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MONDAY, OCTOBER
SATURDAY'S GYMKHANA. Mr. Staves' Bolaheric, 146 iba
SOME SMALL FIELDS.
GOOD BUT FOR FAVOURITES.
(Mr. T. W. Doyle) $1 A length between first and second. and a length and a half between second and third.
Time; 2min. 8.2-secs
Cash Sweep. Fari-mutuel. Winner: $10.40 Ticket No.
12.80 Place:
1921.
K: C. C.
SATURDAY'S DANCE.
dals glimpse the truth, perhaps (as! Robert Burns did) give it lasting, expression, and then as quickly forget ir, at by their behavior seam to.
On Saturday night the Kowloon This of itself should be evidence that
Cricket Club concluded their series of we are feebler creatures than we think
entertainments with a dance which we are, as incapable of retaining truth
Small fields and the agreeable
399, $5,676.30 was well attended. The law made as a basket water, low to see, quick.
tenden:y displayed by favourites to
36. 1,621.80 an agreeable dance" floor" for this ta forget, fickle in worship, incon- j
"come home" in most of the races
693, $10.90 time of the year, and an enjoyable sistent in application, burnt children
were features that marked the who never leam to dread the fire. Wel
SHANGHAI, Oct. 10. contemplate Architecture, as an art
A desperate shouting affray took resumption of Gymkhana racing at THREE QUARTER MILE RACE, evening was spent. The band of the China ponies, 1st prize, $250: 2nd dance music. The supper and quid and as a science, and we compare it!
refreshment bar was well patronised. with the nests of birds, and we beland place u Saturday at a residence in Happy Valley on Saturday. There CLASS HANDICAP: B. Class-For Wiltshire Regiment provided the
prize, $100, 3rd prize, $73. Avenue Joffre as a result of which M. was a big crowd which included H. E.
The grounds, tastefully illuminated our greatness. Yet it is only an in- Povitch, for many year a resident of the Governor, and the weather and
(Mr. T. W. Doyle) 1 for the orcasico, presented an animat- eritable developarent of so many
scene. Dancing continued repeated efforts to shelter one frailty Shanghai. lies in hospital in a pre- the Wilts band both helped very much Dr. Forsyth's Neston, 154 lbs carious condition. His alleged as towards making the outing a very Mr. Scares' Dandy Child, 131 lbs
midnight. The committee from wind and wer. We contemplatesailant, a Korean named Mikon, is in pleasant one indeed.
auth responsible for the entertainments Philosophy, and praise ourselves, yet
A quarrel is said to
whien have proved a great boon, is it is only a thin smk that rises from custody. He is alleged to have called the friction caused by our long twid- Pevitch.
have ensued the cause of which has dlings with nsciolisness. We remark our Napoleons, and forget that their not yet been divulged. natural blood brothers are the pagas. cious small fowls who happen to be cocks of their walks. 0. wad some Power the giftie gie us To see our- selves as the gods must see us. would from our chirt blumler free us-- our least logical notion that we are, by the trick of speech and its illusion of thought, outside of ard above the order mammalla. After all, it may |be our ignorance that makes our idea |
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
One case of paratythoid fever, Chinese, was reported on Friday,
Messrs. Hughes and Hough adver- tise & furniture sale for tomorrow
afternoon.
pozed.
A
It was the three-quarter length
lbs
ed
(Mr. Soures)
3
composed s follows: Convener:
0
Mr. V.C. Labrum: Members: Messrs.
race that provided the best finish of Mr. H, P. White's Carpenter, 158 ..Mr. Remedios) were only four the day. There starters and Lighting, the favourite, Mr. Albert's Spoilt Child. 152 Th (Mr. J. Bell Irving)
J. P. Robinson, A. W. E. Davison, with Mr. Bell-Irving up, looked
Mr Mr. Ferdndud's Tuckshop, 150 lbs certain winner
until
(Mr. P. Kremerì 0B. E. Nicholls. J. M. Jack. P. F.
Shroff, D.
