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"VIYELLA

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INCONSEQUENTIAL BABBLINGS.

FROM AN OUT-PORT.

LOCAL RACING NOTES. REFLECTIONS AFTER THREE DAYS" RACING,

A FEW SUGGESTIONS.

{BY ARGER]

[BY "NON-SEQUITUR."') Ab! setau farn lail Master and Missic have come back! Chin-chin Master Chin-chin Missie " These are the words, spoken by an Asiatic of com

Now that the Erst three days of the fortable proportions and with beaming Annual Race Meeting hare beer, conclad- countenance, that force upon is the facted, it is timely to air the public's griov- that after six months of home lease in ances and offer suggestions to remedy aivilized countries and amongst civilized them. people we are back again in a small South China out-port far from the mad doning crowd. Tho' speaker, Ah Ching by name, registering on his usually placid dial something nearly appertaining to joy, seizes our bag, umbrella or goat, or what ever it is that one carries on these occa sions, and disappears in the direction of the servants' quarters there to warn the rest of the staff that we have arrived.

If we were to follow the trend of Ah Ching'a meditations, they would probably

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First and foremost comica the question of congestion in both the public' and members' enclosure. It has been pointed out to me that an unfair advantage is taken of the Stewards open invitation to the Ladies. Presumably the invitation is meant to be extended to the lady friends of members and the friends of those who pay for admisión to the public enclosure, Unfortunately the invitation has been interpreted to apply to all members of the weaker sex, with their

The cats of the public stands were littered with orange peel and well-chewed sugar cane to such an extent that it was well-nigh impossible to find a clean rest- in place. The litter undoubtedly was due to amabs and children.

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

Orders should be sent

In Lots of not

less than

1-toa Delivered to

Fote Reduction in Prices."

in writing not

by telephone

Peak District

(above Bowen

Boad), $24.00

per ton

Delivered to Bowen Road and Lower Lavels, $22.00 per ton.

Delivered to Kowloon,

$20.00

per-ton.

For-Price Apply to

at least 24 hours, before the Coal is required.

All orders must be ae- companied by Cash, Cheque,

or

Compra- dore Order payable to *The Kallan

Kining Ad- ministration."

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hongkong,

CHAMPAGNES.

G. H. MUMM CORDON ROUGE Extra Sec "Pints or Quarts

POMMERY and GRENO

at

MAGASIN GENERAL.

NORWEGIAN VAGRANT.

SENTENCED FOR PLAYING TRUANT.

Detention, was charged before Major C Willson at the Central Magistracy yes tenlay with being absent from the House." Chief Warder McLeod sa that defen- Complaint was general each day at the dagt had been allowed to go out on delay in posting the number of tickets Wednesday to look for work, and had sold on each pony. In view of the fact failed to return at the appointed time. that no tickets are sold after the order He had committed a similar breach of the is given to Go to the Post," these lists, regulations on a previous occasion. in the majority of cases, should be posted on the board long before the ponies re-desirous of getting work, and had gone Defendant pleaded that he was honestly

drawing of the sweeps should be avail to get back. turn to scale, just as the result of the over to Kowloon, but had not ten cents able to the public before the start of a race as long as the custom of stopping hard labour. sales before the ponies leave the saddling- paddock is followed

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SUPREME COURT.

CLAIM AGAINST THE "LING. NAM."

Before Sir Henry Gollan, the Chief Justice, in the Supreme Court yester day, a claim was made by the A. Honz firm for 81,711, in respect of work dotic to the .. Ling Nam which had been arrested following a writ issued by the Court as the result of an action brought

by the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock, Lttl.

tion and evidence was given that the Mr Somerset Fitzroy made the applica

work" had been carried out on the order steamship company which owned the of the marine superintendent of the vessel.

go something like this (though who am amabs, friends of the latter and an un- I to attempt to understand the deeplinited number of children, workings of the Oriental minda Q The remedy is simple-Each member's Joy!" he probably reflects, I shall he ticket should entitle the holder to two: able to raise the price of bamboo shoots tickets for ladies, with a similar rule in at least 5 cents, and if I tell Missie that the public enclosure. Najamaks er child- persimons are io cents more a cattie, ren, requiring the care of an amab, owing to trouble amongst the pickers, should be allowed in either enclosure. she will probably not inquire too closely. Ah Ching, you are a lucky man to be able to do the marketing again; out of the aquecze that you make you will prob- ably be able to afford a number 9 wife by the end of the year. Kwei Lin is a bed tempered old cow, and besides has The complaint with regard to the con- lost all her beauty-etc." Here we will gestion in the totalisator booths is more leave him chuckling fatly to himself, and difficult to cope with owing to the limited return to the voyagers who are thanking accommodation available. It is chiefly Heaven that for some time to come there due to people stopping to gossip in will be No more packing, no more the alley ways. Notices requesting non- farewells, no-more-bills "if I am able betting people to make more use of the to so misquote a favourite hymn. As a stands and enclosures might have the matter of fact, we seem to have chiefly desired effect. The arrangement, where- acquired three things during our wander. by winners' tickets are sold on each side lugs: (a) a varied assortment of luggage of the alley way is one of the chief lables decorating our

