Hangchow, Aug. 4.
The chief of police is active on account of the heat and the great amount of sickness there is all about in these days and has put the fear of death on all those street hawkers who use canal and unboiled water for making seaweed jelly, and sell cut melons, that have been infected by flies Wire gauze covers are now compulsory. he new Civil Governor, Sen Chin-chien, we hear, leaves Peking on the sth, for Hangchow, to take up his duties.
For some time the Girls' Normal School has conducted a_ kindergarten and now the parents have petitioned the school to make a home for their children on the compound, which has now been done with a suitable matron in charge.
The members of the Educational Association are making arrangements with the new and old members of the Association to welcome Mr. Chin Ts-yun, the previous president, who is Shortly returning from Shaohying to Hangchow on a visit.
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