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Mozart's Concerto in E Flat Major
(Part 6744 Part 2--1st movement-(Continued) Allegro moderato Part 3-1st movement. (Concluded) Allegro moderato Part 4-2nd movement-Un poco adagio
1st movement-Allegro moderato
6745
6745
Part 5-2nd movement (Concluded) Un poco adagio (Rondo)
3rd movement
Part 6-3rd movement – (Oöncluded)
Haydn's Trio in G Major
with Alfred Cortol (Pianist)
and Fable Casals (Violoncellist)
(Part 1-lat mavomont-Andante
3045 (Part 2-2nd movement- Poco adagio cantabile
3045
(Part 3-2nd movement-Poco adagio cantabile
Part 4-3rd movement-Ronde all'ongarend
Mendelssohn's Trio in D Minor (Op 49)
with Alfred Cortot (Pianist)
and Pablo Casals (Violoncellist) (Completo on four double-faced records) with album,
Schubert's Trio in B Flat, No. 1 (Op 99)
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TOTAL
APPROVED BY
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928.
ed in the quality of their workman- ship. It believes rise that there is no lack of energy and readiness to adopt now ideas among the cm- ployers.
DAY BY DAY.
DEFER NO TIME, DELAYS HAVE DANGEROUS ENDS.Shakespeare.
a clean bill of
LETTERS FROM HONGKONG. 10-Ceylon and the Maky Coast.
In the opinion of Sir Sidney Low, There was the well-known economist, the health in the Colony yesterday. prime difficulty lies in the want of
At two o'clock on a Thursday, belter hold of it; not that sho quite sufficient capital to cope with the brates his 34th birthday to-day,
H. R. H. the Prince of Wales cole-afternoon we caught a dim sight understands what Defoe is driving
of the tops of the island mountain at." ** requisite improvements. That is due to the shrinkage of savings, for it cannot be too often stated that where there is no saving, there is no capital. It has been calculated
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over the horizon thirty to forty Do you think it is a true story Mr. H. R. Butters has been ap-miles away. As we drew closer, or that be invented It? Anyway, pointed to act as Deputy Clerk of the mountain disappeared, and she got to know so many men.
Caylon looked flat, but green, in don't see how she could have loved Councils.
marked contrast to the other them all-do you?" Dr. R. E. Tottenham has been Eastern places that we have passed.
Yesterday we sighted land again; by a high financial expert that Bri-reappointed a Member of the Mid- From the boat it had rather a tain's not savings per annum do wives Board for a further term of European look, due probably to the two steep, thickly-wooded islands factories, engineering works, and north of Sumatra, and a few three years.. uot amount to more than 2 pcr
coal dumps that surround the har- isolated rocks lying about the sea, bour. For the first time, we were Behind, we could see Sumatra's head of the population, which la in-
The silk forwarded from Hong-not attacked by swarms of little mountains floating dimly. above the Bullicient to provide the capital ex-kong by the Empress of Asia on boats, trying to sell things. In- clouds and in no way connected DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER
penditure needed to enable manu- May 80th arrived in New York stead, the rowers, in untidy craft, with the earth. The sky was over- HAS NO EQUALfacturers to compete more effec- (St. John's Park) on June 20th competed with two or three evil-cast and everything was dark and smelling and hardlabouring motor very nearly colourless. One of the tively in the world's markets. Mr having been 21 days in transit.
launches for the privilege of taking islands had lonely looking light- Churchill's rate relief scheme A bankruptcy notification states us ashore, our good ship being house settlement; the other appear should be of much assistance in this that a first and final dividend has moored in the middle of the hared uninhabited. On the one with the lighthouse, clearings in tho connexion. The most pleasing been declared in the matter of the bour.
Kwong Sang Cheong
We chose one of the motor jungle could be seen, with green launches (day rupee, night grass instead of trees, but on the aspect of the Balfour Report is firm, of 0, Wing Lok Street East.
rupee) and proceeded by a series other there was no break in the hot that whilst we have lost ground in NO PERIODIC REFILLING many foreign, markets, `we have The Gazette contains" detailed of shattering explosions, each of heavy forest.
Clouds hung over the summita which seemed likely to dismember: been steadily gaining in "our over lists of the medicines and medical the ancient structure of the boat, and little puffs of steam rose slowly
stores necessary under the Asia-
to the quay, a very permanent here and there from, the damp seas possessions. In the Empire,tic Emigration Ordinanco for
edifice of stone, cerment, and iron, foliage, and there seemed to be no we have the largest potential store shipa under licence for short voy-with a vague resemblance to Char-wind to blow them away. The aca
Ing. Cross Bridge.
