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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
BRIDGE NOTES
MIRACULOUS
By Ely Culbertson
Sometimes according too much respect to the bidding of one's ad- The following programme will versaries sends even the "finest be broadcast to-day from the players along the wrong defensive Hong Kong Broadcasting Station trails. The most amusing hands Z.B.W. on a wavelength of $55 from a standpoint of almost un- metres. (845K.C.'s).
believably bad play are often the contribution of really ine players
players good enough to Ipect the opponents of Machiave Con-lian machinations when actually they are just trying to make the Eons best of a bad job of bidding.
Hong
5-8 pm-European Programme 5-6 pm Relay of the Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra:
6-6.30p-Childrens' Studio
cert.
630-7 pm-A Relay of the Kong Hotel. Dance Orchestra.
7-7.30 p.m.-A Light Concert. **** | Pianoforte) Solo-
Valse Oubliee (Forgotten Waltz)
(Liszt)
Vladimir Horowitz
Songs-
Trump, Tramp, Tramp along the
Highway (Herbert)
I'm falling in love with someone
(Herbert)
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. Song--
SIXTY-SEVENTH ORDIN-!
THE SECOND EXTRA RACETARY GENERAL MEETING
MEETING
will be beld
of Shareholders will be held at the weather permitting) at HAPPY Offices of the undersigned on FRI- VALLEY on SATURDAY, 28th
Nelson Eddy (Baritone).¦
The Pipes of Pan ("The
Arcadians") (Monckton)
Winnie Melville (Soprano).
Songs
March, 1936, commencing at 2.00/DAY, the 27th March, 1936, at violin Solo
Paza
The First Bell will be rung at 1.90 p.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary
noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Man- agers, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December 1935.
-
To-day's band is just such an' amusingly, amazing example. East knew something was very wrong and assumed one of South's bids The must have been a phychic. resuit, as far as declarer
тад concerned, appeared little short of miraculous.
South, Dealer
East-West vulnerable
S. 109864 H. QJ94 D. A K
I met an Angel (Morgan) Shannon River (Morgan)
John McCormack (Tenor) Q
Allegro (Fiocco) Pale Moon (Indian Love Song)
(arr. Kreisler)
Albert Sandler.
Let me give my happiness to you Three Wishes
Song
The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be!
Hong Kong, 23rd March, 1936. CLOSED from the 13th to the 27th
GENERAL NOTICES
NOTICE
NOTICE
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the THIRTY-NINTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Shareholders in the Company will be held in the Jacobean
March 1936, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON &
CO., LTD.
General Managers, The Hong Kong Fire Insurance
Co., Ltd. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1936.
HONG KONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
.
S. AQ 3 2
HA 10 7 5
D. J G
C. K 8 4
S, 7 5.
TE HK632
.$
S. K J
H. &
D. 8 4 2
C. A 10 3 5
D. Q 10 9 S
C. J 76 3 2
The bidding: (Figures after bids refer to numbered explane-] tory paragraphs).
Jessic Matthews (Soprano). (South 7.30-8 p.m.--From the Studio
Pass A Jazz Banjo and Piano Recital by Fred Carpio and Marcellano Andres.
Programme
1. Banjo Selos- Crackerjack
The block and the Banjo.
2. Piano Solo-
The Music goes Round and Round
3. Banjo Solos
Hot and Bothered
Hot Picking.
4. Piano Solos-
My Body.
Shot the Note.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN $ .m.-Local Time and Weather: that the Ordinary Yearly Report: Closing Local Stock Quota- 8.06-11 p.m.-Chinese Studio Con-
Lions..
Room, 1st floor, Hong Kong Hotel Meeting of Shareholders will be Pedder Street, Hong Kong on held in the Office of the Com-cert. FRIDAY, 27th March 1936
pany, 2 Queen's Building, Hong 12.30 p. for the purpose
Kong, on MONDAY, 30th March, Receiving counts and
st
of
11 pmClose Down. 8.05-10 p.m.European Programme
Lilocycles.
a Statement of Ac- 1926, at Noon, for consideration from ZEK. on a frequency of
the Report of the of the Directors' Report and State- Board of Directors for the year ment of Accounts for the year ended December 31st 1935; ending 31st December, 1935. Electing Directors and Auditors, The Share Register and Trans- and for the transaction of any fer Books will be closed from the other Ordinary business of the 21st to 30th March, 1936, both Company.
days inclusive.
