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BRIDGE NOTES
Reading Psychics.
by Ely Culbertann."
THE CHINA MAIL.
The craze for psychics has pass- ed its peak unquestionably, but occasionally an expert uses them for effect. Ability to read psychic bidding is one of the tests of an expert, but there are situations when it is difficult to take action at a particular moment. Such case is one where Third Hand, not vulnerable, opens the bidding and the player yet to speak has a fairly strong hand but is wholly
a
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS. unprepared for the response that
appears most probable from the partner.
W. B. BAILEY & CO., LTD.
Kowloon Bay. Recently in a Rubber game મ New Work & Repairs Call Flag "L" Crockford's Club, New York, the Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors-hand below was dealt. Three of the players were acknowledged experts. The fourth member of the quartet was perhaps not a but member of that eacred elesa, ranked
as a really very
good player. The hand was:
South, Dealer.
COMPANY MEETINGS to
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED. (Incorporated in Hong Kong)
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTIC
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22292.
58, Queen's Road Central.
GOVERNMENT NOTICES.
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East and West: vulnerable. North:-
S.-A 8 8
H.-3
D.-10 5 1
C-K 10 763
West:-
S-J 14 72
H.-K Q J 8 2
D.- 9 3 2
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East:-
S.-0
H.-A 1054
PUBLIC AUCTION.
7th
be held оп day of
ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS the Sale by Public Auction MONDAY, the at May. 1934, 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov- ernor of one Lot of Crown Land at Cheung Sha Wan in the Colony of
D-K Q 8 6 C-AJ S 2
South:-
S.-KQ 6 3 4 H.-7 6
D.-A 7
C-Q 9 4 3
The bidding:
Rumoured In Royal Romance.
While thrus male members of the Swedish royal family formid romano, with commoners, Princess Ingrid, according to reports, has found it on ber own level. She is reported about to become angagad to Grown Prince Frederick of Denmark. A marriage between these two (both shova; would suite the Scandinavian Kingdoms elossy thinky wwwr.
RAYS WHICH
PIERCE LEAD
DEMONSTRATED
Lord Rutherford's Talk
In London. TRANSMUTATION OF MATTER
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
WONDERS OF
LONDON'S
NEW CINEMA
Stupendous Place May Be Outshone.
Madalad kad
£1,000,000 WEST END PROJECT
London.
ONE-HANDED -GIRL'S PROWESS
Types Fifty Words
Per Minute.
WON SEWING PRIZES
Sydney, N.S.W. Considered to be the finest one- ¡hand girl typist in the world, Miss Barbara Murrell, of Hurstville, near
Two shillings-the price of the most expensive seat in London's Sydney, typed 50 words a minute. most luxurious cinema.
For this feat she received a certi-
Marching across the huge ficate from the Incorporated Phono- foyer an automatic shoe scraper graphic Society of Australia, in cleans the soles of your shoes be-1931, when she was seventeen years fore you are allowed to enter.
of age.
An automatic slot machine
issues your ticket.
To-day "it is considered that she
as the
The doors leading to the au- could add at least 20 more words to ditorium are opened by an un-her record. She is rated seen hand, and you are inside champion one-hand typist of the the new Regal "super-super"
cinema at Edmonton-one of world.
|3,000 people.
This rate of typing is extraordin
It is a staggering place-ary and it would be interesting to equipped with all the latest gad-know whether there are any other gets and some that have never
been used in cinemas before.
jone-hand typists, and if so whether
They can put on a stage show any of them can equal the work Heads of at the Regal with facilities equal done by Miss Murrell. to those in the most modern legi-leading colleges say there are not. timate theatre.
The stage, 50 feet from front
Nature's Aid
Nature has played a great part The following programme will be to back, is controlled by 150 dif-
ferent switches, which cause it in helping Miss Murrell to overcome broadcasted to-day from the Hong to revolve, rise or fall, tilt side- Kong Broadenating Station Z.B.W.
(845 K.C.'s) :-
1-2.15 p.m.—European Programme.
a wave length of 355 metres ways and, for all I know, loop to some extent her difficulties.
the loop.
As a schoolgirl, she was taught Then there is the control panel to sew, knit and do fancy work, hold
1 p.m. Local Time & Weather Re-up among the projectors which a tennis ball and a fork and other looks after the coloured lighting the elbow joint and three inches of of the proscenium arch.
articles between the inner part of With four coloura to work with her arm below.
·
London. Rays which pierce lead were despert
1.03 p.m.--Recorded Music. cribed by Lord Rutherford, the 1.15 p.m.--A Relay of the Hong famous scientist, which he lectured Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong
Hotel Grill Room. on the Transmutation of Matter at
1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press News, etc. 2.16 p.m.-Close Down. the Royal Institution In London.
He traced the history of ideas on the subject from the time of the alchemists which their search for. the philosopher's stone to the pre- discoveries in the realm
(Figures after day
East
Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, bids refer to numbered explana-of radio-activity. commencing from 1st July, 1898 tory paragraphs).
