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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1929,

or money's worth, is distributed in any manner, depending upon or determined by chance or lot, or the result of any race or contest, It will thus be seen that church raffles, sweepstakes on races und such devices come well within the Inw, whilst the additional provi sion that it is illegal to declare the winners, in any form whatever, shows how easy it would be to proceed against people organising these things. Fortunately, how- ever, a liberal view is taken in ap- plying the law; otherwise, many of the Colony's leading citizens in all communities might find them selves up before the magistrate'!"'

Whilst we would not for a mo- ment suggest that there be any markod departure from present

MUSICAL JOTTINGS.

To-night's Concert-Victor Records the Queen's Theatre Orchestra-War-Time Songs,

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An unusually good programme of music is announced for the concert at the Cathedral Hall at 9.15 this evening. We seldom, if ever, hear a Beethoven trio in Hongkong but to-night two move ments of the Fourth Trio will be played by Messrs. Harry Ore. J. L. P. Macnair and C. Bonenfant. Major Macnair will play two move- ments of the Franck Sonata with which he delighted the Helena May audience last week, the piano part on this occasion being taken by Harry Ore, in place of Mme. Boncufant,

This lady will how sakoff's Spanish Capriccio, playing ever be heard in Rimsky-Kor

DAY BY DAY.

THE BOY" WHO HAS A SISTER: TO TONE HIM DOWN MAKES A BETTER MAN THAN THE ONE WHO HAS NONE.

John K. Corrie.

The Ben Line 8.3. Benrinnes, from Home and Straits ports, is due here on the 18th instant.

Mr. J. Russell will speak' on "Idols and their Worship" at the weekly public lecture of the Hong- kony Lodge, The Theosophical Society, to-day at 6 p.m.

The police have asked us to announce that a string of pearls was found in the city, yesterday. Any person wishing to chim it should apply at the Central Police Headquarters.

The Very Idea!

The "following notice was read by the curato in a small church:

"Would the member of the con- gregation who wrote in a hymn- ook last Sunday, 20s, each way on Pennycomequick for the St. Leger, kindly remove the page, 'ak“ the vicar found it most mislead- ing."

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[A horse-cab driver summoned for assault declared that a motor: driver had jeered at the cab driver's horac.]

The man who jeers the patient.

stood

Has fallen very low indeed. The tyres of such a wretch accurat. Should simultaneously bursti His timing should be quite upset

For

Water invade his carburettor; His oil and petrol should run out He should be leapped and smartly.

MODELS OF FROM FOURPolley, there is one respect fait with Mr. Ore as a duet. As it coincident with the theft, it is With ne'er a garage round about:

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For faults of every sort and kind, And on his journeying the road With nuts and gadgets should be strowed.

The disappearance of a foki,

which we should like to

is written for an orchestra they alleged, of a quantity of jewellery, must expect the criticisms some valued at $183, is reported by a little more latitude shown. We times put forward in such cases refer to cases in which poor Chin-about the futility of reproducing goldsmith at No. 137, Parke Street, ese are sometimes brought before orchestral works on a piano. I do Yaumati. The police are investi-

not suppose they mind them, know.gating the matter. the Court for indulging in a quieting that this duet will probably

Pleading guilty to a charge of His radiator, too, should freeze. carrying a chicken suspended by In winter and his pistons seize, the wings a Chinese was fined sh And cranking-up be no avail. with the alternative of eight days' What time his batteries shall fall. imprisonment in default by Mr. Yea, every evil that can be T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Should come to such an one as he, Till 'mid the mirth we can't re- Magistracy this morning.

strain

1,000,000 little "flutter" in the streets, with be one of the most effective itenia a few copper cash at stake. There on the programme. In addition can be no real harm in such te piano solos and cello solos, Mrs: J. D. Valentine and Mr. Li Chor-chi doings, providing the participants will give some songs, and as these are not otherwise making a huis-are two of our best singers the whole programme represents a ance of themselves.. Moreover, collection of talent that is seldom there is no question of organised concentrated in one performance. gambling, for. private gain, and the amusement which the gamblers, get out of the game is sufficient to show that they enjoy the little pastime. As we have said, ends will be served so long as Hongkong prevents the growth of organised gambling. That a

BIRTH.