C. M. W. Harvey, Spraie challenged Doyle ON
throw Mr. E G. Willinson's Mountain him within *
Mist, 149 b......(r. Seth) 0 Reynolds, R. Vergette. G. W. Avenell, Stirrup to
W. T. Elson, H. E. Stevens (secret- of the winning post. stimp, they fought it out over the Mr. J. Hanbury-Willaus' Golden
Syrup, 147 los (M. II. Wiliams) 0ary) and E, Abraham (treamrer). last few yards of the distance natü Mr. Duyle with a final effort squeezed Mr. Flank's King Harry. 147 Ibs bone by a neck.
stone's
(Mr. Gibson) 0
Three-quarters of a length separat ALICE MEMORIAL FUNDS.
Cash Sweep- Winner: $9.10 Ticket No.
6.60 20. $2.494.10 71260 1.99 600.
356.30
There were only three starters for the big race, the Gymkhana Stakes,ed first and second and two lengths The Musicale arranged to take and they were Scamperdale (r. Bell-second and third.
Time: 1min. 362-es, Pari-mutuel. of our superiority possible. We are place at the Helena Mar Institute on Irving), Bolshevic (Hr. Doyle) and ignorant of the language of the Heas, October 20th is navoidably post-Fawnshop (Mr. Soares). Pawnshop
the least fancied of the trio, set the and consequently know not of the
pace from the start and, leading all existence of the philosophy of our
the war, won by a length. There Ltd. pamsites, much less its nature. In
between the other two and eves- rually Scarperdale ran into second place a length and a half abead of
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LIDDELL - Octube: 1. 194, at Shanghai, the wife of P. W. O. Liddell, a daughter.
and
22
1921, at Hollow, to Mr. and Mrs J. Kennedy, a son.
60, Des Voeur Road, CENTRAL.
these days, when it is held a symptom
An advertisement in this issue of intellect to believe in the Fourth requests pers of motor vehicles to was a stirring duel for place honours | apple at the vehicle licensing office for enamel number plates,
Dimension, in het licht, and many other really unknowable things, it Should not be deemed unclickable or crazy to postulate that Pulex Irritans has his or her own cosmology, which
It is understood that the Henis rival. Mr. Holyoak is leaving the Colony very shortly on a protracted holiday,
The public pat its money on The
tecognizes a beneficent design 13 on account of the state of his healthAmeer for the last race, the mile and!
nature, catering for insect require- ments, and even condescends
to
bestow upon the human species some such honourable title as that we give to the dog and the horse. The Friend of Man-the Friend of Fleadom. There may be les morality, and reverend feas of rival denominations to presch it there may be flea pro fessors, so full of tea erudition as to confirm the flea tradition that fleas are the lords of creation: and, natur-
ally, in such case. there would be a des deity responsible for all. It is at least as feasible as the Fourth Dimen-
a quarter, and Mr. Seth did not dis- The sale of the Old Post Office point them. Well to the fore all the way round he shot out from the site. conditions of which have already pack at the last bend and romped been published, takes place to-morrow home with five lengths to spare. Mr. afternoon. The total upset price for Bell Irving brought Tiddleywinks into the four lots is $1,499,310.
second place and Mr. Remedios was third with Spoilt Child.
The concluding Lecture by Dr. H. T. Hodgkin, entitled The Real World," will be given to-morrow evering, in the Helena May Institute, at 5.30 p.m. The Commodore will occupy the chair.
The commission of the light sion, and no more incomprehensible cruiser Colombo," China Station, or difficult to believe than some of the will expire on New Year's Day next. mysteries we are instructed to believe. On November 20 Captain Casper B. We may not assert it; nor can you Ballard will complete two years in deny it. Assume it so, you then con-command of that cruise;. front two rival claims, and a hidecus doubt. Who has the truth? Who
is right? The learned fleas or we?
HEART TO HEART.
As one buman being to others, says "Adversarius manifesting the same human desires and weaknesses, re- minding them that just as a man in surplice talking through his nose is
etill A
THE RESULTS.
