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Rigoletto (a.hunchback, jester to the Duke of Mantun)

Gilda (his daughter)

Giovanna thor nurse) ...

Duke of Manlua.....

Sparafucile in hired brava)

dr. Piazza (baritone) Sra. Pagliught (soprano)

Bra. Brambilla (mezzo-soprano)'

Br. Fulgar Henor] Sr. Ani bass)

Maddalena (his sister, a dancing girl) Sra. de Cristoff

Count Ceprano

Countess Ceprano

Count Monterono

Borsa

Maruilo...

Chorus of Courtiers

(mezzo-soprano)

Sr. Menni (bass)

Sra. Brambilla' (mezzo-soprano)

Sr. Baracchi (Baritone) Sr. Nessienor)

Sr. Baracchi (buritone) Chorus of La Scala, Milan“

Accompaniment by Mombers of the Orchestra of

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Tho performance conduced by Maestro Carlo Sabajno.

Recorded in the Conservatorio, Milan.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,

DAY BY DAY.

́IT IS THE ENEMY. WHOM, WELDO

NOT SUSPECT WHO IS THE MOST DAN- GEROUs—Rojas.

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The F. and O. 6.s. Lahore, from Singapore, is due here to-morrow at 4p.m.

It is notified that the name of the Sui lag Navigation Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register.

1928,

LETTERS FROM HONGKONG. 23-Zim Says Farewell,

placating those who are seeking positions of Influence in the dov ernment. Any marked failure on the part of the various cliques to adjust their differences In this regard might easily have diens trous consequences and lead to further civil war in the "country.

Approaching Singapore on our It amuses us to see a Chinese We have, however, suficient hope

way here, we made thé usuni dia fully rowing their sampan out to creet enquiries as to what one fish, wind or no wind, every mom- In the influence of the moderate

ought to see and do during our bor of the family, from Father element to believe that they will

short stay in the place,

and Mother down to the youngest "One thing you must not mias," daughter at, or sharing an oar, and do their utmost to prevent further

we were informed by evory rollable rowing with a will, but in any sort discord and confusion" when eo Major W. S. Nathan, C.M.G., Is member, of the passenger list, that of order No-one bothers about much has already been accom-reported to be on his way out to to to say those who had passed unnecessary details like the time plished in the direction of achiey-China via Siberia. His trip is said through before, or who had known of the stroke or the way the rower the East. "You must go to the is face. Life for them seems to ing national unity. It will be to be purely a business one.

Hotel de L'Europe and have a have no rules and the lowest pos-

alble complications. "A Chinese, obvious, also, to the Nationalists

His Excellency the Officer Ad-million dollar cocktail."

That was a long, long time ago, carpenter never works in hard wood themselves that any now crisis ministering the Government has

reappointed Captain A. J. L-nearly two years. Sad to relate, if soft will do as well; while the at this juncturo would greatly Whyte, Royal Engineers, to be his we reached Hongkong without hav builder and contractor takes to ing tasted that, unique experience. cement like a duck to water because profudice their chances of for-Aide-de-Camp.

But let it not be thought that hav-it produces results cally, eign recognition. The Treaty

ing avoided this one outstanding specimen, the cocktail menace has A few days ago, I bought rather: Powera, as much as China, want

entirely passed us by. The fact a jolly portable electric lamp. At- to see a strong Central Govern-

is that cocktails, in general, are tached to it by a flexible load was & little black box for the battery, ment established. This would be

fairly well known in Hongkong.

of mutual beneft to all concern- ad and pave the way to the much- needed rehabilitation of the coun

NO PERIODIC REFILLING try. But

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CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE NON-CONDUCTOR of ELECTRICITY

RELIABLE, EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE

recognition by tho Powers will imply responsibilities as well as privileges, and not the least satisfactory aspect of a full resumption of Trenty réla- tions will be the possibility at Typos for Motor Oars; & Et long, loft of foreign nations hefug able to deal with An authority claiming control of the whole country. Most of the troubles of recent years have been due to divided" control. With one Cen- tral Government recognised, the KENT-MOULTON-On Septem-way of diplomatic contact should, ber 30th, 1903, at the Parish be made much easier and more Church, St. Briavel, Glos, Walter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kent of Sevenoaks, Kent, to Ada, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Moulton, Castlo View, St. Briavels, Glos.

KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd 16/10, CONNACHT ROAD, D.

SILVER WEDDING.

"ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

satisfactory to all concerned.

