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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER · 14TH, 1935

THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, "LTD.

Tel. Central 230.

2, Queen's Buildings.

BOLE AGENTS FOR

BELL'S UNITED ASBESTOS CO. LTD..

(MANUFACTURERS OF

Victor Metallic," "Dagger," "Quadruple" and

"Reefer” Packings.

Bell's Asbestos Compositions.

"Salamander" Engine & Cylinder Oils.

"Salamanderite Jointing."

THEATRE ROYAL.

TO-NIGHT at 9.15 p.m. Sharp,

BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S.

A HAPPY COMBINATION—

-SULLIVAN'S MELODIES.

GILBERT'S WIT.

HONGKONG'S OPPORTUNITY. CHARITY'S BENEFIT.

-LOCAL SPORT.

YACHTING.

RACE ROUND THE ISLAND UNFINISHED.

The cruiser race round the Island, which was fixed for yesterday, could not be completed owing to the lack of wind. and as a result of this a re-sail will he held., Seven yachts started from the Club at 10.30, but there was little wind and against the che tide they made put poor progress. At 2 p.m.. some of the boats were only off Green Island, and it being impossible for them to finish, they abandoned the "race.

At that time Ed Cigale was off Repulse Bay, and was pushing on. in the hope of completing the course by the time limit,

7 p.m.

She was followed by t. and 1.

and the Cuquette.

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Hong keily Bank..

Doc London. Mercantils Bank, A. & Chartered Bank.........

Da

P. & Q. Bank, East Asia Baat.

Dacia 1šti, 1925. :.$1,075 0.

£193 acm.

коль

· DOM,

B...229) 0......£19 nom.

DOM

nom.

mani.

en buy

Canton Küsurance ......... Caing Underwriters...... North China Insurnace......... TI, 140 Bor Union Issursace

....8250 bay,, 251 m China Fire Jasaranos. $160 nom. Xauglaze

35 buy. fasurance

Hongkong Fire Laurance, $500 now.

U. & M. Steamboam.2o. Hongkong Tags........ .. nom. Indo-Chinas (Pre).........$38 com.

Do. (De), London...365 ssl. Do

Hongtong365 sel Shell Carports Star Famer...

977- buy. 581 nom Waterboats. Oriental Navigatio China Sugar Malabon Bagats..

Bicombined)

Mining Ad,

Excitement, ran bigh in the Club about seven o'clock when it was reported that Langkat Le. L'igaie had passed through Lyemun. Shanghai Exp But the wind dropped and she was Shangal Loans scarcely moving. The gun was fred at seven and at that time La Cigale was some distance away, She failed to win by eight. minutes.

Raabe signi

Tronoh Mines

Ural Caspians

HK & K Wharfs H.K& Hong

Up to a late hour last night the whore-New Engin abouts of the !*.. antè E. and the Coperte

·were unknown. ·

$49 nom.

Th.54 buy. Tis. 19, nom. Tis. 5.45 nom Tis: 8 nom.

58/-zom.

101rdm.

Q

Ü

E

E

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TO-DAY ONLY.

CLAIRE WINDSOR HOBART BOSWORTH

ROCKLIFFE FELLOWES

FORD STERLING

CLAUDE GILLINGWATER ELEANOR BOARDMAN

IN

THE STRANGERS'

BANQUET.

W. Docks Engineering Shanghai

8. nom. 3130 Rom.

buy.

WE BUY

100/1,000 Territorials | 10/100

Landa 1200

7 buy

Ek. Banka

50

Docks

Tis. 115 nam.

50/100

Hotels

50

Wharrea

Hongkong Lands

HK Hotels (aldy.

160/200

Sugars

1,000.

Jerams

Hongking Realtys (a.p.)

$65‡ nom.

1200

Trams

300 Ewas

.....$ nom.

50

15

50/200

1

Building

Rural Fands

$7 cal

Tlg. 10.40 sel.

TEL. 4630.

Tis, 34 nom

Tls. 6 sel

(new)..

TL. 31.

$10% Buy.

nom.

"IOLANTHE."

"We were boys together at least, I was.'

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A CHINESE WILL. EXPERT OPINION ON CURIOUS CLAUSE

HONGKONG HOTEL ROOF GARDEN

WILL BE RE-OPENED ON" DECEMBER 15th, 1925.

POPULAR

TEA DANCE DAILY

(Sundays Excepted)

4.30 p.m.

to 6.30 p.m.

ADMISSION FIFTY CENTS

INCLUDING TEA.

EXPRESS LIFTS. FROM ROOF GARDEN ENTRANCE IN PEDDER STREET.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

(41

REPULSE - BAY

HOTEL.

TEA DANCES

WILL BE HELD ON

WEDNESDAY, 16th December.

SATURDAY, 19th

Dancing 4.30 p.m.

to 6.30 p.m.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS,

LTD.

BIG REDUCTION

VICTROLAS

25% DISCOUNT

10% FOR CASH IN ADDITION,

S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.

VICTOR DISTRIBUTORS.

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Territorials (f.p.).........85.10 buy.

Prince Extates.Sid buy.

Ewo

Cattons

$150 nom.

