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DAY BY DAY

HAD WEATHER HOUSES-OUR HOT VERY LITERARY RACE "TO REAL TOBCE AND ELOQUENCE. Mr. Ethoard Skanks

BOXING:

MOTO COLLISIO

INTEREST IN BIG LIGHT BETWEEN TAXI AND CAR

Interest is running high In an almost bead c amongst fight followers as to who couring last night on will be the winner of to-night's fulam Road between a taxi contest for the featherweight Connaught Garage our We have received a copy of the championship of the Colony be Chinese girl was somewhat Hongkong Civil Service List for tween A. B. Chadwick and seriously injured and minor {P.0. Jim Cartlidge. Both con- hurts, were inflicted on other the current year.

testants have finished training passengers, when both" vabiales and aro in perfect. trim. Chad rebounded - sharply from the at what they will have cost. Yesterday's health return shows wick has been trained by P: 0 impact.

heavyweight leaving the point of profit alto-116 Chinese cases of small-pox and Jack Callahan,

occurrence of champion of the Colony, while The collision occurred whilst gether out of consideration.one American

Cartlidge has been training at the paratyphoid fever.

was going - towards

Another most important point is that these lands will have to w

car

Kowloon with A. B's Eardley and Aberdeen. The damage a spat

Patmore, who are also billed to ing was such as to Tho silk forwarded from here meet opponents to-night. It is both cars out of commission be sold in addition to the custom-by the Empress of Asia on 10th certain the City Hall will be and the riders in both cars, who ary auctions of Crown land. The January arrived in New York on packed to its atment capacity on were Chinese, suffered a number of injuries. A shower of splinter- plain fact has to be faced that, 2nd February, having been 23 this occasion.

The main contest bids fair to be ed glass from the taxi, bovered japart from eventual sales, thers days in transit.

one of the best contests ever the occupants of the garage car, will be extremely little to set off

airanged by the Boxing Associa- whilst the driver of the latter A against the War Department|

A Chinese Was yesterday tion, both men being high class vehicle was injured over the eye, his head coming into contact bill. It may be the case that on knocked down by a motor car at fighters,

the junction of Water Street and the credit side of the special Queen's Road West, and was champion. He has done every-

Chadwick is the makings of a with the woodwork of his our.

Both vehicles werę carrying account which is to be opened taken to the Government Civil thing asked of him. His record, full loads, and it was fortunate which is too well known for that they did not turn over. there will appear

comment, is not as attractive as One little girl, a member of a that of Cartlidge's but he has family who were taking a joy Military Contribution which we We have received a copy of the proved that he can rise to the ride in the taxi. was also have overpaid, but we cannot see score of "Nobody Has the Blues" occasion when it demands, as thrown against the body of the that that has really anything to74 fox-trot of which the words proved in his fights in Shanghaltaxi and was taken to hospital

and music are the composition of lately. In Cartlidge, however, after the arrival of the police. Mrs. J. H. Taggart. Copies are he will be meeting a man of his

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wife

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 8th Feb., 1924.

of

sum of Hospital.

£114,000, representing

excess

do with the issue. That amount is due to us whether the award ia ratified or not, and it does not appear to us to enter into the transaction at all.

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FOOTBALL:

TO-MORROW'S TEAMS.

of

ROPE COMPANY.

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to be K,O'd Such a hard hitter already paid) of $2 and $1 per as Danny Frush, who has been and put

share bonus, absorbing $180,000

knocking many an aspirant to

■

championship honours recently, To Reserve Fund ,** $10,000.00 could not perform that fast. If To Bonus to staff records count, Cartlidge has a

3,246.60

end of $1 per share ... 60,000,00

***

good chance of winning, but the To Pay a Final Divid- admirers of Chadwick will go,

++

60,000,00

now on sale at the Anderson (own weight and will not have to After the collision one of the Music Company.

be giving away weight as he has front wheels of the garage car been doing in most of his fights. rested in the side-channel, whilst We are advised that the de-Featherweight champion Royal conjunction with the mudguard, Cartlidge's record is as follows: the other was badly smashed, in parture of the homeward Pand Navy and Marines 1919-1922: bonnet, and fittings. The taxi We would not go so far as to 0. mail steamer Kashgar from Featherweight champion British had its windows splintered. PETRIE-On the 8th. Febru-suggest that the award should be Shanghai was delayed for 38 Imperial Forces 1920-1921; win- aty, 1924, of pagumonia, Littie rejected. because that merely hours by fog and she is accord-ner of the Belt and featherweight The Connaught car was later

beloved. the dearly

ingly not now leaving Hongkong tournament Thomas Petrie. Funeral passes bring back

promoted by the taken on a lorry and brought to the point until 4 p.m. on Sunday, the 10th Ring. Blackfriars, 1922: light back to the repair shop of the the Monument to-day at 5 p.m. we were at when the protracted February.

