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DEPUTY FOR KING

Duchess Presents New Colours to Black ·

Watch

(Special Air Mail Service)

London; Aug. 12.-

On Saturday, in presence of a crowd of several thousand specta tors which included a large num ber of distinguished personages,

BRASS BANDS IN DIARY OF LOCAL

CHINA

Lively Tunes At Funerals

EVENTS

FRIDAY, AUGUST 30

Anniversaries and Holidays. Feast of St. Rose of Lima:

Auctions. Leasehold Property.

since the revolution of 1911 the Lammert's Sales Room, 3 p.m.: use of Westéŕn, music on cere-

Household Furniture, 36 Hankow

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monial occasions in China has Road, 10.30 am become increasingly common, es- pecially in the larger cities King's Elior Norton." wedding or funeral procession is Oriental:"After Office Hour." "Among well-to-do- Chinese no Queen's:-My Song For You: complete unless it includes at least Alhambra: "Chinese Picture.***

the Duchess of York, at Glamis one brass band with the musicians Majestic:-"Below The Sea."

Castle, presented new Colours to

the county's Territorial regiment,

vividly carbed in scarlet Jackets and blue trousers: Ä magnificent-

BearTmitation Of Life"

Lectures.-Christian Fellowship

the 4th 5th Battalion, The Black plumed shako usually completes Helena May, 10.30 a.m.

Watch

The weather was dull with a strong wind blowing from the west, but the Duchess herself

radiated sunshine.

Immediately ashe came from the castle holding the hand of Prin- cess Margaret Rose, and with Princess Elizabeth on her right the Duchess smiled to the crowds, who received her with loud cheers As she walked to the parade ground Her Royal Highness was followed by the Duke of York, dressed in the uniform of the Cameron Highlanders, of which he

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this costume, which, fondly` ima- giñed to be in the best European military style, is apt to be more suggestive of a musical comedy.

Miscellaneous-Whist Drive and Tombola, Royal Engineers Warrant Officer's Mess, 8.45 pm. Inagura- tion Ceremony of New Water Sup- ply Scheme at Macao, 5.30 p.m.

Sports Swimming. Colony Champion- ship, V.R.C., 6 pm

As a rule the tunes are, chosen without the slightest, regard for appropriateness, the main idea being to achieve the maximum amount of noise, and so, to con- vince the parties concerned that they are getting their full money's worth. "Marching Through Geor gla" has achieved almost universal popularity as a wedding march in Tides-High at 9.57 and 22,43; China, with · "Onward, Christian Low at 3.30 and 16.22.“ Soldiers," " as a close second.

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the Earl and Countess of Strath- alore: the Hon. John Bowes Lyon. the Master of Glamis; the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon; the Hon. T. Coke, the Duke's. Equerry; Lady Helen Graham. and Major-General Sir Archibald Cameron, G.O.C. the Scottish Command, were with the Duke, The little Princesses; dressed in pink coats, stood in front of the canopied enclosure while their mother inspected the battalion drawn up on the lawn under the commander of Cólonel f. D. Guthrie of Guthrie, M.C.

reception ranged from the Dead March to "Saul" to "Way down upon the Swanee River."""

Mpen-VIII Moon, 2nd. Day. Sunrise.6.05 a.m. Sunset: 6.43 P.m.

Moon."

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“Under- "The Pampas

: SATURDAY, AUGUST 31

queen of the Netherlands born, Anniversaries and Holidays: --

1880. Feast of St. Aldan, Bishop.

Auctions-Laminerts, Household CRAZE FOR MODERNITY Furniture, 403, The Peak, 10.30. a.xi.“ În": "the * case of funerals the Bathing --St. Andrew's Club, Po- resulta have been

even

Uce Pier 8.15 pm.; Kowloon Tong mare ludicrous at times,

With no

Anglican Church, Police Fier," 3.15 thought or impropriety, one pro- P minent Chinese citizen of Stfang- had was laid to rest to the tune of

