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INTERPORT DINNER.

SHANGHAI MEN ARE

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The Interport Bowls dinner was held last night at the Hongkong Hotel and was a most successful

affair.

Mr. A. G. Stephen was in the chair and was supported by the In- terport skips, Mr. J. Shaw (Shang- hai) and Mr. R. Wallace (Hong- kong), the Hon. Mr A.0. Lang, the Hon. Mr. A. R. Lowe, Mr. 11. Gow (the Vice-President of the Hongkong Laven Bowls Associate (last year's im), Mr. J. Reid President), Mr. E. D C Wolfe (the Captain Superintendent of Police), Mr. R. E. Ludsell, Mr. H. A Nisbet and Mr. E. W. Carpenter,

The men provided a very in- teresting soavenir of the occasion, eating a record in verse of Shanghai's matrbes, concluding with the very appropriate lines:

Although our bowling has not

been

What you weld call sublime. We've done our best and thank you

For a must triightful time, So let us drink a bumper

For the days of auld lang syne."

WITHOUT A SCOTSMAN,

PHONE 1500.

PEKING'S FINANCES,

SITUATION PAR WORSE

THAN USUAL.,

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THE CHINA MAIL.

PEKING, September 20. The Government is in more serious financial streit then during any previous festival, though it propagandist are aging reports that there will be no dificulty in tiding over the festival.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

NEW BILLS BECOME LAW.

In

CRUSOES OF PACIFIC.

HUMAN STORIES OF STRANGE INTEREST.

The Pacific keeps the secret of innumerable human stories of

the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon, after the China Mail's report had been closed, the second reading of the Bill to present, certain fraudulent strange and exciting interest. But transfers of businesses was again, none of them perhaps is so appeas deferred but the bill to amend the ling as the tale which creeps out, Prison Ordinance and two bills One repart, which is untrue, is dealing with the regulation of on a vessel coming into port, of a that Hongkong bank agreed recreation ground were passediato solitary white man having been found living as Crusos on his advance $1,200 (for eight months law.

The Council then adjourned to secured on the Sat Surplus.

lonely island. Meanwhile, the Government is next Thursday, His Excellency, being pressed on all sides for cash. mentioning that he hoped the! The tropical Pacific is the ideal Wu Pei-ft has requested the Estimates for next year would be sea for such a hermit life. This the Philadelphia Public Ministry of Finance to furnish ready for the week after that, great and generally calm ocean, $250,000 for militery expensen fol-"We want to get all minor matters says lowing Chang Hu's promise to the out of the way first," His Excellency Ledger, is dotted with hundreds of islands, the larger of which, in Chinese bankers to arrange for the added.

groups, are inhabited by anti.es, but the smaller and more isolated amalgamation of the Ninety-Six

oues are lying in a state of nawre, Million Loan with the Consolidated

and uninhabited at least by any Loan Service.

aborigines-in particular, remark- able coral formations that are

Kao Ling-wei, the acting herd of the Government, attended on behalf of the Government, and a number of advisers, technical experts and others were present.

OUR FINANCES,

A meeting of the Finance Com- mittee was afterwards held, the Colonial Secretary presiding.

The Governor recommended the

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RAILWAY TYPHOON DAMAGE.

The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $15,000 on account of Kowloon-Canton Rail way, Special Expenditure, Ty- pheon of 18th August, 1923.

port competition. He explained that this was the first occasion the

A Chibling mandate was issued cup had been competed for and Hongkong had the honour of hav-to-day approving of this propoen! ing its name inscribed upon it first, and authorising the Ministry of Council to vote a sum of $200 in termed "atolls," in contradistinc- "Sir, I am giving it to you in trust Finance to inform the Inspector-aid of the vote Colonial Secretary's tion to what are called "fringing Office, Special Expenditure, Docu-jor barrier reefs," many of which for one year only," was the Shang-General of Customs to this effect.

have beca settled for centuries by ini skip's significant remark, when It is generally believed that Sirment Presses.

