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THE HONG KONG
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th,
VOTES OF NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION.
OVER $200,000 MORE FOR RAIN-
·STORM- DAMAGE.
Following the meeting of the Legislative. Council yesterday after- a meeting of the Finance Committee was held when votes totalling $210,498.03 were passed.
THE MYSTERY OF ZAGORSKI...
ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN SECRETLY ARRESTED.
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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
-- ENTERTAINMENT PAST
AND PRESENT.
MUSIC WHICH SADDENS.
[ KENT MACWRITER.)
1927.
I canna' help thinking, bow well off folk are nowadays. I was just Winsaw, September 14th.
watching the wee yin the other The whole country is excited morning, half blia' wi sleep wrast- over the whereabouts of Geceralling away in a wardrobe throwing something or other that had to go Zagorski, the popular Opposition vises about galore in search for I still ca' her the leader, who mysteriously disappear fi a red belt.
int man. Fou should ed after his release from prison wee vin Typhoon Damage.
see he now wi her lang silk legs. five works ago. The Korloon-Canton Railway re
It is alleged that the authorities and, mind ye she's no above going out wi her aunt's best white Sun- quired 84,000 to repair damage done by the typhoon of August with. The agam seized him secretly, and are day shoes if she gets half a chance an islang off at all. Time was when she could Public Works Department needed interning him on
Ye eanna very well go400 for the repair of typhoon Dantzig. Colour is lent to this he skelped but she's got past that damage done in Kowloon. This assumption owing to the receipt of wallop a youngster when she's hail sum, however, does not include any a letter from Zagorski bering a head higher than yoursel. It's Ay, 1 don't think bairns ne allowance for damage caused by the the Dantzig postmark, containing no dignified like. typhoon of August 20th. A furthera entribution to the Aviators nearly so much fun when they begin to knowing more than yourself. vate will be necessary to cover Victims Fung," alleged to be for to get up, especially when they get
warded by means of a trick.
It's a great hand.cap. that.
Says she this morning at break- Lacie, do you know that narc is Mary Pickford's real fast," ladys Smith and that Vilma Banky
The P.W.D. also asked for $133.09 for the repair of typhoon and rainstorm damage in Hong Kong in addition to the sum of $100,000 provided for in the esti mates. This amount meets the cast el making good the damage done by the typhoon of August 9th and earlier heavy rains.
An Outstanding Account, The P.W.D. also asked for $1,500)
A semi-official explanation is that Zagorski is at present in Paris, and got a friend at Dantzig to take his letter and post it there.
Zagorski was arrested last year on technical charges after declining Marshal Pilsudski's
o
support
† coup d'éint, and was imprisoned for fifteen months. He is report ed to have arrived at Warsaw Inst August to await Pilsudski's return
stage now.
weighs 115 pounds!"
"
"y
She then went to tell me that somebody's brother is engaged to the sister of the man who had a wooden leg in the Sea Beast."
What it was all about I don't know and dktra' like to let on. I only mentior it..though, to show how the bairn has progressed since As I was saying, when I was a last yon heard o her.
I mind
to pay for work done by a contrae- from the country, but it was later boy it was a red letter day when a
tor in 1999. The Contractor was paid $630 en account in December, 1921. Then apparently he forgot all about, further money due for he did not present his Bill" for the balance until a few weeks ago. No provision was made for the sum in the 17
estimates.
Sanitorium Treatment, Under the heading of Charitable Services, the rum of $3,150 was re quested on account of a special grant for sanitoriam treatment for It Police "Sergeant J. Robertson. was explained that in 1906 Council ented a
sum to cover the cost of Sanitorium Treatment for Polier Sergeant Robertson, Inte of Hong Kong Police for that year. The Crown Agents did not pay the ac count for the second half of 1926, until March, 1927, and it, therefore, became necessary to revote the sum of $1,491. Council further agreed to pay for the cost of further treat ment during the current year and it is anticipated that Crown Agents will be called upon during the current financial year for payment of approximately $1,650 in respect of the Brst half of 1997, -
Wireless Station.
The sum of $0,000) was voted for new machinery urgently required to place defective machines at Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station.
Harbour Department.
new suit came my way. take a
declared that he had obtained his permission to escorts' Turkish bath, and never returned.
A semi-official explanation is that he has gone into hiding in connection with the charges for which he was arrested, although no official indictment has been prepar- ed. Zagorski is known to bave been at leggerheads with Pilsudski since the Great Wa
THE FINEST OPERA FOR TWOPENCE A WEEK.-
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM'S
NEW PLAN.
fine even to this day my Unele buy- ing me my first enilor suit. That was in Dumfries and he fell down the stairs o' a barber's shop that day and very nearly broke his neck. suit on. So, it wai kept for Sun- I didna get out to play wi yon days, except once, when I taken from Linkumidoddie to Langholm. Common Riding that was a day right enough.
