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SHANGHAI RACES.

FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN MEETING.

RECORD BROKEN IN FIRST

RACE

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8th, 1927.

BUSINESS OF THE PAST FORTNIGHT

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REPORT.

DULL.

ST. PETER'S YOUNG MEN'S SEX RIVALRY IN INDUSTRY.

CLUB..

LAST NIGHT'S.: DEBATE.

Meeting opened at Shanghai Fes

The Shanghai Race Club Autumn Current and Market Report, dated / hindrance to a successful Career,"

terday.

A fenture of the racing was that a record was broken, and a new one set up This happened in the Arst race, The Yangiazepoo Plate,

three-quarters of a mile, which was won by Mr. L. Dunbar's Chesapeake Bay, ridden by Mr. Dallas... The time taken for the race was 1 min. 29.3/3. exc., two minutes better than the previous record of 1"mis. 31.3/3 secs. set up by Community Let the Spring meeting this year:

Whether any other records were broken yesterday cannot be stated, as complete results were not avail- able' last night.

Below will be found the results of the first five races, which arrived in Hong Kong yesterday afternoon. The results of the last six races had not arrived at the Hong Kong Club up to mid-night. Probably they will arrive today, and will be published to-morrow morning.

THE RESULTS.

According to the Fortnightly Price November 5th, issued by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Com merce, business during the past fortnight has been dull. Too much reliance, however, need not be placed upon this, for if the files were searched for the past twenty years it is doubiful whether any report would be found which was:

at indescribably dull.

The interesting items of informa. tion regarding the various lines of

goods given in the latest publica. tion are as follows:

WOMEN OUSTED BY MEN IN LAUNDRIES.

REVERSE TRUE IN OTHER TRADES.

The St. Peter's · Young Men's Club held another date last night at the Club's premises, when the subject was: "That Marriage is a

Some interesting indications of the changes in industries are reveal- There was a large attendance,ed in the preliminary reports as to a number of trades on the 1994 Cen- which included a number of ladies,

Mrs A.. E. Matthews proposed sus of Production. the motion and was seconded by Mr. P. Sands, while Miss M. Clark supported the Rev. W. R.

Cannell. M.A., who opposed.

The Rev. H. V. Halvard presid- ed...

Humour pervaded throughout and the debate was very interesting. Mr. Cannal eloquently eulogised the works and deeds of great men who were among the benedicts. He won many votes by refuting certain fallacies formed as the result of unhappy wedlock, declaring em phatically that there is nothing wrong with marriage; it is selection that is to blame." Some

Cotton Piece Goods:-Market quiet with nothing of interest to

report..

Cotton Yarn:-Market has been extremely quiet and there is nothing fresh to report.

Woollens:-Market dull. quick shipment, but poor bookings. enquiry for Lnion Coalings Toy

Raw Cottons:-No business to report.

Metals Market very dull. Only smil business passing ac low #gures.

Flour: Market

The results of the first five races downward tendency. are a under:-

The Yangtazepoo Plate: Mile. Mr. L. Dunbar's Chesapeake Bay (Mr. Dallas) Mr. Toeg's Sceptre

(Mr. Crokam) Miss Law's Glen Ray.

(Mr. Heard) 3 Time: 1 min. 29.3-5 secs. (a re- cord, previous record-for-1-mile- being by Community 1 min. 312-5 secs. at the Spring meeting this year),

The Whangpoo Handicap "A"! Class: 1 Mile.

Mr. Westburi's Persous

(Mr. Heard) 1 M. and L.G.Wa Western Moor Mr. Pote Huat) Mr. J. C. Greig's Magic

(Mr. Brand) Time: mins. 8.-1-5 seca.... The Whangpoo Handicap "B

Class: 1 Mile.

A. B. MOULDER & CO. Mr. Bowford's Tabby Cat

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Sugar:Market dull. Saitpetre: Very quiet throughout the fortnight.

market

the

audience

Miss Clark entertained

by pouring forth a wealth of examples in elucidation of her conviction.

One of the most curious results ja that in the laundry, cleaning,and dyeing industry, which is being de

veloped by machinery, women work- ers are being ousted by men. In other trades the reverse is the case.

In the hardware, hollow-ware and bedstead trades, comprising a great variety of industries, ranging from safes and locks to stoves, lamps, baths, and meters, the total value of the outpit was £24,511,000. DI this sum, £12,003,000 represented the cost of material, and £134,000 the value of work given out. The number of employees, was 72.400. (64,591 operatives and 7,809 man- agement, technical and clorical staff); and the net output per per- son was £170

Change From Steam...

