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Rigoletto (a hunchback, jester to the Duke of Mantua)
Gjida (his daughter) ...
Giovanna ther nurse)
Duke of Mantua
Sparafucile (a hired bravo)
Sr. Piazza baritone) Sra. Pagliught (soprano) "
Sra. Brambilla (mezzo-soprano)
Sr. Folgar Henor) Br, Monni (bass)
Maddalena (his sister, a dancing girl) Sra. de Cristoff
Count Coprano
Countess Ceprano
Count Menterone
Вогла
Marullo ...
Chorus of Courtiers
(mezzo-soprano) Sr. Menni (bass) Sra. Brambilla (mezzo-soprano)
Sr, Baracchi (Baritone)
Sr. Nessi (tenor)
Sr. Baracchi (baritone) Chorus of La Scola, Milán
Accompaniment by Members of the Orchestra of
La Scala, Milan.
The performance conducted by . Maestro Carlo Sabajno.
Recorded in the Conservatorio, Milan.
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their leader does not, however, sp, pear to have dampened the ardour of the cut-and-out Protectionfite for the chairman of the Yarmouth conference has let it be known that Mr. Baldwin's remarks are Lita preted to mean that the iron and stool industries will have the same chance as any other industry of making representations in favour of "safeguarding." It is to be noted, however, that the Prime Minister his never yot specifically subscribed to this viewpoint; in deod, he has more than once hicted that the extension of “safeguard-
ITS
DAY BY DAY.
LET THE MIND'S SWEETNESS HAVE
DEATH OF MR. J. W. MATTHEWS.
KOWLOON DOCKS.
The Very Ikan!
OPERATION UPON THE BODY, CHIEF DRAUGHTSMAN AT THE
Massino Ferrari, giving, CLOTHES AND HABITATION.--George
address at Russoll-road, Wimble. don, was summoned at the Wast Herbert
Police-court recently, Two Chinese cases of typhold. It is with much regret that we London
record the death of Mr. John W. before Mr. Marshall, for fraudų- ware notified over the week-end.
Matthews, A.MINA, chief ship lently travelling on the District draughtsman at the Kowloon Railway Docks, which occurred in the early J. A. Morley, prosecuting, hours of this morning, tho
The P. and O. so. Nalders, from Hongkong, arrived at Marsellies on 28th September at 8.30 am.
Mr. H. G Wallington, of Queen's College, who is now on his way back to the Colony, obtained his M. A. Degree at Cambridge.dur ing his vacation
decoheed being found doad in his said that on July 26 there was 1 bed at the Station Hotel, Kowloon, special examination of tickets at where he resided. Earl's Court Station, and the de- Although he had not been too fendant presented a single ticket well recently, the news of Mr. from Nottinghill Gate to Wimble Matthews' death cams as a great don. The date had been erased, shock to his friends. He was at but the defendant declared that bet work as usual on Saturday, but took the ticket that day, though yesterday, as complained of feel as a matter of fact it was issued ing unwell and remained indoors on June 8.
Ho then produced a monthly ses all day. On retiring, he kakor a fond in the Hotel 50 ylalt him son ticket, in a celluloid case, but should be awake during the night, when requested to hand it over and this friend on going to docess said, "No it is my property," For expectorating in the courted's room about tree o'clck this Taking the ticket out of the case, room of the Kowloon Magistracy morning found Mr. Matthews be tore it up, put the pieces in He afterwards produced another during the sitting this morning a dead, apparently from heart fails mouth, and swallowed them. Chinese was brought before his fure, worship (Mr. W. Schofield) and The late Mr. Matthews, who was ticket, and, tearing off the date, *The fined 19
about. 45 years of age, was for handed it to the collector.
Bicket had been issued two dayék previously.
ing to fron and steel would con
sum raised by the whist drive diet somewhat with his plodge not at the Kowloon Dock Canteen on stay bahalf of the Kowloon branch of to introduce anything in the un- the M.C.. was $161, and not, $115, ture of a general tarin. Mr, Bald- na stated in our lasue of Saturday win's Cablast, colleagues and his po supporters in the Houso may be able for a time to take shelter bo- hind his assurances, but the ques- tion is whether their constituents
wil; accept this unsatisfactory at- titude when the General Election takes place. As we see it, the Party is in rather a dilemma, How can Mr. Baldwin's plodge against the Introduction of Pro tection be squared with permission KELLER, KERN & Co., Ltd. for the Iron and steel Industry to apply for Protection to a tribunal with a simplified procedure? That is really the crux of the whole matter.
