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July 8, 1896.]
Mr. Hollond's Vapour, 11st. 2lbs. (Mr. Boden) 1 Mr. Hart Buck's Voltigeur, 11st. llb......
(Owner) 2 Capt. Loveband's The Friar, 11st. 12lbs..
(Owner) 3 Mr. Stern's Bravo, 10st. 7lbs. (Mr. Gresson) 0 Capt Radclyffe's Quilon, 10st. 6lbs. (Owner) 0 Mix Salmon's Q.C., 11st. 5lbs... (Owner) 0 After very little trouble at the post the ponies were got away to a good start, Voltigeur leading. Vapour very soon came sway from the others and it was seen that the race would be between this pair, and a most interesting race ensued. Voltigeur led for a considerable part of the journey, but Vapour was kept well in hand and at the hurdle near theck they were abreast. They cleared the hurdle together and ran neck and neck for a considerable distance. Just before reaching the last obstacle but one Voltigeur lost ground by slightly swerving and to make matters worse he took the water jump rather badly. Thus Vapour was enabled to get a lead of two or three lengths, by which he won. The Friar was a long way behind.
Mr. Gresson
LADIES NOMINATION; the Nominees to hit a polo ball round two posts and in through the goal posts, 1st and 2nd prizes; entrance $2.
Nom. by. Mr. Boden.
1 Surg. Capt. Edye
Mrs. Edye. 2 Miss May MacEwen. 3 Mr. Grayson
Mrs. Eecles. Capt. Burney
Mrs. Hanham. 0 Capt. Loveband
Miss Black. 0 This contest provided a good deal of interest and spectators closely watched the career of Mr. Boden, who struck the polo ball with much precision and won with comparative case. A FREE HANDICAP for all CHINA PONIES; distance 6 furlongs; 1st prize, $60; 2nd, $20; 3rd, $10.
Mr. Master's Red Fish, 11st. 7lbs...(Owner) Mr. Whitehead's Kingscote, 9st. 13lbs.
(Mr. Hart Buck) Mr. John Peel's The Laird, 12st. 7lbs.....
(Mr. Jones) Lt. Col. The O'Gorman's Morrison, 11st.
11lbs...
(Mr Boden) Mr. Gresson's Vagabond, 11st. 7ìbs. (Owner) Mr. Nugent's Armistice, 11st. 5lbs..
Captain Burney's Baccarat, 9st. 9lb.
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(Capt. Radclyffe) .Captain Loveband's Artaxerxes, 10st. 6lbs. (Mr. Long) (Capt. Long) Mr. Mounsey's Presto, 9st. 9lbs. (Mr. Coutts) 0 There was rather a long delay at the post. Voltigeur had a lead of a length from the others and maintained it until reaching the straight. Then three or four ponies come out in fine style and a magnificent race ensued. Red Fish was cleverly handled and he gradually over- took Voltigeur, passed him a few yards from the post, and won by half a length after a capital struggle. The spectators loudly applauded Mr. Master's victory and there can be no doubt it was well deserved. The event was un- doubtedly the best in the afternoon's proceedings. Time-1 min. 374 secs.
THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE CRICKET MATCH.
In the Cricket Match between Oxford and Cambridge, played on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last, the former won a brilliant victory over their rivals by four wickets, though public opinion had been rather in favour of Cambridge. Cambridge having won the toss went in first, putting together a score of 319, while Oxford in their first venture put together 202, thus narrowly escaping a follow on. Cambridge second innings produced 212, leaving Oxford the formidable task of 330 to get to win, which, however, they accomplished with the loss of six wickets, one player scoring over 100 runs.
The
The following announcement appears in the Singapore Free Press of the 27th June: "In- formation having been received that Foochow is now free from plague, H.E. the Governor in Council has notified that the quarantine imposed on vessels arriving from Foochow is removed, such vessels being permitted to enter the port without inspection by the Health Officer." But was Foochow ever infected ?
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THE SUICIDE AT MACAO.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRESS." Sir,-You had a notice in your paper of 30th June to the effect that the Dean of Macao com. mitted suicide with his full senses about him. For the sake of the honour of the poor Dean himself and for the sake of repairing the tre- mendous scandal given if such a statement be let pass without comment I beg you to read over what follows and then judge for yourself if the man acted with his full senses, or if he was out of his mind at the time. Long before coming to Macao he had to give up teaching theology and philosophy on account of nervous attacks. He was always pestering people by asking them, most fervently, to pray for him, for he had great need of prayers. After his arrival here, he carried on the same. I never met him in the sacristy, in the street, or in the house, but he would join his hands with great fervour and look at me earnestly and say, “Oh, good holy Father, do remember me in your prayers. I have great need of them." course after a time it was too much of a good thing, so I used to get away as soon as I could. After a time I found he did the same to every body else and they did the same as myself. In the meantime he performed his duties most scrupulously; he was as gentle as a lamb and was perfect in his behaviour. No one ever noticed the slightest shade of levity in his conduct. He was exceedingly scrupulous and was often heard to say he would rather die than offend Almighty God in the least thing.
