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CRICKET AND THE A VILLAGE OF THE

STONE AGE.

EMPIRE.

"RANJI'S" STRIKING

RECONSTRUCTION WORK AT. SKARA BRAE.

ANALOGY.

RALLYING CALL.

4,000 YEARS AGO.

THE

HONGKONG

MONDAY

MUSICAL

TREAT.

JOVITA FUENTES TO GIVE RECITAL

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1930.

PRIME MINISTER'S DAUGHTER.

TO MARRY YOUNG SCOTTISH DOCTOR.

DOLE INQUIRY DISCLOSURES.

MEN EMPLOYED BUT DRAW RELIEF.

Jovita Fuentes, the world-famous soprano and star of La Scain, Milan, State Opera, Berlin, and EDINBURGH ROMANCE. THE STATE PAYS. half-a-dozen other notable opera

The engagement of Miss Joan

Liverpool, Sept. 10. The Jam Sahib of Nawanager, In a car still bearing the La- houses, will appear in one recital

Margaret MacDonald, second In a report issued to-day by Mr. replying to the toast of "Cricket" cells coat of arms and used a year only here at the Theatre Royal on

Mac-F. G. Hariham, of the Ministry of at the farewell dinner to the Aus-for two ago by Princess Mary her Monday evening, October 13th daughter of Mr. Ramsay tralian cricketers given by the self, I have just been run over to Miss Fuentes is Impresario Strok's Donald, was announced recently In Labour, who is investigating the President of the M.C.C., Sir Kynas- Orkney's Pompeii, the Pictish ham-second great artistic presentation the following statement issued from casual labour problem of Liverpool,

10 Downing Street:

it is stated that there are 21,500 ton Studd; drew a striking analogy let of Skara Brae, which looks out for this season.

Very glowing accounts have been

"The engagement is announced dock labourers registered and hold- between the Empire and cricket. upon the breakera of the Bay of

received in the Colony regarding between Alastair Mackinnon, M.B. ing tallies which make them eligible: Д Merning "I very much doubt," he said, Skaill, writes

Miss Fuentes' successes in the CM., son of the late Dr. John Mac for work on the docks and ships, "whether there is any other coun-special correspondent.

the Philippine Islands. After five capKinnon, of Somerset East, South and last year this number repre- This afternoon I watched try in the world to-day, except Britain, in which a man not beleng-Office of Works lay the last divot acity houses in Manila, the great Africa, and Broadford, Skye, and sented a surplus supply of labour fagic that country would have in the restoration of this tiny town artist proceeded to the various large Mrs. MacKinnon, 6 Fingal Place, of nearly 40 per cent.

'Some remarkable facts came to second daughter of the Right Hon. inquiries to discover the sources the receptions everywhere.

I. Ramany MacDonald, M.P."

Post

been selected to reply to the tonst ship of the Stone Age, to which provincial cities and had enthusias Edinburgh, and Joan Margaretlight. states Mr. Hanhain, during

the toast of in replying to Cricket, he felt he was replying to the toast of the British Empire.

The countries which together compose the British Empire," he continued, "consititute the greatest cricket team which the world has ever seen.

After appearances in China and Japan, Miss. Fuentes will return to Europe for a long season at the State Opera, Berlin, where she will the leading role of appear in "Salome" with Dr. Richard Strauss conducting his own work.

of the most characteristic national these breakers of Skaili disclosed the first clue in a gale of eighty L'ame,"

years ago."

To-day the homes are set out as four thousand some they were years since, when the two skeletons found in the stone collin were cloer ly women walking about in skins

Miss Fuentes is to-day generally and suffering from "the rheuma Just as the members ties."--or so it is inferred from an considered to be one of the greater of a cricket team differ from each examination of their ancient bones. luminaries of the European concert

world. personal These households of the days and operatic

Her Hong stature, in other in characteristics, in ability of one when civilisation was beginning are kong programme will contain many All save of the operatie arias which have kind or the other, so the various shown "with the lids off."

made the name of Fuentes a house components of the British Empire the roofs are here.

There are ten dwellings; 'differ widely among themselves.

hold one in many countries. case and in the rather there are nine dwellings and

Booking for the recital is at Mon- But, in the one other, it is not with a series of a workshop. The workshop lies trie's. individual units which we are con-outside the great slab of atone by cerned, but with a great team which at night time the little com- out all prowling shut working for common good by munity

Upon its floor bringing out the best from each animals and men,

has been found burnt clay cast off component member.

from the clumsy pottery discovered in the prebistoric homes.

Spirit That Triumphs. "It is this spirit, I think, which has brought the British Empire through so many trials, certainly it is this spirit which carried us

A Pictish Interior.

..

or

CINEMA NOTES.

"PARAMOUNT ON PARADE" BRIGHT SHOW.

