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ALFRED LOCK & COMPANY

PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS. PHOTO GOODS OF EVERY

DESCRIPTION.

DEVELOPING PRINTING "AND

· ENLARGING UNDERTAKEN

Prompt Services-Moderate Prices.

Satisfaction: Guaranteed.

74, Queen's Road Central.

G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS

DIAMOND MERCHANTS. Union Building (Opposite G.P.0.),

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers. High Class English Jewellery.

Prickly Heat Powder

A Certain Cure for

PRICKLY HEAT & SUNBURN.

A little dusted on the skin and gently massaged in will speedily care Prickly Heat, remove Sunbura and the offensive

odour due to excessive perspiration.

Prepared by

Queens Dispensary

Pharmaceutical Chemists

22, Des Voeur Road Central

CHOY HEONG MANUFACTURER OF PRESERVED GINGER AND FRUIT.

Established For More Than Forty Years.

Office: No. 90, Bonham Strand, Hong Kong. Factory:-1A, Sham Chun Street, Mongkok.

YOUNG'S MOUNTAIN

DEW

The sea igital

China Building.

Ask For

Tel. C. 1424. Tel. K. 400,

YOUNG'S

MOUNTAIN DEW WHISKY. LONDON DRY GIN.

Stocked By

Mesars. CHAN YUEN.

6, Cochrane Street, Hong Kong

Messrs. HUNG CHEONG, 66, Nathan Road, Kowloos

Solo Agents:

WAI ON TSEUNG, LTD.

Tel. C. 3313...

Sore Throat?

At the first, sign of Sore Throat take fow Formamint tablets. Formamint destroya, tha dangerous germs in mouth and throat and so cures Sore Throat. Let your children suck Formamint, too, so that they will not catch. other children's lifectious diseasės,

FORMAMINT

The Gem Kiting Threat, Tablet,

FARMER

TRAN

NAM WAH

BRAND.

NEW SEASON GINGER.

Well Preserved.

Colour and Mellowness Guaranteed.

Nom Wich Prevard Ge

1811

"

THE CHINA MAIL,

“HOUSE OF CARDS”.

A LIVERY COMPANY'S

TERCENTENARY

IN CHARLES'S DAYS

A correspondent writes in the "Times": Card-making is now in so few hands in this country that King Charles's Charter could be much more festively commemorat- ed-by card-players. These should,

as wore Inexpert at the trade, so that those who had attained to the perfection of that art and akill wore, not able to maintain them-

EXCHANGES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

selves, their wives and families." On London-e Apprentices found no inducement Bank, wire

sight

4

2/1/

1.

2/1 %

2/11/

12471⁄2

months'

1322

On Berlin, On demand

48%

On New York On domand Credits, 60 days' sight 50%1⁄2

On Bombay- Wire. On demand

Wire

133

1332

Ou Calcutta-

1331⁄2

133%

Da Singapore

85

On Manila-

On demand

to Industry, and demoralization Bank, on demand... 2/3/16. followed on the absence of regula Bank, 30 days sight. tion. Still more clearly is the 20th-Bank, 4 months' sight 2/-

months* century ring to be heard in the Credits,

alght. Pre-amble of the Charter:-

Finding of how great use and Documentary 4 months"

sight... consequenco It is to the welfare

On Paris at any rate, note the occasion. Aa of Our Kingdom that all manufac

should by On demand for the members of the Worshipful tures and handicrafts Company, they have in our days all good and laudable means be Credits, 4. ittle or no connection with the cherished and maintained for the trnde.

