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made by the Magistrate or by the summary Actions of the Police.
THE CONDITION OF YEE WOO STREET,
No Bos. T H. WHITEHEAD had given notice of the following question-Has the attention of the Honourable the Director of Public Works been directed to the dan. gecons cadition of Yee Woo Street at the corner of Mr. Kennedy's Horse Repository at Causeway Bay and alongside the site of the proposed new Laundry to be erected there; and to the fact that the south-east boundary stone of the latter lot projects somon six inches abore the level of the ground and has been placed well nigh in the middle of the road; and to the fact that on the south vide a drain has been dug of considerable depth, without any protection; and will the Honourable, member inform the Council why this state of inatters is permitted to continue P"
The DIRECTOR OF PUBL WORKS replied as follows:-The question seem to refer, not to Yee Wo Street, in which no trench has been dug or boundary stone fixed, but to an un- fluished road now auder construction, leading to Tai Hang village. The trench, to feet in depth, was opened in order that a water-main might be extended, the extension being reu- dered necessary by the sale of land in the neighbourhood. The boundary stone is not in the middle of any road, but correctly marks the boundary of land sold some time ago While a road is in an incomplete stare, the persons who elect to use it must necessarily
suffer some inconvenience,"
THE SHELL-COLLECTING CASES. The. Hon. f. H. WHITEHEAD-I rise to move the resolution standing in my name, which ruus as follows: That the Honourable the Colonial Secretary lay upon the table a copy of the Crown Leases granted last autumn to the Lee Hing Company for the dredging and collect ing of shells in and around Pig Chau Island in the New Territory, asked for in my question of 15th February last." Of the 15th of last month in this Council I asked for the produe tion of the Crown lease in question. Your Ex- cellency then said, do not see anything in the question aboy a copy of the lease. The honourable member can however see a
copy of the lease/ I applied for & copy of the lease verbally to the Clerk of Coun. cils. and in reply I WAS referred to the Land Office, where I was told I could see a copy. I sabuit, sir, that it is scarcely fair treatment for a member of this Council to be asked to go to a department of Government when he desires that a copy of a public paper should be laid on the table, 1 did not ask for the lease in question for my own information or for my own personal use. I ask for it for the information and guidance of the Council generally. I submit that we have a right to a Copy of the Crown loase in order that we may
see whether the instructions of the Secretary o State have been carried out.
The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY-I not think the honourable member's recollection of what took place on the 15th February quite avenrate.
It is true Your Excellenty said there was no objection to his seeing the lease, and I suggested to the honourable toewber that he could see the lease at the Land Office He does not appear to have done so, an since he was informed to that effect a sui has been instituted in the Supreme Concl bearing upon that lease, and it does not seem at all desirable now to lay ou the table a document which is fully the subject of RAFT. litigation.
lis EXCELLENCY the FOVERNOR AS that Acting Colonial Secretary bas stated, this loas is the subject of litigation at the present moment, and the honourable member will sea that to produce this lease here would be really invite the Legislative Council to undertake the executive work of the Colouy, which, I think, is very unsirable. If there is anything in proper in the lease the Court will set it right If anything is before the Court the Court is the proper place to consider it. It does not seem to me to be desirable to lay it before the Council. As the Colonisi Secretary has stuted a gopy of the lease can be seen at any time in the Land Office by anybody.
The Hos. T. H. WHITEHEAD-That being so, I do not see what prevents the Government Nom laying a copy on the table. I believe it i within my right to go to the Land Office, par a f and get a copy, but a member of the Count should not have to go there and follow such a course.
His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR-Does the honourable gentleman wish to divide ?
The AcÒNG Colonial SKORTARY—I wish to point out at the resolution has not been se conded.
THE NEW TERĀĮTORIES LAND COURT BILL
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