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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1926.
CHURCH OPENING. CONCERT PROCEEDS.
UNIQUE HK. FUNCTION ON SATURDAY!
DETAILS OF SERVICES.
On Saturday the official opening
$3,000 RAISED FOR ALICE HOSPITALS.
THOSE WHO HELPED.
To the Editor of tho "China Mail.");
A sum of $3,082147 is the total Sir-In their policy of town will be held of the new To Tsai including a very gonerous contri- planning at Kowloon City and Church (First Church of Christ Inbution of $500 from Captain T. P. other places in the Colony, the China) at Bonham Road.
Hall of procaods of the concert Government ordered many dwell At 2 p.m. a dedicatory service will bald in the Theatre Royal on Sept. 'ings to be pulled down, alternativebe conducted by the Rev. S. W. 20 in aid of the Alice Memorial and
sites being allocated owners in Cheung of the Base Misalon, who Affiliated Hospitals... districts under development with is the oldest minister among the Detalle of the financial statement. the condition that houses should Chinese available for this occasion. submitted for publication" through be built within a certain period. He is also the father of the present the "China Mall" are:
As one who was affected by pastor of this Church.
The sale of tickets, including the this, "I should like to know how it At 4 pm. the Church 'Hall will re-sale of tickets returned by pur- is that the Government are hold-be opened by Madame Wu Ting-chasers who could not use theur, ing the dispossessed owners to fang who is a sister of the late Sir realised $1,978. This sum includes the letter of the agreement as re.Kai Ho Kai and a daughter of a the price paid by the Hon. gards the period of time for erec former minister, the Rev. Ho Taun-Shou-son Chow and Mr. Kwok Blu- tion, taking the land away if shin, who was perhaps the first lau for the 'boxes ($200). building work is not put in hand, ordained minister in Kwangtung A small number of $2 and $1 whereas the Government itself province. (Dr. Wu Ting-fang was tickets were not sold, has failed to make good its pro-
the best known diplomat of modern "Kowpies" were sold to the value- mise with regard to developing China and died in Canton in 1922.) of $420.30, which covered all the the neighbourhood and providing
Bazaar Proceeds,
jexpenses, thanks to the kindness of At 6.30 p.m., a dinner will be the City Hall authorities, and to the roads schemes which are held up on account of the "economy'
taken in the Church Hall. It will generosity of Messrs. Lane, Craw- campaign:
be Chinese dinner, the cost of Ford Ltd., who provided the refresh- tickets for which is $2.
mants for the performera without.
THREE
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ROYAL SANITARY INSTITUTE CERTIFICATE;
CABLE FROM LONDON.
Sir
con-
Thanks are due to Professor Harry Ore, Miss Daisy O'Keefe, Mrs. Sanger, Mr. Dhrrow and the other friends who gave their services 30. readily and generously.
of the ladies' committee in which This effort grew out of the work
Mrs. W. T. Southarn and Mrs. H. T. Creasy took a leading part. The great financial success of the con-
that the Colony shall progress with the times and be in a post tion to cope with the turning of! the tradal tide on the termination | Surely, in view of the fact that
The net proceeds of the recent charge, and to the Anderson Music of the boycott. But it may be the same factors have contributed
to the shortage of capital on the bazaar will be somewhat over Co... who gave free service, charg said have not votes by the mil- part of the owners and of the $7,000, a very substantial sum. tong only for instruments used and lion been passed right throughout Government, due allowance should wards the reduction of the debt of wages paid to ticket collectors.
Ladies' Committee. the period of depression by the be made for delay in erection $40,000,
On Sunday at 2 pm, the first re- Government?
Advertisements realised $130 for two years should be allowed, as it True! -- votes
will probably be fully that timegular service will be held in the which thanks are rendered to the essential only to save the ship before the Government. on its Church, and it is expected that there advertisers and to the ". G. Morn- and prevent it
ing Post" for assistance with the. becoming a part, completes the work of de will be two weddings on Monday.
