The annual dinner of the I
Club has been revived—should perhaps be said, to a vigorous youth. On Thursday night the Shanghai Gb saw a gathering of " goufers" of all ages, sizes, creeds and degrees, to the number of three-score and fifteen. These, under the chairmanship of our Consul-General, Mr. Pelham L. Warren, C.M. sat down to an excellent dinner. Major General Dorward, C.B., R.E., Captain Casper Baker, RIN., Mr. B. A. Clarke, Mr. H. G. Gardner, Mr. H. J. H. Tripp, and Mr. H. 'T. Butterworth immediately supported him, and in the vice-chairs Mr. R. Sutherland and Mr. C. H. Godfrey (the honorary secretary) beamed genially upon the large company. The room was decorated with flags and golfing pictures, trophies of golf clubs adorned the pillars, the Campbell shield stared brazenly from a coign of vantage, and the chairman's hammer was a driver of peculiar newness. The bill of fare was in keeping with the desperately golfing appearance of the room. We give a part of it:
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