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Accordance with Government Ordinance, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business.on MONDAY, the 11th November, 1935. (Armistice Day).
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ADVENTURE
AMAZON LESS PERILOUS
THAN CROYDON
London Mr. Geofrey Vredenburg, aged 29, travelled about 2,000 miles along the banks of the Amazon în search of insects and adventure.
He has just returned a disillu- sioned young
~ and settled
down in a cosy caravan on the edge of Court Woods, at Selsdon, Surrey
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Mr. Vredenbury, asked to count the perils he encountered in the Amazonian jungle, laughed bitterly, and said, "Perils my foot! It is far more perilous finding the way to Croydon on a dark night through these woods than it is in the jungle. Empty Dreama
"I used to lie awake in mỹ cara- van thinking of the great ad- ventures I would have in hacking, my way through forests full of
Tin Tadersigned have received wild anir there four months, and
Auction
Wednesday, the 13th Nov, 1935, commencing at 10.30 am
at No. 2, Observatory, Villas, Kowloon
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Ún View from Tuesday the 12th November, 1935.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
can count the wild animals I saw on one hand.
“I came across a 25-foot boa constrictor, and whipped out my knife ready to defend myself. That snake gazed at me from a tree-and winked at me."
THE NEWS SHE WAS AFRAID TO HEAR
Lawrence Stallings, author of many, war pictures, edited the Fox Füm pictures The” „First- World War." which will be show- ing at the Star Theatre
to morrow. It is a picture in which mang of the hitherto closely- guarded secrets of the great na- tions are revealed
LAMMERT BROS. Convinced Of Her Son's WOMAN BECOMES
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 8th November, 1935.
FOR SALE
Death At Läst
Private Allen Booker, of the East Lancashire Regiment, went i "over the top” in the final offen-}
A selection of the best varieties of sive of March 21, 1918
Reliable and Tested
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS
from Messrs. Sutton & Sons. Reading and Mesars. "Arthur Yates & Co., Ltd, Sydney.
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He was never heard of again Ever since his mother, who lives at Litton, Derbyshire, has refused to believe in his death
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A GRAND MOTHER
AT AGE OF 36
And She Has A Baby Four-Months-Old
CLAIMS TO HOLD THE BRITISH RECORD
She always remained convinced that he was alive and suffering from loss of memory. The in- [clusion of her son's name on the Whaley Bridge war memorial did nothing to lessen her conviction.don postman claims to be Britain's
Fateful Letter
youngest grandmother. →→
Now she has received a letter with a German postmark,
The 36-year-old wife of a Lon
musements
Cinema Noter
MILLIONS
KING'S THEATRE
"Brewster's "Mitlions,” Jack Buchansa's latest picture, should appeal strongly to the harassed business man who spends his days trying to make enough money to keep the wolf from the
BRIDGE NOTES
LEAPING INTO
DANGER
By Ely Culbertion.
to-day's hand is not to teach lesson in bidding an merely to relate a very big swing hand-It door and his nights dreaming peculiarly by the ever
| that his firm has declared a divi-
dend of a 100 per cent.
darer
South, Dealer
Both sides vulnerabl
The plot of "Brewster's 30- 15005
which ran for a year onvortia: the West End stage before the war, concerns the diffenlities of a
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rom the Ho Mar Station
myth of 355 metres
Relay from Hong Kong Cricket Club.
Dance Music.
12:30 pm. -Recorded
1 pm Local- "Tizse
Report
1.10-1.30 pm Any Rec
morning's all play, sid
mentary on the 123
hour of the aftermons cricket by F.
Abbit, relayed frait the
the Hong Kong Crřlet
1:30 pm Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Press News, ef
$15 pa-Close Down
Chinese Programme #15-5:30 paz-A Running Com- |mentary, by. Mas, Chan Chang, Tung, um
the Football Match between the Hang Kong Football. Club and South Chine Athletic Association “A” replayed from the Hong Kong Football Chib Ground (Gammese)
7pm-12 midnight--European Pro- gramme..
7-7.30 pm Symphony No. 4 in B°. Ant (Beethoven, Op. 60)
2:30-7:50 parts the Studio
A Comment port Cricket
The employees of this crazy concern are encouraged to ask for an increase of salary every other day, safes are left open so that
The bidding (Figures after anyone in need of ready cash may bids refer to numbered explana- help himself. The Exciency Depart-tory paragraphs). “ ment specialises in leaving the South West lights burning all night, and the ICA highly paid star of the Informa Dbl(8) 4NT(4) Pass Pass tion Bureau spends its time reDbl(5) Pass(6) Pass Pass fusing to give information to any-An unusual and bad bid, deve one. This picture is a great tonic in these days of depression.
“WINGS OVER ETHIOPIA” QUEEN'S THEATRE The management of the Queen's
Theatre are to be congratulated
in securing for the Hong Kong
public pictures of the country
2
day's. Inter-
North East 3NT(1) Pass 45 (2) Repo
*7.50-8 Paza
Time and Weath
spite its successful resnit. West should either, double for a takeout or better, still -make the stronger bid-the overcall in the opponents. bid suit.
2A natural bid, although East
upon which the eyes of every country in the world are tamed to-day.
