Y.M.C.A. is also here in the interest of the Popular Education Movement inspecting the night schools. 3 A weekly paper using only 1,000 Chinese characters is pub-; lished here for the use of the students. It is surprising to see how much information on a variety of topics can be conveyed within this limit. A Democracy cannot prevail, unless the people are able to read.
One of our neighbours from the Shoashing section was called to his ancestral home on learning that his little son had been carried away by bandits and held for three thousand dollars ransom.
The Diagnostic facilities of the Kashing Hospital are much improved by the enlarged. lehoratory nearing completion.
The railway service is now very convenient, five trains per day each way. Occasionally, parties of Russians come along, Coa sibly tramping from nghai Hongkong. Some peddle cloth, others beg their way. It is disconcerting to say the least; to see white men in such a plight. men's allowances by half. Three other ships owned by the same company are due to arrive here to-day, the stokers of which are expected to follow suit.. Up to the present, the stokers on board three steamers have gone ashore. ~Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.