18-19, Connaught Rond, G. ^-
BIRTH
FOSTER-TURNER.-To Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Foster-Turner, at Victoria Hospital, Hongkong, on Sept., 29, 1928, a son.
DEATH.
MATTHEWS-Suddenly on the lat inst. John William Mat- thews, Chief Ship Draughts man of The Hongkong and Whampoa Duck Co., Ltd., age 40.
The
The position of Mr. Winston Churchill in this matter le of special interest, for he has made it clear that he still remains a Free Trader at heart. Obviously, he would not relish the prospect of idvocating a series of Protective taxes, beginning with a duty on imported steel, but if it came to a breach he would probably find the
alliost
unanimously Cabinet against him. No doubt in the country his colleagues will con- tinue to dwell on the promise of more and easier. "safeguarding," but, with the position as it is, he himself will still be able to de-
A reminder is given regarding the whist drive being arranged by the Police branch of the H.O.Lat the Helena May Institute to-mor- row afternoon, starting at 8.45 p.m. Tickets are $1 each.
A fine of $2 was imposed by on each of two boys, who pleaded Major C. Willson, this morning, guilty to a charge of causing an obstruction in Connaught Road Wost yesterday by playing football on the road...
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dougina re turned to the Colony by the Em- press of Canada. They have been for some time stationed in Manila, but Mr. Louglas now rejoins the Hongkong branch of the Asiatic Petroleum Co.:
The Sanitary Board will at its meeting to-morrow considór a let- ter from the Government relative to the appointment of Mr. G. R. Department, in succession to Mr. Sayer to be Head of the Sanitary W. J. Carrie, posted to the Trea- sury
Hongkong Telegraph.precate any fundamental change Shantung Street.
THE CONSERVATIVES” DILEMMA.
in the fiscal system. The elec- torate, however, has little use for
The American Note,
to
the
About Hồng Kong.
Do you know that
Queen's Road Was the fres road in the Colony to receive a British name, and that formerly it was a narrow": bridle bath called "kwan tai lou the literal, meening of which was "petticoat: string" road?"
In pre-British occupation days this bridle path ran along the coast. from West Point to East Point and was used by the crows of trading junks, in caso both wind and tido. were unfavourable, to pull the junks along by a tow ing line attached to the peak of the foremast."
Queen Road East A
1706 formerly
the" known as: Canton Bazaar by, reason of the many native shops which opened there.
Mr. Marshall imposed a fine of 408, with one guinea costs.
•
At a very tense moment in the "bg" film at an Edinburgh cinema, the villain was pursuing the heroine över a lawn when 3. policeman appeared.
The tonalon in the audience was rudely shattered by a small piping voice bursting forth with There, ma, I know they'd got it in the neck for going on the grass."
t
Willesdan Magistrate. It is nat gentlemanly for a husband. to interfere when his wife is mani pulating the soapauda, que
Roveller, at Willesden: I wak overcome just one over the nine, sir-Magistrater Wo call that drunkenness here,
Solicitor, at Shoreditch County Court: He is a coblemed bacho lor-Woman I do not know it be has been confirmed.
Debtor, at Bow County Court: I have not two Halfpennies for p ponny, and I am borrowing from my sweetheart, bless her i
Mr. Justice Avory, at Bussch Assizes: It is easier to change. your clothes than your voleo.
"When I was very little," writos Finchampstead reader, “I hoard my father sing A Jug of Punch.” His version was:
There was a thrush eat on A. Mbush
"The old Irish rebel' songs are full of such bad rhymes; did any of your readers ever hear The A batch of peolers went one
night
While the American Note to if the bazaar should prove, as they evening, passing the Monument at Pooler and the Goat?"
trust it will, a great duccess.
THEME.
MRS. VICTOR RICHARD'S LATEST NOVEL.
CORRESPONDENCE.
..
On duty out patrolling, 01 And there they chanced on a
goat"
Who scomed to be a'roving,
0."
