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326 of the Kwangtung district. In the early days of his labours there, he and another missionary, dressed in Chinese costume and wearing the queue — the Mandarins preferring to receive them as Chinese — itinerated through the whole district; hut, later, the district was sub-divided into five sections, and, the Mandarins having changed their attitude, the missionaries reverted to the customary garb of their Order. Only once was the reverend father's life in danger, and that was

RIGHT REV. DOMINICO POZZONI, R.C. Bishop of Victoria.

when he received a call to the bedside of a dying convert, who had been removed by his relatives into the Temple of Ancestors in the neighbourhood — to the precincts of which Europeans were denied admission. Obeying the call, he dared the consequences, and but narrowly escaped with his life. Like many others in the mission field, he was often called upon to act as woh-t'au or arbitrator between Chinese disputants — not necessarily converts — the missionaries being greatly respected for the equity of their judgments, which were given dispassionately and without regard to monetary considerations. He was elected Bishop of Tavia and Vicar Apostolic of Victoria in 1905, in succession to the late Mgr. Piazzoli, and was consecrated on the ist of October of that year. The episcopal residence is in Caine Road, adjoining the cathedral.

TUNG-KA-DOO CATHEDRAL.

The Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier at Tung-Ka-Doo is a building in the style of the Roman basilica, without transepts. The Catholics obtained the site from the Taoutai in satisfaction of their claim that they owned a place of worship in the native city before they were expelled from China. The cathedral was built by Bishop de Besco. and was opened for worship in 1853, four years after the foundation stone was laid. The interior is of white, adorned with numerous copies of paintings by old masters, among thein being a painting of the patron saint of the cathedral.

ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH.

In the Rue Montauban, Shanghai, a little way back from the street, stands the Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph, used for both foreign and Chinese services. It is a Gothic modification of the French Renaissance style of architecture, and was opened in 1862 on the Feast of the Assumption. Numbers of pictures adorn the walls, one being a large oil painting of St. Joseph and the Holy Child. Many of these paintings are the work of students at the Roman Catliolic School at Siccawei. The chapel by the south door contains a carved scene of the Crucifixion, representing Mary with the body of Jesus. ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH, SHANGHAI.

 Hongkong.

The object of this article is to describe briefly the history, activities, and organisation of the Anglican Communion in China. England and America have contributed, each their share, to the corporate activities of the Church, on behalf of the peoples of the Far East. Efforts are now being made to combine in one corporate body the different congtegations of the Anglican Church in China, whether owing their origin to the work of the American or English branch of the Anglican Communion. There are in China and Hongkong eight different dioceses, and it will be convenient to deal with each in order, beginning from the south.

Before days of treaties, the Church, both in America and England, turned its eyes to the many millions of the Far East. The first step taken by the English Church was the formation of a special fund, by the Church Missionary Society, in 1807, to print a version of the Chinese New Testament, which had been found in the British Museum by the Rev. W. Mosely, a nonconformist