On Monday evening a concert will programme. velopment. complete wreck. There is not al
As it is, the owners are losing be given in the Church Hall by the Chocolates supplied by Nestles single Department but has been in all round in that their original boys of the Ying Wa College, the Milk Co. and offered for the a state of financial starvation houses have been pulled down and say being a holiday in honour ofvenience of visitors realised a small during the past sixteen months, even the alternative sites taken the Chinese National Day (Inau- profit of $12.54.
gural of the Republic). when a little less of the previous away from them.
To give a few instances.-A- doctrine of retrenchment and aterative sites" for ones taken little more
genuine over by the Government were policy of true economy might provided in Yaumati adjacent to a spot which the Government an- have saved thousands in the long nounced its intention of develop
ing as a market, sites which it Now there can be no longer was understood would be ade- an excuse for the obsession of re-enhanced values which the vici- quale compensation in view, of
An examination for the certifcert has been due to Mrs. Coxion trenchment.
There can be no nity of a market would give them, cate of "Inspectors of Nuisances" To who sold most of the tickets and more marking time at the expense The market scheme is indefinitely was held by the Hong Kong Board who also made all the arrange- BOSTOCK.--On
Examinations of the Royal ments about making up and selling Sept. 21 at of the ultimate benefit of the postponed but "is the liability of of
the "Kewpies Great thanks 220 Swedenbank, Colombo,, to Mr. Cplony. There must be no more who bought land on this under-
dispossessed owners and others Sanitary. Institute in August last.
Four candidates presented them-Presented to Mrs. To, and her will- and Mrs. N. S. Bostock, a son, spoiling things for the lack of a standing indefinitely postponed? selves, and of these the following ing band of helpers. MARWOOD-At "the Fraser halfpenny worth of tar.
Memorial Home, Colombo, on
The Not a bit of it. If the houses are were successful:-A. T. Braley. Sept. 25, to Mr. and Mrs. H. C. financial administration of the periods, the land is taken
not erected in the prescribed E. N. Poweford, R. A. Smith,
The candidates' examination Marwood. a daughter.
Colony has got to be galvanised. again by the Government,
papers were submitted to the In Rip Van Winkleism must go. The
And then, grain, the, dairytitute in London and a cable has just been received confirming the farms which had been, scattered need for a bold and progressive about Kowloon and the vicinity decision of the Hong Kong ex policy will be greater after Octo-the sites, of which ber 10-the date of the termina- ment took over, providing new The Hong Kong Board is con-
"IL TROVATORE!" sitated as below- tion of the boycott-than it has ones at the back of Diamond Hill, ever been since the close of the moteness of the new site, it was St. John of Jerusalem.
Kowloon City. Owing to the rex.C.M.G, Kt. of Grace, Order of Patron.-H.E.. Sir Cecil Clement,
This is a familiar story, set to Great War.
familiar music. Perhaps, of all the In the framing of understood, that a road would be
Chairman.-J. B. Addison, Esq., operas, "Il Trovatore" lends itself. AN END OF MARKING TIME. the Budget shortly we look to the built connecting up with the M.B.E., M.R.C.S. L.R.C.F. Prin- most to extravagance. Signor
Government to take its courage in agreement been fulfilled? Not a
Kowloon City road. Has that [cipal Civil Medical Officer.
Carp is to be congratulated upon Marking time is not at the best its hands and to display at long bit of it. There is only a rough CE. AM.J.M.E., Director of Public artistes well able to measure the re-
Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, M. Inst. having secured a company of. a profitable proposition.
last a stroke of real financial track, a bridge on which has atill works.
quired moderation that these oppor- Tease of the Government essential genuis. The Colony is ready for to be repaired. The new site cer-
A. G. M. Severn, Esq," M.A..tunities for extravagant tragedy tainly has the advantage of a M.D.. F.C.S., it. Let it not be disappointed!
