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Returns 7--That the Association state

of the the most exacting, we say..could the harta of narcotics in the school tion and of Spects in Reserve in Average Amount of Bank Notes in Circula- have expected the League to per- textbooks and refer this matter to Hongkong, during the form miracles, but surely the the Committee on Health Educa-ended 30th Sept., 1974, as certified month plain, hopeful citizen might have tion for action. expected the League to have tors in China will be given a

It is to be hoped that the educa- Banks:-

by the Managers of the respectiva

applied wise judgment to those freer hand than has been the case

Average Speute Arpount. In Reserve. disputes, which were brought to in the past. It is by education its door specially for its adjudica-chicily that reform will come. tion. Harmful as the League's

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RACING NOTES.

HANDICAPS FOR LONGER RACES REVIEWED.

TO-DAY'S GALLOPS.

[By Argus.]

"M.P." INVIADENIE,

Writing From Downing Street on August 16, 1024, the Secretary of

On the first day of the Fifth State For Colonies, addressed tha Extra Race Meeting, commencing following letter to the Officer Ad- this-day-week-the remaining ministering the Government, 29,000,000 handicaps (not yet discussed) are longkong."

the "A" & "B" class races for the fished in this morning's "Govern- The letter is pub- 500,000 Beckhampton Stakes, which con-"]

1,104,077 Total.... $52,538,596 *Sterling Securities deposited "with the Crown Agents valued at £1,057,100,

"Security

Treasury "Bonde repar able 100 in 1930

Amount

130,000

$38,400,000 clude the programme. There are ment Gazette" under the heading. 14 names in the "A" class and 15 of "Do-patch from Secretary, of in the "B" class.

Taking the seniors" first, we.

State Attempts to" obtain promo- naturally, find that hardy oldtion by irregular means annual, Spotted Sand, at the head of the list with 160 lbs. carry. In the June Handicap, he carried a pound less to victory, benting

quarters of a length away, third, with Roman Parrot (147) three- Rivergrass (157) by half length,

and Friarsfield, the favourite, a

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

mistakes have been to millions of Dearth of Jockeys. people in the troublous parts of

The complaint is general in Europe competent observers Hongkong and in China that the hold the Upper Silesia decision is dearth of gentlomen riders will so grossly unjust that unless it is make itself felt all too soon unless modified it will inévitably provoke take to the pigskin,, The Hong- some of the younger generation war unfortunate the kong Jockey Club, with a view to

+ Securities with the Crown League's mistakes have been in encouraging novices, has included

Agents and Straits Govern ment £3,091,000. their direct results, they have

a special race for them at the

Securities with the Crown been even more unfortunate in the but seldom has the support

extra meetings on many occasions, Agents £130,000, damage they have done, to the expected been forthcoming. When securities lodged with the Crown The following statement of the prestige and authority of the bumble-puppy events have been Agents by the Mercantile Bank of League itself. The successive on the programme, there has Indin, Limited, against their notes blows which the League has At the lust meeting in June, a race general information under Section carried 151 lbs. and started a red seldom been a dearth of riders. in circulation, is published for length behind, fourth. Friarsfield delivered to its own good name was given for catch-weights at 5 of the Mercantile Bank Note hot favourite; out of 1,573 tickets 2DVORGONCOCINCHOQ could have been expected. People ponies went to the post-a highly No. 65 of 1911):----

have had the only result that 168 lbs. The result was that nine Issue Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance sold on the winning tote, 811 were on Friarsfeld, while 928 out of At the time, it was stated that the satisfactory; if exceptional, result.

Latest marke 2,141 were on him for place

price

money. Stewards would have been well

On this occasion, the name of advised to make the impost

Rivergrass is missing. Roman 1031-1032 Parrot has now been alloted 148 lighter. On the second day, at the event is confined to riders who

and Friarsfield 149, so that there forthcoming meeting, the first

is little ground för eriticism here, all that is altered now. The have not won more than five races.

