On Sunday the 17th a chartered launch steamed up the Canal bearing 2 party of 200 Japanese from Nanking and Chinkiang, who came to view the celebrated Little Gold Hill and the Bottle Temple just north of Yangchow. Among the visitors were four Japanese ladies in native dress, a consul, and a number of sailors from a Japanese gunboat. Many of the tourists were so weighted down by the paraphernalia of touring, kodaks, thermos bottles, lunch baskets, bags, ete., that they found locomotion on "shanks mare'? well nigh impossible, and were doubtless thankful that the distance to their waiting picnic boats was short. At the Little Golden Hill restaurant tiffin was ready for the crowd, who, after viewing the landscape and perpetuating the memory of its beauty by many camera films, returned to the launch in time to make the canal trip and catch the afternoon train from Chinkiang to Nanking.
All the local churches and mis-ion schools have sent contributions to the famine sufferers, and a fund is now being raised by the Government Schools. The President of the Merchant's Guild convened a meeting last week to start a subscription list among the merchants to raise $100,000 for the same worthy cause.
Tue Vice or Rousr-Sxative.
The Magistrate has recently for-hidden gambling and roller-skating in the Public Garden, both
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