wight champion Royal Naval Garage, whilst the taxi (Shanghai and Japan papers negotiations first commenced. It

Marines, British Imparial Forces towed back to Hongkong. please copy).

cannot be modified, for the simple New from Australia, where In-and- Atlantic Fleet 1923; reason that the Government has spector W. G. Gerrard of the Tommy Evans, Army Champion, H. K.Police is on a visit, tells of K.O. 6 rds; Rattler Morgan, won agreed to regard Sir John Oakley his athletic exploits at the Cal points 5 rds: Billy Palmer, won in the role of sole arbitrator." Weedonian gathering at Sydney on points, 20 rds; Billy Handley won would suggest, however, that if New Year's Day-a truly fine points 15 rds; Billy Matthews,

DIVIDEND AND BONUS. the award is accepted, an effort showing, considering the date ex-featherweight champion

and the fact that he was not in Europe won points 20 rds; Jimmy We are informed that, subject --- be made to secure immediate sporting garb. Mr. Gerrard putt Corp won points, 20 rds E

to audit, the Consulting Com- A COSTLY BARGAIN. possession of some of the lands the 161b. stone 38ft 6 ins., and Williams, won points, 15 rds: mittes and the General Managers

Preston, K.O. 4 rds; on which no buildings stand, threw the 161b, hammer 82ft. 2 ins Kid

of the Hongkong Rope Manu- Bennett, K.O. rds; facturing Co. Lid, will recom- From the statement made by with a view to early sale. That winning two second prizes there-Syd

by, and being close to the winner's Ritchie, K.0.7 rds; Cpl Dalton, mend a dividend (including the the acting Colonial Secretary at would at least ensure something performance on each occasion.

K.O. 3 rds; Danny Frush, lost interim dividend of $1 per share points, 15 rds. Cartlidge has yet yesterday's meeting of the Legis- going into the credit side of the lative Council. it will be gathered account before the outgoings be that the military lands question care very considerable. On the is a much bigger and more com- larger question of eventual public plicated one than would appear interest, there can be no two at first sight. Mr. Fletcher pre-opinions that a settlement of the sented the facts in the customary whole issue would be wise. The

The following teams have been clear and lucid manner which we point is whether the present selected to represent the Kowloon "hook, line and sinker on their To Pay a Bonus of $1

Football Club on Saturday a man's chance. Whoever wins

per share have come to associate with his time and the present terms are Kowloon against H.M.S.Despatch this contest, it will be worth And carry forward 4.341.29 utterances in the Council Cham-the best possible. Unofficial Rasmussen; Morton and Knight; going miles to see. ber. It has to be conceded, also, members have so long and con-Howarth, Turner and Pasco: that. remembering he was speak-sistently pleaded for the transfer Millard, Mason, Latham, Duncan very attractive and of nearly as

and Mair. Reserve: Leonard. much interest as the main event is TAIKOO DOCK MODELS. ing for the Government in favour of the lands that we cannot very

being centred on the semi-final, of the acceptance of Sir John well see how they can now bring Kowloon 2nd XI against Sacred T. I. Harris. Eardley is the The following will represent between A. B. Eardley and P. Oakley's award, he put the case the whole negotiations to naught Heart Beach: Ollier and Urqu- lightweight champion of the

CLEVER REPRESENTA- with extreme fairness. He did merely on a matter of the terms hart: A. W. Brown. W. H. Brown China Squadron and is a man of TIONS FOR WEMBLEY.-

and Randle: Hast, Vickars, promise. Under the careful not take the attitude that the of the settlement.

In addition to the very clever Spary, Sibley and Haylock tutelage of Cartlidge, he has the models already on their way Government had struck a fine.

Reserves-Taylor and Chapman.makings of something extraordin- Homa to the Empire Exhibition, bargain which it was palpably to Man and the Elements. The following will representary. His opponent will be mak there will be further exhibits the interest of the Colony to Perhaps it is man's overween the Club Reserves in their 2nd ing his local debut, but he has representative of our important accept. "Indeed, he rather stress-ing conceit that makes him think Division League match with beca doing things at home. His dock industry. These are the ed the other aspect of the ques-he has been able to tabulate all HMS Titanis on the Club ndorsement is 15 rds draw Talkco models which are to be tion, laying due emphasis on the the vagaries of Nature, and tell ground:S. H. Garrod: H. T. with P. O. Rattler Morgan, which despatched to Wembley shortis.

exactly what she should do on Buxton, J. Lyon; A. Ferguson, speaks for itself.

