February 23, 1903.]
They were all stoned. Ony was knocked, Insonsible. He was carried into a 'bouse there. The mob su rounded the house and threw stones through the window. All the watchmen wers more or less injured. One of the number who was unible to gain an entrance to the house was pounded to death by the infuriated mob. The watchmen remained in the house until the mob got tired of throwing sto es and went away Witnesses would say that each of the accased bad taken an active part in the affair. The defence set up by them all was an alibi.
His Lordship-The arrests were not made until a week after the offence?
The Attorney-General-Not for some con- siderable fims. The crowd dispersed, but we believo wo have got the right men. It is entirely a question of identity.
Evidence was then led for the Crown, and subsequently-a number of witnesses ware examined in support of the alibi set up by the prisoners.
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The Attorney-General having addressed the jury.
The Court adjourned
SPORTING NOTES.
(Daily Press, 21st February.)
The main football event to-day is the meeting of the V R.C. and H.M.8. Argonaut for the Associati în Shield. This inatch takes place at 4 o'clock on the Club ground. The V.R.C. are such good- Shield-fighters that one is inclined to fancy their chances if they get a fair share of luck, The Argon tuts, of course, are lucky to figure in the second round at all, only the chivalry of "G" Co Sherwood Foresters, allowing them to play off their first tie after the proper date. The remaining game in the second round is :-H.M.S. Glory v. 89th Co., R.A.; H.M.S. Ocean having already beaten H.M.B. Pique, and “B." Co.. Sherwood Foresters putting the R.E. out on Thursday.
The Club's defeat in the first round of the Shield has deprived its season of interest. Friendly games such as that on Thursday do not draw the public. I would suggest, with all due deference to the energetic and capable officials of the II.K.F.C., that they should organise some such match as Civilians v. United Services. The Club and the V.R.C. should furnish the material for
ag od combined side, while there would be no difficulty in picking a good naval and military tam. Played on a Saturday, there should be a good gate for such a game.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
year bas acted rather prejudicially to the_in** Įterest in several events. ~ Again on the ( ff-Day the badness of the fields seems to have béon dus to the quality of some of the competitors. I am afraid this angurs ill for the one-day "Spring Race Meeting" in April. Why, by the way, do the Stewards give no indication of the nature of this meeting? This is hardly the way to encourage owners to keep their horses or ponies after the big meeting is over. Owners are ex- pected to "buy a pig in a poke" by entering first and hearing the conditions afterwards. No wonder they hesitate.
The first round of the "International " polo tournament takes places on the Causeway Bay | ground at 4 p.m. to-day, the competing sides being the English and Ecottish teams. The probable composition of those will be as follows:-England: Light, Keller, Kitchener, and Smith. Sootland: Ross, Cruickshank, MacGeorge, and Lyon. The winners will meet Ireland next Saturday, when the match will congist of three chukkers of five minutos each. It was at first thought that a Colonial team would enter as well as the English, Scottish, and Irish, but unfortunately hopes were not realised. Neverthless two good games should be seen in the tournament,
At the public roup of race horses and ponies on Tuesday no lees than two-thirds of the money for hcoming was from Manila. A number of the prominent China ponies which figured here in Race Week will appear shortly on the Manila Track, it seems. One or two bargains were picked (notably, to my mind, Joker at $110), bat on the other hand some poor animals fetched more than they looked worth.-I also read of Hongkong sending 16 polo-ponies to Bangkok. We are evidently making room for new blood.
Hockey makes a fresh start after the race interval. The Shield Competition to date stand as follows:
14th Bo. L. 1., 12 points. H.M.8. Ocean, 9 points. H,M.S. Blenhein, 6 points. 10th Bo. L. I.. 5 points. Hockey Club, 4 points. R.A., 4 points.
H.M.. Albion, 2 points.
H.M.88. Glory, "Goliath, and Talbot, 80th
Co., R.A., and the Club“A” team, ◊ points. The 33rd Burmas have not yet played, but meet the 10th Bo. L. I. on Monday, at Kow.
loon. The Clab 1st XI play H.M.8. Goliath on Monday and H.M.S. Talbot on Thursday, The Club "A" play H.M.8. Goli ith on Tuesday.
Boxing is in full swing in Shanghai now, it appears. It is only a few days since we were reading how St. Clair defeated Casey. Next Saturday "Billy" Bellew meets St. Clair, and
now we hear that one Smith, a coloured man on the U.S.S. Monadnock, is anxious to try con- clusions with the winner of the St. Clair Bellew contest and has offered to put money up to bind
the match.
Participants in the race lotteries here will read with interest the following, which is from the Peking and Tientsin Times :-A student of “ohance and luck” draws our attention to a trivial.ty of the latest lottɔry drawing, namely, the good lack of that much maligned number | 13. "First of all the old Judas himself draw a $500 prize, while the thirteens at tached to six other centuries were successful. Finally the fourteenth century, which begins with 13, brought off 16 prizes, including the $100." We willingly publish these remarks, as we dearly love to have a kick at the senseless old superstition attendant on this innocent number.
