The residents of Huchou have had an exceptionally good year. Within a year an Imperial Post Office has been opened and two new families, with two single ladies, have been added to the foreign community. Our Methodist friends, who have just come, are acquiring a beautiful piece of property in one of the most desirable portions of the city on which a number of residences, two buildings for school pt and several others for hospital, chapel, and other pur-will soon be builded. Including children there are twenty foreigners in Auchou now. Country mission work has been especially prosperous during the last year. Some new Sis have been opened and quite a number of converts have been received.
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