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PLANE REPAIRED WHILE TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

FLYING

AIRMAN UPSIDE DOWN FOR ONE HOUR

"(Router's Special Service)

WELLINGTON, N Z., Fab, 13. Hanging with his head downward for over an hour, while one of his passengers was clinging to a strap

PROGRAMME..

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES.

EUROPEAN LECTURE,

11 to 11.00 a.m.-Stock quotations. 11.30 am.-Chinese programme. 1230 p.m.-European programmo.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.

THE HISTORICAL

NOVEL

MR. FRANCE'S MERRY TILTING.

FANCY DRESS PICTURES OF OUR RUDE ANCESTORS,

Historical novels received rather

ESDAY, FEBRUARY 17,

NO IRISH GRAND PRIX RACES.

FIXTURE ABANDONED FOR THIS YEAR.

LACK OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

TRAVELLING IN YUNNAN.

INTERESTING LECTURE BY

DR. PFISTER.

1932.

BIG SOVIET OIL PROJECT

305-MILE PIPELINE

COMPLETED

Under the auspices of the Hong (Renter's. Special Service.). Kong University Medical Society, a very interesting lecture onl

Moscow, Feb. 13, Travelling in Yunnan and Sno-

It is announced that the tires chuan" was given by Dr. M. O hundred and five miles long ripe Pfister at the University yesterday

Dublin,-Owing to lack of finan rough treatment from Mr, N. HI.cial support, there will be no. Irish at 8.30 p.m. There was an unusual-line, which is to be employed for the purpose of pumping kerosene Hashed to his hools, and a follow-pilot. 1 p.m.-Local time and weather Franco, who was looturing upon Grand Prix motor races here this large attendance. "Prof. L T

Rido, Rev. Carpenter, Prof. Davies, from Armvir to the Ukraine, has was heading his machine through

that subject to the English Asso-year, it was Anally decided by thepr. Cuzder and Dr. T. Y. Li was

bron completed. 1.30 p.m.-Ragby Press news, mail olation, yesterday evening, at the organising committer. Docision ro

among those present. Dr. D. K. Samy presided.

driving rainstorm, an airman ngmod Blackmore successfully com- ploted amazing aerial repaira

Blackmore, with his colleagues, was participating in maas forma tion flying over New Plymouth and when attempting to land bumped hoavily.

The shock caused one of the solta on the landing wheels to break and immediately realising the peril of alighting, the practical certainty of

maah, Blackmore opened the throttle and ra-nscended again, shouting an off to Hamilton."

“

In the course of the fight to Hamilton, where Blackmore's mo aerodrome was situated; he carried out repairs to the damaged wheel "in mid-air, and landed safely.

He was banging upside down för over an hour, with a slender strap. taking his full weight!„

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT THE

KING'S

THEATRE ALL BRITISH NEWS REELS

Af 11.45 am, Continuous Programmes Swimming Lessons for

Tanks.

Melbourne's Royal Cattle.

Show.

Yeomanry

CommemoTM

rates Fallen Comrades. To Start Day's Spin. The Voice of the People. Election Impressions. London Makes a Night

of It.

Amazing Scenes at East

Ham

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. Buffaloes at White-Hall. Getting Ready for the

Fifth.

Guy Fawkes Day.

The Prince at Mersey-

side.

A Present for Princess

Elizabeth.

Mr. MacDonald after

the Victory. Wimbledon's Wonder. Goodwin's. Take. Their

Toll.

The Lord Mayor's Show. And Many Others.

PRICES Stalls

20 cents Dress Circle - 50 cents

Completely Change Programme every Week

report.

nutidu, ate p.m-Clow down.

3 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programme. 8. to

6.30 p.m.-Children's oro

gramme.

.gramme,

7 to 10.30 p.m.-European, pro

7 p.m.-Mail notice, etc. 7.00 to 7.30 p.m.--

#Talkie Tunes and Musical

Comedy.

