September 23, 1901.]
He was sentenced to one year's hard labour on the first count and to three years on the second -the sentences to be consecutive.
This concluded the Sessions.
SPORTING AND OTHER NOTES.
At the annual meeting of the Cricket Club the President went into the accounts very fully, and also explained what arrangements had been made for entertaining our visitors during the coming week. It appears that only $450 was spent in tiffins, and some $200 or so in tea and cake-tea and cake being supplied to all members free as well as to their lady friends! Well, all I can say is that a great deal of money is spent on free refreshments, and as members can't both eat their cake and keep it, this $650 (which means the little and only profit the Club makes on the year's working, for $4,000, and, I am told, $1,500 worth of gear were brought forward from the previous season) might be put to much better use by setting it. aside for the much needed Pavilion. The present barn has no upper story from which members and their friends can view a match, and a tent has always to be put up. In the coming week, as the tent is not large enough for spectators, a matshed or other unsightly erection will have to be built; this, however, will show members and our visitors the need of a-new and more commodious build- ing and emphasise the inadequate arrangements and capacity of our present barn.
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Among other points touched upon, the President begged the members and the public not to spoil the ground by making tracks across it, or in other words not to take a bee-line from one gate to another; hoped members who could put up visitors would come forward and offer to do so; trusted that members would subscribe liberally to the entertainment fund and thus save drawing on the Club funds (which, as some member said, would mean a still further delay in the building of a new pavilion); woul glad if some member of the Club would beat another Championship Cup for lawn tennis (the last, which I am told was presented by Mr. D. E. Brown, having been won outright by Pinckney); and finally stated that it was not a team from the members of the Hong- kong Cricket Club only that was to play in the forthcoming Cricket Week but a team from all Hongkong, and that if the names of any good or likely cricketers were sent in they would be given a trial.
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The Hon. Secretary is to be congratulated on the state of the ground generally, and of the pitch particularly the turf has been treated as turf and has not, as in some past se sons, been allowed to run to grass, but it is a pity that the whole ground has not been regularly cut as close as the pitch. If this had been done the turf would be much finer and would also stand much more wear. As a well-known writer on cricket says:-" Coarse grass makes a very poor ground-to keep turf in order incessant rolling and mowing are necessary throughout the Summer and early Spring." If the turf at home requires, as it does, cutting three or four days a week through the Summer and early Spring, how necessary it must ba keep it constantly and closely cut through our hot and wet season.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
say the measuring must be done in the way it is, or there wouldn't be enough ponies to make a game very often. Quite so; by all means let a 15-band animal play to make one more, but don't do it, I say, by adopting a method of measuring that isn't used anywhere else.
The rule as regards measuring usually is that "fractions of an inch count against the horse so far as class is concerned, but in his favour where weight is concerned." The rule in Hong- apparently "fractions of an inch count kong in favour of the horse so far as class is con- cerned," which makes just a bit of difference. If we were to issue a challenge to Shanghai or Singapore to play them at polo and they accepted and came here and found our 14.2 meant 14.3 what a rumpas there would be I hear this system of measuring is the same in racing, which is, if possible, even extraordinary.
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Snipe are getting a bit scarcer, and I hear of bags of 25 and 27 couple last week and on Sun- day of 22, 201, 15, 15į, 16, 8, and sundry small bags of 5 couple downwards. The total bag last Sunday must have reached 15) to 180 couple. VETERAN.
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BOXING.
MCAULIFFE AND BENTLEY.
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The Shield Fund shows a balance of $49.21. The Club now consists of 245 members. During the year, 41 new members were elected. The seventh annual dinner took place at the Hongkong Hotel on the 6th April last, and 24 members were present.
The annual general meeting for the purpose of receiving committee's report on the past season and for electing the committee and- officers for the forthcoming season will be held in the Cricket Pavilion on Thursday, Septem- ber 26th next, at five o'clock.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
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CO.
The September shoot of the above Company Gubbay" and "Keswick" Cups was for the held at Sai Hang on the 14th and 15th instant, and resulted in Gunner H. Gidley retaining the "Gubbay" Cup, while Sergeant Sherwin was top for the "Keswick " aggregate with 95. The latter cup is shot for kneeling at 200 yards. Highest scores were :-
*Gunner H. Gidley *Sergeant Sherwin Sergeant Terrill Sergeant Bevan...... Bomb. Shoolbred Bomb. Berkley
200 400 500 H'cap. TL 24 33 29 16 102 100 29 28 30 13 26 15 23 25 24 25 27 31 24 4 20 21 17 25 * Spoon winners.
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86 83
WATER RETURN.
LEVEL AND STORAGE of Water in RESER- VOIRS ON THE 18T SEPTEMBER,
Tytam
Pokfulam.
LEVEL.
1900.
1901. Below overflow. Below overflow.
0 ft. 7 in.
3 ft. 6 in.
Above overflow.
