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MARRIAGES.

Uxbridge Railway Station, when his eye was arrested by the picture

In the Straits and Hongkong. The Chief Justice saverely censured the practice of "police magistrates consulting counsel for the prosecu,

tion as to the sentence to be imposed on accused persons, which had been followed in a number of The "conviction cases recently." was set aside and a retrial ordered:

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1924.

TO-NIGHT'S OPERA.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE AND ORCHESTRA.

BOUQUETS AND PRESENTS.

$20,000 FIRE.

WINE AND SPIRIT SHOP GUTTED.

BRIGADE'S PROMPT WORK.

the alarm. and the full fire-fighting equip ment was on the spot shortly after

A copy of the programme It is fair to presume that the which will be handed to the The Central Fire Brigade censure of the Chief Justice was audience at to-night's presents-received a call at 4.35 this morning, fully deserved; it is also fair totion by the Hongkong Philhar and proceeded to No. 3, Ko Shing presume that the practice commonic Society of "The Yeoman of Street, a three-storied building. plained of was chiefly due to the the Guard has been sent to the The Kennedy Town and Wanchas police magistrates in question not offices of the "China Mail."

units were also, ordered to attend being qualified for the posts they were appointed to fill chiefly in it is a synopsis of the atory, It is very nicely made up and through lack of training. The and Hats of the officers of the Singapore incident, as we have Society, the Dramatis Personae, a cockloft on the ground floor The fire, which had its origin in said, serves to emphasise the choruses, songs and orchestra. unsatisfactory. procédure which

occupied by the Hang Lam Chong regulates the Civil Service. It is bouquets, chocolates or any other had already gained a good hold Admirers wishing to present finn of wine and spirit merchants, suggested by a writer in the gifts to the performers are re of the ground floor and also two "Pinang Gazette" that Govern-minded in its pages that they of the upper floors when the ca ment should make it its duty to must hand them in c/o Stage gines arrived. Two hydrants and find efficient men for the various Manager not later than 8.30 p.m.a departments and, when they show

pump were brought into immediately. and in talent and ability for, the branch on Saturday, December 20. Pre- action

sentations over the footlights are the course of an hour the of work they undertake, to keep

fire was under control: But for the ' them in that department, in so far to be to principals only.

The following are thanked by prompt arrival of the brigade, there as the circumstances governing

is no doubt that the third floor' the administration will allow. Old the Committee of the Society: hands in the East will recall the Lt. Col. F. S. Montague Bates, would also have been involved and, alleged case of the cadet who had C.B., C.M.G., D.8.0.. 1st Bat caused the gutting of the whole Wanchal unic passed in Chinese being appointed talion East Surrey Regiment for building. The Superintendent of Tamil immi-services of bandsmen; The Rev. returned at 547 am, and the grants on his return to the StraitsYV. H. Copley Moyle and St. Central and Kennedy Town from Hongkong. Though this John's Cathedral Church Body equipments left for their stations appointment-if it was authentic for use of the Cathedral Hall at 6:35 a..

No loss of life is reported but the could not have been expected to The Committee of the Union damage caused by ire and water benefit any one, it was not likely Church, Hongkong for the use of is estimated at $20,000. It is un- to lead to a miscarriage of justice the Union Church Hall: Mrs, and derstood that the property is insur- In the case of appointments to Miss Leys, and Messrs. Coles, ad for $20,000, the Bench, however, the game of Derrick, Gill, Hollidge, Kill and "general post should not he Luck for assistance in the pro- allowed.

duction of the Opera.

DRAMATÍS PERSONAE. The opera is produced under the sole direction of Mr. W, G. Wheller,

Mr. D. M. Richards.

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ABUSIVE "LANGUAGE.

BUS CONDUCTOR FINED

TWO DOLLARS.

Sir Richard Cholmondeley

(Lieutenant of the Tower),

Mr. A., F. Glanville. of the Kowloon Motor Bus Com

The case in which a conductor" Colonel Fairfax (Under

„pany stands, charged' with using sentence of death),

Gourdin, a passenger on the bus, abusive language to Mr. F. O Sergeant Meryll (Of the

when requested to refrain from Yeomen of the Guard}, " blowing his whistle in an unneces- Leonard Meryl (His Son),

Mr. G. H. Piercy.sary manner, was continued at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning Mr. H. G. Annisa. before Mr. E. W. Hamilton.

Jack Point (A Strolling

Jester). Mr. J. S. Gillingham. Wilfred Shadbolt (Head Jailor and Assistant Tormentor) Mr. G. D. Leys,

Mr. T. Barnfather.

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of a Beefeater in the large dis-The Red Ranters. play advertisement of the Tower

"Much indignation has been Furnishing Company. This at aroused in Chinese official quarters once gave him the first idea of the land public circles in Peking owing plot and scene of "The Yeomen of to reports of a proposed joint action by the Powers. The the Guard." The opera met with demand that the Chinese Govern- instant success. far exceeding the ment give assurances that it will highest hopes of its author and abide by the treaties is regarded composer. Especially appreciated the internal crisis of this (China) as an attempt to interfere with was the duet between Jack Point country and undermine all efforts and Elsie Maynard. "I have a Song to create a strong central power."

