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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD,

Tel Contral 238.

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BRIGGSTM

AGENTS FOR

3, Queen's Buildings.

BITUMINOUS

ENAMELS & SOLUTIONS.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

UNION"

ANTI-CORROSIVE and ANTI-FOULING COMPOSITIONS

FOR SHIP'S BOTTOMS.

QUEEN'S THEATRE

(Pleasure House-de-luxe).

TO-DAY till SUNDAY, August 20th to 24th.

THE STAR MOTION PICTURE CO.

PRESENTS

Their Marvelous Chinese Super-production". "THE GRANDSON

10 Reels

(The best Chinese Picture ever shown in the Colony) Has met with Grent Success in Peking, Tientsin,

Singapore and Manila..

- It presents an opportunity for Europeans who are taking a deep interest in movies to see what a rapid Chinese progress his been made in the

Cinematograph.

All Shows TO-DAY.

ať 2.30, 5.00, 7.00 & 9.15.

(Please note the Change of Times

PHONE C. 4697,

CC

"BOOKING AT THEATRE

'DO BE CHAIRFUL

During the Hot Summer Days it is essential to have a few comfortable RATTAN CHAIRS on your, Varmelab'or 5 your lawn-Chairs that hoid

but their arus to you in generons welcome on your turn Home after a hard

day's work or after a strohous guine of féunis out on the layn,

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ti

The trouble has been that your have been longing for something really goal, something SUBSTANTIAL in construction, pleasing in DESIGN and COMFORTABLE but did not know WHERE io gri it.

"DO BE CHAIRFUL" COMPANY

51, Queen's Road Central,

is the ONLY place in town where you can get your requirements filled to your atmest SATISFACTION.

THE HONGKONG" DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21ST - 1924

MELACHRINO

EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES

NO ONE EVER GETS TIRED OF MELACHRINOS- THEIR UNFAILING' QUALITY IS A

CONSTANT SATISFACTION

No. 4-$4.75 per 100's.

No. 9-82.75 100's.

ABAQUERIA . "ILIPINA

LEADING TOBAGCONISTS, OPPOSITE QUEEN

THE HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS' SHARE & REAL ESTATE CO.

Hotels old 'Hotels Dow Chias Lights Cements now

AMATIC BUILDING (2ad Floon).

WE BUY

194 Dairy Farm 18 Underwriters *9.80 Union Insur. 5,60 Hong, Banks

401

S'pore, Trams M. Rate Peak Trama Fong, Elec.

Waterboats Territoriala

TEL. 0. 4630.

WE SELL 17.00 Cements · new 5.70 1.60 Providenta old 15.20 217 Providenta new

5.10

201

520

271

»

1.75

49972 Wharves

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ورحم

Watsons 1,195 19.10 Tags"

Humphreys 23+ AND VARIOUS OTHER LOTS Prospective buyers are reminded that sales or purchases of lots montioned depend upon our clients and market fluctuations.

NEW JAPANESE IMPORT TARIFF.

DECLARATION REQUIRED FROM: EVERY PASSENGER.

The Pacifie Mail Steamship Co write: -

We are in receipt of advices from our Yokchaina, Agency, to the effect that the new Japanese Import Tarifs which went into effect on August 1st, requires a duty of 100 on practically every com nuity that a foreigner uses in Japan.

1 Imperial Japanese Customs to carry out this law est eincisely, the at all pen ports in Japan well demand declaration from each passenger disem barking from any steamer

are requested to declare Passengers everything that would not come under the heading of personal effects, inasmuch as instructions from the imperial Car tems read as follows:

We will not

not make this inspection hard for the passengers of any steamer, Those who send in declaration and the Inspection finds the contents of the higgage to be in accordance with the declaration will be passed throngh with passengens only a minor inspection, but who do not make a declaration in nceerdance with the content of their baggage

will be subjected to a very severts inspection.'

It is imperative that in all instREFUS passengers make the proper declaration in eriler that there will be no trouble ur deing in disembarking at Japaness ports,

SILARPERS AT SEA. WILES ON THE EXPERT CARD SWINDLER

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"

There is no type of swindler who ca nches himself with greater security from Prosecution than the expert cardsharper who

operates every summer in the great ocean baers, writes Hugh Bratiy in the Daily Mail.

lo every

liner there are “Beware.gi Cardsharpers notices, and the stewards are over ready to warn passengers. The advice is generally unheeded. There is nothing slipsbod about the guile of the cardsharper. Unostentations display of wealth and good breeding is part of his obstacles stock-in-trale in overcoming

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WEATHER REPORT |

August 20th at 18.33.-Pressan bas increas ed slightly from the Lochos to Hongkong and is early stationer from Nagasaki to Tokie. It has demand slightly over buzon.

At 11a.m. this morning the typhoon was in the Kores straits moving .NE

An aren of relatively low pressure is still hown over SW, China)

Manila

warning Typlava, in Las, 33 deg. N. Long. 127 de F, moving North. Reed. 20.12% #.

