The ceremony of laying the comer stone of a Buys' School building tock place on Thursday of Inst week. A large audience of foreigners and Chinese were present. The Rev. ©. F. Kupfer, who is in charge of that work, delivered an address, in which he stated the object and aims of the school. The Rev. A. Sydeustricker spoke in Chinese to the same effect. The American consul and Commander Barber of the Monocacy with their wives honoured the occasion, This building is " large one situated on the hill, in the Methodist compound, and commands a fine view., Ve wish it every success, these and the Christi come to China to teach her people true civilisation and everything calculated to clavate and ennoble the human race, there is no analogy whatever. There are two sides to the Geary Act.
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