King

of

Helena May. Institute Mr. Franco suggested that characters in his toricul novels were like people in fancy dress. They wore a tolerable imitation of the clothes of another Euge, but their speech, mannors and outlook were still of their own

time."

garding future racer was held ever to a future meeting.

The pipelino cost more than two million pounds starling to construct. Dr. Pfister said that six wosks The work was carried out with re- of hiking in Yunnan had made him markable expedition, being com as as ever, and that his wife pleted in tin month. top enjoyed the trip vory much, From Hong Kong, they proceded

n

EXPECTED ARRIVALS AND MOVEMENTS.

Anebisos, duo 'from Europe March

1.

Andro Tabon dile from Saigon.

Fab. 17.

Antenor due from Europe April 1. Asoma Maru due from Americs

Feb. 22,

Almuta Maru, due Fob. 18 froak

Austrália and Manila. Burdwan due from Europe Feb.

20.

Bremerhaven

due March 4 from Now Guinea ports. Calchas due from Europe Feb. 28. Emp. of Asia due from Vancouver

March 17.

:1

to Hniphong (Annam), and from Pres. Cleveland Feb. 10: from Maalia Empress of Japan dus from Van-

+

The Grand Prix motor races have brou hold for the past three years, sponsored by the Royal Automobile Club, but on each occasion there has bom a financial loss. The funds for the races were mainly provided by there they took train to Hanoi. To The lecturer was of opinion that guarantors, the majority of whom travel from Hanoi to Yunnanfu the historical movel achieved popu- | were members of the club.

(capital of Yunnan), it took them Iarity Ideause the people of the The races have attracted most of two days. Yunnan was a beautiful Jazz-"Selection."quiet and comfortable England of the world's famous drivers, includ-country, with high plateau and Regal Cinema Orchestra the 19th century had a nostalgia foring Sir Malcolm Campbell, Earl fortile river basins. The city of DX72

the supposedly adventurous and Howe, the late Cmdr. Glen Kids Yannanfu itself was 6,400 feet above Funny Face Tell the Dog."-

Lislio, Henson and Malo Quar more highly coloured past, when

ton, Mr. Kage Don, the Eyston sou levol, They tanvelled by an old Leite.--0002..

there word. knights and tourna- monte, wigs, and valvet cloaks, brothers, the Earl of March, and caraven route through the heart of What people who read novels want-many crack motorists of the Contin the province. They had escorta,

ent. Since the last races, in Julyguides. Each day they covered 40! ed was an escape from reality, into inst year, the club has made several to to 12. a pleasant dronm world, which they appeals for financial support for tribes of Yunnan-the Miaos, who Dr. Pastor dwelt briefly on the imagined had once existed. They liked to identify themselves with races this year, but the response wore originally from Chansi and was almost negligible, and some Anhwei, and the Lolos, who were the heroes and heroines of this time ago it was decided to drop the divided into black and white Lolos.

They had intermarried,with the trancing world of the romanticist

Chinoso and it was difficult to dis- creation.

tinguish a Miso, or a Lolo from a Chine50.

The people in Yunnan spoke a language nearly the same

4

Folly to be Wise" Selection."

Percival Mackey and his Band.

DX2:9.

1 Rita" I'd Rather Have

Memory of You."-Geoffrey Gwythor and Edith Day | DX54.

t

7.20. to 7.30p.m.--

From the Studio,

IT

ן. י

Mr. B. M. Broadbent will ton- elude her, lecture, on 4 Twenty

7 Years in Burma.".

port

7.30 to 5.12 p.m.

No Reality, Historical novelista nevar dealt 3 p.-Local time and weather re-with the realities of the past. They might give pictures, of a sort, of dungeons and torture, but they nevor dwelt long on such details. es lico and gangrene, li a writer Bayo ba accurate pictura of the Second Movement from "ym-past his readers would probably not. phonie Pathetique " (Tschui-like it, because, though it might be kowsky arr. Robertson).

