Ningpo, May 18.
The schools in Ningpo seem to have settled down after the late strike, having returned to work on Monday the 10th. This time some of the mission schools did not go out at all. On the 7th and sth Dr. C. T. Wang, who is a native of the place, being the son of a former M.S. pastor, gave addresses in one of the theatres on the present a situation of the country, on the first day to business men, and on the second to students. He exhorted the latter to stick to their work in school, as in that way they could best prepare themselves for service to their country. These meetings were arranged by the—local Y.M.C.A., which has just had its second annual membership cam-vain, securing nearly 600 mem-
Controt or Cutxese Doctors.
The former Taoyin of Ningpo, Mr. Chang, having been promoted to a similar post in Hangchow recently, we have now a Mr. Huang in that position whose last post was at Wenchow. He is said to be very rich and philanthropic, and something of a doctor; and he is reauiring all Chinese physicians the district to pass an examination before they are allowed to continue in practice. This is decidedly a step in the right direction.
Lately an order has come down from Hangchow that a new prison must be built here, and a piece of ground of about 30 mow has been selected by the local officials just, within the North Gate. Unfortunately this happens to be just next the C.M.S. Girls' Boarding School, which will be unfavourably affected by the proximity of such a building, unless the authorities can be induced to build in another, locality.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.