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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927.

Phone C.22

FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Twenty-five Words three inger- tions prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for threé insertions.

TO LET.

NOTICES.

ROYAL 'ARTILLERY. ATHLETIC

MEETING 1927...

To be held on the United Services T Recreation Ground, Kowloon,

May, 5th and 6th.

OPEN EVENTS:- 6th May.

One Mile Flat Race-Timed for 3-10 p.m.

Open to the Itoyal Navy, Euro TO LET.-Ground Floor, A.F.C. pean Garrison (including H.K. Building. Suitable 13 a Shop. V.D.C.), Hong Kong Police, and Apply to Tabaqueria Filipina. British Residents.

Sports to commence at 2-0 p.m.

A.P.C. Building.

TO LET FURNISHED.—No.. 515, The Peak, Six Rooms, Modern Sanitation, Large Garden, Tennis Court, Garage, ele. Apply to John': A. Pluramer, e/o Bradley & Co.. Etc.

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LET-Furnished for fiya Modern months from May 1st. Bungalow at No. 4 Broadwood Road containing 2 Reception Rooms and 3 Bedrooms. Apply Hong Kong Tramways Limited.

FOR SALE OR TO LET.

BUNGALOW, 102, Severn Road,

NOTICES.

FANLING HUNT STEEPLE CHASES.

A

THE CHINA

MAIL.

CLUB CARDROOM,

STAKES AND THE SOCIAL BRIDGE SCALE.

WELL-DEFINED GROUPS.

Saturday, April 30th, at 3.15 p.m.

ADMISSION TO PUBLIC EN- CLOSURE: $1, LADIES FREE. In almost every club where auction bridge is regularly played DMISSION to Subscribers En-

you will find the players gradual closure Production of

ly divide themselves into certain One Mile Relay Race-Timed for Badge only.

well-defined groups; and the. 0-0 p.m. (220, 440, 880, 220. Yde. Subscribers can introduce Two same types reappear with as- Teums of 4).

Ladies free and two non-members tonishing regularity. at 35 each, Tickets obtainable from A. H. Potte, c/o Benjamin & divided into social groups de- In all clubs bridge players are Potts.

pending on the points played rather than on the skill of the players. For instance, if there is a very fine player who never goes beyond ten shillings a fun- dred he will never be talked about as one of the masters. From time to time someone may say, "What a good player X is," but unless he is prepared to back his reputation with hard cash on really be able to judge of his a lavish scale, no one will ever

each day.

Hong Kong, 28th April, 1927.

ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT. CLUB..

Special train leaves Kowloon 2.07 return fare 1st Class: $1.50 2nd 90 cents. Free parking for cars off the course! $5 ench. parked opposite the stand.

HONG KONG FOOTBALL LEAGUE.

minded that all suggested

ments to the Rules of the above

the biggest. Generally he is given a hearty welcome. Some- times he enjoys two or three winning days, still holding won- derful cards, but as luck cannot last for ever, at the end of a very short time things begin to go against him. Then his lack of any real skill or knowledge be- comes painfully evident, and his losses. are twice as big as hia; winnings, and he wisely decides to retire. He moves right down the acate and starts at the bottom! at ten shillings a hundred, and for days has a sickly look on his ever tempted him to face, wondering why ambition

move in: circles where he really had no chance, when he was doing so nicely amongst his social equals.

The "Ground Men."

Now as there are different

grades of players and different points, so also you will find cer- tain well-defined types at each table. They are found in all grades of the social bridge scale. Auction in'n club goes on for year ever a closed season except dur- in and year out; there is hardly

members are accepted as guests at some other club where bridge is, equally popular.

League must be sent in to the un-capacity, because individual playing the annual cleaning, when

THE CLOSING CRUISE will

CLUBS in Membership are re on SATURDAY, C take place April 30th. First Race from Club additions, Alterntions or Amend House, North Point, at 3 p.m.

All friends of members will be welcome at the Club House.

Launches for members and the public will leave Statue Pier every 15 minutes from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. Launches will be available for the return journey.

Championship and other trophies Penk. Partly furnished. Four won during the season will be pre- Reception and Five Bedrooms.sented during the afternoon. Tennis Court. Possession from 1st. June. Apply:-Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Chartered Bank Build- ing.

FOR SALE.

