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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH,
"OFF DAY."
TO-DAY'S RACING RESULTS.
Dull and threatening weather marked "Off Day" at the Race. course this afternoon, but none
the less there was a large crowd prosent to witness the sport.
With most of the leading jockeys absent, ovents were a more open aspect and this fuct inspired hopes amongst punters of better
raturas on their investments, The cash swoops were also well patronised, speculators regarding the afterncoa às their last oppor- tunity on which to secure a turn of good luck.
The afternoon's results wore as follow:.
1.THE "HAY AND CORN " STAKES-Winner $400, Second $150. Third $75. For Subscriɣ- tion Griffins of any season that have started at last twice at this Meeting and have not won. Weight for inches as par scale. Unplaced runners allowed 5 lb. (Jockey allowance! Entrance $5. Six Furlonga,
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SATURDAY. MARCH 6, 1926.
mission
$1,616 00
$8,580,00
VA-THE-TYTAM HANDI | $100 Tickets, and Com- CAP.-Winner $600. Becond $300, // Third $100. "For Subscrip tion Griffins of this Meeting that have started at least twice. Entrance #10. One Milo... 150 Ticket-No. 1471, 1,403. Mossra. Hall and Shenton's
8.-THE "LUCKY STAKES, The Geezer (Mr. Pollock)--Winnor $400, Second $150.1 Mrs. Bornard's Barley Grass
Third $75 For China Ponies Mr: Maitland hat have started in at least three least twice at this Meeting and Extra Meetings in 1925 and at have not won at this Meeting. Weight for inches as per scale:
Lady Chater's The Golden
Pheasant (Mr. Moller)3 Five ran. Three quarters of a length; three lengths. Time:
min. 13.1/5 seas.
Parl-Mutuel: Winnor, $17.70.
Places: $8.30; $7.90.. Cash Swoop:
י'ן'
(Jockey allowance. Entrance $5. One Milo...
Mre. R. M. Austin's Grey
Streak (Mr. Pollock)-1 Ticket No. 156 lat, $2,198.00 Mr. J. H. Taggart's Demon
155 2nd. 628.00 +
479 3rd. & 314.00Mr. Stanton's Beldarney Star.
Boy Mr. Brodiej–2
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$50 Tickets and Com-
mission
$ 910.00
$4,050.00
$50 Tickofa-Nos. 460, 441.
HONGKONG | 5. THE
CLAES. HANDICAP.—"A" Winnor $600 Second $200. Third $100. For all China Ponias that have started at least twice at this Meeting. Winners of a classic race at any recognised Mooting barred. Entrance $10. Ono Milo and a Quarter.
(Mr. Stanton)-3 Five ran. Five lengths; three lengths. Tima: 2 min. 09.1/5 secs. Pári-Mutuel: Winner, $7.00.
Places:-$5.50p 86,50.
Cash Sweep:-"
Ticket No. 731 1st. $4,016.80
1617 2nd: $1,404 80 | 1483 3rd. $ 702.40
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$50 Tickets and Com-
.mission
$1,881,00
$8.905.00
Mr. Sha's Shere Khan II.
(Mr. Moller)-1 Messrs. Dyer and Beith's
Rechabite Mr. Thompson)-2
$50 Ticket: No. 1561, 774. Messrs. Hall and Shenton's Sir Paul's Fantastic Dahlia
9.-THE "ALSO, RAN" The Gowk Mr. Pollock)-3
(Mr. Mollor)-1
STAKES.-Winnor $100.. Second Thirteen ran. A length; a head. Sir Paul's Sunrise Dahlia
$150. Third $75. For Grifins Time: 1 min. 24.1/5 secs.
(Mr. Brodie
and Subscription Griffins of this Pari-Mutual: Winner, $13.50. Messre. Dunbar and Stanton's
Placce$6.60; $7.90; $5 90.
