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RACING

NOTES.

[By RAPIER.J

Fourth Extra Race Meeting. The Race Book is uhrendly out fu the above Meeting and the entrand are usually good. The prosomes. of several ponies from Maeno udda fa the interest and uncertainty of

the raring. My selections for the various raves will be published ven Saturday morning...

Valo.

Ms. R. J. Paterson and fun son Burgess are Laving tomorrons and the Empress of Carodo for Home on holiday Mrs. Paterson is omasually keen hanting Clauntswoman sounds better bu

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 31st, 1927.

ABOLISH THE RICKSHA ! THE "GANGES MARU" IN

COOLIES' PITIFUL LIFE.

A PENANG OPINION.

lu an editorial, The Penong Garette pleads for the aboliton of de riesha as an anachemism, as

follows:

TROUBLE.

BROKEN RUDDER AND IN

TRACK OF TYPHOON.

SAFE AND NOT NEEDING

HELP.

WHAT YOUTH IS

THINKING.

OPINION OF THE MODERN BOY.

ARTICLE BY 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL STUDENT,

The As, Arners while on ʼn voyage. here from Takn Bar giả Shanghai,

What think of the modern is the subject of an article picked up a wireless message from boy, the 9.8. Gangre Mars which stated year-old student (who has just gone by Miss Mollie Chamberlain, a 19-

that her rudder had been broken, to Oxford), which appeared in the Her position was Lat. 21 dog. Western Weekly News last month. Her criticism of the modern boy is min. N. Long, 115 deg. 7 E. As

very provocative. sistance was not required.

Most Europeans coining East for The Brst time have experienced an unplenannt sensation on first rid ing in a riesha It conflicts with their notjans of the essential digoily of man, whether Europena. Chinese Hottentot or Pigmy, to see fun acting as beast of burden. Ther arises to a feeling that ! un in the shafts of a varriage unfortunately, is not empreet) andjeontaining a human being is a statutich supporter of fat racing.

physical strain which he can with Burgess is also a fearless 2 saate jatalionlay endure.

Therefore it is rider and worthily upholds for an uncommon thing to me a Euro ship to pick up her wireless mes Jamily wing traditions. It is fortunate that Mrs. Paterson 19 goug away in the off sens in bib she will nevertheless he very thi The sentiments soon wear aft missed when hunting and paring The new.comes discovers that no out Marts again.

peaker

his fast rica ride bid King the coodie to walk and not to

The Gunges Mars is one of the largest of the O.S.K. freighters.

he was. lying, up to a late hour. last night, near the Pratas Shoals, in direct line of the typhia,

The s.s. Jemax was not the only

Miss Chamberlain, who is a bril, liant example of the clover modern girl, writes:In the Latin tongue, the word juvenis meant equally yourh or "warrior." Shakes peare had the same idea of youth

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THE PRINCE IN SMUGGLER-

LAND.

GHOSTS WHICH HAUNTS HIS NEW HOME.

GIPSY NEIGHBOURS.

The largest gipay encampment Surrey will be the nearest neigh- he settles down for the summer bature of the Prince of Wales when

the in the Duke of Sutherland's romanticnlly situated house Pitch Hi

at

Five square miles of densely wooded tablelaul, known as Huri Wood, back the house, which crowns. the southern escarpment of the North Downs more than 100 feet. above son level. Every clearing in the forest bears tangible evidence of the presence of the Romany race. lite smoke from grump-fires crts.

As essentially netive and warlike, lastween the real-stemmed pine tires, and homely tents, caravans, when he said in Henry V.,

and other horses are sert on every side,

Now all the youth of England is

on fire,

And silken duiliance in tho

wardrobe lies."

The swashbuckling toysterer of the past, however, was effectively swamped in the wave of Victorian

sage, the first indication that she was in trouble being received by the Empress of Vaundy. At 9.30 jn.m..yesterslay H.M.8. Thracian

With sent to her aid, The Nespectability; and, when at last She and Burgess walelse feels as he does and that the Merce and the tug Henry Keswick youth once more struggled to the enry with them the best wishes friesha is the only cochieht say tharnais fuit Hong Kong to stiind surface, it took as its hero either i

all their connected with la af rising for a pleasant holiday and an early return to the low! field and trul

THE DERBY.

