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KOWLOON HOTEL

KOWLOON.

UNDER THE PERSONAL SUPERVISION

AND ATTENTION OF

W. J. WHITE.

Phone No. 5×008.

PALACE

Tel, Kowloon No. 3,

Cable "KoWLOTEL Hongkong.

"

HOTEL

Tel. Address "Pained"

A First Cinna Residential, and Tourist Hotel with all the top- PenisDcca of a Home. Under Entirely European Management. Cony Lounge and Billard Saloon. Three minutes from Forry. Families specially catered for.

Moderate term.

MRS. J. M. OXBERRY,

Music

PENANG

Daily.

Dinner

Proprietress.

Dance

Twice weekly

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL.

The Prem icr hell in Mutca,

With beautiful private lawns to the Sea.

TWENTY ADDITIONAL ROOMS-COMPLETELY MODERNISED AND RE-FURNISHED ARE NOW READY.

CABLE. "RUNNYMEDY."

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD. George Goldsack. Manager.

EUROPE HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

RENOWNED BY RECOMMENDATION”

DANCING:

MUSIC:

GRILL:

After Dinner every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. On the VERANDAH every Saturday from 12 noon to 1.30 p.m. and every Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturday from 7.30 to 8.30 p.m.

Telephone. 5341 (8 lines) Cables "EUROPE" Singapore.

THE EUROPE HOTEL, Ltd.

Arthur E. Odell Managing Director.

E. HING"&

CO.

SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIP CHANDLERS

HARDWARE MERCHANTS.

25, Wing Woo Street.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CORRESPONDENCE.

High Finance!

To The Editor of Hongkong

Telegraph.}

about

My dear, Tubby says I'm too hopelessly wrong.

those confidential dollars and though my intention was nuderble there's something "nave about my business

methods.

Still I've worked it out with the Compradore's book ngalu and it came out right and I'm quite sure that if he'd done what I said about multiplying and dividing instead of playing with that silly abacus he'd have found he was

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1931.

A PERFECT ENDING.

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION CLOSES SUCCESSFUL K.C.C. YEAR.

Conviviality was the keynote at the Kowloon

Cricket Club ok Saturday evening, when under the genial chairmanship of the President (Mr. R. E. Lindsell), n large number of members gather

together to take part in the distribution of the Club's champion- ship prizes,

The general arrangements were in the capable hands of the Scero- try, Mr. J. P. Robinson, whilst Mr. V. C. Labrum was responsible for the excellent musical

pro- ramme, which played such a pro- oldmineat part in the success of the

evening.

The contributors to the musicale getting as much as he ought and were the Collegians, whose har- anyhow if it's right for these civilmonised singing was thoroughly servants it must be for the Com-appreciated, songs, by Mr. Dixon, pradore.

Prize Winners. The prizes were presented to the winners by the President, the successful members being:

W.

Mr. Bates, Mr. Hyde Lay and Mr. been V. C. Labrum, and monologues Tubby and Angus have arguing about those confidential by Mr. S. A. Sweet, whose touch dollars all evening and Tubby saya of originality was heartily receive you can't know about them unless ed: you understand just how the need law works and he'd show us. off Well, my dear, he started

of brandy, with Av gallons culculating mean, and did every- thing they said in the paper and it eume out that the Government would owe him sixteen confidential dollars on each gallon and Mr. Lloyd wouldn't like that.

the Angus said that perhaps Table wasn't meant to use with such large quantities as very few nice people drink: tive tallongat a time, but anyhow he could sen not thai Tubby's mistake was using Algebra and he'd show as how to work it out for cigarettes. He said that in Algebra when you didn't know what you wanted to find out you always started with xas an unknown quantity and that would So the duty, and y would be the number of cigarettes. He did some frightfully elover equatora and I worked on that the Compradore would have to send us an unknown quantity of lins for nothing and that we abould get the square rout of a conventional dollar as drawbark when we re- turned the tins.

