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HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
THE CHINA MAIL,
PRECIOUS VENOM
NOTED HUNTER KILLS HIS
·800TH SNAKE -
"MILKING" MAMBAS/
I have met one of the most amazing men in South Africa, hunter of deadly snakes who has just killed his eight-hundredth mamba, writes a Daily Express He is Mr. W. E. correspondent. Jones, the naturalist, who for the last thirty-five years has lived in the heart of Zululand, cut off from all the amenities of civilisation, de- stroying cobras, puff adders, and mambas, whose venom is then dried and despatched to scientists in dif-
utsatther the world.
First Encounter
THE ANNUAL GENERAL T MEETING of the Hong Kong Football Association will be held in the Association Offices, 4th floor. French, Bank Buildings at 5.30 p.m.ment," said Mr. Jones, speaking 28 on FRIDAY, the 28th.
casually as though we were discuss Business:-
ing nothing more exciting than the
curative "white medicine." Yet
within two hours the man was dead,
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"What the death-roll in Zululand alone from mamba must be I cannot imagine, for cases occur almost every day within quite a circum- scribed area. Only the other day was fetched to a village to save one victim who on my arrival was found to be dead.
The Hunt
donga which was infested by these
"We went at once to a nearby
brutes. There were quite twenty basking in the sun, yet in the twink- ling of an eye they had uncoiled and shot away to their haies. waited for an hour, shot gun in hand, and saw three emerge and disappear into the bush..
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"I followed the nearest, a large "It is just a question of tempera-reptile, which I found later to be
1.- To confirm the minutes of An-latest film drama. "As in most dan- aual General Meeting 1928 gerous pursuits, familiarity, brings
2 To receive the Annual Report
and Balance Sheet.
a certain contempt that would make the ordinary man shudder. But the
3To receive the Interport State- first time I met a mamba at really
close quarters still form my worst.
ment of Accounts.
To consider the following reso- nightmare. lution:
"I had pitched my tent pear a Zulu village towards nightfall, and lay on my camp bed awaiting the
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"That this meeting approves of the Association taking over the control of the Hong Kong arrival of a native carrier. Hear- Amateur Football League as ing curious rustling, I looked down to see ten feet of black sinu- from the 1st July 1929.' 5.To consider Alterations to rules. ousness as thick as a man's arın
crawling within
feet of my 6. To elect the Officers for the en-head! A split second saw me out-
suing year.
side that tent, but in my flight I Any other business that may managed somehow to overtura the arise.
oll lantern.
R.
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· Grand outlook towards Public Gar- to be held on TUESDAY, the dens. Modern Sanitation. For fur-2nd day of July, 1929, at ther particulars apply to H. Ruttonjee 3 p.m., at the Offices of the
Son,. 16, Queen's Road Central,
TO LET OR FOR SALE.
Public Works Department, by
W. E. HOLLANDS
Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 27th June, 1929.
two
Fear Complex "When my boy" brought matches and a candle I was foolhardly enough to snatch up a stick and return. There was the snake just disappearing over the corner of my
Order of His Excellency the Gov PENINSULA HOTEL hop-box and I struck savagely at
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its vanishing tail.
"It was the act of a madman, for instantly the mamba whipped about, and I found its evil head swaying in
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diamond like eyes seemed to scorn my puny efforts.
"It was only when my boy had the presence of mind to grab a handful of dry grass and to cast it, burning, in the brute's face that I found myself outside once more, with shaking knees and dripping with perspiration. Near again did I ever face a mamba armed only with a stick!
"Probably through a fear complex inherited through a score of gen- erations the fearless Zulu seema stricken with paralysis when bitten by a mamba. Usually death occurs within four to five hours, though I have seen one case in which a na- tive was seized by convulsions and died before even a tourniquet could be applied!
No Remedy
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IRISH GHOST STORY
TERRIFYING APPARITION'S LUMINOUS FACE
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CANADIAN NOTES"
One out of every 35 wage earners in Canada is on the pay-roll of the Canadian National Railway's and
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Dublin. The "Irish Independ- the Canadian National pay envelopes
publishes details of a support approximately
which ghost story
been twentieth of the Dominion's popula bas startling
large part .of tion. County Wicklow for a considerable time. All attempts to solve the mystery have failed and different investigators have had to confess themselves beaten by the strange visitant.
a distinguished
Sixty-five representatives of the Press of Alabama constituted the Alabama Press Party which arrived in Montreal recently on the "Mon- treäler" of the Canadian National Railways.
