The beauty and fashion well represented on board th terday afternoon when she started for the Oriental Dock, the guests being received Mrs. id Little "and Mr not the Yangtse ange party to the Orien the Pinter, the 9 for the Upper Yangtze, was w junche All soon yethered in the yard, stuplarge force of blue-jackets the ESS. Cesti Mrs. Atchibald Little with a few of the spect tors mounted th the vessel's hon there was no time for specehuaking, Mrs. Little pr e the bottle of ehampane on th and the vessel graceful Unfortunately, the tide had stuck on the mud at the water's edze, but she was soon pulled off by the Semen and brought alongside the dock-head. lo the party, with the hered in upper decorates where_ refreshments were liberally pensed. Mr. Consul Bourne in a few well-Chosen words proposed the health of the Pimwer and the well-know pioneer Mr. Archibald Little. Mr. R. W. Little responded for his brother and proposed the health of the Managers of the Yard from which the Pioneer had just been launched, and then the party returned to Shanghai,
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