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Mr. Frank Browne, Hon. Secretary of the H.K.F.C., sends as the repor of the Club for the season 1901-02, to be submitted at the annual general meeting in the Cricket Pavilion Thursday, 25th September, at 5 o'clock. The accounts, show a balance of $219.41 to the credit of the Club on August 31st, 1902. The Club matshed was blown down by a typhoon during the summer. The desirability of r-erecting it will be considered at the annual meeting. The record of the season's matches is as follows:-Rugby: won 8. drawù 2, lost 4: points for, 160; points against, 67. Association : won 12, drawn 4, lost 15; goals for, 57; goals against, 45. For specially useful play in the Rugby matches, cap; were awarded to Messrs. Clarke, Hallifax, Sandford, and Beattie. For specially useful play in the Association matches, Messrs. Bo.nar, badges were awarde.l Russell, and Von der Pfordten. Tha Six-a- Side Challenge Cup was won by Mr. Russell's team. The Club team was defeated in the semi- final of the Shield Compe ition by H.M.S. Glory by 2 goals to 1. Twelve teams entered for the Shield Competition, which was won by "A" Company of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The Shield Fuud shows a balance of $10.0 The Club now consists of 292 members. During the year, 64 new members were elected. The eighth annual dinner took place at the Hongkong Hotel on the 5th April last, and 43 members were present. The Committee regret the less occasioned by the departure of the President, the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., H.M. Commissioner at Weihaiwei, whose interest in the Club and in football go:erally has been of invaluable assistanc.. Mr. McMurtrie, captain of the Rugby team, Las moved to Shanghai. His absence will be severely felt by the Rugby section.
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A CANTON ROBBERY.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
CAPTAIN'S CUP
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Writing from Tougku under date 25th ult, Mr. N. Jerides, a Greek merchant there, asks us to grant him space to make acknowledgment of his indebtedness to Mr. J. Scott, British Consul at Canton; Mr. R. M. McWade, the U. S. Consul; and to Mr. F. J. Badeley, Captain Superintendent of Police in Hongkong, for the sympathy and assistance they extended to him on the occasion of his being robbed at Canton in July last. The circumstances of the robbery were reported at the time. Mr. Jerides was the victim of a daring swindler who was successful in "lotting in" not a few people in Hongkong. These two had travelled together up to Canton. During our correspondent's temporary absence from his room. the other man appropriated his property to the extent of 1,400 rouble-notes Some Shanghai bank-notes, and valuable papers He managed to avert suspicion from himself for the time being by declaring that he too had been robbed, but his sudden departure for Mr. Jerides Hongkong told its own tale.
followed him here, only to find that the local British Police had no jurisdiction in the matter and could not act. 'There was nothing for it then but for Mr. Jerides to return to Canton for a warrant of arrest, but long before his return, of course, the bird had flown. The thief was one of the boldest rascals whom the Colony has had the misfortune to be acquainted with for some time. He gave himself out to be an American; his people were millionaires, and he was travel ling round the world; he had had a brother who was shot at Monte Carlo and had a "holy terror" of gamblers and that class of people on account of this tragedy in his family! He got clear away at the time, but a warm reception is assured him if he ever sets foot in Hongkong again.
The Hunan Steamship Company, a Japanese company formed to engage in the coasting trade in Chins, decided, at the meeting held recently by its organisers at Tokyo, to convene the first general meeting on the 13th inst, when resolutions in regard to the appointment of five directors, two auditors, and a board of advisers, as well as of establishing a brauch office at Changsha, were to be discussed. It is reported that Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, of Wnchang, has promised to afford the company all the assistance in his power.
AXD SILVER MEDAL FOR
AUGEST.
The following scores were returned:-
CAPTAIN'S Cur.
Mr. G. B. Thornhill, R.A. 10.1 Capt. R. C. Morris, R. A....
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20
97
15
Mr. C. P. Chater
102
20
Mr. C. A. Parker, R. N.
102
18
98
13
91
92
6
106
20
19 entries. POOL.
Mr. C. . P. Hay Mr. E. J. Grist Mr. A. B. Lowson Mr. J. E. Lee
Mr. G. B. Thornhill, R A.... 100 Mr. E. J. Grist.... Mr. C. P. Chater Mr. C. H. P. Hay.
Lieut. A. P. Solfeet, R.N.
Mr. A. B. Lowcou Mr. J. E. Lee.
Mr. C. M. G. Burnie
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[September 22, 1902.
SEISMIC DISTURBANCES IN THE PACIFIC.
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I connection with the recent volcanic eruption at Torijima, and the disturbances in the sea round the island, it is interesting to note from a Honolulu despatch of July 29th that 82 Professor Curtis J. Lyons, territorial meteoro- 82 logist, announced that for the past three months there have been unusual movements in 85 the ocean surrounding the i-lands, and perhaps 586 extending over a large portion of the Pacific.