TERRY-On Tuesday, November 12th, 1929, at the French Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Terry, a daughter.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY Nov. 14, 1929.

GAMBLING.

The concert is arranged by Mr. Harry Ore fp aid of the St. Peter's young Men's Club and the tickets cost $2.

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The birthday of Siri Guroo Nank Dev Ji is to be celebrated at the Sikh Temple on Saturday, the 16th instant. Heads of depart ments and private firms have been requested to grant a holiday on the day to their Sikh employees.

One of last month's Victor masterpiece albums contained Haydn's C Major (Surprise) Sym- phony, It is charming

Mr. W. M. Gitting wha nned $5 splendidly recorded, and serves to show up most of the modern out-by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the as much as can be reasonably ex-put on the other records at its Kowloon Magistracy this morning for allowing his dog to be abroad pected,

true worth.

without a muzzle. It was intimat- ed that there were other similar summonses pending against the defendant.

Unemployment Figures.

The Philadelphia Symphony Or- chestra's recordings are always worth getting. Judging from its records it is the finest orchestra in the world to-day. Its string tone is In publishing employment as amazing and there is perfect bal

A Chinese who was caught at- well as unemployment figures, the ance between the instruments. tempting to "fish" a jacket from a Labour Government presents a This month it has played a hat in Nanking Street by means much clearer view of the indus- Coronation March by Meyerbeer. of a long pale was sentenced to six trial situation in Britain than was with the famous War March of the possible under the old method. The Prieste on the other side of the weeks' hard labour by Mr. T, S, Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Intest statisics reveal, for instance, disc.

Magistracy this morning on charge of larceny.

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A steed shall tow him home ngain, Tortured at last with deep remorse For having mocked the noble

horse.

The peoples of the world are in advance of their Governments in respect of disarmament.--Lord" Cebil.

We are combatants in a battle which is not yet decided.--Dean Inge.

The only set of religious concep- tions available for common use is set in which no one can any lon- ger believe.-The Rev. J. C. Hard- wiek,

I am not a gentleman myself.. am far beyond that.-Mr. Ber-

nard Shaw,

It is a little astonishing that it

should be so much safer at the present day, to kill a man with a motor-car than with any other in- strument. Mr. Robert Lynd.

that while over 50,000 has been Elman's record of Bach's Air for thrown out of work in the past G String and a Martinelli solo from

Man to Tower Bridge magis- Although the Hongkong law on month, and while over a million "Samson and Delilah" are the

Remanded from last Thursday tente: Inak you not to fine me the subject of gambling is quite and a quarter are now regular celebrity 'peaches' this month. As

visitants at the various Labour a contrast to these, we have Me on charges of being in possessions I have no money and I don't clear and unambiguous, there is a Exchanges throughout the country. Little Pai, a sloppy, sentimental Society, two Chinese who appeared know!"

Cormack's latest perpetration. of documents relating to the Trind want to approach the wife. You good deal that is anomalous in its there are 250,000 more persons

The dock is part of his Majesty's enforcement. That point was well netually working that at the same ditty of the "Mother O'Mine" before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at

unforgivable libel on Chopin, Inning were again remanded for op at the Old Bailey. illustrated yesterday, during the time last year, and that the sea-type, in which he delights, and an the Kowloon Magistracy this morrison.The Recorder, Sir E Wild, sonal fluctuation has not been the form of an organ solo by week. the charges being altered to hearing of a case in which two great by nearly 100,000. The ex- Ascher Gibson "on the grand or being members of a Triad Society unskillet work. Labourer: Yes, Clerk at Highgato: Youra is Chinese were convicted of keepingplanation is simple and gratifying gan at Chas. M. Schwab's New a common gaming house and of to a large extent. The higher om York residence." Mr. Schwab is

if you know nothing about it. Defended by Mr. A, E Hall, an Woman at Southend: A person printing announcements relating ployment figures are not due to keen enough to have a grand organ

