in
that
Year.
No 372 & 379 The
d
26 Sept & 15 Oct, reporting that Hongkong
had been visited
by
two typhoons which had inflicted the
most serious damage
on all the public buildings in
the Colony
that the Estimated
cost
of repairing
buildings
amounted to
the large sum of $113,000. And No 373 of the 27 Sept
reporting
the cessation
of working operations
at the mint &
Enclosure
Showing
Coinage
returns
311
the amount
of the profit
or loss on the operations
undertaken therein since
its Establishment. I am to state that these despatches prove
& the Matter
Conclusively
that the Colony is in such a depressed financial Condition that it is necessary, is absolutely necessary, that some relief
should be afforded to it