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HONGKONG CRICKET LEAGUE.

`Annual Meeting:.

The Chairman proposed the adoption of the report and accounts and, in doing so remarked that he lind not much to say, except that they were $19 to the good. The season had been very success --ful, and he hopbilthat the ensuing

BORson would be as successful.

M. Withers seconded. Carried. The office bearers were re-elect- ed as follows:-Hon. Dr. Atkinson (President); M.W. D. Braid wood (Vice-President); Mr. A. E. Asger (Hon. Secretary and Treasurer).

Mr. Ches proposed that-Rules 9 and 10-should be altered. A win should herpafter count three points and a draw one point, ouch club to play twice.

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Mr. Laminort scconded. Captain Clapham opposed the resolution on the ground that they would have to make, allowances for wet days and regimental ongagements. Life was really THE FIREFLY'S LAMP. too short for sixteen matches to be played in one season,

Colonni Staupole-Ifaolab wins the first round of matches, can refuse to go on any longer? Can it suy:-Wo hayo won a match Wo rofuse to play again?

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TELEGRAPH TUESDAY SEPTEMBER

HONGKONG AND THE RICE SHORTAGE

Added to this thors is an equal nonut on the way to Hongkong, so that there will be enough to last till, December when the Sin crops will be ready.

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MENTS.

THE STOWAWAY.”

THE REAL BARBARA FRIETCHIE

Legend is Contradicted by a Man Who Know Her

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THE CHINESE CALENDAR.

Once again the proposal that the Government should adopt the Western calendar has been brought forward, and there is little doubt that the suggestion

of those who have any acquaint- will commend itself to the minds

The retention of the lunar calen

thur's administration he fyns over Russin in the ranks of civil- surveyor of the port of Baltimore ized nations, and that is saying. Through absorption of its tradi- about as much as could be said. tions he know the history of At the present time every doon- Maryland until, in conversation, ment of any importance that it would seem to his hearers ns if

he had himself lived from earliest passed between u Russian and a colonial times. He had seen non-Russian has to boar tro vory President from John Quin dates, and endless confusion ey Adams on, and had known is caused by the independent personally several of the defenders incidence of Russian and non- of Fort McHenry

Russian, festivals and holidays. China things are even worse,

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No Cause for Alarm New York telogram dated

Wo are informed on very good The annual meeting of the Aug. 14 says:--Admiral Togo Hongkong Cricket League was on Sunday paid a warrior's tribute authority that though the price of held last ovoning at the Hong- to Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Aprice hos rison in Ilougkong there Henry Chiy Naill, who died in kong Cricket Club pavilion. Hon.parently Roosevelt the fighter is no need for unonsiness. It has Baltimore the other day, was Dr. Atkinson took the clutir. The had appealed to the Japanese a. been estimated that the daily politician of the old school, in

nuce with the conveniences aris- others promat, wore.—Colney miral, rather than Roosevelt the consumption of rice in the city tensely partisan, eating, drinking, Stuepole, R.E., Captain Clapham, panco-maker, for when he marched amounts to 4,000 piculs, and the and dreaming politics. He was a Mr. W. E. Braidwood, R. E. 0. er president'ho carried Mr. Roosc- prósent time le said to bo-120,000 party in many States and for many dar, places this country behind | I.G.A.. Captain Addison, R.E., upSagamore Hill to meet the form amount stored in the city at the stump speaker for the Republican ng from the present system. 'Bird (Civil Service), W... Wonser volt a two-foot miniature of a solor enough to last for 30 days: decades. During President" Ar- and T. Choo (Kowloon), W. dier's armour. Withors (Police), A. Foster Colonel Roosevelt, in a dark (Naval Yard), Sergt. Booth suit and immaculate white vest, -(K.O.Y.L.I.),-, L. E. Lammert stepped forth of the veranda and

The following five gentlemen

·(Craigongower)-aut.A. P. Asger greeted the admiral, who wore a (Hon, Secretary),

white service uniformi.

have been appointed by Mr. Brewin, Registrar Coneralt to "Delighted to meet you," ex-inquire into the state of affairs:

Ho Kam. Tong, Ng Hon Taze, claimed the colonel,

The admiral's face boned. Chou Kai Ming, Sui Yuen Fai The party filed into the broad re-and Chan Lok Chuen,

His version of the Barbara ception room and the gift was

Friotchic legend is interesting, in presented. The colonul expressed.

