The police authorities will burn publicly opium and opium pipes on March 13, this interesting event having been postponed several times.
The notes of the Industrial Development Bank of China are not being accepted at any of the banks in the city and the native cash shops are also refusing to receive them.
The Ministry of Communications is said to have notified the railway authorities that the American Ambassador will be paying a visit to Hangchow towards the end of the month.
A lecturer, in the new Y.M.C.A. hall, on the "Monorail," so impressed his audience, that a few of those present formed a committee to make inquiries as to the feasibility of laying a linking up Hangchow with Anhui and Fokien Provinces.
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