Hangchow, March 6.
Raids are being made on the Chekiang and Fukien border where illicit trade in opium is discovered to be actively going on in many districts. Strict surveillance is ordered, and none but those with passports are allowed to travel in some suspected neighbourhoods. Police are authorized to seize all suspicious-looking cargo. Sixty railway police have entered the next School of Instruction just opened for them in the city.
A Red Cross Society, as well as City Fire-Bell are the promised adjunets to the City Fire-Brigade.
The bridges on the causeway, it is said, are to be pulled down in the new road system, and iron to take the place of stone. We trust this is only hearsay.
The cult of Taoist is suffering at the hands of the priest in charge of one of its temples at Songmohdzang. So outrageous are his acts as to cause his suspension from office, and expulsion from the neighbourhood. Police are guarding the temple.
The propagandist street-theatres of the Students' Union. so popular at first, are losing clients at such a rate as to cause the closing down of the system. The students complain of lack of interest, and so, lack of funds.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.