THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1936.
$2,000,000 MINING PLAN FOR COLONY
New Company To Work Territories Lead Silver Mines
BORDER AS
AS SCENE OF FILLIP IN H.K. SEARCH FOR ORE
"Tolegraph" Staff Reporter
The Hongkong "Telegraph" is authoritatively in- formed that Hongkong Mines Ltd, will be floated in Hong- kong in the very near future.
The Company will have a capital of $2,000,000, divi- ded into 10 million shares of 10 cents each.
Hongkong Mines Ltd. is being floated for the purpose of re-opening and working the old lead silver mines at Lin Ma-hang, in the New Territories.
These mines were first discovered by Pere Robert the famous Father Robert, of the French Procuration (who, incidentally, shortly returning to Hongkong)-about twenty years ago, during a search for limestone.
The property was then operated by a Shewan, Tomes group, why built a six-stamp mill and operated it intermittently for about a year. During the period of working by this group, the produc- tion was 20 piculs per day of 60 to 70 per cent. concentrate!
A tremendous amount of development work was subsequently. done by the late M. B. Yung, one of the most famous Chinese
mining engineers.
PAGEANT YEAR
FOR AUSTRALIA
In both these cases lack of water, and the fact that the lead İmarket dropped to £9 per tan,
compelled an abandonment of!
work. the water problem being
the most serious obstach
STARTS IN 1938 The group behind the Company
ENGLISH SPEAKING
PEOPLES OF WORLD
ESPECIALLY INVITED
Sydney, Oct. 10. Announcement has been made thati in 1938 Australia will celebrate the 150th anniverary of the founding of what it proudly terms the only Eng lish speaking continent in the workt,
With an area of nearly 3,000,000 square miles, Australia is almost; us large as the United States or Eu-, rope and is the only one of the dive continents where English is the ex- clusive language.
abel to be formed have overcome the water difficulty, and the pro- sent high price of lead (£18 10x per tony makes the production of ! 1ven low grade ore Încrative.
Hongkong Mines Ltd, will, it is understood, he floated as soon as the Fantineer's report a completed, prolm bly before the end of this month,
Mr. J. P. Manning Is the Consult- ng Engineer, and is already at work on his Report.
TO ERECT MILL
Old tunnelling at the scene of uperations of the new Company about to be formed in Hong-
kong.
HONGKONG'S OWN ARTIST
BOY WHO INHERITED
HIS ENERGY FROM
A BRAVE WOMAN
-His Mother
Special To The "Telegraph”. By Mrs. Alfred N. Macfadyen
English Charnelers attracted him.
he
RADIO BROADCAST
Dance Music by Gloucester
Cossacks
RECORDED PROGRAMME
From Z..W. on a wavelength of | 335 metres (845 kilocycles):
12:30 p.m. Webster Booth (Tenor) and The Bohemians,
1 p.1. Time and Weather,
4-7 pan. Chinese Programme. 7 p.m. Orchestral Music.
LUIS JOSE CHAN, whose drew from coptes, but at school Old one-man show Lady He beran collecting different The Company plans to minediate- Caldecott is to open on Tues-styles of English Lettering, ebarac-. jy ervet a 50-kon mill, adopting the
teristically inventing fancy forms straight concentration processday next, may truly be des- for himself. He became fascinated
1,83 p.m. Variety Iteins. flotation of slimes.
cribed as Hongkong's own by the design and placing of letter-
1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Rugby It is anticipated that the rapeity artist.
