The City Wall rom Our Owa Correspondent, Canton, Jan. 10. it is interesting to read in_ the last number of the "North China Herald" of the cold snap that you have been having in Shanghai. 10 Canton this week the thermometer has registered as low as 35 degrees, which for a place just in the tropics is somewhat chilly. Fortunately all the time we have had bright sunshine and all who are young and vigorous have been rejoicing in the bracing weather.
To-day I have attended une of the largest and most interesting mectings I have ever been to in Canton. It was the inauguration of the Christian Anti-Gambling Society. Since, under the plea of military necessity, the government reopened the fan-tan shops, which had been closed iti the last days of the Manchu réyime, these places have made a running sore in the public life of the city and province and the evil grows worse. The Christians of the city have now formed this Society and intend to try and fight this evil in every way possible. If the numbers and enthusiasm of to-day's meeting are a sign of what they feel on the point, then they mean business and it will be for the lasting good of the Church that it comes out into the open and challenges one of the great social evils of the day.
Scholastic life im the city, so far as the Government schovis are concerned, 38 still stony. The Law (1) School is in a ferment again, {n the summer they sueceeded in getting one principal to yesign and then they boycotted his successor. the Civil Governor appointed w new head to the school and when last week he went to take up office the students attacked him in a body and stoned him out of the place. I hear that ten students have been dismissed over it, but the rest have sworn a solemn oath never to recognize this man as principal. They claim that he has never studied law and that the Governor had promised that the new head of the school should be appointed from the staff and not from outside: This may be so, but this school badly needs a lesson in law, the first Law of all students' life, obedience and respect for those in authority.
Through all the student troubles of the last few months this school has been the centre for the more violent party.
The Women's Normal school also out on strike, and here it is because a new principal has been appointed who is not _a persona grata to the students. In this case, if the papers are to be relied on. they have some reasonable ground for protesting. It is distinctly
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