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1532-Ninna-Nanna (Berceuse Veneciana) (Benelli) Sung by
Gitana (Longus)
7413-1a Vise-Paris 1 & 2 (Ravel)
7414-La Valse-Part 3 (Ravel)
. Danse (Debussy-arr Ravel).
7415-Die Fledermaus-Csardas (Act 2-J.
Titu Sekipu
Boston Symphony Orch'.
Boston Symphony Orch".
Strauss) E. Rethherp liche (YOR Suppe)
Elizabeth Rethiery, s
Bocenerio Hab' Ich Nur deine (Had I only your eyes)
6697-Sonata Appassionata in F Minor (Beethoven) (Op 37)
Pian solo-Parts 1 & 2
Harald Bener,
6698-Sonata Appassionata in F. Minor (Beethoven) (Op 37)
Piano Sulo-Parts 3 & 4
Harold Baure,
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931.
pendent on the reforms. Should the Government decide against the introduction of these roforms, the whola programme for future stabilization falls to the ground. The Mission have absolutely no sug- gestion to make in the event, re- mote we trust, of the shelving of the reform scheme.
DAY BY DAY
SELF-WILL IN
ACTIVE, THAT IT
ARDENT AND
WILL BREAK A
WORLD TO PIECES TO MAKE A STOOL
TO SIT ON.-Cecil.
the 20th instant at about 6 am.
Ours Is An Ice Age.
By WHATELY C. ARNOLD.
THE electrical experiments of machine consists of a pump for
The stress clearly, therefore, is on the reforms. The Mission are satisfied to pin the Colony to silver more closely than it has ever been before and for an indefinite period. But this attitude dors not, by any Hing Preserved Vegetables
So we are inclined to overlook the evaporator for expanding the gas
which the scientist: which is
is given off by the volatile means, apply to the reform scheme. at the, Corner Street, tripped and fell brought to the world by his dis-liquid для We have thus the The Mission find so much to criticise yesterday while carrying a not of coveries rendering possible the uni- paradox that hent is requirell to
bolling vinegar. He wae removed currency system † to Haspital with serious burns, in the existing
produce cold. versal use of refrigeration.
In addition to the making of ice It was in the course of his: that they practically insist upon
chemical research that he made the and the cold storage of provisions endical changes. Th anks are
any discovery that gas may be and perishable goods, of which The Post and Telegraph Depart tarned into a liquid if it is first there are more than 200 different given the opportunity »i cooperate of the Siamese Government regrets con ing with the Government in this the suspension of the railia telegraph compressed and then copied ander kinds, most of which require dif-
servires
and Pressure. That was in 1823, and ferent temperatures for their effi- Ji the Kohaichang
cient preservation, refrigeration is all-important multer, Reasons are Songkhla const stations. Kahsichangany years after it was made se Fet out establishing the advantager is an isinnd at the northern end of of for the purposes of mechanical also made use of in the manufac
tore of a large variety of other The Gulf of Sinm, and Songkhin is a refrigeration. to the banks of this cattrse. But (small fort on the egat const of South Long before this it was known goods.
that
a low temperature could be
No battleship ever ventures to the currency experts do not leave Siam,
produced by the combination of sen without her ammunition being the matter lu chan. They re
crushed ice and salt. Tee was ab-held under refrigeration.
Our commend. on my falsifention of}
tained In blocks shipped from the largest places of assembly and lead- At the Central Magistracy this
adopt artificial air Heir campion that De note- morning. Mr. Willians fixed Friday Norwegian Bards, and until 1880 ing theatres izening banks will be prepared to
the 20th at 2.15 p.m. for the hear this was the only method of obtain-cooling, and also our factories for In ing of the summons for assault takening a sufleicutly low temperature the welfare of the employees. fall into line with the scheme they out by Lo Sun, on employee against for storing meat and other perish addition to the actual machinery,
issue be. Ribeira in respect of an alleged able Condy,
great industry has also arisen for prapase. that the note
anstalt outside the King's Theatre on The first cold air machine of providing insulation in order TA1 taken over completely by the Cur- the 8th instant. Mr. P. H. Sin is which there is any definite record retain the cold temperature
appearing for the complainant.
was invented in 1845 by a Mr.storage both on land and at sea. reary Board, acting on behalf of
Gorri, of the U.S.A.
