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COUNTY CRICKET. 1. POLO IN AMERICA.
RAIN INTERFERES WITH ALL MATCHES.
ARMY-IN-INDIA TEAM WELCOMED.
Long Island (N, Y.), July 17. The Army-in-India polo team ONLY ONE GAME CONCLUDED. were to have played yesterday their first practice match with the Rain Interrupted all the county American stars participating in matches which commented on the series, but a sudden aquall of wind and rain turned the field into Saturday and only one
game a quagmire in a few minutes and was completely finished, Glou-sent a large gallery of society cester gaining full points from people clad in the thinnest summer Hampshire. In all the other garbs scurrying to the Club House. matches the games were de- The game was postponed till cided" on the first Innings Monday. The storm, however, did with the sexception of the York-not interfere with the dinner in shire-Leicester match which did the ovening in honour of the not reach a decision and the British visitors at which the latter Notts-Derby match which was were cordially welcomed. Fleft drawn.
Fatal Accident in India.
Lancashire had gained a com- manding lead over Kent and were unfortunate. in not being able to play to a finish.
Surrey were likewise well on their way to victory against Middlesex, but in the other games the honours were even.
In the match between Surrey and Middlesex both Sundham and Ducat scored centuries, while the best bowling performances were those of Parker for Gloucester and Hipkin for Essex.
The principal individual formances were:
per-
Batting.
Storer (Natts).
148
E. Tyldesley (Lancs.)
133
Sandham (Surrey)
121
Ducat (Surrey)
100
*Not out.
Bowling,
Farker (Gloucester) Hipkin (Essex)
8 for 32 ..... 7 for 24
LANCS. DROP POINTS...
Leaders" Match With Kent Left Unfinished.
Lancashire dropped three points to Kent at Manchester. The leaders had compiled 331 for seven wickets when play wab brought to a close. The scores
were:--
Kent: 241.
Lancashire: 331 (for 7 wkts.). Ernest Tyldesley defied the Kent) bowling, and carried his bat for 133.
WORCESTER AND WARWICK. First Innings Points for Home Team.
Playing at Worcester, the home team gained victory on first innings against Warwick, only one innings on each side being com- pleted. The scores were:-
Warwick: 216 and 139 (for 3
wickets).
Worcester: 289.
Quetta, July 14. Mr. 1. G Vallauge. 14th Field Brigade, R.A., died from fatal in juries sustained by a fall from his pony while making an effort to retrieve a ball which had passed between the pony's legs during game of polo.
SWIMMING “CRACKS.”
ότι
TO BE SEEN HERE.
When the s.s. Tango Maru arrives from Australia
the 18th August she will have on board a quartette of Australian swimming cracks," en route for Tokyo, to compete in a series of swimming contests against Japanese in that city.
The Australian team is com-
AUGUST 10.
1927.
DEFECTIVE MORTAR. JOURNAL BANNED. MOTORISTS' NARROW
BUILDING CONTRACTOR
FINED.
Messrs. Hin Woo, building con- tractors, were summoned before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning with using defective mortar for the construction of a house in West- Point.
The defendants were represented by Mr. W. D. Owen, who pleaded guilty to the charge but asked for leniency.,
POSTAL FACILITIES
• REFUSED.
1.4
A "WAR NEWS" EXCUSE,
The North-China Daily News publishes the text of the Nation- alist order against acceptance of that paper for postal transmission (as reported last week by Reuter). The order is as follows:
"The Shanghai Postal Commis- sion's Office,
telegram
ji
Mr. Owen explained that tho manager was in Canton at the time and the foreman, whom he left in
In pursuance of a charge was not present when sam-
dated the 29th ultimo from the ples of the mortar were taken for Commander-in-Chief, stating that analysis by the Building Authority.us the North-China Daily News He said that the reason why the has fabricated and published news items with the view of rousing dis- mortar was defective was because the lime which which was being trust used in the mixture was some dis- and tance away from the building site, and the workmen were too lazy to carry the proper quantity.
