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GRAND TATTOO.

THE CHINA MAIL,

OBJECTS OF HONG KONG SPECTACLE.

PICTURESQUE SCENES.

ON THE MOON,

WHAT THE WORLD WILL KNOW WITHIN; EIGHT YEARS.

THE GREAT HOAX.

The world will know within eightị

N. Y. STOCK MARKET.

WILD BULL” MOVEMENT YESTERDAY..

2 TO 20 POINTS RISE,

One of the Mapst pleturesque

New York, Yesterday. - scenes which will be witnessed at years whether or not there are One of the wildest bull move- the Grand Tattoo which takes cities on the planet Mara If the ments in the history of the Now place at Sookumpéo-on October 4, plans of Professor G. W. Ritchey, York Stock Market occurred. to-days 5 and 6 will be the "Changing of the American astronomer who when five million shares changed! the Guard" in the semi-final superintended the construction of hands. episode "The Surrender of Edin- burgh Castle 1689."

Mount Wilson Observatory, ' ma- Prices were active and stocks rose terialine, says a París dispatch to from two to 20 points as a solid When the Lowland and English the "New York Times.” .

stream of orders poured in tale- troops, led by General Hagh Professor Ritchey's latest reflec- graphically throughout the country Mackay, appear before the Castle tor is expected to give ten times the from Europe and even from ships gates, they will be received by the optical power of the most successful at sea. Highland Quarter-Guard of the modern telescope. He expocts to set Dealings in blocks of from five to Castle with the usual formal com-it up somewhere in the Arizona 16,000 shares were common and pliments, but the gates will remain desert on the edge of the tape machines were half an hour ominously closed.

Grand Canyon. Will the selon behind.

Thereupon, Genera Hugh tists, trekking to their desert All day customers were in the Mackay will, In stentorian tones, in watch-tower seven years hence, rooms of brokers' offices and jam- the name of King William and appreciate the significance omed the galleries of the Stock Queen Mary, call upon the Gov-the anniversary? If not, the newa-Market, which was crowded with erior of the Castle, the Duke of papers may remind them, for Aug. visitors...

Gordon, to surrender the fortress.21, 1835, was a date famous in local Telephone operators in the finan- The Gates will then be thrown journalistic history. On that morn-cial district were driven distracted open and the Duke of Gordon willing there appeared in The New York by ceaseless calls.~~~Router's Amer- emerge. He will be received with "Sun" this item:

a "General Salute" by the Low- linders and will formally hand over the keys of Edinburgh Castle to General Mackey, The troops will then enter, through the gates | and climb, the steep slope to the battlements.

Changing Guard.

Celestial Discoveries

The "Edinburgh Courant" says: "We have just learnt from .an eminent publisher in this city. that Sir John Herschel, at the Cape of Good Hope, has made some astronomical discoveries of the most wonderful description, When the last man has passed

by means of an immense telescope Bato the Castle and ceremony of

of an entirely new principle." "Changing the Guard" will be on-

THE AUTHOR. acted in the arena before the Castle Gates. It will be much the Richard Adams Locke, author of same ceremony as may be seen the great moon hoax, for which dally at the changing of the Royal this paragraph served as the madest Guard at St. James Palace, Lon-preface, stirred the interest of his don, which always attracts such a readers in scientific discovery and

multitude of onlookers:

The drill used in changing guard in 1689 does not differ materially from the similar çere- monial drill of to-day but the sceno will gain in picturesqueness by the fact that both guards will be in the authentic full dress of the period. The Duke of Gordon's guard -will beImpersonated by members of the Scottish Company, Hong Kong

WET WEEK ENDT

South-west wind, moderate, cloudy and rain, is the official forecast until noon to-morrow.

Ican Service.

IN 1926!

THE ATTEMPT TO KILL

MUSSOLINI.:

THE SENTENCES.

Rome, Yesterday. The special military tribunal for the Defence of the State has sen- tenced to 30 years Imprisonment, Mammolo Zamboni and his sister- in-law, Virginia Tabarroni, charge of instigating the boy, Anteo Zamboni, to fire at Sig.

Mussolini on Oct. 81, 1026.

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Ludovico Zamboni was acquitted on the ground of Insufficient evid- erice.

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Mussolini gave evidence the trial, at which it was sought to show that Anteo. was completely under the influence of members of his family-Reuter.

Volunteer Defence Corps, while the played skilfully on their credulity. ALLEGED "DECOYS.” Lowland Guards will be furnished. There were no cables then to con-

by the 25th Foot (The King's Own firm or refute-Herschel's mar-THREE CHINESE GIRLS & THE Scottish Borderers). The uniform vellous discoveries, as narrated in CASTLE-PEAK AFFAIR., ivorn by the latter. guard-is..copied the "Sun."" On Aug. 25 of that

exactly from a coloured print of year It published the first FURTHER PROCEEDINGS. the period in the possession of the of a series of articles describ- Regiment.

