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LEVITZKI'S TRUIMPK,

·HONGKONG, AUDIENECE

ENCHANTED.

It was most gratifying that there should be but few vacant seats at

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY OCTOBER 5, 1925.-

PORTUGUESE

REPUBLIC.

TO-DAY'S ANNIVERSARY

CELEBRATED..

LOCAL BOXING.

CARTLIDGE ACCEPTS

CHALLENGES,

C.P.O. Jim Cartlidge, the well-

Sir,-As the boxing 'kenson Is

In celebration of the anniver-known boxer, is on the look-out for. the Theatre Royal on Saturday sary of the establishment of the opponents and is prepared to be night, when Mischa Lovitzki gava Portuguese Republic in 1910, to cept some recent challenges, as the his first recital hero, for it has to day has been marked by an official following letter addressed to the be remembered that Hongkong reception by the Portuguese Con- Telegraph indicates: does not enjoy the reputation for zul-General, M. A. Luiz Cerveirn appreciating the work of master de Albuquerque e Castro, which about to start and having been musicians, especially pianiste. To took place at the Lusitano Club challenged by Signalman Rogers Lovitzki, goos the signal honour this morning...

and Bandsman Wareham, I would of being the first great pianist to receive a fitting welcome in this their respects were the A.D.C. &fcepting their challenges through Among those attending to pay like to take the opportunity of ace Colony, and never was such His Excellency the Governor, the your paper. I saw also that a Mr. warm reception more deserved. Of Mischa Levitski himself, but A.D.C of His Excellency the Maher is looking for an opponent. little was known locally, but au- General Officer Commanding, Com- There is no more need for him to thentic tribute which preceded modore Stirling and A.D.C., Sir look further, for I am right here him indicated the high standard Cloud Severn, C.M.G., Mr. A. G. M. and ready to oblige..

of playing to be expected, and Fletcher, the whole of the Official I should also like to let A. B. this was instantly demonstrated and Unofficial Members of the Ewin and Stoker Morris (of H. M by the masterful translation of Executive and Legislative Coun- S. Hermes) know that I shall ac- his introductory offering the cils, The Bishop of Macao (The commodate them whenever they feel Organ Toccata and Fugue in D Very Rev. J. da Costa Nunes); fit. They are both good men of minor (Bach-Tausig). From then Brother Aimar, the various mem- their weight, but I am quite ready on, the audience was held enrap-bers of the local Consular Body, to try conclusions with them. Giving tured by an executant so endowed and many prominent Portuguese away weight is nothing new to me with the ability to charm with de- and non-Portuguese residents of as I have often fought light-weights lightfully sympathic touch and the Colony,

and welter-weights when I was superb toclinique. Boothoven's The toast of "The Portuguese) in England, I have already stated Sonata, Op. 57 (Appassionata), Republic" was honoured on the that I will fight any Service man in was invested with a beauty rarely call of the Bishop of Macuo, who the Colony, from featherweight to known, while the, Chopin group made,an' extremely folicitous heavy weight and anyone can have revealed the artist to be a great ex- speech.

a side-stake on the issue. ponent of this favourite composer. The interpretation of the Beherzo in C sharp minor, Op. 39, was bril. liant in the extreme, and the study in G flat, Op. 25, No. 9 (Butterfly had to be repeated, so dolighted was the audience with the grace and delicacy of the rendering.

This evening a special dance is being held in the Club.

WAR ON MALARIA.

AN INTERNATIONAL

MOVEMENT.

You make mention, for the. benefit of new.comers to the Colony, that Chadwick beat me on a foul. The maintain he "fuked" it. fight itself lasted 31 seconds; five blowa were struck, four of which Chadwick stopped. The first was a left hook to the.rib; the second a left hook to the jaw which shook him; the third, a left swing to the side of the head; the fourth, n right swing to the head; the fifth, the blow with which I was supposed

Where he gave himself

The final division of the pro- gramme consisted of three varied works, "Troike en traineaux (Tschaikowsky) a study of gallop-| ing horses, sleigh bolls and Rus-

