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Winters

WINTER'S TALE

Three Centuries Ago. SHAKESPEARE praised the Virtues of SHERRY

TO-DAY, no matter where you go or what the occasion, you find people drinking Sherry. ... à revival of the sensible habit which existed in our grandfather's time, when the Sherry decanter stood always ready on the sideboard

Then, before lunch, you are offered Sherry instead of the now demode Cocktail. And, of course, the Cocktail parties are now Sherry parties..

Sherry is undoubtedly the fashion- able drink of This Age, and rightly so, for its clean, nutty flavour is the perfect appetiser. It is economical in use for unlike most wines, Sherry does not deteriorate after opening.

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HONG KONG WHOLESALE GOOD FOR EVIL

PRICE INDEX

Statistical Office's Figures For 1934

An official report states that, as measured at the Statistical. Office of the Imports and Exports Department, wholesale prices in the Colony of Hong Kong during the year 1934 recorded decreaSEN of 11.6 per cent. as compared with 1933, 252 per cent, as compar- ed with 1932, 33.0 per cent, as compared with 1931, 14.3 per cent. as compared with 1924, and 8.5 per cent. as compared with the base period of 1922..

As compared with the preceding year there were decreases in -1934 each of the four groups of commodities, the Index number of Foodstuffs declining 16.8 per cent, Textiles 11.4 per cent. Metals and Minerals 9.6 per cent, and Miscellaneous Items 75 per cent.

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The following table shows the course of local wholesale price. changes since 1913:----

Foodstuns

12.4.20

Textiles....

55.1

Metals and Minerals MiscellaneouIA.

(1923-100): 1924 1931 1932 1933 1913

73.8 108.1 144.3 126.5 113.4 112.8 135.8·125,2 63.2 102.3 140.9 128.1 1078 64.2 106.3 125.4 109.7 95.7

1934

94.3

97.0

85.9

97.4

(88.5

Average

34.0 106.8 138.6 122.4 103.5 91.5

The following tables show the individual commodity whole- sale price changes since 1924:--

Poultry

Gunny Bags Hessian Cloth

FOODSTUFFS

"(1922-100)

P.S. 1

Beans Reef

1924 1991 1933 1933 130.0 118,6 100.3

162.3 116.9 218.0

1934

101.3

83.9

173.2

1213

Eggs

$4.5

131.1 104.5

98.7

88.0

Flour (Wheat)

96.4

114.0

98.5

85.7

75.8

Bult Fish

87.6

125.9

150.0

153,4

137.1

Fruits, Fresh

123.4

305.7

274.5

250.1...

·233.0

Lard

106.9

138.0

114.7

101.2

78.5..

Milk (Condensed)

92.2

185.2

178.8

170.9

137.9

Mutton

$114.3 173,9

132.9

139.4

143.2

Onions

141.1

Peanut Of Pork

Potatoes

103.1 111.6 117.1 133.8 103.6

93.4' 109.0 109.8

104.1

81.8 63.8

122.1 101.7

73,1

119.8. 109.6

87.3

86.2

71.8

111.0 175.2 147.7

117.0

88.8

Rice (Broken)

112.3

126.1 118.3

88.9

66.1

Rice (White)

110.2

133.2

113.5

93.5

72.2

Sugar (Raw)

135.8

99.0

86.6

.78.7

60.5

Vegetables (Dried etc.) Vermicelli

96.3

64.3

58,8

45.2

45.4

106.5 120.2

101.7

80.3

86.0

@TEXTILES

Cotton Yarn:

Cotton (Dyed Plain)........ Italians (Dyed Figured,

120,5 141.4 120.1 100.4 948

88.4

Plain) .......

82.2

87.5 · 100.0

923 86.2 77.6

56.3

61.8 616

Shirtings (White 40/43

yards)

91.4

.97.5.

Hemp (Manila)

137.9

116.9

8350 01688 973.

80.8

201.6

291.1

240.6 : 220.5

61.2 64.7 183.9

138.0

61.9.

*83.2

73.6

62,4

Silk Piece Goods

B1.4

85.3

75.9

72.2

63.4

Silk Yarn (Artificial) ....... Blankets (Wool & Union) 105.2 Flannels

94.3

45.3

45.0

40.0

30,0

156.5

124.3

101.5

94.7

105.0

352,4 349.2"

· 181.2

175.2

Suitings and Tweeds

(Woollen)

Brass Sheets

81.8 96.0 METALS AND MINERALS

99.9

94.0

03.7

91.5

Yellow Metal Sheathing..." 95.3 Coal.........

