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FANCY,

THE CHINA--MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8;

THE BRITISH TOOK THIS OVER I'

Victoria

BEFORE we get down to the business of By old newspaper reports, perhaps our readers would like to know something of the early days of Hongkong during the years 1841 to 1845 when the China Mail set

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City-1840

JOHN LUFF

back t the King's

that

Des Voeux Road Wor bellde any

ships foraging attempted to hirfure with ship-

up office, I have no intention of covering sire, which seems to bę u such ground as is covered by the many at the bottom of Wyndham ping in the Hurrur

good place to Mart trom, you

Mail's present offlees,

1 do not know where Wynd-

excellent histories on the subject. They Svet Just below the Chin were written by men who had such a taste for wading through ancient records, and had such leisure and resources for studying old maps.

hom Street gets its nume frum

there was a prominent only of that came in England

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had to do with Hongkong, i do

Regarding

MUITOY Parade Ground and Murray Barracks, i um able to and no officer who Elves his name to these altes. On the other Fund, the original parade ground would have been 1. Ен time, I relateret to Pe on #

st where cricket Touglas Tatally, but whing they pulchrs are now played.

To

u picture of the old City of Victoria, you would have to Imagine the old Main Street, us Queery Roud was originally called, being cut out by hue gungs of coolics who flocked over to the island at the promise of work and fair wages with no minor mandarin Laking bits screeze

But the great difference between what they achieved and what I am trying to do is that they now wrote for people who know not Hongkong, whereas these articles are written for those who are recent to the Colony and would like to know something of its origins,

Nothing is more maddening than to hear a tourist say, when looking at the magnificent town of Victoria with the Peak rising beyond it; "Fancy, the British Look this over."

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Our Prrogant crusi hap kend and hard-stral, but fury had d quality that unfurled, 225 to be at a discount These day imagination

slee ared

couraga

The truth, Hongkong was barron rock, a festering mass of mulari fevon, practically misn habiled

by pirate hrane

who swept

down un fuckte.

merchantinon from time to thre

My intention now 2% bet Lis and polet k!,$

lundmarks, such spola by whirls the rentier un sentify the lila

aptekatzor

tarte

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prevent myself from

Wath, to nounding like

i will use

granted to

at belt,

such leeRY S

a journalist

If you tak a walk along Queen's Rond sterling s

at

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interesting for Cascadete whether he was aware.

planet, that Whed would extend Trem o end to The mother as jovanerotis fawn,

That the

wosht be

Queen he Day wrestle the lown that to grow antud hin

You larve st walked along In the day. koup - Board

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Want teak, PONE a karte

sparulating

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and prople who

had much fun us

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It was callest

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At any rate, take a good look King's. The Heng-

slid there. W kong tul The bill at the present Hollywood fond level were several Govern mest buildings also the old grot

and the Magistrates' Court

At the top of Wyndham Street. where the Dairy Just be low Fann has its premises, was the

Harto house ol the first Master to Hongkong, Lieutenant whose Williams Pedder, H.N., harte is perpetiated In Pedder Street

Who the subject of the worthy Pediler, he also had a js tied after bima It must have been below where Jardine's

have the premises.

11 was bullt over when the original sea wars, patshed back, and Blake Moving on Men HR its place. Gofer House Street, 1 find this

track running down from the back

over which Queen's Hund was built.

W

was a track

by the Chines: I win: Tak Lot, drhaps beller The fact there Phottentiv tiwun

Die Lo there, rather points to the fuel mavan "pelticou! that this must have been another whiet would fing road," ant some imaging place where boats could the up, Hve Baropena who were also and somewhere about this point, 1 sudetalle

scholars there was an inlet, and the sea washed up to where it would In the Nur thern extremity of

love protion meet the names in

the King's Cinema polag west wards, you will austre at PostNTA

Street Having arrived

Sections as to give such a jauntitog ere, if the butang a towel part nits about

Thes have then rationalhed by 1 when.. Possession Street

pretatu to than wak and sayg Jake the t: k WAH

Chinese round aking woman's dress

Queen's Roail, is the pete ut att which took Länteresting Spone

place on Monday 1041.

