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BANK HOLIDAY.

EN Accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIC BUSI NESS on MONDAY, the 20 I TANT (Whit Monday).

Hong Kong, 14th May, 1929. (7791

HONG KONG "JOCKEY CLUB.

FIFTH EXTRA

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THE FLING be held (Weather Permitting) at HAFIT VALLET. ON MONDAY, 20TE MAT, 1929, Com mencing at 3 7.X

The First Bell will be Rang at 3.50 P.M. The Charge for Admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1.00 for all Persors including Ladies.

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Each Member has the right to ins troduce 2 Non-members to the Members* Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be obtained from Mostes. Lassread & Davis, at $5.00 Each Per Day Up to FRIDAY, 17TH MAY, 1929.

for Admission for Ladies

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to the Members' Enclosure will be $3.00 Por Day,

Each Member can obtain, upon Àp- plication to the SECRETARY, Badges for Admission of 3 Ladies Free of Charge.

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WEATHER REPORT.

A very weird superstition pre- Heads of Government depart-

Amiable Manners in New York. rails amongst the peasants of meats and business houses have been

Doing what no male marksman | requested to grant their Muslim has ever done, Miss I. E. Foster, Sir Herbert Samuel, spoke in Lon- Miss Nancy Samvel, daughter of Yesterday's weather report, Iore. Ireland, who firmly believe that on employees a holiday to-morrow as east and remarks, issued by the one of the days of Whitsuntide the they will be celebrating Id-ud-duka world's record" by scoring twenty Early Closing Association of her of London, has just established & dan recently at a meeting of the

Royal. Chservatory at 6.95 p.m., ghosts of all persons drowned in the Service will be conducted at the different ranges for the highest CADeriences in a New York stort their Festival of Sacrifice. The Id

ons consecutive bulls-eyes at three stated :-

Be can be seen riding on white Mosque, Shelly Street commencing possible score of 105. This feat bar rot hurried by the bosses, I was in "The assistants," she said, " wero The anticyclone is moving East-horses over the waves and engaging at kid am

never been done by any other the chins and pottery department. ward and is now central over the in uncanny diversions. According

murkaman since the National Rida Eastern Sea. The depression is

Recent statistics show that the Association reduced the size of the those places. (Laughter.) In fact, As you know, breakages occur in situated to the S.S.W. of Tokyo.

Saherman who professed to population of the chief Italian bulls eyes for the 200, 500 and 600 there was a curious psychological Local Forecast:-Enst or rari have witnessed their revels, these cities is increasing rapidly. In the yard matches. Miss Foster, daugh effect in my case in this connection. able winds, moderate, cloudy, some" spirits from the vasty deep" have cate of Genes, for instance, the ter of an expert rifleman, could During the first week I did not drizzle or light rain.

population increase between 1921 shoot well before she entered her faces pale as death and eyes burn- and 1927 amounted to 273,877 This teens To-day she puts to shamsbreak anything. Then I asked if ing with fire. Coming towards him large increase is not all due to the vision of other marksman by the nasistants had to pay for break- ages, and I was told they did not. Editorial and Business Offices: 11. a host of them stretched out long natural population increment or dispensing with telescopes to The next day I broke three pieces immigration from the surrounding the discs. Miss Foster originally of glass entirely by accident. I Ice House Street. Tel. Central thin arms as if to seize him, but country districts, but also depends studied to be a sculptor, but later broke a piece of old Venetian gines, be succeeded in getting ashore and on the fact that several fair-sized turned her attention to running and they merely said, Oh, that is Night Editor (Wanchal Office): Tel cacaping. But one of the ghastly communes were grouped with Genos a poultry farm near London." She old stock. We wanted to get rid of

Central 4311.

during the period in question. The spends most of her time shooting. bersemen, in whom he recognised population of Milan in 1991 was

that, anyhow," (Laughter.) London Office: 21, Bride Lane, an acquaintance. who had been 719,800, and at the end of 1929 had

Fleet Street, E.C. 4

drowned some time before, rode reached 884,715. Here, too, a good

Standardisation in France. proportion of the increase was due quite close to him and in a sepul to the inclusion of small beighhour chral voice warned him as he landing towns and communes in the ed to continue his flight if he want- Rome population was 601,861 in Walter Runciman, Liberal member adopted by the French people.

