Jann
the w
in a forward state. The track the Jelai river, where our machinery, oto, will be landed, is being made and another month should see it almost completed. The distance from the mine is about four and a half miles.
General. We have given our usual attention to all work coming under this head, and with the heavy rains experienced this has kept us very busy; for the making of new roads into the jungle for firewood, &c., and the upkeep of the old roads and bridges is a heavy item. Much of this will be got over, however, so soon as we get the waterwheel to work, which should be within the coming month.
Labour The supply of this has been fairly plentiful.
Health. Owing to the cold wet weather this is not so good as could be wished.
Rainfall-The total rainfall for the month | is 114 inches.
HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
CAPTAIN'S CUP FOR JANUARY. New Year's day and the three following days were fixed for this competition and a goodly number of members appeared on the links. Play was favoured by bright warm weather and some of the returns showed steady and im- proved play in spite of the greens being lively and the links rather dry and hard. Both the winners of the Cup and the Pool are to be con- gratulated on their success; the winner of the latter on his very considerably reduced handicap, since he took the Cup last month, returning & very good card, including a 7 and 8 at the long hole. The Cup winner will naturally expect to have his long handicap interfered with by the Committee, and he is naturally proud of the notice taken of his return.
A record of the green had to be noted during the meeting, viz., at the seventh hole, where a most determined player succeeded in holing out with 49 to his credit, which he persisted in recording against a 45 given by his caddie; doubtless by the time they had both got to these figures, they had begun to lose count, but they are both alive to tell the tale.
We may here perhaps draw the attention of members to two matters of etiquette, viz., that on competition days parties playing three or more balls should reserve themselves for days when they would not interfere with competitors, and in any case to at once permit matches to pass, and, further, that no "mixed foursomes are allowed on competition days.
"
Attention to the above points would much add to the harmony of the game and remove all chance of questions arising, or of com- plaints reaching the ears of the Committee.
The quarterly meeting for the MacEwen Cap, Pools, and Bogey Cup will be held from Friday, the 8th, to Monday, the 11th inst.
Subjoined is the record of the cards handed in for the Captain's Cup and Pool :-
CAPTAIN'S CUP.
Mr. H W. Robertson ...
101
83
Mr. W. J. Saunders
102
84
Major Grant Dalton
96
.
85
Mr. CH. Grace
-98
96
Mr. W. 8. Frowd, R.N. 107
89
Mr. G. Stewart
.93
Mr. G. T. M. Thomson
95
Mr. H W. Slade
106
105.
曲目
Mr. Green, R.A..
Mr. C. E. Hume -en 97
24 entries.
Mr C. W. May
8812846624
88888888*
89
90
93
3 94
POOL.
89
7
82
Mr. W. 8. Frowd, R.N. 102 18 84 Mr. H. W Robertson
MC. H. Grace! ... Mr G. Stewart
-882482
81*888*
103 18
98 12
86
93
89
Mr GTM Thomson.
95
.89
Mr. Greene, RA
105 12
93
30 entries.:
MACEWEN CUP.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT:
"
Wice
193 to win and
that they had to give in and rest content with | match of the kind - a drenching, Scoring was not good, save in the has won case of the winner, who returned a steadily by 21 runs, the played card, thus taking the "Cup and four innings Optional Sweep and also running the Scotland wou "Colonel" a dead heat. The entries were in 1895 by fairly up to an average. Results are given World with below:-
"MACEWEN CUP AND "SWEEPSTAKES.
Mr. H. Pinckney Major Grant Dalton Mr. V. A. C. Hawkins... 97 8 89 Mr. E. Ormiston . 107 18 89 Mr. G. W. F. Playfair... 107 18 89 Mr. H. W. Robertson 104 15 89 Mr. H. I Dalrymple
100.
9 91 Mr. A. F. R. Greene ... 106 12 94
• Wins the Sweep.
tion, which commenced on the 8th leted on Tuesday The weather days was all that could
"
91
14 77*
96
11 85
20 entries for the Cup and 10 entries for the Sweepstakes.
POOL.
98 6 92
Mr. G. M. T. Thomson 90 6 84
96 Major Grant Dalton
11 85 Capt. Trotman, R.M.L.I. 105 18 87 Mr. H. W. Robertson ... 103 15 88 Mr. C. W. May Mr. A. F. R. Greene Mr. W. Taylor Mr. H. L. Dalrymple
14 entries. BOGEY.
106 12 94 115 21 94 104 9 95
By the courtesy of Colon officers, the band of the Hongk played on the ground at Sat
Work
Appended are the score and analysis
SCOTLAND.
1st Innings. A. McKenzie, b Howard Sir Robert Arbuthnot, o
Johnstone, b Lt. Wood J. W. Farie, RN run on E. W. Maitland, b Wood
ont
L. S. Crawford, run out A. Anderson, b Howard... G.Stewart, 1.b.w., b Howard G. M. Thomson, ● Cox, b
Howard..