artificial stimulus of industrial built in his house, and yet toler-Indian watchman was charged who was telling my husband's for- enterprise by the Government, but ates Mr. Gibson seizing that little before Mr., T. S. Whyte Smith, attune said a dark nian would come this between us. And a dark man did to the ability of industry to ab-two-line Prelude in C minor and the Kowloon Magistracy sorb the new generation coming making a twelve-inch record out morning, with falling to produce come a policeman with the sum- along, the boys leaving school of it, putting in little Gibsonian his book for endorsement on being mons I took out for a separation

would make employed as a watchman.

The order. Happily also, there is evidence to tiddley-bits which

case was remanded for one week show that great numbers of these Chopin turn in his gravo! youths are getting the right train- Out of a large batch of dance for evidence of the defendant's ing for the future, that parents are records, the most melodious are: employment at a knitting factorying to his class of small boys the realising more than ever before the True Blue Lou (it may have been to be called. importance of giving their sons a Green Jeanne, I'm writing from profession and are obtaining for memory) and My Song of the Nile.

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them apprenticeship articles. It (Waltz): we is only necessary to scan the ad- There is a small H.M.V. piano re-

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POLICE SERGEANT'S SAD DEATH.

SERGT, PROBERT PASSES AT

KOWLOON HOSPITAL.

to a lottery run in Macao. The magistrate trying the case express ed the view that there was very little to differentiate this case from the common practice in the Colony, of announcing the results of sweepstakes on racing, and the police were compelled to admit that the difference was very slight. Strictly speaking, imagine, one is as much an offence vertisement columns of the London cord at Moutrie's which should sell as the other, althougir there are journals to realise that industry cut. It is one of Moiseiwitach play- considerations to be taken into to-day is in need of skilled work-ing a charming piece of Palmgren's, ers. Only a few days ago we Rococo, and Ibert's quaint Little account which, on analysis, will be observed a whole page of small ad- White Donkey on the other side. found to explain why prosecutions vertisements in a popular daily. The imitation of an "Ee-aw" at the are made in the one case and no; all of them referring to situations end of this plece is De Ingenious as any mimicking done by Sant vacant, ninety per cent. of them Saens in his Carnival of Animals. in the other.

stipulating that applicants must Stated on general grounds, the be tradesmen. A large propor- attitude of the authorities here, tion of the remainder offered an People to whom the orchestral towarda gambling is that there prenticeships to boys leaving misic at cinemas matters a great school. The Inference, therefore, deal in their enjoyment of a film can be no toleration of organised is that the large number of unem must have appreciated the excel gaming houses run for private ployed in. Great Britain belong to lent music provided as part of the gain. That is a wise policy, for the great army of onskilled labour- first "talkie" heard in Hongkong. era and that the big development The soft music accompanying the there cannot be the slightest schemes proposed by Mr. J. H. talking, the good orchestra! play doubt that where gambling is offi- Thomas, road-making, canalisa ing during the silent sections and cially recognised it becomes in tlon, the Charing Cross bridge and the excellent dance band in the course of time a great evil and railway station and so on are beat cabaret scene were so much tot

The deceased was 29 years of calculated to meet the needs of the ter than we are accustomed to hear leads to untold misery. This moment. The outlook is brighter that same people derived perhaps age, and joined the Hongkong more enjoyment from the musicnt Police Force on September 29th, Colony cannot hope, indeed, no than the bare unemployment, side of the "talkie" than any 1924, after serving with the place. can, to stamp out gambling gures would lead us to believe. A other. This does not however, Grenadier Guards for seven years. completely, for so long as human little patience is necessary, that bellttle the standard of the pre-He was a Lewis gunner and signal- sent Queen's Theatre orchestraler, and during his five years with nature is what it is, there will

Under the direction of the Police Force was stationed at always be ways and means found

Bakalcinikoff it has made vast Lok Ma Chau, In the New Terri- strides and its playing of the tory. His birth place was Dodgel- Zampa Overture the other evening ley, North Wales.* was the best that we have ever

is all.

