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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 11TH MAY, 1889.

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簿五十三第

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 13.

THURSDAY, 2ND MAY, 1889.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

(SIR G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G.)

The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART).

the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).

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

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

WONG SHING.

CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK, (vice the Honourable JOHN BELL-IRVING.

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 26th ultimo, were read and confirmed.

C.S.O. 588 of 1889.

VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE.-His Excellency addressed the Council on the subject of the recent disbandment of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, and expressed the thanks of Government and of the community for the maintenance of the Brigade and for the valuable services rendered by its late members.

57 of 1889.

C. O. Desp. FRENCH AND GERMAN MAIL STEAMERS. -His Excellency also informed the Council that the question of the privileges granted to the French and German Mail Steamers was receiving the attention of Her Majesty's Government.

60 of 1889.

C. O. Desp. NORTH CHINA FAMINE FUND.-His Excellency further intimated that the action of the Council in voting the sum of $10,000 in January last towards the relief of the sufferers from famine in North China had received the approval of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

BILL ENTITLED THE PASSENGERS RELIEF ORDINANCE, 1889.-The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of this Bill.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a first time,