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THE HONG KONG DAILY
XMAS AND NEW YEAR HAMPERS
Wa bag to notify "customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Bednood Ratas -
No. 1 HAMPER-$38.
1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial 1 Q. Superb Tawny Port.
1 Pt. Blackberry Brandy. 1 Pt. D.O.M.
Champignol 2 Qua. St. Julisa Claret.
11 QL. Martell's XXX Brandy.
Q4. King George IX Gold Label
or Perfection Whisky.↓
"
1 Qt. Old Brown Shorry, Black Seal. 1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gini. 1 Q Burgundy, Burgoyne's. 1 Phial Pomeranzen Bittern.
No. 2 HAMPER-134"
1. Gailleraart Champagna 1 Pt. D.U.M.
1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.
1 Qt Martell's XXX Brandy.
1 Qt. King George IV Gold Label
of Perfection Whinky,
XQta Taway Dry Port
2 Qta. St. Julian Claret.
1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.
1. Vino de Pasto Sherry..
1 Paul Pomeranzen Bitters.
No. 3
HAMPER-$30.
1 Qt. Burgorne's Burgundy,
1 Pt. Peppermint G.F.
PL. D.Ü.M.
2 Qts. Superior Rich Old Fort.
2 Qta. King George IV Gold Label
1 Qt. Engrand's XXX Brandy. - 1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry.
1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin. 2 Ota. Medoc Claret.
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1 Phisi Pomeranzen Bitters,
or Perfection Whisky
Other hampers made up to suit Customer's requirements.
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THE THAMES BARGEES.
THE WORLD ADMIRES LONDON'S FLEET.
TWO-MAN JOB OF PLUCK
AND ENDURANCE,
The "golden age of sail" is over on all occas rentes, and vary scarce is the fall-rigged ship-thera is only one left under the British Bag to-day. Yet London's river can boast a huge feet of sailing ressels, whose wonderful merits are
PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER
MURDER HEARD BY 'PHONE
SHOTS, A THUDTM“AND A MOAN.
DWARF AND A "U" BOAT
COMMANDER.”
NEW YORK. Mr. Peter Olde, a lawyer, while talking over the long-distance tele phone with a client, Mr. Herbert Meisterknecht, heard an odd click. The voice of his client stopped. A ahots rang moment later two
A thud through the telephone. and a gurgling moan reached the lawyer's ears,
It wa
He immediately telephoned to known all over the maritime world. the owner of an ironmonger's The very word "barge" is a sym-shop, about 100 yards from his hol of ungainliness and ugliness, client's factory at High Lands, and London's sailing barges Are New Jersey. The fronmonger Sae, shapely ongoing craft with rushed to the factory. the trimness and handiness of lunchean hour and all the em ynel..
The Thames barge is the direct players, were out.
He paid no attention to a dwarf- descendant of the boys and "bil-like man in a blue suit who, run- liboys of the eighteenth century, ning past him, sprang into a and evolution of the old hatch boats of the London river, which motor car and drove away. Inside the factory the ironmanger found Insted until the early 'thirties. In
Mr. Meisterknecht, with the tele- the drawings of 1830 we are her phone receiver clothed in his One with the Dutch influence clearly band, dead on the door. marked in her overhanging shovel-bullet had perforated the brain shaped bow, which gave her the and five other bullets had entered: name of a swimhead" barge, in the body.
her mainsail set on a sprit
and
- Widow Arrested.
A neighbour recognised
the
her leeboards Only one two of this early type with "swim" head are afloat now, and they are Med-dwarf "as the dead man's brother in-law who a few days ago 'accused way barges.
Mr. Meisterknecht of being bigamist. The police have arrest ed Mrs. Meisterknecht on picion of being privy to the mur- der, but they have no trace of the whereabouts of ber dwarf brother.
SUJ-
At Home In Every Creek, By the sixties the spritsail barge had nearly renched perfection and was almost identical with that of to-day. When the early tea clip
The murdered man posed as is pera were arriving off Gravesend with the first tea of the season, "a former officer of the United States hundred and two days out of Hong Navy, but it is believed that dur- Kong," when collier brigs, naveling the wan he was a submarine frigates, and barque-rigged paddle commander in the German Navy. steamers were anchored in Gallions He had recently perfected an in- Reach, and the first of the "penny vention for measuring petrol used steamers," with white chequered by motor-cars.. sides and absurdly tall black fun- uels." were fussing from pier to pier, the Thames barges would be spreading their brown sails to the westerly wind, just as you see them now below the Pool.
Although they belong mostly to London or Rochester, there is not a greek in the whole of the Thames estuary between the Foreland and Oriordness into which the Thames barge does not find her way. Whe- ther she is sitting upright on the nad far-up some narrow ditch in the beart of Essex, loading hay from carte that come alongside, or threading her way through some shallow swatchway between two sandbanks in the estuary, sailing where deeper craft fear to go, ehe is entirely at home. The sands, dread graveyards of many a fine ship, are her friends. She rides out gales at anchor under their lee, or even sits on their rounded backs as safe as a church!
