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CANTON NEWS

TURF TOPICS..

JOCKEY CLUB'S DILEMMA 'WITH REGARD TO SUBGRIFFINS.

RECORD OF LAST BATUIT.

made for placing an order for subscrip- tion griffins for next year,

KOWLOON MARATHON.

[TROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

BANDSMAN HÄMAN GETS HOME BY NARROW MARGIN. THE NEW TAX ON CEMENT. Negotiations to settlement of the

LAST YEAR'S TIME REDUCED. The Masons Guild in Canton are sup- " Cotton Mill atziko sere successfully con cluded on February 20th and work was porting the Building Contractors Asso-

The ith annual Marathon Base,- resumed on the basis of the settlement cation in its protest against the dow

open to all Europeans in the Colony, reached.

A meeting of wemliers of the Rangkong-in gonnection "with the St. Andrew'a The

negotiation took place at the tax on imported cement, now already Chinese General Chamber of Commerce a subject of protest from the British and Jockey Clab is called for Friday evening Young Men's Club, took place at Kow- when, by special request of the opera-the Japanese Consular representatives into discuss what arrangements shall be on yesterday afternoon, being run over tives, the acting. Chairman of the Cham- ber Mr. Fang Shas Fah) met representa Canton. Since the imposition of this

a course of dit miles. tives of the Japanese mills.

new tax, the importers of foreign cement The various points raised during the strike were discussed at great length, have been reluctant to order further con and Cull agreement was arrived at. The signments, thus causing great, inconven- fallowing is a mary of the teruence to builders and contractors and, in Pupon which the agreement is based:-

(1) With regard to alleged acts of turn, affecting the masons and other crucity toward Chinese operatives on workers in the construction trade. the part of Japanese foremen, the February 8th the Masons Guild resolved Japanese millenners undertake strictly to enforce the ties for enreful and to petition the local authorities to repent bunne treatment of their employees this new tax, which imposen 40 cents on already laid. diwn, and severely to punish all cases brought to their notice each bag and 60 cents on each cask of and duly investigated.

foreign gnment, in addition to the usual. Re-instalment of strikers: all who r

pentant will be allow-Customs duty and likins.. d to retam 10

urn to their work,

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The latest war tax imposed in Canton

(3) Savings

Savings accounts: Bonuses will ia a production tax. on clay earthen,

far- paid out according to rxiating rules and at the appointed time.

(4) Fortnighly payment of wages as before, (twill still be necesAMTY to keep a fortnight's wages in hand, owing to the checking and accountanes involved).

SHANGHAI STRIKE ECHO. CHINESE EDITOR CHARGED.

It is generally admitted that the last batch were decidedly below the average and if only a sufficient number of members attend next Friday's meeting. it is quite possible that an arrangement will be reached by which subscribers next year will be given more of a run for their "than has been the case this money

Relow will be found a brief analysis of the performances of this year's ponies, and a comparison with previous years.

In my next nates, I hope to be in a

SONBON.

and cheap coarsi pottery wares, lines for position to give a resume of the manner in which supplies reach. Hongkong. It is which the towns of Pingchow and Sam-obvious that the U.R.J.C. is not recely slan.

near Canton city are fadtous..

The unfacturers of these articles, whying value for money and the Stewards have called the meeting for Friday in the are also workmen themselves, are con hopes that some scheme will be found plaining that the interaccine war of the feasible, by which a better class pony Fast two years has already much damag will be supplied. ed their business and further loss through additional taxes will be unbearable.

According to a report in the Carton vernacular press, a seret gang for the

THIS YEAR'S BATCH.

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The event was well contested, and was

won by Bandemini R. Hanian of the East. Surces's who completed the course in exactly 33 minutes, thus reducing the

in of last year's raw, whon Lient. ( Captain) CD. Amastrong, M... of the East Surrey's completed the distancy in minutes, 10 seconds-(13 seconds slower than Leading Seaman Bell ran it in 1923 and over five minutes/slower than A. Mair's win of 102). » seconds behind the winner last year, was GR.. More. who came in eight

looked upon us a likely winner of the Marathon this year, and he only just

failed in his attempt. breasting the tapa far-fifths of a second behind Hama.

Thure was a good attendance to ser the start, which was made in the most propitions weather conditions, although the course must have proved gruelling to

of the competitors under warmth of the sun.

the

There were 2 entries. and of these sixteyn were from the Army, one from the Navy, and one from the Police, th remainder comprising civilians. Of this manber there were eighteen starters, in- cluding A. Mair, the winner of the rat Kowl Marathon, who on this occasion only just failed to seeure & place.

