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Show ! "The Centre of Business." Mr. i Reid of "Reid's" is really making his I place a centre of business. The bar , has been removed away back, and a j large stairway leads up to the second j floor, where there are two suites of offices, of-fices, five on each side, with a large front office now occupied by S.- W.' Howland & Co., and one to the rear occupied by Col. Stevenson, civil engineer. en-gineer. On the first floor are six offices of-fices on each side, and beyond them, through another door is the bar, then a private sitting room, and in the rear) of all Mr. E.eid's store room. Car-i penters and plasterers are busily at ' work ; and soon the painters will fol- j low, the building being fitted up with expedition. The proprietor has made, a vast change in the promises since he has occupied them. |