Finally, Mary Parnham deserves full credit for that, whilst other schools are experiencing decreases in their enrollment, or have been foreed to cease operations in consequence of political disturbances, this worthy institution of Tearning going forward steadily. Besides, the recent exhibitions of the Mary Farnham girls in the way of dramatic, musical and poetical arts, in connection with the entertainments given for the heft of the feymnasium fund, have shown more than a thousand spectators the marvellous progress of the students in their mastery of the English and Chinese languages, coupled with their keen appreciation of classical music and literature.
Ero the writer, therefore, rests his pen, let him wish Mary Farnham and her beloved young daughters continued success and prosperity.
'Two field guns, several thousand rifles and about' 1,000 chests of ammunition were despatched to Amoy by the China Merchants str. Kwanglee on December 2 for Gen. Chang Ching, commander of the 4th independent division, who is engaged in bandit suppress southern Fukien,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.