They form a single exhibit of financial burdens involved, show-such and such a date. Particular-E. W. Railton (Capt.) J. Gardner bouts, with the exception of comprise

Contestants in the remaining great faithfulness of design, and ing an obvious desire on the partly might this be the case with the R. Bell, A. Roberts, W. Stewart, A. B. Patmore, are

a representation to Weather conditions) A. Douglas, G. May. Reserves

too wall scale of Taikoo Dockyard and its of the Government to take into elements.

are expected to be this or that. W. Williamson and A. Patmore, as has been said, has feet is the scale, enabling very known for further comment. environs-six inches to a hundred. its complete confidence the

according to statistics drawn up Paul

been training with Jim Cartlidge clear reproduction of public which will, after all, have after many years' observance, but to foot the bill.

even then special departments The following have been select- and likes his chance with Lance acteristic features. have to be kept up to maintain aed to represent Club de Recreio Cpl. Major. The latter generally

At the dock wall in the model We will be quite frank. at the close watch on all those signs in the Junior Challenge Shield makes his contests short and outset, in expressing the opinion which man bas learnt to reckon against the South China "B" at sweet, but whether it will be so lie two miniature steamers, a

Blue Funnel vessel вла with foretelling weather 2.45 on St. Joseph's ground:-M. In this case remains to be seen.

as that the more we analyse the

changes. Modern science has Silva; E. P. Hyndman, H. Prats: terms of Sir John Oakley's reduced miscalculations to the Xavier, A. Carvalho, A. A award, the less favourable does minimum, and the meteorological Remedios; V. Xavier, L. Rocha, it appear from the purely mone-art of this century has affamed a Gosano, W. Ogles, Devi tary standpoint. It means that high degree, yet one cannot keep and AA. Botelho. Reserve

J. Ribeiro. count of all the occasions when the Colony is to be debited not the weather refuses to be bound by only with a sum of close on precedent and behaves in a man-

Hongkong we seem to be learning list of earthquakes alone is a

The remainder of the card is

char.

J. C. J. L. ship. In the large drydock is shown remarkable model of the sa. Emprers of “GLOBE TROTTERS." Cands On the slinzi 76. AIR.

two Butterfield and Swire steamers and a river steamer, TO-NIGHT AT THE STAR.

faithfully reproduced, and other The Globe Trotters" open ships are seen in course of con- their short season to-night at the struction. Nothing has

been

the Blue Fannel

seventeen million dollars, but her we have to call abnormal. In the world. The exceptionally biststar with a select programme of omitted, from a model of the hill that we have to lose interest on great deal about abnormality matter for comment, and seismo-concert-burlesque and comedy behind to a painted-in background the money employed in building of the elements. Last summer logical experts are still discussing items, all new to Hongkong of realistic nature. There is a re- new premises for the military. the typhoons were of unusual the occurrences in Japan, and audiences. This decidedly novel production of tramlines, stan- Furthermore, in consequence of frequency, the most severe of all speculating on future possibilities, show has been arranged by Mr. dards, roadways, and even the bad a record wind velocity, and One can only presume that cer- Dick Norton, the chief comedian staff residences. One of the shipe some forty per cent. of the the rainfall on two occasions was tain events mean certain things, Trotters" have toured most suc Rhexanor, which was built at this

Globe shown is and producer. The newly-acquired lands being need-jexceptional. Our previous winter and man, with more or less Con- ed for roads, we shall have to was drier and colder than usual, fidence in the correctness of his cessfully South Africa, Australis dockyard, and there are also whilst this season has been com- conclusions, draws wonderful and India, where they played a models of the various launches sell these military plots at a paratively warm and war. The diagrams of hidden volcances season of five weeks at the Empire and tugs. much higher sum per foot than storm of two evenings ago, and and earth movements for the theatre, Calcutta, under the con- The whole exhibit is artistically

Baadman's Eastern arranged in a big mahogany c826, 57, we paid for them if we are to the remarkable recurrence early benefit of his less-informed fellow-trol of

and is accompanied by photo- break even. Moreover, a much this morning with less thunder, men. When all else fails, there Circuit, Ltd.

more lightning, and the wind are always our old friends the The company arrive this morn graphs and a large coloured plan larger P.W.D. staff will be need-seemingly from an opposite ann-spots to blame for tricking by the F. & 0.83. Naiders of the yard. ed to cope with the reprovison-direction are unusual for this weather or other phenomena. So from Singapore where they have

ing of the garrison. What the time of the year. Who knows it goes on. More tables will be just finished their second season. Various departments of the

what we might be in for yet? cutting down of the areas for public purposes, together with Abnormal Conditions.

drawn up this year, more statis. Arrangements have been conclud dockyard tice arrived at, further learned ed with Hongkong Amusem dissertations published and Ltd, by which they play

the loss of interest, means Whilst dealing with weather sooner or later something will of entirely different is well illustrated in the case of priste to coselder the

elements, it is not insppro happen to upset all our calculat Kowloon

lons and prove how little meze the Murray Barracks block. The fact that sunormal Government is to get this at have been pemisting over mos

has roelly learnt of such