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The musical part of the programme, at which the band of St, Cecilia assisted, was arly enjoyed, and Pare Basiuan's compo-ions were much applauded. It would be hard to believe that a play without a single female character in it could be so successful Las was The' Misunthrope and the Honest Man, "and it could not have' been such fa stecess as it was, but for the really admire able acting of J. Moore as Chafinger, and d'Aquino as Tim Maloney. The piece was ry well put on the stage, and capitally dressed, and the whole entertainment showed how heartily and sympathetically it was undertaken by Pere Lounil, s.1.. the Manager of the School, and his enadjutors, We have stot room to give the full list of prize-winna of the most striking things in which is the number of national: ities the school contains, as shown by the mames of the successful!
aad affair occur on boar i HM.'s surveying ship Penguin +n Suv lat about 7.30 o'clock, when Arthur G. Cawston shot himself while in his bunk in his eabi died almost mediately. He had shown syn.ptoms of a disturbed mind for some little time past, but nobody thought He was an excellent and very and a genial companion, and ¢ much {liked on board his ship. {Court of Enguiry which was held the morn ne was that th deceased Mf while ina state of temporsy insanity. He was accorded a funeral with naval i the procession started Road jetty at 6.30 p.m. It included a firing party of 100 meu under the command of f the Caroline, some 30 other seamen and marines, and about 50 officers from the men-of-war of various nations in harbour. Mr. Hodges conduct: ed the service at the cemetery.
On Sunday morning firing was heard on the river near the Police Hulk. An officer of the Customs went in a steam-launch and captured the boat containing the party that fired, but finding that they belonged to the Salt Gabel, he released the men who, it appears, had fired at a boat containing salt. It is time the Consular authorities brought the conduct of the firers to the notice of the Taotai, for some day an accident will happ: n as possibly a foreigner way be shir.
very unusual phenomenon was witnessed from the GarJens on Saturday afternoon, for within an hour no less than six bright sun dogs" were seen.
An ae: of genuine piracy was committed on the river on Tuesday. Mr. Glass has erected a straw hut for his crew on the shore opposite the Clutha's moorings, On coming out of this house from their breakfast on Tuesday morning, they found that their boat had been stolen. They manned the Chitha's dinghy and proceeded in search of the pirates, who seem to have been some of the Sat Gabel men. The lowdah returned soon afterwards, covered with blood, mud, and glory, having after a hard: fight recovered the lost boat and captured in addition a boarding-pike and an old cutlass, An accident happened at the Japanese performance on Monday night when a young acrobat fell from the top of the tent to the hard ground. For some time the child was in great pain, but none of ite bones were broken, The Municipal Council when granting licences for performances in which there is un element of danger should insist that at least ordinary precautions be taken to prevent danger to life or limb. The use of a net, while not detracting from the inteitst of the performance, would prevent any serious consequences resulting through a performer falling while going through his thrilling abt 'On Saturday evening a Chinese girl, 14, fell off the verandah of a house' Hongkew and was killed on the spot.
An enquiry has been held by Mr.
Playfair, H M.'s Vice-Consul in charge of the Shipping Office, into the circumstances attending the drowning of three of the crew of the Forrest Hall while ov a voyage from New York to Shanghai, According to the evidence the men lost their lives on the afternoon of Sra Bebruary, while the. shu was in lat. 38° 38' Nand Jong. 41° 07" during a fresh gale and a heavy sea running. Sail. was being shortened.and four, men, were out. on the. jibboom where they had made fast the inner jib, and were returning inboard, when the ship dipped, and washed off Karl Frank, J. Holinquiest and G. Weger. Directly the alarm was given, the helm was put hard-a-starboard and life buoys were thrown, but the vessel was. by this time some distance from where the men fell. The upper topsails were lowered, the mainsail hauled up and the ship wore on the other tack, while. men were sent aloft to look out for the men in the water, though they could not be seen, '{c is supposed that they s sank goon after they fell into. the water, for. they had their oilskins and seabvots. The Captain did not attempt to lower a boat, ast weather was too rough to allow of this being ne, and besides it was getting on towards dusk, so that if a boat had been sent away, there might have been danger of its het getting back again. The ship, however, was brought back to the spot where the men fell overboard, but nothing could lo seen of them. After sume time, the ship was put on her course again. The decision arrived at as the result of the enquiry was that the drawning of the nen was the result of accident and that the master did all, he Could to yo to therr assistance. but was pre~ vented by the state of the weather and the Sethe Dalziel Agency of the French Foreign Office, states that he Da the officious agency
MI. Ribot, Minister of Foreign Affairs,-has had a list made up of the houses belonging
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