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THE INTERPORT MATCHES.

(Continued from paje 4.) cricket in the dark, but he might remember that there are umpires selected to adjudicate such matters, and he, should accept their decision whatever it may be with as little adverse comment as possible.

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Tennis.

It is some years since the last Interport Tennis match in Shang- hai, and the games were looked! forward to with much interest. Unfortunately some difficulty arose in regard to the selection of Shanghai's representative in the singles.

The gentleman ultimately selected by the Tennis Asacciation for some reason best known to himself, declined to accept the honour, and the committee then called upon W.8.A. Pott, who has shown good form and evidently is a player of great promise: Un- fortunately he failed to shown. anything like his best form in the match against the Hongkong: representative, Green. The latter played a sound, strong game, and is evidently a difficult man to beat. "Some of his passing shots were delightful and he had the measure of Pott throughout the matob. Pott played "with poor judgment and either lacka ox- perience or was overcome by the occasion.

The doubles match ended in a victory for Shanghai by three straight sets. The visitors were uneven and Green frequently at fault as regards position. Hancock made some delightful strokes bat

·THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1914.

SPECIAL CABLES.

(Special Pacific Service to the “ Telegraph "--Rauter.).

CHINA'S FINANCIAL RECOVERY,

REVENUE STEADILY FLOWING IN,

Peking, Received June 0)." Althouzh the Quintuplo Group is prepared to make advances, the Government has declined owing to the satisfactory manner in which the revenues are coming in.

The Quintuple Group is about to hand over a farther three million tsels from the salt revenue, making 7,000,000 Taela handed over in the past two months over and above the liabilities secured thereon, while, the Provinces have supplied 0,000,000 Dollars during May.

A Supplementary Loan. 4

The first meeting was held yesterday afternoon be tween the Finance Minister and the Quintuple Bankers for the discussion of the terms of a supplementary loan of £8,000,000 sterling at 5 per cent. The terms are, in general, similar to those of the Reorganisation Loan, and the object is the payment of short-term loane amounting approximately to £2,500,000 from foreign sources and the balance from Chinese. The Loan is to be secured on the surplus revenue from salt.

Decreased Customs Revenue.

The Customs revenue for last month fell off oon- siderably, owing apparently to the narest in the Yangtaza region..

HERMIT'S LIFE STORY.

appeared to be about eighty years of age, and bore a striking resemblance to Tolstoy.

failed to stay, and was respousible Inventor of Many Lace Making: He stood there, with his head

Patents,

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thrust cautiously out of the door, which he still held, in fear of possible intrasion, and, speaking in a pleasant voice, told the Ex Press representative his strange the story

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The Wrobang government has been far from lucky with its fly. ing machines. During the height of the revolution a couple were bought from a foreign firm in Shanghai which had been left there by the unfortunate airman who was killed on the race. course. They were brought up river with considerable difficulty nud duly delivered. It was intend- ed to use them for dropping bombe on the Imperialists, but a difficulty arose as to who would fly them. A Chinese who had for a lot of lost pointe by hitting

undertaken to do so bad never into the net. He did not come up

been on a machine and was in no to his partner enough, and there One of the unhappiest men in

hurry to make a trial, so in spite was a lack of cohesion about Middlesex was the Fermit of

of all the pressure that could be the pair which lost them the Teddington, where litude in at

brought to bear on him be man- match. Green wee for the

aged to dodge his duty on the last bing invaded by most part weak. Occasionally unsought attentions of a sanitary With regard to the sanitary plea that the machines were de he made some nice passing inspector and the urban district inspector," he said, "I have been fective. Next an effort was made ahots, but generally seemed council.

ill with influenze, and much to return them to where theyTHE HAL. Steamship doubtful of bis proper place in

For more than twenty yer: the pestered with beggars, and when came from, but how the matter. the court..

bermit bas lived by himself with be knocked on the fist occasion was settled was not made public. For the winners Elmore played his cats in a two-storey cottage in I did not know who he was. When Two years ago, one of General delightfully. Without being Wellington-road, which he rents be came again I quoted to him the Li's advisers named Esis managed brilliant he was safe and rarely for £20 a year, and many curious Earl of Chatham's famous speech to get a commission to purchase failed to score when offered an stories are current in the district on the Englishman's home heing another couple. This time they opportunity. In fact he hardly restuing his personality and the his castle, into which he has the were procured from Japan and made a really bad stroke through-reasons which have 11 bim, to right to deny even kings admis. again proved to be defective, but cut the match. Toussaint also cat bimeslf off from his fellow-sion,

not beyond the possibility of played well, but was overshadow-

repair. Various dates were fixed for giving a demonstration but it never came off as there was always a little something more to pat right. When our present Tutuh took charge he dropped

either to fly his machines or refund the money. He was not prepared to do either so he was locked up in prison where he to exaplos 1,500 handa ius namsin er feill the other day. The ivered after the 15th inst, will b 6. DES VŒUX ROAD.

