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The Morse telegraph instruments at Green Island and Cape Collinson Lighthouses were removed and replaced by telephones, the line to the latter lighthouse being put into metallic circuit.

49. Maintenance of Telegraphs in New Territories.—The lines and instruments were maintained in working order. Some interference was caused to the Tai Po route by the progress of the Railway works and the positions of poles had to be altered in places to suit the circumstances.

50. Maintenance of Sewers, Nullahs, &c.—The sewers, storm-water drains and trained nullahs were systematically cleansed and maintained in good condition and the flushing tanks were periodically worked.

The details of expenditure under this heading are as follows:

Labour for cleansing operations, $14,253.21 Repairs, $3,686.30 Tools for cleansing operations, $1,226.94 General incidental expenditure. $50.11 $19,216.56

as against $19,224.08 in the previous year.

51. Gas Lighting, City of Victoria and the Peak. The total number of lamps in use at the end of the year in the City was 990, an increase of 20 over the previous year and in the Hill District 114, an increase of 2. The lighting of the Military Cantonments by 15 lamps remained on the same footing as formerly.

52. Electric Lighting, City.—No alteration has been made in the number of lamps which remains at 75.

53. Gas Lighting, Kowloon.—No alteration has been made in the number of lamps which remains at 241.

54. Electric Lighting, Kowloon.—No alteration has been made in the number of lamps which remains at 22.

55. Maintenance of Praya Walls and Piers.—The following is a statement of the principal items of expenditure under this vote:

Blake Pier (painted with anti-corrosive paint), $1,084 Murray Pier, $735 Water Police Pier, Kowloon Point, $450 Ship Street Pier, $448 Harbour Office Pier, $321 Causeway Bay Breakwater, $310 Queen's Statue Wharf, $246 Green Island Pier $230 Kennedy Town Pier, $230 Arsenal Street Pier, $220

56. Maintenance of Public Cemetery.—An extension of the Cemetery to provide an area for the burial of Non-Christians was taken in hand and the work was nearly completed at the close of