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men between the ages of twenty and forty, clerics excepted, shall be liable to personal service, during eight years with the colours, five in the Landwehr and seven in the Reserve.

The Commission was appointed by the present Government to inquire into the British system of defence on shore).

Tux Government Gazette notifies the appoint-, THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Patroclus, ment of Mr. F. A. Cooper to the Acting Assitant from Liverpool, left Singapore this morning, and Surveyor-Generalship, combining, temporarily, is due here on the and proximo. with this office the duties of Sanitary Surveyor.

Herat on the one hand, its determined intention to seize and occupy Deer Island in Corea, on the other, are seriously occupying the attention of statesmen and thinkers. These are the shadows of coming events. It is quite within the natural order of things that Hongkong. THIS ingenious invention placing Vapour, the reputed. Malia and Gibraltar the The Cones are charged with various liquids, Far East," should take time by the forelock Viz:-

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even vanquish an inimical advance on this Island. Life in the Colony has been so dull and prosy for years past that a brush with an enemy would probably give us a new lease of energy. Like Essex before Cadiz, we would be apt to throw our hats into the sea the moment we heard that a good light was imminent.

That events are, moreover, pointing in this direction, there cannot be the slightest doubt, and the proposed Volunteer organisation is, as we have said, another clear proof that we are slowly, but surely, and, let us [31 hope, successfully, drifting into some kind.

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We have invariably supported all mea. surestending to raise the defensive efficiency of this Colony to the height of its pre- sent requirements; we have advocated the formation of a Volunteer Corps on an extensive basis, and have even hinted at the advisability of enrolling a body of 10,000 Chinese in the Colony, placing them under European discipline and supervision, in more or less the same way as our Indian army has been organised. But confining ourselves to the Volunteer Rifle Corps which it is now proposed to organise, we think there are sufficient elements in the Colony from which to raise such a body of men. Assuming that it is inteaded to form an exclusively national Corps, we have in the first place the vast number of British residents, employers and employés of all classes, the clerkical, the legal professions, the industrial and the mechanical; a contingent could even be secured from the unemployed sailors by paying them reasonable wages. A body of above. Soo men could be easily got together from these elements, allowances being made for extreme youth and old age. The Hindoos and Parsees who live

THE COUNTY COUNCILS. The Court of Appeal bas unanimously decided

her sex from being a member of County Council.

RUSSIA.

The Shah of Persia has been accorded a brilliant reception at Tiflis.

(From the Cuerrier d'Haiphong.) De

THE PARIS EXHIBITION,

PARIS, May 15th. festivals to be held in the Pavilion for the The Colonial Commission are preparing Colonies on the Exhibition grounds. The President of the Republic will be present,

TONQUIN APPOINTMENTS. M. Danelle has been appointed Lieutenant- Governor, and M. de Verneville Resident

Superior at Cambodia.

THE FRENCH BUDGET.

May 17th. The Chamber of Deputies has commenced to discuss the military project.

OBITUARY.

May 18th. General Millot, late Commander-in-chief in Tonquin, is dead.

THE KING OF ITALY,

May 19th. The King of Italy has left for Germany; he is accompanied by the Crown Prince and by the

President of the Council of Ministers.

MILITARY AFFAIRS.

May 20th. The Senate adheres to the original text of expenses in the Military Bill.

OBITUARY.

May 21st. The Marine Prefect of Rochefort and M. Celeron de Blainville are dead.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

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A REGULAR meeting of Zelland Lodge, No. 525, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Saturday, the 1st proximo, at 8.30 for 9 pm. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

The following summary of the fitst week's tes business, at Hankow, season 1889-go is from the N. C. Daily News:

Arrivals'of lea to date are Kiukiang Teas-Ningchow

Кестел Hohow

MR. C. D. Harman, agent of the O. &.0. S. S. Co., informs us that the steamer Garlic, Hankow Teas-Oopack inst., has arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for this port to-morrów. -

A CLERK named Kew filled a ricksha with boxes of tea, cigars, curios, &c, on Saturday, for con: veyance to Peddar's Wharf. On arriving there the coolie omitted to deliver all the property, retaining two boxes of cigars. Mr. Wodehouse secluded him for a month, to-day.

