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No. 8 of 1884, entitled.-The Criminal Procedure Amendment Ordinance, 1884. No. 9 of 1884, entitled. An Ordinance to amend Ordinance 3 of 1881.
No. 11 of 1884, entitled.-The French Mail Steamers Ordinance continuation Ordinance,
1884.
No. 13 of 1884, entitled.--An Ordinance to amend Ordinance 3 of 1871.
No. 14 of 1884, entitled.-The Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1879, Amendment Ordi-
nance, 1884.
No. 15 of 1884, entitled.-The Stamp Ordinance, 1884..
No. 16 of 1884, entitled.-The Preservation of Birds Ordinance 1870, Amendment Ordi-
nance 1884.
No. 17 of 1884, entitled.-An Ordinance to make provision for certain duties formerly
attaching to the Office of Sheriff.
No. 18 of 1884, entitled.--An. Ordinance to authorise FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON to construct piers and wharves in the harbour of Vic- toria, and to confer upon the said FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON certain other powers and privileges.
No. 19 of 1884, entitled.—An Ordinance to authorise CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, to con- struct piers and wharves in the harbour of Victoria, and to confer upon the said CATCHICK PAUL CHATER certain other powers and privileges.
No. 20 of 1884, entitled.-An Ordinance to authorise the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Two hundred and Thirty-five thousand Three hundred and Forty-five Dollars and Twenty-six Cents
to defray the Charges of the Year 1883.
No. 21 of 1884, entitled.-An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding One million and Six thousand, Eight hundred and Eighty-one Dollars
to the Public Service of the Year 1885.
No. 22 of 1864, entitled.-The Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1884.
THE LATE SIR HARRY PARKES.-The Honourable P. RYRIE addressed the Council with reference to the death of the late Sir HARRY S. PARKES, Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking, and moved that this Council pass a resolution of condolence with the family of the deceased.
The Honourable T. JACKSON seconded the motion.
His Excellency the Governor addressed the Council, expressing his entire concurrence with the motion, and read the following despatch which he had addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject:-
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, March 24th, 1885.
My LORD,-I have the honour to report that the telegraphic intelligence of the death of Sir HARRY PARKES on the 22nd instant, of remittent typhoid fever, after three days' illness, has caused much sorrow in Hongkong, where he had formerly resided for several years. This feeling will be general throughout the English communities in China and Japan, with which he has been connected as Consul and Minister for above a quarter of a century.
Even those who differed from some parts of Sir HARRY PARKES' policy always admired his many high qualities, his courage, his energy, his unselfish devotion to the public service. To myself he is a great loss. Our relations, both official and personal, have always been most cordial; he deplored that I had been obliged to seek, on medical certificate, the leave of absence which was so kindly granted by your Lordship; and he rejoiced and applauded when I decided, at whatever risk of health and sacrifice of personal convenience, to remain at my post during the present crisis in the affairs of this quarter of the globe. The feeling of Sir HARRY PARKES on this point was identical with my own. He had been for some time in failing health, and he felt severely the weight of work and responsibility pressing upon him, as upon me, at the present juncture. But he declined to listen to the advice given him to seek at least temporary rest and relaxation. Recently he wrote to a friend as follows:- "Where I may fail is in physical health, which warns me that the present strain will have its limits, and that some relief,-even if it be for a short period, will become indispensable. I shall do my best, however, to hold on till the end of this year." His friends knew, and Sir HARRY PARKES himself knew, that his impaired strength would yield altogether to any severe attack of illness, if he should determine to remain at Peking. He did so determine, and thus this able and gallant servant of his Queen and country has died by the most envi- able of all deaths, at the post of honour and duty.
Question-put and passed.
I have, &c.,
G. F. BOWEN.