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13
295
will ere
long
be
ww
augmented
demand for land. Population is
in the
rapidly growing
the neighbourhood of Spring Gardens and the removal of Hospital still which is close to that locality would provide valuable ground
and furnish excellent materials for extending and utilizing
the
sea
frontage.
The western extremity of the City is filling
rapidly with Chinese settlers
even more
and I quite concur with the Colonial
Secretary in opinion that the deprecatory observations on the futurity of the Colony
which have obtained circulation in foreign
parts are the result
of a hasty judgment in England
and uninformed judgment, - to which the statistics of Staunton
are an emphatic and most
forcible contradiction
12.
The improvement of the Road leading to Aberdeen and Stanley and the erection of the Aberdeen Docks now nearly completed will bring to the Southern portions of the Island
a
population whose presence must tend greatly to increase the value of the Crown property
13.
The
The possession of the small
Island sporadically around the Island is becoming
of
more and more
importance. To
say nothing of questions of sanitary
and Naval defence, it would be