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we had only so such cases. This, I believe, nected with all the police stations in the Colony, a stop to them, and especially of I am bound to say they are now usefully.em-

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The ground on the beach at Kowloon between Tsimtsa-trui and, the Royal Naval Coal Sheds was sold lately by Government to some influential capitalists in the Cokany, who peupose willing t for commercial purposes by

Godowns and Col Sheds thereon. sea wall being erected in front and for the whole length of the ground, wharves will st

l also be consumeted at intervais a

along the Temat of the sea wall so that vessels of large tonnage can lay along- side and either discharge or take in cargo, as any state of the

and strung gales by the Kowloon hila, Men-ofwar anditeam- ship anchor imunadiately in front of this place during the typhoon

"The ground wiring large by them, a strong

ide and is all weathers, this position being sheltered from typhoons

season. The storage capacity of the whole of the godowns with about 375,000 tons, and the capist that will have been laid out on the project when completed will exered one million dollars,

find the next lots are lots brought by Euro- pean friends of mine, some as sites for bungalows on the hills-Messrs. Alford, Ede, Remedios, stephens, and others. The ground is still unoc cupied. Next we come to a lot, at Belcher's Day, which was sold for $36,100. In point of fact believe that on that lot there will be constructed a dock of large dimensions, for some of the Chi- nese gentlemen who purchased that valuable piece of Crown land have expressed to me their regret that Her Majesty's ship Inconstant should be seen leaving this harbour to proceed to Naga- sake to be docked, and they undertake that when they have an opportunity of making their new dock, Hongkong will then have a dock capable of taking in the largest vessel in Her Majesty's service. I find certain works which were under- taken in Duddell-street, and for a small portion of which some Crown land was sold. My hon. friend on my left (Mr. Belilies) has those works in hand also. Upon that site there is now being built, as you see, substantial and magnificent godowns, and 1 think some of these, as many as nine of them, though not yet finished, are actually let. Finally, I come to a lot with respect to which there has been a good deal of talk, inland lot No. 837, which was sold for $24,500 to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. That is a lot about half- way between this and shau-ki-wan, at a place called Quarry Bay, and the only reason why any one can speak of the Government having got larger prices than it really ought to expect for land is that perhaps with reference to the sale of that lot an incident occurred which might rise to the idea there was some speculation. I think it was $5,000 or $6,000 that in consultation with Mr. Blowdier we arranged as the sum at which the upset price for that lot should be fixed.

The only other class of crime to which I will refer is compared with $11,923 in the preceding year, tion under that Ordinance, would cause an in- constructed in the Colony of Hongkong, for the one which has engaged a good deal of the One large cause of increase is the typhoon break creasc, of contagious diseases amongst the troops. surgar refinery a little further in the east, which Those who had not an opportunity of knowing is called the East Point Sugar Refinery, consists attention of his honour the Chief Justice, water in Causeway Bay, the expenditure upon

the facts circulated these rumours throughout the of buildings which, as you are aware, were “ton-' and that is kidnapping." With reference which is $30,095. The work is proceeding, and to that crime, you are aware that Lord Kimber- will be so far completed before the next typhoon Colony, and I believe even to this day it is gene structed originally with a view of doing some season, as to furnish at that time, if we should rally understood in some quarters that though it WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ley instructed me to approve in his name of a

regard to the currency Hercules Robinson con-

of the Colony by establish Chinese Society, which now deals practically have a typhoon, a substantial protection to the was admitted that the abuses which I put ausent thing to remedy the inconvenience felt with.

to were revolting abuses; though it was

admitted ing

here a Mint, Sir GENERAL CHEMISTS, with the suppression of that crime, acting in con- junk population. There has been a slight in-

cert with the Captain. Superintendent of Police. crease in the item of street lamps, which amounts that it was impossible any Government could structed those fine buildings for a Mint. They The consequence is that the smallest number of to $31,418. There is an increase in the telegraph sanction some of the abuses which were were subsequently sold think it was unfortu

nate for less than a third of what they cost, but detected by the Commission, yet neverthe kidnapping cases that occurred in the four service from $2,900 to $5,600. As you are aware,

