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Out in Seattle, a Dr. Martini Dam meeting of the Hongkong Gymkhanayears to hear of a human being stand- Club is published. The event takes ing on the pinnacle of the Earth. ourette has announced the discovery place at Happy Valley on Saturday. This fascinating project the axent of what purports to be the log of the October 9 (weather permitting) and of Mount Everest, the supreme sum comprises seven items, as followsmit of the range of the Himalaya Togage of Christopher Columbus. Mountains mentioned by the Precast into the sea when storms threa 1-3.30 pm-FIVE FURLONGS sident at the anniversary meeting of tened the three tiny barques which EDAM HANDICAP For China Ponies that the Royal Geographical Society, have run in any event in Gymkhanas originated some years ago with carried the little band of explorers to this season, and not won a race. Dis Colonel the Hor Chas. Bruce, Major the New World. A desciption of the tance Handicap. Fole Scurries, and Rawling and other members of the journal has been printed by the similar events are not considered as Society, and of the Alpine Club U Seattle Post-Intelligenter, which, Races, winners of these being therefore fortunately, Major Rawling, who be however, refuses to vouch for... Its eligibleunless otherwise disqualifes. If
came a Brigadier General, was killed there are sufficient entries the ponies in the war and the Hon. Chas. Bruce authenticity. Scientists have examin- will be divided into A and B classes, was wounded in the leg in Gallipoli ed it but they, too,
are chary, the standard of the B Class being
Whilst we have no. definite plans of giving an opinion. Dr. Damour necessarily very low, so that excep at present, Lient-Colonel Sir Francis tionally slow pecies may be entered. Younghusband said in an internette is the only one of the host that Entrance Fee $5, 1st Prize: $150, with the Observer, "the Society is has viewed it who unqualifiedly in- Second Prize: $75, 3rd Prize: $50.
desirous of keeping up the idea and sists the mollase-crusted parchment 2-B CLASS of above.
of going on with the expedition contains the original story of the 3-GYMKHANA - STAKES within the next year or twoPro discovery of America Value $250. Distance One Mile.bably there will have to be two or For all China Ponies. Catch weights three preliminary expeditions. Sixty story of how the Ettle volume came at 10 st. 6 lb. Winners of an open miles is the nearest "distance from into his possession. A Swiss sailor
race or open Grifin race or Ponies that have won aggregate prize in the Gymkhana States in any season 5 lb Non-winning Subscription Griffins allowed 5 lb.
extra.
A suit for half-a-crown!
A Cup to be raa for five times or Even the optimists who have pinned as decided by the Committee, called their faith to revolutionary dealers the Gymkhana Cup, will be presented looked askance at the announcement at the end of the Season to be won by the Pony scoring most marks in the races for the Gymkhana Stakes at the Gymkhana Meetings during the Season, counting 4 points for 5rst: 2 for a second: and 1 for third. The benefit of marks already scored to pass with the Pony on
A Daily Express representative wers in search of one of these suits 1 you tell a Frenchman, a Spani-made of the best class of paper tes- ard, a German, an Eskimo that a ture," which have been imported from ship is "Al 2: Lloyd's," he knows Germany via Holland. He tracked it that he can treat it as such, because down at the warehouse of Messrs Maddock, in Anchormews. Haggers "Lloyd's Register is never wrong.
The ships built in all parts of the ton. world are examined and classified by Lloyd's surveyors, and all particulars are entered in the Register. Thus underwriters, when they are called upon to insure a vessel may obtain precise information as to its state and record.
Furthermore, in order to provide underwriters with information con- cerning the doings of chips, Lloyd's. publish every day a shipping news paper, the Shipping and Mercantile
* WAITER ALERT.
The Daily Express representative. comfortably dressed in
å
a
which the mountain has yet been approached. It was observed from this distance by Major Ryder and Captain Rawlings during the Thibet Mission of 1904
work it.
MAN AND THE HEIGHTS.