By Order of The Board of": Directors,
NOTICE is also hereby given that the Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY 17th March 1936 until FRIDAY 27th March 1936, both days inclusive, during which period no transfers of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board,
D. L. KING,
Secretary. Hong Kong. 14th March, 1936.
FOR SALE.
SPECIAL PRINTED ENVELOPE Commemorating the inauguration
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GRACA & CO.,
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CHINA ENTERTAINMENT & LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN NOTICES SIXTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Share- holders will be held at the Regis tered Offices of the Company, King's Theatre Building, 5th floor, on MONDAY, the 30th day of March, 1935, at 12 o'clock, Noon,
to receive the Directors' Report, and Accounts for the year ended; 31st December, 1995, to elect Directors and Auditors and to transact such other business as may be properly transacted at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Company.
And Notice is Further Hereby Given that the Register and No. 10, Wyndham St. Transfer Books of the Company
Hong Kong
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Hong Kong, 19th March, 1936.
LIMITED
4.05-8-40 p.m.Variety. Songs-
640
West North East Pass Pass(1) IS.
Pass
2D. Pass 213
2NT (2) Puss Pass Pass
3NT Pass
1—A sound pass, although with strength in both majors West might have ventured a shad- ed opening bid.
-This was a conscious and gen-i erous overbid. Despite South's original pass, his-high card) weakness and the apparently ill fitting nature of the hands should have dictated merely s - preference bid of two, spades. However, thereby hangs our tale.
West opened the ten of spades, which declarer won with the King, endeavouring to conceal his second entry in that suit. It ap peared that only a miracle would suffice, but miracles have hap-) pened, so South led a low dia- mond to the Jack, which won when West properly ducked. Thisį killed all chances of establishing that suit, so declarer shifted to a Many Happy returns of the day club, fortunately electing to leadi Love is like a Cigarette
On Treasure Island Sailing Home with the Tide
Turner Layton. Band
One Night in Monte Carlo. There'll never be another you Songs
Kitty Masters
Piano Solosamen
Two for To-night Medley
Vocal-I Heard
St. Louis Blues
9-9.15 pmA
East therefore felt declarer's
the dummy's King. East won Ace and South was delighted to note the fall of West's Queen. Al- Renara. though the play of the spade |King was a false-card to West, to The Four Crochets. East it plainly marked South with 8.40-8 p.m.- "Suite Iperia" (A the Jack as the original lead off beniz, arr. Arbos).
the tea had denied that card. the Relay of Daventry News Bulletin (Copyright diamond bid might have been
Beuter)
psychic and shifted to that suit. Declarer encouraged this belief by playing the diamond ten, West! winning with the King and shift- ing to a heart. Dummy ducked,.
and his East taking with the King
returning another diamond. West won with the Ace and led the Queen of hearts, But declarer now
9.15-9.30 pm-A Recital by Tito Schips (Tenor).
1. O Del Mio Amato Ben (Donaudy) 2. Plaisir D'Amour (Martini). 3. Contesion-Tango.
La Cumparaita--Tango. 9.30-10 p.m.-Ray Noble and
Orchestra.
10 pan-Big Ben: Close Down.
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the War Minister again adve- of spades was then overtaken by GIFTWARE cated a stronger rational de- the Queen in dummy, the Ace UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY fence. At the present difficult cashed and the last trick won by
juncture, he declared, one thing the lowly three-spot. made clear was the uselessness Sounds like a fairy tale, doesn't LAMPS and
it - yet four fine players MADÍ- NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. of over-hasty disarmament.
The ingenuous dream of pulated it, just that way in a re- LIGHTING FIXTURES THE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL people who believe in the percent rubber game at Crookfords.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Suns for foolish economies in Frans-Ozén Service. Company will be CLOSED from the past-
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A lecture on "Begeneration of |Islamic Thought" - by- Mr. N. Lị Soofi A. Ghafloor will be given in the Lodge: Room of the Manuk Two beases of cerebro-spinal Lodge of the Theosophical So fever and one case (each of diph-ciety, Heng Kong Clab Annex, lb.
* General Managers. theria and enteric fere were re-hater Road, this evening; at 6 Hong Kong, 18th March, 1936-ported to the Health authorities in o'clock. Members of the public
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