view of the fact that Frederick for she has in her international was Mr. Naill's home, and he was relations to keep in mind three his gratitude in a broadside of

THE well acquainted with Dame Bar calendars, the Chiness,” the Rus superlatives. After luncheon the

the wide (Taz "TE:BQRAPH" CORRESPONDENT] ara-had "known her from liesian and the Gregorian, andESDAY, the 20 Spiombor, party-gathered on verandah whenco sounds of

Canton, Sept. 18.)

nfancy, and hud sat on her lap Mr. Roosevelt often issued. The [laughter and the vigorous voice of Some time ago, a Chinese telo many a time," as lo expressed it, though her national or general 1911, at 5.8 pm. For te purpose of Sixtement of Accounts for the year luncheon was strictly privato.gram reported that 11. E. Fung (he legend, as immortalized in holidays do not interfore with iving the Annual Report and Shan, the newly appointed Tartar Whittier's poem, is wellknown. It business in the same way as in ending fist Angust; of shriing office- | The Japanese photographers General of Canton would act as has been claimed that the incident Europe, still inconveniences are bearars for the ensuing year, &c.

motored from New York in Admiral in addition to his usual ccurred just as told in the poom, caused. The occurrence of an

A. V. MONK, ut it hos also been asserted

Act. Hon. Hecretary. taxicab to get a picture of Colonel duties. According to news from

|Hongkong, 13th Sept, 1911. Roosevelt and Admiral Togo to the North II. E. Hung Shan is to hat the horoing was a Mrs. intercalary month in every third relative of the your makes it almost impossible gether for use in Japanese papers. et as Commander-in-chief of the Quantrell, a When they reached Sagamore Canton recruits while Field Marguerrilla leader. Those who ad-to develop properly a budget Hill the register stood at $18.70 -hal Lung Olai Kwong will act vange the lattor theory neually system that can be compared FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG Colonel Roosevelt said no, andas Admiral. The reason for this leclare that the soldiers did not

or correlated with those of any the three Japanoso turned away change is that II. E. Fung Shan pass within three blocks of

other country, and indeed the whole problem of, statistics in dejectedly and started back for listinguished himself by his Barbara's home. Now York with the taximeter success while in command of re-t- According to Mr. Naill both this Empire is immeasurably (Taking Cargo on Through Bills

cruits in Poking. clicking away,-

stories are right and both wrong complicated by reason of the

Lading to Rangoon, Madras, He said that while Stonowall's calendarial anomalies. The put-

and Mauritius.) soldiers wore passing Barbara's ting forward of this proposal will house, fereral of them entered her be all the more readily avelcomed garden and drew water front the by intelligunt men, as it is only To find out just how and why consider that a ship, if she is to the old woman, who was churn of the Imperiat Post (lice revert for the above porta on TUESDAY, the We are not among those who wolf without asking consent of two or three years since the issue Captain E. P. Smith; will be despatelied. the tiny firelly is able at will to be accurately described as well ing on the porch. Upon being was delayed several weeks booth instant, at Nood. transform itself into a living lamp found, should have hor stowaway, aeridly ordered away, two of them cause that excellent institution series of very interesting unda captains have drused it into went on to the porch and protond-had decided to revert from the us that stowaways are a right-ed to be about to slake their thirst use of the Gregorian calendar to Captain Addison-Oh, no, instructive experiments have been fullxre; and it had certainly with Barbara's buttermilk. Her the lunar calendar, and by so Captain Clapham said that the conducted by. P. Alexander Me-begun to look as though what wrath grow to fury, and, in min- doing it made any comparison of existing arrangement and had Hermott and Charles G. Craue of comince was connected with gled English and Pennsylvaniu the figures issued since that date the effect of opening up cricket. the Hygienic Laboratory of the the earlier stowaways of fiction Duteli, she gave then her unflat absolutely futile. Whilst the He moved an amendment that United States Public Health and had begun to fale. Lately, ering personal opinion of them-Western calendar is in many re however, a bold attempt hasselvos, their army, and govern spects for superior to that of this the present rules be allowed to stand.

