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small building weekly for this purpose, but meanwhile I should be glad if Your Lordship would invite Mr Warren de la Rue, the chairman of the Kew Committee of the Royal Society, to furnish us with a list of the instruments required for recording the observations to which he refers in the letter forwarded by Sir Michael Hicks Beach's despatch No. 105 of 18th August 1879.

I am in communication on this subject also with the Observatories at Zi Ka Wei (Shanghai), and at St. Helena, and at Hong Kong.

9. Now that the repairs of the Praya Wall are almost completed, Mr. Price will be able to prepare plans for a Breakwater, or Typhoon refuge, on which Sir Michael Hicks Beach sanctioned an expenditure of $40,000 from the Special Fund. These plans will be duly submitted to Your Lordship, before the works are begun.

10. In addition to voting sums for the renewal of street lamps in the city of Victoria, and sums for the Roads and Street Contingencies, I have especially taken note of the remarks on the state of the streets and lanes in the western part of this town. Early last year I drew Mr. Price's attention to the fact that some of those streets and lanes had not been touched by the

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348 small building weekly for this purpose, but meanwhile I should be glad if Your Lordship would invite Mr Warren de la Rue, the chairman of the Kew Committee of the Royal Society, to furnish us with a list of the instruments required for recording the observations to which he refers in the letter forwarded by Sir Michael Hicks Beach's despatch No. 105 of 18th August 1879. I am in communication on this subject also with the Observatories at Zi Ka Wei (Shanghai), and at St. Helena, and at Hong Kong. 9. Now that the repairs of the Praya Wall are almost completed, Mr. Price will be able to prepare plans for a Breakwater, or Typhoon refuge, on which Sir Michael Hicks Beach sanctioned an expenditure of $40,000 from the Special Fund. These plans will be duly submitted to Your Lordship, before the works are begun. 10. In addition to voting sums for the renewal of street lamps in the city of Victoria, and sums for the Roads and Street Contingencies, I have especially taken note of the remarks on the state of the streets and lanes in the western part of this town. Early last year I drew Mr. Price's attention to the fact that some of those streets and lanes had not been touched by the

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drew Mr. Pric's attention

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