The Archive · 1897

THE TIENTSIN WATER-WORKS COMPANY

has issued its prospectus and invites the public to subscribe the capital. There is no doubt whatever of its success. The French Municipal Council is persevering in its attempt to find an artesian well supply and has voted " further sum to go on with the boring operations. The British company does not contemplate laying mains in the French Concession in any case; all it would be prepared to do would be to deliver water from its own mains into others by meter at a fixed tariff.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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