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MONDAY DECEMBER 19, 1921.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SOISSONS LOOT.

£20,000 Coffin ››

The Priscoss of Braganza - and Duchess of Oporte, widow of the Princ of Braganza brother of the late King Carlos of Portugal, arrived at Naples from the United Stated with a silver bronze coffin weighing balf a ton and valued at £20,000, in which she intend. ed to convey the body of her husband to Lisbon. The Prince, who died in February 1920, lay in a crypt at Naples. On October 21, the birthday of the Princess, the body was to be placed in the bronze and silver coffin and conveyed in an Italian warship to Lisbon, where it was to be buried beside the late King Carlos. "I could not find all over Europe the sort of coffin I wished for the body of the Prince," the Princess said, but I bad it made in the United States."

The Princess was formerly Mrs. Philip van Valkenberg, and was known some years ago as the "million dollar widow."

Mystery Machine.

Described as a man with magic bands, Frank Courtney, the winner of the Air Derby of 1920, has been

GENERAL ITEMS.

"Prisoner was so drunk that he could only walk backwards," said a polico witness at Willesdon Police Court.

Two hundred silver coins, struck between 1923 and 1437, and a gold esin the size of a florin, have been found at Cowbill Farm, Whitburn, Linlithgowshire.

Brighton police constables on point duty have been provided with white waterproof coats in order to assist motorists to observe dangerous cross roads-on wet nights.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

LATEST SHIPPING NEWS,

ARRIVALS.

Chekiang, (B. & S.) from Canton, B.-12.

Sunning, (B. & S.) from Canton. B-9.

Eurypylus, (B, & S.) from Glasgow. Manila Holta Wharf.

Bellerophon, (B. & Sk) from Yoko bama, Stanghai.-4. 2.

Hoihow, (B. & S.) from Dalny. C. 19.

-B, 26.

Kam Ying Fat, (Globe Nav, Co.) GIVING SHARES AWAY. from Fakloi-C36.-

Wah Hang. (Wing Hang) from LITTLE "PUZZLE” EXPLAINED Fort Bayard, Macao.Wharf.

Taiazems, (Yan Fat) from K. C. Wan, Macho-Wharf.

Hok Canton, (Wo Hing) from K. C. Wan, Wharf.

CLEARANCES.

Devawongse (Yuen Seng Fat.) for Saigon,--Dec. 18.

Shiayo Maru, (T. K. K.) for Huichow, (B. and S.) from Tientsin, Keelung, San Francisco.-Dec. 18.

Porthos, (M. M. Cie.) for Shanghai, Waihaiwei.-C. 45.

Kiukiang, (B. and S.) from Hongay.Yokohama.-Dec. 18.

Prometheus, (Kwong Min Sing.) for Szecburn, (B. and S.) from Shang-Swatow, Bangkok.-Dec. 18.

Hang Sang, (J. M. & Co for hai, Swatow-B. 12,

Swatow, Shanghai.-Dec. 18,

Sunning, (B. 7: S.) for Shanghai.- Glengyle, (J.M, & Co.) from Lon- December 18

Luehow, (B. & S.) for Swatow, don, Singapore.--Wharf.

Wing Sang, (J.M. & Co.) from Hai-Singapore. December 18. phong –0, 40.

Chenan, (B. and S) from Canton.

At an inquest on John William Davis, 50, dairyman, of Brighton, it was stated that as he was fixing aC. 40. tube to a gas ring to make a morning cup of tea he fainted and died through inhaling the escaping gas.

The average tender price of houses containing living room, scallery, three bedrooms, and necessary offices fell from £821 in February to £628 in August, and for September, on the figures so far received, the price was £500.

A tablet commemorative of the

chosen as pilot during the trials with flight by aeroplane across the Atlantic the secret Helicopter which has been in June 1919 by Sir Arthur Whitten produced at Aldershot.

Brown and the late Sir John Alcock, and who were awarded the Daily Mail £10,000 prize, was unveiled in Manchester Town Hall.

The choice is generally approved, no other airman having laced greater

adventures. For some time he has been engaged in trial flights of big sir express machines. He has wonderful- ly sensitive hands comparable only with Hawker's, while he also possesses skill, experience and during, all of

which are necessary.