AMONG the electrical novelties that will soon be

which will consist of metal plates set in the floor in use is an electric door opener and closer, on either side of the door. There are similar appliances for windows by which a window can be raised or lowered to any desired height by simply touching one or two buttons.

A FRENCH sailor named Coyat took a ricksha alighting not only refused to pay his fare but to the Canton wharf on Saturday night, and on

pushed the coolic into the water, from whence a Sikb fished him out by the queue. Cayat paid him a dollar compensation this morning, and $1 more to appease qutraged justice.

Oonar

162,060 -chetta.

Taint

131,508

Tatal arrivals...... 293.568-chests Settlement from 9th to 16th May inclusive

Kunstan English Iuyers. Buyers Kiuklang Teas........ #357090 65,ago 100,580 Hankow Tea47,126. 36,874 78,000

83,216 96,364 178,580 Kiuklang Hankow Touals.

Teas,

Teas.

Leaving unsold stock 61,440 53.548 114,888

on market.. Total arrivals of First crop Teas last season. were:-Kiukiang Teas 310,000 Hankow Teas $10,000, Total 820,000.

THE Sydney Bulletin has very little respect for monarchs, and cheerfully. waltzes round these opportunity. Here is the latest-Poor little "right divine" personages at every possible

Mílan of Servia—a squnt and awkward monarch with a countenance which would have adorned the bot pie industry-bas retired from the king business. He was the sixth sovereign since Servia was re-established as a Principality in ARCHDIACON COLLAY, preaching on Satan 1804 and the other five were all either deposed recently at St. James' Church, Marylebone, Lon-without a cent, having regularly "blewed" his or assassinated. Milan ended, as he began, don, replying to an imaginary remonstrance from those who believe in giving the devil his due, exclaimed: "Ah, my friends, if we give the devil bis due many of us would be missing." The awkwardness of the use of "us" in such a case occurred to him afterward, and be seemed seriously embarrassed, while the congregation smiled,

SAYS the Straits Times of the 17th inst.:-The Dutch subject Raat, who was arrested on a provisional warrant, at the instance of the Consul General for the Netherlands, for murder com- mitted in Siak, and released on bail in one surety of $500, failed to surrender to his bail to-day. Mr. Napier asked that Raat's bail might be estreated, and the matter reported to the Gavern- ment. His Worship said he had already done the latter, but with regard to the $1,700 left by Raat in the bands of the police, it would be kept by the palice until reclaimed by Rant. A notice was then ordered to be served upon Mr. Sarkies, the bondsman, to shew cause on Tuesday next why the bail should not be estreated,"

kingly income at sundry games of chance where was accustomed to take an annual holiday at he was always taken in. For many years he Monte Carlo or some similar pleasant den of infamy, and after a wild orgie, lasting two or his earlier life Milan Henry of Battenberg, and three weeks. he generally had to walk back. Int

a poor little battered Russian, Amadeus of Mingrelia, used to hang out together in Paris, and they were all skirmishing atter wives with money. They offered a handsome com- mission to a Hebrew lady who ran a matri- monial agency, and she arranged to trade off Milan's pork-butcher-like countenance on, a widow with 200,000 who drank like a fish, but the widow got violent one day when she was very tipsy, and Milan fled to avoid. being caned by his betrothed, Battenberg and his squint were offered to the daughter of a foreign ambassador-a young lady who had eloped a good deal and been brought back by the car much the worse for wear, but she said scornfully, "Take the animal away! He was tratted out for the inspection of an American heiress and trotted back again, and after many other adventures he was looked at and declined by an aged ballet dancer with bed-post legs who had come in for R0,000, and then he gave up in despair. Amadeus

emporium; and about this time the man who with a lady who owned a profitable furniture. gave the three princes tick for vittles came down on them with his bill, and they broke up in appeared long ago. Milan has borrowed a disorder and fled, Amadeus of Mingrelia dis annuity off the long-suffering Austrian Emperor, and has started a frantic career of dice, actresses, and liquor which will probably leave him in his old age an unsbod monarch with a barrel-organ and a monkey; and Battenberg is married an a lady more ponderous in the limbs even than his aged elephantine. billet-girl, and runs odd errands in a kilt for his gracious ma.