There'll be a hot time in the old King's town to-night," and "Happy days are here again” is another popular funeral air. It is not at all un- PRINCESSES AWE-STRUCK

common for several brass bands in They appeared to be awe-struck the same procession to play differ- by-the whole proceedings, 'and ent tunes simultaneously, and quite showed the greatest interest in regardless of the deliberate pace everything that took place. All at which the cortège is moving. the time Princess Elizabeth held on a recent occasion two funerai the hand of her younger sister. bands met at a busy intersection After presenting the flags, which in Shanghal, one blaring forth take the place of the old banners-Three blind mice" while the other destroyed in the Dundee Drill Hall | struggled through "Keep the home fre a year or two ago, the-Duchess fires burning.” of York stepped forward and ad- -dressed the battalion

DUCHESS'S SPEECH

"Tam desired by His Majesty the King, your Colonel-in-Chief," she wald, "to convey to you an expres- alon of his best, wishes, and to say how sorry he is not to be able to present these new colours to you himself.

"His Majesty has requested me to perform the ceremony on his behalf, and it is with great plea- sure that I do so. .

"I entrust you with this honour- able charge, and have the greatest confidence that you will, with the true loyalty and well-known devo- tion of the Black Watch preserve the honour and reputation of your regiment which in peace and war has stood so high in the British Army."

Queen's: "My Song For You." Oriental:-"After Offc: Hour." Alhambra:-"Chinese Picture." Majestic:-"Below The Sea.” Star:-"Imitation Of Life"

Dances.-V.R.C., after Swimming

Gala.

Miscellaneous. Entries in the "Hong Kong Telegraph" Amateu Photograph Competition cloas at noon; Inauguration Ceremony at Equine Sports Club, Shatin, 430) p.m.

Sporta

Baseball-Americans

V. Mini-

Carrying the craze for moderni-)) tyone step fartrier, enterprising undertakera in Shanghai have be- gun equipping their hearses with danac (La Salle College), 3.30 p.m. a loud-speaker from which a dance Bowls League Senior Division. programine is broadcast during the Police R.C. v. Craigengower C.C. procession. This is going altoget-"A"; Kowloon C.C. A. Civu. Service her too far, in the opinion of the CC., Kowloon Docks 7. Club de municipal commissioners, and the Recreio; Craigengower C.C. ""; V

R.C.; practice has now been forbidden. [Indian

Junior Division,

in addition, a set of regulations Craigengower C. v. Police R.C.; designed to enforce propriety in Civil Service C.C. v. Kowloon C.C.. the employment of professional Club de Recreio v. Taikoo R.C musicians has been issued. "These Hong Kong Electric v. Yacht Club bands," the commissioners point Kowloon B G. C. v. Hong Kong out, "are not only

garbed in F.C. strange apparel but do not know Moon-VIII Moon, 3rd. Day what they are playing for. At Sunrise 6.04 am Sunset.--6,41 wedding celebrations they play pm. slow tuneral dirges or sometimes foreign national anthems, while in funeral processions they play wedding songs, thus making them- At the conclusion of the cere-selves. the laughing. stock of mony the Duke and Duchess were Chinese and foreigners alike." the guests of the officers of the The, commissioners make clear battalion at tea. Princess Eliza- their intention rigidly to suppress beth later watched the further brass bands which give offence in King's: proceedings, from the nursery future. window in the Castle, and could

be seen dancing to some of the

pipe tunes in So

LORD AMPTHILL"

(Special Air Mail Service)

surtleLondon; Aug" 30.

· Lord Ampthill, of Oakley House, Bedford, who died on July 7, hás

MR. SIDNEY SMITH OF

DRURY LANE

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Aug 10. Mr. Sidney Smith, of Conway road, Southgate for many years director of Drury Lane Theatre, secretary business manager and who died on July 8, aged 80, left £28,400.

left unsettled estate of the gross value of £18,377AN ANTARA

Probate of his will dated' January 28, 1934, far been granted to his widow. Baroness Ampthill, and his Sons John Hugo, Lord Ampthill. and the-Honi-Edward Wrlothesley Most of the estate was bequeath- Curzon Russell all of Oaikeyed between his nephews and nieces.

Jessie Evans Gray

He left £300 sind 'his' furnitur: Huah Dorothy Evans

and stock at Oakley to his wife, Roland an Smith,

and the residuétupan' truft for Her Stoc

for life, and then between his four

younger children.

It was announced recently Oakley House is to bear of

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