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Mozart's Concerto in E Flat Major
Part 1-1st movement-Allegro mederate (Fart 2-1st movement-Continued) Allegro moderate (Part 8-1st movement--{#oncluded) Allegro moderato
Part 4-2nd movement-Un poco adagio,
Part 5-2nd movement (Concluded) Un poco adagio (Rondo),
3rd movement
Part 6-3rd movement (Concluded)
Haydn's Trio in G Major
with Alfred Cortot (Planisl)
and Pablo Casals (Violoncellist)
(Part 1-1st movement-Andante
(Part 2-2nd movement-Poco adagle cantabile
(Part 3-2nd movement-Poco adagio cantabile Part 4-3rd movement-Rondo all'ongarese
Mendelssohn's Trio in D Minor (Op 49)
with Alfred Cortot (Pianist)
and Pablo Casals (Violoncellist) (Complete on four double-faced records)
with album,
Schubert's Trio in B Flat, No. 1 (Op 99)
with Alfred Cortot (Pianist) and Pablo Oneals (Violoncelist) (Complete on four double-faced records)
with album.
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Exchange Bldg.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TOTAL
FRIDAY, JUNE
DAY BY DAY
IT IS REASONABLE TO HAVE PER-
REVOLVER SNATCHED BY COOLIES.
stresses the point of urgency. The position in which the Colony now finds itself was no doubt fore- scen by Mr. Henderson some years FEOTION IN OUR EXE, THAT WE MAY DISTRICT. WATCHMAN MEETS ago; the pity is that at this late ALWAYS hour we have hardly progressed THOUGH WE KNOW IT CAN NEVER BE beyond the talking stage" It REACHED. Dr. Johnson
would appear, however, that the
ADVANCE TOWARD IT
The Very Idea!
Government is now conscious of the Three Chinese cases of typhold night when he visited the promines Norfolk, a gold ring with a buckle
were notified yesterday.
An amended notification states that the P. and O. 5.8. Novarra is due hero from Shanghai at 6 a.m. to-morrow."
Quarantine restrictions have been imposed against arrivals from Pakhal on account of bubonic plague and cholera..
Tho Long Arm of Coincidence- WITH OPPOSITION. Here is a story sent by a Mangdon,
Kent, ronder to a Homo paper. A-Chinese District Watchman. “One of my sisters, when a child had an unpleasant experience last picked up on the beach at H- of a Coolics Association at West heavily chased. My mother. found Point. His revolver was taken on inquiry that a bather had lost, from him, and he was handed over his and she obtained the address. and Boat the ring which my sister It was, however,ro to the police authorities.
had found. turned to us
As to the reason of the strange treatment, it was ascertained this morning that the District Watch man went to No. 383, Des Voeux Road West to look for a friend. On school arriving there, he is said to have found a gambling and his attempts to stop the game, which was in progress, met with) resistance.
serlousness of the situation; and the only point which arises is the best method of dealing with it. There will, we imagine, be some eritielsm of the authorities for hav- ing temporlaed so long on this point. In particular, the public will feel that the only result accru- ing from the dilly dallying over the Shing Mun scheme has been the wasting of much precious time. And to what purpose? None, that we can see, for, after all the de- -BRITING BOARD OF TRADE-lay, the Government has by the force of circumstances been thrown
Monday having been declared a'
The matter, it is understood, is back on the original scheme, with
public holiday, the Harbour Ofco- the likelihood of a further big bill will be closed except for the En-being dealt with departmentally by to meet in additional works which trance and Clearance Office, which the police,
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CENTRAL
-LABORATOIRE D'ELECTRICITY-PARIS.
The 6.5. Kam Sang, from Osaka
The coolies, however, supplied the and Amoy, brought down eight In-authorities with a different story, dlan prisoners from Amoy, for which was to the effect that they were being badly treated by the watchman who, was trying to ex- tract "squeeze" from them. gaol sentences in Hongkong,
NO PERIODIC REFILLING might not have been necesary for will be open from 10a.m. to noon,
CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE
NON-CONDUCTOR of ELECTRICITY RELIABLE, EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE. Typos for Motor Cars, & Ele
| KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd. 16/19 CONNACOnt Roan, C.
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to noon.
