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civilian and military cricketers. Every year in the middle of August a three days' match is fixed to be played between the Presidency team and the Parsees. Saturday is always the last day of the match, and if a visitor were passing by the cricket ground that afternoon he would simply be astounded to see an orderly throng of some 12,000 to 15.000 spectators enjoying the friendly battle. The Presidency team for many years included such a renowned bat as Captain Greig, whom your sporting correspon- dent referred to only the other day. To tell the truth, Captain Greig was a terror to the Parsee eleven. Once, in a true sportsmanlike spirit, the Parsee Captain presented Greig with a bat in token of the remembrance of the huge trouble he gave them in getting him out. He was the recognised contury bat of the Presidency team. The Parsee team also boast of a century bat, Gagrat, a sur- name signifying "thunder." In the last Pre- sidency Parsee match under notice the latter had another advantage. Their team captained by Dr. Pavri, & Parsee medical practitioner who has recently returned to Bom- bay from England. He is also one of the prides of Parsee cricketers. He cannot of course be compared to that incomparable Hindoo Prince of Cricketers, Ranji. But he is a Ranji in another sense. As a captain of his team he stands unapproached. He is universally ac knowledged to be a captain of sound and unfailing judgment. Put in any bataman you like and see how he guides and controls the field rendering it not only difficult but highly risky for any unwary batsman to make runs. Almost a matter for pity that the local cricket authorities have not cast their eyes beyond the Straits. If it was possible to arrange for a three days' match between a Bombay Parsee eleven and an Interport eleven, to be played in Hongkong, it might prove a treat that Hong- kong could not easily forget. A Parsee team might not find it difficult to come out here. Our local sportsman, Mr. H. N. Mody, the leader of the Parsee community here, may be trusted to arrange for the reception and accommdoda- tion of such team. Nearer home we have already a Parsee cricket club here, the present members of which are too modest to seek comparison with their Bombay brothers, but there are among them some who might well be tried in the local team for the coming interport contest; or failing that, a match during the ensuing season might be arranged between an XI of the Hongkong Cricket Club and another of the Hongkong Parsee Cricket Club.-Yours, etc.,
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PARSEE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,"
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6th September. SIB, I have read with interest the corro- spondence which appears in your to-day's issue under the heading "Parsees and Cricket" by a Parsee. Leaving aside the suggestions which your correspondent has made, allow me to point out a slight mistake which must have crept in through inadvertence. As eyewitness of the matches played between Lord Hawke's Team and the Parsees, the latter were victorious by several wickets in the first match only, while in the return match which was played also at Bombay (and not at Poons, as your corre- spondent states) the Parsees were beaten by 7 or 8 runs. I cannot here give the exact particulars of the scores made by the respective teams, as the matches referred to were played soms years ,but I'can state with ample certainty that the ago, Parsees won the first and lost the return match. As a matter of fact two English representative cricket teams have visited India. The first was brought out by Mr. Vernon a couple of years before LordHawke brought out his team, and in the two matches played between Vernon's Team and the Parsees, the latter were in both victorious. I therefore presume that whilst writing your correspondent may probably have had the latter facts in his mind, but instead of using. Vernon's name he used that of Lord Hawke.-Yours, etc.,
R. B. C.
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BEFORE HIS HONOUR T. SERCOMBE SMITH-
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LEUNG KỀN TÀU 7. HƠN. F. H. NÀY. Leang Kan Yau, alias Leung A Su, sued the Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G., Captain-Superinten. dent of Police, for damages of £100, which, under Statute 31, Car. II, C 2, entitled "An Act for better securing the Liberty of the Subject," the defendant has forfeited to the plaintiff, he being on the 14th August last detained in the custody of the police and grieved by the defen dant's refusal and neglect against the form of the said Statute to deliver to the plaintiff's solicitors, after demand then made by them on his behalf upon the defendant, a copy of the 184.20 warrant, authority or order whereunder the plaintiff was so detained. The plaintiff, who also sued for costs, reduced his claim to $1,000 in order to bring it within the jurisdiction of the Court.
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Mr. E. H. Sharp, barrister-at law (instructed by Mr. K. W. Monnsey, solicitor), appeared on be. half of the plaintiff, and the Hon. H. E. Pollock, K.C., Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor), repre- sonted the defendant.
Mr. Sharp, in opening, said the action was brought under the Habeas Corpus Act, Section 5, and the facts of the case were these: About the beginning of July or the end of June the plaintiff was convicted upon a charge of larceny, sad upon other charges, and imprisoned until 14th August. On 1st August, whilst still suffering imprisonment, a banishment order was made against the plaintiff allowing him until 15th or 16th August to leave the Colony- practically within two days after the expiration of his term of imprisonment. The plaintiff was meanwhile to remain in the custody of the polico. On 14th August, at eight o'clock in the morning, the plaintiff was discharged from prison, and immediately re-arrested under the banishment order. On'the same morning Messrs. Mounsey and Brutton, soli- citors, were instructed to apply for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the plaintiff was a British subject and that therefore the banishment order made against him was illegal. A copy of the warrant was required, and Messrs. Mounsey and Brutton accordingly wrote to the Captain Superintendent of Police, telling him the purpose for which the copy was required. 50
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Mr. Mounsey was called. He stated, in reply to Mr. Sharp-On the morning of the 14th August the plaintiff's mother came to the office and told me that her son was to be deported that day, in the afternoon. She had been to the office two or three days before that, and told me she had heard that her son was to be deported as soon as the sentence he was then undergoing expired.
Mr. Sharp-Did you know when his sentence. was to expire?
Mr. Moansey-I did not know at the time, but I understood it was to expire on the 16th. I prepared the necessary papers, so far as I was able, to apply for a writ of habeas corpus, and I prepared an affidavit by the plaintiff's mother, one by his aunt, and one for himself. On 14th August I had the necessary papers
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