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BOXING EXHIBITION AT THE
CITY HALL.
THE HEAVY-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF
THE EAST,
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
On Wednesday night an exhibition of boxing arranged by the Lieutenant Commander of H.M.Š. Pigmy and Mr. Downs, of the Kowloon Hotel, took place in the City Hall in the pre- sence of a large audience. The event of the evening was a contest between Con Sheehan, of H.M.8. Tamar, and James Harvey, of H.M.S. Pigmy, for the heavy-weight championship of the East, for a purse and $200 side stakes.
Before this came off the audience were treated
to a few exhibitions, Charles Wood, of H.M.S. Otter, meeting Ernest Wackett, of H. M. 8. Pigmy; Patsy Watkins, of H.M. 8. Undaunted, meeting Tim Baily, of the same ship; and Ser- geant Notman, of the R.W.F., meeting Sergeant Davis, of the R.W.F. Mr. Walters was the referee in the side shows.
In the event of the evening Lieut.-Comman- der Holden, of the Handy, acted as referee. Three-ounce gloves were used, and 20 rounds of three minutes each were arranged. The fight was one of the toughest witnessed in the
colony for some time. The men were very evenly matched, and as round after round was fought it was difficult to say who would prove the victor. In the third round Sheehan was floored, Harvey going down immediately afterwards. Subsequently Har- vey got in some good hits, and in the twelfth round he got his opponent on to the ropes and would undoubtedly have downed him, but Shee- han, in order to save himself, committed a foul, grasping Harvey round the waist, and Harvey, who fought fairly throughout, was declared the
victor. The affair was well worth watching.
BOATING.
SCRATCH RACE,
On the 29th ult. a scratch race in con- nection with the Hongkong Boat Club took place over the Regatta Course, a distance of three-quarters of a mile. The following crews competed:
No. 1.-S. Stevens (bow), A. Fredericks, E. Carpenter, E. Herbst (stroke), F. White (cox.) (Station No. 2).
No. 2.-F. D. Bain (bow). A. Wicker, L. Lambotte, C. Hance (stroke), J. R. Hance (cox.) (Station No. 3).
No. 3.-T. Wild (bow), H. Kennet, A. Pap- pier, A. Ellis (stroke), A. Somerville (cox.) (Station No. 1).
The race was a tough struggle between Nos. 1 and 3, the latter ultimately winning by a quarter of a length. No. 2 was a bad third,
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
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Sixteen members competed for the Gillies Cup on the Association Range on the 2nd inst. The following were the best scores :-
200 500 600 H'cap TL 30 31 29 10 100 83-27 23
84
Sergeant Graham Gunner Baldwin Sergeant Stewart Private Sibbitt Gunner Chunnett
26 32 25 sc. 83 24 23 17 16 8J
17 29 14 19 79
Gunner Lapsley .... 25 25 22 BC. Sapper McGhashan Gunner Duncan
21 21 11 19 25 19 19
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72
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The following names have been assigned to the battleship, cruisers, and sloops included in this year's new shipbuilding programme at home, the orders for the construction of these vessels in the dockyards and private shipbuild. ing yards having been given:--Battleships. Queen, Devonport, Prince of Wales, Chatham; Armoured Cruisers.—Cornwall, Pembroke, Suf- folk, Portsmouth, Berwick, Beardmore and Co., Cumberland, London and Glasgow Shipbuild. ing Company, Donegal, Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, Lancaster, Armstrong, Mitchell and Co.; Second-class Cruisers Challenger, Chat ham, Encounter, Devonport; Sloops-Odin, Sheerness, Merlin, Sheerness.
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HONGKONG. CHESS CLUB. We have received from the Hon. Sec., Mr. F. G. Hendley, the prospectus of the Hong- kong Chess Club for the season 1900-1901. The Annual General Meeting of the Club will ings, 2nd floor, on Monday, the 10th December, be held at the Club premises, 18, Bank Build- at 5.15 p.m., for the purpose of passing the Accounts of the Hon. Treasurer, which will be previously made up and circulated to Members, and of electing a Committee and Officers of the Club. In the meanwhile, the present Com- mittee (consisting of Colonel The O'Gorman, President, Mr. H. E. Pollock, Mr. P. C. de Souza, Hon. Treasurer, and Mr. F. G. Hendley, Hon. Secretary) have arranged an interesting programme of events for the next few months.
1. Every two months, beginning from the 1st December, a ticket competition (known at be held, to the winner of which a small prize Go-us-you-please" tournament) will
will be presented. The person who wins the highest percentage of non-match games during the particular period of two months in question ject to the following rules:-(1) The games must will be the winner of the ticket competition, sub-
be played at Class Odds. (2) No more than 6 games for any one ticket competition must be played against the same antagonist. (3) The total number of games played for the particular ticket competition in question must be not less than 20.
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2. Monday, December 10th. City . Suburbs. Single game at Class Odds.
3. Monday, December 17th. Army v. The Rest. Class Odds. Best of Three.
4. January 1st. Play will begin for the competition in the Challenge Tournament Cup presented by Mr. H. E. Pollock, Mr. P. W. Sergeant being the holder of the Cup, having
won it once.
5. Monday, January 7th. Muzio Gambit
Match. No Class Odds. Best of three.
6. Monday, January 28th. Over 35 v. der 35. Class Odds. Single game match.
7. Monday, February 11th. Scotch Gambit
Match. No Class Odds. Best of three.
