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BILL ENTITLED THE PRISON AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1889.-The Acting Attorney General moved the second reading of this Bill.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a second time.
The Council then went into Committee on the Bill.
Bill reported with a verbal amendment.
The Acting Attorney General then moved that the Bill be read a third time.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance 13 of 1889.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE FOR AMENDING THE LAWS RELATING TO THE Construction of BUILDINGS IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.-On the motion of the Acting Attorney General, the Council resumed Committee on this Bill.
Sections 1, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20, 27, and 36 were disposed of.
Sections 15 and 38 were struck out.
The Committee then adjourned.
QUESTION. Mr. CHATER pursuant to notice asked the following question :--
Is there any objection in stating the circumstances under which permission was recently refused for holding a Concert in the General Hospital, the entertainment having been prepared for the recreation of the patients?
No. The Governor replied, and laid upon the table a copy of a Despatch on the subject which His Excellency had addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
ADJOURNMENT.—The Council then adjourned to Friday, the 29th instant, at 4 p.m.
Read and confirmed, this 29th day of March, 1889.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX,
Governor.