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Department should no do it within 30 days, whereas the P. W. D. regularly took three months and the accounts had been known to be four and a half months Iste.
The CHAIRMAN stated that the complaint would be attended to.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presumed that now that publicity had been given to the matter, the amendment would not be pressed.
Hon. G. W. F. PLAYFAIR expressed himself as satisfied and withdrew the suggested amendment.
The Bill was left in the committee stage till next meeting, at the request of the Hon. Dr. Ho KAI.
The Council then adjõuruel.
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
A meeting of the Finance Committen was held immediately after the Council the Colonial Secretary (Hon. F. H. M1y, C.M.G.) presiding.
LABORATORY EXPENSES.
The Officer Administering the Government /recommended the Council to vote a sum of $125.61 to meet, during the current year, the pay of a Chinese laboratory attendant and a coolie for the Bacteriological Department.
Abstract.
Pay for a Chinese laboratory attendant from 10th July to 31st December, 1902, at the rate of $15 per mensem... S85.64 Pay for a coolie for the laboratory for the same period, at the rate of $7 per
mensem
+
Total
39.97
$125.61 The CHAIRMAN-This officer only arrived this year,
and consequently no provision was made in the Estimates for the necessary as- sistants in bis department; this vote is to meet the necessary expenses.
The vote was agreed to.
THE PAKSHAN.
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The Officer Administering the Government] recommended the Council to vote a sum of $550.40
to meet the estimated cost to be incurred for
the hire of two boats and cost of lamp oil, to mark the wreck of the s.s. Pukshan, from 3rd Jude to 31st August, 1902.
July and August,-
Abstract.
Hire of two boats,
Oil,
Expended to 30th June,
Total,
coverable from some one"?
8372.00 7.20
379.20 171.20
$550.40
Hon. C: S. SHARP-Won't this be
The HARBOUR MASTER-I hope so. The rote was agreed to.
PUBLIC WORKS.
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The Officer Admitistering the Government recommended the Council to vote a sum of £57,435 in aid of the following votes Public Works. Annually Recurrent Expenditure. (1.) Maintenance of Buildings $18,000.00 (2)
do., in
Do.
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New Territory, (3.) Dredging Foreshor-s (4.) Maintenance of Roads and
Bridges outside City, (5.) Maintenance of Roads and
Bridges in Kowloon,
(6.) Maintenance of Sewers.... (7.) Gas Lighting, City of Victoria (8) Maintenance of Waterworks, City and Hill District
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
Public Works Extraordinary.
(4.) Survey of New Territory (5.) Kowloon Waterworks Gravita-
tion Scheme
(6.) Police Station, Sheung Shui (7.) Widening Coudait Road (8.) Now Shed, Sheep and Swine
Depots
(9.) Storm Water Nullah, Mong
Kok Tsui...
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disbandment in October last, 4 were absent from (1.) Governor's Peak Residence, 89.567.80 the Colony without leave, 7 had not had time (2.) No. 7 Police Station
6,502.20 to complete the requisite number, 4 bad cot (3.) Taipo Road
14,618 86 completed the requisite number and would be 5,000.00 | called upon to show cause why they failed to become efficient, 3 had failed through sickness 35,000 00 to become efficient, 16 were out of the Colony, 138 44 but had failed to notify their departure to 3,700.00 | Head Quarters and would now be struck_off_
the strength accordingly. 4,000 00
In concluding his report, the Commandant, Major C. G. Pritchard, says :-" Owing to the 1,030,50 | fact that I left the Colony on July 11th, 1901, 3,000.00 and have joined as Commandant since March 31st, 1902, I cannot well make any remarks 10,000.00 on the services of the staff, etc., but I should Jike to mention that I understand that Sergeant- $92.607.30 Major Power, all the instructors, and the The CHAIRMAN again read the report of the remainder of the staff have performed their Director of Fublic Works on the matter before duties in an efficient and satisfactory manner. It will be seen that the total strength of the the meeting.
Corps has decreased in the past year. I attribute this to the cessation of hostilities in North China, but I consider that the Corps is in every other way, except in the matter of numbers, more efficient than it was a year ago, many of those members who have resigned having been of little or no use to the Corps. and I hope that, in the coming season, a still greater improvement will be scen.”
(10.) Public Bath House (11) Government Offices, Exten- sions and Alterations
Total
Hou. C. S. SHARP-May I ask, sir, if it is intended to cover the cost of the Kowloon waterworks scheme out of current revenue?
The CHAIRMAN-So far it is.
Hon. C. S. SHARP-The total cost is about eight lakhs?
The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS-8835,000. | The vote was agreed to.
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SUPREME COURT.
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THE PAYMENT OF PENSIONS. The COLONIAL TREASURER moved the following resolution: It is hereby resolved | NEW BARRISTER ADMITTED TO that all pensions paid in England" from the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund be paid at the rate of three shillings the dollar, the difference between that rate and the rate of the day being made good out of the revenue of the Colony,"
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The CHAIRMAN-The Council of the Straits Settlements and of Ceylon have adopted a resolution with regard to the payment of their respective salaries, and the question is whether hou. members of this Committee will agree to pass a similar resolution.
