Several native contractors are busy patting up new tenement houses for botter-class Chinese, There is a good demand for such houses since the railway started. The space in front of a tomplelas been procured and the fonudations of several houses are beingdag.
Daring the first week of the year special meetings in connexion with Evangelical Alliance were held alternately la the three mission churches. The attendances were very good and the meetings much enjoyed.
Mr. Johnston, the new (omminsioner of Customs, with his has arrived and taken over the work
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