unfortimately caused. many of the roofs which had been severely shaken. by the wind to become
as to entail -
to leaky
additional dan
damage
to
ceiling, stucco work, and
interior walls.
Some of
wolde
the Government Buildings out of the City fared according to their exposed positions, having their doors
and windows blown in and
in
Ame
particular cash,
that of the Signal Station Vectoria Peak the roof partially destroyed.
load
For an account of the
damage sustained by
“
private houses in Victoria
to
A
I beg to refer you Communication herewith
attached
(
640
attached from mr. Neate. Enspector of
Buildings.
The want of cohesion
in the decomposed granite hills of Hong Kong causes
all rain drainage to dis.
-solve and carry
in
with it
in suspension, enormous
masses of sand and clay
amounting in
storms to
severe hom
many
hundreds
of loud. drainage sepetim by which
Our defective.
the rain is endeavoured
to be led through sewer
traps into underground sewers, too small to con..
lains the volumo, renders
a "Choke" inevitable
occasions of great pain-
- fall.
On the night of
the