This has been the quietest and whitest New Year season many of: us have experienced in China. Although the first and second days of the new year wore fairly pleasant yet the snows and rain of the preceding week had made it rather nasty underfoot. But on the third and fourth days we had the snow of the season, the heaviest snowfall in years, the Chinese say. By actual measurement it twelve inches deep in: the open. For a few days the paying of calls a1 the - usual "street: performances.for.the jactation of the masses were all but dispensed -with. Several foreigners in Educational, The Mission and Government schools" are at present closed, but all bid fair to open in due time with increased at. tendance. The Provincial High School, Kao Teng Hsien Tang, has again undergone a metamorphosis. "At the end of last term the schoo! was put into the hands of Mr. Loh who first opened it in 1897, who immediately announced that there would be a complete change, and that none of the former teachers or pupils would be retained. In the making up of the new faculty two teachers have been called from the Mission College and will receive salaries of $60 and $30
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