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To the [cause] caused, much of the woodwork to decay; cement has fallen down in five or several of these places, and I fear it will be necessary to reconstruct all that portion of the defective part. I have, however, delayed making a full report of the particular circumstances and the necessary expense of the repairs until I have made further examinations upon the effects produced on these parts by the rain, a sufficiency of which has not fallen to show what I require.
In the Lower Bazaar much of my time in the early part of the year was occupied in superintending the erection of houses after the fire. As the new [houses] were being built, I desired to instil into the Chinese the great advantage to be derived from a better manner of erecting their houses — the prevention of the contact of timbers, and the benefit that would accrue to them in future years by the substitution of stone in place of wood, so plentifully used for arches and other means used in the erection of supporting frames or walls. Although they appear to have been fully alive to these circumstances, they would not carry them into effect, as they were in such a hurry to finish the dwellings that it was with the utmost difficulty I could compel them to build as directed, particularly with solid walls. Indeed, several had summarily to be pulled down, and throughout the whole district every means was tried to deceive me, and scamp work — which certainly it was more to their advantage than to mine to have properly constructed — was attempted.
The want of money, jealousies, and other matters have delayed the construction of the proposed Strand Road, so very essential a feature in the new plan of the district as the...
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