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Trade & Industries.-Union Dock Co. registered (31/7) with capital of $500,000. H.K. Canton & Macao Steamboat Co. started (19/10) with capital of $750,000.
Public Works.-Central Police Station (for officers and 176 constables), Victoria Gaol (120 single and 8 associated cells and accommodation for debtors), Post Office (sorting and 11 other rooms), Volunteer H.Q. (demolished 1905), Su Kun Pu School (for 150 scholars) and Sai Ying Pun School (for 75 scholars) completed. City lighted with 400 gas lamps in March. Battery Road laid out at West Point and first sections of Robinson and MacDonnell Roads in Kowloon.
Legislation.-Companies, associations and partnerships of more than 20 regulated by Companies Ord. (No. 1). Ords. Nos. 2 to 7 consolidated criminal law of H.K. on lines of U.K. Acts of 1861.
1866.
Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, Kt., C.B.
(11.3.1866 to 11.4.1872).
(Major-General H. W. Whitfield administered from 29.10.1868 to 12.12.1868 and from 13.4.1870 to 8.10.1871).
Principal Events.-H.K. Royal Mint opened (4); it had cost $400,000 to establish and involved annual expenditure of $70,000; commission appointed in Oct. to enquire into its working. System of branding and deporting criminals and flogging them if they returned to H.K. introduced. Volunteer Corps disbanded owing to non-attendance of members.
Trade & Industries.-Period of commercial depression which lasted till 1869 set in; 2 banks suspended payment. H.K. & Shanghai Bank converted into Corporation by Ord. (No. 2); capital $5,000,000. H.K. & Whampoa Dock Co. formed (11/10); capital $750,000.
406
Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
16-
Trade & Industries.-Union Dock Co. registered (31/7) with capital of $500,000. H.K. Canton & Macao Steamboat Co. started (19/10) with capital of $750,000.
Public Works.-Central Police Station (for officers and 176 constables), Victoria Gaol (120 single and S associated cells and accommodation for debtors), Post Office (sorting and 11 other rooms), Volunteer H.Q. (demolished 1905), Su Kun Pu School (for 150 scholars) and Sai Ying Pun School (for 75 scholars) completed. City lighted with 400 gas lamps in March. Battery Road laid out at West Point and first sections of Robinson and MacDonnell Roads in Kowloon.
Legislation.-Companies, associations and part- nerships of more than 20 regulated by Companies Ord. (No. 1). Ords. Nos. 2 to 7 consolidated criminal law of H.K. on lines of U.K. Acts of 1861.
1866.
Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, Kt., C.B.
(11.3.1866 to 11.4.1872).
(Major-General H. W. Whitfield administered from 29.10.1868 to 12.12.1868 and from 13.4.1870 to 8.10.1871).
Principal Events.-H.K. Royal Mint opened /4); it had cost $400,000 to establish and involved annual expenditure of $70,000; commission appointed in Oct. to enquire into its working. System of branding and deporting criminals and flogging them if they return- ed to H.K. introduced. Volunteer Corps disbanded owing to non-attendance of members.
Trade & Industries.-Period of commercial depression which lasted till 1869 set in; 2 banks suspended payment. H.K. & Shanghai Bank converted into Corporation by Ord. (No. 2); capital $5,000,000. H.K. & Whampoa Dock Co. formed (11/10); capital $750,000.
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