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time. In the meantime alterations have inc had closed up on Bric
who had
fluke hunting into Kowloon Bay, and a ensued between this pair for third
The times of finish
Maid Marian
Chanticleer
Frica
Phoebe
454
Meteor gave up.
wore
HM.
154 41
55 3.
2 1
2
-159 59
in the Second Class the Payne scored an win Well sailed by Major Lindley, she went in very good form indeed.
*** The Aileen, with a hard riding Major of the 19th Hussars at the helm, who in true British style
could not resist the temptation of a good thrash to windward in a reefing breeze, though he had only a few hours to spend in Hongkong on his way round the world, quite wakened up to the occasion and secured second place. The Ladybird, was third. The times of finishing were --
...
་
+
H. M. 8.
2 21 46 Payne Aileen
... 2. 33 25 2 36 38 Ladybird The result of Sunday's race places Maid Marian first for the Championship by 2 marks. Next Sunday's race will therefore be watched with the keenest interest, as it is the last of the series and by its result the Championship will be decided.
THE LAWN TENNIS HANDICAP.
The following are the first ties in the Cricket Club Lawn Tennis Tournament:-
E. F. Mackay
G. Millward..
P. A. Cox..
C. C. Platt
A. S. Anton... H. Humphreys H. W. Slade
P.G. Anderson
AH. Skelton...... W. Gibeon
G. A. Hardinga
QWAMPIONSHIP.
bye W. Bullard...................... ...... bye W. H. Pryce-Brown bye G. H. Potts.... bye 0.8. Thomson bye H. S. Moberly
J. M. Atkinson W. J. Mayson S. W. Farie H. 8. Langhorne F. H. Pellew:
C. L. W. Bunten.
DOUBLE HANDICAP. ·
B. Kozhevar and P. A. Cor
bye
bye
receive 15 bye A. D. Grayson and H. S. Langhorne..... owe 153 bye E. D. Mallinson and H. Humphreys
scratch bye owe i 15 G. P. Lammert and A. H. Skelton,
receive + 15 J. Hooper and W. M. Humphreys
receive 15 E. C. Shepherd and J. Armstrong ......
owe 15.2 C. C. Platt and F. H. Pellew
.................... owe 15 scratch
H. M. Brown and F. F. Mackay.
C. W. Gordon and P. L. Ingpen W. H. Pryce-Brown and C. L. W. Bunton owe 15.1 απο 15.1
A. L. Cay and S. Farie........
EM. Knox and E. M. Hazeland......... receive 15 W. Gibson and C. Hume
................. owe 15.1
4. H Potts and A. M. Thomson
A. 8. Anton and G. Millward......
D. Wood and F. D. Maclean.
M. Ballard and H. W. Slade P. G. Davies and A. J. Greene ..
W. Mayson and H. 8. Cooke..
E. H. Beasley and J. B. Gillingham A. H. Mancell and R. E. Humphreys G. Stewart and E. A. Ram
R. Isacke and A. W. Spencer
Beratch owe 15.1 receive 15 owe 15.3 receive + 15 receive 2 15 receive 15 receive į 15 owe 15 scratch
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
tha
SINGLE HANDICAPS
R. R. Humphr 0. E
F. Collins
H. Crombie
E. J. Moses
owe 16.8 bye owe 15.8 byaTM ¡owe 15,3 bye scratch bys receive 15 bye
on
******* Owe † 16
H. E. Pollock ................ scratch
A. P. Wellman ........
C. Inchbald :-
J. Hooper
D. Wood
R. E. Belilios,
H. Grant Smith.
T. L. Stevens W. M. Humphreys H..A. Seth
104
E. M. Haseland... E. C. Shepherd E. D. Mallinson.... H. S. Cooke
owe 15 owe 15.2 receive 1 15 ........ owe + 15 receive à 16
· receive † 15. ........... Bcratch receive † 15
öwe 15.2 bye owe 15 bye owe 15 bye scratch bye
A. H. Hollingsworth
***............ owe 1:.3 bye F. B. Descon..
owe + 15 bye PROFESSIONAL AND COMMERCIAL PAIRS.
E. F. Mackay and H. W. Slade T. S. Smith and J. M. Atkinson P. A. Cox and G. Millward J. M. Beck and W. Bullard...
C. Hume and W. Gibeon
P. G. Anderson and H. 8. Moberly... W. H. Pryce-Brown and C. L. W. Bunton A. D. Grayson and H. 6. Langhorne.............. - Captain K. Wade and S. Farie
W. J. Mayson and A. H. Skelton D. Wood and A. Hollingsworth............. F. H. Pallew and J. 8. Bartrum........
VETERANS „KİNGLE HANDICAP.
Captain K. Wade.............. receive 15 bye
N.J. Saunders..
H. S. Cooke
J. Hastings
T. S. Smith...
G. Stewart du...
C. D. Wilkinson
A. H, Skelton
W. Bullard.
C. C. Platt... C. Inchbald
receive 15 bye receive 157 receive t 15} ................. Qwe 15.2
.... owe 15
scratch owe 16 owe 15.3 bye owe 30 bye scratch bye
bye
bye
bye
bye
THE HUANG.pu and the BARS.
