THE EAST ASIATIC Co., Ltd.
COPENHAGEN,
Regular Freight and Passengers Service for Bangkok. Hongkong, and return. Expected on or about
M.S. Bintang.
will love for Bangkok vis Swatow on or about
'10th. November.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THE QUEEN'S
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW at 5.15 & 9.15 p.m.
ABSOLUTELY THE
SHOWING
4th, Nov.
(2777 tons)
S.S.Banku "
(1884 Tons)
4th. Nov.
will leave for Bangkok
direct on or about
8th. November.
LAST
-Subject to change without notice For further particulars please apply to:--
OF
Wallace Reid
JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD. .
Agents.
THE EAST ASIATIC Co., Ltd.
COPENHAGEN.
The M. S.
"JAVA
1.
will bo loading for Antwerp, Dunkirk, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen and other Scandinavian ports about
29th of October 1924.
Further Sailings :--
M.S. "Panama '
M.S." Afrika” M.S. Malaya! M.S." Annam
MS."Australien"
Expected on or Will louve homowardboind
about.
or about. 2nd. Docomber
6th. Navomber, 16th. Docomber
10th. December
1st, January
Sad. February
Subject to change without notice,
For turther particulars please apply to :-
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FUESDAY,
BROADWOOD ROAD ROBBERY.
MRS. DEACON'S ASSAILANTS MAKE CLEAN BREAST.
OCTOBER 28, 1924.
BACK TO STONE AGE, AGAIN.
·
Life Among Savages of Central Australia.
If you visit a certain part of; Australia at the present day you Age-50,000 years or so ago. may, go straight back to the Stone
The hearing was concluded at: the Central Magistracy yesterday alternom of the ease in which; three Chinese (Loung Hung-kwan. neighbours in Queensland appear The Wonkanguru and their Au Hing and Mak Kam) were to have reached the same stago charged with committing a robbery at Broadwood Road on the 4th. inst. Mra. Deucon is the cam· plainant.
Divisional Inspector C. Aris ronducted the prosecution..
Rolled yesterday afternerin, Mrs. Denein produced an car ring which was torn from her ear doring the rubbery and other fieles necessary as ovideure.
of civilisation an our remote ancastors who fashioned the carllest flint Implomonte.
Their only brain wave in count- loss conturies is the invention of the boomerang, a unique woapan in the world's history.
A fascinating account of those people is given in "Savage Life in Central Australia” (Macmillan, The rest of the afternoon's 188). by Dr. G. Horno and Mr. G. evidence ventred round gehiAislon, the latter of whom has wist watch. part of the stulen ved among them for the last
eight years. property which was recovered when Sergeant Donovan raided an opiam dixon at 36 Tai Yuen Street and arrested Uus defendants there, I was shown that the, third. dofemiant naded the watch to a coal coolio on the 6th inst. to bo
divan
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repaired, and the next day paid the coolie 5 cents to get it back. The watch was returned in the the third defendunt who for any unktows reason, put it in the pgket of a coat hanging When the police arrived at 3 Tai Yuen Street they found the first two dolendauts Lying on a bunk with a hot opium pipe aul Intep by their side. When asked about the cont on the peg the first defendant claimed it.
The statements made by the defendants at No. 2 Police Station when they were charged were pro- duced. The defendants modo s cken
They build no houses: buts of boughs plastered with and are their solo idea of architecture. These arc moraly temporary habitations.
Growth of food from seed in quite beyond the ken of thos Puoplo, and hunting is a necessity. One of the principal and most highly prized foods is the woma, a sleepy snake about nino feet long.
the Wonkonguru. All long flakes Many stono tools are used by with a sharp cutting edge ara The larger kept for knivos. knives aro used for fighting and cutting up large animals after they are cooked.
Next in importanco is the
surgical knife, which must have very keon odge, and, also, a thumb or finger grip Baked on it,] so that it will not slip.
When they are in their own breast of the affair in their tatements, in which they spoke of mps the natives do not trouble about clothes, except on cero. the part they tools in relieving Mremonial occasions such as a Cor Denton of her jewellery and money robores. Then everybody puts on The defendants elected Lo paint and feathers and ongiosdown make no statement.
They were in great profusion for the danco. committed to the Criminal Sea- sions for trial.
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