removal of the Clock Tower, where it now I see one correspondent suggests the blocks up Queen's Road in its most central part, to the site prepared for it at the head of the new Pedder's Wharf, in course of construction. This is not a bad suggestion, but I doubt whether the subscribers as a body will agree to it. A road on which they can drive or ride is likely to appeal to them more than even so handsome and lofty a Clock Tower, even though it included a fine set of chimes.
Here, however, is a suggestion for local millionaires. Why not present a Clock Tower with chimes to the City of Victoria? This would be a gift to all without distinct tion of race, colour or creed, better far than a school, a reformatory, or a hospital for Chinese,
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