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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1882.

TELEGRAMS.

SINGAPORE, 22nd July, 1881. IRISH AFFAIRS. The House of Commons has passed through Committee the Bill for the payment of arrears of

rent in Ireland.

water,

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

Arabi's position is very strong, and he has diverted the Canal supplying Alexandria with Iis influence is said to be daily in creasing.

THE FRENCH. MINISTRY AND PRE- SIDENT GREVY.

The French Ministry tendered their resigna- tion, which the President refused to accept and they remain in office.

A WAR CREDIT ASKED FOR BY THE PREMIER.

Mr. Gladstone, has given notice in the House of Commons that he will ask for an extraordinary

credit.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A NON-ALCOHOLIC SIMULANT CONTAINING | THE Feb-Lang will undock at Kowloon, and the

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HONGKONG, Monday, July 24, 1882

May of our readers will doubtless remom." berthe particulars of the celebrated match arranged to take place on the fourth day of our last Race Meeting between the well known race ponies Shell and Hualachan! The match, which was to be run over the Derby Course at rost. rolls, each, for a stake of $500 aule, was made by Mr. Karoor acting on behalf of and in conjunction with Mr. F. S. Gornos, the owner of Hualachap, and Me. LuxMOORE,

the joint owner of Shell, at the Hong kong Club on the evening of the third day of the races, and duly ratified. On the afternoon of the following day Mr. Lex-

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A MEETING of Lodge Victoria No. 1926, will be held in Freemason's Hall, Zetland Street, this evening at qo'clock precisely.

WE are informed by the Superintendent of the Fire Brigadethat a Parasle and Inspection of the Government and Volunteer Fire Brigades will

of the Supreme Court of Hongkong aml its De- pendencies,

A coox was sent to six weeks' hard labour this | WHAT does it mean? We clip the following para- As will be seen from an announcement in an- morning by Captain Thomsett for stealing yester-graph from an evening contemporary:-"Official day, half a pound of coffee, the property of "C" returns received from alt Scotch ironmasters ex- Company of the Huffs,

cept two, show that stocks of pig-iron in makers' hands have decreased 40,879 tons since Christ." It is not usual to go back quite so far in com- piling returns. Still it may be pleasing to know that the decrease in the "make" since the Chris. tian era has been about twenty-two tons a year. If the falling off in the iron trade since the time mentioned has been so great, what has been the depreciation in the copper trade since the time of Demetrius ?

THE seven houses in Hollywood-Road and two houses in Lan Kwai Fong sold by public auction by Mr. J. M. Guedes on Saturday last, realised the handsome sum of $2,100.

A CELESTIAL tailor, with four previous convic tions against him for larceny, was sent to six months' hard labor. by Captain Thomsett this morning, for stealing a pair of silk trousers from a telegraph coolic. The tailor, whose features

Says the Overland Mail:-The Secretary of the other place Chiarini's Circus will reopen in

German Navy has definitively jesolved to em- Hongkong for a short season in the course of a

ploy carrier pigeons in the consting service, all few days. The energetic agent in advance, Mr.

the experiments with them made by the Prussian Frank G. Wilson, has already completed the

Government on the coast of the North Sen since necessary preparations, and everything is in

1876 to establish communication with the light- readiness for the arrival of the establishment.

ships lying off the coast, having been suc The pavilions will be erected at the old place,

cessful. Such communication is of the ut Bowrington, Wanchai, where a splendid curb

most importance, not only for the light- ring of concrete has been constructed. In addi-ships themselves, but likewise for incoming

has secured the services of a celebratai Japanese bought to land, and help of some kind may be tion to many other attractions Signor Chiarini essels if they become disabled or founder, Timely intimation of their distress is thus