Hospital Service in Washington, been made by two passengers, went, and the military profes-country it is not by any The amendment was defentod says the "New York World."

who lind put themselves on sion in general. Her speeches means perfect, and an internation- by five to four. Mr. Chee's re The investigation necessarily the free list of a big liner, to whack were received with laughter and al movement is on foot for its solution was carried and will be called for considerable delicate up interest in the stowaway as a nook applause, and the soldiers revision. This movemont is sup- duly confirmed.

| microscopical study of the light-clu-s. The finer, on arriving at then moved oa. According to ported by some of the leading The question of the use of mat-producing organs of the firefly. New York, has reported that two Mr. Naill, thoro was no flag dis-Governments of Europe, and stoyaways found aboard soon played, and Barbara's sentiments, sooner or later it will issue in a ting on lo pitch was considered,

It was found that the insect profier the ship left Statlumptou expressed and unexpressed, wore rutional revision accepted by the and after a little discussion it was agreed that the mattor should duces its light by oxidation, that broke out of the vessel's guol and rallied around the single prin- whole of the civilized world, and when that time comes Chins will be purely optional.

is, by practical combustion. managed to hide themselves, so dilo of "No trespassing."

The firefly's light-producing bediscovered, up, all the time Mrs, Quantrall, a younger wo- the final step of adopting it if successfully that they have pot. Further down the street was be the better prepared to take

organs are traversed by tabes at which we pon these words, man, with an eye to dramatic she has already brought herself continuous with those used for The modern ocean liner is a huge effect, and a presumed confidence intoline with modern astronomical In days of yore, when, on the breathing, and the investigation concern, with a vast interior, and that the consequences of a little science by the adoption of the strength of being a friend of the found evidence that air is drawn while the crow are forreling about show of patriotiem would not be Gregorian schome. There will into the organs of the firefly every in the stern-sheets the stowaway is very serious, Slio ran to her of course be considerable opposi- captain and possessing a certain time it wants to illuminate itself socoting. off by devious pathe front gate, waving a small Amer- tion from the ignorant, and rude skill ́as a fast bowler, we and its surroundings.

to the purlieus of the bow. We ican flag. The young follows possibly from the Chauvinists, obtained a place in our school The luminious organ is divided are not sure that stowaway-hunt- who composed the army wore but the calendar was revised eleven, we were always sont in into two distinct layers, the inner ing will not displace deck quaits not grim fanatics in holy with the help of Roman Catho Inst; and from those days till now one being white and opaque, and as a recreation for agile passen- war, and the excited woman in lic priests some we have meditated somewhat serving as a reflector, the outer gors. There is an element of the calco, waving. her little flag in half centuries ago, and there is no tensely on the last man. Our being yellowish and translicet phase in the thing which depklefiance of the marchiors, roused reason why what equld be done experience has told us that no and containing the actual light quoits can never provide. Yoicks. only their sonse of humour. They then without any very great dis- fielding team ever takes the last pro fueng mechanism. The Gone away. He's doubled back anlated hor dorisively, sisked if location of everyday life should man really seriously. They look fuminous organs ara ponetrated, to the billiard room. Got him? she were prepared to accept their not be capable of accomplishment on him as something in the from the interor of the insect No. Ha! he must have concealed surrender, laughed and chaffed at again. There need not necessarily nature of a harmless nuisance outaid, by innumerable tubes, his tracks by crossing the swim-her until she got tired and want be any serious displacement of the They rather resent his presuining which rouily within the true ming-bath. The pursuit of the within. The general's command national festivals, and the excellent to take guard. As soon as the luminous tiesub, running dingo stowaway should relieve mitel of was suply, "Pay no attention to habit of paying up one's scores ninth wicket has fallen, the field ally outward and finally uniting the tedium of a transatlant e voy- her." relaxes The fieldspon edge to- with the breathing tubes of

go. But we think that the uso wards the pavilion. The fast bowl-windpipes, with which they are of bloodhounds should be barred.

-"The Globo." er. feels that at last ho may try apparently identical, that slow headball of his of which, Whon the firefly wants to secretly, he thinks so much, and strike light it takes a deep AL which hitherto has been rigidly breath, drawing in the air through "Knowing that you revel in 'n when they travelled they got but it is a custom out of which checked by his captain's cold eye. the breathing tracheae and forcing story," writes a correspondent to mixed, and grow in such a way the nation is rapidly growing, The last manissuperilous. There it through the fine passages or "The Globe, the nocount of as to confer immortality upon the for the introduction of trains is no doubt of that. Ile is expect tubes in its photogenic tissue, the death of Cardinal Moran, lady who was angered at the im- and steamers leaving at- definite liaving amarked ed to swipe blindly. Anything ap- where the oxygen of the air in which I read, reminds me of a pudent lads who threatened to times is

