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THURSDAY, OCTOBER -9, 1924.

ÎNTIMATIONS,

HONGKONG JOCKEY-CLUB.

THE FIFTH EXTRA RACE

MEETING will be held (weather permitting), at Happy Valley, QA SATURDAY, 11th & MONDAY, 19th October 1924 commencing at 3,80 pш. anch day. The first bell" will be rung| st 2.45 p.m.

The Charge for admission to the Fablie Enclosure will be 81.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform ball

Mombers are advised that they must abow their Season Tickets to obtain admission to the Members' Enclosure.

Each member has the right of in-

troducing 2 non-members to the

Members' Enclosure, tickots for whom can be obtained from Mosers. Linatoad Davis at 85,- cach up to FRIDAY October 10th.

The Stowards invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be pieķent.

"Hongkong, Fad" October, 1924.

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB,

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AND NOTICE is hereby given that the Debentures numbered as above which are not cashed on the 31st) October 1924 will be paid on the 30th April 1925, after which date they will cease to bear interest,

By Order of the Committee,

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Thus Frank Ruiter, writing in "John O' London's Weekly," on August 30:-

for these

died 353 BC, focluding the great | statues of "Mausölua and his wife as they stood in the chariot on the top.of the Tomb, are in the British Museum, Large objects are the easiest to með, but small ones are equally precious and Instructive, and the classically-minded visitor will be extracted, not only by the splendid collection of Greek vasos, What are the chief treasures of but also by the varied assortment of antkuities which illustrate the the British Museum? Fired point daily life of the Greeks and blank, the question is one that Romans; while the Gold Room, might disconcert even the most in addition to its valuable learned; amid so much richness specimens of classical ornaments and engraved precious stones, it is embarrassing to pick and contains the celebrated Portland choose. From a popular point of Vase, carved in... two layers of view, I suppose, the mummies glass, an exquisite example of conse first.

have the Greek feeling for beauty and always made the widest pos- craftsmanship, which must sible

the appeal to historie tainly be counted among the chief imagination, and we shall not be treasures of the Museum. far wrong probably In assuming that to the majorly of visitors the Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, taken collectively, are the most; impressive contents of the British Museum. So familiar to us to-day Collection of Wedgwood, the Lloyd Collection of early is the idea of the British Museumi, so much is its existence taken for Worcester, many lovely Chelsen granted, that some people are figures, examples of Bow and inclined to think that its origin, Derby, the Dillon Collection of Continental wares, Meissen--por- like that of the British "Constitu tion, is lost in the mists of time, celain, Italian majolica, atc. No yet as a matter of fact it is a com- Oriental pottery and procelain, and less notable is the collection of paratively modern institution, its) foundation dating only from 1753. when the Government of the day purchased the vast and miscel Janeous collection of Sir Hans Sloane.

(1) In Nathan Road at Haiphong" MAIL WEEK NEWS. long life (1660-1753), amassed a

Road.

(2) In Nathan Road at Austin-

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(3) In Nathan Road at Gascoigne

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(4)-In-Shanghai-Street-at-Jordan

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(5) in Shanghai Street at Wing

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(6) in Shanghal Street at Pitt

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ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.

Peter More, aged 10, died from belladonna poisoning after eating berries in Heaton Park, Manches ter, when on a school picnic.

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CLEANERS

To the lover of pottery and porcelain the ceramic department South Kensington. The European at the British Museum rivals that at

section includes the Falcke

In this connection we must note the Buddhist Room, where, among many other things, is a superb of a squatting Pottery statue

'Lohan," or Buddhist disciple, [executed in China about the ninth FAMOUS COLLECTIONS.

century. This also, for the beauty of its modelling and colour and Court physician in turn to George I. and George II, Sir for its technical excellence, must Hana Sloane, in the course of a be numbered among the outstand- ing things in the British Museum. fine library and a vast mis- Mention of Buddhism reminds us, cellaneous collection of curiosities. that among the Indian exhibits is a Excluding the printed books fine series of Ghandar sculptures and over 4,000 manuscripts, the from Northern India, especially Sloane Collection consisted of interesting as showing Greek in- about 200,000 articles, includ- fluence permeating the East as a ing Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, result of the conquests of Roman, British, and American Alexander. antiquities, as well as animal, vegetable, and mineral specimens. This great collection and library, housed in his manor.house at Chelsea, Sloane bequeath not only in the pottery and

body of trustees composed of the King, the Prince porcelain, but also in the Depart of Wales, the Archbishop of Can.ment of Prints and Drawings. terbury, the Lord Chancellor, and only a very small fraction of the treasures in this department. can other "experienced and judicious he periodically exhibited in the mean views," with the stipulation the rest is available for students in that "a consideration of £20,000" should be paid to his executors if the Print Room, Here is stored a the English Government assented vast collection of drawings by Leonardo da Vinici, Raphael, to his museum-and-library-becom- Michael ·* Angelo, and

Marion, a prize-winning Shor Each of the above Fire Alarmas thorn cow which had given 2,000 lead into Kowloon Fire Station gallons of milk in two successive where they transmit an instantaneous years, was sold at-Kingham, Oxed call. The Pablic are requested to fordshire, for £115. acquaint themselves with the positions of these alarms and to use the First Alarma in preference to Police whistles when requiring the services of the Fire Department.

