April 25, 1903.]
POLO CLUB GYMKHANA.
Fine weather favoured the Polo Club's. Gymkhana on the Race Course at Happy Valley on the 18th inst, but despite these en- couraging met orological conditions the atten- dane, though goo, was not so large as might have been expected, all things considered. As a means of filling up the breach caused by the failure to have a Spring Meeting of the Jockey Club, the Gymkhana was most acceptable if less pretentions fixture, and he Polo Club is to be congratulated on the success that attended its experiment. The band of the Derbyshire Regiment was present, and played popular selections at intervals between the events, of which there were seven. The results were :- POLO PONY RACE for bona-fide polo ponies to be passed as such by the Polo Committee; up the straight catch weights over 11st 7lbs riders to line up at the starting post with their ponies turned away from the winning post and on the fall of the flag to turn ronud and gallop in Entrance fee $1. Mr. Johnstone's Vanity, 11st 7ibs
Mr. Johnstone) 1 bs (Mr. G dge) 2
71bs...
Mr. Gedge's Funch 1st Mr. Kitchener's Norah, 111⁄2
Capt. Thornhill's Banca, 11st 10lbs
Capt. Light's Go Lightly,
Mr. Cruickshank's Belle
Mr. Kitchener)
3
Capt. Thornhill) 1st 7ibs
0
0
(Capt. Light) Helene, 11st 71ba Mr. Cruickshank) 0 Six ran. Norah and Vanity get away to- gether when the starter's flag fell, but the others did not face about go quickly. Punoh soon cleared the ruck, however, and after passing Norah, which had been beaten in the Kallop up the straight by Vanity, made a bold but unsuccessful attempt to pass the leader, which won by a neck only
ONE MILE RACE; for China ponies; weight for inches as per Hongkong Jockey Club standard; non-winners at the February 1903 Race Meeting allowed_51bs; winners at that Meeting 5lbs extra. Entrance fee (3. Mr. Mackie's Misfit, 10st 711s
!
(Mr. Clark) 1 Mr. E. Deacon's Manhattan, 10st 7ib3
Mr. Armstrong's Jigoku
Capt. Whitehead's Lively
+
(Mr. Morris) 2 1st 3.bs
Mr. Armstrong)
3
10st 91bs *
(Mr. Kitchener)
0
10st 7lbs
(Mr. Pontifex)
0
(Mr. F. B Deacon)
Mr. Pontifex's Commoner
Mr. F. B. Deacon's Nipper, 10st llb
Mr. Iuglis's Velvet 11st 4lbst
:
•
(Mr. Inglis) Mr. Armstrong's Starling, 11st 3ibs‡
(Mr. Auley) Mrs. Dickson's Digby Grand, 11st 3lbst.. (Mr. Johnstone)
0
0
0
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE BEPORT.
2lbs. over✨ †4lbs over.
Three ran. The start was a bad one. ¦ School Girl took the lead, but in the back stretch Legacy, the favourite, had no difficulty in displacing her, and won running away. The other two bad a good gallop for second place, which Punch secured on the post. Time, 1 min. 24 secs.
* 2lbs over. +8lbs over! Each 7lbs over.
Nine ran. The start was not a very good one, some of the ponies being left at the post. Digby Grand, Commoner, and Jigoku, on the rails, were on level terms passing the stand, the others straggling behind aud Nipper tailing away in the rear, "waiting for the field to come round again," as he spectator put it. Round past the Golf Club's pavilion no change bad taken place, but nearing the back stretch Lively. Manhattan, and Misfit gan to show up. Jigoku pointed the way up to the black rock, bat down the hill to the village was challenged by Manhattan. Then Misfit. the only pony in
the field which had had any training during the week, and even then only two or three gallops, came away on the outside and half-way up the straight passed Manhattan and Jigoku, winning by a longth and a half. Time2 min 17; s008.
