An extraordinary meeting of Electors on the French Concession was held on the 22nd inst. to discuss the question of wharf erections outside the bund line, Present:—M, Godexux, Consul-Generat of France, in the chair; MIN. Leroy, Aymeri, Mackintosh and Wheelock, Members of the Municipal Council; M.' Sayn, Secretary; Rev. Dr. Yates, Messrs, I. a. Bell, A. 'Voisin, H. Maignan, Millet, Teillot, J. 8. Baron, Clu Jardin,' Kendal, Telge, Butler, Birt, Raymond' Goduert, Watson, Monteiro, Brown, Weill, Boer, Kent, Louvier, Juvet, Henuequin, Rick= ard, Rouhand, &e., &¢., representing 114 votes, Messrs. Voi 1, Weill, Hennequin and Bell were erected'a bureau, and Rou-hand secretary to the meeting.
As all present did not know French, neither did all understand English which is the language most in uso in Shanghai, the Cnarewas asked two persons who understood both languages to undertake to translate speeches that might be made in one, into the other.
'M. Beer accepted the task, The Cxareaan then explained the objects of the meeting as follows:;—Gentlemen: In 1864 a meeting of Land Renters 0 French Concession forbade the ment of covered wharves on the banks of the Hwangpoo. In 1866, a meeting annulled this decision, and adopted another authorizing the erection of such wharves. This second decision, however, had remained thus far a dead letter, go far as regards the principal portion of our quays; but latterly a Steamer Company announced its intention to avail of it, and the construction of the wharf which it had in view was immediately undertaken, The Community was moved at the prospect of transformation which the Bund—which is the sole promenade on the French Concession, and one of the few promenades Shanghai possesses—was about to undergo. People asked, moreover, whether it was net to be feared that constructions on piles
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