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CHANG' CHIH-TUNG. DETERMINES TO RESIGN.

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tung is determined to resign upon the expiration of bis leave of absence. CHIENIAO..

RETIREMENT OF JAPANESE OFFICIALS.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25 1900

Interport Swimming.

SECOND DAY'S FETE,

MACCADE'S FINE EXHIBITION.

Galluzzi and W. A. Crake.

F. Cruz (esc. 13 1006:) .mansura. 32) 20 L. Senza (rec. 7 sech) rasa (20 Tima: 50 25 secs. TEAM RACE.-Shanghai Hongkong, 8

dank by entering against boys Infinitely his superior is stature and build. The le man swam splendidly to the end and was not at all a bad third. F. Logan. (the scratch boy) was too heavily penalized and 'never had a chance. The struggle between Cruz and Souza in the last quarter was a keen Officials: President: His Excellency Sirone, resulting in a win for the former. U Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G. C.n, D.so., Chair.. man-Mr. A. Rodger. Hoo. Treasorer Mr. C.D. Silas, Hon. Secretary:MF-Lammer Judges:-Mours. M. Melver, J. Rodger, H, B. Peking, 24th September. Bridger, A. N. Kamp and L. E. Lammert. Re-men x side. One length.

The respective teams took their position as Grand Councillor Chaug Chih-feree:-Mr. G. A. Caldwell, Staner:-Mr. T.

Birk Handicappers-Messrs. T. Meek, A.A follows:- Claxtos, A. E. S. Alves, A: H. Caroli and H.

Inzer Platform, Shanghai:"MacCabe, Ro- Saver, Oficial Time-keepers :-Messt. Rbinson, J, Wilson and T. W. Wilson. Heng

kong: Cooke, Remedios, Lapsley and A. E. S. Alver. Weather conditions attending the second Outer Platform.-Shanghai: Cooke, Pritce, day's fete of the Victoria Recreation Club's anJones and Mayne. Hongkong: Humphreys, oual aquatic sports were very similar to those Claxton, Witchell and Sayer.. prevailing on Thursday. A light screen of The home team, with their larger number of cloud tempered the beat of the first day fast swimmers for short distances, were never and with the light breeze' blowing the large threatened and when C. Humphreys plunged Poking, 24th September,

concourse of spectators, watched the inter-in for the last length he took it with an case The Japanese officials will retireesting proceedings with greater, comfort

born of an assurance of positive success.. The winning team's (Hongkong) time was a good from Chientao in the course of this The provision of a gallery on the lighter in

substitution for the chairs on the first day, one: am. 35 1/5 second manifested the officials' thoughtfulness for the month.

comfort of the spectators. In that, as, in other respects, the gentlemen who officiated and are responsible for the meating's success deserve the fullest praise, as also does Mr. C. Lesbirel the Steward, who bad charge of the effective decoration of the pretty Club building.

Just before the first event the attendi: ce was comparatively small, due, no doubt, to the people being kept at their offices, but saunaiter 4.30 p.m. the Club-house. verandahs had their full complement of visitors while every tier of the gallery on the sea wall and aboard the for was packed front held a dens timber of people. The waterfront held a dense throng of" all sorts and conditions of,men: the boys and others secured vantage points on the bamboo pier

Japanese Consul there will also leave in due course.

NAVAL COMMISSIONERS.

DEPARTURE FROM HANKOW, {By courtesy of the "Sheung Po.")

Hankow, 24th September. Prince Shun and Admiral Sah are leaving Hankow by train for Peking to-day.

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FOUR LENGths Handicap,' 'Final.

S. H.C. Sayer, PM. Remedios and A. V. Barros got off well together and kept wel abreast of one another for nearly the whole of the first length. In the second legib Sayer secured and advantage of a slight lead with Remedios just behind him and Barros third.Theme order was maintained throughout the third length. When ball the distance in the fourth and last length had been covered Remedios drew level with Sayer and for the rest of the distance they had a close swim between them, Remedios managing to secure the judge's ver dict by only a touch. Time: 1. m. 40 3/5 teck

THROWING THE. POLO BALL, Interpoft Championship. Three Tries.

