The annual competition among the various Companies forming the Fire Brigade for the possession of the Shield took place on Saturday. Mustering on the French Bund shortly afer 3 p.m. they proceeded to the Rice Course where each Company was tested in its smartness in obtaining a stream of water and relivg Phe victory was with the Deluge, for second time in succession and the third After the competition Mr.
the Chairman of the Fire Jnsurauce Association, addressed the team from the verandah of the Golf Club, saying:
Gentlemen of the Deluge Company, 1 have much please: rotula ing you upon your well-deserved success in winning the Challenge Shield for the third time and the second time in succession. It may be interesting to recall that the Shield, since it_was first presented to the Brigade by the Fire Insurance offices in 1895, been successively wou by the following Companies 1895—Deluge No. 4, 1896—Mih-ho-loong' No. 1.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.