ing. Had there been an adequate The celebration will start early in of the mill will be increased to 100
School of Art in Hongkong; he wouldress, Weather, Time and Announce-
ments. certainly have attended it, but s 1938 and will fast for three months, tons within the first year of opera-
Though he was born of pure it was he entered for a course at 1.10 p.m. covering many of the most impor- tion. During the first twelve month Chinese stock in Panama City, he the
Dance Music. Press Art Correspondence tant dates in the foundation of the seven Europeans and approximate- had
2.15 p.m. Close Down. all his education here. School. Australian Commonwealth. Captainj.ty 500 coolles will be en
employed,
be Chinese School, then primary Fur sonie months he drew and A permanent camp site will Cook first planted the British flag on
chosen near the workings, and Government School Australian soll in 1770, and explored
al Praya sketched in black and while. Then,
needing colour,
the he clinnged the coastline, but he did not carry modern European bungalows will be East, Wanchai, and one year at course to water colour. From that boven): Overture "Merry Wives of Egmont Overture, Op. 84 (Beet- out any actual settlement. This be erected as soon as possible.
Queen's College. gan in 1770. On
time every hour of his waking ife Whidsor" (Nicolai): Witches Dance One of the difficulties experienced JB of that January year Captain Phillip with the Sirius, by former operators of the
not needed for earning his living]—“Le VIII" (Puccini); Prelude "The minesį He was then articled to Russ has been devfted, to his art. He Dream of Gerontius," Op. 38 (Elgar). Supply and nine other vessels which was that of obtaining arcess to and Co., and is now in the Chinese reads Art in the trams, and has a formed Australia's "Arst fleet" arrived Hongkong. This dificulty is being office of Messrs. Deacons.
3.30 p.m. `A Violin Recital by sketchbook always with him, and Albert Sandler. at Botany Day, and a few days later entirely removed by the new Com-
tries That training must have given
experiments in every moved to what Captain Cook had pre-pany, which intends to expend n
The Phantom Melody-(Ketelbey); viously called Port Jackson.
considerable amount on widening an unusual familiarity with medium he can lay his hands on.
Algerian Scent={Keletbey); Esto- and strengthening the military road the inner working of many lawyera LADY SHENTON'S INTEREST diantina, Waltz-(Waldtontel), Op. between Sheung Shui and the mine, of Hongkong. a distance of seven miles.
It is believed that a very large his
Shenton 191: Dolores, Waltz—(Waldteufel), Most of his life he has lived in beramo interested in his work und Op. 170......... tonnnge of low grade ore exists, and the door and windows of which give the monthly Art Club Show, after (Baritone).
mother's line at Shaukiva introduced him to tie Art Club. At this will be proved by further de- one
7.45 p.m. Songs by Nelson Eddy the picturesque street life of in byenes of two years abroad. I velopment work, already under way. China, swarming with individual was attracted by two Water Colours
types, splashed with vivid colour. which seemed to strike an original Love's old sweet song; 3. You are I. 'Neath the Southern Moon; 2. WALK THROUGH MINES
He has only to climb, the hilll be note Were they of some Greek or free; 1. When I grow too old to Reporter, i walked through
Yesterday, writes a Telegraph Stallside his home to have an epitome of Spanish, ruins? Nol it was the old drcum; 5.
of Hongkong Hongkong and visual delights
I'm falling in love with Shanghai Bank in
someone. The celebration is to be divided labyrinth of tunnels that comprise panorama of the City; the lur-process of demolition; à caught nio-
the workings undertaken by M. 1.bour with its Junks and sampans, ment of glowing
B p.m. Time, Weather and An- into three Intensive.
c periods, extend-
Yung. They consin of two primary and cosmopolitan shipping.
nouncements. ing over three months. The first tunnels, one above the other at an glimpse
half destroyed arches. of the open sea; rugged
8.03 period, which will commemorate the elevation
p.m. A Variety Concert, of 190 feet above the hills; and the lovely cultivated in- I was amazed to discover they Fox-Trot MedleyThe Great Zieg- landing of Captain Phillip and the Shim Chun River (which divides land; all themes he has rendered in were the work of a young Chinese feld. first colonization. The second inten-Hongkong, from Kwangtung),
The Keyboarders; Song and paint. sive period will coincide with the dozens
Artist with less than five years artThese Foolish Things... Robert Ash- of off-shoots which
behind Apart from the inspiration of work
him. (These have ley
(Baritone); Descriptive-The Royal Agricultural Society's great tunnelled in the early days to prove Hongkong Itself, only a very clear since been purchased by the Bank. Derby.... With the Singing Pearly fair at Easter time. Tilstoricul re- the existence of the rich lead silver vocation could have found, nourish together with another drawing). Kings; Selection-A_Night With Paul construction will play an important vein.
