16th July. We hear, and we trast that the report is true, that the Municipal Council or the Band Committee are seriously considering another modification of the present arrangement of the performances of the Town Band. The present arrangement is that the Band gives week two performances in the and one i the afternoon inthe Pablic Garden, one in the evening and one in the afternoon on the Recreati Ground, and one in the evenii the {French Consulate-General. Without going into the much-disputed question x3 to whether the Band should play at all out of the settlements, except on payment, it may be urged. that the Public Garden is the proper place for It is in the centre of the Settlements north of the Yangkingpang and, with the river on one side of it, is the coolest. spot to be fonnd here in the summer; it is provided with a proper band-stand, and with plenty of seats for the public, and the bund every time it plays there gives enjoyment to several hundreds of peuple. Whenit plays on the Recreation Ground, those listening to it are counted by tens, not hundreds; there is no proper band-stand, so t half the music is lost, and there in very scanty provision of seats; while at the afternoon performance the children and the ladies who are with them are banished to the far side of the Recreation Club's enclosure, where they can hardly hear the music at all. he dwellers in the suburbs, for whom the Band now plays twice a week, are nearly all provided with carriages and can easily come in to the Pablic Garden; but of those who ordinarily go to the Public Garden, probably not one-fourth have carriages to take them out to the Recreation Ground, Inst: year's schedule, under which the Baud played three times a week in the evening and twice in the afternoon in the Public Garden, and once in the evening at the French Consulate-General, gave general salis-faction, and we trust that the Band Committee will revert to it.
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