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The doctor tells an interesting
WRITTEN IN GERMAN VERSE- As to the gemuineness of the
And in the construction of the verse
itself is the greatest cause for doubt A professor of German in the Univer sity of: Washington has pronounced it to be entirely without flaw in spelling.
punctuation,
grammar,
meter or rhyme. The writers of the Fifteenth Century were not sticklers for linguistic accuracy. Written in
one Berrant out fishing for clams on the gulf coast of Mexico one day in 1918 was attracted by an earthern jug, tied to a raft of logs, lying on the beach just above the high water fide. Breaking open the jug, he found the "Obviously there must be a con- book. Dr. Damourette says he ob siderable amount of feeling the wastained the document from the Swiss before the ascent is finally made paying off a mortgage of $900 au And it wil thean, as I said in my the home of the sailor's father: address, that those who go on the expedition will have to keep them- selves at the highest pitch of physical volume, all who have examined it are fitness, mental alertness, and moral agreed there are certain features courage and endurance. They will which tax credulity. For instance, have to be prepared to undergo. the the account of the voyage is versified sale. Any winner of the race this severest hardships and run consider in German. Columbus is generally A black and grey striped suit season to carry 5ib, extra for eachable risks and all this without the believed to have been a Genoese but win in subsequent starts for the prospect of making a single penny. Fall known-documents pertaining "to was extracted from one of the cases. Race, but in the event of a Fony The geologist predicts to a certainty his voyage and written by him have
The garments are ready made, and carrying the penalty not winning. although the cut is hardly fashionable. 2.1b to be deducted next time he that no gold will be found on the been in Spanish, people of normal build would find bile starts, such 2b. to remain deduct Summit, and even if gold did exist difficulty in being suited. The cloches ed until he wins again when he wil there, no one would be able to have nothing of the nature of paper-carry the full penalties without **Whist, however, climbing Mount maché. They have a shiny and stiff deduction. Penalties accumulative Everest will not put a pound into up to 15 lb. In the event of two or anyone's pocket, but will take a good surface, but are pliable,
more, Ponies tying with the same many pounds out, the accomplish number of marks after Five Races ment of such a feat will elevate the have been run the owners shall human spirit and will give men, and which is hereby placed at $400 or that we really are getting the upper leg should be the German of Martin shall run off on a day to be fixed by hand on the earth, and that we are Lather. In reality it approaches the Committee not being the same acquiring a true mastery of our sormach nearer to the classical German day as the last race for the Stakes roundings.
of modern times. = 2. but within two weeks therefrom. In As long as we impotently creep
CIGAR SMOKING INDIANS. the event of a run of the weights about at the foot of these mighty
Though German, the letters are shall be weight for inches as per mountains and gaze on their summits drawn in Roman" print, so carefully scale. Entrance Fee $5. 2nd Prize without attempting to ascend them, that they have almost the accuracy $125. 3rd Prize: $75.
we entertain towards them a 100 of printed type. Every page is tilus- NOMINATION:excessive feeling of awe. We are rated. Here the technique is more 4-LADIES' seventeenth century by a certain Ed- the Day Express representative pass-BALL AND BUCKET RACE-Open) almost afraid of them. We have 3 that of the nineteenth and twentieth ward Llord, at whose coffee-house ined among the little crowd unnoticed to Members of the Jockey, Gymkhana, secret fear that they, the material centuries than of the fifteenth The Members of Parliament have becomic and Polo Clubs. Each Competitor, are dominating us, the spiritual But
one page in Lombard Street merchants and others
mounted on China Pony, will have as soon as we have stood on the illustration of used to meet to arrange marine in-sccustomed to variations of costume.
A Savile-row rator, when asked 2 er 3 Posts with Polo Balls on summit, we feel that we dominate particular must take the breath surances. These covered all sorts of
how much he would charge to make top, and a bucket, assigned to him, them that we, the spiritual, have of the reader who starts through the contingencies, but gradually the in
He will ride to a post, take off ball, ascendancy over them, the material volume with a preconceived belief in surance of shipping became the chiet similar suit, regretted that he had
When he learned ride to bucket, and drop ball in re And if man stands on earth's highest its validity. A group of Cuban business of the frequenters of Lloyd's. no such cloth."
