(Thermometers in the open air in a shaded situation 'n the English Settlement.) supplom issue we pub-map to illustrate Mr. Archibald description of his recent trip from " Yunnanfu to the Coast," of which another instalment also appears.
Mr. P. F. Lavens, who came down from Weihniwei. M. 8. Leviathan but could not get ashore here owing to the bad weather, made a record ti left the Fairway Buoy on Wednesday, Hongkong and back. The Leviathan
the 30th ult, ing at Hongkong on Friday the 2nd inst., making a run of 48 hours. Mr. Lavers was 20 hours in Hongkong, leaving there in the P. M.S. China on Saturday, the 3rd instant, and arriving at Woosung on Monday evening, the 5th instant, the run being 56 hours, Dorixo the absence of Major Watson on leave, Major Brodie Clarke is in command of the S.
manntace took place at the Cathedral on Saturday between Charles Arthur Howard, youngest son of Mr. W.
Howard, Chief Tidesurveyor, I. M. C., Kiukiang, and Miss Rose Lavinia Alsford-Sanders of Shanghei. The Rev. A. J. Walker officiated. The bridgegroom's sister acted as bridesmaid, Mr. A. J. Parkhill was best man, and the bride was given away by Mr. W. Carter. A reception at Kaleo was afterwards held by Mrs. Clarke, at which a large number of friends attended. The Cathedral was tastefully decorated with flowers and bamboos.
At 11 am. on Sunday the fire brigade was called out to a small fire in an alleyway off Ningpo Road. The police discovered the outbreak and the Mih-ho-loong were the first to reach the scene of the blaze. They and the Victorias ere the only companies to put on freams. The fire was caused by some joss-paper igniting the wall of a small house. This house was practically destroyed and two others wore slightly damaged. None of them were insured Within twenty minutes of the alarm being given the trucks had all left for their respective stations.
Tue bodies of two Chinese boys were recovered from the debris of the Hankow Rond fire last Friday morning. They were not, xs was reported from native sources, attempting to rescue the old man who was burnt, but wore suffocated in No. 141, Hankow Road, where the fire started. appears that the fire was caused by a youth, who was trimming lamp, up-actting it. He called to his companions come downstairs and they did so, but seeing that the house was on fire they ro-turned to their rooms to got their clothes. The fire burnt so rapidly that they were suffocated before they could make rheic escape. The old man succumbed in No.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.