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THIRD. SYMPHONIC CONCE‹ ̃

at the

PENINSULA HOTEL

GROUND FLOOR LOUNGE

PROGRAMME

PART I

1. CORONATION MARCH...

from Opera

Prophet"..G. Meyerècor

2. VALUE ESTANA.....

...........E. Wallteufel

2. INDIAN LOTY LYRICH

........4. Woodford-Hinden

4. PIQUE DANS

(Selection) Dramatic "Opera..P. Tachaikowsky Interval

PART 11

1. THE BARBER OF

SEVILLE, Boiri

2, PRELUDIO

National Finland

Song. Jarnefelt

PART 11-Core.

3. MELODY IN F

A. Bubenticin

8. Bcott

Piano Solo by

4. LOTUS LAND ...

NURA KANIS

Interval

PART III

1. THE SHAMROCK

Selection of

Melodica, W. Middleton

2. CRARDAS - C#]Kos

Bokat.

"Violin Solo by

Miss NORAH FLINT Accompaniment by

NURA KANIS

8, Hone or THE VOLGA

BOATHAN

(Euchner)

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P.

LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY

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HONG KONG DAILY, PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1932.

CINEMA C ERK'S

LAPSE.

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EMBEZZLED FUNDS OF THE GRAND THEATRE.

ACCUSED BOUND OVER.

MR. PEPYS IN HONG CATCHING UP WITH

KONG.

4th-Up early and, having trim- med myself, to the office, where very busy ordering my affairs and dictating of my letters. But Mrs. Betty is might particular, enquir ing of mo ne to the Boreal fasiion A charge of embezzling $144.25, of doing on certain garments, at representing receipts at the Grand' whichi L chido her for a saucy minx, Theatre in Wanchai, was brought | Yet, truth to tell, I could not an against Lee Woon Choung, before swar her. Later to the Clubbe, Mr. Schofield at the Central Policy where seated, upon the verandah

have much discourse with Mr. Court yesterday.

Povy, Creed, and Mr. Ashby, wo all agreeing the review of His Majesty's troops to be most excel lent" well done, but a pity they should march in the rain and

Det. Sergt. Kennedy said that the accused had been three years in the employ of the Amusements Co., hav. ing been guaranteed in the post by an uncle who occupied the position of chief clerk in the Wing On Inwere-well had this been stayed. yurance Co., and who had put up But, says Crowd, all these matters $300 agains tint guarantee.

The $144.25

repreanted takings of one day at the Grand Theatre. In the ordinary course of events, the money should have been handed over to a shroff, but accused

the

had failed to do so on this occA- sion. Eis disappearance led to a warrant being issued for his arrest. As the Amusemente. Co.,,, had no suffered in any way, they having had the security of 8300, they were inclined to take a lenient view and were not pressing the case.

His Worship "bound the accused a sum of 2200 with one personal surety, to be of good. be haviour for a year.

over in

The uncle of the accused refusing to furnish the personal surety, the accused was remanded for twenty four hours to enable him to look for some other guarantor.

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CAR'S 300FT. DIVE AT DOVER.

WEATHER HOLDS UP A GLORIOUS CRASH,

"A trade notice "states":→

One of the most mentional and

work to a fixed measure of time, which if it vary by so much as a

minutes, the repercussions do well-nigh level Seven and Sixpenny Hill; and so once started there can be no change. Diced for nuncheon and I free at Mr. Pory's charges. Later reading in a Memoir of my great Ancestor, I do End to my greatest possible surprize that his wife Elizabeth St. Michel be born nigh to Bideford in the Count of Devon, a place well known to me. And reading further I learn that "pon his marriage anniversary • certain, year, he knew not how many years he had been wed, and his wife tells him ten. Yet was she strong, in that it was eleven years, and

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THE AVERAGE.

HEAVY RAINFALL DURING. PAST NINE DAYS.

10.5 INCHES SINCE JUNE 1.

The rain

it

during the past nine days has done much to enable the Agures for this year to stud con- pärison with rainfall over the 'same peried in former years.

Since June 1, no less than 10.3

inches of rain ha fallen and at the time of writing there is still promise of further rain. A very heavy downpour on Thursday night has helped materially to bring up the figure.

The rainfall since January 1 now totais 20.09 inches, so that it will bassen that more than half this quantity fell since the 1st of June The 2002 inches comparas quite well with the 28.47 which is the

general average for former years The fall of rain during the last nine days has exceeded the average by five inches,

No less than 10,000,000 gallons have been impounded into the re-

the calculation servoirs during the past ten days.' This is based on than an inch of rain would mean about 28,000,000 gallons of water for the reservoirs.

The rainfall from Thursday morn. ing to Friday morning amounted to 2.14 inches.

an minded to write of this to my own wife, who poor wretch, he most singular apt to mark anniversaries FIGHTING WOMEN. and dates, which, God help me. I am not, and even more at fault than Mrs. Elizabeth.

5th, Lord's Day.-This day I did visit one of the King's greate shippes and there drank my Hol landa wators diluted with an aerited water very pleasant to the taste, and I perceive I shall drinke more of this, Bathing in the sea later I find there be a many jelly-fish of which the sting be so poisonous, it

| successful stunts ever engineered be most painful upco the skin and

for film purposes was accomplished so I go ashore.

despite adverse weather conditions à 6th-This day again falls rain by Walter Summers at Dover for and I am glad of it, for our re- a thrilling highlight in The Fly-servoirs as still danger low--and I ing Fool." now having its final would fain goe them awash by run as the Queen's Theatre,

September or ever the dry season corner.

