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has since been so.
On st January 1865 the city
3.
of
Victoria was
lighted with
gas.
important mark in the progress of the
place:
4.
人
The Board of Education has been abolished and Mr Stewart has
taken over, as was
originally intended,
the entire charge of the Government Schools.
5
Gas.
Education
leaders
Three new Civil Service Cadets arrived towards the end of
the
year;
and were at once set down to the study
of the language. The first three that
arrived in 1862
Course,
"officers.
have
Completed
Legislation 6.
Several important Ordinances have
been passed, of which may be specially
named the Limited Liability or "the
Companies Ordinance", and a series consolidating the Criminal Law, for which the Government is much indebted to Messrs Ball and Alexander.
Sickness 7. I regret to say that during the
Summer the Sickness
was
great, especially among the Military, and so severe among these that it attracted the attention of the Home Parliament, and occasioned the appointment of a Committee of Enquiry
The Season however was
generally unhealthy along this part of
the Sea board of China.
their
and have
proved very useful
Deaths of officers
8.
A vacancy
was caused on
the