OF local news there is very little. 'The French Consul has been absent for some time, engaged, according to general belief, in some official investigation into certain missionary proceedings in the. neighbourhood of Newchwang, of which we all hope to hear more speedily,' as probably your readers in Shanghai do also The temporary replacement of our bachelor German Vice-Consul by a married substitute has agreeably enlarged the community, which in winter is so small that the addi tion or substraction of a single member makes sensible change.
The senior partner in the well-known firm of Sietas & Ca. who left heron bachelor has returned a Benedict; and the charming young bride, a welcome acquisition to Chefoo society, adequately explains the rapidity of the conversion. The junior partner has left for the Fatherland, whether with hopes of equal good fortune we do not know.
We are deeply regretting the approaching departure of our Commissioner of Customs, whose equal as sportsman, as a hard-workin, and public spirited member of the General Purposes Committee, of the Chefoo Club Committee, etc., etc., as a friend to most of us, a3 a widely esteemed official, and in short in every public and private relationship, Chefoozis quite certain not to see again.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.