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But we would go a step further. We would, insist on the enrolment of a large body of natives, placed under the direct control of the European corps: Out of a population of nearly 200,000 Chinamen in Hongkong, a vast proportion are undoubtedly Hongkong-born Chinese; we do not see any reason why a number of them, say four or five thousand, should not be called upon to join the Volunteer ranks. A fund might be started Out of which compensations might be granted them. The measure is well worth consideration and trial; it is one of those few resources we have for our own defence in case of need; and as danger is looming should muster in the horizon, we strength and spare no efforts to render Is this distant outpost of British trade and - industry.an impregnable bulwark of British

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1889.

"As a sign of the times, the attempt now being made by the Government and the military authorities to form a Rifle Volun teer Corps in the Colony calls for conside ration and comment. Along with the dia of industrial and commercial pursuits in which this money-making colony is deeply engaged there are heard now and then ominous rumours of possible. wars, news is spread of increased and hasty armament and mobilisation of troops in England; Russia's aggressiveness in the region of

Hall Museum for the week ending May 26th, are:

Europeans, 102, Chinese 885; total, 987.

Bezsure to act as Consul for France at this Port, THE Queen's Exequatur empowering Visnuni de received Her Majesty's signature on the 1st April,

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Messrs, Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam- ship Batavia, from Japan, arrived at Vancouver on the 14th inst.

A Swiss writer attributes baldness to a micros. copic fungus. We always put it down to same- thing of that sort although we don't quite know what microscopic fungus is nor where to look for it.

A BURGLAR with no less than twenty-two skeleton keys on him was caught at Wanchai on Saturday night, whilst investigating another Chinaman's boxes we had committed numerous robberies, three European houses having been entered.

He was committed for trial, to-day.

FASHION in beds is said to be returning to the four-poster with a rich canopy and, as a modern innovation, a shelf between the upper posts for battles, glasses, etc. In the simple days of our grandparents the eye-opener was kept under the pillow in a green bottle,

THE Shah of Perala, says a London contera perry, is expected to pay a visit to Berlin, His Highness will arrive at the German frontier about June 7 next, and will be in the metropolis on the 9th, where he will remain for a fortnight. During his stay in the German capital a great military parade will take place.. |

A MODERN writer gives the following chumeration of the qualities of a female eye The glare, the stare, the sneer, the invitation, the defiance, the denial, the consent, the glance of love, the flash of rage, the sparkling of hope, the languish ment of softness, the squint of suspicion, the fire of jealousy, and the lustre of delight."

A JAPANESE vemacular paper states-On the 9th instant some person made an offering of 500 candles to the Heaabi Honganji in aid of the

was completed. Two days afterwards one oftheas ceremony that took place when the new temple candles was lighted, and almost Immediately building with smoke and flame. Happily the exploded with a tremendous report, filling the ceiling was not injured, and the narrow escape that occurred is proved by the fact that the re maining candles turned out to be stuffed with dynamite.

THE L. & C. Express says there has not been very much information for some time as to how the works of the Manila Railway Company were

those interested to learn from Mr. Gollan's report on the trade of the Philippines that they have advanced satisfactorily. The other line projected by Messrs. Smith, Bell and Co.-the all, as the Madrid nuthorities have not given Central Luzon Railway-has not advanced at their consent, notwithstanding that no subsidy is asked, and that it is acknowledged the railway would be of great utility. The reason for the delay seems by no means apparent, and can only be accounted for by the usual dilatoriness of the home Governnient to advance matters for the benefit of these rich islands, which though capable of immense development, lie half idle in their hands.

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Mcesta. P. Ryrie, Wong Shing, I, J, Keswick, B. Layton, and Mr. Seth, Clerk of Councils.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.

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THE VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE. His Excellency recommended the voteof $1772, for purposes explained by the Colonial Secretary. 'Owing to the disbandonment of the Volunteer Fire Brigade it was deemed expedient by the Government to purchase the engine and appli ances belonging to that body, and employ an additional staff to work them. For this purpose his Excellency approved of the appoint fnent of an additional European staff, and, a reduction in the Chinese staff. The cost of the engine would be $1,200, which the appliances and salaries would raise to $1,773.