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HONGKONG JOCKEY OLUB
RACE MEETING
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The same favourable weather, albeit chilly, marked the last day of the Baces on 11th inst. The attendance was not so: large ka on the three preceding days of the Meetings animation to the sone. The programme for but still big enough to impart a great deal of the Off Day this year was slightly altered from that of last year. There was only one steeple- - chase, and the mafoos' race was deleted altogether. Last year, it will to remembered, the mafoos "struck work-refused to ride because only one race was given them instead of the usual two, one for champion mafoos and the other a consolation race-and the fact may not be altogether unconnected with the absence of the event from Saturday's card. Seven raoss were in, but the small fields militated againat » really good sport. The band of the Sherwood Foresters played selections at intervals during the afternoon. The results and timings were :— The COSMOPOLITAN STAKES; a sweepstakes of $10 each with $400 added; second to receive $150; and third $50; for all walers entered at and which have run at this Meeting; weight for inches as per scale; winners of any race ex- cept the Encouragement, Racing or Phaethon Sinkes 10 lbs, extra; winners of Encourage- ment. Racing, or Phaethon Staker, 5 lbs, extrag penalties accumulative. Hongkong waler grifius allowed 8 lbs. Hongkong walers which have never won a'race at time of start- ing allowed 5 lbs.; winners of the Hongkong Derby and/or Waler Champion Stakes barred. From the two-mile post on a round and in. Mr. G. C. C. Master's Mayfly, 11st 8lbe Mr. G. C. C. Master's Punsh, 10sť 4lbe
(Mr. Master) 1
Mr. B. H. Hinds's Sequah, 11st
(Mr. Gedge)
(Mr. Crighton) 3 Three ran. Sequah got away first at the fall the order named. Mayfly, however, drew out of the flag, followed by Patch and Mayfy in
passing the Black Rock, and at the bend way ahead of the other two, Punch being second made a good finish of it, Mayfly winning by and Sequah a bad third. Mr. Master's horses
about a length. Time, 2min. 4sees. The KING" CUP¡ presented; for all beaten subscription grifius; weight for inches as For scale; unplaced ponies allowed "41bd."; entrance 810, to go to second pony. Three quarters of aɛmi'o.
Mr. C. Rademacher's Joker, 11st lib...
(Mr. Mackie)
Mr. Hart Buck's Eilver Fox, 10st 121ba
(Mr Crighton)
Mr. Bart Back's Commoner, 10st 121be
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Lieut.-Col. Hughes' Perky, 'ICst 9lbe"...
(Mr. Gogg) Mr. F. B. Marshall's Mad Mullah, 11st.
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(Mr. Butherford) 5.0) Mr. Houston's Nicodemus, 1st 11b
up to the Black Rock Joker passed Silver För- and drew level with Commouer on the gallop past the Village. At the bend Mr. Master's mount, under the whip, fell behind, passed by Silver Fox, who, however, to challenge Joker, the latter wioning. canter. Time, 1 min. 38:1/5 soë3. The “CHISAI" Cur; valno $250, presented; for all beaten waler griffins; weight for inches as per scale; placed ponies to carry 5 lbs. extra; unpliced ponies allowed 5 lbs, entrance $10, to go to second pony. - Fiv Capt. P. Langlands Lady
**Mr. Armstrong) Of the late Mr. Lewis Moore of Shanghai
4lbs over. †5lba över. + 101bd over Six ran. After some delay, the poate the Mercury says:-Mr. Moore came to Chiua in 1861 and was in business in both Tientsin to a fairly good start, Commoner in front, fol and Hong ong before he came to Shanghaied by Silver Fox and Joker. Asoen ling the bill. where he commenced business as a broker and I have heard many declarations of relief that commission agent. In bis capacity of auctioneer the races are over, and the expression of such a he came in contact with all classes of the com- feeling, I suppose, is bat human. The annual munity, and by his geniality and kindness made week was much looked forward to; by the end himself exceedingly popular, and it is within of the Off-Day there was a feeling of satiety; the mark to say that he was the best known and all that remains now is retrospection. As resident in Shanghai, his striking personality a matter of fact, some very good" racing has being familar to ere y one.
It was in been witnessed, though one or two circumstances his connection with the Fire Brigade perhaps tended to lessen the interest toward the end of that he was best known in a public capacity. the meeting. The Derby upset a lot of backers He took grea: interest in the welfare of the on Tuesday, yet the well-named Brilliant had a Brigade, and a few days before his death in regular ovation as he was lod by his owner conversation with a member he called the Fire toward the Grand Stand. In contrast to the Brigade the pride of bis hoart. Mr. Moore was Derby, the Waler Champions on the last day a well known member of the Jewish community was tame beyond description, Mr. Mas'er ter and was a prominent Freemason, and took an rifying every competitor except the owner of active part in everything connected with the Runaway Girl and reducing the interest of craft, and on the death of the late B.W.D.G.M, the race, tɔ a mere question of tactics. Com Bro. J. J. Miller in February, 1896, he was pared even with last year's Champions, when appointed District Grand Master of the Dist:iol only three horses-finished, the recent race was a Grand Lodge of Northern China, E.C., and dull affairs. I cannot help thinking that the | this position he held up to the time of his death. | accumulation of horses in the leading stable this 'Mr. Moore was 58 years of age.
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Mr. Buxey's Winning
Lieut. Col. Hughes's Prinos Charming 10st
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(Mr. Gegk) Mr. Hart Buck's Walldower.
Mr. R. K. Leigh's Will o' the
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