уда
WAS
sen
Ay.
You know, when it came to enter. tainment it took very little to please us then. Man, for weeks we used to look forrit to the Sunday School Soirées.
Ay, that
great night; a bag when we went in and an orange when we came out. A wise precaution that last one fest we bang the peel about and upset the dignity c' the Kirk Elders). *KTCLI The programme was shakes either, old piano solos in- termixed w songs a' the "Cam' Between Ye By Athol " order. times, the minister bad a lot to say, when the beadle wasna' threaten- Rrosy, September 14th.ing to chuck us oot.. Sir Thomas Beecham, who has Even in this Colony, it's quite done much for British opera different to what it used to be. unfolded to-day some details of a new scheme whereby he hopes to Bandmann at the Theatre Royal, an establish British opera on a per- manent basis.
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odd K.C.C. concert or may be the
Philharmonie once in a while was about all we had to look forrit to. He estimated that there are Now, what between pictures, danc- 150,000 people in this country to
ing and bands, a body's sometimes hard put to it to get away from the whom his scheme would directly ap
Club in time. Only last Sunday peal, and he calculates that au opera season such as he would like night we went along to the Dock to give would inevitably mean the to hear the Northamptons. Man, cas of 200.000. This sum would be yon sort o' thing is very wearing. provided if the. 160,000 persons on the feet, especially when the would subscribe eight shillings a chairs are all fu c' soldiers. No that I grudge them a-rest for they His slogan, therefore, is twopence have to get up gey early in the A sum of $965 was authorised for year, or only twopence per week. the payment of the expenses of Mr. a week for the finest o, e, in the morning. The music was kindna' saddening at times, especially R. Hall while undergoing a course world.
Subscribers
"Rore Maric." The last time I the enterprise of training in England. Mr. Hall, an assistent Government Marine would be given prefe ential treat heard it in London. It cost sixteen Surveyor when on Home leave was ment in regard to seats, paying less shillings, a seat, no counting the instracted to undergo a course of for them than the prices charged price o the programme Board of Trade training at North to the general public. Opera would Shields and Liverpool. His travel-be provided in London, and in some ling and subsistence expenses in of the great provincial centres, connection with that course amount with the Soest material available in ed to £68.8.3.
the Empire. The personnel of his operatic company would be 05 per cent. British.
to
Hong Kong University. As a grant in aid of the Chinese
He added, leave five per cent Faculty of the Hong Kong Univer open, because it is quite possible sity. the" BIZM of $4,800 was that for some little time I may have authorised. The Government after to call upon foreigners in depart consulting the Finance Committee
agreed to assist the University in nents in which British artists and establishing a Chinese Faculty and producers, and so on, have little or this sum represents the financial aid no experience“ required for the current year.
Fire Extinguishers,
The Imports and Exports Depart ment required 8180 to pay for four fire extinguishers for the Opium Factory at Kennedy Town..
Travelling Expenses.
The sum of 81,000 was needed by the P.W.D. as transport and travel- ling expenses in addition to the $10,000 provided in the Estimates. It was explained that
the amount of $90,000 was originally estimated by Director of Public Works as necessary for Transport and Travel- ling Expenses for this year, but this mnosat was reduced to 810,000 in the hope that with economy this might prove sufficient. The sum has, however, proved insufficient and an excess of $4,000, it is estimated, will occur.
Cost Of Fire Station.
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CLOSING QUOTATIONS. ·.
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But yon sort o' things all the go now. Janet, she's full & talk about going to the M.C.L. on the first o next month and Mac himself was at me just the other night. Right hang in the middle of an argument about Harry Lauder very nearly no getting the Freedom o' the City o' Edinburgh, he came in mind of the affair.
"What's this 1812 business
aboot anyway?" says he,
Now you've got to be very care ful wi' a man like Mac.
' buy it," says L
"How much is it a bottle?" says he.
Man," says I, 1812's tune, non vintage rear. You must be thinking o Napoleon brandy "
"I don't mind if I do," says he, "hut go easy wi' the water."
As I aye say, what's the use of being ignorant it ye don't show it!"
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HERBERT BRENON
PRODUCTION ADOLPH ZUKOR ELS 1 LAKY
SEE
MIRACLES
take place before your very eyes. Mice become horses and
a pumpkin turns in to a golden carriage l
For Cinderella"
[The picture starts promptly at the times advertised.]
AT THE
WORLD
TO-DAY
AND
TO-MORROW ·
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The Kid Himself
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