The Chairman: The Public natives. he handed the trophy over to Mr.T. A. Aglen will refuse to agree to

Works Department have removed On such an island, or rather, Stephen. Mr. Shaw then present such an amalgamation.

from the floor of the Colonial little group of islets, there lived ed. the Shanghai flag to Mr. HEALOUSTMENT COMMISSION, Wallace, the skip of the Hongkong

The inauguration ceremony of Secretariat to the new building, for a number of years Charles document Robertson, a Scotsman. In the team, and also presented souvenir the Commission of Readjustment of opposite, and these spoons to the skips of the teams Winter took place yesterday at presses are needed for the increase middle of the ocean, across which been moving which had been successful against Vingai, within the President's ing number of records in the your vessel has

Colonial Secretary's Department..for weeks, a snow-white circle

Approved.

slowly rises, formed by the swells Shanghai. He concluded by again Palace

lashed into foam against a rampart referring tothe splendid hospitality of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls As-

of coral. Outside this circle are sociation, especially mentioning what Mr. Gerrard and Mr. Harvey (the Chairman of the Association)

the dark blue waters of the Pacific: and inside it is a smooth stretch of light green, calm, shallow water, dotted with small islets of sandy had done to entertain the team.

soll resulting from the decomposed The Chairman: This vote contins a great variety of items. corals, which branch in myriad The main one is $7,000 odd for the forms of beauty and colour on reconstruction of the pier at Taipo., the bed of the lagoon. On them, The whole of the woodwork was as well as on the encircling reef taken off. Many roofs were more or where it rises above the breakers, less damaged in most cases the grow the cocoa palm, pandanus roofs were of French tiles which, bread fruit, and all the rest of the however, stood the typhoon re- luxuriant vegetation of the South It is alleged that the Government markably well. They have the Seas. Such was Palmerston Island, repaired from within and require have been infing and issuing too great advantage that they can be where Robertson lived.

way as a of raising revenue; no scaffolding, or mortar. These It is underglood that the hoops and were all repaired within two days gendarmerie and Peking have of the typhoon. One of the old been prid with these notes, nul if stores buildings at" Blackhead's the present demeciation continus fars are entertained that trouble way cusur-Courtesy Daily Bulle tin.

Representatives of the various clubs then presented the Shanghai skip with souvenirs for members of the team.

A NEW RULE.

COPPER NOTS SLEMP. A serious situation bes arisen in Peking over the rapid depreciation or conner notes, which during last month dropped to 200 to the dollar. sedy stunned to 260, and to day falling to 300.

Mr. Wallace, in a short speech, spoke of the great pleasure it gave

This falls beavily on the poorer him to accept the Shanghai flag and hoped that when they went to members of the community, wh Shanghai next year the Hongkongmake their purchases in this cur team would be able to bring back ency another one.

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TILL DEATH. Robertson, like Robinson Crusoe, could not resist returning in the comforts of civilised life; but Thomas Holt, of Robert's Island, collapsed, a motor trolley shed was thought differently, for he clung destroyed and 13 signal arms were to his little kingdom till death took either torn off or bent double him. Holt, who was an English Practically the whole of the fencing sailcrout of Bristol--a sarly "sea from Kowloon to Hunghou went lawyer"—occasioned So much down which to quote a report) re-disturbance in the American trad |sulted on Saturday afternoon in the ing brig on board of which he had catire a t population of Hung-shipped at San Francisco that his hom, and most of the children, shipmates compelled her skipper swarming in to collect wreckage to maroon him on Robert's Island, coming ashore and incidentally to the most northern of the Marquesas sion clean up the P.W.D. bathing sheds Archipelago. The captain, a good- and harboe fencing, of which not hearted man, was reluctant to do valleys, each with its small stream, or so much as a palm leaf is left."150, and yes, faced with a mutiny, and those rivulets often flowing

There were minor damages, and at felt compelled to send Holt ashore;into one another came this fair is, where proudly] Huaghom the quarters were badly but he did not abandon him wholly over the cliff's in picturesque fonts the dear old Union Jack,,uarnoted. The total outlay is unprovided. meet cid cronies, play at bowls. $15,000.

and have a friendly emek.

LAWN BOWLS.

INTERPORT DINNER.

VERSES,

We're came so miles and across the ocean's track,

To

Mr. Veitch, the No. 3 of the Shanghai Interport team, proposed the toast of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Association, coupling with Proposing the toast of the Shang it the name of Mr. D. Gow, who hi Lawn Bowls Association, Mr. | briefly replied.