Newton Abbot has been alloted Lague sessions buzz with excite. The conditions are weight for

157 lbs. which is 2 lbs. over ment. Members are taking a very inches as per scale, with an allow

weight for inches, so that he has real interest in the proceedings each flat race won. It will thus be

since he has only won one race. not been too leniently treated ance of 10 lbs; plus a penalty for and are paying them the compli-seen that the Stewards have, ated

Minehead, on the other hand, a ment of creating a crisis or two. any rate. met the

winner of three races, is only asked to carry 155 lbs. He is the This at least shows that the grievance half-way-and-it-now- Larue is not moribund, as most offer their, services for the 12 only remains for twelve riders to.

same height as Newton Abbot, people had feared; that, whatever ponies nominated. Just now many workers of Leningrad that the is nicely weighted; he has some and. on the book, the better per M. Kalinin has informed the former. Kashmir, with 155 lbs.. its future, it is not to die of owners are on the look-out for Soviet Government intends to fine performances to his credit inanition, for the time being any young riders of promise: and it is transfer some Commissariats to and, as recently, as May 31 last. war; and that, although this to be hoped that the racing com Leningrad, which will be restored run

munity will be able to provide to its former position as the first Chrysanthemum, in a mile face, week's events are not perhaps Future Willie Hills. Johnstones, city of the Repubilc.

a good second to Golden quite the kind of sign we should Bob Stewarts, Frank Vidas, Bur-

covered in 2.05 4-5, have liked to have seen, they are kills and Mollers-all of whom

A rather unusual accident Dragon (150), Oricnt

The weights alloted to Grey certainly correcting the impres despite increasing year and befell a P.W.D. fitter in Wong- Prag and

Dahlia avoirdupois, have looked in vain neichong Road yesterday. sien that the League is a spent for others to carry on the great was working over a water-main appear to require some explana- Washington (146) force which nobody troubles to

which suddenly burst, causing tion on the book vis-à-vis the take, seriously. This is all to the

injuries to his head. The extent new-comers "Newton Abbot and good. Civilisation, if it is not to

of his injuries necessitated his Minehead. Grey Dragon, in receipt removal to hospita!.

of 13 lbs. beat Spotted Sandin the Great Metropolitan (14) miles) on April 21 last, and was only a length behind Rialto Star on June 7, when Rivergrass beat! the latter by a head (14 miles).

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LAZARUS.

devise some form of world assembly, some kind of parliament) of man which will rescue it from the certain disaster that dogs the footsteps of blind and selfish nationalism. The existing League may not be that world assembly, but it does at least contain the international idea. Therefore any event which proves to the masses that the League can still com- mand respect, even angry respect, is an event to be welcomed. For it is a portent, obscure perhaps. threatening too, but still portent.

Narcotic Suppression.

Recently we commented on the recrudescence of opium cultivation in China, which had proved such rebuff to those responsible for the suppression between the year 1907

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former

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Corning Events Advertised

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valued at $25 was yesterday report

The theft of a gold wrist-watch to the Police by Mr. F. W. Stapleton, of No. 41, Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon, from whence it was stolen.

He

Falling from the verandah of a first floor office in Duddell Street, ontothe pavement below, a Chinese boy was picked up seriously injur- ed in the head yesterday. He was removed to the Government Civil Hospital, where his wound was dressed.

Orient Dahlia won the Poppy Handicap on November 10 and the Trossacks Handicap on December 1 last year, distances being 1 and I mile respectively. At the Theatre; Industries has issued a

Federation of British annual meeting, he started three against the omission protest times. He won the Kalgan Plate of anand was second to Ramsbury (now industrial representative from the Rothesay)inthe... Committee appointed by the

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Sir.In his Circular dëspotch of the 17th of June. 1911, the lates Viscount Hurcourt lis- countanced attempts on the part of Colonini officials, to svak the insience of Members of Par- liament and others in this roun try as a means of bringing their services to the notice of the Secretary of State with a view in eonsideratica for promotion.

Lord Hurcourt pointed but that arrangements were in existence in the Colonial fico which ensured, due consideration of the claims of all suitable officers on the ecurrence of vacancies; and observed that the attempts which had been mide. to obtain promotion by irregular means not been of advantage to the officers concerned.

From recent correspondenco which has reached me I inves formed the opinion either int the warning issued by Ford Harcourt's directions is not now generally known or that the grave view of the practice taken by the Secretary of State is in- sufficiently realized-I-have to request, therefore, that steps may be taken, by the publication of this despatch in the Ginzette"" and by any other means avail- able, to warn public officers that a proceeding such as that which has been deprecated "will serve no, iseful purpose and, on the other hand, may actually be detrimen- tal to the interests of thos concerned,

ABSENT RECRUIT.

REFUSES TO HEED WARNING.

SIX WEEKS' JAIL.

Unbeeding repeated warnings, Chinese Police recruit persisted

absenting himself from duty"

before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the with the result that he was charged

Magistracy this morning

Inspector Paterson, Principal

In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS. October 4-Coronet Theatre; "Monte Cristo,"

October 4-World Theatre; "Lucretia Lombard."