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25, Jumat.

It was just after eight o'clock

u

in the morning Wine yon ale inding on him groot was ቴů* ነ sun-baked patch ground, and up the bare hill b- and you run a thin giderish path which lost itself antig the the ruck and taken

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the present Cricket Ground.

Mort people will know that Tee House Street, originally lee Plagne Lane, was named after a storchouse in which blocks of ice

I would not presume to enter imported from North America,

an igument, e were stored!

Lais susans lur loo to say that

inastiary ars explanation.

thank a cory reasonable ox- planafian might be that Gwan

Die La could be "he who guides,"

Et

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On the other side of Queen's

tern that swertes a guide Rond is Battery Pain. No such In Cantones. This, as the only bath existed then, but the bat- there all right. To track on the island, would prob- tery were

over to the eye, cross Hongkong and Shangbal Bank, and look up at the rocky pro- pointer The guns metton straight out across the harbour. the water reaching up as far na

why be that taken by the early wind'th the picture for your

Northwards, from where you guides, stard, the a lapped agairt shote that is now the other side

of Qurity's Rad

aro landing,

Where you ptar 11elcher

drank the health of Quera Vie

Roudways were gradually cut from Queen's Road along the ravines tending up to the natural terraces where Caine and Robin. son Boats now run

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hosla Trị Hạn and here a wide-mouthed streni flowed into the woa. This stream must now run underground at this spot, but in the early days there was on julet at its mouth and a Fubile pathway was taken over this obstruction by a CAUSE- WAY. Thus the name.

To complete the early picture of the City of Victoria, it is neceanty to find the Orly ** residental quarters, and this is found at Spring Gardens, of qli places. When I first

come

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Tim July 21, 1841, a stifling does not last long, but long settlers were

A flash of

nasured of some

merchan-

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the Colony, it was often referred hat dau, noi a breath of air enough. The ships are sentier degree of household to but not in connection with anywhere, Gangs of cooties are ed, and those not lucky enough dine.

away and leveling to ride the typhonD Bre 50 seulement of affluent Euro- shovelling

flame, a pull of In fact it had a vory The track suan to be Queen's much rewood on Hongkong's peans.

William Caine barren shore. The Rodown smoke, and it is all over in no dubious reputation, and figured Road. Captain so largely in the serviceman's of Her Majesty's Camerontans have gone, the matshed homes time. Soon the bazaar n just so tents much smoking debria. It goes soldiers' the Imagination that

down

have gone, the проп 0 rong was is looking

seille- up again only to be burned gone. The whole growing town, and is well con- have Lent with what he

No ment bus gone. The new road is down again,

un artificia of a flooded truck, buildings per, permanent course, but along the new road waterway which the ruins ben! are matched buildings soon To out of shape with every passing be replaced by stronger struc- minute.

written about it.

jlowever, back in the 18400, it ww selected by the talpans as 4 residential area, and it developed into fashionable suburb.

Flae house were byli with ture. pleasant lawng surrounding, and u waterfront promenade where De proud Colonial their gentlemen paraded when the mundane affairs of the day WER OVET.

ladies and

holders of the

and

Nourby where the Gas-

Hongkung Chin Gas Company now stand;

Captain Elliot 15 like a drowned rat. Wrecked, he

But Bone of these thungs 'esused our forefathers to lose

manages to churter ut a pirate's sight of their original purpose. Typhoons. Ares, and anticipated difficulties, they took in their stride,

What

lift to arlee o

Macao. price Hongkong now?

