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10.-COUNCILS AND ASSEMBLIES.

Executive Council.-The Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Registrar General, and the Honourable N. G. MITCHELL-INNES, Colonial Treasurer, were admitted Members of the Executive Council. The Honourable A. J. LEACH joined the Council on appointment as Acting Attorney General.

The

Legislative Council.-The Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Registrar General, and the Honourable N. G. MITCHELL-INNES, Colonial Treasurer, were admitted Members of the Council. Honourable F. A. COOPER and the Honourable W. C. H. HASTINGS joined the Council on appoint- ment as Acting Surveyor General and Acting Harbour Master respectively.

Sanitary Board.-The Honourable J. H. S. LOCKHART appointed Chairman, vice The Honourable S. BROWN. Mr. U LIN YUEN appointed vice Mr. WONG SHING, resigned.

Board of Examiners.-No changes were made.

11.-CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT.

Sir G. WILLIAM DES VEUX was absent from the Colony, by permission, from the 7th May till his retirement, and during his absence Major-General G. DIGBY BARKER, C.B., administered the Government. The Honourable FRANCIS FLEMING, C.M.G., was absent on leave from February till the end of the year. Mr. GOODMAN acted during his absence. The Honourable W. M. DEANE, C.M.G., Captain Superintendent of Police, was pensioned.

Temporary changes occurred in various Departments owing to Officers going on or returning from leave.

12.-OFFICERS WHO HAVE GIVEN SECURITY FOR THE Discharges of THEIR DUTIES. The validity of the sureties of the various Officers was duly enquired into at the end of the year and found to be satisfactory.

13.- PENSIONS.

The following Officers retired on pension during the year-

2 Heads of Departments, 2 Turnkeys, 2 Overseers of Works, 2 Inspectors of Police and 19

Police Constables.

14.-EXPENDITURE OF THE DEPARTMENTS.

The amounts paid during the year on account of the Departments were :—

Payments in Great Britain in Sterling money,.......... Payments in the Colony in Local Currency,

15. FOREIGN CONSULS.

No new Consulates were established in the Colony during 1891.

16.-POPULATION.

The estimated population on the 31st December, 1890,

which is 4,260 more than the estimated population at the end of 1889.

.£24,724. 6s. 8d.

.$916,809.71.

..198,742

The census was taken in 1891, the population being returned as 221,441, of which 157,585 were males, and 63,856 females.

The following is the mean estimated population for the last 9 years:

Years. 1883,....

Males.

Females.

Total.

.124,768

48,707

173,475

1884.

130,560

50,969

181,529

1885,

.137,079

53,515

190,594

1886,...

.144,550

56,440

200,990

1887...

.152,427

60,524

212,951

1888,....

.154,500

61,300

215,800

1889,.... ....138,033

56,449

194,482

1890,..

198,742

1891,.....159,969

64,845

224,814

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