Oriental........ Shanghai Cottons (old)

Do Amusements Cantom Icsa Cementa (combined) ......... 16e day.

Do (old) 312 nom.

(New) $3 nom, China Baxes

10 buy. China Lights (combined) $20 zl.

(cid)

**$15 nom. (DOW) 10 bay, China Providents (comb.)........$34 nom...

(old).$9 tel. S9 zel. (new)...

$1.90 bay. $18 bu7., 19 scl.

Da

A clause in a Chinese will under which the testator directed that the rents of his Singapore property should be divided among "such of his sons and adopted sons as should become literate in China or graduate at an English, Scottish, or Irish university " was the subject of an affidavit by the Secretary for Chincas

Do. Affairs (Mr. D. Beatty), which was

Do placed before Mr. Justice Deane in the Constructions Farms Dairy Supreme Court at Singapore Inst week. Der A.

Wing (F) When the matter came into court, several Hongking Electrics

Macão Electrica

werks ago, His Lördship adjourned it HK. Dorelined).

in order to obtain expert opinion on the EK, Ropes points raised.

4 "

(aid) Da (new) Hongkong Tramways Lane Crawfords.. Mackintoshs Peak Trams (sid}

10 nom.

853 buy., 534 25. $40,20m. „„20 cts, buy," ..$10 el.

$13 nom

.88; nom.

994 boy., 48 scl..

Sto buy.

Sei nom. $184 buy.

811

Bek. ..$5 eaL

..320 nom..

$15 sal

...814 sei, 12.

13 sel

Do (new) (o.p.)........38 nom. interes Taria Used Asbestos Watson (old)....... Wm. Powells *Do. (new)

buy-buyers; solcellers; sales-

nom.-nominal.

Mr. Beatty in his affidavit, first stated that he studied in the province of Kwang. tung and in Macao in 1800, 1000, and 1001, and continued: At that time the word "literate" for a Chinese could have only one meaning, viz., the same meaning as literati, which is used in many books dealing with Chinese sub fects. At that time the word literati " meant a person who had passed the District (Sou Troi), or the Provincial (Kin Yan) or the Capital examination (Taun Si). So far as I am aware the word literati" did not and does not now bear the conventional meaning of ability to read and write. I ând, further,

We have just received a copy of this in- on reference to a standard work, namely,teresting Calendar, which we understand is Williams The Middle Kingdom, tous primarily intended for India. Owing to Williams Laxes wider view of the difficuitice of inland distribution conse- meaning of the word iteratiquent on the disturbed state of the coun is to say, be includes in the term stry, Messrs. Horlick's Malted Milk Com who have presented themselves for any dne of these examinations and have failed. The following extructa, from "Ihe Midale kingdom "' show this:

.

CHINA AND PERSIA. HORLICK'S MALTED MILK CO,'5 1926 CALENDAR.

any have pot for 1928, issued their usual special Chinese Calendar.

Tho 1926 Indian Calendar is a picture of Chess in an Indian" Zenana with a Khayyamesque setting, illustrating Fitz- gerald's paraphrase of Omar.

Sach is the outline of the system of examinations. from which the civil and military services of the Chinese Govern. ment are supplied, and the only part of their system not to be paralleled in one or other of the great monarchies of past or present times, though the coun- } and Roman type, so that many will ses terpart of this may have also existed for the first time the metrical build of

Tis all a chequer Board of Nights; and Days."

Side by side with Fitzgerald's quartrain is the original rubai” of Omar in Persian

the famous rubaiyat. Very interesting, too, is the reproduction on the Zenaar panels of two pages of the original M.B.6. from which "Old Fitz." strung these Eastern pearls on an English thread

"INVESTMENTS.

We" SELL:- Forela

400

M'ka Pindaa

100 Providents 300/500 Jimabs 400/500 L. Crawfords 200/430 Fajams

Punggore

·Montzies

200 Steamboats 15

100 100/500 Peak Traws 100/200 Dairy Farms 100/130 Lands

Arisements 200

Amusamanta ( 500/1,000 Orientals

Canton Ins. 100/500 Unwriters. China Lights 5,10

Unions

100/200 Cements SMALL INVESTORS,

10, Des Vanx Road,

ONLY ONE VISIT FRENCH STORE

TO THE

AND

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You will be surprised by the Variety and Highest Quality of the New CHRISTMAS CONFECTIONERY,

MARRONS GLACES EXTRA VANILLES in Tins and by Weight, BONBONS CHOCOLAT LIQUEURS in Fancy Boxes,

DELICIOUS ENGLISH CAKE.

DRAGEES Amandes Imperialos Surfinar, Bonbons Liqueur. Bonbons Nougat,

Pralines Extra, Caramela Moas, Gommes Assorties.

CHOCOLAT:-Boucheer Nought Extra Bondous Chocolat. Boucheer Monte- limar. Tangos Creme Menthe. Bechettes Nougat Extra. Sarindaiss. Cerises da Lys-Nougatine de Nerem Extra. NOUGAT EXTRA and A great Assortment of FINE FANCY BOXES, etc., etc.

9. BEACONSFIELD ANCADE:

PEL, 794.

