February 8th and 9th.—(1) On the application of the Governor of Honan, the Emperor orders that 50,000 piculs of this yerly's tribute rice from Shantung, with Shanghai, 17th January, 1888.
Sin,—We are in receipt of your letter of this date with plan enclosed showing the strip of land the Council wish to acquire from Lot 84, 7 p. 96 situate on the south side of the IN Road, for the of straightening the said road, and asking us to ascertain from the owners, whether they will surrender the Portion required, and upon what terms, We are sorry' to say we do not think it possible for the Council to acynire the small strip, as you may perhaps remember the diffi culty and the length of time it took to settle the matter when the Council acquired a portion of this lot in January 1879, and to open negotiations with the owners now, could only ro. be done by a long and ex to send the proposal by letter which w ive telegram, oF necessitate algrent loss tu the rental from this block, and in either case it is very doubtful if they would accede to this request, as te do s0 would completely disarrange the land for the impose of Chinese houses, However, if the wuneil will reimburse us for the cost of telegraphing, we will put the question to the owners.
We ure, Sir, Your obedient servants, Tvzsox & Ca.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.