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A great sensation has been If during the coming winter Two shipments of earge that created by the announcement Mr. Harry Ore can. with the were despatched to America from made by the liquidators appoint- assistance of local talent, give Hongkong last week now form ad by the Chancery Court that one or two more recitals like that the subject of investigations by the 90,000 creditors of Bottomley's given in the Theatre Royal last the police in an endeavour to Victory Bonds will only receive a night he will undoubtedly deserve clear up the mystery surrounding dividend of a fraction over 3lid. the thanks of Hongkong music the disappearance of Charles in. These people, mostly lovers. There was quite a good Gardner, of the International pour, paid over their savings into Of the attendance and any amount of Trading Company, Bank of China this gigantic swindle. enthusiasman-an enthusiasm Building.
total sum it appears that only justly evoked. In Mr.. Ore the
A little more than £12,000) Colony has a pianist worthy of when two cheques that were Bottomley's trial only
was Bought is available for dividends. At cordial support, and, furthermore, signed by Gardner in payment £200,000 was accounted for, se about. a composer of no mean merit.
for a consignment of pes-nut oil that well over half a To speak of Mr. Dre's con- and rice are said to have been sterling has mysteriously disap tributions to the programme, ons returned by the bank to the firms peared, and all efforts to trace it must first mention his opening concerned, and attempts to get have failed completely. It has piece, Beethoven's Variations into touch with Gardner for been persistently alleged that in C minor. because its an explanation have failed Bottomley secretly deposited this rendition set the standard of all Enquiries at his residence at money in France, but he has that was to follow, It was Kennedy Road, where he had emphatically denied this, and superbly played, full though it is lived with his wife and family, there is no definite evidence to of technical intricacies. And were equally fruitless, and to-day support the statement. The fact when one has said as much, there a bailiff went to the International remains, however, that the macey] is little to add. There was & Trading Company and took pos-has disappeared. burst of applause to greet the session. conclusion of Scarlatti's Sonata
in A, a work calling for a high degree of pianoforte skill and also for some delicate tonal shadings. Chopin's Grande Polonaise {op. 23). and Gavotte in E. by Valentini-Ure concluded Mr. Dre's work in Part 1, both compositions being rendered almost to perfection.
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The compradore of the Inter- national Trading Company this Heary 1, the doctors, who were Away back in the days of morning stated that a title deed recently fighting the Ministry of which he had deposited with the Health. жего engaged in В firm as security for the amount struggle just as strenuous. There of $10,000 was missing.
is record of Gibert Rymer, Lon-) In connection with the afair, don's Doctor and Rector of Medi- the Tung Sang Wing firm of cine, supported by two Surveyor whole-sale peanut oil exporters, of the Faculty of Physic and two which transacts business at No. 22 Masters of the Craft of Surgery, Mrs. Richard Sanger, a lady Connaught Road West, state that bearding the Lord Mayor. They vocalist of whom it is hoped we last week an order came from the demanded the recognition of their shall hear much more. gave two International Trading Company organisation and the provision of a extremely pleasing songs, the for the delivery of 1,500 cases of hall to discuss me: icine and philo -second, "Je t'aime" by Grieg, oil. These cases were markedsophy. Theirurganisation ensured earning for her a persistently with the stencil bearing the that every member should be demanded encore. Mr. Sanger initials of the firm in Seattle on qualified and also arranged for the possesses a well-trained mezzo whose behalf the shipment was payment of fees. The poor were soprano voice, well suited to the ordered. The goods were duly to be treated free, an excessive fees songs she had chosen.
shipped last Friday by ac were to be charged, and each mem-1 Admiral boat, and nothing out of ber should fit his charge to the the ordinary cropped up until a purse of the patient and "measur cheque was presented yesterday ably after the deserving of his for the amount of $23,245, but was labour." And more. returned by the Bank.
These old- time practitioners sought power, for their members to patrol the; town and enter shops to seize and pour such concoctions down "false or sophisticated medicines"
the gutters.
The second part of the pro- gramme was composed entirely of Mr. Ore's own compositions. His Second Lettish Rhapsody (op. is a pretentious work but struck one as being a little dis-
Similarly, the Wo Fung firm jointed. It calls for rauch technical talent, however. Very pleasing Road West, who had also shipped of rice exporters, of Connaught indeed were the two Portuguese 1000 bags of rice in two equal Songs top. 8), whilst the lots for dierent firms at San Lyrical pieces lop. 9) proved Francisco, on the order of the dainty and tuneful especially International Trading Co., of a{ 2 "The Little Orphan's Lullaby." A value of $13,000 had the cheque concert paraphrase on a Russian for this amount returned by the Polka was brillant in its phrasing Bank. and was full of the verve of the dance. But the most appreciated item in this part of the programme was the Variations and Fugus on a Beethoven theme for two pianos,
What has happended to the money received before these ship- ments went out with documents showing the International Trad.
in which Mr. Ore had the assist-ing Company as consignors is)
ance of Mrs. M. Bonenfant, a lady now being investigated.
pianist of undoubted talent. Both
in composition and execution the item ranked high among the treats of the evening.
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whose renditions left nothing to In the final part, the audience be desired, also sang "Love Went Were treated in three
a-Riding by Frank Bridge. a positions by Mi. Temple Bevan, song that asserts in a crescendo the first being a Fantasia (op. 7) that love is all conquering. played by M. Ore. It has The concluding pieces artistic merit and is light in con-two compositions for two pianos ception. But most-enjoyed, per- played by Mrs. Bonenfant and haps, were the two songs of Mr. Mr. Ore. The first, an Etude by Bevac's. SUB by Mrs. N.Schumann-Debussy, was a charm- The Greek flag was divided) Mathieson. The first "The Hay-ing little study in which tuneful into two pieces by a series off loft is a dainty and fanciful and synchronous chords on both "teps." shown in the drawing. little poem, whilst "Fairy Bread" instruments blend to produce an The dotted lines show the eleven- is full of the spirit of elidom. appealing effect. The second. a striped flag. By sliding the right 30 light and Duneful is Polonaise by Arensky, was section upward and to the right,, 1. Mr. Bevan has. in these brilliantly played and formed the nine-striped flag was formed. two songs, written music that fitting conclusion to what had stamps bim 35 a musician been an evening of really first-
of great taste. Mrs. Mathieson, [class music.
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AN UNREHERSED ACT. During the rehearsal of the The following will represent opera "Boris Godounóff" at s the Club against H.M.S. Dospatch, Chicago Theatre, Signor Chalia- at the U.S.R.C. on Wednesday at pin was dissatisfied with the 4.45 p.m.A. H. Roffey, EG. orchestra, and exploded into a England, G. H., Piercy, F. torrent of invective, calling them Schnepel, A. 8. Hett, the Rev. N. "idiots," "pigs" and " fio artists." Evans, W. H. Owen Hughes, G. The conductor, Signor Spadosi, R. More, J. C. Faers and B. D. climbed on the stage and punched Evans.
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