The Affairs of Anatal." October 4-Queer's

October 4.-Star Sunshine Alley." October 4.-At Theatre Royal Government to decide the best Stakes. He has not run since Malini, the world's greatest

means of spending the British February; and with his unusually magician, 9.15 p.m.

share of the Boxer Indemnity light impost should be difficult to of the Police Training School, payments.

beat.

informed His Worship-after the Washington has never started man had pleaded guilty "that in his six weeks of service he had A meeting of the Licensing here. Board will be held in the Council

In the Twickenham Handicap, the last occasion he was told that been absent three times. After Chamber on Friday, November 7, on April 19, he was alloted 158 he would be brought before the considering applications for publi. Star and Sunstar. at 12.15 p.m. for the purpose of lbs., on the same mark as Rialto Magistrate if he was absent again. cans' licences, hotel keepers ad- has won once since, but the latter he defaulted, hence the charge.

The former Three days after the last warning, junct licences and restaurant kee has not been placed in three pers' adjunct licences for the year attempts! 1924-1925 under the Liquors Con. solidation Ordinance, 1911.

TORCHLIGHT TATOO.

October 9.-H.K.V.D.C., Grand! Torchlight Tattoo on Murray Parade Ground: 0:30 pm,

DANCES.

October 11.-Dance at the Peak Club, postponed to October 18: entertainment by Professor Mulini will be given instead, at 9.30 p.m. Club, 9.15 p.m.

October 25.-Dance at the Peak

SPORTS.

and 1917, when China's opium October 4.-V.B. reform reached high-water mark.quatic festival,

Annual.

October 1 and 18.-Fifth Extra

Club, a Happy Valley, 3.15 p.m. each day.

COMPANY MEETINGS. October 18.- Extraordinary

OTHER MEETING.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Major General Sir John Fowler returned by the P. and O. liner

Kashmir."

M

Washington's record in Shang- hai follows:---

5.11.23 Won Eclipse Stakes

1.1.24 Second

His Worship sentenced defend- [ant to six weeks' hard labour.- - -

(156 lbs.) 1 miles in 2.45 2-5 Practice, of course, may again It is welcome news to read, in a Race Meeting of the HK. Jockey

with Roman Parrot in the ruck, -paper-just-published by the inter-t

prove that failure to allot weights 6.11.23 Third in Rubicon Plate (162-lbs.)-14 miles-in-2:44-3-5 does not necessarily signify that beaten by Kupi (159) and Wood-winners are easy to pick. These in strict accordance with the book, national Anti-Opium Association in Peking, that many of China's leaders are still working whole-

LAND BALE.

land (149) (dead heat) by 2 lines are only intended as guidance heartedly for the cause. A thou-ne lot of Crown Land, at lokfirived on the s.s. "St. Albans" were beaten by 1 length, in the New October 6.-A P.W.D. Offices,Amongst the passengers who ar-

lengths. sand Chinese educators, we are um, 3 pm,

for those who follow form; to Ataman, told, met in Nanking, during the

Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Smith,

Winding-Up. Gallops. first week in July to discuss what

Year Handicap (1 mile) in 2.09 1-5

There was a record attendance steps should be taken in view of General Meeting of Douglas 8.8. Mr. A. M. Bowes Smith and Mr.

Mrs. R. Taylor, Mr. T. P. Bevan, with Kashmir, third, a neck away. at the race-course this morning to weakness for all the world to see. the forthcoming conferences to be Co., Ltd., at the Registered Office R. E. A. Webster returned by the ton 147 and Kashmir 158. In view the candidates entered for the Ataman parried 156, Washing witness the semi-final gallops of they may yet prove the League's called by the League of Nations. of the Company, 20 Des Vaux P. and O. Iher "Kashgar." DOWGLASS-On September 25, ultimate salvation. This sounds After a full discussion, lasting Road, Central, noop

of the weight alloted Washington coming two-day meeting, which at Chefoo, to Mr. and Mrs. rather like a paradox, yet it is

from July 2 to 9, the meeting October 20.-Third meeting of

in April, and bearing in mind that opens next Saturday. A. P. Dowglass, a son.

Dr. Chia Ship-ching, of the 14 miles appear to be his forte, recommended the following The China Sugar Refining Co., Government Civil Hospital, M.B, his present weight le surprising available, the "dolls" were up Though the grass-track was. TINGLE-On September 29, at pily established. Nobody has methods of procedure:-

Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder BS., (Hongkong) has been ad- unless a grave error was made which means that due allowance the Victoria Nursing Home, attempted to deny lately that the 1.That the (Peking) Associa-Street, noon.,

mitted as a medical practitioner in April Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. League has fallen into serious tion express its firm attitude. November 6. Further extra in this Colony..

must be made for the times William Tingle, a' daughter.

ordinary meeting of Douglas 8.8 H. E. the Governor has accepted disrepute. Even its most ardent

| against narcotics.