Out of 2 ponies that were originally As the result of an article which ve

drawn for, 70 were in training just before cently appeared in the Minkaupan

the entries for the auntal meeting 'clused. Of these as were actually entered, but, Repulition Daily Neute) bearing on

Starting from, St. Andrew's Church the Japanese will strike at Shanghai Purpose of freeing former Chinese officials, up to date, only to base insed the starter

Ponies that have su far won races cor- door, the course was along Nathan Road, and which is allen! by the police to low living in retirement in Macao, has of an inflammatory character, Zasih bera organized. Members of the Triad. So-fined to subscription griffins are: King past the mortuary into Hemunting to Ta, the editor of that journal, who re-

Cacle Dick,. Mowgli, King Louis, Kowloon City, and from there returning Ptolemy, cently appeared before the Mixed Court city in Hongkong and the Kao Law Hui Poppy. Leaf, Two Pairs. Tadworth. Para unghom. Chathther Road, Middle Read, into Nathan Road, finishing at with the seizure of Bolshevik in Yunnan and Kwrichow have combined, ran I., A. B., Denson Bay ani Joc.

The facegoing each have one victory to the starting point... literature at the Shanghai I

University was again brought before dr. Martin is said to form this one, which is their credit. The snusesses of King Louis, and Magistrate art on February 2nd known at the Sheung Shug Tank, or Tadworth, A.B. and Joe were in events The accused war charged with using Beable Star Party. A report from in which previous winners either were

barred or took no part. Lex be published matter which tradet 10 cause a breach of peace and good order. Macan, appearing in the antón · Press,

Inspector Saltsther police offers

Sallbar told the Court that ne Fbruary 24th, says that n certain in company

Mr. Chang Mow; an ex-odivint from te a search of "the premises of the Miukrupan in mention of a Mixel Canton, has been just forend to grant a

that the

Court warrant.

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asked

case should be remanded to come before are of some $30,000 to this Double Star

Party, under threats.

the Japanese Axessum.

(Mr. Martin).

The Asesor.The Chinese workers employed in the Japanese wills are suffer or terribly than the devils in H" Isn't it true that many are still murning to work for 40 cents a day i

Mr. Covey the made an application

for bail.

OLIA

Schools of the old typ, in which Con-

man-

THE TIME TEST...

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covered the distance in 2.48.3-5: the time

THE RACE,

in 1993, when Diaden Dahlia won, was Haman and Mare made their final effort. Turning into Nathan Read for home, 9.53.9-6: King Cacute's time, last year About fifty yards from the tape, hoth was 06. I have no other times avail- able, hut it is safe to say, in view of the Haman managed to break it 10 yards or men put on a tremendous spurt, bri fe fast going this year, that Mowgli docs so in front of his opponent; Wood com- not come up to the average.

ing in a good third, 50 seconds later. The Hongkong Stakes (1 miles) was won by Poppy Leaf in 3.27.3-5. The time.

Following, the start all the effepetitars kept well hunched; running in a fine of twos until the turn past the mortuary. where More. Edwards, Mair, Hestorman The state of the course, diring the and Watson were well to the fore and enual meeting, was distinctly in favour had taken the bad from the rest. Prac of fast times being recorded, so that this tically the same order was maintained year's penis, if they are to be considered until the Kowloon City Road was enter- an average lot. should have registered ed. Here Haman took the lead, which times above the verge of the last 10 he kept until the finish, with More. Mr. A. Covey, for the defence, isked

steadily paring him immediately on his A BUDDHIST REVIVAL EFFORT: years. What do we Bed? if the Court world hear the case instead

King Ptolemy won the Wong Nei phong bryls and Edwards running third. Mair of ermanding it for the Laparoso

A ghanty for the revival of Buddhist Stakes (1 mile) in 1.02.3-5. The "times and Watson were running comparitively Assessor. He also asked the Court to earning has been organized in Cantoa since 1915 have been ded, 68: Speckles, level just behind. The sharp rise that order that the translation of the articl which had been nail by the palier should under the Tradership of Mr. Wong Yu1.00.4-5; Sol. 1.00.1-5: Ridgeway, 59,2-3 leads to the flat before reaching Hung- Victory Star, 01.2-3; Ludlow, 1.00.15hon, however, proved the supreme text compared with counsel's trazila Chak. Mr. Shen: Wan Shing and Mr. Tsim Mountain Stream, 1.00 Hurry Up, and incidentally practically decided the When the hill was breasted, Chup Hing, and this movement is being 102.25: Neston, 1.01.3 and Spearymas, race. the bench and we rend by, the Asses the city who are making a feature of