Mr. Owen added that the work- man whose duty it was to see that the proper quantity of lime was used had since been dismissed and on those grounds he asked his Wor- ship to take a lenient view of the He concluded by saying. that the firm had been in business for the last seven years and had never been summoned previously.
Mr. Lindsell: "The chief point of the prosecution is the danger to the public, involved in building with defective moriar. There is always the danger of collapse. I must re- gard this sort of offence as parti- cularly serious.
offence.
Mr. Owen: The offence on this occasion is due to the negligence of a workman, who has since been dismissed.
Mr. Lindsell: Defendant must use proper mortar. I will fine him $100.
THIS MORNING'S LIGHTNING.
WIRELESS MAST STRUOK
AT KOWLOON.
ESCAPE.TM
CAR DASHES OVER. PRECIPICE.
Paris, July 17. A miraculous escape from being dashed to death from a precipice into a ravino 900 feet below was the experience of two Englishmen and an English woman, motoring te San Remo.
They were proceeding at a good speed along a road by the edge of a precipice when a tyre burst and the car skidded violently. Luckily it hit a tree and the impact burled the occupants into the roadway.
The car dashed on and crashed'
into the ravine and was smashed to smithereens.
The motorists had only slight in... ·
and causing dissension juries. thereby prejudicing (the of) our military execution,
રીસ the continu- Four Shakespeare Folios were plans, and ous dissemination of such news can- sold in one lot recently at Sotheby's not possibly be tolerated, besides for £6,000. They belonged to the writing to the Ministry of Foreign collection of Lord Leigh, and in- Affairs to take serious diplomatie cluded a First Folio, dated 1628, action on the matter, you are here which stands No. 82 in the Sidney minor im- by ordered to detain the North Lee census, and has
B First Follo China Daily News from transmis- perfections. For sion, otc.; we have the honour to £17,000 has been paid, and it is forward this Order to your office very rarely that the four Folios for notice and execution by stopping issued respectively in the years the transmission by post of the said 1623, 1632, 1664 and 1685 come up North-China Daily News immedi- for sale in one collection. The ately from date. Please reply and purchaser was Mr. Gabriel Welle, oblige.
YANG HU (Senl) CHEN CHUN (Seal)" Paper's Comments,
In the course of a leading article headed "The C.P.O. takes Nanking's orders," our Shanghai: contemporary declares:
"A step has just been taken by the local Chinese Post Office, int compliance with orders issued on Monday by the "Nationalist" military authorities, which will serve to advertise to the Inter- national Postal Union, foreign Governments, the foreign press and the world at large, the fact that the Chinese postal service. is no longer a unified system. This step shows more clearly. posed of Ernest Henry, Victor The most vivid flash of lightning that it has become the plaything Moore (New South Wales), Reg.which occurred during the short of local unrecognized administra- Grier, Tom Boast (Queensland), and sharp thunderstorm, between tions, than the exasperatingly bad service that it has been and is under the management of seven Mr. II. R. Kelley,
morning, struck the wireless Kiving throughout China or even As the steamer will be making aerial mast at the Royal Observa- the periodic suspension of ser short stop-over at Hongkong the tory, Kowloon, the shock throw vice in the past at the dictates Australians have expressed the ing the operator out of the chair of truculent unions under Red
inspiration." wish to compete with local swim-on which he was sitting, and mers and The Victoria Recreation flinging the chair away. Club has accordingly made ar-
angements to hold, the night for a shock, was uninjured and Fortunately the operator, except swimming fete originally planned resumed duty. for the 20th August on the 18th.
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EXTENSION OF AIR MAILS.
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AMERICAN SUGGESTION FOR, HAGUE MEETING."
Washington, Aug. 9. Mr. Irving Glover, the Second Assistant Postmaster General, and
Mr. White, the Superintendent of Foreign Mails, will represent the
United States at the Internation- ! There were no performances of nl Conference at the Hague on note on either side.
TWO CENTURIES.
Sandham and Ducat Make Runs for Surrey..
September 1,
The conference has been conven- ed by the Universal Postal Union by the request of Russia, which has been extending her air mail services.