Troupe, the members of which are highly spoken

sent them. The system of despatching the

are as familiar in Hayward's restaurant as those A MEETING of Nihilist and American Feujan of We shall give fuller particulars in a fature pigeons has been most thoroughly tested, and

of the celebrated Joe Matwell, had actually the hardihood to deny having ever vegetated in that terrestrial paradise. WE'would direct attention to a performance of Lord Lytton's celebrated play, "The Lady of Lyons" which will be given at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, to-morrow evening, for the benefit of Miss Nellie Fergusson, late of the Bandmann Company. As the occasion is a noteworthy one, the support of the public is earnestly slicited

Tickets may be secured and places booked at Messrs. Kelly & Walsh's, Queen's Road. AS police constable Sheik Hussum was walking along in the dark at two o'clock yesterday morn ing near the temple at Ma-tow-wai, where he was on duty, a stone-cutter knocked up against him. The stopped the man, and upon searching him found a | formidable butcher's knife up his sleeve-In his defence before the Magistrate this morning the stine-cutter said he was going to kill a pig, as he

and his companions had arranged to have a feast. -Captain Thomsett, however, did not believe the sume-cutter's intentions were so harmless as he represented, and tined him $5 or 14 days' impris. onment.

Ax unemployed servant was charged this mora.

issue.

found to answer admirably, especially during the severe gales at the mouth of the Eider last au- tumn on two lightships out at sea-one thirty-six

nearer the land. Two stations for carrier pigeons have now been established, by. which important

between the two parties, who, in the opinion of thunder type are apparently not unaccompanied leagues distant, and the other a galliot at anchor

"Plenipotentiary Delegates "is said to have taken place, or June 4, at a house in the Soho district, *to consider the advisability of an official union

the originators, had each for their aim the tutal and unconditional eradication of their respective Governments." A Russian delegate from Moscow said the Nihilists now numbered among their members fully one-half of the whole of Russia, and they could influence to no stail extent the foreign policy of the country. They had watched the efforts of the Irish to emancipate themselves with interest, but they had always considered the British Government a model of what they should like to see in their own country. They would never attempt to undermine the Constitution of Great Britain, but they believed the Irish had never enjoyed such liberty or justice as their brethern in England, Scotland, and Wales. A delegate of the O'Donovan Rossa party followed, and after some other speeches had been made it was

decided that it would be to the interest of both parties that a bond of official union should be entered into between them, and its terus and conditions should be drafted out by four delegates, and then submitted to their chief Governments

for ratification.

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Sanuel Baker, writing to the Times, asks,

TEATRICAL. performances of the blood and

with danger. We learn that during a performance of a play of the class mentioned in the Bowery Garden Theatre, New York, on Saturday night,

in one of the scenes the exigencies of the play re-

quired four of the actors to simultaneously dis- charge revolvers. Hermana Coupler, one of the audience, was noticed to fall from his chair, and the spectators saw in a moment that real blood and been drawn. A small irregular piece of iron ad entered the left eye, injuring the ball so badly that the optic may have to be extracted. Coupler, after the wound was dressed, went home. Realism of this kind is just a trifle too exciting.

ANOTHER scuffle at a hydrant. A stone-cutter before Mr. Wodehouse with fighting and creating. and a Chinawoman were charged this morning

a disturbance in the public-street. At 7.40

this morning constable Gunda Singh found the gallant stone cutter and the intrepid virago pummelling each other with their fists at the hydrant in Centre Street, the din created being only equalled by that said to prevail in pandemo- riun. The old cause, a struggle for precedence

news may be sent to Tonning. Birds bred for the purpose have flown the distance of thirty-six leagues in thirty minutes, despite the heavy gale blowing at the time.

THE LUZON SUGAR REFINING

COMPANE, LIMITED.

A meeting of shareholders in the above Com- pany was held at the Office of the General Agents, No. 7, Queen's Road Central, at noon to-day, in accordance with the provisions of Or- dinance 1 of 1877.

