The Chamber of Commerce of hangchow, Shaoshing, and Ningpo are petitioning the Civil Governor to put more Jaunches and tow boats on the free' ferry at Changtow to relieve the ¢ongestion of the traffic across the river which is very great now.
Hsu Chung-chih from' Canton is visiting the Tupan on business of which we know nothing. The Governor must be very tired of having hot air blown into his ear, They are legion who want to interview him.
In. some of the schools the students who are all.more or less born actors are overstepping the limits of propriety in_ their theatrical performances and stens are now being taken to prohibit theatricals in the schools and a very good thing too as privileges in this matter are easily abused.
Quite a number of tradesmen are anxious to go to Japan to help in the rebuilding of the places destroyed by the earthquake and are asking the Civil Governor for passports, Later.
The Kiangsi Tuchun has sent a deputy by the: name Woo to arrange with General Lu a compact of peace and union between the two provinees, Mr. Wu is here but as the Tunan has Jost his wife yesterday an interview has not been possible. The business, however, has been arranged, we are told, through a friendly go-between and is quite satisfac Tue foreign captives, who were: for seven weeks the enforced guests of Sun Mei-yao, bandit. chief in the mountains behind Lincheng. assembled on Sunday at Mr. Carl Grow's residence in Route Ghisi for the purpose of showing their appreciation to Mr. Roy Anderson for his services on that occasion. Mr. J. B. Powell, whom it will be remembered, acted as messenger: on parole and made several trips to the outer world, in a short and graphic speech. made the nresenta~ tion of the silver plaque to Mr. Anderson. In accepting the remembrance, upon which the names of the caritives had been engraved. the recipient declared his willingness to have acted in the past. but did not care to have the same worries again. The ceremony had been. delayed to this time—six months later—because Mr. Anderson.was in the interior. Mr. Crow, for his relief work, and Mr. Wen Shih-tsen, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at "Nanking, also an active negotiator, received similar recognition previously.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.