CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]

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COLONIAL ESTIMATES - HONGKONG.

EXPENDITURE DETAILED.

CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,

The Sisters of Charity, $1,800 - Reformatory, $600 - Other Allowances, $1,600,

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COLONIAL ESTIMATES - HONGKONG.

EXPENDITURE DETAILED.

LIGHTHOUSES.

Maintenance, &c., of Buildings, and Apparatus, $4,000 Interest on Loan from Special Fund, for cost of Lighthouses, and Sinking Fund (4th year), $1,000 $2,000 TOTAL, $3,000

TRANSPORT.

Passage Allowances to Officers, $3,000 Passage Allowances on Sick Leave to Government Officers with Salaries not exceeding £300, $1,500 TOTAL, $4,500

GOVERNMENT GARDENS, AND PLANTATIONS.

Maintenance of Government Gardens, $2,000 Tree Planting, $12,000 Travelling Expenses, $500 Garden Seats, $250 TOTAL, $14,750

WORKS AND BUILDINGS.

Pok-fú-lam Reservoir, $1,000 Repairs to Buildings, $12,000 Maintenance of Water Works. $5,000 Do. of Telegraphs, $1,000 Do. of Protestant Cemetery, $750 New Water Police Station $35,000 Completing Observatory and Time Ball, $20,000 Fittings for Offices in different Departments, $500

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.

New Iron Telegraph Poles, $1,500 Lunatic Asylum, $6,000 Entrance Lodge, Gates, &c., Civil and Lock Hospitals, $1,000 Lighting Street Lamps, Public Urinals $1,000 Expenses of the Clock Tower, Maintenance of Praya Wall, $2,000 Miscellaneous Works, $3,000 Commission to Crown Agents, Sinking Fund for Praya Works Loan, $10,000 Telegraph Service, Sinking Fund for Breakwater at Causeway Bay to form Typhoon refuge for Boats, (money to be taken from Special Fund), $5,000 Rent of Marine Lot No. 66 (Crosby's Store), Subscription to Reuter's Telegrams, TOTAL $104,750 Other Miscellaneous Services, $3 $26,000 $1,000 $1,400 $4,000 $1,400 $1,000 $3,000 TOTAL. $87,800

ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES.

Maintenance of Piers, $500 Drainage and Sewerage, $10,000 Roads out of Victoria, $8,000 Road and Street Contingencies, $8,000 Re-making Streets in Tai-ping-shán, Sai-ying-p'ún, Sheung-wan and Chung-wán, $10,000 Repairs to Bridges, $1,000 Watering Streets, $500 Widening Kennedy Road, $1,000 Repairing Timber Wharf, Commissariat Lane, $1,000 Reforming Main Street at Shau-ki-wán, $1,000 Stone Steps at Duddell Street, $2,000 Repairing No. 13 Bridge, Aberdeen and Little Hongkong Road, $1,300 Miscellaneous Services, $3,000 TOTAL $47,800

MILITARY EXPENDITURE.

Contribution to Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, (£20,000 at the current exchange of the day, say, 3/10), $104,348 Colonial Defences, - Expenses of the Volunteers, $2,400 TOTAL $106,748