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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMEN
JULY,
LY, 1878.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 27th July, 1878.
SIR,-After giving my best consideration to your letter of the 29th of June, and with the most anxious desire to meet your wishes, I do not think I should be justified in recommending any further appropriation from the Treasury of this Colony for the China Famine Relief Fund.
2. My predecessor, Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY, obtained a vote of $1,380 and I had the satisfaction of obtaining the consent of the Legislative Council, and of Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH to a further vote of $10,000. In addition to this, the European Community here subscribed about $12,900, and the Chinese Community about $108,000; being a total of over one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars.
3. Looking to the limited population of this Colony, it may perhaps be only fair to say, that no Community in any part of the Globe has contributed more, in proportion, for the Famine Fund than the Community of Hongkong.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
W. S. WETMORE, Esquire,
Chairman of the
China Famine Relief Fund.
Your most obedient Servant,
J. POPE HENNESSY.
CHINESE HOUSES.
The following Documents relating to the structures of Chinese Houses in the Chinese part of the Town of Victoria, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th July, 1878.
(Translation.)
To His Excellency
JOHN POPE HENNESSY,
L.G., Governor of Hongkong, &c.,
&c.,
&c.
PRICE,
Secretary.
The humble Memorial of the undersigned, Land Owners
and Residents in the Colony of Hongkong.
SHEWETH:-Your Memorialists venture to memorialize your Excellency with reference to the following subject:-
A letter has been brought to their notice recently addressed by the Honourable Mr. PRICE, Surveyor General, to Mr. R. G. ALFORD, regarding certain plans for Chinese houses, prepared by the latter, as Architect, for Mr. LEE TAK CHEONG and others, which had been officially laid before Mr. PRICE. Your Memorialists observe from this letter that your Excellency concurs in objections raised to these plans by the Surveyor General on the ground that houses built in accordance with them would be unhealthy, and in the suggestions made by the Surveyor General for improving the ventilations of the houses by widening an alley space already allowed for in one plan, and by allowing space for two alleys where such had not been provided for in the other.
The terms of Mr. PRICE's letter lead your Memorialists to infer that your Excellency in concurring in the suggested alterations and the reasons for them is, to a certain extent, laying down or is prepared to lay down general principles for the guidance of all land owners intending to build Chinese houses, because having been shewn the plans in question they observe that the buildings as designed are for a very superior class of residence, that they provide for the ordinary requirements of
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