Isplashed lazily on a line of white of raw material in the world, and
Here at once began one of the rocks that bared themselves like the opinion expressed by Sir Sidney
A Chinese married woman, living features of Colombo, from the point teeth round the base of the darkc Low, that our greatest hope for the at No. 7, Amoy Lane, Wanchai, view of the tourist, viz:-a con- mass. The whole and lay still, future lies in the real organisation yesterday committed suicide by tak-tinual stream of solicitation from heavy, and dull, and set one imagin-
ing a large dose of opium. The of the Empire as an economic unit, remains were removed to the More guides, government and otherwise, ing swarms of sankes and unknown (the government guides being rein- creatures aliding about in the is one which will be re-echoed by tuary.
forced by a printed pamphlet warn-gloom under the sunless beat.. | Britishers in all parts of the
ing you not to be led astray by any
World.
~BRITISH HOARD OF TRADE- -FIRE OFFICES' COMMITTEE- -PHYSIKALISCH-TECUNI HE. REICHSANSTALT- GERMANY-
LABORATOIRE CENTRAL D'ELECTRICITY-PARIS.
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Typas for Motor Cars, & Hitc
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The
Thongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23. 1928.
BRITISH INDUSTRY.
In view of Mr. Churchill's big rate relief scheme, which
designed
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To the list of medical practition-other) taxi drivers, beggars, The coast of Malay gradually re- ers there have been added the hawkers, shopkeepers, and rickaha cedes behind a series of hilly is- names of Dr. C, F. X, da Rozu und men. Two of these latter worthies innds. For hours on end we hung Dr. Edward W. J. Sun, both of followed us solemnly during the over the ral!' and watched it pass, mysterious. dark, and whom are Bachelors of Medicine whole of our walk, talked to us, green, A new book called "Schools" at-and Surgery of the University of implored us to ride, mentioned all Driftwood of all kinds floats past the edifying sights we could see if us, trunks of trees, bits of cocoa only we would entrust our locomo-nuts, many-hued jelly fish. How tracted our attention recently. It Hongkong. is written by Mr. A. B. See, hiding the identity of an American wlio The Gazette notified that Hong-tion to them, got in our way, and long, I wonder, do they remain, the Be7 Trade, has passed it by, and has nequired great wealth in the kong Volunteer Regulations have hung about outside any shop wo blown up and down this narrow
particular business of manufacturing lifts. been amended by the substitution entered, waiting to resume A lift manufacturer's ideas about of Machine Gun Company" for contest as soon as we emerged. We this schools promised to be interest-Infantry Company" under the won, but we began to learn the rea-stratetic value." The thrill of son for the apparently rude de gazing into the unknown came upon ing. Mr. See finds nothing com- beading "Corps Units" in regula-tachment of the European from the us once more, and with it a sense mendable in the present status of tion 3 (1),
native Asiatic.
of vague dissatisfaction. Why this women or education. He laments
Though the flat country round persistent urge towards civilaza- the day when father yielded his His Excellency the Officer Ad- Colombo was disappointing, the tion?-improvements, facilities for fingship in the home, and finds ministering the Government has streets were not. In the three trade, enhanced land values, up-to- that school teachera are not doing appointed Mr. C. D. Melbourne to hours around sunset time the date building propositions. Pass- the right kind of job at all. In act us Registrar, Supreme Court, colouring was more lovely and ing these anmolested coasts we ex- education Mr. See thinks the Official Administrator and Regis vivid than anything I have seen.perience a sinking premonition of the great basic industries alphabet, the
one all-important trar of Companies and Omeiul Trees with leaves strangely shaped the "development spirit" that surely of the
to our uneducated eyes, line all the awaits us in Hongkong, which, wo pation, special. in- thing..
Learning the alphabet, Trustee, vice Mr. H. A. Nisbet.
