April 7, 1906.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
CLUB.
The usual daily train will commence carrying | HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC | cargo, etc., on the 1st April, and is timed to do the journey from Hankow to Peking and the other way in three days instead of four, The Yellow Hiver bridge is found to be a substantial piece of work and all trains will now pass over it.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER
RIFLE CLUB.
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1. CORPS CHAMPIONSHIP. — Open to all members of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps. Ranges.-200, 500 and 600 yds. No. of shots- seven at each. Entrance fee $1.00. Cup to be won two years in succession before becoming the property of the winner. Second and third prizes. I'resented.
2. RIFLE HANDICAP.-Open to members of the Bongkong Volunteer Rifle Club and instructors only. Distance 200 yards. No. of
shots-seven. Entrance fee 50 oep la. Five priz s value 80 per cent of the entries.
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3. RIFLE HANDICAP.- Open to members of the Hongkong Volunteer Rifle Club and instructors only. Distance 500 yards. No. of shots-seven. Entrance fee 50 cents. Fire prizes value 80 per cent, of the entries.
4. RIFLE HANDICAP.-Open to members of the Hongkong Volunteer Rifle Club and instruc- tors only Distance 60 yards. No. of shotg— seren. Entrance fee 50 cents. value 80 per cent. of the entries.
5. RIFLE AGGREGATE.---Net,
Five prizes
For com-
petitors whose respective scores in Nos. 2, 3 and 4 make up the highest aggregate. Entrance fee 50 cents. Two prizes. Presented.
6 RIFLE AGGREGATE.— - Handicap. For Competitors whose respective scores including handicap in Nos. 2, 3 and 4 make up the highest aggregate. Entrance fee 50 cents. Three prizes. Presented.
7. OFFICERS ONLY-HANDICAP-Open to members of the Hongkong Volunteer Rifle Club No. only. Distances 200, 500 and 600 yards. of shots-seren at each range. Entrance f-e 50 cents. One prize. Presented. To be shot simultaneously with Nos. 2, 3 and 4.
8. DISAPPEARING TARGET.—Net.
Open to members of the Hongkong Volunteer Rife Club only. Distance 500 yards. No. of shots- seven. No sighting shot allowed. Magazine to be used. Target exposed for 45 seconds only. Entrance fee 50 cents. Three prizes. 80 per cent, of entries.
9. ALL COMERS.-Competitions for All Comers, British only. Limited to Army, Navy, Police, Volunteer Reserves. Rifles or Carbines, Will take place simultaneously with the forego. ing events at Ranges 109, 500 and 600 yards. No. of shots-seven at each range. Unlimited Three entries. Fees 30 cents per ticket. Prizes at each range value 60 per cent. of tickets seld.
10. ALL COMERS' AGGREG ¡TE.—For Com
whose respective scores at each ranke petitors in No. 9 make up the highest aggregate. Entrance fee $1,00. Two prizes. Presented.
11. LADIES' NOMINATION.-Net Score. — Open to ladies or members of the Hongkong Volunteer Rifs Club and instructors nominated by a lady resident in the Colony and over 16 years of age. No lady to nominate more than ene representative and no member to shoot for more than one lady. Distance 300 yards. No. of sho ́s--fire. Entrance fee 50 cents. Prizes preseuled,
"LADY HUNTWORTH'S EXPERIMENT."
It is a temptation to say that those responsible for the production of "Lady Huntworth's Experiment" on the 31st March had been moved by a desire to show the other members of the A. D. C." how to do it." In many respects the performance was of quite a higher order than those we have been given in the last few years. The little play was well chosen, and its mounting" was an object lesson in " preserv. : tie superfluity common on ing the unities"
There such occasions was conspicuously absent was no exaggeration of dress, either; and with regard to the acting, we can only say that it was of a uniform excellence of which the members. of the cast have the greatest reason to be proud, Briefly, the story is this. Captain Dorraston late of the Bengal Cavalry, is saying with the Rev. Audley Pillenger, vicar of Stillford, and his sister. He is, by request of a decased parent, engaged to marry their piec, Lucy,
12. CONSOLATION PRIZE.-Net Scor3.-Open to members of the Hongkong Volunteer Rifle Club only who have not won a prize at this Meeting Distance 300 yards. No. of ghots--even. No entrance fee. One prize.
Presented.
Entries for all events except Nos. 9, 10, 11 and 12 close on Monday next.
whom he does not love, and who is in love with the curate, the Rev. Henry Thorsby. The cook at the vicarage, whose manifest superiority has enslaved all the men in the house, from the vicar down to Gandy, bis butler, turns out to be Lady Huntworth, recently divorced, by her own desire, althongh at the suit of her dissolute husband, who happens to be hiding in the village from his duns. His lordship, calling himself Mr. rayil, makes Captaiu Durraston's acquaintance at the inn, and thus subsequently discovers his late wife. He knows that she has since come
into a fortune, and asks her to return to him and re-marry him. She ant Captain Dorvaslou have a tenderness for each other, and when Lucy elopes with the curate, and Lord Huntworth is exposed, they come together at Brussels. The necessary complications are increased by the philanderi g of the Vicar and the Cptain in the cook's kitchen, where Mis Hannah, the Vicar's maiden sister, is shooked to find the gallaut Captain concealed in the broom cupboard. There are thr e scenes, the garden, the kitchen, and the an e-room between the church and the vicarage. Lt. Com. Lloyd Thomas, R. N., as the Captain was well fitted, such evident need of the prompter's services. would have scored a distinct success. Mr. Gaster as the Vicar seemed a little nervous at
The members of Right Half No. 2 Company H K V. A. bad their annual dinner at the Hongkong Hotel on Saturday evening under the presidency of Captain Armstrong, and with Lieut. Northcote in the vice-chair. A pleasant time was spent with song and sentiment. Major Pritchard, in acknowledging the toast of his health, said the volunteer year jus closed bad boen very satisfactory. The corps numbered 274 at present, but he hoped soon to see it at full strength, 400.
and if he had not on several occasions stood in
the outset, but before long developed a most con incing personification of the part, Mr. L. J. C. Anderson us the curate hardly made full use of his limited (pportunities, especially in view of the fact that no actor could desire a more able or charming coadjutrix than was Misa E. Rowe as Lucy. Her "lines" were ** business apparently word-perfeo', and her
She was charmingly altogether satisfactory. natural throughout, and never gave the audience any excuse to remember that it was playacting.