127.1 100.1 99.9 159.5 115.9 109.7

86.8

86.9

"88.1

119.8

110.2

92.9

83.9

Iron and Steel Bars

90.1

113.3

85.3...

84.4

93.7

Iron and Steel Nails

93.5

110.5

117.0 118.8.

101.8

Iron and Steel Plates.....

1247

1819

147.5

157.3 142.8

Lead (Pig)

inanacant

131.2

150.8

120.3

88.8

83.0

Kerosene

72.0

103.7

91.0

67.6

Ou Fuel

97.0

212.0 285.5

-151.7 145.3

Lubricating OR

93.5

131.8.

140.6

79.6

81.0

Petrol Tlu

91.1

87.5

74.6

$5.9

28.9

150.4

177.4 140.4

188.8

203.3

MISCELLANEOUS

Cement

75.0 118 €1.2

Charcoal-

Feather (Duck)

Firewood

1:41.9

43.6 118.3

35.9 33.8 157.4 160,7 124.1 ."80.8

114.4 89.7

110.6 104.8

$5.8 36.3 103.7 93.9

Hardwoodsmejeres

80,5

92.7

80.8

80.8

73.6

Hides (Cow)

178.8

192.8 134.5

113.1

147.0

Hides (Bufalo),

114.3

192.6

159.0 1846 84.2

Leather (Sole)

$7.3

135.7

123.3 102.3

99.2

Paper (Chinese)

108.8

98.3 110.0

Softwoods

Boda Ash mučen Sulphuric Acid Sulphate of Ammonia

98.3 147.4 85.4

131.2 06.7 87.5

52.2 89.5 130,2 128.4 -118.4 113.0 98.0 154.0 132.2.

99.3 120.2 115.9 127.0 114.9 96.6 91.8 101.0 BQ.2

09.1

129.8 127.7 136.2 159.0 75.8 72.4 56.2

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* ISLAND ROAD MOTOR: MISHAP VICTIMS

Enquiries made at the Gover ment Civil Hospital last night ellelted the news that seven or the eight persons injured in the terrible moter accident on Island Road on Tuesday afternoon, were going on as well as could be, ex-

pected, although two of them,

Robbery Alleged

LAU Remanded until to-day Yip-shu was yesterday charged before Mr. E. I. Wynns-Jones at the Central Magistracy with the alleged theft of $23,845 from the safe of Yuen King Fung Kee im- port and export arm at No. 8 Des Voeux Road West.

That the defendant was arrest ed in Macao on information and that $22,390 of the money stolen was recovered was stated by De tective-Inspector O'Donovan who prosecuted.

Regarding the question of com- mittal for trial this will come up in the course of the present pro- ceedings.

Around the Courts

SNATCHER CAUGHT

While entering the Mel Lai bar- bei shop in Wellington Street on Tuesday night, Fung Sau, a mar- ried woman, had her handbag snatched. She mised a cry and the thief was chared by a passer- by, Ho Cho-wan, who caught him In Wing Fung- Street.

No. 23 Des Voeux Road Central. It was stated by Det-Bergt. H, J. Baldwin that a lock on the door and a cupboard had been broken open.

Cheung Fat, 23, unemployed, was at the Central Magistracy yesterday sent to prison for three weeks for stealing a knife, from Brought before Mr. Wynne- No. 120 Des Voeux Road Central, Jones in the Central Magistracy while sentence of one month was yesterday, the man, Lui On, 26, meted out to Wong Fuk, alias pleaded guilty and was sentenced Wong Nam, 28, for stealing" to four months hard labour with camp bed from outside No.

the birch. If Circular Pathway. Inspector Es twelve strokes of found unfit for the birching, he prosecuted.

is to serve an additional term of two months.

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Mr. V. M Grayburn, Chief Ho Cho-wan was congratulated Manager of the Hong Kong and Banking Corporation, by the Magistrate for affecting Shanghai

was fined $5 before Mr. Wynne- the man's arrest.