Miss Jean Ramsay MacDonald is from which the appreciable num- 22 years of age and is studying ber of tally-holders in receipt of medicine at Edinburgh University. their income It is shown that only small wages supplemented In two years' time she goes to dering 1929 no fewer than 75. per qualify for her medical degree.

In her first year's course she was claims for unemployment benefit at cent. of the tally-holders lodged awarded an honours medal for practical botany, and has gained the dock clearing houses. ather successes in her studies.

She is regarded as £1 brilliant student and is popular among her colleagues. She is a keen sports woman and excels at rowing and hockey.

During that year £40,083 was paid as contributions to the Unem- ployment Insurance Fund by em docks scheme, but £352,898 was ployers and employees within the

drawn as unemployment benefit by tally-holders. The tally-holdera Miss MacDonald rowed No. 2 in thus drew from the fund over 7 the Edinburgh University women's 4-5th times the combined, contri, boat which defeated Bristol Uni-butions of themselves and their versity women's crew a few months employers. ago.

It is further revealed that some Miss Joan is also a strong swim-men receive, relatively high wages mer, and it will be recalled that for a short period of work by over- she played a heroic part in the time or week-end shifts, and claim unemployment benefit for other efforts made to save the life of days of the week in which these Miss Phyllis Palmer. who was a servant girl in the employment closures were made recently in the

wages were received. Similar dis

Lossiemouth, ed while bathing at, three years ago,

successfully through the greatest a narrow passage way which twists Maurice Chevalier and Evelyn of her father, and who was drown-Morning Post, and attracted wide-

ever

war which the world has

But, as it seems to me. known.

are not the warfare and stress greatest trials to which either cicket team or an Empire such as ours can be subjected."

"The mark of a good team is the manner in which it fights a steady uphill battle: the mark of a great

The dwellings lie on each side of

from side to side the better to buffle a pursuing foc. Between gate and passage extends a paved square which may have seen the birth of Parliament. From the passage into each dwelling runs the other passage, only two feet high, through which the prehistoric hus- band crept home to bed, after barr-

Would you like to see and hear

Brent in a slap-stick Lubitsch sketch which tells all about the Apache dance? Or Buddy Rogers and Lillian Roth in a bright, new, catchy-singing-loving act?

These are only a few uf the enjoyable moments, hilarious, some in Technicolour, which set audiences applauding at the Cen-

A Happy Meeting. Behind the engagement is 3 romance that began two years ago. Dr. MacKinnon graduated last July M.B., Ch.B., at Edinburgh, and it was while Miss MacDonald

Empire, as it seems to me, is the ing a stone slab of door with a strip tral. Theatre where "Paramount and he were doing surgical work

manner in which it can pull to- gether with all its resources, in order to make good.

of stone behind him.

His bed was but an oblong patch penned round with flat tanding stones; and within living memory

on Parade" is showing to full as students at the Royal Infirmary houses.

at Edinburgh that they met in one Everything in "Paramount on of the wards. The betrothal ад- These post-war years are ad the folk in these islands have slept Parade is swift, witty, spark-nouncement is the culmination of mittedly difficult. There are ad-

Kinnon is a year older than his justments to be made in our Im-on furze laid upon the earth with ling. It's entertainment de luxe, that happy meeting. Mr. Mac-

simliar standings slones at headIt's like nothing so

fiancee. Both are keen lovers of perial team. Some of our players seem dissatisfied with their place and foot and coverlet to keep the

sport. But although Miss Mac- Donald is a keen oarswoman, most

Dr. In the team; there are

MacKinnon prefers golf and ten- nis,

team.

some

cold out.

Kround.

In one corner is a "knocking stone" used for mashing up bones to cat; in another, most curious of all, is a square hole sunk about twelve inches deep and puddled with clay to make it held water. Here the housewife kept limpets and other shell-fish alive in salt water until the family were ready for a meal.

much as A

great, big, joyous Hollywood party with dozens of the world's most popular stars doing their amusing and entertaining stunts, It's like meeting these glamorous celebritites face-to-face and join-

Dr. Mac-

present

A.

On the opposite side of the whispers, although of the most ir earthen floor are smaller pens for responsible kind, of resignation. It is occasions such as this, far the children. In the wall between

Some months ago is the recess which served as cup more than the stress of a crisis, board for the household. The ing with them in a gay frolic. Kinnon went to London and met which test both the skill in the hearth is in the middle of the room, Intimately familiar, these play-the Prime Minister and other mem. captain and the loyalty of the

at a time,bers of the family. At a rectangle marked. off by smaliers, singly or a few

entertain, thrill, charm with their Miss MacDonald is the guest of flat stones stuck in the "Every cricketer knows how easy

ability and their engaging per her fiancee's mother in Edinburgh. it is on certain occasions to allow

sonalities. himself to become discontented if he start brooding over his own Individual case. Every cricketer knows how strong is the tempta

·tion occasion to criticise the policy of the captain; to blame him for not changing the bowling; and to criticise his placing of the field. "Yet it is precisely this kind of templation which cricket teaches us

The only other apartment is a to avoid at all costs. How often cubby hole at the end of a short have I wished that all the political passage which some say is just a leaders in all the countries of the prehistoric "box room": others, Empire were cricketers! For if looking to the hundreds of beads they had undergone the training which have been found stewed away and the discipline of the great in these inner chumbers, maintain game, I am sure they would find

Problem of the Beads.