As showing the chance that Misfit was deemed to have, only two people backed it in the pari mutusl-one of them a police sergeant and the other a Sanitary Board inspector. They drow $198 each for the S5 which they had stake!. SIZ FUELONGS FLAT ROE; Open Walers;
Handicap: Entrance for $3.
Mr. Morgan Phillips's Legacy, 11st. 6lbs. * TheMr. Johnstone) Mr. Gedge's Punch, 10st Bits (Mr. Gedge) Mr. Moxon's School Girl 10st. 12lbs †
(Mr. Cruickshank)
LADIES' NOMINATION; Rosette race; each nominator has an envelope handed to her containing a coloured ribbon; competitor are to start dismounted and on the fall of the flag are to mount, gallop to a line of barrels one or more of which will contain envelopes, dismount, take out one, remount, gallop on round a post, leaving it on the left hand, and back to the winning post; the nominator holding a ribbon of the same colour as that contained in the envelope held by the first competitor to pass the post to take the prize. Post entries.
Mr. Cruickshank Mr. Johnstone Capt. Keller
1
2
3
STEEPLECHASE; horses not exceeding 14 hds. 3 in. to carry not less than 11 st. 5 lbs., exceed- ing 14 hds..3 in. 2 lbs, per quarter inch extra; previous winners of a jump race to carry 8 lbs. extra for each race won; penalties accumula- tive; Arabs allowed 7 lbs.; Indian country br ds allowed 12 lbs. Entrance fee $3. Mr. Johnstone's Run way Girl
(Mr. Johnstone) Mr. Cruickshank's Belle Helene
Mr. Brutton's Butcher Boy
Mr. Kitchener's Norah
(Mr. Pontifex)
(Mr. Bratton)
1
2
(Mr. Kitchener) (
0
Four rau. Only two finished. Runaway Girl, from start to finish, and won easily. who "pecked" badly once, held the advantage CHINA PONY STEEPLECHASE; weight for inches as per scale; entrance see $3. Post
entries.
Mr. Johnstone's Ben Nevis
Mrs. Dickson's Digby Grand
(Mr. Johnstone) (Mr. E. R. Morris)
Mr. Pontifex's Commoner
2
(Mr. Poutifex) (Mr. Bruttou)
3
Mr. Inglis's Velvet Mr. Kitchener's I pear (Mr. Kitchener) 0 Mr. E. Deaco.'s Manhattan
0
(Mr. H. E. Morris) Mr. Clarke's The Buck. (Capt. Light) 0 Capt. Whitehead's Lively (Mr. Clark)
light ran. Ben Nevis and Digby Grand were the only two ponies to complete the race with- out mishap, Oue pony was left at the fist jamp. which it absolutely refused to take. The water jump was the mo t. difficult one to negotiate Pony after pany came to a dead halt when it was reached, and neither whip nor spur would induce them to go over. One jockey made the journey alone, and landed plump in the water; bis pony trotted off across the course, but he made no attempt to recapture it and Digby Grand went over like birds, and -he bad had quite enough, thanks! Ben Nevis
Commoner came in third somehow. C、STUME RACE; ladies' nomination; down the straight round a post and in, the post to be turned leaving it on the left hand; prize for the best costume; prize for first past post: competitors to line up in front of the judge's box previous to the race for the purpose of judging the costumes. Post entries. The six competitors in this event appear. d ia costumes as excellent as they were varied. Mr. F. Deacon was attired as a ballet girl, and the faithfulness of his copy may be judged from the remark of a short-sighted old gentle-
man with glasses who had not read his programme and who came upon the vision quite suddenly-" Jove, what a pretty girl! Mr. Deacon won the prize for the best costume, What's she doing here in that rig, though ?” and Mr. Johnstone the prize for the race.
The French Consul at Shanghai concludes a report on recent share s eculations at the northern port by stating that the Shanghai financial market, for which the year 1902 has 1 been the most disastrous in men's memory, is 2 now entirely in the hands of certain brokers whose gambling practices keep away from the 3 bourse all sensible operators.