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and this brings us now to Mrs. M. W. Slade who played the chief feminine character, the Lady Cook. Several times, perhaps caused by the Captain's lapses of memory, which she was heard to restore, ber own lines were not forthcoming with the requisite glibness; and of course the impression of her work suffers. Hers was a difficult, because unnatural, part to play, and while taking it section by section, her ability was recognised and applanded, the interpretation_thronghout did not seem quite
consistent.
The author's idea seemed to be that the new cook ruled the house because of her culinary powers and her manifest sweet- ness and superior character, which lifted her above censure. But in the opening scene, Mrs. Stado allowed us to understand that she was a wilfully defiant and disobliging servant, which the disguised Lady Huntworth scarcely was. The audience, too, was perhaps,too much in her thoughts. Future performances will establish her talent if all the members get the words, and cues, and if she herself will address the other characters instead of the audience.
Mr. E. W. Michell was responsible for the Between the acts, the singe management.
Calcutta Sting Band" played very fair music, although there might have been more volume.
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R.G.A. SPORTS.
The Royal Garrison Artillery held the first of two days of sport on the Hongkong Football Club's ground at Happy Valley
the on April 5th, wh-n
miuor events and hears were decided. There was a large number in attendance, and the weather was all that could be desired. The dullness of the matshed was relieved with bunting, while light and strong refreshments were served in the many booths. The events were kept well up to time, the commit'es responsible for the management being-Captain F. 8. Butcher, RG A., president, Capiain C. G. Varekor, Lieut. R. 8. Lucy, Lieut. H. P. Garwod, Lient. G. H W. Dobbyn, 2nd Lieut. B
Mr. Gr. Cumming, Subadar Muhammed All. (W. O.) F. J. Champion, Regtl. Sergt. Major Tuoby, C. S. M (I. G.) Eldred, Mr. Gr. Gaiuber, Sergt. Bayliss and Sergt. Taylor,
of the evening. Mr. Looker was a revelation. His make-up, a little startling at first, was amply accounted for by the fact that he was supposed to be just recovering from a malady which made him see non-existent spiders. His speeches were always pat" to time, and his manner of delivery and bis acting were really clever; especially when we know that in private life his character is the absolute antithesis of the one he had to portray. A recent announcement ad led to the amusement with which Lord Huntworth's unsympathetic obiter diots marriage were recei ed. Mr. P. Tester as the man servant was Mr. Tester-for those who have had opportunity to watch him in his mèlier, further comment is unnecessary, Mr. R. Whit more as a newspaper boy was a mere excrescence on the play; he had practically nothing to do, but did that nothing well. Mrs Painter as the vicar's sister was very good, and her very amusing imitation of a truly proper and unjustifiably shoked spinster earned applause. Mrs. John Hastings as Keziah, the maid servant, m de more than the most of somewhat minor opportunities, and noted on the proverb that what is worth doing is worth doing well, Her part, in dress, make-up, speech and mannerism, was certainly well done. We have been taking the names in the order as printed,
Numerons entries were received for the long jumping competition, which Was won by Sergeant Bayless, H.K.S.B, with Br. Kerrick of the 88th Co, second, and Gr. Cochrane of the same Co. third. The distance covered was about 17 feet. The heats in the wheel race were won by Gra. McIntyre, Brown and Bishop, who will compete for a win to-day. The hurdle raca, which will also b‹ run off to-day, is open to Sergeant Bayless, Gra. Cauter, Brotherton, Brown, Stevens and Br. Kerrick The half mile flat race, open to members of the R.G.A. only, was won by Br. H ard, with Gr. Clease second, and Gr. Andrews, third : time 2.194. Br. Heard was again successful in the mile, Gr. Andrews being second, and Gr. Lee third. In the final of the sack rao Gr
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Walker was first. Gr Welling second and Gr. Brown third. Patting the weight proved an item of interest, and Gr. Wilks' pai. of 32ft. 10 inches won the first prize; Gr. Bishop took the second, and Gr. Butler the third. quarter mile flat race was covered in £61 Fecs, the runners passing the tape in the following ordr-Stevens, 1; Clease, 2; Wilke, 3. The honour of a win in the veterans' race fell to Gr. Brown, Gr. Bailey being recond and Gr. Burke third. The half mile op n to native regiments of the Garrison was won by Jhinen Singh, with Mahomed Khan second and Jabil Khau third. The sack fight will be decided to-day, when Cambridge's team of ten picked men closes in combat with the ten under Brown. The final of the 100 yards race has also to be ran off, the starters being Stevens, Brown, Bayless, Andrews, H. Brown and Canter. Some strong pulls were witnessed in the tug-of-war contests, and the one between the 3 d and 88th Co's. RG.A., which is to take place this afternoon, should prove an interesting event.
To-day is the principal day of the sports, and j⋅ dying from yesterday's attendance they promise to be well intropi. The band of the West Kent Regiment will play selections of music during the afternoon.