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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 1931

WHITEAWAY'S

EPOCH-MAKING

SALE

STARTS ON

MONDAY, OCTOBER

5th.

THE SALE OF THE CENTURY.

A CABLED MESSAGE

FROM LONDON

HAS BEEN RECEIVED AS BELOW

WARFIELD HONG KONG—

**Your Stock was 420,000 Dollars in excess of present trade requirements stop you are therefore authorised by the board to hold a

do. September be during October and to offer this excess stock

....

Special Clearance. practically at landed cost price or less stop we feel convinced that these startling reduced prices should create a sensation in Hong Kong and attract crowds of delighted customers daily throughout the Sale.”— CHAIRMAN.

THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE BEING ACTED UPON AND ON

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5th

WE SHALL COMMENCE THE MOST

IMPORTANT MONEY SAVING

SALE

EVER HELD IN HONG KONG

OVER

$400,000 WORTH

WORTH OF GOODS

FROM ALL DEPARTMENTS

MEN'S WEAR

LADIES WEAR

CHILDREN'S WEAR

FURNISHING GOODS

HOUSEHOLD LINENS

HARDWARE

BLANKETS & SHEETS

CROCKERY

TOILET REQUISITES ETC., ETC.

WILL BE SOLD PRACTICALLY AT

LANDED COST OR LESS.

We expect crowds of buyers in the Early Days of this GREAT SALE So if you would secure the Best Bargains COME BARLY,

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

CRICKET PROSPECTS IN SENIOR

SERVICE

LACK OF RELIABLE BATSMEN, RABBIT URGES

ORGANISED FIELDING PRACTICES.

WICKET BE INTRODUCED IN » LOCAL GAMES?

Naturally enough, in these trou hear he has gone home he would blous times, there has been bitlá have been a great asset to bricket doing in the ricket line, though here). I don't know what colour the majority of our cricketers are it should be painted, White ang suppling up by a briek half hour geats itself, but possibly a light. occasionally at nets. lor ofe, green (or is the Servico tint, am a great believer in the theory hackle) might be a bit more reste of working in quietly to the game, ful like, However with one flotilla Some, of course, like to go down of destroyers and (censored), sub- and dig right in to it for an hour marines I imagine that there would or so the first time. This may be be no difficulty but I perceive I all right for the exceedingly young, grow libellous. Anyway, apart or for those who have been taking from the pulling of legs it is to a good deal of violent exercise all bo hoped that the wicket will play the summe

But otherwise there a bit bettor this year over there,

is a risk of all sorts of strains or that matting will be used. IS which may cut out the whole of is a wonderful, ground but it wants one's practice for a fortnight and money spent on it,

and I have yet. at the best, one becomes so stiff to fad any Chris (or individual) that a dyspeptic grizzly would be with masses of that commodity just Amore pleasant bar - fellow. waiting to be expanded in these "Softly, Softly, catches monkey" hard times. While writing of is a dashed good motto when, like Naval cricket, I might mention Mr. R. Abbit, you are a trife on that Comdr. F. C. Baker has been the wrong sideof shall wo say playing a good deal for the Incogs. thirty?

at home, taking wickets and mak ing a few runs. Commander Polly So far no games of

of very great is playing occasionally at Mount import have taken place. F. §. W. Wise and getting a few. While H. Smith got a century in & XC.C.5. P. Watch bowls his slows quito game but I hardly think he can be often for the United Services at considered seriously for Interport | Pompey. honours, and the bowling against

him was

defented.

"Local Games."

not exactly first-class. Of

The Larger Wicket?

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INSOMNIA.

BOOKS AS CURE FOR

FALWA

COMING

SHORTLY

DEAN INGE SUGGESTS HIS

⠀ OWN WORKS.

The value of books to those in ill health was emphasised by Bir Brace Bruce-Porter, the noted phy- on hospital libraries at the an sician, and Dean Inge, speaking. naual conferance of the Library. Association, at Cheltenham

hint that some works including Dean Inge went so far as to

his own might provide a cure for insomnia

the possible Interporters in this I rather gather that we shall game, Mackay failed, and so did ¦ stick to the original size of the Baiger. EF. Fincher, and H. P.tumps here. Singapore are using Lim got into the forties, but again the larger size or so I am told- the bowling was pretty, average but I think I am right in saying ja on the whole B. H. Black for that Shanghai are doing as we do. | the moment I cannot place, though As a matter of fact, I do not think this may be due to Hong Kong the batting here justifies any Memory He got forty-seven unchange. As a general rude the cry The only other players that we haven't got any bowl. who could be considered W. Cing, but this year we have a good Hung Whenever I see him fald deal, though, as Harry Graham ing with his peculiarly feline agility aid, "Nearly all of it was bad

pisging arme of those stylish But it's the old stery-no bowler shots that he learned at the late has bonour in his own country, but, Major Faulkner's School of Cricket, when he comes up against people has gone up. So has the cost of The cost of living,” he went on. I always want to think of him as who don't know him, it is rather a dying. While money. 16 spont an Interport man. But, unfortu different matter. I wish we had lavishly in improvements in me nately, in his batting, and also in good slow bowler, but I am not need for recasting the side which dical equipment, there is urgent his quite useful fastish bowling, he particularly worried about that has to do with the

o mental welfare always seeins just to miss the bos, department of the game unless any of inmates if I may descend to colloquialisms of our people develop an inadvert library. But we need highly skill- Every hospital should have sta on so serious & subject. There will ent leg theory. It's a battinged librarians who not only love

books but humanity, good

or

Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter said that the companionship of books for the sick was vitally neccesary.

