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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1930.

POSTAGE STAMPS. EASTERN NEWS IN

WEEKLY NOTES FOR COLLECTORS.

CHINA'S' EARLY POSTAL

SERVICE,

AN ELABORATE SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATION.

[BY W.9.]

WAO

BRIEF

PARS FROM EVERYWHERE.

The engagement is announced of Mr. J. Edin. Rainals, head of the constructional department of Messrs. Anderson, Meyer & Co., Shanghai, to Miss Viboks Juhl, daughter of Puisne Judge B. C. Juhl of Copenhagen. Mr. Raiuals, who is an officer in the Light Gun Battery, S.V.C., has just returned from loave, spent principally in

The postal history of China dates back, as far as cha bo ascertained, to the Chou dynasty (1125-225 B.C.). | Denmark. The service at that time

Armed robbers were busy in known as the Imperial Government

Shanghai over the Double Ten Courier Service. The purpose of holiday, no less than three crimes the said service was for the transof violence were committed. At mission of Government despatches 10.50 p.m, four armed mon entored only, such transmission being served a house at 74 Ward Road and stole property valued at 8105. Shortly by foot and mounted couriers. To afterwards two men with a pistol give a detailed account of the actual stopped a pedestrian on Boone Road working of the Imperial Govern and 82. Men armed with knives, a and took from him a long gown

mant Courier Service would take novelty in crime circles, stole $350 considerably more space than it at from a house on Boone Road. my disposal, so it will be necessary took 835 and a gold watch from n Shortly after midnight four robbers to refer only to the more important Japanese scaman on Yuhang Road, pointe of interest.

and an bour later three, men, onc with a pistol, robbed a female ped. estrian of a bangle worth $34.

The post stations, which were situated at distances of 30 i (10 miles) throughout China, under control of the Board of War.

wern

It is recorded that in the 14th enn-native postal agencies were very tury there were no less than 10,000 low; compared with them, European

try,

of these mail stations, twenty-five miles apart, throughout the coun- some of them affording neeon. modation for travellers." There were 200,000 horses engaged in the Bervice, the mounted' couriers who

carried the Imperial commands, en- closed generally in a sealed casket, being recognised by small yellow Ang attached to the collar of their dreau.

Appearance of Private Companies,

At the beginning of the 14th cen tury private postal companies began to rise up, influenced by the ad visers of high officials, who ad. dition to their work as advisers, performed the duties of correspond- ence secretaries. These men were almost all natives of Chokiang, the seaport of which is Ningpo, so it is not surprising that it was at this place such companies were first

rates seemed well-nigh. prohibitive.

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Macao and Canton.

WANTED IN SHAMEEN.

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT,

BY INDIAN.

Chief Dotective Inspector AN. Keynolds ninde an application be. fore Mr. R. E. Lindach yesterday for the return to Canton of Ratan- chand Jeramdas Keswant, a clerk formerly employed by Messrs. D. D. Gehimull Bros, of Canton, who is alleged to have embezzled 82,500 on different dates in 1020.

Mr. P. M. Hodgson, appearing for the accused, intimated that the offence had apparently been_com- mitted in Canton in 1020 and that the accused had been in Hong Kong

sinco. He understood that a war- rant was issued under the Fugitive Offenders' Act.

His Worship indicated that it was only necessary for him to take evidence of arrest and identity after which he could make an or dor for the return of the accused to Canton.

Evidence of arrest and identificn- tion was then given, after which the necestury order was made out.

MUST DINGHIES BE LICENSED?

INTERESTING ARGUMENT AT MARINE COURT.

Mr. Len d'Almada appeared for A Chinese was the defence when charged before the Marine Magis trate yesterday for failing to take out a licence for bis dinghy, plea of not guilty "whs return- ed.

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Mr. d'Almada said there was no licence for the dinghy but it was the practice for a bigger boat, like

trading junk or fishing boat, to pose of conveying members of the carry a small dinghy for the pur- crew ashore and Unok. He compar. ed defondant's dinghy with a ship's life-bont, saying that they were practically the same thing.

Late in the 17th century, about years after the Portuguese established themselves in Macao, where they had no special postal arrangements, & British settlement began to form at Canton, depending for communication with its home country upon the slow-voyaging clippers of the East India Company, which took several months to make the voyage from England to China,

Another 150 years passed before circumstances drove the Canton British community to Hong Kong, which was soon after included in hire. the itinerary of the Peninsular _and

Mr. Hillyer stated he could not Oriental Steam Navigation Com-get hold of a copy of the Harbour pany. Hero the first real Post Master's order regarding this point, Office was opened. Subsequently, but he had a recollection that this branches of this Office were opened was the case.

at the Treaty Porte, rendering to

In reply to the Mtgistrato, Mr. w. R. Hillyer, Chief Junk Inspec- tor, stated that n big boat was allowed to carry a dinghy This was strictly for the use of the crew only and was not to be let out for

Inspector Munro told the Court

GREAT CRICKETERS AND THEIR BEVERAGES.