"I am mechanic, I used remained manufacturing business, I have Tutoh had gone carsfally into patented many devices in connec the accounts and was satisfied tion with lace-making, and one of that there had been no "squeeze" door and admitted to the house my inventions alone employs or other mal practice on Mr. Hsia's amined on the 15th inst., at 9.30 10,000 hands at Nottingham. part, but he had simply been "I quarrelled with my father unfortunate so he was set at many years ago, came down here liberty. The machines are to go by chance, have stayed here, and to the scrap heap, and there is ever since reading 'Carmen"-now an opportunity for some one the hermit gave a quotation from else to come forward with pro- it in the original Frecoh-heve posals for the purchase of two tried to maintain my personal more:-CC. Post liberty free of all intrusión. novele like

"My booke, including, classic

those of Sir!

men.

ed by his partner. He served The windows of the front of many footfaults and always required watching by the umpire the house are always masked by in this respect. Nevertheless the curtains, and not a single resident

well of the town, so far as can be learo Shanghai pair worked together and were a distinoted, has ever seen the hermit

There is nothing the matter with the house, and I am not at all sure I have not the right to shoot any one who crosses my threshold anbidden.

"As to my past, there need be

You know my name.

Maintaining Personal Liberty.

"PREUSSEN," Capt. H, Lubcke, having arrived, informed that their goods are be- Consignees of Cargo are hereby ing landed and placed at their risk in the hazardous and/or ex- tra-hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained against Bills-of-Lading counter- signed by the Undersigned.

Optional Cargo will be carried be given to-day. on unless notice to the contrary

success. In a match of this sort Gatside his own house or little secret about it between us. on Kr. Hsia and ordered him within ten days of the steamer's |

Toussaint might avoid unnecess-garden.

To add to the mystery, old ary delays when about to receive the service. It leaves a wrong neighbours recall that years ago impression, which is the last thing a carriage drawn by a pair of inted in his tntertain ons magnificent horses and with a good friends from Hongkong-fooiman on the box used fre A correspondent to the N. .queztly to drive up to the house bringing two fashionably attired Daily News

women, who were greeted at the

More recently still, the bermit PLAGUE FIGURES.

was discovered by a neighbour lying in a pool of blood as if dead The plague figures for last in his little back garden. Appar week still show a decrease. There ently the hermit, who is reported word 92 oasen-47. in Victoria and to be an inventor, had accidentally 45 in other districts and 84 severed an artery with a bical deaths. Of this number two be bad been using and had faint-

ed from loss of blood.

were Indiana, one Filipino, one A local coalman also slates that Japanese, and the remainder Chinezo, two hoing imported on one occasion when he peered Walter Scott, my papera, my cases. In Yaumati, there were through the kitchen window he twelve cases and ten deaths. At saw two revolvere lying on the Bunghom there were eleven cases table ready for use, and it is and ten desthe. Since January known that the hermit keep 1 there have been 1,876 cases of several serviceable, weapona in

the house. plague, and 1,700 deaths.

During last week also there were two non-fatal Chinese caces of diphtheria and three non-fatal cases of enteric fever, two British and one Ohiacee.

New Liners.

Like Tolstoy.

models, 00 which I am constantly working, my drafts and plans, all keep me fully occupied. y solicitor, bankers, and others visit me here, as also does my niece. Remember, too, I have

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The C. P. R... EMPRESS OF INDIA | HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS,

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Many people in the district, suffered a good deal by the illness however, have discovered that and deaths of those near and and 4 p.m. the hermit is not only a highly dear tɔ me,

The above named Steamer hav-. educated man, but a man of

The O. P. R. 4. MONTEAGLE left ing arrived, Consignees of cargo Medicine I have no nee for, Yokohama on the 8th inst, at 3 p.m. and is are hereby notified to send in their means and philanthropy as well. Carol singers at Christmas have and, after all, if you eliminate due to arrive at Kobe on the 10th insi, at Bills of Lading for countersigna- received many shillinge (some say all of which should bened with

quinine, laudanum and mercury, 5 at.

ture, and to take immediate even pounds) from the old recluse,

The C. P. R. 8., EMPRESS OF JAPAN delivery of cargo from alongside. caution-how Thora nie now under construc- children many a bright sixpence,

on 10th June At noon inst midnight is due to arrive at will be landed at Consignees' "I do go out, but at night and Yokohama on the 11th inst, at 5 a.m. and risk and expense and delivery tion seven Atlantic liners having and the local postman ton shil. drugs have you left? a gross tonnage of 30,000 and lings for a Christmas-box.

by the back door. The front will leaye Yokohama on the 21th inst. must then be taken from the upwards. Beginning with the

rooms are curtained because at 2pm. Paris of 30,000 tons these now vessels are respectively Staaten to obtain admission to the house noise of the tramway cars.

An Express representative tried live at the back, owing to the dam, 32,500 tons; Columbas, recently and to learn the hermit's "For the rest, I value liberty 35,000 tona; Aquitania, 47,000 reasons for his alleged refusal to above all else. That is why tons: Britannic, 48,000 tona; allow the sanitary inspector to I am so worried by this affair." Vaterland, 56,000 tons, and enter the house. In answer to sister ship of the latter which the visitor's knock the door was will also be of 56,000 groas tons. cautionely opened a few inches, The first of these to come out was and the head and shoulders of a the Vaterland in May, and she little old man, clad in an ancient will be closely followed by the dressing-gown, inquired his

A mothers patrol has been A boarder living at 116 Con Aquitania, and in next August by business. Hair and waving beard formed for the let Spring Grove naught Road has reported to the the Columbus. The Staatendam of snowy white framed a strik troop of British Boy Scouts at police, the theft from his room of recognised. will be launched in Jane and the ingly intellectual face, the face Kingston-on-Thames, so as to seven dollars worth of clothing, Paris will also be ready for the a student, and with the connect them officially with the gold watch valued is $100 and reason of 1915.

student's pallor. The old mani social work of the troop.

$174 in money

Mothers as Scouts.

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