Milaa city administration. The

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The Baily Press.

HONG KONG, MAY 20, 1999.

CURIOUS WHITSUN CUSTOMS.

ed to be safe. This the Asherman

did as fast as he could.

Drum.

Brewer's Pronts,

Beer profits in the British Isles amounted to £4,000,000 for 1927-28, declared the Chancellor of the Exchequer in a letter to Mr.

sation is beginning to be widely

The American idea of standardi-*

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ciman asked the Chancellor what- United States, it has been decided were the profits of brewing concerns that millions of franes can be saved for the accounting years ended in each year if the size and shapes of the same variety of things are made the incoine-tax year of 1927-28, in- cluding, in addition to brewing uniform. An organisation, knoW! - profits, any profits arising from the 13 the Association Francais de carrying on of any trade connected Normalisation, has been formed On the quarter-deck of H.M.S. with the main businces. Mr. Char- with this end in view. One of its Devonshire Lard Mildmay of Flete chill replied that the profits of first undertakings has been plica of Drake's drum. After the years ended in the income tax year presented the ship with a silver re brewing concerns for accounting band of the Royal Marines had in27.93 were estimated at £24,000,000 Mildmay said the original Drake's profits as computed for income-tax played the Admiral's salute, Lord This figure, he said, represents the drum was at Buckland Abbey, the purposes less the amounts allowed ld Devonshire home of Sir Francis for wear and tear of machinery Drake. He (Lord Mildmay), was and plant, but including proste

donors the

over to the then Devonshire to be connected with the ship. It was en used to record all worthy deeds

exact copy of the drum with which the crew of the Pelican sailed round the world. The drum was received

Eau de Cologne tree-worshiper of the spirit of story of the Flood. The stage used replica. in 1904, and, it was handed arising from subsidiary trades.

of

Exquisite Aroma

Each $2.

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PAYMENT OF INTERIM DIVIDEND ON SHARES FOR THE YEAR ENDAD 30тn Juan, 1929.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

the FIFTY-SIXTH THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 4TH MAY, 1929, at 11 O'CLOCK A for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st DECEMBER, 1928, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

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By Order of the Board...

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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN Home Kong). NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTIETH ORDIN. ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD- OFFICE, USION BUILDING, HAR Kong, on FRIDAY, 2428 MAY, 1928, 1.13 A.M. for the purpona of receiving the Report of the Director and the Statements of Account to 31st DECEMBER 1928, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

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the BIXTY-THIED OR DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 24 MAY, 1929,

at 11 20 A.M for the

of purpose

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From E MAY to 24 MAY, Both Days inclusive..

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THE KAILAN MINING

ADMINISTRATION,

P. C. YOUNG,

Destroyed by Drinking.

It is calculated that the capital of In years gone by the ancient Italy has increased by at least an

other 40,000 since 1997. city of Chester was celebrated. for its Whitsuntide mystery.M.S. Devonshire and Drake's plays The various 'guilds of! the city had each a favourite play, which

WAS performed on THOSE who are so fortunate as to Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

attempt to standardise preserve- jurs, so that the same tops can be have within easy reach a volume of every Whit-week. The drapers gave

used interchangeably. Another task The Golden Bough" will fad in representation of the Creation,

blankets, sheets, and quilts the same of the Association is to make FRAZER's famous book many refer the tanners rendered the Fall of

length and breadth. This is aimed ences to Whitsuntide observances. Lucifer, and quite fittingly the