Copies of the article were handel, to assisted by the several book stores of last year with the focus it in 1.04.2-5. Human und More were still relatively in We can safely put King Ptolemy down as the same positions is before, but Wood not-up to standard.

had displaced Edwards; while "everal of the city's publications in their dis

Unele Dick won the Valley Stakes (6 | the tail of the field had given up, Buding. play advertisements. It is said that

Against 1.2.3-5 th it too much for them. Through. a few of the students of the leading furlongs) ip 1.25.as Chinese schools have already taken air 1-5; 139: 134; 11.36.4-5; 1.35.4-33 Hunghem, down Chathan Road and inte active interest in this Buddhist revival - 13355.4.5, 1.4296 for the Middle Roul, Haman and Mere jogged.

years 1915 to 1924.

steadily along, but Wood had dropped movement in Canton,

We must give Mr. Relyon's pony the some little distance to the rear. Newman The Assessor What garanter have fucianism and the old ancient Chinese benefit of the doubt, though the judgment came along fourth, about 20 yards be hind Wood, and air and Festorman we that the accused will not repent in

is ane of leniency. classics are preferred to the new learn-

We next come to the sub-grins Chal-' followed with fifty yards between them. citements of this sort until the case is ing, are still popular in Canton, and the tried

latest statistics of the Municipal Depar-longe Cup (11 miles) won by Mawg in The rest were either running in a strug-

2.48.3-5.

gling manner behind, or had already Mr. Copy--The comment of this bament of Education show that they num In 1921, Irish Stew's time was 2.40 1-3: fullen out to be picked up by the motors per is entirely against Japanese, It is ber 542 These are private schools bus they in 1999, Stephanotis (now Rialto Star) that followed. in the interests of justice that the case are supervised by the Department of should

not go before the Japanese Education. Acccording to the Coumis Assessor, as the accused has already pioner of Education, among, these, some peared several times before your Honare being well conducted and 183 acerptable, but the rest, 372, w be Mr. Covey wat on to say that there liable to being called upon to suspend were no fewer than three paperas

with similar articles which

altogether unless improvement in did not from the accused lat. from the strikers.

agement is shown. The

accused, in his paper, made the recommendation that the car of the

of Aspirin in 1921 was 3.20.2.6: Mosaic Following the race Mrs. Lindsay (wiła strikers should b

Tile, in 1922, overed the distance in of the Vicur), presented the trophies in... Intamed over to the Chamber of Commerce. In the transi

2.25.1-5 in 1993 Diadem Dahlia was clock-the St. Andrew's Church Hall to the tinu which the Court had before them there was not

At the Central Magistracy. Iefore ed in 2.28.2-5. King Canute's time, last successful competitors.. word mentioned about Mr. 3. R. Wood yesterday a luiter.

Leal, therefore, is scarcely up Lindsay wil it gave him great pleasure Before she did so, the Rev. G., R the Chamber of Chiamere

Poppy maker, charged with having wilfully Inspector Sullivan, in reply, said that damaged a wall at Taikoo Blocks. was

to the average.

to preside at the fifth Marathon race | two other""

papen were being prosecuted:

The Rialto Stakes (1 inile) went to Two presentation, organised by St. Andrew's The case

Fairs, whose time was 2.15.25. a remandel to be heard sentence to four months" hard labor.

Trish Church Young Men's Club. He thought fore the Japare Assessor. The band

Stew's time, in 1921, was 2.06 1-6; Stephan he could honestly say that the race had An unemployed Indian seaman Why ously paid by accused of $1,000

natiuwon, the following year, in 9.14.4-5 ; been the most interesting of any, sad bail remanded in custody before Mr. J. Diadem's time, in 1923, was 2.122-5 and they were grateful to the men who had and a further onder was made that 8500 Wood at the Central Magistracy yester Mountain Hawk in 2.0 last year.

provided them with such an exciting day charged with having caused injuries should be paid as a guarantee that no

We, therefore, cannot include. Two afternoon. He hoped, the number of more inflammatory articles should appear to another Indian sailor by hitting him Pairs in our list.

entrants in this annual event would be.. while the accusd was on remand.

on the bead with a heavy stick.

