Mr. J. C. Hudson.
Song...... The Wearing o' the Green, Mr. Geo. P. Lammert.
God save the King.
Just before the interval Mr. H. P. Wilkinson, President of the Society, made a graceful little speech of welcome to the guests, and read out a number of congratulatory telegrams which had been received by the St. Patrick's Society of Shanghai from Sir John Jordan, British Minister at Peking, Sir Robert Hart, Sir Robert Bredon, Mr. J. O. P. Bland and the kindred societies of Hongkong, Japan and the Ontports. Feller the cancer. per was given at the Shanghai Club when numbers of guests assembled. Many toasts were honoured and the jovial proceedings continued till well into the small hours.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.