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MODERN MOVES.

NEW SINGAPORE SCHEMES.

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RAILLESS CAR SERVICE. Singapore residents (says the Telegraph correspondent) have beon pleased to hear during the lost fow days that the municipal power station will be in a position to supply current this month, and before long electric power will be available in all parts of the town."

It has always been one of the chief drawbacks to life In the capital city of Malaya that racili ties for lighting have been extra ordinarily poor. The former Co- lonial Secretary, Sir Frederick James, was not unduly critical when he described the system as archaic.

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Electricity has been available only to a limited extent, and even that in the centre of the town only. Most of the bungalows have had to put up with gas-not a satisfac- tory illuminant in the tropics, for it means that one cannot have fans-while within quite short distances of the heart of the city even gas is not available and the unfortunate inhabitants have, bad to be as centent as possible with oil lamps.

It was a position which reflect "ed no credit on the predecessors of the present city fathers, who allowed themselves to be tied up with an expensive pas undertaking which, has made the change over lo electric light a slow and costly. business.

MUSICAL JOTTINGS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

The "Prom" Concerts `nt Home~~- Hongkong's Reception of Leading Musicians.

Week follows week, but of local music there is nothing to record. When one thinks of the Promenade Concerts that are going on at Queen's Hall from Aug. 14 to Oct. 16, or, to come nearer home," of the open air concerts given by the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra during the Summer, one realizes how completely we are, out of touch with musical delights in this Colony, A perusal of the pros- peetus of the thirty-second season of Queen's Hall "proms" makes one homesick, and it were almost better to leave it unread! Wagner still monopolises the Monday even-. Ings, Haydn and Mozart Pre dominate on Tuesdays, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms on Fridays, There is a curious change in detail

this season.

Beethoven's syn phonies are to be played on succes. sive Fridays in the reverse order, commencing with the eighth and ending with the first! Among the vocalists are such favourites as Rosina Buckmann. Dora Labette, Clara Butterworth, Maurice The D'Oisly and Peter Dawson. planists include Moisewitch, Myra

Greef. Several works will be con- Hess, Irene Scharrer and De

ducted by their composers- certs. Perhaps we shall some day always, a popular feature at con-

possess radio sets in longkong capable of listening-in, to London concerts and then we'll have real promenade concerts of our own, if we care to get up at 4 a.m. to listen to them!

There will be general satisfne- tion at the news that Heifitz, the famous violinist, and Berne coming to Hongkong this winter. Moisewitsch, the pianist, it is to be hoped that both of those musicians, who have reached the

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WAR MEMORIAL

SOUTH AFRICAN'S EPIC

FIGHT.

Rugby, Sept. 15. Two hundred, pilgrims from South Africa will attend the unveiling, on October 10th, of the Delville Wood Memorial in France, to South African soldiers who fell in the war.

Ten years

South ago the African troops received an ordor from their Divisional Commander, Major-General Sir Henry Lakin, that they must hold the wood at all costs. They did so, but only 700 officers and men out of 8,600- original members of the Brigade, emerged from the fight.

The Memorial will be unveiled South Africa. Among those at- by General Hertzog, Premier of

tending the ceremony will be Mrs. Louis Botha, wife of the late Premier of South Africa, Lady Lukin, General Manie Botha, and Colonel Sir Pierrie Van Ryneveld, the airman.-British Wircless,

BIG LOSSES.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1926.

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The war also put a stop to much work which otherwise would have been done years ago, and when peace came Singapore was in very truth a city of arrears. These ar now being made up as quickly as pinnacle of their art, will be Europe and in America. On the may be. The now electricity accorded a good reception when undertaking costs $3,500,000, and they pass through here. There is first evening, at the Theatre Royal. ensures tho town an adequate no need to dwell on the tragically there were about twenty people in supply for years to come. It is, empty houses. that have confront however, only onc direction 1ned some of the world's greatest which Singapore is being brought artists at the Theatre Royal. into line with modern require- They have been the subject of

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editorials, and correspondence, and formed the burden of Miss Mabel Garrison's press interview on her return to America. They are the reason for Shanghai being visited by many more of them than we have been. But Mr. Strok, who has arranged the tours of all thesu leading musicians, is encouraged by our reception of Levitzki, so we are apparently being given another chance!