Thorst competing in this event ware :-(Hong-

.

NOTES BY THE WAY,

THE FREEDOM OF THE PORT.

"Never put off unt!! to-morrow what you can do today," was evidently the balto apan' which the Government acted when it took the stop whereby the Dor famous Import Bill be came law. Whether the Government acted in a inter satisfactory to all interesis con.

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cerved is a moot point. But this much must be said in favour of the administration. It was no open secret, that several importing firms were exerting their leval best to get stocks iz from near by ports in order to evade the any duty. Where would the Colony be had the Government adopted a Fabias policy? In that event'the-colonial exchequer will suffer for the benefit of a for importing firms com. manding long purses as to be able to got all- and more than they want from their agencies and branches at ports not ten thousand miles in the name of ATLAS PRESERVATIVE COM

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The unofficial members of Council made a bold stand against.some of the clauses pro- vided in the Bill Their voices, however, were as the distant thunder to the silent ear of Government. The representatives of the people's rights expeeded as little en ergy in their united protest agelost a ABS- sure which they contended would prove a menace to the freedoms of the port, but I fancy 676] they might as well have wasted their thetoric on the desert air. As the sound-minded, Mr. Stewart had pointed out, the action of Council at the second reading of the Billet long be noteworthy in the annals of the Colony and there was a note of warning in his tòme walch some how sounded the death knell of the Colony's boasted freedom. But we can bear ede burden with smiling face and be told to remember FIRST FLOOR OF No. 15 DES VEUX ROAD the old doctreebat errare est humanum,

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revenue. It is the method itself that is de Alves, T. A. Burke ("Buffa), R. Morrigh, R.E.procated on all bands. It would drive any R. C. Witchell

tourist away.. It would make them feel that (Shanghai) R. W. MacCabe, C. W. O, Mayne they may so longer expect that freedom of and P. Fowlar?

McCabe made the best throw in the first their person and their baggage which they had try. Cloke improved or him it the second there enjoyed. And in the present rut of commercial depression in which the Colony is throw and before MacCabe bad his own try stack fast, it can ill afford to lose money. And which proved better than the first. Wichellis is not all. "The man in the brass hat made ad excellent shot in his last try, sending will make himself an intolerable cuisance not the ball within fourteen inches af the visitor's only to tourists but to well-known residents to

turaing to the Colony after a holiday at home. Elstory has proved that where a Custom service has been established, there is very little love lost between the man in the stat aud the terrible individual who owes bis posi tion to the sophjury of a near-sighted-police One may well think with horror of the hundred titulo inconveniences which will be experienced if the powers conferred on over zealous minions. of the low were to be carried out to the latter One may then verily be assured that "one of those huge trucks of luggage which are man. hauled up to the doors of our leading hotels in the travelling season would be sale from the danger of being arrested by any Indian cons table or Chinese tukang whose suspicions might fasten on the saratoge funk of some American globetrotter, probably an elderly total abstainex from a prohibitios.state

R. C. Witchell (6 (10) -440 YARDS-Interport Championship. Two -prijzen „*

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Hongkong "wer thoroughly represented by the Calony's belt awirancis, iz Of Ji Cooke, R. G. Witchell, F. G. S. Rose, C., Humphrey A. A. Claxton, and A.. V. Barros

A. Interest, of course, throughout the afternoon's proceedings centred in the interport events, the 20th September. first two of which--plunging and-team dce Early yesterday mornirk a télegram was re- weat to the home mea. As regards the first ceived from Nihapo, Kred by the captain of items suggestion arose, that the time limit to the Maori stating that the steamer was remain in the water should he fixed at sixty, badly ashore at an island, called Long What seconds instead of an indefinite period. But sho, in the Churan group, that she had big the supporters of the rule nifed to press home hole forward and was net ing for the immediate their.contention with success and the time-limit dispatcherShankhal of tugs and lighters to standard, accordingly, failed of application. render assistance, reports the N C."D. News of R. W. MacCabe, the redoubtable ́Shangbai | mark..