F. J. EASTERBROOK,

Hon. Secretary. R.H.K.Y.C.

| 26th April, 1927,

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

dersigned not later than MAY 1ST,

in nccordance with League Rule 25, according to the points.

W. E. HOLLANDS,

Hon. Secretary, Hong Kong, 25th April, 1927.

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD,

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

The White House flag has been installed on the mansion on Dupont Circle, Washington, which is serving as a temporary residence for President and Mrs. Coolidge while the White House is being repaired.

There are certain members who may be described as the groundmeh, like the permanent staff of a cricket or football club. They are ever there to keep the ber after dinner by hook or by pitch in order that is to say, to crook, even going so far as to carry on the game from the invite their prospective victims to opening to the closing of the club. a quiet dinner.

As a rule the groundman is possessed of no great wealth, but he has sufficient capital behind

of

at auction varies so enormously Many will argue that this is all wrong, and that you should. play exactly the same whether it is for ten shillings a hundred or for five pounds a hundred. But the fact remains that, this theory (never works out in practice.

The moral effect on the player of really gambling at auction for sums which perhaps he cannot well afford always makes a dif-

. Money Settlements. TGENERAL

THE FORTY-SIXTH ORDINARY ference in his play and his call-

Now in nearly all clubs the MEETING ofing.

him to meet an ordinary run of final settlement is on-n Monday. Shareholders will be held at the

The High Table." bad luck, and many have ac- Therefore bridge largely con- Offices of the undersigned on

ព series of well- Now a player who plays for cumulated large sums

at the sists FOR SALE-One brass "Hung THIRD EXTRA RACE MEETING. TUESDAY, the 17th May, 1927, at one pound a hundred is in a game. His sole ambition is to timed manoeuvres to have Noon, for the purpose of receiving higher social bridge scale than five quietly and comfortably on your account. on the credit the Report of the General Agents, the one who plays for ten shill- his average winnings, to let the side by Saturday and Sunday. If together with, a Statement of Ac. counts for the year ended the 31stings, and is looked up to by those rest of the world well alone, and you are a big loser on Saturday afternoon it is very often difficult December, 1926.

to recover your losses, as so many people go away, or the winners decide to take advantage of their run of luck by giving the game a rest, Sunday is worse than Saturday, and very seldom on that day will you find enough money to make up for a bad week. If the groundmen-are-winning on Saturday night it is seldom you will see them on the Sunday, That is their one afternoon of rest. They know the folly of playing the day before the settle- ment if they have a tidy sum in hand.

Ming" pan of the Chinese Han Dynasty with automatic springs. Price $1.000.00 Apply Box No. 487. e/o "Chinn, Mail."

MISCELLANEOUS.

ADDITION TO PROGRAMME.

RACE NO. 4A, K.O.S.B. SUBALTERNS CUP. FOUR FURLONGS.

HOR Chiur ponies, the private property of Subalterns 2nd Battalion The King's Own Scottish

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly +21 promptly printed."China | Borderers. Mail" Office. No. 5, Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22.

LAMMERT BROS.

ACUTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.

Public Auctions.....

WATER SUPPLY.

water

Level and Storage of Reservoirs on April 1, 1927:- CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.

Tytam

192

To be ridden by offteers of the Regiment.

Catchweights 168 lbs. Post En-

tries.

Hong Kong, 27th April, 1927.

NOTICE.

HONG KONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Nthat Mr. D. D. RUSSELL Bas

The SHARE REGISTER and

will TRANSFER BOOKS

be CLOSED from the 3rd to the 17th May, 1927, both days inclusive,

JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD..

General Agents Hong Kong, 26th April, 1927.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

G.

R.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

heen appointed Chairman of the PAR

Local Committee and also joint of the Sale by Public Auction Attorney with Mr. FRANK GOOD. to be held on MONDAY, the 2nd this day of May, 1927, at 3 p.m. WIN, acting Manager, for Company during the absence on at the Offices of the Public Works

in leave of Mr. W. L. Patienden.

By Order of the Directors.

L. J. BLACKBURN,

Engineer & Manager. Hong Kong, 26th April, 1927,

1027 37 1"B. 10' 1"3. Tytam Byewash... 21′ 2′′B. 23' "B. Tytam Intermediate 34' 7"B. 22' 0", Tytam Tuk .... 52'6'3, 32' 3"B, Wang Nei Chung.. 28' "B. 15′ 0′′B. Pokfulum

16' 9"B. 18' 6"B. [Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow": A denotes Above Overllow."]