the price paid far the suit-cloth, cut, torning for each other ball in the summit, he will have an increased Indians are pictured smoking cigars. Lloyd was an energetic man. order to develop the operations of his trim, and make-he pinched himself same manner, and when all have pride and confidence in himself in his The Indians might have been taken customers, he produces, in 1696, the suit to see if he were been dropped in bucket, ride past struggle for ascendancy over matter. from in front of some cigar store of This is the incalculable good which half century ago. The cigars themselves have a startling resem. If a ball falls to the ground, the the ascent of Mount Everest will blance to those of to-day, as do the daily newspaper called Lloyd's News dreaming. The bottons alone would winning post.
cost more at his establishment. which contained information concern-
attitudes of the smokers. One holds The rain was falling, and the Duly competitor may dismount to recover confer. ing the movements of ships.
Express representative hesitated it, but no balls may be removed from
"The chief difficulty in making roll of tobacco between two Suppose the suit was washed away: post or dropped in bucket unless he
| Drew, whale another carries his at an Suppose there were all sorts of hor-is mounted at the time, and each ball the ascent is the height, 29.0021. fingers with all the delicacy of a form
starting for another. Entries Free. Abruzzi made
Gazete. This is printed in the base. Salled forth to Piccadilly and lunched either divide the value of the CP | especially us," geographers, a feeling | Columbus's time, the German of the
ment of the Royal Exchange, and information is collected and cabled by thousands of agents throughout the world.
paper" The waiter was tho polite to sare more than once, hut when he was informed-in a whis. per-that the stit was made of paper and cost 2s. Ed., he gasped, stared. and asked for the name and address
at a popular restaurant
THE INSURANCE OF SHIPPING. The Gazette, which, with the ex-of the sailor. ception of the London Gazette, is the
The Lobby of the House of Com- oldes existing London newspaper. was started towards the end of the mons was the next place visited, and
In
For a while the paper was Sus pended, through Lloyd publishing a reference to the proceedings of Par-
ness.
The ordeal by the fire care next.
did not burn. H The paper smouldered as ordinary stuff does.
The total weight of the suit was five and a quarter "pounés.
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PREVIOUS BIG CLIMES.
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Several hotel managers' bore our 10 the letter the suspicion that London will shortly become the supreme ceń-
A great cocktail offensive is ready tre of the mixed-drink industry.
liament, which he refused to with.rible suppositions, but his fears were must be dealt with successfully before above sea level. The Duke of the Uncle Joe Canon tilt with the fire unfounded. The rain had no more Prizes presented by the Gymkhanayears ago to ascend K2, which is end in dangerous proximity to his
left eye. draw, it being illegal at that time to make any such reference. It resumed effect on this suit than on an ordinary Club to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Competitors, 28278ft. He found it impossible to
The parchment cover of the book, publication in 1725, when Lloyd, or one, bat the grey stripes succumbed and Souvenirs to the Ladies Nominat- ascend the actual peak itself, but he which is about the size of a modern
climbed to a height of 24,500lt. on at any rate the then proprietor of to the scrubbing brush. They disaping same.
5-ONCE ROUND RACE-For a neighbouring peak, and that is the monthly magazine, is encrusted with what appear to be tiny barnacles. Lloyd's coffee-house, started it again peared.
all China Ponies that bave run in world's highest climb at present. under the came of Lloyd's List
The record before the Duke of The-paperia-vethum, almost an Hongkong Gymkhanas this season. After a time Lioyd's moved to the
Weight for Inches: Winners of one the Abruzzi's expedition was held by eighth of an inch thick. The leather Royal Exchange, where it still carries
Gymkhana Race this season 5 lbs. Captain T. G. Longstaff, who climbed thongs, which hold it together, are on..the underwriting part of its busi-
extra; of two or more Races 10 lbs. to nearly 24,000. Other notabl almost worn away in places, but in exträ. Jockeys who have won more climbers in the Himalayas have been all the volume presents an appearance Lloyd's underwriters by the way.
than ten Official Races 7 lbs. extra. Mr. Douglas Freshfield, Sir Martin of supprising preservation for one of not only insure the ships that sail
Entrance Fee $5. 1st Prize: $150 Conway, and Professor Norman its alleged age.
