The local sensation of the week has been the publication of the correspondence between the Chamber and the Government on the subject of the sanitation of the Colony. The Chamber, on the 7th inst., addressed a courteous, Dut decided representation to the Government urging that, in view of the serious consequences following the annually recurring epidemics of plague, through loss of business and stoppage of industries through the exodus of the Chinese, more energetic measures should be taken to combat the disease, and calling grave attention lo the often neglected warnings of experts and former vfticials, in support of which several extracts frou reports and speeches were given. The Government, after six days' deliberation replied, through the Colonial Secretary, acknowledging receipt, but while carefully avoiding the questions raised, proceeded to impute to the Chausber hasty acceptance of reckless statements made in the local Pross and suggested thst it should requ:
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