In aid of the Union Church Sunday School and Manse Building Fund a Bazaar was on Tuesday opened in the Astor Hall by Lady Hannen, the proceedings attracting a very large number of interested visitors. The extent to which the tasteful and commercial instincts of the ladies of Shanghai had been called forth by the occasion must have conte somewhat as a revelation to the beholder. As a rule a Bazaar is regarded as an excuse for forcing upon an unsophisticated customer a number of articles which he never will require, at a price which is far beyond their intrinsic value, and which only the enthusiasm of the fair seller, and the cause she represents can excuse. So far as the present Bazaar is.concerned it would not be fair to say that it is entirely different in this respect from all others, but this much can be said, that taking everything into account the customers had every reason to be satisfied with the day's proceedings, the beauty of the articles disposed of and the general arrangement of the sale deserving high ise. The Astor Hall admirably lends itself to such an occasion, and when the visitors gathered for theashort inaugural ceremony it presented the brightest, aspect. The many stalls, vieing with each other in beauty and temptations to customers were all arranged in good time, the respective stall-holders being; Flower stall, Mrs. Seaman and Miss Gaskin Candy, Mrs. Boone; Dolls, Mrs. Poate and Mrs. Buchanan; Art Stall, Mrs. Groundwater; Baby Clothes, Mrs. Mobsby General Articles, Mrs, Trueman, Mis. Whittle and Mrs. Bondfield, Mrs. Nazer and Mrs. Moutrie; Refreshments, Mrs. Buchanan; Bran Pie, Mr. W. Whitfield; Scientific Wonders and Experiments in the Whispering Gallery, Messrs. F. C. Cooper and W. Swan; Art Gallery, Miss Quelch; Shooting Gallery, Mr. 'T. E. Trueman; and the Sybil's Cave, Mrs. Anderson, At half-past two, a brief ceremony attended the opening of the bazaar. The Rev. Dr. John Stevens presided.' After prayer by the Rev. G. H. Bondfield, Mr. W. H. Ponto explained that since the Sunday School was started some twenty years ago it had increased so largely that if was highly inconvenient to hold it in the Chapel. There were 250 scholars, the average attendance being 225, and 25 teachers. A suitable site had been. secured, but Tls. 22,000 were needed to build the school. The Trustees of the Church had obtained permission to raise a loan of Tis, 10,000; the Sunday School had raised Ts. 1,300; and cash in hand and promises amounted to Tis, 4,200. Therefore Ts, 8,000'were wanted before they could begin the work. The Rev. Dr. Stevens then called upon Lady Hannen to declare the Bazaar open, which she did amidst general applause followed by the presentation to her y Miss Gladys Twentyman of a bouquet. A cordial vote of thanks was next accorded to Lady Hannen at the instance of Mr. R. Law, seconded by Mr. J. F. Seaman, and acknowledged on her behalf by Sir Nicholas Hannen, who pointed out the importance of Sunday School work in Shanghai. Durin; the afternoon and evening the Town Ban enlivened the proceedings with a selection of music.
A second visit on Wednesday to the Bazaar at the Astor Hall intensified our miration of the efforts of its promoters and the brilliant success they achieved, Tohave tea on the dais, waited on by houriis in fetching costumes, flitting lightly from one to another of all the cakes that ever were invented, and to watch the ea-et-vient in the Hall below of fascinating sales-women, seductive children, and delighted victims, was a dream. The stalls, each alittle pavilion of grace and beauty, were crammed with the artistic productions of many deft and willing hands, utility vieing with decorativeness to produce results for which even the most churlish, who had any money left, could not refuse to open their purses. In the Art Gallery Miss Quelch invited to a display which it Square; while from he gallery at the south would be hard to match even in Trafalgar
end of the Hall the band of the Cormoran flooded the scone with music. We heartily congratulate all concerned on the results achieved, and only regret. that such spectacles are rare visitants to our mud-flat, Holtoway's Ointment and Pitls,—Diseases of the skin.—No case of disease of the skin, be its nature what it may, has failed to be benefited when these potent remedies have been properly applied. In scrofulous and scorbutic affections they are especially serviceable, Scurvy and eruptions, which bad resisted all other modes of treatment and gradually become worse from year to year, jove been completely cured by Holloway's cooling Ointment and purifying Pills, which root out the disease from the blood itself and leave the constitution free from every morbid taint. In the nursery Holloway's Ointment should be ever at hand; it will give ease in sprains, contusions, burns, scalds, and infan-jo eruptions, and may' always safely be applied by any ordinary attendant,
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