Originally Used as Consular An important property auction will be hold in the salesrooms of Messrs. L. Moore & Ca, 45 Kianj se Road, on Wednesday afternoon next at 4 o'clock sharp, when th old British Post Office with the land on which it was built will be offered for sale. This is one of the most desirable pieces of property in the business centre of the Settlement, and is known No. 15. (Britis it is situate at the corner of Museum and Peking Roads and. comprises a measured area of two mow, three fun, one Ni, four hao, Tt has an approximate frontage of 110 ft. 9 in, facing Peking Road, and 128 ft. 6 i Museum Rond, and 26 ft. 8) ins. on lane connection, ings will be sold together with the land. Copies of the plans and conditions of sale may be seen application either to H.B.M.'s Offce of Works, 14 Yuenmingyuen Road, or the auctioneers, Already there have been many inquiries regarding the sale of the property, the upset, price of which been' placed at Tls. 250,000, When the mew Chapoo Road bridge is opened, a great deal of the traffic will be diverted along Museum Road which will be, when the new buildings are erected on the old Chinese Post Office site and the present site, one of the shopping and "profession centres in Shanghai. The pi specially favoured by profess people owing to its close proximity the British Consulate and. its convenience.
ing is no doubt will be abolished built more than 20 years ago The old British Post Office ang was originally used as the British Consular Gaol. On completion of new gaol in Amoy Road in June 1871 prisoners. were removed.
In 1874 the Peking Road frontage was handed over to the Hongkong Authorities, who built a post office on it. In 1905, the extension on Museum Road was built by LIN. Office of Works.
'A' portion was allotted to the Royal Asiatic Society.
Acting on the terms of the Washington Treaty all foreign post offices were closed in China, and the British Office closed its doors on November $1, 1922. For some time afterwards it was made use of by the Chinese Post Office but was later vacated when the Chinooe Post Office was removed to its new building at the corner of North Szechuen and North Soochow Roads, 'Tae Shanghai "Zarve," the ly-organized Russian daily, which is showing' itself progressive' and modern in both its! news and edits all columns, has been deprived of the séfvices of M. Arnoldoff, ant editor, who is now confi hospital with typhoid fever..
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.