TELEGRAMS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
AMERICAN NAVAL PROGRAMME.
LONDON, March 2nd. The Naval Committee of the Senate has
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH SED, 1913,
The Races have come and gone, and with them many good resolutions and many dollars. Many people look forward to them with great hopes nad most people are just as pleased when they are They are too distracting and ended.
HONGKONG JOCKEY OLUB. | The "Lucey" STAKES -Value $200.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING,
TRE" OFF DAY.
The "off" day of the Race Meeting on Saturday afternoon was favoured with ideal weather, which brought out à fair
For Mr. Gilpin's Sir Acalon, 10st 12lbs.
(Mr. Knoll) I
Mr. Joba Peel's Wyvis II, 10st 10lbs, alba allowance... (Mr. Hickman) Sir Henry May's Bruno, 10st 12lbs
subscription griffins of this scason that | have run at this meeting and not won a sace, Weight, for inches as per scale. Jockeys who have not had more than two
(Mr. Brand) 3 winning mounts in Hongkong, Shang hei or Ticutain allowed lb. Jockeys Mr. Brutton's James, 10st 4lbs, 5lbs
allowance (Mr. H. Soth) 0. who have never had a winning mount in Mr. John Peel's Bercel, 10st 7lbs, 5lbs Hongkong or China allowed 7lb. Off- day winner barred. Entrance 65 to go Mr. Goolaco's Alvand, 10st 7lbs
allowance. (Mr. Greason) 0 to second pony, One mile,
(Mr. Asger) 0
restored the principal items in the Naval perhaps a little expecsive, so that the attendence of the public. The course was Sir Henry May's Groying, 10st 12!bg
Appropriations Bill, including the provi- sion for two battleships which the House of Representatives struck out.
A later message from Washington ro ports that the Senate passed the Naval Bill The Bill returns to the House of Representatives.
GERMAN MILITARY MEASURES.
GREAT. INORFABES.
LONDON, March 2nd. Router's correspondent at Berlin tale graphs that in view of the approaching introduction of the new Army Bills and concerning the Government's secrecy
return to ordinary life was just as welcoms as the end of the month financial recovery,
I
(Mr. Brand) 8. H. Michael's The Burglar, 10st
Blba, 7lbs allowance
(Mr. Hastings) 2 G. Friesiand's The Lump, 10st 10lbs 5lbs allowance, 3lbs overweight (Mr. Hickman) Mr. Gilpin's Fuckrow, 11st
(Mr. Knoll) 0 A level start. Burglar, Lump, Puckrow
The order at the start was Bruno, Bon Wyvis and Sir Acalon, but Ben Wyvis took the lead at the Bowrington Gate, Bruno and Sir Acalon racing together. Sercel made the pace at the football stand and took second place, hotly pursued by Bruno, Sir Acalon being fourth. The leaders closed going uphill, the Your racing level, but nearing the rock ferool had a slight advantage. Downhill Sir
a trife heavy, but the pleasant sunshine imparted a greater degree of comfort all Mr. round. Bevon events were set down for the afternoon, and as they attracted good Mr. Many stories of luck wore being told on
entries the sport was exceedingly good. the Course during the meeting, and not
The races were more open than at the a few folks expressed thornsalves of a desire to stand in the shoes of somebody meeting itself, and bettor dividends were eleo. The one big windfall was that of paid by the pari-mutuel for this reason. Mr. Rutter, of Kowloon Dock, who drew Everything passed off without a hitch, the winning horse in the big Derby though the programme was not carried and Greylag was the order. Going uphill syzepstake, and having sold one-third of | through with the same attention to time,reylag got into second place, Lump Acalon passed into third place, Screel the difficulties of starting being responsible being half a length behind, and paseing dropping away. Bruno showed to the the rock Greylag closed in with the leader front and James came up strong sad. and raced level with him on the bend. A took third place, but Sir Acalon was not fine race home ensued between Greylag, to be denied and raced home an easy Burglar and Puckrow, but the Governor's winner. pony won by a head from Burglar, Packrow being third.
Time: 2min. 18secs..
Pari-mutuel. Cash Sweeps
Winner: $10.00
1.
his chance for $1,000 netted somewhere about $9,000. Quito a good flutter.
