184
from the drives value per assay 10 dwts. 14 grs. per ton, and the concentrates give by assay oz. 1. 16. 17.
Outside Prospecting.-We are still devoting our time to this, and we have traced a lot of Joose quartz, but have not yet found any defined run of stone.
Clean-up-Owing to the supply of water falling off and our having no firewood on hand, we had to discontinue milling on the morning of the 29th. The water in the creeks where the firewood is cut is not sufficiently deep to allow the boats to travel. I had ample stock for pumping and winding engines, but was not | prepared to keep battery going for such a long time. We were steaming, assisting the wheel, for 21 days.
Milling was carried on for 27 days, crushing 200 tons from Tankong section and 1,800 tons of headings for a yield of 197 ounces of smelted gold.
Berdan pans treated 4 tons of calcined con centrates for a yield of 6 ounces, and 18 tons of old tailings for a yield of 9 ounces.
Cyanide Works have been practically idle the whole of the mouth. We have discharged three vats treated last month and refilled them that is all we have been able to do for want of water.
Buildings. The furnace for drying the slimes is completed.
General.-The usual attention has been given to everything coming under this head. We have extended our firewood roads over 1,000 feet.
Health of camp remains about the same. think that the slight sickness amongst the pative staff is owing to the scarcity of water and the decayed vegetation exposed to the sun in the dam. However, all the European staff are well.
Rainfall-We have registered on the mine 3 inches, but except on one occasion the rain fell apparently everywhere except in the water shed of the dam. On the 9th 1 inches fell and this put sufficient in our dam to continue mill- ing with the wheel only for 6 days.
SHOOTING.
The first match for the Capt. Francis Carbine] Challenge Cup between the Field Battery and the A Machine Gun Co. of the Hongkong Vo-l lunteer Corps resulted in a win for the Machine Gun Co. team by 27 points. The following are the scores:—
A MACHINE GUN CO.
200 400 500 yards. yards. yards.
26
28
W. A L Lethbridge... 52 R. F. Lammert
T. Shelford Ryall..
F. Lammert
J. R. Gillingham. M. D. Wood.. E. Mast.... Lieut. Dewar, R.N..
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
condemned as insanitary, which has deprived them of practice, and the Regiment has been divided пр and located in different parts of the colony, making it difficult for the teams to be got together. This has disheartened them and as they see they have no chance in the Shield competition they have withdrawn. account it has been decided to close at the pre- sent stage, which leaves the V.R.C. No. 1 team the winners and first holders of the trophy. The following table shows the full result of the competition.
VR. V.R.C. KO. K. O. Goals~Pts.
Noi. No. 2. Nộ... No. 2, for, agst.
9-0 4-1
V,R,C, No. 1.
No, 2
€.9 King's Own No. 1......1-1
++
On this
4.2
2.6
14-0
2.1
no match
27
1 ... 6 14 12 ... 4
3 10....
No. 2..... 0.14 1-8
no match
1 22... -
It is a pity that the competition was not carried through, but still there could have been no difference in the result for the present winners have been much too good for anything they have met, as the abovo table shews.
THE HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
SEASON 1897-1898.
BATTING AVERAGES. In Ten Innings and over.
Name.
G. D. Campbell. T. Sercombe Smith T. N. Howard F. Maitland Captain Langhorne
Innings.
ALLI BOOo-curto es Not out.
H. 8.
Average.
629 132* 41.9
71 37 102* 30.4
535 273
418
100 29.9 415 121 27.7 283 55 23.6 257 56 23.4 325 63 23.2 70 22.4
20
17
10
14
15
12
14
15
10
202
16
13
13
17
J. F. A. Hastings, R.N. A. Mackenzie
13
302 72 20.1 232 64 17.8 223 109 17.2 217 64 14.5 142 07 12.9
II
83
24
7.5
Lieut Gillett, R.N. II. S. Moberley P. A. Cox Surgeon Pead, R.N.. Rov. Vallings A. S. Anton
Captain Dyson
A. G. Ward
In Three Innings and over.
Name.
M. D. Wood, W.Y.R.
Dr. J. A. Lowson. R. J. Lammert..
Lieut Lethbridge.. Surg. Lieut Col. Jolinston C. W. Gordon
Col Gordon
Lieut. Egerton, R.N.
Lieut. Barton, K N...
Lieut. Dewar....
∞ c~~ — c. Innings.
- Not out.
1. S.
Average.
503 170 02.9 234 163 46.9
ร 113 38 37.7 90 25.6
93 46 18.8
91 31 18.2 53 33 17.8 17.2 35 16.8 25 16.0 27 14.3 13.7
9 13.0
40 12.1
11.2
179
1
113
38
d
130
22.6 36 13.6
Total.
0
Sergt. G. P. Lammert 32
0
33 29 94
3 0
Sergeant Smyth
33
32
27
92
E. Mast
6
t
86 33
Corporal Skelton
30
30
31
91
0
३३
Gunner J. G. Smith 28
27
31
86
Peile, R.N
3
0 43
Captain Sanders
28
J. R. Gillingham
4
1.
43
Gunner Plummer
19
18
Lt. Perry Ayscough, R.X.
3
0
41
15
Gunner Wodehouse 19 24
11. Arthur
7
ú
13
17
A. Anderson
7
1
73
Sergeant Crombie... 17 20 20
3
1
45 23
4
{}
Ryall
5
L
38 17
Dr. Atkinson
3
58 38 9.3
J. Lammert
G
0
52 17 8.7
Gunner Hart...