There were present -Hon. F. 13. Johnson

Jackson, A. Coxon, S. Coxon, 5. Rustomjee, and (Chairman), Messin. J. MacGregor, W. Reiners, D. McCulloch, F. D. Sassoon, Arnhold, T. Luk Shin Shing

pany duly formed. He begged to inform the

nese broker's house in Gongh Street by forcing / What is the use of Cypass as a British pusses at the tap, was the origin of the row. Both were duly made over to the Company. The price

take place the Central Fire Brigade Station at 4.30 o'clock pan. on the 25th instant, ACCORDING to Saturday's Gazette, a despatch has been received from the Right Honourable "The Hari of Kimberley, stating that Her Majesty | The Queen has been pleased to give directiona for the dignity of Knight Bachelor being com ferred upon fr. George Phillippe, Chief asficeing before Mr. Wadehase with entering a Chi. back the bolt of the door with a sharp-instru- ment, and stealing propaty to the value of $16, The broker, it appears, awoke at five this mining and found the defendant standing by his bedside. As the broker opened his oculars, he saw the man suddenly stop down below the bed, The broker jumped up, when the fellow ran out of the room, along the passage, and down the stairs, he following him calling out "Thief The man reached the street, but was almost jammediately pounced upon by a lukong, who had heard the ery of Thief." Seeing the constable, the man

Ir is reported, says the Courier, that Wang Chin-man is still causing the Ningpo authorities considerable anxiety. One hat of officials have | been degraded for failing to capture him, and now the l'eking government has given the present nccupants of office sis weeks to capture Wang Chin-min, other alive or dead. Failing to do se, they are to be degraded:

A PARAGRAPH appears' in the China Mail of Saturday night inspired by the recent libel case.

There are egy good reasons why we shoukl not

at present make any attempt to deal with our memperag's views as therein expressed, but when our hands are no longer tied by our legal responsibilities we shall have a chapter to write

on Humbug, Cant, and Hypncrisy.

YESTERDAY afternoon, says the Mercury of the 17th inst, a native constable reported at the Police Station that a beggar had died in the street. The constable was orilered to get a coffin put the Emly in it, and hand it over to the lepaon. He hurried off, taking the box along with him, and soon reached the spot where the "dead" beggar lay. The beggar, seeing the coffin, got up and walked off.

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sion 2-1 was, like many others, under the in-bound over in the sum of one Mexican to be of decent behaviour for a forinight. We are weary pression that Cyprus was valuable as a strate gal position which dominated Egypt and the of drawing the attention of the authorities to the route to India the Suez Canal, and that Great crying necessity that exists for police supervision Britain had occupied that important point to over the water carriers during the time the complete the missing link in her chain of cont-hydrants are opened daily. When some person is actually killed in one of the disgraceful rows munications throughout the Mediterranean from Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, to Egypt, in case of common at the hydrants, and this is by no means a remote contingency, for heavy bamboo poles necessity. It appears that Suda Bay, in Ciete,

are frequently used in the fights, then, we sup- which is about forty-five hours' steaming from Alexandría, has been selected as the rendezvous pose, the responsible officials will anake a move. for the fleet when preparing for a demonstration

The CHAIRMAN said the meeting was merely

visions of the Companies Ordinance, No. 1 of a formal one, called in accordance with the pro- 1877 which required a meeting to be held within four months after registry. All the shares had been taken up and the Com-

shareholders that the land had been paid for and was a high one, but they could not have done better. It was stated in the prospectus that the refinery would be in working order by, the 1st May, but there had been some disappointment could not got possession of the ground for several as usual. Owing to some irregularities they

werks. Then the machinery received from home was incomplete. And thirdly the ground upon which the machinery had to be erected required wh ing to be more elaborate, and all this led to delay. something being done to it, the foundations need.

