The civil ceremony had previously been performed by Mr, Kéau, Consul-General for France, and afterwards the religious ceremony, followed by a well attended reception, took place at the residence of the bridegroom's parents ''Sarville," 94 Jessfield Road. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked very charming in a beautiful er tion of silver cloth, draped ith white tulle; embroidered with silver and panels of crystal beads and caught up with orange blossoms. The court train, embroidered with silver thread and a lover's knot of silver, lined with frills of pleated tulle, was also caught up with orange blossoms. The bridal veil was of embroidered tulle, and there was a wreath of orange blossoms. The bride carried ¢ shower bouquet of white roses and wore a beautiful pendant of diamond drops, the gift of the bridegroom. The matron of honour was the elder sister of the bride, and she wore a gown of salmon pink taffeta, trimmed with tulle and ernmne, and carried a bouquet of pink roses.
The bridesmaids were the two sisters of the bridegroom; they looked very pretty in pale pink charmeuse with silk net, and wore Dutch caps and carried bouquets of -pale pink carnations and roses. Phere was a little flower girl, a cousin of the bride, who looked charming in a gown of pink taffeta, trimmed with tulle and handmade roses. She also wore a little Dutch cap and carried a. silver basket with petals. The bridegroom's gifts to the bridesmaids were in the form of handsome brooches.
The bride's mother wore a mol coloured charmeuse gown, with pi ture hat to match, while the bridegroom's mother was attired in a mauve charmeuse gown and wore a black picture hat. The bridegroom's eldest brother acted as best man.
The newly married couple, who were the recipients of many beautiful presents, will spend their honeymoon in America. before serving. Complaints on this: score as also on the cutting off the water for some hours daily have been frequent of late. It was also generally felt that li the! Waterworks Ca. would take the public into its confidence rather more, the latter would be quite ready to enter into difficulties from which the Company might be suffering and to await better times calmly. The following explanation has now been given us by the Company.—"The discoloration of the water and shortage during certain hours the last few days is due the abnormal state of the river statistics show that the amount!
of silt in the water in the Huangpu River is higher than ever recorded. This is caused by the!
long spell of dry weather and the! lowness of the Yanged in the "N.-C.
Daily News" recently).
"The effect of this abnormal amount of silt is to render filtration extremely slow, and with the extra demand for water that always occurs just before the Chin ese New Year, it has been found impossible to keep up the usual supply during the day. It is!
hoped that the present rain will!
improve matters to some extent.
The Waterworks Company _informs us that every effort is Leing made to provide an increased supply and to mitigate the inconvenience to consumers at the earliest. date possible."
The reference in the above to an tra demand for water before Chinese New Year is decidedly interesting. These days, it appears, are used by all good Chinese housewives for a general wash up and spring cleaning, and again and again it has been found latterly that pressure has been worked up only to be taken off at once by the abnormal Chinese demand.
As regards the rest of the explanation, the Company tell us that! they have said nothing hitherto, as/ they were hoping every day to be} able to improve matters. It appears that the French Waterworks! Ca. has also been suffering from shortage through the same causes, any, GD. Musso has received a telegram from the Portuguese Legation informing him that he has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Christ in recognition of his services to the Portuguese community in Shanghai.
Tur Chinese Race Club at Hankow has made a gift of $10,000 to the Hupeh Flood Fund,—together with quantity of rice and clothing.
On the 18h instant, the train which strives heve at 9 p.m. from Nanking brought with it a party of 31 German and Austrian subjects, who will await the arrival of the next ship from Japan carrying war prisoners for repatriation. The party has been accommodate in railway carriages: at a siding near the station.
At the Japanese Consular Court on the 18th instant, a Japanese boy, aged 16 was brought up on a charge of having on November 4 of last year unlawfully shot at a Chinese boy with an argun. In the court the father of the Chinese boy agreed to accept $430 as compensation, and the defendant himself was severely cautioned.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.