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Balow we give the programme of the Gymkhana that will be held under the auspices of the Polo Club at Happy Valley Race course (by kind permission of the Stewards Hongkong Jockey Club). on Empire Day, Saturday," the |24th instant, at 4 pm. It will be observed the programme is of an unusual and 'amusing character and that anyone who can ride is welcome to compete. An entrance fee of $100 per race will be charged (Ladies free) or $5.00 for the whole programme, Entries must reach Mr. S. E Grimstone (Jardine, Matheson Garments and Co.) before noon on Monday

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Entrance fee to the Gymkhana will be $1.00 per head (children under 12 half-price) payable at the gate. Such entrance fes also" includes tea, which is being provided by special arrangement with the Hongkong Hotel.

on

1.-Hulf-Sections Race.-Gen- tlemen only. Competitors will start dismounted, saddles ground in front, on word "go will saddle up, mount, and ride to given point, unsaddle. and ride bare-back to winning-post. Half-section must finish together, partners will be drawn for.

2-Ball and Bucket Race, Open to Ladies and Gentlemen. Three posts will be set up, on top of each will be placed a polo ball; competitors on word go" will ride to each post in turn, take the ball off and place in bucket. If competitor drops a ball or misses bucket, she or he must dismouni, pick up ball. and remount before. placing same in bucket.

3. Tent Pegging.-Gentlemen only. Ladies Nomination.

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dismounted, on word "go" amount and ride to given point where men will dismount and being brought now instead of at hand their ponies over to the the time of the liquidation? ladies, who will then lead part- ner's pony back to starting point.

The Attorney General:-Yes, Gentlemen, on dismounting, will that and for other reasons What run a short distance, pick up and has taken place was really done open an umbrella, tura four times to assist. His Majesty's enemies mound a stick, then return to in Canton. That and other

Plans for what will be the

ator in the

of the their ponies as quickly as possible, things to which he would refer fastest passenger vessels on the Pacific Coast are being prepared liquidation and the claim of this mount and ride to winning post!

Umbrellas must be sum of money Was a claim together.

Proceeding, the Attorney Gen-by the Admiral Line for use on for a

kept fully open all the time. sum which Was

eral said the amount of $40,000 the Sea Francisco-Puget Sound handed-over to the liquidators to 5.-Musical Chairs.-Ladies was the amount of security for rum according to Mr. A.F. Haines, Vice President and General EX-COMPRADORE'S CLAIM. the Custodian of enemy propertly. only. (If sufficient entries are acting as compradore in Canton. Manager of the Company, who Therefore it was, he submitted, in not forthcoming this event may The Custodian had got the money arrived here yesterday on an in- effect, a claim made against the be changed.)

realised by the liquidation but he In the Supreme Court, this Custodian as successor to and as

6. Vi tòria Gross Race- wanted His Lordship to under-spection trip says a recent issue of the Seattle Times. Mr. Kaines, morning, before Sir William Rees standing in the shoes of the Gentlemen only. Ladies' Nomin-stand that neither the Custodian who is at the Palace Hotel, and "Davies, K. C. Chief Justice, liquidator and, counsel submitted, ation.

the Liquidator had the will be in the city for a week application was made by Lo Shut the sanction of the Court

7-Mounted Combat-Gentle-barded over to the Custodian didid

particular $40,000. The property Po, merchant, of 43, Bonham covered both the liquidator

men only. Ladies' Nomination. not include that particular sum. We are going to make the Strand, for an order that the Cus-jand the Custodian and the

Competitors will todian of Enemy Property shall Custodian must be regarded by backed, no whips or spurs allow money exceeding that $40,000 Francisco in thirty-six hours. I ride bare- The sum in his hands is a sum ofn from Puget Sound to San pay to the said Lo Shut Po out the the Cours as standing in the led, combatant remaining mounted The $40,000 was in the hands can't tell when the vessels will the Custodian from the liquidat section of the Ordinance on which longest to.win.

GERMAN FIRM'S

balance of $84,464.42. received by shoes of the liquadator. The

interest thereon.

manner

its

whatsoever of

"scope

any out

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of the

up.

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Liquidator but

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of the

it

be on the run, as the contracts

have not been awarded, pending was not in his hands at the time of the outbreak of

or of the firm of Reuter, Brock-he was going to rely would cover

on a final decision on the types lemann and Co. or out of any both. The section in question

war and it has never been in will make about twenty-one knots of vessels to build. The ships other assets of the firm in his was section 20 of Ordinance hands or in his custody, the sum XI of 1917-Yo legal proceed-

the hands of the Custodian. of $40,000 being

an hour and will have two berth the amountings of any kind whatsoever, civil matter that there should be The sum had been used by deposited by the said Lo Shut Poor criminal, without the permis- permission

Governor Reuter, Brocklemann, in Canton, staterooms. They will be finer in 1907 and 1909 as a guarantee sion of the Governor can be brought to do so and they put that for exporting goods from China. in many respects than any ships for the performance of the said against any liquidator or any

on the Pacific. Whether the as a condition of the pro- He wanted to show that this was ships will be built on the Lo Shut Po of his duties as com-public officer in respect of any ceeding of the case and if it was not a frivilous objection. The Pacific or Atlantic depends upon; pradore of the said firm, and act or omission connected in any said that the matter has passed $40,000 was being used by Reuter, the prices we get. When about

of the purview of the Brocklemann, an alien enemy in Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., and windingup under the Enemy Liquidator to the Custodian, Canton. Reuter, Brocklemann $2,000,000 is involved in each Mr. Eldon Porter, instructed by Aliens Ordinances of 1914 and then he held that the words would be functioning, after the Vessel we will build the ships Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, of Messrs. 1917. The section was both public officer" covered the outbreak of war, under the Ger-where we can get the best price.

