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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9th, 1927.

XMAS AND NEW YEAR HAMPERS

"We beg to notify customers that Assorted Hampers suitable tự the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Reduced a

1

Qt.

No. 1 HAMPER-$38.

Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial 1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port.

Champagne 3 Qtu. St. Julien Olaret.

1 Pt. Blackberry Branly, 1 Pt. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Martell's XXX Braudy.

Qu. King George IX Gold label

or Perfection Whisky

10. Old Brown Sherry, Black Seal.. 1'Qa. Paritin Old Tom or Dry Gia. 1 Qt. Burgundy, Burgoyne's. 1 Prial Pomeranzen Bitters.

No. 2 HAMPER–134.

1 Qt. Guillemart Champagne. 1 P: D.U.M.

1.Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy, 1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy,

The King George V Gold Labol

or Perfection Whisky.

Qts. Tawny Dry Port

2 Qu. St. Julien Claret

1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gis!

Vino de Pasta, Sherry.

1 Phipl Pomuntazea Bitters.

No. 3

HAMPER—$30.

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

1 Pt. Peppermint G.F.

1 Pt. D.ŮM.

2 Qta. Superior Rich Old Port.

2 Qts. King George IV Gold Label

or Perfection Whisky

1 Qt. Engrad'. XXX Brady,

1 Qt. Amontillado Shorry,

1 Q. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.” 2 Ots. Medve Claret.

Phial Pomeransán Bitters.

Other hampers made up to suit Customer's requirements.

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

TEL. C. No. 195.

Hoya Koso.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

Best Portland Cement.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

GENERAL MANAGERS,

HONGKONG.

Danger of

Neglected

COLDS!

THERE, are always serious possibilities

in a neglected cold, and many victims claimed by pleurisy, preumonia and chronic bronchitis owe their trouble to neglect in the first instance.

At this season, everybody needs Peps. This handy tablet niedicine" promptly relieves that tightness and soreness about the chest, hoarseness of the threat and stuffiness in the head. Immediately a Feps tablet dissolves in the mouth the healing and germicidal fumes released, are carried through the throat and bronchials straight to the lungs.

-

Peps invigorate the entire bronchin! system and are a splendid defence against the many lung dangers of this season.

&

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PEPS

Par soīds, skills, bronckiša, coughs, branchial

codarek, influenza, zore teršal,

and

other Phradd infections: Papa drese. All chemia dut mediašne vendore'sail. Peļu

Healthy

Childhood

Growth is a severe tax on stamina. The young growing body needs all the support it can be given. Give your children

THE

HANDY TABLET MEDICINE

KEPLER

MARA

I.P.

628.

Cod Liver Oil with Malt Extract

Botties of two sizes

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"***HAZELINE' SNOW”

(Trade Mark)

keeps the skin' soft, sool and smooth.

Glass note

"All Chemists and Storey

BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO. (PROPRIETORKI The WELLCOME FOUNDATION ATRG LONDON, ENG)

LONDON AND SHANGHAI

(All Righir Riserid

THE QUORN AT KIRBY GATE

A GREAT ENGLISH FESTIVAL.

FEMININE WOMEN OF THE HUNT.

THE KAISER'S NEW

THER-IN-LAW. BROTH

HIS MANY VICISSITUDES.

OFTEN

"DOWN AND OUT."

Alexander Zoubkoff, the young Russian, who recently married Princess Victoria, the sixty-one- MELTON MOWBRAY, Nov. 8th. year-old sister of the ex-Kaiser, bas The following account of the first written to a Berlin evening news- rueet of the Quorn this season, writ-paper & romantic story of his life ten by Mr. J. M. N. Jeffries for the Daily Mail should interest. all who care either for horseflesh or the English countryside.

The opening meet of the Quorn Hant, which took place to-day at Kirby Gate, near Melton Mowbray, is one of the primary manifesta tions of British life, of the older British life that is, of which our industrial world does less and less. There is not one of us, though he may gever have been in Leicester- shire, to whom the phrase "The Quora net at Kirby Gate" does not convey a definite meaning, and to the "exiled Englishman in some lonely club it focuses for a moment the England dear to him but growu a little din

Yet events such as this are like the British Constitution; they are very difficult to put on paper. Some parts of them at least are, but perhaps not Kirby Gate itself

an old, grey stone house, with a rose or two still in the garden and an espalier fruit tree between the windows, and an escutcheon over the door.

The Fare For Hunters.

In a room within there is" a bright fire and a table with glitter- ing decanters and dishes bearing the same fare that fortified the hunters who hunted under other fiorgon, and the Joint Master and his wife are talking to Mr. and Mr. Astili...

Mr. Astill has farmed at Kirby For a long time now and ridden with the best in. his day. This is the forty-second time he has been the host of the Quorn for the open ing meet, which makes him, as the Motor playfully said, just 43 years of age...

