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THE WORLD RENOWNED COCKTAIL

BACARDI

"AND ITS MANY USES.

"BACARDÍ RICKEY

Wine-glass of Bacardi

Juice of half a Limp

One lump of ice

Serve in high-ball glaas

Add Sparkling Water,

BACARDI GROG

One quart of Bacarill

One pound of Sagar

One quart of Formas Oolong Tas

Use the grog, adding equal

Part of very hot water

· Serve with slices of lemon

· Dissolve sugar in hot water.

BACARDI HIGHBALL || Place a piece of ice in glasă One glass of Bacardi

AGENTS:

Fill glass with Sparkling Water.

{THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY,

INFINITY AT CARDS.

NO CHANCE OF REPEATING HANDS.

...

[BY HUGH ELLIOT.)

·

TRAFFIC LIGHT SIGNALS.

NEW YORK SYSTEM.

ONE STATION TO CONTROL CITY

NEW YORK.

APRIL 21st, 1928.

MURDERED BANK CASHIER.

[DETECTIVES AND SHOWER OF

10% NOTES."

MOTHER-IN-LAW'S TEARS IN

COURT.

In this article I propose to take

The hearing of the chargo against my readers far away from the bot

All the main avenues in "down-Norman Elliott, aged 23, an attend- and dusty atmosphere of contro- versy into, the chilly and rarefied town," New York, writes à London ant st the Durham County Asylum, Morning Post correspondent, are Sedgefield, of having murdered Wm. BACARDI MILK PUNCH | atmosphere pf, higher mathematics.

Has it occured to many renders to new equipped with red and green Byland Abboy, aged 31, cashier in One glass bot Milk

wonder how it is that all the varia-signal lights, allowing north and the Ferryhill branch of Lloyds Bank, tions of bridge can be produced from south traffic to proceed for an on February 18th, was resumed at

One tablespoonful of sugar

A punch of nutmeg

The yolk of a egy

A glass of Bacardi

Beat up thoroughly

the yolk of the

Egy with the sugar

Add milk Bacardi and nutmeg

Mix it thoroughly

A delicions panch and a splendid

Beverage for Colds.

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In a few months all these lights will be controlled from one master

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Arsız 20тu, 1998, AK. Bank....$1,500 bar. 1.500/5 m

Dor2 London....131 nom. Chartered Bank.. ........21 buy.

B...£34) nom. O...£14 buy.

Mercantile Bank, A.

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China Underwriters

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Ms. 140 nom.

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Tugs Indo-Chinis (Pref.).

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(single) S'hai Explorations Shanghai Loans Bal Tronoh Mines

a pack of 52 cards, dealt into four interval of two minutes twenty Durham.

P.C. Greaves said that he found lots of 131 Why is it that we seconds, after which cast and west

even see, traffic has a clear road for one Abbey about 3.10 p.m. in the bank never hold, and never

| bleeding from a wound in the neck. any hand repeated twice! We see minute fifteen seconds. similar hands, but never identicel

Abbey sald, "A tall man did it."

Gladys Turner, an omnibus con- handa

ductress, said that & mau entered! her omnibus at Metal Bridge about 3.50 p.m. on February 16th. The omnibus had left Ferryhill at 3.40,

She had seen the man at Ferry hill omnibus stand at 5 that day. He had travelled in her omnibus&W, To... many times and had told her he was China Providents an attendant at the asylum. He Hongkon

New Engineering.. was tall, and was the man in the Shanghai.

Ewe Cotton dock

Orientals Cottona..... 'ha. Cations (old). HK.

..137 bag. ..$74 bay.

:

Wharfa...$158

120

bor...

607. bay.

13, nom. Tla. nom. Tla. 2.35 nom T. 430 not

nom..

The fact is that the number of station different possible hands is incon-The only avenues.not fitted with ceivably great: in short, about as lights are those impeded by the thousand million. A very energetic elevated railway tracks, or those in bridge-player might perhaps play which subways are under construc-I 20,000 hands a year. If he played tion. When the new, subways are at this high rate for over 30 years completed these arteries will be continuously he would have held less added to the rest now under con

trol. than one-millionth of the total possible bands: and if he then dealt himself a fresh hand it would be more than a million to one that it was different from any that he had held in the previous 30 years. Bol apart, auch as Filty-avenue and her house on February 18th he was H.K. Inanda sen107 bay. 67/58. 22.

