An official inquiry is now proceeding in regard to the collapse of Nos. 30 and 32, Kowloon City Road, which was attended with fatal" consequences. Meantime similar occurrences continue to occur in different parts of the Colony, the Intest being that of a kitchen on the first floor of No. 86, Second Street, West Point, on Thursday' afternoon. Two women who were working in it were carried down among the debris, both injured but fortunately not severely. The causes of these collapses will, in the main, I think, prove to be careless construction and dishonest ecomony of lime and cement. Something in the shape of more effective supervision will have to be provided if the Colony is to be freed from this reproach of jerry building.
The Douglas Steamship Ca., Ld.
The annual meeting of the shareholders in the abore company was held this morning. The report showed that after payment of running expenses, charges, and
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