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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

Shops Hit By "Housey-Housey

GROCERIES FOR LUCKY WIVES

Business was brisk recently at the Brixton Market "housey-housey" stalls, which recently were the subject of a petition of protest to Lambeth Borough Council from 120 shopkeepers.

Most of the players were women:

They were sitting around the tables in a covered hall. The place was in mild uproar because the game is essentially noisy. At one table 28 people were at play. Of these, 23

women, all obiously housewives,

This to how the game is played.

were

Pay a penny and you receive a card and small pieces of white cardboard.

In the centre of the table is a wooden box divided into coloured and numbered holes.

"NINE RED"

Each player tosses balls into the box and un attendant loudly calls out the colour and the number of the hole into which the balls fall.

His three or four assistants shout the information after him.

Your card has certain numbers In red, blue, green, white and yellow columns. You may have in your red column the numbers 4, 9. 11. 15 and 17.

If you hear "Nine red" called out

y cover that number on your card with a piece of cardboard.

First player to cover any straight line of numbers on the card is the winner.

WOMAN

ENDS AIR MYSTERY

GENEVA.

For twelve days, from acroplanes and on foot, searchers have bret looking for a German air liner which vanished on a flight from Frankfori to Milan.

Airmen of three countric-Ger- many, Italy and Switzerland-join-

ed in the search.

Recently, a lone woman heated the

| wreckage-on a glacier in the Swiss

canton of Gritans.

Learning of the £100 reward offer-

The reward is jam, tinned fruit,ed by the German air company, she sugar, tea or cigarettes, or a voucher had begun her search. for goods.

Some women sat there for roundi after round.

A round takes rather less than Ave minutes at a penny a time.

With 20 playing, the receipts are| 2. 4. The prize is worth about 1s.

Ud.

Workers will begin to clear away the wreckage so that they can bring out the bodies of the ten passengers

four of whom are believed to have been Italian and six Germans-and three members of the crew,

Frontier Boards identified markings of the plane.

GLOVES Prize

WHITE GLOVES

AT LAST FOR

LORD MAYOR

the

Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Dalzlet photographed after their marriage which took place last Wednesday at the Registrar's Office. The bride

was formerly Miss W. M. Marsh.-Mee Cheung.

Baby's Father Jailed

Former recruit in the Metropolitan was terribly pleased.

We decided

| Police, Juhin Archie Macdonald, then to call him by his father's name,

twenty-nine-year-old Scot, led to

White gloves were presented the late of Skye after taking part to the Lord Mayor at the Man-in an armed hold-up at Earl's Court, sion House recently when it was London, Underground Station and found that there were no cases straling- £1,141. for the court to dispose of.

The Clerk, Mr. W. Thoday, said he belleved that Sir Harry Twyford had

sat on the bench in the City court often than any other City more Alderman, but had never before hatt this experience.

Last month he went to prison with- put having seen his three months old son, who won first prize in a contest

at Southend.

The baby's mother. evidence

under the

who

"SOMETHING WRONG"

"I knew that night when I lay in

bed and heard the men going in and out of the house we lived in there was something wrong."

Macdonald said in evidence that

he went to the Isle of Skye on May 25 because his father was dying.

He sak it wad not truc he had gave fallen in love with another woman, Jean naine

Parts of a Jetter to Macdonald Hamilton Smythe at the Old Bailey from this woman, a Mrs. Stevens,

"I have such a lot to say | The Lord Mayor- have been said he heard Macdonald and his were read: waiting for these gloves for 49 years, associates whispering in a room next I don't know where to start, so I will and I am glad they turned up at last to her bedroom after two London begin with your old friend Jean. Transport Board men carrying She has used the most awful £1.141 in wages had been attacked trouble, one way and another. “

What Mr. Thoday says is quite true. In all my long career as a magis- trate, I have never before attended either of the City courts and found a clean sheel.

"It is not the gloves that I am so pleased with as having no work to do."

"BIRDCAGE" JUKE

.

and robbed.

Macdonald and Alexander Terris McCrae, twenty-five-year-old plum- ber's mate, were each sentenced to four years' penal servitude.

