Prom Our Own Correspondent, Hangchow, Aug. 2.
The weather still continues very hot, but in spite of the heat, the gentry and Champers of Commerce have been getting to-ether and planning a meeting in hanghai with the Kiangsu gentry and Chambers of Commerce just to make sure that peace will be preserved in Chekiang and Kiangsu.
Rumours are abroad that- a Ningpo Company is prepared to establish waterworks in Hangchow and that official sanction to the scheme has been given. As a good water supply in the city is ap urgent necessity, we hope it won't evaporate and end in the clouds doing the work as heretofore.
The Y. M. C. A. has some pig project in view for the opening of 75 schools for the practical teaching of the ordinary boys and girls (Middle class).
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.