Mr. Gow eulogised the services A. G. Stephen expressed surprise that the Association, of which he rendered by Mr. Harvey, Mr once had the honour to belong had Tacchi and Mr. Gerrard in making ent down such a fortom lupe-a the visit of the Shanghai bowlers team without a Scotsman in it. such a successful one. Since the (Laughter), "Looking at their Interport match last Saturday, Mr. Gow said he understood it had record, it is really not so bad," Mr. Stephen said, "but when they are been suggested that the Hongkong up against the Police, Taikoo Lawn Bowls Association should and Kowloon Dork, well, we know | make a rule that hwiers in League what to expect from a team with-games, championships, or Inter- out a Scotsman mit." (Renewed ports in order to become energetic laughter). Mr. Stephea thought and workmanlike players, should the Interport match was very play with their coats off., (Laughter) gallantly fought and provided Whether the suggestion had emanat many thrills. He confessed that)ed from "Jack High" or not he

was not in position to say, but he | To at he was still something of a Shanghai man he was at une time could assure him the suggestion feeling very happy at Shang- would be brought up at the next

though he would We hai's chances: but after tea the meeting,

*You not say that very much time result was lamentable. should never take a drink of tea would be wasted on the point. Of

Mr. Gow thought when you are playing against (Laughter). Scotsmen," Mr. Stephen advised, there was no true bowler in the amid ughter. Laterport com Colony, who understood the finer petitions were all to the good. It points of the rame, who would

that said

the ronster rank anyone of the Shanghai team Was fought best in his

as" fonzling amateurs." They had farmyard, and that invariably each one shown they could play proved the case in Interport con- the gume equal to any of the best iests. Whenever Hongkong sent in Hongkong. (Applause).

Proposing the health of thee upa team to Shanglai they were

guests, Mr. W. Gerrard emphasis-But fed that a bowler must possess Shanghai had been treated here.

Mr. Stephen spoke of the fas- three essentials. First of all he cination of the game of bowls, must be of a happy and even tem- The older I get, the more I feel perament, secondly he must have there is nothing like a game of a clear, hard head, and thirdly a law bowls," be said. "It pro-capacity for unlimited hospitality Nest ding whatever else we do we

as tl Hongkong team Vides the necessary recreation for such men who are no longer active (always enjoyed in Shanghai.

The Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang re- enough to take part in the usual sports, and it is a meeting ground plied to the toast.

During the evening a number of and a very valuable asset for promoting friendship and good songs and recitations were render- comradeship among all clas-jed, the selections by Mr. Laing Theiag particularly appropriate to community.

occasion and very well say that the Hongkong the bowlers appreciate very much received.

Own

treated very much the same as

ses

Can

of

the

the pluck and good sportsmanship

of the Shanghai team. (Applause). They have won on two occasions

THE REASONS WHY.

tackled first the "Bobbies" and were somewhat slightly sat un, course i would not da to be The then we wild the button. Against the Civil Service has we

inde a useful rally.

But

next day-OH MY HEAD!!! their whisky streng down

at the valley.

Trikoo ship-and-sugar-men de feated us by three, better than their bowling was their hos-pi-tal-i-tec. Against the "Babies of the League"

we got a masty shock,

of small greenhills and LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.

dashing

ARRIVALS.

waterfalls. Parts of the island are Hok Canton, (Hong On) from Holt was given frying pan and thickly wooded, and other parts Fort Bayard --C43.

form charming savannahs, where Poolee, (Hung Shan) from K.C. The Hon. Mr. A. O. Jangan iron pot, an axe and a spade, a This railway is becoming a very bagfal of nails and a bagful of browse wild cattle, goats, pigs, the Wan-Co's Wharf.

descendants of stock imported by Foushing, M. & Co.) from expensive item.

ship's biscuit, a saw and a entlass,

Pheumpenh, (Wo Fat Sing) from and as the host was shoving off a buccaneer and long-dead settler Shanghai, Swatow-C41. musket and ammunition were flung alike, and now so wild that whea loa the sand beside him by the skip disturbed they dish through the Saigon.-C28. per. Holt did not, as all in the thickets like deer. There is abund- boat expected, either break out into ance of turtle and fish of all species,

that are most easily caught.

The Chairman: I am afraid it is. Of course it is mainly due to the

trouble over the border.

arrangement has

Devawongse, (K.N. Seng) from Bangkok-C16

Kaijo Maru, (0S.K.) from Kee-

Yeizan Maru, (M.B.K.) from Keelung --B55.

Andre Lebon, (M.M. Cie) from Shanghai.-C4.

Sheaf Lance, (Dodwell & Co.) from Chinwant. Wanchai.

Dongola, (P. & O.) from Shang- hai--ÀI.

Mausang, M. & Co.) from Sandakan.Kowloon Wharf.

The Hon. Mr. Ling: We are puuring money faro it, now.

