Wo see by your last issue that our official came in for a share of honourable mention by the Throne for the firm way in which he handled the local troubles of last summer. He is a man with very severe methods, but one who coompliahes what he sets out to do. The writer had his first experience with Shensi not long since, A chapel has been opened at Kishuoa for long time, that isin the Kishuoa prefecture, but not in the itself, about mile outside the city. It has long been the desire to get a chapel inside the city, but it has teand opposition by the Shensi who have had always to be reckoned with. Last fall the evangelist to get " jor jing purposes inthe chapel near the city. was authorised ity, tod' thin wes"done, the contract i When the worthy gentlemen found out what bad been done they put out a pro-Glamation and posted it up all over the walls of the city xaying that in future anyone wishing to rent their houses to the fuyintang should consult them,—if they did not they would destroy their. building. Theylalso tore down the sign that hai hech pat up by the evangelist. Of course this Feared the renter, and when the foreigner went to see about it, he found the man very much and wanting to get out of the contract he had made. The affair has not yot been entirely settled, but a proclamation was pat up telling the people thnt anyone desiring to rent their -property to the foyintang need not fear, and so it la hoped that on the retura visit all will be satisfactorily fixed up. The Proxbyterian are opening x small school this month and have already six pupils promised; some of them are children of a us from the Kishuoa and Linwa churches.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.