Champion, retrieved the Northerners-for- aoth inst The Shanchai Tug and Lighter Champion, Cos tugs Sman and Kitforta, with four ligh tunas when he comfortably snaiched the ters and pumps supplied by the Kiangaan honours of the two successive events to the Dock, left for the iceos at a few hours' notice, throwing the pole ball and the 440 yards later." Up to a late nur laci night,no further informa-port Championship. Beyond a.doubt MacCabe on had been received concerning the stranded is a good allround inan and as a long distance swimmer must be awarded the palm over any of the Hongkongman. We were glad to ab- serve the unstipted and spontaneous reception accorded bin at the conclusion of the 440 yards race, as the cheere and the tiger which followed, at MacCabe was escorted into the The course was between, a launch moored enclosure, were the loudest manifestation of the against the praya wall castward of Murray Pier sportsmanlike spirit, which apimated the hosts and a red buoy well out of the slipway. The of the occasion even on a defest. Thinks to

siast was made from the launch the swim- the traditional instinct of true sports that the rers plunging in level with one another. When Hongkong "bays" me the subdued talk of the spectators lighter was reached midway be protest in the last interport event of the day was not persisted in and the honours of the weep the launch and the buoy MacCabe (Shanghai), was leading, with Humphreys. day went to our visitors,

Below we append details of the eventongkodg) second; C. J. Cooke (Hongkong) way third, the rest of the competitors in's line .HURDLE RACE Two lengths. 4 burdles.

1st heat.-A. Soares, R. A. Carvalho, J. M. geiter. Just before rounding the buoy Wit- chell, Mayne and Cooke. (Shanghai) gare up, The gider rounding the buoy was Humphreys, MacCabe, and C. J, Cooke.

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At the time of the mishap, the Afgi"King was chartered to the Chinese Ergineering and Mining Co, Ld, and was bound from Chia wauptae to Hongkong with a full cargo of coal. Both vessel and cargo are, of course, insured.

The Ningpo message leaves little doubt that she is in an exceedingly, precarious condition, and the possibility of refloating her in re garded as extremely doubiful. Few vessels have had such an extraordinary career, or earned-such-unenviable, notoricly as the Mauri King. She was built at Sunderland in 1890 and her gross tonnage le 3:807. A the Esperance, in 1924, she accompanied the Baltic Fleet on its Eastward journey. Her seizure by the British authorities and the sènia- tional proceedings that followed is H.HR: Perein and R. Lapsley went it. Lapsley was the mosi fancied man, but about a quarter's Supreme Court, are matters of such recen bistory that it is unnecessary to refer to them a distance from the faish he went over the rope any length.

and so lost his chance of a win, Pereira won

•

21st September. Further particulars to hand with regard to −1h8-Mauri-King,—which_ran_nshore up the 17th Instant on Longhuisho Island, Chusan Group, are to the effect that the vessel has broken in two, and that the after portion bas sunk

thirteen fathome of 'water, while the] forward part seats op- the rocks and is possible that part of her cargo may be salved, though only her masts and fungsi are visible above water. The tenders. Vi larid and Sammon were dispatched to the scene of the wreck on Sunday, with salvage gear supplied by the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ld., consisting of a boiler and two pumps.

The salvage crew included the usual native tificers and European superintendents,

No lives were lost as a result of the accident, and Captain Stringer and the officers and crew arrived in Shanghai yesterday morning by the C.N.S. Ying chow. When the accident occur red, the Maori King was on a voyage from Chingwanglao to Hongkong with a cargo of coal. When passing through the Chusin Group on the 17th, instant, the death occurred, of one of the Chinese crew, and as the other members of the crew objected to the body being buried at sea, the vessel put-iato Lopgunsho and anchored there to land the body. As the ship was putting out again, she struck a sub merged rock, which fore a large hole in her forward hold and she immediately began to sink. The officers and crew secured junks and -proceeded to Ningps, reaching their destination

without fanber ́mithap.