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BRAWL AT WEST POINT

STREET FOUNTAIN,

Five women appeared before Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Cours yesterday charged with fights ing at a street fountain in Centre Street. West Point.

Inspector MacWalter informed the Magistrate that fighting was a

where the seemed to be a large common occurrence in West Point

water number of women drawing from the fountains.. He said that. the defendants, with many others who were not arrested, were fight- ing., When a district watchman in- tervened the fight became worse and

clogs the womdith w

at one

another.

The scene depicted a dash on the Dover road in a car which oven.

7th.-Reading in the Newes

His Worship Ascertained that, the Lually crashed over a three hundred foot cliff at St. Margaret'a Bay. A Sheetes over my early dish of tea

1 find a Mrs. P. Smith do reprove trouble started when the third de- Bentley ear. which had set up 14-

the Colony for its treatment offendant tried to "cut in"' while cars on the Brookland's track, was secured together with the services Chinese and the striking of coolies, the fifth defendant was drawing her water. Each of these defendants

which indred pata me in. complete

order

WAA

was, fined' 85, and an nude binding over all the defend- ant to keep the peace.

of two of Sir Harry Birkin' me

amazement so great a mistatement hanics: A wooden track was laid

it be; and speaking to Creed and down to keep the Bentley on her course and on the security of thiory of it later, the latter did say that were "well she did anve her dependled the lives of the cuunera. men who Hood at a vantage pointing to chide her own nation for with Mr. F. Seeds and others of the kidnapping, and murder of bebes Races, where I doubt not the going for a closcup upon the cliff's edge. But what Creed said it is not fiting shall be soft, and, it may well be, The gears of the enr were lock-1 should write down even in this very heavy, whereby will wagering ed and the engine warmed up,secret diary. I learn there will be be the more difeult. In the first Sunti at the word go" its brakes judicial enquiry upon the loss of race I learn that Mr. Frost rides were released and it reared off the great French shippe and it is no Little Beaver but The Tiger along the track. At the moment the but fit. For the most contradictory whereon I think he shall win. Int Bentley shot over the cliff with the stories be told and no rent cause the second race I am mash at a straightness of an arrow's fight it for the flames shown. And as some stands to know if Cabinet Hull had nttained a speed of 70 miles kay all be most orderly while most goes, or in No. 7., But on the whole I make little of it nor does he very an hour, and a grent and glorious that there bo a wild panic, I do crash 300 feet below was recorded perceive that one can trust no tale, mueb. both for sound and the second But I do trust the enquiry be

10th. This day very heavy with a holden with open, doors and that it rheum in the head and, after order-

camera

#COLL.

mide publique here,

ing my business for some time, to For two long worrying days,

bo and drinking a possett of Summera was at loggerheads with

8th-At last comes newes of the strong waters and spices that,

trust, shall mend the matter. And the weather for this ecene. A re-take

capture of one of theme petly I fall reflecting that it he mighty essential being impossible is was

thieves who do make off with cars strange that with all the skill of that conditions were perfect for and later abandon them as like us cur Chyrurgruas who can nigh take the crash. The first day was misty net damaged. But this time the a man to pieces and put him to- and it was not until four o'clock scoundrel be caught after & long gether again, and, no speedy cure that the first ray of sunshine was chat, and for six months will drive exists for rheums of the head but HO. Ore. This evening to the they but recover by effluxion of But the cliffs shadow was Stables where I see my friend time alone. News this day of a cast below and filming was declarValorous who tells me he runs not Frenchwoman who crashes on ed off. The following day provident the next meeting, being blister flight to Tokyo, and her face being ed Summers with a taste of "med in the fort legs; which I think marred by her injuries the poor pense" for despite a cloudy skywise for he hath had a belly-full of creature is said to have killed her

Indeed it would seem there -Dined with Kolf. light wind rose. Excitement was galloping this season. intense and the whole unit might Mr. J. Heard and very busy with lies a curso upon these long flights, have been soon on the cliff's odg by race books working; out the form, for, but a few days since yet an- scrutinising the sky and wondering Yet much I doubt if form ben other trans-Atlantique flier, n whether the clouds would blow from sound guide for wagering with a Hangarian or o nome mid-Euro- the sun's face by the zero hour. China pony. So home and very penn race, do vanish and is drown- At the critical moment, the sun sleepy to bed.

ed. Later this day comes Mr. H. to my chamber and we speak more emerged and the car performed' its gigantic..leap.

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--ME, J.FUTERA

The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd,

9th Awaking this day I do pur-of the Races and the more I am ceive to my greatest possible vexa at a stonde to picks the winners who tion that I have taken a chill-yet shall profit me. And what shall win how or whose I know not, and so, the last race I know not-no; nor very cross, to the Office. It seems does any one else. Yet Helvellyn that an enquiry comes as to the re- and Army Hall may not be so far Of the Societe Internationale deernt stoppage of the Chinese postea,nway in other races. So to bed with Pincomenta Baile (Local agents and of this I would fain hear more possit of strong waters and juice Messrs. Gouke & Co.).

"though" "now" "all" be done To the of the lemon and spices all mighty Chubbe where later I fall talking hot, and much hopes to be recovered

(Continued on near Votuma.) on the morrow.

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