The Columbia ice fields, Jasper Park, Alberta, form the largest body of ice south of Alaska and the Yukon on the continent.
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Two years ago Dublin citizen purchased a house and fishing rights in a desolate part of County Wicklow. When he went to reside there during the summer months weird occurrences. began by night. Bells rang without ap- parent cause, doors, supposed to be B. Campbell, Canadian National locked were heard slamming, and Railways engineer, spends his time ghostly figures flitted bhrough restoring and preserving totem ed head waving over the coarse
The wife of poles, most of them situated in grasses.
I was between him and rooms and corridors. his hole, the most dangerous posi- the owner of the house awoke one Kitwanga, B.C., tion conceivable.
morning to find three lighted "When a snake whose merest candles arranged around her bed. touch is death and who travels fas-Aew mornings later six lighted of the Canadian National Railways ter than the eye can follow is on the candles, similarly arranged were is the highest powered in the
world. ..... warpath, it behoves the hunter to found round a maid's bed.. have iron terves and a quick trigger was more than the occupants of the finger. As he came at me, jaws house could stand, and they prompt- agape, I put a charge of No. 6 shot ly returned to Dublin, ... below that head, cutting him neatly Last Christmas the son
This
of the
The Diesel electric locomotivé
Jasper Park, Alberta, with an area of 5,800 square miles, is the largest park in North America.
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in two. Then came the business owner of the house set out with four of venom extraction.
friends, resolved to pierce the my- A "solarium car," whose rear "It is necessary to wear thick stery. Nothing happened till one platform is enclosed in vita glass gloves of hide," added Mr. Jones, of the party left the house to re-admitting seventy-five per cent. of "for the still writhing snake must cover something he had left behind the ultra-violet rays of the sun, be seized quickly behind the Lead, in the motor car outside. Then is a feature of the latest passenger while its business end is jammed from a dark window overhead he equipment of the Canadian National into the mouth of a wide; shallow saw an old-fashioned blunderbuss Railways, “. glass jar.
An Ordinary Affair.
pointing at him, and as he crouched
for shelter the observed a cowled About 1,500 immigrants arrived "A finger and thumb pressed be- figure leave the house and go to- in Winnipeg recently over the lines hind those sealy jaws expresses the ward the out-offices. He got the of the Canadian National Kallways.
"In spite of years of research nepoison which, like a tiny rat impression that the stranger did
cover
amber tears, Dozės
down
can
dwelling.
cowled
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"The Valley of Thousand Falls"
effective remedy has yet been dis-of-
on thestrial to Borg Lake, Mount covered which will combat this poi- the side of the jar. There is death not open the door on leaving the son, which is so much the more not for one, but a score of men! At While the young man and his Robson, B.C., receives its name powerful because so small an any rate there is one mamba the companions were discussing this from the innumerable water falls amount is secreted by each reptile. less!
puzzling manifestation there came pouring into it from glaciers hang- From 800 mambas which I have, "Puff adders and cobras killed, I have only been able to re usually be caught alive by means ond reports as of gunshots dia- ing from the mountain sides above.
one quarter of a grain of of a long stick at the end of which charging, doors banging, and furni-
Then the ture falling. dried venom from each, while in the is a running noose. The captives R
case of cobras I have extracted so are quickly transferred to a sack, man appeared before them, much as eighteen grains from a and go to swell the number on my rifying apparition described as hav- single snake!
snake farm where they feed sumptu ing a luminous face, malevolent "A laboratory anti-toxin was dis ously on frogs, meanwhile regain expression, and ghastly gaps in his
teeth, two of which were covered, It is true, but this appearing their vonom. ed to be effective only under la-
tionally large. boratory conditions. In one case I used it, giving three injections to
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THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD., OF DENMARK.
The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Com- pany (Limited) of Denmark:-
Fujibun, from Osaka.