At the previous hearing, the to Sing O." Mr. Adair Fitz-Gerald The foregoing is a message des-

case was adjourned to enable the Telephones Central 22 & 4641 relates that Gilbert wrote the patched by the Rosta News

complainant to subpoena㤷 Agency in Peking on November 19 words after the model of "The and published in the "Canton

inspector of the Bus Company. who was alleged to have heard House that Jack Built." The Gazette" under the caption "Fish- The Headsman,

what was going on. The inspec opening stanza, "I have a Song to ing in China's Troubled Waters."

tor was present to day, and his Sing O!" comprises, seven fines The Rosta News Agency, of First Yeoman, Mr. J. W. Jefford. evidence, as rendered by the

course, is a Bolshevik propaganda Second Yeoman,

Court interpreter, was that and to each succeeding verse two agency with headquarters in

Mr. A. J. J. Brock, the defendant did not swCAF lines are added until the last verse Moscow. The Peking branch has First Citizen Mr. D. Trafford. at the complainant, although is extended to thirteen lines. Mr. been in existence since 1919. Second Citizen,

he went to the back of the bus and When the first Red propagandist Adair Fitz-Gerald says that it is arrived in Peking, he established Elsie Maynard (A Strolling

Mr. A. V. Sanders, grumbled a bit. Asked if he had any questions to put to witness, known Sullivan took over two himself in a house in the Chinese weeks before he was satisfied with quarter of the city, but the Police Phoebe Mery!! (Sergeant.

Player). Mrs. Stanley Collett. Mr. Gourdin complained to the Magistrate that the Interpretation of the inspector's evidence had the eventual melody and its in those days were more awake to

Meryl'a Daughter), the danger of Bolshevism and the crescendo movement. "It was press bureau was closed down. Dame Carruthers (House

Mrs. Douglas Reid, not been correctly rendered and specified two Instances. At this DRAKEFORD MARTIN On stated on good authority that it By some extraordinary means.

stage an incident occurred which December at Shanghai, kept Sullivan awake of nights and however, the red ranter, who keeper of the Tower).

resulted in the "interpreter being Samuel Finch Drakeford,

sowed the first seeds of Bol-Kate (Her Nice),

Mrs. Neil Mathieson. sent out of Court and another put formerly of Mukden, to when a friend called and found shevism in Peking, obtained the

in his place. Lefona Florence Martin, "of him in a semi-demented state, he sympathetic ear of the doyen of

Mrs. D. J. Brown.

The defendant, who pleaded not Shanghai.

Chorus of Yeomen of the guilty, claimed that to keep the moaned dat in melancholy tone, the Corps Diplomatique and the COLLAR RICHARDSON-On My dear fellow, I have a song to agency was allowed to open an Griggs, Hamer, Hancock, Long- and thus prevent accidents it was Guard: Messrs. Best, Brown, driver well posted with his signals December 6, Bunty, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Alan Richard. set 0, and I don't know how the office within the precincts of the year, Mills, Oliphant; Penny, necessary for him to give loud

| Legation Quarter. For some

blasts on his whistle, and that the son, of Shanghai, to Hubert dickens I am going to do it. Once weeks the Rosta Agency confined Smith, Thomas and Williams. John Collar, eldest son of Mr. in conversation Sullivan said, I itself to furnishing the English Citizens: Messrs. Barber, Bell, monstrate with him.

Chorus of. Gentlemen and complainant had no right to re- and Mrs. Thomas Collar, spent a fortnight over that blessed language newspapers with com Whitstable, Kent.

'The case was brought to a close Fountain, West and Westlake, mercial information which at jingle and must have set and reset times was of genuine interest to Mesdames, Cooper, Dick, Goodall, it a dozen times before I was merchants. Later a propaganda

Groundwater, Hancock, Kill, satisfied. Gilbert told me he got campaign was launched against Ling, Luck, Lugard, Rowe and GREGSON. On December 6, at the idea from a nautical ballad Japan in the English sheets issued Wheller. Misses Brock, Ellis,

Shanghai, Laura Landon

he had heard in

Hansen, King, Mow by the Roste Agency. "As time Grace, Gregson, of Melbourne, pass-

his yacht, passed a number of the Chinese Fung, Owen-Hughes, Puncheon, ed away in her sleep.

beginning "I have a Song to Sing newspapers in the capital gave

Russell, Thompson, Vinall and O," and as the song progressed, it space to Rosta propagands, which Willmott. increased in length, just as the gradually developed into an Assistant Headsmen: Messrs. "Merryman" did. I was glad insidious campaign against all the Phillips and Marshall.

