TELEGRAMS.
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THE POLO MATCH
A DESPERATE TUSSLE.
'Henter's Service To The Tongraph." ]
London, Received June 17.
(the result of which appears on
ents.
The Englishmon led for seven poriods, and the Americans lad for the first time at the opening of the eighth, when play was most desperate. The game was an exceedingly fast ona.
SHIPPING STRIKE.
London. Received Jaus 1
A general strike of marine engineers, on
temp
steamers
begun at Faglia, portray the men demanding an inoreage in wages.
They k for an increase of 10. par month for sonior and 30 per month for junior ougiacers..
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
BANK DE L'INDO CHINE.
Opening of New Premises in
Shanghai..
locis compradore room and lavatory. The shroff's office's with sorvants quarter overhead, are arranged in a separate block at the roar of the Bank building. The first and second floors are auranger as residential" late, two on each floor, while a light ares 42 ft. by 17 ft. ruas up the centre
EXTRA
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY JUNE 17, 1914
OIL REVOLUTION.
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MR. BALFOUR ON THE MOTHER TONGUE.
TWENTY YEARS OF CRICKET.
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"In the Early 'Nineties.
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GAMBLING IN A WORKHOUSE.
search of them.
The
pro-
and they
"subs."
PROMOTION OF MIDSHIPMEN
somewhat.
RESCUE AT SEA.
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То manufacture first-class petrol in Great Britain at a, cost of 14d, a gallon is the remark
A fisherman of Raganiga-ura, By way of giving the smart Severo disciplinary measures Jable intention of a company call-
Striking Contrasts of Style.
have been taken by the master of boys a chance steps have been firoshima prefecture, Japan, The now premiage of the Banking itself British Isles Oil Pro-
the Birmingham Workhouse to taken to quicken the promotion named Sakutaro, his son, the de l'Indo Chine in Shanghai,ducers, Limited, which has given When I first began to play atop betting among the inmates. of midshipmen. An Admiralty latter's wife, and two men, while which have been in course of private view of demonstration county cricket in 1894 C. B. Fry Several of them have been placed order gives promising middies out fishing off Nagasu Buzan, construction for some months plant erected at Obiswick. was captain of the Oxford XI, on bread and water diet.
the option of now taking their were caught in a typhoon on June pant, have been completed and Works are to be established at W. G. Grace, though forty-six On Chester-Cup day two of examination in seamanship four 3. While making for the land were formally opened on June 13 Ballycastle on the north-east Coast Tears of age was playing in Teat the inmates of the old men's monthe oarlier than the schedul the boat capsized. The men The building is a striking ad- of Ireland, capable of producing latches and continued to do so invalid ward announced thaired time. This order comes into managed to struggle out from the Roater's correspondent at
operation next September boat, but the woman remained Meadowbrook states that in the dition to the architecture of 8,000 gallons of petrol a day, til 1899, and K. S. Ranjitsiahji willingness to accept bots, and a
They had second of the matches for the Bund, and its appearance fore and it is believed that the first had just left Cambridge and was number of the inmates laid odds Middies who take advantage of imprisoned inside. International Polo Challenge Cup shadows (remarks the N. C. Daily supplies will be placed on the not yet qualified for Sussex. A. E. in tarjous amounts, ranging from it and pass will be promoted to been in the water for about hours when about ono Newa) further building im-market in twelve months' time. Stoddart, W.W.Road, Shrewsbury, Irl, to Is. The bets were accept-acting sub-lieutenants at once, and four
British stoamer Page 1), cach side accred five provements which will eventually sit costs nearly 1d. a gallon and W. Gruun were in their prime, ed on the basis of the latest odds allowed to sit for their other 'look the
'cxominations in the usual Minerio, of the Dodwell Line, goals, but the Americans incurred bring about the complete trans-merely to transport petrol from. S. Jackson had bron brilliantly in the newspape.. more penalties than their appon- formation of the Bund frontage freign oil fields to this country, succossint for England v. Austraceodings had to be carried on course. If they fail they will lose bove in sight. As soon as she into one of an enticly modern while even benzole cannot be is in the previous son, and with the greatest secrecy, nothing by it, as they can then sighted the distressed fishermen manufactured at much less than Richardson and Lockwood of After the race there was con- sit again at the usual time. the vessel was brought alongsido character.