The following were the results of the contests-
361
1.
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3.
11.60
443
M
FURTHER DONATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGED.
The Hon Treasure of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals
Unplaced: Nos. 184,633, 54, 559, acknowledges with thanks the follow- ing donations to the funds of the Hospitals:
Wong Kwok Tin
L: Sing Ku.. Chau Cheuk Fan Wong Fa Nung Wan Man Kai Wong Ping In Char Tsur Nin Kwok Teun.. Wong Wood Tsun Chan-Ping Yu
Li Ying Cho
Ma Yuk Chuen Lam Tak Chau Tong Shiu Lun Kwok Mak Yuen Chan Shr Kai Chu Yik Tung Li Cho Shan.. Li Shin Tsing
$21
"
25
20
21
NEW WOMEN'S GUILD.
BALL AND BUCKET RACE. Ladies Nomination Race, open to members of the Jockey and Polo Clubs and Mounted Troop. Each Competitor, mounted on a Chira pony, had two or three posts with polo balls on top, and a bucket, assigned to him. He had to ride to a post, take off ball, ride to the backet, and drop the ball in the same manner, and when all bad been dropped in, ride past the win- ning post. If a ball fell to the ground, the competitor might dismount to recover it, but no balls might be removed from the post or dropped in the bucket unless he FIVE FURLONGS RACE.
was mounted at the time. Prizes For Subscription Griffins of both
presented to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd classes, any season, which have run and not won at Gymkhanas this Competitors, and Souvenirs to the
Ladica nominating them. season. 1st prize, $250; 2nd prize,
The competitors were:- $100; 3rd prize, $70.
Mrs. Wyndham 1 Mr. John Bell-Irving's Miserrimus Mr. J. M. Dodington, nominated by
Dolefal, 158 lbs.
To Hongkong's list of Chinese (Mr. J. Bell Irving) 1 Capt. C. S. Fisher, nominated by
Miss M. Kirkpatrick 2 labour guilds. which already num Mr. Topside's Mountain Bear (late
ber ever 130. has been added Mr. A. J. Samat, nominated by Timour), 158 lbs
Miss R. Irving 3 another one-the Women's Industrial (Mr. T. W. Doyle) 2
Union which has been formed M:. P. M. P. Beaven nominated by
Mrs. Lafrentz 0 by female workers employed (Mr. Gibson) 3 Mr. Blank's King Harry, 155 lbs.
Mr. J. E. H. Bibby, nominated by
by the Canton Nanyang Brothers Mrs. F. Hall Tobacco Company. The inaugural for the year 1921-1922. All appli Mr. Tricolore's Quo Vadis, 158 lbs
(Mr. P. Kremer) 0
Lieut.-Col P.A.Cox, nominated by
ceremony of the new organisation cations must be forwarded to the
Mrs. Ross 0 took place in the Eastern Cinema. Magistracy on or before Wednesday Capt. E. G. Spinks Dekho (late
Sportsman Artichoke),
Theatre at Wanchai yesterday after. October 19.
155 lbs....Capt. Spinks 0 Mr. G. A. Harriman, nominated by
Mrs. B. Donnelly noon. The building was parked with people and a band of small boys arm- (Mr. H. Seth) 0 Mr. J. Bell-Irving, nominated by
Mrs. Bell-Irving 0ed with bugles entertained the audi- ence with a lively fanfare until Dahlia, 152 lbs...(Mr. Sewell) 0 Mr. C. Sargeannt, nominated by
Mrs. Hammond Othe actual proceedings began A length separated first and second.
Then there were speeches and for and three lengths the second and Mr. H. Seth, nominated by
Miss Seth over an hour representatives of 120 Mr. G. W. Sewell, nominated by
labour guilds took the floor oze after Mrs. Temple Bevan another and read out letters of Afterwards there congratulation. Capt. E. G. Spinks, nominated by-
Mrs. Spinks were more speeches, a cinema show
and refreshments.