"Lith and listen, lyrical lads,

Lith and listen to me!

I will have no Sherris Sack,

Nor yet no Malvoisie;

I will have the right BROWN ALE That Mynn and Lillywhite bowled on; I will have a gallon of ale,

Jolly good ale and olden. "Landlord landlord, rosy and round, In for a penny, in for a pound ! Fill me up till I fall to the ground With jolly BROWN ALE and "olden !

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formed, and which place eventually the foreign residents a service which that he wished to presa the charge. A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

became the headquarters of all the private postal corporations in the country.

they had no other means of obtain- ing.

"Smuggling "Letters,

A Reliable Service. They were under no official con- tro in any way and were most reliable institutions. They carried drafts, letters and parcela. Their customers had simply to indicate in writing on the outside of the pack age or envelope the sum of money, or the value the articles, they contained; and if such package or letter was lost, by the carelessness of the transmitting company. thecould bo indused, for a small con- same was made good.

The disparity between the ratce charged by the privato postal cem. panies and steamer letter-hangs for domestic delivery and those charged by the alien Offices for transmission abroad makes it easy to understand | the many devices resorted to by the local Chinese when desiring to correspond with their relatives. To send packets of letters through a fireman or seaman on board, if such

aideration, was a couree which was These letter-firms or companies no other than to be expected, hence were usually connected with remit it was that the postal authorities tance banks or merchants' estab-countenanced many irregularities lishments which had business con-which would not otherwise havo nections with certain other places been tolerated.

and had their own correspondence By patient endeavour, and a to forward. For a consideration readiness at all times to meet the they undertook to forward the demands. so far as was possible. letters of other people, and gen of the Chinese residents, the postal erally extended their postal veera- service of this Colony developed tions to places in the same direc-into a perfectly Westernised sys tian as, but beyond the limits of, their own ordinary business,

The Lotter "Hongs,”' Under this system strong letter- "hengs" were developed, which gradually gained a powerful hold on

tem; not by leaps and bounds, but by securing the trust of the people and gradually impressing upon them the importance of entire recognition of postal regulations,"

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SHIRTS."

Periodically, since 1923, Italy has janned special postage stamps in token of her Fascist organization.

the loyalty of the people. They STAMPS FOR THE "BLACK utilised every means of conveyancă -trading-vessels, canakbonts, car riers, etc., and met in every possible way the convenience of the public; maintaining fast, special services where they were wanted, and con- tent with slow conveyances where economy was the first object; keep ing open until after midnight when ever it was demanded by business interests, and, most attractive in China, making the addressen pay a portion of the postage, usually half.

If you examine the designs of any of these stamps you will notice that they each possess reproductions of ancient Roman fasces.

There is a good reason for this. The fasces are official emblem of the Fascisti, whose title is derived. from the Italian word "fascio," a bundis, or a bunch, and thence any- thing in which component parts are bound closely together.

Express: Delivery. When quick delivery was urgently required, the sender would inscribe on the cover a sum higher than The faaces very excellently ex- usual, to be paid by the addresact press this idea of unity between the on delivery. The urgency was also members of the Black Shirts," for indicated by the burning of one the bundles of elm or birch rode, corner of the cover, or by the en-of uniform length, were tightly closing of a feather, the tip of bound together by a red strap.... which was allowed to protrude a In ancient Rome, the faeces were practice somewhat analogous to, but the official emblem of authority. much more delicate in

that occasionally adoption They were carried in praccasion bo in fore the chief magistrates of the England in the early leth century City -the-left-hand and upon-the- when the superscription "Ride for left shoulder of certain officers thy life", or the threat facetiously known as lietors. conveyed by the drawing of a skull The axe, which projects from thu and cross-bones or a corpse hanging bundle, was the sign of the magis on a gibbet, was intended to spur trates power of controlling the to urgent haste the humible-post-liver and deaths of the people in boy.

their charge.

A Fatal Defect. !!!

This system aerved long and well, One of the most interesting but it had the fatal defect that among the many places shown on it developed the profitable routes postage-stamps is a view of the only, neglecting those which could Mountain, or, more correctly, Moun- not pay expenses. It ministered to taine, of Arstal, which appears on the necessities of the Government several franka of Armenia It is and the people, respectively, by upon this peak, that the Ark is sup giving admirable service, b but the posed to hayo rested after the Great Bible—And. djekin end-mentioned in the I gradually rendered the fanctions of to this day Mount Ararat i knowf the former obsoleto. The rates of to the Persian section of tho postage ordinarily paid to the Armenian population as the Koh-i-

(Continued on acet Oolumn). Nuh, or the Mountain of Nonh.

The Magistrate then adjourned the case nine die, making Mr. Hillyer to produce a copy of the regulations the next time.

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