As a drum of compressed air was being tested at the Derby railway Davenport, a mechanic, and injur Ing another man.

to а

THE PRINT ROOM.

That there is a certain amount

of "doubling" in the Victoria and Albert and British Museum is seen)

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E DC WOLFE Chief Officer, Fire Brigade.. Hongkong, 6th October, 1924.

ELIZABETH KEITH invites

the Public of Hongkong to her

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It was stated, at an inquest at Richmond, Surrey, on-Miss-Emily Christmas, 70, "that her death was probably due to a mosquito bite which she received in Kew Gardens.

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The £1,000,000 Devonshire road scheme for dealing with 500 miles of main roads in the county is to be enlarged to include 6134 miles

London to Plymouth.

EXHIBITION and SALE of the proposed trunk road from

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ing the property of the nation. Meanwhile, some fifty years earlier, the nation had inherited the library and collection of Sir Robert Cotton |(1570-1631). The bringing to gether of these two collections and the housing of them in Montague House, Bloomsbury-bought for £10,000 in 1753-was the origin of the British Museum as we know if

to-day.

the

fasters, a superb series of water greatest of the Old Master, colours by Cotman, Girtin, and other masters of the Early British School, choice examples of Albert Durer's prints and of all the master-etchers from Rembrandt to Whistler, and specimens of the work of the best modem artists, a

wonderful array of Japanese colour-prints, and some exquisite THE ELGIN MARBLES,

examples of old Chinese paintings Sir Edward Ward, president of

The British Museum became of "Two Geese" and "A Tiger the Union Jack Club, Waterloo-

world-famous at a bound in Drinking" may be singled out as road, S.E., for 22 years, has resign- ed and has been succeeded by 1801-1803, when the Earl of Elgin objects of exceeding preciousness. the The Ethnographical Gallery, Sir Walter R. Lawrence, vice-brought to England from

Parthenon Athens, those price-comprising collections of idols, president.

less remains of Greek sculpture of implements, etc., belonging to The primitive and half-civilized races the finest period known as Elgin Marbles." If we are to all over the world, once a favourite of children, is HOW reckon as the chief treasures of resort

In trying to save a London visitor, Miss Violet Stevens, who got into difficulties while bathing at Eastbourne, an attendant be came exhausted and both had to be rescued.

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Three armed and masked men held up Mr. Joseph Ennis man ager of the Northern Banking Company, of Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, who was motoring to a local fair, and robbed him of more than £4,000.

the

the British Museum those things the happy hunting-ground of which other nations would most "advanced" artists, and anybody dearly love to possess, then I fancy who looks, say, at the marvellous we must give first place to "The wooden portrait-figure of a great Three Fates" and the "Theseus" chief of the Bushongo Tribe in the from the Eastern Pediment of the Congo will learn from this exam- Parthenon, the "Hilssos" and "Iris" ple of savage art a great deal about from the Western Pediment, the aims and ideals of the post- and the famous Frieze of the impressionists.

THE READING ROOM. Parthenon, that band of sculpture in low relief which represents the

I say nothing of the Reading procession of the Panathenaic

knows Room-everybody festival. These Elgin Marbles are British Museum contains one of the universally acknowledged to be the finest representations of the if we are to take stock of its chief human form in statuary that exist, treasures we cannot ignore the but the British Museum also Manuscript Saloon, where, in possesses many other superb. ex addition to the old codices, Saxon amples of Greek sculpture, notably Chronicles, etc., WO can set the beautiful "Statue of Demeler."

documents of such national

as importance A verdict of Suicide while of from Cnidos, the portrait-heads of

Magoa Charta, Unsound Mind was returned at the Pericles and Alexander the Great, Nelson's last letter and ioquest at Holme-next-the-Sea, and the sculptural remains from Log of the Victory" Gordon's Norfolk, on Lieut.-Col. E. V. M. the great Temple of Diana at Journal at Khartoum, and Scott's Shelley, 42, commanding the 52nd Ephesus. mentioned by St. Paul Antarctic (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade (Acts xix.). (Territorial Army), who was found

Thomas Yardley, milk dealer, of Brighton-street, Hanley, Stafford shire, was fined £t Is. Costs at Hanley for selling milk adulterat ed with boric acid, a preservative which can be put into cream but

not into milkalla

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and

Journals. Of the prehistoric collections, the objects THE ROMAN EMPERORS. of remote antiquity which have Less wonderful as works of art come down to us from the Stone hough the beauty of the work- Age and the fron Age, of the coins The trade done at the New Zea-manship should not be ignored--and medals, the bronzes land Pavilion at the British Empire are the portrait heads of the Roman terracottas, and of many other Exhibition, Wembley, includes emperors, Julius Caesar, Tiberius,things I must be silent; the British the sale of more than 3,000 pack- Nero, Titus, Marcus Aurelius, etc., Museum is inexhaustible. ages of New Zealand butter each in the Roman Gallery, a series of week, while about 25,000 packages poble busts which, more than any.

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28, an Indian described as an selves, is the collection upstairs "Do you remember me?" he agent, was remanded on charges of pottery, jewllery, utensils, acked eagerly

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ONE OF "SEVEN, SU Everybody knows that the Tomb Ikke don't suppose you remember of Maurolus hence the word me," he began, but twenty yours mausoleum was considered byago, when I waga poor messenger the ancients to be one of the Seven boy, you gave me a message to Wonders of the World, but I have carry

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