He was happy to inform them that a telegram was received from Manila on Saturday stating the refinery was at work and everything going on satisfactorily. Four hundred piculs a day at Alexandria, while the port of Lintasol, which WHILE on duty at about 4.30 this morning in were being turned out, and in the course of a is only twenty-six hours' distant, has been neg New Eag Street, Sai-ying-poon, Police Con- fortnight eight hundred picals per diem would lected. The question arises, What is the value stable Forbes met a Chinaman whom he asked be produced. Prices were going up, and there was a very good demand." They might look of Cyp: 52 As Sir Samuel Baker puts the where he was going. The man replied he was

forward this year to the largest production of question, says an evening paper, the gist of his going to his work, at the same time throwing any previous year, and Ee might safely say that 1

inquiry seems rather doubtful, perhaps. But mat he had under his arm at the constable the success of the Company was certain. what it will suggest to mostuinds is, that what and starting to run. Forbes pursued him a

This terminated the proceedings. ever may be the advantages of Cyprus to Englong distance, the runaway' being at length SAYS Figure--There was great coldsiasmland at a time like this, and with such business brought to by another constable who happened DESPERATE SHOOTING__ AFFRAY shown at the Gaiety after the curtain fell on the last scene of "La Dame aux Candies." Ala dame Benhardt and her husband, M. Jacques Darall this being as I have said, his acting alias), were called thrice before the curtain, and the triumph achieved at the Paris Gaite last week was repeated, I am not surprised that Alexandre Dumbs is was so complimentary, for Sarah Bernhardt now plays Marguerite as she has never, according to my recollection, played it And the way she, sto speak, pulls M. Parall through, as Armanl, is wonderful, Though more than a jule weak and stagey in the open-

craftily observed that there was a thief upstairs, Int the lukeng noticing the fellow was trembling arrested him; he was then without jacket or shoes. The broker's purse, watch and other things were found on the prisoner, who was com mitted for tid. Two previous convictions for larceny were recorded against him,

before.

THE Chinanan who was charged with six others not in custody with threatening the head coolie at the Hung Ham Deck with swords and fighting itons and mobbing him of seven dollars on the 16th instari, while he was on his way to 'Kow- Joon City, was ordered this morning by Captaining scenes, be, thanks to his wife's supeth acting, Themset to lind two sureties in go each to be of good behaviour for six months. The prisoner was committed in default," Police constable Charters said the two men who told him they saw what happened on the occasion had cleared out of the colony",

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on hand as the Egyptian imbroglio, it would not have suited the Coverament at all to rendezvous the British feet in the harbour of Limasol 1 would have lonked too much like an achmission that Cyprushas its uses of the precise kind which Lord Beaconsfield had in view when he got pos- session of it. No, no; that would never have done. Perish Egypt rather,

to be in his line of retreat. Forbes returned with the Chinaman to the place where the latter threw the mat at him. The mat was still there, and

which was claimed by a Chinawoman living on being enfolded, was found to contain clothing,

in the street. The constable found the outer door of the woman's house open and also the trap door, the bolt of which had been removed by some sharp instrument. The owner of the property, who made the astounding statement that she was the wife of a man whose tame she had for gotten, said she shut the trap-door before re- tiring to roost at nine the previous night, and that clothing and jewellery to the value of $12.40 had been stolen from the house. The prisoner's features are not known in the Govern ment Hotel adjacent to the Police Court, but doubtless the officials there will soon be in pos- session of his photograph. The case was re-

AN extraordinary instance of the red-tape system which still hangs around English law was, says the Sportsman of the 3rd uit, afforded on Friday in the Borough, when the local coroner held an. inquest upon about half a ton of human bones, discovered in an old chuchyard which has just been laid out as a recreation ground. There was no doubt in the minds of the jury that the people they belonged to were dead, especially as one doctor who was called as a witness stated that the original proprietors of the fragments hadmanded till the 31st. ceased to take an interest in earthly affairs fully suspicion that there had been any foul play, Overland fail, cannot be gratifying to those two hundred years ago. Nor was there the least

THE present state of affairs in Russia, say

Still the jury returned an open verdict! Had this

who could come forward and identify the remains.