Mr. H. S. New,,the Postmuster] » The valuable contributions by Sandham and Ducat for Surrey General, has made a statement de- against Middlesex at the Oval claring that the United States gave the home team a first innings victory over The scores were:
would advocate, inter alia, a shore
and
nine o'clock
this
The aerial was struck at three minutes past eight, the lightning playing vivid fashion along the
to
wires,
and causing Chinese describe it as a "ball of fire in the air."
After the lightning had struck, it was found that the long-wave aerial and receiver had been damaged. Fortunately there was an earth arrester, which prevent ed serious damage from being done.
Within half an hour's time the damage had been repaired. The working of the station was not in-
terfered with.
FINED FOR BAD BLASTING.
STONES FROM MORRISON HILL.
For not putting proper cover-
The journal then proceeds to on the "undignified position" of the Postal Commis comment sioner, Mr. C. H. Shields, who sent the notification to the North-China Daily News, and expresses surprise at his action. It states:
"Since it is possible for such a situation as this to arise within the postal service, therefore, it is only natural that the foreign com- munities in China, not to men- bion the foreign Powers, should lose interest in the foreign direc- tion of the service and contem- plate once more the institution of Bome substitute in which they can put confidence. If Mr. Shields is in his present obedience to the upheld by the Peking Directorate Nanking "Nationalists," this will inevitably be our attitude towards the Chinese Post Office and we feel that it will be an attitude that will be shared by the major-
ity of the foreigners in China whose patience has already been strained by the Irregularities of the mails and the Bolshevization of the personnel.
their opponents. to ship and ship to shore airings over stones which they weretion at this writing of the reasons
Surrey 370 (for 5 wickets
declared).
Middlesex: 139 and 37 (for no
wickets).
For Surrey, Sandham scored 121 while Ducat contributed exactly
100..
MATCH DRAWN.
No Decision in Notts- Derby Match.
Although Derby declared their innings after scoring 374 runs, no decision was possible in their match with Notts at Nottingham, the points being equally divided. The scores were:-
Derby: 374 (for 9 wickets
declared).
Notts: 110 (for 5 wickets). Storer was the only player to make a big score, compiling 148) runs before being dismissed.
HIPKIN'S PERFORMANCE. Essex Take First Innings Points from Glamorgan. Playing at Swansea, Glamorgan loat first innings points to Essex although the home team made a good beginning in the second innings. The scores were?
mail service, on the lines of the recent experiment by the airman Chamberlin until aircraft are able to make regular trans-ocean trips,
-Reuter's American Service.
GLOUCESTER'S WIN.
blasting at. Morrison, Hill, Messrs. Sang Lee, the contractors who are undertaking the cutting down of the hill, were fined $50 by Major
No Reasons Given, "We have received no intima- advanced by the local military, if they condescended to advance any, for getting out this injunction against our circulation. It is true that we have not approved of Sergeant MacTernan, who was Narking's financial experiments, prosecuting, said that fragments which have fostered blackmail of atones flew into the house of and kidnapping not only in Chin- Revenue Officer Grimmitt in Wan-
C. Willson this morning.
The Only Match to be Completed. chai Road, He said that had the ese territory but in the Settlement stones been properly weighted us well. Nor have we always Been victories in "Nationalist" Gloucester gained full points down before the blasting, the defeats nor great promise for the from Hampshire in the only com- fragments would only have flown future of Nanking's administra- pleted match of the series. They upwards.
tion. We have not welcomed won by nine wickets, at Chelten- The defendants' representative virulent anti-foreign propaganda ham. The scores were:
in Court stated that the blasting as evidence of the arrival of the Hampshire: 219 and 93.
took place quite close to Mr. Elysian era in "Nationalist" Gloucester: 295 and 18 (for 1 Grimmitt's house, and that he China nor have we seen sincere
wicket).
could not avoid the fragments patriotism in all the efforts made In Hampshire's second knock falling into Mr. Grimmitt's veran to undermine the political, econo- Parker returned the average dah. He claimed that the rocks mic and financial stability of this eight wickets for 32 runs, while were adequately covered up before Settlement." Dipper scored 100 for Gloucester. the blasting.