From Hull to Land's End from Yinuiden to Cherbourg, the Thames barge strays, and there is hardly a cargo nader the sun that she does not carry at some time or other. For commodities that can afford to wait for the next tide" she represents the most" ecosomical form of transport with which even the latest motor or steam barge cannot compete successfully.
Labour Saving Secrets, She is the largest sailing vessel the world which is regularly handled by one man and a boy, or sometimes by a man and his wife! One hundred and twenty tons s the average aize of a sprit-sail. barge. Eighty feet long by eighteen feet beam are her measure meets, and with her flat bottom when "light" she floats" in three leet of water. When loaded add with her leeboards down to prevent her, sagging bodily to leaward, she drama fourteen feet.
"PROFITS OF THE B.A.T. OVER SIX MILLION STERLING.
A cable received from the Londoa agents of Mesers Benjamin and Potts state that B.A.T. Company's the year Was net profit for
and." that 1 £nal 58,354,000, divided of, 1/3d. per share is being declared.
The amount to be carried forward is £2,319,000.
EXCH GE RATES. [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Paris Brussels Amsterdam Berlin
RUGBY, December 15th.
124
34.90
12.071
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1934
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780
47.7/8
2/71
Helsingfors Lisbon Bucharest Buenos Aires Shanghai Yokohama New York Geneva
Milan Stockholm Oslo
Progue Madrid Athens Rio... Bombay Hong Kong. Silver (spot) Silver (forward)
17th, 1927.
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CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR ANNOUNCEMENTS.
HONG KONG HOTEL.
SATURDAY, 24th December, 1927-ART SMITH AND GREATER NOSE-CHRISTMAS EVE CARNIVAL.
MONI AY, 26th December, 1927.
SPECIAL DINNER DANCE
SPECIAL DINNER DANCE.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL:
SATURDAY, 31st December, 1927.
4.88.11/32
25.28.4 80.15/16
18.08
18.34
1641
29.26
2651 5.29/32
1/4.3/32 2/0.3/8 261
MONDAY, 26th December, 1927.
.ART SMITI
BOXING NIGHT CARNIVAL
AND
20.0/16
SATURDAY, 81st December, 1927.
GREATER MUSIC
NEW YEAR'S EVE CARNIVAL
WHY YOU HAVE INDIGES- TION.
HOW TO RELIEVE IT.
When food enters your stomach, large quantities of acid-bearing gastric juice are at once. secreted.
Ah average yacht of these mea surements would have six "handa" to work her, irrespective of the skipper and steward. It is only. the wonderful labour-saving "tay- kle" aboard the barge, that enables her to be handled in all weather by two men alone. The heavy mainsail is never lowered, but is too much gastric juice is secret- "brailed" against the mast, just as ed, the food soon becomes a sour, a stage curtain is bunched up to fermenting mass, which may remain the wings, and the topsail stays in the stomach several hours, caus- aloft, being worked, from the decking great pain and distress. Instant These sails are dressed with lineced relief can be obtained in cases of this oil and red ochre, which protects kind by taking 'Bisurated' Magnesia them from mildew and gives them powder or tablets immediately after that rich in colour that is such a delight to the eye.
There are endless other elever de vices for casy handling, not the least being the method for lower ing the great mast and sixty-foot sprit for passing under a bridge.
dating or whenever pain is felt. This safely, surely, and quickly neutralizes the excess acid, stops the fermentation, soothes and heals the inflamed stomach lining, and at once restorós painless, nomal digen tion. Get a package of Bisurated"
On these occasions, or for working Magnesia from your chemist to-day,
up a narow creek to a quar, 4 Use as directed, and you can laugh third hand called a "buffer" is at digestive troubles.
taken aboard.
One of the finest sights on the
lower reaches of the Thames is that
Torial Skippers.
MOTOR COACHES FROM REPULSE BAY HOTEL LATE PEAK TRAM CARS.
To Hong Kong Hotel: 1.15 a.m.
To Peak Hotel:
1.15 a.m.
Fancy or Evening Dress.
24th December, 1927-1.30 am. 26th December, 1927-1.80 am 31st Decomber, 1927-1.80 am. DINNER $4.00 per head.
Tables for the above may now be reserved.
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- It is said that he, makes the best seamun - because it is far more diffic. The skipper of a sprit-sail barge mult to work a barge with only a is brought up in a particularly mate aboard in anndstrewn waters hard school. Working a 120 ton like the Thames estuary than, say, large with decks nwash down Swipa full-rigged ship across the ocean. against a strong snow-laden "nor Those disgruntled persons who de easter and a steep sea in winter plore the lost art of seamanship needs pluck and endurance and of the present day should study the wonderful knowledge of the shoals sailing barges of the London river to be avoided,
and their cheerful skippers (Continued at foot of next column.) | Maurice Griffiths in Exchange.
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