Storage in millions and decimals of gallons.

Tytam

Tytam Byewash

Tytum Intermediate Tytam Tuk *** Wong Nei Chung Pokfulum

Total

*926

NOTICE.

HONG KONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that Mr. FRANK GOODWIN

1027 has been appointed acting Manager 141.57 304.39 of the above Company, with Co- 137 power of Attorney, during my ab- £3.80 03.20 sence on leave.

2.21

160,60, 751.74 By Order of the Board

4.79

13.72 Directors.

30.58 27.24

082.65 1,191,66

Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de- cimals of gallons during the month of March:-

Consumption

of

L. J. BLACKBURN,

Engineer & Manager. Hong Kong, 26th April, 1927.

1926 1927 HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER

OF COMMERCE.

198.26 215.76

Estimated population 309,880 410.200 Consumption per head

16.0

per day (gullons)

ANNUAL 17.0 HE

GENERAL Intermittent Supply in all Rider | A MEETING of Members of the

Main Districts. un

up to March 14, and HONG KONG GENERAL CHAM-

services to houses in

in the Rider Main Districts

were

BER OF COMMERCE will be held disconnected and a Supply was given by public staget on THURSDAY, 28th April, 1927, fountains only from March 15, 1926. at. 4 p.m., in the CITY HALL, for

Intermittent Supply in all Rider the following purposes:- Main Districta West of Garden Road during March 1927 and Full Supply in

Rider Main Districts East of Garden Road during March 1927.

KOWLOON WATER WORKS

LEVEL.

1020'. 1027 Kowloon Reservoir.. 23′ 8′′B. 17′0′′B. Shek Lai Pui Reservoir 34′11′′B, 21′6′′H.

·Reception Reservoir

**2*"B, Storage In millions, and decimals of gallons:

1320

1907 151.80 108.80

Kowloon Reservoir

Shek Lal Pul Reservoir ..15 28.00 Reception Reservoir

Total

27.09

151,05:240.02

Consumption of water in Kowloor

in millions and dreimals of galién? fluis

ing the month of March. Se

Consumption

32.54 77.45

(1) To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year ended 31st December, 1926.

(2) To elect a new Committee. (3) To transact any General

Business.

By Order,

M.F. KEY,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 20th April, 1927.

MARTINS PILLS

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Estimated population 164.300.166.400 SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG

Consumption per head

15.6

per day (gallons), PA: 7.0. Restricted Supply in all districts during March 1926, - Full supply in, ali districts during March 1927,

The Government Kaalusi, kapura

whow that the uality of the sale

Total rainfall to March 31, 1926. 17.45; March 31, 1927, 0.20.

KONG FOR APRIL, 1927

Date

(Standard Time of the 120th Meridian, East of Greenwich).

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Department, by Order of His Ex- cellency the Governor, of one Lat of. Crown Land at Mong Kok Tsui in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a terms of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed) by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75

years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

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But when the groundmen are losing at the end of the week. it is a sad, almost pathetic sight. When none of their habitués turn up they are compelled to hunt about amongst the lesser lights, to collect players from a lower social grade, and to induce them to play, or to consent to play lower points themselves. Ashmead-Bartlett in the "Even ing Standard."

"FOLLY AND BLINDNESS."

that she was then already married

and that she had committed bigamy

in marrying him. This had caused him to be depressed.

The deputy-coroner (Mr. Pur- chase) said it was perfectly clear that this woman had committed bigamy, and had apparently made. two bigamous marriages, Her ac- tion had entirely undermined the happiness of the man who was now dead. He (te ermer) had caus- can summans to be served on this woman to at end le inquest, bul she had left address and could

be Saund Her conduct was a miter for ths concakration of the Props: authorities.

A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was recorded.

I can tell you this: anything that purports to be sad by the Prime Minlater wh.ch ja, ungenerous dishonourable antrue-Mrs. Baldwin.

UNINTENTIONAL SUICIDE.

Or

You pay no attention to the fact that you are not fit, that something alls you which may be dissipated by simple your allment has made anch inroads measures. You prefer, to wait until upon your health that you are forced to consult your doctor. How often has he suid to you,

"But why not come to me in the first place? Why wait until I am compelled

co

havo

"My body is here through my fol: ly and blindness in loving and trusting my whole life, honour, and money to an utterly unworthy wo-Impairment of that fitness.

man.