North South West
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN with the option of renewal at a
that the ORDINARY YEAR-Crown Rent to be fixed by the Bur-PASS LY MEETING of the Society will veyor of His Majesty the King, for 1S (3) PRES
Kong
you can produce any combination
She is an excellent swimmer and
of shades you like. There are a few years ago, won several prizes 64 knobs to twiddle. It is like for sewing and knitting 'competi- painting with electric light.
tions conducted by the "Sunday Sun."
Lecture From The Studio To-night.
4.30-7.30 p.m.--Chinese Programme. If that blue light seems 7.30-10.30 p.m. European Pro-little cold mix some red with it gramme.
7.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Que-by turning that knob. And so
tations, etc.
8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re- port.
7.33-8.25 p.m.- Variety & Dance Music. Fox Trot-
I've got to Sing a Torch Song
Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut
Yankeen.
on!
"Radio City" Planned.
..
Her first experience of typewrit- ing was at the St. Mary's Girls School, where, she was tutored by Jone of the teachers, Sister Terasina. Subsequently she was taught the
But Edmonton is soon to be "touch" system of typewriting for outdone,
the right hand and additional moves There is talk of a plan to build of the fingers usually operated by in London's West End the big-the left hand. gest cabaret and cinema theatre!
Night and Day ("The Gay Divorce in Europe something on the lines tera, she uses the end of her left To press the keys for capital-let-
Lord Rutherford mald that in Pans IC (1) Pass (2) most cases a radio-active substance!
Pass (4) Fass (5) broke up with the emission at Song-
tremendous speed of one fust alpha] be held at the HEAD OFFICE one further term of 24 years less 1-An out-and-out psychic.
2-East has a very nice hand, butį Union Building, Hong Kong, on the Inst three days thereof.
the obvious response, if a Take particle (a helium nucleus) or one out Double is made, would be in beta particle (an electron). spades. Vulnerable, the risk- of| In the case of radium itself when a penalty is too great, as East an atom of it broke up it hurled off has no safe suit to bid at the range of two or three.
FRIDAY, 25th MAY, 1934, at 11 o'clock am., for the purpose of re- cerving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1933, and of declar ing Dividend, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 8th MAY to 26th MAY, Both Days is- clusive.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager.
Hong Kong, 30th April, 1934.
THE CHINA. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. Incorporated in Hong Kong)
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
NGL the SIXTY-FIFTH OR-
DINARY YEARLY MEETING of; the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 26th MAY, 1934, at 11.20 a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1933, and) of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 8th MAY to 25th MAY, Both Daya in-1 clusive.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 20th April, 1934.
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. (Incorporated in Hong Kong)
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the SIXTY-EIGHTH OR- DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building. Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 25th MAY, 1934, at 11.25 a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Dirbelors and the Statements of Account to Slat December, 1988, and of declaring Dividend, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 8th MAY ́to 25th MAY, Both Daya ̧ in- clusive.
By Order of the Board,
ASW. HUGILES, CA General Manager. Hong Kong, 30th April, 1984.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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FEET HURT?
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CHINA BLDG. (opposite King's Theatre), Shoe Shop-Chiropodist→→→ Repair Service. Tel. 27945.
Brink Your PRINTING
Problongs to U
Upset Fries
45%
particle of helium at tremendous resulting which the B-A perfectly natural response. speed after 4-Possibly North should protect fatum was diminished in mass by
Pianoforte
Let me Love you To-night
"The Command Performance",
Richard Tauber (Tenor).
Life in just a Howl of Cherries Sleepytime Down South
Carroll Gibbons and his Boy
Vocul Duet
Mood Indigo
of New York's Radio City, which will cost about: £1,000,000.
It is understood that an option Thas already been obtained on a
site near Charing Cross.
A cinema seating 5,000 people Friends at prices ranging from one to luxurious five shillings and a cabaret theatre. with accommoda-! Johnstone.¡tion for 1.000 people figure in the
I Cover The Waterfront
Layton &
I'm One of the Lads of Valencia Fox Trol-
his psychic by bidding two four and became an atom of a sub-Comedy Waltz-- spades, but he reasoned that if
East could take no affirmative stance of lower atomic weight. action on the first round there; Of the varying types of radiation was slight probability of any the alpha particles, although they action at this point.
hud the most energy, were the 5-East should now double. North cusiest to stop in matter.
¡plans,
People visiting the theatre would be able to dine and watch
:
Put a Little Spring-Time The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra directed a spectacular show for about 10
by Henry Hall. shillings. Organ Salo
L'Amour Toujours L'Amour My Beautiful Lady
Jesse Crawford.
Take me Away From The River Young and Healthy
The Four Musketeers.
and South, not vulnerable, have The beto particles could be stop- permitted the bidding to die at ped by a fairly thick sheet of card-Quartet n contract of one-odd. Ob-board but some of the gamma raye viously the combined hands are would go weak.
through several centi-. metres of lead with perfect case.
As it turned out, South played: Lord Rutherford showed his au- the hand at one spade and madejdience
F tube containing radio two spades, East and West could active matter which was invisible have made five hearts or five dia and was so infinitesimal that it was monds. The North and South millions of times smaller than. a players, Messrs. Howard Schenken chemist could hope to weigh on his and Raymond Balfe, must be given most sensitive scales. credit for a very successful pay. chic. However, despite their sục- cess in this particular instance, they lost a very large rubber their opponents.
