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The
Mail.
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1932.
STATE WINS THE
FIRST PRIZE!
Shock for Spanish Gamblers.
AN UNSOLD TICKET.
Madrid, Dec. 22. To-day's tople throughout Spain has been the luck of the Spanish Treasury, which drew the first prize of £375,000 in the Spanish Christmas lottery, the winning ticket, No. 24717, being among the few thousand unsold tickets. The Treasury also drew other prizes amounting to about £50,000 in all.
The gamblers are much disgrunt- led over
the Treasury's luck, but the Minister of Finance, Senor Carner, says that the State wel comes this windfall very warmly, especially in the present circum- stances.
The present case of the big Christmas prize going to the Spanish Treasury is unique in the history of the lottery.
Politicians say the Republic bas had better luck still in the fact that stock values are steadily rising on the Government's declaration that
it will not pass any moro social laws until the Budget haя bean balanced.
The amount of money "in- vested" in this year's Christ- MAS lottery Was much be- low the figure in recent years owing to the stagnation of trade. Formerly all the Chrismas lottery tickets issued were sold out many days before the draw, whereas this year some 8,000 tickets were un- gold,
Ex-King's Lost Chance.
The second prize was won by a number of players of the Seville Football Club. The fourth prize of £25,000 went to Teneriffe (Canary Islands), the fifth prize of £18,750 to a private citizen of Madrid.
The draw took place at the Spanish Mint, which was besieged by tens of thousands of people all anxious to hear the resulta. Some of the ticket-holders took up their positions in the queue ten days ago.
The luck of the Spanish Treasury in the first lottery held under the Republic is more remarkable from the fact that had the money been drawn under the monarchy the prize-money would have gone to the King. During ex-King Alfonso's reign be used to be entitled to hold the first and last tickets issued in every lottery throughout the year, but he never drew any important
į prize. The Christmas lottery was
first instituted in 1815.
Britishwoman's Luck.
The windfall for the State in the Spanish lottery is explained by the fact that all tickets, sold or unsold, go into the draw.
BOAT TRAIN TRAGEDY.
Man Shot Dead With Novel Weapons.
A well-dressed man of 27 was found shot dead in a corridor compartment of the Channel Islands boat train when it ar rived at Yeovil from Weymouth. There was a wound in the head and near the body was which had been fired electrically. a gun It consisted of a brass tube, one end of which had been fired by an electric spark.
TIME FROM LIGHT.
Clocks Plugged to Any Electric Socket.
ACCURACY IN-RUNNING.
T
tricity grid scheme, now nearing The development of the elec completion, in Britain has vantage which may become a big brought with it a secondary ad- factor in domestic and business circles - namely, the dissemina- tion of correct time. Papers on the body lead the Clocks are now on the market authorities to suppose that the which can be plugged into any man's name was Frank W.-convenient electric socket and Bentron and that he came from will run indefinitely and give Jersey. A note in the possession Greenwich time to within a few of the police may throw. some seconds a month an accuracy light on the tragedy.
only obtainable with the highest class mechanical clocks. require no winding or attention, they will work in any position, and are independent of tempera- ture and climatic conditions.
FINE TO CLOUDY.
The weather report issued by the Royal Observatory this morning states. The anti- cyclone is central to the S.W. of Peking, and nearly stationary.
Forecast:-N.E. winds, mo- derate; fine to cloudy.
THE SILENT PARROT.
Judge's Test lu Court.
They
They will run 5,000 hours or more for the cost of one unit of electricity, and are cheap to buy. Their time-keeping is controlled by the frequency or number of times per second which the cur- rent reverses its direction.,
a
Before the coming of the grid, each electrical generating sta- tion supplied its own locality, and the exact frequency did not matter. A station supposed to be delivering current with periodicity of 50 could generato at 49 or 51 without causing trou- ble. Such a supply was, how Judge Herbert Smith ordered a ever, useless for the control of green parrot to be brought into clocks, because a Yarmouth County Court in order to one cycle per second from stand- deviation of best its ability to sing whistle and ard caused a gain or loss of over, talk. It had been bought for $5 one minute an hour an error because it was said to possess all which could not be tolerated. three accomplishments.
In court however it sat in, front of the judge and did not utter a sound.
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Same Frequency.
To-day, however, matters are different. All stations are linked His honour asked the vendor to by the grid, and for make the bird talk but he declined reasons it is essential that they technical to do so. He was invited to make all have exactly the same fre it whistle but he refused to make quency. The standard in Britain any attempt saying he would not, is 50 cycles per second, and in- have the bird back for £500. struments have been devised to The buyer said that the bird had maintain it correct within 1-500 been dumb ever since he had it. of 1 per cent., and The seller told him it would even curacy is reflected in all clocks this ac- speak Portuguese.
connected to the mains. Fifty shillings deposit was paid The synchronous clocks, as on the parrot and the judge told the they are called, are simple in buyer he would permit him to coun- construction, and ter-claim this
a number of amount. He gave firms in Britain are working hard judgment for him with costs, and to cope with the demand for also judgment on a claim against them. him for the second instalment of the purchase price.
The judge warned the seller not
to try any more tricks of this kind COW ATTACKED BY VULTURES. again, and ordered him to take the bird away.
He refused to do this, and the judge told him that if he did not make up his mind in two minutes he would dispose of the parrot.
The dealer, reluctantly took the bird.
At the farm Kaalfontein in the Krugersdorp magisterial dis- trict, an unusual incident occur- A British woman residing on
be destroyed by the owner. Two ed resulting in a cow having to the Rio Tinto Company's copper estate in Andalusia is reported to
large vultures swooped down on have won $10,000. She hold a
the cow which was lying on the One of the most depressing sights veld within sight of the farm- twentieth share of ticket: No. is, to see umpires going out to in-house. 21,666; which won the second prize.spect the wicket and one of the most weak state and had a calf stand- The animal was ina Tickets in the lottery cost £50 impressive to see a team of footballing near by. The vultures at each, but
may be bought in ers just as keen to play as the tacked the cow and so badly in- twentieth fractions.. These in turn spectators, are to watch. Our won-jured it that it had to be shot are often shared by thousands of derful Summer climate did more to soon afterwards, says Reuter. eager subscribers whose contribu- Impress the necessity for extending It is only on very rare occasions tions range down to the smallest the football season than increasing that vultures have been known suras.
interest in cricket. C. E. Sutcliffe, to attack live animals.
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