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FOURTEEN PONIES ENTERED

FOR FIRST RACE,

won at least five flat races. Any jockeys to whom permission to ride has been refused by the stewards of any recognised race club is not allowed to ride in this race,

A starter's fee of $100 shall be paid for each pony entered in addi- tion to an entrance fee of $100, which shall go to the club.

Entrics.

The entries aro:

1. General F. A. Sutton's Bongal,

frey 13.1,

2.

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3. Day's Bonnie Scotland, dun 18.3.

Fourteen ponies have entered for the National Pony Champlon ship of China, including several from Hongkong: The race is to be the aixth evont on the first day of thu International Recreation Club's 127th race meeting, Juno 12. The distance is a mile and a quarter, Conditions are as fol- lows:

Winner $10,000, 2ad $2,000, 'Brd. pony $1,000. For all China ponies, irrespective of class and sex, being bona fide properties of a member or members of any recognised race club in Chin or Hongkong, whose height does not 10. exceed 18 hands 8 inches (fraction

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pony

4. J. J. Paterson's Dago, dun 13.8. 5. T T. Chow & Co.'s Grand War.

ship, bay 13.3.

6. Dyer and Belth's Grey Morn,.

13.2. 7. Boda's Lady Love, chestnut 19.1. Sheng's Leadership, 8. Edward

chestnut 18.2.

9. John Peel's Local Option, bay

18.3.

of an inch to count in favour of 11. Toor and Priestley's Pretty pony). !

Polly, bay 18.2.

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Weight for inches as por scale, 12.

(140 lbs. for 12 hands with an ad- ditional 3 lbs. for every inch above the height), 1

Jockoys-To be ridden by nem- bers of any recognised race, club In China or Hongkong who have

Edward Sheng & Co.'s Reinforce-

13.

mont, bay 18.2.

Toog and Priestley's. Rosebery,

chestnut 18.2.

14. Evo's Warrenfield, bay 18.1,

Of these, Local option, Greg. Morn, Lady Love and Pretty Polly represent Hongkong..

"MARAZION."

VIEWS ON ITS ETYMOLOGY,

CONSIGNEE NOTICES. AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE.

From NEW YORK, LUCERIC,

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When I wrote in 1886 I was under the idea that the game was Mar- asion, and it is only about a year ago that I learnt from a Devon friend that it is Mara-zion, which The Steamship, It may not be generally known tonds to confirm my idea of "Ite that H.M.S. Marazion, now station-derivation." It is a notable fact having arrived. Consignees of Cargo od in Hongkong, takes its name that. Mr. Worth also identified by her are informed that all Goods. hazardous and/or extra-hazardous from a quaint little village in Marazion with the Giano of the are being landed at their risk into the Cornwall. Therd is considerable anonymous geographer of Godowns of The Houghtong and How- Ltd., speculation as to the origin of the Ravenna. The etymology of the ioon Wharf and Gotown name, and a writer in a Cornish name is discussed in duemilana whence delivery may be obtained.

Claims will be admitted aflox newspaper recently had the fol-Magazine, 1897, and in the Journal the Goods have left the Godowns and lowing to say on the point: of the Royal Institution of Corn-all Goods remaining undelivered af subject to We had ter 25th May, 1920, will be What is the derivation of the wall. in the same year,

Rent

All Claims against the Steamer word "Marazion? I ask the by this time got a good deal be- question because, In looking over yond the rough and ready method must be presented to the Undersign a bound copy of "The Antiquary of assuming derivations which did ed on or before 25th May, 1020, or for the first half of the year 1888, duty for long in the case of our they will not be recognized. I find the subject referred to. forofathers. From many of these The reference occurs in a series it would be easy to make of articles by Henry B. Wheatley, amusing collection, F.S.A., written under the title offor instance, the old legend of "The Land of Tin." The street Corinous, who came to Britain

to with Brute, and was the first great led by, loading from Penzance Marazion is, he says, "called Mar- wrestler. He fought with Gog. ket Jew-street, and the name being maneg on the Hoe at Plymouth, curious, many suggestions have jand, conquering, threw him into On which account, been made as to its origin. Some the goa. scout the idea that it is in a way Michael Drayton tells us, Brute connected with the Jews, but it bestowed this horn of land of is a very strange fact that all the ours on Corin, "markt it with the remains of places where tin was name of Corin," and "Cornwal of old smelted in a simple nianner. call'd to his immortal fame.” are called Jews' houses. It is, therefore, not at all impossible that Jews did in some remote period Bettle in Marazion."! Local tradition asserts that there were Jeys in Cornwall, and con- cerned in both mining and sme end of last century, because the ing long before, as well as after, the Christian cra. Ancient tin- more widespread and researches smelting learths, associated with into origins have become a great Holyoak, Massey & Co., Ltd,

