the Eastern sides of the market, which will greatly enhance the present value of the land taken over by Mr. Chater. At the same time it will be an immense improvement to the Market which was, until a short time ago, shut in on all four sides by Chinese tenement houses. The houses on the North and South sides were purchased last year from their owners at a cost of $107,800, so that before the end of the next year the Market will be reconstructed on an enlarged site, and will have streets on all four sides.
The credit of negotiating this most satisfactory arrangement by which Government really obtains for nothing an area of 9106 square feet, supposing the land to be worth $7 a square foot ($63,742), is due entirely to the Surveyor General, Mr. Price, who...
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