If you haven't visited Chinhai (the Port of Ningpo) do so the next time you are on the trip to Pootoo. Unfortunately there is no hotel at this delightful seaside place, but if you take a lunch with you from the stea er, you can put in the eight hot 4 more comfortably than at Ningpo. Only the China Merchants' steamers stop at Chinhai.
Sunday witnessed Chinhai fete for it was the ceremony arranged by the Chinhai Sea-Wall Association on the completion of the reconstruction of the sea-wall.
The Shanghai Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee was represented by Messrs. W. E. Souter, Wang I-ting, Yuan Li-tung, Chang I-tsing, Chen Liang-yn and Zung Foo-ching, who were the guests of Mr. Fu Siao-en, so well known in Shanghai, but who is better known in his native place of Chinhai, where he is father-bountiful and! foremost in all good words and works.
Two years ago the sea-wall was broken typhoons and the country inundated, laying waste large tracts of fertile land and bringing misery and famine to thousands of homes; indeed, this break in the sea-wall. Mr. Ningpo itself was threatened by Fu has been most active in the Chinhai Sea-Wall Association that has put through the reconstruction of the sea-wall at a cost of about $130,000, of which $86,- 000 was given by the Shanghai Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee from the Customs Surtax funds especially allocated for the province of Chekiang, and the rest of the money was raised by the people.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.