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the
the cheap and efficient labour of Chinese. The execution of the buildings is such as can be rarely met with in any Colony. A good road now extends within five miles of the circumference of the island, 10 miles being completed out
of 23, and another road crosses the island from Victoria to Stanley. The excellent contour Survey of Hongkong, made the Engineer Department, leaves, nothing to be desired on that point.
The drainage of the Town, so important on every account, may bes
nearly completed
considered as
by
With the prospect of having the principal Civil buildings ersecuted by the Ordnance Department, I have confined those crected by the Land Office to three Police Stations, and the Building now occupied by the Post
Office
Legislation.
Population
Office Department, the latter yielding a Xent of £150 a year to the Colony
Under the head of Legislation, fourteen Ordinances were passed during the
5 year 1045, some of them amending previous enactments. The first a immediate wants of the Colony may now be considered as supplied, and future Ordinances will be required only as
occasion shall arise.
The Population Return in the Blue Book is entirely exclusive of Troops, which, including the Madras Native Regiment, amount to nearly 1600.
The above Return exhibits a total Population of 23,740 persons Of these, the Whites are 634, of whom 501
are
• males, and 133 females The Coloured Population, consisting almost entirely of the Registered Chinese, amounts to
23,114