The work done to bring this gigantic undertaking to the present st completeness has been enormous, What is now a level surface of about Bfteon useful acres, was, five rare ago, 8 nose of granite rock, and & masse of rugged cliff. The stone qui used for the deck, necessary filing li land. And so the finished work proof of th ing, before which almost Mossra Donald MacDonald, or. and A. K. Griffin, a The pumping appstalus is in course of installation and when completed will be able to pump out the water from the duck in three hours.
3 though there be no ship ide, AM the power for working no assary machinery will be auplied by electricity, and this will be rated by gas engines of the Cock onl patent. Altogether the work will ben serious competitor with the old ant established docks, belo Hongkong Company. Th: se wh" are supposed to the tre: d of affairs, hus over, thiuke that scriow apprehended, ely that there will an incre the number of ships that will dock Hongkong. And ion will be no dis-
Company las had evei way as far as Hongkong is concerned, unless the work to be done has been small.
The Storm in the Teacup.
Even yet we hive not escaped from the Sanitary Commission, and the baok-
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3 Indeed, it would almost seem as if we are only just beginning. ber that in May Inst n difference between the Acting Governor, and Mr. Hewitt, which seemed to indicate a good deal of fooling, the reverse of affectionate, At the next mesting, however, of the Legislative Council, the Acting Governor made amends in a very generous way, snob, indeed, as might have been expected. of him by those who know him best, This unpleasant incident is, of course, now closed, Tt la hoy that all those who hare to deal with sanitary matters will take their coats off, 80 to apeak, and get at the business ina way that' will show their real zation of the fact that they are dealing with great problema, no. less, leed, than the health and well-being of hundreds of thousands of bunion And, if the matter is tackled in this ometh'ng satisfactory will be evely out of the chaos into which some weeks ago things seemed to hive fallen, Dr. Mo Kat's Proposals, Dr. Ho Kai has come forward with sories of resolutions, d along with the the Colony. In x word, it ery third house inthe Colony, Il, be denuded of its upper storeys, fad "shall anperentiy contain but ons storey. There thus be room for th wob uses to This is the scheme. It will cost about. $8,000,000.
Ho Kai proposes to" borrow at 3h percent, into the figures suggeatthat in fifty youre th capital and the interest could off, at a yearly cost of about $180,000 per annum. The present cost' of keeping the Colony in, a so-called ary condition is about $500,000.
Things worked out on paper too often do not work out in quite the same way in practice, Probably, the results here would not be quite as satisfactory as the worthy doctor anticipates. Probably, after all, this deastis scheme would not mako the contre of Chi very salubrious health resort, those prop by the mombere of pared to accept a if they had been. It ally be felt that the Council right to reluct auch a groat under-ingas this, Apart from the expense made Chinatown look a very 2 The nppoarancs produc d by hous-s "high, ant then the next low, throughout the whole of Chinatown, might have frightened the gods so they looked down upon it, and, in. itself, we think, have been sufi have ¢ndemned the proposi a the enormous expenditure. However, gestion will not be accented, wer rise may be attempted to im: prove the conifiion of the housing problem here.
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