Sub-Lieut, Lanning ie, which has not been shot of.
The Club Concordia Theatre was well filled on Tuesday evening last on the occasion of the last musical and dramatic entertainment that is to be given in the premises now occupied by the members of the Club. The quartet for piano, violin, viola, and violoncello, with which the concert opened went remarkably well, and the ado for soprano, sung by a lady amateur, was enthusiastically received. The operetta was most successfully represented, although no doubt some of the principal actors would have played better, if the Theatre had been warmer. Altogether, our German friends are to be complimented on the success they achieved.
On Saturday evening last the sixth of the fortnightly entertainments given by the Shanghai Temperance Society took place at the Hall of the Society in the Nanking Road. The audience was large consi ing the nature of the attractions offered elsewhere. After the opening chorus by the mesting, the first song was given by a lady friend, whose assistance in the Cathedral Choir is always most valuable, and on this occasion the appreciation of the audience was 8% marked that favoured them with an encore, Dr. Macleod playing the piano accompaniment. Two recitations, two songs and a duet by soa-men from H.M.S. Encounter followed.
One and all of those wore well rendered and heartily applauded. Mr. H. J. Limby created much amusement by a well-selected reading on the subject of early rising. The address of the evening was given by the Rev. Thomas Taylor. He spoke of the extent of the inordinate uso of intoxicants, of the causes which led to it, and of the ways to remedy the evil. Ho referred chiefly to a report lately pre-soured to Parliament on the subject, but concluded his speech with some pointed and apposite remarks intended more especially for residents of Shanghai, The rev. gentleman was listened to with attention throughout, and resumed his seat amid applause. Mr, Manz's flute solo was encored, and a short selection was given in response. A similar compliment was awarded to Mr. G. Butler. Mr. 0. P.
Blethen, who occupied the Ohair, drew attention to the financial condition of the Society, which was now in debt to the extent of something over Tls.3,000, of which sum about Tls. 1,200'were due on account of alterations in the lecture hall. It had been frequently suggested by friends of the Society that a fee should be charged for admission to the "fortnightly" meetings. But the Committee had decided that the plan on which they had always been conducted, viz., to provide a free and 1 pleasant entertainment where all were
informed his hearers that boxes had been "cleome, should not be abandoned. He placed at the door to receive contributions, and chit-books were provided for there who did not carry money about with them. The usual closing chorus terminated the proceedings, On Tuesday night, the 18th inst., about nine o'clock, a fire broke out in-a Chinese house on the English side of the Yangking-pang Creek, near the Fuhkien Road Bridge. The members of the different fire companies turned out promptly, and wore speedily at the scene of the con-flag ration. The French steam fire engine "Lo Torrent" was placed on the French side of the Fuhkien Road bridge, and the "Deluge" took up a position on the opposite side, There waa, unfortunately, little water in the creek, Two manual engines pumped water from its bank nearer the fire than the steam ouginos just named.
Mr, Chen, the Mixed Court the spot as scion as he indeed his runners and chair are now almost as familiar to regular frequenters of fires as the engines' them-ves. In spite of the strong northwesterly wind that was blowing, the fire was got under about half-past ten. It was estimated that about sixty native houser were destroyed. The fire occurred in a tailor and shoemaker's shop through the carelessness of a boy who accidentally ignited some straw he was going to sleep upon.
About half-past four on Saturday morning a house in Broadway, Hongkew, was found to be on fire. An alarm was given, and the fire companies turned out their usual promptitude, Ton or twelve houses were destroyed. The weather was bitterly cold, much of the water pumped from the river freezing on the road where it fall, necessitating the laying down of sand. There was very little wind, but pieces of light burning wood were carried across the thick wall, which confined the fire on one side, to a house separated from it by three others in the Nanzing Road, and in a short time this dwelling was also ablaze. The flames, however, were speedily put out, but the house itself was virtually destroyed, as well as the one adjoining. One circumstance attracted the attention of several spectators; namely, that in several other houses in the street, the stove-pipes came out through the woodwork, the latter being unprotected from the probable consequences of the pipes becoming overheated. The Hongkew engine was absent on accousit of the
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