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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1930.

'Phone 20022

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HOME TUITION.

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For

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* Opposite entrance HK. Hotel

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

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ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Modernte.

A Trial Order is Solicited.

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RATES MODERATE.

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Sultes of rooms (single and double), hot and cold water system, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached. EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European maragement.

Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the finest locations in Kowloon, away from naise, yot Easily accessible. Terms very moderate. Retor- Tations by letter or cable

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XMAS SALE

at

KASHMIR SILK STORE

Opposite Queen's Theatre.

36A, Queen's Road, C.'

A pair that will win any hand

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AUCT

TEERS, APPRAISETIS

URVEYO

Public Auctions

RELIABLE PRINTING

no order 100 small

GOVERNMENT NOTICES

G.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

SPORT NOTICES

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE TENTH EXTRA RACE

MEETING

will

behold (weather permitting) at Happy ▶ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS | Valley on SATURDAY, 8th Novem of the Sale by Public Auction bar, 1930. commencing at 2 p.m. to be held on MONDAY, the The first bell will be rung at 10th day of November, 1930, at 1.30 p.m...

the

PART

8

P.mat

the

Ofices of

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

Public Works Department, by Members are notified that they Order of His Excellency the Go and their ladies must wear their ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land badges prominently displayed. at-Wong Nel Chung in the Colony

No one without a badge will be of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 admitted to the Members Enelo- years, with the option of renewal at A Crowd-Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King. for one further term of 75 years. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Locality,

Adjoining Inland Let

No. of Sale.

Begiany No.

مون

G.

15

"Soundary

BEW

16. |18. | 06. Abone

A per sale; plan.) 0,875 | 40

PUBLIC AUCTION,

7,500

aure,

A VANISHED RACE.

FOX CLUE TO EARLY TEXAS REMAINS.

MYSTERIOUS CAVES.

:

Washington, Sept. 20. Remains of ancient human cul- tres in the depths of mysterious mountain caves in Texas and Nevada were discovered this sum-

mer. by Mr. M. W. Stirling, chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, who has just returned to Washington.

Badges admitting non-members

The first notable find was in a to the Members' Enclosure and.) Club Rooms at $5 for Gentlemen eye opening from the wall of a box canyon about seventy miles south- and $2 for Ladies, are obtainable west of Marfa, Texas. Mr Stirling through the Secretary.. upon intro-went into this arid region hoping to thction by A member, such

And evidences of an ancient people member to be responsible for pay-who would bridge the gap between ment of all chits, &c.

the pueblo balldors of the South- Badges admitting to Members west and the mound builders of the Enclosure will not be on sale at Mississippi Valley. In the canyon the Race Course.

he located a large spring, the only Members can obtain, upon ap source of water within a radius of plication to the Secretary, badges about 20 mike, and suspected that (limited to two) for the free ad-there must have been human in- mission to the Members' Enclosure habitants nearby from prehistoric of wives, lady relatives and times. But there were no evidences friends. Names must be stated leit above ground.

when applying.

His clue came from a small boy

On no pretext will children be on a neighbouring ranch who told permitted in either Enclosure dur-of chasing a fax into a hole in the ing the Meeting.

mountain. Stirling found that where the fox had disappeared

ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS Public Pof the Sale by Pablle Auction

10th day of November, 1930, a

لام

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

8 p., at the Offices of the are admitted half price Public Works

The Price of admission to the there was a long narrow passage Enclosuro 18 $1 for through solid rock, just big enough ladies, to admit, a mah. The floor was persons including

carpeted with prickly pear, deposit- to bo held on MONDAY, the and is payable at the Gate.

•Soldiers and Sailors in uniformed by rats. Carrying stones in his hands as protection against the Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, &c. spines he crawled in and after a Department, by Order of His Excellency the Goy will not be permitted to operate yard found himself in a chamber ernor, if one Lot of Crown Land within the precincts of the Hong eight feet high and about thirty feet at Tai Kok Tsui, in the Colony Kong Jackey Club during the in radius-undoubtedly the home of of Hong Kong for a term of 75 Race Meeting. years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be Axed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King. for one further term of 75 years. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Bale.

Begistry No

Locality.

G.

Stu

A

Boundary

1.

tt. about!

By Order,

C.. B. BROWN,

Secretary

Hong Kong, 1st November, 1930.

GENERAL NOTICES

NOTICE.

..

ancient man. The. floor was litter-

ed with debris containing fragments of primitive hone and stone articles and textiles. The walls were blackened with smoke, and there ware the remains, of a fire, built many centuries ago, under à natural flue through which a strong breeze blowing. He had stumbled into the subterranean home of a vanished race.

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Curious Pictographs. Stirling made several trial ex- IEUT, COL. ROBERTSON, cavations and will send an expedi- Hong Kong Club, will be tion to make a completa excavation Ipersale plan. 10,100 glad to receive any article which later in the year. Later he found may be given to be auctioned on several other caves with evidences ARMISTICE DAY. for the benefit of human habitation and some EARL HAIG'S FUND. and curious pictographs and rock paint- earnestly hopes that a good, resings on the walls of the canyon. ponse to this appeal may be made. The trail of the pictographs finally led him below the Mexican border to the confluence of the Rio Conchos and Rio Grande where he found a great assortment of them on the cliffe.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

PARTICULARS

to be held on MONDAY, the 10th day of November, 1980, at 8 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov- ernor, of. one Lot of Crown Land at Mong Kok Tsui in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 15 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King. for one further term of 75 years. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Bale

Kowloon Irland

Bal Toe Etreet D

Locality..

komeurements

[to] the th 骤

about

•per sale plan. 28,000 200

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO, LTD,

The following unclaimed tale grams are lying at the EE. Tele graph Co. Offiča, Hong Kong -

Canton, St. Louis, Mo. Senpakubu, from Bangkok, Waldor; Peninsular, from Byd- ney,

S, LACK,

Superintendent. Hong Kong, November 6, 1980.