I have referred to was in 1881, when our telegraphic communications are now conless

canscri by the employment of paid ployed by an energetic company, the China sugar is owing to the operations of the Chinese so- Two small submarine lines have been laid across informers, the stopping of these matters it Refining Company. With regard to the gar ciety, the skill and energy of the police force, the harbour, and you are also no doubt aware was said undoubtedly caused an increase in refinery being built by the Chinese a little nearer and the action of the supreme Court in that we are substituting iron posts in the place of the amount of disease amongst the troops. the town, the machinery for that building is being heavy sentences on those who are the ordinary wooden poles. Amongst the other 1 need hardly say that the Ordinance was obtained from Scotland; it is of the best kind, Ponvicted of that offence. I believe that by these iniscellaneous items which account for this in- passed at the instance of the Office Com- with all the latest improvements, and the kind? means the principal kidnappers are at crease i find the item of compensation to hit had been devised for the troops, and for what I find that a small lot, inland lot No. 622, was manding the Troops here many years ago. It chinery and buildings will cost about $350,000 present moment locked up in our gaol. Amongst Coughtric of $1,500 That compensation, 1 the other Ordinances passed in 1881, is Ordinance think, was claimed in May, 1878, at all events was called protecting the sokliers and sailors. sold for $510 to a European gentleman for the No. 14, the Companies' Ordinance, which intro- considerable time ago, by Air. Coughtrie, for an Now, in looking to the result of changes I felt it storage of timber. Next there is a lot sold for duced some reforms that were pressed upon my injury which lie stated was done to his dwelling my duty to make, I recently asked for a return $2,525 to another European gentleman for kero- attention by my honourable friend, the senior un-house by the bursting of a drain, and he from the Military Authorities showing the sine godowns. These godowns have been nearly held the survery Department responsible for it. number of soldiers suffering from contagious completed. The next fot, a small one, sold for official member of the Legislative Council. It is an Ordinance that facilitates the work of those He applied for $1,500, and, after a very long discases during the four years past; that is $205, is still unoccupied. I come now to a very commercial associations that are doing so much inquiry into the matter, I am happy to say that during the time that the reforms which I felt it important sale that was effected at Kowloon of to utilise the surplus capital of the Colony. In the Earl of Kimberley sanctioned the claim, necessary to introduce had been in operation. marine lots No. 20 and 21, sold, ong for $29,025 connection with the Appropriation Ordinance and that the sum of $1,500 has been paid to Here are the figures which have been furnished and the other for $24,035. They have been pur for 1882, which her Majesty has sanctioned, I him. As to the ordinary services of the Colony, to the Colonial Secretary by the Military Autho- chased by Mr. Chater. The ground is now being am laying to-day upon the table some dispatches such as the provision on an efficient police force, rities on the 23rd of January last. In 1878 the reclaimed from the sea. I had an opportunity some time ago of examining the plans and esti- and some financial papers. The financial papers providing a proper staff for the Harbour Depart number of soldiers suffering from those diseases

mates, and with respect to that important werk I am putting before you consist, as usual, of the ment, and doing what is required for the other amounted to 188, in 1879 to 183, in 1890 to 164, comparative statements of revenue and expendi- establishments in the Colony, I have no hesita- and in 1881 to 136. You therefore see that the I have been furnished by Mr. Danby with a ture of the past year in comparison with that of tion in saying that the Government has not abolition of abuses in the management of the memorandum in which he states the preceding year-that is the statement of 1881, been in any way backward: I think my hon. Contagious Diseases Ordinance has had a similar compared with that of 188 I find that the friend on my left, the head of the police force, effect to that which took place in the more im- revenue for the year 1881 amounted to over will bear me out in saying that any expenditure portant one of our penal legislation. I will not further than to say that subject upon that $1,100,000, being the largest revenue ever collect required for that force has never been refused by dwell