refining deal botter directed, Here in fragments of bronze kettles, known as Jews' houses, Cornwall the advance has been and ingots of smelted tin, called specially gratifying. Where at Jews' tin, have been discovered in one time the case was one of grop- many parts of Cornwall, especially ing in the dark, owing to the in West Cornwall. In 1309 the absence of any knowledge of men of the vill of "Market Jew" Cornish, the more systematic ware authorised to have service study of that language "has in the chapel of St. Ermes on three brought illumination and changed week days, This," as the late Mr. a lot of the old speculation into Thurstan Peter wrote, "is an early practical certainty. Bearing these appearance of the famillar name things in mind, one can turn with 'Market Jew, the last syllable of interest to what is said about which has been the ground work Marazion in the "Parochial His- of much fancy.

JUNCTION OF TWO HAMLETS. This is by no means the most far-fatched specimen of "etymo- logy" that can be found, but the science of philology has become much more exact, even since the

study of languages. has become.

Marazion," The commoner tory of Cornwall,"

VARIOUS SPECULATIONS.

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Distributors.

Queen's Blds.

Tel. C.672.

REMARKABLE ACCIDENT,

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UNFORTUNATE SEQUEË TO SHANGHAI MISHAP.

A remarkable fatal accident spellings were Marazion, Marthe entry goes, "or Market Jew is occurred on Warren Road shortly ghasiowe, Marchiatou, etc.". The an ancient town formed in the after 7 am on Wednesday last. late Mr. R. N. Worth, in fact, in 12th century by the conjunction A child playing in the road was a paper in the Transactions of the of two hamlets, Marghasbyan knocked down by a motor car and Ponzance Natural History and Little Market), and Marghas- just as the chauffeur was about Antiquarian Society, vol. II. gives dyou. St. Hilary was the Mother to drive it off to the Red Gross Hospital, the father and mother 70 modes in which he had seen Church. The town, possessed. a. Marazion spelt...

Chapel of St. Ermes before 1308 appeared on the scene, so he took them in also. The car had it survived the Reformation, but, travelled but a very short dis- In the same volume of "The becoming ruinous, was practically tance, when the father drove his rebuilt in 1735. In 1861 this un-st through the glass partition Antiquary Mr. Wheatley's observations were dealt with by worthy building was pulled down behind the driver and seized the Mr. H. F. "Knapper: "It is cer- and an entirely new church erect-steering wheel, thereby causing made the driver to lose control of the tainly remarkable," Mr. Knappered on the site. It was said, "that old smelting-houses parochial in 1893. In the middle ear. The result was that the cu: should be called Jews' houses ages Marazion catered for pil- swerved up a niud-bank, killed one and it is quite probable that the grams to the Mount, who were Chinese instantly and seriously in- Jews did in remote times traffic numerous and came from all over jured three more. with Cornwall. But I cannot, think that the name Market Jew arises from this. It appears that

England."

.

The only explanation that can

be obtained is that the child's father objected to going to hos-

about 1800 the name. was. Mar- A fagtory foreman at Dijon is (pital and wished to return to the ghusiewe. Here nothing more is to be charged in a French court scene of the first accident, in order required than to lengthen the with having stolen a locomotive to settle the matter there.

into j, as was frequently done engine. It is not so bad for a

Benla

by old writers, and we have Mar-

beginning. When he has served

By, an ugly men's competition a ghasjeve unde Marghas-Jowe. In 1684 It is Marasionia, and on the whatever sentence is considered Melbourne hospital has realised it is Marghasion. The appropriate, it is thought of invit 46,200. The winner expresses de- weight of evidence, then, seems to ing him over to London to see if light at his success. "I had no. lie with Marazion and to show he will take a faney to the Albert doubt from the start," he said. that the name comes from Giano, Memorial or the Charing Cross "Some of the candidates had no the first name in the Ravenna list. railway bridge.

pretensiona to ugliness at all.",

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