After the Chinese New Year in 1901 I had to write of a fire caused by the burning of cash-paper that destroyed six houses. On the last Now Year's day a woman was burning incense and firing crackers in her house, when some straw caught alight and before anything could be done the house was in a blaze. Fourteen families were left homeless as the result. Our mission fire-engine was one of the first on the scene, but there was no pond near and the water-coolies would not work on the first day of the year. The whole block had therefore to burn, and all that could be done was to hinder the fire from crossing the street.
Progress in Mission Work, The Wesleyan Society is just completing, a new set of premises at Faye. The old premises will no longer accommodate the congregations. The same Society is just about to enlarge to nearly double its size the chapel at Ch'ichou. The progress seems to be thoroughly genuine. there been tried for offences against the Church, and been mulcted in a good round sum of silver. "Why were you such fools as to pay the money?" Tasked. "We dare not do otherwise, for the Mandarins now will do whatever the missionary requests," trict complained to me bitterly of the state was the reply. The magistrates in this dis-of affairs, but expressed themselves powerless to alter it.
Concerning Converis, Governor Li of Yunnan is trying to regulate theentranceofconvertsintotheUhurches. A long communication has been seat by him to the various missionaries, suggesting that a record of converts be kept in the yamen and that a monthly comparison of this record be made with the Church books. He suggested, also, that no persons having lawsuits be allowed to enter the Church." It is not likely that his wishes will be agreed to either by Romanistor Protestant missionaries.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.