streets with a fresh springlike know, already has trams, motor terest attaches to the facts reveal-both forward and backward, he
Two lots of Crown land are to he green; folinge is everywhere, with roads, banks, clubs, and a flourish- ed in the latest issued survey by asserts, constitutes the basis of
good education. Thon should sold at the P.W.). offees on July many flowering shrubs,-heavy, ing daily Press. What wo con- luxurious flowers. Some of the tinually ask ourselves, with that the Balfour Committee on Industry come spelling, arithmetic, pen-th. These are New Kowloon Inhouses are a rich creamy yellow; naive hopefulness wherewith man and Trade, which, as it happens, manship, geography and English, and Lot 1138, at Shamshuinoa little further there is a blaze of always faces the most dismal pros deals with coal, iron, steel, engineer- Dead, languages should be buried (area 6,910 square feet, and upset something like mahogany, but with pects, is, is there anything left at and vocational subjects learned by price $10,950); and Kowloon In- a red brilliance never met with in all of the old savage life that pre- ing and shipbuilding. These are actual performance. Perhaps Mr. and Lot 2122, Laichikok Road mahogany; anon, round a corner, ceded us in that uncivilized corner the prime producing factors of the See got his idea of teaching the (area 9,036 square feet, and upset stand a facade of soft, pale blue Lalf of China? We can only wait. country; and they are essential not alphabet bath forward and in re-price $18,072):
hidden in hanging leaves. Many of For the present we have enough the low roofs are covered with and to spare of civilization within only to its life but also to the main verse from the machine he manu
factures, a lift being able to go Probate in respect of the estate wonderful old tiles whose reds and our little floating world. elements of our export trade. Un-both up and down. But education of Wai Ming-kai, cashier, who oranges seem steeped in colours.
Our daily wireless bulletin is happily, these big industries do not and elevators are slightly different died at 27, Wongneichong Road, that almost live in the rich, warm now occupy the commanding place time studying a lift and still be Hongkong estate to the value of street, there was piled a massive suspect its origin is sometimes lines. You might spend a life-on February 27, 1928, leaving atmosphere. At the end of a side duted from London or Rugby, but which they did many years ago, woefully lacking an education: $13,100, has been granted to the cloud, lit up with the orange fires further from lieme
Yesterday, we learnt that an and some interesting light is The world is too full of mental widow, Pun Chik-kwan, of 11, of the dying sun. There was, no
the air hung still and hot, American girl had administered thrown on this circumstance by acrobats with a one-track, people Wongneicheng Roud, to whom wind and all manner of scents and arsenic to her mother in a nursing
mind. In their own groove these everything is bequeathed.. are very efficient-they know their
a background of something like home. For her defence she relied...
an the plea that her mother was in-alphabet backward, they know
A Chinese who had two previous
We chose, a little shop, not quite suffering great pain from an in-
the Balfour Committee's report, A brief historical summary
run;
1.
incense.
cluded in the report shows that when to press the lever to stop at convictions and had been deported so solicitious as the majority, to furable disease, and not on the al- sixty years ago Eritain was selline given floor and they can tell you from the Colony, was sentenced to buy our postcards, and Mary alsoternativa pointed out by H, viz. any given necessary fact about nine months hard labour and 20 fell for a bullock cart and a that she gave it unwittingly as the more coal, more slips, more manu- their own work. But, off their strokes of the birch by Major C. catamaran. At the General Post normal form of local gin. factured iron and steel, and more single track, they cannot Willson this morning. It was Oflice, an imposing building opposite the scarf of leodora Duncan, the To-day we had information about. their alphabet is useless.
stated that he entered the first floor Government House, an aged official machinery than all the other export-
of No. 5, Chancery Lone yesterday led us
to the stamp merchant, dancer, which has changed hands ing
combination. countries in
on recently and was caught on the premises, on bought our six cent stamps for us, veral times That position of supremacy his
the return of the tenant, a Chinese licked them and stuck them on. Riviera. It appears to bring luck woman, who had gone out to fetch a Where else been lost, and even in the spheres
does official courtesy (at the tables) to whoever possesses. detective. where we are moving upwards, our
rise to such kindly details as these? it, though it brought misfortune to
Izodora who, as the bulletin ro We turned homewarda, leaving minds us, was strangled when the progress is slight when compared
The health bulletin of Eastern the crowds of lovely shops-silk scarf caught in the wheel "of the with many other great producing
issued by the Director of Medical score, wonderful brass trays with
CHILD PRODIGY,
CLEVER YOUNG CHINESE GIRL
indicating
the
This dated London-2 m., and
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On our Picture Page to-day will ports for the week ended June 16, of every colour, jewellers by the auto in which she was speeding." countries. In the general engineer- be found two photographs of Miss and Sanitary Service, gives the designs inlaid with coloured enamel, it has never been brought home to ing trades and in the output of Violet Ma (Tsz Loh-laan as she is following cases, the figures in millions of elephants crossing locomotives, there is a decrease known to the Chinese), of Canton, parenthesis
me so forcibly that London speaks deaths: bridges in ebony and ivory-To a foreign tongue at 2 a.m. shown between 1910 and 1927, and young maiden of 18, who Plague, Tamatave (4), Bassein the quay, the explosive motor child prodigy. She has established (1), Bombay (1), Rangoon (8), launch, and the ship, home. not only the United States, but a reputation in Kwangtung and the Saigon (1) Cholera, Bassein Mary says she doesn't want to get two Shanghaf merchants' wives, We took on board at Colombo France, Germany, Belgium; Holland South Seas as a elever dancer and (8), Bangkok B (2), Calcutta (85); off at Hongkong. The ship is a one of whom a retired dancer, is
singer. When but six years old. Madras (1), Rangoon (6), Saigon friendly place which we know all retired in no other way. I and Italy have moved faster than she would go to the "movies," and, 1, Tourane 1 (1); Small-pox, Bom- about. Beyond us life seems very minded, in a fit of perversity, of Britain. Why should this be? returning home, would give a per bay 15 (8), Calcutta 22 (16), vast and uncertain.