George Lynott, from Shanghai. H. Kong Kwok, from Osaka. Miladvert, from Dairen.
E. V. JESSEN.
Superintendent. Hong Kong, 27th June, 1929.
THE CASTERN EXTENSION 'AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD."
The following unclaimed tele-
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Surain Singh, Watchman, Asiatic Petroleum Company, from Ipoh,
Robert Wing, Robinson Road, from Chico Calif.
Dacok, from Seattle
S. LACK
Superintendent. Hong Kong, 20th June, 1929.
a Zula carrier bitten near a ford of the Tugela River.
ter-
excep:
"Milking" these has become quite
The startled investigators, saw an ordinary affair, no more to be regarded as extraordinary than the the cowled man go upstairs. Deter- milking of a cow or a goat! Yes! mined to get to the bottom of the As I said before," he concluded, "it mystery, they endeavoured to fol-
"It was regarded by the super-is all a question of temperament and low, but were driven back by bottles atitious natives with awe-a certain inclination!"
REFUGEES GENERAL
REDUCED FROM MILLIONAIRE. TO PAUPER
EN. MARCÉLO CARA- VEO, a tragic figure of the Mexican revolt of last March, is today a refugee in El Paso, Texas Gen. Caraveo has been reduced from a man of millions to a pauper by the fortunes of war, he admitted when he conferred with United States immigration authorities. He will be permitted to remain in the United States as a po litical refugee, according to high American officials,
When Gan. Gonzalo Racobar caised the use of revolt Caraveo was Governor of the State of Chi- huahua. He besitated to join the movement, but after a meeting of his⠀⠀ advisera in Chihuahua – City, when the revolt was three days old, he threw his lot with Escobar, Gen. Jenis Marta Aguirre, Gos AFALISO TODELE, DI
other revolting rengrade of the Grandes. Without ammunition or Mexican Government supplies Carver told his men to
Goy. Caraves, expected to be surrender, while he fed with a tea - named Provisional President of the faithful followers for the American revolution, but Beh. Escobar ob- border,ONE Seated,scobay Inslated that he For four weeks. Caraveo fought Supreme Chier" and rele- his way through the desert wilder- Caraveo to a minor com- esan. It was reported that the Mexican Government made no great Escobar was crushed at La Re- effort to capture him. All his prop- forma when he mat the army of erty, consleting of thousands or Gen, Juan Almazan in battle. He acres of ranch,, farm lands, and fied to Bonora and ordered Caraveo mines, bave been confiscated. He fr to follow Caraveo's command wks (snið:
tbuted 2,000,0 "trapped at Fulpito Pusa near Cheta) DONOR CARR,
vateds
Sand
GEN. MARCELO CARAVEO
• Lân, rebel caZAĆ
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How joyous and inspiring are the bright happy faces of our chil dren in the early morning! With what gloom our day's outlook be comes darkened when a loved little one awakens fretful, feverish and in painte
and other missiles, which clattered: downwards with an awful din. Eventually they procured lights, and worked their way to the top of the house, where through a trap door giving access to an attic they saw the apparition of the cowled man hanging head downwards. The investigators thereupon decided it was time to go home..
One suggested explanation is that the strange figure is what is known in Germany as a poltergeist-an evil spirit full of malicious tricks.: "It is on such anxious occasions There are many more stories of the that the wise mother realises to strange doings of this queer mani- the full the advantages of having festation, but this one is especially Baby's Own Tablets handy in the worth recording. One of the youth home, for having purchased a vísl ful investigators made as soon as he beforehand and placed it in the got home a sketch of a cowled medicine cabinet ready for imme figure, with the intention of show diate use, she now, in the vast ing it to his father. His com- majority of Instances, finds her. panions agreed that it was an ex- self possessed of just the remedy cellent likeness, and he put it in the little sufferer needs... his pocket. When, however, the youth later took the sketch from his pocket the drawing had disappear. fed, and the paper was blank. Other people intent on solving the my stery have since visited the house, but the ghost did not turn up for examination.
M. Kratchikovsky, of the Soylet Academy, has discovered an East ern manuscript on the history of Abyssing in Detskoe Selo (for merlyarkoe Selo). It in be Heved to be the only copy in the world.
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