FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1926.
SPORTS SECTION
LAWN BOWLS.
TO-MORROW'S FIXTURES AND NOTES.
SENIOR DIVISION STRUGGLE,
The following are the tures down for decision to-morrow ¦----
.ed.
Second Division. Indian R.C. v. R.HK. Yacht
Club.
Craigengewer C.C. v. Civil Ser-
vice C.C. Kowloon C.C. v. East Feint
R.C.
The Indians are down to receive
the Yacht Club. but as their ground is. I hear, still unit they may travel to Tolewan and try conclusions there.
* *
Cruizengower receive the Civil Service and on recent form are likely to be defeated. The Civil Service have quite a good chance to finish second in this division:
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BASEBALL TOUR.
PHILIPPINES TEAM HERE ON AUGUST 18.
THE OPEN AIR.
A NIGHTINGALE YEAR.
MULTIPLYING SPECIES.
Says a
Week
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THEIR STAR PLAYERS,
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THE
Home writer in mail
scene.
CHINA MAIL.
PRESENTED!
AN AMERICAN AT THE COURT.
VIVID IMPRESSIONS.
"I've never been so impressed in all my life. How do they do it all without any stops?"
It was thus In cager breathless.
ICE PATROL HEROES,
NO SHIP LOST SINOPELE
TITANIC TRAČ
نا
1,500,000-TON?
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS.
HONGKONG, AUGUST 6, 1926, 10.30 1.m.
Names.
The cutters of the Iceberg Guard in the North Atlantie have now! Anished their work for the year. T.T. on Londen
The sinking of the Titanic. by T.T. on Shanghai
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It is a nightingale year. In one parish, at least, where no nightin The "Philippines." formerly known as the "A Filipino Base gales have been heard for five or sentences, that an American deba-collision with an feeberg. on her six years, paiva have established tente summed up her impressions maiden voyage to New York in ball Team, composed of "star themselves in spots which challenge of the previous night's Court at April 1912, with the loss of 1,500 baseball players from the P. I. attention. One haunt is on a common
da. London. Buckingham Palace. will leave Manila on August 14, most popular for picnics, and be
souls, shocked the world, and the hartered Bank Hey yes, sparkled as she recalled maritime nations at once began to Mercantile Bank, A. & B. on board the Empress of Asia"tween two much frequented roads., the excitements of the evening. take action against a recurrence of
do. en route to Yokohama, and will Another close against a lodge gate.
"We just arrived as if it were for anything of the kind.
P. & O. Bank arrive in Hongkong on August 16. Unmistakable, though only a single an ordinary party, only, of course, This resulted in the International Bank of East Asia
The "Osaka Mainichi," a news- note is uttered the deep throb it was much more gorgeous, and Ice Patrol, which has been so ad- Marine InsuPENCER, paper in Osaka, has invited the reaches your car even if you are after that there wasn't a hitch for mirably carried out by the United Canton Insuranes Taikno, R.C. v. Club de Recreio: team, and is providing all the coursing by in a not
too silent single, Instant. I was going to States that not a single ship has his Underwriters expenses during the tour in motor. "Thousands of holiday be impressed but it was all far, been lost through collaton with an North China Insurance. Japan. The first game in Japan makers must have heard them for far beyond anything I had expected. iceberg In the last 4 years.
Tinion Insurance With the completion of the will be against the famous team the Arst time. Residents have been
In the Throne Room. First Division fixtures, there are of the "Keiko University", of alleging during the years of museat in the Throne Room all the
Yangtze. Insurance "We came early and so I had a
Fire Insurances. only four junior games to be play Meiji. Tokyo.
en dearth that the cause of Opportunity will, however, Mr. L. R. Ildefonso has made disappearance was the little owl. time, and could watch the guests ne doubt be taken to make pro-arrangements with the "touring They visualise the
The coming in. gross with the various other team to play three games during throbbing song at twilight, when "One thing struck me--tho jewels. 1,800 miles before they are a dan competitions now running. the, stay in Hongkong. The first general silence began to return, the We have some,beautiful gems at ger to shipping.