occurrence taken place in America there would

plays up admirably in the latter acts. The new business at the end of the play, where Margue rite now dies standing erect on her feet and falls forward upon the neck of her lover, who there upon lets her body sink slowly to the floor, was introduced for the first time by Madame Bern hardt at Madama. Chérl's benchit performance like most of this clever actress's stage "busi in Paris, the other day. It is very effective, and, ness" and attitudinising, exceedingly graceful, HOWEVER much our feathers may have been. ruffled, and our supremacy as professional scullers set on one side by the exploits of that paragon of oarsmen, Edward Hanian of Toronto, Canada, it have been a suspicion that the coroner wanted his fees. Bat no such suspicion can exist in this is pretty evident that we are not yet, to use a sporting phrase, so completely snuffed out in that case, as the local coroner was bound to hold his branch of sport as was beginning to be believed. inquest in order to have the bones legally buried If "John Bull has one peculiarity more promin again. Some workmen engaged in laying gas- ently developed than any other, that reenliarity both the Secretary of State and the magistrates pipes across the churchyard had found them, and is, unquestionably, backbone, the determination had refused to give an order for their re-inicrment. not to be entirely sat upon. The annexed tele grams, from our Sydney exchanges, speak As a cor.sequence of this ridiculous folly the hard- for themselves. John Largan of Wandsworth working ratepayers of the borough will have to bear the cost of the inquiry. We may next is not by any means the best sculler in England, so far as is at present known, expect to licar that an inquest has been ordered A CORRESPONDENT of an induential provincial and the way he has disposed of the two great upon some fossil remains of pre-historic times. the next few years war with Russia la inevitable. Laycock, beth of Sydney, N.S.W. go a long genious expedient for effecting a journey round paper writes The Germans believe that within Australian crack scullera, Hagar Pearce and Elias A PARISIAN contemporary has hit upon an in They are quietly and steadily preparing for it. way to prove the opinion we expressed on the the world without any expense whatsoever to the The disposition of their forces and the manner occasion of Laycock's previous visit to England, | traveller, which expedient It" fervently recom in which they are sending their young officers to that none of our first-class men were, that mends to enterprising but impecunious tourists the Russian frontier to familiarise themselves time, in form. We wonder where Laycock would for their adoption. The first thing the wanderer with the country is significant. They are also have finished in the Hop Ilitters contest had does is to become a Jew. Having performed this pulting their soldiers through the same kind of Boyd, or old Jack Higgins been amongst preliminary feat, he must contrive to effec`a taition that was common before the war with the competitors, and thoroughly wound up to lodgment upon some portion oftheCzar's territory. France in 1870. Officers in the reserve, as well concert pitch. We admire the pluck of the two Thence he will be immediately expelled, and con-

after giving the particulars of an inquest held The Evening Maudley, in its issue of Saturday, upon the bedies of two Chinaman found in the hold of a junk which capsised during the gate of the 17th, winds up with. The fury returned Meous sent a letter to Mr. Kakvoor con- an unanimous verdict of not guilty. Seeing veying the information that Shell was that no living human being was charged with Jame, and that in consequence the match having caused the death of the men, which was would not come of. Forfeit was claimed ly the result of accidental drowning, we are quite Mr. Gospox, and after some negotiations at a loss to understand how the jury could have it was agreed to leave the decision of the returned so absurd a verdict, and indeed we don't believe they ever did so. We fancy the one of the London sporting writer must have been dreaming that the evening journals. It will be remembered that we print had just been on its trial for telling the wrote an article on the subject shortly truth for once in its life, and knowing well what after the dispute, showing the legal aspect the verdict of any impartial Jury would be in of the question according to the Laws of such a case, dotted down unthinkingly, on waking Rading as recognised by the Jockey Club, up, the verdict, "not guilty, my lord." • On April 2761 Mr. F. S, GORDON wrote to the London Sportman as follows:

"At the recent Hongkong Race Meet ing a match was mado botween the race. ponics Hualachan and Shell over the Derby course for $500 aside. The day previous to the event coming uff, Shell was found to be lame, and the owner refused to run. Is the owner of Shell, who made the match. liable to pay forfeit ? "

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IN HONGKEW.

