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STAMP COLLECTORS

By A. E. L

fund for Post Office

S from March 21, the official tuberculosis

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1935

SEVEN NEW DWARF

STARS

Discoveries By Mt. Wilson Astronomers

THE HEAVIEST STAR IN THE HEAVENS -

Today Short Stor

The House In

The Wood

By John Hastings Turner

IVE got to put this the ones be didn't pla

paper- I've told the story shoot, or dance in fact, the only again and again, and I find at thing he did do was to play the Dr. Adrian van Maanen, who the finish of it, that even my piano. His own staff, and for all title of Persia was altered officials. The values are 10 lepts has had a star named for him best friends are trying not to I know abominable but I liked toj to "Iran." and the former name. green and orange: 20 lepta blue and has found seven stars less than look slantwise at me. I don't hear him play for all that. so long familiar. to stamp colorange: 50 lepta dark green and on 10.000 as bright as the sun them said to me, "a hell of a pro-Cross-road, and one evening in the

blame them It is, as one of lectors, will disappear.

I had a little It is orange. The use of these stampe is

fiat in Charing Incidentally. the Masnen's understood that future postage obligatory for two weeks in each star, a white dwarf, smaller than position. But the way I feel is early summer Robbie- blew in. If stamps will be inscribed Iran, rear, during which period the 10 the earth, is the heaviest for its that if once I can get the thing hadn't seen him for months, and I and it seems possible that the lepta value must be applied to size in the heavens. Astrono-

down in black and white won't thought he looked rather used up. current issue may be overprint- domestic letters, post cards etc, the mers have estimated that a cubic so to speak, be on my mind so "Look here. Rogen" he said. "I ed. or else a complete new issue 20 lepta to parcels, and the 50 lepta inch of it would weigh seven much. I was after I had told want some air" prepared to bring about the to telegrams. Their design, com- tons

Bill Whiteman the story and change of name.

"You won't get it in Charing asked him the question I always Cross-road." I answered. The seven stars ferreted out The latter course

does not seem female figure seated at a table, and by Dr. Van Maanen with the big ask that I got the answer which to be very likely, however, as a newja serpent entwined round a tree, 100-inch telescope at the Carne-

"I want to go for a week-walk- T have written.

ing-anywhere," he went on. “Will pictorial issue was put on sale for The stamps are lithographed and gie Institution's

A hell of a proposition it may son come?" the first--time on February 21, the perforated...

Observatory, brings the total be and perhaps I too, ought anniversary of the accession H. M. Rizah Shah Pahlavi.

Air Mail stampe for both Mada number observed on the fifteenth to be where poor Robbie McClaren The gascar and Senegal are likely to be magnitude or less to 12. There and he's been in an asylum subjects of the designs are intend-issued this year, while the new air are 207 of the tenth magnitude these two years ed to illustrate the progress nf set for New Zealand will shortly or less. He has found most of I'd known Robbie since the days

of

Issues. The new issue is. offset

Haarlem, Holland.

:

won to all three values," shows a

stamps

"Stuck down**

the

them

Mt.

Variance In Light

is

Wilson

SIL,

we

I that the balance of the stock of that it is said to have been present-48.000.000,009,000 miles away

about every bit as sane as the rest of us.

V

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "The Great Mountains." OF John Steinbeck.

450

Persia in modern times.

The in-be

when on sale. The values for

knocked cricket balls scription on the....stamps reads latter issues are 1d, 3d and 6d.

through his father's cucumber "Postes Persanes." as in previous -Stuck Down" Collection "Stars vary greatly in light frames, and then told lies about it, A small but curious collection of Dr. Van Maanen says. "One we for Robbie's father was about sixty printed by Enschede and Sons, of early British and Colonial postage call Wolf 359 is one fifty-thon years out of date, and Robbie fear-

sandth as bright as

jed him more than he feared Hell. the fa an old

It was an attractive idea. The while Antares, the most brilliant I think if his mother had lived, or weather seemed album. realised the somewhat high of them all, is about 4,000 times if his father had been another kind country would

fair. The Sudan Air Stamps

figure of £340 åt an auction recent-i

be at its best. I has been announced officially by. The interest lay in the fact is comparatively near.

as bright as the sun. Wolf 359 of man, Robbie might have bees said I might.

"When I say anywhere," "be"con- Sudan 3 and 4 piastres air mailed by Rowland

But he was hunted-literally hunt-Itinued. "I mean Hill to a high In recent years. Dr. Maanen ed-through his boyhood.

the Savermake stamps recently withdrawn from Government official of the day as a said astronomers have establish- But that has nothing to do with

Forest." circulation has been issued sur-sample of stamps then in use in the ed a general relationship between the story. He became an architect.