The main entrants to the 54. a gallon, it will be near that Surrey were a wonderful phir of sislerable excitement in the house, Accelerating promotion in this and the men were got safely on contemplate fast bowlers. Another bowler of several immates, having won. At way is a very good thing as far board the steamer, the rescuers bank is in the centre of the the promoters building, with manager's and nothing short of a revolution in the fast school was Mold, of the time arranged for paying as it goes. But when will the running considerable risks in
Lancashire, and the slow left over the money the two Look Admiralty do something to relieve picking them up. sub manager's roam on either the industry.
When the fishermen informed side of the ontrance hall. The The threo-hal once a gallon handed type had worthy repre- makers were not to be found, the blook in the lieutenants' list? hariking hall covers an area of 65 home-made petrol is said to be a sentatives in Peel of Yorkshire, and a deputation was sent in As matters now stand a groat the Mineris people that a woman
tho and Briggs of Lancashire,
many officers can get no further was imprisoned under the boat, ft, with a waiting room connect-least equal in quality to
than lieutenant commander, Mr. E. J. Hales, Chief Officer of ing with the manager's room and fineet product of suo Russian, or
In their tour of the wards they In that season 3. M. J. Woods encountered the doutor, who which is a purely bonorary rank, the steamer, volunteered to go to banking hall. In the rear of the American fields.
and F. S. Jackson bowled un-reported the facts to the master. because the number of higher her rescue. Though the sea wa hunking all are the treasury, |which is built in rainforcad con-
shanged in Gentlemen v. Players An investigation followed, and positions is so limited. This is running high, a boat was succoss at Lorde', and among the promis- it was found that the book not wholly a question of ability, fully lowered in which Mr. Illen crete, main staircase th residential
the capsized boat. ing "nolts" were A. U. Maclaren, makora", had in their possession for if every lieutenant were a reached flats on the first and recond
Tom Hayward, i. T. Brown, and or concealed on a beam in the five firets" man ouly a certain Climbing up on the keel; thu about cutting a J. R. Mason, while G. L. Jessop, ward about a sovereign in silver number would still be able to officer sel Mr. Balfour, having presided whose first censo it was for and coppers. The chief offenders reach commander and above. If bole in the hull with an at the summer meeting of the Gloucestershire, was described by were placed on a diet of bread the Admiralty recognised the axe to release the imprisoned English Association, occupied the Wisden" us displaying con- and water for two days. Others name of lieutenant commander as woman. In the meantime, Mr. eair at the annual dianer held siderable natural aptitude for the taking part in the gambling ith it that would help matters be fearlessly proceeded with his a promotion by giving extra pay Hales' boat was carried away, but at the Cafe Monico.
game"! Of the men who were have been deprived of their In reply to the toast, Mr. Bal-playing in 1894 and who figured allowance of tobacco, four said he could not help feel in their county elevens in 1913 will not be permitted their day! ing that there would be almost only H. K. Foster, W. G. Quaife, out for the present.
plethora of autobiography if Santall, Hayward, J. Douglas, J. hanking hall and fats. The every student of his mother. Hearne, J. R. Mason, Hirst, light uren stops at the coiling tongue were compelled, as part A. O. Jonos, G. L. Jessop, and level of the banking halland is of uia education, to give a W. Mead remain, besides myself. that in that it is harder to make an exaggeration in maintaining another boat and picked them but I do not think I am guilty of collapse. The Minerie lowered of work in the Welsh and other covered in by a glass dome thus narrative of his life, and he was The "googlie" was unheard of runa in first-clase oricket to-day that the science of sticky wicket up. The shipwrecked people. Lallowing the hall ample light," not sure that even patriotiem, then, and swerving was practically than it was twelve or fifteen years play is better understood than it were handed over to the police
A public space 51 ft. by 22 ft. whether American or British, unknown, Rawlin and Waltor ago, for the reason that the bowl was.
