Ningpo, Sept. 27.
The means of communication Ningpo are steadily improving, The important project of widening the Bund is now very nearly completed, place of the old narrow bund about twenty feet in width, there now runs for about half a mile from the New Bridge of Boats, a broad highroad flanked by pavements and wharfage ways, the whole being at east 50 feet, wide, The extra width has been obtained partly by "bunding out" into the river and portly by the removal of buildings along, the whole frontage. Most of these were formerly two storey structures but have now been rebuilt a little back with an extra storey or two added, The result Is that Ningpo is now provided with a very fine water frontage. The work has been going on for over three years and has been delayed by several subsidences, but is now nearly complel 'A modern steel bridge is now un~ der construction, to take the place of the Old Bridge of Boats. It will be remembered that Ningpo is situ. fated at the junction of two rivers, tone coming from Yuyao and other from Fenhwa. The city itself connected by the New Bridge of Boats which crosses over the Yuyao River tothe settlement on the west, and with the east suburb by the Old Bridge of Boats, which crosses the Fenhwa branch of the river. It Is the "Old Bridge, which is a good deal inferior to the New Bridge, which is now to be replaced. she work. which started. six months ago proceeding well though an unex. pected difficulty has been encountered In the discovery of large rock forma. tions on the bed of the river which Fequired to be pierced before the barricades could be erected, The work is in the ands of a foreign firm and should be completed next autumn.
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