In aid of the funds for the sick and wounded soldiers and sailors front the Dardanelles, the final performance of the pantomime "Ah Baba and the Forty Thi was given at the Lyceum Theatre on Thursday evening, before another crowded and very enthusiastic house. The performance went with an excellent swing from start to finish, and there were many encores, the finale to the first Act "Boys and Khaki and Boys in Blue," with the accompanying military and naval quintette of dancers, being exceptionally well received. speak of since November—the water in the river now is very low and the ordinary passenger and cargo boats are unable to reach Lanchi and Chuchow, and traffic is much interfered with, but arrangements are being made for small "foot boats" to carry the mails and passengers.
Kiangdow—the _river-head—the free ferry across the river, on account of the silting of the sand and changing of the river bed, has had to change its landing stage to another place some two mil er up stream. Now is the the S.H.N.R. to push ahead with the extension of its railway and top the traffic all along the river bank, and hurry on with the line to Shaoshing and meantime use a good steam ferry across the Chientang till the bridge is built.
At the fall of the final curtain there were many recalls, and subsequently, behind the scenes, there interesting ceremony at chiefly responsible for the organizing work in the production of the pantomime, including Messrs. W. H. L. Warrener, J. E-Lemiere, G. IR. Wingrove, Armstrong, J. Inokay, C. E. Peacock, Mmes W. R. Parkin and W. Mackintosh, were presented wish framed copies of a memento and programme, with photography, handsomely designed and printed on silk, the work of the B.-A. T. printing department.
It was announced that the proceeds of the six performances amounted to more than $13,000.
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