Of course, auch rhymes are relics of the time when it was con- sidered sufficient for the vowels to
ANTI-PIRACY BUGGESTION. rhyme, the consonants being left
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
out of consideration. Those were happy days for the poets indeed.
*
A fine of $66 or alx weeks hard labour was imposed on a Chinese some years employed at one of the who appeared before Mr. W. Scho-docks In Shanghal, and after field at the Kowloon Magistracy this leaving there and proceeding morning charged with being in pos- Home he came out to the Houg session of 2.2 tacis of raw oplum in kong and Whampoa Dock Company Defendant had about six years ago. As chief a previous conviction under the ship draughtsman, he proved him- Opium Ordinance.
self an expert worker and The annual bazaar of the Sister's amongst the bly jobs which he undertook was the construction of
And the tune he rang'was a jug MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1928. ambiguity in politics, and if the of the Precious Blood Convent is to the steamers Changta and Talping, of punch.
Conservatives really want Protec-be held at the Catholic Young Men's employed on the Australian run. The last lines weat tion, they would, we believe, have Society, Caine Road, on the 13th and He was very popular with all who When I an dead and in my grave
14th inst., under the patronage of
No costly monument Tlf.cravi, a far better chance of success by Mrs. W. T. Southern, Mrs. C. member of the Kowloon Bowling knew him, and was an enthusinstig
But dig it wide and make it deep coming boldly out for it ne a Luard and Mrs. A. C. llynes. The
With a jug of, punch at my head
and feet, remedy for unemployment than by function will be opened by Mra, R. Green Club and the Kowloon Foot
II. Kotewall at 3 p.m. on the first ball Club.
A native of Sunderland, the late adopting a chilly-shallying line of day. The Convent de croiting a big. Mattheus leaves a widow and which give another bad rhyme 2 Despite the efforts of its leaders action. Sharp practice never building in Shamshuipo as an ex-
tension, and, like the Mother Con- two daughters, Jean and May, who fear I remember no more. For- to create an opposite impression, pays, whether in polities or in any vent, this will be used as the home left here for Home about a year sonally I think that the bad rhyme for orphans aud the needy, ago on nowa being received of the is the better veras, since a thrush It is still apparent that much dis-other sphere of life,
It death of another daughter, Olwyn, sings on a bush and not in a irrespective of nationality. units prevails in the ranks of the
will therefore .be - a
great Much sympathy will be felt, with bunch of ivy. Conservative Party on the quea-
ehconragement
Sisters them in their unexpected bereave In 'thuir work of tion of Protection. The position
charity mont.
The funeral takos place this appears to be that the great ma-
London and Paris on the naval
5 pm. jority of the Conservative M.P.'s
compromiso contains no, fresh
The body was this morning re- favour a departure from the exist suggestions for achieving the
moved to the mortuary for an au- ing fiscal system, which they are limitation of naval armaments, the NEW SERIAL ON A NEW topsy and identification.
Anglo-French proposals are whole- secking to effect by a gradual pro-heartedly and frankly condemned. cess, whilst the Prime Minister In effect, the Raply contains no and most of his colleaguca in the more than a detailed examination of the proposals submitted and a Cabinet fear that official endorsere-atatement of the American ment of such a line of action may views as enunciated at the Gonova:
The grim revelation today of spoil disaster at the forthcoming Naval Conference. The general
attitude is summed up in the first Spotswood's remarkable construc- General Election. No really new few sentences, Washington making tion of an alibi Indicates the near
In the course of a discussion development has transpired either it clear at the outset, that the approach to the end of "The Can- serial from the Conservative Party Con- agreement fulfils none of the conary Murder Mystery" a
Sir, May I suggest through the which took place at a deputation ditions which seem vital to the which has been the most engross- ference at Yarmouth or from the USA. It is pleasing to note, ing secured by the Telegraph in remedium of your paper what 1 be- to the Acting Attorney-General lieve to be a means of frustrating (Mr. M. J. Kirwan) regret was latest declarations made on the however, that no signs of lose of cent months.