Outside there is a great and gathering crowd, for the Quorn's first meet is something of a public holiday in the district.

Women #ders are coming up in numbers, and they bring a great wave of tradition with them. Their shining boot-tops projecting from their smooth, perfect skints, their erect figures, their rounded and elegant Enes, the veils that never yet revealed a bad feature or hid a good one-there" they were all agaan

Women who rode astride and without a habit were very few. It was in many ways the most strik-

ing sight of the day to perceive the women of the Quorn and to realise the paradox as it is-to the hunt ing-feld of Leicester" one histo come to find the femininity lost for ever in London.

The Prince Arrives.

A sudden rush of the crowd from

where they have been forming a ring round the hounds and a sound of cheering. It is the Prince of Wales who has ridden up. He ad- vances raising his hat. His smile comes and goes as he rides through the crowd to greet Major Burnaby, the Joint Mister, and his charin- ing wife and have some words with Mr. and Mra. Asti, who are pre- sented to him,

Sitting his horse a little farther uft de Prince Hairy.

|

and adventures.

"I am,” he said, "by no means the green and çallow youth that the newspapers have made me put to be. Sorry as I am to have to dis- appoint the public on this score. I must own that I am not a mere stripling of twenty-three, but have already reached the mature age of twenty-seven.

"I was born Dot far from. Moscow, at Ivonave, where my father owned a cloth factory. I left the wearing stool and studied medicine at the University of Moscow, but the revolution upset everything, and in 1991 I had to dee for my life. I managed to escape first to Reval, and then to Upsala, in Sweden; where relatives of my mother, who was a Swede, came to my assistance. I had a job there for a time, as a commer- dial traveller.

Slept At Salvation Army Shelters.

Circumstances forced me later to leave Sweden. I then signed on

DLS,

an ordinary caman in Finnish tramp steamer., Here I bad monopoly of the dirtiest and most unpleasant jobs on board.

After three years of life at sea 1927 found me atranded in Berlin. Many a night I had to spend shiver- ing in railway station waiting-rooms or in a Salvation Army shelter. tbocght myself lucky, when at last

secured-a-job-as-washer-up at-a- Berlin restaurant for 3s, a day and my food.

Don't imagine that I am in the least ashamed of having been so hard up." said Zoubkoff. "AL one time I had the luck to obtain a part as a film süper which brought me in as much as 55. '4 day.

One calling I cannot claim to have followed is that of a profis- | sional dancer, a way of earning

my Eving which has been foisted, on me by the Germap newspapers. As a matter of fact, I am a shock- ingly bad dancer, greatly to the disappointment of" the princess, who simply adores dancing.

How He Met The Princess. "No doubt, however, you want to hear how I came to make the acquaintance of Princess Victoria. It came about in this, way: Five months ago I was in Cologne, on my way to Antwerp, where I hoped to work my passage out to the Bel- gian Congo. When in Cologne I hit on the idea cf looking up a distant relative in Bonn with the

object of harrowing a few pounds from him. This relative of mine | happens to be a frequent visitor to the palace of the primess, and took. me with him to tes there.

Invitations to play tennis oon followed, and a cordial friendship sprang up between the princess and myself. Then we became engaged.

am convinced that our marriage will be a most happy one, as there la a perfect Understanding between us. We shall, of course, not live at Bonn. I want to take up a pro- fission as soon as possible, because I wish to enzo my own Eving

A BOY'S SQUIB.

CAUSES SEVEN FIRES AND' RENDERS- 28 PEOPLE' HOMELESS.

The onlookers had not hoped to see the Prince of Wales, but at ap- pears that he made a special point of coming to Kirby Gate, rather than appearing at the distant covert-side (as so many do), for the sake of the Quoru and the focal festival and the general éclat of the day.

The scene

nt covert-side, when presently one hurried there by car, we like the outskirts of some small, gallant, old-time battle. On the rounded skyline of Gartree wind carried it to the thatched roof

Fires rendered seven houzehokis homeless in the village of 'Kings Sutton, 3 miles frean Banbury

The little ton of one of the vil agers had lita aquib, and when he found it burning his fingers be threw it into the sir. A gust of

Hills was a dark, ever-moring of a semi-detached cottage in a part furee, most of them in fact a crowd

of the village called Upper Para- dise and the dry material at once ignited.

of watchers, but they looked like infantry in reserve,

Lower, by the roadside, you caught the red fish of many pink adjoining cottage and a high wind The flames quickly spread to the conts, like the cavalry in line fanned them across a roadway to a awaiting their turn to charge, block of five other similar cottages. while above and below the wood, Women and children rushed into like sentinels, were the solitary the street for safety. forms of two whippersin watching the covert.

i

has been started.

