LOCAL SPORT.
BILLIARDS.
Volunteers Again to the Fore‹ ›
congratulated on his effort.
In the second encounter, Mr. Rodger of the Volunteers aggre gated his points five ahead of Sorgt-Major Morgan.
WIZARD OF PLANT LIFE.
Mr. Alfred Burbank is enthu- slatic about Philippines,
Contemporary.
clims. that
with the exception of a few practically everything raiso
Traits, will thrive hero much better than in the States.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1912,
THE BOAT RACE.
EASING THE BURDEN.
How Oxford Scored an Easy Victory,
Widow.who finds Life too Hard.
A very sad story, illustrative
was a chance of the ace finish-
L
that both
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Buoyed by something moro
A gang of thieves, equipped n Hongkong on Sanday on the There was a good attendance tubi and is to proceed on the than hope-indoed, by two foot-of the distressing difliculties of with a remarkably efficient plant, Manchurin for Japan where he Oxford won the last of the series the poorer classes in this Japan, street, during Saturday evening ball bladders under och slide-living now prevailing amongst entered the premises of Messrs. A. at the Soldiers Club, last night. will spend a short time.
and J. Ettlinger, 176, Regent. when the two final games in the| Mr. Burbank, whose broker Mr.
|of wook-end races by as much as Club Handicap were played. The Leather Burbank, was drowned you please says a writer in as the "Japan Chronicle," or in the early hours of Sunday,
flumo pupor
comes from Izuriami District, April 1.. in the Titanic disaster is among contestants wore the Hongkong
A ten o'clock on Monday Osaka Prefecturor It appears that -Access to the promises, which, the best known, sc’entifie ngricul-. Volunteers and the Royal Enlists in the work. De has morning no one thought there widow named Nishi Itiye, liv have been obtained through a ton- are on the upper floors, segins to gineers. Previous to the break spent two months in the Philip The day looked worse thoning in that district, has been sup- shop near by. Thonco, the off the auxiliary forces contingent incs, diuing which time he has Saturday. Across the sky fleets porting no less than three dopen-thieves, by buring through strong had the load by about 130 andit
een all over it islaid of Luzon, of great clouds, like Spanish gal-dents-n blind sister, a nephew room which contained Messrs.
i to all the principal points with bollying mails, raced
brick party walls, reached the meant that somo extraordinarily
arge rivers in the soul.cru
agod twelvo, and magnificently but fourfully. At good work had to be done by the slands. He has do a study of
adopted Ettlinger's jowolry. The safe The en-was oponad a task which must party in arrears to put a hopeful conditions in general, but paying fell and the Things took no hanced difficulties of supporting have occupied many hours-and
intervals the expected hailstorn daughter aged six.
other articles of great value- complexion on their prospects.particular attention to the agricul The first game mule matters still ural development, says a Manilla piace even for a seboat much less the household, brought about by
sholl. Those who wore aware her own ill-health and the highway. No preciso
were removed and inken worse when Pto Bishop of the Mr. Burbank is amazed at the touch's very lighost make of
estimate crews were using price of rice, at laat drove the of the extent of the loss has boen Volunteers defeated Captain Ad-gricultural possibilities of the sing sight shewed even more auforiuunto woman to devise made, but it is very heavy. An dison byning. The game was eslands, and also greatly surprised doubt than the guneral populace.sime means of reducing the size earl or cetimate of £13,000 was a gobil me and the loser is to be find them almost "wholly m} Off als stated that the conditions of her family, and on the 13 lightly modified in Inter.accounts
loveloped. Hu
were 30 per cent, worse than on instant she was in the act of of the thefts. Saturday.
