School at Kachek on December 15 was quite the event of the season for that part of the Island. The two Secondary Schools of Kachek, the Official School of Uibong, and the Belf Governing Society of Uihoog District were the guests for the day.
Promptly at 10 o'clock the visiting schoole arrived and the formal reception was held, alter whic marched to the field, saluted the Chinese flag and opened the programme with a patriotic sony. Military and dombbell drills were followed by various races and jambing contests and the forenoon's exercises closed with a tog of war. After refreshments the sports were resumed and the afternoon's programme closed with " game of backet ball.
Alter each event of the day, the visiting schools were invited to parti-pate, which two of quite ready to do, but schools have no athletic fields as yet and had not trained, no interscholastic contests were attempted this year.
The day proved a perfect one, (the first clear day this month) the was in good condition, the round: gay with flags, banners and pennants, the four schools were in uniform, and good fellowship reigned supreme. An enthusiastic crowd of more than 2,000 people witnessed these sports, the first exhibition of the kind in this part of Hainan, Great credit is due to Mr. Tappan and to Dr. Lasell who trained the A.P.M. boys and who helped to carry out the day's programme success-folly.
WARD TIMES, Oming to poor crops, the price of rice is hig! ty milk tins of white rice cost Mexican dollar, The weather has been unusually damp and chilly for this season of the year, and poor people suffer great discomfort, Even the homes of the wealthy are built without fire-places or glass windows, and are but cheerioes shelters during wet wintry days.
KUEIYANG, From Our Own Correspondent, Dec, 14.
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