The influences of dream experiences in selecting winning numbers are also being related. One mian, who fortunately could not get down to the races, dreamt that the number 111 would come up a a these, the German newspapers are pub-certain race, and also that Rosyth would They be a winner in a certain event: The tips fishing estimates of the increase. agres that they will amount to £123 mil- lion annually, and expect that the method of paying the bill, whether by a property tax or indircot taxation, will lead to a stiff fight.
A THREATENED STRIKE.
LONDON, March 1st.
for this. Details are as follows:- THE HAY AND CORN STAKES.-Value 2200. For all subscription griffins that have run at this meeting and not won a race. Weight or inches as per scale. Jockeys who have not had more than two winning mounts in Hongkong, Shanghai or Tientsin allowed 5lb. Unplaced runners allowed slb.
En- trance $5 to go to second pony Half a mile.
were passed on, and, most remarkable, Mr. Billiarde Miss in Baulk, 11st 1lb. they proved to be good.
1 hour that the efforts-to-form-a St.- Patrick's Society are not meeting with tho support that was expected. H.E. the Governor, I understand, does not look favourably on the project, but Sir Henry so often describes Himself as an English man that he may have forgotten he is
6.00 13.00
Ticket No.
1,830,
82,205
2,847,
630 315
1.KVA
3, 253, THE ADMIRAL'S PRIZE Presented by His.
Excellency Vice-Admiral Sir Alfred L. O.V.O,C.M.G. Winaloe, K. C.B., (Ladies' Nomination). A handicap for all China ponies that started at this meeting. Second to receive 50 per cent. and third 40 per cent, of the Entrance. Fees. Entranco 85. One mile and a quarter.
Time: min. loc.
Pari-mutuel.
Winnor : 88.70
1,
5.10
Cosh Sweeps. Ticket No.
17,
2, 374,
INTIMATIONS
BRANDY IS
HEALTHFUL
The Rich Boquet Starts the Gastric Juices Working and the warm effects starts peristalsis and
digestion.
GEO.
$2,020
aid
740
300
London bankers (1) annopuco that they Irish. Similar societies exist in various Mr. Doleful's Second Thoughts, sibe The Donor of the prize has also kind Mr. S. H. Michael's The Burglar, 10st
will go on strike on March 15th unless shorter hours are granted them.
[The telegram says "bankers," which may menn bank clerks. On the other hand, it is probable that "bakers "ure meant.]
places in the East and it seems extra- ordinary that the sons of Erin in Hong- kong should be thought more combative than their compatriots elsewhere in the
(Mr. Brand) Mr. H. P. White's Defford, 11st 1lb
(Mr. Gogg) Mr. Ching's Lots of Time, 10st sibe,
10lba allowance... (Mr. H. Beth) 3 Mr. Brutton's Sevington, 10st 18lbs,
albe allowance and 11h overweight
(Owner) 0 Mr. Hickman's Kerry, 11st... (Owner) o Mr. Mum's Ambition, 10st 8lbs
(Mr. Stewart) 0
allowance
(Mr. Greason) 0 Ambition ran round the course twice before the start, made for the gate, and his rider on the straw, unecated fortunately without injury. Kerry took The question of whether two persons of the lead, followed by Defford and Seving- different sexes are to be allowed to ride too. At the village bend Defford hud in double ricshas is exercising the public passed Kerry, Miss in Baulk being third, mind of Singapore. I don't know whe Miss in Baulk and Lots of Time led into ther the good folks down there are shocked the home straight, racing neck and neck, but the former won easily, stalling of at the spectacle of a man and woman seated side by side in a vehicle, or whether Defford, who made an attempt to pass at
the distance post. With million roubles for charitable pur- they are concerned with the coolie who is
poses on the occasion of the Romane Terccutonary.
PROPOSED PRESENT TO THE TSAK,
LONDON, March 1st. The Banks in St. Petersburg and Moscow have decided to present the Tsar
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TRAIN ACCIDENT AT NEWCASTLE.
LONDON, March 2nd.
An engine dashed into an electric train at Newcastle, smashing the last coach. No fower than 35 passengers were in jured.
OBITUARY
LONDON, March 1st.
The following deaths are announced Lieut. Col. J. F. Bagot, Conservative M.P. for Kendal,
Dr. Henderson, formerly of Shanghai. Father Stanton, a well-known Roman Catholic priest (not the equally well
East.
betweon the shafts. If the coalie doesn't object I don't see why other people should.
