Wo heartily welcome to our community Mr, and Mrs. Maslin, of the American Episcopal Mission, They have just returned from their honeymoon. They were "At Home" to their friends last The Advent Christian Mission is building a new Church on land adjoining feet.
Commissioners' hill. It will be 36 by 50
A good crop of rice is recorded all over the province, and already rice ships are! coming. It will, no doubt, be a good year for the port.
Railways seem to be in the air, nowadays. The natives seem to want to} speak of nothing else, All the leading Shanghai at the beginning of the tenth entry of Anhui province expect to go to
moon to meet Lord Li and others to talk over the various routes, and come to a definite understanding and. agreement. They have appointed Lord Li to be their head and represent them at Peking. No foreigner is to be allowed to supply funds or have anything to say regarding the b proposed plans, "The foreign concession has been signed months ago and one} would think everything was all right to tarn the title-deeds over to the shipping companies, but such is not Chinese, and no-one knows what is the hitch now and when the deeds will be given. However it would seem they cannot hold back} much longer.
The shooting season is now opened and it looks as though there is a fair supply of game.
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