At the Meeting of the Council held in the Board Room No. 23, Kiangse Road, Shanghai, on Monday, the 11th December, 1382, at 4 clock p.m.
Present:—Messrs. W. C. Ward (Eh man), W. H, Dalgliesh, R, A. Gabi Holliday, R. Mackenzie, A. Myburgh, Roustan, and the Secretary.
The Minutes of last meeting are read confirmed, signed by the Chairman, and passed for pub lication.
Cash Statement, for week ended 9th inst., aubmitte, "ahd cheques for sundry Electric Lighti ng.—The following letter is ordered to be published ighai, 2nd December, 1882. 16th Novemt you that the Consular Body "ao!
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have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, Focxe, His German Majesty's Consul-General and Senior Consut, ort from submitted, brin Council the ing for a new Pol nin Hongkew, and recommending a point at the corner of the Broadway and Dent road as most suitable, He adds that the station should be larger than the one in Foochow road, as it would be necessary to have accommodation for a marcied Tuspector and four foreign constables, besides which it will probably considered necessary in afew years to ha one or two mounted men to patrol to the Point, when stables would be required.
Letter from Messrs, Iveson & Ca., agents for Thos. Hanbury, Esq., submitted, offering to sell to the Council such portion of Lot 1058 as they may require for the proposed new station, is pointed out that the present Council are not in a position to purchase the land wu less it is offered to them at a very low price, as the Ratepayers have not yet authorized the construction of the new tation, and after some discussion decided to Tveson & Ca, that prot in the Budget for next year for the proposed station, and after the Ratepayers' meeting the Council for 1883 will be able to make thei an effec for such portion of the lot as they may require, should it still be in the macker Local Lotteries.—Report from Superin= tendent of Police submitted, stating with reference to the decision of the Council that. mons should be taken out against a British subject for selling lottery tickets, that the latter had seen H.B.M. Consul on the subject, and had subsequently called at the Central Station, when he informed the Superintendent that he would close his office at the end of the month he wished, however, to keep it open till then as he had suld tickets for the end of December and would have to pay those holding winning nambers; but undertook not to sell any more tickets.
Cutting through Drains by Waterworks' Ca.—List of thirteen drains, through which the Waterworks' Ca. have ran their pipes, and regarding which no arrangement has yet made, is submitted, along with a report recommending that no alterations should be required in the case of drains Nos. 1 to 5 inclusive, but with regard to drains 7 to 13 it is recommended that the Waterworks' Ca. should be required to carry thole pipes clear of them; further toat as it will probably be easier for the Waterworks' Ca. to alter drains Nos. 6, 9, 10, 11 and 13 than to relay the pipes thera no objection to this being done, but with the others, aay 7, 8, and 12, the pipes must be carried clear of them.
Decided to write to the in accordance with these recommendation Election of Councillors for 1883—Decided to write to the Senior Consul asking him,
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