The road has been widened and completed; I calculate upon a rise in the value of portions of the land on either side, especially in the neighbourhood of Pokfoolum, where building is now commenced on one or more lots sold there in June, 1856.
39. I may here mention one public work of the very highest consequence, which is under consideration, the Waterworks. The paucity of hill streams on this side of the island renders the procurement of a sufficient water supply for the city a matter of extreme difficulty.
In the winter or dry season, this want is severely felt by all classes of the community, and it is in this very season that conflagrations occur among the Chinese houses, when water in readiness and abundance is a demand of necessity.
40. In my opinion, the best plan is to lead the water from Pokfoolum, round the side of the hill, attracting the smaller rivulets in the course, but I make this suggestion with diffidence, as I know that professional engineers are not agreed as to the proper...