Our Royal visitor is still in our midst, and appears to be enjoying himself, The Ball given by the civil community at the City Hall on Tuesday night, the 20th ult, to His Royal Highness was a great success. The decorations and illuminations were very effective and to. great extent novel the supper was excellent, and no expense spared to make the dance a success, The weather was unfortunately rather hot, but it did not damp the ardour of the dancers, and the festivities were kept up until three o'clock the next morning. At supper the Chief Justice proposed the health of Prince Henry in eulogistic terms, and rightly said that HR. had won' the beans of all with whom he has been brought into contact here. "The Prince made a happy reply and thanked the community of Hongkong very gracefully for the "perfectly charming reception " which they had offered tohim that night, He ended 3 proposing the toast of the Colony of Hongkong an requested his fellow officers to join in three hearty cheers for its welfare, These were lustily given, and ELE. the Governor, in replying, laid emphasis on the closeness of the ties which bound the two great Teutonic ations, whose interests should be identical. The Bull proved a most enjoyable one all through. The Prince has since been engaged in tennis, polo, and other amusements, generally entering into the social life of the Colony with a simple heartiness that betrays his genial and unaffected character. The Deudschland has still some little repairs to complete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.