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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH, 1881.

We understand that a meeting of the Reception Committee will be held at the City Hall at half-past four o'clook to-day.

The Fa-Yow arrived this morning fron Canton, and is waiting for orders derstand she will be docked.. to proceed to Shanghai, where we un-

We are informed by the Agent of the Messageries Maritimes Co. that tho Frouch monil steamer left. Saigon for this port at nine o'clock last night.

to the Stewards, to whom we haya than was the case last year, and with Wo learn that the steamship Cebu frequently beat in opposition, to Rose or Shamrock, First Cornet or will leave Manila for this port to- frankly acknowledge this. Founded Second Violin, Strathavon or Strathmorrow. on a substantial basis, the card is peffer, and other celebrities fit and composed of events of a varied char-well at the post we should see one acter which cannot fail to produce | of the most interesting races on re. first class sport, and that, we con- cord, The Valley Stakes should tend, is, or ought to be the chief end produce the numerically strongest of our annual carnivals. Racing is field ever seen in Hongkong, as out a grand pastime when pursued for of the 38 candidates eligible, at least the sake of sport and honor; but a moiety may be reckoned on to face when it degenerates into a mere mo- the starter-providing always that ney-making speculation it can offer jockeys can be obtained. Tajmahal no attractions to gentlemen and will have another attempt at the sportsmen, and is only fit for cads Foochow Cup, but it will be no exer- and blacklegs, Happily in Hong- eise canter on, this occasion with kong we are not pestered, with the Strathpeffer, Lord of the Isles, Driv scourges of racing, and pests of the ing Cloud, Rose or Shamrock, Wild turf, which in England and else- Eddy, Strathaird, and other known where, disgrace the noblest of sports, stayers likely to form the opposition. and it is to maintain this high stan- The Canton Cup for beaten ponies dard that we are so anxious that the always produces an interesting race, Stewards should move with the and the new introduction, the Vic- times, and by encouraging local toria Plate, a scurry over four fur sportsmen to practise the difficult longs, maiden jockeys allowed 10lbs., art of race riding, make us altogether should prove quite a sporting event. independent of outside aid. That our views will be ultimately adopted we have no doubt whatever; in the meantime we must perforce remain contented with the progress already made towards the desired, and de- sirable, end.

To return to the race programme. The absenco of two particular items from the list of events is noteworthy. The Welsh Cup, value 200 sovereigns, would have been a prize worth win ning, and we can only regret that through the absence of Mr. Kerfoot Hughes, and owing to some miser able misunderstanding, which we do not understand, this valuable trophy should have been conspicuous by its Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not absence. Mr. Kerfoot Hughes is

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such a thorough gentleman, and such a liberal sportman, who invariably goes as straight as a gun-barrel, that we feel assured he will be anything

not kept his promise, we can only conclude that King Kalakua either forgot all about Hongkong hospital ities as soon as Victoria Peak faded from sight, or that the report about the fate of his European decorations when he arrived in New York is “an over true tale! However, King Kalakua's Cup is absent from our programme, and so a remarkable historical feature which we relied on, is wanting.

We are luformed by the Superin tendent that the P. & O. Co.'s steamer Verona, with the next English mail; left Singapore for Hongkong at noon yesterday, the 17th instant.

We are informed by the Agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company that the City of Tokio, with the Ame rican mail and latest date from San Francisco to the 25th ultimo, left Yo- kohama for this port yesterday, and is due here on Thursday, the 21th inst.

On the second day the Scurry Stakes will as usual attract the swell griffins; and the Exchange Plate, substituted for the old German Cup, instant, atates that M. Freycinet, whose

A telegram dated London, the 16th. will see the long distance stagers in battle array against each other. Appointment as French Minister of Foreign Affairs we chronicled the other The German Cup. under new regula-day. has already resigned, and boen tions, and confined to subscription succeeded by M. Gambetta. The pro. griffins, will require a deal of winning, gramme of the great French orater is and we shall expect to see a grand aid to be of a moderate and pacific contest for this valuable trophy. The character. Doubtless. in consequence prize given by the Parsee community of recent ministerial changes, the is another griffin contest always po- French Ambassadors to Berlin and St. pular, and both the Professional Cup Petersburg have resigned. and Town Plate are crack races which should bring out the elite of the tried racers. The Broker's Cup, a forced entry for all subscription griffins, will be a valuable prize, and as the second and third ponies divide the entrance fees, a large field is a certainty. The Flyaway Stakes, six furlongs, sub- scription griffins allowed 7lbs., is a new race, which will no doubt re-

We learn that, on the Iith instant;

the American schooner Spartan, Capt Vincent, went over to Cap-sing-moon Pass apparently with the intention of rendering assistance to the steamer Fu Yew, but unfortunately she shared the same fate by running on the rocks oo the N.B. corner of Mahwan Island. She tried to get off with the assistance of a steam launch for some hours, but unsuccessfully. Subsequently she was Bloated off by the tide.