8. Monday, March 4th. Smokers v. Non- Smokers. Class Odds. Single game match.
9. Monday, March 18th. Evans Gambit Match. No Class Odds. Best of three.
Other fixtures may be arranged hereafter, of which due notice will be given.
[December 8, 1900.
foregone conclusion that China will not be al- lowed to go to pieces, if it can possibly be helped, and that all the countries interested would be embarrassed by such an occurrence. The alter native of the maintenance of a foreign force to preserve order he admits to be perilous. He continues:
will prove absolutely necessary, and that beyond this,
It is, however, to be feared that such a measure
an advisatory council of the representatives of the Powers will be requisite to ensure the carrying out of a reasonably progressive policy under the new regimé. There are two elements of danger in regard to British interests at the present moment. The first is that derived from the war in South Africa is a negativo Lord Salisbury, realising that the political capital quantity, may seek by embarking on a braggart policy. to regain the lost ground in China and thereby gratify the national conceit of the electorate; the other, that the Government may go to the other extreme, and take no steps to secure the vast interests which appertain to this country in the Far East,
It will be seen that the latter danger has goes on later to say: proved the greater of the two. Mr. Krausse
It is time for England to make her mind up whether she intends maintaining what she has won by the ability, persistency, and self-sacrifice of her sons in treated to many brave statements of the Government's the past; or whether she elects to sacrifice her intor est on the altar of inanition. We have of late boon intentions, without any action being taken to make these statements good.
Convincing as theso announcements sound, they have none of them been supported by more than talk. A continuation daring the next few years of the impotent policy dis played by this country in regard to Chinese affairs during the last, must most inevitably result in the extinction of our influence and the loss of our trade in the Far East.
Our rulers seem ignorant
of the risks they run. Is there no way of enlighten- ing them, or at least impressing them with a sense of the peril in which the country stands ?-
This attempt to impress, to enlighten, has been made for years by individuals or by corporate bodies who have British interests in China at heart. To a certain extent we shall see by the outcome of the present orisis whether any effect has been achieved. So far we have not done anything to boast of. Even the Un-Anglo-German agreement, which looked like a strong step, seems gradually to be explained away. The reactionaries appear likely to escape from justice, a money indemnity is once more to to be accepted as compensation for outrages,. and the integrity-of-China clause in the agree ment may not improbably be held to exclude Manchuria. Mr. Krausse in his concluding chapter thinks that Great Britain's predomi nance in China might once more be regained by insistence of the following measures: - - Strict insistence of the observation of treaty obliga- tions (with reference to waterways, ports, and the right of travel); a guarantee for the safety of foreigners in China, the local officials being held responsible; abolition of lekin dues in ex- change for a 5 per cent. increase on the Cus- toms; a tactful and able British Minister at Peking, with knowledge of China and the Chi- nese; a notice to China that we refuse to recog. niso privileges accorded to one nation and not simultaneously to all others; policing of the waterways; and the stationing of ships and troops at the treaty ports. Such measures are only possible if public opinion forces the Govern- ment to adopt them. Is it sufficiently strong? We fear not as yet.
The Champion Cup has been held by Mr. H. E. Pollock for many months past, and his right to continue to hold it is open to challenge. Class Odds.-In future, the Members of the Club will be divided into four classes (scratch, pawn and move, pawn and two moves, and knight), in accordance with the present system prevailing at home, instead of into three classes as hitherto. A provisional division of Members into classes has been made by the Committee, but such division may be changed at any time by a majority of the Committee.
REVIEW.
China in Decay. By ALEXIS KRAUSSE. Lon- don, George Bell & Sons. Third Edition. THE first edition of Mr. Krausse's China in Decay appeared in November, 1898. The pre- face to the present edition is dated August 1900. The book may be said therefore to have sold extremely well and, as the author claims, needs no apology for its publication. The present issue has been thoroughly overhauled and revised, and a considerable amount of matter has been added, including a record of events of this year down to the reported fall of the leza tions at Peking. It is a pity that this menda- cious atory has been allowed to be inserted in the book, but we must do Mr. Krausse the justice to remark that he does not dwell upon the report or allow it to vitiate his arguments. Nevertheless it would, we think, have been better had he waited until the truth or falsehood of the announcement of the massacre had been established.
Probably the book is familiar in its two for mer editions to a great number of our readers, and we will therefore confine our attention to the new part, contained chiefly in the chapters on "The Revolt of the Chinese" and "The Future of China." With regard to the im mediate future, Mr. Krausse holds that it is a
Two Wachang despatches to Shanghai ap. pear in the N.-C. Daily News of the 30th ult. The first states that Viceroy Chang Chih-tung received recently a despatch from a Foreign Consul in Hankow stating that the latter had received a telegram from a Kansu missionary reporting that a large portion of General Tung Fahsiang's army, numbering nearly 10,000 men, had left Shensi and entered Kansu province to join hands with the levies of Prince Tuan, raised on the Ninghsia-Mongolian borders, whose avowed object is to rebel against the Emperor. The Consul therefore requested the Viceroy to telegraph to Haian asking the Gov- ernment to instruct the local and military authorities of Kansu province to give protec- tion and assistance to any missionary or for eigner in want of help there. Viceroy Chang sent his telegram to Hsian the same day. Ac- cording to the other despatch, Chang Chih- tung received a telegram from Governor Ts'ên of Shensi asking the former to send with all haste eight quick-firing guns to Heian, as there was urgent need of them. The guns in ques- tion were sent the next day.
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