Prayer Books and Oigarettes. "The varied tastes of readers is distant lands have often found surprising in hospitals. Men in

WILL ROGE

KING'S

AMERICAN CNC IN HANKOW.

ADMIRAL TAYLOR INSPECTS

GFLOOD DEVASTATION,

be a Club game at the HK.C. of which I am most nervous. We to-morrow if the weather is pro-have. Pearce, Owen-Hughes, and nitious, and the pitch, fit for play, Hancock, if ho is and well: but we have had a tremendous lot But after that we have mastly of rain and unless the sun comes people who are capable alike of amusement in studying the pages out I expect there will be a slow fifties or of single figure scores for their own home leave

of Bradshaw and planning trips easy wicket which will flatter some. O. Fincher was our Quintuen one military hospital dar of the Club batsmen at the ex- Fabius Maximus. But this seasoning the war there was at one time. pouse of the bowlers. Still, that's ho is n doubtľu) qantity so far, in a great demand among patients what a bowler is for anyway isn't view of last season. He should printed on India paper. This was United States Asiatic Ficet, arrived for Prayer-books and Testamentelor, the Commander-in-Chief of the puzzle until somcore discover here from Nanking at 4.30 o'clock Voted that the inspiration was not a

it Since writing the above the weather looks a bit more hopeful,

Cricket In the Navy.

however be back soon and give us a taste of his quality. Folding

his flagship, the US Houston, Hankow, September 22-Aboard

Admiral Montgomery Meigs Tay

religious revival, but a shortage of this afternoon. Admiral Taylor cigarette papera (Laughter.) went ahore at 6.30 o'clock this

“A libraring must have know-

must not recommend a bonk on the caused by the great food an ledge of the books to prescribe, He afternoon to view the devastation Bronte family to a tubercular

Admiral Taylor proceed to Han-- parent, me hix of the children portrayed in that book died of kow by way of Nanking direct consumption. (Laughter.) · Kather should he recommend the lives of

from northern waters without Voltaire, Emerson, and Ruskin, touching at Shanghai en route. in spite of the disease who all lived to an advanced age He is expected to reach Shanghai

next week

In these last few days there has been little enough time or opporta nity for lavestigations as to pea. cricket prospects, but while drinking a ginge of cold clear water (twice chlorinated and once ginned) in one of RM. ship was de lighted to hear that cricket pros- pects in the Senior Bervice were very bright, if it should happen that more than two ships get down here at a time. Apparently there at home, But in returning the L I have reason, to believe that my are about fifty or more names downhall to the stumps we have not in thead cases, because I have often own works are especially valuable of possible players in the Naval bead good. In 1020 Iwas much found my wife sleeping peacefully team, and I believe there has been impressed with the Malayan fed with one of my own books: upsfile most enthusiastic and enjoyable damage

in this res

down on her Ince (Laughter They threw in wricket up at Wer-hai-woi this mum beautifully and Lhink the Bhang-

Reading Aloud. toer, I don't know who will be hal team were better than we were loud said Dean Inge, The We do not do enough reading their Secretary, though they could This comes, not by individual prae- old practice of reading, aloud in find no better man for the job, but by organised practiceful one. I was brought up on it than my informant. After all, with

the family circle is a very delight

It is to be hoped that this sen- son we shall see some organised fielding practices. We have ben rather remiss in thein of recent years I believe that for the past, six years, or more, we have been better than our opponents at hald ing on to our entches, and in this Denn Inge observed that he had department of the game, and in never heard it suggested that does stopping the ball, we can compare thors in cases of persistent insom

tor might prescribe certain eu, favourably with usefub club cricketnia.

ships dashing in and out, the task where there is a bowler wicketReading aloud takes one along of turning out a good side every and a wicketkeeper's wicket, and at just the right pace. Most pro Saturday is stern one. By the the ball is hit from the bat gather ple road too quickly, 3 can rend way, I wonder the RNOB.C.ed and returned, as a definite hooks of all kind except traaby re going to paint that cliff behind evolution, and the next ball" not novels, obselete theology, books of the wide on the north end of bowled until that evolution held sports, except when the hun their ground1 At present it is complete, Everyone knows that ten is property mauled by wild rather near the colour of a cricket the ball should come in full toss beasts, and mathematics, which T ball and with the afternoon sun over the bails, or on the long-hop. am congenitally unable to under reflecting fromsit (or whatever it But how many times does it come and g does) ita amaringly difficult to in hs a yorker-the most ungather zes the ball at mid-on or mid-off abis of all lengths 1, the rule the once it gets outside the screen. 1fiekiaman has the line all night, but remember just -nscaping death by it is practice alone that-giver"b int inch from one of Boumphrey's

Without.it off-driver that I never saw

that the Yorker,

boping

the Inal split fracti

(By the way Ism: fully

"As one gets on one, should read en less. I do not read so much philoso and theology as used to

The writer

fost, of "what he wants to me and

de do not his Arga

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