But here is the argument in favour Collie, each of whom has been Pre- on every sea, but all sorts of other things as well. They will insure you a wireless stating that the curfew 2nd Prize: $75. 3rd Prize: $50.
sident of the Alpine Club and is of its validity. Its dates and names 6. DISTANCE HANDICAP: against wins, they will insure you would not ring, and there would bel
particularly interested in the project are historically correct. Columbus is even. against a no matinee performance that alter- ABOUT A MILE For all China of climbing Mount Everest, and Dr. known to have scaled his log in a against hire, and
Catch weights 155 lbs. Now the citizens and bur- Ponies.. change of Government..
gesses of Melboryne were grievously Pegs will be placed on the outside and Mrs. Bullock Workman. peeved, for they had consorted about edge of course, and chalk lines mack"Mr. Harold Raeburn left England in a terrific storm on the return voy Une Esplanade of Saynte Kilda anding the position of each pony, accord-ery recently to make an attempt to ge, it seemed that his little fleet ascend Kinchenjunga, which is 28. must be sunk. The signature tallies other religious shrines in great num-ng to the handicap (in yards) 150ft: above sea level, Dr. Kellas is with those of other documents of the to be launched in this country, The For months every boat has been hour is zero. Already the creme de bringing all the most expert cocktail bers. And even though a speedy conceded. The Race will be started
Another on the title page purports miche and cherry brandy coloured makers to this country," he said. craft ycfept the Anzac (after my by sounding a gong, and each rider also going to the Himalayas this explorer, conceded to be authentic.
year to make experiments in the use Lord Leith Murdoch's summer bath must keep his pony behind the of oxygen for the purpose of giving to explain why the record was writ fights of warning are going up. It is Many of them have secured good ing resort! had, put-to sea, my lords line assigned to him until the relict in very high climbs. From ten in German. In order that others now merely a matter of munitions. positions in London: Husdreds have
is given.. Aay of the Navy Office spoke not. For if signal
ride these expeditions we hope to gain may not understand, I am writing in A cocktail expert advertised for a posi- gone into the provinces. They are more knowledge of the conditions at a foreign tongue which they will notion, and stated that he could com-clever men who before America went MY-LIEGE THE PRINCE ARRIVES. T. B. D. standeth for Torpedo Bine, or moving forward faster than very great heights and what oxygen be able to decypher, it says. The poses 500 different drinks. An Even- dry were drawing big salaries ier
Destroyer, it also signifieth Too
a walk, must return and start, again
document to the king of Spain with out to find whether so much wisdom cocktails "of great and wonderful The mantle of Sir John Froissart Beastly Digrified. And if the heads be disqualified. Malgos ay may de to diminish the difficultiesander is exhorted to deliver the ing Standard representative who set there. There is no doubt that more could be contained in one head was variety are being consumed in Lon would seem to have descended upon at Queenscliffe were dense with fog, assist by holding ponies it desired.
Sir Francis hopes that it may be out delay. we shoulders of " Oriel," who in the they were not me half so dense as Open to Members of Jockey, Gymk possible for an artist to accompany If valid, the Post-Intelligencer, be told by the manger of 4-smart-West dog than ever before. One of the
in Melboryne. But all hana and Polo Clubs. Entrance Free Melbourne Argus, describes the dense "the heads log that delayed the arrival of H.M.S. this hath nothing to do with the land- 1st Prize: 2100. 2nd Prize: $60. 3rd the expedition for even the best lieves the document will be a valu. End dance club that during the past most noted cocktail mixers in London photographs reproduce scarcely any able addition to the history of the six months he has been besieged by drew for the representative a graphic with the Prince of Wales ing of My Liege the Prince, which Prize: $40
thing of the real character of great New World. If a hoax, all who cocktail kings fresh from the deserts picture of London's future under the
•Renown
was carried out with a marvellous 7--HANDICAP: ONE ANDA mountains.
have studied the volume are agreed of America, who each claimed that he sway of revolutionary appetisers. on board, at Melbourne."
