About 7 a.m, an the 16th instant, the chartered troopship Cephalonia steamed into the harbour with the 1st battalion West Yorkshire Regiment on board. This regiment, which (as I have before mentioned) comes to relieve the Rifle Brigade, is called the Prince of Wales's Own, and was formerly known as the 14th Foot. It has seen a good deal of service. Besides the officers and their wives (and there are many married officers), the regiment mustered 1,000 rank and file, the women and 34 children. The uniform is scarlet with white facings, a -striking contrast to the sombre get-up of the Rifle Brigade. Daring the day the men were landed in detachments, and were busily occupied till night with of coolies in transporting the baggage to the ks. Te is stated that they will remain here only one year, when they will again relieve the Rifle Brigade at Siazapore, and be replaced at Honzkons by one of the regiments now stationed at Malta.
NAVAL NEWS, The Russian ironclad Imperator Nicolai I left here on the 15th inst. for the North. The French flagship Bayard arrived here from Nagasaki ea the 17th inst,, and whea entering port managed to touch on the Dunmail Rock, twisting her main shaft and losing ore of her propellers. The British cruiser Navcissus went over to the Kowloon Docks on the 18th inst. The Austrian cruiser Swida arrived here from Shanghai in the evening of the 19th inst., and the German cruiser Arcana arrived here yesterday morning from Foochow. The British Aagship Cen/urion is to leave here on the 26th inst. for Singapore, and will return here in time to spend Christmas in the colony. The officers will thus just miss St..ndrew's Ball, a fact the middies are all lamenting, The German flagship Kaiser is expected to arrive on the Ist proximo and will be docked here,
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