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coloured hoods, being no exception. Later, as the ponies did their gallops, a crowd of gentle. men, with Sir Paul Chater in the centre, took the times. It was the last opportunity for owners to see what their horses were capable of doing before entering them, the closing time being 5 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. Keener interest was therefore displayed in the training than on any previous occasion this season. Some of the times were as follows:-
Discord, 1-mile, last :-36, 1.15, 1.38. Mr. W. E. Gray's sub., 1-mile, last :-34, 1.07, 1.42.
Rare Rose, -mile :-34, 1.08, 1.41. Vancouver, 1-mile :-36, 1.15, 1.504, 2.23. Mr. Rutter's sub., I-mile, last :-36, 1.07. Mr. Mody's cream sub., 1-mile-33, 1.06, 1.39. Mr. Bonner's sub., and Mr. Lewis's Derby griffin went together 1-miles, last -36, 1.12, 1.47.
Mr. Crago's Derby griffin, 1-mile, last - 354, 1.12, 1.461.
Remnant and Ichiban went for a mile race, Bemnant reaching home ahead :-32), 1,031.
Mr. Chater's sub. and Mr. Rutter's Derby griffin went together for 1-mile, last :-35, 1.11, 1.424.
Messrs. Hunter's, Mitchell's, and Hind's subs., 1-mil-, last :-34, 1.104, 1,45),
Mr. Mody's oream Derby griffin 1-mile- 2.14; last quarter 36.
Mr. Gubbay's and Dr. Atkinson's subs, went together for 1-mile, Dr. Atkinson's sub- coming in first:-33, 1.05, 1.41, 2 18.
Training on the 23rd was witnessed with great interest. It was a fine bright morning and several of the ponies did some excellent galloping. Among the spectators was His Excellency Mr. F. H. May. C.M.G. As it result of the turu-out, combined with good steady work preceding it, we can only express the opinion that the ever nearer race meeting will be of such a nature as Hongkong has never
seen before. Work on the new members' stand is proceeding apace, and this with the space reclaimed over the stream, and with the improved arrangements for the Pari-mutuel, will contribute materially to making the function a Success. Ön Saturday the gallop by Mr. Babington's sub. Rocket Was considered to be a first-class per formance; Rocket bids fair to do well for his owner. The Derby favourite from Tie.tsin, Narses, seemed to be very wild ; juiging by his style and behaviour on the course, unless he improves it is very doubtful whether he will be sufficiently trained for such a race as the Derby, which promises to be a good struggle. of the times were as follows:-
Set, 4-mile -35, 1.10, 1.45, Algerine, 1-mile :- 38, 1.1o, 1.52, 2,244. Fun -mile-1.09.
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Cheesai (waler) -mile -1.06. Ichiban and Remnant (belonging to Mr. G. C. C. Master) 1-mile :-354, 1.10, 1.404, 2-11.
Bunaway Girl, §-mile :—29, 564. Provost, 1-mile;—2,314. Standard, 1-mile :—1.10, 1,5'', 2.27, Rocket, 14-mile :-33, 1.06, 1.40, 2.13, 2.45. Taiyat, 1-mile :-39, 1.14, 1.49, 2.24. Zoglaba, 4-m le :-43, 1.21, 1,53. Vancouver, l-mile :— 2.23.
La France Rose, 14-mile :-381, 1.13, 1.48, 2.82, 2.534.
· Fiscal, 14-mile :—37, 1.11, 1.45, 2.18§. 250§. Pajak, -milo, last-mile-36, 1.10. Regret and Clifton, "14-mile :—41, 122, 158, 2.36, 3.13, 3.45.
Manila and Emigrant, 1-mile :-34, 1.104, 1.471, 2.22.
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Northern Rose (late Danby) 14-mile-38, 1.134, 1.48, 2.24, 2.57.
Persistence, 1-mile:-34, 1.10, 1.52, 2.27. Rare Rose, 1-mile, last ↓ :- 36, 1.09. Lord Algy and Bonzoline, 4-mile: -38, 1.15,
1.49.