DOW
An outline was given in the Daily Press a few days ago of a Singapore scheme "pedal the streets for placing on
Tho
vehicle wa jinrikishas." described as an "improved jinrikisha body fitted to a wheeled machine propelled by pedals, with free wheel, and geared for hilly as well as level roads." An ap- peal for support for the experiment is made on humanitarian grounds. If the experiment answers there should be a big demand for the vehicle all over the East, As it is described as being geared for hilly roads, it would be interesting to learn whether the new vehicle would be likely to prove a substitute for the chair so much used in Hongkong. In no city
Time min. Ofsece.
Pari-mutuel.
Winner: $10.50 1, 5,50 5,70
2,
3,
8.00
Cash Sweeps.. Ticket No.
1, 140, 8032.40 24 96, 206.40 3, 111, 133.20
Mr.
Mr.
presented a prize for the Lady Nominat ing the winner, no lady to nominate more than one pony.. Cant. Hope's Capello, Mrs. Vorutzsch,
11st Glbs
(Mr. Knoll) 1 Ellis Kadoorie's Borneo Chief, Mrs. Gubbay, 11st 3lbs
(Hickman) 2 John Peel's Pershore, Miss. St.
John, 10st 13lbs...(Mr. Gresson) 3 Miss May, list 8lbs (Mr. Brand) John Peel's Perpetual Motion, Ellis Kadoorie's Durbar Chief,
Mrs. Ezra, 10st alba
(Mr. Kremer). U Paul's Sweet William, Lady Chater, 10st alba, 1lb overweight (Mr. Dalgarno) Mr. Norman's Revenue, Mrs. M. C.
Owen, 10st 7lbs. (Mr. H. Seth) 0 Mr. Billiards Pyramids, Mrs. Mait
Mr.
Mr.
Sir
Chief in the straight, won comfortably.
Time: min. 4. 4-5secs.
Pari-mutuel
Winner: 810.00
Cash Sweeps, Ticket No.
6.60 23.10 16.40-
1,33,
2, 158, 3, 818,
$2,205 630 315
0
5.50 3,
6.80
3, 189, THE FINALE" STAKES.-Value $200. For Bubscription grillins of this season that have run at this meeting and not won a race. Weight for inches as per scale. Jockeys who have not had more than two winning mounts in Hongkong, Shanghai or Tientsin allowed 516. Un- placed runners at this moeting allowed Sib. Off-day winners barred. Entrance $5 to go to Becond pony. Five furlongs.
10lbs, 5lbs allowance (Mr. Brand) 1 Mr. Trio's Gold, 10st 12lbs,
(Mr. Knoll) 2 Messrs. Raymond and Logan's Edge- hill, 10st 3lbs, 10lba allowance, 1lb overweight (Mr. Lewis) 9 Mr. Mum's Arabition, 10st 2lba, tulbe
allowance... (Mr. Grosson) 0 Mr. R. D. Harvey's Powhattan, 11st
alba, 10lbs allowance
(Mr. Kremer) 0 Mr. Trio's Silver, 10st 3lbs, 10lbs allow-
ance, lb overweight
(Mr. H. Soth) Mr. Trinity's Muley Hafid, 10st 8lbs,
5lbs allowance, ilb overweight
(Mr. Hickman) @ Gold was the first away, and was quickly challenged by Muley Hafd. The former led into the home straight, and then Burglar came along with a rattle and won by half a length from Gold, Edgehill making a good third.
Time: 1min. 21sece,
Pari-mutuel.
Winner: $17.70 8:80 5.80 13.70
Cash Sweeps. Ticket No
1-821, 82.835.00
2,548,
810.00
3, 3,
-406.00
3,
THE REV. FATHER LYNCH, R.O.
TRY
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$31
FOR THE RACES.
ZEISS PRISM
BINOCULARS
AT HOME PRICES:
16 Power
..$16.10.0
Among the passengers from the Philip-
12:
(new model)..
..£10.10.0
£9.5.0
£6.10.0
land, 9st 9lbs. (Mr. Hastings) Perpetual Motion was the first away, but gave up his position to Sweet Wil. TiAL OUT STAKES-Value 3200. liam, who led till passing the rock, when
For all China ponies that have run at this meeting and not won a race. Weight Capello took the premier position and," for inches as per scale. Unplaced stalling off Forpetual Motion and Borneo ponies and bond fide, griffins on date-of entry allowed 5lb. Subscription griffins of this season allowed 10lb. Jockeys who have not had more than two win- ning mounts in Hongkong, Shanghaj or Tientsin allowed olb. Jockeys who have never had a winning mount, in Hong- kong or Chias allowed 71b. ·· Allowances. not accumulative. Off-day winner barred.
