From tur "Mokrh-Chixn Dary News," or January 2, 1878 me were invited, yesterday. to inspect at the Ewo hong what we believe 10 be largest bag o! game ever brought back to Shanghai by one shooting party The bay consists of 1,495 pheasants, £5 deer. "M2 duck ana teal. 1 5 bittern 1 woodcock, 0 hares and 1 atier making a total of 1,11] head, the result of eighteen days" shooting by five guns m the Ni Mowsan and Tanyan Creeks. As this shooting was done during very wet and" unsettled weather which rendered birds unusually wild, it speaks well for the supply of game still to be found in the shooting di tricts within reach of Shanghai sports It may interest our friends in the outports to know that we had a heavier fall of snow yesterday than we remember to have seen in Shanghai for years—sinee traditional fall in the winter when snow lay 33 inches deep on the Bund. The weather seemed inclined to clear on Tuesday morning; but rain, which soon changed to sleet and hail, began to fall again soon after noon, It rained during the night, hailed again heavily yesterday morning; and shortly before noon began a heavy snow storm. which has sine" continued without intermission. Branches of trees have been broken off in many parts of the Settlement by the weight of snow: and some instance the trunks have snapped. The Crportunitv was taken to do some very active snowballing in front on the Club last evening bers both entering and lo for it, through a storm o passorsny' also got N "hot of Counter-Offensive
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