in the instructions given by Lord Kimberley to ed in this Colony. You are aware that for some the Executive, and the same, I think, will be said years past I have impressed upon you the fact by the gentlemen at the head of the Harbour De-me, important changes are indicated in the exist partment. As to our roads, streets, and bridges, 1ing Ordinance; when that Ordinance has been that in my opinion it was not proper to treat as actual revenue the proceeds of the sale of Crown am on the whole perfectly satisfied with the state prepared it will be my duty to submit the draft lands. The proceeds of the sale of Crown they are in. I have over and over again intim in the first instance to the Secretary of state, and lands have always held to represent the ated to Mr. Price and to Mr. Bowdler that any as when it has been sanctioned by Her Majesty's capital of the Colony, and therefore in the figures sistance required for that department, an pre- Government, it will be laid before you. I believe I shall give to you, I do not include that pared to sanction; and I believe the condition of used the words "revolting abuses" in reference to those which I put a stop to. They are in fact important item, But adding that item, we find our streets and roads, so far from being unsa tisfactory, is highly creditable to the survey that the sum actually collected amounts to

the words used by the Earl of Kimberley himself $1,300,428 The receipts of the preceding year Department. On the whole, gentlemen, I think in referring to some abuses I found existing in amounted to $1,056,000, and thus last year the you have no reason to be dissatisfied with the Hongkong. There are, on the whole, gentle amount collected was more than a quarter of a expenditure you have voted, and with the mode men, no reasons to be disappointed with the The returns million in excess of that of the preceding year. in which it has been laid out. There are certain sanitary state of the Colony.

indicate a steady improvement in the public I shall refer later on to the question of the fand works, which I was anxious to see carried out revenue, and at prescat I will only ask your several years ago, with which at that time I health, and in the health of the troops; but I am not satisfied with the health of the attention to a few of the items in some of the remember the surveyor-General expressed his principal heads of revenue. I find for instance inability to deal until the repairs to the Colony nevertheless. I think that the town of taking the item of stamp revenue that the total Praya Wall had been completed. There is Victoria might be made a model of sanitation, sum collected in 1881 amounted to $173,641, in a provision for a new gaol on Stone Cutters with its position on the slope of a hill, the the preceding year it had reached $127,623 Island, That is a matter which has been possibility of obtaining an almost unlimited showing an increase of $46,000. In looking pressed very much upon my attention by supply of water for drinking and washing pur- HONGKONG, WEDNEShay, February 8, 1882. through the stamp Returns, 1 find an increase the Government, and the Eari Kimberley has poses, and having here a native population who under a great majority of items. Bank notes in expressed an opinion that that is the only will readily carry out the Chinese custom by circulation, bills of exchange, bank cheques, bills suitable site for the gaol. You are aware also which the sewage and refuse is carried out of the of lading,

bottomry bonds, chatter parties, transfer that the work of establishing an Observatory at town, and used for agricultural purposes. Having of shares, ordinary adhesive stamps, and a large Kowloon is a matter of importance, and you a population accustomed to that sensible practice, item for conveyances and assignments. This, I also probably know that the plans and esti-I have very little doubt this Coleny can be made a model of sanitation. I observed the other day The proceedings at the meeting of the Legis need hardly tell you, is the largest revenue ever males for a new Water Police Station at Kowloon lative Council held yesterday afternoon were of collected under our stamp Ordinance. I might have been laid before. Her Majesty's Govern- that Professor Huxley said that some Oriental At to the water supply scheme, before nations that we had been in the habit of such an important and interesting character that

also say that when we called upon the Collector ment. of stamps in 1880 to estimate the amount which proceeded some months ago to Peking, in-calling barbarous, were actually more civi- we consider it advisable to publish a verbatim would be collected in 1881, he estimated it at

structed Mr. Bowdler to carry out what is known tised than ourselves in the mode in which as the Tytam scheme. He recommended the they treat sewage, and he referred especially to report, reserving our editorial comments on the $115,000, so that the increase which occurred that

the Chinese, and their mode of dealing with it. year was largely in excess of his anticipations. getting out of persons from England who were amual statement made by His Excellency the