Yangtze itse
elow
steamer anchorage,
a harbour
the port done by
now; so much to the
companies, that it is sometimes-1 no earnest efforts are made in the the conservation and impro
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se by a
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Haang-pu, because so many res are closely interested in the success of the boat companies. There are some, perh with them we cannot reason, themselves that Shanghai wi perous, and the land here worth when the port becomes an inland town, connected with the Yan canal, which is what the Huang-pu is rapi coming. We can only imagine that the here of landrenters at home do not appr the deterioration that is going on daily hourly, and have not represented the true dition of things to their principal Mr. de Ryke was here a month ago, not the Chamber of Commerce call s meeting and get him to explain to t munity the real position of affairs, as we that he would willingly have done proved his competence, if there were any that doubted it, by the fact that the course of events has been precisely as he and his colleague, Mr. Escher, predicted in the report on the River and the Bar which they presented to the Consular Body some twenty-one years ago. Mr. de Ryke's home is in Tokyo, he is readily accessible, and we have no doubt that he would be. he were asked, to come back here and explain viva voce to this spathetic community the im pending peril.✨ Peril, indeed, is not a strong enough word; it has ceased to be an impending peril, and is an impending calamity.
At the annual meeting of the Shanghai and
On the 2nd of April, 1880, what was then Hongkew Wharf Company some interesting statements were made as to the value of the most important public meeting that had the Company's property. Since the acquisi. ever been held in Shanghai was convened at Co.'s the Shanghai Club to consider this question, bye tion of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson
property, the share capital has been raised and that meeting decided that the community bye to Tis. 1,510,000, and there is a debenture would voluntarily tax itself by the imposition bye issue of Tls. 870,000, the properties stand-of dues at the rate of one-tenth of one per cent. ing in the books of the Company at The. on the value of all merchandise imported or 2,315,000; and the Chairman of the Company, exported, the fund so raised to be administered Mr. Alford, said it would not surprise him were by a Conservancy Board on which the mercantile the actual value of the property to be some Tls. community should be represented. Mr. F. B 2,500,000 or even more. Mr. Hogg followed Forbes, who moved the resolution and to whose with an even higher valuation. He said that if energy and knowledge of the question the he knew anything of the value of property-and success of the meeting was mainly due, put as to this there is no question in the public before those present the following question mind-the value of the concern could not be far short of Tls. 3,000,000; and Mr. Alford showed that it earned over 6 per cent. on this valuation in 1896, and it does not appear that the current expenditure has been too rigidly curtailed.
Now taking the value of the property at Tla. 3,000,000, and dednoting the share capital Tls. 1,510,000, and the debenture issue, Tls. 870,000, there is left a free balance of Tls. 620,000, which we strongly recommend the directors to divide up among the shareholders by the issue of new shares, giving the shareholders two new shares fully paid-up for each five shares now. held. Those who can look a little ahead will then be able to get out of the Company without loss while it is still booming.
7. Collins and A. Hollingsworth....... Teceive 15 bys T. 8. Smith and J. M. Atkinson...
owe 15.1 bye K. W. Mounsey and P. G. Anderson............
“A” CLAES SINGLE HANDICAP.
ówe 15.3 bye
P. G. Anderson ................................................** owe 15.1 bye C. L. W. Bunton ............... owe 15-1 bye W. J. Mayson ................. ow. ₺ 15 bye A. J. Greene
seratch bye owe 15.11 owe 15.1 W. H.Pryce Brown....................... owe 15.1
A. S. Anton
H. 8. Moberly
H. 8. Langhorne
GP. Lammert....
P. A. Cox
E. F. Mackay
H. 8. Penny
H. W. Slide
Ske
10. D. Thom
མ་མ་མངའ་
..........
owe 15.3
owe 15 owe 15.1
one 15 scratch
owe 15,2
owe 15 Owe 15.1 από 16:9
Owe 15.1
owe 153
This seems somewhat oynical advice, but it is sound, for it is perfectly certain that the Company cannot long continue its career of prosperity, unless something rouses the land- renters of Shanghai, and those who are inter- ested in land as shareholders in some of the land-owning companies, from the apathy in which they are now plunged as to the condition of the Huang-pu river and its Bars. H.E. Shêng has been clever enough to see what is coming, and he therefore proposes to let Shanghai go, and have his wharves and railway terminus at Woosung, where the steamers are to unload and load when the river, it will in a few years, becomes
bat impracticable for anything steamers.” But there is one fatal flaw even in his cleverness. The Outer Bar is becoming an insuperable obstruction,
wharves
will be steamers
Woosung, if he ever builds
seless for any but very light-dre
those in the lower reach of our
†
#1
Shall we allow nature to take its course, when the Bar has closed Shanghai as a shall we remove elsewhere and begin to again the foundations of a great emporiu that which we have here to day ? The question is before us to-day, but more urgent because the river has, as was predicted, greatl deteriorated in the past seventeen years do we propose to answer it ?—N. C. Daily News.
How
THE SPECIAL ENVOY TO THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE The Peking correspondent of the Shanghat
land
Daily Press says The appointme
to
to
Yin-huan as a special en congratulate Her Majesty Queen Victor her sixieth anniversary is Hung chang in Peking at least. Chang will i and doubtless will be return than at pres he stands high at court mentioned by leading M the Privy Council upon hi the well-known object Hung tsao is not improvi lytio attack it looks very a vacancy might be ready for It would be much more fitting
ver in the event of such how
should be
fon