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INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG HOTEL

TEA DANCES.

THE MANAGEMENT beg to anounce that in futare the CHARGE FOR TEA INCLUDING THE PRIVELEGE OF DANCING will be 31 per head; 35% of which sum will be donated by the Hotel Company to War Charities.

J..E. TAGGART,

Manager. Hongkong, Dec. 19, 1917.

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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

NOTIFICATION.

I the 8th Jaunty proximo, at 3 p... 13 HEREBY NOTIFIED that on

the Public Works Department, and before a Committee presided by the Director of the Public Works, TENDERS will be received for the SUFFLY AND LAYING OF FIPES for Canalization

Salt Water (Extension)

This

conditions of the tendering, the specifications and the plans of the canalization are open to the public as the Public Works Department and in the Portuguese Consulate in Hongkong. bere they can be examined all week days.

Hand Public Works Department, 18th December, 1817.

* RAUL M. ns FARIA MARIA,

Engineer Director.

Hongkong. Dec. 21, 1917.

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.

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TRICAL APPLIANUES for tise in connection with the Company's supply. Conaners are recommended to com- municate with the Undersigned with a view to ascertaining

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the Appliances, and their use, are in accordance with the Com- pany's Regulations....

5. If the Wiring of the premises where it is intended to instal such Appliances is suitable.

It is important that the foregoing information should be obtained from the Company, as not only does the nelect to do so endanger property by fire but in addition may lead to a con-

. zravention of the Ordinance.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON &. C),,

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Hongkong, Dec. 15, 1917.

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FUTURE OF MUSIC."

SIR T. BEECHAM'S VIEWS ON

"OPERA.

DECLINE OF THE CONCERT.

a repertoire between them of something from 150 to 200. operas, If you take England as a whole there are very few people who know more than twenty operas very few have heard even the Dames of more than twenty, and certainly not one man in a thousand can whistle the tunes of any operas outside theas

CHINESE CONTROLLING AN. IMPORTANT TRADE.

VIEWS OF APANESE INVESTIGATOR.

Mr. E Nagamatan. Chief of the Fishery Bureau of the Department of Sir Thomas Bedcham believes that the twenty. So, whereas the musical public returned from a trip through the Agriculture and Commerce, recently development of music in England in the is very well acquainted with most of the Philippine Islands, Datch Fast Indies, immediate future will be in opera. In an symphonic masterpieces, it is entirely Malay Feninsula, Australia and other interview recently he pointed out a ignorant of the opera. Further, whereas South Bea Islands and delivered a simultaneous decline in the production it is a matter of great dificulty for cor. lecture on conditions there at the Saiwai of symphonic works and in the interest cart-givers to introduce new work of Club, Tokyo.

interest into their concert programmes, by the presence of the large number of Mr. Nagamata was deeply impressed pieces the English public is well one could give any opera house in this Chinese in those region, and by the fact country a repertoire for the next thirty that theyare practically controlling the years consisting entirely of unknown commerce, and that all foreign products That is what Imported have to pass through the hands. Operatie masterpieces.

fo Uhinesemerchants, anda largøpercent- mean when I say that the theatre basa age of these Chinese are wealthy. Mr. Nagamatan said that--the Europesa

in concerts. With the symphonie master

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acquainted, but there are suficient unknown operatic masterpieces to pro vide an opera-house with a repertoirs for T. 1398 thirty years..

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It is very dificult, Sir Thomas said, future in this country, because you cannot people residing there do not treat the

to have a vital executive branch of art hide the light of these masterpieces under Chinese

and they will find them in these unknown

are

e properly, and even the wealthy a bushel much longer. People will insist merchants are treated almost as slaven

and while the on having novelty and beauty combined. Especially in the Dutch East Indies.

they ill-treated, and whi selves for the development of the European residents do not exert them islands, the Chinese and half-bloods/who fare so earnestly working for the pros

perity of the district are not appreciated, but on the contrary are mistreated.

operas.

was produced almost every month an the time. Whereas thirty years ago there was produced almost every month ill interesting symphonic work by composers such as Brahms, Dvorak, Ischaikovsky, Rimaky-Korsakoo, Grieg, and Sa'at-Saens, for the last five or ten years thosts who give concerts have had the greatest difficulty in obtaining one interesting new work a year, and the average is growing less. This points to a gradual exhaustion in that branch of crastive music Simultaneously, nearly all over the coun try, there has been a decline of interest in concerts. None of the big festivals pay now, and quite a number of concert organisations have for years found it the cultivation and development of

difficult to exist at all.

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After an incidental ference to the baleful: effect "* of oratorio and the cantats, on English singers, the effect JAPANS SMALL PART IN THE TRADE.

After pointing out the various-TO- being that the English singer was made

sources and natural products of these to appear to have no artistic sense at all islands, Mr. Nagamatsu stated that Japanese trade with them should be Bir Thomas said that if the English singer encouraged At prosent the trade p was put into opers and amimilated its amounts to about now yo

but the total foreiga

these broad feeling he became like everyone else islands is 4,040,000,0 0 yen, and so JapaZE.

an ordinary human being.

enjoys lea than one-thirtieth of the entire amount. Furthermore, the

I believe, Sir Thomas proceeded, that Japazese trade in

opers in this country and the training of

year.

and the

Pisoárea with t

export is very small com

import, though there is a good

the development of the trade,

the

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Now with regard to the, opem, so farmposers to write for the theatre where it geographically sell to

they

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