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some years had the Shine Mun un-and the Junk Office from 11 a.. dertaking been pushed on with and gradually completed as circum- stances necessitated,
At the Magistracy yesterday, the accountant of the Chow Hing Wine Shop of Shaukdwan was fined $260 for being in posscasion of dutiable liquor and $500 for selling A fisherman was also fined $250 for possession.
OBITUARY.
SIR JOHN 1. THRONYCROFT.
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London, June 28:
The death ia announced of Sir
"Some six months later wo wore again at Hand I said to another sistor Wouldn't you like to find shall,' she said, and hardly wore ring, like C did I daresay I tho words, out of her mouth when in a tiny pool she saw a ring My mother was convinced, that this one answered the description given by the loser, so she again obtained the address and sont it on. This time it was the right ring, lost a your before in the aes
Recant remarkable calculations as have reopened that ever-interesting discussion, "What do you do with to the output of safety razor blades
your old bladea "I bury mine," said one man at the club. I throw mino into the river," was another's. solution. "I leave them for my wife to dispose of," confessed a third Tho man with the beard. merely smiled a
"Love is no longer a romance.
John Isaac Thornycoft, LID. is a medical necessity," egye a
F.R.S., the well-known naval ar chilect and engineer.-Reuter.,
The deceased, who was born While working a paper-cutting at Rome, was 85 years of age. Ho machine, a workman in the Kwong was educated privately and at Sang Hon perfume factory, at Glasgow University, whose Diplo Wanchal, had two of his fingers ma he won. It was in 1856 that cut off by the machine, yesterday, he founded the well-known ship- He was removed to the Govern- building works at Chiswick bear- ment Civil Hospital for treatmenting his name, and he was respon- of his injuries.
The question of Accuring the cheapest water, which is stressed at some length in Mr. Henderson's re-adulterated Hquor. port, is an important one but it is | equally vital that the Colony should, as soon as possible,' be relieved of recurring anxiety 38 to the adequacy of its supplies. Whether that relief could be obtained solely by accelerating the progress on the Shing Mun scheme, or whether our urgent needs can be both best and most economically. met by under- taking the auggested additional works
as well, is a matter for technical men to decide. But we THE WATER SUPPLY. do again urge that rapid decision. and urgent action are the prime necessities of the situation.
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 182A.
Child Labour.
voluminous reports
alble for Introducing many im- provements in naval architecture A man, named Lee Hai, who at and marine engineering which tempted to commit suicide by have promoted the development of jumping into the harbour near the high speeds at sea. Jie was Star Ferry Wharf but was rescued knighted in 1902, and at the time and taken to the Kwong Wah Hos-of his death was Vice-president of One of his sona, Sir John Edward the Government Civil Hospital on
Thornycoft, is now managing pital, has now been removed to the Institute of Naval Architects, being certified as being insane.
director of. J. I. Thornycoft and Co., Ltd.]
Engaged on some work on the ferry bout Golden Star, which is undergoing repairs at the Kowloon Dock, a Chinese reecived injuries MALARIAL RESEARCH. when he fell from the launch to of the issued by the various Government the well of the dock. A plank on departments in the last few days, which the injured man was stand- the annual review of industrial ing gave way, causing the mishap. conditions, especially with regard
The Blue Funnel liner. Glaucus,
SIR RONALD. ROSS WINS HARBEN MEDAL
London, June 28. Lord Leverhulme presented the
writer,
Love's n potien nowadays. To be taken like a pill
a.
If you don't, your future way's
Must be fraught with many an
Love no longer means a knight
Bold and brave who kneels and.."
· pleada ;.. Nor do maidens, won'-by might, Dash away on shining stoods. Love to-day's, & dose of hug,
With a kiss and squeeze,'
maybe.
Love, in fact, is now a drug On the market, I can, s00.
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Bandy, was learning to play the bagpiper. One night when he was strutting about the room, shirling for all he was worth, his wife at tempted a mild protest.put
"That's an awful noise yoʻre makin'," she anid.
Sandy sat down and took off his boots, then got up and resumed his piping in his stockinged feet.
