It is asad Christmas for some Chinese nurses of the largest hospital China—that at Hangchow which has been the vielim of a disastrous fire. "As will be seen from the loiter Dublished to-day these nurses had no time o remove their possessions and they have lost everything in the fire which has also done great damage to the work of a most-valuable institution. Generosity is the mark of this day's sentiment; it cannot be better exercised than incoming to the ald of the vielims of unmerited misfortune. Perhaps therefore Dr. Maxwell, Dr. Gordon Th a Mr. R. Calder-Marshall have rightly sensed the fitness of the appeal which they make for donations to the Hospital's relict fund, as indicated their loiter. Seldom'is the trite tag: his dat quo cite dat so apt in its application to this appeal. Quick Fesponse may enable the hospital authorities doubly to relieve their Jown anxieties and to reassure devoted Burses thus exposed to serious per~ sonal los.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.