Messrs, Geo, MeBain have received a telegram from the manager of the Mentoukou Mine stating that the output, of coal for the month of to work and his first ball spread the stumps of a somewhat peppery member of the Committee. The latter promptly ordered the bowler off the field as an interloper! How~ lever, better players had noticed. what they thought was exceptional style, they made further inquiries and Wilfred Rhodes joined Yorkshire. 4 For some years Mr. Parkin was a member of the S. V. C. Artillery.
He was not given much to boasting of his own achievements, but it I firansiers ouerslly that it will be ime ble to carry 0 ccuritivs abvrood will affected by this step.
Rourre Coomilive conoider that th loave decreed that until further {ice quotations of fonns of the Reich, Federal and towne shall struck out from the eer days prohi speak of some tie ride and it was a fact that out her. there were few ranks of the "small" " but fortune was not kind to him and he} never had a suecesrful runner and when a few years ego in the sub:
in drawing he secured wh; must have been the worst crock er sent down he said never would try again. Until three or four years ago, when he hind to give the strenuous bustling about on a race course, no local jourvali-t would have disputsl kkin's title as the I ting newspaperman, and attended his ist fon the Shanghai course his fellow Journalists. presented him with a Pair of binoculars, which, incident. ally, were stolen from him shortly afterwards.
He did not look it, bu was very clever with he had been under several of the best professional coaches. Blessed with a splendid memory and haying lived in a world of sport before he came to the Far East, our old comrade made an evening' pass alt too quickly for some kindred spirit, for his fund of sporting stories was wexhaustible, and he was a grat} help to the young writer who want ed information without the trouble! of delving into reference books, Reggie Parkin Kad #9 many thor-! oughly likeable qualities, both it work and play, that "he mails hosts of friend=, and If he had enemy the latter must have had a strange kink somewhere. So it was fa very sad blow when, shortly after his wife developed a serious illness, hho also went off to ho-pi remained there for a yew he came out his friends there was but asiall hope. He hung. on for a while, but in a few months there were further complications and he passed away on Thursday evening. We feel his loss as acute. ly as must his wife and son, to whom the deepest sympathy is ex-ended. fom the Consult thorities, whi ete and statement o the Hankow i eden. The Chamber—endes the Consils! reports The Chuinber dew attention to efivets being made to throw the full responeibitity for the inet= ait ok horities and hat "it so happened that he British Conesssion the British of that post tional com= munity of Hankow we, as part of the combined defence force, which fueluded French, Talians, "day exe nal Americans as well as Bi ich, must therefore accept our share 7 the responsibility for their aetion. We stand by them wholeheartcally, sand urge you in fairness to cooperate in making this fact clear the Chinese people."—Reuter's Pacitie Serview.
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