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STAMP COLLECTORS

By A. E. L

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1935

NEW GOVERNMENT

CIVIL HOSPITAL

Foundation Stone Laid

By The Governor

"A BOON TO THE POOR

To-day's Short Story-

The Vats

The New Government Civil Fos-1/ANI years ago now that

By Walter De La Mare

We confessed to each other how] once upon a time which is of late we had been pining in ear and pital was named by His Excellency the memory of the imagination secret hearts for just a brief spell

Aceived from Messrs. Graca & Parcharger arreare prins to the Governor, Sir William nocy rather than of the workaday of an eternity of its name here

3 cts

Sets

10 t

20 ets.

MONDAY'S STORY

CCORDING to Information redesign appeared-Over-prints

friend. Of what passed before all that each basy, hugger-mugger, The hospital Co, the first shipment of Jubilee the 1894 issue) and again in 1917, when he laid the foundation stone mind-I went walking with awe could be and think and dreain Stamps received by the Post Office to be followed by a new design in yesterday afternoon.

Impracticable, Hong Kong consist of ».

1915. This was again subjected to will have accommodation for 500 we set out I have nothing but feverish, precipitate twenty-four 1,200.000 various overprints, and surcharges patients which is twice the number the vaguest recollection. All I hours would not allow us to be ar We desired to morning, that we were happy to infatuate desire! 3.250,000 until in 1928, currency changes of the present hospital can cater for remember is that it was early to think or dream

On arrival, His Excellency, who

be in one another's company, mase, to brood, to meditate, to em- 1,250,000 necessitated a new issue, which de

was accompanied by Lady Peel and that there were bright green bark (with a buoyant cargo) apon 600,00 (picted the Empress Zanditu and in sheets of 60 stamps each. There Ras Taffari, whose coronation re-attended by Captain RF. Walter, boughs overhead amongst which that quiet stream men call reverie.

AD.C. was met by the Hor. Dr the birds floated and sang, and these are some sheets of 30 stamps; each sulted in an overprint' on

and Mrs. Moore and accompanied to that the early dews still burned sheet has a serial number on the stamps in October of the same year the site where a special matshed in their crystal in the sun.

In 1929 the stamps were over- top right hand corner, but no con- trol letter. The actual number of printed for the "Abyssinian Got had been erected for the occasion.

Addressing the gathering the the stamps printed is not known ernment Air Mail. and again in Hon. Dr. W. B. A. Moore, Director

on the acccession of Ras ye Mr. Graca states that orders 1930 from abroad are pouring in and on Taffari as Emperor Harle Selassie of Medical and Sanitary Services, In November 1930, on the occasion said that the ceremony marked a new epoch in the history of medi of his coronation a further over- print appeared reading "The Em-cine in the Colony. He referred to peror of the Kings of Ethiopia-2nd the inadequacy of the site and a

pointments of the present hospital November 1930, Haile Selassie."

A further design in 1930 de and compared them with the fa- picted the Abyssinian Lion, and in ourable position and excellent out

look of the new building. June, 1931. air stamps were од

As the other hospitals were over- sale which illustrated 'an'acroplane over the map of Abyssinia. Later crowded, Dr. Moore continued, the new hospital would prove a boon to

We were taking our way almost at haphazard across country, there the faintly was now grass, now sparkling fifaty dust of an English 1road, underfoot. With remarkably. few humans to be seen, we trudged: turning our eyes ever and again

Monday's story will be "Finale For Silas." by H. E Bates

to glance laughingly, questioningly,

Perplexedly at one another's then We had all but forgotten how even slanting them once more on the to sleep. We lay like Argus. ofi blue canopied countryside. It was nights with all our hundred eyes spring, in the month of May, ajar.

There were books we should never think, and we were talking of Time.

