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SHAMBEN NOTES.

TO-DAY'S SHARE QUOTATIONS.

OFFICIAL FRICES

Banks.

rom Chir Own Correspondent.)

Shamoen, May 18.

4t is reported that the Consul-

Cantons North Chinss Unions aame Tanglezes

Far Easterns,

General for Portugal Mr. A.Da | H.K. & S. Banks n Shiva, has had his house coolie azrested, suspected of stealing a $50 note which was given him to ghanga." A similar instance

is occurred, it

said, last month from the office," on the both occasions the man returned saying he had lost the money. Enquiries have been made. The man said he changed the note, at the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank on the Shameen and then went to Chinatown to "buy things" and an putting his band into his

not

pocket found the money "gone. change The Bank did the note and although it that

been learnt

man

bought fruit,

Fire Insurances. China Fires H. K. Fires ኢ

Shipping.

b.

Douglases Steamboats Indos (Pref.) Indos (Def.) Shells Ferries

the Sugars

the stallman says he made no at Malabons tempt to pay for same. However, the man was locked up over night And on the morrow the facts were duly put before the Portuguese Consul-General who saw fit not charge the man, but took him back in his employ, agreeing that the money should be paid back monthly by deductions from his Wages.

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Kailans Langkats Combined) Shanghai Loans S'aai Explorations Raubs Tronohs Urals

Docks, Wharves, H.K, Wharves K. Docks S'hai Docks N. Engineerings

CRICKET.

GARRISON N.COS V. MR. PONSONBY FANE'S XL

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NEW ELECTRIC TOTALISATOR.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE CO. LTD.,

* DEMONSTRATION ON * CALCUTTA RACECOURSE

Racing people in Calcutta, and This friendly game, played onespecially those who patronise the Civil Service Ground on the totaligator, will be interested faturday last, resulted in an easy to learn that a demonstration of win for the the N.QO'w for whom a new "tote" was given to the four double figure scores ware Stewards of the Royal Calcutta NOTICE is hereby given that, recorded, including 85 by G.Q.M.S. Turf Club on the racecourse. owing to the Undersigned Talfourd. The soldiers were all This, known as

the Wallace preceeding home on leave, Mr. out for 177. Only four of Mr. Automatic Electric Totalisator, Rigby H.P. Kewley will take Fana's eleven were able to do is the invention of an American charge of the Company's Hong- any good against the fine bowling resident in Australia, and is being Long Branch as Acting Local af Baines, who took six wickets run by the Security Totalisator, Manager as from 31st inst. for 35 and the team was dismissed Ltd, Sydney, Australia. It does for 61-Scars-

all its work electrically, including the printing of the tickets just as they are sold, the recording, of the grand total and each separate horse indicator, and the counting. As most Calcutta people know the Bombay and Poona totalisä- 3tors are automatic, but they have"

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2214Cpl. Horrocks, b Marley 21 Col. Mann,c Marley, b Severn 3 LC. Connor, a Coles, b Sovern 182/6 CQMS. Talfourd, b Severn... $37

R.S.M, Keenan, c Sousa, b

Marley,

L/C. Lawrence, b Severn Sgt. Athorne, st.

Fane, b Severn.

Ponsonby

0

85

Gur. Bainas, c Marley, b Cave-

naugh...

C. Deakin, c and b Marley

Extras

0 one great fault, and that is the "jum that happens in the last

JOHN DE B. LANCASTER

Acting Local Manager. Hongkong, 19th May 1919.

HONGKONG POLO CLUB. EMPIRE DAY.

8 five or ten minutes of betting onNOTICE Weather permit.

a race. "There are not separate

ting, & Polo Club GYMK. 21 windows for tickets on different HANA will be held at the Race 16horses, but one long counter, and Course. Happy Valley (by kind of the Stewards. Ito this the better has to go permission

O. M. R. W. 14 1 67

16 1 45

8 whether be wants a ticket on Hongkong Jockey Club) on Satur- 11 horse number one or, say, twenty-day next, May 24th, at 4 pm. one. The result is that just be- Admission $1.00 (including Tea) ...177 fore the machine closes there is Children under twelve half-price. always a surging mob at the Programie.includes:-Tent Peg- counter, and people have literally ging, Brain-Fever Race, Mounted to fight their way there, and the Combat, &c., &c. Cash Sweeps. confusion at each section of the

S. E. GRIMSTONE. o counter each operator behind

Hon. Secretary. has to serve two or three yards- :

Hongkong, 17th May 1919. with a dozen people clamouring. o for tickets on a dozen different

horses, can be imagined.

