We very heartily congratulate the Hankow community on the fact that they have succeeded in making arrangements for Mme. Blanche Arral to give a concert there. Mme. inging. will certainly be a revelation: r up-river friends, who can never have heard previously at their port an artist of such consummate talent. We learn tint Mme. Arral will probably leave this for Hankow on Sunday.
A MAFoo was mizht up before the Mixed Court yesterday morning on a charge of cruelly to x pony He was charged with driving a pony which is lame in both hind legs. Mr. Peterson stated, on behalf of the mafoo, that he had hired the pony for the pas' two years, and it bad always been lane when walking, could go as fast as the majority of ponies. A fine of five dollars was imposed, and an order "issued to have the pony taken care of and if possible a cure effected.
Ir is many years since Mr. Robert R. Westall was a resident of Shanghai, but tone the Jess there are some still' here who will feel his departure for home avn personal loss. One of the best" in every sense, Mr. Westall wes a power in Shanghai forty years ago as head of the firm of Smith, Kennedy Ca.. the predecessors of Brand, Monro &Co, and Brand Brothers & Ca., and he as as much liked and respected here as he has sine~ been in Foochow, which he male his home of perience in the tea trae in Mr. Westsll was always onw of the kindest and most genial of men well vs bring an "ble man of business and lo carries home with him the heartiest wishes of all who have ever had the pri lege of knowing him in China. He left Foochow by the P. & 0. S. Shanghai on Monday last. dates from Tokio to the Sth, Kube the 5 We have receive Japan papers with and Nawasaki the Lith inst.—Owing to th crease vf traffic through the narrow Passazes in the Inland Sea, special regulation for i's navigation are about to be rromulgated.—The Russian Volunteer Steamer Yaroslaw, on her ty Port Arthur. stranded off Nagasaki on the 7th, ud a boiler exploded, injuring four sailors. ~The Recorder of London, on the 19th ult., advised the Grand Jury' to find a true bill' against Whitaker Wright.—Capt. ¥erron gave a delightful reception on the M. M.S. Australien at Nagasaki on Monday.—The N. ¥. K. 1g about one million yen from the 's of the Progrees for the loss of the Tokni Maru.—H. M.S Britomart beat the new Nagasaki Football Club in a game on Saturday. last by five goals to one.
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