We speculated on what it was, now be able to read; speculations!

in the year a new regular issue ap the poor of the Colony, and in ad- and where it went to, touched in we should never be able to explore; the first day he had to deal with peared, comprising three designs dition it would be a great help to furtive tones on the Fourth Dimen- riddles we should never so much as

Maconnen. Empress 300 letters Mr. Graca has prepared riz:- Ras

the medical Faculty of the Universion and exchanged "the Magic hear put, much less expounded Formula.TM We wondered if pigs There were. above all, waking special envelopes for first day can- Waizers Menen, and a railway

the fourbridge across cellations containing

could see time as they see the wind, visions now past hoping for; long the River Hawash sity.

Dr. Moore then called upon His and wished we could recline awhile since shut away from us by the values of the stamps issued. Their This issue is reproduced here.

Excellency to perform the

upon those bewitching bank; where price in the last few days has gone

it grows wild.

up to a dollar for the set...

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The Governor's Speech" During the course of his speech

N°

feliable information is avail-

THE

Czech Birthday Issue THE eight-6fth birthday of Dr. Masaryk was celebrated

mony.

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able yet as to the number of Czechoslovakia on March 5 by an His Excellency said that he was of four commemorative very pleased to have the privilege stamps issued for the other colonies fissue and dominions. but some people stamps bearing his portrait and of laying the Foundation Stone of the new hospital A new Govern- forecast a future for the New-autograph, the values 50 haleru and

issue. foundland Jubilee stamps are all odd values.

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Indian Jubilee Issue

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the

krune representing him in what ment Civil Hospital had been one appears to be a yachtsman's cap, of his chief sims since he arrived and the 2 and 3 kruna, in enlarged the Colony.

Delay had been caused by the format, in buzting costume. Both

NDIA'S Silver Jubilee issue is to designs include the dates 1850-necessity of carefully considering

The South African issue numbers STAR REPORTER

INDIA'S

24, 32, and S annas and 1 rupee,

but details as to the subjects of

the designs are lacking at present.

IN

four-ld; 2d., 3d, and 6d.- uni- formly printed in a large traverse design twice the size of an ordin- 3ry postage stamp with the King's head in the centre displayed against a sun-rayed background and supported upon either side by

HONG KONG

Miss Mary Knight In

is to be shown on the Jubilee

stamps of Southern Rhodesia, con- sisting of the same four values.

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CONCERT-RECITAL

Interviews for All

about 12

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the funds available but now all that had been settled he took this op portunity of expressing his satis- faction at the excellence of the site

CRUISE OF THE

ROMANCE -

Chinese Sailor Joins The Crew

BOAT CLEARING SHORTLY

Chinese sailor has been

stream of the hasty moments—as they tick and silt and slide rirre- coverably awRY. .

In the gay folly of that bright morning we could almost have vow- ed there were even other "selves"! awaiting us with whom no kind of precarious tryst we had ever made we had ever been faithful to Per- haps they and we would be ready if only the world's mechanical clocks would cease their trivial moralis- ings.

And memories surely they would come arrowing home in the first of en-the evening to haunts serene and molested, if only the weather and

He believed that it would be general-gaged by Captain Green, owner by admitted that this was one of the and navigator of the 25-ton yacht mood and season and housing we finest in Hong Kong.

Romance, to accompany him and could offer were decently propitions.

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The cost of the hospital would his son to Vancouver, and to aid We had frittered away, squandered exceed three and a half million dol in handling the boat.

so many days, weeks, years-and lars. His Excellency continued, but After ten days at sea, Captain had saved so little. it is expected to get a substantial Green was forced to return to the

C

THE LAST DANCE Hon. Lane, Crawford Season

Concluded

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Search Of Adventure

Spendthrifts of the unborrowabie, sum from the sale of the present Colony a few days ago, as it bewe had been living on our capital- Miss Mary Knight, "star" re-hospital

came obvious to him that two men a capital bringing in how meagre spring-boks, while South African porter for the United Press, has ar- His Excellency then formally laid could not handle the yacht on an "interest"—and were continually fruits occupy the upper spandrelsrived in Hong Kong in the course the stone and named the hospital such a long voyage to America. growing poorer. Once, when we The inscriptions are. in both Eng of a search for adventure. She in-the Queen Mary Hospital. lish and Afrikaans. A view of the tends to stay here for

The Romance, provided the man were children, and in our own Victoria Falls of the Zambezi River months.