IS

Hongkong rainfall for the 4 hours suding at hours, August 20th, DS inch. Total since. of $1 74 inches, January 1st, 1973 inches, against an average

The forcant for the 21 hours ending at 18 hours, Anist in as Fallowfieren"

ULTRICT

Formosa Channel

Hongkong to Gap Rock

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FORECANT

Light, variable winds. SW. winds, mund- erate clondy,oc

casianal rain.

South coast of China between Hongkong and Lemocka

*

South coast of China between

Hongkung and Hainan.

20.

do.

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

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Hongkong Observatory, August Rith. ·

Previoun Daten Date

Day atp.m. &a..

29.00

Barometer Temperature Euniality

Wind Direction.

Force Weather... Rain

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20.8! 34

Calm

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Hightest open-air Temperature on 19th Lowest opt-air Temperature on 20th

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE. From August 21ss to With, 192k

HIGH WATER.

in his path to the pocket of his victim. The visitor on his first trip to Europe As ready to fraternise with fellow-pass- engers and drinks in greedily the flow. Ther.

it! Scout, whose task it Fri. ng talk of the

is to inspire confidence. The scout is

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Month

Days of

Fikong.

Standard

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Wed. 27 m

a man of knowledge and wit and keed observation. Nothing escape him-least Satur. 11

all the haughty aloofness of his two Confederates, who are travelling us cabin passengers. But the man of charming manners breaks through the ice of their reserve at last, and then of course the confederates

found to be good fellows!

Time lags in a ship and the new pair are tantalisingly unresponsive when a quiet game of cards is suggested. At last they give way, but only to play auc- small stakes. Little bridge for money changes ownership daring the next few days,

tion

The pigeon palls at the dull mono

"What tony of the small stakes game. about a little poker1" is the question that is patienti niangered for and in- variably is asked. And in the next few days the pigeon is lulled into a false security by the winning of perhaps sever- al hundred pounds.

When the victim finally finds himself with a superb hand he does not know

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Low WATER.

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Time.

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that the cards have been stacked." and "Qaray that one of his opponents helds a bettermengs

When the stakes are high magh

one.

the swindler will feign nervousness, di Shiuchow,

"I'll see you

"

then cht you had aces, he will re mark, as he shows four kings to the

pigeon's four queens.

Even

if he is, suspicious what can the loser do? The last get in the drama sag- gests that the winner could have made more but for his 1ck of nerve. And the lexer knows that he suggested the ganus The preliminaries usually satisfy the Victim that bad luck alone caused bis losses.

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Supported by

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RARE STAMPS FOUND.

RECORD OFFICE DISCOVERY WORTH" £900. -A Ånd of valuable stamps has been The Director (Sir George Kubbs) of made at the record Office. Chancery-lane, W.C. They consist of strips of three the Institute of Science and Industry New South Wales stamps of 1865, of the draws attention to the likelihood of a respective face values of 1d. (orange agreement being consumated between the British and the German dye indas colour), 2d. (blue), ad. (green), and is. of such a unicu is (red) and they form a collection that is tries. The possibility believed to have very

farz

r-reaching probably unique, Prominent philatelists The Bd. results, as it was predominant dre undsely owing to her have valued them at £900.

that Germany stamps are stated to be very rare.

'

was able to manufacture such enormous The stamps, which are in perfect con. amounts of explosives and the various poison gases used in the last war. Apartition, are attached to a report sent to the Colonial Office by the Governor of from

the enorulous profits made by Uer-

New South Wales in response to a re- was the

it may be noted that for these

-war predominance of Ger. quest from the then Colonial Secretary reasons pre-war

asking for information as to improve- many in the manufacture of dyes has its in the postal arrangements of the already cost both England and Amefrea

Colony sincs 1839. dearly, very

arıd

from recent judging comments in the American Press, the American view is that the agreement is certain to devitalise the British dye in- att dustry, discouraging its initiative, stilling its very

pro colument search

dicate that The while the industry in England made a gallant fight in the face of great odds, Terent devons have given a fatal blow thereto. The British institute of Chemis

the main body of chemists, has shown that "t Jully realises the far-reaching etect of a assion of German and

English chemical interests, and has published re- cently a memoranden on the whole pre- wherein the institute insists must

gramme,

be

rong on the necessarity, in the best interests of the nation, of developing and maintaining a successful industry. Should such an industry maintwned England would have extensive zumbers and complicated plant and large of highs, trained and

and skilled chemists and chement engineers available for the service of the nation in any time of cimer gency-in asset of immense value and соцветиерес This institute is also strongly if the opinion that the good pusi. tion already won by the British dye maa- ufacturers should be thoroughly a guarded so that the productivity of the British dye industry should not be cur tailed or hindered in any way.

PREVENTION AS REMEDIES."

In caring for your eyes provention is inexpensive, remedies are often costly,

Forestall your eye trouble by having your eyes examined if you feel the slightest

train when you are using them.

CHINESE OPTICAL CO., ErE-SIGHT SPECIALISTS,

67, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

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