The annual meeting of subscribers to Holy Trinity Cathedral was held yesterday at H.M.'s Consulate. C.F.R. Allen, Esq., officiating Consul, presided; and' there were present—The Very Rev. Dean Butcher, Captain Bolton, Messrs. A. A. Krauss, J. Hart, W. C. Ward, W. Pugh, W. H. Dalgleish, E. H. Lavers, and F. H. Bell.
The Caamatan explained that the meeting had been called in the usual way by notification in the newspapers, and the business to be transacted was to consider the Report of the Trustees, which had been printed, to pass the accounts, and to elect officers for the ensuing year.
The Report and Accounts, which were taken as read, were as follow:
The year commenced with a balance against the Trustees of Tle. 2,403.78; this now stands at Te, 2,059.95, of which is, 1,715.15 are due to the Subscribers of the Parsonage Loan, and Tls. 344.80 to the Treasurer.
The receipts of the year been augmented by special subscriptions in Church on the 3rd November and Christraas Day. The total sums received are Tle, 5,445.48, and the expenditure Tis, 5,101.6 Tower and Spire Fund, 1876-7.—No now donations have been received, ove yea terest has been added, leaving at credit Tis, 1,263.25, Fund, 1877-8.—The Tru cere thanks to the ladies 10 collected a sum of Tis, 1,469.61, which is now in a special account at the Agra Bunk, Mr. Robert Danman has kindly promised to obtain, from the best makers in England, specifications of cost and expense of bringing to Shanghai a larger and more complete instrument.
Assistant Chaplain, ~Tho Trustees are now enabled to report the arrival of the Rov, Horace U. Deane, B, A., of St. John's College, Oxford, who has undertaken the duties of Assistant Clergyman in the Cathedral, and those of Seamen's Chaplain, At the request of some influential members of the community it was arranged that he should undertake the tuition of those children who might offer, and this he hae begun todo. The thanks of the Subserilvers are due to Sir Walter Medhuri W. 0. Bitzgerald, Esq., W. A, Turnbull, Esq., and F. H. Bell, Bsq., who formed the London Committee, The Services throughout the been well maintained, and it is satisfactory ico that the attendance er than both at the Cathedral and at the Church, Pootung.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.