Entrance 85 to go to second THE ALSO RAN STAKES.Value $200.pines last week was the Rev. Fr. P. M.
For subscription griffins of this season Lynch, the Superior of the Redemptorist 12 pony. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. Friesland's Barford, 10st albs, alba
that have run at this meeting and not Order in the Philippine Islands. been placed. Weight for inches as per Fr. Lynch is well-known to the Hong- allowance (Mr. Knoll) 1
scale. Jockeys who have not had more keng Catholic community. He came hore than two wianing mounts in Hongkong for the first time last year, for the pur- Capt. Dickinson's Favonius, 10st 3lbs.
18lbs allowance (Mr. Lewis).2
Shanghai, or Tientsin allowed, 5lb. NANA (Mr. Gezg) 3′′)
Jockeys who have never had a winning pose of conducting "Retreats" and mount in Hongkong or China allowed Missions. He is at present conducting a more welcomed on humanitarian grounds | Mr. Blank's Joy, 10st 3lbs, 12ībs allow 71b. Off-day winners barred. Entrance Retreat of the Christian Brothers at than in hilly Hongkong. I fancy it might ance, 2lbs overweight
Seven 85 to go to second pony. bo all right going up, but what about the Brutton's Sevington, 10st 5lbs, 71b9
(Mr. H. Seth) o
furlongs. coming down?
Mr. Friesland's Flirt, lost 12lbs allowance, 5lbs overweight.
(Mr. Brand) 1 Mr. A. R. Lowe's Birlingham, 10st
(Owner) 0 Messrs. Raymond and Logan's Edge hill, 10st Dibs, Siba allowance, "་ 11lbs, Dibs allowance, lib over.
lbs overweight (Mr. Hirkman) weight (Mr. Hickman) 01 Sir Wm. Rees Davies Taffy, 11st 11b
Win R Sir Paul's Rice Bird, 1086 9lbs.
(Mr. Knoll). (Mr. Brand) o Mr. Mun Kwok's Carabao, 10st 8lbs,
The trio kept together until the villago 7lb allowance. (Mr. Stewart) 0 Taffy, hard held, lay third, and over- hauled the leader (Flirt) at the mile post. Edgehill challenged, without success, and Flirt making a fine dash snatched the
known Father Stanton of St. Alban's. in the East would the introduction of a Mr. Brutton's Joss Mighty, 11st 1lb
Holborn).
CAPTAIN SCOTT'S LAST MESSAGE.
A TOUCHING DOCUMENT.
PATHETIC STORY OF HEROIC STRUGGLE
RoRAY. February 13th. By courtesy of the Bombay Chronicle, which has acquired from, the Central News, Ltd., te sale of the newspaper rights for Indin of the story of Captain Scott's expedition, the following details are published of the tragic end of Captain Scott and his companions.
Evans.
satisfactory vehicle of this description be
In the course of the New Year's Eve festivities at one of the Brighton hotels the guests were invited to draw slips off paper having on them printed tips for 1913 and, curiously, enough, one of the jobbers in the Nigerian Tin market drew the following:
If you want to make money look
round and begin. Don't worry, just try a little fut-
ter" in "Tin.”. Needless to say, I say muffin.”
Mr.
Mr. John Peel's Screel, 10st 7lbs, 5lbs
allowance. (Mr. Gresson): 0 Mr. Goolace's Brashwood Boy, 11st,
Winner: $17.50
7.00 10.40 12,30
Ticket No.
1,274, $1,764.55 2,550, (501.00 250.65 2, 376,
6lbe overweight... (Mr. E. Seth) 0 Atfer a long delay the field of ten got Captain Scots reached the South Polo
well away, Sevington in the van, followed E found the on January 17th, 1912.
by Joss Mighty and Carabao. Barford tent and records of the Norw.gian expedi-
The experiences of parents who take tion. Messrs. Scott, Wilson and Bowers died of exposure in a blizzard on March children of fender years to divine service shot ahend, and Screel passed into second 291h, Mr. Unter of exposure on March are sometimes distressing, but I have place, Brushwood Boy being third. The 17th, and Seaman Evans of concussion on discovered such a delightful story of leader increased his lead and round the the 17th of February. The health of the
The bodies of this nature that I cannot allow it to bend was twenty lengths in front of Rice remainder is excellent.
