DRESS WEAR
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The details of evening wear
of the shape and texture the shirt front, the "set" of the collar, the correct length of the bow tie, the cut of a white waistcoat... are "trifles that' make perfection." When you buy your evening wear from Mackintosh's you have the complete assurance that every little point has been carefully considered by experts and that everything is exactly correct and in accordance with the decrees of the West End of
London.
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(THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.)
Hongkong's
Fashionable
Rendezvous
Old, English Bar Overlooking the Harbour
MORNING COFFEE AND AFTERNOON TEA SERVED IN THE AIRY. LOUNGE ON 8th FLOOR.
SPACIOUS DINING ROOM OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR ALL MEALS. DELIGHTFULLY · COOL DISTINCTIVE APPOINTMENTS,
Single Rooms, Double Rooms and
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with Private Bathrooms by the day or With or without Board.
Entertain Your Friends
in the cool of the
Evening on the
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far above the City's
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Cable Address:-" GLOUCESTER."
ASSETS
£13,000,000
BY APPOINTMENT
P. I. NEWMAN,
Manager.
HONG HONG DARY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1932.
HONG KONG STOCK THONG KONG POLICE
MARKET.
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS.
A somewhat quieter tone pre- vailed at yesterday morning's open- ing session, but igvestments and utilities were still enquired for at the quoted rates:--
Sales.
Hong Kong Banks 81,840/1,542. Raube $37.
Providenta (OK) 804.
Hong Kong Realties $12.35/12.40. Evo Cottons Tls. 14.10 14.35. China Lights (Old) $20.30 Canton Icas $6. Dairy Farms 823.
Buyers.
•
Bank of East Asia $111, Canton Insurances $1,200. China Fire Insurancoș 8800 18.
div.
Douglakes Set
Union Waterboats 890. Raubs 832
D
Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharvos
$144.
Hong Kong and Whampoa Dooks:
$18.
Providents (Old) #5.10. Providents (New) 8235. Hotels (Rights) 81.80 Hong Kong Lande 877 Humphreys $134.
Hong Kong Trama $1.85. Peak Trame (Old) $17. Peak Trams (Now) 88. Star Ferries 800.
Yaumati Ferries (Old) 832). Yaumati Ferries (New) 8311. China Lights (Old) 201. Hong Kong Electrics. 874.60. Macao Electrics 321. Telophones (P.P.) 823.05. Malabon Sugara $21. Canton Icos $0.
Cemente (Combined) 818). Dairy Farma 828.
Hong Kong Government
per cent. premium. Wallace. Earpora SM.
Sellers.
B.C. Enterprises $87.
AFTERNOON SESSION,
RESERVE.
(ORDERS BY THE HON. MR. T. H. KING, LO.P.)
King's Birthday Celebration. The following Police Reservists will parade for duty in connection with the King's Birthday Celebrn. tion on Friday, June 3rd, 1032-
35 members of the Chinese Com tay to parade at Central Police Station at 08.00 hours to draw arins. uniform, sunhats, Dress: White
belt and truncheons,
25 members of the Indian Com- pany to parade at Central Police Station at 09,30 hours to draw arma. Dress: White, uniform, sünhata, helts and truncheons,
12 members of the Flying Squad to parade ut, Central Police Station as 08.50 hours to draw arms. Dress: White adiform, sunhats, belt ind truncheons.
20 members of the Reserve Emer- gency Unit under Sub-Inspector W. V. Field will fall in outside the Supreme Court Building, on tho west side at 00.10 hours sharp. Dress! Khuki helmets, shirts, shorts, puttees. belts, bolsters and revolvera.
Chinese Company. Strength-The following have been taken on the strength of the Chinese Company as from May 20, 1932 Constabica Rse Yung Wing Po, R50 Holin Yue, RGD Kwan Sik Cheang, Rue La Shu Tak, Rea Mak Heng Kwobg, and R04 Tam Moon Lin.
