Chefoo, June 4.
Nearly the whole of the British community assembled at H. M. Consulate yesterday to drink the health of the King. Beyond this reception, however, there were no festivities of a public character mark the King's Birthday.
The need for a large recreation field suitable for football, cricket and baseball was never amore apparent. Last month H.M.S. Ambrose with a flotilla of submarines visited Chefoo, and there was really nowhere for the sailors to go ile ashore. If Chefoo possessed a suitable playing field, football matches in the evening could have been arranged and with the erect tion of a marquee where refreshments could have been obtained by the men ashore, a better impression of Chefoo would have been carried away by the sailors who defended our Empire its hour of need. Just at present there isa flotilla of Anierican torpedo boats anchored just outside the unfinished breakwater. Baseball matches are difficult to fix up owing to the lack of a good sized ground.
Miss MacMuttay's Weppise-
Juno Weddings are not such frequent happenings amongst the foreign residents of Chefoo as to become everyday occurrences, and thus the wedding of Miss Gladys MacMullan, daughter of the late Mr. James MacMullan, who founded the large silk and lace firm which bears his name, aroused unusual excitement lads Saturday afternoon, more especially owing to two religious services being held. The first of these, which was conducted in Chinese by the Rev. Paul Abbott, was in the MacMullan Memorial Church. while the English service took place in the Union Church, the Rev. J. J. Coulthard officiate ing.
The bridegrooui, who is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Murray, formerly of Aberdeen, was attended by Mr, T. W. McCarthy as best man. Miss MacMullan, who was given away by her brother, Mr. D.
R. MacMullan, looked charming in her exquisitely pretty gown of white satin charmeuse georgette and shadow lace. She wore an embroidered veil and had a wreath of orange blossom and_ heather sent by friends from Scotland. Her bouquet was of white lilies and carnations, and round her neck hung the bridegroom's present, a handsome aniethyst and! pearl pendant. Carrying her train were two little girls, Miss Connie Lea and Miss Mary Taylor, while two others, Miss Mary Malcolm and Miss Irene Rouse, scattered flowers in her path. All four were dressed in frocks of white silk with blue sashes, while on their heads were dainty Dutch bonnets. The two principal bridesmaids were Miss
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