Once a year, however, at setting of our own people on work, the dinner which early in Decem- and enabling them by their honest her follows the election of a new labours and industries to maintain Master, their history is recalled to themselves. and their families for them by the presentation of a the public service of the Common- specially designed pack: and it may wealth.. be taken for granted that the de-

Importation of playing cards sign on this year's pack will be was forbidden; nobody but a free- based on the tercentenary.

man of the Company was to make Another reminder is the Com-cards unless he should have serv- pany's collection of playing cards ed as apprentice for seven years in which the fancies and even the "in the said trade, art, or mystery"; freaks of past generations are, and the Court of the Company was liberally represented. It is far too empowered to make-orders, reform bly a collection to be shown all, abuses, and punish offenders. at once to the public, but frequent return the Crown took payment on ly changed groups may be seen in every gross of cards. This pay 10 day's alght (privace the Guildhall Library, The visi ment is represented by the present tor who keeps his eye on the ex- Government duty of 3d, on every hibition frame may

learn a good pack, and the Inland Revenue deal of the extraneous uses wrapper replaces the old King's which cards have been put. Per-

The Company was promoted to haps the most interesting is social and political satire; apparently the dignity of the Livery in 1792. players could spare a few moments Leave was given in 1903 to increase for such distractions before news- the membership to 150; it is now papers were accessible and games 110, having fallen so low in 1880 as one freeman and a Livery of 23. One feature of the revival in recent years has been the produc- lon of speelal packs on great na- tional as well as private occasions.

A career..

to

Seal.

In

On demand

On demand

On Shanghai- On demand

paper) On demand ... Gold Leaf. 100 Ano

On Yokohama~~~

(per tael).

(Bank's Sovereigne

buying rate) Silver (per oz.) Bar Silver in Hong

Kong

984

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928.

FOOTO

EASE

یافت

77%

„Auk For

100

Ns, 2003 PH. Na.909

Chilon

9.60 26%

4% prem. Nominal

Copper Cash ... Chinese Copper Cents 6% Prum. Rate of Native In-

terast

.......... 7% p.a.

LONDON EXCHANGES.

London, Yesterday.

1

Paris

New York

Brussels

124.15

The Pictorial "Cord That the pictorial card is as old as the card itself cannot be safe ly assumed, because students of

Chinese Sub, Coin. 81% die. the subject have never convinced Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilec, Hong Kong Sub. Coin Pat, themselves, and much less one an- the Coronations of King Edward and various other, of the origin of what the and King George, ald monks considered the devil's Royal tours within the Empire have been commemorated in this way. most subtle device. China, India, Egypt, and Arabia all share the But the Company has never dealt disputed honour or ignominy of its cards better than during the being the inventors of card play, War, when it distributed more than The Crusaders have been charged 20,000 special packs among our with borrowing cards from the sailors and soldiers, fighing or in Saracens, and the Moors with bospital. bringing them into Spain.

How-

ever that may be, the learned an- cients, after having abused cards as a foe of the human soul, lost very little time in adapting them to their own purposes. Logic, grammar, geography, and heraldry were among the branches of, know- ledge they sought to lengthen by inscription on the cards back. There was much cunning in the method. Who can gauge the ex- tent to which science, was advanc- jed, in a paucity of books, by the {"scientifical cards?""

Geneva.. Amsterdam

**Milan

Berlin

4.85 1/16

34.895

25.07%

12.07%

02.05

20.355

Stockholm

18.15

Copenhagen.

18.19

Szecho-Slovakia

Oslo

18.19

Vienna

34.496

albed belt 30 salladı

Prague

109

Helsingfors

192

Mudrid

30.03

Liabon

Athens

Bucharest

Klo

5 29/82

'Buenos Aires

47.7/16

Bombay

1/6/2

-2/1,

2/04

1/10 25/32 26%

Modern bridge players, if ther should consider admonition or in- struction a frivolous twist to a noble invention, will be consoled by the reflection that it was 'drop- ped long ago. The abuse which called the Worshipful Company into existence was of a more faml- liar kind. In the reign of Edward t IV. the English makers had com plained that the Importation" of foreign cards was Injuring their trade; and they had been protect- led by Act of Parliament. Yet, when Elizabeth ruled, importation had developed into a monopoly. Things grew so bad with the Lon. A new and interesting portrait study don craftsmen, to whom was prac-of Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, President tically confined in England "the of Czecho-Slovakia Dr. Masaryk is art and trade of making of play. one of the foremost men in European ing cards." that they laid their is country has been placed on a staple political life and through his efforts grievances before James L. He, basis. though "graciously inclined," did

107 7/16

375

815

Shanghai Hong Kong Yokohama Silver Spot Silver Forward ... 28

British Wireless Service:

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.

