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HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

ROMANCE OF QUININE

The SOS from Ceylon for quinine| because of the serious authreak of malaria, would have been much more difficult to answer but for a man whose effigy stands outside the home of the Royal Geographical Society.

In the middle of the last cen- tury Sir Clements Markham saw how quickly, Peru, the only source of

GAMBLING PARTIES FOR CHARITY

DIFFICULTIES ARE APT

TO OCCUR

UNPLEASANT HAPPENINGS AT LONDON PRIVATE “CASINO

(By Anthony Winn)

London. result they themselves had to

the cinchona tree, from the bark A recently is now over..

PARTY held in London stop cheques given to winners, But and the winners were either

of which quinine is obtained, was!

in the East.

being denuded of the trees, Hbefore it finished questions were puzzled or disgruntled. Now get the went secretly to the Peruvian asked in the House of Commons. they will be able to forests and picked out specimens It was the Sunderland House money, and this particular party with a view to transplanting them gambling party in aid of the is finished.

Dental Ivory Cross National

Blow To Charity Gambling The plants that were cultivated Fund. And although its results Outside the interested parties at Kew yielded seeds, which started are not yet complete (for it has I find that the chief question altered the whole complexion of asked is: "Does this mean the cinchona plantations in India. "gambles for charity") a stopped end of charity, gambling parties?"

By the beginning of the present century quinine had been reduced cheque for £10,000 has been re- It looks like it. One similar leased and Sir Alfred "Butt, by affair arranged for a later night in price to a few pence per ounce. making a statement, has helped was cancelled, and the Charity Before Markham went on his ex-j the general public to understand Organisation Society declared pedition it was 208. per ounce.

The (rather late in the day) that The cost of his expedition was exactly what did happen.

leading, but slightly vague, prose gambling was a vicious way to of early accounts had not done raise money. It is practically that, and no two previous certain that no party catr accounts of the party agreed. eliminate crooks unless each

Amateur Croupiers

guest is personally known to a

£364.

#

*

* DEATING THE BOOTLEGGER

Some American distillers and bottlers are putting coins in bottles of whisky.

.;

The organisers had three reliable. host. The organisera of tables of roulette and twelve of Sunderland House took all the The coins are inserted in the chemin de fer. Roulette is not precautions possible in issuing glass walls of the bottles, which real gambler's game, and cer-invitations. But no precaution have to be smashed before the coins tainly not a high: gambler's that one can take, short of being can be obtained..

game; it is only played at charity able to vouch for every guest This apparently complicated pro parties in order to keep quiet the personally, will defeat the forged cedure is not a scheme for en-friends and relations of those invitation card. N MEN couraging drink, but to ensure the who have settled down to a re

This is where the idea breaks but our trade had to face similar destruction of all bottles.

gular evening with the cards. down. It is also apt to break: variations in eight important Since the repeal of Prohibition a When chemin, de fer is played down on the score of efficiency. currencies, so that if a wholesale large secondhand trade in bottles in a casino 5 per cent. is deduct-No organiser of a party has ever consignment was split up into six has grown up. Bootleggers payed every time the banker wins tried to invite a high official from different orders from different for the bottles, refill them with in- & hand, and the money goes into a casino over to supervise the markets the profit might be very ferior quality spirit and foist the cagnotte that is, to the arrangements, and a well-inten- The obvious tioned scratch staff does not quite management: different in each case. All that them on the public under the name

method of making money for meet the case, even after a fine is unavoidable; but it has the of the original, brand. result that the most important

charity is to have a cagnotte and tooth-comb scrutiny of the invi give the proceeds to the charity. tations. This was done.

The Law's Anomalies

Information is known only to the Your Daily Smile! merchant, and cannot be extract-

The China Mailed from gross totals of the value

entering and leaving godowns.

Hong Kong, Friday, January 25, 1935.

Trade Statistics

'More-

H

་་,!