On Sunday afternoon, a desperate shooting

kept up a running fire, and it is matter for sur affray occured in ilongkew, in which two Shan- tung men, each armed with a pair of revolvers, prise that there were only two victims. It seems that there are gangs of Shantung loafers in Shang- hai, whose only known means of livelihood is in exists between two of the gangs, and the native squeezing Tientsin theatrical companies ; a foud detectives beard some days ago that a fight be tween the gangs was expected to come off soon, Ten days ago, one of the gangs was re-inforced by the arrival of eighteen men from Tientsin,—

the leader of the gang had sent specially for the best and biggest ruffians they could get up north, and two of these latter have now shown their hand. Three of these Tientsin men had ten days ago. in that short time they have been staying in Hongkow since their arrival been living at three different lodging houses, which looks as if they did not want to stay too long in one place in case some of their dark games should be discovered. Their movements

fact of their staying in Hongkew is of itself sus- have been rather suspicious, although the lodging- house keepers did not suspect anything. The

picious, being so far away from the Eead-quarters as these Tientsin loafers chiefly In-

mong

while the court hardly expecled to find anybody who on the accession of the present Emperor of the gas of Canton and Fohkien Roads prosperity, and reform was about to dawn upon near the Chinese theatres. Hesides the three were loud in their prophecies that an era of peace, fest the the country. Persecution still stalks unrestrained already referred to, two other Tientsin men were through the land, for the Czar and his Ministers lodging in the same locality in Hongkew, and are glad to purchase a temporary respite from were doing so for a purpose, and that they they kept apart, it is beloved they the revolution which is surely coming by turning were all engaged in some deep plot. It is very the attention of the ignorant peasantry in another probable that they were "prospecting" for an

moujiks in the crusade of bloodshed and plunder Yesterday afternoon, between four and five direction. They have therefore encouraged the and attack on a largo pawnshop in the neighbourhood or some other daring robbery. which they have waged upon the Jews, and, by o'clock, two of the Shantung men were on the their own ordinances, they have not only made road leading by the side of Hongkew Creek, the lot of these unfortunate people harder, but from the Broadway to the river, and at some natives observed the Shantung men were carry- have actually prevented them from defending ing fire arms, they called the attention of a native themselves. The economical punishment for constable to the fact. One of the Shantung these act of barbarity has not been long in com was a very stalwart and powerful fellow, consider ing upon the dominions of the Czar; for the whole ably over six feet in height, and the other

a tle, fellow. Constable No, Br, who was nay, is almost at a standstill, since the most in the road, and accosted the Shantung mens he trade of Central and Southern Russia is paralysed, stationed at Hongkew Creek Bridgs went down dustrious portion of the population has been took hold of the big one by the arm and asked either driven away' or 'uined. The owners of him," what have you got

had a revolvers you got there," seeing that ha estates are unable to sell their com, and con- big Shantung man at once drew a revolver, and sequently commerce is nearly dead. Another aimed deliberately at the constable, while they symptom of the malady which the advisers of were quite close together; he fired once, the bullet Alexander III. have wrought upon their unfor- entering the constable's right shoulder, and, as tunate country is the gradual decrease in the bone. Another native constable, No. So, was has since been ascertained, fracturing lus collar value of Russian stock. Even in the worst days coming

dup to see what was the matter. Finding

men

war

In his coat. Tha

The following reply appears in the Sportsmans of June 10th In the absence

as in the active army, were better acquainted doughty Australian Champions, who are traveyed gratis to Lemberg, ia Galicia. At Letit-of the Turkish war, Russiari securities were not walked along Broadway just at the time, and he of any stipulation as to forfeit, the owner of selves. The same process is being followed to-worthy oftheir steel, after having spread eagled the ant, who will forward him to the United States far to seck. People formerly bought Russians him into a jinricsha, told the coolfe to take him

