QUESTION. Mr. STEWART, pursuant to notice, asked the following question:-
With reference to reports which have appeared in the local Press concerning the alleged unsatisfactory state of some of the stone railway bridges under con- struction in Kowloon and the New Territory, have the Government any information to impart?
The Colonial Secretary replied.
APPROPRIATION BILL.-The Colonial Secretary moved the First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Five million five hundred and seventy thousand four hundred and twenty-seven Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1909.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
His Excellency the Governor addressed the Council.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
EVIDENCE (COLONIAL STATUTES) ACT 1907 INTERPRETATION BILL.-The Attorney General moved the First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to extend a certain defini- tion in the Imperial Act styled the Evidence (Colonial Statutes) Act 1907.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
THEATRES AND PUBLIC PERFORMANCES REGULATION BILL.The Attorney General moved the First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance for regulating Theatres and other places of public resort.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned until Thursday, the 8th October, 1908.
Read and confirmed, this 8th day of October, 1908.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.
F. D. LUGARD,
Governor.
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