punctuality proaching style and caution is consumed in a biological oxidu- tale of his uncle, Cardinal Cullen. drink her buttermilk. As for effect on the Tooked on as unsporting and in tion. The firefly and other tiny Here it is: The Cardinal was o Mrs. Quantrell, her immortality of those who are within their bad taste. We thank whatever insects capable of self-llumina-disciplinarian, and one of his takes the form of an occasional reach; and it is not a matter for gode may be that since leaving tion are now known, to possess a rules was that the door of the paragraph in the "Answer to Cor-national pride that in this larger Hohool we have figured for the fluorescent material. It is the Archbishop's house in Dublin was respondents column. According question of time the Empire most part in village matches in action of the inhaled oxygen upon to be looked at 10 o'clock at to Mr. Naill, she undoubtedly should be behind even benighted which we are treated with con- this flourescent matorial that pro-night. The priests who were out waved a flag, but it was his Russia. If the Imperial Board of Hiderable deference, and sent induces the glow.

at any social fanation generally crpical, opinion that she knew Astronomy were to devote a first or second wicket. Wo are!

evaded this rule by getting asho was perfectly anfe, but wanted twelvemonth to the investigation now permitted to take an over or

brother to open the door. One to be a village heroine. That the of the Gregorian calendar, now two to settle down. The bowler On the principle of the electrio night the Cardinal had work that credit should go to the cholerio that the momentous question of locks upon us as a foeman worthy hair dryer is an instrument necessitated his sitting up late, Barbara and that the story should colepting a propitious day for the of his leather. Our average is brought out in Germany to ouro The door bell rang, and lie Car-be told to all the nation, with commencement of the Emperor's still much the same, but our stand rhoamatism by directing currents dinal answered the summons. As accompaniments of ora lung bul-atudies has been settled, it would ing has improved. And talking of hot air upon afflicted mus the priest entered, the hall, which lets and dramatic commands, was scarcely be able to come to any of averages, that is the only bright cles.

was in darkness, lo asked con- a matter of bitter grief to the other conclusion than that, the spot in the lot of the last man. A While a solid wire will show fidontially, Is Paul in bed?nctual heroine of the flag episode, adoption of

this calendar would series of ones, twos, and threes niore strength than stranded ropa No, Paul is not in bed, was But it was a subject of keen be a great convenience both for not out andoubtedly come in of the same weight in testing the reply, in a tone which male amusment to the neighbours, an domestic purposes and in interun useful against the inevitable machines, in actual practice the further interrogation inadmis, amusement which Mr. Neill tional relations.The National

syguts.--. The Globe!!! roverse almost always la the case; sible."

shared to the nimat

Review.

THE LAST MAN.

An Unfortunate Inquiry.

two and a

before the New Year could be These two incidents furnished retained without impairment. tho only excitement of the passage Time has never been properly of the troops through the little vained in China. It is an old village. The two stories were custom to be late at nearly every well understood at home, but function, oven one's own funeral,

Thursday, September 21.. V. R. O. Sports.

Friday, September 22. V. R. C. Sports,' '--

Saturday, September 23. Douglas SteamshipCo. meeting, noon, and extmordinary meeting, 12.15 p.m.

V. R. O.Sports. Civil Service vs. Taikoo,

Boxing, Skating Rink.

Monday, Sept. 25, Crown Land Auction,

Bowls,

Thursday, Sept. 28. Kowloon Cricket Club annual meeting, 5.15 p...

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Saturday, September 30. Hongkong Gymkhana. Olul), Race Meeting, Happy Valley,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, 2ND FLOOR. Hongkong, Ist-May, 1911, 1100

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THE

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"ASSAYE FROM "BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.

Consigneor of Cargo by the above- named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and plod at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.'s. Godowns it Kowloon, where onchs Cop dgument will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained sa the Goods are landed.

Optional Goods will be landed hare unless instructions: are given to the

contrary within 6 hour.

Goods not cleared by the 19th inst., at 4 p.m., will be subfoot to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be affected......... by me in any case whatever. -

Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignos and the Company's sur Tayor, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, at 10 am. on Mondays and Thursdayną All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival bare, after which date they cannot be re- cognised. No Claims will be admitted. after the Goods have left the Godowas."

E. A. HEWETT,

Superintendent.

Hongkong, 18th Sept, 1911.

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