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engrossed my
attention, Shave
Your
been unable to address
Lordship until now, on the subject of the proposed new gad for stong Kong, respecting which Lord Kimberley addressed my predecessor in last leptember". "Lecretary of
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15165 n°196 of 8 2. Having regard to the september
calls which will be made calls
in
on the Iolonial Treasury by the many sanitary works progress, and in contemplation, and looking to the inmited Staff of the Surveyor General, the Executive and Legislative Councils are of opinion chat it will be necessary to defer the
construction
construction of the new gad for
two years
or thereabouts. I
cannot do otherwise, after a
careful consideration of all the circumstances, chan concur with that opinion.
3. I have the lesshesitation
in recommending this postponement to four Lordship since I have had the opportunity of considering the enclosed prison returns prepared by the /olonial secretary. These returns show that the criminals committed to the Victoria, padl since 1879, increased each.
including year until February 1882; when their number, after
Culmear.
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