At the General Meeting of the Council held in the Board Room, No. 23, Kinngae Road, Shanghai, on Friday, the 2ud April, 1886, at 4 o'clock Present:—Mossra, A. G. Wood (Chairman), MI Adler, Th, Bieber, P. Maclean, Malherbe, G. J. Morrison, M.
J. F. Seaman, J. Simpso the Secretar are rend, confirmed, signed by the Chairman, and passed for publication.
Bunding Reserce Garden—Attention in directed to the request made by the Garden Committee to have the remainder of the foreshore of the Reserve Garden filled in and buvdted, avd after some dis-it is decided to agree to the work rcveded with at once, and to leave stew to the cost of thew!
Ts, 600, and that the mew hi be kept well within the old line, Bees on Telephone Poles—Referring to the resolution passed at the Annual Meet. 1 of Ratepayers, empowering the Council, if they consider it advisable, to rei Telephone fees for the curr lat he "There are roads in this Settlement 80 poles in Hongkew, all which, with the except of 8, are mods use of to carry the Counc wires."
Phe Secretary states that in 1884 there sere 150 poles, of which 54 were made use of by the Ci and it was then agreed that they pay to the Telaphi Company for the uso of their poles, an annual rent equal to the fees charged for them, and according to this arrangement, there would now only be the tres on 8 poles to remi The Council are of opinion that under these circumstances, the fees on all the Yelephoue poles for the current year may be remitted, but that befure any additional poles are erected, application must be made 3 usual to the Surveyor for permits, as he must approve of the localities where they are to be placed. ided to write to the De Agent of the Telephone Company effect, and to him at the ink that when ing wit the day time, every care carrying them across the thorougifaces, to avoid accidents, and to see that the wires do nut interfere with the traffic.
Cattle in Native Dairies.
ordered to be published 2 as is 2 3 of 4 3 $ a z 3 egg sui i a a Locality of Dairy Decrease 8 1 inspected the eattia kept at die above awed playes on Munday, Welteday and Friday of list week all in geant health and condition except the So. S noted it the iuargi Tastes, A. Wee Aaat, Pape be.
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