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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 190, 22 August 1901, Page 4

Ike official returns of raemberahip •f she Weslayan Methodist Church •f Bnglaad, Scotland and Wales, to be prasouted to tke coming conference, were completed in May. The total somber of fall members is 454,982, an increase of 2,481, alter making good the leakage caused in various wave. The actual namber of new membtri received daring the year was 41,540, ■ad there are 37,043 persons on tri&l for membership, with 11,772 junior! ■umbers. { "I sometimes wonder." said an I Buglishman visiting New York to a| potty girl sitting hedde him &t dinner, "what te;oni»s o? all your peaches here in America." "Oh," was the reply, *we eat what we can, and can what we can't." I A learned Chinaman expresses himself thus:—"The coarse manners of ■erne of the foreigners do not incline! ■a to make change? in oar social life. Some of them ft !e*st haw never learned the proprieties, and think themselves honest when they are only rode, end smwing when they are viciously fa- i miliar. Hot many years ago one of oar Chinese Ministers was returning with his retinue from Europe and a merchant's c erk on board chucked the female attendant of His Excellency's j wife under the chin, and called her I 'handsome faoey.' A Chinaman who would dare to offer such an insult to a waiting maid hare would be knifed on she spot. When such things are xum- j eared aboard, we ask: 'Are Wetitera manners like thisf Do not be sarpris- j od that we are jealous and ioacoessiiile." A Chinaman thinks that the Westsern folks are shockingly familiar in their behaviour to women. Jt is forbidden too Chinaman, he says, to touch a woman's hand, a restriction which may be broken, of course, if a wonuin has fallen into a well and needs to lie pulled out.