The Helicopter is a closed book and an utter mystery. It is impossi ble to tell how it will behave when It the direction of flight is changed. Courtney is successful it will in- augurate a completely fresh phase in the development of flight und will be an achievement comparable with that of the Wright brothers' first flight or of l'egoud's first loopi, Origin of Life.

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Refusing to move for all ordinary means of persuasion two horses draw- ing a van, which had stopped at Ludgate circus, E.C., were induced to move on by the gentle but powerful pushing of a motor-lorry on the rear of the van.

Transmission through the post of newspapers publishing betting odds on horse races, prize fights, and other contest of speed, strength, or skill," will be prohibited under a Bill passed by the United States House of Representatives.

To-day, said Dr. W. B. Brierley, of "I only knew of one scaman who the Rothamsted Experimental Station gave up during the war," Laid Admiral at Harpenden, lecturing at Gresham ir Doveton Sturdee at Manchester, College upon "The Origin of Life," "and that was a man who had been we seemed to be little nearer a solu- torpedoed seven times. He was called tion of the problem than were the Jonsh,' and his brother seamen were Grecks of ancient times. Research afraid to sail with him, so he could into such a problem was an illusory not go to sea." business, but it was ro exaggeration

Mr. George E. Bidder, a sexagenari

to say that millions of lives had been saved and untold misery and suffering an, of Cedar Rapids, Michigan, has averted by the practical discoveries accomplished the feat of becoming which had arisen apparently from the grandfather of his own children. purely philosopbical studios of the By divorcing his wife and marrying kind. Speaking of some of the theories his mother-in-law Bidder became his which had been held concerning the former wife's stepfather. He is, there question, Dr. Brierley said that one fore, now the grandfather of his own solution that had been put forward six children. was that living individuals came from dead matter. For instance, one great scientist of a few hundred years ago told how to obtain mice. "One takes," he said, "some linen, and one places it in a receptacle along with some grains of wheat and some cheese, and next morning you have mice." (Laughter.)

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Excavations which have been in progress on the Monte Mario, a hill in the environs of Rome, bave revealed the remains of a prehistoric village. There are indications that the dwell. ings that have thus been brought to light date from the first Iron Age, or perhaps the Bronze Age. The dis- covery is regarded as highly import- Judging by the thousands of letters-ant in that it may throw light on the received by the Congress at Washing history of the early inhabitants of the ton every day, there has developed Rome district. throughout the country a decided

Prohibition Revulsion.

revulsion of feeling against prohibi- Mr. Law Binns, of Rose Hill House, tion, and a demand that light beers Clifton, Manchester, manufacturer, and wines should be legalised. Com-who died last August, leaves £106,012 paratively few people want the return gross estate. After other family of the public-house or express a desire legacies he gives £15 000 to his son to ace whisky or other strong intoxi- John William Binns (whom he cants again on sale. Even temper has not seen for many years) provided. ance workers are asking for the repeal he can be traced within two years of of the drastic dry laws. "Be aggres-his (the father's) death. If he cannot sive for prohibition, but not unreason-be traced the £15,000 reverts to his able," is the substance of the advice (the father's) widow. to Congressmen, and the prospects of

moderation in the near future are The Home Secretary is stated to be enhaused by the Government's urgent inquiring into the case in which a need for more revenue, and the know-newsvendor was sentenced at Marlbo- ledges that even a modest tax on rough street Police Court for obtain- wines and beer will yield about ing a penny by false pretences by £250,000,000 a year. As conditions relling a pamphlet which purported stand to day, Americans get plenty to record Mr. H. Bottomley's good of drink, although the coat is high, deeds" on behalf of war sufferers and the Government gets nothing but since his re-election as M. P. fer South trouble and abuse.

Hackney, but contained only blank pages.

