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BAGGAGE INSURANCE

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

Today,

ber 10.)

Ping Pong Tournament Bingles Championship Pang Xin Xu v. Las Chuen Kai (South China" 4A); Fook Hin Chiny. Trang Kwok Wing (Eastern Athletic Assoo:).

Queen's Theatre: "Pardon Us World Theatre Blood Spatter ed Castle" (Chinese film).

Star Theatre: Love, Live and Laugh.

Central Theatre: The Donovan Affair

King's Theatre Soup to Nats. Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotela.

IN BRITAIN 1700 YEARS AGO.

WOMEN ROUGED AND MEN GAMBLED.

A NAUGHTY DOG'S DAY AT

VERULAMIUM.

Should women us

Should gambling be.

These were topical questions in Britain seventeen Hundred yours

ago.

haw being cleared on the western side, and will be maintained by the Onco of Works. The site of the great gate, which was 100 feet! Across and the finest in Britain, can be seen, and a new corner tower has just been found on the

The defensive ditches along the northern wall-two dykes and huge earthwork, 185 feet across, one point increased to 230

feet by another dyke-have also been dis- posod

A broken rouge pot pile, olje European Mail-Inward Europe decorated hairpins, lowelled rings ria Bucs (Mantus).

conted with tin to of copper, Tidos-High at 7:50 and 9.28; look like silver and gaming count. Low at 12.40 and 9.30.

crs, dug up from the ruins of Verulamium, beneath the hill on which St. Albans,Ahboy, stands, have provided cluce to the daily life, of Britain's greatest aity at a time when London was only a little trading town on the Thames.

Tridky,

(September 11.) Service in Memory of Master, Deck and Engineer Oftcore, 12. Kwongsong at St. John's Cathedral, 3:30 p.m.

Watling Street entered the city at the London gate and wont out The excavations, begun, hat year by the north gate, which has yet to Ping Pong Tournament.-Singles by the Verulam Excavation Combe explored Traces of the great Championship: Lea Hon Ken mitten and directed by Mr. Mor road have been found, and it is Chan Yuk Loong (Confucian Ass ciation), Lam Yam Hing. O. Mtimer Wheeler, director of the Lonhoped to follow its course through Xavier (Confucian Association) don Museum, and his wife, are the city and and eventually, the Hong Kong Cricket League Meet-boing continued this summer, and great public buildings which front- ing, Sanitary Board room, 5.15 p.m.

Licensing Applications, dus, have already vidded many treed on it. The theatre and the

Queen's Theatre: Pardon Us!! World Theatre: "Blood Spatter- od Castle" (Chinese film).

“Love, Live and Star Theatre: Laugh

King's Theatre: "Soup to Nut Cantral Theatre: "The Donovan Affair."

・・・ Tea Dance et Lane, Crawford's Restaurant: Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel,

Tides:-High at 8.10 and 9.45 Low at 1:38 and 3.08,

Baturday."

(September 12.).

Jewish New Year, 6332. Lawn Bowlst Division: Civil Service Cricket Club e. Craigengow-

Bures

The hairpins are made of bone, skilfully incised and painted. One of the rings is at with caruelian, and another carrion a plaster in taglio, in which is cut a dragon with spreading winga

A domestic tragedy of the second century has also been revealed. Just as some new tiles were being laid in a house the dog came in and seampered over the loor. His paw marks are there still.

Toothploks and Garden Lakes, Some of the gaming countera,

er CC: 2nd Division: H. Elec probably used by the legionaries,

trie Club de Recreio; Yacht Club

Craigengower UC. Dorrance are beautifully made of shell, bone, Cup: Kowloon Dock, Taikoo glass, and faience. Many good

Dock.

Queen's Theatre: "Pardon Us" World Theatre: Blood Spatter ed Castle" (Chinese film).

Star Theatre: "Love, Live and Laugh," seg

games must have been disturbed by attacking Britons, for the countors were found dropped all over the city, together with many coins.

Oyster shells, bone toothpicks, Pottery still bearing the maker's Central Theatre: "Resurrection.' Dinner Dances at Peninsula name-keys on rings or bronze and Hotel, Hong Kong Hotel and copper chains, gardens King's Restaurant,

King's Theatre: "Mr, Lemon of Orange.'

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European Mail Outward Europe via Suez (Cathay) 10.30 .m.; Europe vig Biberia (Empress of Japan) 9.30 s.m

Tides:-High at 9.05 and 10.10; Low at 220 and 8:40.

rakes,

staples, nails, and punches are among the other ands which tell of the daily life of the city.

The old Roman wall-two miles long which encircled the city is

forum were found oversighty years

ago.

"The Earlier Olty.

Long before the Romans there was a city, on almost the same site

the stronghold of Cassiveliaunus, Prince of the Catarelauni who fought against Caesar and his le gions. It is hoped that traces of this earlier city may be found below the buildings of the Romans

Much of the walls of Verulamium are now the walls of St. Albans:

Abbey, for when the church was built stones and bricks were taken from the old Roman stronghold until it was almost entirely destroy-

od

The present work is being done by University students, assisted by fifty labourers, many of them un employed Welsh miners)

About half the site is now the property of the Corporation of St. Albans, and is to be turned into a public park after the excavation is completed. The rest of the site is owned by the Earl of Verulam, who has granted permission for ex-

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