The resolution was adopted. This was all the business.
THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.
The report on the Hongkong Volunteer Corps for the year 1901 appears in the Govern, ment Gazette. In forwarding the report His Excellency Major-General Gascoi, ne says:
There has been a slight falling off in numbers since last year, but in all other respects I have been satisfied with the state of efficiency which has beu maintained. But during the past year the Corps has been practically without a Commanding Officer. It was known that op· was to be appointed sooner or later, and although Major Chapman took up the Command and acquitted himself to my satisfaction. yet he was only temporarily filling up a gap, and this is not the same thing as having a regular Comi- manding Officer. Now, however, that Major Pritchard has taken the Coma aud. I exact to see considerable improvement, and I have one or two schemes on foot by which the position and indeed the efficiency of the Corps will be in the future, 1 trust, greatly improved. The inspection took place in wet weather, but so for as it went, was satisfactory."
In the Supreme Court on the 18th inst. the Attorney-General, Sir Henry Spencer Berkeley, K.B., applied for the. admission to the Supreme Court of the Colony, as a barrister. of Mr. Hugh Norman Ferrers. From enquiries which he had made as leader of the Bar here, the Attorney-General said he found that Mr. Ferrers had been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements As a fact, however, the applicant had not with him the certificate which the statuto of dmis- sion to the Bar required to be produced, but perhaps his Lordship might see his way, with the production of the document at that time and powers he possessed, to dispense with the admit Mr. Ferrers,
1,035.00
The total strength of the Corps was 318 of all ranks as against 366 of all ranks at the 4,000.00
former date. During the past season 5 6,000.00 members had died, 87 had resigned, 49 in Colony and 38 on leaving the Colony, 1 bad 3,000.00 been discharged on
medical certificate, 39 4,000.00 | struck off as absent from theolony without 2,400.00 leave. Eighty-four new members had been enrolled. The Staff, Field Battery," A," "B" 19,000.00 | and "C" Machine Gun Companies, "D" In- fantry Company, "E" Engineer Company, and the Band now number 6, 77, 56, 51, 43, 54, 25, 6, respectively, as compared with establishments of 7, 110, 41, 41, 41, 57, 30 and 24, respectively. The discipline of the Corps had been exceed. The usual ingly good throughout the season.
quad, carbine, rifle, company and gun drillsand practices had been performed and well attended. Musketry practices had been carried out during Gnu practices had taken place, both over land and sea ranges. The New Rifle Range, was taken over by the Corps and opened for practice by His Excellency the Governor on the 8th June, 1901. Of 54 non-efficients, 20 of B" Machine Gun Company had completed the necessary drills owing to the temporary
Total,
$57,435.00 The CHAIRMAN, by way of explaining the votes to members, read the report of the Director of Public Works thereon.
Hon. C. S. SHARP-I am glad to see that there is to be some additional expenditure ou the roads in Kowloon. I believe there have been a good many complaints about the state of the roads over there of late.
The vote was agreed to.
PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY.
The Officer Administering the Government recommended the Council to rote a sum of $92,607.30 in aid of the following votes :-
the season.
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His Lordship said he had read the affidavite which were signed in support of the application, By Section 10 of the Barristers and Attorneys Act. No. 3 of 1871, he saw that it was the ordinary course for a person applying to be admitted to the Bar here to desposit with the Registrar his cer ificate of call to the Bar; an affidavit of identity was also to be furnished. was the proviso always that the Chief Justice might on special grounds and on such conditions as he might think proper exempt for a special period any such persons from complying with the formalities prescribed by the section in question. In the present case the
satisfied as to the Attorney-General was identity and bona-fides of the applicant, and if were possible for Mr. Ferrers to send and get his certificate his Lordship would avail himself of the last clause of the proviso and admit the applicant to practice here for a spec fied period of four months, in order that he might in the meantime get his certificate. If he then got his certificate of id-atity he could go into permanent practice.
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Mr. Ferrers then took his seat at the barristers' table, and was addressed by his Lord- ship, who said that be approved his admission to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Colony, and extended his congratulations to him, expressing the hope that he had prosperous career before him,
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Mr. Ferrers, whose affidavit of identity was signed by Mr. Victor Deacon, solicitor, was in Singapore for nearly three years, and during He is an that time practised as a barrister. M.A. of King's College, Cambridge, belongs to Lincoln's Inn, and was admitted to the Bar in England in 1695.
A Portuguese and a Indian who recently deserted from the Macao Police Force, and who were arrested by the police of this Colony, appeared auder remand on the 24th inst, before Mr. J H. Kemp, when an application for their extradition was adjourned till Monday next for proof that the warrant, which bore the signature of the Chief of Police at Macao, had been signed by a judge or other competent magistrate.
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