game to be played is against picked car of this little robber owl home, but nothing could be finer The danger exists, from. March South China who are the cham-skulking in the elm hollow, the still than some of the jewels I saw last to the end of Sune, and it is during pions of the colony. This will tight straight to the signal song, night, she said. About half a dozen this period that the Ice Patrol per- take place on August 16.and then the tragedy. Such things Women seemed to be, covered with forms it's invaluable duty. The " The second game will be on the mar befall; but there is little eff jewels from head to feat.
two cutters keep an ever changing Oriental Navigation August "Helena" who are the champions brown owl was seen to swoop on white dressed like their daughters. miles, and sead constant radio Star Ferries
17, against U. S. S. dence. In the same district a "Ever so many women wore record of all the ships within 400 Shell Transporta of the U.S. Asiatic Elect. The pen blackbird or her ngst; but But there was colour too, dots of warnings of ice. derelicts and Water-bonta third game will be on August 18, no one has ever known the littles and feather" fans and bouquet.weather.
Reineries. against a picked team of Hong-low) take a "nightingale, and later The great thrill came, of course, In fact, as the current issue of China Sugars kong
evidence is rather more in its when was presented. I could the "American National Geographie Malabon Sugars | The visitors include Regis and favour than earlier. At any rate hardy breathe. But I think I did! Magazine" points out. the led +T
Birtulfo who are known as "sure this pour the owls and the nightin-my curtsey quite correctly. I'd Patrol acts as a trule officer, and
Mining. battery. Nothing that can be gales are both common, and unseen so many people before me that keeps vessels bound East and West Kallan Mining Ad
Renguete said about Santos, Tombe, and occasion sing antiphonal songg close didn't really feel nervous. in'their proper ranks, Bidding them Langkats (Combined).. Birtulio, whose "pitching is dis-together.
"OW And after it was all over chunge their courses if there is The game of the afternoon wibcribed as "penches," Wine do What the Weather Boes.
there was the supper. I won't for- danger. be at Kowloon, where the Cricket justice, as they have to be seen The feet of changing weather get that either. It was delicious."
The Biggest Iceberg. Club receive the East Point Club. to be appreciated.
Jon deerent migrants is very differ-j Fashions of the momens are well Last season un experiment The "bicals will be out to reverse
nt. The very first martins I saw, adapted to a gorgeous State une destroying icebergs with high the decision at the last meeting
I saw building.
i went to work within a day embroideries, and jewel trimming though charges containing 210lb. of
They most cer- tion.
fabrics. glittering plosives' "was carried out. but when the East Point. at home. won' comfortably. Whatever the
or two of their arrival, and nests are more impressive when assem-TN.T. were buried deeply in some result to-morrow the margin will, I am stre, not be much.
the road was dust of the right con- than the,, plainer silks, and satins exploded, the result was very dis sistency. seductively, ""tacky," asp?? even brocades" of Edwardian appointing. It has to be remember-
F.K. & W. Docks Peyclists say of their rubber mix-times.
ed that only one-eighth ia berg New Engineerings Rongkews*** woman with several atten- is above water, and that immense shanghai Docks ture, and not to be resistent. I do not know whether such weather dances at Court to her credit ex- and costly mines would be neces Lands Hotel & Bidzs Although the Australians added prevents any birds from building pressed the view that the gowns sary to make much impression on to their overnight score in their as it prevents masons--but it is this season are more magnificent the huge male,
R.K. & S. Hotels (old).. match against Warwickshire. the often fatal to those who have al- than any she remembered on 2
On April 13 last year one of the rongkong Landa
do.
(new) supposed wenker team made already built. I never found" more previous occasion.
cutters had the unique experience. fairly good reply and may save the deserted nests than on the eve of
of sailing into a field of ice, where K. Territorial
A.K. Renity ¡the hot spell; and most of them
14 large bergs were in sight at one Humphreys Estates Birmingham. August . contain egg. Are the finches-
time. The biggest berg an far en Princes Building Position overnight: Austrait, though among the lustiest and.
countered was first seen on May 26. Rural Lands 1st inpings 417 runs for 8 wickets, most numerous of our home species Ponsford 144, Woodful, $1.-- War---rather more sensitive than others;
in this regard. At any rate, the Second day's play-
desertions were chiefly amang There were 8,000 spectators to-jthaffinches and greenänehus. day. The weather was glorious. A Thrushes come third on the list. good wickel" was available.
