The Methodist Institution styled the Peking University held its annual commencement last evening and graduated some young men in the classical and medical departments. Sir Robert. Hart kindly lent his band and the affair passed off very pleasantly.
AT LAST IT 13 RAINING, and a very pleasant sound it must make to the poor farmers hereabouts who have seen bright skies for months. Sunlight is a good thing, but months of dry weather make an obscured sky and down-falling rain most delightful, At last for the first time in history strawberries have appeared in the market here. In very limited quantity, tis true, but. delicious quality. They come from the A.B. at Tungehou. Surely these geod missionaries are doing a good work if they can get their natives to grow such fine berries to help out the very poor fruit market of Peking. a 8rd June.
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