Municipal Building Tunrwin News Sexvice, Tientsin, Apr. 28.
Work has started on the founda" tions of w new bank and office build= ing at the corner of Rue de France and Rue clu Consular, French Concession, for Mr, 8. J. Vordoni, one of Tientsin's pioneer merchants. When finished at the and of thi year the bank premises will be oc-Eupied by the Tentsin branch of the Sino-Italian Bank, and the flats above will be rented out as offices. On the north end of the Rue de France frontage there will be a modern store, also to be rented.
The new building will be two storeys, brick-built, cement-faced with a frontage on Rue de France of 85 ft. and on Rue clu Consular of 75. ft. The entire corner of the Duilding's ground floor will be taken, over by the bank, with main entrance on the corner. The bank compradore's offices. will be placed at the east end of the Rue clu Consulat frontage. The store on Rue do France will have a modern glass front, extending 38 ft, and a depth of 60'ft.
The present estimated cost of the building is $75,000, and it will stand on one and a halt mow of land valued at $80,000. The architects, are Credit Foncier d'Extreme Orient.
The present" premises of the Sino-Italian Bank, on the opposite corner, will be pulled down. when the Bank moves out to make wa for road widening plans in connexion with the proposed new French Municipal building in the old Market Square immediately behind the present bank building. bookseller. It will, the publishers say, be found more enthralling: than a novel. "The picture of Anglo-Chinese life in the "nineties is, it is claimed, the most accurate to be found inthe work of Eng-Tish writers, Mr. Mason is said to have Ted during the 33. years since he left China, and it is hoped that this book will be- followed by other autobiographical volume:
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