MORE SEDITIOUS LEAFLETS.

Last month she was ↑ brides- maid at the wedding of Dr. Mac- Kinnon's sister, Misa Mary Rhona MacKinnon, to Mr. Hector M'Nab, Glasgow, at St. Cuthbert's Parish Church, Edinburgh. Dr. MacKinnon gave his sister away. The news of Miss MacDonald's engagement came as a great sur prise in Lossiemouth, where she' has been known, since childhood.

Members of the family at Lossie- mouth, although not wishing to stated large discuss the engagement, quantity of leaflets in the City. that the wedding would not take that this was the family safe. It Prepared for the contingency, place for some years yet.

FIVE SUSPECTS ARRESTED YESTERDAY.

Communists were again active yesterday, in connexion with the anniversary of the Double Tenth, when they distributed

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it easier than they appear to do depends on whether the beads were special plain-clothes men

at present to think first and last

of the team,

!

To-day's Need,'

were

No Plans Made.

posted in crowded thoroughfares.

Miss MacDonald told a reporter with the result that during the

Nus-in Edinburgh that she W38 period of half-an-hour, five pects were arrested one after the not to be married for at least other, in Queen's Road Central be- two years, until she has completed As yet, she tween Wingkat Street and Aber- her medical course. deen Street.

said, they had no plans. "Dr. appointment as house physician in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and I will continue my degrees studies."

used as money tokens, which, in so young a people, seems improbable, or for the adornment of the ladies. Whatever their purpose, they were "I am not a politician myself;

as popular four thousand years ago and I am well aware that it is an

as lipstick is to-day. More than easy thing to criticise the conduct three thousand of them have been of those whose difficulties one does discovered, graded in size, as for Leaflets thrown out from a tea- | MacKinnon will shortly take up an not understand. But I cannot help a twentieth-century necklace, and house near by also attracted the thinking that all of us in this great made from all manner of bones, in-notice of the police, but the offen- British Empire need more of the eluding the teeth of the horse and der or offenders had vanished spirit which cricket inculcates; we the walrus and the wild boar's when the tea-house was. entered. need more team work, more pa- tusk.

Elsewhere, the day was a quiet tience, and more unselfishness. The great village "midden" was. one for the Police Force To put the matter briefly, we need indeed a medley of these; of peat general, more of the true spirit of cricket ash and limpet shells; of fine bone

"For cricket is more than a

needles and stone pot covers, cut game; it is really a manner 'of

round, and a short piece of ox living. I am sure it is one of the bone, with the knuckle for handle, greatest contributions which the beautifully shaped into an imple-. British people, have made to the ment for skinning animals. cause of humanity. It is certain- They wore skins, these men of ly among the most powerful of the the dawn. Big men they must have links which keep our Empire to-been (the skeletons of the two old gether. So long as we can main- tain in that. Empire the spirit of women were five feet four inches tall), and bearded wo-for who cricket in- sportsmanship which

could shave with a knife of stone?

DUKE LEAVES HUGE FORTUNE.

DEATH DUTIES TO YIELD £1,000,000.

in

"London, Oct. 10. The late Duke of Northumber- culcates, so long shall we be ready. Did they sail out upon the sea from land left estate valued at £2,500,- as a team, to meet and defeat any the bay of Skail? Was it from 000, so far as can be ascertained adversity which the future

hold for us.

may there that came the foe against at present. "If the bowling is difficult, let whom Skara Brae was fortified us present a straight bat with cour-in a mood of fear not yet lost across

the span of forty centuries? age and with determination.

The Princes of India.

We can only guess. Skara just raises the corner of the curtain,

Miss Ishbel, who is 27, is her father's hostess at No. 10. Miss Ishbel is a great social worker, and is Socialist member for South Poplar on the London County Council.

The youngest sister, Sheila, in still at school.

Of Miss Joan ‘MacDonald's two brothers, Alastair and Malcolm, the latter is M.P. for Bassetlaw, Notts. He is 29.

EXCHANGE RATES.

It is estimated that the Death Paris. Duties will amount to over £1,000,- Geneva. 000.-British Wireless.

