held' on the ist inst, but the -busiuess A meeting of the Legislative Council was transacted was not specially interesting. Several questions by Mr. Whitehead were answered by laying correspondence on the table, and a number of Bills were passed, including the Waterworks Ordinance (to 12 Waterworks Ordinance, 1890), Bill to amend the Closed Houses and Insanitary Dwellings Ordinances, to amend the Vagrant Ordinance and the Interpretation Ordinance, while others were read first time. At'a meeting of the Finance Commits eld subsequently, the various items of the Appropriation Bill for 1898 were considered, discussed, and ultimately recommended.
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