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vivalTM friends, and especially tho brilliant but shiftless Schober, | helped to cut abort his career.) Hs Ilved, despite his incessant industry, the careless, dissipated lifó common to the Vienna of his time, and he could not stand the racket. He would compose a song on the back of a menu card scored by a com. panion as they sat over their tankards of beer in a Viennese cafe. He could seldom take a holiday. "Money and weather are both un- favourable," he wrote, excusing himself from a visit, a few months
before he died.
But if Schubert was not ap preciated in his day and generation, posterity has acknowledged his un- doubted genius, and has given him a high place in the ranks of the famous men of all time. His latter' yours were clouded by frequent ncas, and nothing is more to his credit than his steadfast refusal to write down to his publishers,
NOVEMBER 17. 1928.
DAY BY DAY.
GENTLY TO HEAR, KINDLY TO JUDGE.-Shaktapcare.
There will be no dancing at the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden to night.
The name of Mr. John Buchanan, C.A., has been added to the list of auditors under the Companies Ordinances,
The Harbour Master notifies that, the Rock Buoy marking the western extremity of Proserpine Rocks has been removed.
The motor vessel Ceylon (Swedish East Asiatic Co.) left Dunkirk on the 15th instant and 4 due hero about December 24th.
Il Excellency tho Officer Administering the Government has appointed Mr. E. P. H. Lang to be an Official Justice of the Peace.
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LAST OF THE WINDJAMMERS.
Crack Ships Which Raced Home With Tes,
The other day a-2,800-ton four-] If the masters did not spare their masted Larque towed out of Belfast men, neither did they spare them was plucked out clear of the land, selves. Many of them on a two to cast off, and left to begin her long, three months voyage never went lonely run to Australia.
below except to change or bath.
Somo novor turned in oven on.
She is the Garthpool, sadly not- able as the last deep-water sailing the chart-room sottoo, but dozed in ship left under the British fing. a deck-chair on deck; few of them She may make a baro profit on the let a sall be touched without their voyage out and back (with the less orders and their eye on the opera chance of it because she could find tion. ELANTAS no cargo to take out and has sail- It was killing work, and it killed. ed in ballast), or may much more many after a few years of it, but some stood it for a lifetime and easily make a loss.
This may hardly be called "good long past the age of sall
Their mental strahi was equalled business," and admittedly is not. Hor owner, Sir William Garthwaite, or exceeded by the physical strain continues to run hor for sentimental the men endured-cheerfully, and rather than business reasons, for even eagerly, in any case of a raco
and or a record to make or break."" the romance and memories affection for the old sea beauties
that lies deep in the hearts of all Fast ships, skilled and daring men who knew them in their old seamanship and relentless hard driving made the tea races such
The silk forwarded from Hong-palmy days.
kong by the Empress of Russia on She carries a batch of apprentices epic fents of sall he have never been ar to seck a snug haven in the the 24th October arrived in New and young, seamen, and there is not (rivalled. In 1860 out of the fleet: that sailed from China, three shipp the one of them who will not, in days docked in London on the same lide, house of sonic wealthy patron. Ho York (St. John's Park) on has long since been gathered to his 14th November, having been 21 to come, tako pride in the thought two within twenty minutes of each
days in transit.
of this voyage and of having been
other, after more than' three fathers, but he lives in the wealth
"In gall," just as to-day you may months Balling half round the and beauty of the works of which He was the creator.
His Excellency the Oncer. find in many a modern officer's world: Administering tho Government cabin, pinned to the wall in little
In 1872 Thermopylao and Cutty has approved of the promotion of cargo tramps, or framed and hang: Sart, the two great rivals to the Lieutenant John Cecil MacGown, ing in place of honour in crack pas M.B., to the rank of Captain in the senger linor, a little photograph of claim of being the fastest ship that Defence some other "Garth" ship in which ever sailed, left Shanghai almost
Hongkong Volunteer
C.E.C. Climbing Down.
