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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND first count and nine months' on each of the, other two counts, the sentences to run concur. rently. His Lordship remarked that there was too much of this form of crime in the Colony at present, and that he must do something to try to stop it.
The Court adjourned till Monday morning at ten o'clock.
SPORTING AND OTHER NOTES.
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As to Rheingold beating Glory at 13 miles, Glory could walk away from Rheingold at a mile, and the fact of Glory being a short or medium distance horse and Rheingold being on the other hand a stayer does not prove anything as to the correctness or otherwise of the weight per scale. It is no rare thing to find a horse that can give another several pounds at a mile and be utterly beaten receiving weight at 1 miles. I believe there are no pony races in Sin- gapore now, but I am told that in the galloway pony races in the native States and Penang (racing under the rales of the Straits Racing Association) they race under much the same conditions as in Hongkong, viz., 5 furlongs to 14 miles and carrying 11.7 or even 12st. in the handicaps down to 9st. or so. In India I know the weights are less, and if they race with professionals there and carry 10st. 2lbs. and under, and thus run less chance of breaking down their animals, that is no argument as to An animal 14.2 altering the scale of weight. on
carrying 10 stone who can beat a 14 hands car. rying 8st. 4lbs. is more likely than not to beat the same horse at differences of 11st. 101bs. and 10 stone. There is no certainty, by any means that, the smallest griffin will not beat the rest at even weights, but that is only likely to happen if it is much better-bred than the others. A thorough- bred 14 hands with fair bone and stamina will in 99 cases out of 100 beat a -bred 14.2, but in the coming griffin races, where as far as one can judge at present there are 40 or 50 of the best animals of much the same breeding, I doubt if the smallest has much chance.
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Office, heard another officer asking the defen- dant what he had in his pocket. The defen- dant said "My pen-knife," and the officer asked-"Let me see your pen-knife." Mr. Gutierrez then came close up to the defendant, whom he saw put a hand into an inside pocket of his jacket and pull out the letter pro- duced in Court. The letter bore a ten-cent stamp of the Chinese Imperial Post Office, and was addressed to a person in Bangkok. On the back of it was a ten-cent Hongkong stamp, uncancelled. Mr. Costa, a clerk in the Post
All the fixtures for the interport matches Office, just then came in, bringing with him three letters (produced) which he had seen the cannot be definitely made until we hear how defendant place in the Tamsui box, and which long the Straits and Shanghai teams are going Mr. Costa took out when the defendant had to remain here, but according to present arrange. gone. There were no other letters in the Taments Hongkong will play the Straits on the sui box at the time, and none of the three letters 11th and 12th, and the afternoon of the was addressed to Tamsui: One was intended 13th will be kept for tennis. On the 14th and for San Francisco, another for Trieste, and the 15th, Hongkong will probably meet Shanghai, leaving the morning of the 16th free to finish third for Nagasaki. Each carried an
its off the match if necessary and the afternoon celled Hongkong ten-cent stamp
for the rest of the tennis matches. It is too early yet to say anything about the selection of a cricket team, as members have still three weeks' practice in front of them, and the selectors are not likely to pick their eleven It is the same with until the last moment. tennis-there is not much to choose between Pinckney and Pontifex, and Hancock is pro- The final selection bably as good as either. will have to stand over until these three have played a few sets together and it can be seen who is showing the best form at the moment. The probability is that they are about level in singles and that Pinckney and Hancock will make the best combination for the doubles. Shanghai is no doubt bringing down strong teams both for cricket and tennis, and I hear they are willing to lay 3 or 4 to 1 on their Cricket XI, which shows great confidence con- sidering the glorious uncertainty of the game. The Straits, on the other hand, are probably not over strong, as it appears that few, if any, of the Native States cricketers have been able to get away, and the team will be made up almost solely of Singapore players, and probably not nearly as strong as the last XI they sent up.
Costa had mentioned in his at the Police Court that he saw defendant throwing other five letters in a basket. but these letters were despatched to their respective destinations, and were not the sub- ject of the charge now preferred against the prisoner. Concluding, the Acting Attorney. General said it would be suggested by the prosecution that the motive which prompted the defendant to steal the letters was that he hoped to make a little money by selling to someone the uncancelled stamps on the letters.
Evidence was heard, and the jury, without leaving the box, unanimously found the prisoner guilty as charged.
In passing sentence of twelve months' hard labour on each count, to run consecutively, his Lordship said that in his opinion coolies were
trusted too much in the Post Office.
ARMED ASSAULT.
Pun Lok was charged on three counts-(1)| that he, on 18th September, at Hunghom, being then armed with a sword, did assault one Kwok Sui and one Tam Tsui Sam, with intent to rob; (2) that on 18th September he did assault and beat one Kwok Sui, doing her bodily harm, and (3) that on 18th September he did assault and beat one Tam Tsui Sam, doing her bodily harm.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty. The jury that had sat through the other cases was again
retained.
