silver Chatham, pair of silver vases and a frame; Commodore Stokes, Pair of silver Vases: Capt. Worthington, pair of Japanese vases; The Consular comma ity, Mr and Mrs. Volpicelli, Mr. and Mrs. Bibosis, Mr. Teissier, Mr. A. P. Wilder, Mr. de Szentirmay, Mr. Moreno, Mr. Droeze, silver bowl on blackwood stand.
Sir Paul Chater, complete silver dressing table set; Mr and Mrs A. G. Romano, pair silver dessert dishes and spoons; Hon. Mr. Osborne, Chinese silver ornet stand: Mrs Jorge, silver ornet set; Lady Lugard, silver tray and tea service; Sir Frederick Lugard, a green jade necklace; Mr. Brackenbury, silver cake basket; Captain Vaughan Lee, Commander Raikes, Commander Grenfell, and Mr. Blanchflower, a handsome Japanese silver cup.
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
The annual meeting of the Hongkong Cricket Club was held in the Pavilion on Sept. 30th Mr. F. Maitland presided, and there were also present Hou. Dr. Atkinson, Messrs. R. Hancock, W. C. D. Turner and T. C. Gray, members of dommittee, Captain H. E. Stanger Leathes, IM.S., Lieut. J. M. C. Taylor, 119th Infantry, Lieat, E. W. Isaacson, B.N., Messrs. A, Mackenzie, F. A. Ram, F. J. Gelsthorpe, H. L. Garrett, H. A Lammert A. E. Asger, F. Lammert, E. M. Hazeland, E. A. Fowler, W. F. F. Swan, A. R. Sutherland, C. B. Franklin and R. Pestonji.
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The CHAIRMAN said Gentlemen, The report and accounts have been in your hands for a few days and I will take them s read. They are very clear and full, and for your information comparisons of receipts and ex- penditures with the previous year have been detailed therein. Your Committee regret that they have not been able to redeem any deben- tures, the chief reason being the large falling off in subscriptions, which show a reduction of $1,722.50 as compared with 19-14/5 season. There is also a serious loss in the Racquet Court ($775.93)-and-if-more support is not given to the game by members in the future, your Committee will have to consider whether or not it is worth while to run the courts in connection with the Cricket Club. I hope you will all do what you can to secure new members, and the incoming Committee have to economise as much as possible in order that we may be in a position to pay off some of the Debentures before the next accounts are laid before you. It has been suggested that a ball and possibly a fete be held in the winter to help the Club fonds. You will be pleased to hear that Shanghai have accepted our invitation to send a team down in November and we are hoping that the Straits will also send an eleven. I am sure we will all do our best to give them a good time and we trust that our representatives will give them a good beating. Several Tennis players have requested that the annual tournament should start before 1st April next. Should the interest in Cricket slaken off by early March, possibly a start could be made with the Tennis by 15th Marob, but it must always be kept in mind that Cricket cames first. The congratulations of the Club are due to Mr. T. E. Pearce on his batting average of 41.20, and to Mr. T. Serco- ba Smith on his bowling analysis of 10.77. Mr. Smith, our late president, has played regularly on this ground for over 20 years and his recent success with the ball is especially gratifying. In conclusion I would say that I have heard it remarked by certain taipans that too much time is taken up with games nowadays, with the result that we are losing our commerce.
Burely this is a fallacy, as a certain amount of time spent in healthy exercise should tend to make a man more alert and useful in the office, and I hope that all taipans will do their best to facilitate the getting away of their employees more particularly when important Cricket matches are in progress. Before moving the adoption of the report and accounts I shall be pleased to answer any questions thereon to the best of my ability.
No questions were asked, and the CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report and accounts as presented.
Mr..MACKENZIE Seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously.
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Dr. ATKINSON proposed that Mr. Maitland be elected president for the coming season. His cricket prowess was well known to all. For three years he held the best average as batsman, and he also held the highest bowling average, 2.4 aa innings. All members knew his business capacities, and he trusted that the new president would be able to assist them out of their present financial difficulties (hear, hear). Mr. H. A. LAMMERT seconded the motion, and it was carried nem con.
Mr. MAITLAND, in returning thanks, said he would do all he possibly could for the Club.
The next business was the election of a com-
mitee, and while a ballot was being taken the CHAIRMAN, who had just received a letter, said he was sorry to say they had not yet heard from the Straits with regard to the interport cricket match. Shanghai had sent a letter and asked the Club to fix dates. They would have to wire to the Straits, but he did not anticipate a favourable reply, as he had received a letter from a gentleman from Singapore in which it was stated that they would have great difficulty in getting 8 team together. He hoped, however, that they would come.
The result of a ballot for the committee was 33 follow-Mr. F. Maitland, Hon. Dr. Atkinson, Major H. E. Lowis, Lieut. E. W. Isaacson, Messrs. T. C. Gray, H. Hancock, H. R. Phelips and W. C. D. Turner.
This was all the business and the meeting concluded with vote of thanks to the
Chairman.
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ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.