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$670

&

.b.

Marine Insurances. ✨

$485 $220 $1100 $232 $ 26

$160 $325

-$86

11.

$32

b

150

IN b..

II+

Refineries.

n.

$159

b.

$ 34

Mining

b

50/-

b.

t. 18

Sgt. Strange, not out

II.

24

CS.M. Turley, not out

0.

G.

41/-

38,6

Total

Godowns, &c.

Bowling

s.& sa. 946

II.

$1526 Marley

R.

I.

$126 $ 24

Severn

Coles

Cavenaugh

Earde

b. $109'sa. 108

Wood

15.

$100

b.

$110

Ihm

$8.15

b.

$45

I

8175

ħ

$72

G. E. Marley,

Baines...

Cotton Mills.

Ewos

b.

t. 225

Lt. Col. F. C. Coles, c Connor,

b Baines

... 11

Kung Yiks

b.

t. 34

Capt. Wahl, c Strange. b Con-

L 170

nor

The

t. 91

G. C. Earde, b Baines...

b

t. 73

A. de Sousa, b Baines...

b.

t. 10.75

Lt. Cavenaugh, b Connor

Miscellaneous.

По

8734 $1214

Capt. Bundle, c Lawrence, b'

Baines...

be

o an

R. A. Ponsonby Fane, not out.

0.

The

"$ 716

$30

nor

n. ex. div. $75

IL.

$3316

b.

$3116 $714

Total Bowling

61

85

$844 Baines

Athorne

O. M. R. W

8 3.22

... 11 1 35

6

Counor

3.3 24

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4.

$1314

5.

$ 6 $1114 $30

A report is to hand from the Japanese Club that some one visited there yesterday afternoon and cut the wire connecting the telephone receiver to the tele- phone box, making off with the receiver. This

H.K.Hotels seems very paltry

Police, it Land Invest

is

and the

understood.

a sharp look-out"

Lands, Hotels & Buildings. Centrals.

are keeping phreys Est for these Kloon Lands

fellows committing these petty L Reclamations thefts. The Hon. Superintendant West Points

of Police, Mr. William Farmer, is still away from` Shameen, but is expeected, back by the end of the month, by all reports.

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A Billiard Handicap has been arranged by the Tungshan Re: creation Club (members only) of

250 up. There are fourteen en-

Lau Kung Mows b. Orientals Shai Cottons Yangtzeposs

tries representative of the Sham- Green Islands een and Tungshan" and by all China Borneos

6 0 21

61 16

4 1 11

1 0

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MR. PONSONBY FANE'S IL A E. Wood, e Keenan, b

Athorne

For the new totalisator it is claimed that this and other dis- 9advantages to be found in other automatic machines have been

PEAK TRAMWAY CO', LTD.

Talfourd. b

JOTICE is hereby given that eliminated. The owners say that NOT 21

the

Ordinary Annual whereas in the present Calcutta

tote" the sale of tickets has to General Meeting of Shareholders stop some time before the races, of the above Company will be with their machine betting can held at the Hongkong Hotel," ogo on not only to the "off" bell, Hongkong on Thursday the 29th but actually until the horses May 1919 at noon for the purpose

three furlongs

from of receiving the Report of the

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Pay. Lt. Robinson. b Baines... 4home, when the machines can Directors together with a State-

reports it should prove an inter- China Lights b. $5 old b. 1.05 new Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, b Con- esting handicap. The first round China Providents b.

H. K. Electric's

Macao Electrics Ropes

Trams, LowLevel n. Trams, Peal o'd b

is to be completed by 26th of Dairy FarmIS May, the second round by the 2nd of June, the third round by the 9th of June and the fourth round and final to be completed by the sixteenth of June,

Shameen had two gunboats in port yesterday and a soccer game

Steel Foundries was arranged between the said boats H.M.S. Whiting

U. Waterboats Watsons H.M.S. Tarantula. Unfortunately during the game Stoker P. QWm. Powells. Edwards had an accident and Wiseman's

and

Trams, Peak new b. cts.

