The rebuilding of premises fronting the Nanking Road goes on apace. The site which has been cleared on the left of the road immediately at the entrance to the Recreation ground, is intended for a large cinematograph hell. The waste ground facing the race course, hitherto devoted to curious and diverse entertainments, especially on race days, will shortly shed its squalor and assume as smart an appearance as may be got from a dozen or so of shops in foreign style, with 145 Chinese houses sandwiched between another tow of shops, also in foreign style,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.