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Great Britain and India have good H.E. THE GOVERNOR. reason to resent the attitude that China
On Monday, November 10th, His Excel take's
up at Geneva on this subject "No lency entertained the following to dinuar Power," Mr. Szx told the Conference, at Government House: Hon. Mr. and **was more concerned than China with Mei. Holyoak, Miss Holyoak and Miss regard to the total suppression of the Dorothy Holyoak, Mr. and Mrs. Jackman, use of prepared opium, but this resuls Major and Mrs. Milner Jones, Mr. and could not be hoped for without the Mrs. Edgar Davidson, Surgeon-Lizut- whole-hearted co-operation of all Power's Comdr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Williams, Mr. possessing territorial interests. In other and Mrs. Airey, Miss Airey, Mr. and Mrs. words Great Britain (as owning Hong. Granville, Murray, Captain Macready, kong). India, France, and Japan are Captain Hey, Mr. and Mrs. Hegarty and accused of being responsible for the
On Tuesday, November 11th,. His Excel- opium conditions in China. Well might leney gave a farewell dinner party for the the Indian delegate question the Commander-in-Chief and. Lady Leveson. accuracy of the Chinese statements," for His Honour the Chief Justice, the Com- anyone who has studied the problem is modore, the Members, with their wives, aware that the International Anti-Opium of the Executive and Legislative Councils, Association in Peking after very carefu His Honour the Puisno Judge and Mrs inquiry has estimated the annual pro- Gompertz, the Vice-Chancellor of the duction of opium in China at no less than University, Mr. and Mrs. Beith and Mr. Afteen thousand tons. The delegate re- G. M. Young were invited to dinner. The presenting India was able to tell the Commander-in-Chief was accompanied by Conference that half the opium smuggled Captain Alington, R.N., and some other into Burma came from China, and that this was the case also in Hongkong and the Straits Settlements. At one of the
sittings Sir James CAMPBELL, emphasizing
members of his Stalt The Royal Marine Band of H.M.S. Harkins played at’ Government House during the evening.
Last night (Friday) His Excellency dined with the Commander-in-Chief in
H.M.S. Hawkins.
On Monday, November 17th, His Excel lency will entertain the members of the Interport Cricket Teams to dinner at
Government Honse.
that the enormous production in China was the dominant factor in the Far East, asked whether it was not possible for China to take measures to prevent the export of opium abroad, even if she was unable to remedy the internal situation which admits of the recrudescence of poppy" cultivation. If China is anaole to prevent the smuggling of opium into the country, it is a fair presumption that she is unable to prevent the native drug being smuggled out of the country. whole book might be written on the the Hongkong Philharmonic Society to & ingenuity, of the opium sinuggler. The
Hongkong Ufics: 1a, Chater Boad London Office: 11, Fleet Street, E.C.
The Daily Press.
Horezone, NavɛMBER. 157, 1924.
HONGKONG PHILHARMONIC
SOCIETY.
THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD."
It will be remembered that some time Aago we stated that it had been decided by
only thing that will put a stop to smug. gling either in or out of the country is complete suppression of poppy cultiva tion, and China is the very last country on earth where that is likely to bo permanently achieved.
„Mr. R. G. Macdonald has been re-elect ed President of the Shanghai Golf Club and Capt. E. 1. M. Barrett has been elected Vice President.
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produce The Fedmen of the Guard" 30me time in December. The dates of the performances have now been fixed for December 12th, 13th, 15th, 37th, 19th and 20th, making six performances in all. Seats are being booked by the Anderson Music Co., Ltd, and booking commencea on the twenty-fourth of this month.
All who at any time have been connee- ted with or taken part in a production of this kind will appreciate the enormous amount of "work which devolves aliko upon producers, principals, chorus and qrchestra. Difficulties arise and must be considerable amount of overcome,
Mr. and Mrs. A. Brooke-Smith of thought and time must be devoted to Shanghai, who have been making a short making all arrangements for present- stay in Hongkong, left for Shanghai yes- ation and terday on the P. & 0. Mäntan.
