vas passed in the most loyal silence; a garish display of bunting gave a fictitious aspect of jollity to the port, but except in the domain of sport we made no attempt whatever to rise to the occasion and even in this domain we were not brilliantly successful. The Linnet challenged Tientsin to a cricket match, but Ichabod! Ichabod! our glory temporarily at least departed. The ship in one innings made 126 (Mr. Garde 57), the shore in tivo innings made 80. There is something to be said in mitigation of judgment; the novelty of a cocoa-nut ma'- ting pitch helped the bowlers and this meant helping the Linnet, and Tientsin had had no practice whatever for nine months. There is, however, nothing to detract from the admirable performance of the ship; in Mr, Garde she possesses a first-rate all round cricketer, a captain of sound judgment as well as a brilliant wicket-keeper, There are eight officers on and of these seven played. Tientsin wants to get the necessary change out of them in tennis, but the sailors have their weather eyes too open. To-day theretuen cricket match was begun, and Tientsin won hands down in the first innings,
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