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newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Boda, Hot and Cold Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms
Water, also Telephone.
TEA DANCES;
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 6 to 7. p.m. Hotel launch meets all steamers.
($25 for thirty Tifin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above Hotel). Dinner Dances Tuesday and Saturday 8 to 12 am:
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928.
NEW LADY GOLFING SHANGHAI POSTAL
STAR ARISES.
STRIKE.
MISS ENID WILSON IN FINAL | GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTS TO
OF CHAMPIONSHIP.
COMPROMISE.
SPOKE NATIVE TONGUE ONLY JUST EIGHTEEN. | COERCIVE MEASURES.
London, Oct. 4. *. Great appreciation of the vialt of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to an tive chiefs at their camp at Nairobi, where ho presented photographs of himself to leading Africans, is ex pressed in a letter to the Nairobi press signed by five paramount chiefs."
They say that above all they were greatly impressed by the fact that the Princo addressed them In
which he studied while on his Kiswahili, their native tongue,
voyage to Africa.
The Prince is now interesting himself in preparations for the Duke of Gloucester's safari, or big game hunt, on the first stage of which the Duke is expected to set out to-morrow through the lonely Interior.
The Prince has visited the site of the Duke of Gloucester's first camp, which is situated fifteen miles from Nairobi.-British Wireless,
TREASURY FRAUD ··
TRIAL.
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METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA of 30 cheques, and his impression
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The trial of Toral for the mur- Edward French, of the Crown der of General Obregon, the Hotel, Shorns, near Gravesend, Mexican president-elect, will pro-was found doad in Cliffe-road, bably take place in a cinema ac- Frindsbury, Rochester, by the side Commodating 2,000 people, of his motor-cycle.
Printed and Publlaked for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PAROX FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
at the time was that the shortage: was due to the Bank not supplying the usual number. He was not of a different view in the light of the present proceedings.
fi
Shown the two cheque-book i stubs, witness agreed that 30 were short from oach, and testified that he had never minde out any cheques in the missing series, nor were any corresponding details posted in relation to these miss ing cheques in any of the other relevant books of which he had charge.
Sometime in November of last year, he discovered the shortage in the first of the cheque books, but was reassured by seeing that the serial number on the cover had boon altered and initialled, as if by the Bank itself. Between the 20th and 24th December of the year, he found a similar shortage In the second cheque book, and again he was reassured by seeing the necessary alteration made to the serial number on the covor, although In this case it was not accompanied by any initials.
• 200 Too Many,
London, Oct. 4.
This week has produced some superb golf on the Walton Heath line, where the Enzlish Ladies' Golf Championship (closed) is being played off.
Shanghal, Oct. 4. It is understood that the Nan king Government has leaned a por emptory order to the Shanghai postal strikers to return to work, and that on the intervention of the Shanghal Koumintang, a compro mise is likely to be reached..
The semi-finale were followed by a largo crowd today, the match
"Information ... dérived ⠀⠀⠀ from of qutelanding interest being that Chinese sources, indicates that the botwesh Miss Enid Wilson (Notts) strike in likely to be called off to and Miss Molly Gourlay (Cam-morrow, though there is no sign of berley);
this.at present, and the strikers
eighteen years of age, started a ment which is said to have been Miar Wilson, although only may, yet go back upon an agroe-
favourite for the championship, reached at a conference between and to-day Miss Gourlay was officials of the Chinese Municipa expected to give her the rent test. lity, the Shanghal Kuomintang and Miss, Gourlay in, the fifth round the strikers' leaders. find defeated Mrs. Guedalin, of The Government, representatives Walton Heath. Mrs. Guedalla urged the strikers to return to was femerly Miss Edith Leitch, left in the hands of the Kuomin- work, suggesting that the matter be the famous.ex-champlon, and Miss Gourlay's victory was the more tang, who would open negotiations surprising since she was meeting vocating that certain of the alxteen with the Nanking Government ad- Mra. Quedalla on her home links. demands should be complied with,
Official Threat.
The semi-final to-day was a great struggle from start to finish, both players performing splendid-| ly. Miss Wilson defeated Miss On this understanding reached
Gourlay by one up.
after n lung discussion It is under
In the other semi-final, Miss Blood the strikers' leaders agreed to Dorothy Pearson, of Nevill, beat call a meeting of their colleagues Miss . Lobbett (Northants) by to test the feeling. three and one.-Reuter.
STOLE $200 FROM
A GIRL.
THIEF GETS PRISON AND BIRCH.
Sentence of aix months' hard labour and 15 strokes of the birch was imposed by Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, on a Chinees who was convicted of stealing $200 from a young Chinese girl in Shanghai Street on September 28.
The result of the meeting of the strikers has not been disclosed, but in the event of an unfavourable re- ply, it is likely that coercive mea- aures will be employed,
It le reported that yesterday afternoon Chinese civil and military authorities discussed the subject at the Chinese Naval Club and that it was decided, in the event of the re- fusal of the strikers to resume work, the Labour Unions will be closed down and all the strikers" leaders arrested.
Mr. Wang Pel-chun, the Nation- alist Minister of Communications, whose department is concerned in the postal strike, has expressed the opinion that the postal strike ia the result of political agitation, and that it is not really a demand for an increase of wages, but the reault of widespread plot in Shanghai to create industrial disturbances,
Nanking to Join,
According to the evidence of the girl, she was returning to his house at No. 55, Shanghai Street with $200 in bank notes which she had changed. On reaching the staircase of her residence, a man seized her from behind while a It is now announced that the second snatched the money, which postmen and lower grade clerks of sho was carrying in her hands.the Nanking Post Office have de- Tho.man who seized her was cared their intention to strike it the defendant, who was chased certain demands, passed upon those and arrested. The other man made in Shanghal, are not complied
with during the next 48 hours,, made good his escape.
