20th April.
has no doubt been noted that the Shanghai Committee of the International Institute propose to hold a public meeting at the Municipal Board Room on the 28th instant, at which Dr. Gilbert Reid will present his report and other speakers will make address Progress with this Institute, whose prospects had been greatly furthered by Dr, Reid's travels in Europe and the United States, was altogether checked by the events of 1900, but the scheme was not killed, It is now proposed to erect the Institute in Shanghai, the great centre of intercourse between foreigners and Chinese, and the remarkable success that has attended Dr. Reid's lectures. in Chinese at the Polytechnic is a proof that the Institute is wanted. Chinese officials of high rank will attend and speak at the forthcoming meeting, and it is confidently expected that Dr. Reid's well-considered design will receive an impulse which will carry it on to a successful realisation,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.