MARRIAGE
GOURDIN-LONG. ONWAR
January, 1915, at E Andrew' Churaht Kowloon, by the Rev. NC. Pope: Frederist O'Driscoll Gourdin to Mabel Elliott Long.
CORRESPONDENCE.
[The opinions expressed by corrNG- pondents are not necessarily those of the Hongkong Telegraph."}
'A RUMOUR DENIED.
To the Editor of the "Hongkong
Talegraph."
GOLF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9. - 1915.
New Year Competition
The Ladies' Tomb Stone Com petition at Fan Ling was won by Mrs. Falconer and the Hidden Prise by Mrs. Looker.
ARMED ROBBERY CASE
A case of armed robbery at Lan Tau laland was heard at the Police Court this afternoon, before Mr. The care for the prosecution is Dyer Ball six men being onsrged. that on the night of December 19, at about 11 p.m. sumber of masked man, armed with chop
esce pi-
UTURE OF MUSIC.
Sir T. Beechast
Ope
Sir Thomas Beecham believes that the development of music in England in the immediate fature The Men's Bogey Competition part, broke into Now 5 and 6 recently he pointed out a will be in opera. In an interview over the 18 Hole Course was was Hang Tong village. The simultaneous decline in the pro- by Mr. AB. Parves."
cocupants of No. 6
duction of symphonic works sad Hr. REQ. Bird won theed through the roof while in the interest in concerts. With Men's Bogey Competition over the men
the symphonic masterpieces the the Happy Valley Course, with break in and went to a neigh English public was well asquaint-
were trying to
alarm. The rabbers ancceeded in known operatic masterpieces so bouring village and gave an ed, but there were suficient sa- stealing quantity of clothing, provide an opera-house with a quilts, chickens and rice of the repertoire for shirty years. Appleton, together with a con- total value of $39. Sergeant
stable and detective, later went in a neighbouring emall island, Nei Ko Chau, and there arrested
stolen property was recovered in their possession. Evidence was given this afternoon, and the case
оде пр
In the play-off for the Mixed Foursomes Competition, three Sir,With reference to a rom-couples tied again and they are our current in the Colony that on requested to kindly arrange for amalgamation of the interests of she deciding matches to be played the P:40. and the Indo China on or before the 20th inst. S.N. Co., Ltd., is contemplated,
we are sathorised by our Board
of Directors to state that there is AMERICAN TELEGRAMS. all the defendants: Some of the no foundation whatever for each; raport.
Youra ete:
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Ltd.
General Managere, 20 Hongkong, 3rd January, 1918
CANTON NEWS.
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Our Canton correspondent writes ander date of January as follows
Li Shun, the Tachon of Kiang. the au, has proposed that Generalissimo's office should be removed to Nanking, and has wired to Long Chai.kwong ze queating him to resign so that peace may be settled easily.
The following are from the adjourned. Manila Bulletin :---
The Vladivostok Troubles.
said) to have a vital sxesalive It is very difficult (Sir Thomes
branch of art, when she oceative branch is declining all the time. Whereas thirty years ago there
produced
almoet interesting
Washington, December 16-YESTERDAY'S FOOTBALL. difficulty in obtaining one interest-
The Secretary of State Mr. Robert Lansing, has received a cablegram from the American
Consul at Vladivostok stating
that serious fighting has broken
LEAGUE-DIV, L'
every month SB
7mphonic work by composers auch, 89 Brahm 3, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Grieg, and Saint-Saens, for the last five or ten yeare those who give concerts have had the greatest
ing now work`s year, and the average is growing lesa. This points to a gradual exhaustion in that branch of creative music.
the country, there has been s decline of interest in concerts, Nons of the big festivals pay now, and quite a number of concert organisations baye for years found it difficult to exist at all.
out among the Russian military Royal Engineers v. Middlesex Simultaneously, nearly all over
factions there and urging the dispatch of American troops to protest foreign interests and to maintain order. ・・・
Turks Want Peace.
