THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1931.
THEY LOOK THE LAST
WORD IN EXTRAVAGANCE
-BUT THEY'RE NOT! ·
Aristoc
Aristoc save you shillings
and shillings. You can wear
thera and wear them. They
wash and wash and still they
come up smooth and smiling -as soft and lovely as ever.
¶ Clear, fine pure silk. Full fashioned. Wide yet close fitting tops. Continental foot with no chafing side seams. Tapered-in, stepped-in to with reinforcement over toe joint. Dyes that don't fads. Arister are Nottingham mads.
PURE SILK
THE ARISTOCRAT OF SILK
STOCKINGS
SPECIAL X'MAS GIFT PRICES
$7.95 and $9.95
Obtainable only at-
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SHARE PRICES.
TO-DAY'S. QUOTATIONS.
The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day:
Banka.
Hongkong Bank, $1500 n. Chartered Bank, £11 n.
Mercantile A. and B., £19 n. East Askt, $128 n.
Insurances.
Canton Ins., $1.450 n.
Uulon Ins., $430 n.
China Underwriters, $4.90 b
China Fires, $650 n,
H. K. Fire Ins., $1,450 n.
Shipping,
Douglases, $23 8.
II. K. Steamboats, $24 n. Indo-Chinas, (Pref.) 325 . Union Waterboats, $27 K.
Alining
Benguet, $10 n. Kailans, 28/1.
Shat Explorations, Tls, 2,70 n. Raum, $12 1.
Docks, etc.
Kowloon Wharves, $164 s. Whampoa Docks, $29 n. South China Motors $10 n. Providents old) $5.15 b. Hongkows, Tla, 226 n. New Engineers. Tls. 6 Shanghai Docks, Tls. 95 n.
Cottons.
Ewo cottons Tls, 16% n.
S'hai Cotton Tin, 82 11.
Zoon Sings Tls, 12 u.
Lands, fotela, etc.
n.
H.K. S. Hotel (old) $14.80 1.
B.K. S. Hotel (new) $14.66 n. H.K. Lands, $80 b. S'hai Land, Thя. 324 n. Humphreys $18 b. Realties, $114_
Pubile Utilitiem. Tramways, $20.90 1.
Peak Trains, fold. $1,25 m. Star Ferries, $9674 n. China Light, $27.60 s. 1. R. Electrics, $78 h. Macao Electrics, $23 a. Telephotos. $2
China Buser, Tls. 37,50 o. Singapore Tractions, 4/- n.
industrials.
Fa.
are 50 cts. D. Chinu Sugare Malabona $39 Canton lee.. $5% 1. Cement team) $18.80 b
Ropes, $16 n.
Sturer, etc. Dairy Farms, $28; 1. Watson, $16.40 0. Der A. Wings, X1 n. Lane Crawford. 88,66 sa Mackintosh, $19. Sinceres, $15% a. Powells, $3.00
Miscellaneous. Amusements, $19,90 }. Constructions, (old) $5.80 ».
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris. Geneva
Berlin
Onlo...
Previous Day. Yesterday.
87%
.17.11/10
14.0/10
184
Helsingfors
.245
Athens
255
Buenos Aires -10%
Shanghai
1/11
3.4114
AK
18
New York
Amsterdam
Stockholm Vienna
277
175%
1.4%
18%
1931
CHRISTMAS
AND
NEW YEAR FUNCTIONS
1932
CARNIVAL DINNER DANCES,
ONG KONG HOTEL
HON
Christmas Eve Roxing Day
New Year's Eve
Thursday, 24th Dec. Saturday 26th Dec. Thursday, 1st Drc.
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Thursday, 24th Dec. - Saturday 26th Dec. Thursday, 31st Dec.
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Boxing Day New Year's Eve
Christmas Eva Boxing Day
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Saturday 26th Dec. Thursday, 31st Dec.
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Till 1 A.M,
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1 Describes the news of yesterday from the Anti-National point of view.
8 One who plunders han norured
one bird, anyway.
Bearing the head. (No reference to "Salome" in intended.)
11 The fashion begins to moderate. 12 Though world famous, the name of this artist is associated with rubbish by the company.
13 An ak to the runner-up of
godliness.
18 This county is noted neither for mountain seenery nor people.
17 Testified on oath, and if it
included, set down.
18 You'll find a bit of piny forms
part of this calculated coume of conduct.
21 Laden,
33 Not mine ulone the alient hours.
24 A girl, obviously wrong.
26 Always has its back to the wall. 28 Exist.
2 The kind of dogs that won't
learn irteks. (Two words.)
30 Essentially a "Tall, funny dame" (7 was at the bottom of things). tanng.).
Down
2 In this, Red Ivan makes a hostile
Incursion.
The farm servant remains un- moved at the back.
A This is not likely to worry you
if your carburettor Is
fed. (Hyphen.)
pressure
& Might describe a carpenter's rule
-doubly.
6 Although reluced, this cul Ntili
raises a smoke.
7 Just the reverse of what 16 is
noted for.
8 With a lofty spirit, I am placed at the bend of nations, thus giving rise to meditations.
10 You will have to be quick about this one if you would be right. 14 You have your log, I can see. I should get off: Joe tides wait for no man (hidden.)
15 "Not all the lip can-is worth The sileme of the heart."—J. Q, Adams, "The Lip and the Heart." 10 A type of reindeer.
20 This indicates the existence of
something else.
21 A hanging matter-but it may be
a soft one.
22 Just the hook to ling.
20 A fighty little thing.
27 It's my opinion that this will
he your
Yesterday's Solation.
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Suspiciouall
WEATHER FORECAST,:
VARIABLE TEMPERATURES AND WINDS inducing
COLDS and CHILLS which can be rapidly cured by.
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RECKLES
HAS BEEN TOLD BY A GYPSY, WHOM
HE ACCIDENTLY
RAN INTO,
THAT OSCAR. WAS SEEN BEING HELPED
INTO AN AUTOMOBILE
BY TWO
MENA..
YES...THEY WENT TOWARD BIG HOUSE ON THE LAKE....I THINK YOU FIND HIM THERE!!
M
OH, THANKS VERY MUCH... I'LL RUN RIGHT - BACK AND
LOOK FOR HIM --
WELL, I'LL HAVE
ME TOO..
GOOD
Bya!!
TO HURRY OFF
·NOW...
By Blosser
GOOD BYE, MY EYE!! I
THINK SUE LIED TO ME... AL
CIRCLE BACK AND SEE
WHERE SUS GOES!!
My
FRECKLES SUSPICIONS
"OF THE GYPSY
ARE AROUSED
SCAR
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