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LATEST COUNTY MATCH RESULTS.
LONDON May 31- Gloucester beat Essex by 60 runs; Middlesex beat Somerset by eight wickets; Warwick best Worcester. by four wickets: Leicester beat") Glamorgan by 21 ruts; Surrey and Sussex played a draw; and Yorkshire beat Hampshire by six wickets.
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DJAMBI OILFIELDS KONOPLY.
AMERICA TAKES EXCEPTION TO DUTCH STATEMENT.
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WASHINGTON, May 31.
An American gote responding to the Dutch reply on May 12, takes exception to the Netherlands' assertion that the United States protest as regards the Djambi oilfields was entered too late to affect operation of the policy.
BOXING.
AGDDLE AND HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIPS.
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LONDON, June 1.
At the Albert Hall, in the 20-round middle weight championship of Europe, Jobnay Basham (Wales) beat Gus Platts, the holder (Sheffield) on points. In the 20-round heavyweight, George Cook (Australia) beat Frank Goddard (Norfolk) on points.
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CRICKET INTERPORT.
NOTES ON THE GAME.
Capt. Barrett got his century and a balf yesterday morning. It may have been two centuries il Sayer had
not been on the spot.
Of course the head line for today is Dr. W. E. O'Hara's bowling but he deserves more than a headline fe ought to have his name on the famous players' board.
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Decks let 14 byes go through but he made up krit when he stomped the biggest Hongkong scorer with a neat bit of work.
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Oilerdessen in the field is as good as on the pitch. He made the best catch of the afternoon. It was a magnificent one-bander
Muriel also is to be congratulated on the splendid catch he made. It was a bard rug for the ball but bei got it.
Hongkong's fielding was poor in comparison with the first day's ex- hibition.
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By this time, Rred and Davis must hurt a little under the arms for they bave had a strenuous time bowling against the adamantine Shanghai- landers.
Quayle has not yet got back to his standard of bowling. He had a try yesterday but the captain deem. ed it wise to take him off after two
ayers.
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Miss Anna ElTour, accompanied by a Russian organ player, Mr Joseph Yasser may give a number of song recitals in Hongkong. She is on her way from Russia to Europe.
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Mass El-Tour is a graduate of the Petrograd Conservatoire, and held the post of a professor of singing at the Moscow Philharmony. The repertoire of Miss E-Tour, being chosen from the concert, and oratorio realm, embraces vocal literature frem the miniatures of the 17th and 18th century up to such modern impres sionists as Ravel and Debussy. It is noteworthy that the singer has five- European languages and thus is able to interpret the items of her pro- gramme in the original tongues.
Mr. Joseph Yasser, her planist, has held a professorate at the Moscow Conservatiore for several years and hopes to be able to give his own organ recitals.
Mariel saw blood when he tried to stop ore of Bagnall's hits. Hayward came and took his place.
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Capt." Barrett made the best catch of the afternoon. It was a jump for it, but his left hand closed round the leather.
Leach must have got a bit tired bowling, for one of his deliveries de generated into a "Yorker."
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Shanghai's fielding was very poor, Many catches were missed. Throw.
All out for 80 is indeed tough locking was a bit erratic as well.
It is either the exceptional good bowing or the very bad batting that has done this for Hongkong:
Two little bumps on the pitch seein to cause a small amount of trouble to the batsmen. The rain and the roller will soon alter that.
The wickels' fell so fast that the scorer in charge of the new scoring board could not keep up with the figures.
Sometimes the new board was misleading owing to the coolies" blissful ignorance of arithmetic.
The Press did not have to duck yesterday to avoid a six hit. Bound aries were few and fat. between and there were no obcem..
Shanghai tried to get Rumjahn out, but they couldn't. It was a rum job indeed.
Hongkong's big hit for a sir was abtained by. Bagnall. The ball fell among the spectators."
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Decks was a little anxious as to the number of byes he let through, but when he found "that it was only two he was pleased.
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The game was played in a different pitch yesterday and there was a decided improvement, 'abhough the turi was wet..
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The ss. "Hopsang.” Capt. J. H.: Ferguson, 1,359 tons, arrived this morning at 6.30 am. from Shanghai with 500 tons of general cargo.
The s.s. "Bengloe," Capt. F. Smith, 3,425 tens, arrived this morning at 657 a. from Singapore with. 1,800 tons of general cargo.
