CORRESPONDENCE
THE ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRALA WAR MEMORIAL.
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[TO THE KOFTOR OF THE KONGKONG DALLY PRESE."]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY HATH, 1921.
MADAME LOTTIE GORDON'S
CONCERT
IN AID OF LOCAL CHARITIES.
Every sent at the Theatre Royal was
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AMERICAN WIRELESS FOR
CHINA,
MAIN STATION AT SHANGHAL
American Federal Wireless Tale
ported in a cable from Peking to have
occupied on Saturday night for the Suits Fickly of Sydney, Australia, graph Company of San Francisco is SIR-Might I once again ask your hein/charity concert arranged by Madane There are some British firma which set faigned oh the 8th inst, a contract ta erset
in the mintter of the list of Hongkong men who were killed in the war 1 Since writ ing to you inst Augusts number of names have been revived through the publicity the matter. The Bronze Tablet you gave th with these anaes, will have to be made in England; for the present they will be placed on a temporacy tablet. The names will be read out at the unveiling of the War Memorial on Sunday week. of your readers know of any other name that ought to be funded I shall be glad to receive it. Also, if any one can give the full names of thow where I only have initials I shall be grateful. I enclose the list Thanking you for your kind help Yours truly,..
H. COPLEY MOYLE
8. John's Cathedral,
Hougkong, January 22nd,
Hany
HONGKONG ROLL OF HONOUR.
Adair, Henry.
Allchurch, Arthur.
'Arthur, Hugh.
Bailey, Anthony Drummond.
Beat, A. H.
Bone, John
Lottie Gordon under the patronage of His Excellents the Governor and Ladr Stubbs, His Excellency Vics-Admiral Bir Alexander and Misa Da, His Excellency Major General Sir George and Lady Kirk Patrick, Commodore and Mrs Bowden Sith, Mr. Justice Gompertz and Mr. Gompertz." The audience was most enthusiastic, and well it might be, for the concert revealed how much musical talent of a high order there is in Hongkong expecially amongst the ladles, it may be remarked, for there was a preponderance
an example regarding the treatment of employes who went to the war which a powerful main wirelem station at Shung- might be a pattern to Australian embas, with sub-stations at Canton, Shanghai, ployers. One of these is Jardine, Kathe Poking and Harbin, at a total cost o súd & Co., Ltd., whose trading offices $4,300,000. at Shanghai and elsewhere in China
An implose, low suking at the Sydney Repat, enlisted in the A..., whilst on leave in Australia. As the termination of the war he notified his old employers that he was not inclined to return to China. Recently, he wrote £10, which he had borrowed at the Eng nsking how he should forward à sum of lish Head Office of the firm whilst on furlough in England, w
in the programme of the fair sex. Whesion in fall, although the name of the The reply of the 'fint is worth publics ther male talent is now rare, or merely recipient is withheld ultra-modest, we do not feel milęd upon to decide?" Nor can the mere male ture upon a description of the handsome frocks with, which the, contributors. to the programme, and many in the audience, nonoured the occasion.
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Where so many had never appeared on public stage before at was natural to find a little shyness and awkwardness at the beginning; this probably accounted
Bowen-Rowlands, Cyril Francis Wogan, for a trace of difidence on the part of the
Brewer, James.
Carmichael, Ian Neil.
Chapman, Ben:
Cheeseman, D., G.
Clarke, Albert Edmund
Church W. H.
Clark, Jasper.
"Collins, Lionel Oscar.
Cope, Walter Gordon.
Cruickshanks, Ernest.
ladies who opened the programme with a part song. Some of the sopranos, too, seemed to be suffering from a cold. The names of the ladies taking part were: Mrs. Cameron, Mrs. Gonzales, the Misses E. Stoneham, A. Wheeler, G. Ezra, N. Williams, E. Soares and B. Jennings. Miss Nellie Williams, who has a mezzo- soprano voice of high quality, sang I wonder what the stars are and gave
Cunningham, Charles Clement Francis. When the house is asleep" as an Dealy, Frank."
Dealy, Sidney."
Heape, Arthur Francis."
Delahunty, John.
Dennys, Kenneth Rose,
Dizon, Peter Sydenham.
Drury, Ernest.
Edwards, Robert."
Elborough, Alfred Charles Ernest.
Evers, Eraest William.
Forde, Kenneth Rowley.