"Why?" I asked. charged T and 10 piastres, British Dominions. Most of

"Pm not going at all if I don't the observed magnitudes of the stars He never did much at it. I believe go there," he replied. respectively.

British stamps, which

incinded and their masses the greater his ideas were a bit impracticable, Well, I ought to have thought! The дет pictorial issue of colour trials and proofs, were over the luminosity the greater the and, anyway, he wasn't long enough that a bit queer, I dare say but I Trinidad and Tobago was put into printed "Specimens" in anfamiliar mass.

at the job to make his mark He didn't Robbie had always been a use at the beginning of February. type, while the Colonial iseres were But the most remarkable rewas twenty-eight when the thing creature of whims, and if he'd set] France has issued a new 2 francjobliterated with *cancelled" besult is found wher, knowing the happened, and I was two years his his heart on the Savernake Forest, stamp, engraved with a picturesque tween bazs

sizes as well as the masses, we senior. Of course, I knew that why not? It's a lovely spot. scene on a Breton river, in traverse Further issues of Ceylon pictorial compute the densities of stars." rectangular format and perforated stamps will be made in the course he continued.

Robbie Was what people call I said I didn't care "We know that peculiar. That is to

where we · 13 x 132. The colour is blue of the next few months. Three the mean density of the earth is didn't fall in line with everybody planning things out, we agreed to he went, and after a bit of a talk and values, the 2 cents, 15 cents and 255-5 times that of water. certs, have been on sale since the density of Van Maanen's star is 1st instant and there still remain 400.000 times that of water.

green...

+

N. Z. Jubilee Issue

I

The

is understood that the selected the 3 cents, 6 cents, 20 cents, 30 "The bright star Antares has design for the Silver Jubilee cents, and 50 cents to be issued a density about one three-mil- stamps of the Dominion of New Three of these values will be issued lionth that of water.”

Zealand is the work of Mr. J. Berry on June 1, and the rest on August

of Wellington, N.Z. The main L

features are portraits of Their

Majesties the King and Queen side

by side, set in framework of char-

acteristic Maori ornamentation, and S. AFRICANS RECORD THEIR

with the arms of New Zealand inset below the name at the top." "Three denominations of the stamps are issuedd green, id red, and 6d light vermillon.

+

FIFTH WIN

(Continued from Page 11

A. D. Nourse, who has already

FLOOD SUFFERERS

AGAIN HOMELESS

Houses Destroyed By

Fire

say,

GIRLS IN A CAVE GANG

Hillside "Home" Of Stolen Goods

LEADER'S ATTEMPT TO REACH LONDON

make a start the following Satur-] day.

a

For a miracle the weather held. and as we walked out of Wantage, our faces set towards the downs, 1 think we both felt about eighteen. I can answer for myself at least, and Robbie's high spirits were almost embarrassing. He chucked his hat away over a hedge and sang lewd songs at the top of his voice. But 'Robbie had always habed towns, and became a different creature The activities of a gang of about

in the country.

Wel 20 children-girls and

tramped along for a couple of days, boys

taking things easily, and I must More than 2,000 families of known as the “Black Klan”

Lang

confess I never, remember such hit three centuries, contributed Hsuan Tung Men, Hankow, who who had furnished a cave with A change of colour may be noted a stylish 75, while Crisp was res

were among the greatest suffer-stolen goods, was mentioned durarand time. The air was intoxi- in the Union 3d postage due The ponsible for the tourists' lend of ers in the big Yangtze floods ing a case at Bath juvenile court catias, the turf like walking on a "South African Philatelist" records 107 on the first innings. Arnold, five years ago, were all render-recently.

springboard, and a subtle satisfying that this stamp is now appearing one of England's most promising of May 1 when a disastrous fire other 12 years, were before the very earth, the appeal of being ed homeless again on the night Two boys, one aged 14 and the *Peal was coming to us from the all blue instead as formerly with opening batsmen, played 2 the value tables in black and the plucky innings for 79 when broke out and was not put out court charged with stealing from English in England (Robbie was frame in blue. Apparently this is Hampshire were set 356 to win until the next day, destroying the city baths money chocolates, Scotch, but he swore he felt it, too!) 3 change of colour only, and a new in the fourth innings.

all the houses of the more than and cigarettes, together vained at Those first two days were pure plate has not been brought into use.

2,000 families.

joy.... Fine bowling by Mercer, one of the veterans of the game, enabled four persons were

It was ascertained that at least The elder boy was also charged

On the third we were in the Greek Charity Stamps Glamorgan to beat Worcester by death, while many others were house."

burned to with stealing 25 from a doctor's Forest itself, surprising squirrels OLLECTORS of Charity stamps 18 runs

and rabbits, and once, in the even- injured

Sapt Ashworth said the gangng an old badger. We deviated joccupied a cave under a hillside at that night, and slept at the smallest Camden, near Bath, and an amount in I have ever seen in a village of in the cave, which was furnished And, in the charming, contemptuous of stolen property had been found which we didn't even ask the name. with a bedstead and mattress. Air English way, the name not being pistols were also found:

written up for us anywhere, I do not know it to this day.

