This week's isane of the Municipal Garette" is a crowded namber, dealing inter ally with the question of Bettlement Extension, joint rapniog of the two Tramway Companies and the rebuilding of Sinza Road Bridge. A request from the Consular Body for information regarding the progress made in municipal affairs by the Chinese sathorities on our northern boundaries has produced s series of reports on the police administration, public works and sanitation of Chapsi and Paoshan districts. In view of a report to the effect that the Chinese authorities contemplate the rebnildiog of Sinzs Road Bridge on " wholly inadequate ecole the Council offers to share the cost to the' amount of Tls. 25,000, provided the work fe odrried out under the joint con trol of the Municipal Engineer and the Chinese officials, The correspondence concerning the rebuilding of the Band Bridge to enable through running betwoon the tramways of the International and French Settlements is) brought dowa to the point where the Tramway Company demure to paying Tie, 15,000 instead of Tis, 10,000 for its share of the cost.
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