Fyfe, Alexander Adair
Gardner, Peter Boyd,
Gressel, Francis
Gresson, John Ectward.
Gall, Leonard Joseph."
Hance, Cyril Eugene Agatton
de Heney, Charles David.
Hirst Arthur." \
Irving, Archibald Denya,,.
Ixer, Sidney.
Jones, Hugh Ivor."
Joseland, Arthur Noel.
Lammert, Noel Dean.
Macdonald, Alexander Lindsay.
MacLeod, Donald Angus.
McCutcheon, Cecil.
May, Walter John.
Miller, Andrew Richard Stewart
Morris, Edwin Alan, 4
Miller, Andrew Richard Stewart
Morris, Edwin Alan
Munro, Ronald.
Orchard, Ernest Frank Gordon.
Painting. Emest George.
Richardson, Frank.
Rivers, George William.
Robson, Thomas Ernest Stanley.
Robinson, Frederick Henry..
Shewan, Alin Davidson."
Silliss, Edgard Charles.
Soares, F
Stapleton, Willie Howell.
Stokes, Reginald Alexander.
Summers, John Francis
Taylor, ThomAS.
Victor, Henry,
Viveash, William H.
Wakeford, Herbert George,
Walker, Cyril Nigel Gordon. Whitmarah, A.
Wilson, Harold.
HONGKONG CENSUS,
encore. 10. N
A SHANGHAL, September 15th, 1990. Dear Sir, Mr. Johnstons ha handed us your undated letter to him for reply. wh
In the first place, we are pleased to hear you have safely survived the Great
As regards the advance of £10 made you by the late Mr. C. H. Hous, you may consider this cancelled.
Under instructions from the Govern ing Director, a war bonus was declared: last year, in which all members of our staff who joined the colours are entitled. to participate. We have, therefore, pleasure in handing you a demand draft on Sydney for £534 ix. od, the equi- valent of Hongkong 2,500 dol, at ex 7th and 3/11, being the amount allotted as your share.--Your faithfully,
Then stations will be under joint Bino- American operation, and controlled by the Chiaotungya, which will cater for offein) and public business. After ten years the whole system will revert to the Chinese Government.
HONGKONG'S IMPORT TRADE
The forthrightly price current and market repor), published by the Hongkong General Ghamber of Commerce, states-
Cotton Pisos Goods and Fancy Cotton Goods.The mackes has shown to sign of
revival of business during the past fort. might. Owing to a rise in cotton, lan- chester quotations have stiffened, prices advancing 3/. to 4/- per cent.
Cotton Yarn-The tone is quiet and do mand has been very slack. Values gen. erally show declines of about $82 to $3 per $190. Na 19. 8160 to $100. No. 16 bale Quotations are--No 100. $155 to 8180 to $200 No. 90% 182 to $310. Arrivals mil Babes 2,000 bales. Ship- menia Unold Stock -10,000 bales Bargains-10,000, balen, en
Woollens. The depressed condition of the past months still proyalls,hus it is expected that there will be an improvement after the China New Year
Bay Cotton Harket is very quiet and values are nominally a follows:-Indigo descriptions, 7 to 834 per picul.. descriptions $85 to 829 per picul. Chinese
Madame Lottie Gordon rendered the well-known Prelude in sharp minor (Bachmaninoff) in finished style and followed it with Chopin's Polonaise in Csharp minor which gave opportunity for CHILD SLAVERY "CAMPAIGNS much moving. There should be some Sonne enquiry from up country after the New STILL HECKLING THE SECRETARY Year settlement E2
OF STATE
Flour Market Report-Stock: About 190,000 sick Quotations: American Pat
ack Shanghal Flour 2nd, 13.03 per sack. persack Americap. Biraight,, 83:20 per 1920
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD. their employée in that fashion. As about How many Australian firms treated two hundred employes of the firm enlisted,tamall quantities of steel bars the total recognition must amount to Nails, have also been sold at 811 for the has been done to arrive at $8.75 per picul, generous sum.
11:03-8rtment at $15.50 for the 1-1. Frices from London are considerably lower. Local prices are easier, bai there has not
Window GlassThe market is stendier being that the tendency for all glass, pro- the later information received from Europe ducis was better and that an advance in price was more than probable.
