While working on the foundations of the Taiwan Bank last week the workmen, it will be remembered, Jeame upon evidences of old con: struction, as well as. indications that that site was once on the river's brink. There is no doubt that some of the piling just now being removed was placed there for purposes of bunding, and such being the case it may be recalled that when the foundations of the present Chartered Bank were in Process of construction, three sets fof piles were found, the earliest of these being also obviously for bunding. It was then suggested that these were 100 years old, and the theory -was put forward that there had been some sort of jetty on the site. Noting the same class of /bunding on the Taiwan Bank site to the south, it may well be argued that such a jetty extended as far as the present Kiukiang Road. One idea is that it must have existed before the Settlement was established, and it can only be a matter for Jeonjecture as to its use. Of course at a very carly date this locality was favoured for building upon by the inhabitants of the Settlement, and apart from anything else which has evolved out of the work proceeding there is distinct. evi ence. of two buildings having been successively erected on the Taiwan. Bank site, although like other Bund sites it was the sort of frontage which might have existed as a indan for quite a considerable time, As in most of similar eases Shanghai the piles, whatever their age, have remained in good preservation,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.