A meeting of the Licensing Board will be held on Friday, November 4, for the purpose of considering appli- cations for Publicans' Licences etc.,
The Raleigh" sister ship of Mr. Nerazee's Ardelan, 155 bs bicke so a man talking the Hawkins," Bagship of the China through the conventional diggity of Station--has arrived on the North Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak's Mystic type may be a common chatterbox America and West Indies, and taken and as hag, that is how I appeal to up the duties of fagship there. This them, and why they tolerate me so Station includes the Pacific coasts third. generously. I know it. To be simple and as far over, the Pacific as the and natural and human there's no Chius Station gocs. secret in that-bat how efficacious it
Lieutenant-Commander J. A.
Time: 1min. 19 4-5secs. Pari-mutuel.
Winner: $10.70
1,
5.40
. 5.40
Forest Child), 145 lbs
Mrs. Tiramis 0
Cash Sweep.
Ticket No.
1,
2,
30.60 28.10 3, 24.20 549,
223, $2,411.50
190, 689.00
344.30
146, 407, 417, 67, 698, 711.
ONCE ROUND RACE.
KINEMA NOTES.
THE WORLD THEATRE.
The management of the Worl! Unplaced: Nos. 209, 435 634, 440, | Theatre is screening the great
Cash Sweep. Ticket No.
234, $1,592.50 218. or otherwise a type of fairly common is. Not only in selling the paper, but
$55.00 Major Timmis, nominated by mankind, of these men who believe in bringing their true selves to the Douglas-Hamilton, who has been ap
3. 6.90 187. 227.50
Pari-mutcel. that this world is the core or hub of surface. Real good sorts, they are, pointed to the "Hawkins," flagship of
Unplaced No.: 165, 464, 353, the universe, its fate the chief concern when they feel they can afford to be the China Station, joined the Naval of Omniscience, more particularly of natural, to drop the mark, to uzbut service in 1909, and reached his
A Class'-For these men who of late have been to and unbelt. The cocktails help, present rank in August of last THREE QUARTER NILE RACE. Winner: $75.30
China ponies. let prize, $250; telling us we should abandon our faith of course. Ever watch the process? year. He was latterly serving on the CLASS Handicap: in the divinity of one Superman in To begin with, the tiniest suspicion of Fishgaad" for P. and R. T. duties.
2nd prize, $100; 3rd prize, $75. constraint. of being guarded.. A long-time-nu-have-see feeling, Charged before Magistrate Lind- Mr. T. W. Doyle's Spynie, 153 lbs
(Mr.T. W. Doyle) 1 JACOB.-On Saturday. October 1 favour of a belief that all men have a
1921, 3 Shanghai, to Mr. share of the divina in them. When with its wherever shall we begin sell this morning with the unlawful
we feel like laughing at the arrogance. Mrs. S. I. Jacob, a daughter.
and evaceit of the human animal, who to connect the old threads problem. possession on board the £.8. Orlee," Mr. C. R. Thompson's Lighting. 165 lbs. (Mr. J. Bell Irving) Good will to be sure. Never doubt of 300 rounds of revolver ammunition, KENNEDY-On September
creates God in his own image, and that. Good will, but with antennæ a Chinese said that he arrived from bir. Tricolore's Humorist (late enticises Fis arrangements and plans, out, guessing, ruraising, shy. The America by the 8.8. "Empress of we remaind ourselves that we have no first cocktail has the effect of taking Russia," He was returning to his more right to laugh at the average of the hat and gloves, of lolling, of native village and did not know local Mr. H. Birkett's Flywheel, 150 lbs man than the average man has to hagh at our office boy. The office feeling at home. The second takes regulations. A fac of 375 was im off the coat-shirt sleeves and posed and the ammunition confiscated. boy's sense of proportion did seem bothomie, and the atmosphere warms
Messrs. Cammell, Laird, at thir absurdly lacking, but after all, big as is the machine called the Bank of P, as it did when Mother used to say
"draw your chair up," and poked the Birkenhead, have launched the "Lon- England, it might be that as a amallare, when you came in of a cold, raw don Maru," the largest vessel built cog in it is absence might cause effects. If there be anything godlike night. The third one makes you for Japan for some years past, Her want to kick yourself for neglecting displacement is 35,500 tons, and she in man, surely it is that amour propre these charming fellows so long. Such is the finest ship of that claas owned at Shanghai, J. W. Whitehead of his, that very arrogance which noble characters, such sterling souls, by the Japanese. The vessel will pro-
makes him regard himself as Nature's zged 48 years.