But these men were made of lough stuff, and directly the bla blow is ever, they

Bet to Five days later building again. another typhoon follows heeled upon the first. This time sub-is not so bad.

the soldiers have pitched their dis tents, and

-away to

So to Bx the view in one's ye, had you sailed into Hong- kong, and anchored 10ME Cathedral fate out in the harbour, you Jardize's show their Where St John's

the earlesst post would havo svan stands wIR

the beginnings gazing from by office, and jum abovs . the land rast to west, Jardine's business stential buildings. afes in the northeast corner of premises at East Murray Purade Ground whe small matabed church which ac- who commodated such citizens remembered to go to church on Sundays

UA

Gardens

tha east, optimisn

<

then the

Caplain Charles Elliot, R.N.. is uitlent ut

on the way to Mueno with much name from a when winch Lock

to tell. Hongkong has made a SPRING that gushed from the

fine start-o get cracking you that point. A fow

diletantes and get in on the the Scutered buildings where

ground floor! military took over, until you were back in Victoria Here their Wis more

activity earlier referencts in this article

The cricket kround,

I earlier sund, was a level picco of ground forming a low pro- rantory, used by the military point out. and bounded by the aya on ils wealern and northern sides.

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the

But before WC permit

over, China Mail to take The waterfront of those carly have to refer in the events which days reached much nearer than immediately preceded the year the present resident can imagine, of the China Mail's birth, The constine curved right in towards the site now occupied by the

Hongkong & Shanghai ron slong Blank, so the beach what is now the junction of Des Vorux and Queen's Roads,

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the

In

that arta

I said earlier that the Island we now call Hongkong had such for discano an evil reputation

avoided on that that i was account as well as its barren and isolated position.

the

-

Tque, a few

Canton.

weakings lost heart and returned to But with that ready determarin- tion to make Hongkong succeed, the early Colonista pressed or regulless

Then there struck a more malignant foc, and it was not a question of staying, but of

surviving, but the August 12, 1841, and the story belongs to the bazaar, established béloig the hillock

which

House now*

Flagstag Inst gent. stands, is in full

sicing. With that unique and

next

mere puff of hot ready application which charge. On Wednesday:

The first thrent is rely per-

A reptible. wind. But soon there is a strong Bery breeze, and from a breeze

hurricane. there energes a

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Robot

terfaen the Cantonese merchant

even now, trade relations were The Winged Terror

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under way, and the new

With Paws Will

To The

by Angela Croome

the

That is why I welcome presont emphasis on research by

SATELLITE almost certal: Indication

twice

as long as a rly name of Des Voeux Road, 1 was originally called, Strand

London bus hurtles Road, and, as the Strand Lantion designales

around the Earth. The In reading The preceding wushed by the water,

arikles, you

hive will

seen Americans are jubilant. of the scorn the Now hap Into your ear, and something

"We now have the rocket towards Causeway Canton paJITA hurled at dive cust

Several reclamations have rash optimists who thought they power to send a man into roborrather than by m driven the sea right back, no It could make a trading place of

hard to imagine

And early events space," says a Defence that near the bare rock, is where stand those teering tents almost proved these pesimists Department official. one and the Roxy and Hoover correct, for apart from the ob chemos, and where the night- vlous hardships associated with elis send out their brash Juzzy forming a settlement for from

England, there was tunes, was a muddy causeway

a terrific luck right at the

fluy

No one knews for certain, but we riu know that Queen's tour

For the Causeway Bay of old run of bad over the course Tute roughly

Wits large area of water, op- start,

taken by this early track.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

CINA FEW PLACE OR

PLATFORM IDWAR AY

FLEVATOR-

BRICK BRADFORD

* HAVE (WERED THIS GENERAL AREA. BUT I HAVEN'T SEEN

ANYTHING THAT LOOKS LIKE THE NOSE CONE!

FERDINAND

NON-STOP

10 CYNI 20,

WE'VE CYEN INSTA

A FALSE SUBWAY CAR

IN A CITY SUBI

SYS

EM

12. BAUBLE. THE STORM WAY HAVE CAUgep the CONE TO SHIFT A

GREAT DISTANCE!

HOW 19

5.14

MEANWHILE BACK IN THE STATES...

SHE ISN'T ALLOWED ANY VISITORS, DRUGTLAND HOW MANY TIES MUST

I TRUL YOU THAT

PAM RONNIE?

