1935-06-07 — Page 7

FAMOUS ACTOR PASSES

GEORGE GROSSMITH'S NOTABLE CAREER

AUTHOR AND

MANAGER.

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 7,

THE HONGKONG

SİLVER MARKET REVIEW

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

LONDON STOCK NOW 55,000,000 OUNCES

London, June 0.

Messra. Mocatta and Goldsmid

MARKET IRREGULAR

YESTERDAY

Now York, June 6. The following reports on the New in their silver review for the past York Stock market have been received

through Mexarя, 3wun, Culbertson &) Fritz:

week, atate:

LONDON STOCK

EXCHANGE

LATEST SHARE

QUOTATIONS

on

tho

The following quotations London Stock Exchange have been received by Mesars. Swan, Culbertron and Fritz in conjunction with Reuter.

June 5. June 6, British Government Securities War Lonn 34%

redm. after 1952 £100% £105%

Chinese Bonds

The unsettled state of conditions The Wall Street Journal report on yesterday's market:-Stocks to-day in the United States and in Shangwere quiet and irregular. Trading con hat has been responsible for thesisted of selective dealings, while re-

leaders cognised fluctuations in the allver price,

were neglected, 4% Stocks on the Curb Exchange Irregular. Bonds higher.

There was some buying from America on June 4, but, otherwise, they do not appear to have been active.

There has been further Hiquida- tion from China, but buying orders have also been received from that quarter.

London, June 6. The death has occurred of Mr. George Grossmith, the veteran actor, nuthor and theatrical mannger, at the age of 61 years.

The son of a journalist he was at one time

A reporter on The Times but soon left newspapers for the stage. In 1870 ho made his debut at the Polytechnic ns an entertainer with comie songs and sketches at the piano.. Seven years later he was embarked on a successful career as actor in "The

India has supported the market Sorcerer," later playing in many other Gilbert and Sullivan operas,and local speculators have worked and winning especial, distinction both ways, as the Admiral in "Pinafore." "

Grossmith was with the D'Oyly' Carte Company at the Savoy from 1881-1889 and then resumed

hia individual recitals for a time. He played in "fils Excellency" in 1891; "Young Mrs. Yarde" in 1898 and "The Gay Pretenders" In 1900. Again resuming his recitals for some years, he finally retired in 1009.

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Ifla writings include: "The Reminiscences of a Society Clown," "The Diary of a Nobody." (with his brother Weedon Grossmith), "Cups and Saucers," and various songs. George Grossmith jur, and Law- rence, are his sons.-fruter,

EDUCATION

BOARD

MEETING

ESTIMATES FOR 1936

CONSIDERED

on

the London An estimate stocks of the white metal is given as 55,000,000 fine ounces-Kriter.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND PENSIONS

NEW BILL BEFORE COMMONS

London, June 6.

In the House of Commons, Sir Hilton Young, Health Minister, moved the second reading of the

National Health Insurance and "Contributory Penstons BM."

The object of the measure is to ensure that persons who have paid, contributions for ten years shall not through unemployment forfeit At a meeting of The Board their pension rights, or lose their

Education of

held yesterday sick disablement and maternity there were present :—The Director benefits,

of Education, Mr. G. R. Sayer,

B.A. (Chairman), the inspector of

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The Bill also exempts from pay- English Schools, Mr. A. G. Brawn,ment of arrears those persons who, the Inspector of Vernacular Schools,

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consequence of being out of

Mr. Y. P. Law, B.A., Mr. A. el Arculli, work, have not been able to keep Rev. Fr: G. Byrne, S.J., Ph.D., up their contributions-British Mr. L.. D'Almada e Castro, dr... Mr.

H. B. L. Dowbiggin, O.B.E., Captain G. W. P. Kimm, A.E.Q, Me. Li Taz- fang, Rev. C. B. R. Sargent, Hon. Mr. S. W. Ts'o, CRE, LLB, and Mr. J. Ralston, M.A., Secretary.

The Chairman welcomed the Rev. C. B. R. Sargent, who took his sout on the Board on 'appointment.

