The young men send back the news that they have been most courteously received by the city and officials, their home for the first few days being almost constantly crowded with visitors. The usual enquiries concerning Western learning have been very numerous. The city is a very busy trade centre, lying upon the north bank of the Hwui River.
Other Visitors. ity, Kansas, USA, has also, favoured.
Mr. H. C. Shipley, a Minister from Jewell
witha visit. He is independently travelling around the world studying foreign missions, especially those of the Christian Church located in Japan, China, and India. He will be over a year on this journey J. Arnold, of the Nanking Mi sion, accompanied' Mr. Shipley to this He is building inspector for the Central China Christian Mission, and has come for the purpose of examining the buildings of that mission here.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.