throwing her adopted daughter Thatthe robbery was committed Extra Precautions. into a well, when the timely men who were skilled at their However, the water, for no very rival of her nephew pravont-which they made their way from Going further, he thinks that obvious reason except a slighted her from carrying out her the street to the rooms of the is unfortunate, to say the least, change in the direction of the rash intent. On that night, how firm, and from the unerring Tho. Volunteers wero warmly lit the most important work in the wind, improved immensely in the ever, the woman explained the choice of only those articles applauded for their victory. islands, nag development lines, half-hour before the race, and the whole position to her nephew, which were of considerable value. Aftor the games, the billiarumely, that ofagriculture, should wind which was north, nor west, and urged him to push the girl It is thought, too, that the and other servico trophies were he the most noglected. Practically never mot the tide. The waves into a pond in the neighbourhood presented by II, E. Major Generalnothing is known of the common had not the jerky abruptness of while. pretending to take her out gang was a comparatively large Anderson. He Excelloney, wis methods of agriculture and only Saturday: Except for a few for a stroll the following day one, and that the thieves worked
in relays, those who
Supply the nighest quality Wines, Spirits, Cigars accompanied by Colonel Hamil a very small part of the land in
of the river is defended by niod out to tho lotter, with the keeping guard against a surpriso.
passes the more northerly side The instruction the lad sar- ton, K.O.Y.LL, and Captain the islands is being used at all..
rosting" taking their turn at and Cigarettes obtainale, consistent with price. All Simonds, A. D. C. Io addition Sponking of the food question considerable ridge, nud certainly result that the girl was drowned. to the up for the winner among the people, he states that it had not been for the houses The police having got wind of the They left behind them an outfit Wines and Spirits bottled in Europe by Shippers of the billiard tournan.ent, the poor foul my ent is not site in between them and the wind mattor, the widow and her nephow fost modern ling not only the world wide reputation... tho other trophies presented to a lack of possible production neither, crew would have lived were summoned and examined on most modern anfabroaking ap- pliances, but apparatus designod included the runners-up cup, but to a lack of knowledge of the through, in spite of the extra the 15th instant, with what result
for penetrating masonry and awarded to the Royal Engin sa timants of cultivating what precautions taken in preparing does not appear in the Japanese brickwork. ears, the cricket shield won by they have, and that the appalling the boats. In the preliminary paper from which we take the the K O.Y.LT, the water polo cup, hath rate among infants is Apins Cambridge at any rato above. won by the R.E., the Small Units largely due to improper food, suffered much nitro-severely than cricket lengus, won by the R.E., In his estimation, when the on Saturday. But the weather and the football shield, won by islands are properly devoloped, the K.O.Y.J.I. MẸ. A. Rodger, of agriculturally, they will bo cap the Volunteers, was awarded able of supporting an empire of in the race made a very great Old Aberdera Man's Memories. eup for the highest break (52), people. He says that Cobu is arido during the present tournaino only place outside of the immediate vicinity of Manila that Capt. Lammert, of the Volun-is carrying anything near the teors, stated that a cup or shield population it might carry, oven was being put up by the corps, with the imperfect methods of to be competed for by the other of cultivation now employed.
ment.
units of the tournament.
TENNIS.
The Doubles Final.
nection with the
it
if
boarding with which each boat THE BODY SNATCHERS' was equipped for the first timo
differenco, probably a "crucial difference,
In spite of everything, especial-A link with the days of the ty in spite of the prophets, "very good rowing was seen before a holy-snatchers has been severed crowd larger than might have been by the death in Seatland, at the expected. AtHannersmith Bridge age of over 90, of George Florenes, the multitude appeared to be vast, of Culstlmond, Abdicou, who at but the people were there "con-one time acted as a grave-digger. tructed into a span," as if they
Mr. Burbank was enthusiastic about the public school system in the islands, and the work it has done and are doing along had thoroughly made up their He had many recollections of
DON'T FORGET,
To-day.
word
The Bijou Theatre, 9.15 p.m. The Great Raymond at the Theatre Royal, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, May 1.. Licensing Board. Farewell Concert to Mrs. Go don, Volunteer Headquarters, 0.15 P..
Thursday, May 2. Legislative Council, 2,30 p.m.
Saturday, May 4.
