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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER

CONTRACT BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney

It took very clever defence to stop South from making three No Trump in the following intereat ing hand:

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The Bidding. East and West were vulnerable and the final contract was three No Trump by South.

The Play.

LOCAL WEDDING

MR. A. GILLOTT AND MISS MAUDE WOODHOUSE

A wedding of considerable local interest took place yesterday aftor- noon at St. John's Cathderal be- tween Mr. Albert Gillott and Miss Very Rev.

nude Elizabeth Woodhouse, thu Lan Swann officiat-

ing

The bride, who entered the church on the arm of her brother, wore a gown of white satin, cut in the early Victoriaa stylo.. From her head, wreathed by tiny orango blossoms, fell a hand embroidered vell. Hor bouquet, of white Honolulur creeper and pink roses, was tied with the colours of the Royal Marines, the bridegroom having sarved with them during the war, The bride was attended by Hour Hittle bridesmaids, the Missce Urgnia Woodhouse (nicce of the bridu), Pauline Buchanan, Hazel Merriman (godchild of the bride- groom) and Mary Fitz Gerald. They looked very dainty in their Kate Greenaway style dresses of spotted muslin, and poke bonnets, the first two in blue and the last two in yellow, and instead of the? usual bouquet they carried crooks to match their dresses. They cach wore a monogrammed broach the gifts of the bridegroom.

bride, who performed the duties of Mrs. Andrews, sister of the

Matron of Honour, was attired in

gun-

black

ace ensemble of the now shine shade, trimmed with African daises. fur. She carried a bouquet of

sup-

West had the opening lead and ed the six of clabs-his fourth best club, South, the declarer, al lowing it to ride up to his jack, Declarer's next play was the jack of hearts which West won with The bridegroom, who was the queen. West could see that ported by Mr. William Calver 18 the declarer was attempting to best man, las bean connected with set up his hearts, therefore his the Prisons Department for tho next play, was a small spade-past ten years. the 10 spot was played from dum- A reception, was afterwards held ray and Bast won the trick with the residence of Mrs. Andrews, the queen and returned the five 15, Bowen Road, where a large of spares which dummy won with number of friends attended. the ace. A small heart was re- Later the happy couple left for turned from dummy, declarer their honeymoon. The bride's playing the king and West win-going away dress was, of golden ning the trick with the are, Westbrown crepe-de-chine, with hat to played his king of spades, dummy match. discarding a small diamond.

If West had now played a club which dummy would win with the king, declarer would have cashed hi good hearts and then led over to his ace of diamonds, cash his; king of clubs and would have made three No Trump, Aa East and West had already won fond tricks, West laid down his king of diamonds which the declarer was forced to win with the ace. He next led a small club to dum my's king and then cashed all of bis good heart tricks, but for the second last trick he was forced to lend a diamond which West won with the king. This held the declarer to two No Trump.

The hand was well defended by West-first in knocking out the declarar's re-entry into dum- my and then in establishing diamond trick before the declarer could run off his nine tricks,

THE

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ARGYLLS BAND.

BIG AUDIENCE AT PENINSULA HOTEL ENTERTAINED

An exceptional musical trent was provided by the band of the 2nd Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, on the ncension of the Peninsula Hotel's nymphonic concert Inst Sunday night. The large gathering of listeners, numbering over 500, filled the seating accommodation in the spacious ground floor lounge to its extreme capacity, and no- corded a hearty reception to the excellent programme.

Features worthy of particular mention were the renderings by the combined Pipes and Band, and military compositions which kept the audience at the highest pitch of enthusiasm throughout. Encores were in constant demand, but time admitted only of oc- casional responec,

It was a sparkling musical enter- tniament of a high standard, and

SALESMAN SAM

Mr. C. P. Bent, the Bandmaster, has to be congratulated for the excellent execution of arranged programme,

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Arrangements are in hand for another of these popular concerta next Sunday evening at Peninsula Hotel.

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