Mrs. Matthews drew drah

Of the employees; 58,573 were pieture of married life. According over 18; 44,039 of the total were to her view married men generally males and 19,798 were females. As could only think of their dependants indicating the change from steam, and had, therefore, to twist and it is stated that engines in this alter their plans and work to suit industry totalled 18,913 horse- the exigencies of family life, which power, and in addition there were meant the subordination of per-electric motors generating 38,847

Even in boom years this fort nightly report always breathed the same atmosphere. The official resonality, character, aspiration, self sponsible for collecting and issuing reliance and grit Frequently they this information so regularly muet were troubled financially, She

by this time have become a very then drew comparisons between pessimistic individual.

bachelor life and married life, and. in her opinion, the former mode proved more conducive to the "pur- suit of a successful career,

BACKYARD THIEVES.

TWO TYPES BEFORE THE

COURTS."

"A Chinese youth, who was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy yester day with the theft of a jacket from the backyard of No. 1, Cox's Road, on Friday, denied, the charge and advanced the ples that he was at the time on his way to Honghom to purchase food for the master.

Mr. E. L. Stainfield gave evidence of arrest, stating that he saw the defendant scaling the wall and get- fing back again alter taking the jacket. On noticing that his act had been seen by witness, the de- Tendant made an attempt to run

The Maiden Stakes: Me. Mr. Eve's Wedding Eve

(M-Pote-Haat) D.W.M. and W.H's Cedric ..

(Mr. Wells Henderson) 2) away, but was caught. Messrs. Winsome and Hasty's The Sparrow (Mr. McBain) Time: 1 min. 12.3-6 secs. The Fah Wah Stakes: 14 Miles. We Two's Young Bill.

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.. (Mr. Pole Hunt) 1 Mr. Liddell's Wheatcroft

(Mr. Bremner) Mr. W. A. White's Buster II.

(Mr. Campbell) Time: 3 mins. 14 secs.

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ICE COOLIED MINE.

DIGGING FOR GOLD 7,000

The Magistrate held the defend- ant to be guilty of the charge and remanded him for twenty-four hours for the attendance of his master,

A Truthful Bogus.

In a similar case at the Central Magistracy, a Chinese admitted

Mr. Sands was even more pessi mistic. He said that human nature possessed, self, sex and social in stincts, which suffered because of marriage. He gave anmerous examples of unhappiness in families, which interfered with progress. He. concluled by submitting that most men who were recssful after mar riage, had been so before marriage. Several others also spoke and ultimately. Mr. Cannell was success- fa! by 27 votes to 15.

THE DIVORCE CITY.

CHICAGO'S RECORD.

"JOKE MÄRRIAGES.".

CHICAGO, Sept. 20th. Chicago has now added to many titles of notoriety that of "The Divorce City:"

It has more divorces to every marriage than any other city or that he went to the backyard of town in the country. 3 No. 8, Landale Street, Wanchai,

FEET DOWN.?

Ice-cooled air is enabling myn to work 7,850 feet underground-the deepest point to which man has ever burrowed towards the earth's Village Deep gold mine, Johannes-

core in the Turf shaft of the

Jurg.

Apart from economic factors, it was once thought by experts that deep level mining would reach its limit at 7,500 feet because of the free disposal of its Clients, at the lowest points.

high temperatures which obtained Statistics ensuring that the money show that in the Village Deep mine they spend on Advertising there is an increase in the tempera- will bring them the best possible return."

Telephone Central 80

THERE'S A LONG LONG TRAIL

f

Bugs, Fleas, Flies, Beetles, Mosquitoes,

etc. all killed by

ture of one degree Fahrenheit for

every 934 feet of vertical depth.

At the deepest point of the Vil- lage Deep the rock temperature is already equal to that of the human body and it is calculated that at depth of 9,000 feet the tempere- ture will be 105.8 degrees.

to steal a pair of trousers banging

horse power.

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Separate analyses have been made

safes returned a total output of of some of the trades. Locks and

£1,730,000, compared with £992,,000 in 1907. Workers in 1924 numbered 7,397, of whom 4,781 were inales; number of females was nearly double that of 1007. The output per head was £167, compared with £82 in 1907.

Bedsteads, hearth, furniture, and wire mattresses had an output of £1,942,000. Of the bedsteads, 62 per cent. were exported, compared with 41 per cent. in 1907. The ein ployees, numbered 4;305 in 1924. (3,239 males), and the output per person was £202,

In the metal box industry, the female employees, 9,437, outnumber the men, 6,839, and the net output per hond was about £150.

30 Per Cent, More Women.. The cost of the materials was £0,788,000 and the value of the work given out £82,000. The output per head was 183 compared with £83 in 1907, and there were 33,620 workers compared with 28,024 in 1907. Memales, 13,193, increased by increase of males Electric power about 30 per cent, or double the

has made great strides here; it inultiplied sixford between 1972 and 1994.