1921, main purpose, the focal pointing her such loving, decent heart. The fourth bably operate on the regular Japan- ROWELL On October 1
concoction by Bessie--but about here, European service of the Osaka Shoeen Wes Kaisha, for whom she has been built. energies. The man who can believa that for his species all things useful of course, you have lost count.
it really the fourth, or the fifth?
MARRIAGE.
SHARKHORST LOPES-On Oct. 1. 1921, at Hengke, Edward George Shamhont, to Ermeria Lucrezia Lopes.
DEATHS.
WHITEHEAD.-On October 3, 1921.
at Shanghai, Robert Nelson Rowell, the beloved son of Mr. and Mr. F. Rowell
to it were expressly made, from the You pucker your brows, and think
Ichang is threatened with a rice solar system that permits him down hard. No use. Then you smoothe famine due to the interruption of to the little rice-bird that he crunches them, and anile, and murmur that facilities for transportation which wes between his teeth, may consistently
anyway it does not matter,
in turn due to military activities, say The China Mail.be bumptions as a politician, and
Thus the old reprobate, dropping a telegram to the Government from demand such trifles as that the State, in upon us on Saturday, just as we the Ichang Chamber of Commerce the viks, or prohibit all alcoholic bever were going to Press. It was not other day. The Government is asked Siegram, Monday, Oct. 19, 1941. ages, or (like the people of Heangsing difficult to guess where he had heen. for permission for the Chamber to import food supplies for the people sad that the shipments be free of
* (ZOTEL JUSTICE, PUBLIC
SESTIE.
A FEW FLEA BITES.
at his behest, shall banish all Bobil-
taration.
(Mr. P. Kremer) 3:
(M. F. M. L. Soares) 0 A reck between first and second and three lengths between second and
Time: 1min. 36 4-5eccs. Pari-mutuel .. Cash Sweep. Winner: $16.90 Ticket No.
6.40 196, $2,272.90 56.90 241, 649.40 680, 324.70
*GYMKHANA STAKES. Value $500. Distance.-One mile-
For all China ponies.
1,
2,
Unplaced: No. 10.
patriotic picture "The Symbol of Sacrifice to-day at 4.30 p.m. sharp, For all China ponies that have run in also on Friday and Saturday and Hongkong and not won an official Monday next at 5 p.m. Owing to race since January 1st, 1921, other the great length of this picture these than races confined to Hongkong matinees start much earlier than the subscription griffins of both classes. asual time. A double attraction is 1st prize, $250; 2nd prize, $100; offered in Russian and Hungarian 3rd price, $75.
dances by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon at Mr. C. R. Thompson's Lighting, to-morrow's matinee at 4.30 p.m.
155 lbs....(Mr. J. Bell Irving) 1 Mr. Ferdudad's Tackshop (late Only Hope), 152 be...(Mr. Remedios)
Mr. Staves Bolshevic, 105 lbs.
(Mr. T. W. Doyle) Mr. Tricolore's Quo Vadis (late Field
Child), 168 lbs.
2
3
(Mr. F. M. L. Scares) 0 Mr. H. P. White's Carpenter, 1551be
(Mr. P. Kremer) 0
1,
A length between first and second, A Cup to be run for five times, or as and a length and a half between second
decided by the Committee, called and third. the Gymkhana Cup, to be presented at the end of the season, and to be won by the posy scoring most marks in the races for the Gymkhana Staices at the Gymkhana meetings during the season, count ing 4 points for a first; 2 for & second and 1 for a third. 2nd prize, $200; 3rd prize, $100.