Now, there is one item in our revenue which, com- capable of conducting technical work necessary. It is a subject in which we may have something Governor for another issue. At yesterday'spared with the two previous years, show's no for the carrying out of the scheme. Itelegraphed to learn from the Chinese. In England people are now reconsidering the question of the under- meeting there were present-

change, viz., $205,000 from the opium farnier. forthem, and in the meantime a question has been had the satisfaction of selling the opium farm raised by a very eminent gentleman now in the ground drainage system to carry off excremetn- a few years ago at an increase of price from Colony, Mr. Chadwick, as to going back upon the fitious matter by water supply, and some eminent some of nur best-sanitary authorities are $133,000 to $205,000. Bat it was said that still more expensive scheme, in contrast to the I had rather unduly forced up the price later Tytam scheme, and he is about to report in favour of what is called the Chinese of the farm, and it was anticipated that upon the matter to Her Majesty's Government process, There are, no doubt, in this Colony As to the Water Police station, that matter has other things necessary for good sanitation. when next I should have to dispose of the farm, it would be sold at a smaller figure than been delayed by a reference, very properly made Eighteen months ago I called for information the current rate; and indeed one of my officials, to the surveyor-general, who is now in London. from the survey Department as to the establish-

may mention that, as usual in such cases, I re- a man of ability and knowledge of the Colony, The plans of the Observatory have been referred ment of baths and wash-houses for the poor, and

ceived representations from Mr. Bowdler that the to eminent scientific anthorities in London, and recently I have been again in communication in a communication he made in London to one of the gentlemen in the Colonial Office, expressed am awaiting instuctions before beginning the with the leading Chinese inhabitants of the upset price was somewhat too high. From tíme to time in 1881, with respect to the lots at Bow- great apprehension with respect to the opium work. The question of the Gaol.is also before Colony on the subject, and the result is that is

a system of private baths which now exists to rington especially, I myself ventured consider- The minutes of the last meeting were read and farm, and in a memorandani which was trans- the secretary of state, and having been referred to confirmed.

mitted to me by the Secretary of State, he said.

the surveyor-General, the question has arisen some extent for Chinese, for which twenty cash ally to increase the upset price the survey Dee

are paid that system can be extended, and

partment recommended. Representations were as to the number of prisoners to be accommo- that there would be a falling off in the opium re- venue when the opium farm was sold this year.dated. When fast I addressed you upon the believe the poor will be able before long to avail made to me on the subject, but I did not feel themselves of baths and wash-houses where the justified in reducing the price. But with re- However, these anticipations have not been subject, I thought we should provide accomoda

payment will be extremely moderate, that is, spect to this particular lot I understand, in fact verified; I have sold the opium farm for 1882-3 tion for 750, and upon that subject the question

These it is a matter of notoriety, commented on in the for $210,000, so there has been no falling off has arisen as to how far it might not be desir begining at a scale of one or two cash. in the current revenue, which is $305,000. Now, able to have the gaol on Stone Cutters' Island baths and wash-houses, with a moderate supply public Press, that though the upset price was of warm water, can be built without much cost. something like $6,000 a gentleman attended at in looking through the items of revenue made to accommodate say 600 or 709, and a which I am putting upon the table, you will lock-up on this side of the harbour for 100 or You will require a certain number of them, and the sale and ran the price up to $24,500. Well, 200. That question is under the consideration when the plans are completed I will have much there can be no doubt whatever from all I under- see that in this return it states that there is

ing stand, if that gentleman had obtained the lot for for the moderate vote that their cost will entail fees of office. The increase in 1881 amounted mentioned Mr. Chadwick, who I am happy to to $20,215. On analysing that increase, say is in the Colony, and is about to report to Now I have told you that the itein from the of erecting upon it a sugar refinery. Messrs. sale of Crown lands, which reached in 1881 Butterfield and swire intend to put upon it a which I do from a return furnished me by Her Majesty's Government upon some questions my honourable friend, the Colonial Treasurer, connected with the sanitation of the Colony, the sum of $205,080, I was not disposed sugar refinery, which I am disposed to think will to treat as one of actual revenue. With be one of the best sugar refineries in the Her THE GOVERNOR'S ANNUAL STATEMENT, Captain Deane, I find the items of that increase questions which have been brought to the notice His EXCELLENCY-Honourable gentlemen of are of importance in considering the question of of Her Majesty's Covernment, as appears in the respect to that item there has also been some Majesty's Colonial empire. When I was Go vernor-in-Chief in the Windward Islands I had the Legislative Council, in opening the Legisla- the prosperity of the Colony. Ind, for instance, instructions given to Mr. Chadwick, by represen. expression of opinion in the Colony. I have seen