Finally we come to the sub-griffins maintained in coming years. They were „ Before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Cen-Demon Boy in 3.47.4-5. In 1922, Mosaicing this year, but they would like to

Champions (1 miles), won this year by glad to see mere Kowloon men participa tral Magistracy yesterday, Jong Tang Tile won this event in 240.1-5 Yellow se still more mea from Kowloon, Lloyd, a Chinese, managing director of River, the following year, covered the dia.although they always welcomed the mes the firm of J. T. Lloyd & Co. of No.

tance in 2.47.1-3. while Durian's time, from the other side.--(Applause.) 23, Wyndham Street, charged with bay last year, was 3.07.25. Demon Bay also, Mrk, Not since the filming of In Oiding embezzled suros totailing $22.000 it will be seen, fails to pass the test.

Liudsay then presented the trophies as ander?-- Kentucky has Anita Stewart had such belonging to the company was remanded Last year's times, of course, tell us a strenuous time on a picture us that until Wednesday morning.

nothing in view of the exceptionally heavy Chater, K, C.M.G.-Won by Bandaman Silver Cup, presented by Sir Paul which confronted her in the taking of The Invisible Fear," Louis B. Mayer-

Before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Centraling, and are merely mentioned in order R. Haman, East Surreys, Time: 35 First National attraction which comes to Magistracy yesterday, sentences of six this year's good a case as possible for minutes. the Queen's. Thedre to-day for an engage months' hard labour were passed on two

The times quoted are given on the pre- ment of four days. She raced over Chinese coolies, one of whom was charged sumption that the events named have hedges and terms fielda, plodded through with having stolen $80 from a money been confined to or, at any rate won by. rainstorms, battled furiously with Walter lender's shop and the other with having subscription griffins since 1921. MeGrail, and ww the central figura in a robbed little Chinese girl of a bangle. midnight burglary in a country home. Another coolic charged with having stolen Additional intrest so the programme a clock was sentenced to one month's will be added by the special engagement imprisonment with hard labour || of The Kitty Barlow Vaudeville Com pany which opens heweet day.

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The restrictions on the water supply, in force on the, mainland," had a Enquel nt the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, when three Chinese womasa were charged. with fighting near one of the street foan- tains. A dispute had apparently arisen between them as to who should use the fountain first, the consequence being a brawl. Mr. E. W. Hamilton fined-defen- dants $5 each.

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The fim version of Our Mutual Friend" should prove one of the biggest seron attractions of this sinson. Better than A Tale of Two Cities," this Dickens' story has the most absorbing plot of any of the English writer's works It is a mystery dory and has all the cle- ments of a good welodrama. The fact that the picture was produced in England and The case in which a young Chinem, à the east, filled by English actors accounis, guard on one of the launches in the of course, for le read Dickens flavour. harbour, was charged with being one of Perhaps the impersonation in the present the three persons who committed on east that is the greatest single hit is the armed robbery at Yzamati on the night Belia Wilfer of Catherine Reese. Any of January 22nd, fully reported in last thing more- clanningly feminine and Saturday's Daily Press, came before lovely than thi demure little English Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon actress has not been shown on the screen. Magistracy yesterday afternoon, "defend- The other memerë of the cast deserve not being committed for trial at the unqualified praise.

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JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP.

THIRD ROUND.

TROPHIES PRESENTED..

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Silver Cup, presented by Mr. W. S. Bailey. Won by Mr. G. R. More. Time: 35ming: 0.4-ABC.

Silver Cup, given by Mr. R. M. Dyer, M.IN.A.Won by Bandeman T. Wood, East Burrey's Time: 35mins. 50secs.

Mr. Lindsay also congratulated the winners on their success, and the loseta who had completed the course.

The officials were-Judges: The Reve GR. Lindsay and G. E. Arrowsmith and Mr..P. Sanda; Starters and time-këeperez | Mosers. Reed and F. N. W. Doodba

Cloak-room: Mr. Bannester; Hon. Secretary: Mr. "F.-N. W. Doodba.

Motor cars for the use of officials and presammen, were kindly lent by local re Hum.sidents.

A. E. Lissman w.o. L. S. Greenhill, scratched,

H. G. Hearty bent J. W. Franks, (2 and 1),

Major Milner Jones beat A. D. phreys at 15th.

A. Q. Brawn beat G. B, Hett, HAPPY VALLEY

FEBRUARY BOGEY.

R. Ritchie, 3 up,-wins- E. Moore, 2,.up.

6 other cards, i up. 16 other cards, all square,

ADAMSON CUP.

1ST QUALIFYING COMPETITION, 1924.

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LAWN TENNIS.

H.K.C.C. TOURNAMENT.

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The Hongkong Cricket Club Lawn. Tennis Tournament, was opened yes- terday, when one watch (in the open singles) was played off. The contestants were Messrs. 3. D. Alfres and 6... EL A Greep. After an exceedingly keen gama Alfree won (7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1).

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