Jones in the Central Police Cours

for yesterday

summons

to be allowing his terrier dog

SMUGGLERS CAUGHT

on

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Pleading guilty to a charge of abroad in Stubbs Road unmuzdled and unleashed. Mr. D: Brittain possession of 145 tales

raw of

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It was further stated that the defendant and complainant, Lut Yuen-tat, manager of the arm were old school mates. In Novem- ber last year, the defendant came to the shop and asked if he could stay there as he was out of work. He was allowed to live there and had free access to the office, and saw, more or less, where every- opium, Li Wong Wal, a 2-year-Evans, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, appeared on behalf of thing was. He remained there told miner, was fined $2,900, in

default nine months' imprison- the defendant and pleaded guilty. December 18.:

During that time good business ment, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at

Lo Kwok-fee, a Chinese doctor was done and the Arm" had col the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday,

Li Sang. a 17-year-old unem- of No 160 Wellington Street, was lected $23,845 which the com-

the complainant before Mr. E. I. in plainant put in the safe. On Deployed, charged with "alding and

the Central cember 18 he wanted to remit abetting, was fined $1,000, in de Wynne-Jones

Police Court yesterday when Tang some of the money to Shangbal fault six months traprisonment.

Revenue Officer Humphreys who į Man pleaded guilty to stealing a and when he dpened the safe the

prosecuted stated that acting on marble clock and Chinese Inkpot, sum was missing.

with stand. It was stated that a party of oficers infor nation

Road defendant was a former patient of watched the Tai Po funnell

the complainant and was seen in At about 7 pm, last

the waiting room during the dac- Saturday.

The officers' attention was "at- tor's absence on the afternoon of Two months hard tracted to the shining of a torch January 29.

**Detective- the chase and | labour was passed. and this led to

who Sergt. Kinnear prosecuted. the defendants, were wearing silk girdles, in a large drain pipe under the rails.

Defendant was also, absent and later a duplicate key, which had evidently been used to open the safe, was found in the dustbin

The case wit continue to-day.

ROBBERS ACTIVE arrests of

With the approach of Chinese The 'oplum was found. Li Wong, New Year, armed robberies have Wal had a previous conviction. become prevalent, and on Tues- day a crop was reported, all oc- curring within the Kowloon City district, and traced to the work of two different gangs,

The first gang broke into the home of Ho Fung, a middle-aged widow at Pang Wan Wü village, whilst she was taking her bath Ordering her prior to retiring. to dress, the two members of the gang secured from her a key with which they opened the drawer of a desk and stole from it $40 and some small articles" of jewellery,

Disturbed by the entry of a 17- year-old girl who was visiting the widow, they ran out of the house. one of them firing two shots from a 32 calibre revolver, but without injuring the girl.

Before Mr. Wynne-Jones, in the Central Police Court yesterday, Fan Yee, 20, was sentenced to two months hard labour for stealing small clock from the kitchen of

INDOOR SPORTS

A.A.A. To Hold Championship Meeting In April

London.

The Amateur Athletic Associa tion has decided "to" hold an in- door championship meeting at the Empire Sports Arena, Wembley, in April next. A wood floor is to be laid for the purpose, with a sand- pit for the Tamping events, In after addition to certain held events a At midnight, some hours the first robbery took place, a short distance hurdle. race and a second gang, of four men, armed flat race will probably be decid with iron bars, appeared in the ed neighbouring village of Ta Ku The association has fixed Aug- Lung. After raiding the home of ust 11 as the date for the inter- a married woman, named Lai Lal national maten with Germany, chuen, they proceeded from there and March 18 93.7

to a second hut, where they made another small haul of money and other property.

When police whistles were blown, the men fled, but one of them who fell into a pool of water in the dark, was captured by the victims and later handed over to the police...

STRANGE NAMES OF PARIS STREETS

The Parisians claim to have more queerstreet names than any other city-names like "White Peacock Street," "Little Muga Street," "Green Dog Street.""

Parle street names may be the queerest. But London street names are the most interesting. They CRISTO DUNGEON TO LET are not changed after every poli-

tical event like those in Continent Tat difles. They remain a living history of the city's past

It is far better to keep Crutched Friars, the Temple, London Wall,

even that

queer group

as the probable

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With previous convictions, Sin Hung, 30, was sentenced to four months hard labour by Mr. E. I Wynne-Jones in the Central Police Court yesterday for the theft of

from a man a purse

who was watching a hawker's stall. "Det.- Sergt. Fowlie appeared for the prosecution.

YACHTING

Wednesday Races

In the Ninth (and last) race ot the series of Wednesday Races held by the Royal H.K. Yacht Club, Major Griffin sailed Wasp IE to win the race for "A" Class yachts from Gull (Miss J. G. Mackie) and Pat (Commodore Elliott).

