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engrossed my

attention, Shave

Your

been unable to address

Lordship until now, on the subject of the proposed new gad for stong Kong, respecting which Lord Kimberley addressed my predecessor in last leptember". "Lecretary of

heavy

15165 n°196 of 8 2. Having regard to the september

calls which will be made calls

in

on the Iolonial Treasury by the many sanitary works progress, and in contemplation, and looking to the inmited Staff of the Surveyor General, the Executive and Legislative Councils are of opinion chat it will be necessary to defer the

construction

construction of the new gad for

two years

or thereabouts. I

cannot do otherwise, after a

careful consideration of all the circumstances, chan concur with that opinion.

3. I have the lesshesitation

in recommending this postponement to four Lordship since I have had the opportunity of considering the enclosed prison returns prepared by the /olonial secretary. These returns show that the criminals committed to the Victoria, padl since 1879, increased each.

including year until February 1882; when their number, after

Culmear.

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