PRIEST
INVENTS NEW CYCLE
Capable of Average Speed Of 30 m.p.h.
LESS EFFORT TO PEDAL
·
Lo
Practical Demonstration
The пате of Mr. Sam L. Rothafel, the famous American showman, better known BA "Roxy", has been mentioned in connexion with the scheme-but that it is due merely to the coin- cidence that he is in London at the present time.
Fox Trot
Goodbye Again Little You Know
The men behind the scheme Isham Jones & His Orch are actually Mr. Clifford Whitley 8.25-9 pm. Orchestra! Selections and Sir Malcolm McAlpine, whose From Opera. Madame Butterfly-
Fantasie (Pucelni) Victor Symphony Orchestra ed by Josef Pasternack. Teels of Hofman's-Potpourri
(Offenbach)
construction firm built Wembley Exhibition, Southampton Docks) direct-and the Dorchester.
They recently visited New York to get ideas on the subject} He demonstrated however that in Manon-Fantasy-(Massenet)
Marek Weber & His Orchestra.-well knowing that the people over there have little to learn spite of its microscopic size it had Marek Weber & His Orchestra. and much to teach about these marked radio-active effect. When Louise--Selection (Charpentier)
things. De Groot & His Orch, he applled a fine needle with which
B-9.30 p.m he had touched the tube of radio "The First Gan Attack (Ypres active material to an electroscope it 10167) by Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smith had an immediate effect on the in- (This Lecture which was Broadcast on strument.
re-April 24th, 1982 is repeated by te- Lord Rutherford
quest) marked that the effect of the ex-
*9.30-9.47 p.m.-Sulte Bergamasque periment was slightly diminished by
(Debussy) the dampness of the air caused by the breath of the audience.
He said that it was only of recent,
years that it had been discovered
why an atom should break up after long periods of quiescence and why
Rome, the average fe of one element
Walter Gieseking (Pianoforte)
1. Prelude.
2. Minuet.
8.
Clair De Lune,'-
4.
Passepled."
8.47-10.30 p.m.-——
Symphony No..0, In E Minor
("From the New World") (Dvorak Op. 95)
Sir Hamilton Harty and the Halie Orchestra,
Failer Giovanni Sarotti, almight be only a fraction of a second parish priest at Diano d'Alba, while that of another could be mea- claims to have invented a push-sured by thousands of millions of 1st movement-Adagio; Allegro Molto |bicycle-capable of an average years.'
2nd movement--argo, 3rd movement-Scherzo speed of 30 miles an hour-which Then he demonstrated how differ-4th movement--Finale--
almost pedals itself."
ent radio-active bodies. lost their
Allegro Con Fuoco. 10:30 p.m.-Rugby Mid-day 10.35 p.m. Close Down
He says that he has discover-activity at varying rates. He pro- ed a new means of transmitting duced a tube of a radio-active body New energy by means of a lever oper- called actinium and showed how ated by a pedal of the type used when the ionised air from it was in sewing machines.
COMPANY STARTED
BY FRAUD
But Turned Out To Be A Success.
JUDGE'S REVELATION
Sydney S.N.W.
arm. She _also", an excellent shorthand writer-Reuter.
H.B.
BEER
contains all those vital elements
that the body needs to main-
ain perfect physical fitness in a trying climate. It aids diges
tion, tones up liver and stomach,
and ensures sound refreshing
sleep.
Mr. Justice Lukin said in the Made from the finest ingredients Federal Bankruptcy Court that that
it was not an unheard of occurrence only, and brewed under the for a company floated on misrepre- sentation to be favoured by for-
Press tuitous good fortune which enabled
nost bygenic conditions, H. B.
it to make a success of Its venture, BEER few drisk that has no
"I know a company which was
Lundoubtedly `ntarted by "fraud and equal.
misrepresentation, and which to b certain extent has been successful"
REGULARLY
blown into an electrical apparatus BURGLARS, WASTED EFFORT Bicycles fitted with this de-it sent a beam of light, along an,
his Honour declared. "It was be- DRINK HB. BEER vice, he declares, can maintain a enormous measuring rule...
Brisbane, cause the promotors deceived the speed of 80 m.ph. on the level When the blowing stopped and Crackamen in South Brisbane public so completely, and because and 26 m.p.h, uphill with "an the effect of the radio activity absolutely insignificant muscu- diminished the beam of light slowly succeeded, with much labour and they were favoured by good fortune lar effort. We spe
returned to its position. A similar skill, in "blowing", the door of a that the company was able to get
over. Its dimculties It Is stated that Turin manu-experiment with a different type kafe. facturers are negotiating with of radioactive material caused the Afterwards, they learned that Billing, Mr. Justice Lekin added Father Barott! for the purchase beam of light to return", at quite a the safe had not been locked for "I would not like to mention the
three years.
name of the komi Cauter, of the invention,--Reuter.
different rate-Beuter.
Reuter.
it's good for you.