Particularly at bringing about These relics in modern Europe of water-carriers of the Dee staged the

economies for hospitals and house wives. The question of making fire- hydrants conform to a definite type is also to be studied by the Associa regetation--are of very great in- was a kind of high cart decorated terest to the student of folk-lore, with ornamental bangings. It was

tion, which is working in eonjune-

magic, and religion, but these wheeled from point to point, so that

They are hard, stern people in tion with the Ministry of Com America, and when illicit liquor is merce. This is to enable the fire- quaint customs also have an in each of the guilds was able to pro

seized it is poured down the sewers brigades of one city to dash to the terest for those who do not make a duce its play in all the different by a party sansisting of a blue-veral recorded instances. But in ing emphasised that if the hydrate -at least that has been done in aid of another municipality, it be serious study of such subjects. parts of the city. The consequence jacket, a Marine, and the smallest Ireland hearts are kinder (or are not the same than the hoses of From north to south throughout was that there was very little crowd drummer boy. Lady Mildmay of throats drier), and whep eight move has also been com

a neighbouring city could not be Flete then presented the ship with dezen bottles of stout, four dozen menced to make the thousands of Europe there are customs regularlying, and, the performances were silk Ensign on behalf of women, observed by old-fashioned folk who always received with the greatest in realization of the deep debt of bottles of ale, three large and twenty kinds of candles into a single form.

seven small bottles of whisky" have little or

Fat dumpy candles, clongated" no idea of their respect. "Ancient bills of account gratitude they owed to the British

were seized during a raid on an Nary. Among others present were, unlicensed, dance at Portmarnock must henceforth be reduced to a twisted ones and slender pink ones' original meaning. Those who may relating to these plays contain such the Mayor of Plymouth, the Mayor the law, while determined to punish standard size to fit a standard wish to trace the origins of these curious, items as "Paid for setting of Exeter, Admiral Sir Roudolf the offenders, was not prepared to quaint and amusing observances the world on fire, 4d.", and "Paid Backhouse, of

Bentinck, Rear-Admiral Oliver countenance reckless waste. The candelabra will find much to interest and in. for kepyng of fire at hell mothe, ford.

liquor, adding that it could be des Aerial Tourists. form them in "The Golden Bough," 44.”—pretty cheap conflagrations,

troyed by drinking. The Court does not seem to have nominated his possession can cover Europe in Any tourist with an airplane is but those who have not got that one would think, considering the Bator Arepo Tenet. classic volume on their shelves may magnitude of the one and the inten- recently to the Times by a London tion, but presumably the sentence trouble than it takes to buy a ticket The following letter was written any particular agents of destrues week, and without any more be entertained by a few brief refer.sity of the other.

correspondent-In 1923 you pub-will be dutifully carried out by and travel by train. Franch steam ences to some of the customs as80-

Very different, but quite interest-lished a number of letters about somebody with a strong sense of ship companies have made it simple ciated with Whitsuntide that stilling is an account relating to certain the meaning of that word-square public duty.

for a tourist to carry his airplane or cross-word puzzle which has survive in England.

Whitsuntide celebrations at St. taxed the ingenuity of experts

with him in his baggage. For 5,000 franes it is possible to take a place One custom regularly observed at

Patrick's, Dublin; so far back as the since it was written, at least 1,500 Birdlip, a village in the neighbour-year 1509. It reads 4. 9d. paid years ago:- hood of the fashionable town of to those playing with the great and little angel and the dragon; 3. Cheltenham, affords some rare sport for the inhabitants, particularly paid for little cords employed such as are young and active. The about the Holy Ghost; s. 6d. for In your columns of January 9,portant case which was coming Aldrin, of the Standard "Oil Com- place rejoices in an extremely steep making the angel censing, and 26. 1923, Dr. James, Provost of Eton, before the Criminal Court repre pany Captain Aldrin's plane was hill-well-known to motoriste-and 2d. for cords of it-all on the feast wrote: Nobody knows what it sentatives of the Press were invited assembled on the dock at Havre,

means, if it means anything"; and to a "conference

permitting him to fly to Paris. He which was a

was lost in the fog on the way from the top a good-sized cheese, of Pentecost.”.

sort of rehearsal of the trial with through strange country and lazd cu February 4 you allowed me to warranted to travel fist, is set roll- There was one curious Whitsun-note that the words at orare naten out the Judge or the prisoner, but ed at Villacoublay instead of Lo tide custom which everyone will were good Latin for canst thou with address by counsel for the Bourget serodrome, but made good An excited agree is well banished to the limbo pray sufficiently?" So far as I Prosecution and the defence. The his error next day. The various crowd of would be captors follow in of the past. This was the custom know, this hint towards a solution fees was that when thus coached hero Clube of Europe havs, made bot pursuit, and before the cheess of drinking to excess, feasting and led no whither. In spite of many the newspapers would be able to..

ing to the bottom.