& demonstration of her powers in a differ ent vein. Many present must have won dered why there was no grand piano for this item. The explanation, we learn, is the Colony, or indeed in this part of of Child Slavery in Hongkong were put that the only grand piano of any note in The following questions on the subjects, $1.75 per ack American Cut-off, $1.36 the Far East, apparently has been to the Secretary of State for the Colonies borrowed by: Macao for a concert there on December 8th and th: It is up to music-lovers in Hongkong (as Mr. A. Short asked whether, under the our American friends say) to look to it system of adoption in Hongkong, girls, that the Colony has a good grand piano who in return for s money payment are of its very own. A subscription should transferred by their parents to another be started at once. But this is a digres household for purposes of domestic service, receive wages for such service, Miss Edie Soares showed good techni- and, if not, what safeguard's exist against que, though she suffered a little from their being regarded and treated as nestoneness in the French song "Obatina staves by their employers 1 tion (Hesolve). As an encore she sang "The Dawn." Mrs. Cameron contributed Colonies (Lieut-Colonel Amery)
The Under Secretary of State for the
sion.
No
Java SugarMarket quiet but steady, Philippines Bugar, Market Grin and Salpetre Stock 1,000 bags.
advancing,
PARLIAMENT AND THE FAR
EAST
a song in lighter vein, Down Vauxhall air, wages are not paid, the children being Way" in very pleasant style. Her render regarded as adopted daughters of the ing of "Angus Macdonald" as an encore house. Their status is well understood; We extract the was much enjoyed. Mrs. F. C. Hall, and in cases of ill-treatment they are from reports of the proceedings of Parlia in finished style, gave a few humorous removed:
Zment in the latest mail papers from
imitations and was very good in a song Mr. Walter Smith asked the Under Home:
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following paragraphs
in Cockney dialect Secretary of State for the Colonies whe Mrs. Maurice Minney, a soprano of very ther any report regarding the question
JAPAN AND EASTERN-BILERIA. high order, heard for the first time, we of slavery has been received from the
Dengan MDecember 14th.. believe in Hongkong sang Mia Pic Governor of Hongkong, and, if so, if it Secretary, Foreign Office, replying to Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, Parliamentary cerella" from the opera, Salvator Rosa is the intention to pablish the report Lieut. Commander Kenworthy, said:- with finished skill and admirable expres Lieut. Col. Amery'sYes, sir, report Negotiations are rocceding at Chita sion and accent, Lieut-Col. Crosse gave has been received. It is not in, form in between the Government of the Far an exhibition of his remarkable versati-which it could conveniently be published, Fastern Republic and the local Govern lity. Leaving matters of abstruse mili- but I shall be glad to let the hon. member went at Vladivostock for the amalgama tary science, he took command of the see it if he desires. piane and fired some highly entertaining Lient. Colonel J. Ward: Does the hon troops have been withdrawn to Vladi Meticu, of these two bodies. Japanese shots at the audience. Y
Mr. Howard Freeborn, whose services result of the report, to wipe this stain They hold the railway as far north as member propose to do anything, as Tostock and the surrounding country. in the Cathedral chair are so well known, from our name in the Far East May Nikolak, and occupy the northern half gave a faultless rendering of "Che Lieut. Col. Amery: Yes, sir. I think Gelida Manina from La Boheme.the bon, and gallant gentleman was not The first half of the programme concluded present in the Hanse when, on a previous with a most attractive contribution; by occasion, I stated that the Secretary of the Misses Eileen and Doris Woods who State suggested the formation of a song sing American songs as-duste, ecco local Chinese Committee to look after panied by dancing. Their Svanes one these adopted children, and to see that step was particularly well done and they they are not ill-treated. worked together with a skill which comes of long practice,
In the second part of the programme
the always popular Barcarolle from the AN ACTION AGAINST THE part-song by the sight ladies whose names
Tales of Hoffman" was given as UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY. have already been mentioned This was: succeeded by one of the most successful:
SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE
of the island of Saghalied. I have no information of hostilities between Japan.. se And Russian troops. A British Conan is stationed at Vladivostock. A regards the question whether the Imperial Japanese Government has advised his
jesty's Government of their policy in these regions, I can add nothing to the reply which I gave on August 16th last. ABINGAPORE AND A HUIMARINE BASE. mitee of Supply on the Supplementary In the course of the discussion in Com Estimate of £6,500,000 for the Navy Lieut-Commander Kenworthy asked how much of the Supplementary Estimates was due to policy abroad, especially in the
TO BE TAKEN THIS YEAR.
