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Post Office should be discounted by a liability amounting

approximately to $25,000 for transit charges on mails sent

via Siberia. The Sanitary Department again shows a con-

-siderable saving on the estimate, which is due to the

Colony's comparative immunity from Plague during the year.

The large decrease in Public Works Extraordinary is account

-ed for by the postponement of the Tytan Tuk Scheme

Second Section, and by delays on the part of the Contract-

-ors for the Kowloon Waterworks Gravitation Scheme, the

Law Courts and the Post Office.

The principal items making up the

increase in Miscellaneous Services are Loss in Exchange

transactions ($31,442), Refunds of Revenue on vacant tene-

-ments ($9,656) and Land exchanged at Tsim Sha Tsui with

the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company ($10,261)

which completes the land exchanges with this Company

sanctioned in Mr. Lyttelton's Despatch No. 221 of 22nd.

July,

1904. This last liability was not reported to me in

time to permit of Legislative authority being obtained and

as it seemed desirable to discharge it before the close of

the year,

I anticipated Your Lordship's approval and that

of the Council and shall explain the matter when the

Appropriation Account and Supplementary Finance Bill are

under