A Norwegian, named Einer Andersen, trunks and suit causes of the congestion at this spot; who was recently sent to the House of cases; (b) a host of bad debts; (e) a) but unless the paying-cut enunter is re- fierce and undying hatred for the Cus- moved to another spot, the present toms officials of America, and the laun trouble cannot very well be remedied drica of England. The first two items can with the limited space at present avail he got rid of in reasonable time, but the able. last never. Who is it among you that can forget (much less forgive the hours of profitless and misery-fraught moments sitting on one's trunk on some draughty landing stage waiting to have one's bag gage searched and having to swear by all that, one thinks holy that there is no whisky or brandy concealed in "one'a bathex, or gin (Gordon's or Old Tom) disguised as Eau de Cologne in one's scent bottle. Likewise that the rotundity of the man that one calls bushand is entirely due to natural causes and not to yards of Irish linen and old lace closely wrapped round his estomac? can we pardon the number of socks and Neither collars that never returned home from being laundered, the iron burn in the favourite pair of un-mentionables, or the beautiful shade of deep cream that has

Wednesday evening, with the result that Two cars collided near Blake Fier on taken the place of the usual whiteness of

one of them which was driven by a the rest of the garments Above all the hill-but why revive painful and useless

Chinese toppled over the Praya wall into memories? Thousands have to put up posted in the Members enclosure the harbour. Just as the car touched the for a lifetime with what merely distress going, is the question of the posting of rescued from drowning by a European Mutual Watch and Optical Company, el In close relationship with the fore-water, the driver jumped from it, and was attention to the times. On other courses in the East, the police officer. In falling, the car struck painters that we must have in the house times for each race are posted and left a sampan and badly damaged it. 'before all is peace once inore. The on the board until the day's racing ends.. Chinese painter is an expert leaving

On the local course, the time-board is ladders where one invariably falls orer removed as soon as the numbers for the their lower rungs; niso he dangles over next race are boisted. I would suggest flowing paint pots at impossible angles an the erection of a time-board at the back that at the slightest pretext they dis of the Judge's Box. gorge. their contents over anyone who happens to be passing below them at the time. One gets used to these minor in conveniences, but never, to the strong scent of garlic which pervades the at mosphere, or to the fact that they occa sionally in an absent-minded moment are likely to expectorate over one's best chair no doubt that it could be arranged by FORMER HONGKONG MAN SHOT. or window curtain. However, in time ve agreement between the Band Master and will settle down to the usual and ordi- the Clerk of the Court. It certainly nary existence in a small port, an exist-might soften the feelings of the losers if ence that has its advantages as well as they were played off the course after look forward for at least four years to its disadvantages and to which we can a bad day.

ed us for six months.

We must turn OWN

It must bo admitted that the coolies lists and also have often to worm their have some distance to travel with these way through a densely packed narrow

passage.

slower than usual and in one instance

Nevertheless, this week, they have been The Maiden Stakes the list of tickets sold on the place totalisator was never

He was sentenced to one month with

MOTOR "MISHAPS.

CAR TOPPLES OVER INTO THE"'

HARBOUR.

OTHER ACCIDENTS.

through being knocked down by a motor A small Chinese boy was slightly injured cyclist on the Praya East on Wednesday, He was well satisfied with 81 compensa tion.

Another public grievance is that the Band, strikes up "God Swe The King" A Chinese, knocked down by a tram- too soon after the conclusion of the last car at West Point was slightly injured, race. It is suggested that a final tane and an earth coolie, injured by a truck, might be played after the conclusion of was sent to the Kwong Wah Hospital. the last race. This is a matter that would appear easy of solution. I have

A HANDICAP PROBLEM.

KILLED IN THE PHILIPPINES.

The marine superintendent admitted that the work was done to his order.

His Lordship made an order in favour of claimants, the amount due to be referred to the registrar.

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ALLEGED FORGED TRADE MARK

SHANGHAI COMPANY ASTM

COMPLAINANTS.

That they had used a trade mark very similar to that of the "Pagoda Hosiery mark, was the case preferred against the No 1, D'Aguilar Street, before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yes terday, when the complainants in the case were the China Cotton and Silk Co., Ltd., Shanghai.

plaintifs; but Mr. C. A. S. Russ, who Mr. H. J. Armstrong appeared for the was to have represented the defendants was not present.

Mr. Armstrong said that the local agents for the plaintiffs were Mustard & Com pany. Shortly before Chinese New Year. the defendant Company advertised that they were selling. Pagoda brand hosiery at $1.90. The goods manufactured and were hot sold in Hongkong at leas by the plaintiffs were of the finest quality, than From 92.50 to $2.70 The fact that Pagoda hosiery was advertised no cheaply aroused the suspicions of the local A special dispatch to the Manila agents, and a representative went to the Bulletin states that on Sunday last Mr. defendant's shop and bought two pairs come unless the Bolsheviks turn us out

George MacClintock, formerly of Hong of stockings. While in the shop, the re- or some unlooked-for contingency occurs.

