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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

A Look Through The "Telegraph”

50 YEARS AGO

Fol. 18, 1889. Mr. Farnell has commenced an action In the Trish Courts against The Timer,

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The gilded youth of Hongkong mismod a very good chance of siring its dresa- coat an toadyism that night, Madame Kort's concert. That courage- ous lady. undeterred by the failure of, the first coneark a week ago, gave

rored entertainment of classical music last night in St. Andrew's Hall, and was rewardud for her enterprlus by a very fair audience, including II. . the Governor and Lady des Voeux, and samoj of the beat people is the Colony. As| high class concors Madams Kor's] entertainment was a docided succean

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It is to be haped, the people who are responsible for such craft as L.M.31. Firebrand being put to hard labour on the China tailon will be ashamed of themarlves when they read of the pri vations and discomfort endured by all; au honed of her during her recent pan- ange from Singapore to Hongkong, the in a slow old wooden gun tub, built twelve years ago, of 45 tona, armed with two worn out 04 pounders, and capable of steaming seven knots at hur best, but she was thought good enough| to search fur

STOCK MARKET

REPORT

February 18, 1939.

RADIO BROADCAST

(Continued from 'Page 15.)

Navire (Weill, Deval)....Lys Gouty The Hongkong Stock Exchange (Vocal) with Wal-Berg and His Or weekly report issued

at 3.30 p.m.chestra; Pour Sa Payse (from the yesterday, says:

revue #Parade de France"); Moi, The volume of business transacted J'Suis Pas Commo Ca (from the during the week was on a restricted revue "Parade de France")....Jean scale owing to lack of interest on the

Cyrano (Vocal) with Orch. part of buyers. Sellers, however, were not keen part with shares at current prices as the dividends now being declared-in most cases better then last year-make the holding at

tive as investments, shares in various companies aitrne-Air, McBain from 'Our Nursery Music Book': Muse arr. Sarron); Intro: Little Nut Tree; Bobby Shaťtee; Once

Bakices Dons During tha Wak

2.10 Close down..

6.0 For The Children, Traditional Nursery Rhymes (arr.

Hongkong Bank $1,390, $1,410, $1.415. Saw a Little Bird; Pussy Cat; My $1,420, $1,415

Unton Insurance $409, $407 China Underwriters 40.65, $0.70, 80.00 Ilongkong Fires $150 Wharves $118

Providents (034) 3570, $6.00 Providente (New) $6.40°

Hotels 16%

Lands 2014 [Leatt $54 Tramways $17.40 Star Ferries $7135. China Lights' (Old), sa China Lights (New) 85% Electrics 138, 6071%, $37 Dairy Farms 823. Watsons $7,113 Entertainments 87

Govt. 31 Loan Far Marumans (Lond) 13/0 Changes 3.30 p.m. (Closing Quotation)

Bays

Union Insurance 1485 BK. Tramways 117.30 HK, Electries $30

Sales

Hongkong Bank $1,430

- China Underwriters 80.31

Providents (Old) #014/05 I. & S. listol B

Cements 15.30 sunken - resta in the Malacca Straits. Bho took in cool nt

HK. Roper 94.03. Labuan, and all who have ever tried it know what rubbish that is, so it in small wonder that by the time she got within 200 miles of Manila, only six tun of it remained in the bunkers, out of the 40, which is nl the vessel stowa. By this time, too, there were only 400 gallons of fresh water bongd, no It was decided to nayo the coal for distilling purposes and make

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Dairy Farms $23%

ON HEAVY BAIL

for sorte islands, where wood and water Alleged to be Practising

could be gat, under soil. The wood was ao tae, it would not even get up enough sicam to work the donkey pumps, and the bikes atank no abominably that the

Medicine Illegally

$ Garden;

ele.....Annette 1. Plano; Blackwell (Soprano) with

"More

Very Young Songs (A. A Milac-Fraser-Simson); (a) Nursery Chaire; (b) Walting at the Window;

The

End..

Georging Morning; (d)

Baker (Baritone) with Piano; Studio Serial Story: The Christen- Ing:

Young Fraser-Simson) 、、、

When We Were Very

George Baker (Baritone) with Plapo; Sleep My Little One (Hautzik- Riesenfeld)....Reginald Foort (Or- gan) with Male Quartet.

6.30 Closing local, Stock Quotations. 0.32 J. XX. Bquire Celeste Ocfet.

A Vonetian Burcarolle-Serenade (arr.

Vocal

Willoughby)....with Quartette; Collette, Vatso (Fraser- Simson); Memorien Of Devon, Valse (Evana); Narcissus (Nevin); Valse Bluette Air Do Ballet (Drigo); Memories Or Chopin (arr. Wil loughby).

7.0 1.B.C. Recording "Songs From The Shows."

A Programme of Tunes from and produced in the London studios English Musical Comedies, arranged

of the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion by

Groves; Reginald Puz- George

The BB.C. Baker; Chorus and the Orchestra

Charged with being an unregistered! WITH: On John Watt; Cast: Arona

Wal Cheuk-

dell

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crew were no work from four am, medical practitioner, nine past one Sunday, trying to cleanac thent. The supply of fresh water son sang, 45, described as a doctor, was Revue run short again, for this class of abin remanded for a week by Mr. R. snimost entirely dependent on its dis- Edwards at the Central Magistracy tling apparatus, and each person was yesterday, and was allowed ball of put on an allowance of a quart a day. $2,500. The Firebrand was thirty days from Singapore to Manila, and had only ten session of dangerous drugs,

Wat was also charged with days provisions left, while the crew are said to have looked very huggard heroin. He was orginally on and worn, an wel! they might.

bail of $500.

