The local mandarins have received patches from Peking to the effect that Tsungli Yamen has approved of a scheme of Viceroy Liu of Nanking to allow Foreigners to buy and rent land in Paoshan district, outside of the Cosmopolitan Settlement Extension. The new area is to be south-east of the Sung-Wu (Shanghai-Woosung) Railway line, between the limits of the Extension and the New Rifle Butts. Title deeds are to be granted according to the custom hitherto in vogue in Shanghai, namely, stamped by the seal of the Taotai, the power of granting title deeds being taken away from the authorities of the Hui-Eh: i, or Land Office at Woosing.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.