# EXTRAORDINARY PUBLIC WORKS.
Original Estimate. Revised Estimate. Spent to 31st December, 1885. Estimated for 1886. Expenditure during first half of 1886. Estimated Expenditure during second half of 1886. Estimated for 1887. REMARKS. Taitam Water-works, (a) £166,440 $908,000 $499,302.01 $200,000.00 $147,920.65 $102,079.35 $150,000.00 (4) The Original Estimate of the Taitam Water-works was £259,479,0.0, reduced subsequently to £166,440. For detailed explanation, vide Sessional Paper No. 7, Surveyor General's printed Report of 1st November, 1885, p. 8, et seq. Victoria College (Central School), $100,000 $150,000 $26,843.95 $75,000 (7) Drains and Sea-walls at Lapsápwán, $75,000 $75,000 $336.38 $51,269.50 $25,000.00 $2,668.20 $19,663.62 (5) Not including the sum of $25,042.67, spent in 1884 and charged to Ordinary Works. Sanitary Works, $50,000.00 $51,269.50 $22,336.80 $22,336.80 Police Buildings, extension, $50,000.00 $50,000.00 Central Market, resumptions, $150,000 $165,800 $400 $58,000.00 $107,800.00 $107,800.00 Extension of Cattle Markets, $1,500,000 $1,500,000 $197,358.92 $100,000.00 $48,949.13 $51,050.87 $100,000.00 Completion of Lazaretto on Stone Cutters' Island, $135,000 $135,000 $25,000.00 $15,000.00 $50,000.00 (c) The sum of $1,500 spent in 1881 for levelling site and making approach road to the Lazaretto was charged to Ordinary Works. Special Military Contribution for Defence Works, New Central Market, (4) $70,000 $10,000 $10,000.00 $10,700 $11,500 (e) Kowloon Roads and Drains, £55,625 £116,000 $76,029.09 $52,000.00 $78.94 $5,226.76 $161,529.36 New Water-mains, Pipe laying, &c., (d) $150,000 $150,000 $250,000.00 $50,000.00 $10,000.00 $75,000.00 (d) These are Probable Estimates. Improvements at Kennedy Town, $50,000 $50,000 $25,000.00 RECS $908,803.47 $579,800.00 $366,704.42 $388,997.03 $760,000.00 C. O (REC 16 NOV 26)AUDIT OFFICE, Hongkong, 25th August, 1886.
FREDERICK STEWART, Acting Auditor General.