A DANGER TO COUNTY CRICKET?
HEAVY STRAIN ON PLAYERS.
BOWLERS DEPRIVED OF
ADVANTAGE,
[BY A COUNTY CRICKETER. ]
he financial troubles of county erickob have been much in recent times that anyone who has inside i knowledge of the conditions would hesitate to write anything which might be construed as taking the" side of the player against the public.
I have always held that the
general public without whose sup Port county cricket cannot go me-- has not been considered enough, and in several ways could be botter untored for. At the same time, I m firmly convinced that the sporting publie would not like to see any thing done that would constitute a real hardship to the players.
I find among my colleagues in muy own county, as well as players of ather sides, a feeling of concern over the light-hearted mammer in which counties are agreeing to play
hours which will provide cricket for an evening gate. Wor restershire, Glamorgan, Northants, and Derbyshire; to mention a few, i are counties that are attempting to
Training Course Part 15.-A recruits will attend, at the Chinese play from 1.30 p.m. without a lun Company's Headquarters on Tues-cheon interval as frequently
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Loans day, May 31, at 3:30 p.m., far in they can get the visiting sides to
The investment section, especial- ly Trums und Lands, both of which were marked up in the afternoon. were steadily absorbed by investors dad closed firm
Bales.
Hong Kong Bank 81,535. Hong Kong Lands $77/777. Hong Kong Electrics 2744.
Crawfords (Old) $81,
Buyers. Providenta (Old) $54. Providents (New) 82.40. Hong Kong Lands $77 Humphreys 810.
Ewe Cottons Tis. 14. Hong Kong Trams $22,35. Cements (Combined) $18.70. Dairy Farms $284. Watsons (Old) $14.35. Watsons (New) 8134. Lane, Orawfords (Old) 205.
Beilers.
Hong Kong Trame "A. Constructions (New) 81.70.
SHANGHAI SHARES.
LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
Messrs. Carroll Bros. have receiv od the following latest cabled 'quo- tations of Shanghai shares:-
Tls.
Ewo Cotton Mills Shanghai Landa
Shanghai Electrics
CLAIMS PAID
£40,000,00
GENERAL
ACCIDENT. FIRE & LIFE ASSURANCE CORPN., LTD.
All Classes of
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WORLD WIDE
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xtrustion.
Revolver Practice: - Revolver practice will be curried out by mem bers of the Chinese Company on Kennedy Road Range on Wednes
grEE,
Ordeal for Fielders.
This means two three-hour stret-
day, June 1, at 5.30 p.m. under Sub-ches with one interval of fifteen or Inspector A. L. Hopkins. Members thirty minutes for tea, Are these will semble at the range at that hours fair to the players i
time.
2. nt 6.30 pn.
They I-A are, of course, all right for the bat- Training Course--Part recruits of the Chinese Companyting side, but for the helding side will attend Central Police Station
plumb and the outfield hard as iron, for Squad Brill on Thursday, June on a hot day when the wicket is
Indian Company.
the strain of doing six hours straight | Strength: Constable R260 Ghulan off is going to be very heavy in- Mohamed has been permitted to derd resign from the Indian Company,
from May 20, 1932."
Flying Squad. Appointment:-Lance Sergeants A501 Choa Hing Ki and R233 A. Mooney have been promoted to the rank of Crown Sergeants as from May 27, 1932,
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"BRITISH YOUTH IN NOTICE TO
TENNIS.
But I would emphasise another nspect which as, far as I can gather seems to have been completely over- looked by the counties who want. YOUNG PLAYERS WHO ARE to play these hours. For years those whose duty it is to legislate for the game have been trying to flad ways and means of nawisting
the bowler without materially chang ing the game.»
The changes they have made are well known, and there is no need
MAKING GOOD."