on the steamer's arrival at Moji. is directly opposite the main on would not sink under the load of Wright being its only exponents ing is more variod and that
The above incident was related Wicket-keeping to-day is as trance, while a handsome counter bistories-detailed histories of so far as I can recollest,
captaincy has improved. Tuere splendid as ever, but it cannot be to a representative of the Japan in teak-wood runs all round this the rospective communities to My first appearance in a first-were, as I have said, very fow said to be batter than it was, Chronicle by the Japanese pilot space. There are six columns which we belonged written by class match was for M.O.C. v. real swervers when I first began, when one thinks of such men as who took the Mineria from Kobe in the banking ball supporting students
language. Oxford, at Oxford, when I made and the googlie was undreamt of G. MacGregor, Lilley, Storer, and to Moji. He warmly eulogized. the walls of upper floora; theae (Laughter.)
0, cloun bowled, and 18 1.b.w., and
Now one has to face "sworvers," others, but as I have said, the the courage and resource shown Dro treated in the columns
It might be as had been said caught C. 8. Fry at short leg off inswingers," and googlies and general level of fielding seems to by the the British officer. style with teak-wood-that French was an
easier lead.
I can recollect the ball left-arm bowlers keeping a length me higher, there being less tolera- pases, a portion of the shafts language to write in than Eaglish. which bowled me even now. It on the leg stump with seven fields-tion shown to the indifferent or being fluted in teak wood. Pitas-He did not know about that. All tarned from the off on a siow ters also in Ionic style are arraung-ho did know was that English wicket and I played forward deal more thought and attention,
men on the leg side, while a great lazy fieldsman.' ed on the walls on each side of was abominably difficult only to" hep the fatal the banking hall between each (Laughter.) He also know that, if crash. To-day
generally speaking, are paid to
Slower than Booth is Albert Relí, would never the tactics of the game, and the window. The whole of the ueil-French boys were instructed in dream of playing forward to a catching is more reliable than it With regard to bowling one with his immoderate length and London. Received June 17.ing is connected up by tams, the use of their own mother ton- similar ball, and believe I could was. About the youre 1899, 1900, may fairly claim that Barnes has swerve both ways. D. W. Carr
architraves, frezea and gue their lot W39 The subsidences which have with
very play it back easily, but I may be 1901, far too many catches were never had a superior and very, and J: W. Hoarne represent the the different one from English boys, occurred in Paris streets are due cornices, running over
English to the shallowness of the under-columns and pilastera, thus as
throwing bouquets at myself," dropped, as Alfred Shaw in his very few equals. He is the East English googlie school, and on boys were as the Amoricane aay!
book points out, in county cricket, bowler ou all wickets I have met bis day and in his hour I believe ground railways which are informing a series of panels. The when he was a boy. He never
ou: greatest though this criticism does not in my career, having every good the latter to be process of extON9:00.
cornice has erild modillion was taught anything about his
He never W&S My Arat Middlesex match was refer to an England eleven, A. C. quality, spin, a break both ways, exponent of this particular style, The Prose prints angry com-blocks, while the members of the mother tongue.
