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"silting up
Was so
great that steamers
against.
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of large draft were unable to
gon
go
alongside. Then again the principal ·
storehouses and the large Chinese quarter
are situated to the West of the city, and for the publie to go
to Wanchai for their goods
their goods seemed
#
an irksome method, ercating great
#
loss of time. However, the silting
up did more to render that enterprise a failure, than anything else, and this is the only difficulty that the promoters of the Bills in question will have to guard
"against
10.
(signed) H.G: Thom sett,
کوکو
Harbour Master.
50th April, 1884.
The second Bill alluded
to in the above report is a Private. Bill
of similar nature with that of Mess?" Fardine Matheson &C., ___ which has also been introduced by
one
of the Unofficial Members (Mr. Resurek), on behalf of Mr. Chater), a wealthy merchant in this Colony, to
X
long
enable
* M. Chater is an Armenian from Calcutta, settled at Hongkong; and he is universally recognized here as a -gentleman of high charseter, and of great publie
spirit.