All the lights one avenue change at the same time for the fall length of the avenue and some a short distance parallel avenues

Elliott's mother-in-law, Mrs. Edith Jane Callan, of the Turk's Head Inn, Kelloe, aid that when he left

Doak

*****

17/8 nom.

buy..

159+ el, $13 buy. „Já.is bay.

The 166 buy. Tim. 480 nem 'T'. 109 sol. Tet bay.

T. 1.00 bay.

Hotel 9/9.10.

Lands

Tix. 140 bay.

vast is the number of combinations Madison-avenue," change the lights wearing light tweed suit and an Extatem. $14 1

that can be made with 13 cards, dealt from a pack of 52,

Of this vast number of hands there aro always one or two that have

excited particular interest: those Are hands which consist entirely

of one suit-as, for instance, 13 spades It is often not realised; that this particular hand is just as probable as any other named hand, 11 H Played For 30,000 Years. It is one hand of the 635 thou sand million and as likely to turn up as any other that one wrote down in advance. But, reverting to our thirty-year bridge player, it would be a good bet, to lay him a million to one that he had never held it. If he played for 30,000 years

at the same time.

light cap and carried a brown over- coat over his arm.

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"I Would Rather Hot." Asked if she could now identify that clothing, Mrs. Callan burst into tears and said, "I would rather not, if you don't mind."

Accordingly she was not called on to identify the clothing.

Police Commissioner Warren tells me that he feels that the New York light system is the best that could he devised at this time and that it has speeded up traffic materially. Mr. Philip Host, his Deputy Com- missioner in charge of traffic,

When Elliott returned to her house, where he was living with her timates that the present system daughter, whom he married last saves the city the need of 5,000 ad- Januars Callan continued.

he' was not dressed the ditional traffic policemen, although | 8600, the light system by no abolishes the need for personal guidance of the traffic.

16

nom. $93"buy, 8 sol.

.$25.60 nom.

$18) bay. ....38 bay. “

HK. Reali HK. Turriicmala HK. Tramway Peak Trama (old)

(now) Star Ferries China Laghts (comb.).

Do. (old)......11 el- Do. (BAW)..

044 st., 04/ĢII Ba

13.35 sal

371 buy, & ea $10 buy.

34.70 buy.

EF. Electrics Macao Electrics Telephono........ China Bares Singapore Traction......11/9 nom, China Mugam

Tle. 74 buy.

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The head laundress of Sedgefield clothing received from Elliott for Asylum stated that in a parcel of Halaban dom..

washing on February 17th was &

Do.

Canton Ican.........................nom. Cements (combined)....$10) nom.

Do. (old) $10 Dom Jo. (now)...... sol. HK, Bopes (old)....73 buy. (D3)....13 com. United Asbestos Dairy Farms buy 22.30/90 Wations...................$14 buy. Der & Wings 10.50 Bom. He said to Elliott, "That is a Lane Crawfords....

shirt which had bloodstains on it. shop

Edward Fesle, an assistant at a at Stockton, stated that Elliott called on February 17th and he wanted it in a hurry. He could asked for a ready-made suit, saying

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again.

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Gold Label.

The value is in the Whisky and not in expensive bottles.

A genuine product of Scotland, well matured, and without any "bite".

Insist on Marchant's

You will

appreciate

and enjoy it-

a real good

Whsiky,

Buy a bottle for the

House.

On sale at Leading Stores.

BOLE AOXETO 2

buy.

bay,

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The aniber caution light, used for the beneft of pedestrians when the light system was first introduced, has been abolished Commissioner Hoyt explained: "It appeared to not at him. lead to accidents, since the stopped terrible affair at Ferryhill." Elliott Mackintoabs, it would be enormously improbable traffic took it as a signal to pro-replied, "Yes, awful, We have Binger ********* that he ever held it Homight playceed while moving traffic regarded some bad ones in yonder (meaning Wa Porall for 30 million years and never bold it as permission to continue for a the asylum), but none bad enough.K. Constructions. nom. H.K. Amusementa: 1.320/201. it. He would probably be over few seconds more."

to do that. taken by the next Ice Age long

Detective-Inspector Walker said B'que. Indus. G. Bonds...62% bay. Experiments are now being con- that in a locked drawer in Elliott's H., Gort, Loans.......12 prem, sal. before he held a hand of 13 spades. ducted, he added, to determine if it room ho found £83 in 10a. notes con- | bay-bayan; sel.--gallery; un-saios;

Seeing the large number of bridge will be wise to flash red lights to cealed in the folds of a blanket. players that there are in the world, all directions for a few seconds on wae u shower of notes. however, it is quite possible that the change of lights in order to bring this hand may occasionally have all traffic to a stop for the change." turned up; still more, that a hand may turn up containing one or other of the four suit entire. No one of us is likely ever to see it, but it may happen. When, however, we are told of cases in which each of the four players held one entire suit, we are up against an almost in finitely higher order of improb-system is now in use on some streets ON THE BOARD OF A NEW. ability.