Consulate prospective Custodian, and if it was said man

Right now they could be built at Canton Dennis and Bowley, appeared on retrospective and

cheaper in the East than on the behalf of the applicant and the in

It also that the winding up was over because there was DO Ger-

Paci That is what the Ship- MBA under the extra terri- Attorney General, the Hon. Mr. referred to legal proceedings and finished he would point out

méant clatu was H. E. Pollock. K.C., appeared on of any kind being brought not that the

made torial jurisdiction there. The ping board authorities

Reuter, when they told Pacific Coast behalf of the Custodian of Enemy only against the liquidator but distinctly against the assets partnership between

builders and workers that they which are the result of the Brocklemann in Canton and Property, the Hon. Mr. C. McI. also any public officer.

winding His Lordship What is a be seen Messer, O. B. E.

It would Reuter. Brocklemann in Hong-ust got down to a competitive that the section is kong would come to an end a Mr. Haines said his Company

basis. The Attorney General said he public officer ?

enormously wide, the words used cording to his Lordship's decision had a prelimiary objection to The Attorney General said a being in respect of any actor in the recent case of Sander, 15 in the trans-Pacific freight

The summons in the public officer meant any person connected in any manner what Weiler:

business to stay. make.

"Within the matter' was taken out on March holding or assisting to discharge soever with any winding up.

last forty-eight hours", he said, 27, this year, asking the Court to duties, whether permanently or The actual winding up came to that the two cases were entirely over two more vessels for the Mr. Alabaster objected, saying the Shipping Board has turned make the order stated." He would temporarily, of

any. office an end in 1917.

different. He argued that Oriental route. That makes four like to say a few words in ex-the emoulments of which are

His Lordship Why did they there was по planation of the facts. The wholly and directly derived from

merit in we are now operating, two from liquidation of the firm was carried the revenue of the Colony. That not claim against the Liquidator Counsel's objection and in the Portland and two from Puget

and included

suggestion that the applicant had Sound, running to Oriental points Company in part and in Enemy Property. The Custodian The Attorney General said used the money to assist au and the Philippines". part by Mr. R.G. Shewan, says that no permission was the applicants were receiv. enemy and there was certainly from October, 1914, until April, given by the Governor for ing interest from the no evidence of it whatever. The

TRY. THEM TONIGHT. .. . 1918, and on or about the latter the present legal proceedings firm of Reuter, Brocklemann in objection had no technical merits date the sum of $84,000 odd to be brought against him, under Canton and they were quite or even if it had they had been placed in the hands of the the provision of section 20 of the happy in doing that. The ap-waived and they had no rights Once you have used. Pinkettes. liquidator was paid over to the Alien Enemies Windingup Ordin-plicant said it, was perfectly true in entering a preliminary objecthe tiny gentle-na-nature laxe- Custodian, but it was importance of 1917. "It was admitted by that he might have made tion: even if they had such tives, you will never go back to ant for his Lordship to note the other side no permisson was a claim against the Liquidator, rights, they lost them by eater- Salts, Oil, or drastic purgative that the case of the applicant granted by the Governor to take but he

doing an unconditional appearance. pills. Was that he handed over any proceeding against the it. But his claim against the Applicant's claim was not under the sum of $40,000 some years liquidator and no preceedings Custodian was really based upon Ordinance No. 11 of 1917; it was before the war broke out. There were,in fact taken against him, the fact that he had a good claim an application under one of the

ont by Shewan,

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the Custodian of

then,?

did not

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fore if the sum was claimable Counsel submitted that in the against the Liquidator and he Trading with the Enemy Ordiri dispel constipation and thus cure IRON & STEEL PRODUCTS

at all it was claimable against particular section the term public made no claim against the latter ances to which he would refer tiliousness, liver, sick, head- the liquidator in the winding up. officer included the Custodian because he was receiving interest The order under which they were aches, coated tongue, foulsmell- There could be no question of enemy property and therefore, on his money from Canton up to preceeding was under the second whatsoever, that upon the ap- the present proceeding must fail: some date last year. amendent of the Trading with ing breath; they clear the skin. Of chemists, of post free at 60 plicant's own case, the sum He submitted that it was a His Lordship The Governor the Enemy Ordidance, No. 2 of cents the vial, from Dr. Williams of $40,000 might have been necessary condition for the could waive his claim but he does

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