and accompanying it was the following brief letter: "On the occasion of your marriage we, the members of the clerical staff, most respec Tally beg to ask you to accept the silver basket with evergreens and a scroll, hich, according to Chinese ideas, ignifies a happy union from heaven, as 1 token of the high respect and regard in which we hold you." Appended were the signatures of the seven members of the staff. There was no cere-many in connexion with this gift; altho messenger simply called eft it' at Captain Hilton-Jobnson's residence.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.