The theft of wire rope, valued at 8210,
a number of possibly less arduous occupations must be sacrificed in the interests of "the show." But en- thusiasm usually ends by carrying all be
THE OPIUM CONFERENCE. THоcon the Opium Conference at Geneva is not yet at an end, it is perfectly plain by this time that the Conference will from a house under construction in the Fore it, and there has been no lack of it leave the problem it seeks to solve ao Taikoo Sugar Refinery's yard, has been in the case of The Yeomen of the BOOMED Dearer solution than it is now, The most reported to the police.
Guard." There is a special element of sustained intereat in Gilbert, and Sulli-
their riak into the Godowns of the Hongkong OFFICE on 1er FLOC, No. 14/16. that can be hoped for, it seems to us, is The theft of jewellery valued at $1,044 vañ opera,, that has never failed to keep YONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above. Kowloofter landing.
named Veisel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed AT THEIx ax in the Hongkong Kowloon Wast and Godown Company'
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whence delivery may be obtained Padoan STR27. Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless' Intimation is received from the Consigness before NOON, TO-DAY, requesting it to be haded
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the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after the 18th instant, at Noon, will be abject to Rent and Landing Charges.
All Claims must be sent in to me on or before
Apply PROPERTY OFFICE, Jaxozne, Mathison & Co., Ltd.
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Godowns at Kowloon, where each Consignment of Lading will be countersigned by will be
be sorted qut Mark by Mark and delivery can be
be obtained as the Goods are landed. Optional Goody will be landed here unless Instructions have been given to the con- trary Bix hours before Arrival of the Steamer.
days, including Gooda nos cleared within date of arrival will be subject to Rent
No Fire Insurance will be affected by us in
case whatever. Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees, and, the Company's Surreyors, Meuers, GODDARD DOUGLAS, at 10 AM, on Mondays and
the 21st instant, or will not be recognized. OFFICE ROOMS in CENTRAL FONCTION
any
Waradys must be presented within Ten days
of the Steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown.
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OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. UHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
AND
ONSIGNÉES per Company's Steamer
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are hereby notified that the Carge will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will is at Consignees risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of storage at Holt's What
The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 13th November,
Optional Cargo will be landed, unless Notice
has been given prior to Steamer's arrival.
to
All brakes, chafed and damaged Goods are
be left in the Godowns, where they will examined on
Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.43 M. and Nook within the free storage perici.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 19th November, will be subject to Bent
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before tive 3rd December, ar they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
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Agenta, Bergong, 19th November, 1924, (1488
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All damaged Packages be examined on Monday, the 17th instant, at 10 am by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been affected.
E. BODENFUSER,
Agent. Hongkong, 11th November, 1924
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THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED."
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FROM LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWEEP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
The Steamship "BEMACDHUL”
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform
ed the: all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra bazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd whence, and/or from the
delivery be obtained.
may
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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining
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PREPAID ** WANTED " ADVERTISEMENTS
that the strictures passed at the Con- from Mrs. Braga, of 14. Conduit Road, Gilbert and Sullivan companies whole-
ference
disappearance of a bouseboy in Mra. Braga's employment is also reported.
