A meeting was held at the Shanghai Club, on Thursday afternoon, of the members of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club, to elect Stewards and pass rules for the coming season, There were about forty gontlemon_present—Mr. E.G. Low, Master of the Hunt, occupying the chair.
The Damon stated the purpose of the meeting and laid before those present a statement of the accounts for the past year. A balance had been brought forward from the preceding year of $20.74, which, with subscriptions from 71 members at $5 each ($355) made up a local of $375.74; out of which there had been expended ton prizes for light weights at $15, (150,) and five for light weights at the same figure $75 or, together, $225 for prizes. The expenses of advertising, &c., hiring ponies for carying the paper, digging ditches and 0 on were together $111.50, so that there was a balance left in hand at the end of the last year of $39.24. The business of the meeting to-day, after duly constituting them-solves into a Paper Hunt Club for the. year and passing the accounts for last year, would be to elect Stewards, which would be done in the usual manner by ballot. It might be borne in mind that the Stewards last year were Messrs. E. 0. Arbuthnot, H.W. Daniel, who acted as Honorary Secretory, W. Howie, A. Ibert, J.J. Keawick, and A. MeLeod and himself, Mr. Daniel and Mr. Keswick were gone now. Mr. Burkill, who had always been one of the Stewards, had returned to Shanghai and would no doubt be willing to act if elected. For his own part, he, the Chairman, thought it would be a very wise thing to allow some of the young men who had just come out and who had "shown themselves very properly qualified to act as Stewards, to enter upon the duties of the position this year, instead of putting all the old names on again yeat after year. There were many amongst the younger men who had proved themselves
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