_A conference of Chinese. scientists is being held at Shanghai under the auspices of the Kiangsu Educational Association and ati its headquarters in the native city (West Gata}, for the purpose of fixing Chinese equivalents for scientific terms. The conference began on July 4, and will continue for some days until the full programme has been completed.
The subjects. occupying the conference are Medicine, Botany, Zoology and Mathematics. Last Year, a draft of proposed named was made and was circulated amongst Chinese scientists and scholars for criticism and suggestions, and the present conference 1s discussing the results of this reference and accepting or rejecting the suggested terms.
A considerable amount of labour unrest is at the present moment prevalent in Shanghai. Various demands have been noted within recent days for substantial - increases of wages on! the. part of the lower paid workers, and only a week or two agd strikes involving 2,000 or 3,000 employees were recorded. There! seems little indication of thd agitation subsiding, for again' to-day another case is reported. This is on, the part of the rice carriers of Nantao who have presented an ultimatum to their' employers for an increase of no less than 30 per cent. in their' wages, failing the payment which they intend to strike. In' addition boatmen engaged in the local lumber trade threaten to cease work as a result of a reduction in their wages from $20 td $18, while 40 lace-makers in! Ferry Road have already coma out.
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