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A recent arrival from Bootinad, Mr. James M'Thail, of Nanango, is one of the most entertaining spra kers Brisbane Presbyterians have hoard from the home mission fields: M'Phail addressed a meeting in St. for many years. Ono night Mr. Ronald Ross, at the Ross Hospital Andrew's Church, and soon had the The medal, which has already congregation chuckling at his dry humour. "What shall I speak for Tropical Diseases at Putney. been won by Pasteur and Lister, is about 1" he asked. Then after &
Pause he furnished the rope awarded every three years for
"About five minutes." Sir Charles McLeod, speaking at now," he observed, "wo home.mis- eminent services to publle health. the annual meeting of the Hospital,sionaries often make good sugges announced that the Committee were
are turned down. It fa on occa considering the questing of creat- tions to the committed, but they ing a staff, headed by Sir Malcolm sions such as this that we pray Watson, to visit the tropics for the Lord, if there is a spark of enthu purpose of assisting and advising sism, water it." Mr. MPhail staffs and compared the Australian welcome to Scotch hospitality, "and you know there's nothing like a Scotch tion applauded, but this gave place- welcome," he said. The congrega to laughter wlien. the speaker, as a sort of afterthought, added the
Like the poor, our water supply problem is always with us. Some of us had hoped when the Shing Mun Valley scheme was Initiated in 1923, that it would have been found possible to meet the require ments of the Colony from that Hource for very many years ahead,
child inbour, Is the most to Unhappily, however, circumstances gratifying. The Government was arriving from Liverpool and Sin-Harben Gold Medal of the Royal have arisen In the meantime which long in recognising the need for gapore, reports the death of 21 Institute of Public Health to Sir have upset all calculations, and so reform, and when the ordinance pilgrims en route from Jeddah to to-day we have proposals put for regulating the employment of Singapore. The s.s. Benarty, from sgo, there was death of one Chinese member of ward for fresh works both on the children in factories was mooted London and Manila, reports the
some live, years
The Hongkong side and in Kowloon, in-some shaking of the head on the the crew, from Asthma. volving the outlay of, a big sum of score of practicability. Fears of casualty was reported at Penang, money, despite the, fact that the evasions, however, from the begin- says the Harbour Office report.
ning proved to be quite wrong, and first section of the Shing Munthe enforcement of legislation has
The Colonial Dispensary of scheme has not yet been completed. been attended by nothing but the Queen's Road Central are giving
Mun The Shing
project, as happiest results. The Colony is a spacial window display of Milton, to-day in the position to say that a valuable antiseptic of British conceived, WILE originally
A the terrible features associated manufacture. An ingenious "Per- malarial research mammoth undertaking, and when with child labour in the past have petual Pouring Sign," worked by malarial engineers, as well as a Cen- bottle of tral Committee which will consist Sir Edward Stubbs introduced it entirely disappeared, thanks in no electricity, depicts a to the Legislative Council in Octo-emall measure to the willing co- Milton which appears to be ever- of reprascentatives of tropical in
operation of the Chinese factory flowing and incapable, of being dustrial associations-Reuter.. ber, 1923, he said it provided the owner, who accepted the conditions emptied. Messrs. Banker and Co., assurance of "a really adequate of the ordinance without serious are the distributing agents for water supply for many years to objection. Where they were felt to Hongkong and South China.
be onerous, the employment of Only come."
children simply ceased.
This morning's Harbour Office however, those who remember the heart reports gave a free movement of have very considerably delayed pro-breaking circumstances often pre vessels with high tonnage, British
Milkman, summoned at Southend- gress on the Shing Mun undertakvailing in factories some years ships registering 60 per cent. of back can fully realise the revolu- the arrivals and departures and
The 8.8. Chung Hing, from for giving short measure: The milk ing. With the advent of a new tion which has taken place. It is the bulk of cargo, the total under Kwang Chow Wan reports that she had a froth on it, and I made a Governor, who had different ideas not, of course, an accomplishment both headings being more than sighted the wreck of 8.5, Lee On, mistake in the measure
Question at Bow County Court: on the subject than had his pre-of 1927. Success we are glad to 20,000 tons. Only three nationa-
Bay was almost immediate, and we litics registered vessels under both on June 27 at Fung Mut, in Chin-
ter the accidentt-Man: I just told decessor, the first section of the have recapitulated the facts solely headings, these being British, cse waters, with about one foot What did you say to the driver af The following. Notice to Ma-him what a er-er blessed fool he scheme was held up and the second for the purpose of drawing a com- Chinese and Japanese, leaving 63 of her upper deck showing.
