To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cinxa Dau News."
Sin,—There is, you will know, a proposal before the China Merchants N. Ca, to sell for breaking up purposes the good ship Kiangfoo. You will know that this beam engine vessel is one of the: oldest and. best-known ships out of this port: that there is a large (and not light) sentiment attaching to the vessel, probably one of the three or four remaining ships of this type.
Tt seems unnecessary to urge the kindly, the personal feeling which transients, residents and sailor men, have in seeing this passing of an old servant, in the fate suggested for one of the, as it were, londo marks of the' maritime lite of T have, with your permission, a nobler and more fitting destiny' to suggest.
Prominent amidst the known philanthropic endeavours hero, prominent, promising, and permanent, there rune the (one. thinks, premier) hospital, the Shantung Road Hospital.' 'This hospital. under the London Mission, has for years performed sterling service in this midst, progressing in the busy and silent' altruism of high endea-your to niche in public esteem which will explain my present suggestion.
There ix an urgent need of added accomodation to meet the growing: usefulness of the Shantung Road Hospital—a need not new but the more emphatic day by day.
Know that extension should be in the sabre vi hospital further know that prohibitive—tand prices, ete.
And here I have perhaps as it might' be, am tung Road Hospital possibility forthy perhaps of sideration, OF the accommodation which such hospital would afford, any lo, older type
possibility of anchoring the Kiang-With the foo along the foreshore, conver approachable ornamental, jwomi ently and silently performing added sterling vith the general sentimental appeal to brethren "of my cloth, the town appeal (for would snewest the anchoring of the
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