Fhost & Connesronoen Kuling, Aug. 20.
At the annual meeting of the Kuling Church "held last week, an appropriation of $1,000 was approved for ood relief. Yn addition, gifts have been received for flood relief totalling approximately $150 and at the sacred concert for the benefit of flood relict the sum of $546 was received, making 1 total of approximately $1,700. These gifts are to be used for relief in the upper reaches of the Han river, with, Siangyang and. Fancheng as distribute Ing' centres, North Hunan with Changteh asa distributing centre, fand in North Kiangsi with the In the finals of the men's doubles Ju the men's tennis tournament, Mr. James Graham, of Chinkiang, and Addison Leo, of Kaifeng, were the winners; in the final 5 singles played to-day Mr, fand Richard Chan, of the University of Nanking, each won (we sets, The edding set will be played to-morrow.
the women's tournament in the singles, semi-finals, Mrs. G. R. Os borne, of Wuchang, defeated "Miss Moore, of Yangchow: Mrs, Philip Price, of Tsinan, was defeated by Mrs. Ferayon, of Hankow.
The annual appeal for the work of the General Hospital and Tuber-Sanitarium of the Kuling Medical Mission was made on Sund August 1. Dr. H. G. Barrie the address in the morning and Dr. Logan Roots in the afternoon, number of concerts and enter= fainments have been given during the past week for the benefit of the Auditorium fund and the Kuling Library. On August 19, "The Locked Chest," by John Masefietd, was liven lurider the direction of Mrs. G. R. Osborne, On August 17, a concert was given for the benefit. of the Kwang Lu Chinese School, under the patronage of Mrs. Wang Kwong, of Hankow and Kuling. To-night a light opera is to be given, "Ill Flow the Gore," "under the direction of Miss Muriel Ramsay, of Soochow. On 'August 22 the annual Nanking' concert will be given, those who will appear on the programme being residents or former residents of Nanking.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.