Octetten,

ixture,

But the motor trade and others have made strenuous efforts to per- suade the club to revoke its deci

ion. To-day's meeting was the cul-as mandarin. mination of these efforts.

Pres. Garfield due Feb. 20 fron

Amerion, Honolulu, Japan audļ Shanghai,

Pros Lincoln due Feb. 29 frota America. Honolulu Japan and Shanghai,

Pres, Taft due Feb. 26,from. U.S.A., Chhada, Japan and Shangbai. Pyrrhus. due from Europe Marco

Rajputana due from: Europe Feb, Rakuyo Maru due from South

13.

23.

America Fab: 28.7

1.

4)

Santhia due Feb. 24 from Calcutta

and Straits. Shantung, due from Europe Fei.

19;

Shinyo Maru due Feb. 18 from

Japan and Shanghai Taiping due from Australia March

A.

Teiresias due from Europe Feb. 18. | Tergestea due from Europe Marci

Troilus dus from Europe March 18.

The lecture was followed by al After fully considering the posi-mapvie-picture, which was taken by tion, the committee decided that it Dr. Paster.

5, The seturu torminated with n was impossible to proceed with the arrangements. It is probable that vote of thanks to the speaker. a race will be promoted next year.

"

true, it was not what they expect. REMARKABLE NEW

Seene de Ballet." (db Bertoted. AFT, Sear).-J. H. Squire Celeste Octette.---9925:

Putting the Clock Back" (arr. Squire).-J. H. Squire Celeste Oclette.-DX63.

Dialect,

One great difficulty was the speech

OVEN.

of a fast age The conventional SELF-CONTAINED, AUTOMA-

TIC; ANTHRACITE FUEL.

way of meeting the trouble was 8.12 to 8.33 p.m.

by spattering the diologue, with "Ma Moro L'Oye" (Mother prithee, faire ladre," "cds Googn) (Raval). Walter Dam fish and the and thou." Par- resser conducting the New York sunally he found that intenselyNEED BE STOKED ONLY ONCE Symphony Orchestra - 4518/irritating. Georgo Moore had been quite successful with a reasonable ompromise, reflecting the atmos phere of the story, in Heloise and Abelard, and also in"Aphrodite

$318.

8.33 to 9 p.m.

Variety,

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An Old Time Sing Song "-- Descriptive with Charice Cobori in the Chair,-DX:1. Song If Winter Comes."-Rilly

Bennett (Comedian),-DX13. Xylophone Duct-The Royal Pageant The Famous Bar nardo Musical Boys.—4191. Descriptive, Sketch-A Day's Broadcasting Clapham and

Dwyer.--47457

to 10 p.m. (approx.).—Relay of the debate-from the European Y. M.C.A, Kowloon: The Motion

That Modern Youth if u filling Its Responsibilities."

·Speakers-Mr. E. F. Selk

Mr. A. R. Brown Mr. T. J. Price Mr. W. J. Kenten

De Mis p.m.-

Orchestral.

fi

IN 24 HOURS.

The famous Swedish inventor and Nobel prize winner, the head of the

in Aulis, though in the latter book Gasaccumulator Company of Stock

the archaic manner became tedious.holm, Dr. G. Dalen, recently added

Rough Cards.

another laurel to his many scientific achievements through the construc- Mr. France made great piny with tion of his new famous Aga oven, a self-contained, automatic kitchen the coarseness of our ancestors. Alltove, the economy of which when England was horrified when it was compared with ordinary electric suggested by a foreign doctor that and coal ranges seema overwhelming. Qucon Elizabeth should have a bath. This extraordinary cooker, which unknown and people fed themselves the, outside represents an almost Until the Stainrt period forks were nover is more than hand warm on with their fingers. Laud once com- revolutionizing achievement in the fplained that he was lame hrough line of domestic convenience and

plea bites. As to sanitation; we) could learn of that from Smollett!