The Chairman congratulated the Hon. Dr. Ts'o on having received promotion to the rank of Comman- der in the Most Excellent Onder of the British Empire in the recent King's Birthday Honours,

The 1936 Estimates of Expendi- ture for the Education Department were brought up and considered by

the Heard.

CHANGES

POLICE

TRANSFERS EFFECTIVE

TO-MORROW

The following transfers in the Hongkong Police Force will take effect as from to-morrow:

Sergeant Scolt from Emergency Unit (Hongkong) to Yaumati for traflic duty rice Sergeant Wass from Wanchai to E. U. (Hong- kong).

Sergenat Sykes from Central to E. U. (Kowloon) Fire Sergeant Channing from E. U. (Kowloon) to Wanchai.

Sergeant Clarke from Wanchni to Central for traße duty vier Sergeant Fryer, going on Home leave shortly.

Sergeant McInnes from Yaumati

Wireless,

TELEVISION

SERVICE

LONDON SCHEME

ANNOUNCED

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were

were

Bamis 1898 (Eng. 1).... £102

irregularly 44

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1935.

RADIO BROADCAST

A Talk From The Studio

CLASSICAL PROGRAMME

From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 356 metres (845 kilocycles).

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.

7 p.m. Stock Quotations, 7.03.7.30 p.m.

Selections.

Light Orchestral

Schubert's Love Songs-Medley. Fantasia on the Melodies of Johann

Strauss, Nos. 6&0 (Wober).

World of Romance.

7.30-7.50

£ 98/2

£ 96

A

7

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£ 31 ... £31

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Riy New York and Chicago commodity 55% Tient.-Pukow

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Hlyn Swan, Culbertson and Fritz:--

5% Tient.-Pukow Railway (Supl.

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£ 27 Cotton: Reins are reported to be delaying re-planting and are facilitn- 5

Honnn ly Ling boll-weevil

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£ 48 export subsidy talk discouraging

Lung Tsing U.

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·Foreign Bonds and Banks German 75% Int.

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Wheat: Reports of excessive rains,

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To-morrow's Picture

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A varied selection of topica! to- pictures will appear in morrow's issue of the Tele- graph Pictorial Supplement. Amongst interesting groups will be two taken on the

cension of the recent in- vestiture ceremony at Govern- ment House.

Other groups will comprise

College Queen's

volleyball teams and Buy Scouts of the Technical School,

There will be several in- teresting pietures of the King's Birthday Parade, whilst wedd- ings illustrated will be those of Dr. Chu Wai-kong and Miss Constance Yip, and of Mr. Kwan Yu-chung and Miss Woo Shiu-man,

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Corn: The reversing of long Corn und the spread of wheat options 'was the main activity, to-day.

Watney, Combe & Reid Def, ord,. Woolworths

137- B3/-

72/3. 112/6

72/3 143/6

Miscellaneous

24/11⁄2 24/11%

22473 24/6

24-

Jam.

Vocal Gems.

The Duchess of Dantzig (Caryll).

Music in the Air.

The Love Parade,

7.50-8 p.m. From the Studio.

"A Weekly Review" by Sabrina.

8 p.m. Time and Weather Report. -6.00-8.40 p.m. Variety.

Piano Sole-Dames.

Patricia Rosaberough. Songs-Violet Lorraine Medley. Vialin Solo Romembranco.

'Albert Sandler.

Vocal-Ole Faithful.

The Hill Billes. Hand-Song Carnival of 1932 Stars. Song Riding down from Bangor. Frank Crumit. Orchestra-Noel Coward Medley. 8.40-9 p.m. From the Studio.

"A Grent Soldier" by 11. C. Mac- namara.

9-10.30 p.m. Classical Programme. Pianoforte Salos Preltide and Fugue No. 14 in F sharp minor (Bach).

Pianoforte Solos Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G Major (Bach).

Evlyn Howard-Jonen. Pianoforte Solos Prelude nol Fugue No. 16 in G Minor (Bach).

