November 17, 1902]
BOWLING ANALYSES.
CRAIGENDOWER CRICKET CLUB.
0. M. B.
W.
Skinner
11.1 3 24
4
MacGibbon
13
2
38
3
Butter
Lilywhite
7 4
19
1
15 1
0.
M.
R.
W
Brawn
9
1
15
5
Pestonji
Harteam
7.2 1 1
12
2
6
ARMY ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.
FOOTBALL.
H.K.F.G. v. R.E.
This match was played at Happy Valley on the 8th inst., in fair weather and before a sparse attendance of spectators. Teams:-
Club-Hickling, goal; Worcester and Bonnar, backs; Harrison, Kow, and Rees, halves; Lemarchand, Kerr, Cooper, Cooke, and Libeaud,
forwards.
Engineers-Goal, Widdows; backs, Bowyer and Thornhill; halves, Gaskell, Steedman, and Bingay; forwards, Hemmings, Rutter, More. cambe, Cooper, and Hooley.
Referee Mr. F. Browne.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
SHANGHAI RACES.
The following was the result of the principal race on the 8th inst., the off-day of the Shang- hai Autumn Meeting :-
THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.
Value Tls. 250. Second pony, Tls. 75. If five or more starters, third pony, Tls. 50. For China ponies, Weight for inches as per
at any
scale. Non-winners of this race previous Meeting allowed 7 lbs. Entrance, Tls. 5. Twice round.
Mr. Robson's Bonaventure (Mr. Alderton)
11st. llb..
Mr. Robson's Corbie (Mr. Zahn) 10st. 8lbs. 2 Mr. Twovee's Sobruòn (Mr. Massey) 10st
11lbs.
Mr. Witz's Shannon (Mr. Witzleben) 10st.
11lbs.
Mr. Carlill's Loot (Mr. Reid) 1^st. 12lb. Mr. Criterion's Satan (Mr. A. Crighton)
10st. llb.
Mr. R. J. Marshail's Innocence (Owner)
10st. 10lbs.
The game was & very poor one, the Club having all the advantage. The ground
kicked off, and
race. five minutes from
3
0
0
0
Satan, Innocence, aud Shannon jumped off with the lead. Loot, however, soon overtook them, but unseated his rider who pluckily re- mounted firmly, but too late to compete in the The contest then virtually lay between Corbie, Bonaventure and Sobraon and Bonaven- ture won in the final rush. Corbie second and Sobraon third. Satan also threw his rider.
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and is altogether a splendid specimen of a first- class merchant steamship. She has been con- structed under the supervision of Captain 8. G. Green, the Company's Marine Superintendent at Sydney, and Mr. Laurence Niven, their Commodore Engineer, and the vessel is com- manded by Captain W. G. Macarthur.
The results of the trial were most satisfac- tory, a speed in excess of the contract having been easily maintained, the Company's repre sentatives expressing themselves highly pleased with the ship and her performance.
A SERIES OF TRAGEDIES.
The death occurred in Shanghai on the morn- ing of the 3rd inst. of Mr. Herbert Augustus Cooper, pilot of the Messageries Maritimes Company, who was well known in Hongkong as well as in Shanghai. A remarkable series of tragedies has overtaken the Cooper family, all of them men of five physique, and this last occurence is only a chimax to what has gone before. We take the following obituary notice from the Shanghai Mercury of the date of Mr. H. A. Cooper's death-Mr. Herbert Angustus Cooper, the well-known pilot of the Messageries Maritimes, succumbed this morning at his residence, No. 51, Range Road. to diphtheria. Mr. Cooper, who was only recently married, was the last of a splendid family of four brothers, the death of whom, one after the other in the very prime of their vigorons early manhood, has formed one of the most melancholy stories ever recorded in the
felt for his young widow, and for the aged mother who alone remains to mourn the loss of her sons.
The eldest was an officer of the P. and 0. Company, who lost his life some years ago in a noble endeavour to save a Lascar who
men the start registered their first goal, through Cooper, who just previously missed a fine opening. There was nothing further of moment during the remainder of the first half, nor, indeed, for the rest of the game, except the two additional goals scored after the interval NEW LINER FOR THE FAR EAST. Far East, and the most profound sympathy is for the Club by Cooper and Libeaud. Hickling had an easy job, and played the part of spect, tor most of the time. It was the Eni ineers' first match of the season, and therefore oue must not be too hard on them. At the same time, however, they will have to acquire some form, and that quickly, if they intend to make any serious show in future matches. They appeared to have no backbone on Saturday, and left the playing of the game to their custodian, Widdows, who kept down the Club's score appreciably. The ground men were themselves in poor form, excepting in a very few cases, and with better opponents would have deserved to lose. Perhaps, however, they did not feel called upon to make any display; certainly the play of the Engineers did not provide an inducement.
Result-Club, 3; Engineers, 0.
HOCKEY.
CLUB . H.M.8.
t ALBION.'
E. AND A. 8.8. "EMPIRE." The Eastern and Australian Steamship Co.'s new steamer Empire, built for the passenger and freight trade between Australia, China and Japan, has been successfully launched and will at no distant date be put on the regular service. The Empire will also be a mail carrier. She was built by Messrs. Wm. Feardmore & Co., Ld., Goran, Glasgow. Her trial trip exceeded the expectations of the builders and the owners as well.