Tacoma (Mr. Pollock)-Meeting that have started at Cash Sweop
Three run. Two and a half least twice at this Meeting and Ticket No. 184 1st, $1,075.20 lengths; six lengths. Time: 2 for inches as per scale. Sub- have not been placed. Weight
168.2nd. 307.20
$8.50.cription: Griffius allowed 5 lb. 96 3rd $ 153.60
Jockey allowance.) Entrance $5 Five Furlongs.
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$50 Tickets und Com-
mission
$1,009.00
$2,545.00
$50 Tickets: Nop 244, 354, 350, 527, 195, 425, 80, 449, 163, 30.
2. THE 'LOITERERS "* STAKES.-Winner $400. Second
| $150. Third $75. For Griffins of this Meeting that have started at least twice and have not won. Weight for inches as per scale. Unplaced unners allowed 5 lbs. Jockey allowance.) Entrance $5. Six Furlongs.
Messrs. Dunbat and Stanton's
San Diego (Mr. Pollock-1 Sir Paul's Melody Dahlia
"(Mr. Brodic}-2 Mrs. G. L. Bagram's Sunburst
Rose (Mr. Moller:—3, Six ran. A length and a half; a short head. Time: 1 min. 10.1/5 весв...
Pari-Mutuel:
Winner, $26.60.
Places:-$8.50; $19.20; $7.70.
Cash Sweep-
min. 42.2/5 secs. Pari-Mutuel:
Places: 57.60. Cash Sweep
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Winner,
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Ticket No 331 1st $5,056 80 1357 2nd: $1,444 80 866 3rd. $ 722 40 $1,806.00
$9,030,00
Com.
Mrs. Bernard's Blue Grass
Mr. Maitland)-1 Mr. L. Dunbar's Bay of Naples,
(Mr. Brodia)-2 Mr. R. M. Austin's District
Call (Mr. Pollock)-3 Fourteen ran. Two length; a neck. Time: 1 min. 172/5 secs.
6. — THE HONGKONG | Pari-Mutuel: Winner, $14.00. HANDICAP.—" B" 'Class.
Places:-$6.80; $9.30; $11.00. Mr. J. H. Taggart's Bundoran
Cash Sweep:
(Mr. Brodie)-1
Mr. L. Dunbar's Bay of
Bellingham (Mr. Pollock-2 Messrs. Dyor and Beith's Loch
Rannoch Mr. Thompson)-3 Six ran. A neck; three lengtha Time: 2 min. 46.1 5 secs. Pari-Mutuel: Winner, $15.00.
Places: $6.40; $9.50; $6.70. Cash Sweep:-
Ticket No. 1116 1st. $1,558.20 12 2nd. $1,305.20 740 3rd. $ 652.53 $50 Tickets and Comm-
mission
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$1,810,00
$8,3.5.90
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Ticket No. 1892 1st. $4,977.00 1574 2nd. $1,422.00)
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Entertainments.
The QUEEN'S
AMIE MAYNARD with
THE ROYAL HAWAIIANS
LON CHANEY Io.
"HE WHO GETS SLAPPED '
The STAR
RICHARD BARTHELMESS
IN
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THE WORLD
WARNER BROS. present LOVER'S LANE
THEATRE
ROYAL
A Notice, and a Reminder.
The A.D.C. will stage Two Extra Performances
of
"IF
1863 3rd. $ 711.00 Monday March 8th and Tuesday March 9th
$50 Tickets and Com-
'mission
$2,465.00
$9,575.00
$50 Tickets: Nos. 1162, 1827, 199. 828, 1557, 683, 600, 1392, 1646; 127, 1306.
10. THE "FINALE": STAKES. -Winner $400, Second
at 9.15 p.m.
Tickets at Anderson's.
POLICE OFFICER'S DEPARTURE.
SUB-INSPECTOR MOODY.
$150. Third $75. For all China Ponies that have started at least AMUSING PRESENTATION TO twica at thia Mesting and have
Weight for not been placed. 216 End. $458.80 $30 Tickets-Nos. 674, 757, 1290. allowance). Entrance $5. Five inches as per scale. (Jockey 529 3rd. $ 229.40
PROFESSIONAL Furlongs.