SLIGHT INJURY, TO THE FAVOURITE.

ĮLAROVON REUTER'S KOBSON!

While

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of making short joururys. In a very short time the new comer looks upon theritsha paller as an essential of the East.

Is It Essential?

by

The 5.8.

President Madison an her way from Manila wirelessed for agents here that she was charging her course to go to the assistance of the Gauge Murn, The Madison which was due to arrive here yes day at 2pm, cam in last night.

at about 11.30 pan.

■ Noel Coward or Douglas Fair. banks,

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The modern boy is, like all his male ancestors, a constant proof of the Darwinian theory that one must have individuality above all things.

1n company with the modern girl, the youth of today has to endure & great deal of discussion

and adverse criticism. Our rever ed ølders seem to find as incapable of thought on any subject deeper that the Charleston.

Bal, considering the matter in all at aspects, is the riesha ant satial Cul we in the first pl finally rad our minds of the idea that drawing a riesha is a degrading occupation for a human index. The cooles themselves in

Later Reports. Constipajority appear and muscious

Later reports recrived from the at ramr position; they are on th

Yet you will find many of us local offers of the 0,8, K. states whofe a inest cheerful and evntent-

standing for hours lo se Shaw, en booking set of men.

that the Gangra Marn was safe Galsworthy, Or The Constant But the onus of deciding rests i

Nymph. It is true that the Fair. us 41 is we and that she did not need any as them Iul

banks type may prefer - No, No, sistance, having effected repair, hat su did his fathers: and was proceeding on her course,

¦ The criticism we have to face is not This report corroborates the wire alt unfair, but there is anther side less message received by the the question. Bruens. From the previous T ports, was evident that the Ganges Marn loud met with severe weather soon after having long Rong for Takao (Formosa).

NEWMARKET, May onh.

Newmarket Railway station this morning, being band; we ploy the in this way and to the Derby, the favourite au bat as he us to reeunesle this employ- Pay ferne resiless and sipped me with our os laumanitarian |

slightly grazing himself.

The horse, however, was quite weil and with entrained with thei other Newmarket horses,

THE CALCUTTA SWEEP.

PRIZES BIGGER THAN EVER

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY, į

Bombay, May 2001.

It is understand, that the total of the Calcutta Sweep on the Berly which will be available for dis tribution, will be over £370,000

JULOUPE SPOILA.

The Working Life. Sone will pretend that 17 we reted temps esta colies as such they would starve. This W Fun not believe. There are manga industries and occupations in Bre

Alalaya b. bear all the Lista contes if the absorption we organized in the proper way. The Duich do not employ riesth ecomes in haere enlonzes--certainly ata, in Sasutra- but they do not suter from a glut of labour.

Thru there is the question of the working life of the toole kinseit

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it

The Ganges More is a freighter of 4,388 tons gross, having a length over all of 313 feet, a beam of 49.9 fort, while she draws: 28.3

jeet of water.

FARMING THE WASH.

We have 11 on good authority that ALAYOR OF KING'S th Hake working hfe of a rusha coolie does not exceed teni

The older of the ticket drawing yours. If he were employed in The winning horse will get about Bother industries his period of use- Bies,noo, the second about £84,900, † huess would be doubled. and the third touf £42,000. Bhawers of other horses will get ah-u $1,000 each

INTERPORT CRICKET.

TRIANGULAR TOURNAMENT

SUGGESTED.

MALAYA AND SHANGHAI TO

COME HERE?

And is riding in a riesha a desir

the

VISION.

The modern bay was at school when his ekler during the war,

others, who should have licked him into shape, were far away. When at last some of them came back he was too far gone to be rescued.

No One Normal.

The old order changeth." The modern boy has seen that in times of crisis age has often to depend on youth. No one is normal yet 101 is as near as ever it was and the modern boy, whose nerves five proliably never recovered from the LYNN'S Shock of his early childhood, has

taken the only possible line defence.

FERTILE PLAIN FROM THE SEA.

able mode of propulsion! They of A fertile plain extending over our readers who are not too harden- what is now the Wash, and hem ed, let them consider

of the principal food using one pleasantness of sitting within a producing areas of the entry, is fual or se of a alt-naked and the vision of Colonel G. G. Wood- sweating coolie. "Besides, a riesha, wark, the mayor of the Norfolk for any distance, is distressingly town of King's Lyan. slow. It takes an hour, at least, Lo

six miles. When trams you are enclosed in a stufly and leaky

The Alternative,

box.

