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MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1918,

"ENTERTAINMENT.

HARMSTON'S

AND'

CIRCUS

ROYAL MENAGERIE

OF

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PERFORMING WILD ANIMALS, LOCATION: CAUSEWAY BAY.

GRAND OPENING NIGHT - SATURDAY, NOV. 1st at 9.15 p.m. TARMISTON'S CIRCUS have much plussare in prosenting to the Pablic of Hony

30 IN NUMBER 30

OAMBLING DENS OF CALCUTTA,

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There are few, if nay, gambling dons, Thore Br.perly speaking in Calenta. are no gambling saloons bilden away in the alloys and by-laws of Calcutta where gabing and erine go hand in kend. It is trise, The Englishman says, that people gamble in Caleasta as they do in other parts of his world, but 'gam. bling in Calcutta la not associated with violent crime. The race-course and the houses card table in private clubs er

HINA MAIL.

No ons is forced to gamblo, anyons can leave tho tabk" whenever he desires

Almerity Atins

Houg for the Fiess Time the following all star Company of London and Contin-waits the erwing of Calcutta's gunblems More, the Chinese observe a restrains

Night Scenes in China Town Described, to do so. What is bemarkable for a gun- ng house, thero ago never any disputes aliout atakes. Eveil the roughest book- ing Chizes in the crowd tronta tho stranger with constey. Of course, there ars hangers on who volunteer to win a fortune for the novica for a considera. then, but they are also polite khates Bramble and want nothing more than a low cop- Britomart pers. Samatiraes, Burnsinn were froCadmus the kihtals also visit these ders, but they Cherub walk in, stake their money and go out, Clio

Fame the winners or losers, without anyone taking the slightesh artice of them.

Hampshire Kinsha Thom hre, however, a few places in gambling which is surprising to y

the feast of it. It is not uncommon to Molin hinapars, the China town of Calcutta,

see one of them losing consistently and Minotaur * wlacze night large sums of money pass from had to hunt. Situated out of the retiring empty-handed from the table Monmouth benton Bruck, unidse à maze of sorrow, with a smile. They may be bubbling Moorhen

over with excitement- but thiợp, in lan

Newcastle wling, fishy lanes, those places "are

Nightingale the ordinary citizen.shanting and wild gesticulations.

The Chine who frequent those places

Otter thods of the keepers of these gaming to all pisbatarebs, Ived working Morever, the tuneetanty as to the me- tuses keep away many who would peplo aul they gamble to while ass otherwise become frequent visitors. These the time-

ontal Artistes:-

Acknowledged by Press kud Palie to be the Finest Circus Touring the East.

Branko Y

THE COTTRELL TROUPE

(in Number).

It their Marvellous and Astounding Trampoline Acrobatic Acts,

Diable, Triple nail Testing Sersaalis to Shoulders, & More Detail

THE GAIETY GIRLS.

DIRECT FROM THE CRYSTAL PALACE, LONDON, Where for 20 consecutive weeks their superior Lancing, Graco and lexuty won for them the unstinted praise and admiration of a critical public.

THE DELROYS! THE DELROYS

Mest ap-to-dale JUGGLING Act in the World, Also that EXCRUCIATINGLY FUNNY QUARTETTE, SHADOW, MICKEY. LITTLE BROWNIE AND ROCOCO. Celebrated Clowns, Aciolate and, Grunts. GAST AND VORTEX

Champion Trick Cyclists.

AMBROSIA,

The Kilk of Roman Ring Performers.

T. RICHARDS,

Animal Tuner with his Performing Lions,

+

MASTER C. BRUCE

The Midgut Wonder

and the Well-Known Champion All Round Duo, MISS

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JENNIE AND W. HARMSTON.

innedible to

dens, if they can be called, are easy to final. Every gharrywall in the city knows them, but if one goes with a pre- ronevived picture of "dismally lit rodu. filled with eplem fgas and sinister hoking individuals his douted to dis appointment. These gaming houses are m a public thoroughfare, they am bril luntly it and the habitues ar rot og derers, or even thieves. No one asks the stranger in and no one encourages it to temp fortune either at fun-tan the other game played there which EMU, a convenience sako may be styled the Red Horse game. A notice is promi

OUR BEAUTIFUL ARAB STALLIONS AND PERFORMING PONIES.

OUR MESAGERIE CONSISTS OF PERFORMING

ELEPHANTS, LIONS. TIGERS, BEARS,

LEOPARDS.

BABOONS, MONKEYS, DOGS, Etc.

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.

WANTED-BARS OF MELODY.

The Essential Element of All Music.

Madseno Wala Luzdowska sets her self to answer the often-asked question.

Eis Britannic Majesty's Ships on the China Station.

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1850

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Comdr, Arahibald Cochrane

Master W. Wout

river gunboat

710

2

900

Lt.-Comdr. E.