Insanity Care.

cor-

The most speedy recovery from n

"Two young men visiting London sanity was mentioned in the United States Commissioner's Court says the came into my shop and asked to hear a few gramophone records," writes Philadelphia Central News

the proprietor of a London West End respondent. The patient was Jacob Jacobson, who was arrested in Chester music store. After they had heard about 20 records and I had played on charges of passing counterfeit money. He pretended to be insane, three tunce on the piano, I asked if there was anything I could serve would not talk and refused to show them with. Oh, we are not buying. any interest in the proceedings, music, said one of them, but wo Jacobson was told that the serious condition of his heart required the have been told how obliging you ure in London shops, and we thought wo

immediate removal of that organ would cell in.""

He was taken to the bospital in

Moyamenting Prison, and placed on the operating table, A "fake" ether

Women doctors are discussing the

cap was placed on his head, and the novel methods adopted by a west surgeons, rattling their knives an-country doctor in bis quest for a wife, nounced that the operation would A pretty Scottish girl, recently begin. At the first touch of the qualifed, made a long journey to see surgeon's thumb nail drawn across lum, following correspondenco as the his chest, Jacobson, jumped from the result of an advertisement for n medical assistant. But when Lo Esid, table obricking. After the cure he announced that he was, Jacob"I do not want an aesistant want Jacobson and could u understand per- a wife. Will you marry me?!! fectly. Commissioner. Long allowed Indigoantly doparted. The advertiss

ment is still appenting hite ball in 3250

Hop Sang, (J.M. & Co.) from Shanghai, Swatow.-Wharf.

Kazembe, (Bank Line) from Kobe, Shanghai.-A. 29.

Hailoong, (D. L. & Co.) from Foo- chew, Swatow.Wharf.

Ralph Moller, (Yuen Cheongles) from Quinhon, Hoibow.-C. 44.

Hydrangea, (Chin On S. 8. Co.) from Swatow.-Wharf.

Pheumpenh, (Wo Fat Sing) from Saigon.-B11.

Kashmir, (P. & O. S. N. Co.) from London, Singapore.Wharf.

Soochow, (B. & S.) from Shanghai, Amoy.-B12,

Silver State: (Admiral Live) from Seattle, Shanghai.--Al.

Porthos (M.M. Cie.) from Marecilles Haiphong-43.

Paul Lecat, (M.M. Cie.) from Yoko hama, Shanghai-A5.

Sunferopol, (M.B.K.) from Kee. lang.--B51.

Jade, (Ken Yo) from Haiphong, Pakhoi.-C38:

Alabama Moru (0.S.K.) from Manila.--Aml.

Cheban, (B. & B.) for Swatow, Shanghai.--December 18.

Torya maru, (M.B.K.) for Keelung. -December 18.

Shokiku Maru, (Suzuki & Co.) for Kobe.--December 19.

Chikiang, (B. & S.) for Ningo, Shanghai--Dec. 19.

Kwanglee, (C. M. S. N. Co.) for Can tou-Dec. 19.

Chengtu (B. & S.) for Swatow, Bangkok-Dec. 19.

BY EXPERT.

People unversed in Stock Exchange affairs were puzzled a day or two ago to tend that the shares of a brewery company were actually being given away by one of the dealers Why this offer of something for nothing? aska E. D. Kissan, the city Editor of the Weekly Dispatch.

CHILD LABOURERS.

NOT REALLY VERY MANY."

WEATHER REPORT,

December 19d. 12b. 05m.-Pressure: has incre sed alig stly at Shanghai In view of the interest aroused, and Hongkong and decreased af ghtly lately in the employment of young over the Philippin s.

we tward.

children, a special table has been The depression in the S. China Sea devoted in the report on the 1931 has probably m ver census of the Colony just isened to Another has formed over the Southern the occupations of children under 14 Philippines. (English reckoning).

2-Formose Chaunel. N.E. winds, strong.

Fresh monsoon may be expected" "It will be seen" says the report along the coast of China, and mo that except in domestic work very lerate monsoon over the China Sea. few under 12 are employed. Children

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 Hours: "The incident was a phase of employed carrying building material at 10 am, to-day, 003 h movement that has expanded recently, are included under Orders XIII and Totat since January 1st, 97-33 inches,

which also include suchginst an average of 82:04 inches. While the stock markets as a whole XXII,

Forecast for the 24 hours ending at have been passing through unparalle occupations as painting, paint scrap.

