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No. 21.413 ·號叁拾百肆仟壹萬弍第

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PRINCE OF WALES IN A "DOSS HOUSE."

BURIED CITY OF HERCU LANEUM.

THE WEEK'S DIARY.

To-day.

SLEEPER AWAKES TO FIND NEW EXCAVATION SCHEME.

HIM BY BEDSIDE.

TASTES MEN'S– SOUP, "

RICHED SHAN POMPEII, Legislative Council Meeting, 2.30

p.ro.

H.K. Hotal tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Savoy ten dansant, 430

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Great interest, especially among archmologists, has been aroused by One of the sleepers in the Church the

announcement that Bignot "dass house in Great fussolini, the Italian Premier, haa Singapore RA, Marina ground, Hockey Club "A" v. H.K. and Army's Poter-street, Westminster, had his directed inquiries to be made with sp dreams disturbed.

a view to resuming excavations at He awoke to find a young man the site of Herculaneum, the an standing by his bedside, and, sident Italian coast town between ting up suddenly, said in a startled Naples and Pompeii, with which latter place it was destroyed in the year 9 by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

way:

"Why, it's the Prince!"

Then he turned in his bed and awakened his sleeping neighbour to impart the surprising nowe.

The Prince was concluding a busy evening's tour which had taken him through some of the darkest quar ters of the East End.

The news of his visit to the Church Army, King George's Work Aid Embankment Home, in Grest Peter-street, had preceded him and more than fifty destitute meg await ed his coming,

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They passed the time away by singing the Frothblowers' Anthem The Prince arrived in time to find some of the men drinking soup and eating their upper.

The villages of Portici and Resina were built over the site. In 1718,

during the sinking of a well, parts of the ancient city were discovered, and since then excavations have

been made at intervals.

The Minister of Public Instruc- tion has been in conference at Naples with the local superinten- dent of monuments, who has drawn up a. complete scheme for the work

excavation.

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It is believed that a resumption of the task will be approved at the next: Cabinet Council

Lambert on Automobile Troubles Lecture: Paper by Mr. C. D. and how to avoid Them," Institu tion of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hong Kong, 6.43 p.m.

Organ recital, St. John's Cathe dral, by Mr. R. Baldwin, 5.43 p.m. V.RO. Annust meeting. 6 p.m. St. Andrew's Young Men's Club Social, 8.30 p.m.

Marine

Boxing: N. and Royal Novices competition, R. N.C. Theatre.

"Wages of Queen's Theatre: Virtuo.'

World Theatre: "Midshipman." Star Theatre: The Freshman." Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe Principal Mails:-Outwards, Canada, U.S.A., etc., Europe, vid Victoria, B.C. (Protenlaus), 103

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Fanling Hunt ... meet. Hunters Breakfast...7.30..-10 am. $1.00 He was shown the free beds for ance may lie awaiting discovery. Arma 3 p.m.

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but much more fruitful, than that "Then he was taken to the common of Pompeii. Whereas Pompeii wa Asia, No. 10, Des Voeux Road, 3.30 Annual Meeting Bank of East room, where he was greeted with an ordinary little Roman country old Teddy and the singing of resort of rich villas fall of things

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After chatting to Mr. Jaha Mu ton, an ex-Marine, who was one of the royal orderlies at Cowes in 1906, the Prince went into the kitchen and was shown the copper where the nightly soup ration. It prepared, should like a cup of that," said the Prince, and a cupful was Indled out for him. He drank it with relish and exclaimed after- warda: That is jolly good soup." Old Women's Curtales.

Then fifty voices in-unison wished the Prince "Good night" and he crossed the road to Peter House, the home for women.

whelmed Pompeii was not over

p.mi.

H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m.. Hotel Savey tea dansant, 4.30 p.m

Football and Cricket: details in Saturday's issue.

Yachting Racing Yachts, com- Fete for Tad Tut Cup for prize

winners.

