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the probable receipt from Gaming
Licenses during
during this
year, and also
reducing the proposed Expenditure
on
Public Works Roads, Streets and Bridges.
from $205,900 to $107,000 - a
retrenchment
with the saving
for site of a
nu...
of $98,900, making up purchase money Civil Hospital ($34,000), retrenchment of $151,400, and leaving
a total
a probable excess of Assets
over
Liabilities at the end of 1888, of $415,495
As already explained to
...
My despatch transmitting
the revised Estimates and embracing
A
variety of other topics
was written
very hurriedly previous to departure
of the Mail
on the same
day.
It
seems desirable
desirable therefore that I
should supplement it with further
information relative to the proposed
saving
3.
on Public Works.
I therefore
am anxious to
explain that in leaving the item
of $98,000 for completion of the building known as
the Sanitarium
Elgin Hill at Kowloon, I have been influenced chiefly by the fact of its having been commenced last
year
and only stopped through
want of funds. The
expenditure
previously
incurred of $1,500
(the risk of being entirely lost, if the building be not completed), because experience
has shown that