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danger than at any previous or ultimate stage of the game. They rose to the occasion, however, and Paton (ook his forwards down the field in a rush towards Fitlook. The halves were easily passed, and it lay with Lapsley to respond to the attack.
This he did by sending the leather out of play, when he might just ns easily and with more effectiven as have done otherwise, for he had plenty of time. Her ton got possession eventually, and passed to Seth, who made a fruitless attempt to defeat Robinson. Herton again captured when the ball was returned, and this time Robinson conceded a corner. This, and another which fo lowed, the Club failed to turn to account, having to retire unsuccessful after a lot of exciting work at goal. The game, which preserved its interest for the spectators to the last, was stopped just on time by reason of an injury, fortunately but slight, to one of the Argonauts' forwards, who collided at the Club's goal with one of his own partners. When it recommenced, the sailors renewed their bombard i eat, and had hard luck in not raising their score, one shot striking the cross-bar and another one of the uprights. The call of time found the score unaltered :-
H.M.8. Argonaut, 1; V.R.C., C.
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SHIELD TIE~H.M.8. “GLOBY b. 8TH CO.,
B.G.A.
There was a good attendance to witness this match, which was played at Happy Valley on the afternoon of the 26th iust. Teams :—
Glory Goal, Morgan; backs, Urquhart and Sherbrooke; halves, Booth, Crossman, and Watson; forwards, Lane, Hensford, Milford, Moore, and Cottell.
RA-Goal, Toon; backs, Bottomley and Cassidy; halves, Spence, Cooper, and Dooley ; forwards, Stone, Sewell, Yule, Robertson, and Browning.
Referee.-Mr. F. Browne,
'The Artillery kicked off, and almost coinci- dently gave away a free kick. The Glory made nothing by it, however, and were called upon to defend their territory, bat a corner which fell to the R. A. remained unconverted. The Glory began to press, and thrice tried to open the scoring, Toon having to handle once, The soldiers made a break-away, but the forwards were slow and lost the ball. Their custodian was
playing asterling game and accounting splendid ly for the dangerous shots that repeatedly came in. Thus early, the Navy lot were manifesting their superiority in the open, and kept their Now opponents tied down to defence work. and then the Artillery cleared their ground, but their attack were never pressed far no real uneasiness to enongh and cinsed
he the Glory goalkeeper. Once, however, hud to run out to stop a dangerous rush by Stone and Bowell, and might have far d worse a little later had not the former thrown away a beautiful chance at au open goal.
showing up The gunners were decidedly better advantage, and towards the interval the bluejackets did not have much to boast of. The combination work of their for- wards was a treet, bat with it all they were unable to score, and half-time found the game standing
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in at goal. Toon darted at the ball, but slipped, | rapidly left the rest behind them. But at though and into the not the leather rolled The soldiers same time it is hardly e nceivable that they ama went to pieces after this, and Milford, after could have saved their time on the leading boats» qi) failing to profit by an absolutely open goal of the one-design class had not the latter i when only three yards away from it, outwitted | elected to :ail right across the fall strength of 2. the R. A defences and ecored the second point the tide over towards the Hongkong shore of a of the match. The Artillery made a good fight | instead of keping on the starboard tack and of it, but they were hardly fit enough to put a making for Stonecut'ers' and then sailing along different interpretation on the game, which the Yaumati shore. At the leo mark the Min in ended~Glory, 2; Artillery, 0.
particular seemed to have the race in hand. Sho was ahead of Dione and bot more than 1 about two minutes satern of Vernon, and with g 114 minutes Landicap she had at least 9 minutes d in hand with only three miles more to sail. If she had sailed the same water as Vernon it is burdly *** possible that she would have been beaten. - Of the one-design and 2nd class boats Bonito and Maid Marian, both a long way astern of the Min, were the only boats to follow the leaders, and of these the Bonito when quite close to the line had still a minute and a half in hand, and with a little luck with the wind, which at the time was dropping fast, would have wo 1.
With regard to Alannah it was noticeable that so long as the wind remained strong and the water a little lumpy the new boats, though sailing faster than she did, could not get far away from her, but as soon as they got into the smooth water and slacker wind off the Yaumati shore they just raced away. The fin st performance of the day was undoubtedly that of
CLUB 18T XI v. H.M.8. "GOLIATH.” A good game between the above two teams was played on the 22rd inst., and resulted in a victory for the Club by 5 goals to 2. The Goliath opened the scoring, but the Club soon equalised by the assistance of Wodehouse. Maxwell-Scott, who was playing a very strong game, now gave the Goliath the lead, which Carter soon reduced, On the score at half time being two all, resuming, the Club pressed hard, and Wode- house scored two more goa's and l'artnell one, The Goliath had hard luck now and then, one or two shots going dangerously close The Club played very well together, and in the forward line, besides those already mentioned, Meaden and Barnes were prominent. At half, Chater played a very strong game. The backs were almost impreguable and Parker in goal cleared well, or the Goliath, Maxwell-Scott, Richarda and French were very good, while St. Clair in goal repeatedly saved the hard shots the Club forwards from time to time sent in.