The question of tariff autonomy is practically on all fours with that of recognition-both awalt the complete reorganisation of the Nationalist Government. The British polley on, this matter has |Bishop Valtorta and the Rev. long been one of sympathy with

Fathers of the Catholic Mis-the Nationalist claims. As long! sion beg to tender their ein- cerest thanks to the numeronsagé as 1926, the British. memoran- friends, who expressed their dum to the signatories of the nympathy for the loss of the Washington Treaty declared a Rev. Fr. Augustin Placzek. Thanks are also extonded to

rendiness to recognise China's those, who sent floral tribute, right to tariff autonomy as 8000 or attended the funeral.

as she herself had settled and promulgated

new National Tariff. That is now on the eve of completion, but, it is unlikely that the new schedule will be announe ed until the Government re- organisation scheme is definitely decided upon. When that time comes, we hope and trust that there will be a real effort on the part of the Nationalists to abolish likin, in accordance with past de claration of their intentions. That It would appear that

certainly should be a quid pro quo cognition by the Powers of the for foreign, concurrence in the Nationalist regime as the de facto new national tariff.

The

Thongkong Eclegraph.

SATURDAY,

SEPT. 29. 1028

THE POWERS AND CHINA.

the re-

Government of China is now little)

else than a matter of formality.

Soviet System Changing? Most of the Powers have already entered into Trenty negotiations

The vast sociological and econo- with the Nanking Government, mic experiment of Communiain að interpreted by the Soviets, is ac-

tion in the near futuro.

"

The Rev. V. H Copley Meyle, until lately chaplain at Hongkong, and formerly rector of Iping Sussex, has been appointed vicar of Amberley by the Bishop of Chichester.

About Hong Kong.

Do you know that

In the early days of the Colony, considerable difficulty was experienced in arranging for the conveyance of mails to Canton?

In 1846, sixty Hongkong merchants made arrangements with the owners of the 8.8. Coranir to carry mails to Can- ton for a monthly subsidy of £150..

In the following year, the Postmaster General insisted on the steamer carrying and. delivering Post Office letters for Canton at 2d, each. When the captain refused to deliver the letters, on the ground that there was no Post Office in Canton, the Governor of Hong- kong ordered legal proceed- ings, which resulted in the in- Mction of a fine of £100.

The British community, feel- Ing aggrieved, addressed com- plaints to the Postmaster Gen- oral in London, and later re- solved to help themselves by the establishment of a river stoamship company as a joint stock enterprise,

230AUNANCHANANATINNERMALINESKICURAME

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Not that we restrict ourselves to The battery was included in the any one form of liquid nourish-prico of the lamp, but alas tho ment. Those in search of romance shop had no battery to ft. This in may experience a little thrill, a re- no way perturbed the salesmans, miniscent tang of a sea yarn, Ho fished out a sixpenny pocket feeling that he has perhaps, after torch battery and proceeded to all, just stepped out of the pages wedgo it in with pieces of card- of one of Conrad's novels If, tak-board. By careful adjustment ho Ing a walk down Wanchai way, he brought the contacts so that they should chance on a neat white and would just touch at a single point blue building inscribed "Nagasaki-His face beamed with pride as bo Joe: "Beat Liquors in Restaur-switched on the light. I turned the ant: Coldest Beers in Town." box upside down and the light And if the beera from Japan are, promptly went out. More card- as I have heard said, entirely board. And the salesman won in.. synthetic, they may be none the the end. "Better you tie

piecee stling round those," he said, worse for that,

The Chinese themselves have a Indicating the two barely touching partiality for, sarsaparilla, and strips of metal that formed the con varlous forms of scent in their tacts in the box. drinks, but a really respectable Alas, Hilarion-Thy name is gentleman, so I am told, takes his China;-warm, southern China, brandy neat, by the half pint, where the damp listless atmosphere without showing any ill-effects, makes energy as dismal an affair You will see indeed scarcely ever as virtue and drcases sloth in the a-drunken Chinese. Judging by attractive raiment of after-tilla their poetry, if by nothing else. naps and before-dinner.cocktails. drunkenness is not unknown in Of course we can justify our ac China, but they usually contrive to tions to ourselves and to each other, hide their excesses from foreign even as Hilarion

