1934-08-27 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1934.

HAPPY ISLAND OF ST. HELENA

PO.-British India HAPPY ISLAND OF

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(COMPANIES' incorporated in ́ENGLAND), MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

CARGO FOR

TAKING

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PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8.8.

CORFU

From

Tong Hong Kong

About

1934.

8th Sept. 7,900 16th Sept.

15,000

**SOMALI

MANTUA

RAWALPINDI

BANGALORE

COMORIN RAJPUTANA +BHUTAN

11,000 22nd Sept. 17,000 6th, Oct. 6,000 13th Oct

16,000 20th Oct. 17,000 3rd Nov. 0,000 16th Nov.

15,000 17th Nov. 6,100 24th Nov.

CHITRAL **BEHAR

CARTHAGE **BOUDAN

15,000 7,000

1st Dec. 8th Dec.

RANPURA

17,000 18th Dec,

• Cargo only.

Destination

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marsellies, Havre, London Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp Hull.

Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marsellles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marselles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Hayre, Londen, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull, Morselllen & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

Rombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp Holl.

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

+Calle Gablanca.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Lavant Ports by steamers of the Khedirial Mall Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1934.

†TALMA BIRDHANA TAHADA

10,000 81st Aug.

8,000 16th Sept.

9,000. 29th Sept.

S'paro., Penang & Calcutta,

-DO DO

• Calls Rangoori

Call Port Swettenham.

B.1. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation

1st and 2nd class passengers.

1934.

TANDA NANKIN NELLORE TANDA

7,000

1st Sept 7,000 29th Sept. 7,000 2nd Nov. 7,000 1st Dec.

Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney

Melbourne, and Hobart.

&

No Unemployment And Trade Flourishing

HISTORIC CONNECTIONS

Cape Town,

since his appointment to the bishopr! of St. Helena and Damara- land.

THREE LIVES

THAT TOTAL

350 YEARS

Woman Who Would Not Wait For Death

TWO PASS AT 120

COMEDIAN OF THE ANTARCTIC

Admiral Evans Praises Penguins.

EXPLORERS' FRIEND

Cape Town. The comedian of the Antarctic] A. bishop with the strangest dio-

penguin known as the cese In the Britlah Empire le pay- Two men aged 120 and a woman is a little ing his first visit to the mainland aged 110 figure in message from jackass penguin. This fact was divulged by Vice-Admiral. E. R. Reuter Correspondents.

G. R. Evans ("Evans of the He Spoke Seven Languages

Belgrade. Broke"), Commander-in-Chief of Ivan Avramovitch could speak the Africa Station, in the course He is the Right Rev. C. C. Watts He is the spiritual ruler of Steven languages despite his 120 of an interesting address on wild Helena, Ascension and Tristan da years Now he has died at Debra life in the Antarctic to the Cape Cunha and difficult as the job was, in South Serbia. He was a wood-Natural History Club.

Admiral Evans dealt with his carver and had travelled exten- succeeded in visiting he once

sively in his youth. For the past Antarctic adventures, and had Tristan.

Talking of his Atlantfe See, 20 years, Ivan had tasted no meat many stories to tell of the Jac- kass penguin, which he described Watching The Flocks

as the friend of all Antarctic ex- Bishop Watts said:

"St. Helena is a happy, fairly

Peyko Neychoffski has died at plorers and the comedian of the

Antarctic. prosperous island to-day," "and the fortnightly visit of ships is still the village of Katunstz, near Lovetch at the age of 120. He

Sofia.

Its nest consisted of ~ a few small stones, which its neigh-

the chief interest of the island, and leaves 40 grandchildren and great-bours were always stealing from

one of our hest sources of Income. The visit of each ship means, on an average, about £200 to the island.

grandchildren.

All his life he has been a she-it. Its rookeries were very nolay places, except during the silent The flax industry is being carried phered, watching his flocks upon hours when the inhabitanta slept, or meditated and 'looked armor on and fa subsidised by a. grant the mountainsides in fair weather

ous. During these silent from the Imperial Government, and foul.

He never drank alcohol nor ate perioda, a person could wander The grant for administrative pur meat. His usual fare was poses is of great assistance,

among them and they would take no notice whatever remaining fishing Industry employs a number cheese and vegetables.

She Would Not Wait For Death quite undisturbed and looking They of the inhabitants,

extremely mournful and sub- grateful for six new boats to enable

dued. them to carry on their work in the notoriously treacherous seas.

education.

White Ant Menace

The

are

milk

Belgrade. Zora Brankovitch, of Patrovatz on the Mlava, was 110. She was At any other time a penguin St. Helena is a very healthy for some time, but refused to rookery was exceedingly noisy and animated, the penguins has-see a doctor. very good island and a

One evening, when she was ap-shrieking at each other or chas- pital service is maintained. Eight

parently sleeplug pundly, her re-ling away the skua gulla which schools are flourishing. the sixth standard being the general level of latives left her alone for a short hovered overhead to steal, when

time.

opportunity presented itself, the When they came they found that penguin eggs or even the young the old woman had climbed to the chicks, themselves. "The white ant is still a menace. |

attic, making a rope from her! The adult penguins are very It was accidentally Introduced in

blanket and hanged herself from distinctly marked' with black and 1840 from Brazil, and so far no

white plumage, but the young remedy has been found for the in-a high beam.-Reuter.

birds are cocoa-brown in colour. & vasion. Great damage is done to

Vice-Admiral Evans made buildings.

passing reference to the winged |

their rapid flight with the slow progress made by old-time ex-: plorers in face of so much hard- ship. Wireless broadcasting, he said, had, also changed the 'con- ditions very considerably, as it was now possible to keep in touch over the air with those in camp. The wireless broadcast pro grammes helped tremendously to relieve the monotony of cold nights-Reuter.

