As showing the interest displayed by officials in good it may here be mentioned that a few friendly officials have among them recoatly subscribed $220 towards the erection of a dispensary which is contemplated in connection with the English Methodist Mission here. Among these officials is our '"'hsien," who, much to our regret, though to his' advantage, is under orders to change to Nankunghsien in the west of the province. He is " most excellent, capable, arid honest young man, for whom we hope many years of useful service in his native rose 2 Building Operations are on hand in the Roman Catholic Mission in the city, where Bishop Geurts is erecting a large and commodious dwelling-place in native fashion, We are sorry to have to report, however, that the good Bishop has recently suffered somewhat heavy losses through the failure of two business houses in the city where he had deposited money, a few hundred taels having been irretrievably lost.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.