The National Road Construction Association of China would Ihave been a fine institution over in London in the days of those mysterious people, the practically de-funer penny-a-liners, for the latter would have received twopence straight away for the title and any one of them would have been smart enough to work it into a paragraph at least twice. Those Famous old characters ever wore more keenly alert for something interesting about the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the Queen Alexandra Institute and Or-change, or Sir William Treloar's Homes for Poor Crippled Children, than they were for societies with such diminutive titles as the Burns Club, the Royal Society, or something ike that. But there are fother people who do more than talk about ronds and to them every credit is due. Without any. particular blowing of trumpets, the authorities in the districts round about Qainsan and Taitsang have been dismantling the useless walls of towns and already are well forward with the work of building connecting roads in that part of the country, using the old bricks as foundation material. These ronds will tink up with Shanghai by the road to the rear of Chapel and it is said there is every possibility of the work being: completed next your. Those who delight in the rural quiet of Henli in the summer time may feel somewhat annoyed when the motor-ears invade their retreat, but, will be a great, delight. to the majority to have the opportunity of 0 long a wun out into the country. If the Henli people think they sare going to be crowded out, it might be worth their while to consider an carly removal to some other spot where they will have more room and to complete thelt plans while there is plenty of time,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.