The third annual meeting of the members of the above club was held on Sept. 30th in the City Hall. There Was a good attendance which was presided over by the Hon. Mr. May. The CHAIRMAN said they would notice in the report a suggestion that the best thanks of the club be offered to Mr. l'eroy Smith for his services as secretary and treasurer, and for the donation of a cap. He thought the Club was very grateful to Mr. Smith for the work he had done for them, and they appreciated his generous gift of that handsome cup which would be a source of envy to all of them until it was won by one of them (applause). The general committee also suggested that the Club's appreciation of the services of Mr. Cruickshank as captain and specially in designing the construction of the new boats, be recorded. They looked to the acquisition of those new boats to revive interest in rowing. The first of the north east monsoon had been piping through the Lyeemoon Pass that morn- ing, bringing hope to the hearts of yachtsmen and renewing courage in all of them. And it would require all the ncouragement the uor- easter could give them to put the Club on a really sound basis. He was sorry to say that their membership had dwindled down to 208. Just before the amalgamation the Yacht Club had 72 members and the Boat Club had somewhat in the neighbourhood of 300. That was a big loss to the Club. He believed the increased subscription was frightening away some of them. but he felt; confident that when their new club house which was rearing its stately head at North Point was completed it would prove a great attraction to Yachts- men and oarsmen, and they might hope to see the Club in a thoroughly satisfactory state as regarded membership. He hoped one and all of them, whether yachtsmen or oarsmen, would do their best to induce others to join. They ought to put their shoulder to the wheel and get all the young men who came out to the Colony to take an interest in what was really one of Great Britain's premier
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sports. They hoped to have the new clubhouse; open some time in the beginning of the year.
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A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Franklin, who had undertaken the duties of secretary, for his services to the Club.
be CHAIRMAN alluded to the regatta and explained that Sir Matthew Nathan had pre ented a cup for rowing, to form the nucleus of the Hongkong Regatis. Only one regatta had been held and the typhoon by destroying all the boats had made it impossible to hold another since. All the original members of the commitee remained, and on the suggestion of Mr. Warre he had approached His Excellency with a view to his becoming a patron for the regatta. The Governor had agreed to do so and had suggested that a committee elected by the V. R. C. and the Yacht Club should be elected to manage the regatta. If members approved of the suggestion the general committee would elect three of its members to act with three from the V. R. C.
Approved.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the proceedings.
THE SANITARY COMMISSION.
RE NUISANCE NOTICES.
Though little has been heard lately in a very direct way about the report of the Sanitary Commission he who runs may read in the reports of what the unofficial members are doing ou the Sanitary Board that they are gathering ammunition for the inevitable discussions which will arise when the Government announces its. decision upon the recommendations of the Com- mission. The answers given at Tuesday's meeting of the Board to the questions asked by Mr. Shelton Hooper have an obviously important bearing on
the recommendation of the Commission that the Building Authority should be placed under the control of the Sanitary Department. It appears that since the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance came into force (1903) no fewer than 14,913 notices to abate nuisances have been issued by the Sanitary Department or Sanitary Board Office. A copy of every notice it appears is forwarded to the Building Authority, after it has been issued by the Sanitary Department officials, but the Hon. Mr. Chatham, who is the Building authority, admitted that he himself saw nothing of the notices excepting in the comparatively few oases where prosecutions were contemplated. The remarkable thing about the matter is that though official objections have been made to the transfer of the Building Authority to the control of the Sanitary Department, this Department has for the past three years of more actually been doing all this work for the Building Authority and the entire cost has ben defrayed out of the Sanitary Board appropriation.
KULANGSU (AMOY) MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
Minutes of a meeting of the Council held at the Board Room, on the 10th September 1907.
Present:Messrs. W. N. Wallace (Chair- man), C. A. V. Bowra, Nuang Ts'an-chew, W. Kruse, the Health Officer and the Secretary.
1. The minutes of the last meeting are read, and confirmed.
2. The Superintendent of Police reports the following cases have been dealt with at the Mixed Court since the last meeting.
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ing pigs to stray 17, Committing a naisanos 1, Breach of Municipal Regulations 3, Allow- Breach of contract 1, Debt 1, Obstructing a public road 1,
SUMMARY ARRESTS.
The Hen. Mr. May was re-elected commodore; Commodore Stokes, R.N., Hon. Mr. Keswick Hon. Mr. Pollock, Messrs. H. W. Bird, H. P.
Theft 4, Breach of Municipal Regulations 1, Tooker, H. J. Walker were appointed members of the Yacht Committee; and Messrs F. A. Assault 1, Illegally carrying arms 1, Drunk Biden, H. Broke, E. W. Carpenter, F. W. and incapable I, Committing a nuisance 2, Warre, C. H. Blason and Bublinger were Washing clothes at a public well 1, Being on elected to the Rowing Committee. The Chair-enclos d premises for an unlawful purpose 1. man commented in terms of pleasure at the
(Signed) W. N. WALLACE,
Chairman. inclusion of a German in the committee, as the men of that nationality took a great interest in sport. Messrs. Blason and Smith were appointed auditors,
By order,
C. BERKELEY MITCHELL,
Secretary.
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