HONG KONG.

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Ordinances for 1902. First edition, first printing, including the text of the ordinance authorizing the construction of the Hong Kong tramway and outlining its specifications. A company was founded the same year and the first line from Happy Valley and Causeway Bay to Shau Kei Wan was laid in 1903. Full service began in mid-1904.Governpr Sir Henry Blake took leave for almost all of 1902, and authority was exercised in his name by the lieutenant-governor, Major-General Sir William Gascoigne (1844-1926), a hero of the Boxer Uprising and the 1899 Six-Day War in the New Territories.

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