Cases of typhoid have been somewhat frequent here this autumn among the Chinese, and this has been followed by quite a scourge of cholera, the eastern and western sections of the' city being said to be specially infected. Several cases have been brought to the foreign hospital, some of them so late for cure that they have died on and soon after arrival.
There has been talk among the students of a resuscitation of the Japanese boycott, and the Principal of the Methodist College was asked by a deputation of his boys to allow them to take part. He has refused, however, and if anybody is found participating, he will be sent home to bring his father or guardian to interview the principal and to be told at first hand that it is now against the interests of the schools to take, any part i 2 boycott, as the officials have ut. out requests against it,.and report has it that some students have been helping themselves to boycott goods, and. that there is no certain information as to the disposal of the rest.
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