"Atter some time the municipal authorities approached the mission connection "with. the house tax that obtains in the city, and wished tohave the houses. not connected with schools of hospitals taxed like all other houses in Hangchow. This demand seemed to. be one that should. be. complied with, despite everybody's distaste for taxes, but in complain was made that the mayor of Hi chow would use his good offices with {he provinetal authorities to bade up 8 claim made by. the mission for Pent that might be considered due on account -of the occupation by houses that were restored to the
"The mayor promised to do what he could, and for the time as far Jas the mission was concerned the matter ended." However, about two months ago—to. exact, on january 7 the mission' received an oficial notification from the mayor to say that the provincial author ties had agreed to acknowledge the rightness of the mission's claim and pay "rent" for the. houses mention-
"4m due course—delay loceasion being due to the absence of the mission authorities from Hang-Jchow—the nioney was paid, and the mission is now, thanks to the. kind Jofices of the ina} ind to the sense of justice on the art of the Chekiang Provincial jovernment, better off financially to the extent of about two thousand dollars, and greatly heartened by such considerate treatment at the hands of these important authorities. As our misfortunes were largely noised abroad, we are an-}xious now that this kindly treatment [should be equally widely known."
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