understand it has beca pretty an opportunity of seeing a remarkable sugar tive Session of 1882 I have to inform you that that the items for licenses and fees of junks, tations-constant representations, as Lord Kim, is stated, and the Queen has been graciously pleased to con- which atmounted in 1880 to $18,000, increased berley says-by the officer in command of the generally whispered, that the sale of Crown lands refinery built at St. Lucia, which at that time was to the condition of the Chinese effected in 1881 was really a speculative sale, that supposed to be the best in Her Majesty's colonics. firm and allow thirteen of the fourteen Ordin- in 1881 to $19,839. Now between the years troops as ances which were passed in 1881. Of these Or- 1880 and 1881, there was also an increase in the houses, and the system of drainage, which, he the Crown sold lands for sums far higher than Having seen the plants and estimates of the new dinances, No. 1 of 1881, the Macag Extradition foreign shipping, and the foreign steamers pur- says, is injuriously affecting the health of the purchasers were entitled to pay, and that the land sugar refinery, with an account of the machinery so sold would not be applied to practical pur- now on its way out, obtained from Blake, Barclay & Ordinance, is one which deals with a question chased by the Chinese. The junk trade has to troops under his command. The sanitary state

poses, but was in reality intended for specula Co., of Greenock, I have no hesitation in saying we which engaged the attention of my predecessors compete with the coasting steamers, and when of this Colony is always a question of great in- for forty years, and it has now been settled by we find that the trade of the coasting steamers, terest to us; and their being goo or 1,000 Euro tive purposes, that is, for being sold from one per- are about to have asugar refinery in Hongkongthat pean troops in the Colony, the medical supervison to another, no buildings being erected upon can compete with the large refinery at St. Lucia. the negotiations of Lord Kimberley and Lord and the general foreign shipping of the Colony

sion gives us an opportunity as it were, by means the lots. Granville with the Government of Lisbon. And increasing at the same time with an increase in

You are well aware that at one time in This new manufactory will consist of a build- though undoubtedly the credit of that settlement the junk trade, we have a combination which

of the mortality of the troops, of testing its sani the history of this Colony such things occurred, ing having nine floors; it will be constructed belongs entirely to the Home Governments, never shows the prosperous state of the commerce tary state. I do not by any means assert that and large purchases were made many years ago to a great extent of iron, on the modern system theless the advantage of it will be felt by the of this Colony. With regard to the foreign the mortality and sickness among the troops of Crown lands in certain portions of the Colony and with the latest machinery. The total sum Governments of Macao and Hongkong, for the shipping, I have not yet before me the final shows the general mortality and sickness in the which to this day have been unused. They which will be expended on the undertaking when were bought for speculative purposes and they completed will not be far short, I believe, of Executives of both colonies will now be enabled returns, but as you are aware, the revenue Colony, because it is generally greater among

remain idle. A similar charge appears to have £200,000. Now that is, gentlemen, a detailed to deal with fugitive criminals in a

certain ci the troops, but comparing year by year the mor

been made as regards the sale of the Crown account of what was done with the Crown lands could not before. Ordinance No way that they from the light dues furnishes

