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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JULY, 1893.

Table B.

THE HILL DISTRICT, HONGKONG VILLAGES, KOWLOON POINT, KOWLOON VILLAGES.

LOCALITY.

VALUATION 1892-93.

VALUATION 1893-94.

INCREASE.

DECREASE.

$

$

Hill District,.

93,260

87,230

6,030

Hongkong Villages,

99,118

126,612

27,494

Kowloon Point,......

100,080

102,270

2,190

Kowloon Villages,

171,318

175,672

4,354

ARTHUR CHAPMAN,

Assessor.

Table C.

THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.

INCREASE.

DECREASE.

LOCALITY.

VALUATION 1892-93.

VALUATION 1893-94.

Amount.

Per-

centage.

Amount.

Per- centage.

07

City of Victoria,.............

3,167,170

3,145,409

21,761 0.68

Hill District,

93,260

87,230

6,030

6.46

Hongkong Villages,

99,118

126,612

27,494 27.78

Kowloon Peninsula,

271,398

277,942

6,544

2.41

:

$ 3,630,946

$ 3,637,193

$34,038

$27,791

Deduct Decrease,..........

27,791

Total net Increase in the Rateable Value of the whole Colony,... $ 6,247

0.17 per cent.

ARTHUR CHAPMAN,

Assessor.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 282.

It is hereby notified that Her Majesty has not been advised to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to Ordinance No. 7 of 1893, entitled-An Ordinance to provide means for ascertaining the amounts to be paid by way of compensation in respect of the Wharves and Piers along the line of the Praya Reclamation, to fix the periods for the payment thereof and for other purposes in connection therewith.

By Command,

G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th July, 1893.