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SHANGHAI

roads have been proposed, but, although foreigners are prepared t for the land, the opposition of the officials has hitherto prevente tion. Now, however, by the granting of the extension of the Settl cipal Council has the right to build and police roads in certain adjac the time the Taipings approached Shanghai some roads for the pa were made by the British military authorities at the expense of the ment, one of them extending for seventeen miles into the countr those close to the settlement, they have now been turned into plou foreshore in front of the settlement has been reclaimed, raised, tur with shrubs, and forms a delightful and spacious promenade. The tr years ago having now attained a good height, and several more in having been completed; the English and French Bunds form boulevard as any in the East,

Many foreign houses, nearly all of them with several more o have been, and more are still being, erected near the outside ro the Bubbling Well, Sicawei, and Sinza roads, which are the the settlement, and from which most of the other roads br roads are planted with trees on both sides, forming fine avenues of in length. A small but well laid-out and admirably kept Pu formed about 1868 on land recovered from the river in from Consulate. It has been considerably extended in area by reclaimi A general Public Garden, intended for Chinese, eight mow in exte of the Soochow Creek, was opened in December, 1890. There is a pu well stocked with flowers and ferns. A Park measuring 364 by 216 f Hongkew. The Public Recreation Ground has also been thoroughl; and laid-out, in spaces not devoted to sport, with flower beds. These care of a public gardener, secured from Kew Gardens, in 1899.

Immense sums have been wasted in various attempts to drain principally from the want of skilled direction; but the great difficultie arising from the low lying and level nature of the ground, have overcome, though very much work of this nature will have to be u recently acquired area. The settlements are well provided with telep The desire of the Municipal Councils to keep the monopoly in retarded for many years the inauguration of water works, but a is now established, which furnishes a continuous supply of filtered w rates. A separate system of waterworks for the French Con inaugurated, and Chinese waterworks, to supply the native city, in September, 1899. The electric light was introduced in 1882. ai erected on all the principal thoroughfares and wharves. In 1893 purchased the property and business of the Electric Company, but tion of the Electric Light Department has not given entire satisfac the Municipal Council advertised for tenders for the purchase of i introduction of a private service. The French Municipality has an light service and the native Bund is lighted by a Chinese Electric Lig

Shanghai can boast of several fine buildings of various and architecture. Trinity Cathedral, erected from a design by Sir Gilber be one of the finest specimens of modern ecclesiastical architecture t Europe. The foundation stone was laid on 16th May, 1866, and the cl for public worship on 1st August, 1869. It is Gothic of the thi 152 feet long, 585 feet wide, and 54 feet from the floor to the a The structure was not completed, however, until 1892, when the s the cross being placed on the top on the 4th October of that a total height of 160 feet, and, like the body of the edifice, is bu with stone dressings. The foundation of the spire was laid by Mid-China on the 19th August, 1891. There is a fine Roman in the French Concession called St. Joseph's, built in 1862, Hongkew known as the Church of the Sacred Heart. There are Church on the Soochow Creek, a handsome church with spire and Road belonging to the American Methodist Episcopal Mission, a e to the London Mission, and one to the American Episcopalians, an and prettily situated Seamen's Church at Pootung (latterly disused purposes of a mortuary), besides several mission chapels for nativ Fathers have an extensive mission establishment and orphanages at mission has existed for over a hundred years. The present church w