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is also maintained., Both these wharves are connected by special siding with
the railway.
With cargo delivered from transit godown, the system is for consignees
to obtain Agents’ countersignature to their Bills of Lading, after which the
Bills of Lading are stamped off for delivery at the Godown Office, and con¬
signees .go to the godowns where their cargo is delivered to them, seven days’
free storage (not counting date of arrival) being allowed, after which overtime
is charged. Only a portion of a steamer’s cargo is taken direct by consignees
from transit godowns, the balance usually being transferred to storage godowns
under instructions from the eonteignees, the greater part of the merchandise
being; held under lien to the various banks. Warrants are issued for such
cargo and the merchants issue Delivery Orders as and when required.
The Peak District.
A welLftiade but steeply-graded mountain road leads up, from the centre
of the city to the summit of victoria Peak, with numerous other paths branch¬
ing off from it at Victoria Gap along the adjoining hills. A tramway, on the
wire rope system, runs to the Victoria Gap, the lower terminus being close
to St. John’s Cathedral. It was opened to traffic on the 30th May, 1888.
Passengers can alight at the Kennedy, Bowen, May, and Plantation Roads,
where stations are provided for their accommodation. The Military acquired
the commodious Mount Austin Hotel at Victoria Gap for the purpose of a
sanatorium in 1807. The Peak Glub is domiciled in a Peat building at Plun¬
kett Gap near the point of junction with Ohamberlaiti Road and Mount
Kellett road. It was erected in 1902 and enlarged in 1912 by the addition of
a second storey. The Peak Church, an unpretending structure after the
similitude of at jelly mould1, was opened for worship in June, 1993. Extensive ac¬
commodation for; visitors is afforded at the Peak Hotel. The Victoria (Jubiled)
Hospital occupying a breezy site on Barker Road, was opened by Sir Henry
Blake on November 7th, 1903, partly as the result of public subscription. A
new block was added to it in 1923. Yet another hospital, named “The Matilda
Hospital,” is situated at the southern corner of Mount Kellett. It was built
at a cost of about $350,000 and opened in 1903. The expense of efection and
maintenance are borne by the estate of the late Mr. Granville Sharp, who
devoted the bulk of his fortune to provide such an institution for the benefit
of persons needing it who are of European or American birth. A further
hospital, the War Memorial Nursing Home, was opened in 1932 oft Mount
Kellett Road.
. The road from Victoria. Gap westward leads to Victoria P(:ak, which, is
1,823 feet above the sea and rises almost abruptly behind the centre of the
city of Victoria. On the summit is placed the flagstaff, from which the
approach of the mails and other vessels is signalled. Not far from the summit
of the Peak, on a most commanding site, stands Mountain' Lodge, the summer
residence of H.E. the Governor,, which was erected in 1901. Another road
northward, from Victoria Gap and known as Lugard Road. was; completed in
1920, and, with Harlech Road, encircles Victoria Peak. From there a road
leads down to the West of the City. Another road in a direvtly opposite
direction leads from Victoria Gap to Magazine Gap, where a second hill
village of foreign residences has been formed mn the southern side of the hills
at an area of. about 900 feet above the sea.. There is also a road from Victoria
Gap down to Pokfulum and Aberdeen, and at the side of this, about half a
mile from the Gap, a small granite cross has been erected. This bears the
inscription :—“W. W. H., 1869” aUd. marks the place where Mr. Holworthy,
an Officer of the Ordnance Department, was murdered and fobbed. The Peak
roads are lighted by electric lamps.
A second road to the Peak district- was completed in 1922. Starting from
Morrison Hill Road, it runs from Happy Valley and traverse?-the face of the
hills to Wanchai Gap and Magazine Gap to the south of the cemetery. From
Wanchai Gap, also, it has been continued, along the southern face of i the