Cush Statement for the past week is submitted and cheques for sundry accounts are signed. of Prisoners apprehended and reports for the past week are submitted.
Markets.—Report by the Inspector is submitted stating that during February he visited the markets and butcher shops daily and always found them well supplied with good and wholesome articles of fuad. The cattle kept at Pah Sion Jaoh and those brought to the various slaughter houses have been found healthy and in yood con. dition, There has been an abundant supply of Beef, Mutton, Fish and Game, and all of goud quality, but vegetables have been very scarce the market having had to depend upon supplies arriving from the south.
supply the fo Ths number of month has been calves is grease shops for native use, water buffaloes 120, oxen 60, ponies 9 and sheep (dead) 11. 2 of the oxen, and 3 of the water buffaloes Were dead when disposed of to the grease shops; on the 20th February, the half of an ox was seized at the butcher shop No. 123 Smith's Market, and sent to the grea shops being unit for foreign consumption.
3,130 jinricsha, and 3,211 wheelbarrows have been licensed for March.
Boundary of Hongkew.—The following correspondence disordered to be published:
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