Pianoforte Solos-Prelude and Fugue No. 17 in A Fint Major( (Bach). Howard-Jones. Evlyn

Sonata in C Minor (Grieg and

Marjorie Hayward

Una Bourne (Pianoforte). „Orchestral_—_Coriolan_—

Overture Willem Mengel- berg and his Concertgebouwe Orchestra.

(Beethoven).

10 p.m. Fress Bulletins. Concerto in A Minor (Schumann, Op. 54). Alfred Cortot (Piano- forte) and the London Sym- phony Orchestra. Orchestral -

L'Apprenti Sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) (Dukas). Philharmonic Syn

New phony Orchestra of

York.

10.30 p.m. Press News. 10.35-11 p.m. Dance Music,

ZEESEN PROGRAMMES

This Evening's Broadcast From The German Short-Wavers

Sperial programmes for Far Eastern teners will be benadrant from Zeenas Fallows!

SOUTH ABIA ZONE

35.45 w

19,7 m

South And Zone, headrest from DJE, (1.74 metrow) whď DIN (31,45 metres).

13.74

15.200 kr 1.30-3 D.M. 19.74 m 15.200 kr 4.45-8.10 p.m. 9,540_32_4.45-8.15 pm. 15.200 k 9 p.m.-12.30 .35). 4,40 p.m. DH, DIN Announcement (GetT

Eagl) German Folk Bong. Pro Am Vorecast (Germ.. Esgl) Women's Hour: Songs our Mother 5 p.m.

BANK.. 6,30 p.m. New In English;*** 5.40 p.m. Hymphony Cancers.

Anglo-Dutch Guin Kajumpong

Rubber Pekin Synd. 27-

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31/12 31/10%

DJR DJN DIN

Mines

9/101% 9/2012

11/11/

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Rubber Tyre replacenwent orders are improving. The primary markels Hubber Trusts ure steady. The political situation in London, June 6.

France is the main check to any fur-Burma Corpn. Is. London's first television station ther Improvement. will be situated at the Alexandra Sugar: The market was dull and Palace, North London, 306 feet barely steady, with no fresh frature

above sea level, on which a 300-of interest, foot mast will be erected. The combined height, it is considered. should enable a high definition television service to be provided for the London area.

Bow-Jones Averages:

E

Common Wendth

*Mining

Randfontein

Estates Spaarwater inle

Mining Spring Alines |Sub-Nigel

Rhokann Corpn..

June Anglo-Persian

In cele braking of the $2515 kuniverKTY af Robert Selumann'a birhi. 4.20 p.m. News In German.

1 p.m. Caneral of Light Male. p.m. New In English.

1 4677% 271/3 271/3

B.CA

D.M.

Cisse down Biù, DJN (Germn.. Kng)

EAST ABIA ZONE

East Asia Zese broadcast through DJQ on 19.63 metzen (10,200 .c.) 1.50-8 p.m. Concert, nows al 2 p..

REUTER QUOTATIONS.

103/0

10276

Oils

June 5.

113.92

Buriga Oil

113.54

6379 G715 80/7!

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31.25

31.10

21.00

20.71

Shell Trans and Trail (Benter)

73/14 72/6

9.15

D4.0%

56,84

95.16

50.64

The Baird and Marconi Tele- vision Companies have been invit-

30 Industrinis ed to tender for the necessary ap- 20 Utilities paratus. Vision signals will be 20 Utilities radiated on about 6,6 metres and 40 Bonds associated sound signals on 7.2 11 Commodity metres.-British Wireless.

Jovies

AIR ATTACK -

BRITISH SCIENTISTS

ACTIVE

London, June 6. Milan

Shanghai,

June 6, 75.17/64 15.20

U.S. COMMODITY

PRICES

LATEST CABLED

QUOTATIONS

12.24 The following quotations on the 617 New York commodity exchange are 50,15-16 Issued by Reuter:

New York Cotton

p., 114, 11JH announcement (Germa

Eng). Gorman Faik Hong, Pro ETI Foterasi (Germ.. Engl). Jour: a.m. Woman's

Songs

Mothern sung.

our

9.45 p.m. New In English on DJQ and

lo Dutch a 11J15.

