Miss Verne McNeely, who recently, arrived from Sha to the East to Collingwood, Ontario, was the gueeé here of the executive of the con ference branch of the Women's Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada. It was 16 years ago when Miss McNeely went to Shanghai for the Presbyterian W. M.S. to do literary work, and she now in full charge of a publishing house in Shanghai (the Kuang Hsueh Publishing House of the Christian Literature Society).
'THe domestic happiness of one Wa" Halang, former palace eunuch and "his wife, was rudely upset at Peking the other Ja=y when a soldier appeared with the assertion that he was the wife's former husband. The soldier a tempted to force the woman to come away with him and was only tamed foot when a call was put in for the police, Subsequently the middle man who.intredueed the pair came-with the same story.and explained hat the matter could only be settled: by the payment of " certain som having been proved to boce: fined fie "Misband had the middleman ging. been, a fraud arrested.
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