924 returns

The basket and wicker work The number increased by 100 per figures exclude the output of cent. last year, according to the re- philanthropic institutions. A de- on a line. Remarking that the deport issued by Mr. Thomas O. Wal- eline is deduced from the figures, fendant was very frank about it, lace, clerk of the circuit court.although the selling value of the. the Magistrate passed sentence of America's present divorce rate is

£814,000 compared four weeks' hard labour.

now almost one divorce to every numbered 3,411 in 104 compared with £487,000 in 1907 Employee seven marriages; Chicago's rate Tast year was one divorce to every

with 3,813 in 1997; nevertheless the female workers increased from 573 five marriages.

to 1,072, They are thus ousting the men. Exports in 1924 amount ed to but £26,000 (£19,000 in 1907), compared with imports of £283,000 (£18,000 in 1907).

RUBBER SHARES.

QUOTATIONS.

advised of the following quota Messri Carrell Bros. have been

tions for rubber shares:..

Allenbys Glenealye Jimahs Kedahs Malaka Pindas Pajams

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2.63

2,23

3.05 9.20 2.20

HYPNOTISM TO DEADEN

PAIN."

GIRL OFFERS TO HAVE TEETH EXTRACTED.

There were 40,000 marriages in the eity last year and 8,000 divorces. There were 80,000 mar riages in the entire State of Illinois in 1926 and 14.000 divorces. riages and 38 per cent of the which means that half of the mar

divorces occurred in Chicago.

Elopement Epidemic... Four thousand divorces have bren granted in Chicago in the first half of the present year, and there are more than 13,000 cases pending Of 4,000 divorees 2,500 were grant ed to couples married in Chicago. One thousand of the four thousand divorces granted this year have been due to elopements.

Chicago judges are outspoken in their condemnation of the prevail- ing conditiona,

Judge Divid says: "Marriage in this city has become a joke. I can see little more to marriage as practised here than spending a pound on a wife for a day or so, and then asking for the money. hack. Twenty-five per cent of all divorces granted here are fraudu lently obtained.'

Some

cleaning and dyeing trades. The exceedingly interesting figures are shown in the laundry,

value of the work done more than doubled-trom £9,078,000 in 1907 to £20,717,000 in 1924. This is due to increase in power laundries. The number of small laundries has do that women workers have declined elined with the interesting result

from 104,823 to 94,317, while the man have increased from 22,014 to 23,981. The total number of em- ployees, however, has fallen fromi 126,037 to 118,278. --- Westuiwster Gazette.

GIRLS IN ARMY CAMPS.

PLYMOUTH EMPLOYMENT.

COMMITTEE'S PROTEST...

Thanks to a new method of ice KEIGHLEY (YORK), Sept. 26th. cooling, work can be carried on 'to A young woman, who had pre- "almost any dépth. So far as is viously been the subject of an known, the Village Deep is the only hypnotic denmostration by Mr. H. nine in the world where ico is C. Shackleton, former member of utilised for cooling purposes. Keighley Guardians, to-day offered Eighteen months of experiments to have her teeth extracted without

At the Plymouth District Em- have proved the system to be an anaesthetico if Mr. Shackleton

ployment Committee recently a dia- remarkably successful and to-day would hypnotise her.

enssion took place upon the em- the mine is using more than four |

Sticky Films," Mr. Shackleton has undertakin

ployment of girls at the Naval, tons of ice daily.

to do this, and is convinced she will Judge George Fred Rush, who Army, and Air Force Institutes at The method consists of placing feel rain.

bas handled thousands of divorce the camp at Aldershot, and the the ice in the delivery ends of 15- Such a procedure is practical, he cases, believes The cinemas and committee decided to circulate to inch ventilation pipes. The air says, and he considers that doctors cheap literature of to-day foster all other local Employment Com- coming from the pipes passes over should study hypnotism scientifical, divorce. They paint a sticky mittees resolution that girls sugary, sentimental, falso picture should not be employed at the the spot where work is progressing.describes it as nature's anaesthetic, of love and marriage, and when a camp, and that a refusal to scrspi The method has proved most effec- which does no harm to any one girl finds that her husband is no employment in the camp should not tive, and has succeeded in lowering when used” „ for the good fat Don Juan and her marriage no be a ground for non-payment of the temperature at least sevan -de- | humanity.

romantic bed of roses, she thinks beacût, and that the. Ministry of green. By increasing the quantity Mr. Shackleton, it is claimed, re- herself fill-used when she is only Labour should be urged to take of ice, a reduction of no less than cently kept a man in a trance for living the average normal married some definite action to meet the sixteen "degrees has been attained. Ja week.

life.!"

views of the committee.

KEATING'S the ice and is then concentrated only for the good of humanity. He

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