Barford Scott, Wilson and Bowers were pass unnoticed. A fond parent proudly Bird, Carabao being third.. found in a tent eleven miles from Cape entered a local place of worship accom- showed the way into the straight, and Joss The following is a quotation from the panied by his little daughter. During Mighty challenged for second place, the sermon, which dealt with Wahela, the passing Screet and Rice Bird, but was beaten hy Favonius. Winnor had three records left by Captain Scott:-
cates was frist bitton, but he strag lady in biblical history whose popular or four lengths to the good at the post. gled on heroically. He was a brave | marital cognomen denotes a lady of quan.Time; Imin 37 1-5eees. soul. Feeling that the end was coming,
tity whethor of weight or magni- Pari-mutuel. Cash Sweeps he said, I am going outside. He went out into the blizzard, and we have not tude I have no means of knowing-the seen him since. It was the act of a fond parent, as usual, had to undergo a brave man and English gentleman." Captain Scott left a message to the few of the minor tortures for his temerity. After the zealous churchgoer had re in which he said:
causes of this disaster are not turned home, he indulged in a catechetic organisation, but misfortune. Human beings nover came through such examination of his offspring in order to a month as we have done, and we should discover how much attention the child have survived in spite of the weather, had devoted to the preacher's utterances. but for the sickness of Oates, the short What did the preacher talk about?" was age of fuel, and the storm. We arrived
quandary how within eleven milea of One-Ton Camp the first question. In a with two days' food. We have been best to induce the sermon into the child's unable to leave the tent for four days. mind, an inspiration possessed the ques- but we don't regret the journey wo tioner. "Didn't ho talk a lot about??? took Things have gone against us, but we bow to the will of Providence, and The child, eagerly grasping at the prompt- we are determined still to do our besting, replied, "Yes, daddy; about Lot's to the last, Had we lived, I should wife," But the child was not to be released have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, so early in the ordeal, and the persistent endurance and courage of my com panions, which would have stirred the father was determined to tax the little heart of every Englishnan. These one's memory still further. "Lot's wife was turned into a pillar-" next suggest- rough notes and our dead bodies must
What tell the tale, but surely a great riched "daddy, and be followed with, country like ours will see those depen kind of a pillar?" Quick as a flash came dent on us properly provided for the reply, Why, a ferver pilla', daddy. RODERICK RANDOM. Scort, 25th March, 1912.
public me
3943
rabe,
Time: min 59neck.
Pari-mutuel.
Winner: 813.80 15.80 1.
Cash Sweeps. Ticket No.
1, 339,
$2,905
2, 38,
030 315
St. Joseph's College. During this weak he will bold twa Retreats at the French and Italian Convents, respectively, and on Sunday next, the 9th inst., being Passion Sunday, he will commence a General Mission in the Roman Catholic Cathed-
week Grat.: The Mission will last-a
Father Lynch is an eloquent preacher. and his sermons will no doubt attract many people to his Mission. Since the Mission held last year in Hongkong assisting in Father Lynch has been missions in the different provinces of the Philippines, notably a second Mission held in the Manila Cathedral last Decora ber. He is the guest of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Pozzoni, at the Italian Mission House, Glenealy.
THE LOITERES STAKES-Values $200. THE DALLAS COMEDY COMPANY.
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aaaa ..
(large field)... £7.10.0
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3
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The altogether absurdly funny situations were brought out most power- fully by brilliant acting and mimicry, THE EYE and the audience were kept in a roar throughout the performance. Indeed it was the excellent personation, perhaps, even more than the play itself, that so immensely tickled the risible faculties of the audience. To see Mr. Henry Dalles, as the erstwhile runaway husband, on his return by reason of a telegram stating that his desire for a child was gratified little red thing." up at last, pick the from its cot and call it all manner of ridiculous nonscnsities, make goo-goo eyes, and generally ape the supposed
inspired" behaviour of a father who lins|| his very own offspring in his arms for the first time, was worth going a long way the "foud? Miss Nell Compton, as the mother, was really brilliant. Mr. Geoffrey Guise had a laughter-provoking part, and he was not one whit behind his fellow artistes. His role was, indeed, one of the Buccesses of the piece. Miss May Hallatt- was also very good.
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