It is becoming
increasingly Corps, clear that while the rank and file
of the Kuomintang Party seems
Do you know that~~~
In 1843 it was ordered that the Court of Justice, with Criminal nud Admiralty Juris- diction, which was appointed on 9th December, 1883, to be held at Canton (or on board any British ship in the part of Canton) was in future to be. held in Hongkong?.
to have given its tactic consent About Hong Kong to the Government manufactured by the party politicians at Nan- COLEMAN-0g 16th last, Freking, there are certain limits he
derick Charles Coleman, agedyond which they will not allow 48. Foreman Electrician, their lenders to go. The Central Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. Funeral will Executive Council, or at least the pass the Monument at 5 pm. carefully selected clique which now dominates party affairs, al- Sunday, 18th inst.
ready seems destined to draw in its hornis on the vital question of representation at the National Delegates' Congress; at the same time, playing for me in which to complete an organisation, to meet possible opposition. Very strong protests have reached Nan- king from the district branches of the Kuomintang, which naturally. object to a limitation of their au thorised delegations to one half, which is all the recent C.E.C. or- der could possibly mean.' Well- informed observers in Nanking are preparing for a retraction, though how far the C.E.C, will go it is not easy to judge. Opponents of Chiang Kai-shek and the so- called "Royal Family" are con tent, for the moment, to watch
SATURDAY. Nov. 17. 1928.
SCHUBERT.
It is just a hundred years ago, November 19th being the actual date, that Franz Schubert, the great
t:o
It was expressly stated that not only was this Court exercise jurisdiction for the trial of offences commil- ted by British subjects on the Island, but also within the Dominions of the Emperor of China, the ports thereof and on the high seas within une: hundred miles of the coast of Chinn,
a sea apprenticeship had been in the same hour, every soul on
served.
board keyed up for the duel.
For weeks they kept picking up and losing sight of each other, but Our last deep-water wind-
about two months out Cutty Sark, jammer"-and yet it is only sixty holding the lead,, had the misfor and seventy years back that the tune to carry away her rudder. China clippers were at the zenith She lay hove to In a heavy sea of their fame, that the whole world while her crew worked like madmen was ringing with the tales of our to make and ship a jury rudder, fleet of cracka "racing home the but at last, when it was in place, tea."
heavy gales blew up and put 50 We still have men with us who great a strain on it that the awn- safled in them, and the Cutty Sark, ing stanchions that had been taken last and most famous of them all to fashion Into a connecting bolt to was "tramping" the world, under a the rudder, and some of the eye- forelyn flag and another name, un-bolts holding the rudder to the post, til a few years ago, when she was broke, and the ship was steered with bought back to the British fing, to wire rope ponnants.
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be moored in Falmouth as a relic She lost the race, but, allowing of the past and a training ship of for the six days hove to, and the the present.
need to, reduce sell to keep control
I have heard many a tale myself with the jury rudder, it soeins cer- from the is of men who sailed intain she would have won. those wild and wonderful days of
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the wool and tea clippers, when the Another racer that year had a thrill and excitement of the game whole sult of salis blown to ribbons. brought the pick of our young man-out of the gaskets and ran all night hood to sign on for a sea life." under bare poles. The mates, to
first.
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Vienesse composer, 'died at the age developments, but if the group i lish. night school for Chiness of for carrying whole sail when an-dre less urgent, smaller crews and
of 31 years. Here in Hongkang, allow their ambitions to
excepting for the recital arranged by Mr. Harry Ore, the Contenary is being allowed to para unnoticed, but in Shanghai, where there is a far larger music-loving public, the
Carry
them too far, the quarrel is likely to be renewed on as fierce a seale bofore. The Nanking 09 ever Government has yet to take a le- elsive step which will encompass the rule of the provinces and curb the activities of military
The pay they earned counted last move about the decks, had to le with these men, the chance to sail down and crawl, and one had the a real passage-maker counting shirt stripped from his back in rags
by the wind.. The Hop Ying Society of Hung-
The skipper with the reputation Nowadays, when fast passages. hom, which conducts a free Eng-
other would have his ship half-smaller sail sprendimust be carried,. the poorer classes, has received a
hurd driving, was the man who had made. Garthneil, a small sister of donation of $600 from the Hong-stripped, for "Hell or Melbourne" but plenty of good runs are still kong and Whampoa Dock Company, only to crook his finger to call the Garth pool, has one unique record M. Dyer. through the Chief Manager, Mr. It.pick of the prime sailormen to slip to her credit of having circled the globe in seventy-six days-ona with him.
