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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

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