saw quite a number of Peitaiho visitors return for good. The weather and bathing during this month are perfection, the latter being all the better because the Ho is a little colder. The only drawback is that the days are shorter and the nights longer poor roads make social meetings difficult except when the moon is favourable. The hig picnic to the Great Wall was so suecessful that the Railway Company is thinking of offering weekly facilities (a Saturday excursion train) for its repetition. In MR. H, D. MONRO, whose death in London on the Ist inst, was telegraphed Inst week, Tientsin loses a greatly esteemed resident' and the Bank a Toyal and devoted servant. Mr. Monro's health was undermined by pulmonary disease some years ago; he -knew exactly how he stood and bore his many physical trials with ® patience and courage that were all but heroic. No one ever came to this port better endowed to win affection and esteem all round; he had hosts of warmly attached friends to whom his somewhat unexpected death is nothing less than a tragedy. His social qualities, his fine literary tastes, his raully remarkable powers as a raconteur, and especially his affectionate disposition, all tended to " wide personal popularity and enabled him to grapple to himself with hooks of steel, friends of all ages. The Bank loses in Mr. Monro an invaluable man: it would be no exaggeration to say that his strenuous devotion to duty greatly shortened his life.
Mr. Monro left Tieotsin on the 10th of Tune, at the urgent representation of his me-Gical advisers, to try the open-air treatment in some German or British sanatorium. This was practically a forlorn hope. Apparently the fatigue of the voyage or untoward circumstances at home were too much for his mall reserve of strength. His death came as agrext shock, although few of us ever expected to see his genial face again.
Sth September.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.