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO, LTD, OF DENMARK.

of

The following: unclaimed tale" grams are lying at the one Great Northern - Teleg Compat (Limited) of mark

'of

GETFre

PIPPERMINT The Queen of

There were two series of these pictographs. The first Almost obliterated and apparently very old, were made with a black pigment on flat surfaces of the rock and con sisted of geometrical designs. The

Cremedlenthe second series was in red pigment

An excellent digustinčalanneet,

The most refreshing

long drinkwhen

Laken with

Sóda Water

and consisted of deer, antelope, and man-like figures."

Stirling believes that the geomo- tric designs were those of the ancient people while the animal figures may have been made by the Apaches, who occupied the region in historic times. The former, being Distilled at REVEL (Garonne) France symbolic represent a more advanced culture than. the latter,, but the Apaches were a notably primitive people.

by GET Frères since 1796.

He doubts, Stirling says, that the ancient inhabitants were primarily a cave-dwelling people but they pro- bably made use of such underground

COASTWISE shelters as they could and as a

'ALGIE” BENNETT.

An interesting book of Cartoons depicting "Happenings on the China Coast

PRICE $1.00.

supplement to their other dwellings, especially when pressure from In- vadera made concealment necessary. The cave which, he will excavate formed a perfect hiding place where fugitives could live indefinitely with a view of the country for miles) around

An Exciting Journey. Shifting from Texas to north- Fenstern Nevada, Stirling Investigat. ed an enormous cavern in the Rugby mountains from which emerged a large stream, "Astride' a log and carrying only a flashlight the ex- plorer made his way for nearly mile under the mountain. About the mouth of this cave, apparently one of the largest limestone caverns in the world, although hitherto known only locally, Stiriing found evidence of a large ancient settle- ment. Watered by the river and abounding with game, it was all ideal location for a hunting people ......¶¶¶¶¶¶¶! ́Other emeller caves nearby contain ed evidence of human occupancy, HONG KONG HEIGHTS such as smoke-blackened walls and

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Overland China Mail.

A WEEK'S PAPERS IN ONE.

were

Astonishing revelations forthcoming in a prosecution brought by the Crown alleging arson against the master of a medicine shop in Wing Lok Street. Three other men, one the master's son, were arraigned with him It was alleged that a hole' had been made in the first floor of the building and that an inflammable trail had been laid.. to the storeroom above. The defendants, It is alleged, intended to defraud an insurance company or companies of $31,000. The OVERLAND CHINA MAIL reports the case. in detail,

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Votes totalling over a quarter of a million dollars are to come before the Finance Committee af its next meeting. The voles include one for $105,000 in connection with the- Kowloon Tong Building Scheme, The OVERLAND CHINA MAIL gives full details of the requirements under the ⚫ various votes.

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An interesting case concerning the censoring of a filmi shown at a local cinema house occupied the attention of the Magistrate during the week. The proprietors were pro- secuted for showing a film that had not been “cut” accord Ing to the instructions of the censor. The plea of the de fence, that the film was shown uncut owing to a misunder- standing, was accepted. A full report appears in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

Affairs in Northern China cóntinue to gain in dramatic intensity, .From dispatches received, it appears as if the.. Feng Yen menace has ceased, at least for the time being. Much hinges upon the mooted conference between Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, and the Manchurian overlord, Chang Hsueh-liang, the progress toward it being the subject of conflicting reports. The OVERLAND CHIÑA MAIL carries all relevant, news, en

"The social life of the Colony is fully covered in the columns.of.the OVERLAND CHIŇA MAIL, features of the.. week being the Hallowe'en dinner of the Scottish Company of the Volunteer Defence Corps, the Machine Gun Com pany's annual dinner, and the inaugural meeting of the newly-formed Society of Yorkshiremen

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accumulations of debris. He be visitors lieves further, exploration of the this highest points on the Island and great cave may reveal human settle legend the following Mainland is

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This area of the Rugby and Mary mountains, Stirling Bald is full of caves and of geological

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18 DAYS IN OPEN BOAT.

A group of convicts from the Both the Texas and Nevada, sites, Stirling saya, seem to be keypoints French penal settlement In American archaeology. They are Cayenne, French Guiana, who had borderline areas between well escaped in a best from the main donned anciant cultures and neither hand, put in at Erin Bay, Trinidad, has been explored by archeologists. September, 80, and were taken In both places, he says, the caves into custody by the police.

cone: 70 feet high and 800 feet in show such an accumulation of de diameter, through

which bria that it probably will be possi- bout ble to find culture layers buried ture layers, and, thus 30 feet below crest of the hollow bananah cone is the surface of a deep body establish a time sequence in the ater probably extending down" population the country by difer wards seve

Into ent

They had been in the boat for 18 days, during which they suffered extreme hardship.

For the past five days they had

But food for

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