Referred to the Finance Committee. The vote of $3.490 for repairing damage to the roads caused by the storm of the 29th April was passed.

NATURALISATION.

The bill for the naturalisation of Li Pok Shap, of 26 Bonham Strand, passed into law.

THE CATILE.DISKASKS. ORDINANCE.

reading of the Bill to amend the Cattle Diseases, The Attomey General in moving the second

Slaughter houses, and Markets Ordinance, said that it was desired to include all ruminating animals under the head ofcattle, and to empower Government to order inspection of all such as at present constructed. animals, which was not possible under the Act

The Bill passed its second and third readings.

THE POST OFFICE ORDINANCE. The Attorney-General, in moving the second reading of a Bill to amend 'the Post Office Ordi- nance of 1889, said that its object was to amend the clause which made it'a'misdemeanour to possess fictitious" postage stamps, by altering the words limiting the operation of the provi Government of Hongkong so as to make it apply sion of the clause to stamps issued by the to those of the United Kingdom or any foreign

State.

The Bill passed into law.

THE CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION ORDINANCE

The Attorney-General, on moving the second reading of this Bill, explained the procedure under it. The first thing done would be to negociale with the owner of the land or buildings desired to be resumed, and then, if the proposals failed, the powers contained in the Ordinance could be used. Three months' notice would have to be given, and at the end of that time a Court of Arbitration, consisting of a Judge of the Supreme Court as Chairman, a nominee of the Governor-probably a skilled person, such as the Surveyor-General, and a nominee of the owner, probably a skilled person also. Fourteen days after their appointment they would sit, and the decision of the majority would be final..

The Bill passed into law.

THE EXTRADITION, DILL. The second reading of this Bill was then com- menced.

TIENTSIN SPRING RACE MEETING, 1889,

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FIRST DAY-Thursday, 16th May, The "Maidens" was by Golden Hope

minutes and 6 seconds. The Derby by the same pony in 3 min, and 17 secs., bard held. Golden Hope is expected to win the Champions, for he is an excellent pony. TZU-CHU-LIN STAKES.-Value, Half-a-mile. Entrance, Tis. 5. Weight for inches as per scale. Mr. Irwin's Holspur,..

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GENERAL Boulanger, says the London and VERY dismal, says a Paris correspondent, is the

China Express, arrived in London from Brussels account that comes to us from Germany of the benefit and farewell performance at Vienna of had quietly intimated to him that he had better on the 24th April. The Belgian Government Lucca in "L'Africaine." One of the critics described it as having been "a series of howls 89, and the General accordingly took the hint, and has decided to favour the metropolis with and death rattles," and declares that it ought his presence. He left Brussels in a special never to have been given, winding up by saying: steamer provided by the South Eastern Railway "Away with these whited sepulchres! It is Company. As the vessel came along the d twenty-five years since I first beard Pauline miralty Pier at Dover a keen look-out was kept for Mr. Detring's Markgraf...... Lucca. It was at the Royal Opera House at Berlin. What a singer she was then--and what friends just abaft the port paddle box. If he had the General, who was discovered standing with his radiantly beautiful creature1 She was incom-been sea-sick, and the reports of this Aubject vary Selika in "L'Africaine." She was an exquisite which intervened between the Channel and the parable as Margaret in "Faust," and as considerably, the small space of smooth water

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Cherubino in "Le Nozze di Figaro" and a

fascinating Zerlina. In "Fra Diavolo," All is ended now-the song and the sweetness and the witchery of old, and the renown that won the the same picture with the popular little prima great Bismarck himself to be photographed in donna. I still possess one of those photographs, which I keep as a memento of those days of triumph of Pauline Lucca a quarter of a century ago,

THE monthly handicap of the Hongkong Rifle Association for the Challenge Cup was well attended on Saturday. Considering the un- pleasantness of the weather the leading scores were extremely good, though the pcratch man, Sergt. Major Merion; R.A made a poor show only getting 43. Lieut. Carlyle, R.A. gained the first place for the second time, with 66 points, lacluding 6 added. Mr. W. C. Murray, (allowed 7) Rumsey (allowed zo) tied for the second place Lieut. E. H. Grant (allowed R) and Commander with 61. There were fifteen competitors. The following are the fall scores :----