Chuntaqua, 1-mile, last -33, 1.07), 1.44. Modesty, last :-34, 1.10, 1.43. Tectotum, 11-mile, last mile:-32, 1.08, 1.45,
2.22.
Rex, 1-mile, last :---36, 1.10. Quebec, 1-mile-37, 1.15, 1 514, 2.24.
ext Wednesday's training is eagerly looked forward to, particularly to see if Narses will be “let out.”
HONGKONG.
Mr. K. F. A. Harberg has been provisionally recognised as Consul-Gene: al for Norway and Sweden in Hongkong.
Invitations are being issued for a ball at Government House on Wednesday, the 3rd prox. On Friday in honour of the anniversary of the accession of King Edward VII. the warships in Harbour were decorated with bunting.
During the week ending the 17th inst. the visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum were 218 non-Chinese, to the former, and 88 non-Chinese and 2497. Chin'se to the latter institution.
The appointments are notified in the Gazette of Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz as Police Magistrate and of Mr. J. H. Kemp as Assistant Secretary to the Sanitary Board.
We were notified from the Colonial Secre- tary's office on the 20th that a tel-gram had been received from the Deputy Governor, British North Borneo, to the effect:-"Quarantine restrictions removed in Labuan and Borneo." A positive scandal has thus been tardily remedied.
Transport No. 4, the B.LS.N. Co.'s 8.8. Dilwara, arrived here at 8 am, on the 15th some 500 troops for Hongkong: 171 with for the Sherwood Foresters, and the rest were divided between the. A.O.C., Royal S, Artillery, and Royal Engineers. The Dilwara loft Southampton on the 8th ult.; Singapore 9th inst.
Destruction of trees and shrubs on Crown
property, for the purpose of obtaining cheap firewood, is largely on the increase in Hong kong, fines, stocks, and gaol notwithstanding. Yesterday these were again several cases of this description before the magistrates, and their Worships fined them variously from $3 to $5, adding several hours in the stocks.
At a meeting held at the Masonic Hall, on the 14th inst, under the presidency of Mr. Harry Wolfe, President of the Masonic Quadrille Club, it was decided to give a ball, in the City Hall, under the Auspices of that club, on the 4th of March, as & final dance of the club's season. The dances beld monthly have been most popular, and no effort is to be spared to make the closing function a brilliant success, which, as it is in the hands of the same committee that has had the arrangements of the monthly dances, there
can be no doubt it will be.
On the 23rd inst.. night, about half-past nine o'clock, a gang of eight Chinese niade an attempt to enter Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's dynamite- magazine at Quarry Bay, which, it will be remembered, was robbed by thieves some twelve months ago. On that occasion 400lbs, of dynamite were stolen. Since that time the magazine has been guarded by an armed Sikh watchman. It is said that on Saturday night gang set on him with a view to forcing their way into the place. Fortunately he was able to blow his whistle and some of the European foremen living near came out to his assistance, whereupon the Chinese made off. All of them got clear away.
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The 89th Company of Royal Garrision Artil- lery having been relieved by the 83rd Company, which arrived from Canada on the 19th will leave for Rangoon by a hired transport, the British India s.s. Dilwara, on Thursday afternoon at two o'clock. The Dilwara will, also, take home a number of details from the Sher- wood
Foresters, Royal Engineers, Army Ordnance Corps, and Royal Army Medi- cal Corps. In all, there will be 600 men or so aboard, besides quite a few wives and families of soldiers, and the following indulgence passengers:-Mrs., aud Miss Lambkin (wife and daughter of Lient. Lambkin), Mrs. Hewett wife of Capt. Hewett of the Pay Department), Mrs. Harvey (wife of Lieut. Harvey of the Royal Army Medical Corps), and child, Mrs. Murray (wife of Captain Murray of the Sherwood Foresters), Mrs, Bewley (wife of Major Bewley of the R.A.M. C.), Mrs. Davies (wife of Lient. Davies of the 110th Bombay Light Infantry). Mrs. Pinchon (wife of Quartermaster Sergeant Pinchon of the Royal Engineers), Mrs. Siddon (wife of Staff Sergeant Major Siddon), and Mrs. Brow (wife of Garrison Sergeant-Majo: Brow) In each instance the ladies will be accompanied by their
husbands.