MARKS EARNED TO DATE 1921
Рагтад....... Speckled Mouse...
censare the weakness of the Gover ment, and order it to urge the entire DIPHTHERIA-HOW IT MAY BE
AVOIDED, Chinese population in Macao to leave
IPHTHERIA "usually contracte that: The office-boy of our he may cold. The
A local light-house telegraphist The vacation of a little office by parable, the editor of the Skibberces sold pepares thehild's system for the
tailor reption and development of the diph was arrested on Saturday for being employed at the Bank of England was Eagle, and the seven
dichtheriain the neighbourhood children Less enjoyed by him than it should of Tooley Street, butts for the the ghen there act child of drunk and ineipable in a public chair. have been, owing to the fact that he jeers of the temporary thought that have elds should be sept at home This morning when his case was called, not appear. Magistrate uld not help worrying a little about fal, are true types of us who laugh at off the street watil recovered. Gier he did. how that institution was getting along them. Bo far as tears of proportion in chem Chamberlain's Cough Hemedy and Lindsell enquired if the man had been
*(1+9^ «115 2502-ture-be-remain at-home run shore leave The M- Ferd de Pawnsho
146 lbs..Mr. F. La Soares) 1 without him. He knew that the Bank concerned, and scientific humility, ang 10 cleans out the exiture puformed factions most important there is not one righteous, no, not bed, which form in a child's thrust police replied in the affirmative, and to the country. Laugh, if you must; one. That is to say, not one permit bass old, and minimizes the said that there were no special Mr. John Bell-Irving's Scamperd
risk of postracting in ketius iwwer but when you are done laughing, ron-manently. Here and there enraget For, ale all Curmists and Store circumstances in the ease. His bail
of $5 was ordered to be, estreated. eider if that office boy is sui generis, I men, at infrequent intervals, indivi-kopen.
Scamperdale Hongkong Chief. Spotted Sand. Hatton....
(late Javelin), 1193bs -
(Mr. Bell Irving)
Time: 1min. 58 2-brees, Pari-mutuel.
Cash Sweep. Winner: $10.30 Ticket No.
8.30 451, $2,036.10 724.60 2, 19.80 50,
230,
362.30 Unplaced: Nos. 428, 637.
HANDICAP, ONE AND 'A' QUARTER MILE.-
TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegram quoted below was re- ceived by the local Americas Con-
sulate General from the Manila Observatory :—
10.20 a.m. to-day. Cyclone or typhoon W of the Bonin- Lelands moving NKE or NE.
Dr. Forsyth's Leighton, 153 lbs
(Mr. Gibson) 0 Mr, Saints' St. Anthony, 152 ib
(Mr. T. W. Doyle) Mr. Tricolore's Humorist (late
Forest Child), 149 lbs......
(Mr. P. Kremer) Mr. Dyer's Beggar King. 147 lbs.
(Mr. F. Sutton) 0 Capt. C. B. Fisher's Coniston, 146
lbs.....(Capt..Fisher) 0
The Ameer won by five length and two lengths separated second and.
Time: "2min.: 14 3. Beece. Pari-mutuel.
For China povies, 1st prize, $300; 2nd
prize. $150; 3rd prize, $100. Mr. Beth's The Ameer, 160 lbs
(Mr. H. Seth) 1 third. Mr. John Bell Irving's Tiddley-
winks, 102 lbs
(Mr. J. Bell Irving) 2 Mr. Boates Dandy Child 147 lbs
Mr. Remedios) 3 Me. Topside's Mountain Bear (late
Timor) 155 lbs.
Winner: $10,50
1.
7,60
Cash Sweep.
Ticket No...
218, $2,689.60
8,50 205 0:20:60- 21.60
-3,
$5. 412.80 Unplaced: Nos. 864, 744, 763, 4,
(Mr. Soares) 022, 789.
Larvimita *Hond