paley Scott (for MP Otto- All the upcity bu bech recover found he could no doo, and then
rapy spright, all 3 might as well have Counsel for Horton said the youth real adventure and go on with it.
Jones caded he thought he came to London with his father to see the big fight at Olympia, and might be able to help his mother. then said he would like to stop in I don't want to be a criminal," he London and see a bit of life." said." The father told him he could can- Mr. Dunn remanded the youths, vaes for orders, but he did not do but intimated they would be sent so, and-was-led-astray.
ito prison On hearing this Jones (Continued of foot of next column.) fainted.
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peretically ubordinated way it although the policeman..
in zeronte du, kagping pfi duggently stated in the jury. accounts is now subordinated to the room he said nothing to them, real business, of the postal service, Mr. Justice Avory said while the transmission. The Hong Kong Post grounds regarding misdirection and Office Department, for example, the reading of the dead man'a would not have ventured to send the father's letter were not sufficient to Fostmaster of San Francisco a render the inquest void, the pre- single letter for Canada, without sence of the policeman in the jury'z first enquiring whether he could room while they considered their arrange to receive and forward it, verdict invalidated the inquest:
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