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of having a "Butter." The essen- "EXCHANGE RATES. tial thing is to control the evil and

keep it within bounds. That, in

the main, is what the Government Paris

every

Genova

here attempts to do. If the law New York were enforced to the letter, the Brussels police would have little time to Amsterdam devote to any other matter, and, Milan Berlin what la more,

church or

Stockholm social institution which ran a Copenhagen

Oslo raffle would be able to prosecu- Vienna tion, whilst those making known Prague

Helsingfors the results of such raffles would Madrid also find themselves in trouble. Lisbon Athens That much is quite clear from the

text of the local Ordinance deal. Huonos Aires

Bombay. Ing with gambling, gaming houses Shanghai and lotteries. Under that Ordin Yokohama

Silver (spot) ance, a lottery is described as any silver (forward) game or method whereby money,

London, Nov. 13

A gloom has been cast over the European Police Force of the Colony to-day, by the death of a popular officer in the person of L/Sgt. Frank Douglas Probert. and which occurred under very circumstances at the Kowloon Hospital early this morning.

Sergeant Probert, who only re

his turned from leave with

September 15th, young wife on was suddenly taken ill with diabetes two days ago. He was rushed to the hospital in a 'critical condition, and failed to survive the crisis.

The funeral will take place at

heard in a local cinema. For years past there have been periodi Happy Valley at 6 p.m. to-day, 123,84 cal complaints in the presa about and will be attended by many of 4.87 21/02 the playing of this orchestra, but his old comrades.

.34.800 they have not been voiced in these

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Jottings as I have always felt that .12.07%

Tennessee, with the talent available, the re- Trial, My Home in .03.14 20.896 suite were as good as could be They didn't Believe Me, A Little Bit 19.155 expected. Whether the new con of Heaven, When Irish Eyes are ductor has made any changes in Smiling, Kitty, Kitty, Gilbert the the personnel I do not now, but he Filbert-one could continue the A good many 84.69 has certainly made them into a list indefinitely.

Monday were sold 164% good miniature orchestra and his played on 1945 personality seems to fre all the favourites but "I've seen diamonds .34.77 players.

In Amsterdam" and "I do like to surely be beside the sea" were Would it be possible, ond word-pretty well defunct long before the rs, for the Somerset Light Infantry War And one of the tunes 1/5.27/32 band to secure a better selection nobody seemed to have heard of! 1/5.2/32 of war-time ditties for the next The writer had a good deal to do 1/11.31/32 occasion when Arnustice or simi- with the lat Somerset in the early Here war days and feels sure that some 22.9/10 lar celebrations are afoot?

.22% are a few suggestions! Pack up of the 4th Division favourites British Wirelena. your Trouble, There's a Long Long, would meet with a good reception.

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The schoolmaster was explain-

nature of vulgar fraction.

"Now boya, listen," he said. "IT take a potato, cut it in half, then in quarters, and then in hal- ves again, what, shall I have?"

"Chips, str." was the immediate response of a perky youngster with dishevelled hair.

WHO WAS..

HUBERT?

When the wat in France was temporarily at an end, King John brought with him to England a little prince named Arthur, under the pretext of extending to him his protec- tion.

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Actually, however. Prince Arthur had some claim to the throne of England, and the brutal king, determining to rið himself of any menace in this, direction, handed him over to one Hubert with the instruc- tion that he should put out the little fellow's eyes.

Hubert summoned two as- sistants and heated the frons In order to carry out the royal - command, but Arthur pleaded so eloquently and so piteously for his eight that Hubert waS moved to pity, and hid the child from view, ¦ Informing" the king that the deed find been performed.

Rebellious barons, suspicious about the fate of the little prince, made his supposed death a further excuse:"for ravolt, whereupon: King John hurled imprecatione bon Hubert, vigorously " danying that he had given orders for the crime. Hubert countered by informing him thab Arthur was still aliye, but unfortunately the boy had Jumped from the castle in the meantime, and was found life- Jass on the ground,

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