Priobard

Cruising Bongbong

#! Shanghai

river gunboat

10. 9

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Licut Comdr. W. H. Darwill.

•Bangha

sloop

1070

8

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Commar. H. P. E. T. Williama

Shang

water tank and tug aloop

390

306

Master H. Smith

1070

1400

Comdr, Colin Mackenzie. D 8.0.

Shangla

torpedo bost destroyer

6200

Bongb

cruisor; 1st class

10,800

10 20,500

Capt. MR.

Hoogk

river gunbant

Kie

1900

Zt. Comdr, £. Ď, Marryat

Yang

leop

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Capt. . . . Pisco

Lačno

ervisor, 1st clase

14.800

27,000

Capt. E. B. Kiddle

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Ribble

cruiser, 1st class. river gunboat ..cruiser, 2nd class river gunboat torpedo boat destroyer torpedo boat destroyer

nen

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Capt. B. H. F. Bartislok

Hangker

180

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Com Alan Dizon

€

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12 23,000

Caph Froderick A. Povleti

Cruising

# 28

240

Lieus-Com. Malcolm Murry

Yangiama Khan""

..350

$300

Gt-Comdr. R. Wilkinsors

Hongheng

7800

Lt.-Comdr. E. J. G. Mackinnon

Rosario

depot ship, submarinos

980

1400

Comdr. N. E. Archdale

Hongkong

Robin

river genbost

25

9

It.-Comdr. Nash

Racdpipar

river gunboat

#5

2

240

Lt. Com. I. A. B. Hutton

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river gunboat

85

$

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Lt-Comdr. Maurice B. Lesli

Tinglum Kumar

torpedo boat destroyer

330

4.

6500

Gunnse W. B. Ryder

Tamar

receiving ship

4650

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Teal

river gunbont

100

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2

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710

960

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7500

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355

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800

7,500

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river gunboat

195

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180

$

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150

500

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Usk Pourquoi notre musique n'estelle pas

Virago meliique in the French Tommal of Welland Whiting the International Musical Society,

The lament for the host art of melody Widgeon

the Hardiest of all anausis, anys the Woodcock

And a Waterproof Tents, which, unlike others, we have and will Guarantee nently displayed in the hall which was Nation. Peccini, has recently bom tell. Woodlark

to keep Everylady absolutely dry.

N.M.-Special Trams will Run to an from Ciress here and after exch Performance, Bucking at ROBINSON PIANO, CO. MATINEES-Every WEDNESDAY nil SATURDAY AFTERNOONS.

Performance st 4.v. Sharp, Daurs Open at 3 P.M.

Children Hali-Price e Matinees Daly. PRICES OF ADMISSION:

Fell Bos, 6 Senta, $15: Single Set Box, $3; Chairs, $2: Stalls. $1; and Gallory (Natives only), 80 Cents.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Half-Price to the $1, and $2 Seata.

N. B.-Our Menagerie is opened daily for a small charge.

W. HARMSTON, Proprietor.

Hongkong, October 26, 1913.

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the visitor that only members of the ing us that all the theories in the world C.36 club ar slowed to stake omney at fangent to nothing without the one essen. C.57 tan or the Red Horse game. If visitors tid gjement of musie-melody '; and 0.38 we allowed to gamble, it is more brough Pad Dukan prophesies that the future035

the the innate Oriented courtesy of

of music is with the composer who will Chinamen than through any desire to

give us twenty bars of melody—ood win their money. The stakes are selad original melody. For melody, thes dem large, never more than five or six started souls are always insisting, is the rupees, and the total winnings for a

vital thing in unsic, the equivalent of right seldom rise higher than, say, fifty the idea in Buratare. They quote ap- sixty rupees. Even at times when provingly a remark attributed to Haydn. to the effect that melly is the chief thing, harmony serving merely to gra tify the car while Vincent d'Indy lays it down that is only melody that never grairs old."

excitement rims high there is no trace of over an attempt at cheating; the 'pro- codings are orderly and above board.

FAN-TANY

In fun-tan, a ghlong high table is, divided by two diagonal lines into four sections, bearing the numbers 1, 2, 4,

