Tue Austro-Hungarian Consul-General and Mme. Pisko held a-brilliant: reception on'Friday night at the Consulate-General in the Whangpoo Road, in celebration of the birthday of the Emperor Francis-Joseph I. The grounds were illuminated with hundreds of lanterns of.the national colours, and -the reception "rooms were.draped with national -fiags, "/The- Consular -Body, the officers of the men-of-war in port, and a large number of prominent residents, both ladies and gentlemen, of all nationalities, were present, while the Town Band, under the direction of Professor Sternberg, played the following admirably selected ilenberg.
Sternberg. Leoncavallo.
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