This insulation This was
is now mostly con The Government at the Colony,
followed by various other Britishļstructed of cork. Parmonatly, the Mission is 10-
While easeline was being pumped; and foreign inventors, until the In recent years menna have been Khaki, startly shaped.
of working the refrigerating terested
the Venezia yesterday. the screw used commercially was invented by machines cap of the lamp flew off, and the coulie Professor Linde, YOU!
that when WILL BE
varreny upon a sorador isis, PLEASED
removing the evils that hate grown
at the pump was sprayed with the WITH THIS CAR AND IT IS
quit, which also caught Bre. A ter- VERY EASY TO BUY. THE DELIVERED PRICE COMPLETE WITH BUMPERS, SPARE TIRE AND TUBE IS
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Ti of compressing the refrigerating un The P. and O. Kashgar loft} Shanghai for this Fort on the 17thary of which is now being cole- and therefore heating it, a con- instant ut in.m. and is dus here on britted, overshadow his discoveries denser for cooling the gno wldle in the realms of chemistry for under pressure either by alr ar which he was appointed professor which contain the gas, and un water being forced over the coils in the Royal Institution. Hu Yu-yin. A cook at the Kwong
factory benents
Below Moulding: Absinthe Green. Moulding; Coach Green, Fenders: Black. Wheels; Absinthe tirven: Striping: Cream. UPHOLSTERY :—
Genuine Leather,
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color scheme
TOP:
it
in setting the Colony's into a lump on a lighter alongside; year 1873, when the first machine found automatically; that is, so
in
ap with the existine system, which probably served the Polony well enough when it was vere young, Beyond that, they have attempted Este The "stabilisation
-
THE HONGKONG HOTEL granne" is m outgrowth of he
GARAGE.
Th Hongkong & Shanghat H IncorpaeateE Huake Shubha bi
The
Happy Vallet
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1921,
THE "STABILISATION PROGRAMME.”
An impression prevails in soņie quarters that there may be more
main chene It has no separate existence, it enanol, we are afraid, mean what the stabilisationists— range whom we member ourselves
would like it to mean,
Dakle,
Brandensting Fiasco.
California has been
given temperature is The first consignment of frozen obtained the machine will auto- ible death was averted by timely meat ever imparted from Australia matically cease working, and when certain assistance from other people on the Was à cargo of thirty-four tons on the temperature rises a lighter, but the condition of the coalie beurd the steamship Strathleven, number of degrees the machine will For research purposes was serious when removed to Hospital, which arrived in London in Feb-start again.
Puary, 1880. Since that date, only where it is essential to maintain a half a century ago, it may be said constant temperatare, these can be with, truth that the British Empirean delicately balanced that there has to a large extent been by may be no greater variation in the up on and by I supported by temperature than one degree.
In all scientific work, as well as refrigeration,
Without its nid the vast supplies in a number of natufacturing pro- For "highclass fresh meat, butter, cesses, the study of temperature
REVENUE OFFICER AT HIDE-AND-SEEK.
OLD WOMAN GIVES HERSELF UP.
A
gable
|
|
mal zu wider and more cosmo-found that be was not altogether! thuir friend, not an enemy.
A
Lies
require 2171 extraordinary variety of tennærature for their efficient preservation.
Careful Preserving.
fruit, and, in fact, all the food control is imperative. Man himself supplies from overarns would have is entirely dependent upon it! Den impossible. It was by this difference of Silex, or 7deg. Fahren. theans that the huge armies in the heit in blood temperature mean of hide-and-seek Great War were sustained. Abuut life or death to every one of us!
Long-continued research work appears to have been indulged in 80 per cent. of the world's marine yesterday by Revenue Officers and refrigeration is equipped with has shown that different commodi. dealers in contraband epium. In British machinery. The
T CURITSA picked up in Hongkong on a lungene Officer Ward went into investigations
Home Farmers' Friend, waye receiver, This fact, dis-Stone Sullah Lang at Wanchai,
But it is not only for overseas) tinctly interesting in itself, serves and from two the floors he visited applies that refrigeration is need- 30 introduce the subject of broad- in succession. collected somethi led. Home farmers are at length. For instance, whereas meat can enstime, which is making its ap
like 200 taels of raw opium, but lining it that refrigeration is be best kept at from 35deg. to 40 Their deg, butter is kept in better con- nexpected as the smoreters were! home-grown produce of a perishable dition at 14deg. Eggs should be peditan public every day, in par now here at hand,
inattire
can be preserved, when kept ut deg., and also apples, but drawn to eular, thoughts are tent aspects of this very popular another house at Queen's Road wasted.
Parther enquiries then led him there is a glut, instead of being melons from 35deg, to tüdeg., and
bananas not less than 55dex. form of entertainment. It is open Past, and as he went up the stairs,.
On the other hand, the degree of The dairy industry is almost en to very grave doubt whether liong there walked after him an old tirely dependent upon refrigeration cold required for making ice-cream on listeners are receiving full woman who, without being asked for dealing with its hundreds of is about dex. to 10deg., but for vals for their Heeney fees, and volunteered the information that thousands of gallons of milk and keeping ice-cream bricks a tem Mission than appears in the toxi.
the opina just seized was hers, millions of egge,
perature of files. below, (the expensi incurred in maintain- The background of the suggestion,
1 led him to believe, said R
Tee, which is still required în even required. ing their sets.
When in 1928 th Ward when charging the woman larger quantities, is itself now!
