Municipal Council, Shanghai, 21st June, 1897.
Sin,—In reply to your letter of thia date, Iam directed to request that you will convey to the manager of the Japanese Emporiam the thanks of the Council for his generous offer) to present three copper cranes for the decoration of the Public Garden, The Council has much pleasure in accepting the graceful present on behalf of the Municipality, and wilt give instructions that the cranes may be placed: in suitable positions in the Public Garden to-day.
If the manager of the Japanese Emporium ill kindly place himself in communication mth the Seovetary of the Pub fo Garden (Mr. G. R. Corner, 7, Yuen-ming-suen Road), the latter will arrange with him in choosing the most appropriate and convenient sites.
Thanking you for your courtesy in this matter, Tam, Sir, Your obedient servant, J.0. P. Buaxp, Actins Secretury. To M. Kasevama, Eldve Consul, H.
A.'s Consulate-, General, Shanghai Electric: Department.—Report by the Superintendent is submitted, viving parti-eu ars of the works completed during May and of these still in progress, Sanitery Beard.—The following Minutes of Mevting held on the 16th inst, are ordered to be published Vaccine Lymph. - Dr. Grant explains that in consequence of rinderpest breaking out in December last in the cattle sheds where the calves were then kept, the procuring of he had been getting a supply. the lymph was stopped till Murch, since when.
Haute instead of at the cattle sheds, and the The calves are now kept at the Slaughter existing arrangements Dr. Grant considers suitable and sufficient for present requirements.
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