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Ibid., part 106.
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Ibid., part 105.
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16 Lockhart, p. 77; Hayes, p. 164.
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For the Kowloon Street and its kaifong, see ibid., pp. 171-173.
18 See ibid., pp. 168-171; also Chiu-lung Luo-shan-t’ang pai-nien shih-shih HACKETT (One hundred years of the Lok Sin Tong) (Hong Kong, the lang, [1980]).
19 Peter Wesley-Smith, Unequal Treaty 1898-1997 (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1980) pp. 19-20; Stanley F. Wright, Hong Kong and the Chinese Customs. China. The Maritime Customs. VI Inspector Series: no. 7 (Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspector-General of the Customs 1930), pp. 9-10. “Native” customs offices were handed over to the Inspector-General of Maritime Customs after the signing of the Hong Kong Opium Agreement in 1886.
20 See Faure et. al., vol. 1, p. 166, p. 251.
21 Siu, Chiu-lung ch'eng, p. 37.
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Bowring to Grey, August 21, 1854, despatch 61: CO129/47. Krone, p. 116.
Macdonnell to Buckingham, August 27, 1867, despatch #358: CO129/124.
Jarrett, Vincent H.G. "Old Hong Kong”, vol. 2, p. 613. This is a series of articles on the history of Hong Kong taken from the South China Morning Post from June 17, 1933 to April 13, 1935, and re-arranged alphabetically by subject. A Xerox copy of copies typed from the original articles is deposited in four volumes at the University of Hong Kong Library.
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Bowring to Grey, August 21, 1854, despatch 61.
27 W.J. Norton-Kyshe, The History of the Laws and Courts of Hong Kong, 2 volumes (Hong Kong: Vetch & Lee, 1971; 1st published 1898) vol. 2, 423–429. Another case occurred in 1896 when a Chinese policeman was shot in Hong Kong. His murderer was arrested in Canton and brought to Kowloon City where he was beheaded. (John Luff, “The Hong Kong Police", China Mail, February 24, 1960).
Macdonnell to Kimberley, April 3, 1872, despatch #976: CO129/157.
29 See Faure et. al., vol. 1, pp. 103, 114, 133.
30 The tablet is dated the first year of the Tung-chih reign, i.e. 1862. It is still in very good condition.
31 Newspaper cutting dated May 27, 1886, enclosed in Marsh to Granville, May 31, 1886, despatch #183: CO129/226.
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Hua-tzu jih-pao #711, January 17 and 18, 1896.
Daily Press, January 20, 1896.
34 Wesley-Smith, Unequal Treaty, p. 17; The open nature of the gambling was also decried by the Hsun-huan jih-pao, December 17, 1885.
35 Norton-Kyshe, vol. 2, p. 423.
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In fact gambling houses were re-opened as soon as Chinese officials departed from Kowloon, Blake to Chamberlain, August 18, 1899, in Great Britain, Colonial Office. Confidential Prints Eastern (Series 882) (hereafter CO882)/5, no. 66, p. 340.