22.
1033.
pressed on steadily to completion Moreover,
buy
x
arrival here in 1883, dinaugurated
-the extensive works of Water Supply
aud
Sanitation, which were in abeyance.
previously,
but which
are
now being
in
of the authority of my office, the votes for all
these purposes
wvere
passed in the Council
without a division, although several of
ve doubts
the members entertained grave
respecting them. As I have stated on a
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previous occasion, this
AVOLA OI
important
point-gained. For I am confictout that
with use that even in
agree e
You will,
Crown Colony,
a
except.
we should avoid,.
in extreme cases, carrying
my despatch N261 of 12 May, 1883, and in several succeeding despectõhus, I urged
that a system of Oxfence Norks for Hongkong
should be definitely settled at the War Office;
and Iafterwords procured a special vote
towards the cost of their construction from
مجھو
the Colonial Legislature . By
ALXEQALA
of a
judicious use of the influence rather than
of
See expecially my despatch N. 125 of 1885. Te my despatch N23 of 2.5 January, 1885-
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by the more
form of
the
majority of official members, which is obliged to vote according
to the views.
the
" See my despatch: N.33 of 2.: January (paragraph 6)