of
Our contemporary concludes:
"We regard it as a distinctive tribute to the influence which ou: publication of facts and the only possible honest interpretation of
SUSSEX LEAD. Northants Lose on First. Innings. The proprietor of an eating
house at 447, Queen's Road West, Sussex won on first innings
was fined $10 by Mr. R. E. Lind- against Northants at Hastings, sell, this morning, when he was them has exerted, to the fact that the scores being:
charged with keeping his shop atraightforward publicity has until 1.10 on Monday made a thoroughly immoral in- morning. Another eating-house | cubus upon the Chinese people proprietor who was charged with and a ruthless menace to this com- a similar offence at 472, Queen's munity squirm in the apot light." Road West, was fined $25, having had three previous eonvictions during the present year.....
Sussex: 149 and 171 (for 5
wickets), Northants: 125.
NO RESULT. Match Abandoned at Sheffield.
open
Glamorgan: 192 and 105 (for
3- wickets).
In the game between Yorkshire
A Filipino arriving here as a Essex: 219.
and Leicestershire, the match was "It is understood that the a.s. Paul steerage passenger on the Presi- Most of the damage caused abandoned after the Northern Beau did not sull last evening, dent Pierce, has reported to the among the Glamorgan batsmen county had scored 292 for four owing to not having a full com- police the theft of money, cloth- was wrought by Hipkin, who wickets. The match will not plement of officers on board, Mring and other property to captured seven wickets for 34 therefore count in the Champion- de La Sala, the chief officer, hav value of $340 from his quarters
ship-Reuter.
ing resigned.
during the night of the 8th-9th.
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TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS..
The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day:
Banks.
Hongkong Bank, $1040 Chartered Bank, £20 n Mercantile A. & B., £32 n Mercantilo C., £13 n.
P. and O., £9 b. East Asia, $68 n.
Marine Ins.
Canton Ins, $590. China Underwriters, $.50 8. North China, Tls. 143. Union Ins., $280 b Yangtezo Ins., $35.
Fire Ins.
China Fires, $210 b. H. K. Fire Ins., 600 n.
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Shipping.
Douglasos, $32 n. Steamboats, $22 s. Tugs, $.60. 8. Indo-Chinas, (Pref.) $30 Shell Trans., 92/- 0. Star Ferriss, $531 b. Waterboats, $16.90 ..
Refineries.
China Sugars, $15 5. Malabons, $32
Mining.
2.
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Benguets, $1.70 b.. Kailane, 45/- be Langkate, Tla, 19 n. S'hai Exploration, Tls. 3 n. Shanghai Loans, Tis. 51 a. Raubs, $4 n
Tronohs, 19/3. Ural Caspians, 5/- a.
Docks, etc.
Kowloon Wharves, $112 b. Whampoa Docks, $35 a. Hongkowe, Tls. 1361 b. New Engineerings, Tls. 4 b Shanghai Docks Tle. 91
Lands, Hotels, etc.
H. and S. Hotels, $6.50 H: K. Lards, $53 b Realtys, $68... Territorials, $11 Humphreys, $12 Princes Bldgs, $85 Rural Lands, $13 n.
Cottona.
D.
n.
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Ewo Cottona, Tis, 680 b. Orientals, Tla 1.70 s S'hai Cottons, Tlá. 51 n
Buses, Tramas.
China Buses, Tis. 7 a Tramways, $20.80 b Peak Trama, (old) $14 Singapore Trams, 11/. B. Taxis,. $1 n.
Miscellaneous. Amusements, $20 b. Canton Ices, $5, n.. Cements (Comb.) 7. a. China Lights, $13 B. China Prov., $4. " "Constructions, $17 s. Dairy Farms, $15 .. Dor A. Wing, $6.n. H'kong Electrics, $51) Macao Electrics, $37 b. Ropes (Old) $10 n. Lane Crawfords, $58 Mackintosh, $191 Bincores, 8 n. United Abestos, $15 Watsons $114 · ng Powells, 5 8. Telephone 3.70
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