Ningpo, Jan. 6, 1902. My dear T have just seen Mr.
[Tang Ching-fu] owner of the ground to the west of the north side of the " Great Northern Road" Race Course. in~ that Messrs Parker, Swain, and Gubl British' subjects. A leed declares that out of Note] on, the final one-third of the joint possessions of these three men. 8 mow 1 fen vas _J3, publie road), vat the questivs which thus effectually bears out what I declare does not admit of any question, that the western continuation of the Northern Road" forms part of that road which thus stretches from river to river.
I trust that after this Monseigneur will remove his boundary stone.
Yours sincerely, W. H. Wilkinson.
Memorandum.
The two plots of lind on the Great North Road," Ningpo, acquired by the late Dr. Parker in 1862.
L—Any rights to property in the above plots possessed, or clamable, by the man, Jo Ch'ing-thing, can only be so possess: ed, or claimed, under and by virtue of the tecusfer effected at H. B. M, Consulate, on the 11th December 1895; and the id' Lu Ch'ing-thing cannot con7+¥ to ang other person rights in excess of the above. 2—The Note of Trnsfer in the Land Reyister of the Consulate runs as follows, betuz in the handwriting of Mr. Consul Playfair On Dec. 11th, 1895, the portion of this lot adjoining the Race Course and marked No. 5 on the plan deposited in Consulate on Nov. 23, 1869. was transferred by Mrs. Alison Napier Parker, Administratrix of the late Dr. William Parker, M. D., by her representtive, Frederick Galpin, to Lu Ciring-t'
a Chinese subject.
(Signed) Alison Napier Parker, uy her representative Frederick Galpin, Before me, (Signed) G. Play air, Consul.
3.—Copy of the "plu deposited in this) Consulate" and its covering letter is append [et From both plan and letter it clearly appears that the only "portion of this lot which is "marked No. 6" is that described by Mrs. Parker as "Third Lot."
In other words: As far as at present appears, the man Lu Chung-thing has not, and never has bad, any right or title to the two lots on tern Road acquired by Dr, Parker, in 1862, from Messrs. Gubbay and Mrs. Parker's "Second Lot."
however, the man Lu Ch'ing-t ins to have received from Mr. Galpin a nese title deed for the lots, a Was addressed on the Sed mber last to Mr. Galpin (now in England) enquiring whether,—despite the explicit tan-age of the Note of Transfer signed by hi above—he did the th Decem:
the sud two lots te the man Lit Mlition to that portion hould Mr. Galpin yeply in the aflirmative, the necessary correction will be male Lu Clring-ving be sume time warned that he cannot claim rights over those portions of the groun'l which were declared by Mrs Parker, in her formal letter of Dev. 27, 1865, to' Consul to surrendered to public use, notwithstanding any apparent neglect on the part of the Public or of the Authorities of the General Foreign Settlement of to make use of them.
Wilkinson, Consul.
H. B. M. Consulate, spo, Jan. 2 1902.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.