14 CLUB v. H.M.8. TALBOT.
An excellent game between these two teams was witnessed on Thursday afterno n on the Club ground. The Talbot, mainly by some good play on the part of Pringle, scored two goils in the first half, and at half-time it appeared that they would win easily. The Club, however, rallied wonderfully, and, keeping Pringle well marked, scored 3 goal, thus winning by one gral. graud game and scored all the 3 goals bimself. Wodehouse, the Club centre-forward, played a Solfest played a particularly useful half-back game, while Murphy at back and Parker in goal both show d up well, the latter saving some very hard shots. All the forwards played wall. For the Talbot, besides Pringle, who was in fact the best man on the field, Scott and Bigg
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ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.
The race for the cup kindly given by the officers of the Real Engineers was sailed for on the 2ad irat. in a fine easterly breeze of almost whole sail strength The course was round a mark-boat off the South Pier O Stonecutters', a mark-boat on Kellet's Bauk, the mark-boat off Stonecatters', the mark-boat on Kellet's Bak and in, leaving all marks to port. There was a strong flood tide all the afternoon. Iris and Alannah were the first two boats over the line at the start with the rest of the 10 starters in a bunch close astern of them. Alannah crossed the line at a good pace and at once drew away from the rest, who were all Milford tonohed the ball twice when he hampered by the close proximity of other boats. kicked off on the resumption, and gave the Vernon and Dione were both well placed at the soldiers a free kick, which, however, was located start, but the latter particularly suffered from too far out to be of any material use to them the unwelcome attentions of her neighbours The Glory got a corner on their left, and, and was luffed a long way out of her course by The excellent start she got, taking up the pas, Crossman did his best to the Erica. Let the ball, but sent to the outside. Milford, combined with the way the Chanticleer stuck (SiLbed," they called him) took free close to the Vernon the whole way down to the lick close in for the Glory and found the net, first mark, enabled Alannah to hold the led but as no one touched the ball in its flight the all the way to the mark-cat on Kellet's Bank. effort was abortive. The sailors lost a good Shortly after rounding the mark-boat off many points by their unnecessarily hard shoot-Stonecutter's the Chanticleer had to retire from ing at goal, and the gunners set about showing them how to do it, They pressed, and kept it up too, but eventually had to retrace their steps without reward. Toon caught a dropping shot in his hands and throw it over Milford's head as the latter obarged full speed at him; then, stepping back qui kly, he allowed "Sinbad" to find a resting place in the corner of the net whilst he himself recaptured the ball and sent it well out. Morgan's charge was then assailed, but the situation was relieved by the lea: her topping the bar. The Glory's goal came un- expectedly; Milford took up a pass into centre and consigned the ball to Heusford, who shot close
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Dione, She was about two minutes astern of Alannah at the lee mark and she finished 4 minutes 54 seconds ahead of her: so she gained 6 minutes and 54 seconds on a beat of 3 miles, and thi‹ off easily the best boat to windward of all the old boats. In the end the Alannah won by the narrow margin of 40 seconds and thus took the R.E. Cap for the third year in succession.
The official times are as follows :—
2 Vernou 3. Dione
1. Alannah 4. Bonito
Not times.
H. M. A.
I M. R.
3 31 17
3 31 17
* 31 49
3 31 43
3 36 37
3:30 37
3 44 52
3 82 22
6. Mis ...
1 48 52
3 37 90
7. Erica...
3. 49 0
3 37 30
8 Colleen
3.49 20
5. Maid Marian... 9. Iria
3 51 10
3 34 10
3.56 44
Chanticleer did not finish.
JAPAN AND COREA.
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SETTLEMENT OF THE BANKNOTE DISPUTE,
The Japan papers contain particulars of the settlement of the banknote dispute which appear- ed likely to lead to a serious diplomatic rupture. The Kobe Chronicle says it appears that on the 12th inst. Mr. Hagiwara, the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires at Seoul, had au interview with Li Do-sai, the Coronn Minister for Foreign Affairs, and after a somowhat heated discussion the Corean Goverument submitt.d to the protest of Japan, and an agreement was ex hanged be- tween the two representatives. The provisions of the memorandum zre (1) that the illegal instructions ordering the banknotes to be pro- bibited be withdrawn; (2) that the Corean Clovernment shall apologise to the Japanese Government by an official note for the injustice done; (3) that in the apology it shall be promised that those who in any way hinder the circulation of the First Bank notes in future shall be punished, and that this be publicly proclaimed by the Governor o? Seoul; (4) that the appoint- ment of the Corean Minister to Japan,” which has long remained in abeyance, shall be made without delay ; and (5) that the withdrawal of the illegal imposition of a tax on Japanese goods at Rakutoko be made immediately, as pledged by the Corean Minister for Foreign Affairs.
It is stated that the Corcan Government at once issued instructions to the Governors of various open ports ordering them to withdraw the prohibition affecting the banknotes, bat that Mr. Hagiwara informed the Government that he would maintain his protest pending the report from the Japaness Consuls at the open ports regarding the withdrawal of the probibition.
A Seoul telegram states that a project is now on foot to establish a Central BankingCorporation with a capital of yen 3,000,000, the shares, vaine 50 yen eich, to be allotted to Corsan applicants exclusively. The B ak is intended to operate under a similar charter to that of the Bank of Japan, under which it would not as fiscal agents
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