easily accomplished, urges follow their recommendation for an immediate and even permanent return to Europe, as exhibited in a Certificate with which Dr Kane and the Colonial Surgeon have furnished me.
I have much satisfaction in recording that I am enabled to make my departure leaving the Department, if a weak one, yet in perfect working order; and though my two principal Assistants have been but a short time with me, I have exerted myself to the utmost of my power and ability to place them in a position to conduct their arduous and trying duties with comparative ease; Mr Power and Mr Chagas, will, I have no doubt, ably assist them in their respective Departments.
I may briefly explain that the mass of the City Victoria is either built over, or so far defined that it requires but labour only (not that I underrate labour in this climate) to complete it as far as it can extend Westward for Mercantile purposes; to the Eastward, designs for the development of Causeway Bay covering one hundred acres of Land, to be reclaimed from the sea are finished and the work