1.

economy.

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Small Cost.

Reticence in conversation was a Victorian innovation. Conversation before then was, when judged by It is ready at any minute of the our standards, incredibly coarse.day and night for boiling, frying, Aristocrats were tyrannical to 4|haking, ronating and supplying degree forgotten fo-dig, and social lot water ut 3 far smaller conscience Kad no existence,

vost than a gas stove used inter- But one found nothing of that in mittently during the day. The cost Scott and the other historical of fuel is practically independent novelists. One might enjoy the of the amount of cooking done. books of that school, but as mirrors The interior drum is Alled with coke

• Schubertinna" (Schubert aruseless.

of the past they were worse than or anthracite only once in 24 hours. They roflected conditions The draught and temperature nre Finck)Herman Fiuck.and his and characters that had never exist automatically controlled by merely Orchestra.-8480.

placing a pointer. nt a desired Tchaikovskiana" (agg, Blaad), Mr. France was very severe on figure. There is no need to light a Paul Whiteman and this Or- Scott, but admitted the power and fire or surn a switch, the cooking chestru.--0470.

guato of Harrison Aimsworth tops and ovens being ready for us: 2018 to 10.30 p.m.--Rugby mid-day particularly in "Windson Castle, at any time. In every imaginable Press news and Board of Trade the Tower of London" and the detail the oven is a most remark- Lancashire Witches." The last cer-able product of the most conscien- tainly did convey, in his opinion, tious labour and inventive genius. something of the superstitions, fear and herron of the time when James I wrote about "daemonology.”

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G. A. Henty.

There was an amusing passage about G. A Henty's many bunka. The time and place might vaTY. but the hero whether following Tutankhamen or Marlborough, was always the same, a young English man, who could only have been educated at Rugby, where he would have been the apple of Dr. Arnold's

Bye.

it. One didn't want rbsolute realism. Historical novels at least stimulated interest in persons and periods. They propared the way for proper appreciation of Stubbs' charters! Memoirs and biographies had largely taken the place of historical novels in, these days, especially biographies of the kind written by Lytton Strachey Personally he thought historical novels were much better for young people, than detective stories, and the best literatura of the past whe not always good for babica- Collini's autobiography for

"If we wanted to know of a period from novela we should rind the novele of the period, "Henry plc. Esmond'' might be a good picture of Queen Anne's day, but Swift gave

OX-

Professor Simpson maintained that the test of a book was whether is a much better one. No great ona enjoyed it. Judged by that chamele emerged from the his sinndard the historical novel did torical noval, because it was im not fail. History was the presente possible to recapture enough to get tion of all available facts, but a more than a photographic view of novel was a selection of foots, to the past.

tall the story. To suppress the objectionable was quite justifiabla. Scott never claimed to be van mo The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, of fiction. Ho put his views on this curate historian-ho was a writer. who presided, said that while he

matter in the introduction to thoroughly enjoyed Mr. France's Peveril of the Peak according witty lecture a did not agree with

to his own standards he did not (Continued on next Colums),

Bay. Taking Up Ondgella,

couver Feb. 20...

Glaucus due from America Maria

11.

Hakusan Maru duo from - Japan

Haldera due Feb. 28, from Japan

and Shanghai Feb. 10.

and Shanghai,

Ixion, due from Vancouver March

2.

Enshima Karw due Feb. 20 fron

Kitano Maru due from Australia

Eutope via Negopatam.

Feb. 20, Kumsang due Feb. 17 from Calcutta,

and Straits... Mausang, J. M. & Co., Feb. 28. Momnon due from Europe Feb. 24. Nagara dus from Europe March 17. Naldera due Feb, 28. from Japan Patroclus due from Europe March

*

Philoctetes due, from Europe Feb.

(Continued on previous solumn.) “

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