Treaty Powers--America and Orchestra. Violine: Mrs. morning with driving a motor assure you when I completed it to Great Britain coming in for G. E. Aubrey, Miss E. I. Box, truck in a negligent manner, and my satisfaction. It would have especially severe treatment as the Miss M. Joy, Mrs. F. A. Griggs, also with driving in Salisbury been ungrateful of the public not "hate" towards Japan temporarily Mr. W. C. Abrams, R.N., Mr. Road, which is prohibited under to have liked it; but happily it died down when there appeared . L. Alves, Mr. J. M. S. Rosario, his licence.

some likelihood of Japan falling, Mr. C. A. F. Xavier. Viola: Miss Mr. S., L. Hidden, giving evi- went alright, being quaintly sung, as had China, an easy prey to J. Braga. Cellos: Mr. N. U. dence, said that he was proceeding "To-night Hongkong's Philhar-and I was repaid for all my Bolshevik wiles. Now, however, Botelho and Mr. S. Paul Double along, Salisbury Road in a resha monic Society gives its first trouble." That the public could Japan, equally with the other Bass: Mr. P. N. Sequeira. at 9 pm on November 28 when performance of "The Yeomen of not have been anything but grate wrath of the red ranters and is Flute: Bandsman Brifft. Oboe: hind driving a truck and sounded

Protocol Powers, has incurred the Pianist: Mrs. J. S. Thompson, the defendant came up from be

the Guard." Unless advance ful for this most charming duet, accused of "being at the back of Bandaman Milea. "Clarionet

his horn. The riccha moved to the left side of the road and reports are singularly misleading everyone who has ever heard it all the Tientsin combinations and Bandsman Donovan, Bassoon:

the defendant also swerved to the Stiling. Cornet: the event will be a very notable must agree: But "I have a Song apparently planning to join this Bandaman

left and ran into his ricsba, for- Hannan. common action to complicate the Bandsman, one indeed, the standard reached to Sing O" is only one of the many situation in China." Of course, Bandaman Mackleworth. Trom and bumping into another ricsha Horn' tunately only damaging the vehicle, being exceptionally high, it is said, gems, in "The Yeomen of the the Eosta News Agency itself does bone: Lance Corporal Johnson. in which his wife was travelling.

It is Tympani: Bandsman Newell. especially for amateur performers. Guard," and tempted as we are not make this statement. Beaides this "The Yeomen of the to go on quoting extracts from careful to place the words in the

mouth of a "well-informed Chinese} Guard” is a light opera that never Mr. Adair Fitz-Gerald's book, we public leader." Needless to say. failą to charm. The public must bow to. the decrees of king the name of this mysterious per- appetite, as one critic noted so Space, adding only that the sonage is not given. It is signi- ficant, however, that the treaties long ago as 1887, may just possibly Philharmonic Society deserves the between China and the Powers are become satiated with "surplusage highest praise for giving the described as "having outlived of dainties,” such as the earlier. Colony an opportunity of enjoying their age" and having "no more Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and Gilbert and Sullivan's "magni-vitality unless they be supported

by extraordinary measures." "a real comic opera dealing with ficent masterpiece. neither. topsy-turveydom nor

DEATH.

Hongkong, Friday, Dec. 12, 1920.

"THE" YEOMEN OF THE

GUARD,"

fairies, but à genuine. dramatic story, written with Mr. W. S. Gilbert's masterly power, and set

"General Post.?

to music as Sir Arthur Sullivan Times without number attention

SIAM'S ADVISER.

'SIR ‹ EDWARD COOK IS

APPOINTED.

ti

SEAMEN'S MISSION.

LOCAL BRANCH IN NEED OF FUNDS."

The Committee of the above Mission to Seamen

most

axlous to pay off the deficit on the year's working, largely caused by the present depressed state of shipping, and a special appeal for funds is now being made in the hope of raising $0,000.. Funda from this appeal are already coming in quite well from the staffs of numerous firms but it is

by defendant being fined $z.

CARELESS DRIVER.

CHINESE FINED $50 AT KOWLOON.

A young Chinese was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy, this

Witoess stated that the Incident happened at the junction of Salis bury Road and Nathan Road.

The Magistrate, in fining the defendant $50, warned him of, the. serious consequences which would result in learning to drive in a careless manuer.

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Sir Edward Cook, who received takes a very keen interest in the Da Fox Dread the Nighty

Coughs and solds always soom to grHONE. FitzGerald, in his book "Thesion of a revolver and ammunition

wilbous warning at midnight. Avoid an Story" of the Savoy Opera," tells called forth sharp criticism from In January 1881, educated at Was at his special with that this worst night-fall-and-group-on- Oppingham and Clare College, appeal is being launched. Ze onessy, Beverlão, sleepless night by keeps how "The Yeomen of the Guard" which serves to emphasise the in 100 Since 1910 he has been should send donations to Mr. T. G. Cough Bomedy. It is soothing, beli Sir Walter Shaw, the Chief Justice, Cambridge, and joined the IC.S. Anyone wishing to contribute ing in the home a bottle of Chamberlain came into being.. Gilbert was present unsatisfactory procedure Secretary to the Government of Weall, Hon, Treasurer, Mission to and ootas no narcotica. For ma waiting for a train, one day at which regulates the Chyll Service India, Finance Department. Seameti c/o Messrs. Dodwell & Co. | everywhere. |

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