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will ere

long

be

ww

augmented

demand for land. Population is

in the

rapidly growing

the neighbourhood of Spring Gardens and the removal of Hospital still which is close to that locality would provide valuable ground

and furnish excellent materials for extending and utilizing

the

sea

frontage.

The western extremity of the City is filling

rapidly with Chinese settlers

even more

and I quite concur with the Colonial

Secretary in opinion that the deprecatory observations on the futurity of the Colony

which have obtained circulation in foreign

parts are the result

of a hasty judgment in England

and uninformed judgment, - to which the statistics of Staunton

are an emphatic and most

forcible contradiction

12.

The improvement of the Road leading to Aberdeen and Stanley and the erection of the Aberdeen Docks now nearly completed will bring to the Southern portions of the Island

a

population whose presence must tend greatly to increase the value of the Crown property

13.

The

The possession of the small

Island sporadically around the Island is becoming

of

more and more

importance. To

say nothing of questions of sanitary

and Naval defence, it would be