John Ferguson Cunit, twenty-four- year-old baker, went to prison for two years, it being stated he played

milñar part in the robbery,

"She has split about that affair

Macdonald sald: “Mrs. Stevens was just a little passing fancy."

Detective-Inspector Rudkins snid that Macdonald, a single man, was a recruit for the Metropolitan Police in January 1030 but was struck off in March 1930 as fucking capaelty. Miss Smythe, in tears, said after He then joined the Scots Guards,

It broke my heart to do and

on return

Her 100th

Descendant

Mrs.

Ninety-two-years-old Mary Blackney, of South Park- road, Wimbledon, Is eagerly awaiting the news of the birth of her fth great-great-grand- child. She has 38 grandchildren and 47 great-grandchildren.

The new baby will he Mrs. Blackney's 100th descendant, and it has been her ambition to complete the century.

"I have had three husbands and ten children," Mrs. Black- ney said recently. "Hard work. good solid food, and plenty of sleep" is her recipe for long life. "Most young girls don't know what work is. Italf of them can't even now."

BOTHWELL RELIC

The Lord Mayor then noticed that the Sword-bearer and the City Mur-a ahal were sitting apposite him and the council bench. "I think," be the case: said, "we ought to have someone to it, but I had to sent my lovely baby casual film work, and was for a time

to civilian life had Mummified Body Not That the dock. What about Mr. Boston to a foster-mother at Southend. 1 employed by London

Passenger Of Ill-Fated Earl (the Sword-bearer). Put hten Fin

com afford to see him only once a the birdcage."

Transport Board. fortnight.

The Sword-bearer and the City Marshal, Inughing heartily, hastily withdrew,

"When I told Mac in prison that John had won the baby contest he

BECK'S

BEER

AN

OLD FRIEND

TO MANY

A GOOD FRIEND

TO ALL

BECK'S

| BECK'S BIER

BRIME

LOSTA

During the last twelve months he ANOTHER COFFIN FOUND had been associating with thieves | and other undesirable people,

BECK'S BIER

REMIN

BECK

BECK'S BIER

A MASTER-PIECE OF THE BREWER'S ART

the

Research hus proved that mummißed body in a glass-covered coffin, which for 10 years has been shuwn to tourists as the remains of the Earl of Bothwell, third husband of Mary Queen of Scots, is not that of Bothwell, but of ant unknown

nion.

Danish National Museum investi- gators have lound Bothwell's body in another coin, buried braide the body of John Clarke, a Scotsman, who was imprisoned with him.

Bothwell died in 1570, insane and a prisoner, in the Castle of Drags- holm on the island of Seeland, now part of Copenhagen. He was buried In Fourevejle Church, near the cas- tle.

A coin, indicated by tradition as his, was opened in 1850. From the [remains was taken a portrait, now in the museum of the Society of | Antiquaries of Scotland, and hither- to believed to be the only authentic pleture of Bothwell.

BURIED ALIVE

NOVEMBER 5, 1938.

A LETTER TO BE READ IN 6940 A.D.

(Continued from Page 8.)

answers to these two questions, which the future alone can give, which I should most like to know."

ALSO BURIED within the Time Capsule is a list of the men who helped to prepare this "letter for 6939" and a message from Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, President of Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, where a similar legacy is being prepared for posterity.

Tho packing of the Capsule, finished recently At the labora tories of the Westinghouse Lamp Division at Bloomfield, N.J., was

done under the guidance of the United States Bureau of Stand- ards. The film was enclosed in special circular spun aluminium containers, lined with rag ledger paper. The spools were wound on one-inch corea made of heavy laboratory glass tubing. Each article in the Capsule was wrap- ped separately, with a complete descriptive label, in 100 per cent special permanent rag paper, and twine. carefully tied with linen Documents included were written in permanent ink on special paper. The relative position of cach object in the crypt was chosen ne- cording to the weight of the object: the heaviest items were packed at the bottom, the lightest at the top, so that nothing will be crushed by the weight of the cen- turies. The contents of the crypt are preserved In nitrogen, the inert gas that makes up four-fifths of the atmosphere. All oxygen, which produces rusting and der terioration of metals and mate- rials, has been removed.