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per and given him time to recover. He wore a had evidently only just come out of a band-box. high hat, very glossy in appearance, and which

brown kid gloves. His beard and moustache He furthermore had on a blue cloth overcoat and

to a point, just as depicted in his photographs. were neatly trimmed, being brought down Same members of his staff did not look as if they had enjoyed the trip much, and they ascended the gangway with an alacrity which was probably due to their intense desire to quit the wet decks of the steamer. General Boulanger, however, did not leave until be had shaken hands with Captain Hammond, who had brought him across. and then he made his way to the train. He was rather incommoded at first by a crowd of would: be interviewers, but, upon a peremptory request, these latter were induced to leave the carriage, and he made his journey to London in peace. At Charing-cross there was a large gathering | more demonstrative than that he met with at assembled, and the reception accorded bim was Doser. Reception was more demonstrative, but it was by no means unanimous.. It may very well be described as mixed. He has bis partisans and his foes here, and both sides seemed to have sent down deputations to express their sentiments-which took the alternate form of cheering and hooting. The vivas and the "Vive Boulanger (" were intermingled with groans and bisses, but "le brav1 Général” taking it on the whole as a compliment, though it was somewhat adulterated, acknow ledged the demonstration by repeated bows. The following story concerning the late Bishop Inspector Qui

A lady presented him with a bouquet on. entering his carriage, and he held ff” in his Wilberforce was told at a dinner party at the Deanery at Christ Church the other evening. It

hand as he was driven rapidly away from appears the Bishop used to tell the story bimself;

Charing-cross. Up to this time the weather, | A BRITISH physician propounds a theory that though occasional showers had met the special and as his lordship was a good mimic, the effect persistent cornet-playing has a tendency to train on its rapid journey, had not been very was of course greatly heightened. Once when destroy one of the loveliest features of woman's unfavourable, but as soon as the General bed "Soapy Sam" was dining out with a large party, character. After a few years spent in preying on a poor curate, who was deploring the large family the muzzle of the brass Instrument, the human

left the terminus, a thick pall of darkness- he had to educate with a very small income, mouth gets hard-almost horny--in its consist

began to settle over the West-end, and by the time the Bristol Hotel was reached the. said, "Do you know, my lord, that I have placency, like the Jaw of a carnivorous bird, and the light was so bad that our visitor could scarcely teen children ?" Upon which a very red-faced ecstatic salutation of girlish affection feels like the be seen and still less recognised. Nevertheless woman, with a squeaky voice exclaimed, "Only concussion of a hard, red brick. The feminine

a considerable crowd loitered in Burlington- fourteen by me, Mr. Jones."

cornetist can't kiss with any gratification to either gardens both before his arrival and long after. of the parties concerned, and in proof of this the wards, maining there until they were dispersed SAVS the L. & C. Express¡—About twelve writer tells how he was floored by the embrace of by the inexorable" Pass away, please of the months ago the Admiralty decided, after a full e gushing young thing who had taken to blowing police, of whom there was a large body detailed consideration of all the vessels of the cruiser class the festive korn had known her in child for special daty. The General, having reached in existence, building or proposed for foreign bood, when we together hunted the same school-bis quarters denied himself to everybody except navies, to construct. two vessels to surpass in master with pea-shooters, and at the conclusion bis own immediate circle. armament, protection, coal endurance, and speed, of her cornet solo I-greeted her for the first time anything hitherto attempted. The Blake and in several years. Of course wa kiszed each Blenheim were the outcome of this decision other impulsively. Good heavens That was MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE sad the Army and Navy Gasetis, in its last my mental exclamation. I felt as though I had isque illustrates pue of these ships as types of the been hit with brass knuckles or smacked by a naval architecture of to-day. The new cruiser steak-bester. I fastinctively pressed my hand- The report of the Royal Commission on is a very handsome ship, and looks capable of | kerchief to my benumbed mouth, and looked for Military Administration proposes that the mini really making the twenty-two knots an hour the weapon with which I had been assaulted, mums Army with the Colours shall be 1 to thou-speed which it is estimated that she can steam. It was the dat kiss, however, that I had felt sand, withra Landwehr of go thousand, and

For overhauling and capturing the enemy's com- | Good playing on the cornet depends upon the merce-destroyers such vessels as thin should be amount of Inflexibility which can be imparted to Reserve of all men under forty years of age, simply Invaluable.The Blake is to be launched the upper Up. Here had become fairly adaman. capable of bearing arms; that all able-bodied at Chatham before the end of the present year | tine!

