An interesting addition to the newspapers of China is the Hangchow "Community News," the first number of which was published on the ist instant. It is a modest enterprise, designed for the benefit of a community working in small groups more or less isolated, each absorbed in its own particular work and consequently out of touch one with the other and, one imagines, in even deeper remoteness from the outer world. The establishment of "Community News," should therefore prove an event of no small social importance. The lady editors have not in their first' number essayed to rival the "Daily Mail," or the "New York Times." They have no picture page, and Reuter has not yet perplexed them with the activities of the Wild West. For the time being, their typewritten manuscript will simply record social and personal events and mission station activities, but it is hoped in course of time to extend its scope and make the enterprise permanent. There should be no lack of contributors. The first number contains "all the news." Also a poet has appeared. Haply the editors may fall upon some contributor with the Cranford touch. We wish the experiment that success which will command the tribute of imitation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.