3 of 1881, the terion for the increase or diminution of the tality among the troops, we arrive at some con- Penal Laws Amendment Ordinance, now con- foreign shipping trade. I find that the increase clusion as to the condition of the houses in the lands in 1881. This is a matter of public in- sold by me in 1881. There is nothing in that rmed by the Queen, is not the least important on light dues of foreign shipping amounts to vicinity of the barracks. The complaints to terest, and I have therefore asked the surveyor- narrative showing what is called land specu- reform in colonial penal laws that has been $3,660. Well, that seeins in itself a small sum, which Lord Kimberley refers are made by the General to favour me with a return of the various lation; on, the contrary, it shows that the com- mercial wants of the Colony have been in- effected in our time. It repeals or amenda ten but when you remember that the light dues only Officer Commanding the Troops in Hongkong in lots sold in 1881 by the Government, with a Ordinances, some of them of exceptional severity, amount to one cent. per ton, upon the foreign 1879, 1880, and 188. I have before me a return of statement as to what has been done or is pro- creasing, that the necessity of providing more and all practically directed against one race shipping, the small apparent increase means an the mortality among the troops during those three posed to be done with the land so sold. Now, I godowns has been felt by the merchants, and that only. The Ordinance gives permanent legis increase of 266,000 tons on foreign shipping in years, and I find that the number of deaths amongst find that the first lot sold was inland lot No. 509. Dur, manufactures are increasing, and lative authority to a policy which the Royal one year in the harbour. I believe that the the white troops-that is amongst the men we It was sold for $3,500 to a Chinese gentleman, notice, and I am happy to notice, that not only. prerogative enabled me to enforce for some years tonnage of foreign shipping cleared and entered men, and children of the European troops, amount and upon that lot he is erecting a number of has there been an increase of enterprise and pros.

26 at Kowloon, a Marine lot. That has been also on the part of the Chinese. Some time

time ago past, in spite of some little local criticism; and in Hongkong in 1881 exceeded 8,600,000. There ed to 22 in 1879; in 1880 this had fallen to 20, and houses. The next lot sold in 1881 was lot No. perity on the part of the foreign.community, but of India, henceforth it will be illegal in this Colony to are a few other items, which, though apparently last year, 1881, it only amounted to g, so that as brand any criminal, to have public flogging, to small, undoubtedly indicate mercantile prospe far as these returns, which we have just received sold to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., I observed, in referring to the progress

a company, as you know, one of the most that the secretary of State for India, Lord Har allow dogging in Hongkong, except for such rity; those are the increase of our revenues from from the military authorities, indicate, there has affences as entail flogging in England, or to al- cargo boats and cargo boats' certificates, from the been a steady decline in the mortality of the flourishing of its kind in the East, which is doing tington, looked forward to the time when' cer Now, an immensity of good in the Colony. That was tain public works in India would be under low flogging on the back. The impolitic system shipping of sailors, and from the examinations of white troops in this Colony of late years. now abolished by the Queen and the legislature masters and engineers, upon all of which items taking a return of the same years, which has purchased with a view to the erection of houses taken by private enterprise. When you con- of this Colony, though devised for the suppres- there is an increase in the past year. Underthe head just reached me, of the whole population of the for the workmen employed at the dock, but the sider what is done by the survey Department sion of crime, had actually manufactured a of miscellaneous receipts, I find a considerable in Colony, we find that taking the male population buildings are not yet commenced. The next in this Colony, you cannot but notice how criminal population and increased crime. This crease in the revenue from the storage of

for $12,525 and upon that lot godowns and houses public works as compared with what may be done of re- amounted to 33 'per thousand, in 1880 it had

are to be erected during the current year. Speak- by private enterprise and capital when the Colony, crime, and a universal feeling throughout the venue under the head of miscellaneous items in fallen to 29 per thousand, and in 1881 it had Colony,

to which you can all bear witness, that life 1880, was $6,695, whereas in 1881, it was fallen to 24 per thousand. These figures are ing in the presence of my hon. friend Mr. Belilios is really prosperous. Sir Hercules Robinson en and