Men would wander round the better than Jules Verne's "Round Another of the popular dinner docks, casting critical eye over the the World in Eighty Days."
She anfled from Sydney for West dances takes place at Lane, Craw-lines of the ships, the height, and ford's restaurant to-night. Al-
ocension is being marked by a big chieftains. On the other hand, though it may be said that spread of masts and yards, asking(Australia, fought bitterly to mako festival ut. which the main works of the news of the last day or so has Hongkong's winter season has only questions about her runs arid re-head against the westerly:gales, but Buch point was held and blown back for weeks, cords, deciding on just commenced, these functions whether to offer their services or until her muster, seeing no signa of the wind abaling or shifting, ed. Schubert was a most prolific Szechuan. They amount merely have already proved most success not.
ful,
the famous master will be present-shown that ghting of a
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is Laking place in Kwelchow and
composer of plano, chamber and tó personal quarrels between rival converted vocal music, besides generals and have no reflection on which he produced nearly a dozen the general political situation, outside the important point that symphonies
come thirty until the Nanking Government dramatic, and choral works. The takes a much former grip of the the country. it six or seven hundred ficder which real affaira of
will have an extremely dificult he wrote are now acknowledged to
passage to negotiate. be among the loveliest things in music ever wrillen,
Like so many other great men, Schubert secured a very meagre i material reward for his work, as may be gathered from the fact that Che total amin which he made by his compositions. In the entire course of his life amounted to the equivalent of £575. For that sum he composed considerably more than A thousand songs, symphonics, operne, and dances.
For his
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VICTORIA DIOCESE.
APPEAL FOR FUNDS ISSUED.
ing
and
13 therefore A batch of these men looking for turned his stern to the gales, went advisable to hook tables,
a ship found a crack American racing back along the length of clipper with a notice board display Australia, across to and round Cape Ramon Novarro is the end-ed: "This ahip will rench Horn, and, holding on past Cape of player Tat "A Certain Australia frat." A British clipper Good House and along the Roaring Young Man” which will be
was berthed nearby, and the men Forties, fetched the port he had screened for the Just time marched to her and offered to sign sailed for four months before-a 10-day at the Queen's Thearte. on if there was a chance of beating port he might have made in a couple
of weeks with favourable weather. Other films also having their final the American.
These are great tales of great showings Lo-day are, "Rough The slip already had her full House Rosie," starring Clara Bow crew, but the dozen shipped as "ex-ships and men; and of all those fine we have to-day that sole at the World, and "Matince tra hands" on the skipper's word feets Ladies" with May McAvoy, at the he'd try to beat the boaster. He survivor, Garthpool, rolling down did it, too, crowding on suil, driv-south. Good luck to her and the ing night and day, beating his rival men in her. Long may they sali.
BOYD CABLE. by a couple of days.”
Stur.
MADGE BELLAMY,
"THE PLAY GIRL" COMING TO QUEEN'S.
TO-MORROW'S FILMS.
FAMOUS COMEDY TEAM AT QUEEN'S.
of
A coolie in the employ.of the Hongkong Hotel was seriously in- jured last night as the result of an accident. He was seated at the An appeal for funds for the back of a Hongkong Hotel lorry Diocese of Victoria, Hongkong is which was proceeding along being made, in which connexion Robinson Road from east to west. the Sundays, November 25th, and As he looked out of the vehicle, his December 2nd, will be kept as head struck the branch of a tree at Diocesan Sundays at St. John's, the roadside, the resulting injury The Bishop of the Diocese will being of such a nature that it was
George K. Arthur and Kar) Madge Bellamy, a popular stort preach in the morning of both found necessary to rush him to first raid work-the "Prometheus" these days, and will endorse the hospital, where his condition is re- with movie fans, has a role en Dane, the famous comedy team of of 1816--he received £. For the appeal. A sum of $600 is asked ported to be critical.
