At the meeting of the Legislative Council held on the Sth inst. quite a number of measures were introduced or advanced a stage, and several matters of general interest transpired, H. B, the Governor was able to announce that, in reply to a d patch he lately addressed to the Secretary of State announcing that it was the wish of the unofficial members that the iner in the salaries of subordinate officials should date from the Ist January last, and asking for approval of this proposal, he had received a telegram from Downing Street approving the proposal. A letter from the Registrar-General calling attention to the fact that in the four-storied tenement houses Chinese could not get water owing to it being turned off and suggesting that more hydrants should be placed in.. the streets, with a umber of minutes on the -scarcity of water by the Director of Works and the Governor was laid on the table. Mr. Chatham readily admitted the grievances of house occupiers were only too well founded, but he did not: propose to adopt. extensive temporary measures such as those proposed by the Registrar General. He apologised for his inability to answer all the letters of complaints be had received; to do so would have con-gumed all his time, and he was doing all that was possible to place a supply of water within reach of everyone, and hoped that cause for all complaint would soon be aten end, He showed that the water supply was about equal to the demand in normal years, but this year the rainfall had been thirty inches below the average, and it was preceded by three dry years. At the close of the agenda, H. B.'the Govenor alluded to the approaching departure of Mr. Pollock, K.C., the Acting Attornes-General to take up the post of Attorner-General in Fiji, and paid a warm and well-deserved tribute to tuo learned gentleqaan's eerrices to the Colony, While congratulating him on his preferment, His Excellency said that he was sure that their congratulations would not be unmixed with regret. and they wished for him a suecessful and brilliant career in the judicial branch of His Majesty's colonial Service. Mr, Pollock, who was mucit affected, pressed his gratification at the kind words of appreciation that lad fallen from the Governor and the manner in which they lad been received. He thanked the memibers of the Council for the patience and consideration invariably shown to him. and expressed his gratitude for the generous terms in whicl his services had been xdhered to.
Mr. Pollock will leave here on the 21st inst. to proceed to take up his new appointment, and the Colony will then onl have three barristers to look after its in-forests in the Courts, viz., Messrs. B. H. Sharp, Marcus Slade, Kai. These gentlemen should do well if the their work, for they will cortainl enough to do.
Departure of a-well-know Cricketer.
The mail steamer to-day will take with her one of the team that measured its strength so recently against. Shanghai and the Straits upon the tented ficld, in the person of Major Dyson, A.P.D. The gallant major has served here upwards of six years and durizig that period has shown zood form, taking part in mast of the first eleven matches, and often putting together fine scores. He did not distinguish himself in the recent interport contest,
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probably he had grown somewhat The Resignation of the Rev. R. F.
Cobbold.
The Rev. R. F. Cobbold, M.A., Chap-Tain of St. John's Cathedral, who has only recently returned to the colony, has writ ten to the Church Body endorsing lvis previous letter of resign n. Mr. Cobbold states that his reasons for resigning his post are of a purely private nature. Mr. Cobbold has filled the position of Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral for nearly ten years, and dur time has made him-Self most popular with all classes and _denominations. and all will be sorry when the time for his departure arrives." Social-Ly, also, he will be much missed.
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