Washington, December 16.-It is reported here that Makhma Bey, the Turkish delegate who is conferring at Berne with regard The Military Government has to the exchange of prisoners, has received a telegram from Tong saked Constantiople for power to Kai-yeo, Tachon of Yunnan, negotiste a separate peace with stating be is opposing mediation, the Allies. and will send an army to attack Nachung and Bankow.
the
Diary Revelations.
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Fawthrop; Turner, Vossey, Allen; Middler-Brown; Fisher, Soroxton, Jarvis, Sayers, Tawsett, Walden.
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Now with regard to the opera, so far as this country is concerned, things are quite different. If you Continent, they have a repertoire take, say, 200 opern-houses on the between them of something from 150 to 200 operas. If you take Both sides were strongly re- England as a whole there are very presented, but it was one of the faw people who know more than Bogolala, December 14.-The poorest games esen in the Colony twenty, opersevery few have Owing to the publication of Naval Intelligence Office has this season. The RE, had slight heard even the names of more the new censorship regulations published a portion of the diaryly the better of the game through than twenty, sad certainly not applying to the Prees, & meeting of the captain of the former the first half, and scored through one man in a thousand can was held by the Press Society, German craiser Geier, which Pascall. Unfortunately, one of whistle the tunes of any operas when it was decided to appoint was interned at this port. delegates to protect, on
the Middlesex men was injured, cataide those twenty. So, where Entries in the diary implicate Half time-E.E., 1; Middlesex, as the musical public ia very well ground that these regalstions the German Consulate here in 0. have not been first submitted to various plots, and one entry states
saqasiated with most of the sym the proper quarters for decision. that the Consal was in constant E. on the offensive, but the lack ignorant of the opera.
The second half found the R phonic masterpieces, it is entirely
always ramein, of course, tha patibility between possibility of a huge deception. phone and the toga. ©Baf" A report from the magistrate wireless communication with the of combination spoilt the good hereas it iss matter of great diffi
Farther,
Even if they do nothing else, some ages-nearer our own in time of Banking states that a detach interned Cormoran at Gnam, the work of their halves. The Ia cult for concert-givers to intro-
rivals of State, will be able to the same can hardly be usid. Ons ment of Long Chaiskwong's steamer China, formerly belong fantrymen osme sway, and a duce a new work of interest inta
throw down the gauntlet to each cannot combine the telephone in troope, a few hundred strong, has ing to the Pacific Mail, baing miskick by the Bappers right their concert programmes, one
A correspondent of the Times other in quite a medieval manner, thought with the mailed Fight proceeded from Yang Koag to used as an intermediary in the back almost proved sheir dona- could give any opera-house in this writes:-The conversation on the Farther, the telephone must be and the feudal castle, though the cast and will attack the sending and receipt of messages. fall, Bayere putting over. From country a repertoire for the next telephone between Kerensky and reckoned with as neutralising much time and bloodshed would district, thereforere inforcemente Thould be sent as soon as possible,
a forward pass Strange-gor
thirty years consisting entirely Korniloff geems to give that in certain physical advantages and have been saved if milit Washington, December 14 possession in midfield, and, after of anknown operatic masterpieces. elrument a new place in history, bringing into play other aptitades, feudalists, kingmakers, and Pas Owing to irregularities of the The administration has decided beating the defence, scored a good that is what I mean when I say No doubt it was established there it will be said of someone that, tenders had eettled their diet- Stamp Duty Commissioner all the to create a force of United States goal. Nothing farther tradesmen in Shek Lang atrock guards to supplement the regalar scored, the B. B. ending by this country, because you cannot noticed it. But this looks like a superiority in ordinary tete-a-tete, come a little later, it would bars
that the theatre has a fature in already only we had hardly while his eagle eye gave him the ences on the Russian model, on the 31st als. The shops are police forces at various points goals to nil. closed and the poor classes find it throughout the county in case of
bide the light of these master-consecration and an opportunity on the wire he was comparatively bean as natural for Cromwell very hard to get provisions. The necessity or emergency.
pieces under a bashel mach We were dimly aware we others effective. The partnership of have said "I thank God fo Chamber of Commerce there has
longer. People will insist on that great financial decisionsorsin and eye is no longer needed, give you a good account of Bas wired to the Canton Authority for
having novelty and beauty oom were taken on the telephone; but that of brain and car is at aling" on the telephone hi by any Resistance.
