Since the issue of the last report, the Committee have been looking for a site, but up to quite recently they have been unable to procure the offer of a piece of land suitable for that purpose, at a price within their means, Tt having been represented to them that the British Government might grant the use of the vacant piece of land behind th British Post Office as a site for a Church if it were applied for, an application was made to the Board of Works in May last, but no reply has yet been received.
There are two sites now offering. The first is a triangular. piece of land on the Bund north of the British Consulate, known, as lot No. 1199, and measuring, deed, mow 4.0.7. The foreshore Creek, upon which the lower Boathouse now stands. goes with the property... But Municipal Council claim a right to all the foreshore on the south side -of the Soochow Creek, and an action, is now pending in 4.B.M. Supreme Court, which will settle the question. There are now eight houses on the land, five of which might be allowed to remain, and, be rented. The other site is on the reclaimed foreshore of the Soochow Creek, Hongkew, in front of Mr. Grant's house, at the corner of Astor and Whangpoo Roads, subject to the issue of a question as to right of reclamation. As the Committee can get the exact quantity of land necessary for a site, unincumbered by buildings, they have decided, bya majority, to réconimeiid the selection of the Intter to the Congregation, two members g in favour of the former.
tot accounts is annexed. The bilalos in the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank on lst Deceniber, was Tls. 17,048,90, a sim of Tls. 370, has since been collected, and there are subscriptions to the amount of about Tls. 1,000 still to collect.
The Treasurer, Mr. Cameron; resigned on account of his departure for Europe, and Mr, Poate, was elected as his suocessor. There is no other change in the Committee, J. Bucwanax, Shanghai, 14th February, 1884,
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