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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TM JUNE, 1892.
PETITION. Read a petition from the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-boat Company, Limited, the Douglas Steam-ship Company, Limited, and the China Navigation Company, Limited, praying to be heard by Counsel on the second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to provide means for ascertaining the amounts to be paid by way of compensation in respect of the Wharves and Piers along the line of the Praya Reclamation, to fix the periods for the payment thereof and for other purposes
in connection therewith.
The Council agreed that the petition lie on the table.
The Honourable C. P. CHATER asked the following question :-
Referring to Government Notification No. 204 of the 4th May, 1892, reading: Unless per- mission from the Government has been first obtained riding over that part of the Wongnei- chung Recreation Ground which is enclosed within the Race Course and the training track is prohibited until further notice," will the Government state whether this notification is in consequence of their intention to complete forthwith the preparation for purposes of recreation of the ground mentioned, or if not what is proposed to be done in the matter of putting this ground in order.
The Colonial Secretary replied.
The Honourable T. II. WHITEHEAD moved the following resolution:-
That the Government publish in the "Government Gazette" or lay on the table a list of the Wharves, public and private, in respect of which a sum of $180,000 was added by the Government to the cost of the Praya Reclamation, as appears from the Colonial Secretary's letter of the 19th February, 1889, to the Honourable C. P. Chater, and state the amount of compensation assessed in respect of each.
The Honourable C. P. CHATER seconded.
The Colonial Secretary replied, and the matter dropped.
The Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD moved the following resolution:--
That with reference to the Honourable the Acting Harbour Master's Report for 1891, dated 21st January last, and laid before the Council on the 9th instant, the Government lay on the table a copy of the Despatches in connection with the Junk trade, received from Mr. J. McLeavy Brown, the Commissioner of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs for Kowloon, dated 10th and 14th March last.
The Honourable Ho KAI seconded.
The Colonial Secretary replied and the motion was withdrawn.
BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE MERCHANT SHIPPING CONSOLIDATION ORDINANCE, 1891."-The Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed.
BILL ENTITLED (C
AN ORDINANCE FOR THE INCORPORATION OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE,' -The Honourable C. P. CHÁTER moved the third reading of the Bill.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed.
BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE DUE PERFORMANCE OF DIVINE WORSHIP AND OTHER SERVICES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RITES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AT ST. JOHN's CATHEDRAL CHURCH AT VICTORIA IN THIS COLONY AND ELSEWHERE, TO INCORPORATE A Church Body, TO VEST THE SAID CATHEDRAL IN SUCH BODY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH."- The Attorney General moved that the Bill be re-committed.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to. Council in Committee on the Bill.