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The following are the dimensions of the new boat:-Length, 400 ft.; breadth, 46 ft. 6 in.; depth, 20 ft. 2 in. and 4,500 gross tonnage: with a top-gallant forecastle, long bridge, full poop, and a shade deck amidships. The hull is built of steel to Lloyd's highest class under special survey, and completed in accordance with the Board of Trade regulations for
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decks and passenger steamers. fittings are of teak, and the most modern appliances have been supplied for the efficient working of the ship and the rapid handling of cargo including a very complete installa- tion of electric lighting, with double dynamos, and a large refrigerating plant, with in- sulated chambers for the carriage of meat, &c., to suit the Eastern trade. Luxurious ac commodation has been provided b fore the machinery for the first-class passengers, and as the steamer is intended to trade in tropical climates, the exceptionally large staterooms have been placed on the upper deck, which admits of perfect ventilation, and they are furnished aith the most up-to-date improvements for the com- fort of the passengers.
The Club gave rather a disappointing exhi- bition against the Albion on the 13th inst. when they were beaten by 3 goals to 1. Perhaps the fact that Teats turned up 20 minutes late accounted partly for this, as the first 2 goals for the Albion were scored in the first quarter of an hour. Murphy again had the work of two men to perform for some time, and acquitted himself very well. Parker in goal saved splendidly, and it was largely owing to bis,good judgment in clearing that the Club had only 3 goals notched against them, as they were pressed hard all the time. Hooper played a grand game for his side, his goal, the only one for the Club, being the shot of the game. Thornbill also played well, and his shouted admonitions to the rest of the side were Above on the bridge deck, are a spacious din- cheering if occasionally interlarded with weirding saloon and music-room en suite, and a com- epithets. Tulloob at half played a very sound fortable smoking-room, all with large square game. Of the Albions, perhaps Boyle, Raymond, windows, which give abundance of light, while and Salkeld were the best of a very even lot, overhead the shade deck (on which the boats are though their forward line was particularly stowed) forms an admirable shelter from sun and strong.
rain to the splendid promenade on the bridge deck reserved for the first-class passengers. Very superior accommodation has been supplied on the poop for second-class passengers (which is scarcely inferior to that for the first and includes a commodious dining-room, capital smoking-room, large state-rooms, bath-rooms, &c.) and the 'tween decks are fitted for European and Chinese emigrants. The machinery cou- sist of a set of triple-expansion engines, having cylinders 23 io., 47 in. and 78 in. diameter, by 51 in. stroke, with two doable-ended boilers for a working pressure of 200 lb., and fitted with the most recent improvements for efficiency and economy, including Howden's forced draught, bronze propeller blades, &o. Having been de. sigued with a cut-water bow and figurehead, the Empire has a very symmetrical appearance,
Mr. T. C. Gray was the referee for both sides.
The L. and C. Express of the 10th ult. says: -The Morning Post is responsible for the statement that the 1st Chinese Regiment at Weihaiwei is not after all to be disbanded. Whether Weihaiwei will be retained as a military station does not appear to have been decided on, but it is quite certain that for the present the disbandment of the Chinese Regiment has been postponed. We most sincerely trust, as we have frequently written, that the regiment which has done so well during its brief career, will be retained, and that the decision of the Government to disband it is being revised-in the way that its existence will be prolonged.
had fallen overboard from the steamer on which
he and Mr. Cooper were serving, in the Straits of Malacca. Mr. Arthur Cooper, another brother, died a couple of years ago of a chest affection, induced by his prolonged immersion in the Whaugpoo when the ill-fated Onwo, of
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which he was second officer, went down after colliding with the Newchwang at Woosung; and the death of the third brother, Dr. Cooper, a rising and popular young practitioner in Shanghai, is too fresh in the minds of our readers to need more than passing mention. The father of the family, we believe, was a Scotsman settled in Bombay, where he held an appointment in the P. & O. Company. Mr. Herbert Cooper was a splendid type of seamau, and will long be remembered with affection here, where every one who ever knew him inevitably became his friend and well-wisher.
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HONGKONG.
A special Government notification was issued on the 12th inst. covering a letter from H.B.M.'s Consul at Manila, which stated that Manila has been declared free of the cholera, and that Mr. Harford is issuing clean bills of health.
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The return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ended the 9th inst. gives 220 non-Chinese and 53 Chinese to the former institution, and 58 non-Chinese and 2,198 Chinese to the latter.
The transport Wakool, having on board that part of the Royal Welsh Fusilier Regiment proceeding to India, sailed on Tuesday for Calcutta.
The vessel was to have sailed on Monday, but the presence of a typhoon in the China Sea caused that arrangement to be altered.
James Smith, an American, was fined $10 and bound over in a personal bond of $100 to keep the peace for six months for behaving in a disorderly manner on Monday evening and threatening to stab Mr. George Warren, pro- prietor of Warren's Circus, by whom he was employed as a ring assistant.
On the occasion of the landing of Dr. A. P. Lello, Acting Governor of Macao, at the Canton Steamboat Company's pier, about 11.30 s.m. on the 10th inst., a guard of honour was furnished by the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters, and a salute of 17 guns was fired by the Royal Garrison Artillery. Dr. Lello called on the Governor, Sir Henry A. Blake, and was present at the Farade at Happy Valley and the Birthday Ball at Government House.