From tHe "NonrH-CuiwA DAILY News." or Ocroser 14, 1869
We hear a report that, after having spent a considerable sum in beginning to decorate the Masonic Hall, the reception committee are hesitating whether the ball had not, after all, better be taken" place in the club. We Sincerely hupa this second thought will not be acted on. In its possession of billiard rooms ihe club "may, as building, posses: superior advantages for the non-dancing portion of the guests; but the-main object of a ball is dancing: and the Masonic Hall is incomparably the best room for this purpose in Shanghai. It is larger, handsomer, and in every respect more suitable"than: any other available room ili the place, and possesses this great advantage over the club, that all the people are together in one room, whereas, in the latter, there are two tooms, and would be two distinct "sets."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.