-Hongkong tri GAT

Rack. led depression, there has been muching, scaffold erecting, atone breaking noon on Lecember 20 activity in new issue of capital and other miscellaneous light work. N.E. winds, fresh; overcast, drizzling Slack, tradò leaves large sums of The large number of girls classified rain or mist. mozey idle, and many of these new under Manufacture of Clothing" is capital offers have proved specially accounted for by the great tendency displayed to record females who had attractive.

At a time when "safety first" is no other occupation than helping in the motto of investors who have the the home as engag d'in needlework. bitter lessons of the "boom" and the It is unlikely that more than half the collapse fresh in their memory, offers young girls so recorded actually carn of new gilt edged securities such as wages by needlework. Few male ap the stocks of our Over-ten Dominions, prentices under 12 are recorded, the or good-class debentures, such as age when apprenticeship generally those of progressive electrical supply begins being 13 to 16. The chief companies, have met with a ready manufactures in which child labour response and have been immediately can be usefully employed are those of saleable in the market at a profit to cigarettes and bosiery, recent in- troductions on the factory scale. At the subscriber.

So there has been a recrudescens of present factories properly so called Hwah Cho, (Kwing Ngnan Sing.) "stagging." The "stag" is there very rare, and most of the child speculator who subscribes for new labour engaged in manufacture is for Bangkok-Dev. 19.

Huichow, (B. & S.) for Canton-issues, not with the intention of keep-employed in small shops or at home. ing them, but in the hope that they The large number of boys employed Deo. 19.

may immediately go to a "premium" in domestic duties, ie, in private that is, may be quoted above their issua price.

Paul Lecat, (M.M. Cie.) for Hai- phong, Marseilles.---Dec. 19,

Silver State, (Admiral Line) for Manila.-Dec. 19.

Lake Gitano, (P.M.S.S. Co.) for Haiphong, Saigon.--Dec. 20.

Tango Meru, (N.Y.K.) for Manila, Melbourne.-Dec. 20.

Wah Hang, (Wing Hang) for Kwong Chaw Wan.-Dec. 20.

Hwah Wu, (Dodwell & Co.) for Chinwantao.-Dec. 20.

Sai Yik, (Fook Hoi) for Shanmi-a Taiezema, (Yan Fat.) for Kwong

Cheribon Maru, (N.F.K. & Co.) | Dec. 20. Kobe, Daloy-427.

Taikwa Muru, (T. K. K.) from Kee-Chow Wan.-Dec. 20. Jung, Swatow.-C48.

Szechuen, (B. & S.) for Shanghai.

Eurypylue, (B. & S.) for Nagasaki,

Kashima Maru, (N.Y.K.) from New-Dec. 20. York.--Wharf.

Tango Maru, (N.Y.K.) from Kobe, Yokohama.-Dec. 20.

Paludiva, (A. P. C.) for Singa Nagasaki.--Wharf.

Toryu Maru, (M.B.K.) from Can-pore.-Dec. 20. ton.-B.49.

Kwanglee, (C.M.S.N. Co.) from Shanghai.-Wharf.

Wa Sun, (Pak Hong S.S. Co.) from Slanmi.-Wharf.

Hwab Wa, (Dodwell & Co.) from Chinwantao.-B.53.

Yuet Wah, (Fak Shun S.S. from Manila, Iloilo.-041.

Tang Shing, (Yai Woo 8.8. from Haiphong, Hoihow.-039.

Co.)

Co.)

FOR HIM.

POCKET WATCH

WRIST WATCH WATCH CHAIN

The subscription price for new issues is usually payable by easy in stalments. The "stag," therefore, does not have to put up the whole issue price but merely the aums pay able on application and allotment, There may amount to a mers 10 or 15 per cent. on the amount of stock secured, so that even if he can sell at premium of only 1 or 2 per cent. hr obtains a substantial rate of profit for the short time ho is out of his money.

3-loath coast of China hetween tagkong and Lamooks, The same as

No. J.

