are increasingly interesting to Tientsi men, just as ours are to Diplomaticus Ca. The former fact is lustrated by fact that Tientsin riders won twelve out the fourteen events. Messieurs de Cartier and de Marchienne took six firsts, Messrs. Ba: Ironside and Campbell four, including the Champions with Sidéan, Mr. Hunt up. 'The fields were small and the times but} mediocre, but this did not lessen the keen interest in the events. Cuprice made the Dest time for the three-quarters' 1.97!
egjny the mile' in 2112; Cretan's win in the "Cunsolutions" over the aamedistanca in the very remarkable time of must surely be tabulated as the slowest record for the pampered jades of Asis. The best "mile and a-quarter? were Sultan's in the Champions and Mesenger's in the Poker Cup, both 246. The best mile and a-half? was Ofvajny's in the Peking Stakes 8, i sport.
Cricket and Tennis sre going strai new courts to the south of the pavilion in Recreation Ground giving the greatest fiction, sd, the afvertenn from iayets who, by-the-bye ate ian ever and more than tux the resources of six courts, a pleasant rendezvous, Ladies there do congregate to watch the games and to indulge in social amenities.
Racing, however, practically monopolies attention this week. The heroic "Chamious" of the Shanghai Spring Meeting ins attracted great attention up here} Tiewtsin held the China record for one mile and a-quarter? Mr. J. M. Ds Stray Shot having established it ut 2mins.37secs. in May 1897. Shanghai now shares the honour. It will be interesting to see which com munity will first lower the time again.
The figures of our Olympians are em-mently satisfactory: there are twenty seven stables against twenty-one in May 1598; twenty-seron griffins against twenty four last year; twenty-eight ald ponies against twenty-one; and lasts, the entrance fees are Tia. 2,360 (record figures) against Tls. 1,945. he lotteries on the other hand show a falling off, a fret that tew regret in the presence of other proofs that Racing is going strong on the more legitimate grounds of sport and_ personal leasure. Should the weather hold up we ave every prospect of a fine Meeting. The outlook is threatening in this respect: after a week of great, dry heat and horridly hot, dusty winds, we have today many signs of a break.
GENERAL, Onranti-work crusade is workingsmoothly; the foreign community has accepted the dog-tax with perfect equanimity, and the wisdom of the Municipal Fathers is extolled on all sides.
Building operations are extensive: three Inrge new sets of hong-premises and a wool mill are now rearing their walls in the Municipal Extension; there are also a new houses, Gordon Hall, too, is being changed (girls') school-house und several private
out of all recognition, The Cash Question is still acute notwithstanding the ¢aboo of bad coins: this week three mystic sevens (777) represent the exchange value of the dollar, an appatiing lapse from 1,070 the old normal.
There is quite a miniature fleet at just now! The three new German-b cruisers, tio handsome corvettes, and two very business-like destroyers (in dock) make a brave show, and, could we but have assurance of the personnel, might warrant the notion that China's naval potency is more than & paper display.
As a practical comment on your recent article on the "Peking War Party" may mention that two brigades of the Provincial troops of Chihli are tramping about the Shantung borders, as if a demonstration were intended.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.