An interesting ceremony was held in the British Church of St. John the Evangelist at Haxkow, on Friday, October 28th. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Williams, Missionary Bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church, held an ordination at the Church at 11 o'clock a.m. The Rev. W.
J. Boone, son of the late Bishop Boone of Shanghai, and the Rev. Yung-king-yon were "ordered" priests by the Bishop, assisted by his clergy, the Revds, A. Hohing and S. Hoyt, of Wuchang. 'A sermon was preached by the Rev. A.
Hohing, after the morning service had been read, and a kind of charge was given by him to the two Deacons, standing up in the usual form. The service proceeded in the usual way, and the sacrament was duly partaken of. Perhaps the most interesting scene of all was that at the close, when the Rev. A. C. Hohing administered the sncrament, in the vernacular, to the Chinese members of their church. Few persons were present, owing to some alteration in the time of the service. Otherwise, the choir would have attended to perform a choral service.
From Jaran we have reports of various damages sustained by shipping during a late typhoon. The British barque "Mary Miller," from Newchwang lost all three of her masts, and the water rose several feet in her hold, Eventually she was towed into port by the French war steamer "Dupleix." The British barque ' Minstrol" has also been dismasted, and the British schooner Rantipole" was stranded in Odawarra Bay and it is feared that the whole or part of the crew have been lost. The " Akindo," from Hakodate w}s also totally wrecked in the same place. The Japanese steamer C. J. Textor has been sold to Messrs. Walsh Hall & Ca.
Ensign Wedge of the Xth Regt. accidentally shot himself while cleaning a revolver.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.