ment in his early circumstances. In 1934 Luis Chan held the first Whiteman At The Biltmore; Song- part in the celebration: The actual Even layman would be imeFinancial disaster overtook The one-man Slyp given by any mem- Me innding, the first Divine service, the pressed by the fact that the people fourishing business his father left ber of the A Club. A water colour and my prostumation of Australia by Captain, who have previously worked these in Panama in order to pay a visit of sunny rice fields was chosen from
PROCLAIMED BRITISH IN 1778
On Feb. 7.following, this land was onelally proclaimed a British colony and the growth of Australia has con- tinued during the intervening years.
It has been decided that New South; Wales, as the "mother country" of modern Australia,. will be in charge) of the celebration, and the latter will be held at Sydney.
the the
were
many other events mines have seratched at the the land of his ancestors. be enacted with elaborate detall.
on
riches that lie below.
A
pick
ATHLETES TO COMPETE During the early part of the cele- that
prospector's
have already been
quickly
worked, Mrs.
Geological opinion does not sub-j
and
VERITABLE MATRIARCH
lly good fortune Lady
ocre walls, and
it as parting gift from the Club to Miss Crawford, who had been Club Secretary for many years.
menting with the palcitë knife,
Sir William Shenton
He
dog....Francis
And
(sarano); Humorous Life beglau
Top" men;
Selection Reginald Dixon; Song-Ta Main Hands across the table"... Lug lenne
Boyer (Soprano); Tango- Tango Delle Rose: "Revüdeville" Memories.
Band Music,
p.m.
A. HARD STRUGGLE proved that even in the tunnellings When Luis was nine years old Early in 1934 he began experi-
Ban was left o widow to brations, the Empire Games, which only the high-grade ore was bring a family of seven sons and brought back from a month's holl- are to be held at Sydney, will occupy touched, unahing that returned less one daughter on very small means day in the North about forty pic-Mem
than the 60 or 70 per cent, concen- ! important
best place. The
trate obtained during the early days hus eant a hard, struggle for the which perhaps, his best work up to Splendidly as she has done this,tures, the majority in this style, in
(a) Le Reve Passe (Helmer); (b) athletes of every country in the Bri- of operations apparently remaining whole family. From her Lulu must the present has been done. Most Officer of the Day (Hull); (c) Grena tish Empire witi compete.
untouched,
[ have. inherited his tireless energy of these were executed in Peiping. dier The president of the Surf Life Sav-.
du Caucane (Molster); (4) Except for one day last year atEntry ing Association, for example, hus
of the Gladiators (Fuck); power of application. It is CONCEALED RICHES nunounced his determination to pro-
typical of Mrs. Chan's training of the co-operative studio, of the ILK. Grand March "Le Prophete" (Meyer- When it is realised that at the her family that almost from baby- Working Artists Guild, of which he beer): Sing a song (Iles); Old Folks duce the greatest demonstration ever present price of lead, a ten per cent. hood till they got jobs each of them was one of the four founders (the nt Home and in Foreign Lands. organized, teams
being invited to ure is suficient to return a dividend, had to study for three hours every only Chinese), this collection, unique (Roberts). participate from all of the slutes of it
ofi seems that modern methods of evening-from
and manner, which is 0.25 p.m. London-News and An- Australia, New Zealand and probably treatment will recompense the new while still in school.
six to nine, even in matter
extraordinarily mature and vivid,nouncements. other overseas dominions.