Ticket No. 136 1st. $1,605.80
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$50 Tickets and Com
mission
7-THE
$ 761.00 CUP AND SUBSCRIPTION Mrs. R. J. Patorson's The
GRIFFINS CHAMPIONS-A $3,005.00 Sweepstakes of $25 each for
$50 Tickets:-Noɛ. 742, 264, 119.
3.-THE ALL OUT STAKES.-Winner $400. Second $150. Third $75. For all. China Ponies that have started at least twice at this Mooting and have not won. Weight for inches as per scale. Unplaced Runners allowed 5 lb. Jockey allowance. Two of the men were injured in Entrance $5. Six Furlonge. the stampede which followed. At Mr. R. J. Paterson's Septem- the first shoot of the hose, the
ber (Mr. Thompson-1 Dryandust's Saracen crowd rushed up the road and got Mr. in the way of a motor lorry, the
Mr. Reidy)- Two starters. Won by many Labour troubles in Shanghai took driver of which did not have time
to pull up. In the rush two men lengths, Time: 1 min. 33.4/5 secs. an alarming development on Fri were knocked down, one man re-
Pari-Mutuel Winner, $8.10.
Places:-$8.00. day afternoon last week when theceiving concussion of the brain rushing of a police emergency and the other a fractured leg. A equad to the Japan-China cotton police squad was hurriedly des
Wayside police mill, 98 Robinson Road, was neces-patched from Bitated owing to a threatening station and succeeded in dispersing situation caused by a strike of the crowd. The two injured men 3,800 peratives at the mill. Crowds were taken to hospital.
DISTURBANCES AT SHANGHAI.
The trouble started when the
company dismissed 200 employees under a new economy programme introduced by the management, but it did not spread. Work pro- ceeded normally later.
of ang strikers gathered in the compound of the mill demanding their wages on Friday afternoon and a call had to be sent to Gor don Road police station and to the Chinese station ut Jessield, The prompt atival of these police squads case the situation, but it was necessary to keep the Muni- cipal police there for some time while a large number of Chapel in Lincoln's Inn aftor a very long.
mises.
Moots, which are to be renewed
interval, enshrine a word which
police are still guarding mill pre-goes back to the beginnings of British history. "The life of the While peace was preserved at Earlier English State," says one this mill, a eerious disturbance oc- of our historians, "was gathered its folk-moot. There, curred the same afternoon at up in Nanyang Brothers' tobacco fac-through its representative, chosen tory, 239 Broadway, where a crowd in every hundred-moot, the folk of dismissed employees, angered had exorcised its own sovereignty at their dismissal, stormed the in matters of justice as of peace
and war."
The folk-moot and the
premises and throw stones, break- Witenagemot, or Council of Wise ing many windows," The rioters, Men, were the origin of the about 200 in number, were held at Houses of Parliament, and from bay, with a fire hose wielded by these old discussions of the free officials and watchmon employed poopla, the lawyers borrowed the
word for their debatos.
at the factory,
Printed and Published for the Própriator by FREDERICK, PERCY FRANKLIN, at 11, Ice House Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
Cash Sweep.
starters. A Cup Presented.. $500 to the Winner by the donors and $500 added. Second $400. Third, $250. To. be won two years in succession or three years in all by Ponies the bona fille property of the same owner or owners. For Subscription Griffins of this meeting. Winners and Placad Ponies only. Weight for inches as per scale. One Mile and a Quarter.
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Regent (Mr. Maitland)-1 Messrs. Dyer and Beith's Blot-
ting Paper (Mr. Thompson-2 Mr. Dynasty's King's Favou
Charged with Deserting Comrades.
THE LEAGUE PROBLEM.
SWEDEN AGAINST LARGER COUNCIL.
Stockholm, March 5. The leaders of all partios in the Rikatag emphatically endorsed a At the Water Police Station on statement by M. Unden, Foreign Thursday evening, there was a Minister, on the eve of his large gathering of Sub-Inspector leaving for Geneva, that the Swedish delegates to the League rite (Mr. Doyle)-3 Moody's friends to bid him an Assembly oppose any proposal to Five ran. Five lengths; two official farewell on his retirement reorganise the Council in the
Time: 1 min. 15.2/5
course of the March session apart . lengths.
from the force and also to attend from the admission of Germany. secs.
