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4.

The Public Works and Public works

Roads of the Colony

the Colony have

involved an ou

a sum?

outlay of no less

than £33,224. 8% 5-; but

On

it is satisfactory to know that

the work which has absorbed.

nearly

O

half of this sum,

viz :

The Fox - fo- lum Reservoir,

is verging

completion, and

the

com =

bids fair to repay munity most amply for the heavy culley which has been

entlay

incurred. The other undertakings

which have drawn prominently which on the

resources of

of the Colony " are the Court House, Telegraphic

communication around the

Island. Accommodation for the

fail staff, and repave of

Sea Wall:

the

Sepulation 5. The day fixed upon for

laking the Census of the British and Foreign community, viz. the 278. April 1871, not being convenient period for collecting statistics of the Chinese Population, the Census regarding

them

A

کرتا ہے تم کر رہے ہیں

lakon, with the aspent of the Secretary of State; in Ocleber 1870. The returns are not however to be altogether relied, upon as a prone

ave

the Chinese, like other

- Asiatics, to suspect the Authoritiz to have some covert design,

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