ARMY ESTIMATES FOR THE
FAR EAST
Garrison :
We have already given a generat the Army Estimates for 1903-4, 3 are the details for Hongkong wei so far as they appear on the Estimates (the figures within the votes for last year) :→→
Establishment-Artillery, companies, 788 of all ranks, company, 13 officers, 195 men. nfantry battalion, 1,012 of all ranka. Army Corps: 5 officers, 6 men, Royal Arm Corps: 11 officers, 41 men. « Colonial and Nalive Indian Corps: 41 companies of Infantry, tour of Local Artillery, one of Local Engineer 5,689 of all ranks, Army Ordinance Depart. ment, 7; Army Ordnance Corps, 62; Army Pay Corps, 8. Total of all ranks, 7,768.
General Staff-Hongkong: Major-General, £3 a day; deputy assistant adjutant-genèral £1 Is; deputy-assistant quartermaster gener £1 18.; aide-de-camp, 15s,; total pay, £9,141. Temporary and acting staff, £15 arce, £120; table money, £246 staff sergeant, £:08; civilian clerk, £18. Total of General Staff, Weil iwei: Staff Captain, 15s, a Temporary and acting atam, £10; servan ance, £13. Total of General Staff, £297,
Appropriations in Aid.— £76.400 (£78,000), Approximate Annual Cost of Clothing peg Man.-Hongkong and Singapore - Battalion Royal Artillery: Sergeant, £4 198. - 10d. į rank and file, £3 188. 4d.; recruits, £7, 10s. 21. -
China Expeditionary Force. Pay,: £90,00 (£50,000). Medical Services, £5,000 (no amount given for last year). Transport and remounta £70,000 (no amount given for last year). Su plies, &c., £50,000 (£60,000). Clothing, £10,000 (no amount given for last year), Supply and repair of warlike and other stores, £20,000 (no amount given for last year).
Chinese Regiment:-European: Filisen ficers, £5,646; sergeant-major, quartermaster sergeant, and orderly-room sergeant, colour-sergeants, seven, £1,152 Chinese: Ser geants, nine, £102; buglers, eight, £72; cor. porals, privates, interpreters, 505, £4,141, And for lance ranks, &c., and for a olerk, £81. Total, £5,554. Deduct for stoppages, day forfeited, &c.. £200; leaving £5,354. Total, £11,000,
Hongkong and Singapore Royal Artillery.- Four companies at Hongkong, consisting of sight officers and 455 men; and two companies at Eingapore, consisting of four officers and 241 men. The pay of the officers is £552, with £65 for additional pay; and that of the men, £5,895, with £3,208 for additional pay, making £9,710, Deductions, £410; leaving £9,500.
Royal Engineers.-A company of 50, at Singapore, one of 70 at Hongkong, and one 50 at Ceylon, £1,648. Deductions, 248; leaving £1,600.
of
Army Service corps.-Pay, &c., of the Subordinate Establishment; Subordinates con-
and working pay of military working parties. tinuously employed, £1,005; temporary labour
£145; native labourers, £1,050; transport ostablishment by land, £555; ditło by water, £915. Total, £3,670,
Chaplain's Department. Hongkong - and Weiheiwei: Chaplain. £411; servant allows ance. £21; chapel olerks, orderlies, &c, £30, officiating clergy and allowance for con. tingencies. £330; payment for buildings for divine service, £42. Total, £834.
Army Pay Department. Hongkong : Chief Paymaster, £640; Staff Paymaster, £457 Paymaster, £183, servant allowance, £45 civilian and pensioner subordinate £20'; postage and contingencies, £23. . Total, £1,871;
-Weihaiwei: Extra duly pay acting as paymasters, £91; postage an tingencies, £10. Total, £101,-
Medical Establishment.--Hongkong a haiwei: Colonel, £730; nine lieutenant. aid officers of lower ranks, £3.370; master, 1200; servant and mess allow Total pay of Medical Officers, and contingencies, £10; nur allowance for board, washi £510; nurses in women' regimental hospital orderlie labour, £650; corps pay and £450.
Wai
hing.
£164
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