An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore, from the Foundation of the Settlement Under the Honourable the East India Company, on Feb. 6th, 1819, to the Transfer to the Colonial Office as Part of the Colonial Possessions of the Crown on April 1st, 186
An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore, from the Foundation of the Settlement Under the Honourable the East India Company, on Feb. 6th, 1819, to the Transfer to the Colonial Office as Part of the Colonial Possessions of the Crown on April 1st, 186
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Government Offices and tho back wall of the compound, by which wall alone, at the distance of a few feet, it is separated from an extensive shift-building yard, and it possesses almost none of the accommodation proper to a Court-room. There is almost no space for the public, and in the little that does exist, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Government Offices and tho back wall of the compound, by which wall alone, at the distance of a few feet, it is separated from an extensive shift-building yard, and it possesses almost none of the accommodation proper to a Court-room. There is almost no space for the public, and in the little that does exist, the usual convenience of seats is wanting--wooden trestles of the rudest description beln"-introduced when any furniture of that kind is deemed necessary. The place is enclosed on one of its sides bv Government offices, and on another side by the Chamber (so called' allotted to your Lordship; and ns the wall of the compound above-mentioned runs along the whole length of a third side, the consequence is that the Court-room is ill-ventilated, being in fact all but inaccessible to any current of air, and the atmosphere in the Court is frequently pervaded by an effluvium alike offensive;md unhealthy. Another frequent and most unseemly result of the near proximity of this Court House to the ship-building; establishment is that the voice of the Judge, the jury, the witness, or the advocate is occasionally so completely drowned by the piercing and discordant sounds, as to interrupt the business, and place this Court in the extraordinary position of being forced either to submit to this disturbance of its solemn procedure, or to interfere with the private and vested rights of the citizen; for the Grand Jury are informed, and believe, thar the ship-building yard with all its noises, etc., existed on the same spot before the erection of this Court House." Another presentment made by the Grand Jury in December alluded to a number of other grievances; the inconvenient position of the Post Office; the state of the old Fish Market at Teluk Aver; the...
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