About 28 people are without From it rose long-drawn. Ois" homes and temporary accommoda- andys, which you can with tion has been provided in other difficulty reproduce in print, as the houses in the village. A reliel fund huntsman encouraged his hounds. Then suddenly came the sound of hounds giving tongue as they found the fox, and anon the hunts- man's born winding high and shrill as he draw the hounds out of the

covert.

Bearodly was he out of sight when the hounds came, casting a little wide of the path he had taken, but well upon his traces. And then all at aime came a pink avalanche of rider along the road,

dividing and flowing like a stream past the care in its centre-peers and generals and that great ad- miral who always hunts, both the joint-masters, the two Princes well

The Field In Chase. Then, almost before we knew where we were, the fox himself ap- peared, crossing the field by the edge of which we stood, a big strong follow with patches of grey in his coat, in no apparent great and the foremost, the sporting hurry, looking a triffe overweight parson and the local M.P. round- Ing up the cortegn. The. Quorn's

ed with his brush.

1 (Continued at foot of next column.) | season was wall and truly begun.

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Ayer Maleks

Balgownies

Bassetts

Brogas......

Bukit Jelotangs Bukit Katils

Indragiri's

forums Jimaha

Kedahs

Special Appointment to H.M. King George V.

CHAMPACKE

BRUT

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The Queen of Champagnes, Known and appreciated by Connoisseurs throughout the Seven Seas,

can again be obtained in Hong Kong.

Quarts Pint...

Baby

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$7.00 per bottle

$3.70

$2.00

It will make the party

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Telephone or write the Agents to-day who

will supply by the case-or-bottle-

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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

DELIMIA 8TH, 1997.

....31.14 buy. Do., London...2121 nom. Chartered Bank £21) buy. Mercantile Bank, A&B. nom.

B.K. Back................

Foot Asia Back......

Canton Insurance......

RUBBER PRICES.

Alenbys

$3.20°

2.60

Amalgamated Malays

4.90

2.65

3.50

1.45

1.70

1.30

1.30

Changkat Serdangs

8.50

Connemaras

9.45

Glenenlies!

3.15

12,00

Do.,

1.85

P. & O. Bank

9.95

4.25

8,90

4.20

North China Inn.

3.20

2,70

Chinx

0.75

0.65

Hung

4.30

Donglenes

2.85/

1.30

H.R. Tags .....

2.75

Do. (Det.)

3.40.

8ball:

4,60

3.15

Bengueta

Teluk Ansons ....

Tambalaksaïgroen

1,60

3.05

United Malaccas "......

2.55

Utan Simpans...

4.00

Kempas

Kuala Sidims Lunas.... Malakan Pindns Mandai Tekong Mentakabs

New Serendahs Pajams Punggors Sandycrolts Scadais Sungei Bagans Tapahs

Price of raw rubber: 71 cts. pe

lb.

EXCHANGE RATES.

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Paris New York Brussels Geneva

Man Berlin Stockholm

Rrday, December 7th.

Union Insurance. ......

0.13 com

LID DOM elu

Sot nom. $556 buy.

..8193 bay.

Thx 143 nom.

.M.$461 buy.

Iqsgrance...M. Underwriter 31.90 sel.

Obins Fire Insurance... $216 nom.

Kong Fire Ina....... 3635 buy.

Stenin Sosta.

1381 bay,

$20 nom.

..$1,70 som.

Indo-Chinas (Pryl) ......$30 no

...$48 10.

.90/- nom.

$17 nom

....... 24 nom. Kailan Mining Ad...63 sel. Langkate (combined)......The.

T 131 buy Do. (siglo). T. 10 buy. B'ham. Explorations ..... TIR. If buy

Shanghai Loans

Ti. 6.05 bay, “Bauke Diaper 24-boy-

Tronoh

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sel.

H.K. & K. Wharfs H.K. & W. Dock..... China Providenta Honykows

New Engineerings.

Shanghai Docks

St.157 bay,

..Tls. 5 sel.

..116.93

sok

Tha. 7,10 buy.

Tix. 1 nom.

Shanghai Cottons (old)...The. 154 buy. Do. (new)......Tim. 225 bay.

B.K.&. Hotels

..$1 boy. 7.10 sel. *་་་*

$68 com.

Humphreys Estatesla, 184 buy.

Hong Kong Realties:.....$7.40 nom.

E.K. Territorials

now. 1

B.K. Tramways 1.20 40 buy. de na.

Prek Trax (old)

121

4.88 3/32

Ewo Cottons

34.90

Orientals

25.29

Amsterdam

12.07

90.00

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20.44

18.03

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Copenhagen

18.20

Oslo ......

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31.02

Prague

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Helsingfors Madrid

1931

Lisbon Athens Bucharest

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387+ 780 » 5.29/32 47 7/8

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281

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314

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$13

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Do. (old)26.60 now.

sel. H.K. Ropes (old) 201

Do. United Abortos ....

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