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134 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.upon the point of episcopal jurisdiction which have beendebated since the episcopate of the first Bishop Boonehad not been happily settled by the concordat signed atLambeth in July, 1908, by the Bishop of Chekiang andthe Bishops of Shanghai and Hankow, and approvedby the Archbishop of Canterbury and the PresidingBishop. This agreement came into effect on January ist,and has worked perfectly.The annual meeting of the Men s Auxiliary is another note of interest. This is an organization whosemembers are pledged to use their best efforts for the extension of the church among their countrymen. The meetingwas attended by 150 laymen. This body is becoming aself-propagating body, for it supports a catechist, and itsgifts for this purpose were $130 larger than ever before.Hankow District. Hankow, Wuchang, Shasi, I-chang, Hanch uan, Kiukiang, Wuhu, Ankiug, andChangsha. (Stations and out-stations.)The chief events in the missionary district ofHankow during the past year are the ordination of sevenChinese deacons ;the licensing of four catechists andfour Bible-women after completing their courses in thetraining-schools the completion of the new All Saints;Catechetical School building at Hankow the; taking overbodily of the work of the American Lutheran Mission inHankow, consisting of Christians, catechumens, schoolfor boys and girls, a church, house for workers, and apreaching-hall the purchase of long desired land and;buildings for the women s hospital at Wuchang the;securing of premises, also much desired, for the schoolfor the wives and daughters of mandarins in Wuchang ;the gift of $10,000 for a boys school building at An-of the Old Woman s Homeking, and the completionand the Girls Industrial School building at St. Saviour s,Wuchang. . . .The evangelistic work in the missionary districtof Hankow includes four provinces Hupeh, Kiangsi,