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ALKLANDRA BUILDINGS, 2ND FLOOR. Hongkong, 80th April, 1912," [889) | H-mpires, tai Way 10112
Agents.
Launches,
EVENTUALLY EVERYWHERE.
| agricultural ́ang sanitary lines. mind that there would be nothing incidents associated with sup-kong
When asked as to the water to see later. The excitement was pression of the ghoulish practice There was a good aloudanco question, he replied that he found intense, for the race, as someone of procuring bodies for dissection at the fun game in the "A" universal complaint of drought said, was "a four-ball competi class Doubles handicap in eon-throughout the archipelago. He on," the opponents heing wind, purposes. In many church- Hongkong attributes this partly to the inabi-water, and mother crew, A loni vards "place was set apart Cricket Club's annual way of the people to conserve of twenty lengths would have left for the watohers friends Tennis Tournament, played on what moisture there is, which goes the race no certainty while there and relatives of the decensed the Club's ground last evening, back again to their lack of know was another rench to traverse. --who kept guard over the place
TO LET. The finalists were H. A. Nesbit edge. He claims that this ignor.] When Oxford won the choice of burial for several nights after and H. R. Phelips and Cal.nce was what made the corn of the Middlesex shore the race the funeral. He used to say with *nd Floor No. 9 Pedder Streak, Stappole and Capt. F. J. Bowen, erop of Cobu practically a failure was already halfwon, for the bend pride that Culanlmond Church- (1) Offines at present ocoppled by The first sat were won by Messrs, this year.
of the river and help of the tide yard was a terror to-body-enatch-U.B. Consul General, Nesbit and Phelips. The most i He was enthusiastic over the were as, nothing to the force of om. In опп corber was t
(2) Tiffices at present occupied by THE MOST DELICIOUS MINERAL WATER IN THE WORLD. interesting set of the four play-work the Army has done. He the wind. As the boats come watolhouse, where the bodies B. Fabio Health & Male Hospital
Service. od was undoubtedly the third, has given General Boll, who is round the bend into the Ham- were kept for weeks after death,
Pan bo devided to suit tenants. which Col. Stropole and Capt. much interested in the forage nesmith reach, where the sea- until they were useless from the Hongkong, 29th April, 1912, Bowen won by 7-5. The game question, information that will, were heaviest, the Oxford bout anatomist's point of view. The was called 0-2 in the officers in time, make the, importing looked almost as if it would not walls were of extraordinary thick-
NOTICE. favour, but their opponents play-forage unnecessary.
clear the point, an closely did toss, and the doors were of iron, od well and brought the score Summing up, he was agreeably they hug the shore, and all up doubly looked, The keys were lovel, 5-5, Col. Stropole and surprised at the mount and high the reach they appeared to be placed in the custody of four Capt. Bowen won the two follow class of work that has baru done well among the burgos and tuge koyhoopore, elected periodically, ing games. The fourth got was in the islands in every line, except and heavy river craft drawn up without whose personal attend- won by Messrs. Nesbit and Phelips in the field of agriculture, which under the shore.
anco no one could enter. by 6--3.
ho thinks has been neglected All along the Oxford boat was
•
THE PARIS TO:LET.
840
R. and Min. SOPIE63 beg to of Horgkong "that they have to-day taken over in their own nema the busi-
Inform the ladies and gentlemen.
During the whole of the four alnost entirely leaving the islands very well steered, and in no boat-maay froin places far distant. A long-carried on under their manage}
lucation.
This mortuary was used by charge of from le. to be, was made for non-subscribers.
ore of the Pars Toilet Compsa, Ltd., ment and that they will contfate the sail business under the now style of The Paris Toilet.
1841 Hongkong, 80th April, 1912.
“MOGUL," LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES..