You would expect the grouns-next- The last twe AustraHan wicketsjing birds to be the worst sufferers: fell for
an additional 47 runs. and perhaps in the meadows and ringing the tota: to 464 runs.jon the tilths they are. But the H. L. Hendry (who was out of the larks and meadow pipita
on the
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Taikoo are at home to the Club de Recreio. Onlust Saturday's results when the Portuguese beat Craigengower and Taikoo went down to the Civil Service, it would be hard to predict the result, but the conditions will all be in favour of the home team.
LEAGUE, TABLES.
The following are the positions in the League to date:
Division 1.
Taikoo R.C.
Kowloon Dock.....10 7 Craigengower C. € 10 -7 Civil Service
P. W. D. L. P. 2 16 .10 8 0
03 14
0
3 14
10
4
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Polier R.C.
10
1 1 8 X
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Shots for und Ägainst...
... 655 520 135
THE AUSTRALIANS.
2ND DAY'S PLAY AGAINST WARWICK
FAIRLY GOOD REPLY.
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(Single) Shanghai Exploration Shanghai Loan of Raubs
Tronch Mines Ural Caspiang
are already finished. The mad in bled in the form of a modern gown of the bergs by a landing party, and
1 59field for a part of the season on commons flourished without dis- account of illness) made 52 not out.jcoverable exceptions. Some com-j E. P. Hewetaon, the Oxford Lui-mons and pastures are now alive versity fast bowler, took wiekets with young larks, pipits, and plover. for 83 runs. Qupile, the veteran
For Agat Up Do.
--Taikoo P.C...
Kowloon D.R.C. 586 533- 53
Craigengewer C.C. 614 565 49
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Civil Service
550, 580:
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Kowloon B.67
Police R
525 602 492 632
Division II""
P. W. D. 1, P.
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7 1 3 15
Taikno R.C.....
.10
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| professional, was responsible for 4
wickets but he gave 18 runs.
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Eggs Lying About..
One always finds at this season
a certain number of eggs lying
Warwickshire then batted. When about promiscuously where no nesta stumps were drawn, their score
Play continues to-day. To savej the follow-on Warwick need a total ** of 315, or 17 runs more.
are. A neighbour assured me that stood at 298 runs for wickets. the larka had begun to lay on his 077 Parsons made 20 and Smith 390.-lawn; but an investigation of the 0139 Reuter.
event revealed only a sparrow's egg dropped there in the birds' hap- hazard way. Single eggs of the starling much the most careless of birds, are more than usually common. The vitality of these two species is such that they have been able to surrender most of the pre- cautions by which tenderer animals' secure their existence.
The spar rows now build anywhere and any- how, defying any sort of conceal-
East Point R.C.10 7 0.3 14
07
077 6
Club de Herreio ..10 3 1 Craigen gower C. C. 10 3
R.H.K. Yacht Club 10 3 0 7 6 Indian R.C.
K.C.C. CONCERT.
SATURDAY'S OPEN AIR
PROGRAMME.
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Mr. Lucius L. Moss has been elect- ed Commander-in-Chief of the Sona of Confederate Veterans mesting av Birmingham, Alabama.
SUN'S PHASES. $
Calendar for August. Sunrise and Suneet in Hongkong "The Kowloon Cricket Club will meat and composing nests with for August, 1926. (Standard Time hold an open-air concert in the little cohesion or shape. The star of the 120th Meridian. East of For Agst Up Dn.club grounds on Saturday evening.jpgs dispense-more-and more with Greenwich).
Everyone will hope that it is nesting material of any sort or Date. favoured with better weather con-kind; and both species lay more August ditions than was the last.
eggs than they mean or attempt to
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602 552 50 Civil Service R.C. 661 630 - 21 Craigengower
... 568 580
R.I.K. Yacht Club 504 822 Club de Recreio... 539 618 Indian.R.C...... 439 621
Inter-Departmental Contest.
