in Fire From Our Gwn Correspondent, Hangchow, Nov. 17.
As the Assembly is still unable to function it 19 suggested that members who tail to attend have their salaries docked The Chekiang Koad Making Committee has met and discussed the road from Hangchow to Shanghai as the estimated cost is $950,000; it is shelved for the present but the first section from here to Haining is to be built ata cost of $120,000. When?
The National Chamber of Commerce has been requested to send samples of Chekiang products, especially silk, tea, and paper, to Padaviya, possibly with a view to furthering trade.! They should have asked for painted oil paper umbrellas in which there is a roaring trade going on at present.
Judgment in the Normal School arsenic poisoning case has not yet been delivered.
We have had another big fire and some 70 kien burnt down. Over-insurance is given as one cause. A child playing with matches is given as another cause. One child was burnt to death.
Motor-cars are now running from Hangchow to Yuhang, which is known to many in. Shanghai as good shooting ground.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.