seems to have taken on. The examination for entry is to be held on the 25th instant at the Naval School in the East Arsenal. The authorities are said to have received nearly five hundred applications, but this is of course no guarantee that so many will appear. Chinese is thesolesubject of the examination, and is indeed the only possible one. It is proposed to start with forty or men and to weed them down to the required thirty. short.
The tennis champion tournament is on, but is exciting less general interest than usual, The ladies last week furnished a handicap singles tournament for a prize Kindly given by Mr. H. B. Bristow. It fell to Mrs.de Linde from scratch, she vanquished her sister Miss McLeish in the last match by 6-1, 7-5. The last tournament of the season wil be a mized doubles handicap for 2 prize genera
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