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About a fortnight before the accident the Dean fell seriously ill and a consultation was held by the doctors. After the consultation one of the The doctors warned his friends to look out. Dean got gradually worse in his head; he began to ramble, his answers were not to the point; he became most childish.
He was always wanting to go to confession and the slightest word would set him right,
On Friday night-(the accident took place on Saturday morning) at eleven o'clock he suddenly remembered he had not said the rosary and he and his companion set to and said it straight off. Being sick, he was not bound to recite his office, but it was with the greatest difficulty that he was persuaded that it was no sin not to recite when sick. How is it possible for a man with such a tender conscience to commit the greatest sin possible, such as suicide is? Common sense and theology tell us it is a moral impossibility.
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The Dean, then, had been getting gradually worse until Saturday morning. companion had dressed the bad leg he was suffering from, at seven o'clock he left him alone and went out to say mass. Soou after
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wards a servant came with a drink and the Dean told him he need not come again until sent for. Towards 7.30 the servant happened to go upstairs, for everything was so quiet he concluded the Dean must be up. but what should meet his eyes but the poor Deau in shirt and drawers, in, what he thought, a praying posture; for the feet rested on the ground and the knees were bent. However, when the servant got nearer he saw what had happened. Frightened out of his wits he rushed off at once for the head priest. He had just finished mass. He was upstairs in a jiffy and when his eyes fell upon the horrible sight he burst out crying like a child, big man as he is. The authorities were sent for at once, and the doctor who had attended. Without the slightest hesitation, the doctor wrote out the following declaration
THE DOCTOR'S DECLARATION.
Jono Machado d'Araujo, Doctor at the School of Oporto, I declare that Nestor Augusto de Castilho, Dean of the Cathedral at Macao, died to-day of suffocation from hang- ing; he had been suffering for a long time from cerebral disturbances, for which he has been treated without any satisfactory result. I declare this to be the truth and sign,
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JOAO MACHADO D'ARAUJO.
Macao, 27th June, 1896.
The Dean is dead from hanging" struck the town like a thunderbolt. Who could believe it? He was so good, so kind and gentle, how could it be? The answer took two forms, one
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that he had done the act of his own free will and in his full senses, the other that the poor man was out of his mind. The first answer makes the saintly Dean guilty of the blackest crime a man can commit against his Creator. The second frees him from all fault."
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And the funeral? He received full ecclesi- astical burial without any "maimed rights,” which fully shows the opinion of the ecclesias- tical authority, for not even a priest would have a religious burial if he were to commit formal suicide.
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Dear Sir, if you would insert these notes in your paper you would do a very great act of kindness to the living and the dead. The shock was bad enough as it was, without making it worse by such conjectures as were made in your
notice.
I have not said anything of the way in which the Dean was hung, nor of the arrangements made by him. Suffice it to lay down the follow. ing The actions of a man are twofold, Actus humanus, Actus hominis. How many actions are performed by us without our adverting to them, yet such actions may be ingenious actions. and signs of thought may appear in them, but. who would dream of attributing such actions to a man and making him responsible for them ? Such actions are actus hominis, and such, very, very probably, or, as the greatest theologians in town say, most certainly, were the actions of Dean Nestor when he hung himself: he per- formed the actions of a man but not as a man and therefore is not guilty, and therefore is in! nocent, and therefore is not a formal sui- cide.-I am, sir, yours truly.
WILLIAM ARKWRIGHT. St. Joseph's College, Macao,
THE CHINKIANG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND MR. BRENAN'S MISSION.
The following representation made by the Chinkiang Chamber of Commerce to Mr. Brenan is published
Chinkiang Chamber of Commerce, 9th June, 1896.
Sir, In response to a letter from H.M. Acting Consul desiring that information and suggestions regarding British trade be sub- mitted to you, I have the honour to send here. with a short report by the Committee dealing with subjects which are considered of sufficient importance to bring to your notice.
În reference to the specific points raised in connection with the late war I am only able to say that British trade appeared to be in no way affected by it, and as to the consequences the publication of the new Commercial Treaty must be awaited before an opinion can be expressed. I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
E. STARKEY,
Chairman.
Byron Brenan, Esq., C.M.G.,
H.M. Consular Service in China.
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Regulations for navigation and trade the river Yungtsze.-It is submitted that precautions necessary thirty years ago are no longer called for, and relief is sought in regard to certain rules by amendment or modification.
Art. III. (revised regulations) provides that sea-going vessels proceeding further than Chin- kiang must be provided with a certificate de- scribed as the Chinkiang pass without which: This such vessels are liable to confiscation. pass, it is contended, is no longer a necessity and shipping interests should be delivered from the serious delays and inconveniences arising therefrom: Representations have from time to time been made to H.M. Consul on the subject of annulling the provisions of this article, and during last year following on the incident of a Russian steamer from Hankow proceeding to sea without her papers in con- sequence of some arbitrary proceedings on the part of the custom-house at this port, Sir Nicholas O'Conor was in communication with the Inspector-General with a view to the rule being modified: "Sir Robert Hart proposed that a supplementary regulation be incorporated in Art. III., whereby large sea-going steamers proceeding to Hankow to load teas might as an alternative to taking up and delivering the
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