What, you will, ask, is the alter native i Cross the Straits

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few inches bu

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Twenty minutes' walk through the wood from the Pritee's retreat stands the Firtle portable school hour in which the Surrey County Council are making the Gest serious

pt by any English local autho vity to educate gipsies.

The Hurt Wood gipsies are for Bee most part a low-abiding people, The school, thanks largely to the forts of Mr. and Mrs. Milner, the beadmaster and his wife, has heady accomplished a lot of goud is filled work. Three times anily with enger, swarthy skinned pupila. The children attend in the morn ing and afternoon, and in the even- ings you may se veteran gipsies

of three score and ten struggling

with the Three Rs or listening with rapt attention to geography or history lessons illustrated by the cinematograph.

Romantic Pupil.

One of the junior pupils, a gipsy boy named Sayers, is certain to attract the interest of such a

sportsman as the Prince, for he is

said to be a direct deserndant of the great Tom Sayers, who fought the historic fight with Heenau over) half a century ago.

Romantic associations of snag

and snuggling entre round

the Prince's new summer home. There were wild nights there a cra tury or so ago, for one of the host known stangsters tracks, which passi

l through the hidden ways Sussex, ente through Eshurst, and crept up Pitch fill, through a deep unk lane, just to the western side of Summerfold, and these theagh Hurt Wood, where in stilli is the name of the Smugglers Road, down to the village of Shere.

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The writer declared that boys have no longer the spirit of venture

"the that lived so splendidly in Drake

Nelson touch." The modern boy, he said, would not go wiling "on uncharted reas."

The following from a Shanghai Malatea to Medan and you will and considerable tracts of marsh has preped through the satirient and Ralegh-they had lost

contemporary will be of interest to Hong Kong cricketers.

armour, and sympathy bas struk gled with self-control.

was particularly surprised at the brad muster's remarks, for whatever extraordinary nations en- ter the minds of other masters and

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CHERA is no werly or anstety mi resing Baby healthfully and happily, even in a tropical climate, when Glasn is used as Baby's food.

Glaxo is the innd that has been used 16 year the children in live Royal Nutseries Court Physicians see that Roval Babies have the best and must-nourishing....{ccā...... thats why Glaxo has been chosen.

Give your Baby Glaxo, and watch the difference after a few days see how restiully he sleeps, how contented he is and how stendly be increases in weight. Ask your Doctor !

Glaxo

The Vitamin Milk-Food

"Builds Bonnie Babies" IW. R. LOXLEY & CO., SOLE AGENTS,

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Its

Scotch Whisky

QUALITY REIGNS SUPREME

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THE DISTILLERSAGENCY !!

EDINBURGH :

SOLE AGENTS:

to come to Shanghai daring May, Instead of the discordant pell of Dart, it is stated, are "ripe" for and less jaded than usual in the mistresses, the hende smally seem GANDE. PRICE & CO.

Wanted Spanking.

to be amongst the understanding; ones of the earth.

Charleston-Youth's Last Kick. Has it occurred to him since, I

wonder, that the modern boy flies through unknown skies? that, week after week, a modern Icarus is kill- ed in his search for high adven-

HONG KONG,

MOST PRECIOUS STONE.

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Other, and older, ghosts haunt the michbourhood af Pitch Hill w the shades of evening steal are the Sarry Wrald. The Princ He has built round himself a

will so from the loggia before his wall of impudence and cynieistn to

Forse the law of the old Roman hide his feelings. He cannot talk

Trailway that

From Romant of patriotism" in the loud strains of the Elizabeth us or the Vie Wood, on Stane Street, in a norib. westerly direction, to the Romano- tarians, as he is none the less British camp on Farley Heath. sincere and loyal,

This track, which has often He is as reserved with his resounded to the tramp of the Digion; it a well-meaning gentle Legions, passes within a few hun man goes up to a modern boy (as dred years of the Prince's now For many years Culonel Wood-i wark has been one of the advocates did recently to my brother, bome.