M.R.C.S., D.P.H., and pathos dentand. It was a great supply of clean water but there Medical Officer of Health. success, the artistes more than de-
the enthusiastic audience:
BIRTHS.
WHITE-At the Fraser Memorial Nursing Home, Colombo.
on
Sept. 22. to the wife of H. J.
White, a, son
Hongkong, Thursday, October 7, 1926.
In the
over
the Govern~
uminera.
ITALIAN OPERA.
SEASON OPENS AT THEATRE ROYAL.
is practically no pasture. It W. J. B. Mackenzie, Esq., M.C., serving the generous applause of seems to me that the proprietors M.R.C.V.S., Colonial Veterinary
of these small dairy farms have Surgeon. just cause for grievance as have
D
P. T. Lumble, Esq., M. R. San. all who either bought, or were Sir Eric Stuart-Taylor, Bart.. awarded as "compensation, land M.D. which it was "understood would
,
Signor Caceffo, as the young chieftain of mysterious birth, was superb. A possessor, of a fine tenor voice, be, is a great, actor, treating.. each moment of tragedy in a man- ner worthy of the highest tradi- tions of grand opera.
Leonora & Gypsy. Mile. Gambino as Leonora, the
public works are held up; votes, are trimmed down to the utter- most; and a general state of vegetation creeps in that works to MR. POULTER SHOT? the detriment of the Colony as a
BELIEF OF RELEASED LADY whole.. Retrenchment may to
MISSIONARY.
Hon. Secretary-E Ralphs, Esq, some have something of a glori-
be developed by the Government. F.C.S., M.R., San, J. ous, self-sacrificing ring about it When a naval communique an- The Government is not alone in dear to the hearts of those who nounced that the captured Cus-being hit by prevailing depres would like nothing better than to had been found and Miss Leonore contributed to restricting capital may be making arrangements for noble lady of Aragon, was magni-
toms, launch "Kongmoon Chai"sion. The same conditions have! be regarded by posterity as Scarlett, a missionary, taken back for developing land everywhere the reception, which, I hope, will ficent throughout her long and Apostles of Economy. But it is to Kongmoon, nothing was said and the same "indefinite postpone-meet with success, especially as it strenuous role. In the death scane, as to the fate of Mr Poulter, the ment" conditions or at least two is an occasion on which the ties of when she poisons herself rather not always proved by subsequent Customs officer in charge, or of years' grace, should be afforded cordiality would be drawn closer than marry the Count, she gave a hard facts to be real economy. A the three loyal seamen.
private persons which the Govern- together. certain municipality once upon a From later reports it appears ment has arranged for itself. time was "hard up." It had got probable that these were murder-
Yours, etc., ed out of hand-when the attack into the hands of municipal took place." spendthrifts, and. to save the
Hong Kong, Oct. 6. The launch is reported to have. ship, it resolved to raise a loan been captured as the result of to pay its debts and at the same crew, now men who had not long connivance of certain of the time" to suspend all work onbeen with the boat; these also ronds, bridges, and public utilities smuggled two members of the for a period of two years. But it gang, on board who emerged on a
given signal.
reckoned not with the Minister
JUSTICE
REPUBLIC ANNIVERSARY,
61
[To the Editor of the "China Mall.").
Yours, etc.,
WELL-WISHER. Hong Kong, Oct. 7.
THEWAN-HSIEN".
*HEROES
[To the Editor of tho "China Mall."
Sir,
The moving circum
great performance.
As the Gypsy, Mile. Ciampaglia, - the contralto,, was heard to great advantage.. Her scene in the pri son cell was a masterpiece!
Orchestra & Chorus.