Madame Lankowska answers the query"," why is modern music lacking in me and The banker, who represents the lody with a delicate irmy. Because It is always club sits at one end of the table heart is nedern," she says,

the section hearing, the number 1. He the music of yesterday that is melodic, has a pile of toppers and a few rupees byar, to multe quite sure, that of the day

his side and a banketiul "of enwries (shells.) He takes some rowries out in a small basket, at random, places them on the table and covers them up with another basket. The betting then begins;

within a short space of time, nach soe- tion of the tubli ecntains its pile of coppers, each pil representing the amort staked on the particular member which the section bears. There are some who back two numbers 'nt a time, and

before, yesterday. How long is it since

the critics were railing at Wage for

river gunboat

river gunbeat

aubmarine

abmarice

abmarine

torpedo boat

torpedo bost

torpedo best

torpedo bost

240

Commodore R. H. Anstruther, C.M.t.Eongkomit

“It. Comdr. Hon. G. Stopford Upper Tangkem 3li

LA-Com H. R. N. Cottrell-Dormer Cruising

Lt. Comde. Maxwell,

Lt-Com, J. G. F. Berrott

Lt. Comdr. F. J. McGillowin

Lt.-Comdr. J. Grimes

It. Comdr. R. E. O. Pope

Lt. Comdr. Handley

Hoogtang

Honglow

Bong Long

Upper Yangice Blan

* Yangtane Hioner

Fangio Bear

Bangl

Hongking. Kongkong

Hongkong

Lt. Comdr. Stilemen

Lt. Comdr. Nicol

Lt. Comdy: H. W. Segraon

Flagship of Fico-Admiral T. H. M. Jorram, C.B., Commander-in-Chiod

Name

Kaiserin Elisabeth

Foreign Men-of-war on the China and Japan Station.

his unmelodiousness? Eren Strauss is Kaiser Frbz Joseph 1 Austro-Hungarian cruiser out moled already to the worried man

in the street, perpetually hanging on to Dupleix t the cont-tails of music and perpetually Kleber being whisked of his fact, Strauss is Decidee

transparent classic compared with Scriabine or Schoenberg. So has it all Argus. ways beón. Every great musician in Vigilante tum has been the murder of melody- theke put their money, not on the Wagner, Bethoven, Gluck, Back, and Peito tion but on the diagonal line between goodness only knows how many others. Dosdard de Lagree the numbers they fancy. There is noid not Bach's own sons go to Padre noise, no excitement. Tenso Laces, Martini to learn the secret of beautiful Chinese preponderating, only surround melody? the table. There are also a jet Euro pene, Eurasiars, West Indians, Malays, and Burmese occasionally to be seen play ing the game, but they come more out of curiosity than for greed of money. Slow-

*

Yet the vitality of melody must be enormous. It positively scene to thrive on assassination; for in spite of so many deaths and burials it is still alive, or at any reta was "alivo yesterday. Truly,

West Bloom

Weat R Borgkong.

Pag and description.

Tonsi

A.C.

Austro-Hungarian cruiser

4000L

4000

Daplains. Capt. Makorita Capt. H. Nauta

Last report ma

Fortbew

French armoured cruiser 10,014

30 20,000

Capt. Darclay

i

Rongkong

French stmoured cruiser

9770

12 19,600

Capt. Gouta

French gubboat

345

10 1300

Liedt. Vandier

Saigya

French river gunbost

180

5

570

Lieut. Dordet

Cantor

French gunboat

500

“Lieut" du Forvillise

Canton

Franch gunboat

Lieut. Callin

Tongk

French gunboat

Lieut. Dapay Datempe

Toaong

130

+ Fispship of Rear-Admiral Colloeb de Karillis, Commander-in-Chief, the French China Station,

Lynx

French sub-marine

Lieut. Bolais

Proteg

French sub-marino

Saigon

+ Styx Fronda

French armcored gunboat, 1788 french destroyer

10 1700

Lieut. Guillaume-Lonia

Saigon

380

7 30x

Lieut. Aurilinor

French destroyer

Cape de Frigate Romisen

French destroyer

130

300

Coudr. de Marquemar

French destroyer

3:07

6

300

French surveying-ship "

1825

LO 9000

Comdr. Vaisi

ly and imperturbably, the banker girosas Madame Ladowska says; Melodic T'berville

the sign that he is going to count the music is the music of yesterday: the Pistolet couries and asking the gamblers to keep music of te-day is not yet melodie; it

Mousquet their hands of the table. All eyes are will be so later on." now turned towards the basket contain- ing the couries. The banker takes a stick and with it be separates the couries in piles of four. As the big pile dimi

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES" in Grasville No. 2 MOUNTAIN VIEW, The Poak.nishes, there are signs of excitement.

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FOR SALE.

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It is noodless to dwell upon a pheno. Manche thenon that is ouo of the commonplaces of musical history, the fact that what is melody for one man is not melody, for another. But can wes not carry the mat. ter a little further still, and say boldly that melody, in the crdinary acoeptation of the word, has nothing whatever to do Jaguar with charm of the power of some of the Leipsig If there are two facut music in the world?

So adept are some of the Chipese gain blars at tho" business that long before the banker has come to the end of the pile of courics, they can tell one which nadkiber has woo.

22 13,900

Comdr. Vansdow Capt Bohncke Comdr. Bondenoun Capt. Mamborger Capt. Liest, Firle

Capt. Rösing

Capt. Liout, Berrenber

3600 Gennan cruise: German armoured cruiser 11,600 *

German gunboat

German gunbost

900 12.