and asks pathetically Have you of reclamation of that area overheen saved?" the reply will he a which the sea now runs to a depth cheerful grin: varying from several feet. Slowly but steadily Sentimentalism has no place in the work of rescuing this area from modern life, but there have been the sea has gone on year by year, moments when the heel of Achilles There are no riestas there. land have been turned into fruitful Instead there are next little pony

acres. The most recent stretch of SHANGRAI, May 23th. Carriages. Each pony carriage will

sea bottom to be added to the area

One Sanday morning last spring, The visit of the Hong Kong la

carly two or three if necessary.

of England is about 300 acres in ex- I took a walk in Hyde Park. terport cricket team to Shanghai The pony zes twice as fast as a

tent on the right bank of the Ouse. There was the usual crowd, look this year has definitely been aban

risha and there is a wide awning

Another 1,000 acres in the same ing, I thought, a little cleaner doned. it was flong Kong's turn

to keep off the rays of the sun. but in view of the unsettled real the coolie clearing the way, there reclamation, and the supporters of clear sunshine that comes after an

this development want, the whole English spring shower, conditions, Shanghai

is the musical clinging of the bells, problem to be tackled on a big scale, suggested

As to the relative cost, there is that the visit might be deferred till

It is statoil that the cost of the aution.

nothing in it.

reclaiming the Wash might be as Being a girl, I was most interest- Hong Kong replied in the effect

much as £10,000,000, but its aded in the men, and I was amazed at that as a team from Singapore

vocates contend that if this work their pale complexions. Most of would be visiting Hong Kong in

were carried out by the Govern them wanted spanking, and putting ment the initial cost would be re-to bed with Malted Milk every the autumn, it would be difficult to arrange for Hong Kong side to

paid by the high value of the land, night for months! came to Shanghai, and instead, an

for which remarkably high prices invitation was extended to Shang-

are obtained. hai to send a team to Hong Kong

Great Drainage Scheme.

To die with Sir Richard Gren at the same time as Singapore, in the road. order to make a triangular contest.

The river has brought down richyan was their comment on life ville in a splendid fight against the magnificent Spaniards is certainly We understand (says the N..

soil and deposited it in the Wash, and the world in general,

The other type was even more heroie; but the sickening drop, and merchants are being besieged by West End jewellers and diamond. Daily News) that a provisional

but is silting up its course, with acceptance has been went to Hong

more frequent over the Fenlands. they were hearty youths," lauds about your formen to death in diamonds, are now perturbed by tions of diamond merchants that the result that floods are becoming terrible, and inuch less anush the white bugers of treacherous people who, having invested capital Kong, and in the event of nothing

To overcome this a great drainage ingly full of beef and beer, with plunge on the long fall to death the statement of Sir Ernest Oppen- the price of good diamonds is not untoward happening in the mean- time, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and

scheme, which will probably cost the good. untured stars of pensive the things to terrify even Ralegh heiner, chairman of the Anglo- falling the following letter from Singapore will be playing at Hong

$2,000,000, has been planned. The cows. Personally, I prefer the the Debonair.

American Corporation of. South Kong in the late autumn.

The excess of arrivals over de Bill authorizing the scheme was in- "Cowardly" cynicism of the first

Each age must have its own Afrien, that unless that output of a woman correspondent is of in: probable that a Hong Kong team partures among Chinese passengers troduced into the House of Com to the limited vocabulary of the

courage its own unhonoured heroes; } alluvial diamonds is regulated the super," and but, in our English devotion to the time may come when it will not pay

I have just received under a will come to Shanghai next "May.

arriving in the Colony by river mons recently, but there is opposi secand-" damn,"

"divine" are apt to pall, when past, let, is not forget those other to produce diamonds

bequeat a five-stone diamond steamers showed a decrease on pre- tion from some of the authorities. Invitation To Be Sent This Week.

ring. Three months ago it was vious weeks according to the returs

interested.

applied equally to everything in

of our present-day young explorers country.

valued in New York for the pur- Mr. L. S. Greenhill, hon, seere for the week-ending May 22nd. It is proposed under the scheme life, trivial serious.

who not even granted a glorious tary of the Hong Kong Cricket There were only 2,228 mare arrivals to gather