The following unclaimed tele ** grams are lying in the EE Telegraph. Co. office, Hong Kong:-

Batan Singh, Sikh Temple, from Bilga.

Adama Guam, from Shanghai. Rebreg, from Newark, NJ. Textiles, from Singapore.

EA. LEGGATT,

Superintendent Hong Kong, 6th Dec., 1928.

THE GREAT NORTHERN nothing. So another attempt was Theatre-goers in the Far East

TELEGRAPH CO., LTD, made with Charles L who by will be sorry to hear of the death

OF DENMARK, granting a Charter of incorpora of Mr. John, Hagen, the principal tion left a particularly "blessed comedian with the Banyard Musical

The following unclaimed tele memory" to his petitioners.

Comedy Company, which was four-grams are lying at the office of the Hindered and Hampered ing the East up to a few months Great Northern Telegraph Com Their complaints and the sane ago, says the "Straite Times." Apany (Limited) of Denmark:- tioned remedy come home to this cable has been received stating that Asiatic Motors Incorporation; new era of "safeguarding.” Not Mr. Hagen was killed in a motor from Amoy. only were the King's loving sub- accident in London on Nov. 18.. jects hindered and hampered by His excellent work in "Katla the the continued importing of arent Dancer and other musical plays quantities of foreign playing cards, will be remembered. He was to but cheap and inferior goods were have been the principal comedian In being manufactured here and "de the new company which Mr. Ban- ceits and abuses committed by such vard has organised.

SHAN

of the

of Latvians gathered

KG Wahamaki,

2.

Nusery, from Tokyo. Dalley, c/o H.K. and S'hal Bank, from Amoy.

Tait, H.K. Hotel, from Shanghai.

E. V. JESSEN,

Superintendent. 1923.

Hong Kong, 6th Dec

„Secmb Chiffon,”

POINTEELHEEL

Brides all-leading warm

OBTAIN FOOT EASE

BY WEARING * C/FOOT EASE

HOSIERY

FOOT EASE HOSIERY MILL

HONGKONG, OFFICE

TEL.C.5450, FIRST FLOOR BANK OF CANTON BUILDING

A WEEK'S PAPERS

IN ONE

"OVERLAND CHINA MAIL"

ILLUSTRATED.

CHINA NEWS, LOCAL NEWS

AND ALL THE NEWS

SEND IT HOME!

Fellow-countrymen are usually keen to know just what

is happening to people away from, Home, especially if they are out in China. Because your folks have been satisfied with what you say in your letters, you must not think that they will not be interested in news from Hong Kong. Business connections will welcome reliable news as a sign of thought- fulness, pay for

See that your relatives, your friends and your business connections are well posted. Give them a copy of the "Overland China Mail and test. their appreciation. Easier still, let us have his address and we will do what is required. They will get a full weekly account of "China" and "Hong Kong events with plenty of pictures of the news. The "Overland" is the only illustrated weekly budget of local

news.

All subjects are given their fair proportion of space. Among the most notable this week are:-

The Carvalho Yeo (Treasury) trial.

Legal reforms in the Colony.

St. Andrew's Society annual ball and observances. Large seizures of

arms, etc,

Trial of the man alleged to have taken part in the

piracy in which two Britons lost their lives.

*

RESIDENTS BACK FROM LEAVE

Many residents have just returned to Hong Kong after holidays at Home and elsewhere. For the first few days one's conscience, can be calmed by thoughts that time is needed to unpack and to get settled down again. Then that letter must go. N

What you have to say for yourself no one else can write for you; but if you want to ease anxiety as to what is hap pening out here that is a task that the Overland China Mail"" will do for you

has invariably done in the past., ... it as How many times were you stumped" when somebody in China? asked you about conditions in

Show that you

Fare

at least thoughtful by sending them a copy of the Overland." That will tell them all they want to know.

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