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CHITRAL
CARTHAGE
1935.
17,000 23rd Feb. RAJPUTANA
6,000 **BANGALORE
2nd Mar *KIDDERPORE 5,500
2nd Mar. 15,000 3th Mar.
15,000 23rd Mar.
**BHUTAN
CATHAY
**BEHAR
6th Apr. 6,100 13th Apr.
CORFU
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Destination
Bombay, Marseilles and London. Marwiller, Havre, London, Hamburg
Rotterdam, Antwerp &. Hull. 3'pore, Penang, Columbo, Bombay,
Kavadri and Persian Gult. Marseilles & London
3,100 30th Mar. | Mars-illes, Havre, London, Hamburg
Roterdam, Antwerp & Hull, 15,200
Marseilles & London.
Rombay, Marseilles, Havre, London Hamby Rotterdam, Antwerp Hull. 15,000 20th Apr. | Marseilles & London.
(Continued From CHINESE CHORAL
SOCIETY
Page 10).
A fash hissed above his head and all their might, ram her nose Into the Big Attendance Expected cut "deep into his naked ficah. stern of the vessel they are attacking; Mechanically as if with long use; Andre at which, throwing out grappling-ions, ducked and flung himself forward over the soldiers board her.
men
At To-day's Concert
UNDER PATRONAGE OF SIR HENRY AND LADY POLLOCK
that which he held, which in its turn It is simple enough. Only this time Jerked him to and fro with it; glanced it happened that the captain of the from left to right, counted five paire frigate with which they had come up of hands, all like his own, incredibly was too quick for them. cracked and rod; followed with his At the word, of command the eyes, from the last on the right down had hurled themselves afresh on their The Hong Kong Chinese Choral a rounded length of wood, and through oars, risen to the full length of their Society are giving a concert to-day, A round hole in a dark mass of tim chains, hovered; and then etruck the in the St. John's Cathedral Hail, ber, and there caught a glimpse of the water to a moment bracing themselves under the distinguished patronage whipped the wave-tops to a doam. together for the shock of concuss.on. open sen-grey, save where the wind when by sudden turn of her helm the of the Hon: Sir Henry Pollock, K
and pushed along the and Lady Pollock in aid of the Suddenly he remembered with a fria brondside on-pressing up the street. Sleepers Shiciter Society, sheer agonising of the memory. In which it seemed as if soul and body water into a grout wall, which rosa. fought together: a fight where the soul, above the low taffrail and swept down commencing at 5.80 p.m. An at- like a fail, upon the rowers, snapping tractive programme has been ar proved telf the stronger, and off short every blade of the oars on ranged and a large attendance is quishing the puny boy's body, throw it aside ro-creating for itself another the port side; while over the linen anticipated. equal to its needs.
screen a great gun looked down fair Prospective patrons are reminded It was an oar he held, of course into the galley's wait to Number 24 that, while spending an enjoyable
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Suddenly
he remembered. Had he been dream ing? It was all as clear as day. Salt as if the world had come to an end evening, they are also assisting in Among the had been dear in Dauphine, and in his with the broken oar which, striking a deserving cause. longing to season with some taste the nothing, swept to and fro between his well-known artists and artistes who
palmis. insipid broth which formed his daily It was not the muzzle of the gun food, ho had passed over into Burgundy
will assist are:
Mr. J. Anderson Miller (conduc
Miller The tor), Mrs. Anderson
to sell cabbage, and buy salt, and boon that frightened him he was used to sent to the galloy, for It.
Yours that. It was the broken oar.
mulation of the one thing that seemed before-how long he could not remem
(contralto), Mrs. E. Schroeder . It was ber, though he remembered every step to him eternal; that he himself had (soprano), Mrs. Helen Lockhart of the forced march to Marseilles, and acen outlast life after life. how the, women taunted and the chil. having nothing to hold to, nothing to'(Violin sales), Capt. O. P. Joce dren pelted him when, in common with do, which so worked upon him that (baritone) and Lt.-Col, C. H. the other prisoners, he hold out his seemed as if he suddenly went mad Kuline D.S.O., O.B.E. (piano).
