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pital-they had had $15,000 already, and a certain sum besides had been spent in getting the ground ready, and the balance remaining was $96,706. He had now great pleasure in handing to the Registrar General, whom he had selected because he didn't know whom else to select, this balance of nearly $100,000, to take charge of it on behalf of the Chinese community. He wished God-speed to the Hospital in the name of the God who was common to us all, and he had no doubt that suffering humanity would here receive ready and cordial relief. He declared this Hospital open. (Applause.)
Extract from the "Daily Advertiser."
His Excellency handed the cheque, after it had been shown to the Committee, to Mr. SMITH and then pronounced the New Hospital duly opened. A slight Chinese lunch was then partaken of by Sir RICHARD and the visitors, and the proceedings terminated. We learn that the Hospital is decidedly popular, and that there is every chance of its proving a decided success. The Committee deserves great credit for the disinterested labour which they have given to the scheme.
HONGKONG.
, No. 55.
SIR,
(Despatch from the Secretary of State to the Governor.)
DOWNING STREET,
17th April, 1872.
I have read with much interest Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL'S despatch No. 947. of the 19th February, reporting the formal opening of the Chinese Hospital.
I have noticed with pleasure the interest and liberality displayed by the Chinese population in connection with this undertaking, and I gladly recognise the merit and value of the exertions of the Chinese Committee of the Hospital.
Governor SIR A. E. KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B.,
&C.,
&c.
I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 3 OF 1870.
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An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Title. advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for establishing a Chinese Hospital to be supported by voluntary contributions, and for erecting the same into an eleemosynary Corporation.
[30th March, 1870.]
WHEREAS it has been proposed by the said Governor His Excellency Preamble.
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL to found a Chinese Hospital for the care and treatment of the indigent sick to be supported by voluntary contributions; And whereas Her Majesty Queen VICTORIA has been graciously pleased by way of endowment of the said Hospital to grant a piece of Crown land as a site for the erection thereof and also to authorize the payment out of the public funds of the Colony of a donation of fifteen thousand dollars towards the cost and expenses of erecting and maintaining the same; And