Seeing And Bellering

OVERHEARD “Are you d'kpiritualist?”

*

HOME HINTS CORNER

Where Trouble Occurred

....

con-

A Londoner who vanished five At eleven of the twelve tables In the long run it is likely that the years ago has just returned home. everything went with a (rela-the game will die, though not of It is understood that he had been tive) swing. There are always inanition, (because gamblers will Some comfort in meditation waiting to cross Piccadilly-circus, minor difficulties due to the fact risk the presence of crooks) nor on such figures as the totals of

that hardly any amateur croupier of the law, because the legal posi-, figures for the last three years,

PROMENADE PLEASANTRY can entirely cope with the difitionis anomalous

of bunten It is certainly no fault of the of the Imports in 1992 was six

which show that the valuation "My face is my fortune, dear." cult mental arithmetic of chemin Baccarat, chemin de fer, and

"Same here, so let's put our for de fer. Sooner or later there is roulette, as purc

games Statistical Office that its careful-

of ly compiled figures are not as lions; for 1933 five hundred; and

hundred and twenty four mil-tunes together.”

la dispute about the amount won chance, are illegal. enlightening as they might be for 1934 only four hundred and

or lost in a particular hand, But in Reg. v. Davies, 1897, under more settled conditions. fifteen, may be drawn from rea-

which is generally solved by, one the defendant played an illegal The earth's surface in said to be of the parties behaving like a game. ("German Bank") with almost all records of Interna-very poor indication of the quan-Two That is unfortunately true of lising that the diminution is moving at the rate of a mile a year. gentleman. It is not obligatory three friends

His conviction men who attended a regi-to behave like a lady at a charity was quashed on appeal, for it was tional trade at the moment tities. The League of Nations mental dinner recently are pre-gambling party, and the average held that he was not keeping a Even in the days of comparative figures recently issued to sum-pared to swear that the speed is cost in an evening of behaving common gaming house: and the stability the gross figures remarise the world's trade from much greater.

like a gentleman is about a judge said: "In order to quired quite a lot of interpreta-all available sources, and reveal-

tenner. tion; as is proved by the fact that ing a drop to one third of the

stitute a keeping, I think there all the wealthy creditor countries 1920 totals would be much more

It is also said that some who must be something habitual."* show a consistent deficit, which startling if they referred to bulk "No thanks. I will just have a they went to get a drink had liberty of the subject to play rou left their chips on the table while This sentence, preserved the has unfortunately been called and not to a cash valuation. glass of beer." "an unfavourable balance." It is Shipping and transport general-

them stolen. But this is not lette with his friends and rela-

this unfortunate because it is a reli ly has been a depressed industry,

substantiated.

tions at Christmas for sixpenny of the old mercantile theory, but not to that extent.

maximums; it let in the charity and led to the popular impression over low prices mean an advan--plaster it with glue,

How to make your own lip-stick Accounts of the central inci- party, and it is unlikely that that the way to increase a coun-tage to the ultimate consumer,

dents at the high table yary,

anything can be done to stop it try's capital was to restrict the however uneconomic the price

all eye-witness accounts are apt

without altering the law. import ignoring the fact being may be to the producer or manu-FORGOT TO TAKE thereby a policy was being facturer. adopted that made it impossible means that the producer has fix- "Uneconomie" really for the rich country's debtors to fed charges to meet, which he is pay back either interest or prin-unable to adapt at once to the cipal. In England's most pros-payment he receiving.