tirely suited to her in "The Play "Hooldes," return to the Queen's first 12 songs of the "Winterreine" for from St. John's Cathedral for
Girl," which will be screened at Theatre to-morrow and Monday the Diocese. The immediate The health bulletin of Eastern cycle, composed in the last months needs are as follows:
the Queen's Theatre on Tuesday in. "Baby Mine," a hilarious farce porta, for the week ended Satur- | of his life, he was pald 100. ench. Support and Extension of day last, issued by the Director of and Wednesday next. She le a based on the famous Broadway The tragedy of his life was that as Christian Education.-S. Hilda's Medical and Sanitary Services, little shop girl who craves society stage success of the same name. his reputation grew he received School for Girls, Canton, existing contains the following cases, the and beautiful clothes. At the A series of amusing mishape over
in an ancient building constantly Agures In parenthesis Indicating less rather than more for his work, demanding repair: Church Mis- deaths: Plague, Tamatave i opening of the story Madge loses stolen babies is the means
Society for publishers, knowing that he sionary
Vernacular Saigon 1, Beirut 1, Baghdad 1 her job because of her ready wit affording the many laughs which could not afford to stand out for his Schools largely dependent on sub- Tangilao 2: Cholera, Calcutta (42), and erratic employer, a combina- the picture contains.
scriptions, the fees and Govern- Madras (21), Rangoon 1, Tuticorin tion that sometimes proves disas-
"The Mystic." own terms, beat him down timement grants being Insamclent; (1), Bangkok 2 (1); Small-pox, trous. She meets two young men An orbing mystery story of after time. There is a pathetic in- Holy Trinity College, Canton, just Basrah 9 (8), Bombay 1, Calcutta terest in the Inventory of his pos- re-opened after many months of 1 (1), Madras 11 (8), Negapatam who endeavour to show her the spiritualism is the chief attractioa
enforced inactivity.
12 (1), Pondicherry (4), Belawan town, One shows her via a' limou- at the World Theatre to-morrow alons made after his death, when Maintenance and Increase of Dell 1, Pnom Penh 12 (1), Shang-sine, while the other belleves in and Monday, Alleen Pringlo and his music, comprising more than Evangelistic and Pastoral Work-hai (6), Datron 1, Baghdad D (4).
doing the town via the sidewalks an excellent supporting cast give outstanding performances in their 500 compositions, was valued
Provision of adequate salaries for at
in good old pedestrain style. Pre-respective roles. Chinese clergy and workera at Us. 6d.
But his struggle with present engaged, and of funds to of good books for clergy and ty soon her shoes give out and the
"Girl Shy." poverty was always a gay struggle. Aupport badly needed additional others; pensions for aged Chinese limousine becomes the favourite. He was never without a circle of help; repairs to Churches and clergy.NAT
Many amusing. Incidents and a Thrills and dramatic tension to warm-hearted friends, drawn to preaching places unable yet to be The Church Missionary Society thrill, or two lead to a splendid rather with many extremely, amus-
self-supporting; expenses of supplies a large part of those him by a charm and magnetle travelling incurred by Itinerating needs, but, if they are to be climax in which: Miss Bellamying comedy situations help to make Harold Lloyd's big comedy quality which his short, dumpy preachers and teachers,
adequately met, about $12,000 still proves her ability as a screen per "Girl Shy" which will he screen. Maintenance and Extension of remains to be raised by, subscrip- former. The supporting cast In-ed at Star Theatre to-morrow and figure-ho was only a trifle over
works of Christian Mercytions from various sources. * Includes Johany Mack Brown, who Monday, one of the comedian's |.5-ft. In height—his steel spectacles, Supplies for Mission Hospitals these circumstances $600 is n vory
his shyness, his silence when in the and Dispensaries; care of Orphans moderate demand upon the Mother Appeare opposite the star, Walter finest pictures: Perhaps one of Church. Those who cannot attend MeGrafl, Anita Garvin, Lionel the most laughable élimaxes” ever filmed is provided as a finale to a presence of strangers, hid from all and other Children, p
Increase of General Efficiency, the two services are asked to send Belmore and Thelma Hill.
really amusing story. but his intimates. Yet these con- Secretarial Expenses; provision subscriptions to Mr. P. B. Cassidy.
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