School for Health. Instruction for Country Church Members is being held" for ten days at the institutional church, the city. Delegates from" country churches of the Huchow and Nanzing areas meet forenoons and afternoons for lectures on health, discussing Questions" of sanitation, first—ald measures, care in the matter of food and drink and contagion.
suings the city pastors have Bible classes for the delegates... The affable said tobe going on, very, success:
S.'U.' Washing Middle Schoo! is! regretfully saying farewell to. its principal for the past four years, Mr. W. ¥. Sung, who is bringing to an end thirly years of educational work marder to devote his time to-re= Ugious activities in connection with What is sometimes known as the "Little Flock." "Under Mr. Sung's administration the school has made continuous progress. Among the many forward steps has been the erection of a fine-three storey build= ug, which with various accessories puts the school plant into a very nearly complete condition.
'As successor to Mr. Sung, Mr. KT. Lok, Dean of the school' for years, has been elected principal, Dr, F. P, Manget, superintendent of the Huchow General Hospital, left Huchow in May for a business trip to the U.S, the special object of which is to raise money for the main~ tenance and increase in efficiency of the three hospitals of the Methodist Church, South, in China, one at Huchow, one at Soochow' and. the other at Changchow. Dr. Manget ex-Peets to return in the autumn, The Huchow-Kashing motor road, opened for bus service on June 1, was rendered impassable within few days because of the road sinking in various places. Workmen were immediately put fo work on it, and the announcement is now made that buses will again be running murdering they were acting patriotically.
Work has just been commenced on a tunnel under the railway lines of Harbin station, a very much wanted reform, as at present the passengers Thave to eross the line from platform {to platform, sometimes having to pass} behind standing trains and sometimes front of them, never knowing what may be coming along. About Y.50,- '000 will be spent on the construction fof the new tunnel.
Now that the rush of foreigners going home for the holidays has been completed, there are fewer passengers travelling' through Harbin by the Siberian Express, but the fact that there Is now an' excellent passenger service from Shanghai to Viadi vostock, is also causing an increase passengers by the Harbin route. Furthermore, the trouble given passengers travelling through Siberia at the. passport otices in Dairen and Harbin, ig causing passengers tight shy of this route,
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