You remember one of the tempta-. eyes The Englishman is perhaps more open in his habits, and though tions of St. Anthony, according to certain things about Flaubert, was the appearance be there are which he is very touchy about fore him of his old pupil in the "what people will say," drunkenness shape of a dwarf, yet thick-set is on, the whole not one of them. Jika the Cabirl, distorted and of

in wretched appearance. He chas.. Our outlook on the subject peculiar but very characteristic. Intises the good saint with sophist- emileries as damnable as they are stir- Ita Inconsistency. We tolerantly at the casual delinquent, ring. He accuses him in fact, and but we are quite ready to regard the others in a similar way of life, of unpleasant side of the habit with mortifying the flesh In order to ita duo measure of diegust. Our create in visions, situations so much

well attitude is

and joyfully more alluring, and satisfactory as

It is notified that, at the expira-illustrated in a pasange that I can to make the renunciation of or-

ter of no great difficulty. tion of three months, the Great not refrain from quoting, though it dinary earthly backaildings a mat- Western Hotel Company, Limitedle from a contemporary book. will, unless causo is shewn to the contrary, be struck off the register

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Ingenious though Hilarion's r93-

Aloysius Horn used to send and the Company will be dissolved. gorillas and chimpanzees back to soning may be, we in Hongkong. England alive, until one day a fall into agreement with it all tho female that he had kept for about more readily from the fact that Passengers arriving on the 4.6.

a year before sending her home to we are not unduly oppressed by the Khiva yesterday included Surg, Manchester recognized him in the presence of any notable body of Lt.-Comdr. J. Clark, R.N., Surg. Zoo at Bellevue.

Anthonys, Tho chief opposition Comdr. J. G. Boal, Mr. D. Miller, Capt. Robinson, V.C., O.B.E., R.N., Mra. Sayer, Mr. P. Gillespie, Lt. Comdr, II, H. Rogers and Sub. Lt. Carss, R.N.

Lit.

"Aye, she knew me, after three we have to face lies Indeed in a cer- years made a strange sound and tain disinclination for serious ef leapt about and tried to touch me fort, which seems inherent in the tructive project is mooted, there is. through the bars, I had a great place itself. Even when a really at talk with her, . A very peculiar sensation It gave me. Ia tendency to give every attention reasons that may be ad- A meeting of the Church and never felt quite so keen afterwards to uny Congregation to bid farewell to on packing them to Europe alive.vanced as to why it would really the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie and Dead and in spirits-that's harmbe much better to do nothing about Some time ago there was a pro- Mrs. Maconachie is to be held in ful to ne man. the Lecture Hall, of Union "But there's always a risk in Church, Hongkong, from to Gablpping anything in spirits. Aposal to make certain alterations p.m., on Wednesday next. It Is man's a man for all that and you'll to the Hongkong Club, whereby one. hoped there will be a large at- not find sailors differing from the of the billiard rooms would become rules of common humanity. They merged into the bar, with the tendance,

put Nelson in spirits after the laudable ambition of giving the Three lots of Grown land are to wattle. But when the keg was un-Hongkong Club the longest bar in held by Shanghai. At first sight October 15th. Situate in Mong-authorities, there wasn't a drop

the bar as origirially designed. Nor have we any real reason to

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und it is therefore not to be won-knowledged to have failed, after albe sold at the P.W.D. offices on packed in London by the Admiraity the world, a distinction it present dered at that this is regarded in prolonged trial. At least, that is koktsul, they are Kowloon Inland left. Bone dry. An unpleasant it might be thought that a project many quarters as tantamount to the only conclusion to be draws Lot 2144, .aren 3,844 square feet episode, when a man's saved his of such eminence, placing as it

from the announcement that the

country, but they gave him St. would the name of Hongkong in recognition. The legal advisors

upset price $2 per foot; Inland Paul's as soon as they could. Aye. the forefront of civilisation in at Soviet Government proposta · to of the US. State Department have grant concessions for communal Lot 2145, about 118,250 square When you belong to an old shipping cant one particular, could not fail given it as their view that the re-enterprises of all kinds in all the lect, upset price $56,625; and In- family, as I do, you get to know to come to immediate and glorious cont conclusion of the Sino-Ameri principal cities throughout the and Lot 2146, about 6,975, square, history from the inside. Things fruition. But it was not to be.

