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Consulting Engineers report that the
the Cement has
to
good quality of rnabled a considerable saving
in the mode of building
be effected
the Dam.
the Governor in his covering dispatch requests information as to the estimated cost of the Lylam Works as
compared with the
average cost of water supplies to other large towns and Sir Fr. Rawlinson furnishes particulars showing that if the Lytam Works are completed
at
any thing
the cost estimated
by
like
Mr Price
₤166,440 - Hong Kong will obtaine an ample water supply at a far lower cost than that at which
similar work in this Country
has
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has been carried out, and that there ought to be water sufficient
not
only for the present Estimated population of 125,000 but for increased population of from 180,000 to 200,000.
With respect to the remarks of the Surveyor General as to the Boring Machinery and some of the iron-work sent out for the Lucid it will be seen that Sir R. Rauchinson is engaged in inquiring into the matter and promises further report. We do not therefore propose at the present stage of the question to offer any
observations
upon
this point; our attention
having however been called to the purchase in the Colony of
Coal and
other