Without case grease as is generally, the creaking made by them can only be described as horrible. They pass along the streets in long files, and can be heard coming and going for a very long distance. The same subsection is also intended to obviate the practice of the Chinese of dragging vehicles heavily laden with timber or other materials up and down the hilly streets of the town, with ropes of very insufficient strength. Accidents of a serious character have more than once resulted from the breaking of these ropes and from the vehicles escaping down steep places.
Subsection (6) was inserted to amend subsection (13) of Section 2 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1845. I need hardly say that the lighting of crackers and other fireworks in the streets is one of the most favourite of Chinese amusements; but in cases which have been prosecuted under that Ordinance, the Police Magistrates have put such an interpretation on the words "damage or danger to any person" as to prevent the Ordinance working beneficially for the protection to the public.
It is hoped that the present legislature will mitigate the nuisance caused by the lighting of crackers...