Offcial witnesses of the pucking were C. G. Weber, of the Bureau of Standards; F. D. McHugh, Managing Editor of the Scientific American, and Grover Whalen, President of the Fair. Their signatures, attesting the packlog and signed in permanent Ink on special paper, were packed lant into the crypt, before it was sealed and inserted in the Cupaloy outer sheath of the Capsule.

Only two books, in the usual „form, are included in the Capsule. These are the permanently-printed Book of Record of the Time: Cap- sule, copies of which will be vent next week to libraries and museums throughout the world. and the Holy Bible.

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Pretty and Practical

New

Jumpers

and

Cardigans

All

Colours

In Scotch Wool, Angora or Plain Wool. These are really smart and inexpensive additions you can make to your winter wardrobe.

Priced from

$595 each.

Morley's Jumper Suits

Neat and trim for any occasion.

from $2500 each.

Woollen Scarves

Squares and Triangles in a colour- ful range of designs including Paisley.

from $2.25 each.

STOCK MARKET Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

REPORT

The Hongkong Stock Exchange

weekly report issued at 3.16 p.n. yes- THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE terday, says:

It is apparent that the market is) belag

affected by the nervous

at-

titude of shareholders resident out- side the Colony, and the slight weak- ness may be ascribed to a great ex- tent by offerings from abroad. The amount of selling on purely local ac- count is not heavy. Another feature, and which is possibly affecting local business, is that Manila has again attracted quite a lot of attention,

Business Done During the Werk

1,305, $1,375, Hongkong Bank 31,380, $1.300, $1,375, $1,300, $1.345, $1,350

Canton Insurance 3220 Valon Insurance $500, $502% $500 Wharves $122

Providents (01α) $0.30

Providents (New) 35,10

Hotel 10.70. $6.00, 18.50

Lands $77, 37, 330

Tramways $105%, $10.50, $10

Star Ferries $73.

China Tughts (Old) #10.30, $10, $10,60 Chian Lights (New) $10.30, $10,20

Electrics #5835, $3071

Telephones (Old) $24%, $24.00 Dairy Ferns $25

Watsons

Govt, 4% Lõon 0% prem.

Maramans (London) 18/8, 17/5

3.15 m. Changes-Closing Quotations

Buyers Lands $30 Train $10

Sellera

Dairy Farms $245;

Hales HK. Banka 1,345/1,350 Lands $365 Ferries $13

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Donations to Charitable And Other Objects

The following are latest donations

to the Puppy Day Fund: Previously acknowledged 1st. Kumaon Rilles Girl Guldes

F. D. Tracy

J. Scott Harston Lo Koon-hang

$1,955

15

25

25

30

$5,035

bq

Further contributions 1901 Gratefully received by W. J. Cole, Representations

were made Inst Acting Secretary, Earl Haig's Fund, November to the Danish Legation in Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Cor- London by Scotilsh antiquarians porution. Cheques thould be made asking that the body believed to be payable to Thomson & Co., and that of Bothwell should be returned to Scotland.

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crossed "Poppy Day Fund".

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

A grim feature of the new dis- covery is that there are Indications The Society of St. Vinceal de that Clarke was buried alive beside Paul acknowledge receipt of the fol- the dead Earl,

lowing donations to the Fels November d:

After the collapse of Bothwell's forces at Carberry Hill In 1507, he

flex

Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen

to the North, and thence to the Mrs. Margaret Eynini Shetlands, where he assembled Capi, A. 15. Kehpast

fleet of pirates. He was chared to Estate of the late Mr. and the North Sea and the remains of lils Estato of the late Mr. 3. R

feet went to Norway,

Mr. F. Comes

Cloon

Bothwell was arrested and sent to 1Mr. A. II. Hasto Denmark. He spent his remaining Air Robert Ha Tunt years in prison In Malmo, In Sweden, Lady Ho Tang cà and in Dragsholm.

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PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The grateful thanks of the society is the many subscribera hereby tendered to during the year ended 31st October, and the society is pleased to inform them that the tolni income for the year has nearly covered the increasing expenditure, Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,

P. & O. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

e/o Banque de L'Indo-Chine,

Hongkong.

November 1st, 1936.

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