The Municipal Council sent on Tuesday evening the telegram to the Governor of Hongkong which follows; and received by wire the answer which is also subjoined His Excellency The Goverxor of Hongkong.
The Shanghai Municipality congratulates Hongkong on the celebration of its Jubilee and offers hearty wishes for continued prosperity of the Colony.
Joux Macorzoor, Chairman of Council, Joux Maconzcon, shanghai The Governor on behalf of the whole Colony of Hongkong returns sincere thanks to the Municipality of Shanghai for its congratulatory message and warmly re: ciprocating the kindly feeling which has prompted it expresses the earnest hope that Shanghai with which Hongkong is 80 intimately connected may make even greater progress than heretofore in the path of civilisation and prosperity.
GoveRNon, Reavivos vor THE WEEK.
(Thermometers in the open air in a shaded situation in the English Settlement.)
Rainfall in inches.
0 43%0 aes Sicawei report, Friday, 16th January Yesterday the barometer remained low at Viadivostock and Nagasaki, with strong winds from W. and N.W. At Tokio, where the depression was more accentuated, the wind remained light. At Tientsin and Shanghai the barometer has recovered; in on the south it is equally very high. Cold and dry weather with winds from N. and NAV, may be expected.—17th Jan. Yesterday the barometer rose in Japan and was also very high in the south, whilst at 'Tientsin and Shanghai it began to full. A second centre of low pressure, less exter than the one which has just' passed aw appears to be in existence in the N. Sunday, 18h Jan.. 10 a.m.: Yesterday the barometer continued tw rise slowly in Japan ard at Viadivostock. At Tientsin there was a heavy fall, producing there gale from the W. At Shanghai the baron meter continues to fall slowly. The depression announced yesterday is passing to the N., avd advancing to the B. It will rebably cause here winds from W. and.W. In the south the mercury is falling with the monsoon wind.—20th Jan. Yesterday the barometer was very high at Tientsin, the N.W. wind diminishing in force. At Vladivostock and Japan the barometer was below the normal height at Shanghai and in the south it remained high. A continuation of fine weather is probable.—2ist January: Yesterday and thin morning the barometer continued i vladivostock; while a heavy fall set in the day before Tientsin, and yesterday at Shanghai, A depression coming from the NW. is advancing towards us. The wind will pro bably shift to the W. or N.W. In the south the barometer remained high yesterday during the day: the depression will begin to be felt there to-day,—22nd Jan, The depression observed in the north is tending to the eastward, and will probably cause cold W. and N.W. winds, which were felt yesterday in the south The morning after the recent Assault-at-arms at the Lyceum, one of the Severn's officers estimated the net result at £140. We now learn that the actual sum remitted was only £1 Os. 6d. less than this, the gross receipts having been $1,012.50, and the inevitable expenses $222.39.
We are informed that the recent Bazaar in aid of the Cathedral Tower and Spire Fund has realised in money actually collected $4,835, and money is atill coming in from the sale of articles left over.
We hear from Peking privately that the audience decree was a perfectly spontaneous act on the part of the Throne, and "astonished no one more than the Ministers themselves." This confirms the statement in the Chinese T'imes. Fertile imagina-is," our correspondent goes on to say, will have lots of acope in trying to discover what will happen now the Seventh Prince is Tt may be fraught with most eventful results."
We are glad to learn from the Chinese Times that the Tsungli Yamen and Li Hung-chang have determined that China shall make a large and creditable display at the forthcoming International Exhibition at Chicago.
The Inconstant returned to Shanghai on Friday afternoon last, having on board Admiral Besnard. The gallant Admiral, who is a head taller than most mon, landed at the Rue clu Consular jetty pontoon and was received by Mons. Wagner, French Consul-General and some of the French Consulate officials, a guard of honour con-ea Being drat up on ouch ada of the sisting of twenty French Municipal police-
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