A London telegram, dated the 21st of October, says that the following appointments to the order of St. Michael and St. George are announce in the London Gazette to-day :-Mr. Cosme Newbery, superintendent of the Melbourne; Mr. Cashel Hoey, secretary don; and Mr. Jonathan B. Wern, consul Victorian Agent-General's office, Lone

in Melbourne for Sweden and other

countries, to be Companions of the Order.

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The Bowen Captain Darke, arrived here yesterday evening, from Sydney on 26th,altimo. The following items are taken from Australian papers -

Landon, 15th October. Charles Garfield, against whom a true bill was Jules Guiteau, the nasassin of President

found by the grand jury at Washington, has been arraigned in that city for the wilful murder of the late President. The trial is exciting universal attention, throughout the States.

The Times has published an article calling attention to the mineral re- sources of Tasmania, which it speake most highly of It considers the island affords an ample field for the employ- ment of British capital.

Hanlan has accepted Trickett's chal- lenge to scull bim for the championship of the world and £100 a side. The match will therefore come off next

month in Amorien.

A tremendous conflagration has 00. curred in Philadelphia. An immenso nmount of destruction was caused by the fire, no less than twenty miles being burnt.

A terrible fire bas occurred in Dorset one of the southern counties in England. Before the flames could be extinguished an entire village was destroyed, and a t hundred persons were left homeless and in a state of atter destitution.

The east coast of Scotland has been visited by severe storms. The steamer Liverpool and sixty boats were wrecked, and the telegrapha along the coast irere destroyed.

The weather during the past few days in England and on the coast has ben very severe. It culminated yos terday in a disastrous hurricane, which swept over a large extent of country. The storm raged with great severity over many hoars, eansing an enormnons destruction of property. Buildings were blown down, low-lying lands subuerged, and telegraphic communi- cation partially interrupted. Several deaths are reported to have resulted. from injuries sustained during the atorin. The hurricano blow with great violence off the English coast, and many wrecks have taken place, accompanied in some instances by great Joss of life.

In consequence of the threatening state of Ireland, owing to the arrest of Mr. Parnoll and other members of Parliament, the remainder of the island

visions of the Coorcion Act.

The British Government, in view of the critical state of affairs in Ireland,

is making every effort to mest any dis- The naval turbances that may arise. forces stationed in Ireland have been reinforced, and the military and polica are in readiness to promptly suppress. any attempt at a rising on the part of the population.

Mr. John Dillon, who has been re- cently delivering excited barangues. against Mr. Gladstone and the Govern ment, has addressed an impassioned appeal to the Irish people, calling upon them to rise and avenge the arrest and imprisonment of Mr. Parnell

but satisfied on his return from 'Aus- tralia, to find that his intentionsceive extensive patronage. HONGKONG, 18TH NOVEMBER, 1881... have resulted in what can only be Sport on the third day will com- termed a deplorable fiasco. "Put not mence with the Cathay Cup for sub- ALTHOUGH we are decidedly of opinion your faith in princes," is an old scription ponies. The distance, one that the Stewards of the Hongkong maxim and a true one. Where is mile, is a seductive one, and as the Races have shown themselves direct the Cup which His Majesty King runner up will receive the full amount ly opposed to the public verdict in David Kalakua, with so much elo- of entries, the winner will be hunted favor of the encouragement of popular quent effusiveness expressed his in-all the way home by aspirants after sport, by omitting from the pro- tention of presenting to the Race second money. The Challenge Cup,

won last year by Mr. MacGregor with Industrial and Technological Museum, has been proclaimed under the pro- gramme of erents for our ensuiug Fund for our next races ? Echo an races any direct inducerent for bond swers, where! A man's word is his Strathaird, is always a popular race, fide local amateur jockeys, we are not bond, and whether he be prince, peer, and doubtless, the game old Tajmahal blind to the fact that a great advance or peasant, he should make no pro- will have a third try in the "Yellow has been made, compared with pre-mises which he cannot fulfill. His jacket, white cap." The Ladies' Purse vious years. And as it is right that Hawaiian Majesty was not solicited is a handicap, and that fact, apart we should be thankful even for small to present us with a Cup for our from a general ambition to win the mercies, we hereby beg to tender our races; he made the generous offer gift of the ladies, will ensure nearly We read in a horne paper that a gen. thanks to an autocratic body of gen-of his own free will, and as he has a score of competitors, and about tleman who was charged the other day tlemen who have been good enough

fifty entries. Lord of the Isles may in the country with the offence of cruelly for once in away to listen to the

attempt to repeat his last year's ill-using a bull by kicking it on the voice of public opinion, represented

success in the Navy Plate, but the nose, and beating it with a thick stick, by this journal. If we have from

handsome black will have a different raised a most ingenious defence, which conviction been compelled to criticise

tlass of cattle to meet on this occasion, happily, however, availed him little. He pleaded that the witnesses against rather harshly the general policy of

and possibly he may also have four him were only colliers, who, of course, the Stewards of the Hongkong Races,

legs to gallop on, instead of three did not understand bulls." The magis. we have had reason on our side, and

and a swinger. For the old fash-trates thinking, doubtless, that it did we are assured that our animadver-

ioned Kee-chong Cup the approved sions, made honestly and in the true

stayers will again try the issue; and interests of sport, have been accepted

the Stand Plate (with $100 added in the same spirit.in which they were

this time), has sporting conditions tendered. The Stewards have not in Twenty-six races, extending over attached which must ensure a good every instance followed our ideas, three days, should produce such sport entry. The Consolation has always although the concessions made are as we have never previously seen in a great interest for the public; and