some observations by M. Marcel.. The Balfour Survey explains some fect imitation of the dancing and Madras 9 (1), Moulmein b (4),
Proust, that aesthetic Frenchman, of the reasons. There is the war in her repertoire are included both vizagapatam 4, Pondicherry 3 (3), C's. Dr. C. frankly enjoyed it. d'une grande distinction naturello
acting she had seen on the screen. Negapatam 9 (2), Rangoon 3 (1),
We Icant "Moll Flanders" to the regarding "certaines personnes, for one thing. It hit everything, Northern and Cantonese songs, Belawan Deli 2, Banekok 1, Shang- Mrs. C. was at first not quite sure... Elles ont quelque chose de
most of which were composed es- but it hit us hardest, because we pecially for her. She is very clever hai 6, Osaka 2, Daireh 11 (4), It was "very interesting."
up money in Chinese boxing, and has picked Mukden 3. in paying our delts while up such foreign dances
have been using
other nations have utilised
I
their resources
Tango.and the Charleston.
is the
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She souple et de secret. 'Duis, thought it was nicely written, leur perversite donne du (That anyone but Eustasia could piquant.
occupations les have said that!) But she wasn't plus innicentes, comme so pro- BANDITS.gure that she would read it all. mener la nuit, dans des jardins."
She might run through it. It was The perveralty lies in the fact perhaps rather hard reading. that there is very little "de souple Perhaps it would take rather a long et de secret" about us, and possibly time. Would I be wanting it back even less "grande distinction ne- soon? Perhaps she had better re-turelle." But perhaps we arỡ too turn it to us? I nosured her I had exacting, for there are no gardens plenty of books to get on with. on the sea; only the baro decks and
Later she seems to have got alrows of cabin doors.
TOWBOAT PASSENGERS
KIDNAPPED.
Last year, Mis Violet Ma toured KWANGTUNG to renovate the South Seas, starting on her trip and remodel their manufacturing to work for the Nam Mo School in Henan, Canion, and so popular were equipment. Also we have,
Ather performances pat over $10.000 enormous expense to our industrien, was taken in at the box office. All kept up our credit, while our rivals of this money went to the Nam Mo
A passenger and cargo towboat, School, for Miss Ma has always! luxuriated in a depreciated cur-given her services for charity. Be named the Shes. Leo accompanied rency. Consequently, as the Com-fore returning home, in response to by a steam launch, while on a trip mitter is constrained to admit, the entreaties of the managers of from Canton to the Sun Wui Dia-
Berlin has arranged for a 6 per
Edward Stewart Stratton, aged some of our manufacturing plante young lady campaigned for them, Lan Tai Bhun waters a few days cent. loan of £3,000,000 with an 16, of Hall-road, Chadwell Heath,
a number of other charities, this trict, was acized by bandits in the and Installations are antiquated, and her dancing and singing ago.
American consortium led by Essex, a cadet at Brenwood School, After rananeking the vessel the Brown Brothers and Co., of New fell down the steps at Brentwood We are not getting the full benefit brought in altogether more than
bandits made off, kidnapping, a York, to be paid off in 30 years. Station and died recently. $100,000. of modern scientific discoveries
Shortly, Miss Ma expects to go number of passengers, and producing. as economical to Shanghai, where she will study Bandits are said to bo most
Chief Stoker William George! Cól, W. J. Maxwell-Scott, of ly as we might. It is not due foreign dancing, and, perhaps, the active in the Lan Tal Shun dis
English language. In a year or two, triets, enforcing, on all towboats Wake, of HLM.S. Warapite, died by Abbotsford, Melrose, a great- Committee
she will probably go abroad, to passing there the payment of eums asphyxiation recently while work-great-grandson of Sir Walter belleves that,
Our America first, and possibly to ranging from $50 to more than ing in the underwater protective Scott, is to be promoted to major-
general. skilled artisans are still unsurpass-Europe later on.
|$100 per trip..
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