0 ft. 2 in.
1 ft. 8 in. Below overflow.
Wongnaicheong 1 ft. 8 in. 20 ft. 1 in.
Tytam Pokfulam..
STORAGE GALLONS.
1900. 379,900,000
1901.
315,670,000
65,640,000
69,640,000
9,780,000
395,090,000
In reference to the challenge by S. Bentley of the Torpedo Depôt, to box Jack McAuliffe for the best of fifteen rounds, McAuliffe to weigh in at 9st. 10lbs. and Bentley to be at catch-weights, Mr. McAuliffe has asked us to state that, with regard to Mr. Bentley's letter in the China Mail of the 14th inst, he did not specify 10st. as the weight of any who might take ар the challenge issued by him on occasion of the recent boxing entertainment in the City Hall. The men may be any weight they please. Mr. McAuliffe's challenge was meant for Privates Whitney. Deegan, and Smart, S. Bentley, and Monk. The three soldiers and Monk, Mr. McAuliffe says, con- tracted with him to give exhibition spars at the City Hall on the evening of the 7th inst., but did not fulfil their contract. If Bentley can get these four to join him, McAuliffe is willing to give them $50 each if he cannot stop each and every one in six rounds. The CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN THE Citt or men, however, must deposit 850 each as a guarantee that they will enter the ring. and when they have done this, the money will be returned to them. If each
rounds he loses is knocked out in six nothing, and if he can stand up against McAuliffe for six round's he gains 850. As to Bentley's challenge to a fifteen round contest, McAuliffe does pot think that Bentley's reputa- tion as a fighter is such as to persuade him (McAuliffe) to enter the ring without a side wager of at least 85,000, and if Bentley's friends will put up that sum McAuliffe will take bim
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Messrs. McAuliffe and Slavin left on the 16th for Shanghai, but will return here should the above terms be found acceptable.
A letter from Mr. Bentley referring to the above challenge will be found in another column.
HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
The following is the report of the above Club for the season 1900-1901 :—
The account shows a balance of $94.53 to the credit of the Club on August 3', 1961.
Considerable expense was incurred in repair- ing the Club matshed, which was blown down twice by typhoons early in the season.
A large number of interesting and closely contested watches was played under Association and Rugby rules, and the form shown by the players was, if anything, better than that of previous years.
It has more than once struck me while watch- ing the polo in Hongkong that some of the ponies are over the usual height of polo ponies. The standard height in Hongkong is 14.2, but I am sure some that I have seen playing must be very nearly 15 hands. The reason for this was explained to me the other day, and it shows that what I had surmised was probably correct. The explanation given was that the practice in vogue here in measuring a pony was to allow fractions of an inch to count in favour of the pony, that is to say that a pony measuring just under 14.3 would pass as a 14.2 pony. Now this is a most extraordinary way of measuring, besides militating against the best interests of the game. What chance has a man on a 14- hand pony against a man on a 14.3? Every The Club team was defeated in the third fraction of an inch you get above 142 is round of the Shield Competition by "H" Com. getting nearer a horse. This is in a senAS pany, R.W.F., by 3 goals to 1. apparent, but what I mean is that there is more Seventeen teams entered for the Shield difference between a 14.3 and a 14.2 than there | Competition, which was won by the Siege Train is between a 14.2 and a 14.1 pony. You may ́ Football Club.
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The six-a-side Challenge Cup was won by Mr. W. H. Howard Mr. A. R. Lowe's team. kindly presented six medals to the winning temm.
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Wongnaicheong 28,236,000
Total 473,776,000
Consumption per
VICTORIA AND HILL District during THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 1900.
1900.
1901. Consumption...132,070,000 119,529,000 gallons Estimated popu-
lation
207,500 213,500
head per day
20.5
18.5 gallons CONSUMPTION OF Water in KoWLOON PEN- INSULA DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST.
1900.
1901. Consumption 10,781,000 11,000,000 gallons Estimated popu-
lation
28,400 37,100 Consumption per head per day...
9.5 gallons The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.
W. CHATHAM,
"Water Authority.
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Natalio Valenzia, first lieutenant in the Philippines insurgent army, will have to pay the extreme penalty of the law for having ordered the murder of two inoffensive American prisoners, and ordered his soldiers to dip their hands in their victim's blood and drink it. It appears that in spite of the boasted civilisation of the Filipinos, they have not yet passed the barbaric period.
At the Singapore Assizes on the 9th inst., Laurs, the Italian seaman of the s... Benmohr, who was charged with fatally stabbing Mr. R. W. Jones, the second officer of that vessel, was found guilty of causing grievous_hurt · under grave and sudden provocation. Judg. ment was reserved till the morning of the 10th when accused was sentenced to eighteen months' rigorous imprisonment. Laurs asked that the sentence should count from the day he was arrested, but this was refused. Laurs appears to have got off lightly, judging from the evidence reported in the Bingapore papers.
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