The film was procured by a Swiss pilot and Walter Mittelholzer and C. Berna, 3 respectively, and shows the coun-1 try, now in a state of war, as she was just before the Italian offen- sive began.
Addis Ababa, the most famous capital in the world at present, and the Negus's Palace, surround- ed by the famed Imperial Guards, may be seen. It is a big step She is Mrs. Winifred Heatin, from the civilised inhabitants of of Guinness Trust Buildings the capital to the savage to
It was from a Dr. Ned Schun-Chelsea, S.W. kerd, who states that he found She became a grandmother last Booker dead during the offensive, month when her eldest daughter,
No. 10 WYNDHAM STREET, P.O. Box No. 620 HONG KONG and took his Army papers and who is 21, gave birth to a baby
other belongings, intending to boy,
Established 1896..
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Sole
MARRIED UNDER
these days
Alabama
should realise that his part-Vocal ner probably has not a The Mills-Bästhere. balanced hand when he fails Piano Salos Stars Tell to double for a takeout first. Judy Carroll Gibbona">
Vocal Duet-What a little moćnight He may hold good support!
can do -(Layton and stone) for spades, and a long dis- Castanets Solo Serenata mond suit
1 La Argentina. South doubled, because he Voca Bock and Ball thought he could defeat the contract, and suspecting the nature of West's bid hoped to panic the opponents. 4-West decided to
upon the solidity of his dia mond suit and per in his par In addition, the spade opening double of that suit
on
of the hill country, but the pic-The double is correct ture includes it in its scope.
"THE RED WAGGON"
ALHAMERA THEATRE
amble
for a
The Boswell, “Sisters: Violin Solo Grinsing
9-9.15 pm-A Reay of the Daven-
Abert Sandler,
try News Baietii (Copyžight by Eri (ter). 128-1
9.15-9.30 pm The J. Squire Celeste Octet
Melody in F (Babstein, xrr... Sex?) Humoreske (for stings only)
(Dwiak—Sexe), Fenwi
à #yrazmeref (for strings only) ~ (Schumann-Seur)**
as Memories of Devon-Valse (Evans) Colette Valse (Praver-Simson)
· S:35 pm-22 midnight—A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orch
18 pm- Big Ben Renter Press Bulletins
: 12 midnight Close Down
careful analysis should tell the partner that it must be predicated on the desire for a club lead. send them to the relatives. He "I have a four-months-old baby
A thrilling story of circus life, 6-West sticks to his guns lost track of them, but they turn myself, youngest of my 18 chil-particularly appropriate as the Fortunately for West North Note: There will be a relay from ed up again last mouth.
dren hire girls and four boys circus is in town at the moment, did not reason the way I am ZEK on a frequency of 640 kilo
the Po Hing Theatre (Chinese) ož so she and my new little grand- is the current fare offered at the now convinced he should have. ercles from 8-11 pm son will be able to grow up to Alhambra Theatre.
He rather stubbornly opened at together aunt and nephew."
With Charles Bickford in the spade because his partner had POPPY DAY APPEAL Another young grandmother is leading role of Joe Prince, the doubled that suit, not stopping: 8 year-old Mrs Dorothy Lewis, film is crammed with eventful to reason that South would not Camberwell, SE, who, since happenings. The story concerns double a notrump contract with becoming a grandmother. has the life of a boy whose parents out wanting his own suit led. Igiven birth to twins.
åre killed when the circus in even though he had previously which they work is burned to the doubled spades. Had South
doubled spades and then fated Upwards of 600 War Orphans His one ambition is to own a to double four notrump probeere helped during 1934, £5,993 circus of his own, and after years ably the spade lead then would be
A LADDER
Bride Did Not Even Cross Fingers
A bride at Pinner Middlesex, has, defied superstition by being praxrried under a ladder. She did
not even cross her fingers.
vihe parish church,, in the hands, of restorers, is a mass of scaffold-
WANDERER DREAMS ground.
OF BETTER DAYS
Once Entertained 50,000 Troops
of hardship his dream comes be correct, although with onl true. Believing that the woman a singleton even this is ques- he loves has betrayed him, he in- tionable
curs the hatred of his circns. At any rate, with the spade employees by marrying the de opening the
George Foster was charged at spised gypsy The cirana grada odd North
When the bride, Mia hathleen Willesden, Police Vaughan-Jones, of Cannons lane, with obtaining told about the ladder false pretences. in the chancel she said she did not
He told the Bei mind.
war days he was business man.
CHILD'S LIFE FOR TOY
During the, wat he 000 for charities - and lown money... entertainer
three-year-old boy, John wounded, soldiers.
cently ly declines as
B. by tractions leave, unt
mondea too late
eventually compelled to sell out lead the
to his Five
In addition
Nüssen: Raquel
$10, thony is parts 50,000
GREAT
was burned to death when The slump ruined his business. playing in front of the fire at his He had to sell his home? home in Burnaby-road, Southend. Now he lives at a Salvation A toy fell into the grate, and Army hostel. I am when the child tried to retrieve he said. it his clothes caught fire.
He was bound over.
Man Traced By The
Millionth Chance
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Local Contributions Total $4,990
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