Hangchow, Jan, 24.
The old Chinese year was washed out by/a gale of sleet and rain and to-day—the New Year—we are being battered by snow and everyone feels the razor edge of the ley winds blow ing from the north. Everything 1s Quiet and dull and very few people venture out of doors, Business people found the and of the year like a mountain pass, dimeult to cross, for there Is diminishing trade and Increasing barriers, Mangehow received the tidings of 1g George's death and it is interesting to hear the remarks of people concerning this high minded British Monarch. The passing of the Kin was marked by flying the national flag at half-mast. as a sign of sympathy. 'A memorial service to His Majesty will no doubt be held by theforelgn community amongst whom there Isa cep sense of sorrow and condolence "Heaven below" attracts visitors from all quarters of the globe, but never has she welcomed a more Interesting guest than Sir Charles /Marston, the eminent British areneologist, Introduced to the foreign com munity by Bishop Curtis, we learned that his visit to these parts was of a few days' duration, During the brief slay he very Kindly' gave an address fon his excavations in Palestine which fare doing so much to explain Bible Aimeulties and illustrating the Word God in a new way.
committee has been appointed by the "Hangchow Churches for the purpose of establishing a rickshaw mission. "With the economic depression. the struggle for existence is becoming increasingly diMeult for those Gistracted with the throes of life, recent days, scores of factories and hundreds of shops have been closed down, causing many men, who have ood trades in their hand, to go on the streets pulling rickshaws, "A'large number are not ft for this exhausting, work and have only strength to do one day In three, There are about, 10,000 rickshaw men in the city and It'ls planned to equip suitable headquarters for them: provide a dally clinic, cheap food, and five them educational and spiritual Benefits, "A widespread append Is being made for help, to enable this eommittee to bring alittle sunshine Into this desperate mass of life symbolized in the mean habitations of the city. their hunger sticks out all over them. Of course this sestian has nothing In common with the North, as there was ho flood here his year, so traly th beggars of Taichow should te congratulated, SUL one can find enough here to suggest a more or es uhequal division of weath in the Orient,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.