H.K. Boy Scouts Association Camp Fire Sing-song, Seaman's Institute, 7.45 p.m.

by a lava flood, bat snowed under by a downfall of naher The Buzvivora of ita.

popul tion, who had escaped suffocation by the gases poured out from the crater of Vesuvius, were able to re turn and by digging done in the cinders and dust, succeeded in

Association of Past and Present rescuing many of their abandoned Commercial Students Annual Din- possessions.

But Herculaneum was submerged, Great Hall, University, 7.45 much more swiftly by a torrent of P

Smoking Concert at K.C.C.; pre- lava and stones which, pouring. down the mountain side, swallowed sentation of tennis and bowls prizes up the city as it stood, and then by President (Mr. R. E. Lindsell), quickly hardened into rock so solid that it now serves as foundation for many modern houses

Glamay Treasure-Seekers.

Four years ago, when Professor Spinazzola, then the Director of the National Museum in Naples, ex- plained to me the new methods of excavation

which he had made

Here women, some of them more than eighty years old, who earn precarious livings as match-sellers, or who are entirely without means, were presented to him: The Prince shook hands with them, and one or two made quaint, old-fashioned curtmes as they touched his hard. the remarkable recovery, in the The youngest resident, a girl of exact form it possessed eighteen and twenty-one, was also presented to a half centuries earlier, of the Street of Abundance at Form his Royal Highness.

Quavering voices sang. God peil, he said thas the picture of sa the daily Roman life yielded by his Bless the Prince of Wales Prince atepped into his car and work at Pompeii was nothing to what might be expected if Her- line were over opened up and Pompeii has been ransacked largely ruined (he said) by the clumsy tunnelling of the treasure- Meanwhile seekers of centuries: Herculaneum has lain safe beneath

drove away.

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Lukis Club for Young Men, where he chatted with several members.

Poor Man's Lawyer, where two barristers and a solicitor give free legal advice.

Wolf Boy Boots Troop's headquar tere, where he shook has auth all the members and played a game of ping-pong with the fiancee of a Mr. Wintersgill.

its tombstone of tula.

The libraries of the villas that lie buried there must have been rich in manuscripts, some of them, per- hups, of classical works since Tost to us.

I should expect to find there all the beautiful furniture with which the Roman patricians filled their homes.

If the volcanic dificulties of zeroving the out injury to what is covers, it is almost certain that statues will be discovered equal in beauty to the Bomsa-road Baths, where he saw famous figures of two wrestlers, ad- a boys' boxing tournament and vancing upon each other, which were found there in the course of made a speech from the ring.

Settle-street, Whitechapel, shel-earlier excavations. ter, run by a local church, where

The Wrestlers"

group re he met a number of" down-and-ferred to above was originally in bed. Herculaneum, and is now in the quts," who were just going

Naples Museum. Copies of the DEATH OF MISS VICTORIA Figures may be seen in the Embank ment Gardens, E.O., bear the Tem- MONKS.

ple Underground Railway Station.

Miss Victoria Monks, the well- known music-hall artist has died in London from pneumonia.

Misa Monks's last appearance on the stage was at the Croydon Empire. She opened there for the week, but was taken ill, and removed to her fat in Bloomsbury, Pneumonin de- veloped, and the succumbed after ten day's illness. The previous week she had appeared as the Holborn Empire.

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Dance Display by Mias V.Capell's pupils, Theatre Royal, 9.15 pm.

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Boxing: R.N. and Royal Marines Novices competition, R.N.C.Theatre.

Queen's Theatre: "Wage of tion or Virtue."

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Sunday. Faaling Hurt meet Sheung Shui Police Station, 9.30 ..

Congregation of

Peter's Church annual meeting; Bailors Home W.P., noon.

Yachting

Cruisers re-ssil 5th Championship race.

2nd Annual Masonic Service, St. John's Cathedral, 8 p.m.

Confirmation Service, St. An

Church, Kowloon, 6 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "The making of O'Malloy

Theatre: "The Wife of the Centaur."

Theatre: Long Live The nar Principal Mails:Inward: Europe vid Negspatam (Albert Voegler).

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Annual Race Meeting (and day). St. David's Society lay wreath

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HK. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "The Making Hotel Bavoy ten dansant, 4.30 of O'Malley."

World Theatre! "Wife of the Centaur."

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