I WOULD LIKE

TO S86 HER!.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

STEP LIVELY EXPRESS TRAIN 10--(YOU'LL BE SURPRISED WHERE),,

EVERY DAY UNTIL

I BEE HER, YOUNG MAN, BRICK ASKED ME TO DO WHAT I COULD FOR HER

By Paul Norris

OH, LOYAL OLD BRADFORD EH! TOO BUSY TO BOTHER. WITH PAM...HAS TO BEND PROXY! ALL

I CAN BAY 10....GET

LOST!

SHEAFFER'S

NEW HAT I FOUNT

WITH LANGU

STERLING SILVER TIP

MAASSE

AT ALL

BORD ETHNO

isbon

SWISSAR

AUSTIN

for

ACCELERATION

But many experts predict that man will have very small place in the pattern of the next do- cade or so of space exploration.

The ploture they build up of the space-explorer of the future is not a mari, but of a robot space-hound.

Planets

Radio-telescopes would be the cars of this space-hound.

Most important object of all- If people are over to visit other planets--is to find out which of them have breathable atmos- pheres.

As far as present knowledge goes, it is thought that the Moon has nothing worth speaking of: that Mars' atmosphere has much more Curbon dioxide Ban

much less

How will such a robot work? Seding in space will be per- formed by a battery of telescopes Earth's and able to pick up wavelengtis vapour. that can nevor penetrate the thick mantle of Earth's sphere.

utmo-

Whole rections of the ite of the stars and, therefore, of the development of the imiverse are blocked by this atmosphere.

For instance, we can never

I will have eyes, ears, nose witness the actual birth of a star and inter versions may well have pow of a sout.

water

very

buk

UNPROMISING

Venus has an atmosphere of carbon dioxide about 900 times Da dense as the Earth's and ap average temperature of 200-la 300 degrees Centigrade.

None of this sounds for visitors, from Earth because we cannot promising see across space in the infra-red scientists would like to be sure of these pointą, so probas flying region of the spectrum. GREAT EXTREMES

We can Inspect the stars when close to the planets will carry they have come into being, but a variety of gouges and meters for sampling their atmospheres The more one learna about the not how this has happened. kind of conditions the first men Nor can we see the end of and temperatures. Into space wit have to tolerate, their careers which are often the mare horrible they sound. accompanied by vast and com- Earth's Arst space travailers plex nuclear explosions, because will have to endure grent CX- we are equally find in the ultra- tremes of temperature; they will violet portion of the spectrum. probably be short of oxygen and

the right kind at food: they will have to live in cramp-

X-ray

|ed quarters for long periods, buck to

perhaps with little to do.

HUGE BUBBLE

As soon as enough is known to make a landing safe other in- struments will be used to test and probe the mrface.

These

will be the "paws" of the robot. Recent moves to set up an International agency for space have made progress photographs relayed research Earth would tell us and I rooms possible that with much about the huge gas bubble, in a year or two a composite AN these hardshipm were hundreds of millions of miles space-hound will be bulit. features of early polar explora- agross, thoi encloses our Milky As the Americans have done tion. But, In addition, astro- Way and other galaxies.

much towards developing a caute must expect to be literally In addition, television cameras satellite telescope, they shaken out of their wit by the will scan objects that interest us. likely to provide the "eyes.” vibration of the rocket motors, Mounted in socket probes travel- The

oro

"ears" (radio-telescope) to endure accelerations of severing close to the Moon on planets, might well be British, as

Whether

We

al Gs (the feeling of going up in they could reveal what the a lead in this field.

exaggerated), face is made of, whether there a ft very much

the Americans or upon It-dist- the Russians would provide the and to be "weightlessens any movement

on to peculiar It is thought that storms

instance — and "body" (the rocket) is an open long periods

of it may drive whether there are any signs of question.

London Express. Service), people mad.

lito.

for

AND THIS IS HOW IT WAS DONE

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