The cup Mr. Hardman then. pfe-Jsented is a truly handsome piece of work, decorated in a novel style that will carry with it lasting memories of Shanghai. On its face, It beats fan embossed silver harp, stound which is engraved:—"Presented to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers by" St Patrick's Society of Shanghai 1038." On the reverse side is engraved that portion of The Bund skyline extending. from the "North-China Dally News" office to The Bund gardens. The design and the workmanship, the latter that of Messrs. Alexander Clark Ca, were greatly admired.
Following the presentation, Col Hammond Smith expressed the battalion's thanks, and the short ofelal proceedings, which had been carried out with a full measure of the sympathetic dignity for which the occasion led, were terminated by an enthusiastic response to Major Cox's call for three cheers for the President Jand members of St, Patrick's Society, That the President and his fellow members (among whom were Capt.
Inch, immediate past president, Major Burke Murphy, and Messrs, Givens. McCarthy, MeMfeekin, Steptoe, and Timmins) did not forthwith return to town is not surprising, for they were royally entertained, some in the Officers Mess at Jessfeld with a selection of tunes on the pipes, and others at the Headquarters Mess, where the regimental. band regaled {them with music arranged by" Mr. W. C, Windram, the Bandmaster.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.