It was decidedly very sporting on the part of a comparatively small body like the Shanghai Light Horse to give a dance at the Country Clube to total of some three hundred hosts and guests, and they did it admirably and may fairly congratulate themselves on having given on Wednesday last one of the most charming 1éuxious of season, The Club's pretty theatre, of the many last idence in Shang" hai of the taste and skill of the late Mr. Cory, was decorated for the occasion, under the artistic eye of Captain Liddell of S.L.H., with flags, shields with the fur ture and arms of the cavalry and their motiogram, crossed awards, polo sicks, and Jances, while the domed ceiling was draped with bands of the company colours, red and dark blue, radiating from the centre, Over the proscenium was a gigantic gold anid silver copy of the Light Horse badge with ite motto Pro Aris et Focis, the stage being arranged as a drawing-room, with conservatory at the back. All the arrangements were as perfect as they could be made, avd spoke volumes for the taste and energy of the Dance Committee, Crptain Liddell, Lieute, Souter, and Wedemeyer (who undertook the supervision of the hwusic and programme), Sergeant-Major Dyer, S-rgeants Heffer, and Anton, Corporals Murray, Crane, Craddock, and Baxter, and Troopers A. W. Burkill (No whom was confided the charge of the refreshments and and Ellis, the the general arrangement of the ru
cing began soon after nine, the music being performed by Comme. Vela at. the piano, with a detachment from the Town Bund, the following being the programme of the Venetian Song.
—Waltz Dancing in the Bare.—Waltz Ange d'Amour, Toreador.
Shadowland, Corinne.
Arr. by M. Vela, In the Moonlight. Joie Envolée, The large number of uniforms in the room showed that it was a military bail, and they contrasted most pleasantly with the bright frocks of the ladies, who mustered in great force. There was no xed supper, but refreshments of the most varied were discussed throughout the evening at the buffet, which was further decorated with " host of silver cups won by the Light Horsemen in competitions of all kinds. The dence could not be called small, bu was early, most of the Indies leaving, with a feeling that they had thoroughly enjoyed themselves, before one, the gentlemen soon following them,
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