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170 CHINA MISSION VICARChurchMissionary Society.Sotttlr Ch ina Mission, Fulikieu Mission, Mid-ChinaMission, Western China Mission,South China Mission. Provinces of Kwangtung,Kwangsi, and Hunan.Archdeacon W. Banister, the secretary of the SouthChina Mission, who sailed for Fuhkien in 1880, andafter labouring there for seventeen years, was transferredto Hongkong, has been appointed bishop of the newmissionary diocese in Hunan.One of the girls at St. Stephen s Girls College andPreparatory School at Hongkong passed the OxfordJunior Local Examination the first Chinese girl to do so.Two new out-stations were opened in the district ofPakhoi, while at Sheungling, a village ten miles fromTsaiififshing, in the Canton district, all the inhabitants130 in number asked to be taught about Christianity.They cast away their idols and charms and removedtheir ancestral tablets, and, though poor people, offereda site for a church and $400 for the building. Thisamount was raised by a subscription of $i a head fromevery man, woman, and child, a sum of $120 which wasformerly devoted to heathen worship, and $150 obtainedby the sale of certain of their fields. In addition theyoung men promised to provide some bricks for thebuilding and to cut down trees for beams. There wereabout 100 inquirers in another village in the Cantondistrict, and they too showed their earnestness by givinga house to serve as a chapel and undertaking to provide$100 towards the expenses of fitting it up.Fuhkien Mission. The staff of the Fuhkien missionlias been thinned by the appointment of the Rev. W. C.White to the episcopal oversight of the new missionarydiocese of Honan. Mr. White went to Fuhkien underthe Canadian C. M. S. in 1897. He is the first Canadian