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TELEGRAMS

IRELAND.

LONDON, May 16th, Lord Hartington speaking at Bury said the time had now come for all parties to unite and seule the Irish Land Question, which was the

root of all discontent.

LORD HARTINGTON'S COMMISSION, [The following telegram, culled from the Straits Times, throws some further light on the news we published on Saturday about the pro- posed mobilisation of the British army]:-

May 17th.

Previous winner.

COUNCIL

A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon. There were present the His Excellency the Governor (Sir William, des Voeux); the Colonial Secretary, (Dr. F.Stewart); Mr. ]; Leach, Acting Attorney General 7 Bir. 21.

E. Wodehours, Acting Colonial Treasurer; 887

N. G. Mitchell Innes, Acting Registrar General

PEIHO STAKES.-Value; three-quarters of a mile; weight for Inches as per scale; winners Mr. Irwin's Gerold,

at this mecling 8lbs: extra. Entrance, Tls, 5. ...Mr. Lehmann I

NORTHERN CUP.Value; one mile and a

hall for Ponies that have never run before this meeting; weight for inches as per scale; the winner of the Maiden Plate to carry 7lbs. extra. Entrance, Tla. 5.

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Mr. Irwin's Byron,

Mr. Sascon VICEROY'S CUP-Presented by H.E the Viceroy; value, Tis: 200; two miles j ̈· be won at twa consecutive meetings, or three times in all by Pony or Ponies the property of the same owner or owners; the winner at each meeting 10 receive Tis, 50 from the Race Fund until the Cup is finally won; weight for inches ag per scale. Entrance, Tis. 5 Mr. Detring's Erzherzog. *******

SECOND DAY,—FRIDAY, 17TH MAY. “ TIENTSIN: DERBY—A Sweepstakes of Tis, 10 each, with added, First Pony to receive 60 per cent,, second 30 per cent, and third so cent. One mile and a half. For Ponies that have never run before this meeting. Weight II stone, Winners of one or more Races to carry 6lbs, extra. Starting fee, Ti£* 3.

Mr. Sebrof's Golden Hops,.....Mr. Dickinson I

SYNDICATE CUP.-Presented by M. Thévenet One mile and a half. To be won at; two consecutive meetings, or three times in all, by" Pony or Fonies the property of the same owner or owners, - Amount of Entrance fees to be paid to the winder until the Cup is finally wod, Weight for Inches as per scale. En trance, Tls. 5

Mr. von Hanneken's Sonnerstrahel, Mr. Kuger 1 CAVALIERE CUP. —A Sweepsakes with --- added One mile and a quarter. The Ponies to be ridden by Residents of Tientain or Peking and other approved of by the Stewards, Weight without saddle, xa stono or more. Entrance, TIL. 5.SMAR

Mr. Detring's Grossherzog, ... Mr. Ballauf. v MONGOL CUP.Value; three-quarters of a mile for: Ponies that have never tun before this meeting weight for inches as per scale's wingers of one race, ribs, extras of more,

tolbs, extra Entrance, Tls, 5.

Mr. Ballauf's Tangemchte, ..., Mr, Lehmann 1- TAOTAY'S CUP-Presented by H.E. the Tastal 1 valus One mile ; weight 1 stone gibs, less than the weight as per scales winners of ons race 7lbs. extras of more, rolbs, extras to be ridden by Chinese riders approved by the Stewarda Entrance, The 50

Mr. Irwin's Gerold, Mastopañainme... TIENTSIN STAZEEA forced entry of Teach for all Ponies entered at this meeting First Pony to receive 75 per cent. Bacond Pony to rebelve-25% per cent. One mile and three "quarter". "Weight for inches an per scale,

Vós Hanneken's Senserstrekel, Mr.)