A pleasant function took place just beyond the Point on Tuesday, when the Hon. E. W. Stephens, first President of the General Convention of Baptists in North America, laid the corner stone of the new Yates Hall, which is building on the land purchased for the College and Theological Seminary. A large party of missionaries and their guests assembled on board the tug! Vulcan at 1.30 p.m. and a little later the cast off and shaped her course for the lower reaches of the river. Here of sampans, and after a short was effected by means delay, occupied in yulohing between the ender and the shore, the party assembled in the yea of one of the staff. The ground floor was entirely fled with Foreign and Chinese Goddard, of Ningpo, took near him were seated the Hon.
Stephens, the Hon. J. Levering, H.
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