Laundries

11.

Hongkong, May 19, 1919.

$ 334 $12

TENNIS LEAGUE.

SATURDAY'S GAMES.

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fractured his left fore-arm as he fell Thinking it was nothing he just bound his arm up and went on shore in the evening. After a. very bad night and a päinful arm he was seen by Lieut. Surgeon Price on the. H.M.S. Tarantula, who, after attending to the arm, Several games in the Tennis strongly advised the man to pro-League were played on Saturday. ceed to Hongkong to hospital. H.M.S. Tarantula left Canton this. morning for up-country patrol. Later.

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The sailor who sustained fractured fore-arm, reported pre- viously, left Canton this morning for hospital having passed a bad night on board H.M.S. Whiting.

RIFLE SHOOTING.

BELILIOS SHIELD'

PRESENTED.

20:

The

LAWN BOWLS.

automatically locked instant

inment of Accounts for the year by

а pressing ending 30th April 1919. button in the Judge's box. The Transfer Books of the Furthermore directly the last Company will be closed from the ticket has been sold and the 26th instant to the 31st instant machine locked, the grand total both days inclusive.

and the amount invested on each PEAK TRAMWAYS CO. LTD,

horse are simultaneously shown 100

Another the AndicatorS. advantage they claim is that selling booths can be located on the member's stand, the public stand,or at any part of the course, and the tickets sold at these are recorded within a second on the indicators at the main totalisator house.

desired four tickets in indelible'

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS

& SON. General Managers. Hongkong, 19th May 1919.

WANTED.

'TELEGRAPH'

IS

THE FEATURE PAPER

LOOK OUT

CIVIL SERVICE AT HOME." The way of the working of the

Electric Totalisator is as follows: WANTED-Competent Eng

with ineer "At Home" held by-There is one widow for every

good shop members of the Civil Service five horses, and there a ticket training for local engineering Recreation Club or Saturday was printing machine is placed be works. Apply stating experience a great success, splendid weather tween two operators. Each fve and salary required to Box No. favouring the function. Five horse machine has ten keys (in 176. c/o Hongkong Telegraph." rinks played, the clubs competing paire) similar to those of a type- being the Kowloon Bowling writer, and in each pair of keys Green Club, Police Recreation one indicates the number of the WIGWAM . C. R. C. "A** Club and Taikoo Recreation Club horse and the other the number This match was played on theThe following are the results of tickets required.

If the THE Wigwam courts and ended in a

Civil Service-Sata, Fincher, customer wants four tickets on.

horse Hunter and Duncan (skip) 21; the fifth win for the visitors by 37 games. defeated a mixed team of Achison, presses the number of tickets key the operator Scores -

Wong Fo-keung and Lau Man-Gardner, Cooper and Wotherspoon 4 and immediately strikes the ching beat Hobbs and Avenell (skip) 17.

horse number key 5, and 8-3: beat Paine and Hicks 7-4;

Civil Service-Lamble, Roy. the machine does the rest! beat Crapnell and McKerns 8-3. lance, Seccombe and Stanley No ticket is printed till it Wong Po-kie and Lo Men-pan (skip) 26: defeated Taikoo is paid for. and the in- beat Hobbs and Avenell 9-2; beat Muirhead; Dunleavy, Morrison strument automatically prince the On MONDAYS for Paine and Hicks 7-4: bear and MacLatchlan (skip) 17. Crapnell and McKeras 9-2.

Civil Service.-Berdson, Lang-ink on a special ticket material. Yew Man-tsun and Hung Man.ley, Mace and Bacon (skip) 27; Then it ejects them, and as they to beat Hobbs and Avenell. 6-5: defeated Kowloon: Smyth, appear the electric connections On Crapnell and McKerns 9-2. lost to Paine and Hicks 5-6; beat Dixon, Muir and Aitkenson (skip) automatically record the sale and all particulars on the indicators. Totals:-C. R. C. 68; Wigwam. Watt, and Faulds (skip) 21: from a band roll in such a way On

Civil Service-Laing. Polley. The machine printe each ticket defeated Police: Pitt, Taylor, thatfit cannot be erased or altered. Grant and Garrard (skip) 19.

and a special ticket is printed for Midd Gordon (skip) 21; de-colour not being used twice on the On

teams. Gray, Tacchi, each race, the same style and Recreation Club. Mr. E. G. Kennett presided over a large at-

handsomely. Scores:-

feated. Jeffries and Brown lost to Col. Smith and Kent (skip) 15. tendance. Capt. Murray Scott and Crisp and Redmond 3-8, lost to Col.