MUSICAL JOTTINGS.
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those who regard it as having outlived its day:
PORTUGAL'S NATIONAL
ANNIVERSARY,
RECEPTION AT THE CLUB
LUSITANO.
Ho also, at another date, re- colved a book of 400 chéques from the Bank when he had asked for a book of.only 200, He asked the Cashier if it was necessary to return the book to the Bank for one of the required number, but
"The piano will always have a The anniversary of the establish- then he found that 60 cheques unique place in the affections of ment of the Republic of Portugal were missing from the 400-cheque music-lovers. Ita musle is in- in the year 1910, was celebrated at book. Thinking that it would make finite riches in a little rodm." the Club Lusitano this morning, very little difference one way or Much of the most beautiful music when the Portuguese Consul Gen the other, and that they would
for Hongkong, Senkor need the extra 'number, now that in existence is piano-music. The oral
de Albuquerque C it had been reduced to 340, wit greatest composers the world has Cerveira
a large num- known have written piano-music. Castro, received ness spoke to the Cashier, and, Men and women of Interpretative ber of, guests, including His under the directions of the Colonial Treasurer, he kept that Kentus have given their lives to Excellency the Officer Adminis- the art of playing the piano. It latering the Government, the Hon. the chosen Instrument of a multi- Mr. W. T. Southern, C.M.G.
Several hundreds attended, in- Cross-examined, witness said tude of composers of all inks, and he did not check the books page performers of every grade of pro- cluding members of the Consular by page as he received them from ficiency, and listeners to music Body, officials of the Club Luisitano the Bank, but he made it a rule to from the centres of life to the and leading Portuguese and Eur- verify the first and last number outskirts of civilization. Above opean residents. During the recep tion, pleasing selections were ren- of the series to see that it con-all, it is essentially the instrument dered by the Sequeira family, con- formed with the number indicat-for music in the home, where its sisting of a father and six sons. ed on the cover,,
educative, Its social, and its re- creative capacity give it high place among the home amenities."
book.
Witness Sigus in Court.
J
•
The toast to His Majesty the Subsequently, witness said that
King, was proposed by the Fortu- he did not discover the shortage
Hueso Consul General, and was until the books
honoured with the playing of the were returned
Mr. Ernest Newman, the famous British National Anthem. Follow from the printer for the names of "Colonial Treasurer and Cashier critic, also has been rushing to the lug this, the, Hon. Mr. W. T. to be added on each cheque, and defence of the piano, though not in Southern proposed the toast to the until he came to use the books, connexion with the above-men-President of the Portuguese Re On making the discovery he did tioned Confest. According to him, public, when the orchestra blayed look up the serial number on the the strength of the piano lies in the Portuguese National Anthem.
Among those present were the fol- cover, and concluded, after that the fact that it is not so much a lapse of time, that he had read public as a private instrument lowing:H. E. the General Officer the numbers wrong.
the private instrument, in fact. It Commanding the Troops (Major- Is the one instrument that keeps General C. C. Luard, C.B., C.M.G.) the plain music-lover more or and his A.D.C. (Lt. R.Q.F. John- less independent of public music ston); Commodore J. L. Pearson, Under Mr. Buss's directions, making. With only a moderate C.M.G. R.N., and his secretary Pay witness wrote three duplicates of technique he has under his ten Comdr. H. Rogers, O.B.E., R.N., the the disputed cheques, for the pur-fingers, at any time he likes, the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, C.M.G., pose of comparision of the hand-greater part of the world's best C.B.E. (Colonial Secretary); the writing, using a Waverley nib music in most genres; while the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., which he was in the habit of using pianole and such, devices as the K.C. (Attorney-General); the Hon. when writing out Treasury che-Duo-Art place at his disposal of Public Works); the Hon. Sir Mr. H. T. Creasy, G.B.E. (Director thousand works that are beyond Shou-son Chow; the Hon. Dr. R. H. Mr. Russ (after the choques had his own technique. Moreover, the Ketewall, C.M.G., LL.D.; Lt.-Col, L. been filled according to his dic-piano is indispensible to domestic G. Bird, D.S.O.; Lt. Col. F. Hayley tation); And you still any that music of all sorts; the singer can- Bell, D.S.0.; Mr. Li Yau-tsun the handwriting on those three not do without it, nor, in many (chairman of the Hongkong Chi- cheques was not yours?.
cases, the players of chamber nese General Chamber of Com- music, from the violinist upwards merce); Mr. J. Oram Sheppard, Mr. The piano is the only domes C. P. James; and Colonel J. A. tic instrument that combines the Santos, of Macao. maximum of opportunity with the minimum of expense and trouble."
ques.
Witness:Yes,
The new choques were handed in and tabulated as exhibits.
Re-examining, Mr. Hazlerigg
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After reading that, all budding common, that nobody is keen on compared with that appearing in pianists should set to work to hearing a piece played indifferent "Katz" of the disputed cheque, practise scales and arpeggios ly by an amateur; and it is that The former had a tail, while the with added zest. It may be true, which acts as a discouragement to gatter was without one, belag writ of course, that anyone with a so many young players who, after ten more like the printed letter.
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