LONDON, April 21,
In the postwar years of Eng lish lawn tennis, lopking back, the most notable, fentary has been the
Constables R313 R. C. Wilkinson and R317 Cheng Yew have been promoted to the rank of Lance-. Sergeants as from May 27, 1032.
Revolver practice will be carried out by is of the utmost importance that have been noclained
it should be realised that if thea world-heaters, only to prove members of the Flying Squad on
MARINERS.
SQUARE ISLAND AND TIGER ISLAND LIGHT-STATIONS.
Notice is given that, between the dates of the 17th and 20th June, 1039, and without further, notice, the following alterations will be
Practice: Revolver for me to reiterate them. But fact that so many young players muile to the characteristics of the
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lights exhibited at Square Island and Tiger Island Light-stations:- Square Island.
the Kennedy Road Range on Wed-hours ara allowed the bowler will
thoroughly disappointing. Tho nesday, June 8, at 5.30 p.m. under he deprived of one of the greatest Sub-Inspector A. L. Hopkins, Mem-advantages in breaking up big part swans have turned out to be geese!
The latest prodigy" is Miss K. The existing occulting light will bers will assemble at the range at nerships.
When two batsmen are act the. Stammers, the Hertfordshire | be changed to an acetylene white that time.
(Bgd.) D. L. KING,
fielding side looks to two events with hope One is the arrival of girl who put up such a wonderful flashing light, showing one flash a new ball at 200 or 100, and the sequence of victories over famous every five seconds, thus:
Light other is an interval. Imagine the! uproar there would have been had Pponents at the recent Roehampton
Eclipso tournament. She is playing this. the authorities rescinded the new week at the tournament stagedon
4
D.S.P. (R.).
ΒΟΥ HOLES IN ONE." A 15-year-old Birkenhead boyal regulation. Yet any bowler the courts of the West Side Coun will tell you that an intervali
0.8 second 4.2 seconds
The candle-power of the light will
Tiger Island. increased from 200 to sod
Light Eclipse
28.75 has achieved the golfing feat of 30.25 holing in one. He was playing with particularly the luncheon interval Club, Ealing, one of the most be
which is the one to disappear) is pleasant clubs in the London area. In the doubles she is paired with his 18-years-old. sinter at the the most frequent cause of a wicket that very sound player, Mrs. Pen- The existing Gxed red light will eighteenth hole of the Wirral falling. A three quarter of an cock, and the saine partnership will be changed to a white flashing Ladies Colf Club, which is 200 hour's break is sufficient to put the operate at Bournemouth next week light, showing 40 flashes per BEWARE OF IRA. yards long, and the players in front batsman's eye "out," and long in the Hard Courts Chumpionships.
who were standing on the edge of enough to give the bowlers a sub- Miss Stemmers is left-handed and minute, thus: the green, saw, to their astonish-stantial rest. SPY SUSPECT TARRED AND ment, the ball come bouncing on to
the green and trickle down FEATHERED
bole.
The boy, Paul H. Eyre, who is at Uppingham School and lives at Waterlord-road, Oxton, Birken head, said: "The people standing mi the ween went to the hole and waved the flag, 1 did not know what was the matter.
"TAKEN FOR A RIDE" TO COURT-MARTIAL.
Armagh.-Two men engaged Mr. George, an Armagh garage preprici tor, to drive them to Killyleagh. Hardly had he left the city when the passengers held him up at a lonely place. Here a large party! of the Irish Republican Army were concentrated.
Mr. George was kept prisoner while his car was driven, hy IRA mey to the house of a Mr. Dickson,
Armagh
the
Will Gates Justify Changes?
I did not have to pay the usual penalty for holing in one-drines round the club. I suppose father will get caught for that."
CRASH FORGOTTEN. MR. THACKRAY ASKS WHAT HORSE HE RODE
that fact makes her a rather dim- cult partner-even if a slightly more difficult opponent.
0.2 aékond 1.2 seconds The candle-power of the light will
be increased from 1 to 230.
