CHAPTER IX: THE EIGHTH DECADE (1889-99)
ON the 26th February 1889 took place the unveiling in the Ballroom, Government House, of the statue of Her Majesty Queen Victoria by the Governor, Sir Cecil Smith, in the presence of the Chinese subscribers to the Statue Fund during the Jubilee year. The inscription appears on the pedestal of the statue (which represents Her Majesty in an erect and dignified position, with the orb and sceptre in her hands, her figure draped with Imperial robes), and reads as follows:
The statue of the Queen Victoria was presented by the Chinese community of Singapore in the year of Her Majesty’s Jubilee to be placed in the Government House as a memento of the loyal affections of Her Majesty’s Chinese subjects and of their gratitude for the benefit of her rule