bined, and they will find them in that railroads and milliona might Prominm, an
other method, batsuzaly...tha these unknown opera.
change hands there; and we know While roaming thus over future Paritan habit of improving the After an incidental reference that, not perhape entirely to the possibilities aan is reminded of occasion weald here, aliasials yesterday and resulted in a quad and the cantata on English sing. incursion into diplomacy. We Not long ago the Master of Balliol, beggared every private
Played on the Navy Ground to the "balaful effect" of oratorio jay of diplomate, it had made its the lost opportunities of the past, broken down the exchanges and
goals to nil. win for the Staff and Depeers, the effect being that the Eng. were also well acquainted with is in reply to one of those crudely The great chance fou lish singer was made to appear as the slightly burlesque region with which speaker is some the French Beyslation. sudden,calla on the imagination phone would have been, RISE IN SHIPPING SHARES. 80ed and the railroads of the east of the season, and there is no lish singer was put into opera quite pictured one leader of the bis interraplar by saking him possibly, it might hav
This makes their second victory Sir Thomas said that if the Eng: conversations. But we had never time taxed, farned the tables on would have clicked, and
of our private engagements and will no longer be allowed to doubt they were the better side, and assimilated its broad feeling håndred and fifty miles off and Omar at the telephone. Pachape October day the day whe
whether he could imagine Julius history, on those two State ringing up his rival s seking him what he was about
It is rumoured here that Mok King-yu, the former Defence Commissioner of Chin-chow, has taken his refuge in Hongkong.
Federal Police Force,
The sathorised enlistment agʊ is between 31 and 35. The minimum age limit is fixed so as not to interfere with present Army draft legislation.
Embargo on Easters Freights. freight on eastern railroads des New York, December 14-All tined for export has been embar
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to have no artistic sense at all,
handle any export cargo unless it and quite deserved their victory. he became like everyone else BD is intended for the Government. The Financial Mail of October There is a tremendous congest-the Staff in the first half, and
Brown and Kirkby scored for ordinary human being. ion of freight in the east and to Ellaby added the third in the
I believe (Sir Thomas proceed. It is quite certain that this fact are relieve it, a hundred locomotives second half. The R. G. A played od) that the cultivation and deve-will get into the history books; it lopment of opera in this country will be written that on such a day.
27 quotes the following from the Daily Chronicle:-
the minute's reflection might Paris marched upon Versailles
devised more telling so much hang, upost.
he had, asid. They intentions, and decisions
or Aristotle For Omar, that Inter day which
Indo China and P. & 0.have been ordered to be transfer quite a good game, but were notand the training of composers to and at such an hour Kerensky in thanks to his, versatility, and victory of Wattignies-aqd
Farther appreciable ricos have red to eastern lines from the west. nearly so quick on the ball, occurred in there shares, and ar
No Woman Executed.
both are moving together, s Washington, December 15.-
Acid Plant Explodes.
of
him "
write for the theatre where they Petrograd called up Kornilofi si coolnes, and the apparent absence execution of the Queen though an inseparable affinity, the The rumour that a woman has
are brought in touch with an art Pakoy and there followed what of prejudios which makes us call what of Thermidor and Brama red market persists in talking of a been executed for spying is
form that develops not only every we may judge to have been some him modern, in se easy to picture Bat when waresch Bonaparte contemplated fusion or rapproche officially denied as a tale fostered Services Entertainment Fund, also stimulates their faculties of haps the rush to the telephone was else. He would have shann, we have been superb and ass artistic resource they possess but brief and trenchant words. Per at the telephone as anywhere imagination-blanches, Fe ment between these companies." by German influences. Senator Daring the month of Decem- common The Standard, in a later Teeue, Chamberlain, chairman of the bar, 836 men of both branches of sess
sense and their not quite no dramatic as we, in the feel, in trankeall conversations; at the telephone, but says: The revival in shipping Senate Committee on Army the Services (attended the "At believe this will react with at to have been. But the sequel, schoolboy sees, were obviously not be true, perhaps, that he es
the practical Tlight of belated telegrams,suppose
Commentaries, every also have been terrible, diminution of anxiety respecting vestigation of the armament diere Home on the five Saudsy the, symphonic school of com questionably have been vivid; "the day ha avaosme, the Nerva Cobensl. But we know what his shares is due partly to the Affairs, states that an in- Homes" in the Sailors and Sol- moes healthy influence on the conversation itself, mast an-written for dictation to type ticked Volney of maabeds the
writer; the landing in Britain or porcelain vase whils the submarine menace and partly statue shows reasonably satis afternoons of the month. The position. It is only through and we can imagine," as a c
king to to freeh deals and rumours of factory progress. The House has "At Homes" provide a pleasant writing for the theatre that our temporary says, she mood in could be readily transferred to the temper was, and we can, imagins deals on the lines of those recently ordered an investigation of the change from the routine of ship composers, generally will begin which M Karensky pat ap them. And so, with incontems what his interlocutors would have concluded by the Argentine expenditures of the Army and and barrack life and the kindness to be human beings and escape receiver. Navigation, Bain Steamship, and Navy.