·His Excellency, the Governor in Council has been plesand, under the provisions of the Census Ordinance, 1887, Ordinance No
of 1881, to authorize and direct that and striking contributions of the evening, Mr. Justice Bray has given judgment Fast. He did that there was a good Consus be taken of the inhabitants of the the recitation by Misa B. D. Thompson in the King's Bench Division In the deal of extravagance and waste in the New Territorios, during the perica 24th of the "Carillon, a soliloquy by a figure action in which the builders of an ero-Navy and declared that, a number of day of March to 24th day of April, 1911, representing Belgium, mourning her dead. plane, which started for a flight from obsoleto ships, were being kept on One and of the inhabitants, of the portion of the Colony on the 24th day of remaining
Miss Thompson declaimed this in perfect Hounslow to Australia but crashed" as of these, the Highflyer, wax still the Bag- April 1921, and to appont rohr French, with great dramatic power, and Kingston, claim under a policy of an ship of the Commander-in-Chief in the Daniel Lloyd as Census Officer for the purwas deservedly accorded a great oration,ance with the Union Insurance Society East Indian Station. Whoever was res pose of taking such Census,
The musical and tableaux affects greptly of Canton, Ltd. The defendantscad-ponsible for the expenditure of money helped, the effectiveness of this effort.
Madame Lottie Gordon followed with they refused to pay, on various grounds, the Firth of Forth two years after the mitted the policy, and the accident, but upon the Inverkeithing aubmanne base in THE MIROVA-PODOLSKY CONCERT pretty "Minuet in E flat was her own had been misled about the identity of theses ought to be sacked from the public pianoforte selections. The second, the principal defences being that they German Fleet was at the battom of the For the matinee which Miss Vor Chappell's Madame Gordon displayed and never intended to insure, any machine generation would be in the East, and composition and is to be published by machine which they were inspring, and service. The danger spot in the coming Mirova and Mr. Lep Podolsky are giving an admirable mastery of the instrument which was taking part in a rice such as money should be spent upon a submarine at the City Hall on Wednesday, specials Maurice Minney gave a selection the Australian fight, His: Fordship has at Singapore, which was a great lighting effects and seenery and an from the "Mikado" in costume which was decided in favour of the defendants enlarged stage will be provided. Booking very delicately presented and much enjoy at Anderson'sishi
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ed. The sqenic effects for this had been
Mr. W. FN. Dyer Mr. Hugh Martin Mr. M. Speelman M. P-Mailly M. R. Fano... Dr E, Tartois Arnaud C
strategic centre. He moved the reduction of the Yote by £500,000.
Inverkeithing. He could not understand Commander Viscount Curzon, criticised the provision oLiu, anhmarine base at what plan the War Stall could have cry. If a base had been provided at adapted in order to make this base peces Singapore, or on the West Coast of Ire land, it would have been an intelligible step. 451 The amendment was negatived.
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well designed. Miss Edio Soares SS THE FRENOH MUNICIPAL ELECTION again and having overcome her nervous In view of the emphasis recently given ness gave an excellent rendering of "My to the darker side of life in Limehouse, dear Soul. Lieut. Col Crosse again
AT" SHANGĦAL it should be pointed out, says a London enlivened the proceedings at the pianoThe result of the Municipal election in paper, that the best Chinese opinion is and a splendid finale was the rendering the French Concession, Shanghai, is as as strongly opposed to the drug traffic by Mme Vera Mirova of the Dancing follows
* carried on by mms of the Chinese inhabit Doll" dance, with which she delighted aats of Limehouse as are British people. Hongkong audiences earlier in the week. Chinese students in London have them MaPodolsky played the accompaniment. selves established an evening school in Madame Lottie Gordon, in a brief Limehouse for Anglo Chinese children, speech from the stage, thanked all those Here the children are taught Chinese who had given their services to make the character writing and the history and evening a success. geography of China. Most of the children The members of Mezera. Wiseman's express a keen desire to go to China when orchestra, Mr. J. Matiss, Mr. J. Beyes, they are grown up. The Chinese Com and Mr. F. Lopas, gave their services; mittee have secured as teacher for this. Mr. M. Minney was a capable stage school lady missionary returned from manager, The institutions which will China. It is stated that after two year benefit, doubtless to a substantial of congestion oving to shipping difficulties amount as a result of the concert are the many hundreds of Chinese seamen have Blind Home, Kowloon,, and the Pokfulum departed in the last two months.
Home
ML Pernot
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