The
sets, there were some very pretty
in crying need of agricultural race has finer watertaanship begu shown. There were enormous rallies, and Colonel Stacpole show-
Mr. Burbank intends to intro-spinshings at times. At intervals ed marvellous agility. His play lace several plants into the south the Cambridge boat appeared to at the net was very fine, but rern islands, plants that are now be accompanied by a spouting poatedly, after a really good ex-suited to the climate to the States. whole. But through the whole of
A PITIFUL CASE. ohango, Nesbit beat him by his
Ju conclusion, Mr. Burbank this stormy reach I saw no. splash excellent placing. Towards the
ngiin referred to the almost en- from Mr. Buurne's oor. He knew close of the game particularly tira Inok of scient flo agricultural coat he would win if they could apparently led to the tragic death Fears of impending blindness Captain Bowen made some very effort in the islands and said that finish at all and ran no risk. The of the Rev. Robert Benjan i fine strokes, while on the other within a year the people her stroke was slow and careful, and Clark, who was found dead in the
he Steamship, LOTHIAN.” hand Mr. Phelips rather drapped might be taught to produce much the stroke hardly a racing stroke; smoking-room of a Saxmundham FROM GLASGOW, LIVER- away from his previons fine form of what they now import. "There but the rowing was very fine, and (Buffolk) hotel, with a bullet wound - POOL AND STRAITS, The games, despite the scores no country in the world," he the cow never gave a greater in, the head. A letter disco- were keenly contested, and were said in conclusion which has impression of their strengtli and vered on the body and read at the OXSIGNEES of Cargo are fiereby most enjoyablo.
Buch wide advantages for the prostadiness. "The college wat inquest recently stated: "Blind landed at their flak into the Gedown of Informed that all Goods are being | The scores were:-8-3; 6-2;duction of tropical fruits as the pleased, for they kopt it long,' "and ill. Communicate with Rev, 7-5; 6-3.
Philippines
in the words of an old song, O.O. Naters, Colchester, and send and/or from the wharf delivery may be Holt's › Wharf (st" "Kowloon, wlignce | Evory single circumstance was him letter in my pocket I have trained. ENCOURAGING thrift PRESENT TO LONDON against Cambridge: their afation, not been able to rand for a wook; No claims will be admifited after the
MUSEUM.
the lightness of both orew and probably: cataract. Cannot dis-houds have left the Godowns, and all boat, and, if it may be suggested, tinguish faces, cannot see what I goods remaining undelivered after thie Mra. George D. Widonor of the unevenness of the composition am writing, can just read the 7th May, will be subject to reutile pou In order to encourage thrift Philadelphia (whose father-in- of the boat. Their chief virtue, headings in the papers. I am go. All Claims against the Steamer must among local Coreans, the Pre-law was amongst those Inst on an ability to row a very fast ing mad with inentin Too weak be presented to the Undenigred on or fectural Office, of Chemulpo has the Titanic" has presenter the stroke with considerable dash, to walk." Io the letter to the Roy, betons the 80th May, or they will not mado arrangements with the London Museum with thirty silver had no chance of exercise, O. C. Naters, who is sector of St. be recognised d Chomulpa Post Office to dispatch plates, formerly the property of As things went everyone will Jamea, Culchester, lie naked for All broken, chaled, and damaged some officials of the latter depart Nell Gwyun, the famous actress rejoice in Mr, Pitman's prompt forgiveness, and added. No work rods are to be left in the G-downs
where they will be szamined on ile ment to different villages under of the time of Charles I. The and firm decision that Saturday's possible." Mr. Natore said that the 7th May, at 3:30 pm 4:2 its jurisdiction to give popular presentation was announced dur- was "no race." It would have deceased suffered from insotania Noire Insurando feill kafilledtað. features on the PoainTM Bavings ing the opening of the museum been a great pity if Mr. Bourne and was of n very neurotic dispos Bills of Lading will be rouez-ign a Bank to the villagera. The by King George. The museum had won'a record of four successition. A werdlot that desilovan lecturers appointed will abortly is established in a part of sive victories--which he most due to n rollini cied bullet - DODWELL & CO., LTD AT start on their mission. Hankow Kensington Palace, where Queen thoroughly deserved by any wound, and that the docessed, wafatininent dat, ng LA
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