Tattoo Objects:

י

ing them in luminous detail The Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, assistant account was attributed to a supple- Attorney General, appeared for the It is interesting to note that thement of the Edinburgh Journal of Crown in a case heard at the Kow- proceeds of the Grand Tattoo are Science, very politely furnished loon Magistracy yesterday, when to be shared by Military charities us by a medical gentleman immadi three. Chinese girls and a Chinese of the units taking part and by the ately from Scotland in consequence were again before Mr. W. Schofield, Naval and Military Y.M.C.A. Fer of a paragraph which appeared on in connection with a highway rob haps it is not generally known that Friday last, from the "Edinburgh bery committed at Sau Kok-pak, in Military units have charitable Courant?

the Ping-shan district of Castle- peak a few weeks ago,

funds to which serving members

The "Journal of Science" WAS of the units subscribe. The funds thus accumulated are used in settl- presumably indebted in turn to a

of

Mr. Horace Lo, who defended

Mr. Leo d'Almada appeared for ing men in civil life when their certain Dr. Grant, the "indefatig- the fourth defendant, one of the Army service is completed and also able superintendent"

Dr. gire. in the care of their dependants.: Herschel's telescope at the Cape of The famous Aldershot Tattoo was Good Hope. There were details of originated with the object of aug- the casting of the great lens, with menting these funds which are an estimated magnifying power of never sufficient to met all calls on 42,000 times, and separate lenses to them.

slide in and out in such wonderful

juxtaposition that the glimpses of the moon seemed but a few yards

eecond defendant at one of the pre- lous hearings, was not present in Court.

In outlining the chao, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy said that the The work of the Naval and MIL-

three girls were charged with aid- tary Y.M.C.A. in Hong Kong is

ing and abetting in the perpetration of the robbery, while the man stood well known. The present centre in away.

on the charge, of participating in the City Hall has displaced the old WONDERS, REVEALED,

the offence. The case for the "Cheer O" and "The Better. "Ole" Wonders were revealed, First Crown was that the male defendant centres inaugurated last year when vegetation, demonstrating that the and two others, not caught, were in additional troops arrived in Rong moon had an atmosphere similar to league with these girls, and that Kong. Fands for the early work our own trees like the "yews in the whole thing was pre-arranged. were generously provided by local English churchyards," and a fine The victim of the affair, an residents and the Y.M.CA. Na- forest of rs. The scientists had elderly Chinese woman, was present tional Headquarters but for the rigged up a canvas screen on which in Court as complainant. She had continuance of the work funds are the lunar views were thrown. Then been robbed of $88.

life burst upon the observers: Sub-Inspector Cargill, in the brown quadrupeds like buffaloes, witness box, produced a number of only smaller, and with shades over photographs taken of the scene of the eyes to protect them from the robbery,

necessary.

TRAGEDY.

BODY OF CHINESE FOUND WITH STAB WOUNDS.

...

The body of a Chinese (25) was found yesterday morning on the billside near the Military Revolver Range. The body had several stab

wounds.

extremes of light and darkness of The complainant also gave evid- the lunar landscape; also an animal ence, after which the case was about the size of a goat, of a biulshadjourned.

lead colour, with a single horn. On

the shores of the lake they caught The minimum weekly wage for just a fleeting glimpse of a "strange female workers in the textile amphibious creature of a spherical trades in the province of Quebec form, which rolled with great velo- has been fixed at £2, with an ad- city across the pebbly beach," to ditional 8s. weekly for workers in be lost in the swirling tide. Finally, Montreal.

A girdle was also found tightly the astronomers, looking upon the tied round the victim's neck. Near cliffs and craga of a new part of of Mra. Isabella Paveley, of Roy- To celebrate the 100th birthday the body were two chisels.

the moon, made the most sensa don, Essex, the bell ringers of The man, who had obviously been tional of their discoveries Epping Uplands rang a peal at murdered, wore black cotton clothes. Whilst gazing upon them-in & Roydon parish church. and black cotton socks but had no perspective of about half a mile, we shoes. The body was removed to were thrilled with astonishment to Kowloon Mortuary.

perceive four successive flocks of

Three well-known gentlemen large winged creatures, wholly un-riders of Cracow, Sawicki, Kar- like any kind of birds, descend with lick, and Wachteder, have set a slow, even motion from the cliffs out on a trip round the world on on the western side and alight upon horseback.. the plain. They were first noticed by Dr. Herschel, who exclaimed:

Mr. Frank Powell, a barrister, of Cambridge-avenue, New Malden, has been adopted as the prospective Liberal candidate for the Kingston Parliamentary Division at the next election;

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