From Our Own Correspondent, Hangchow, July 31.
The Educational Association has decided that all Middle Schools and higher must have doctors on the staff. This doubtless is one of the results of the arsenic poisoning in the Normal School.
"The People Progress Society' are perturbed a bit about the rumours of northern troops marching into Chekiang, and urge The fire the~ other night is supposed to be due to incendiarise because some of the buildings were heavily insured.
The weather is very hot, 100 daily in the shade and over 90 at night, too hot even for the man n the street to spread a rumour so things are very quiet here, the voices of the people having read shed an undertone. Sickness however abounds and the doctors at the C. M. S. Hospital have mora than they can do well.
Permission has been granted by Gen. Lu Yung-hsiang, Tupan of Chekiang, for the establishment of a wireless service between Shanghai, Hangchow and Ning-
Cup-fashioned native banks to the number of about 200 in Hankow are reported to be arranging to combine in forming a Union Bank whose capital will be $5,000,000. This step is said to be necessitated by the up-to-date methods of new banks seriously injuring the old concerns so that they have either to become modern or go out of business.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.