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rainy season-not setting in at the usual time, the Colony has been suffering from famine and the severest water shortage ever known, which has been the cause of great inconvenience to all classes, and of much distress amongst the poor, who have had to purchase water at rates varying from 5 to 10 cents a bucket from persons who made it their business to bring it from the other side of the island or from the Chinese Coast opposite. The water in the Reservoir at Pokfulam was yesterday thirty-five feet below the byewash, and a careful estimate made by the Surveyor General showed that by reducing the daily supply running into Town it might be made to last for a period of not more than seventeen days. Fortunately the ... weather broke yesterday afternoon, and there seems to be no apprehension of drought.
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2. With the view of further relieving the poorer classes, arrangements were made for bringing water in floating tanks from distant streams
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rainy
season-
not
setting
in at the
usual time, the Colony has been
suffering from
famine
the severest water
ever known, which has.
been the cause
of great.
inconvenience
to all classes, and of much distress amongst the poor, who have had to purchase water at rates varying from 5 to 10 cents a bucket from persons who made it their business to bring it from the other side of the island or from the Chinese
Coast opposite. The water in the Reservoir at Vok foolum
was
1 yesterday thirty five
thirty-five feet below the byewash and
a.
careful estimate made by the Surveyor General shewed that by reducing the daily supply running into Town it might be made to last for a period of not more than seventeen days. Fortunately the ___ weather broke yesterday afternoon,
and there seems to be no
apprehension of drought.
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2.
With the view
further
of
relieving the poorer classes arrangements were made for bringing water in floating tanks from distant streams
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