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Legislatures, to avoid the introduction of ... shipplementary Estimetos. Not to mention

muany

other emergeneic which enforce

expenditure;

such

as war; pestilence, and commercial. depression or disaster, ib will be recollected

extraordinary uved immediate expena

that, in the fine phrase of Lord Rufferin, "Nature herself often rives upugainst a "Colonial Government. This is expecially

the case in a tropical Colony,

circumstanced as is Hongtong, where extraordinary and immediate.

of

outlay

I public fundo is constantly required

to repair

the

damages

to public

buildings

H

3.

buildings, and to roads, bridges, wharves, and other public Works, caused, directly

or indirectly, by floods and hurricanes.

Fo

sum up : — there is

there is ample

documentary evidence to prove that »

the

every effort has been made to maintain. striel economy, especially during recent financial depression. In fact,

it would have been im possible, without

verious

● financial embarrassment, to

have carried out the extensive Works

Hater Supply, Sanitation, and (). efe ne which Her Majesty's Government e-

directed to be undertaken, if every economy

consultat