RO

The Reporting of Trials.

In Germany it has been found from New York to Paris, that that newspaper reports of senea charge including the knocking-down tional trials are ant to be misicad- of the machine in America and its ing, and to remedy this a curious assembly in France. experiment has been made in American sky tourist to make use Berlin. In anticipation of an in- of the new arrangement is Captain

"

The first

Cross

can become the prize of any of them gambling under the auspices, and ingenious suggestions the puzzle has grasp the points and present the possible for planes to

for the benefit, of the Church. For remained unsolved until this morn facts more accurately, but, accord-borders without long red-tape... not a few of its pursuers have, much this purpose a house or barn, call-g In to-day's issue of the ing to the Times correspondent, the planes, just as for automobiles, and against their will, adopted its led the church-house, was set apart, Guardian the Rev. T. D. Hickes, seeing that at the end of the con- forbidden to alf wirmen-it is pos

experiment was hardly a success,

peculiar mode

and a large quantity of beer was vicar of Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire,

"Triptiques" can now be obtained for except for fortified areas-which are sible now to fly anywhere so long as the aviator's papers are in order. The recent agreement between France and Italy opens up the air a new direction where it was hitherto closed. Any good tourist peting in the Olympic Games? pilot can start in Paris and touch a new capital every day without This is a question which is being fatigue discussed in athletic circles in Eng- land, the general opinion of which

Will women be banned from com-

at the Enternational

General Manager. stopping up the roads and foot-numbers of young men and maidens seek to win votes; and especially, Committee, which recently met at take place at Le Havre from May

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of progression. brewed. This was known as White writes that the letters Rotas opera furence those present appeared to This unique custom of cheese-roll-san ale, or Church ale, and was ten are an anagram, or re-arrange have different impressions of what ing is regularly observed every bought and consumed by those who ment, of the letters in Pater Noster had been said. Whitsuntide, and is so ancient that came to the church-house to cele alpha omega. Read in conection

in brate the season in the manner with the partial solution which I Women and Olympic Games. its origin is lost in obscurity. then in vogue..

The profits of offered in 1925, Mr. Hickes's dis Somewhat different, bat no less the drinking went towards the covery is, I think, final and con- quaint, is the custom which, ever maintenance of the fabric of the elusive. The cryptogram means: since the days of good Queen Bess, required for that purpose, were the beginning and the end."

church, and sometimes, when not "Pray without ceasing, Our Father. has been faithfully observed every given to the relief of the poor.

is that women athletes are entitled World's Rarest Stamp. twentieth Whit Monday in the Funds for such objects are raised, Politics and Glothes,

to full representation at the Games, in a happier manner now. In many

The most valuable postage stamp village of Corby, Northampton- parts of rural Engisad Whit-style in man's clothes a writer section would rob the meets of much the world is to be brought from

In a journal which is devoted to and that the dropping of their shire. Early" in the morning of Monday is the great match-making that day the villagers set about day of the year, the country village entures to explain to Parliament of their picturesqueness and in America for public display, horr

ary candidates the part which their teress. If an influential section of concours, fairs and festivals bringing large clothes are likely to play when they the International Olympic Games Philatelie Exhibition, which is to paths of the parish, and any together. The celebrations in the of course, female votes

A well- Lausanne, has its way women will 13 to 96. It is the 1-ceat stamp of stranger who wishes to come within Newbury district of the Kennet turned-out man is likely to be at bare no part in the next meeting at British Guiana, locally printed Valley are typical of these Whit the head of the poll, and a Los Angeles ir 1932. The question from printer's stock type to meet its gates is called upon to pay toll santide festivities so dear to the sloven stands a good chance of be was on the agenda of the Lausanne temporary lack of the regular If he refuses to part with the neces hearts of the rural population. All ing well turned out provides the mosting, but was referred to the issue in February, 1656, of which nary coin, he is seized and placed work is suspended, and, arrayed in text, and in the course of the conference in Berlin at the end of no other example has ever been astride a stout pole, and thus car their flags and banners dying, stort buttonholes, light waistcoats, case for the opponents of women of all postage stamps, war discover- their Sunday best, the men, with sermon candidates are advised to this year for final decision. The brought to light. This, the rarest ried through the village amidst the parade through the district, head and a little fatter of silk, handker competitors rests on these contened by a schoolboy among some for- jeers of the people. This is their ad by a brass band playing lively chief from the breast pocket. The tions: That women cannot compete gotten correspondence in a garret

