Hangchow, Mar. 17.
A very sudden and severe gust of wind yesterday on the river upset a boat at Kyangde and eight persons were drowned.
The provincial parliament is still unable to meet, for lack of a quorum.
The motor cars are still rushing on and two days ago a priest was run over at Pehlohchiao and killed. The company settled the claim by paying $50. Intending Easter visitors should see that their insur-auca premiums are paid up.
Hangchow, Mar. 19.
The Chekiang University consultation are going on and the committee are faced with three difficulties: Funds; time—it will take 100 years to perfect; and teachers—there are too few in China, and foreigners are too expensive. Teachers must have three things, they say—an adequate supply of books, maps, and charts, big salaries and guaranteed protection. That means, presumably, that the dog must wag the tail and not the tail the dog, as is so common in Chinese schools of loaming at present.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.