The Library Committee at a recent meeting recommended the Council to approve a submitted list of Chinese books for inclusion in the Public Library this year.
The Library Committee in March last decided to allocate a sum of $225, for the purchase of modern Chinese books during 1988, and the list presented to the Committee was prepared by the Chinese Assistant Secretary in conjunction with Dr. ¥. H. On, a member of the Education Board, Mr. Y. W. Wong, of the Commerciat Press and @ former member of the Library Committee, the Chinese Education Officer, and Dr. H. Chatley.
list of Chinese magazines and newspapers had also been prepared and it was recommended that the Council approve purchase of thes "The Council adopted both ecommendations.
'The Council has received a gift from the Lih Hsing Auditors' OMice of fourteen books on accountancy and eight Issues of a Chinese quar terly magazine for the Chinese section of the Public Library. These publics tions have been sent to the Library and the Council has written a letter of thanks to the donor Pewiwe, the ancient eapitat of JChina where there still can be seen yueh primitive methods of transport 8 by camels, donkeys and carts, will sometime this summer have a bus service. It will be modern and fast, according to news from the North. The workshops have beet Jcompleted and the engines for the buses will arrive this month and the work of mounting them in the bod-{es will be completed by mid-Jul [Chauffeurs and conductors have al ready been chosen and are being trained, Tue Wurltemberg Coin Collection in Stuttgart has received the itt fof a valuable collection of ancient Celtic, Gallic, German and "Roman coins dating back to the nomadic period of national migrations and the beginning of the Carlovingian dynasty, including some fine spec! mens of gold and silver Gothic coins and rare issues, by the Frankish and Burgundian Kings. These exhibits willie placed on' view as soon the old castle can be reconstructed: and the new collection accommodated.
A pain of stone tions, reputed to be over 460 years old, which guarded the household of Ting Wan Fu in Peiping for many centuries, have now left Peiping for their new home Nanking where they will be placed in front of the new Chungshan Cul fu fat Institute, Ting Wan formerly apart [Catholic University. These ions, standing seven feet high, are said to be the only ones of their ind left in China since the Ming ently fo a French curiodentet for $7000 but owing to public opposition the sale "was cancelled General Sung Cheh.yuan, chairman of "the ICharhar provinelat government, purchased them for the Nanking institute rom fo me and sud Wat all ies were being confected. said iny own "pong eou't You "mage 'a "bold. "Gash "Yor "Stand to. one Handing theres" despatches" "1" an_Tiged" tua Short acker, riding reece and boots, revolver ju. belt and" bineos to doubt Wand' tiderde-canly "tage of fund took! me for One. St Gen
dead) rebels were Tying tonite. date Sha thd some_troubie in geting iter, butt hammered way AT IRE pony' with my" heels, and he "went hheadiong "for" the creek, where a very slender' bamboo bridge. had been put up for the soldiers to. pass ever: a8 tuck ad it, the pony "alan with fancy saddle with one T had Iuelly brought with' me "from "Shang! and tethered the pony''on the. ban and "eventually" brought. "nim Shanghai. 1" Knew many of the officers, who were living a the same hotel, the Astor House, and they 4 good Taugn, as all other pontes hi
fate, and'sold at auction in Shang licen taken by. he guard "at the et, in Shana thought the above might be of interest as coming from an eyewitness of active service against the Taipings. My father added that the British troops engaged had returned after the China War of 1860.61: hence hhis reference to Peking. I remember him saying he had seen the Summer Palace burning in the distance.
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