another ordinance vessels in harbour of which "25
Magistrate's clork, virtually abandoned. Then there parison with
to a do bour Department under date" of was the financial stringency caused passed at about the same time re-were British. All vessels carried rinera has been issued by the Har- was.
lating to another and more recargo, but of the through freights, by the events of 1925 which called pellant form of child labour. We all British vessels made returns, yesterday: "It is hereby notified fendant at Lowes: You are dismis
ported as having foundered in a for a policy of retrenchment on big refer to the mui taai system. while only three other figures ap-that the 8.8. Lee On has been re-sed; you cannot improve on that. position Lat, 21.40 N., Long 113.09 Mr. E. H. Lucette, Police Magla public works. In the meantime, Strictly speaking, the mui tsai bas peared in the report.
been abolished by law and should
E. The possibility of an obstructrate of Radulla, in fining three the demand for water haa continued no longer exist, but we fear that
position."
bus drivers for having ridden on
Two circumstances,
THE "ON LEE" WRECK. words, "when you get it."
MAY BE OBSTRUCTION TO NAVIGATION.
to outgrow the sources of supply, in many cases the ordinance is until we have arrived at a state of more honoured in the breach than THE WEEK'S PICTURES. to navigation exists at this affairs, when it becomes necessary
of enforcement are too obvious, to every year to ration the populace, need explanation, but it is safe to
the observance. The difficulties
EXCHANGE RATES.
Vienna
THE DERBY AND LOCAL ILLUSTRATIONS. despite the fact that we have been any the practice has not been
To-morrow's Telegraph will con- very fortunate of late in the yearly checked to any appreciable extent araong the less responsible acc- extent of the rainfall. In other ton of the community. It is a sad tain some pictures of exceptional Paris
Bruzaqla words, it is only by sheer luck that commentary on Chinese citizen-topical interest.
One will show the finish of the Amsterdam the Colony, has not before now ax- ship when willingness to reform
is shown where supervision is Derby, with Felstead winning, and Berlin perienced a serious water famine, possible, while so little can be another will be a most interesting Copenhagen Mr. Henderson, in his survey of done when the requirements of group of over thirty golfers from
Helsingfors Lisbon... the situation, has covered the humanity are dependent more on Hongkong and Shanghai who com-
Buenos Aires ground extremely well, and it is personal readjustment of ideas noted in the Chins Golf Meeting at Bucharest
than on the best intended legisla-Albeburgh, Suffolk, last month.
Other illustrations will show Shanghal impossible to read his report with- tion.
the departure of the Scots Guards Yokohama. out detecting in it a note of anxiety
from Kowloon Dock for Shanghai; New York for the future unless netion is
group showing Mr. H. A. Geneva Nisbet and staff of the Milan speedily taken. We cannot profess
Stockholm Supreme Court; a picture of to express an opinion on the many
the new motor ship Greylor
Prague technical points which he raises,
Madrid To-day's Observatory report stone Castle taken in Hongkong on
Athens neither can the mere layman judge states:Pressure le highest to the her maiden voyage; an excellent whether his detalled calculations on East of the Bonins. The Chinese photograph of dragon-boat racing lo consumption and future require- depression la moving eastward. Itat Canton; and a group of the com Bombay
Is now central over Shantung. bined orchestras of the Queon's; Hongkong ments are basically sound. These The forecast up to noon to-mor- World, and Star Theatre, under the Silver (apot) are matters for the expert. But row is: South winds, moderate; directorship of Mr. A. Grovint, who Silver (forward)
Is shortly leaving the Colony, wa do agree with him when he fair.
FAIR WEATHER,
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The wife of a lodger was describ ed at Bow County Court as "gentle As a kitton. Landlady: Kittens havo claws.
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the hood of a car, noticed their shabby appearance and remark ed: Why do you 'bus drivers appear with your hair in euch. disorder? It seems to be a cus tom with you to wear long hair. and keep it uncombed. In fact London, June 28,
one can always make out a bus 124.10 driver by the way his hair is .84.02
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realize that having long and un- 20,40%// 18.20% combed hair is dangerous because. 84.82% if the wind blows the hair into .193% your eyes you will be temporarily 2.7/32 blinded and will lose control of 798 your machines. I hope you will all 47% decide to change the mode of dress-
.2/8|ing your hair i
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At the International Horse Show
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