Company, received a telegram on Thursday evening, informing him that the Ancona, with the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, could not arrive here before Monday evening he 7th) or "Yuesday morning. From a. telegram received yesterday evening it is learnt that the steamer can remain here until Wednesday morning, so that the only change that need be made in the programme that has been prepared for the entertainment of our royal visitors, is the postponement of the celebration from Monday to Tuesday. Meanwhile we may direct the Reception Committee's attention to the suggestion of "Quidnunc" in another column, that native help should be accepted in the celebration, As long ago as the 11th we suggested in these columns that the Committee should avail themselves of Mr. Bredon's proffer of his services in the way of interesting the Chinese in the celebration, and we pointed out that our native fellow-residents could give the most valuable assistance if the river were utilised in the proposed spectacle, as well as in the illumination, It is not too late yet to make use of this suggestion, and it is very certain that the Chinese portion of any display we can make will have more interest, from its comparative novelty, to our guests than our triumphal arches and Venetian masts, effective as they will be.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.