(To be presented at the Third Annual General Meeting, 26th April, 1883).
The subjoined particulars condensed from the report of the Company's engineer, dated the 14th February, 1883, will inform the sharehold: of the progress made in the works since the date of th Jast annual general meeting.
'The Directors' report presented on that occasion embodied a telegram from Shanghai dated the 15th April, of which the following is an extract:—The Municipal Council will probably suspend pipe-laying during the summer months for sanitary and shortly afterwards the learned with regret that th measure had been decided upon.
The French Municipality, however, having at that time arrived at an og ment with the Company for the supply water to the French Concession, and ap-9) immediate permission for prehending no danger from the Company's
the laying of pipes and the erection of hydrants, and work was accordingly at once commenced in this quarter, It was completed on the 20th October, and the rapidity and efficiency with which it was executed were duly acknowledged by the President of the Municipality.
On the Ist October operations were resumed in the English Settlement, and completed on the 20th January. The Bubbling Well Road was then opened up, and work is still being carried on there.
Pipe-laying.—Tho Evgineer reports as follows:—All the mains and hydrants now laid complete and ready for use in the English, Hongkew and French Settlements, In the Bubbling Well Road a s, with bai ice-valves, has been and tested.
The length of mains laid amounts to 32 Ghnrgen eluting "Esir"ex-miles, exclusive of the great number of ages, Page, Maey, a smaller pipes under 5-inches in diameter.
Adjustoient of Bschango Water-Tower—The tower is now erected up to the floor of the tank, and the tank By Office Furniture Sunday Debtors and roof are now being rivetted up. The 7 meters, mains and sluice-valves have all
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