The ammual dinner and smoking concert of the Club took place on Saturday evening. The two roads to the ground and the ground itself were beautifully decorated with Venetian masts, arches, Says, and innumerable lanterns, until the interior of the race course looked like Vauxhall Gardens in their palmiest days. The pavilion itself was hung with numberless swell white globe lanterns which, their attachments being invisible, looked like stars in the firmament. In front of the pavilion a apace on the lawn, some eighty by feet, was covered: with canvas hung with hundreds of Japanese lanterns of all shapes and colours, and underneath it were spread the tables, the members present and their sue ste numbering fully one hundred. Mr.
arthur Anderson, president of the club, was in the chair, with the Rev. H.C: Hudges on his right, and Mr. H. J. Tripp, president of the Shanghai Recreation Club, on his left. An excellent dinner was served at 8.30 p.m, and on its conclusion, the chairman proposed the health of the Fire Brigade, coupled with the name of Mr. Wickham. That gentleman in response Phonograph (10 minutes) Mr. F. Mann, Score standing at 60 for one wicket.
When play was resumed on Monday afternoon, the uncertainty of the game was still Vinay. [further illustrated, "Harris did not com-Lass o! Richmond plete his innings, and Turner was also absent, but substitutes were allowed to go Jin. The score reached 73 before the fall of 3—Vocal Quartet the secund wicket, and was 89 at the fall of Measrs. A. Fleet, {the third; but then came a great collapse, and F. M, G the fourth man being out at 95, the next three all leaving at 99, and the total being jonly 105 with nine wickets down. 'Then heavy storm broke over the ground, leaving' it almost under water. With the conditions all against bowling and fielding, the last pair made a bid for making the {necessary rung; but at 120 Rowland' was bowled, and the match (under the arrange-[ment by which a game played on two afternoons counts as if on one day) ended ina win for the Club by 18 runs. Score soos Wallace, andi analysis Comins. see The festivities were kept up till a late H. Read, b Woodward 30 hour, and the success of the evening must HI Baxter, ¢ Wickham, b Abbott 0020.2... 10 have' been most gratifying to all who contributed to it, among whom there was none deserving of note hearty thanks than the indefatigable and ubiquitous honora secretary of the club, Mr. C. F, Woodward.
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