The

There the sixties, consumer in the meantime saves perous years, seventies and eighties of last some money that he can apply to

gamblers at this table; men and accurate and indiscriminate. ¡century the "unfavourable

women whose faces are familiar People talk like Blackstone, who.. some other purchaser unless balance" was steadily increasing the middleman is able to buy labour was imposed on Lai Ying, a Cannes. That they played a tury, said of gaming "among per- Sentence of three months hard at Le Touquet, Deauville, and Writing in the eighteenth cen Obligations were payable in gold, cheap and still keep up the retail married woman, by Mr. W. Schofield high game is known-far too frequentis superior rank it hath and on the face of the figures it price, in which case he gets the the Central Magistracy this high by the standards of say the sudden ruin and desolation of would have appeared that Eng-advantage.

frequently been attended with. land had paid year by year far discontent and

Universal as is the

morning, for the theft of a gold and the derelict areas. But they ancient and opulent families, and more gold than there was in the everywhere, a traveller would from the Sam, Tai second hand shop hardly as reckless as it sounds.

unemployment.

were playing to scale, and the hath too often ended in self- diamond bracelet, valued at $90, country.

The great authority not get the impression from what No. 127 Queen's Road West.

gambling, though high, was was Sir Robert Giffen, who pub he sees that things were as bad

murder. lished annually an analysis of the as the statistics seem to indicate: Two other women, Li Hoi and

If a man with an income of (Continued on Page 12) returns which took into account The greatest blot on the ection with the theft but they were citing to watch as a lorry driver

Wong Kiu were also charged in con is neither as neckless nor as of the China National Aviation £100.000 a year loses £4,000 he the interest and dividends receive economic landscape is the

Dr. Din Enki, Managing director able, the earnings from shipping destruction of primary products When she was arrested Lal Ying Baccarat was played at this on Tuesday, having travelled by air

discharged. and insurance, and many other instead of allowing the low price said, to the Folice that she did not table: a-business-like move, for

losing two weeks", pay...

Corporation, arrived in Hong Kong items which indicated what of a surplus to increase con

BRACELET OFF

Intention Of Stealing"

"

to do when the hour is late. One No.. The parties will fade out,

must therefore stick to the skelet for lack of guests, but for bon of the story: but it is with lack of hosts, willing to under- reluctance that I discard some of take, in the cause of charity, a the wilder versions. They are

job which may lose them money. funny.

(though this one has not done so).

were

several

high

A everyone knew to be the fact, sumption. Admittedly the solistes] it, but that she put it on and at baccarat there is no cagnotte,

that all the time the foreign in- tion is hard to find, but the forgot to take it off, vestments were gradually in- satisfactory figures would show a creasing owing to the reinvest-growing production and no sur-

ment of capital receipts. At the plus stock. Prices would not BANISHEE RETURNS very beat such figures were e esti- then look so important as they mates; they were confirmed by do now.

the statistics of the money mat- ket, which showed that the balance was really, "active" and not "passive" and by the steadily increasing field of each penny of

the Income Tax All the Te levant figures were in one cur- rency which only varied in pur chasing value by fifteen per cent in three generations. In Kong all the totals have revalued in a currency which

year started at

shilling and sixpe

under fellaway in May to a penn easy and ther rose point by point to over a shin- ing and eightpence. Not only so.

BAIL ESTREATED Defendant In Lottery Charge Absent

BEFORE TIME

and the only way in which a charity can benefit from it is for the banker to give a percentage. Sir Alfred Butt took the bank, left and after him Mr. KH Williams took it on. The latter said he was not satisfied on some matters, which had caused him uneasiness during his tenure of CD the bank. He has said specifical Twelve months hard labour was ly that no suspicion is attached imposed on Wong Tsin Ming, the integrity of the charged with a breach of the De but he did for a week

One Year's Hard Labour

Imposed

Bail of $100 was ordered to be portation Ordinance, when he ap cheque for £10,000 of

by Mr. E. L. Wynne-Jones peared « before Mr. E, I Wynne-losses, su

ter

Nex

this Jones at the Central Magistracy. On paper the o Shum, & pain this morning. Sweat cleared £3,000 for

was | Defendant admitted va

but the sto

to be

lot conviction and sentences of ave had left them £7,000

Tears Improvement; which was

posed

on him at the

•Court In 1926%

clearing hous bettlement of obligat

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The abuse has been in-

from Shanghai to Canton.