We have had very sitting times in North Honan lately, especially after the arrival of the Shanghai mail. Between whiles, we have been at home and in the country quietly doing our work as missionaries, repairing the breaches and doing a little in the way of further building, but only on the arrival of aforesaid mail did we realise what, was going on about us and in our midst. We had no idea how disturbed the country had become. Reports came to us of trouble in the neighbouring; province of Chibli, and soldiers passe through Changte to the northern boundary of the province to prevent fleeing rebels from entering Honan from the north, but so far Noth Honan was undisturbed: The author of the recent Kaifengfu patches to the ' Herald," wherever his formation came from, has been rather more poetic than accurate. We havea telegraph office in Changte, but the operator could hardly have been guilty of perpetrating such reports. One report speaks of the hills round about Changtefu as being full of rebels. For two reasons this cannot be tru. First, one of our staff lately came from the hills and he had heard nothing of rebels and, second, there are no hills round Changtefu to be filled with rebels or anything else. The aforesaid hills lie a long distance to the north-west of us.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.