Another property-owner has consented to reduce the rents of his houses. Mr. Hei, or Heii Chia Chi Tang, has reduced the rents for his bouses on the Sinzs Road from $10 to $8, from $9 to $7 and from $8 to $6 a month. The City gentry have appointed a Commission to make a thorough investigation into the rates of house-rents in all the native quarters, with " view to judging bat steps should be taken to meet the popular desire for " reduction in rentals. on which the new Sinza Bridge will have to be built, a pontoon bridge near the Ta Wang Temple is to be first established, as
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