1841-1886
423
87
HIER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
Police.
16. The police force, composed of Europeans, Sikhs, and Chinese, continues to maintain its high character for efficiency, and the introduction of Chinese as a component part of it has proved eminently successful.
17. The hospital is conducted as well as it can be in a temporary and unsuitable building, pending the erection of a new one.
18. The general health of the Colony has been good, and that of the troops especially so.
General Remarks.
19. A vast amount of material improvement has been effected during the year.
Sanitary improvements have been progressing.
The drainage and sewage have, at considerable cost, been cleansed, flushed, and improved; new drains constructed, and many which had been choked and stagnant for years put into working order, resulting in the improved health of the whole community.
20. A large extent of road and streets have been re-made, and side channels to carry off the floods of rain constructed.
Many miles of mountain path have been made.
21. The public gardens have been enlarged and improved, and will now compare favourably with any place of recreation in the East.
22. Trees have been extensively planted on the hitherto barren waste lands.
23. Justice is firmly and fairly administered.
The Chinese population are docile and orderly, having full confidence in the impartial administration of the laws.
24. The Colony is well served by its public officers, and I could not report of its condition and progress in the satisfactory manner I now do, if I had not received their efficient and cordial support.
I have, &c. (Signed) A. E. KENNEDY,
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,
Governor.
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No. 41.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Annual Report on the state of the Government Schools in Hong Kong for the year 1875, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong,
J. GARDINER Austin,
Colonial Secretary
February 9, 1876.