v. Somerset at Taunton, and my Maclaron's aide which went fight, and accuracy of length. He spins the ball tremendously, ments, declaring that Paris is cornice are also enriched. All taught its grammar, vocabulary, seated on a volcano,
the joinery work is handsomely or its style. All that was left to cures were modest enough, oaly 6 out to Australia in 1901-2, for Moreover, he brings the ball down and camos off the pitch at an carried out in toak-wood through nature, and toany such regard and and 4, bo: Middlesex won by 10 example, being a magnificent from a great height. There is no amazing pace. B... T. Bosanquet out the building. The first and afection for good British writers runs after a thrilling fight. A. J. fielding side, but to first-class Lockwood or Richardson just now, was, as all the world koowe, the Webbo, osptain, A. E. Stoddart, cricket as a whole. Between and the former on his day was inventor of the "cff breaking leg- second floors are teak-word paras intelligent teachers could sug
T. 0. O'Brien, Bad 1898 and 1902 there was a good the greatest fast bowler of my break," and he taught it to R. S. quot, while the ground floor is gaat.
G. MacGregor were
the deal of marl used in the prepara time, and, probably, of any time. Schwarz, who taught it to the teak-wood blocks.
grest Nimes in
Mid- tion of wickets, and this made He had a very quick break back, South Africans, who, in AE. dlesex eleven, and I was delight-run-getting easier than it is to made the ball get up nastily, Vogler and G. A.. Faulkner, pro- best googlio ed when any of them spoke to day, and one of the wirest of the and could send downs very well duced the two.
bowlers the world has yet seen, mo. I thought them all heroes! many wise things the M.C.. have disguised slow ball. Of that side only J. T. Hearne done was the circular which dis-
"Richardson was far more con-though H. V. Hordern, the
It is feared that the strike will develop into a complete atoppage af all cargo shipping, and it is expected that 700 ships will be
laid up to-day, involving esration
coalfielda.
HORSE-JUMPING.
SUCCESS
London. Received June 17. Captain Exe (Russia).hts won the Jumping Computition at the Horse Show after a tie with two Englishmon and two Frenchmen.
THE PLIGHT OF PARIS.
HOME RULE:
London. Rudeived June 17. Sir Edward Carsou, intor- viewed, stared that the only communication he had recoived. was a letter from Mr. Asquith before Whitauutide, saking him
to supply a map showing the position of the different parties in Ulster.
MR. ROOSEVELT'S
TRAVELS.
of building, to give light to the
Ionia
The ground floor level of the bank is 4 ft above the pavement level, and marble stops are used to reach the ground fl or level.
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A heavy Platz band runs all round the first tar level. The
W. G.'s Record.
the
Our Best Bowlers.
work. After about half an hour's strenuous labour. he made a bolo big enough to drag the woman through. When he got her out, ehe was almost 18 a" state of
England's Strength,
The roof is flat, roached by the ends of the Bund elevation are is and myself are still to be found couraged the use of what may be sistent than Lockwood, and Australian, is a close rival. main staircase boing continued, rusticated granite, while the doing duty, the one with twenty- called artificial means in the many wonderful fests stand to his The foundations are composed centre portion has two Tsingtao four and the other with twoaty making of a pitch. Nowadays credit. He was a greater bowler of a csacrete reinforced raft 2 ft. polished "granito pilasters, and years' service to his credit. Que never comes across a wicket day in and day out than Lock-
in. thick extending over the two polished three-quarter Taing-
Of the fast left-handed swinger In the following season 1895, such as the Oval and Leyton used wood, being infinitely whole of the Bits of the building. a granite columns between the W.. scored a thousand runs in at one time to be.
consistant, but he did not have F. R. Foster in Australia in 1911 General Improvement; that passling slow ball in his 12, and in the English summer The pitting of to-day on hard armoury. He was a fine figure of of 1911 was the best I have ever
The exterior of the building is windows. The columns and May, and finished up with an
designed in the Renaissance pilasters extend for two storeys to
more
style of architecture, the Baad the minia cornice. The Taingtao aggregate of 2,348 and an average
of 51-and Ranjitainbji, now tide wichots is no better than it a man, and his break back was seen of his methods.
tione, and also the back elev-cornice. the ation are in artificial stone.
