A Record in Attendance and Brilliance: Distinguished Guests Amongst a Company of 1,400: Improved Highland Dancing Never was the fiery cross in the hills, or "Swords, burghers!" in the towns, answered with greater promptitude or in Jarger compara. tive numbers than the invitation of this year's committee of the Shanghai St. Andrew's Society to the annual Caledonian Ball at the Town Hall. The old Highland-men mustered for a foray and the thrifty old burghers to repel them, but the Highlanders and the Lowlanders of Shanghai gathered last night in the great cause of charity, ithe promised friendship of—the lion and the lamb being as nothing compared with the accomplished cooperation of wild and haughty Cameron and the gentle Johnstone." In its long and proud career the Society has done much in chavity's name, but never have times been so bad as just now: consequently, never has there been such a call upon the Society's treasurer, and to make a substantial profit from the ball in order to assist distressed Scottish men and women as the main object. he committee did not go to work in any spirit of meanness ang there was everything at the ball that there has been in the reckless year, but the exnditare Was managed judiciously and, as there were over 1,400 tickets sold, which—is easily a record, it is probable that. charity will benefit. appreciably.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.