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No. 60.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 24TH DECEMBER, 1898.
VOL. XLIV.
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簿四十四第
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 11.
TUESDAY, 22ND NOVEMBER, 1898.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT (Major-General WILSONE BLACK, C.B.).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (THOMAS SERCOMBE SMITH).
the Harbour Master, (ROBERT MURRAY RUMSEY, R.N.).
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the Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, C.M.G.). the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON). the Director of Public Works, (ROBERT DALY ORMSBY).
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CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, C.M.G.
Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.
EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS, C.M.G.
JAMES JARDINE BELL-IRVING.
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ABSENT:
The Honourable the Acting Attorney General, (HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK).
THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.
The Council met pursuant to summons.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 10th October, 1898, were read and confirmed. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government addressed the Council as follows:-
All business firms whether large or small take stock once a year, and call a momen- tary halt to see how they stand before girding up their loins for the work of the coming year. Governments, which are but large business firms working for the public weal, in the same way review each year their position, and not only put forward their balance sheet but indicate with modest satisfaction schemes which have run smoothly and well, and gloss over those which, however well laid though they may have been, have gone agley. I take, then, no unusual course in asking you to listen while I briefly touch upon some of the events which have made the ten mouths I have had the honour to hold the reins more eventful than many like periods of your past history. Although less severe than in 1894, the Plague has this year claimed 1,163 victims out of 1,820 stricken. Wisely abandoning the too stringent application of Western methods the Government erected suitable hospital buildings. at Kennedytown, placed them in charge of the Tung Wa Hospital, and induced the Chinese to carry their sick to that benevolent institution. While deeply deploring the loss by this dread visitation, I am glad to congratulate the medical profession, and the other Government officials whose duty connected them with the suppression of the plague, for the strenuous