Charts affected: "Chinese Admir
A personal opinion is that it is As a batsman I have always fearod rather too early to acclaim Misy- that luncheon intervals, when "set" Stammers as a great player in the alty Charts Nos. 501 and 1001. more than any new ball or change making. She is quite definitely of bowling. I am quite sure that good, but the general co-ordination the majority of batsmen will agree of her strokes requires tightening | with me in this. It is therefore, up. She is so much better near the this very considerable advantage baseline then she is near the net. which is to he cast aside, and for
Bad weather ponition spoiled what i
yesterday's play, the courts heing. Obviously ong would think it flooded for a long time when play would be for a very considerable should have been in progress. counter-advantage; but actually an
evening gate even in the industrial
Attractive Juniors.
SYMPHONIC CONCERT. PLEASING FUNCTION AT THE
PENINSULA...
The Peninsula Hotel's latest con- tribution to Hong Kong's entertain. ment has proved to be a great sue- than 300 people
19 mors
this
towns of the Midlands and the Two interesting matches woro cess, North is a very doubtful quantity played in the junior singles Mian gathered in the Lounge of Some years ago first-class cricket Mary Whitmarsh always attractive! palatia! establishment on Sunday was played until 7.30 p.m., but there to watch, defeated Miss D. K. Mor evening and paid a tribute of up- were no evening gates of any magris at 3 and played very well plause to the talent of Mr. J. nitude.
Putera and his capable assistants," while doing ed Mr. Fred Tickray, the 25-years. old amateur jodiey, of Reading,ther counties, will receive any mate. od pfamising since her junior cham- Petrograd Conservatory, bought Mr. Maklezoff, A.M., of the Therefore it is questionable who Misa Whitmarsh has always jook- who was unconscious-for-14 dnya).
..
E.
Mr Dickson was secured and after being thrown from Gregalach rial" financial benefit from playing pionship days. She hits the balls audio to the pen of delight in the Grand Nationall on March 16. until 7.30. However, finances are cleanly and truly and her footwork with his piano solo," Venezia o "driven into the country, where does not remember the accident.
so bad that almost anything is is good-very good for a young a Napoli" by Liszt, and was repeat. worth a trial, and I am quite will player Hare, the boy from the
edly encored. court-martial was staged. Having He has made good progress since
We have approached Mr. A. G. been found Guilty" he was tarred he was removed to his home, and ing, as I am sure all players are,l
to undergo personal inconvenience Midlands, who won ths Junior Piovanelli, the Manager of the it is hoped he will be about again for the sake of bettering the post-Championships title last September, hotel, who was very enthusiastic and feathered.
in a few weeks,
boat J. B. Gilson at 6-3, 8-6.about his first achievement, and Chulbs were round Him and Ho cannot recall anything of tion. placards bearing the words "Spics the crash," his father told are. This cn be done, however, with are should show a more adven- told us that much concerte will take and Informer beware IRA.", porter, and on Sunday he asked out doing away with an interval. turous spirit. He is much too ready place every Sunday between and He also stated that were placed on his body." me what horse he rode in the My own county has proposed for to win on his opponent's errors 11.30 p.m.
the match against Warwickshire at than on the severity and accuracy should occasion arise he will be Dickson was then released and rave."
Chelmsford the following schedule: Lof his own strokes.
pleased to accept the co-operation. Mr. Thackray's, father, who is & made his way to Armagh Barracks, motor couch proprietor, hopes his 12-30 to 2 o'clock; 2.45 to 6 o'clock, In the open women's singles Miss of local talent which would cer where the chains were filed off. son will enter the business and and 5.10 to 7:30. I note that War Stemmers beat Miss McAlpine attainly help to make these concreta Mr. George was also freed. His enve "steeplechasing alone in wickshire is suggesting similar hours 8-1, 6-3, and drove well on both some of the most outstanding local
features. chr was found wrecked in a ditch. future.
for the matches at Edgbaston wings,