The fekleness of the weather com> pelled the Shanghai Paper Hunt to postpone its annual race meeting fixed for last Saturday unfit to-day.
eannot'be said that the portents are propitious but the indomitable spirit of the paper-hunter is resolved Ww carry the engagement to fulfil ment if by any chance Siccawei can control the week-end tearfulness of Lits rain gauge. But. weather or no weather the male members of the Hunt will assemble later in the day to reflect on the achievements of the past season In the setting appro priate to that solemn mediation. Fortunately the Hunt has been able to command the services of him whom it has now hailed as Master for "nine consecutive seasons and, until he signed the fateful notice born of his expert appreciation the state of the crops and thus sounded the "cease fire," "stand fast," "no side" or whatever be the correct term for the order which gives respite to Payer Hunters' gallant mounts, he has presided "over a notable succession of weekly hunts which have well maintained the traditions of one of Shanghai's oldest ard healthiest institutions. No other sport affords such opportunities for Sino-Foreign ce-operation in the promotion of a. common purpose, whether that purpose be to acquire the right to wear a pink coat, emerge from the mud of a much+ frequented creek or to bring the China pony within reasonable cone trol.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.