In the "I" "Y" and "G" classes event Sirius (Mr. Cooper) was first to Jade (Mr. R. B. Williams) and Widgeon (Miss Bilderbeck).

The detailed results are as fol- lows:-

Course-1, Channel Rocks (P) date for the annual general meet-2, Ramsay shond (P); 3 Channel

ing.

It is stated by the AAA. that the prohibition of the exchange of visits between Irish Free State athletes and those in the United Kingdom is still in force, as the

and National Athletic

Dycling Association of Ireland had refused to give an undertaking hot to interfere with athletice-in North- ern Ireland.

RUGBY SPLIT ENDED

Reported Arrangement Of Anglo-French Matches

French Rugby enthusiasts are hopeful that the split between their country and the British Unions is ended.

Rock (P): 4 Kowloon Rock (P): 5. Channel Rock (5), Distance 9.2

lies.

Orla

"A" Class-Started at 14.50

Finished Pa. Pts.

16.52.108

(Lt. Donaldson) Wasp II.

16.48.43

(Major Griffin)

·Jan-

**16.5143***

(Miss Crawhail-Wilson). Joss

16.51.13

(Miss M Larksen) Gull

16.49.27

(Miss J. G. Mackie) Cicada

D.N.F 16.50.46

Fat.....

(Commodore Fillott)

"I" "Y" and "G", Classm Started at 15.05

Finished Corr. Fan. Pts.

....D.N.F... 17.19.06 17.01.28

Alisa Jade

(Mr. B. B. Williams)

17.21.25 17.03.47- Heron ...

Capt. Ingle)

Robena 17.23.06 17.06.146

(Major Marshall) "|| Widgeon.. 17.20.09: 17.03.17

(Miss Bilderbeck) Adanic... 17.22.35 17.04.11

Their optimism is based on the The Chateau dit, the famous prison on the small land in the

statement, published in "L" Auto," open sea off Marseilles which was

that two matches have been ar ranged between French and Eng- built in the reign of Francis I of and is familiar to readers of The which perpetuates the memory of Hish teams, fe Count of Monte Cristo," is to be Charles I's favourite, George VII- The opposition to the French let by the State" for 75,000 francs lere Duke of Buckingham, in fifteens, it is stated, would be a year so that the prison from George Street, VIIers Street, provided by Army and schools

(Major Kennedy)) which Monte Cristo, posing sat a Duke Street. Of Alley, and Buck- teams, fellow-prisoner's corpse, was thrown ingham Street, that to bury all "This would not necessarily Eunice 17.48.26 17.18.32

past memories under the dile mean an official resumption of re- "Avenue of the Marine, Adolf lations between the British and Hitler, Square," or "Prospect of French Unions adds our contem- the 25th of October.”:

porary, but the arrangement of these matches is certain to have enormous

Joseph Hau (the driver of the car) and Leung Chi Kong were to the sea in a canvas bag may thus be transformed into a pri- still in a very grave condition

It will be recalled that eight vate residence. persons were in the car when it

Actually it is a less dreary spot was struck by a bundle of iron rods i than, Dumas's novel muggests, Part projecting from a lorry travelling of the island is covered by rich In the opposite direction, and vegetation and it, provides a 2006 that one of them Lau Chenk Bo, view of the marvellous panorama a zeven-year old student, died on of Marseilles barbour and of the Tuesday night while in the Gov- Provincial coastline. ernment Civil Hospital

MOTOR MISHAP

Mr. D. Billá, of No. 3

Terrace, reported that while driving hig

Hennessy Road,

Fane

GREYHOUND NATIONAL

(Mr. F. Anthony). Birius 17.21.50 18.58.38:

(ME. Cooper)

Lola

DNE FINAL RESULTS

The final results of the 1st Series of Wednesday races

of death was probably heart tal- totalled 9. races, are as Ture

WINNER

Scapegoat Dies In Harness

The victory of Ecapegoat in the Scapegoat winner of the Grey Grand National was in the nature Grand National in 1933, of a family affair. He won by after running sec- Inches from Long Hop, who was

#bro hurch Street Hurdles owned by Mr. LJ

ther of Scapegoat's owner. Mins furt to Lake, A

Jump High Bcapegoat and Long Jump were and the cause I sized by Macoma

"A" Class

- 159 787 rum, 918 per cen

2nd Wasp ILE. 96.9

Bed Fat a

Ant Birium, 94.0 per cen

3rd Roben

38.0 and

to alteration).