Whether permitting the second game in this competition will be played on Sunday when the Public Works Department meet the Pri ...son Department. The game will
be played on the Police green, starting at 3.30 p.m.;
Last Sunday the Sanitary De- partment won comfortably from the Police and "qualified to meet the Revenue Department in the
semi-finial.
The Prison team for Sunday will be chosen from: McLeod, Johnson, "Wiltshire, Buchanan,
and Randle,
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The Public Works team will be Sara, Carpenter, Tocchi, and W. E. Hollands (skip).
und Mr. Koka Shipetf.
almost a general rule that increase Song: Selected, Mrs. 7. Ein numbers involves some change Lawrence;
of habit. This week numbers of Humorous Song, "Turned Up" swifts have been dipping over the Mr. Oscar Eager;
lawns and gardens along with both Solo. from "Madame Butterfly." swallows and martins, with which
they have a little,real affinity Madame H. M. Valtarino;
Cleonical Dance, "The Fisherman except in exterior-as the dend and The Pearl," Miss Mura Shipoff nettle with the stinging nettle. And their nesta will be less remote Selections by The Lyric Orches- than in days when they were hard to. And much below the level of the Exhortation, Mr. R. E. Lindsell; church tower. We no longer asso- Song. Selected, Mrs. FE. ciate them, in flight or domicile, with altitude, Doves again are Lawrence;
Humerous Song, "Hitiddly-I-ti very numerous; and associated with their multitude is a greater Island," Mr. Oscar Eager:
Song. "The Call," Mr. J. C., Lyal; punctuality in the date of arrival. Saxophone Duet, Mesara, H. Duncan and Remedies;
Its topmost pinnacles were 267ft. in height, and were visible 20 miles
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CAMELS.
58 ANIMALS DESTINED FOR NEW YORK.
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Hongkong Amusements.
H.K. Developmenta
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by the Japanese steamer Nanyang Tobaccos Chosan Maru.
Peak Trams fold) going to Aden in the first instance Sinceres
They come from Peking and are do. (new) for treatment, and will be shipped Singapore Trams thence to New York. for zoological Taxis purposes. The animals were ship-United Asbestos pod through the agency of the Grimes Forwarding and Express Company, Rue de France, Tientsin, Watsons (old)
do. (new) and they were accompanied by Mr. Rogers, an American gentleman.
Wm. Powells Shipping the camels was not al-HK. Telephone together an easy task; many want on boardship soberly and con- Aldently enough but others were de- cidedly obstreperous (it is said two overbalanced into the river) and Mr. P. C. Grimes and Mr. T. J. Cooke were working to a late hour on Tuurday night seeing their dikk usual shipment safely on board the veasel which sailed early.-"Peking
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The programme is as follows: Selection by The Lyric Orches.
Other Particulars.
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The Royal Hongkong Golf Club's captain cup. for August, will be played at Fanling from to-morrow (Saturday) till Monday.
d'Almada.
where.
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ter County Court yesterday, Mr.alout Stephen Bull, a dairy-farmer, domard an asked for a new trial of the case on Bngapore......
rs. Ludovici, wife of Mr. J been granted an order for posses- few days' illness, in Colombo, of in which the Corporation had Un demand... Ludovici, Superintendent of Police, sion of the house he occupied In Minster Street. When the case Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Burkill left war called Mr. Bult asked those in Solo from "Aida," Madame H. M. FRIGHTENING IN THE NIGHT. for home on the 28th ult by the court to kneel, and, doing so him-]
CRY in the night, griping pains Canadian Pacine Haer Empresa self, recited the hymn, "O God, Sovereigns (Back's buying rate) 3.01 Character Dance, "Hungarian A in the vitals, cramps, weakening of Russia. Mr. G. A. Johnson, of our help hi ages past," the Lord's silver (per Gipsy Dance," Miss Mure, Shipoff diarrhoes; whether ehlid or adult, thero the firm of Lester, Johnson & Prayer, and the Benediction.r Biver in Honfleung 0 % pane and Mr. Koka 'Shipoff.
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be Goda was afterwards dismissed.
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