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The automatic tide-gange in the harbour of Honolulu began immediately after the heavy rain of last March to show a series of small irregularities in the record, precisely similar to 80 those of so-called tidal waves.' As these continued day after day it was thought they might be due to some obstruction of the tide gauge, and it was given a thorough overhauling But these" tidal and was practically rebuilt. wave effects still continued, only more pronounced than before, especially at low water. 87 They showed an average duration of about twenty minutes, with a vertical rise and fall of three or four inches. To further make sure that it was not some aberration in the gauge, independent measurements of the height of the sea level at intervals of six minutes were made, covering periods of several hours, which corroborated the showing made by the tide. gauge.
the Professor Lyons," continues despatch, "cannot fully explain the movements, but suggests volcanic action either near by or at some remote place. Не says the cause may
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Capt. J. F. Phillips, R.M.L. I. 103
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WATER RETURN.
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LEVEL AND STORAGE OF WATER IN RESER- VOIRS ON THE 1ST SEPTEMBER.
Tytam
Pokfulam
LEVEL. 1901.
1902.
Below overflow. Aboreoverflow.
8 ft. 6 in. 0 ft. 1 in. Above overflow. Level.
1 ft. 8 in. 0 ft. 0 in. Below overflow. Below overflow.
Wongne icheong 20 ft. 1 in. 0 ft. 2 in. STORAGE GALLONS.
1901.
1902. 315,670,000 384.800,000 69,640,000 66,000,000 30,094,000
Tytam Pokfulam Wongneicheong 9,780,000
Total..... 395,090,000 480,894,000 CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA AND HILL DISTRIC DURING THE MONTH OF A US..
1901.
1902.
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be in the Aleutian Islands, or in some unvisited part of the vast Pacific, or it may be nea Hawaii."
AN INSECT VICTORY AT
HONGKONG.
Under this heading the Times of India of the 23 d ult. writes:-Although the cam. paign against anopheles can show a list of brilliant victories such as Havanna, the Rome Marshes, and Centre Island, defeats and drawn battles have not been wanting. At Hongkong the Medical Officers are opposed by a peculiarly embittered host, which disregards destroying
Consumption.. 119,529,000 105,5 18,000 gallons fluids and is hardly concerned at the filling up Estimated popu.
lation Consumption per
213,5.0 215,100
head per day
18.5 15.8 gallons CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN KOWLOON PEN- INSULA DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST,
1901.
1902.
Consumption ... 11,000,000 Estimated popu.
lation
37,100
Consumption per
17,432,000 gallons
57,500
head per day 4.5
9.8 gallons The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality..
W. CHATHAM,
Water Authority.
The cruiser Takachiho, which was sent to Marcus Island to bring home the officer and men of the Kasaki, who were stationed there to receive Captain Rosehill, arrived at Yokosuka on the 5th inst. The report of Captain Kaji- kawa, in command of the Takachiho, sys:- American expedition to the island, The conveyed in a sailing vessel, arrived at the island from Honolulu ou the 34th July last, the day after the cruiser Kasaki left the island for home. Lieutenant Akimoto, in command of the party of men left on the island by the Kasaki, banded to Captain Rosehill, in command of the expedi. tion, the letter left in the Lieutenant's charge, and addressed to Captain Rosehill by Mr. Ishii of the Foreign Office. The letter narrated the history of the island, and the circumstances under which Japan discovered and took posses- sion of it. The Lieutenant explained that the Japanese Government had sent the cruiser Kasaki in order to avert any complications that might ensue between the American expedition and the inhabitants. Captain Rosehill assented to the claim made by Japan and left the island for home on the 5th August, after spending a week there. Matters were settled with every satisfaction, and Lieutenant Akimoto and his party returned by the Takachiho.
of the best and most comfortable breeding places. Last year's campaign in the Island Colony cannot be looked upon as a victory for the forces uf sanitation. One section of the Medical Army was badly routed. out Extensive operations were carried at the Military Sanatorium, Magazine Gap, two hundred men of the Indian Regiment being employed.
For a distance
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of three hundred yards the hills cleared of brushwood and undergrowth, bogs were drained, and the anopheles-pools in the
ullahs were filled up. But even this giant-like clearing of the enemy's country was useless. The anopheles apparently received large re- inforcements, for fever was so prevalent during the autumn months that the station had to be vacated by the troops. It would be interest- ing to know what were the peculiar difficul ies in this district which brought about the failure of an experiment seemingly of so thorough a character: probably the reason was that the area cleared was not large enough and extensive breeding grounds were left out- side the circle. The other plan of campaign was attended with little better results, larvicides were extensively usea in the ravines during the summer months, but anopholes larvæ were found in pools which had been treated. The conclusion to be drawn from this is that the larvicides were not used in sufficiently large quantities, and that a film of petroleum or kerosene oil is more deadly. At Hongkong oil was not used because it destroys the potability of the water, 'I he whereas the larvicides tried did not.
same con-
Med cal Officer arrived at the clusion as the Chief Officer in the United Provinces, to whose report we referred the other day-that the only sure system is the thorough training of water courses to prevent the formation of stagnant pools and marshy ground. In a hilly place like Hongkong it is doubtful, however, whether if all the nullubs were trained it would be possible to exterminate the insects, though their numbers might be reduced.
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