Large Gathering Present proves satisfactory, will probably world, an hour had been as capa- Among those present were «His clear, within the next few days. cious as the bine bowl of the sky, with springboks in the foreground

She has many outstanding ac- Excellency the General Officer Com- The slight extra delay is in hopes and of as refreshing a milk. Now complishments to her credit:

manding. Major-General O. C. Bor-that the north-east monsoon, which its successors. haggardly snatched Dressed as a nurse, she got to the rett. His Honour the Chief Justice has been blowing fairly hard for their way past our sluggard senses very door of the room where the Mr. A D. A MacGregor, Com-the last few days, will die down like thieves pursued. late French president lay dying, modore and Mrs. C. G... Sedgwick, and its place be taken by a south- Abyssinian Boom

and overheard the final act of that Bishop H

Like an hour-glass that carnot Valtorta, Hon Sirjeast wind In any case Captain tell the difference between its head THE trouble between Italy and

drama.

Thomas and Lady Southorn, Hon-Green desires to be gone as soon and its heels; like a dial on a sun- Abyssinia. which has beez

She few over the Alps, strapped Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Miss Ras possible in order to avoid the less day; like a time-piece wound- given so much publicity in the in the cockpit of an open plane Alabaster, Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith Press, will have the effect of popu- She scooped the world on the rear Mrs. Smith, Hon. Mr. E. Taylor

[typhoon season.

Jup-wound-up and bereft of its Age, we larising the stamps of the latter covery of US$5,000,000 Spanish and Mrs. Taylor. Hon. Mr. R. M

pendulain; so were we country, which has been philateli-crown jewels, lost by the Infanta and Mrs. Henderson, Hon. Sir

had hideously learned, devours life cally dormant for some time. The Eulalie.

as a river consumes flakes of thel Henry and Lady Pollock, Hon. Sir first issue of stamps was made in

falling show. Soon we should be William Shenton and Miss Yronnej 1894, during the reign of Emperor. She has interviewed kings in and Shenton, Hon Mr. M. Breen, Hon.

beggars, with scarcely a month to Menelik II, the issue remaining out of exile, premiers, government MERE "Kotewall,

our name and none to give us alms. without any alteration, except by ministers, statesmen, the Prince of Mr. J. P. Braga. Hon. Mr. S. W.

I confess that at this crisis in, surcharge, until 1909, when a new Wales, pugilists, beauty queens and and Mrs. Ts'o, Hon. Mr. T. N. Chan,

our. talk I caught an uncomfortable dressmakers. She interviewed Prin- Hon. Mr. W. H. and Mrs. Bell, Sir

glimpse of the visionary stallions of A very enjoyable and

streaming cess Marina just before her mar-]William Hornell, Mr. and Mrs. H

well my hearse ink-black. riage to the Duke of Kent.

Van der Straeten,

the manes and tal-positively gallop-| Rpatronised dance was-held in Mons.

Lane, She interviewed and obtained an Soulange-Tessier, Herr H. Gi Lounge of

Crawford's ing me off-wreaths, glass, corpsej exclusive story from Samtel Insall perich, Mr. Li Yau-tsua, Mr. Tang Restaurant last night, thus bring-and all, to keep their dismal ap successful pointment with the grave: and «even prior to his extradition from Greece. Shiu-kán, Mr. F. H Sin, Dr. and Dg to a close a most

She has become such a famous Mrs. D. J. Valentine.«

season. A large attendance of over at that, abominably late.

Indeed, our minds had at length celebrity in the newspaper world Brigadier and Mrs. H. G. Seth 300 was present last night, this that she herself is interviewed now Smith, Col. R. A. Bryden and Miss being the usual size of attendance become so profoundly engaged in wherever she goes.