The extremely clever story will any further attacks by pirates on expressed by one speaker: that subject by Mr. Baldwin. The rank temper or "presidential pique" are.
present. The genial Minister, and file of the Party still want exhibited. The Note is couched be concluded on Wednesday, and passenger vessels in the China "Major Griffiths was unable to be
in friendly if spirited terms, and we are able to announce that a Beas↑
Would it not be possible for whilst sharing in the regret, add- such an extension of "safeguard- no objection is taken to any point story on entirely different lince Ing" na will amount to a vital de-of the proposals without a concise, will commence on the following the Government to. Inaugurate aed "Oh, well, if he will prepate
and in many respects, a cogent day.
system, thereby every ship maka atatement, and will send it th parture from Free Trade prin- reason. To only one sentence do. It is an absorbing tale of a rash ing or leaving this port is kept his views will receive every con- ciples, whilst Mr. Baldwin con- we..
exception experiment written by Mrs. Victor in touch with at frequent intervals sideration," A member of the deputation promptly. refoined: tinues to refrain from committing America declares that no useful Rickard, one of the established of two to six hours by Hongkong? He's a lady; but 111 let her. purpose could have been served favourites of the novel reading Those shipping Companies hay- himself beyond the making of de- [by adopting the agreement as a public. Her previous successes Ing sufficient vessels to enable the know." The officer referred to lan clarations which may be interpret basis for discussion. The other include The Light. Above the polley being carried out might de-a major in the Salvation Army.
Cissie-Auntle, you know the ed either way, according to the side of the question has been com Crossroads," "The House of tall one of its ships in port to pletely, if not intentionally, ignor Contage," and "Cathy Rossiter" koop in touch with those of the predilections of the particular ex-ed. America must accept the view the latter a sensational indictment same line which are at ea. If a old man at the corner who was, ponents of his viewpoint.
that Britain's initiative in this.
hours, an answer would mean all. Auntie (a Christian Scientist).. lowed by a public enquiry. In his speech at Yarmouth, Mr. matter was directed by no anti- of asylum methiols, which was fol- call is sent from there every two ill?"
American motive, but by a sincere
"His Wide," Mrs, Rickard's most was well, whereas no reply would "You mean who thought he was, CissieWall now he thinks, Baldwin has again repeated his effort to secure a resumption of
Well I am aware this will mean turi characteristic treatment of an un- previous asertion that no indus- the work of the Preparatory Die recent story, is marked by her be sufficient to raise suspicions. 11.
Committee. The Com try will be debarred from taking antara activities have been on usual situation which is develop ther expense, which, in these try-he's dead."
ed; yet, to ineur may be a saving At an examination for sanitary Its case to the appropriate tribunal dered useless by opposing Frenched with brilliant audacity and ing times, cannot be easily afford-
in the long TULL
sclenes hold at Hongkong on July under the Safeguarding Act, and British views, and it was pleasing conviction.
The recent piracy seems to prove 9 and 11, six candidates presented hoped that a settlement of these There is nothing new in this state-dferences would open the road to
that if such a system as 1, have themselves and the following two. more general agreement. There robuff. The door is left open briefly outlined had been in opera-satisfied the examiners and passed ment, which is almost word for word the same as his utterance was no intention, as America for further consideration, and wetion, the Anking would not have the examination: Thomas Arm strong and James Reid, An seems to suggest, of any attempt trust Britain will not lose sight been 64 hours in the hands of the some two months ago. Those to drag any other country into it of the opportunity. The tonnage pirates, and though the lives of examination for Sanitary Inspec therefore, who were expecting the body. It is unfortunate that percentage proposals remind us of those gallant defendere might not tors was held on the same dates, Premier to come forward with our motives have been misunder the very detailed scheme drawn up have been saved the pirates eleven candidates presenting them.
chances of escaping with the
selves. The following four guide some definite, clear-cut decision on stood, but it cannot now be help by Britain and presented at
ed. The Anglo-French com- Geneva for America to reject enormous booty would certainly fed the examiners: Arthur Foss the issue have been disappointed promise has created its stir, and Another attempt at a arttlement have been very small-Yours, etc to George Frost, William Charles.
BAE SA O AV. N
Richard Lamprill and Henry The failure of the Party to get is done, but it is sincerely to be along these lines might share. Its
George Stevens hoped that the American con fate, but appears to be worth tie lan unambiguous declaration from demnation will not be regarded as effort.
take serious
Hongkong, Oct. 1st, 1928,