The Shanghai Women's Club has held its annual meeting and elected its new officers for the current year jas follows:
Mrs. T. T. Wong, President, Mrs. T. B, Chang, First Vice President, Mrs. H. G, Mei, Second Vice Preident, Miss Shouping Kwei, English Sec, Miss Tan, Chinese Sec.
These ladies constitute the club's Jexeeutive officers and have planned tea dansant for the benefit of the number of free schools which. the Club has been supporting for_poor [children for a number of years past.
Ir is reported, from information received at the." Bureau of Foreign Affairs, that foreign auditors. are not recognized in the interior or in Foot the Stnisay' of "Agree the treaty ports, by: a-special order
Jand Commerce, in accordance with Chinese law. It is also understood that steps are being taken to enforce this rule. the C.M.S, who has recently arrived in Shanghai from Hangchow.
"It was on February 12, 1870 that Laurence, then 'a young girl of 26, first' arrived in Shanghai on the advice of the widow vf John Hobson who lies buried behind the Deanery in Hankow Road, and it was the last of the Holt steamers to round the Cape the journey to the Far East that} brought her to Cama, For, shortly after the ship had sailed, the Suez canal was opened and the old tedious route discarded.
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