*

*

COLLECTORS re fed to have des Sanch. Faced with the task of

on the first innings

tails of the new set of three charity scoring 280 to win, the visitors stamps issued in Greece some little lost six wickets for 149, Mercer time ago. These were for the anti-claiming 11 victims in the match

EIGHT-DAY MAILS TO

NEW ZEALAND

First Class Matter To

Travel By Air

Wellington-

for 148 runs.

Bought Rought (7 for 100) and Bartlett (183) failed

Light Blues a win to give the

over Notts,

though the county were led by 60 runs on the first innings, despite a century by Arthur Staples.

*RESULTS

(Continued from Page 1) -

LONELY ISLANDERS HAVE BUSY DAY

Two Ships At Tristan Da Cunha

jants.

6.

Wedding Kings Found Girls were included in its mem-¡ On the following morning we jbership, and face powders, cosme-struck back into the Forest. And tics, wedding rings, and stolen then I noticed that Robbie was be For the first time in the historches were also discovered. The ginning hurry. He set about tory of Tristan da Cunha, the police were now making inquiries twice the pace we had been travel- world's loneliest island, two ves They believe the elder boy

concerning the other children. ing. When I taxed him with it he sels recently arrived on the same!

was slowed down, and made some silly day.

leader of the gang

joke about my getting an old man. The liner Empress of India After the robbery at the baths, But I noticed that he seemed Middlesex beat Somerset by 7 dropped anchor off the island and said Mr. Ashworth, the boys were curiously embarrassed- The belief that by 1937 Lon don letters will arrive in New wickets at Lord's.

shortly afterwards 2 Dutch sub-railway tickets for London. They have got hold of him.

seen at the railway station with A strange eagerness seemed tol Zealand in eight to nine days, Somerset: 121 and 187 (R. V. V. marine appeared. instead of the 30 days at pre-Middlesex: 140 (J. Lee 5 for 38) and liner ran: "Gifts from the King

Robins 6 Zor 77).

It was as! A wireless message from the had been missing from their home if-yes, almost as if he was point- sent taken by the steamship ser- 170 Zor 3.

for a week.

ing, like a dog. But at the time, vice, was expressed by the Post-

and Queen of Britain gladdened

The elder boy had admitted that though I noticed his mood, I gave master-general, Mr. A. Hamilton. Surrey beat Warwickshire by 18 the hearts of the 172 inhabit doctor's wife was sleeping, took a 17 It was so like Robbie to have he went into a bedroom where the it no serious thought. Why should in a report to Parliament on the at the Oval air mail conference of British, Warwickshire: 90 (P. G. E. Fender splies were landed

Seventeen tons of sup handbag from a table at her bed-some unaccountable enthusiasm. Australian and New Zealand

Iside, and took out the money.

We lunched under a beech tree, delegates recently sitting at

The magistrates adjourned the and I remember a green woodpecker Sydney

ILLINOIS TENSION RELIEVED

case against the elder boy, and (shyest of birds) came and looked severely admonishing the younger at us gravely from acroes the rid (Continued from Page 1)

pat him on probation for two years ing, and deciding that we on condition that he did not as harmless, if unusual, continued his sociate with any of the other chil-tap-tapping without taking any fur- Legislature, whereby the sales den The boy was warned that ther notice. class mail matter within the Sussex: 210 and 145 (Nichols 5 for 41).tax could be increased from two if he came back again he would When we had religiously buried Empire by air and the termina- Esser: 125. (Tate 6 for 26) and 169. to three cents, producing have the birch

$3,000,000 a month.

The Republican minority then increase in the sales tax, and would announced that it would oppose any

LIGHTENING THE BURDEN OF REFUGEES

sary two-thirds majority. amptonshire, v

More than 300,000 refugees from CA later message, received on areas near Kaifeng which were re

Thursday, said that the position, cently flooded, are reported to estershire v Lancashire, had grown so serions, foll

need of food and clothing Nottinghamshire v Som-¡ rejection of the Bills for

incial relied commitine

$203,000 to Par

One of the main British pro- posals, said the Postuiester

for 21).

213 (E. E..S.. Wyatt 111 not out, P. G. E. Fender 5 for 76). Surrey: 266 (Fishlock 113 not out) and

39 for 0.

general, provided for the com Sussex beat Esser by 63 runs at pulsory forwarding of all first-Brentwood.

tion of the present option of

sending it by steamer.

On behalf of New Zealand, Mr.

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