22 13,500 36 28,000 900 12 1300 1300

Capt v.

Captain Bruninghaus Comiz, v. Grearen

*German craiser

Cacha

German, gunboat.

Nürnburg.. Otter

German craiser

3250

900 10

$400

24 11,000

1350

German river gunboat

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Scharnhorst 8..90 Taku Tiger

Jerman tagakip

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38 20,000

German torpedo-boat

400

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280

6000

Obit. v. B. Claimees

German-gunboat

900

10.

1350

Comdr. Böcker

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Italian cruiser

1900

Capt. von Moller

500

Oble. z. 8. Frie

4145

Portuguese cruiser. Portuguese gunboat Portuguese unboat.

1767

700

couries left over after dividing the pile into lots of our each, number 2 is de- clared the winner, if the remainder is 1, then number 1 wins and so also with 3. Bad when there is no remainder, num. ber 4 pays its backors. Number 1 te- taris even money, number 2. 2 to 1, number 3; 0 to 1 and number 4, 4 to 1.aloquence in scorch of emphasis is prome, If a rupee is placed on the line between without the least ides that it is indulg. 2 and 3, and 3 wins then eight annas ising In what is technically known as counted as lust and the remaining right thesis."!

Hoony! hooray thoo-bally. Arune 79 sad 60, fronting annas brings in one rapoo and

my!" is another good one. But tho very CONDUIT TO LOTSNAL ROAD, Both with 3 sight, less about four pice commission text, perlangs, in its triumph of convine Adamastor

ing vigour over, pedantic defensibility in Macro "Not at all not. a blooming tall!""* On" | Patria

recent rainy evening," a writer in the

BRITISH CONCESSION. “ SHANLEY, CANTON.

frontage of ninety feet on the road, and which the club taksos. with depth of 140) feat, together with the BUILDINGS aracted thereon. The

Nōke viscaTING STUL

Comdr, Bommi Piomardi

Capt. Anibal de 8. Di

Capt. Martins

Captain José de Carvalho Crato

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TO LET.

#EIRION, Nos. 9 & 10, Peak, un- furnished, Roots. Cheap rental, fres 1st December Newly Painted and Colourwashed.

Chancey Cincinnati

PERS

562

Loza will be sold either separately or The Red Horse for the Led Orz," together. This property will be up for a tao Chinese call it) game is more Chronicle goes on to say,

the ale at PUBLIC AUCTION, on premises cominerting at 11.60 .assinating than funtan. This also bus savour of the split adverb. It was lu THURSDAY, the 30th of October, 1913, s banker, & meraber of the club. Some framear, and the young lady from the

A6 if not sold privately before that date. The of the gamblers sit round an oblong table, sweet factory was anxious about her Undersigned reserve the right to reject all others stand around. In front of the bat. Sho sekid her companion-of bids if no scceptable birds are offered. ankees there are twelve dises bearing course she could not see her own but Parties interested may obtain particulars from

somo Chinese designs, six in red, ein in Is it spoilt abac-bally well-notly ?** THE CHINA BAPTIST

black. These are the King, the Queen, PUBLICATION SOCIETY, Tung Shan, Canton, China, Hongkong, Sept. 23, 1839.

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No. 68 Peak, MOUNT ELLETT, (Church Mision Society Bungalow) from 1st October 1913 till th May 1914, partly furnished, Cheap sont-

FOR SALE OR TO LET.

(From 1st November 1913.)

the Elephant, the Curt, the Horse and the gun in red and black. The banker 1149 hus smaller discs bearing these designs, is a big; he puts his hand in to jag.. selects one of them and pula Chem' in a small black box something like auft bok, and places the bor in the table in ful view of the other After every one has backed his fancy as they say

LESSONS IN CHINESE,

FR LA BON FAN, a Chinese graduate

Weed in literature, has been a torches

No. 1 GOUGH HILL, No. 103 Pak Bungalow containing Drawing, Diniogan Smoking .ums and Bve Bedrooms. With ground for Tennis Court.

·TOR BALES

!HARTING and BOUATE, on part of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1164,

pply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Led Floor, Alemanden Balldings,

to European officials and merchants in Sale on the race-course, the healer Akow Colony ler over on yours, was small black box.

He has a good method of training Earoot the box open, end de disc. pans to paintha Chinses arazidemtion, and I the dine bears the Hed King's

possessed, of a list, made certifiante na 3 địa bäckors of

Chinese toschar. Be has also a good know that ataku mont ledge of Mandarin and Bakk

of the stako monogobe to the

Those who fatend learning the Chines

Fanguage" "are-requested a to write dare oś upo utaicas are very China, Mall-otics, of direct to

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