AFRICA.
—There is thought of founding at Natal an industrial and agricultural school for the natives.
—Efforts are being made for the erection of a machine for the manufacture of fire-water at Bailunda, West Central Africa. Christians! which shall the poor negro have first, strong drink or the gospel?
—The missionaries of the Livingstone Inland Mission have multiplied their stations along the lower Congo. Invited by several chiefs along the left bank of the river, they have founded one at Kimorie, another upon the same river and on the other side of the Loukoungou.
—Mr. C. Gregory has started to explore the regions east of Abyssinia. From Khartoum he went up upon the Abyssinian plateau, from whence he descended toward the territory inhabited by the Afars and traversed by the Gualima and the Melli rivers, flowing from the Haowasch.
—A society has been established at London under the title of the Congo and Central African Company, with a capital of 250,000 livres sterling, to traffic along the western side of Africa, especially upon the Congo, using the road constructed by Stanley.
—A letter from Cairo announces that Mr. Wissmann had arrived in that city the first of January. Between the lake Moucambe and Nyangoué, he passed through the territory of a tribe of dwarf negroes. From lake Tanganyika to Zanzibar, his journey was made without great difficulty, owing to the aid given by Mirambo.
THE CHINESE.
—The Methodist Episcopal Church has founded a university at Japan, through the liberality of Rev. Mr. Goucher, of Baltimore. The Theological Seminary has been removed from Yokohama to Tokio, and incorporated with it.