It is to be doubted whether everybody to whom Gilbert and Sullivan" bas. become a household word is fully aware of the reasons underlying the past and present phenomenal success of the operar resulting from the collaboration of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Opera. writing was long regarded as a musical exercise affording opportunity for vocal writing of dramatic intensity hardly compatible with any setting but the. stage, and the libretto writer was totally eclipsed by the composer. Wagner, poet and
on China's disregard of her has been reported to the police. The heartedly interested in their work. pledges and her deliberate misrepresenta tions will have the effect of stimulating China, to more determined effort to sup- press the trafic." The draft Convention Mr. Mo Hiag Dum, an assistant ac that has been submitted to the Confer-countant in Mesara. Butterfield & Swire's ence by the British delegation contains Compradore Department, has reported to little or nothing that is not already done the police that one of his shroffs has in Hongkong. It proposes that the im- disappeared after obtaining a sum of portation, manufacture and sale of raw $1,126 by means of a forged note. and prepared opium should be solely coo- Troops from the local Barracks were ducted under a Government monopoly; turned out on Thursday night to assist
composer, is one of the exceptions to that provision shall be made as regards the Fire Brigade to quell an outbreak in the rule, but bis music dramas have been conceived on a stupendous scale which retail sale, and that export, shall be pro-a timber-yard at Shaukiwan. The con demands an atmosphere seldom attain- hibited from the territories; that in- tents of the yard were destroyed, as was able as it was at Bayreuth under the spell composer's personality. The struction shall fie given in the schools a matshed erected there. The extent of genius in Gilbert and Sullivan in of REQUIRED. to discourage opium smoking; that the the damage has not yet beep estimated,
another kind. It appeals to us as a Cao Anyone Recommand?-Beply--Bor
uation because it breathes, in "The (48 number of retail shops shall be limited;
Yeomen of the Guard for instance, the 43, c/o Hongkong Daily Press Office,
that it be laid down that it is an offence
very spirit of England in the day's' of Harry Tudor; because it is never preten never calls upon extraordinary powers of tious; never takes itself too seriously imagination to conjure up out of a bald situation a a paychological crisis fitting to music of a superlatively dramatic order because it never indulges in long passages of recitative: because, in "short, in it a proper balance is maintained between translation of meaning through eye and ear and the more subtle translation of music.
Lettem are lying at this Office for Box-XE, XL, XS, YI, 39, 40, 880, 979, 1890.
RAVELLING T
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Among the residents who returned to
to engage in transactions outside the the Colony on the Mantua were Mr. and jurisdiction of the respective Govern. Mr J. R. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. H. K. ments; and that the Governments facili-Holmes, the Rev. W. T. Featherstone,
undelivered after the 18th instant, will be B WEEKLY PRASS, JA, tate the exchange of information tead. Mrs. Winslow, Mrs E. B. C. Hornell,
mbject to Bent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before 25th instant, or they will not be recognised.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to fe be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on the 18th instant, at 10am. No Fire Insurance has been effected.
Bill of Lading will be count by
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HONGKONG WEEKLY
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1924
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BRITISH FILMS
CORONET.
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THE
SATURDAY TOM
TO MONDAY MOORE .
in R. A. Sims' Melodrama
HARBOUR LIGHTS
Our Own Topical.
ing to assist in the suppression of the Mr. and Mrs A. Murdock, Mr. F. B. J. illicit traffic. There is nothing in this Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Upsdell, Mr. and Convention to which any Power can Hre E. J. Edwards and child, Mr. and reasonably object unless it be to the Mr. A. H. Compton and two children, creation of a Government monopoly in Mr. and Mrs. J. Hooper, Mr. A. Mait- the traffic, and the opposition in this land, Mrs. Grant Simpson, Mr. and case may be expected to come from Miss Wade, and Miss Margery Forbes. China the cop country that by reason
of the impotence of its Government is
the least able to control the traffic. More
MURDER 'AT YAUMATI.
the of
So many people have come away from a Gilbert and Sullivan opera feeling that they have grasped a pleasure previously denied then that it is not possible to bo- lieve that they have not some realisa tion of where this pleasure lies, not cap- able of expression in words perhaps. It
bare. it indeed possible that they missed that cleansing of the emotions which than a year ago Sir FRANCIS AGEN, the SEARCH FOR POULTRY SELLER. lies at the root of pure tragedy on the
Gilbert and Buitivan in stage, though Inspector-General of the Maritime Cus-
At 8.30 last night, a tailor named Nan this is to be found in its proper place by
those who can perceive it; but three im tome, appalled at the extent to which Hi, of Sham Shui Po, was found killed mensely important qualities they cannot there has been a recrudescence of the traffic in China, publicly advocated the establishment of a Government monopoly, in order that the traffic might be the more effectively controlled.
writi a dagger at No. 36, Shanghai Street, have failed to appreciate: supreme wit in lyrics and dialogue, an admirable Yaumati. Active search is being made by development of the dramatic interest, and music never so insistent as to becomes tiresoure and completely in keeping with the humour or sentiment of the moment.
police for Ko Tsan, a poultry vendor, who is suspected of the murder,
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