The programme is as follows: Ballet:-
little wooden bowl to beg for food and water,
with the fierce desire to face death standing as 'man to man."
The water which the frigate had It was all clear. He was Number 24 of the galley La Palme, one hundred driven over the side of the galley lay Now In the Month of Maying and fifty feet from bow to stern; with knee-deep about his feet. The faconier two hundred and fifty slaves, two rows had burst a bloodvessel-as the broken of them; twenty-five oars either side ar. Jerked him forward by his body
Solo:
Thomas Morley
Dvorak
of the central gallery-raised some four chain-and so stopped cursing, falling Gypsy Songs
English Folk Song:--- feet above the deck-up and down against Number 24, with his irons cut-
Early One Morning, arr T. Dunhill their whips, and five man to cach oar,ting into his neighbour's flesh,
Martelihe still prayed to the God,
"Cello Solo: with a crew of another hundred and Afty-captain, officers, scamen,
and who, as any fool might know, had not
time for galley slaves, with le Grand Sonata in A Minor ¡soldiers.
Part Song:.... There were five
were five guns in the bows Monsieur and the whole Court on His
hands. But the other men were silent: Orpheus With His Lute and a courator gun on the main deck hung forward, inertly, by their waist which no one could forget, for it w
it that offenders were bound, that chains over the broken oars, and star- they might receive the bastinado.
ing up at the gun, which, as they well
Solo:
Hervelola
Ed. German|
Purcell And the captain's quarters were an knew would take them first-the guts An Evening Hymn:
North Country Folk Tone ~~. the foredeck; and below decks were of the galloy.
But the fire within Number 24 was Bobby Shaftoe arr. Whittaker the sand six small rooms-the savan,
Madrigal:— cint, the champaign, the pallio, the breaking at length into flame. For a moment less time than it takes to taver, and the foreroom, Number 24 more crouched low, drawing him. Come Let Us Join the Roundelay could see none of this: could see
nothing mach indeed, save the acarred, self in upon himself, bracing every naked backs of the men in front of muscle till the blood thundered in his him. But he know. It all came back ears; and then-with bones that crack-
ease.
mal
Solo:
Beale
Elgar
John Dowland
Elizabethan Pert Song:-". in time to the swing of the oars, and cd, seeming to press their way through Sea Pictures the song of the whip, and the sicken- his flesh, driving the waist-chain down ing, odour of unwashed men and dis upon his hips, straining upwards till. Come Again! Sweet Love Doth
with a loud rending sound, the staples Now Invite + Cilla Cambience.
'Cello Solo:-- "Pull all-pull all, you dogs!" He which held it were drawn away from splintering It along its en
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rose Solo finger and thumb. They had pulled for dangling from his waist as he twelve hours, and, lie wondered dully it with a hoarse shout of triumph that
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Solo: the whistle would ever sound, releasing ended in a rush of hot blood to his Morning Hyma them for a while from their cars, But he was upright at last-after i Rain
the the they might drop beneath
these years upright and a man again. Solos benches and sleep.
His eyes were weighed down with no longer a chained beast. Intense fatigue, and the sweat-red Over the linen screen he could see Songs of the Sea from the dye of his coarao Phrygian the grey waste of water; could see that caprad into them and blinded them; for which they had been rowing their while the blood from his cut shoulder hearts ost--the small, dark frigate iripped into a little pool in the hollow bristling with guns, and beyond her the
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arr. Robertson
Hensheel
Taylor
Stanford
OLD OBSERVANCES
· IN THE COMMONS
(Continued" from Page ́8.)
of the leather apron which lay across brood of thirty-five merchantmen, to his which she was convoy, flying like s his knees; the only covering to
flock of white, pigeons before the wind nakedin round his waist-with just And, above all, death facing him
there enough play for the come and go of
For as he stood upright the gun the car fettered him to the bench off
The importance of the latter rule which he sint; and there were other spoke, and with its roar there camo- chains round his ankles, fastening, his first the utter vacuum, then the blank is due to the fact that in no Parlia fect to the deck in the same mannertness, then the upheaval of his wholmen since the Middle Ages, either while his neighbours sat so close that being to fill it.