This the

tell you that you must stop away frer business, or give up all your so- Ecial activities?. Had you come to ma when you first began to be run-down,

could

given you a tonic that would have put you right in

Jiffy." So many of us trust to lack to rid us of some minor allment. We aro even unwilling to avail ourselves of simple measures that are conveniently at hand, and that will restore fitness without the slightest inconvenience- may, mere, that will insure us against Dr. Williams Pink Pilla for Palo letter, addreased

to People, a scientifically constructed police, wag found intonic, will put you right and keep you the pocket of

Fright. Their worth has been attestad Thomson, 42, insurance broker. of by thousands. They are a proved re- Cautley-avenue, Clapham. To a medy for ailments arising from watery, police-constable who found Thom impure blood or disordered nerves, such son lying, with his throat cut, in- tion, rheumatism, also for those irre- as anaemia, nervous debility, indiges- side the gates of Battersen Park, hegularities of health which afflict women said: "I have made a mess of it.

In evidence at the inquest at of all chemists, or

only

post free, $1.50 below him. The sixpenny points to be let alone by it. He is gen- player is looked up to and re-erally good-natured, tolerant, and Wandsworth it was stated that in per bottle, 6 bottles for $8.00, from spected by the pound a hundred the same of politeness. It is 1923 be married a woman named The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60 man, and the shilling a point man his aim to induce players to come Cooper, but had since ascertained Kiangse Road, Shanghai.

to his table and not to frighten them away.

HENRY MILLER, WANGAN

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by the sixpenny. If there is nothing higher than shilling points, then the table at which those points are played. becomes a well-respected shrine, like the UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. big table in any casino on the Continent which is roped off to over-excited keep away the spectators.

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CÓ. LTD.

The high table at bridge, is not roped, but protected by custom The following unclaimed tele and tradition. Thus the players grams are lying at the office of That the high table are almost in Great Northern Telegraph Company variably left in possession of the (Limited)

same table, and it comes to be regarded as their peculiar hunt- ing ground. Sometimes the lesser fights will intrude on this sacrosanct reserve, but the sarcastic looks and cold reception which greets them are usually sufficient to prevent a repetition of this experiment. The social groups seldom intermingle at bridge. Sometimes a sixpenny player, having enjoyed a run of good luck, will decide to try his chance at the shilling game. He is always welcome, and is general, ly glad to retire with enough for hia dinner at the end of a very short time,

Suzmanager, from Tokyo. Doris Morelle, from New York." Underiters, from. Amoy. Hurt, from Shanghai. Kume, from Kobe. Yee, from Shanghai, Kschina N Sank, from Orel,

E. V. JESSEN, **

• Superintendent Hong Kong Station, 21st April.

EASTERN EXTENSION... AUSTRALASIA & CHINA”

TELEGRAPH COME

List of Unclaimed Telegram | lying_In__*__E/ Telegraph' Office

Ilona hong

Chaclodge, from Haiphong Blake, Repulas Bay Hotel, from Mrs. Andrew Rich, S. S. Niagara

car from Buffalony

Nohron. Clourman, from · Taing-

Of course the groundman is invariably. a. first-class player, but usually more cautious in his biddings than the players to whom auction is a secondary con- sideration in life. The ground- man does not try to bring off great coups. He is almost in-. variably working on an average basis, spread throughout the year and prolonged experience has taught him exactly what hel can expect, from chance. There fore he does not care to push her to extremes. Neither does the groundman vary his points to any great extent Experience again bas taught him the danger of constant change.

Now as the groundmen are on continuous duty all the year round-they have been known to go away for a change of air to the seaside, but invariably return the next day they get to know each other's play and when two cut together, they hold a very great advantage; over two who rarely meet. The groundmen, knowing to a point the form of A player who comes from a their confrères, prefer not to play lower-grade tablo: la invariably against one another? A game shy and nervous, and hardly ever between four of them is too much does himself justice in the group of a family party, dull and above him. He expects to eu-|Insipid. They prefer to play two counter: a skill and superiority. at a table with two others who do and in consequence he is obsessed The groundmen who have had which generally does not exist, not belong to the same category.

with a sense of his own-in=] a good afternoon very seldom fariority

come back

more at night. know

averages rest on

Sometimes a really bad who, has enj

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