iver." We can indeed in poraries. Oragens, from his long felt like on pailing,ap the of the enbecribers to the S.E.F. is out of the dreadful region of gine many things; what he been a mass of the Telegions would have been a Cos
Ansacial experience, would haya|receiver." Pyman Steamship Companies,
On the telephona ba. The amalgamation of the Court
thoroughly understood and apprs Cloudonokoo town in which they not only for the novelist, but for Line Steamship Company is 16.-There has been an explosion on Sunday afternoon between the is, is almost impossible to give simultaneously what a praxis for well-trained lady.blockspa
Wilmington, Del., December elated. The scene at the Home have allowed themselves to drift, the picturesque historian, and and his way subordinates and deed. quite probable rumour, since both in the soid works of the Dupont hours of four and fire is full of bay English composition with the faithful devotee of evidence have equalised the odds against concerns are already under the powder plant. Five are dead and animation and good fellowship, affect and success to-day just as Fer the telephone mocks Coser's young men and military same management. The theory important machinery was dam and the At Homes" provide the composer hands it over to historical documents and well-reterans. Oiber would have been of an absorption of the Indo aged: China Steamship Company with
comman meeting ground for men one, and that is because the saged-conversations before wie facile and brilliant converse Less Drinkenness In Engiande the P. and O, has been arrived,
from all over the Colony. Ample composers have never had to do besses, Can we trast the memory tionalist, and his too frequent use New York, December 14 provision is made for all, but at wuh an art form where proportion of the speakers ? One HITE)
of the telephone would have rob and Indo-China Deferred has Saturday is the last day on which the same time expenses are kept and brevity are essential as they of history being enacted in dumb pod, as of many of his obarming Striking figures on the risen to 25, as against 231 on men of draft age will be accepted down to the lowest possible limit. are in the sheatre. If every Eng- hoxes, the great men, all glued to have looked in vain in the Borden Wales are provided by sling 3
letters. For ona name we should of drankenness in Lo Friday and a pre-war price of as volantesre in the United States In spite of enhanced prices, the lish.composer would write two or
abow for as within A tow of little only 21. This quotation, we Army and this announcement has cost of the "At Homen" for the three operas and go through all understand, compares with only caused a rash of volunteers month comes to $207 only. On the necessary agonise of failure.
directory Unto would gertainly Control Board in a table of an their receivers, 16, for the same shares in the Eleven thousand bed been 60 tehalf of the men of B.M. Set- for, a Weber told Schubert when Portunity presents itself. It
At the same time a fresh op-not have been sonne
emirent morslist wo Zest; but stock is very acaroo at cepted daring the week up to sices, the kinduses of the it he brought in his first batch of public leader has, like Kerensky, sorred this centre, and owing to the Wednesday and a daily increase there to the SE.F. in providing operas, It is customary to drown the promptness and courage to physical possession rule srbitrage is looked for during the balance the "At Home of the Brat papprice they would go straight to the fountain-head Fusings is impomibla,“
acknowledged,
and call up his rival, what ma we not expect to the spending
Many Volunteering,
of the week.
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