Cheefoo, Apr. 13, Great preparations of "course are being made for celebrating the Coronation. "A. select committee has been busy drafting a programme, which was submitted to a meeting of British subjects and accepted with a few amendments. Inthe main it will be very similar to the Jubilee but it is hoped that this time a British cruiser will favour the port with a visit to grace the occasion. Meanwhile the various sub-commitices fare hard at work with their respective share of the work to be done in gelting ready for the great day. When ceeasion calls for it, Chefoo generally. shows that its quality is Rot limited by Its small size.
'The winter months are not very eventful in Chefoo, a quiet port, except inthe summer, when' the 'American fleet fills it with crowded life. Still, there are various activities. Riding a favourite pursuit and indoors, at the Club, one has bowling, During' the colder weather there was ice-skating, but this winter has "not severe, so that the skaters did not have such a long continued spell as they did during the last cover the ground substantially and Fecent days of an almost English dampness have also come far short fof the real needs of the farmers.
Gardeners are not so badly off, £or they can draw upon wells, and there will very soon be plenty to show in the flower beds, "The fine weather has been wel comed by the adherents of eld sports, but just now these are_un-Usually few in number in the port. On most Saturdays we held hockey: matches with the school but had almost always to call nyon them to complete a team to play against them. Several of the regulars within the past six.
Inst to go" was the very wzetul alle rounder the Rev. A. F. Lutley, who ig returning to Szechuen after two o three years in Chefoo. A large num= ber of friends assembled to say bye to him and his family when they lett Chefoo a few weeks ago.
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