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No. 29.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 5TH JULY, 1890.

日五初月七年十九百八千一

VOL. XXXVI.

簿六十三第

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 17.

MONDAY, 23RD JUNE, 1890.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT (The Honourable FRANCIS FLEMING, C.M.G.).

The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary. (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE, C.M.G.).

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the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).

the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.).

the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).

the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).

PHINEAS RYRIE.

ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.

CATCHICK Paul ChateR.

JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.

Ho KAI, M.B.. C.M.

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 16th June, were read and confirmed.

Hon. HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.. having been appointed Acting Colonial Treasurer during the absence on sick leave of the Hon. A. LISTER, took the usual oath and his seat as a Member of the Council.

PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE.

-The Acting Colonial Secretary laid on the table the report of the Director of the Observatory for 1889 and a report by the Hon O. CHADWICK on the drainage of the Lower Western and Central District of Victoria.

Read the following Minutes under the hand of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-

F. FLEMING.

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C.5.0. 1366 and 173

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of of 1890. Five thousand Eight hundred and Forty-four Dollars and Twelve Cents. ($5,844.12), for the construction of a telegraph line between the Observatory at Kowloon and the Office of the Telegraph Company at Hongkong.

Also a separate line from Victoria Peak to Central Police Station to transmit ineteoro- logical telegrams six times a day.

Cost of line, including submarine cable to Kowloon, (£900),

Cost of Instruments for Kowloon.

Line from Peak to Police Station...

.$ 5,383.18

260.94

$ 5,644.12 200.00

$5,844.12

Government House, Hongkong, 14th June, 1890.