A short time ago one of the missionaries in the city purchased a house near the Governor's yamen which has since been made into chapel. Some of the neighbours went in a deputation to the Chianghsia hsien to ask him to turn the foreigners out. He at first refused to receive them, but when they came a second time-with 'a petition containing the signatures of fifty neighbours he saw them and asked them what their business was. They told him they bad come to ask him to turn the foreigners out and close the chapel but he replied that he was himself the middleman in the purchase and added that if any of them had property which they wished to sell to foreigners he was quite willing to act in a like capacity again. The deputation rati oth May.
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