Hangchow, Oct. 15.
Miss Laurence's 80th birthday was celebrated to-day with great eclat, There was a praise meeting in the One Faith Church when Bishop Sing, one of her first pupils in Ningpo in the seventies, gave a short account of her work in China and mentioned with joy the name and fame of many of her pupils of whom not a few were in the church to congratulate her and praise God with her. After the service those present, foreign and! Chinese, went to the Y.M.C.A. to be photographed, and then retired to the Dzu Fong-yun Restaurant where a sumptuous feast was provided for the guests.
Some 70 members of the assembly have registered but so far only 30 have turned up and no business can be done. Kiangsi is sending a deputy to Hangchow to talk over the problem of that province joining Chekiang, Kiangsu, and Anhui, inthe keeping of the peace concord.
The Commissioner of Agriculture is sending messengers all over the province where the rice crops, are affected by insects with instructions how to deal with the pest. At a meeting yesterday of, the Salvation: Association suggestions were made to use two old obsolete Ching Dynasty guns to make statues of. the Chekiang disloyal M.P.'s.
Mr. Handley Derry, the british Consul, arrived in the city to-day.
Three people at Songmokchang had crab for supper last night. They went to bed apparently quite well, but we are informed, were dead in the morning.
Conmentine on the election of Tsao Kun the "Central China Post" makes the following trenchant remarks And why have' the Parliamentarians acted-aa they have done? As the makers of the law they ought to have been the first to observe the law. They were perfectly aware that the sale of votes is prohibited in all civilized countries, and condemned.in the Chinese Code, yet, they have haggle ed, and dickered and dodged in the most open and scandalous way, like a huckster peddling bogus goods, to enhance the price of, their votes, In electing Tsao Kun they may have selected the best. Candidate for the post, even though he was the only one—as the saying has it there Fttle choice amongst rotten apples—but they have made it clear they would have a3 readily - elected White Wolf were he alive, or any other bandit chief as long as the dollars were forth. coming. Their action will convince the world that parliamentary institutions in China are an impossibility.
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