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and Central Police Exchange; (4) Between Cable House, North Point, and Shau- kiwan; (5) Forty-two new poles were erected at points where required between Shaukiwan and Cape D'Aguilar; (6) Forty-three new iron 25-foot poles were erected between Hunghom and Poo-kom-poo near Kowloon City.
All these have been inade capable of taking metallic circuit.
Alterations to existing routes :—
(1.) New arm insulator wire, &c., have been erected and metallic circuits. completed between Austin Road, Tsim-sha-tsui and Mong-kok- tsui,
(2.) From Pottinger Street central to West Point the small 3" and 6" brackets have been removed and 4-foot arms substituted. This change entirely prevents the wires coming in contact with each other.
Exchanges.-(1.) The Tsim-sha-tsui Police Exchange was removed from Charge Roon to a small room adjoining. A new 30-line telephone switchboard with carbon lightning arrester has been fitted and preparations completed to receive metallic circuit.
(2.) A new 50-line switchboard, telephone, micro-telephone. 50-line lightning arrester board, 190 No. 3 ampére fuses and a testing table with instruments com- plete are being fitted at the Exchange Telephone Room at the Central Police Station.
All lines have been fitted with lightning arresters.
Re-fitting lines.-(1.) Green Island Signal Station and (2.) the Telephone at No. 2 Tank, Tai-ping-shan, were re-fitted with new Instrument, &c., as the result of the fires which destroyed these places; (3.) Sisters' Quarters, Government Civil Hospital, re-fitted with new copper wire and indicator board; (4.) Governor's Peak Residence re-fitted with new wires and indicator board and (5.) Maternity Hospital re-fitted with new wires and bells.
Electric bells were installed at :-
European School, Kowloon; Victoria Hospital, Peak; Government House; Central Police Station, (A. S. P.'s Quarters); Magistracy, (large and small Courts) and Crown Solicitor's Office.
General. The new Hongkong Electric Tramway has caused much trouble by induction.
A test was made. of the Government lines, before the train ca's were running, in the presence of the Manager of the Hongkong Electric Tramways Co., the Manager of the Hongkong Telephone Co.. and an Executive Engineer of the Public Works Department. The same lines were again tested while the trams were running and forms the subject of a special report.
To avoid the evil effects of the induction, netallic circuit will have to be arranged for, and extensive preparations have already been made for this.
The new 8-cored cable laid across the Harbour (referred to in para. 64) has stopped all trouble from interruption by breakage, a common source of it in past years.
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20. (Item 4.) Maintenance of Telegraph in New Territory. Sixty-two new iron 25-ft. poles were erected between Fau Fan and Tai Po l'olice Station in place of the wooden ones.
The cable between Cape D'Aguilar and Waglan was broken but was success- fully mended.
Cemetery.
21. (Item 5.) Maintenance of Public Cemetery.-The Cemetery was main- tained in good order with the exception of a few places where landslips occurred during heavy rainstorm causing damage to some monuments.
Some very necessary heavy retaining walls with turfed banks have been erected between the Protestant and Roman Catholic Cemeteries where the ground was very liable to slips.
Permits to the number of 79' were issued for the erection and repair of
inonuments.
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