The Chairman: Yes, we have a wild mud fury of despair or Some years ago aschooner belung, Swatow.-Co's Wharf. to keep it efficient in the hope that hurriedly set aluat firing on the longing to a company that leased some day the Chinese sections will small craft. He remained standing the sealing rights arrived at this also be efficient. If we could run silently alongside the scanty right through it would be very supplies. When the vessel bore island; and a doctor, who was on much better.

away on the wind Holt had dis-board her partly for his health and partly as ship's surgeon, took it The Hon. Mr. Ling: It is only appeared.

into his head to walk round the a few weeks ago that we voted a Seven years later a British

island on an exploring expedition. sum for more wagons, because the whaler, the "Stratford," touched at when he was half way along the Chinese section could not main Robert's Island to refill her water

been made island appeared to be inhabited. inland, he came suddenly on a space that had once been cleared. taia their proportion. I hope some casks if possible, and found the weather side, at about four miles whereby later on we may recover)Search was made by means Pumpkins, melons, tobacco, sweet of a well-trodden path, which

potatoes, etc., were now growing some of this from the Chinese.

The Chairman: I am afraid I wound through 让 plantation cannot hold out much hope of that. of bread fruit, coconut, bananas all together in a wild state among tall weeds and suckers of young trees, other fruit On Saturday was played the only We have a very large claim maand

match that really mattered:

turing against them already. They led into a thickly wooded part of trees starting from the roots of the Before the game the Gods then-are under liabilities for the train the island towards rising ground.

NO CLUE. selves had seen the green well service not running properly. At about a mile from the beach the

At the upper and rising port of watered.

and of course the running has been track opened into a clearing, that Wo started off like winners and our interrupted during a considerable was closed on one side by a high, the clearing the surgeon marked hopes soared up to Heaven, part of this year. However, unclimbable cliff of rock, and indications of a large fut, almost For half way through we let our think it would be very foolish to elsewhere by an impenetrable hidden by a clump of trees. But doughly foemen by eleven. abandon our section in any way. barrier of trees and prickly un-there was no sound of human voice dergrowth. At the end or this here. All was still except for the Then optimistic was the gleam that We must keep it up-to-dile,

The Hon. Mr. Lang: We cannot clearing stood a house of timber cooing of the tree doves. lit up every eyo,

On nearing the habitation he saw sume 30 feet long by 12 wide, close As we thought of the reception that very well abandon it now. The vote was approved. would greet us in Shanghai.

st best Kowloon Dock.

anced on a greasy wall!

then

old ones.

to a small pool of water fed by a that it was long since the place spring gushing out of the cliff. I had been tonded by human hands: the cookhouse alongside it Holt, Wild vines had thrown so close and was found at a meal, together with thick a network round it he had to a Swede, and a native of the Mamake an opening with his axe. On once on the house, which had been quesas, who had thrown in their passing this barrier he came at

FIKE BRIGADE TOWER.' The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $2,000 on account of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon, Build ings, Tower on Railway ground lot with him for the Fire Brigade.

The Chairman: This is a small tower for drying hose and for drill practice.

Approved.

DEPARTURES.

Andre Lebon, (MM. Cic) for Saigon.-September 20.

Lee Sang, M. & Co.) for Hoi- how.-September 21.

Wing Sang, (J.M. & Co.) for Hatching, (Douglas & Co) for Manila-September 21. Foochow, Swatow.-September 21. Kt. Templar, (B. & S.) for Glas- gow, Singapore-September 21,

Fushiki Maru, (M.B.K.) for Hoi- how.-September 21,

Taikoowany, (B. & S.) for Prominent, (Wo Fat Sing) for Balikpapan.-September 21. Saigon.-September 21.

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BEASTLY THINGS."

The Bristol man was overjoyed built of posts of wood to the sides to see English faces again, but and front, interlaced with boughs

"I don't like the beastly things the offer of a passage home. Holt was only a doorway into it, but no having told his story he refused and plactered with mud. There was happier nor any king," and door. On the earth floor, near a you ride; they are noisy and are flatly objected to leave his island roughly-made table, lay the skele usually found tearing along the domain.

ton of a man, only partly covered roads," said Mr. H. R. Oswald, the by what had been a sheet of skins. West London Coroner, to a motor On fingering this it went into cyclist at a Hammersmith inquest