200 400 500 yards. yards. yards. 30 26 29
Total.
Rawson
3
0
26 25
8.7
P. G. Davies, R.A.
I
66 16
85
K. W. Mounsey.
t
0
27 12
6.7
Sergeant Hayward.. 25
29
E. R. Morriss
5
L
26 10
6.5
Corporal Brown
28
T. Shelford, R.N.
F
2
32
12
5.3
Gunner Gow...
24
* Signifies
not out "
Sergeant Rutter
24
Bomb. Bamsey
27
16
Gunner Donaldson 29
10
Gunner Deas ...
18 23
14 55
Total 213 213 194 620
FIELD BATTERY,
J. F. Nablo
Wall, R.N,
Overs.
170 47 471
43 28 10.7 9.5
3.2
31 15.2
- Maidens.
Runa.
Wides.
No Balls.
**I NA Wickets.
279 53 792
1 49
16.2
Total 205 213 175 593
WATER POLO,
The King's Own Regiment is not nearly so good at water polo as at football, as witness the severe gruelling its representatives have redeived at the hands of the V.R.C. teams. They are very good swimmers, but good swim- ming is only one of the qualifications necessary to the production of good exponents of the game. A complete command of the ball is also equired and a thorough knowledge of the best methods of defence and attack.
These are only gained by continuous practice, which the soldiers do not appear to have had. They have had many disadvantages. Their bath has been
BOWLING AVERAGES.
In Ten Innings and over.
Name.
Rev. G. Vallings
T. Sercombe Smith.. Lieut. Gillett
X. Mackenzie J. F. A. Hastings T. N. Howard P. A. Cor..
1044 50 418 82.3 19 223 128 30 333 123.4 19 127
97.2 18 303 #
In Three Innings aud over.
Name.
Lieut. Fewell Dr. J. A. Lowson P. G. Davis Wall, R N
E. R Morriss
36 5 140
Overs.
+&&&& Maidens,
Wides.
20 20.0
10 22.3
14 23.8
12
3 37.9
No Balla.
Wickets.
12
Capt. Dyson Capt. Langhorne
C. W. Gordon
[August 27, 1988.
15 216 61 8 205 69.3 16 233 80 12 257 43.2 2 219 36 4 109 124.2 35 358 32 7 84 119 21 348 1
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11 19.6
10 20.5
9 25.8 11 23.3 5 9 24.3
4 27.2 1 13 27.5
3 28
6 12 29
3 36.3
3 51.0
19 1 109
45.4 7 155
54 2 202
-2 101
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AT SHANGHAI.
LOSS OF LIFE.
A severe thunderstorm passed over Shanghai on the night of Thursday, 18th August. We take the following items in reference to the storm from the N. C. Daily News :-
What was thought to be an earthquake shock throughout the western suburb on Thursday was felt on the Bubbling Well Road and
night, but it was without doubt, as we learn from the Sicawei Observatory, the shock of the explosion of two boats loaded with gunpowder which were struck by the lightning at about 1.30 p.m. in the creek near the factory. The shock was felt at Sicawei.
During the progress of the storm the light- ning struck one of the electric light wires and the current travelling along burnt out two of the machines at the Station on the Hongkew Creek. The consequence was that the arc lights in the Louza district were extinguished, whilst the incandescent lighting in other districts was interfered with. The damage, however, was only slight and easily repaired and the machines were yesterday running as usual. The storm, notwithstanding the wind which accompanied it, does not appear to have done any material damage either in the Settle- ment or in the harbour. A few tiles were blown off and a few small craft left their moor- ings but so far as we can gather without any serious happenings.
The storm was the indirect cause of at least one death, that of an aged Chinese, a con- firmed opium smoker, and a sufferer from an affection of the heart. The man lived in the Nanzing Road and when the storm commenced was sitting outside his door. The first flash of lightning so frightened him that he fell back dead.
A correspondent sends us the following The Kiangnan Arsenal and Lungwha Pagoda seem to have been about the centre of the storms. Foreigners and natives alike say that they never witnessed such a storm or heard such dea- fening, terrific peals of thunder here or in any other part of China before. At the loudest peal the two foreigners there who were watching the storm together instinctively clung to one an- other, one of them feeling as though he were fainting awry. They certainly thought they and their house could never come out of the storm safe and sound. Finding themselves all right they made a round of the houses, quite expecting that the lightning must have struck somewhere, but happily their fears were not realised. On Friday morning, however, they found that a boat on the creek near the Pagoda close to where it joins the Huangpu had been struck, and of the eleven people on board six were killed and a man who was on the bank had his head split open.
There was a difference of nineteen degrees between the highest reading of the thermometer in the Settlement on Thursday (97 deg.) and Friday (78 deg).
REVISED INLAND STEAM NAVIGA- TION REGULATIONS, 1898.
A.-REGISTRATION.
1. The inland waters of China are hereby 35.8 opened to all such steamers, native or foreign, as are specially registered for that trade at the Treaty Ports. They may proceed to and fro at will under the following regulations, but they must confine their trade to the inland waters, and must not proceed to places out of Chinese territory. The expression "Inland 12.4 Waters" is nsed with similar meaning to that 143 given for places in the interior (nei-ti) in the
4th article of the Chefoo Convention.
Average.
13.3
97 23 292
22
73 6 158
11
87 29
33 198
13 15:2
144
▪། 16
G. D. Campbell
57
7 250
2.-Trading steamers, native or foreign, not 13 18.3 being vessels of sea-going type, whether plying
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