Company even if it confines itself
[has not been exhibited as a whole. 9:45-12 mid: A Relay of Dance Another feature of the celebration to the present workings. will be n military review in which
took several Music by Gellman's Cossacks from home, and others were bought at The Gloucester Hotel. troops from every part of the British stantiate the bellef of earlier con- Luis mother appeared a veritable 1935.
Tall and built on stately lines, the Annual Art Club Exhibition in Empire will take part.
(Continued on Page 5.) nections that Life rich vein There will also be a motor race of "pinched out at the present level, sans, their wives and children and 8,000 miles around the continent for and the Company Intends to drive other relatives when I was a guest It was at one of the Art Club of vision, Some of his water a prize of $25,000. Managers of the lower tunnels to test the corroborat his home for last Chinese New monthly shows that His Excellency colours of local scenes are lovely celebration have been assured of the ated report of geologists that, far Year celebrations. We were participation of many of the world's from "pinching" out, the, assumption into odd corners of the small upper ated Luis' work; and not only pur-
fitted the Governor first saw and appreei-jindeed.
There is no possibility at present most famous drivera.
is that the vein, in fact, continues chamber or around the table which chased several examples but has of his following the present 'Lord” in depth with greater value. WAR SCENE TO BE ENACTED
alled the centre, It is believed that the Consulting smudgeable pastels or wet canvases him advice and encouragement.
svolding warily followed his development and given Methuen's example and giving up his job to pursue Art only: the Still another event which is under Engineer's Report will disclose which overflowed from wall and Luis Chan looks wheud for aft in world will be the poorer if he can- consideration
a very large amount of paying ore shell. Every available space for re-enactment
was the Colony. He had several times not some day do this, the landing of the Australian forces
in night.
filled with Luis' pietures, busts and tried starting co-operative 'aludios But the Hongkong publle' and' riches stored in Lin Ma-hang may glenmed,
cups with other Chinese Artists, and once visitors may help him towards Part of Sydney harbour bears a be considerably augmented
by the prowess
attesting the family a small art school. But capital was ensier conditions of work by pur- striking resemblance to Gaba Tepe on hitherto untapped strata below the swimming.
in sporis,
particularly lacking. As one of the Founders ehusing his pletures, thereby the Turkish peninsula, and it is plan-existing workings is a fascinating
and guarantors of the Hongkongquiring a present pleasure and in Mrs. ned to re-enact the landing with a one for those Interested in the new proudly the crowding of her rooms much to promote International co- of pictures.
Chan evidently accepted Working Artists' Guild he is doing my opinion being wise as collectors heavy shelling by warships over the Botation. heights.
by the work of her gifted son. (operation in Ast work and lastruc-
ia
matriarch among her five surviving
at Gallipoli during the World War. The possibility that the known plaques. Rows of silver
NO TRAINING
+
Lion.
GOVERNOR'S PURCHASES
-
An extensive programme is being to $4, but visitors to the celebration
STILL EXPERIMENTING arranged so that tourists will be able from the United States will find that · It was difficult to believe that to visit every part of the continent they gain 25 per cent on the dollar.
There is a quality of unexpected-. either by rail, motor car or airplane.
seven years ago there was not # ness about Luis. Chan's work. He nre reversed In Aus- single canvas, and that apart from is As яensons
- still One especial attraction which Australia from those of the northern three years work by correspondence, greatest artists
experimenting, as the have done to tralla feels it will be able to hold out countries, the, celebration will begin Luls had had no art training what end of their lives. By working on the to visitors is the gain they will make at the height of Australia's blowing ever. I was curious to know when portraits and from models in the on exchange. When Australian summer, thus providing a refuge for and how he began to paint. He was Guild Studio; he has greatly im tourists visit the United States now, those who seek to escape the rigours not at first Interested in drawing, proved the technique of his figure the Australian pound shrinks in value of northern winter.
he says, though two of his brothers work without losing his originality
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