Tubby said he didn't think that was quite what Mr. Lloyd meant' and he must have forgotten the percentage for moisture or some- THWA- thing, but I noticed the

paper had got turned over and I think he'd been dividing by one of the Griffins track times so I said nothing and went to bed.

Cricket.-1st XI. Batting. Brace: Bowling. F. Goodwin,

2nd XI. Batting and Bowling. C. Loc. Tennis.Singles Championship, E. C. Fincher; tanner-up, 6. Bodlker.

Singles **A** handicap.-G.

A. Bodiker: runner-up, Guest. Singles "B" handicap, J. A.

Bendall:

-», C Tarchi.

E.

.1

Men'a

Doubles handicap. Messrs. Haliker and Hung: runner-up. E. C. and E. P. Fincher.

Mixed Doubles handicap. - Mrs. run- J. Suyer and T. Lag: ners-up Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Hambly.

Lawn Bowls. President's Cup, H. d. Fraser: runner-up, Overy.

Vice-President's Cup, H. Overy:

A. E. Silkstone. Club Handicap.

man: runner-up, cher.

W. Borrow- E. C. Fin-

Non-Prizewinners, W. Hyde:

runner-up, E. C. Fincher. Handicap Doubles, Q. B. Raven and A, Hyde Lay: runners-up, A. C. Burford'and T. W. Carr. McMurdo Prize. E. R. Price: 1

runner-up, J., Juck, Herridge Cup, O. B. Raven:

runner-up A. J. Kew,

London, Feb. 21.

U.S. NAVAL POLICY.

AIRCRAFT TO PLAY MORE PROMINENT PART.

1931

SPRING STYLES

NOW BEING SHOWN.

WHITE FELT

SOFT SILK

NEW STRAWS

DELIGHTFUL MODELS FROM LONDON AND NEW YORK.

This Selection has arrived just in

time for--

THE RACES

IN ADDITION TO THE NEW CREATIONS IN HATS. we are showing

MOST ATTRACTIVE HAND-BAGS.

ELITE STYLES

A. P. C. BUILDING

Tel. 22432.

testing the defence of the Panama allotted to cruiser class ships, to be used for the building of flying- Canal Zone.

It is considered, that'a strong deck cruisers-Router's American swift Service, force of aeroplanes with

Washington, Feb. 21. alreraft carriers as bases would

The Senate has passed the Naval I do think finance is too fright-

be able to cripple a much superior fully fascinating and people who His Majesty the King received

force of battleships and cruisers Appropriation Bill of $388,000,000. The sum of $10,000,000 has been think of these things like pour Sir Sir Malcolm Campbelf to-day and

Washington, Feb, 21.

latter could come) before the William and Mr. Lloyd must be conferred on him the accolade of

Important developments in the within range of their objective. added to the Bill as passed by the of Representatives for simply infested with brains knighthond. His Majesty Angus says they have a special ferred with the racing motorist naval policy of the United States The Navy Department will pro- House

believed to be likely as bably press for the assignment of starting work on 11 destroyers.

tona Reute's American Sorvloo. branch for their things at Scot- for half an hour on his Daytona are

for A large part of the 78.000 land

result of recent manoeuvres them experience.-Reuter. Yard but we've got

hout.

Your enthralled,

Porsy.

OBITUARY.

WELL-KNOWN BUSINESS MAX DIES.

For seventeen years actively engaged as one of the principal business men of Hongkong, Mr. J. H. Jassen, senior partner of the Arm of Messrs. Jebsen and Co., (China), of Pedder Building, pra- sed away in Hamburg, on Thurs dry inst.

Mr. Jessen, whose death was due to heart failure, was manager and senior partner of the firm in Hong- kong from 1890 to 1907, after which time he returned to assume con- trol of the business in Hamburg. Since the war, however, he has made visits to Hongkong, and will be remembered with respect and affection by a large circle of busi- neas friends in the Colony.

has the

Sympathy will be extended to Mr. J. H. Jessen, jr., his

son, in the bereavement which ho sustained. Mr. Jessen is now manager and senior Partner of the local Arm, having succeeded his father.

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