Emery, Mackintosh, same day. So fast can these tick- ets (which by the way, are also Mr. Simpson represented Taikoo Rifle Club and

At the conclusion of the after-marked, with a secret code) be C. Smith and Capt. Murray 2-9, Inoon'a sport, Mr. Lamble called printed that, each machine can handed over the Challenge Shield lost to Major Ardoino and Capt. upon Mrs. Stanley to distribute issue 120 tickets in a minute so Mrs. Neig bour passed the trophy Col. Crispand Redmond 4-7, lost to Messrs. Kent, Wotherspoon and

Woodman and Goodall lost to function she gracefully performed. 1,200 tickets a minute.

the spoons to the winners which that ten operators, say, can issue over to the charge of Mr. Brock Col. C. Smith and Capt. Murray Synth, on behalf of the Police separate records are kept, one To guard against fraud, two (Captain of the team) and distributed the prizes won by the 29, lost to Major Ardoino and Recreation, Taikoo and Kowloon on the locked ticket issuing various members during the Capt. Leslie Smith 2-9. season. These were medals to

Railton and dwards lost to

Bowling green clube, respective machine, and a second independ- On the electrical Messrs. Brock. Elson, Sears. Col. Crisp and Xedmond 4-7, lost y, thanked Civil Service Clubent record Deane, Wright. Gill. Drew and to Col. C. Smith and Capt. Mur-their members had spent and the adding counters locked inside the pleasant afternoon registers. The figures shown on Fritchard. Officers Challenge ray 5-6, lost to Major Ardoino wished the Civil Service every the machines represent every

and Capt. Leslie Smith 3-8. ship, Mr Brock; Handicap Cup, U.S.R.C. 74. Cup. Mr Dearie; Club Champion- The totals were: Kowloon 25; prosperity during the approach-ticket sold onthecourse the MrE.Sears, Senr. Donegal Badge,

season. To the ladies who were race, and it is impossible to issue Mr Pritchard; N. R. A. silver)

responsible for the tea was also ticket without a record being due a vote of thanks. Three automatically made of the fact. badgee to Messrs. Elson, Brock U.S. R. C."B" team, playing cheers were given with a "tiger." The only employees necessary to and Deane. At the conclusion at home defeated Kowloon Mr. Lamble congratulated the work the Electric totalisator,

promoters

are the to the visitors for their presence. ticket sellere, the dividend cal

To mark the winning of the Belilios Challenge Shield. & most enjoyable musical evening was held at the Hongkong Hotel on Saturday evening by the Ride

Section of the Naval Dockyard

formally

to the Chairman, after, which

31.

KOWLOON v. U.S.R.C.. This match was played on

Saturday the U.S.R.C. winning

Leslie Smith 0-11.

OTHER MATCHES:

·

for

of the presentation. Mr. Brock Bowling Green Club by 50 games winners and tendered his thanks say the asked Mrs. Neighbour to accept to 49.

a memente of the occasion in the Wins were secured by Kowloon shape of a medal similar to those "A" over C. R. C. "B" and by she had presented to the winners R. E over Craigongower.

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figure without running through ticket was unfortunately lost in taking parf were Messrs. Cawsey, Green and Manley beat G. Lee Lindseli and Blackburn beat G. the tens and hundreds. The consequence of the runner to Brock, Crocker, Wright, Sears and Ng Tat-ting 8-3: beat Wei Lee and Ng Tat-ting 6-5; beat figures indicating the number of whom it was entrusted being Lee Sam and C. F. Lee 8-3; beat Wei Lee Sam and C. F. Lee tickets sold on each horse, and waylaid, robbed and murdered Un Hew-fan and Mok Hing-kin; beat Un Hew-fan and Mok the grand total are 6 to 8 inches, between Sapong Estate and 6-5.

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