Bryden, Col. and Mrs. H. C. Harri- at the previous dances held nearly these pictares and forebodings

we paced on, that a complete on son, Byrne, Rev. G E S. Upsdell, every week during the winter, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Wilson, M. At the conclusion of the dance; might have meanwhile swept over KH Digby, Professor and Mrs at 1am, Mr. G Bon, who has been our heads. We had talked ourselves Nor had W. L Gerrard and the Misses Germainly responsible for the great into a kind of: oblivion. On Tuesday next at 5.30 pm, in

rard, Professor: E. E. Tottenham success of the season, said that he either of us given the least thought the Jacobean Room of the Hong

Dr. and Mrs. C. A/C. Herklots, thought, but he could not promise, to our direction or destination. We Kong Hotel, Madame Lottie Gordon,

Through the expiration of the Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Finnigan, Bey that the dances would be continued had been following not even so much the Australian pianist and com-

term of office of Dr. Li Shu Fan, H. W. Baines, Bev. and Mrs. E. G. weekly throughout the next season. as our noses.” Doser, will give a concert-recital, at 3. B. Ch. D. T. M, and H, F. Posvell, Rev. and Mrs. E CE

And then suddenly, we "came to.” Maybe it was the unwanted silence which she will introduce her latest C. S. (Edin). A vacancy has oc- Tribbeck, Rev. Fr. G. T. Byrne, composition "written here, "Lovely

G curred on the Sanitary Board and Rev.

ES. Upsdell,

a silence unbroken even by the Hong Kong (China Boat Song) nominations of candidates to fill and Mrs. AF B and several others of the Hong the vacancy are invited.

Sava COLONY WATER CONSUMPTION [harplike drope of nonday--that re- called us to ourselves. Maybe the Netto. Mr and Mrs. P. M. N Kong compositions; also works by

da Silva, Messrs. Ael Arculli, U. During the mouth of April 267.78 air in these unfamiliar parts was Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, and Frederick Hall, the Australian com has ordered that the next Criminal Kwong-tin, Lan

His Honour the Chief Justice Rumjahn, Li Powai, Wong mallion gallons of water were con-of a crisper quality, or the mere Ping-chai Nsumed on the island, while on the effect of the strangeness around us Sessions shall be held on Monday, Chak-wa, To Kei-chung, Sin Wai mainland the consumption amounted had muttered in secret to our in- Boxes will be placed at the en- May 20, 1935, commencing at 10 man, Li Pai-yin. Lo Wing-kit and to 168.74 million gallons. A 10 ward spirits. trance, into which members. of the am

Li Pairyin,

hours supply was given to all discovered at the same instant and audience may drop their contribu

Dr. and Mrs. F. M. G. Ozorio, Dr.

tricts, "daily, tions when leaving. These will be A Tea Dance will be held at the and Mrs. Li Skn-fan, Dr. and Mrs. divided equally between the Blind Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow at Strahan and Miss Strahan, Dr. and period. Girls' Home and the Empire Music] 4.30 pm. A hzif-hourly bug ser- Mrs EW, Kirk, Dr. F. L. Trenng. Link. The prèse will be informed vice will operate to-morrow after-Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Woo, Dr. L of the amount collected.

Newton, Dr. Frank Arthon, Mr.

NEXT TUESDAY

For Benefit Of Blind Girls' Home

MADAME LOTTIE GORDON'S -NEW ENTERTAINMENT

poser.

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Further information may be ob tained from Madame Gordon, En-

FOOD.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Mr.

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durime

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Whether or not, we both of us

as if at a signal, that without be- ing aware of it, and while still our tongues were wagging on together on our old-fashioned theme, we had We come into sight of the Vats

looked up, and lo-they lay there

in the middle distance, in cluster

and Mrs. DW. Tretman, Mr. Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, and many It is notified that the name of Schofield Mr. and Mrs, D. Burling~] pire Link World Movement Office, the Tropical Trading Company, Ltd, ham, Mr. C. G. Perdue, Dr. and Bepresentatives of the nursing enormous under the cloudless sky Boom 303, National Bank Building, Has been struck off the Register of Mrs. G. I Shaw, Dr. and Mrs. G. staffs of local hospitals and the St. and here were we

John Ambulance Brigade were also Ice House Street, Phone 26843 or Companies and the company die Pope, Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Gray, Kowloon 573572

solved

Me and Mr. W. J. El Mackenzie-present.

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