These are only a few examples, apparently, is the exhaustive study Klövernment took over from the at the Central Police Court this mainly dependent upon mechanical but sufficient to give an idea of the
refrigeration. From the devoted to possible' stops in pretnost moribund Radio Sterety. It morning, that she was being paid
very large amount of labour and care which make which is now involved in the pre- paration for stabilisation of the was recognised that many dificul- by the smugglers and had found powerful machines
daily food and dollar at suspe
fature date, and ties bad to be faced, particularly it worth while to claim the, drug, tons of ice for cold storage pur-servation of our
The Maristrate fined the woman poses down to the small automatic what we owe to the discoveries of domestic refrigerators which pro-Michael Faraday. The past hun- stress is laid upon the completeness in regard to offering a variety of
programes. Listeners, therefore, Ummm or five months' hard labour-duce the miniature pieces of ice, all dred years have seen developments the machinery reconamended.
remained ebeertally content with
are
worked the same principles far beyond the possible imaginings The belief, if we may put it as high receiving gramaphone recitais.
and in accordance with the same of the discoverer himself,
WHATELY C. ARNOLD.. as that, as more than a hope, is that That was
Committee, laws of nature that Michnet Fara-| in, 1928. Now, three hos Broadeusting Die slight undercurrent of urgency years later, a remarkably increased while in the Colony itself there day discovered.
of improving As every schoolboy knows, when in the proposals may presage swift radio public has still to "suffer stabilisation when the sterling fund continuous programmes of grama-and brightening the provrammes, he uses his air pump for inflating phone records, with Httle to break It is surely high time something his re tube heat is produced. This is by reason of the compres- contemplated has been built. .up.
ision of the air. A refrigerating)
in the Report of the Currency
of
t lac meanz
the monotony. A Ko Shing Theatre was dona towards this end, It is thought possible that real in-relay, which has only confined tentions have been masked, withappent, a studio lecture, a very the object of preventing speculation occasional concert, a few footbrill and possible embarrassinent to the match commentaries, and authorities and the banks.
We must confess, on getting to closer grips with the Report, that
1946-
in-a-blue-méon effort to relay Homeside programmes, remain the only spices of variety in the long- kong programmes, Offering auch we enn discover no foundation for meagre fare. It is difficult to con- these views. The Mission, right».] ceive how the Government can ex- ly or otherwise, place canalderable | ptřet u maintenaner of the growth emphasis on the Colony's close as in wireless licence holders. sociallon with China. So close is Though there are a number of it, in their belief, that Hongkong radio "fans," who prefer to unter- tain themselves on sets made for is practically an integral part of
long distance reception, the great China from a commercial point of majority of Hongkong listenera view. Moreover, in the preamble are probably those who have no to an outing of the measures pos- ambitions to search farther afield sible to make ready for future than the local station. They have a claim to be entered for in a stabilisation, the Commissioners
proper and satisfying minner. express a tattlit whether the reason
The present programmes, which for remaining on a silver basis will show practically no advance on colose to be valid until there is some those of 1928, certainly do not prospect of the currency of Southfulfil this requirement. We still China being converted to a gold remember the words of Mr. W. L. basis at an enrly date,
Miller, who, in March 1930, gave a It is further pertinent to observe Paper on Radio.. He wall, in re- ference to Hongkong braudenating, the relationship between the pro- would urge them the Brand- posals for. remedying the defects casting Committee) to explore of the present currency system and every way of improving the relay- thone dealing with future stabilisa-ing of distant stations, for, if tlon should the time come when it listeners were reasonably, certain the two hours' of getting even
is deemed desirable to carry it out. lunch time programme from Lon- They are so closely allied na to be don every night, there would be incapable of separation into water-tremendous Allip to the sale of tight compartments. The stabilisa- liconara." This still romains a tion "preparations" are entirely de-challenge unaccopted by the Hong-
"Of course we found it necessary to make a few minor changes in adapting your book to the screen. We are using
Miss De Lacey, whore you used Napoleon."
TIPPING HAS ITS VIRTUES
By CLIFFORD HOSKEN.
1
THREE is a custom on the Continent, almost universal in all but the biggest hotels, of adding 10 per cent. "for service" to the amount of your bill. This is sup- posed to be in place of tips. But it is a custom that wante watching. The theory is delightful. You pay your extra 10 per cent, which is supposed to be distributed among all the hotel servants, and you need no more worry about how much you to give the hall porter, and the head waiter, and the chamber- - maid, and all the others.
ought
They are assumed to be satisfied. and so are you. The great tipping problem, one of the greater worries of travel, is, supposedly, abolished. for service" has "Ten
por cent. done the trick.
But it hasn't. In practice it docan't work out at all, on Kny
{ holiday back from the French
or
tell
er Italian resorts can
you. You have pald your 10 per cont. extra, but you are expect- ed to Lin 'just the same.
That is why the custom needs watching, and needs to be severely discounged if an attempt la made to introduce it into this country.
You are never quite satisfied that the extra ten per cent-your extra two shillings in the pound- is distributed among the staff, And, anyhow, if a maid, or a waiter, or a porter has served
you well, most of us like to acknowledge that attention.
There is a deal of satisfaction in thanking someone who has mado your holiday more plekaant, and (Continued on Page 7.)