In the Phathon Handicap "A" Class, kong and Manils, who was owner and presentative noticed very inferior quality mate "squeeze

Fon Wednesday, the fact that Fantastic manager of the American Pharmacy in stockings bearing an identical chop to the out of the marketing. and before our next visit to Country will probably be able to affon to a good deal of argument

the Old in the Governor's Cup, has given rise ployee, were shot and killed by a picious and a pair of cotton stockings Alipiro Malonado, who then killed him were bought and sent to the plaintiff a number 3 wife, and be the father of

self. The motive of the shooting is not Company at Shanghai, who examined quite a númerous progeny.

In this special case I can see no ground mentioned in the brief message received. them and wrote back to the effect that for argument.

Mr. MacClintock, managed the pharmacy they were not the manufacturers, and the The "Conditions" contain no clause of Fletcher and Company in Hongkong chops must be forgeries. to the effect that penalties will be in- from 1918 to 1916, when he returned to curred in handicape by a victory subae-work again for the Botica Bole Mr. defence.

The case was adjourned to hear the, quent to the publication of the weights, MacClintock was a native of Key West, neither dhi Mr. F. Sutton (the Official Florida and Handicapper) so stipulate when he tram ed the handicap for the race in question. It is true that at extra meetings, the ditions." following clause is embodied in the "Con

Ah Ching will go on making his legita Dahlia carried no penalty, for his victor Zamboanga, and M. Raspal, an em-Pagoda." This made him more sus-

it!

Ainsi soit

THE 1923 TYPHOON INVESTITURE OF A SEA

* APPRENTICE.

apprentice, of Lee, S. E., was presented On February 4th, John Edward Snaith with the Board of Trade's silver medal

for life saving at sea at an investiture of

A pony winning a race after the publication of the weights of a Handi- cap and starting in that Handicap will carry & lbs. in addition to the weight allotted."

Buckingham Palace. A ship was sunk in a typhoon outside Hongkong Harbour in August, 1923, and Baaith, who wa serving on the British steamer Egremont Castle, was one of volunteer party who Conditions" for the Annual Meeting, No such clause is embodied in the launched a boat in terrife seas, and though admittedly it might well have succeeded in saving a Chinese sailor. The been included. Those who claim that rescuers found it impossible to return to Fantastic Dahlia had justly earned a their own ship, and had to drift until penalty quote Bule 92. on page. 18 of they got alongside the steames Force the H.K.J.C. Rules of Racing. It reads: Castle, and were picked up.

said:

WEATHER REPORT.

Philadelphia. He was about 45 years of studied pharmacy in age and is survived by his widow (of Spanish birth) and three children.

U.S.5. HURON:""

MISHAP DURING SOUTHERN CRUISE

THREE OF THE CREW KIDNAPPED. JUNK PIRATED.

A report has been made to the Police that a Hongkong fishing junk, which left for Tai Ping on February 20thy with a cargo of fah, was pirated laat Thursday át Sha Mi, in Chinese territory.

"Six men armed with revolvers boarded the junk from a sampan, and forced the Asiatic Fleet, which left Manila on the other two were released and ordered The U.S.8. Huron, flagship of the Chung. Three men were detained, while Eve junkmer to proceed to Sha Tan southern cruise several days ago, says to return to Hongkong to report to the limping into the harbour late on Satur the Manila Bulletin of last Monday, owhers that the junk had been seized! day with a propeller disabled

The junk is valued at $900.

PROPERTY SALE.

There shall be no allowances or

Neval officers were reticent regarding penalties in a handicap except penal- the mishap, but unofficial reports had ties for winning a race after the publi- it that the big warship might be laid ap cation of the weights, and in such event new parts from the United States and Company's Belesrooms yesterday after- a month or more awaiting arrival of At the Auctioneering and Brokering Last night's weather report, forecast

the penalties shall not exced 7 b and remarks by the Royal Observatory Burely the only interpretation of this ment of her scheduled departure for sold by order of the mortgagee

the delay might even entail postpone noon, a valuable leasehold property was Rule is that, in the event of the "Con- China waters in April. The "anti-cyclone remains stationary dition calling for a penalty, it shall nos 4 year ago, almost to the day, the 63 Bonhamn Strand East, has an area The property, which is situated at No. over South Manchurin, and moderate exceed 7 lbs "monsoon will continue along the South

Huren grounded on a reef of the of 679 square feet or thereabouts. The Now that attention has been drawn Palawan conat, springing several plates upset price was 80,000, and this waa East Coast and over the Northern Chips to this omission in the "Conditions, and necesitating quite extensive repairs advanced by two bids of $1,000 each and Bea

doubtless stops will be taken next year at Olongapo. As in her latest adventure, subsequent bids of $500 each until 30,000 Local forecast: N.E. winds, moderate, to provide for such contingences, if the Huron was able to return here under was reached, at which figure Mr. Yu

thought necessary.

her own power,

Ho became the purchaser.

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