Winner,
69.70. a presentation, made as an expres--Reuter. Pari-Mutuel:
Places:-$6,30; $6.50.
alon of their esteem and regret Cash Sweep
Cket Ne..1096 1st. $5,014.90 at his departure.
1359 3rd. $ 716.40 $50 Tickets and Com-
mission
$1,816.00
$8,980.00
183 2nd. $1432.80)
Messrs. Dyer and Beith's Total
Abstinence (Mr. Thompson)-1 Mrs. R. J. Paterson's Dobbin
(Mr. Maitland)-2) Messrs. Hall and Shenton's
The Gowk (Mr. Pollock)-3 $50 Tickets:-Nos. 1,622, 560. Five ran. Three lengths; four lengths. Time: 2 min. 40.2/5 soca. Winner, $6.50. Pari-Mutuel:
Places $5.59; $5.90.
Ticket No. 179 1st. $2,250.00 481 2nd. $750,00
$ 750,00 Cash Sweep:-
Commission
$3,750,00
Ticket No. 1257 1st. $4,734 80
TO-DAY.
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1526 2nd. 1352 80 '1130 3rd. $ 676.40
Dollar on demand 28.3.15/16d. Lighting-up
6.26 p.m..
ARTISTS ARE STILL INSPIRED.
AH ARTIST!
THE HAN OF TO-DAY-
• DITTO.".
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT.
Vienna, March 5. The presentation proper was Czecho-Slovakia favours en- préceded by a mock trial, the delarging the membership of the parting oficer being held before League Council, according to the a jury of his peers, on the charge Foreign Minister, Dr. Bones; of deserting his comrades at 45 when interviewed here. Ha years of age. The prisoner plead- added that se regards the Trasty ed guilty, but stated in extenua with Hungary there should be no tion that he was overcome with difficulty in meeting in "the spirit the desire to witness the Football of Locarno."-- Reuter, Association Cup Tic at Home and as many of the season's cricket matches as the English weather would allow. He was convicted of a technical breach and mulcted in a large quantity of liquid refresh ment.
The original Savoyards are be- coming so ren ots from the present age that it is with an agreeable shock of surprise one finds Bir George Power and Miss Jessie Inspector Spear then addressed Bond busily recalling the palmy the assemblage on the long stand-days of Gilbert and Sullivan: Sir ing friendship which existed be- George, now in his eightieth year tween Sub-Inspector Moody and was the original Ralph Rackstraw himself, they having landed in who loved a captain's daughter, Hongkong on the same day. He and the first Frederick, that slave... was sure that all present would of duty who was apprenticed to a be sorry to see him go and they pirate way down in Ponzanoe... would wish him long life and good Miss Bond, of course, was the health in his retirement. The contralto of the 1880 operas; and company then joined in the sing-Sir George since his retirement. ing of "He's a jolly good fellow from the stage has enjoyed as and Sub-Inspector Moody was pre-eat a vogue as teacher. sented with a sliver mounted dressing case. and an oaken smoking cabinet.
Paris-Experiments in the bɛe of light for measuring distances In reply, Sub-Inspector Moody have been made between the referred to the cameraderie exist-French coast and Corsion with ing between himself and many of what the experimenters consider. those present. He would remember successful results. A 10,000,000- them all when he reached home, candlepower beam was used. through the medium of their gifts, Paul Heilbronner, e geodetic ex- but amusingly questioned whether pert, succeeded in sending the the hair brushes would be of much basm across the 150 milos between use to him. The evening tér France and Corsica at an altitude. minated" with musical and vocal of 8400 foot, obtaining accurate ontertainment and general exuber results by mathematical com- putation involving the curvature of the earth's surface. He assorts Sub-Inspector Moody Balls for his system is accurate to within Home to-day by a.s. Mantua, me a few inches in 100 miles.
tance.