There was no ceremony whatever at the taking over the Extension on Saturday, and the following suggestions made were not adopted by the Council of the ceremony to be observed at the aking over of the Extension of the Settle-int to-day, the Ist of July, 1899.
all the harmonious builders will join in a chorus of congratulation and cuntignor lents will come to their and respond with a chorus of expostulation, jin a procession will be formed at the new Drill Hall, previously to which the occupants, six in number, of the stalls in the New Market will deposit their key the feet of the Chairman of the Council ind decline to have anything more to do with it.
The Procession will be formed as under The new Tratie Inspector in a broker trap (cuntiseated) proceeding dejectedly at a slow walk.
The New Fxtension Police under the comnund of Inspector Kelly, singing, "AI what a day we are having The Secretary to the Municipal Council and the Municipal Engineer on a tandem bicycle waving Municipal Hays.
ree little boys from the Grant-under the command of I bamboos, to heat the new Phe Secretary of the Shanghai Water-x company, with a model of the Water Tower, lapping over.
'A float drawn by a Municipal steam. show Quarry ing coolies distributing specimens of the Municipal road metal to the crowd.
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