The "B" Class.

recorded. ELLENSKY-On September 29, supporters, if they have not con-all other educational organizations Central, noon.

2.That the Association ask Co., Ltd., at 20 Des Vieux Road

The first thing that catches Prince Regent, Dr. Kew's candi- at the Victoria Nursing demned it out of hand, as H. G. in the country to co-operate with

the resignation by Lieutenant one's eye in the "junior" race, not date for the Stakes, came in for a Home. Shanghai, to Mr. and--

James Ralston of his Commission to mention The Woodpecker good deal of attention, but his Mrs. Zellensky, a son,

Wells has done, at the very least other organizations to start an October 6-Annual meeting of in the Hongkong Vollinteer De-the inclusion of Gaudie and gallop tells us little more than we have been heard to express their November of this year.

anti-narcotic campaign

before the H.K.C.C. in the Pavilion, fence Corps, with effect from Durian, with the latter in receipt already know. His time for the

6.30 p.m.

September 30,

of 4 lbs. misgivings about its future. For That the Association show

last quarter, it is true, was the Durian has started seven times, best of the morning, but if there this they can hardly be blamed, its hearty support of any rules

Dr. J. C. Dalmaboy Allan has and only been twice unplaced, is any delay at the post he is very been appolated a member of the having won thrice and been second likely to wear himself out, Never- uational Narcotic Conferences re-

Dental Board and Dr. G.. D. Ron the other two occasions. His theless, at the moment, I see practical purposes, has failed-has, garding the reducing of the

Black is nominated to serve for a stake-money amounts -to $3,400, nothing likely to beat the "Prince" further period of three years with failed lamentably, with a com- cultivation of narcotic plants, and

effect from October 28. pleteness that it has been ask all other organizations to impossible to disguise. There is express the same attitude, LEAGUE PARADOX,

4.That the Association re-. The Federal Parliament of no denying that. Such small quest the Government to express Australia has passed the Canadian successes as it has achieved have its firm and sincere decision Tariff Bill, says a Router's cable: Among the world events, which been entirely lost in the shadow against narcotics at the Geneva ve figured in the week's newscast by the terrible blunders of decision known

Conference and also make this sibly none will have more last-Upper Silesia, the Saar Valley and throughout China.

to the people effects than those connected Corfu. Only the most exicting

the League of Nations. could have expecte

5. That the Association join League to with all other organizations and The Gazette announces thet usly enough, though

Use the implent and quickest way an election by the Justices of the Reparations

to chouse several delegates to Peace, for one of them to serve on revented the represent the people of China at the Licensing Board in place of these were the Geneva Conferences to express the late Mr. A. R. Lowe, will like nations con- the real opinion of our people and place at the Supreme Court at 1 atly refused to leave to also to back up their Government Dm. on October 31 Nominations

6.—That the Association appoint l are to be to by October 15,

The China Mail. Hitherto the League, for all that may be made by the Inter-

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The P. and O. Banking Corporation will open its new branch in Canton to-day.

"La Matin announces that a making earth-oil, by means of French professor has succeeded in vegetable and animal olls, E.

our

Instead of holding the usual bazaar, the Hong- kong Women's Guild and Ministering Children's League will this year hold a special children's : ters. This will take place on October 25 and a vory attractive programme is baing arranged. Details will be published next weekend

Gaudie has started nine times, as Hartfield, and Fernleaf both won three times, been second gave disappointing displays this twice and third once. In stakes he morning. Pencastle and Kashmir has won $1,750. It is, therefore, may make 'n race of it, but if a obvious that he should not be jockey can be found for Day of asked to concede weight to Durian Surprise, he is quite likely to show under present circumstances. a clean pair of heels, to anything The weight of Silverleaf (154 in the race. If the going is heavy, lbs.) speaks for itself. This pony of course, Spotted Sand will come has started nine times and on two into the picture. In all probability. occasions has just scraped into Prince Regent will be a red-hot third.

place

e in every moderata. favourite, on a reputation that he company...

has yet to justify, No pony on the course has been Roman Parrot, Satisfaction more, fully exposed, and to put Dahlia, Newton Abbot, and Groy him on the same mark as The Dragon all pleased the critics this Woodpecker is quite uncalled for morning and will pay to follow in. On his record, The Woodpecker Has their respective races, fuller Do mora justification im'¡B"«chas review must be left over until next than either Gaudie or Durian week.

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