Admiral T. 8. Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy in the south, went to Hukow some time ago to inspect the naval maneuvres of the sips under his command, which were being held there. On his return journey, he inspected the forts and fortifications at Nanking and Chinkiang, and reached this port at 1.30 p.m, on January 19 on board the man-of-war Lienchin, He has already submitted a report about the result of the manuvres by telegraph to the Ministry of Marine, Commercial La The Chinese General Chamber of rev of Shanghai has, in conjunction with the chambers of com-throughout the Republic, the Government to. grant mn to defer their re-n in conformity with the y find is impracticmany points. a circular telegram from the Ministry of granting the chambers Shanghai, Tientsin, Hankow, Canton, Amoy, Chefoo, and Chungking, permission to postpone their reconstitution, but requiring the Chambers at other places to conform to the Law without delay, The Surveying of Shanghai.
Owing to continual encroachment upon Chinese territory, such as the construction of a foreign road leading from Siccawei right up to the sull under the jurisdiction of the Chingpu district, as well as for the purpow of ascertaining the true rea of the lund under cultivation, Mr. Hung, the former prefect, or-Jered the surveying and mapping of Shangha; to be taken in haud some time in January last year, Apart from te city and its environs and tis two foreign settlements of which maps are available, all the side and the outlying villages to be surveyed in order to oh tain a correct and up-to-date map. The onus of this task fell upon Mr. Wu Wen-ching who was appointed General Surveyor, although a direc-for and a sub-director were also appointed to the Office of this work. It was originally agreed by all parties to complete the survey in a year's time. But as the area his ben fonnd—to. oxered by alma-t 40 per cent. the original area given by the Prefect, it is quite impossible to finish the work in the agreed time. The director has requested the Prefect to grant him me-half extension of time, as the former district prefect had given the General Surveyor Mr. Wa te understand that the official figure of the area of cultivated land was about 6,794 -h'ing or a little over 1.970 square Ji, from which the area the city and settlements had to be deducted, Jeaving only some 1.092 square Ni to be surveyed; but Mr. Wu has discovered that the total area he has to survey is approximately 1.600 square Ji, or say 40 per cent. more than he had contracted for. He now asks that the time-limit which will expire on January 31 be extended to July 31, and that ginal from
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