Rome, Oct. 4. At the inaugural meeting of the sian folk song."La Jingluose (Moskowsky) and Liszt's Rhap International Congress on Malaria, to have fouled him, was the blow sody No. 6, the last item proving held in the Capitol Signor Mus- I missed. the crowning triumph of a truly solint and a large number of inter-away, and why I maintain it was n wonderful recital, at the conclu-national experts on Malaria were fluke foul, was by asking me if.1 sion of which the audiones vocif- present including representatives would go 10 rounds with him (no erously applauded, not restingcon-of Burma, India and the Malay decision fight) for the experience, tent until Levitski bad genoouer-States. Signor Mussolini highly and this request from the man who ly responded with three encoros, tributed Britain and the Dominions had been fouled by a low hit. Surely an audience under such a for their striking example of colla- Chadwick is, as magic spell can well be pardoned boration in fighting the scourge of well, so perhaps we may meet again stated; doing for forgetting the physical strain malaria.

yet. I am not putting the above; imposed upon the artist.

The Argentine delegate proposed facts in to start an argument or a It is indeed welcome news that the establishment of an inter-long correspondence, but, in fair- another recital will be given on national Anti-Malaria. Institute in ness to myself and for the beneft Thursday, and although notice is Rome to collect world-wide informa of new comers, I think I am entitled short, there should no possible tion and undertake research for the to give my version of the night or EXCUKO for missing the last

redemption of infected regions, und rather fiasco. Incidentally, it might opportunity of listening to such master of the piano-an opport. organise practical teaching for be information for those who were unity which so rarely occurs in training malaria specialists. The there but did not know what had Hongkong.

Italian delegate promised that Italy happened-that between the time would support the proposal and was of Chadwick going down and his ready to provide the building and being declared the winner was 17) supply funds towards the organisa-seconds, but no "count" was made, tion of the Institute. The congress although there was a time-keeper approved of the proposal and there. entrusted its council to draw up a The fight is over and finished scheme in connection therewith-with, so let us close the subject. Reuter.

There are at present six men who have expressed a wish to meet me: I am quite willing to meet them, so it is up to the H.K.B.A. to do the remainder. I am willing and ready to fight anything on two legs and give the public value for their money-Yours, etc.,

JIM CARTLIDGE. Hongkong, Oct. 3rd, 1925.

SALE OF WORK.

IN AID OF BLIND HOME. Lady Pollock formally opened the sale of work in aid of the Kowloon Home for the Blind, in St. John's) Cathedral Hall this morning.

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The proceedings commenced with the singing of a hymn by the inmates and a selection by the Home Orchestra led by Mr. S. Paul. The Rev. T. B. Powell then said a short prayer.

SPIRITED AUCTIONS.

"RINGS" COMPETE FOR.

SHOPS' CONTENTS.

the

SOVIET GRIP OF CANTON,

There were very large crowds of Lady Pollock made a graceful Chinese dealers in the auction speech In which she paid a tribute rooms of Messrs. Hughes and to the admirable work done by the Hough and the China Auction Headmistress, Miss Beswick. As Rooms this morning. when regards the pupils, whose excellent goods and chattels of certain Chr work was seen in the large number nese shops which have come into the of pretty things on display, she said hands of the Official Receiver were that though they could not speak the offered for sale.. In the case of: In the course of a leading English language, it hardly needed the goods. offered at the China article on "The Soviet éjtadel of to be said that they were very Auction Rooms there W36 a Canton," the North-China Daily suspectible to influence, and would particularly large crowd and in the News states.

A large number of visitors visit ed the sale of work in the course of the day.

WHAT OUR "JINGOISM" REALISED,

realise how much sympathy was case of one lot a dispute prose The recent mass meeting at being felt for their affliction.. between certain members of a Hongkong, from which earnest group or ring. Something like a appeals were sent to the Home free fight ensued, but the commo-Government for immediate and tion eventually died down, although drastic action, was, perhaps, of The following ladies assisted in the dispute was left unsettled. Ata jingo character. But that it had| the sale: Mrs. Blanchett, Mrs. Messrs." Hughes and Hough' got hold of the root of the matter Gorken, Mrs. Hailey-Bell, Mrs. J. R. rooms there was not enough room there can be no doubt. Moscow's Wood,, Mrs. Hegarty, Mrs. Noll, and for all those who desired to attend, control of Canton

was already Mrs. Arrowsmith.

the crowd overflowing on to the strong enough then to be a formid- street outside.

