Hangchow, Nov. 2
At the regular monthly meeting' to-day of the Missionary Association, entertained by Mrs. D. Duncan' Main, Mr. Zun Sin-peh, a leading lawyer and progressive member of the Provincial Assembly, delivered an able and interesting paper on "Progressive Tendencies in Chekiang." The speaker began by a graceful tribute to their host who, he said, had been in China, during the period covered by that of the Association, and, he might add, that of his (Mr. Zun's) own' lifetime—40 years. Many changes had taken place in that time. He would look at his subject from three standpoints: government, social and educational. As the last was the source of the two former he would deal with that first.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.