Shell is liable for the goo dollars."*

wards Russia. The Muscovites look to the whole of the Australasian talent, but we are none

to Hongkow Police Station; and then at the cost of the Jewish Relief Fund. Arrived in as an investment; now they fear lest revolution to the two Shantung men, who went down Tac- gave chase We hardly think that any racing man coming conflict fatalistically. Neither Power the less pleased to leamihat England has again America, the traveller puts on a raiment and or repudiation should rob them of their money ping road, between the Hongkew Creek and the would care to dispute, in the face of this de- will precipitate it; but they believe that circum-vindicated her right to be considered capable of demeanour of a Chinese. He will then be con- they are consequently slowly, but steadily, selling. Old Dock. A crowd of Chinese gave chase, and cision, that Mr. F.S.GORDON has fairly estab- stances will rise which will force it on. If some producing the men when occasion calls for them. veyed to the Flowery Realm free of charge, by a. Not only is England is this the case, but in France the Shantung men tried to escape by getting into of the German colonists, for example, in the "Largan and Pearce, London June 16th-The philanthropic company, bent upon eliminating the and Germany, and even in Holland, a land which There was no sampan-man in the boat of which sampan at the China Merchants Co.'s Wharf fished his claim to receive forfeit. It is said, south of Russia were to be treated as the Jews sculling race between Largan of Wandsworth, Celestial element from the States. Immediately has hitherto been the mainstay of Russian finance, the ruffians took possession. During the chase, however, that the owner of Shell, at whose have been, that would be inade the casus belli and Pearce of Sydney, N.S.W., for £100 a side. on being set ashore in a Chinese post he should suggestion the matter was referred to a In view of such a contingency, the Germans took place on the Thames to-day. Largan won give out that he is a born Rússian, entrusted with London sporting paper, still repudiates his want to keep on good terms with France. They easily by three lengths."-"The Sportsman's Cup, a secret political mission, and therefore travelling lability. If this be so, as the question is have already secured an understanding with London June 19th. The race for the Challenge in disguise. The Chinese authorities will at once one of great importance to racing circles in Italy; and the organisation of the Turkish army Cup, presented by the proprietors of the "Sports cause him to be transported to their north-western the Far East, we shall in the public interest that has been undertaken by German officers man," was rowed this afternoon over the Cham-frontier, where they will hand him over to the deal with it at length as soon as we are in shows that Prince Bisinneck's precautions extend pion Cousse on the Thames. The competitors Russians. These, as soon as they fined that the possession of the entire facts of the case. In from the Bay of Biscay to the Bosphorus and were-Pearce and Laycock, of Sydney; and Lar- stranger is a Jew, will pass him on to the capital the meantime we sincerely hope that what Baltic. He does not care for England; but he is gan, of Wandsworth. There was a good race be- of Austrian Poland; and when, for the second Is essentially a question of honour between Italy, and with Turkey, for the third great con-beater, and stopped before reaching the winning-girdic round about the earth" quite as inexpen

bent upon keeping friends with France, with tween Largan and Pearce, but Laycock was soon time, he arrives in Lemberg, he will have “put a gentlemen will not be dragged into the flict that he believes he will have to engage in post, Largan was eventually winner of the sively, if not altogether as expeditiously, as over

Juw courts.

before he teminates his career.

| trophy by two lengths,"

Puck did in his best days,

the stock is being got rid of The Czar's Govern both the Shantung men were seen to have a revolver in each hand. Had there been a sam- ment has been totally defeated in their efforts in.raise a new loan, the people are quite unable been shot unless he consented to row them off; pan-man in the boat, he would doubtless have to bear fresh taxes; and it therefore does not but as it was they had to paddle their own require a very vivid imagination to conjure up in canor. The big fellow tried to yuloh with one one's fancy the day near at hand when Baron hand while he held a revolver in the others. but none of them could manage the boat, and. Reuter will say, with much sorrow, that he is she drifted with the tide into the mouth of unable to pay further interest on the loans already Hongkew Creek. The banks of the creek were. contracted. When that day comes, there will crowded with Chinese, when the two Shantung

about the" disgraceful Russian" than ever there Shangtung men, inflicting a very severe wound be more talk among certain classes in England men sailed in, and as there were several heaps of loose stoneslying about, the Chinese pelted the was some years back about the "unspeakable on the head of the big man, and the little one also Turk."

came in for his share. They turned the tables on