 This was the last post he held in the Colonial Services.During his tenure, in 1888, the Peak Tram began operation, providing relatively affordable transportation for people living on The Peak, an area he segregated, together with effectively all the elevated areas of Hong Kong Island, from crowded Chinese-style tenements by the enactment, in November of that year, of the European District Reservation Ordinance.A year before he left office, the newly established Hong Kong Electric Company began providing electricity to Hong Kong Island.