A fortnight later I was again in

poses of probate at £100. Now. the river into a single

death, have too often to live in Clug, states that discussions with then departures compared with channel by constructing concrete the Park, but only after passing a blindness or as cripples because of

in London the bust offer I can get for it is £55-a difference of £45 Shanghai have been quite informal three times this figure and, ever banks, 7 miles long, into the Wash. pompous

proudly in my hand; and

compared with the American pro- be sent towards the end of this ing steamer returns showed that allow a free ebb and flow of the I saw these same pallid young men. The modern boy's great virtue

inte valuationg which is always understood to be made on a con week.

there were 1,430 more departures tide and provent the silting up of They were flushed with exertion, some might say his only virtue-in than urrivals.

servative boais, something like 50 grimy with unwonted labour, and his capacity for friendship; for a the river bed.

"per cent, of the real value, Colonel Woodwark, discussing the eating with tremendous appetites girl, this is a tremendous advan- scheme said:

sausage and mash," or the cele inge. He is not only a dancing The drainage scheme will go a

brated Y.M.C.A. steak.

partner; he is often no less Their polite mouths, comfortably general refuge in time of family long way towards the reclamation of the Wash, and will, I believe, full, were forcibly expressing their stress.

views on make it possible to add about

the General Strike. It is largely through him that 300,000 acres on either side of The energy and good humour that girls have advanced in the progress the channel. With our modern sparkled everywhere during those towards emancipation. The Char methods of dealing with land this adventurous ten days were youth's leston-much maligned but extreme-

It is

The Government and the various Municipalities and

Sanitary Boards in Malaya have considered the abolition of rieshas but the atter has been allowed to drop. The traffic problem is now bring ing it to the fore again, and we trust that it will end with the

abolition of these anachronisms of

CHINESE. PASSENGER

TRAFFIC.

Their only originality was in the varying width of their trousers and in a certain colourful taste in ties;

ture that children of sixteen have

died in the perfecting of a sub- maring ?

But that the official invitation will more in provious weefs Ocean' ge- This, the experts claim, would ass held eman, my special their devotion to science and ad-

An invitation had already bern extended to Singapore but the reply has not been received yet.

The last triangular tournament played here was in the autume of ; when Hong Kong defeated Huanghai and Malaya and Shung- hai beat Malaya.

In 1920 Hong Kong won at Shang- hai. Last year a Hong Kong team lost to Malaya and Shanghai won here.

It is hoped to stage the projected triangular tournament in the mid- dle of November.

The return shows:--

ARRIVALS,

Ocean steamers River craft

9,055 23,600

35.751

DEPARTUR KH. Ocean steamers ..... River craft

10,485

24,408

34,033

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soil could be under cultivation answer to his accusers.

two years after the sea has been diverted, and within 10 years should be among the most fruit ful in the country.

Some time ago, I read an article in an evening paper by the head master of a famous public school. (Continued on neer Column):

venture..

ly exhilarating-is youth's Anal kick ni convention; and, if he oc casionally harta his own skins in doing so, the bruises are life's per ennial reward for pioneers.

DEALER SAYS THE EMERALD.

WOMEN AND DIAMOND PRICES.

111 that

To all these anxious inquirers ex- perts return the same answer:

If your diamonds are really fine ones, you have nothing to fear, but if they are only small stories-what are called in the trade mêlée-you probably do stand to lose, because this is what alluvial diamonds are for the most part.

wards. Only the other day I sold & diamond at £450 per carat.

the emerald is the "most precious" Mr. Ogden mentioned that now

of precious stones:

A spesimen einerald is worth anything up to £1,000 per carat. Only the other day I sold an ex- tra fine specimen at £1,250 & carat.

Woman's Experience.

In face of these repeated asser-

terest:

A parallel to the present diamond situation. is provided by that of Not Enough Fins Diamonds.

natural pearls as compared with Mr. W. Ogden, diamond mer- the culture or Japanese variety. chant, of King-street, S.W., said: The culture pearl," said a mer The real position is that there chant, is generally small and are not enough Ane diamonds for only cotapeter with the small people who want them. At the natural pearl, and then not to moment there is an inquiry for a great extent. Large pearls are a 10-carats stone, and it cannot not affected at all in price by this be supplied in London. That new competition and, indeed, stone will cost the purchaser ahy pearls are as popular as diamonds thing from £200 per carat up-and nearly as expensive."