aire. After attending a special sor-

smart girls of to-day, the writer on a plane with usen; that there at Georgetown, Demerara, and be very peculiar manner of commemo vice in the parish church, the pro- considera, are to be forgiven if they have been many distressing scenes cause of its unprepossessing appear rating a charter, absolving them cessionists re-form and march think that the men who will not which the public do not appreciate; ance was promptly passed on to from jury service, at Northampton, building where they dine and dance take the trouble to spruce them that the women's section of the fellow collector for a few shillings. which was granted by Queen Eli and celebrate for the remainder of elves up are not worth a vote, and, Olympic games is little more than It found its way into the world- the day. All these quaint and moreover, a woman is always predis a beauty parade for many of the famous collection of Baron Be BETH. Any stranger who has ridden curiona customs have a meaning,posed towards a man who shows pride competitors Mrs. Gould, secretary notiere von Ferrari, and there it the pole considers that once in even though those observing them in his appearance. It is admitted, of the Women's Amateur Athletic remained for over 40 years until however, that there are divisions Association, in England, danies on the dispersal of the Ferrari twenty years is often enough for have no idee of their real origin.

in which spruceness might not be these contention. There were no treasures by order of the French of assistance, and so the candidate "distressing scenes" in the women's custodian of enemy property in must, one gathers, mingle spruce section at the Amsterdam Olympic 1922 it was acquired by its present

Whilet

Arthur Hind, af ness with discretion.

Games last year, she said Women owner, Mr. on Whit-Sunday is doomed to be

would be the last people to ques who take part in these meetings are, Utica, N.Y., for the record sum of tion the significance and import generally speaking, as fit na fiddles £7,500, The main feature of this killed or to kill. In order to ward The sixth Chinese priest to be ance of clothing schemes, we have and fully capable of covering the remarkable stamp is the device of off this fate the hapless babe is put appointed Bishop in the past three doubts as to whether psychology, distances demanded without disa sailing ship taken from the head- years, Monsignor Evarist Chang, even feminine psychology, is quite tress." "The admission that many ing to Shipping Notes in the through a make-believe form of was consecrated by Cardinal Van-e simple as the writer of these of the women competitors were so Gazette, enclosed in a simple type burial. A small grave having been rossum in Rome recently. Bishop harmless hinta mems to think. Fair beautiful that the event assumed set frame and surrounded by the made, he or she is deposited therein Chang was Professor of Chinese ladies have said or pecasion that the importance of a beauty parade motto Darms Petimusque Vicis- Literature at the Propaganda Fide good looks in a man do not matter is a fine answer to the argument sim." Postally used, it is printed and covered with twigs, upon which college in Rome until his appoint in the least, and, indeed, are caur that participation in strenuous in black on paper of a dark sods are placed to make the inter-ment. He will now serve ased that masculine plainness is a sport mars feminine beauty," abe magento colour and is endorad

quite con declared.

the postmaster's initials These are after Apostolic Vicar in the Tsinan dispositive sack. It ment complete:

The viewpoint of the with trict, The raising of Chinese (ceivable that a woman may love one mere male is summed up in the E.D.W. In view of the steady up- wards removed and the infant taken priests to bishoprics follows the candidate for his face and figure, words of an official of the Amateur preciation in the values of stamps out, having thus been freed from decision of the Pope to place native admire another for the glory of his Athletic Association. Ban women during the past few years it is pro- the fato to which, according to the clergymen at the head of Chinese attire, and vote for the third be from the Olympic Games? Bless bable that the stamp is now worth

cause of his politics. viuariates and dioceses. superstition, it was born.

em, no "he said.

not far short of £19,000,

it. A queer practice still survives

in remote parts of England, where

it is believed that any child born

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