10 p.m. Heenex from "thas von Farn

hrim

13 p.m. Shari Musiek) Programme,

11.15 pan. News In German on D3Q and

1221,

11.30 p.m. Merelament of All Berta.

12.15 R.m. News in English on DJQ and

In Dateh on DIH. 12.30 am. Clone dawn DJQ. Din (Cerm.

Enut)

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

To-day's Broadcasting From Four Transmissions

The following ware-lengtha and frequenclim

are observed by Daventry.

Call Blen

Wavelength

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Paris. Geneva. Berlin. Athens.

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190 36.6/16

110% 2/4.11/16 2/4.3/16 .20

220.17 1/6.5649

1/6.5739 .1/2.3/32

June 5.

June 4.

7.33 2014

July

11.46

11.55/56

118

October

490

December

1.10

1.25/26

CSA

11.19

11.28/20

C&D

·

36.5/16

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11.22

11.31/31

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11.37/30

11.3-4

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17,790 1.5 14.80

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12:470 k.c.

13.97

GAL

15.280 k.c.

19.64

metter

12.62

12.70

12.50/ñd

12.651/68

CAJ

21.840 ke

11.93

GSL

218 1.013 .C26%

12.06

12.87/87

18.03 12.94/91 13:22 13.106/14 13.39 18.20/26

to Central as Vehicle, Inspector. In the House of Commons to-day, New York.. Hongkong, rice Sub-Inspector S. C. the Prime Minister, replying to Mr. Amsterdam.. Saunders proceeding on leave.

Churchill, said the committee con- Vienna. Sergeant Paton will act assidering scientific means of defence Prague. had held two Madrid. Vehicle Inspector, Kowloon rier | against air attack Sergeant McInnes,

meetings, at which had been re- Lisbon. viewed in detall research and ex- Hongkong. periments undertaken by a com- Brussels. mittee of scientists which had been Bombay. continuously at work.

Yokohama Montevideo. The Chinese Foreign Office bas'.

A number of plans of research Belgrade. been informed of the French Gov. ↑ and experiment had been approved | Montreal.. crament's consent to the appoint- | und recommendations made which Helsingfors. ment of Dr. Wellington Koo as the are being adopted and which will first Chinese

ensure complete co-ordination and France. But the formal announce active prosecution of research. hent of the appointment by the British Wirelcas.

CHINA'S AMBASSADOR

Nanking, June 7.

Ambassador to

Nanking Government will not be made until the French Government makes a reciprocal appointment. -Central News.

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1108 May

Spot

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30 September 218 December 4.05 January

22644 March 414 May

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-British Wireless,

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Chicago Wheat

32 July

September December

Wednesday's

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Hidda

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70%

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The bridge, whist and mah-jong afternoon in aid of the Sheklung lopers, held at St. Patrick's all on On the recommendation of the Wednesday, proved a great success, German ̧ Debts Committee, whoso being well patronised, and the in- Chairman is Lord Plender, the ancial result was a sum of $111 for Reichsbank has been asked to pro- Kwangtung Province leaves the following re the leper

fund. The prizewinners ceed with the third distribution, part on water levels, in English fast, for the were. Mah-jong, Mra, Ho,

Highest Lowt in accordance with the provisions West, North and East Riverst Brasier-Creagh, and Mrs. Ramsay; of Anglo-German payments agree contract bridge, Mrs, Ho Ki and Mrs. Ho Loung; auction bridge, Mrs. Hast ment of November 1, 1934, of 20 and Mrs. Deb; whint, Mrs. Fogwill per cont. on all outstanding debts, West River, and Mrs. Berreux, The next function in aid of the lopers will be a whist drive, also at St. Patrick's Hall, on Monday, June 10, commencing at -9 p.m.

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78.50/74.10 73.800.

Total sales:-20 contracts

p.m. Trike "Freedom.”

9.10 p.m. Interlude.

925 pun. The News and Announcements.

9.45 pm. Cine dewa

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10 pm. nie on. Excerpts from Light

Köglish Opera. The B5.C. Empire (Continued on Page 6.)

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