able menace. It is far stronger) In the case of sales of the con-to-day and It will grow stronger! CHAUFFEUR CHARGED. tents of shops which have gone still. Residents of Shameen con

STORY OF A BRIBE.

into the hands of the Court there tinue to wear khaki and do sentry. Els always a large crowd of barge. The monotony of the task is gafa hunters, who operate in hardly "greater than its intrinsic rings" the members of the "ring" uselessness. For Moscow flies at A Chinese chauffeur, on being which is the eventual buyer for higher game than the tiny told in Queen's Road East on sharing equally in the profits renfis-colony on Shameen. It le no more Saturday that he would be summoned by the disposal of the goods difficult than putting, two and two ed in due course for leaving his purchased. Each "ring" turné up together to see that the Soviet's car unattended in the roadway, lain fall strength to witness the suc-peculiar hatred of Great Britain alleged to have offered an Indian coss, or non-success, of the member was inflamed tenfold by the rA- constable one dollar is a bribe. It who is doing the bidding, and thus sults of the last general election, is further said of the chauffeur that, out of a packed room-full of people the rejction of Mr. MacDonald's on the Sikh refusing the money, he there is often as few as only three pro-Soviet policy, the public rebuff had believed the constable to be or four actual bidders.

bashful and instantly thrust the

bill into the latter's pocket!

given to all that savoured of Mos- cow. And Moscow resolved to have her revenge. She appears to have failed in Central and

As a result, the chauffeur was To-day's Observatory report charged before Mr. S. B. B. Mac states that the anti-cyclone has North China. But in the South, Elderry at the Central Magistracy passed into the Pacific, and there she believes that the ruin of Hong- to-day, with leaving his car unat-are indications of another form- kong is within her rouch: With tended and with offering a bribe ing over China. The forecast for or without that goes the Soviet- to Influence the conduct of the con- the 24 hours ending at noon to-zation of the whole of South stable. He was remanded for morrow is East winds, mod China and schemes of destruction further enquiries,

erate; cloudy, occasional rain. yet farther fang.

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AND BRASSIERE-GIRDLES

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NO MATTER WHAT YOUR FIGURE

YOUR WARDROBE IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT A- TREO, CONSULT US ABOUT THE GIRDLE THAT

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DAIRY FARM NEWS.

CREDIT SALES.

We are pleased to announce that Credit Sales will be resumed at the Company's Depot and Branches from 1st OCTOBER..

New Pass Books are now ready and may be had on application. As separate books for the "Butchery and Dairy Departments are henceforth

to be used, Customers dealing with both Depart pients are requested to apply for two books.

All applications to be inade on the form provided at the end of the pass book and the old book or books ret ned to the Company.

Customers are requested to note that no applications will be entertained unless all bills up to and including June last have been paid.

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No goods will be supplied "on credit" against pass

books after the 1st October.

ICE PRICES.

From 1st OCTOBER the retail price of Ice

at our Peak and Hung Hom Branches will be reduced to I cents per lb.

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.

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ECONOMY.

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OCTOBER 7th TO OCTOBER 10th

will be Children's WEEK in our Store

One special window, and the interior will be devoted to the display of new goods for Children.

Remember the Date. See our window and kindly permit us to show you other goods on view. inside.

Whilst the Prices are very moderate The Quality leaves nothing to be desired.

POWELL'S

The Premier Store for Children's wear.

ALBERT

For

DAINTY

DISHES

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CONNOISSEURS

He, Where are you going?

She. Why! To Albert, of course, where we are sure to get the finest French Pastry and the best cooking,

He, That is so! His French Cakes at $1.00 por dozon, bis:

Madorio Cakes, his Big Cakes, his Ice-Creams (opm bined with oxoollent euising) are made exclusively with the butter, milk and cream of the Dairy Farm: Co., Ltd.

She. Quito so!- and he also has a now menu compris

ing fifty now dishes which you can enjoy any time. from 10.30 a.m, to Midnight,

Queen's Road Central

(Opposite Hongkong Hotel Building)

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HIGH CLASS CONFECTIONERS & BAKERS

CAFE

BREAKFASTS, TIFFINS, LINNERS AND

AFTERNOON TEAS

SERVED AS USUAL

BREAD, CAKES, etc.

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