A TEAGICAL DISCOVERY,

Press photographers are never and have taken their defents and too considerate-they would miss victories with the same good grace, business if they were. Recently They do not crow when they win and they do not cry when they one nearly got badly hurt, says the But what is man but fickle fortune's

plaything, great or son)? Japan Chronicle. The Japanese) Juse. We consider them all very sound bowlers and very good papers take so much interest in the Each one a Humpty Dumpty bal sportsmen. I hope we shall see foreign community that they even them here again next year." (Ap-want to see them at work on earth- And the higher we ara perched the

quake; they make at least a more more tremendously we fall! plause).

agreeable photograph than a pile So when we thought the ship in of bodies on Nihonbashi-though port we struck å sudden squall. "Your President has referred by the time they are printed in a terrific Hongkong typhoon, and to the Shanghai team as a forlorn Japanese newspaper it is some- they call in "Hobby Hall." hope, because it did not con- times difficult to tell which is tain 3 Scotsman," Mr. Shaw which. But that is all by the way. The merry men of K.C.C. defeated remarked, in replying to the toast. The photographer got by the

The Control China Post an- ns by one "That, gentlemen, is our misfortune inquiry counter at the Oriental But then they were indesblenounces the death of Mr. Harry and not our fault, as the list was Hotel, and directed the camera to

figures are wo got begun. T. Heath at the Roman Catholic Nearer South America, the powder, and the bones of the on Thomas William Bowern, thirty- open to Scotsmen to volunteer to the committee table where people

Hospital on September 12, from Gallipagoas Group have had many skeleton also fell apart at the two, engineer, of Bryony-road, side Shepherd's Bush, who died in the the lightest touch. Og one come, but they failed to do so on go to get directions as to how they The Taipans of the Kowloon Bowl-virulent dysentery. Mr. Heath or island hermits since first

old iron pot and a West London Hospital from in- account of the bawbees. (Laughter), shall live till things are straighten-

ing Green showed little pity iginally came out for the Taikoo Spaniards sighted them. In the were an

a pile of what had jurles received in a collision with We have won two matches by very ed. Of course, the foyer was

axe a motor cycle driven by Edward small margins. I have wondered full of people, the majority of But we'll pay them back if they Sugar Refining Co., Ld., Hong days of buccaneering this group frying pan,

should over visit Shanghai City.kong. After four years of war was the base of more than one been kindling wood, an why, until the present moment, but them ladies, some of whom had

service he returned to the East in band of sea freebooters which cir- and a saw, all rotted and rust- Lucking, of Acton,

A tobacco box and a It was stated that Bowern stepped now I begin to understand it. I passed through the most nerve-

1919 and has been with Buttercumstance-bas' induced severai in- eaten. believe that in neither of the teams racking experiences of their lives. The game gunst the Craigongower field & Swire in. Shanghai and dividuals to seclude themselves rudely fashioned pipe lay on the in front of a stationary motor

was one match in a million, we beat was there a Scotsman." So when the flashlight went off, (Laughter). The Shanghai team some of them screamed, and in Then memory became a buck Hankow, where he had a large there in search of hidden treasure, table, and a rusty gun and a cut- omnibus and was then seen to slip Some years ago discovery was lass in the corner. A broad shelf on the tramlines, falling on to the circle of friends. inside the now pavilion, came down with the idea of win dignant males, many of them with

made of a Crusoe on Chatham which had served for a bedstead front forks of the motor cycle.

Recording a verdict of "Acci- ning. Mr. Shat continued, and their nerves on edge as well, went

Island, of the same group and a was still covered with it's skins.

The Anierican say that this un- dental death," the coroner pointed tragical discovery it was -although they had failed to do so for the photographer, who had to

danger of traffic in their failure had to some extent be rescued by a member of the

Like Robert's Island, already fortunate. Crusoe must have been to the been compensated by the very committee, who had some dif

mentioned, Chatham Isand is a dead for many years. He searched London streets, and said that per warm reception they had received. In persuading them that the man

gem of a place for a Crisoe. It is the hat minutely and afterwards sons crossing the road should keep Mr. Shaw then handed to the had been given leave (however un- President of the Hongkong Lawn wisely) and he had not cominitted

The Expert Advertisers & Bull Poster, shaped like a crab's claw, abent made many inquiries, but no clue a sharp eye on all sides. if they ten miles long and some seven was over got as to the name or who wanted to, escape being knocked

down and possibly killed. miles at its broadest, with a succes this forgotten solitary had been Bowls Association this cup present- an ourage, But it was a narrow od by

Jak Printice for Inter vesdayik!"

Although our bowling has not been

what you would call sublime, We've done our best, and thank you for a most delightful titie,kt So let us drink bumper for the

days a' Auld Lang Syne.

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