—P. Autunes, Professor at Braga, set out the 15th of October, with two assistants and three workmen, to establish at Hailla, near Humpata, where the Boers are, schools for the children of the colonists, the Boers and natives, under the direction of chosen teachers. He will also establish an industrial and professional school of arts and trades necessary for African life. The Portuguese government has granted lands to him, reserving to itself the approval of the rules which will regulate these different establishments. MR. A. E. JACKSON, of the Mendi Mission, in appealing for supplies, says: “There are persons here who desire to unite in matrimony. They are just emerging from paganism, and any favor shown them by the Mission adds so much to its influence for good. They ought to have plain white dresses, white gloves, shoes or slippers, and a little underwear; and for encouragement, some bedding—sheets, pillow-cases, and such like. We have a young couple with us who were married this year, and Mrs. Jackson is now preparing clothing for another couple who will marry in about two weeks.” * * * * * THE INDIANS. —The American Baptist Home Missionary Society reports 90 churches, with nearly 6,000 church members, among the Indians in the Indian Territory. —Santiago Reino, an Indian from the Taos Pueblo, was recently baptized and received into the church at Cenecero, Colorado. So far as known, he is the first from that Pueblo to receive Christian baptism. —Rev. Mr. Hicks, of McAllister, Indian Territory, has selected a site for a church, and reorganized a Sunday-school with 40 scholars. He hopes soon to reorganize a church with 20 members. Four infants have already received the rite of baptism. —The presence of fifteen civilized Indians at the Presbytery of Idaho—one of them an ordained minister, four ruling elders, two licentiates, three applying for licensure, and all of them church members—speaking and singing the praises of God, was a grand testimony to the power and influence of the Christian religion. * * * * * THE CHINESE. —China proper is said to be entirely open to the missionary and the Bible colporteur with the exception of Hunan. —Miss H. Carter, a teacher among the Chinese in Boston, writes: It is not unusual to find a man who learns the alphabet and a few words in a single lesson. One pupil of more than twenty-five years learned to read so rapidly at his weekly lesson that he could study intelligently the Sunday-school Bible lesson in Isaiah lv. at the end of five months. —A Chinese named Wang, aged sixty-two, applying for baptism said: “I should not like to die without having obeyed the commandment of the Lord Jesus.” When asked what name he intended to choose at his baptism, he said: “Lazarus was a poor man, just as I am a poor man; I should like therefore to be called by his name.” He was accordingly baptized by the name of Lazarus.