Good progress is being made with a big water scheme, which necessitates bringing water from a source in Johore, the southern- most state of the Malay Peninsula, and across the Johore Causeway to the island of Singapore. This is no mean undertaling, and only . the building of the Causeway, which joins Singapore to the main land and allows of a railway run- ning the whole length of the peninsula from Singapore into We owe a great deal to Mr.

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the stalls; on the second evening there were nine. The circle was better attended: as many as thirty people paid for tickets in that part

of the theatre. It was an occasion on which Hongkong surpassed itself in apathy, Godowsky pass- ed through again on his way to Java, but he gave a wide berth to the Theatre Royal and its rows of empty benches.

The unfortunate result of this. was seen in 1923," when the be-l loved Kreisler made his triumphali tour of Japan and North China, He did not come here at all. Madame Schumann-Heink passed

Heifitz came out East but Hong

Siam, has made it possible. In-Strok for his enterprise in bring- through but gave no concert. cidentally it means modern sanita-ing out so many first-class artists. tion for Singapore, which is an- We have also to thank the kong was not on his itinerary. At other long needed improvement.

RAILLESS TRAMS.

enthusiasm of the Japanese nation this juncture, the Japanese earth- for European music for having quake occurred and Heifitz's made it financially possible to Japanese tour had to be cancelled. The roads, always a good fea organise these tours. They com Other concerts had to be arranged ture of the city, are all being re- menced with Mischa Elman whom at Harbin and such places to make reconstructed, and those which Mr. Strok brought to the East in good as far as possible the heavy have been done provide a surface 1922 under a contract with the financial loss involved and it was for the motorist which cannot be Imperial Opera House in Tokyo. announced that he would come surpassed in any city in the world. Something like 30 concerts, I be here. Booking was opened but it They have paved the way for the lleve, were" given in Japan and the was found more profitable for him coming of trolley buses or railless financial guarantee was such that to give another two concerts in trams, which started to run on cer- Shanghai, Hongkong and other Shanghal, so that music-lovers tain routes a few weeks ago and places could be included in the have proved a very great success. tour.. Next came Pavlova. Both In time the old rall trams will have of these had wonderful receptions gone and the rails which they in Hongkong, the houses being necessitate, and which probably sold out at $6 per seat. cause more dislocation of traffle. Then came that giant of the than anything else, will be a thing pianoforte, Codowsky, 'of the past.

The trolley buses have decided ly justified their introduction. I do not know if you have anything of the kind in Hongkong; if you have not, and the change is con-

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here were again disappointed. Alfred Munz, a pianist prodigy. visited Shanghai in 1924, but again. the impresario fell foul of this Colony..

When Zimbalist, the violinist, came Eastwards in the Autumn. he had to stay in Hongkong a day or so, so Mr. Strok grudgingly arranged a concert which at any rate covered expenses ! Mabel Garrison's recitals, however, ivere. reminiscent of Godowsky's.

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templated, Sinngapore's experience have mentioned a few ways in Fortunately, attendances were shows that it is well worth while, which the city of Singapore is be quite remarkable at Levitzki's There is no comparison between ng improved. Though Singapore recitals, much to that performer's NICARAGUAN' them and the old type of noisy is naturally the place of most impar astonishment. "I had been warn rattling tram which runs on rails, tance to the people who live in it,ed that this was a dreadful place," it must not be forgotten that it suld he. "And after what Mabel They are handsomo in appearance, they run silently, and, what is one city of a very prosperous and Garrison said about it, I am over-

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Coolidge Fins issued a Proclama- has reprimanded Lieutenant Frank on the road, so that the dislocation provement is going on.

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