[January 25, 1904.
Mr. R. E. Shaw has joined the Hongkong Volunteers; Gunner E. R Millar has resigned; Gunner F, G. Whittick has been transferred to the Shanghai Volunteer Corps; and Gunder W. L Pattenden has been granted six months' leave of absence from the colony.
The dates of the performances of His Excellency by the A.D.C. are now fixed. The first series will take place on the 10th, 11th, and 13th February. Again after the China New Year holidays the opera will be staged on the 18th, 19th, and 20th prox-making six per- formances in all. The Dallas Company's season will open on the 22nd prox.
The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company have now arranged to run three steamers daily on the Hongkong-Canton line. Steamers leave Hongkong at 8 a.m., 5.30 p.m.. and 9 p.m., and from Canton the times of departure are 8 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. (Sundays excepted). These increased facilities will be welcomed by the public and will doubtless serve to enhance the popularity and prospe ity of the Company's service.
Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, chairman of the sub-committee for the Hongkong Cricket Club dance, writes to us to say that, as there seems to be doubt abroad as fo whether the dance proposed for the 9th February next is open to the public at large, he wishes to state that the dance is not confined to members and subscribers of the H.K.C.C., and that the subscription list will close on Tuesday, the 26th January.
L. C. Rees, Principal Land Surveyor, exposed At the Land Office on the 18th inst., Mr, for sale by public auction three lots of Crown land. There was no competition, all the lots being sold on the first bid. Inland Lot No. 1711, south of Bowen Road, 40,347 sq. feet, with
an annual rent of $278, was exposed at the upset price of $10,086 and gold to Mr. Young Sai Nos 399 and 400, were sold to Mr. Tsang Nam for $10;016. Two small Shaukiwan lots,
Keang for $490 and $615 respectively.
It will be remembered that a subscription was raised in this Colony last year on behalf of Mrs. Power, wife of ex-Sergeant-Major Power of the H.K.V.C., who was convicted of embezzlement Major of the Corps funds in October.
Commandant and Pritchard,
Adjutant H.K.V.C., now sends us a statement of the fund for Mrs. Power, from which it appears that $1,839.58 in all were subscribed (H.E. Sir Henry Blake, the officers and men of the H.K.V.C. contributing $633, and the Sergeants' Mess, R.G.A., $113), and that after various expenses had been paid a bank draft to England for $1,146.86 (£106 0/6) has been handed to Mrs. Power. She returns to England with her. daughter and youngest son on the Dilwara, she and her daughter going free as nurses to officers' children, while a trifling sum will be paid for the small boy for food and Suez Canal dues. We are requested to convey Mrs. Power's thanks to all who subscribed to the fund.
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A collision occurred in the Harbour on the 22ndmorning between two launches, Tai Lee and the Lee Cheong, at somewhere about four o'clock. The Lee Cheong, it appears, ran down the Tai Lee, sinking her about 600 feet from the Praya wall at Kowloon. The Tai Lee sank with her hull at right angles to the Prays, and, when she took the ground, maintained an even keel. Her two masts were to be seen above the water-line, the position being about due south from the Time Ball station, Kowloon. A red danger flag was on Friday displayed over her, replaced, last night, by a red lamp. Steps have already been taken to raise the vessel, so it is not at all likely that the Harbour Master will have to use any pressure in enforcing 27 of ordinance 36 of 1899 whereby he holds the power of compelling the removal of any obstruction in the harbour, whether floating, submerged, or sunk. Raising a steam-launch, anyway, is not a very arduous task—a couple of large fighters, with parchase, and a few chains around her hull are all that is wanted. The steam-launch Tat Lee bears the licence No. 251, her owner being Mr. Kwok Lin, of No. 26 Wing Kat Lane. The steam launch Lee Cheong is No. 247, owned by the Po Chan S. S. Co., Ld., No. 48- Des Voeux Road. We understand that legal steps have already been taken regarding the collision. The Naval Yard picked up a buoy belonging to the Lee Cheong:
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