The as. "Halloeng." Capt. W. Couper. 1,108 tons, arrived this morning at 9.15 2m. from Swatow with 430 tons of general cargo and 25 bags of mail.
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Richards in his lonely cottage. good sentimal he is, that a traveller TeL 2170, 60, Queen's Rd. Centra
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Glasgow Territorials. have reached nearly 70 per cent. their establish 'ment strength.
a Thursday night he had walked up the same announcement to-day before
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to the cottage, knowing that the the New England farm-house that he Tel. 2203. 12, Queen's Rd. Central. old man was lonely, and had spent mace when Maecenas came to visit
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Captin Leonard noticed that the Horace at his Sabine farm, near- candle in the kitchen where he sat ly two thousand years ago, and is bad burned down to about an inch believed in just as implicitly with The Times Trade Supplement states When the house was entered on the this difference: Horace could give that room exists for the development Sunday morning the candle had an explanation the explanation burned out,
given above of why he considered of Australia a trade with China, which From these indications it is be that the cock was announcing com- at the present time is small, though lieved that the old man was in bed pany coming; whereas the modern daring the past 12 months there have on the Thursday night when he was farmer has lost the explanation and been signs of increasing activity, disturbed by a sound in the garden. retained marely the superstition, Fearing chicken thieves, he probably
went downstairs dressed in a
From Shanghai have been exported modest quantities of groundnuts
shirt, trousers, and slippers and Mr. Frank Rhea, "Trade Com- |(în shells), groundnut kernels, opened his front door. The murderer missioner for the U. S. Department ground-nut oil, cottonseed oil, must have remained hidden in of Commerce, has retumed to Shang-wood-ol, bristles, egg products, the dark until his victim ap hel from South China where he has akins, strawbraid, silk waste, pongces peared, when be struck him on the been engaged for the past few weeks and piece goods, and black tea. All back of the head with an old garden in investigation work.
these lines are capable of development, spade so fiercely that the blade was broken from the handle.
The Yomiuri says that ancient as also are the following imports from Dragging the body inside the house, Chinese coins numbering 20,000 Australia: Tinned goods and food- the murderer then sansacked the altogether, valued at Y300,000 stuffs, wire nails, pipes and tabes, If the grass had not been soaked,
upper rooms looking for money or according to the present market lead bars and tinplates. There is Hongkong would have got moré boundaries than they did."
Shanghai. May 25-Reuter is
Taluables Finally he buried the price, have been unearthed fo the also an opening for manufactured body under some hay.
Precincts of a shrine at a village, woollen goods, and a moderate pro- },
authoritatively informed that the
named Moro, in Sawa district,spect for Australian wines and beers, There were no "ducks" for Hong-reports in the Chinese press regar
Hotly pressed during a shoot near
Gumma Prefecture. On the 13th while the trade in tinned goods is kong in their second innings, but ding the signature on May 23 of an
May, the shrine authorities en capable of considerable expansion, there were a few cocktails in the agreement between the British-Danzig, a stag took refuge in e pavilion.
American Tobacco Company and cowshed, but after driving out the It is announced by the manage gaged some coolies to dig out a especially in South Chinas Had there the Bureau for Tobacco, Wines cows was tassooed and shot.
ment of the Hongkong Hotel Garage big sacred: tree which recently been better shipping facilities the war that, notwithstanding the increased perished in the precincts, and world have given Australis a better and Spirits, providing for (1) UNCA exemption from transit and likin
To draw attention to his drink cost of motor spirit etc. they have these coolies found beneath the tree a
actually enjoyed. Belease of tonnage Chinese territory and 20 per cent in
tions in the charges for car hire. Ese coine said to be 1,200 years". foreign concessions, (3) the payment Doherty, Mimeter for Agriculture The hourly rate for a large car has ok. The discovery was at once should make direct trade between wis remsured that Hongkong but go Ses taxes to the Goyms in the Ontario Cabinet, milked & cow been reduced from 18 to $7 and the reported to the local authorities. China and Australia easier.
the ment in advance, and (4) the within front of the Parliament bolding rate for a amat car from $8 to 95 never expected to
the Ediar, Geoton" first innings Jaitchell, in Strat holding of the preferential rights at Toronto, to the delight Times of May 26,
enjoyed by the British American crowd.
Sir Everard Fraser, Rear Admiral ||
were among the spectators,
Borrett and Commander Hartford doer, (2), levies of 25 per cent in more milk campaign, de Mannini, decided to make considerable reduerge jar containing ancient Chis chance in this market than shơ
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