by nearly a hurdle. Carvalho was second, Time:49 SECE

and heat. Yvapovich, A. V. Barres and R. C. Witchell (scratch) tried-conclusions In this beat. Witchell overtook Yvanovich in the second hurdle and on the retaro led from Barros

The Shanghai entrants were:-R. W. Mac- Cabe 0. W. Mayne, G. J. Robinson afd W. Jouzs

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Os the reture jourany MacCabe, swimming sirong, was leading, Humphreys gave up before

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"TACOMA MARU FROM TACOMA, JAPAN & SHANGHAI, to the layman's mind seen too ter The above mentioned Steamer having bie fox solution, but our learned Chief arrived, Coin to their Bills of Lading loy Justice with his dual capacity for the unraveled to send in

Countersignature, and take immediate delivery log of complex points has ready solved of Cargo from alongside. the conundrum. As most of my readers

the lighter was reached, and the race resolved are doubtless aware, the facts, of the, caw

tell into a contest between MacCabe and C. Jlebre are very simple. Chinaman was Cooke. Go on, Coola"Keep up, Mac arrested on June 10th of AID. 1909 on charges Cabe, vociferously roared from a thousand-of-armed robbery and murder in China and throats on the lighter and at the pier. While, absequently discharged on the latter charge naturally enough a good many favoured Cooke's The Court, however, which it within the chances for a win, there was no denying that precincts of the gaol, ordered the re-arrest of MacCabe was the superior mat. He swam prisoner on the charge of armed robbery belom magnificently. She fight towards the finish behe and left the premises. As a result of an then the two men was something that will live application for a writ of habeas corpus, the Chlef Justice held that the proceedings were long in the memory of the spectators. Mac-

cot, legal and accordingly discharged the Cabe won by 3 2/5 seconds from his rival The Shangbai victor was cheered again as he 'walk prisoner. At the eleventh hour, further ar ́to the magistrate's action was gument as ed into the enclosure. His reception was

brought before the Chief Justice, as a result of worthy of the splendid victory.

which it was dicided to consider the matter in Chambers. Verily, the honourable profestion is not all beer and skittles.

and won as he liked. Barros was second.

3rd heat.-F. L. Roza won casily, the other three-H. W. Petersen, C. Bunje and Sayer-did not finish when they saw that struggle was a Kopeless opt. Fr

4th heat-This provided a most exciting contest between A. H. Corroll, A, J. V.Ribelco C. A..Rodrigues and FB. Silva, Sily, who was given an advantage authe start, led all the way until quarter of a length from the finish when he was successfully, overtaken by RF beiro add Carroll. The last two fought for honours with each stroke, and it went rough with Carrill when Ribeiro managed to touch the board when his bini went over his head to come down just a moment too late. The com- petitors were well applauded. Time; $385 secs. FLUNGING-laterport Championship Two tries each.

R. W. MacCabe (Shanghai)... C. J. Cooke (Hongkong). W. Jones (Shanghai). Time: MacCabe 7.56 115.

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Cooke 7.59 3/5,

WATER POLO, Then followed a water polo match between ine teams of V. RC members. Those who played were

Blues won by 3 gosiątą "ri

F. K. Tata, F. B. Silva, F. M. Roia” Pereira, A. M. L. Soares, Carl Burje and R. C. Witchell were the Hongkong contestants. The visitors were represented by P. Fowler, E Prince and D. H. Cooke, Before this event was brought off there was some talk of limiting the time in the water in 63 seconds each mạn, bút as there was a divergence of opinions-on-the-proposed. The three days' swimming carnival will be role (which has been adopted by certain home brought to a close to-day; at the conclusion of associations and rejected by others) the sugges- the events Miss Lyon will present the prizes:" tion was not 'pressed. Pereira led with 541 feet after the first diva; the 'distances covered by the other two best mien were :-Witchell 54 fh, and Fowler 52 ft.