Some Great Bowlers,
we have since defeated South
elevation, and the sides of the granite columns and pilasters qualified for Sussex, was in great was, and is probably less at- terrific, and few men have bowled On the whole in considering building, for a distance of 23 ft. have carved caps in lonic style, form. But to go through each tractive to look at, the swinging a better yorker. Fast bowling England's strength things could London, Bocaived June 17. being in Soochow granite, while as are also the main architrave season in detail would be impos-away ball having made certain has its chief representative to-day hardly be better at the present
and bas the remaider of the side elev.frieze, Ex-President Roosevelt
modillion block wible in the course
of a single off-side strokes rather dangerous in Hitch, who is really fast and moment. We won the rubber in lostured before the loyal
article, and would probably be but on wot and sticky wickets has made great improvement Australia in 1911-12; we came The centre windows of the first Geographical Society, in
as a general rule recently, obtaining more; com-out first in the Triangulor, and somewhat wearisome to my read-batemen presence of
The ground ihor storey is floor Band elevation, have deera; I shall, therefore, confine are superior to what the were, mand over his leagil. a distiguished
detaibed his rusticated up to the first for tached columns, satablature and myself to a general survey and The great players of the audience. He
Africs quite easily. In Hobbs Grace. adventures, on his recent exline. The windows have quadrant cornice in Doric style with a comparison of cricket and crick-nineties -
Stoddart,
we have the best bat in the world pedition, with vampires, fishes shaped jambs, and semi-circular small balustrade forming eters in the twenty years between Shrewsbury, and many othera
at the present time-one "worthy and bats, and said a river he heads, surmounted by nicely balcony, while the two end 1894-2913.
played just as well on sticky Many people maintain that of comparison with any of the discovered had been roughly carved keystones.
windows are in Ionic style. All
Sticky Wicket Play. wickets as the greatest of their there is no lefthanded bowler so giants of the past-and in Barnes, located but not accurately The main entrance is in Doric tho first floor windows have
Looking back at all the splendid successors, but the general level good as Peel or Rhodes were, but heyond all question, the best surveyed,
style, with detached polished circalar pediments. The second names which come to mind during of sticky-wicket play has improv- but my own opinion is that Bly-bowler. A further encouraging
singtao granite columns, the floor centre windows are in Dorio my experience of twenty years, ed.
the is as great a bowler as either fact is that we have so many men. This I attribute to the influence of the famour Yorkshirmen. He who while still young have junba being quadrant-shaped, style, while the two end windows
is apt at first sight to one and the columns being set in the bave moulded architraves,
think that there are no giants of Ranjitsinhji, who drove home is a master of flight, and has a reached the top of the tree-J. quite like the giants of ope's the fact that when the ball is great knowledge of the game, W. Hearne, Woolley, and Mead, youthful days, but a calmer turning back play is safer than and how to bowl to various styles for instance; and I believe that at reflection and a careful porusal of forward play. Of course one of players. On a stickly wicket the present time we could put an eleven into the field not unworthy form leade one to the conclusion occasionally comes across a really he is extraordinarily difficult.
Among medium to fast medium of comparison with the great that there are aa good fish in the difficult wicket on which two left sea. to-day as ever come out of it. handed bowlers Lk Blythe and bowlers Booth ranke very high. England elevens of 1896 and of Of one thing I am certain, and Tarrant are almost unplayable, I consider him a most able bowler. 1002.-P. F. Warner inthe Globe,
Mr. C: R. Hooper,
Mr. O. B. Hooper, rowly admit-ane. There is a mašivo eu- The main architrave has the ted a partner in the firm of Messrs trance door in teak wood, with nsune of the Bank cut in it and Johnson, Stokes and Master, arrive handsome wrought iron gatas gilded over. ed in the Colony to-day. Mr. outside it. The architrave frioze, There is a balustrade to a fat Hooper is, we understand, an old co-nice and pediment are set in a roof, while at each side there are Cliftonian and an International semicircular arch, with carved copings with carved swage and Rugby footballer,
shields.. shields on each side