14
NOTICE OF QUESTION.-Mr. WHITEHEAD gave notice that, at the next meeting, he would ask the following question
Will the Honourable the Registrar General inform the Council whether it is a fact that the occupants of disorderly houses who had been moved out of houses in the Central districts and gone into houses to the West thereof are again being moved, and if so whether the movements have been or are being effected by virtue of orders made by the Magistrate or by the summary actions of the Police?
•
QUESTION. Mr. WHITEHEAD, pursuant to notice, asked the following question :-
Has the attention of the Honourable the Director of Public Works been directed to the dangerous condition of Yee Woo Street at the corner of Mr. Kennedy's Horse Repository at Causeway Bay and alongside the site of the proposed new Laundry to be erected there; and to the fact that the south-east boundary stone of the latter lot projects some six inches above the level of the ground and has been placed well nigh in the middle of the road; and to the fact that on the south side a drain has been dug of considerable depth, without any protection; and will the Honourable member inform the Council why this state of mitters is permitted to continue? The Director of Public Works replied as follows:-The question seems to refer, not to Yee Wo Street, in which no trench has been dug or boundary stone fixed, but to an unfinished road now under construction, leading to Tai Hang Village. The trench, two feet in depth, was opened in order that a water-main might be extended, the extension being rendered necessary by the sale of land in the neighbourhood. The boundary stone is not in the middle of any road, but correctly marks the boundary of land sold some time ago. While a road is in an incomplete state, the persons who elect to use it must necessarily suffer some inconvenience.
RESOLUTION.-Mr. WHITEHEAD, pursuant to notice, moved the following Resolution, and addressed the Council:-
That the Honourable the Colonial Secretary lay upon the table a copy of the Crown Leases granted last autumn to the Lee Hing Company for the dredging and collecting of shells in and around Ping Chau Island in the New Territory, asked for in my question of 15th February last.
The Acting Colonial Secretary addressed the Council.
His Excellency the Governor addressed the Council.
The motion was not seconded.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO FACILITATE THE HEARING, DETERMINATION AND SETTLEMEnt of LAND CLAIMS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, TO ESTABLISH A LAND COURT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Mr. WHITEHEAD addressed the Council, and moved, as an amendment, that the Bill be recommitted. The motion was not seconded.
Question-that the Bill be read a third time was then put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed.
ADJOURNMENT.—The Council then adjourned until Thursday, the 29th March, 1900, at 3 p.m.
Read and confirmed, this 29th day of March, 1900.
R. F. JOHNSTON,
Acting Clerk of Councils.
HENRY A. BLAKE, Governor.