These, of course, are the out- standing parts of the opera, but the supporting company, In their each artiste rendering with preci. several parts, were equally good,
alan what was required. which took place in celebration of have been told by Southey with a company will meet with great. Sir-After reading the doings stances of the death of Nelson It is needless to predict that this the Anniversary of the Republic touching fulness which has found success in Hong Kong. Elaborately Soon after the launch left Kong- for Public Works for the State. moon shots were heard on deck of Portugal on Tuesday, it strikes its way to many a heart of the mounted and dressed, it is alto
However you economise, how-and the engineer and fireman of Council representing as they epic of the Yangtze River, when
me to enquire if the two members past and present generations. The gether a brilliant performance." ever you retrench, however you Miss Scarlett later being taken are to hold any function on the "Despatch" who had been sent score to perfection,
were confined in the engine room, do the Chinese of this Colony, Commander Darley, of HM.S raise funds to pay your debts, from her cabin and placed with coming Sunday to mark the 15th from Hanków with a party of toni is a master musician, one might A full orchestra rendored the Signor. Can- provide a sinking fund, and them." Although neither of them Anniversary of the Republic of officers and men, arrived at Wan-say a superb conductor, having his secure your financial future, it is saw the events on deck they are China imperative that you continue the fired at Mr. Poulter and the loyal of opinion. that the shots were
hsien and set out to rescue the orchestra and the company under What I mean is, will there be a officers of the "Wanliu," which perfect control. legitimate maintenance and re- crew on deck in order that posses. reception, say at the Chinese or has been so graphically described Finally, a word of praise for ||pair of your roads, bridges, and sion of the vessel might be at the Merchants Club, where in the columns of your paper, will the chorus. They were heard to East meets West in a spirit of congo down in history and in the great advantage in the opening secured, public utilities, or your last state
cord amidst feelings off sincerity annals of the British Navy for chorus, the "Anvil Song and the will be immeasurably worse than
and wärm friendship1b.
all time.
Misérere outside the monastery. your first." And that dictum had to be obeyed-merely to prove. the wisdom of the Minister's words.
Here we have retrenchment and
M. C. L. FETE.
FIXED FOR SATURDAY, NOV. 6.
The opportunity should not be Shanghal papers to hand report The Company's repertoire is an missed, as the day is free to all, a memorial service of a "semi- extensive one, and it may be said and I am sure that HE the Gov-official character" which was held without fear of contradiction that ernor will be delighted to attend, at Holy Trinity Cathedral on if the remainder of the opores are as it was he who spoke of the Sunday last, when the British rendered as brilliantly as was last The annual fete organised by the high values that will bring about Consul-General and the entire night a tragedy, Hong Kong music- Hong Kong Women's Guild has the formation of a Concord Club Consular Body of Shanghai paid, lovers are to receive something for economy dinned into our ears come to be one of the brightest or in this Colony, the membership tribute to those who had laid which they have waited long. since the fiat went forth at the the winter functions and the Galld of which, of course, was to in-down their lives in protection of instance of Sir Reginald Stubbs. officials are working with a view clude: Chinese The Government has fallen down to making the fete this year neat If I am not mistaken, the Chin- against the tyrannies of a Spar
ese Ambassadors at the European tian treaty violator. Is that hero-civilisation is the ability of people tractive and successful as ever, th and worshipped the ideal. Re- The date fixed for the fete is Courts hold this annual functionism nothing to Hong Kong? trenchment has been converted November 6 (« Saturday), the use which is usually attended by a One can say no more! from a panacea, into a mania, of the grounds of Government distinguished gathering,
Yours, etc., |House having been granted by perc The two Chinese representa- Money, money every where and mission of H.5, the Governor The Lives, enthusiastic as they are. not a cent to spend on ensuring fate will open at 2-80 p.m.
Continued at foot of naxt column.
British and other interests
greatest barometer.
(to co-operate?"—Roger W. Babson, i
Waars in the great age of tran-* sition from the drudgery of life to Hong Kong, Oct. 1.
the enjoyment of life See also page 8, under sport. Ford.
MONITOR.