THE WORLD'S

GAZE

POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY. ARTISTICALLY.

TOWARDS

JAPAN

WIKKA

Oriental charms are jealously preserved intact amidst the most advanced Oriental Civilization.

Minimum Rates for Single Hooms, Mosis included, are as shown bosides Hotel Names...

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IN JAPAN:

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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER

Hongkong Observatory, December 13th..

¡Previous On DatejOn Day

Day

at

BUBBER MARKET.

SALES TO HONNGKONG.. Measra Carroll Bros. have received

32.15

2.25

5:00

3.20

5.50

'Barometer" Temperature Humidity

30.08 30.13

30.00

83

67

45

75

M

Wind Direction...

Force Weather

ESH

Exet

B

B

B

0.00

Bassetts Brogas

in ancient Egypt..... Not one in a score of graduates ever obtains an office, not one in a hundred of com "petitors ever gets a degree, but they all belong to the literary class and share in ita influence, dignity and privileges, Moreover, these books render not only The Chesamen are of the orientar cables from Singapore reporting the those who get the prizes well acquainted pattern; the 9 sete are somewhat different; following sales to Hongkong! with the true principles on which symbolizing, perhaps, the opposing armies power should be exercised, but theif Chess, as many think, is a kind of whole nation (gentry or commonere)] War-game,. Indian fa origia as it seems know them also. These unemployed in napte A German savant has lately literati form & powerful middle, cinas, shown us what Babyloniaa Chesspieces whose members advise the work people were like, and investigation may confrm who have no time to study, and and the other opinion which gives Chess their rulers in the management of local Chinese and astronomical origin. affairs.

The 8 pieces, the 84 squares, the in

Colinsburgh

Connemaras"

Malaka Pindas

Kedaha

4.05 Mesars, Carroll Bros. also received ad- vices notifying that the following forward sales have been made:-

Lunas Rubber Estates,-Ltd.:-30 tona

at. 2 p.m. 6 am. | 2 p.m..

Rain

0,00 0.00 Highest open-air Temperature on 12th.

I have been given an extract from numerable combitations are very sug- the will of Khoo Cheng Teow, and, read-gestive of Fu Hai's celebrated diagrams ing the two portions of this extract to and it may well "be. that the Chessboard Mandai Tekong Bubber Estates, Ltd.: gether, I am of opinion that the deceased was originally a Mechanical aid to One" ton monthly for January/March, inust have had the stricter meaning of solving, the possible combinations of the 1928, Ribbed Smoked Sheets at 81.35 Ber the word literatí in mind."

Pa Kwa

lb.i

Onetor, monthly for "April/June, Mr. E. A. Stevens, representing one

Ribbed Smoked Sheet for 1998 at $1.25 Lowest open air Temperature on 13th per lb.

In the Calendar are two other Choce 1925, Ribbed Smoked Sheets at 81.22 per of the testator's sons, mentioned that of verses from Omar, both difficult of transla- | 1b,

ODO:-

whose cheeks checkmate red |

81.88 per Ib;--

the people who might possibly ho inter. tion owing to plays on the Persian Chess Sungei Bagan Rubber Co., Ltd. -20 ested in this disquisition, one was 53, an- terms. China would be interested in tons Hibber Smoked Sheet for 1923 at other 51, another 50, and the youngest 30 years of age,, and none of them had qualified in any of the examinationa mentioned in the affidavit...

He Lordship reserved judgment.

WEATHER REPOET."

"On Fati

eglantine And draw the game, with fairent maids

of Chin One amorous glance played 'gainst the At King of Babil,

bably the most reliable one, for her puz- poos that Nature has given

R

Days of

Height

Heights

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

From Dec. 14th to 20th, 1825

HIGH WATER/

LOW WAZZU

E'long

H'Long

Standard

Standard

Time

Tizne

h. m

it. in.

b. ft. i.

148 23 5 1m 3 24,

FADE, 15 z

Im 8

La 2.91

8.8

47.m 8-4

24.

10 17

57120

We wonder what this singular suz ceptibility of Persians would have led Ment Lost him Knight, Castle, Bishop, to in a blended race if the Chinese Em Seko pawn. and Queen 1;"MS

pire had so absorbed Persia as to break Very remarkable in the poetry of the down the barriers on this side to Wad. 10m The Royal Observatory issued the Persians who are Aryans, is the inmatrimonial unions. Perhaps ethnolo fellowing report at 5.45 p.m. yesterday fatuation so frequently expressed for the giste may yet trace the origin of seme Thur. 17.1 The anticyclone continues to extend to Chinese types of femining beauty. The historic houses to a fusing of the the Eastward and is now central over story of Babram and the roo-bodied Gal Persian race that was not dismayed by. Th the castern sea.A moderate to fresh Andams is a typical instance Now- Greece or Bang, with that of China which monsoon will continue along the south days we hear so much of eugenics that his men all the great world Empires Batur 10 east coast and over the Northern Chins we may forget that sexual selection pass sway, which is still in its youthful Ses. Local forecast N.E. winds fresh, of this kind is the only guide and pro- integrity and, perhape, only now cutting (Continued as foot of next Column.)

its wisdom teeth..

18.