I shall not attempt to write down the figures representing the odda against this: for they convey no meaning, and this column is too narrow to get them in. Such a dis tribution is so incredible that for practical purposes it may be regard. cd as impossible. Yet so-called "well-authenticated

cases are on record. One or two have been sent to me with a view to publication, and they have all found their way into the waste-paper basket.

Hallucination

Brooklyn's "Wave" Flan. Commissioner Hort has recently introduced into Brooklys a system of

When he shook the blanket there

Superintendent Foster stated that when arrested Elliott had in his possession £145 11a. 9d.

Elliott, who pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence, was com- mitted for trial at the Durham cerning them he explained: "This

wave" regulated lights. Con- Assizes. system is designed to allow an auto- mobile to proceed the whole length GRAND DUCHESS IN SOAP out ever being forced to halt by the of an avenue at a given speed with

red lights for cross, traffic. The

BUSINESS,

COMPANY.

of Washington and Chicago, and bes been highly approved by their Police Departmenta. Under its traffic, re-

The Grand Duchess Marie of gulations only one section of the avenue is stopped at one time, so Russia is one of the directors of a that a car approaching this section company Kitmir Limited,"

just registered under the ands the light changed to green title

with

when it reaches that point if it offices in Chancery-lane.. travels at normal speed.

It is stated that the purpose of

Commissioner Hoyt is doubtful the company is "to carry on the whether this system would work in business of manufacturers of and Manhattan, because of the congest dealers in perfumes, soaps, and ed streets and short block between toilet requisites." intersections

The Grand Duchess is a daughter Various experiments led to the adoption of the length of the Grand Duke Paul, and periods used in New York, where cousin of the late Czar. She Ard only one avenue, with virtually no to England during the revolution cross-town traffic, keeps its green in Russia, in which her husband There are many possible explana- light open for a full three minutes, was killed. Since then she has con- tions; either the cards were not but he heartily endorced the system ducted & dressmaking business in shuffed, or a practical joker was at of signal lights for any modem London and a studio in Paris, work, or it was a case of intentional city, and explained that virtualy known as "Kitmir," where Russian frand, or the players suffered under every American city now moyes its refugees made embroidery. a hallucination (which, by the way; traffic in this way.

probably happens to everyone occa sionally in the course of their lives),

or they had been dining, not wisely, but too well,

WHAT DYSPEPTICS SHOULD

EAT.

STRICT DIETS UNNECES- 'SARY.

is due to ex-

The most improbable of all these explanations in almost infinitely more probable than that the actual event occurred. Indeed, however bigh we put the value of human testimony, the chance is still count. less millions to one that the testi- foods have a greater tendency than It is a well-known fact that some mony was false or mistaken rather others to cause indigestion, and than that the actual event occurred. that by limiting one's diet to cer These remarks, of course, only apply tain tasteless, unappetising foods, when the cards have been properly stomach troubles end sometimes be Shuffled. If not shuffled they may overcome. times out of ten, easily come out in suits, as happens however, and food fermentation. in the goulashes of contract co

cess bridge.

Instead, therefore, of going While everyone may feel perfectly starvation diets, stomach sufferers assured that they will never hold can cat what they like if they will a band with thirteen cards of a only get rid of the excess acid and suit, they may feel a strong degree stop the fermentation. To do this of confidence that they will never quickly, safely, and surely, take a even hold twelve. The vast majority little Bisurated' Magnesia right of players have never either seen after eating or whenever pain is or held as many as eleven of a suit felt. This instantly neutralises the and this is an extreme rárity (about) acid, stops the "food fermentation, 2 millions to 1 against) the sort and heals the inflamed stomach of thing that may occur in a card- lining. Get a package of Bisurai- room once in several years. Ten of ed Magnesia (either powder or a suit is the most that any bridge tablets) from your chemist to-day; player can even expect to hold, and use, as directed, and you can eat that only at very long intervals, if what you like without fear of pais: at all.

or discomfort to follow.

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