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TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1930.

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London (Parcels, July 17) and Straits.

AUGUST

THE

RULES OF BRIDGE.

SIGNIFICANT DECISION OF

PORTLAND CLUB.

and

In

it

CHINA MAIL.

Have You Heard?-

"My razor's awfully blunt, dear. І сап scarcely shave with it.".

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

Opening Daily Official Quotations 19th August, 1930.

Sales Nomu

Las dividend and when paid

JAN.

STOCK

Basks.

Why, Charles, you don't mean to Hong Kong Bark....$ tell me that your beard is tougher than the linoleum."

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Weat London Magistrate: Why did you get drunk this time? news from India

Old Offender: I was upset over the

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A new member, who was not up "Again" he queried. to his tricks. stared at him.

"Oh, yes," said the witty one, I've often felt like that before."

rule that the ace should count low in cutting, which for many years was as universally recognis- ed in the United States as it was in England. On the much more

occurred in the Bridge world for tiah opposition to the American As significant a thing as has underbidding, It is doubtful if Bri- important point of the penalty for

some time is the decision of the rule would be quite insuperable. Card Committee of the Portland If, finally, we made concession in Club to request members to dis- this, it would seem that we might continue the use of the Vanderbilt look for a similar concession on the Club convention, notice of which American side in the only other has been posted in the card-room.serious point of difference-name- It is understood that the commit ly for a revoke. No law can, per- tee's decision was unanimous and hops, be devised which will be just it will be cheering 'news to those

to every kind of revoke, but who believe that. in considering the substance of the American law the desirabilty of a convention. Is notiked, while the most something else has to be taken into

patriotic American could hardly The chief wag of a suburban golf account than the mere question defend

the whether it wins tricks or not.

perfectly dread-club strolled into the clubhouse and ful clauses in which that substance told the assembled members, "I'm America they like conventions is expressed. Altogether, then, the full of beans this morning. I feel which

are purely artificial existing differences are so few and could go out and beat Bobby Jones. better than-we-do-in-Britain the convenience of having a com- again." There also, however, conservative mon code would be so great that, forces are at work

with a little reasonableness on both will be interesting to see what, sides, it ought not to be difficult to if any, influence the action of the come together.. Portland will have over there; 48-3

Meanwhile, it ja far from certain pecially

at the moment

that the possession of a common the relations between the govern cotic will mean the playing of ing bodies in the two countries are

the same kind of game in the two growing so much closer.

countries. It is known that, be- From paragraphs in the Preae fore this latest decision, the Gou- President Clevelan. and, still more, from gossip inlash was unpoplar at the Portland

bridge clubs, it seems that .Angers

lash Was attempt

unpopular is being made Portland

and invest

the some forthcoming

centric developments games between

of slam- Bri-bidding had been given American

up; players and the games to be at Contract on the much to hope that, even with the seems almost too Daplicate principle-with a semi. eficial character, as if they were playing quite the same Bridge.

same laws, we shall ever be found in the nature of a British-Ameri- can Test match. There is no justi- fication for Buch за attempt. The governing body in neither country has given the games any fficial sanction or had anything to do with the selection of the "teams" of four aside. Whatever publicity may

be obtained for it, the "match" has no more international importance than any one of a hundred such gumes which are played nightly on Trans-Atlantic liners

From

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£10,000,000 SCHEME.

VAST HIRE-PURCHASE CLEARING HOUSE.

A vast hire-purchase "clearing house." backed. by resources totall- ing more than £18,000,000, will be formed In London. The object of the clearing house is to protect 'firms who sell goods on hire-pur- chase terms against defaulting cus- tomers.

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All hire-purchase agreements will be registered at the clearing house. A business man supplying goods under hire-purchase agreement will be able to consult this.register and thus see the extent of his cus- toimer's commitments under other hire-purchase agreements.

be

for the in a

Differences in Contract Codes. What is of much more import- ance is the effort which is now being made. by correspondence he- tween the Portland Club and the New York Whist Club, to adjust the difference in the Contract codes in the two countries, so that we may play the game under the same laws. When the Curd Com- What is more important still, he mittee of the Portland Club drew will be able to find out whether the up the present "Laws of Contract customer has faithfully carried out Bridge" it did so under instructions.his obligations under earlier hire from the conference of representa- purchase agreements; tives of 12 London clubs, which clearing house will directed that the new laws should position to obtain information from be "based on the Portland Club any of its members, and will pass Laws of Auction Bridge." In ac- this information on to the others. cordance with those instructions, a In order to prevent the trade ende was produced, etosely based secrets of one firm becoming known on the Auction Laws, which in to another m all information will form and verbiage is immensely pass through the clearing house, superior to the American code, or the great banks. to any former code in Britain. The form and verbiage. how- ever, are less important than the substance; and in substance the Portland Club adopted the Ameri- can_game almost en bloc, Is the closing paragraph of the Introduc- tion to the new Laws, the Commit- tee said:

All bridge players will share the hope that the few outstanding points of difference between the American and the British codes may in due course be harmonleed, so that there may be one Code of Laws of Contract Bridge.

Already leading trade associa tions and large retail distributora have come into the scheme, and a committee has been formed to put the proposals into operation.

set up in London forthwith and A central clearing house will be

tranches will follow later in pro vincial cities. The clearing house register, will begin with a list of more than a million names. Sup- port is assured from:

Firms who finance hire-pur- chase;.

Motor-car agents:.. Furniture dealers

(including

most of the great multiple stores): The great department stores; Gramophone, wireless, and piano

trade;

firms.

Domestic and office equipment

-By the exchange of visits-of-un official representatives of each country and by correspondence it is understood that considerable progress has been made towards clearing the ground for a final ad- justment and that formal proposals.

An arbitration committee will be for the settlement of all the outset up to consider all questions-af- standing points are in process of fecting hire-purchase, whether be being communicated by one coun tween trader and trader or between try to the other. And a settlement customer and trader. ought not to be hard to reach,

course

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the

A first-timer going round

with an old hand meets a friend at the third hole.

"Hullo,

him?"

Tand, are you beating "Beating him? That's easy. He only gets a shot noo and again; am daeing a the playing masel'."

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Browne had long endeavoured to become proficient at golf, but with only moderate success. He decided to spend his holiday at one of those famous goling resorts, and on the first morning of his atay, marched on to the first tee, complete with caddie.

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ye'll be a champion."

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Browne.

"Do you really mean that?" asked

"Aye, at throwing the hammer."

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matter; of that a central controlling "body Courtesy, to waive minor points has become essential, and it is which do not affect

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