Heet, upset price $2 per foot. that don't get put in the obituaries fancy it must have occurred to Russias. It is significant even can Tariff Treaty constitutes "full that the approved scheme embraces

or the panegyrics. T'would never somebody that there was nothing to The Gazetta contains an amend-do to let the newspapers know prevent the Shanghai Club, on hear recognition of the Nationalist re- Moscow. The surrender appeara ed schedule in respect of the everything. As George Bussey ing of Hongkong's achievement, gime." It is to be expected, there to be complete. Had the Boisho Colony's recreation grounds. A used to say, the truth is not always enlarging their own bar, and so

vik leaders any faith remaining in fore, that when the American their theories of how the world priority of right is reserved to the ornamental. People'll stand a bit of with one fell stroke to bring to Naval and Military Authorities to demi-monde or anything else come nought months of magnificent ef- message to the Chloess people is should be organised for the beno-use the whole of the Wongnel- to hercts. But a little bit of fort.

And so we content ourselves with delivered in a few weeks time, it fit of the proletariat; one would chong Recreation Ground for reality such me I've just related is

have thought it would have been Naval and Military Exercises on best left to oblivion." will. indicate formal American re-exhibited in the preservation of Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, cognition of the Nanking Govern-the germ of the idea, so to speak and Fridays in each week up to 1

Human nature is easy-going, feel dissatisfied. It is one of the of Communist o'clock p.m. when required. ment Other Powers also will no in the centre

Possibly this tendency is accentuat-best roomis in the house, altanted doubt take a similar line of acactivity. But in Moscow itself the

ed in the more tropical climates. Just off the main lobby on the side capitalistic aystem is to be given,

Few races can be more easy-going well furnished with a massive overlooking the harbour. It is not a mere foothold, but a accure sufficiently large offer may be than the Chinese. They can almost counter in mahogany (or as near foundation. If the concessions permitted this ultimate in be said to have reduced the thing were minor in character, the capitalistic manipulation. Close to a selence. They are adepts at a wo can get to mahogany in this. argument that the Soviet has had observers of the situations will making things do. They are also country)complete with solid brass be thus expressed, much will of a lesson in economics and has not be greatly surprised by the the most economical of races; there footrall, extending the full length: course depend on the developments understood it, would still hold new developments. A few days are shops devoted wholly to turning of the room. Behind the bar rises now occurring in political circles good. How much greater then is ago a scheme was outlined by old petrol tins into dustpans, water an imposing tier of small; symme- the confession of failure when which it is hoped foreign capital carriers, jars, lamps, and all con-trical, and elegantly designed in Nanking. In fact, this will every form of public utility affect, will be attracted to Russia, and colvable sorts of tin ware. They shelves, with mirrors behind them, probably be "the determining Ing city populations is covered by possibly, though we hardly think collect crabs and minute fish and the whole being a remarkably life factor. At the moment, the re-the new proposals, Concessions it probable, It has occurred to the dry them in the sun to make what like reproduction, on a large scale, organisation of the Government is uro to be granted for the opera-Soviet Government that foreigners must be (from the smell) most of Charing Cross railway station

tión of tramwaya,

gas-works, might be, more enthusiastic ff potent fertilizer. They do the same buffot. being proceeded with, but it is electric power stations and supply, signs of sanity were revealed. with certain kinds of sea-weed not yet by any means complete and what is more important, The real importance of the pro- which are chopped up small and And on this soul.compelling There would appear to be prac-water-works. The concessions are posals, however, lice in the fact spread out on the threshing floors, note, with a shining (though not being given away, of course. that Socialists throughout the asphalt roads, or any other con- wooden) meniory of home before tical agreement on the form of The Government needs money, in world will find their Chatics vontent drying surface. Their our eyes, and the lazlly moving Government, but even when that dood it is probably the pressing tumbling about their ears. Russia given them this faculty of economy would bid you forewell. No moro wonderful age-old civilisation has life of the harbour. behind us, I is decided upon, much will remain need for further financial re has found State control of all pub of means in a measure so superior letters shall you receive from the to be done. In this connexion we the surrender at this time. For practice as it is in theory. The closely related faculty of economy matura heart of Eastern wisdom sources which is responsible for lle facilities to be not as sound in to our own barbaric notions that the awed pen of grisindom. From the have in mind the apportionmont instance, while we should have demands for the nationalisation of of effort goes often unappreciated you will not get the blatant secrets. of high offices in the reorganised Imagined the idea of a monopoly this and that in Britain for in- by us. It may even strike us as of a novice. I have lived now Administration, for the success of to be more repugnant to the stance may now conceivably be sometimes a little tiresome. The nearly two years in Hongkong; E- the plans will largely depend on concessionaire

Soviets than mere capitaliam, a presented with a trifle laas con- simplicity of their life may appeal have tried (not very hard) to learn."

by making & fidonse.

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Whilst foreign sympathy with the Nationalists' claim is likely to

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