property have become more secure in Hong- $18,294 The taxation of the Colony is at the eminently satisfactory, as showing the general I inay say that though the godowns are not yet tertained the scheme of forming a Praya Wall at finished some of them are actually fet, auch is Kowloon and wharves running from it out into kong. I have no wish, gentlemen, to weary you present moment at precisely the same figure as condition of the health of the Colony, and as with statistics, but I may perhaps quote the au- it was when I first became Governor of Hong-showing what mistakes have been made by these the demand for business premises in the Colony deep water so that steamers and ships could go thentic figures which have recently been put be- kong in 1877, and the increase of revenue that who believe that owing to the increase of the The next let was small one, sold for alongside. The expense was considerable. The fore me with reference to the class of crimes has gone on is therefore an increase of revenue Chinese population, or any other cause, the $1,768, purchased by a European gentleman for scheme was contemplated by the Government, a lawn tennis ground, which has been construct- but it was felt the time had not come for the go- which some years ago caused so much alarm dependent upon the progress and prosperity of the sanitary state of the Colony for the last three throughout the Colony. I take the four years Colony. I have not to ask your attention to the years has been getting worse, instead of steadily ed. The next lot, for $1,025, was also sold to vernment to undertake it. Now it is being under- during which, as I have just mentioned, under expenditure of the Colony. The expenditure in improving. Now, on this subject of the health of my enterprising friend, Mr. Chater, and upon taken, not by the Government, but by private the exercise of the Royal prerogative, 1 practi 1880 amounted to $885,000, whereas in 188: the the troops, there is one topic which I have not that lot there have been erected four godowns for enterprise, and I am sure you will agree with me which Her amount was somewhat larger, viz., $895,000. The referred to before, but which, 1 must touch upon the storage of kerosine oil, and they will contain that nothing can be more healthy, as a sign of spended those penal laws whi Majesty hasnow abolished. In 1878 cases of mur difference, you will observe, between the revenue now, because I am instructed by the Secretary about 120,000 cases. The buildings are nearly our prosperity, than that works of this kind should der numbered seven, and this number was re- collected in 1881 and the expenditure of that year of state to prepare an Ordinance to deal with completed. There was a small inland lat sold be undertaken, not by the survey Department | dated to four in 1879; in 1880 there was one is about $400,000. You will, perhaps, inquire what what is called the Contagious Diseases Ordin- to Mr. Ede, which is still unoccupied. Two but by private enterprise. The Government could case, and in 1881 two cases. Of cases of robbery has been done with that expenditure, and especial ance. You will no doubt remember that in De very important lots were sold at Barrington to hardly afford to lay out a million dollars on a with violence from the person, the number was reference has been made to the expenditure of last cember

1877,

and in January 1878, I took the re- Lai Wai Young, one for $10,025 and the other work of that kind. Of course the sugar refinery -35 in 1878, 39, in 1879, 25 in 1880, and 19 in year under the lead of works and buildings. Ifind sponsibility of appointing a Commission to inquire--for $6,025, and upon those lots that Chinese in which I have referred is one that belongs to ling houses, amounted to 113 in 1878, to 101 in 1881. Cases of burglary, or larceny from dwelthattheexpenditure on works and buildings in 1881 into the operation of this Ordinance, and the Re- gentleman is constructing, as you all may see, the domain of private enterprise. Hotit 15

amounted to $59,781, as compared with $50,568 gistrar General's proceeding in

in connection with it. large sugar refinery. The site selected is one manifest that whatever you may say with re- 1879, to 53 in 1880, and to Go in 1881. There in the preceding year, showing an increase of You will also remember that one result of the that, as you know, his remained perfectly idiespect to the prosperity of the Colony as shown were two assaults with intent to rob in 1880, and $9,000. Under the head of what are called mis- appointment of that Commission, and the inquiry and grass-grown up to this year. It is between by the revenue returns by the general.com

the great premises of Jardine, Matheson and Co. inercial activity of the Colony, by the fortunate none in 1881. Taking the total of these really cellaneous services, there was an increase fast that began in 1878 was that statements were in-

and the city of Victoria. Upon this ground that position of the Colony with regard to the grave crimes, which caused so much apprehen year of $11,000. Now, with respect to works and dustriously circulated throughout the Colony to sion and alarm, in 1878 they amounted to 173 in buildings, the items showing an increase consist the effect that certain measures which I adopted sugar refinery is now being built. It is the first diminution of crime and the greater comfor 1879 to 145, in 1880 to 81, and in 1881 to 81. of repairs to buildings, amounting to $14,098, as to put an end to abuses that I found in opera- time that a sugar refinery, as such, has beer and case of every one as regards the protection

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Hon, F. BULKELEY JOHNSON,,

Hon. E. R. BELILIOS.

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a considerable increase in what are called of Her Majesty's Government. Now, having pleasure in submitting them to you and ask $4,500, it would not have been for the purpose

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abolition has been followed by the diminution of power and kerosine. The total amount in 1879, the death rate among the Chinese see was a lot sold to Messrs. Belilios and Chater, smail the amount really is which we lay out in

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