Jan. 16.
As the end of the Chinese year draws near merchants and shopkeepers are getting anxious over the scarcity of silver. Although the exorbitant commission on money-changing is reduced the money lenders are chary of lending and so, it is feared, the usual New Year boom in trade will be absent this year.
The students of the Hangchow College have returned to their senses and, for the greater part, to their books. Some 40 have left rather than conform to the rules of the school, or, on breaking them, to apologize to the Principal. The Middle School students announce the completion of their "self-government" programme, and invite the public to hear it to-morrow afternoon. The invitation promises an attractive programme of another sort, consisting of "speeches by eminent men," theatricals, music, ventriloquism, etc. The proceedings are to be continued on Sunday afternoon.
The Primary Schoolmasters have formed themselves into a Union. it to be inaugurated at a meeting
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.