The circumstances of the case, as stated by the Acting Attorney-General, were to the effect that the witnesses for the prosecution lived in a house at 11, Dock Street, Hunghom. The head of the household, a blacksmith, was absent from the house at the time of the occurrence, which took place at half-past seven on the evening of 18th Septem- ber. On that evening there were in the house the wife of the blacksmith and her daughter and daughter-in-law, also an infant child. A knock was heard at the door, and a voice called The daughter out the blacksmith's name. opened the door, and the defendant entered. He tried to shut the door, but the daughter prevented him from doing so. The defendant thereupon drew a knife, or sword, and on seeing this one of the women-the wife-rushed out
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I have read with much interest the letter of "A Rowing Member in your evening con. temporary, and, although I am always open to correction, I believe the V.R.C. did try to get up a regatta last year and also the Boat Club, and the result of their efforts was an inter national race, a scratch four-oar race, and a tub-race held under the auspices of the Boat Club. Perhaps I should have said that neither Club could get up a regatta and finally the Boat Club held a few races confined to their members only, as mentioned above. However, I am glad to bear the rowing spirit in the now reviving and that they are V.R.C. is holding a regatta this year, and I hope the Hongkong public will be as much interested in the various competitions as they were in years gone by.
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The owners of griffins decided to make an allowance of 2 lbs. per inch, and that is a fair allowance in these griffin-races, where the crying "Save life." The defendant went up to difference in height between the highest and the daughter-in-law, and struck her on the shoul.. lowest animal is so great.
carry 10st. 2lbs. and 14.3 will therefore carry der with bis fist, afterwards threatening her with the knife. He next attacked the daughter, seiz-12st. 2lbs., which is enough for any horse to racs ing her by the jacket and nocking her down. under. There are only four or five animals under The girl rolled down the stair into the street. 14 hands, and it appears to be hardly necessary The people downstairs were alarmed by the noise, to make the bottom weight as high as 10st. and rushed out. One of them, a cook, caught | 2lbs.—it might easily have been lowered 4 or 5 lbs., as there are always a few riders the defendant and gave him into custody. It was contended for the prosecution, concluded the who can ride about 10 stone or just under. Acting Attorney-General, that although the As regards the letter in your issue of 12th defendant did not take anything away he went by "Onlooker," the question is: Is it not to the house for the purpose of committing rob. better to work on the experience gathered in bery, and was only prevented by the hue-and-cry India and the Straits after several years that was raised. "The defendant's story at the racing than to try and prove from the Police Court was that he was pointed out to results of one meeting in Hongkong that the the police in the street by the daughter, who Indian weights are all wrong. Hayes and other singled out several men before she finally de- authorities in India, when the difference was 81bs. an inch, said that difference would never cided upon him.
bring a 14 and 142 together, and when the difference was raised to 12lbs. an inch they looked upon the scale in much the same way. How too is it possible to draw conclusions (if it is possible to draw any conclusions from the result of one meeting) when the griffus last meeting were such an uneven lot-three or four horses being of a much better class than the others.
After hearing the evidence of the blacksmith's wife and the two girls, and that of the cook who caught the defendant, the jury left the Court to consider their verdict.
On returning, after an absence of five minutes, the foreman announced that they unanimously found the prisoner guilty on all three counts. The sentence was five years' hard labour on the
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There is one sport, and a good sport too when rightly managed, that never has had any proper know. I allude to cycling. Why is there no show in this Colony. Why, I am sure I don't cycling track in Hongkong? Voices seem to buzz round at once. "Oh! it is not required, we have quite enough sport with our racing, and our lawn tennis, let alone other amusements our golf, our cricket and football, our 'polo which we indulge in at odd times, such as bathing, etc., without cycling on a track; let alone also the expense of such a thing.' know all that. I contend, all the same, that there are several who go in for many of the sports I have just named who are cyclists and who would come forward at once and, were any practical effort made, would go in for the thing heart and soul. "There's no sport in it," I can hear some say. Is there not? Have you ever seen good cycling, good races properly organised on a good track with good riders? I am getting on myself in years, but I can recol- lect many a good race at home in days gone by, The names of Joe Synyer, Gatehouse, Adams, and many others, even now rise before one's mind as names to conjure with. They are the names of men who, one may say, began the track-a countless host of others, too numerous sport; others took it up, and followed in their to think off, hing from all quarters of the globe. They found the sport fair to middling at any rate, but they had tried it. Some of Hongkong's people have tried it, and they who have, I feel sure, would not object to do so have a try. I think they would soon come again; those who have not tried it, let them /to look upon it as capital good fun, and
jolly good exercise into the bargain.
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for a track? I have already suggested that a difficulty is, where is a place to be found
ground next to the Race-course. There must very suitable spot would be round the football surely be ample room to get a 3-lap to the mile track on
that ground. The football need not and would not be interfered with, the same stand would serve for both cycle-racing, athletic sports, and football, and the games could be Access to the football ground by the players played on the ground in the centre of the track. being easily afforded by an entrance either a level part of it. underneath the banking of the track or across
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The Philippines Educational Department has now an army of one thousand teachers scattered over the islands, of whom 765 are civilians and over 200 soldiers, detailed as fully qualified teachers to the Department of Public Instructions.
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