The Archive · 1938

Sixty Dears Ago

From rhe "Mobru-Chixn pewy News" or FzsavamY 2, 1878 not out. After vers and Hynes commenced for Hongkong, ana maw a good stand, the team being disposed of for the respectable total or 104. The match was continued on Monday, wae: Amoy only bettered their innings of Saturday by two notches, and Hynes, 1 was unable to be present for the performance of Tschaikowsky's symphony in Æ minor, No. but I am informed on excellent authority that the valse movement showed signs of inadequate rehearsal, that the andante cantabile was exceedingly well played and that the orchestra and conductor's rendering of the last movement was positively inspired and was acclaimed with round after round of enthusiastic and well merited applause. All of which inclines me to the view that this symphony which, we get so often was rendered more or less as usual. It was, if I remember right, upon the occasion of its last performance less than a year ago that Felix Weingartner was an approving member of the audience, one Hiamson, for ong, scored 130, against Messrs. Harkness and Bruce for Amoy, 97, Ministry announces ice-Marshal P. H has been appointed to be Air Officer

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