4-Bouth poest of China between Jongkong and Hainan. The sante, as No 1.

ROYAL OBSERVATORY, HONGKONG. DAILY WEATHER REPORT.

DECEMBER 19, 1921.-4.m.

*tation.

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houses, or as cooks in shops, is noto- worthy, contrasted with the small number of free girls so employed. Considering the absence of any legal restraint on the employment of child labour, the number of children acht actually employed in other than domestic work in proportion to the total number of children in the Colony Tab appear very small; under 12 the number employed is 6,677 of whom 5,100 are employed in domestic duties mostly as "muitsai."

A sum of 8s. had been paid on ap. plication and allotment and rather than be saddled with the liability to pay the remaining 12s. per share one holder, at the opening of the market,

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WHEN THE STAG." STUMBLES But the uninitiated "atag," and sometimes even the expert if he is unwary, is apt to stumble. A run of new issue successes may be broken by a failure, and the "stag" may be actually offered the shares at 8s. dis landed with shares which, instead of souut, that is. 83. below the g he being in keen demand, are a glut in had paid for them. This is the Gap A GERM DESTROYER: the market. Such a case arose during Stock Exchange method of quoting 400 HERE is no canger whatever from the last few days. The ordinary "nothing" for a partly-paid share. It Wachow8.

look jaw or blood poison resulting shares of an important brewery amal meant that the seller was ready to foihow from a wound when Chamberlain's Pain gamation were offered, but the in give the shares away to anyone who Balm is promptly applied. It is an antiseptic and destroys the germs which vestor did not "bite." Only a small would relieve him of the responsibility. To the investing and speculating cause these diseases. It also causes proportion of the 1,500,000 shares wounds to heal without matur. tion was taken up by genuine investors. public this incident has its lesson. Do and in one third the time required by the asual treatment. For sale by al This meant that the issue went to the not subscribe for stocks and shares

"stags" and the underwriters. Chemists and torekeepers,

that you cannot pay for in full.

WATCH FOB WATCH LOCKET CUFF LINKS CIGARETTE CASE TRAVELLING CLOCK

BINOCULAR

Etc.

Etc.

JEWELLERY

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J. ULLMANN & CO.

Queen's Road. Established 1860.

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6 a. 20.69 78 91

Wind.

Q. W. JEFFRIES, Director. Hoogkong Observatory,; Dec 19, 1921.

1. BARDMETER."reduced to 98 devṛ-es Fahrenheit, on the level of the sex in inches, tonths and hundredths

grees Fahrenheit.

2. TEMPERATURE, in the shade in de

3. HUMIDITY, in percentage of satura tion the humidity of nic naturated with moisture

are being 100.

4 DIRECTION OF Wiwo, to two points. 5. FORCE OF WIND, according to Beadford Scale

B. STATE OF WEATHER, b blosky, o 8. detachat cloud. d drizzling rain, ↑ fex, gloomy, h. hail,, 1 lightning, o oversat p passing showers,, q squal', z'rain, a enow

t thundor v visibility w daw, wet.

7. RAIN in Incker, tanths and ́ gun- dredths.

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T. V. OLAITON, Directors Hongkong, Observatory, Dec. 10. 1921.

HONGKONG. TIME SIGNALS.

The Time Esl on Kowloon Signal Hill is dropped daily at 10 am and 4 pun, except on Saturdays when it is droppon 10 mm and 1 p.m. and on Sundays and Holidays when it is dropped at it

The Ball is hoisted ba't const at the both minute and full mist at the 67th minute. Shou'd the all fail to drop.st the correct time it will be lowered at t wictwa pist the hour and the ordinary routine repeated at the following boar, Should the Timo Ball be out of order the above routine will be carried out with the Bax the Storm Signal Lukstov

brabe.

Signals are also given at night

LetTimes Three white lame mounter [by of

vertionlly on the Obarva ory wirolets Imasteef co

From 8.td to 9.00 pm the lamps a exiliguished momastarily, në tha ay seconds, except at the Endir Seth. and, and bill at ea h nilnnte, y

The bourg rel-r to Hongkong Stat Time (6 hoạm Hist of firetamiilES

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