Mr. Herbert Gladstone, son of the neither few or unimportant, and as this colony. The prizes ure valuable, the Nil Desperandum, a half mile we have no pretensions, like the the distances excellently varied, the spin for beaten subcription griffins,

We regret to hear from Canton' that Premier, and a junior Lord of the China Mail, to infallibility, woreadily entrance fees reduced to a minimum, with $50 for the second pony, is an the Buddhist monastery, in that city, Treasury, who has been recently visit- admit that they may be right, and and the general conditions, if not event for which the Stewards de- well known to foreigners as the Teming Dublin, has been threatened with our views altogether wrong. How-quite perfect, are fairly satisfactory. serve a large meed of praise. Aple of Longevity has been sacked and death in consequence of the nation of

burned by an excited mob. It would his father towards Ireland.. ever, be that as it may, the campaign That old-fashioned sprint the Wong-strong field will try conclusions in

appear that for some time past there has been opened, and it is our Nei-Chong Stakes will no doubt pro- the Champions, which will be more have been suspicions abroad that the bounden duty, not to hamper the duce an exciting contest with the valuable this season than has ever custom of women worshipping in this Stewards in the performance of their dual winner Strathpeffer, Second previously been the case, and with monastery, instead of at one of the pnerous duties, but to afford them all Violin, Shamrock, and other flyers so many splendid performers, likely public temples, was the cause of gross the practical and moral support with-likely to be competitors; and we doubt candidates, it seems long odds on a improprieties, the Buddhist priests pos-

A special Gazells has been issued by in our power. This we shall loyally not that a high class field will con- grand race, and quicker time for the sessing anything but saintly reputa.

order of the Government to-day, form- do. There will be, as there always tond for Mr. F. D. Sassoon's valuable distance than has ever been pre- tions. It is reported that on the 15th has been, a good deal of growling Ashley Cup. The Derby, with the viously accomplished in Hongkong, inst. three women were observed enterally proclaiming the "Boycotting" of during training operations; but as usual conditions, will, by the aid of The Mafoos Race, the especial ing the monastory, and suspicions being laudlords, or the coercing of tenants remedial measures, where required, the 38. subscription griffins, attract attraction for the Chinese portion of excited a mob soon collected who fore- and others to join the Land League, to for the present season are now out of the largest entry ever known, and it the community, will no doubt be re-ed their way into the building, and af- bu a criminal act. It is further notified the question, we shall strenuously is fairly on the cards that one of legated as usual to the off day, and

that all porsous so offending will bo rigorously proceeded against. advocate whatever policy the mom- these ponies may upset all calcula- be certain to prove one of the most bers of the executive, in their wisdom, tions and run away with the Blue sportng events of the meeting. With may consider advisable.

Riband, notwithstanding Mr. Paul's such an attractive programme as we The Hongkong Race Programme 27 griffins, and the two or three have thus briefly sketched, a most for 1882 is without a single excop-score lately purchased on behalf of successful race meeting will doubt tion, a long way the best race pro- the familiar "blue and silver." Our less result; in fact we are prepared gramme ever issued in China under military friends will see a better field to chronicle another best on re similar circumstances. It is only fair contest their handsome Garrison Cup cord."

not require any great intellectual power to understand that a vigorous kick on the nose and a sonnd' thrashing with a stick would hurt anything in, the animal line, whether it was a bull or a kangaroo, fined the kicker twenty shillings and costs.'

ter sucking the place set it on fire, The Governor was soon on the spot with a detachment of soldiers, but they could make no impression on the mob,

who remained masters of the sitantion

until the whole building was utterly destroyed. Several lives are said to have been lost. We expect full details of the riot from our correspondent by to-day's steamer.

Auts of violence still continue in Ite- land. An atteinpt has been made in Cork to blow up the house of a land agent, who had made himself obnoxi- ous to the tenantry through strictly enforcing the legal rights of his em ployer.

An indignation meeting of Trialunen,, to protest against, the arrest of Mr. Parnell and his colleagues, and to con- sider means for meeting the emergency, has been convened, to be held at

Clerkenwell to-morrow.

The above proclamation has already intensified the feeling prevailing, and

no doubt is now, entertained that the

Government intend rigorously to pro- secute the policy announced by Mr. Gladstono in his recent speech at Leeds.

London, 16th October. Yesterday eveling a warrant was executed for