It will be remembered that the exclusive le formation was given in these colume of a liberal contribution offered to Prince Shus on The Shanghai Captain improved at the kis recent visit to Hongkong towards the Chi- second try, out-distancing his first performance nese Naval Funds Our serious Shaoghal by 3′ft, but the Hongkongites were not to be: contemporary has the following paragraph displaced, Pereira bolding the lead with 57 ft. thereanent :-A Canton dispatch says that Mr. 6 in. followed by Witchell with 57 ftio. No Chung Yunan, a wealthy Chinese merchant in thing eventuated after the third try and the the Straits, contributed the sum of Tls, 200,000 |· result was chalked up as follows 1— for the Navy Fund, when Prince Tai Hilin wai at Hongkong,“. Mr. Chang has given large contributions before this, and has been award ad the rank of Expectant Director of a Metro- politan Court and a button of the 1st Grads for kle liberal patriotism... The Prince was pleased with his donation and granted Director Chang and his son an interview at which he expressed appreciation of hi liberality, The compradora

of a foreign Sum (s also reported to have made a dosttios towards to the Navy Fund. -

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F. M. Roxy Pereira (37 ft. 6 in.) ... I R. d. Witchell (57 ft. 2 in.) P. Fowler (55 ft.)

INTERPORT AMENITIES, The criat whith which the Interport Carnival was opened shows that the sporting instincts of the Colony have not waned by any mannɣro! means. There is no healthier form of stimulating the friendly reistions obtaiping Whites: A.-V-Barros (captain), H. J. White, amoog For Rastera neighbours than to P. M. Remedios, R. A. Carvalho, Q, A. Rodri mest in friendly rivalry and the thinks

Bng to the Com ol all sportsmen are gues, E. Leitao and P. Yvanovich.

Blues: B. C. Sayer (captain), Ã ̈ ́À Alves,mittee of, the Victoria Recreation Club for J. M. Pereira, A. J. V. Ribeiro, F. L. Rora, inaugurating, the fête and Mosers. Jurdine, Matheson and Company for providing special F. K. Tata and M. A. R. Souza,

facilities to our Northern visitors, The Shang hai contestants have throughly upheld Shang- hol's fair name by an exhibition of clean sport, add the only regiet in that the visitors have beon somewhat handicapped by the special circumstances prevalling here, but after all, it is not so much a question of who carries the greater number of trophies as the pil of bonhomie wilch sports are calculated to foster, It is to be hoped that the fonoration introduced A Chinese telegram says, that the Boundary by the V.R.O. will come to be an annual-avent Protection Society in Canton recently tele-add that Shanghai will at nous future date ten graphed to the Peking Government, stating its way to reciprocate Hongkong's invitation, that, as the Portuguese authorities esesme à coercive attitude in the Macao Boundary ques.

THE MACAU BOUNDARY,

AN IDLE RUMOUR.

TUESDAY'S THUNDERSTORM,

Tuesday night's thunderstorm was undoubt

tion, evil doors might seise upon the opportunity edly a regular blood-curdling affairs. The and-

to create an uprising, which would disturb the peace. Tha Waiwapo, however, tegards this BOYS' RACE (under 15 years of age).. Two report as an idle sumour tending to excite lengths kandicap. Post entries. Sons or disorder and has ordered the Viceroy to forbid brothers of members only admilled Two such representations.-N. C. D. Nou. prices.

denna with which it barst upon the Colony and the severe nature of the storm bays not the known in the Colosy for some time. Uns fortunately, the storm claimed more than one death and it is somewhat remarkable that the Peak was not attended with more serious con-

The competitors were:-C. Logan, L. Boura, Ir is learnt from native sources that the Total isquences than was the can. At any mis, F. Crus, 4. Logan, 0. Pepper, F. Finlay and has asked the Viceroy to move the Walwppa to servous folk must-have pasjid an uncomforté-

T. Logan, Little O. Logan (the "Go" boy) take sisps to protest against the regatta being | sble ten minutes.

created mycb admiration for kis pluck and held again near Gulaşını

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