"The people are contented and STUDYING PRIMITIVE explorers of to-day and compared

happy and manage to get a good deal of pleasure from sporta, in- cluding football and cricket, though competition is provided chiefly when the navy visits us. There is no serious crime on the island and the people are a good, church-going] congregation.

RACES

(Continued from Page 8.)

H

те

Systems Not For All Functional anthropology "I should like to see more money available for the development of cognises that the day is long past

that new industries and for the repair since we could assume

our of the churches.

own particular systems were the "Far from St. Helens being best for all the world government closed down, it remains a very valu- by debate and a majority vote; able strategic point in Atlantic. It retains its old value rules of evidence administered by as the Gibraltar of the mid-professional lawyers; education ill adapted to any but civilised life in Atlantic.

"Ascension to-day is inhabited a temperate zone; religion which entirely by servants of the cable condemned the heathen to eternal company with about 100 people perdition.

the mid-justice dependent on hide-bound "WHAT MIGHT HAVE

from St. Helena. About 40 cable We have liberalised our DWD

BEEN"

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FOR $2. which had been found by the In- dians.

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for employees from the Island com-views, we have found to our sur munity and I should say they are prise that the "lawless savage" had

He refused to take her seri Coin That Was Worth one of the happiest groups in the an elaborate social organisation to The prize what-might-have-jously enough to investigate.. EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South); world. There is no unemployment, which he held with unexpected been story of the year is credit Ten years passed. The Indian the houses are good and there is tenacity, the missionaries have ed to Mr. William Cuddeback, woman's white husband, Hamp

Cincinnati. good food to be had. The old naval borne witness that he is naturally pioneer cattle rancher of Kern Williams, and another man who church is very interesting.

"aceply religious" in that he feels County since 1861..

grubstaked him visited the spot A Kentucky mountaineer sought "Dampier's Spring is still in himself constantly in contact with He estimates that he lost described. They picked up ato exchange an old coin for our existence. It is connected with the

more readily negotiable. several million dollars by laugh piece of "float," which assayed rency the spirit-world.**** earliest history of the island when

Misled by the sign, "United Bank. a party of British sailors were The administrator who has founding at a "tip" given to him by $40 a ton..

They ran out of food and nei-Building," he wandered into the shipwrecked on the island and, led out much of this for himself turns an Indian woman back in the by Dampier, found their way to to scientific anthropological re 80's that might have led him to ther had enough money to fin-office of a Cincinnati coin collec

almost fabulous silver ance the necessary work, so they tor, Thomas G. Melish. The nu- Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghel and Japan the spring. Ascension was after search so that he may if possible an

drifted over half-a-mile to the mismatist felt sorry for him, gave "strike." and Hong Kong to Australia.

wards used as a naval sanatorium fathom the native thought and

Mr. Cuddeback's father, be- Northeast. Grubbing around in him $2 for the coin. The Ken Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days,

for sallors suffering from fever."-adapt the African to civilised stan- AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for a cheap Holliday. Reuter.

dards (or adapt those standards to cause of his good treatment of some old diggings, they found tucklan vanished."

the Indians, was adopted into under the surface ore which as

Only then, said Melish, did he his comprehension and needs) in the Plute tribe in 1858 and made sayed at £12 a ton. (Surang, Fishing, Shooting, and Climates to suit all.

stead of endeavouring to impose a "brother of the Chief, Phil-It developed later into one of examine the coin closely. It was institutions foreign to his men-

lipe. Twenty-five years later a the biggest silver "strikes" of an 1804 sliver dollar. Only 18 tality and unsuited to the condi-full-blooded Indian woman, out the century-the Kelly Mine. are known to exist. The last one

to be sold brought $2,500. tions of his life.

of friendship and appreciation Reuter

money is worth 25 per cent, more).

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Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

1934.

2nd Sept.

Eth Bapt..

NANKIN

*BANGALORE

7,000 .6,000

17,000

9th Sept.

8,000

7th Sept.

RAWALPINDI

TAKADA

COMORIN TILAWA *BHUTAN NELLORE

·FRAJPUTANA

SANTHIA BEHAR CHITRAL

·TALMA

SOUDAN CARTHGE

SIRDHANA

15,000 20th Sept. -10,000 21st Sept. 6,000 Brd Oct. 7,000. 4th Oct. 17,000 4th: Oct.

8,000

8th Oct. 6,100 14th Oct. 15,000 19th Oct. 10,000 19th Oct. 7,000 31st Oct 15,000

2nd Nov, 8,000 2nd Nov, 7,000 4th Nov.

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Hollywood.

"Madame Du Barry," the new

film being produced here has become known as the "League of Nations" film.

The reason is that:

Dolores Del Rio, the leading lady. is Mexican.

William Dieterle, director of the

Amey, Shal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.film, is German. S'hal, Hoji, Kobe & Yokohama, tant

Shal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & T'kama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghal Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghal, Robe & Yokohams. Amoy, S'hal, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghal Kobe and Tokohama Amay, S'hal, Moji, Kobe and Osake Shal, Holl, Kobe, Osaka and Y'hama

Henry Blanke, supervisor, of the film, is German. ⠀⠀

Reginald Owen, playing Louis XV, is English.

Ferdinand Gottschalk Arthur Treacher and Maynard Holmes are also English

Sol Polito, the camermant, Italian, gay!

Frank Flanaghan, head electri cian, is Irish

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