"The Princes of India, to whose and already in a few months and Order I have the honour to belong, while the work was still incomplete First Commissioner of Works,, is New York. have been very old members of that glimpse has brought 2,700 enthusiastic about Great Britain's team; and both on visitors past the standing stones of transform Trafalgar-aquare into

a scheme

to

easy and on difficult wickets they Stenness to the Bay of Skaill, They, lawns and flower gardens. He

Adam

:.

Thursday: .123.825

Yesterday. 123.845

376

18.09

.34.485

25

25

20,425

20.425

Galo Helsingfors Athens. Mr. George Lansbury, M.P., the Buenos Aires...39.1/16

Shanghai.

.18.15

18.16

103.

193.1/10

.375

38%

1/7

1/7

4.85%

4.86 29/32

12045

12.045

18.09 10.09 34.446 -48.20

47:80

17.85

818

818

2034

.1/3.9/10

34.825

1/3.9/16

34.885

.92.795

92.79

.18.16

.18.16

103% .108.25

163%

14

108.25 4%

have tried their best to play with have come from Australia, from says: If such a scheme were Madrid..

a straight bat for the Empire.

"In times of peace, as in times of war, you will always find us ready. We are, united to you and with you in the bond of devoted to the King-Emperor loyalty Throughout the period of adjust ment of relations, between Great Britain and India, upon which we are now entering, I am certain that the Indian Princes will do their best to play a part worthy of their best traditions.

Germany, from India, and from the United States. Especially from the United States.

carried out it would relieve the Bucharest. deadly monotony and tedium of Montevideo. Hongkong.. the square for people who sit on

Brussels the edges of the fountains with "Like good cricketers, they en- nothing to do. Those responsible. deavour to keep up their wickets not the scheme are willing to find Copenhagen. even under the most difficult cir- the money, and I think the sug- cumstances. You can rely upon usgested improvements are excel-

Milan

:1/6.25/32 41/5,13/16 |

,2/0.17/822/0,17/32

in the future, as you have relied feat. The matter is under con- Bombay; J.- upon us in the past, to play the sideration, but I shall have to Yokohama.. game, and to give every support in consult experts to see if it is Silver (spot and our power to the harmony and to practical before any steps are forward) .16% the success of the Imperial team." taken.

14.11/16

-British Wireless.

spread attention. The deduction to be drawn is that there should be a special insurance scheme for dock workers based upon the amount of money earned, and not upon the days of unemployment.

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TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day:

Banks. Hongkong Bank, $1515 b. Chartered Bank, £17 n. Mercantile A. & E., £261 n. East Asia $111

Insurances.

b. Canton Ins., $1,085 Union Ins., 84471 n.

Пом

North China Ins., Tis. 160 b Yangtaze Ins., $50.

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China Underwriters, $2,70 H. K. Fire Ins., $1,080 China Fires, $400. b.

B.

b.

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Shipping.

Douglases, $281 b.

b,

H. E. Steamboats, $26 Indo-Chinas, (Def.) $22 n. Union Waterboats $32

Wining. Benguets, $8.70 n. Kailans, 36/3 n.

11.

Langkats, Tls. 8-n. S'hai Explorations, Tis. 1.30 b. Raubs, $241 b.

Docks, etc.

b.

Kowloon Wharves, $164 Whampoa Docks, $32 8. China Providents $5.15 b. (Old) Hongkews, Tis 280 b. New Engineeringa, Tls. 7.30 г. Shanghai Docks. Tla. 122 b.

Cottons.

Ewo Cottons, Tis. 12.35 ́ h S'hai Cottona, Tls. 83 (old)

Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and 8. Hotels, $11.30 h. H. K. Lands, $75) b. (Old).

do. 8731 b. (Now) S'hai Landa Tls. 305 b." Humphreys, $16. b. Realties, $8.50 Chinese Estates $87.

B

8.

'Public Utilities. Tramways, $17.90 Peak Trams fold) $13.60 1. Star Ferries, $83

5.

China Lights, (Old) $25, s. H. K. Electrics, $784 Macao Electrics, #23 n Telephones $351 b.

China Buses, Tis. 18 n.

Singapore Tractions. 8/ n..

Industrials

China Bugara. $1., é.

Malabona, $27 n.

Cald: Macg. Ord: Tls. 10.40

Canton Ices, $3 a.

Cements (Comb,) $17.85 s.

Hopes $101. b.

United Asbestos. $5 “n.

Stores, etc.

Dairy Farms, $26,60

Watsons, $11.90 n.

Der A. Wings, $1 n. Lane Crawfords, $3.75

b.

Mackintoshs, $19 Sinceres. $11,60.

Miscellaneous.

Amusements, 823 n. Constructions, $2.40

B'que Ind. G. Bonds, 64% b. HE.G. Loan 8% Prem.

Phon, 24178.

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