Ir. mediaeval language, "Oric" ceremonic and the great enthusiasm QUARTER MILE RACE-For China
"In the Himalayas," he points out, that it's admirably done
could mix over 500 different glimpses You in London," he said are, as of the populace. And lo, gold chains Ponies. Entrance $5, 1st Prize: $200
of heaven.
far as the development of the mock- THE CAMOUFLAGE,
tail is concerned, 15 years behind the Now it so happened that on the and rabbit-skin collars were three a 2nd Prize: $100.3rd Prize: $50.
Some of them; able to gain acNew York of pre-prohibition days. day appointed for the arrival of my penny upon the 'Sayate Kilda' road, liege the Prince. a mighty" fog des where there was the noise of many a cended upon the City of Melboryne town council calling to its mate. Bu
AUSTRALIAN FROISSART.
A QUAINT DESCRIPTION.
says:-
whose pony is then over the
PAINTING THE MOUNTAIN,
is the grandest scenery in the world
and not a painter from Europe ever
goes there. Just one, the great Rus
sian, Veresichagin, used to go, but the way, at least, for the painter.cess and disgursed by arroway Scods. You drink a Martini orz arMarkadag
A sensation was caused in the he went down in a battleship in the And then we may have Mount came into his presence camouflaged as or a Bronx, and that's about all. But and upon its environments, even so at night the fog became thicker than Fort this afternoon, says Ceylon Russo-Japanese yrar, and bis pictures Everest pictured in alt her varied prospective members of the club we are going www you! We are that the citizens went about murmur ever, wherefore did many a loyal Observer of August 9, when the are now buried somewhere in Russia. and ever varying moods, as I have Suddenly emerging from their camou-going to make 500 and 600 different ing Verily this is a bit thick" citizen not find his way home until business establishments of a certain The Indian services might do some from distance, men her for three Hage they whipped out oprked boules cocktails, cups and other make-up For many of them know not whether late. For if the city was well lit up Moorish firm, having branches in thing, and they have indeed produced most treasured months now serene and said Sey boss, tickle the drinks as popular bere as they were it was Swanston street or Ash so were many of its chizens. And India and elsewhere, were closed and one great painter of Himalayan and majestic, now tonilt of Wednesday. But down at Queens- they tell me of a worthy burgess who, guards placed. It is stated that over scenery, Colonel Tanner. But the fury: now up cliffe the fog lay like a grey blanket arriving at his home at 1, ack emuns, drafts were allowed the firm by two services are limited, and it is to cow hang tikk i am upon the waters, and my liege the was accosted by his spouse. Shorry, of the leading Colombo banks, which Europe that we must mainly look hard and material, now Prince's great galleon The Rem dear," quoth he couldn't get the firm have failed to meet. The There is no reason why an English spirit ; now stem and Ssum involved, it is stated, is about artist should not accompany the and white and grey-- DOWNL was sore put to it to find the through the chic-heads.
ja.
front door. And though she did but jus toggiest tight as ever was! And Rs. 80 lakhs. Another report states expedition, but he must be a climber and radiant and of -steam at a low paitry knots per hour, when she made to question him as to that one local back is concerned to as well as a painteriore delicate bre now in one he ran into and knocked down an where he had been, he swore that the extent of Rs 2 lakhs and "On the first expedition to Mount in Its precisely opposite ged schrapper, which thereupon inasmuch as its the foggiest night, another to Rs. 3 lakhs, while an Indian Everest it may be only possible to proud and compell took the full count and a bit more, he hadn't the fogginer notion. Just bank is concerned to the extent of send a photographer. But this will } and unspotted Rs. 18 lakhs.
be's pioneering expedition to open us starwand my Lord Halsey send ike this "
uvula with a Cleopatra's eyelash in New York. And we shall go on a litle invention of my own which it inventing sure i Faas produced in bulk and nightly and by A man at Kensal Green who yours truly is figured to make your at one sitting to have gone jizz palace the mast mighty Spectacle through the 500 lens on the of superfluous energy in this great of one of our alcoholic Pilgri and glorious island 1 Fortunately Fathers from the States, confessed to vays for he is a married man with three the representative that he experienced candidates for an orphanage, at home afterwards slight colour blindness. -the manager may resisted the The following morning becurred fumptation. It is becoming one of the ham taste of moion:~
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