Detective-Inspector A. S. Hopkins is in charge of the case.

Lenlic Woodgate.

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8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8,03 Orchestral Selections.

Dance No. 5 In F Sharp (Brahms); The "Siceping Beauty"-Waltz (Tchaikovsky).... Royal Opera Orchestra, I.. Garden. Cond, Malcolm Sargent; "Eugen Onegin"-Waltz (Tchal- kovsky)....Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Garden conducted by Eugene Goossens.

The Daily Telegraph has published an Interesting account of the death of General Gordan at Khartoum, as fue nished by an eye witness of the event. mente 1'saw and heard of were a Central It appears that General Gordon WAS Government of Lonlos, clean sewers. killed after having yielded up his sword and the protection of old London, which to the Mahdist general.

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The new United States Government cruiser Vesuvius in hier trial trip aver uge twenty-one and one-sixth knots per hour. She is the fastest armed cruiser in the world.

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was better than we had to-day.

"But I awoke from my dream," Sir Aston concluded, "to hear my friend saying, that it was impossible to im- prove London; that it was too hoge, tou dirty, tuo nicky."

Covent

8.15 Studio - Mollie Mennic (Mezzo-Soprano) and E. O'Neil Shaw (Plano).

Sir Aston did not think the modern Kas tres were un comfortable as coal Oren. ile could mungiua In 2014, BONES.

8.45 London Itelay-'Books-4. A weekly series of talks by The Right Hon. The Earl Of Lytton, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.

9.0 London Relay-Jacobean Part-

A valuable addition to the effective A.D., however, a replace permeated by

The

BBC Singers (B); Sybilla strength of the Royal Navy has been wires through which was sent a eur. Marshall; Bettine Young: Anne made by the completion for sen of the rest of electricity. It would not get Wood; Winifred Downer; Rene new frat-cinas armoured-plated cruiser hot enough to burn itself, and there Soumes; Emlyn Bebb; Victor Ulting: Narcissus, which is ordered to be placed would radiate from it a quiet, gentle Victor Harding, Conductor, Leslie in the Arst division of the Medway beat. Steam Reserve and kept ready for rom-|

Woodgate. zulesion. The Narcissus. in equipped)

10 YEARS AGO

9.30 London Relay---The News, with two 22-ton and 10 6-ton bronchi Two of the four monster tanks sent 9.50 Albert Sandter (Violin).. loading puan, together with 18 quick-out from England in connection with Estudiantina, Waltz (Waldeufel. Aring Kuns

and a torpedo armament. llongkong's water shortage are to be Op. 101); Dolores, Waltz (Waldteu- She is fitted with engines of 8,600.horse put into operation immediately with the

170) with Op.

Sydney power, and is capable of steaming object of conserving the city's supply. fel. nearly 19 knuta.

The tanks ago 32 ft. by 24 ft. by 8 ft. Foulkes at the Plano; Extase and are to be pet in Southern Street Reverie (Ganne)...assisted by J. and Western Street respectively to re- Samehtini ("Collo), and J. Dyleid

is at present given from stañil piper A

25 YEARS AGO

Feb, 19, 1014.

liere the demand on the supply which (Pianodon Eclay-In Town To-

night

Introducing personalities from

An alluring vision of the London of the streets. the year 2014 was described to the

The tanks, have a capneity of 30,000 London Society at a dinner at the Walaitons each. In the absence of a pipe. dorf Hotel by Sir Aston Webb, who line the water will be brought over every walk of life in interviews with pretended that he has slept for 100 from Latchikok in water boats, and Lionel Gamlin, Blashes from the news years and had awakened to find him puped into the tanks which will bo of the week, and 'Standing on the self standing on a bridge with a com- fitted with draw-off panien.

taps. When the Corner (Michael Standing inter- He explained that neroplanes were for the sland pipes in the districts concern and produced by C. F. Mechan.

tanks are in uporation the supply in views the Man in the Street"). Edited bidden over London because they were ed will be cut off, the tanks being the upt to drop unpleasant thing, occasionally drop themselves, and they

and only source of supply. became a nuisance.

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10.30 Carroll Gibbons (Plano) and Is Boy Friends.

"Cannon-street rallway bridge and the that the new thirty-three thousand ton Stars Fell On Alabama (Perkins): Sensational nowspaper reports claim, Judy (Carmichael and Lerner) brigen nt Ludgate-hift and Charing Cross had been taken down," he said, aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexing Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Kern); "and the old glass railway termini also tied for the "Junkpile," owing to the

ten, which, cost $80,000,000, are dee You've Col Instead, two big terminal stations had

To Admit (from 'Hi been built, one for south and one fur

Diddle Diddle'); Love And Hisses... nurth London, and they were connected|

Film Selection: Manhattan Music by a tunnel,

The draw has been made for the Cap Box--Film Selection; Life Is Just A "There wa shelt of green round lain's Cup Competition for which there Bowl Of Cherries (Brown and Hen- London, & syivan ginde formed out of are elehteen competitors. The follow-derson); Sleepytime Down South various town-planning schemen.

Ing is the draw: D. C. Wilson . S. (Rene and Muse); Huve You Got The housing problem had settled it. Jex: G. Castle v. A. Andrews; H. Mills Any Castles, self to a large extent, for, with the in. 3. J. Price: J. G. Chariton v 1. Show); I Double Dare You (Shand Baby? (flm 'Varsity crease of facilities for getting in and Burton; F. Dunhill v. A. J. Dennis: G

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