2nd Innings.
o Elliott,
5
Howard
0
not on
Perry
40 Masty b 6 bA. G. Wa 1 b Howard
1a Mast, b H. Grant Smith, not out...) 0 0 Ward, b Z
Extras
Extras
28
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
First Innings.
Overs. Maid. Bans. Wides
Lieut. Howard. 8 2. 21:
Lient. Wood......... 7
5
11
Second Innings. Lieut. Howard. 9 2 St. Wood Perry-Ayscough 3.3 A. G. Ward ... 3
11
9
3
16
12
1
14
17
THE WORLD.
Mr. H. Pinckney ... Mr. F. J. Badeley.. Mr. W. Taylor Capt. Trotman, R.M.L.I.(18)-2 Mr. G. M. T. Thomson. (6)—3 Major Grant Dalton ...(II)-4 Mr. V. A. C. Hawkins... (8)—4 Mr. E. Ormiston
(18)--5 Mr. H. W. Robertson .... (15)-5 Mr. A. F. R. Greene (12)-6 Mr. G. W. F. Playfair (18)-6 Mr. C. W. May ..: (6)-7 Mr. H. L. Dalrymple (9)—
21 entries.
(14)-all square. ...(12)-1 down.
(21)-1
CRICKET. ·
1
17
21
11
|
|
and ment
noon:
Rev. G. R. Vallings, o G. Stewart, b Crawford 1 K. W. Hounsey, c Anderson, b McKenzie
26 T. N. Howard, W.Y.R., b E. W. Maitland 51 M. D. Wood, W.Y.R., & Anderson, b McKenzio 10 Surg.-Mjr. Jobaston, e Arbuthnot, kAnderson 18 *A. G. Ward, o Arbuthnot, b G. Stewart 105 Lt. Perry-Ayscough, R.N., c. coolie, b Stewart 63 E. Mast, b G. Stewart
T. Sercombe Smith, not out
P. A Cox, not out,
H. M. C. Elliott, R.N., did not bat
Extras
332
Orers. Maid. Runs. Wides. N.B. Wicket
100
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
Mackenzie...... 30 Crawford
19 -
5
Fairie.. Arbuthnot...... 15
་་
68
27
2 34
42
15 3. 27:
1 E. W. Maitland 9
3 1 A. Anderson .....
2- G. Stewart...... 9
ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.
FIFTH CLUB RACE
Rocks, mark boat off Lyemoon, Kowloon Rock, and Channel Rocks, leaving all to starboard 12 miles. The following boats started first class :-
Active
Meteor..
Mr. H. E. Pollock. Mr T. W. Lar Mr Jas. MoKie Mr. JH
BCOTLAND AND CHINA V. THE WORLD. The original intention of all parties was to pit Scotland against the rest of the globe with a view to preventing any break in the series of such contests; but the people whose watchwords are, inter alia, cohesion and patriotism could not, from various causes such as modesty, or perhaps dollars or casualties or lack of enthusiasm, raise a full contingent, but had to make an alliance with Chins whose representatives, accustomed to a certain willow pattern, had no knowledge of the real and proper use for which the willow On Sunday last there was a marked improve- was intended. Having tried to explain the ment in the weather from a yachtsmen's point causes and nature of the alliance, we proceed of view and the fifth Club race was sailed in s to narrate the sad fate of the allies, who batting steady breeze from a little after the start to the first on a sound wicket performed the highly finish. The course was from the Police Fier, ridiculous evolution known as "a solemn pro-Kowloon, round Kowloon Rock, Channel cession between the Pavilion and the wickets:" "Not a drum was heard not a funeral note
As their corses to the Pav. were hurried," for the band was not yet on the ground. A good deal is often said, and was on this occasion said, about bad luck: if this phrase is accepted as a euphemism for bad play, we but if puny batting, ill-judged running, and buttered fingers are the result of fate and not the sin of the individual, we demur, Under the circumstances, it would be as inter- esting to relate minutely how my cook wrung the nook of the game cock presented to me at Xmas as to narrate in detail the mauling which the Scotch bowling received at the hands of the World. It certainly is difficult to kindle enthusiasm over a massacre; 80 Messrs. Moun- Boy, Howard, Ward, Ayscough, and Smith will overlook the absence of any eulogy of their misdeeds: just one word to Ward, and that is, that two feet above the ground is a better height than fifty feet for the course of a ball; more ground driving and late cutting would have enhanced the merits of his and this season's first century in a first class match. In their second innings the allies fared scarcely better and the contest came to an abrupt termination
on Saturday afternoon. Subseque
went into practice at the nets,
the intention of the Scota: This is the fourth
agree;
the elements, with the
ear
Princess Maid Marian Phoebe
Brica -Sybil.
Chanticleer --
Mr T H May Mr. A Denis Officers RE
And in the second class :
Dart. Раупо Ladybird Sho
Dr. Clarke
Officers RE:
Mr. EJ Gri
Mr. E M÷Hiireland. Capt. Phill
Eileen The wind as there was tically no tide able to slowly work into the 1 In the first class the boats the harbour bet Blackb Kellett's Island, Sybil being the south and Eric feet Sybil went ac followed Dook Ba
some time
get
place