There are people, who, when they in the old-building or the new, has their iron cut his flesh at any sudden Jurch of the galley.
On his left wish to emphasise a remark; tap you there been sufficient seating accom 7,000 and Mar Marlin, Rxbrut Reishane, Sydney & facchier, with spilt ears and nostrils. with a finger upon the chest. This modation for the whole body of who blasphemed without ceasing, for is what the gun did to Number 24 members. M.P.'s are compelled to Number 24 had missed a stroke in his only a little lower. And the touch was re-birth, and brought the whip upon hot and fierce, and yet most terribly reserve their seats by attendance at prayers and their place at prayers them all, while to his right was one sweet.
"Andre-Andre?? The call came by an early visit to the House, when of those they call "forcats pour la fol." whose name Andre know to be Mar from incredibly far away a call at they deposit a ticket on the seat once querulous and fearful, at which, Regular_monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan tellhe, and who prayed without ceasing, drawn by some old instinct of obe they propose to occupy: Even this
Only Number 4 was silent, for he was a true peasant, whom Naturaence; the soul of Andre Bertle fluttered latter, custom. appears to be over at though she had made him inarticulate, back from the, regions of the past century old, for we find Cobbett in AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for a cheap Holiday. damming his soul up with silenco pushing up heavy eye-lide and gazing 1832 complaining that 658 members
had also filled with the power of a cut at the white, tear-stained face of (Surdag, Fishing, Shooting, and Climates to salt all. Your English.
slowly accumulating fury, which burnt his mother, the white head-dress of awere crammed into a speae that his nursing sister, the bare white wall of allowed them no more than half a money is worth 25 per cent, maro),
Port Hospital, and a narrow length foot square, and that he himself day and night like a fire within his heart.
had to go to the House at 7 o'clock The linen screens were up round the of counterpane.
"He is coming back," said the sister, in the morning to stick a bit of Bee rowers, so that they could not
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all The ankle-chain had just bitten to weighed, on me all these years, and the bone of Number 24's ankle. It had the money that I have spent in med But perhaps the most striking taken lang while, but there it war eine for him. He has on digestion example of historical continuity is
They all knew the chase was near actually none.
e. No other mother"
an end for the sous-comites brought the Island has such a son; and then to be found in the jealous are with roand broad-dipped in wine, which what happens? Nothing will suit him which Parliament has always safe they thrust into the mouths of the but that he should go away to sea, guarded the approaches to the rowers who had fasted since the night daring the cooking of those who knew Palace of Westminster.
that they should not miss nothing less than nothing, of his con before so
a stroke by raising their hands to their stitution. And now this seizure. It In 1882 boys were forbidden by all stomach."
Royal Proclamation from playing at months, and be ready for the last is stomach me was at sea. He games or knocking off the hats of Breat effort.
G--- The car over Andre hung does not look as if he had lived in had missed after all, striking above the the open, said the slater, with her passers-by anywhere in the imme na masoda the waist-chain ferkod, the fingers on Andre's fluttering pols.diate neighbourhood. For nearly Ave back with a sickening force, and
Well, not at sea, but hear the sea: seven centuries there have been
the comite who now walked the gang. In an office on the very quay itself. sessional orders to prevent obstruc way-currsed furiously giving them do not understand never did, tion in the streets near by. It is
alad And the poor mother sighed,
taste of the leather, thong
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what the soldiers en oed in Neither did her son For the by virtue of such an order that the Commons and≥the City of London him for Charles Fox,t | brine.” Kapak moment he remembered; both lives, traffic is still held up for the con over the publication of debates, and Lord of thay Admiralty
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