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And whereas the exercise of jurisdiction by the Chinese officials in the City of Kowloon having been found to be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong- kong, it is expedient that Article 4 of the said Order in Council should be revoked, and that | the Chinese officials within the City of Kowloon should cease to exercise jurisdiction therein, and that the said City of Kowloon should be- come part and parcel of Her Majesty's Colony of Hongkong for all purposes during the cou. tinuance of the term of the Lease in the said Convention mentioned.
Now, therefore, Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows :-
1. Article 4 of the Order of Her Majesty in Council of the 20th of October, 1898, is hereby revoked, without prejudic to anything law. fully done thereunder."
2.- he City of Kowloon shall be and the same is hereby declared to be for the term of the Lease in the said Convention mentioned | part and parcel of Her Majesty's Colony of Hongkong, in like manner and for all intents and purposes as if it had originally formed part of the said Colony.
3.-The provisions of the said Order in Coun oil of the 20th October, 1×98, shall apply to the City of Kowloon in like manner as if the said City had by the said Order in Council been declared to be part and parcel of Her Majesty's Colony of Hongkong.
And the Right Honourable Joseph Cham- berlain, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secre- taries of State, is to give the necessary direc- tions berein accordingly.
A. W. FITZROY,
SALARIES OF OFFICERS IN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
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SERVICE.
The following correspondenco in the Government Gazette:-
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Downing Street. 8th December, 1899. Sir, I have had under consideration your despatches noted in the margin relative to the salaries of various officers of the Hongkong Government Service, and I have to inform you that I see no sufficient reason for the appoint- ment of a Committee to enquire into the subject.
2. 1 am, however, willing, so far as you agree and subject to the consent of the Legislative Council, to sanction the following revised scales of saluries.
3. The salary of the Governor may be raised to $35,000 of which $8.000 should be regarded as entertaiment allowance; and the salary of the combined offices of Colonial Secretary and
Registrar General may be raised to $10,800.
4. The salaries of the undermentioned offices, which are or tay hereafter be held by officers of the cadet class, sbould be classified in the following manner:-
(a.) The Treasurer, the First Magistrate, and the Captain Superintendent of Police and Prisons to receive $6,0:10 rising to $7,200 by triennial increments of $600;
(b.) The Assistant Colonial Secretary, the Second Magistrate (for the New Territory), the Luspector of Schools, the Postmaster Gener. al, and the Registrar of the Supreme Court, to receive $1,800 rising to 85,400 by triennial increments of $800;
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
[February 24, 1900.
the Apothecary and Analyst may be given | 3,834, and received from the said Chang Wing 82,400 rising to $3,000 by triennial increments Shau the certificates for the said shares and an of $300.
instrument of transfer thereof dnly executed by the said Cheng Wing Shan and attested
6. In the Public Works Department the
"In or about the latter part of Septem. salary of the Director may be increased to
The ber, 1899, I handed the said certificates and $7,200 rising to $7,800 after three years. Assistant Director of Public Works and the instrument of transfer duly executed by both Cheng Wing Shan and myself seuicr Executive Engineer may be given 34,200 | the said rising to $4,800 by triennial increments of $300. and attested to my assistant, Pang Shau The other Executive Engineers and the Office | Chun, and directed him to attend at the Assistant may receive $3,000 rising to 83,60 registered office of the above-named company by triennial increments of $300; two assistant and apply for the registration of such transfer, engineers and the draftsman may receive $2,400 I was subsequently informed by the said Pang Shau Chun that he so attended and applied, rising to $3,000 by the same increments, and the two remaining assistant engineers $1.80 but was desired by the secretary of the said rising to $2,400 by the same increments. company to come again after the meeting of 7.-The Harbour Master may be given | directors had taken place at the oud of the $4,800 rising to $6,000 by triennial increments month. I was afterwards evjoined by the said of $600; and the assistant harbour master $3,000 | Pang Shan Chun that he had again attended at rising to $3,600 by triennial increments of $300. the office of the said company in the month of 8. Turning to Queen's College, I approve October, 1899, but was told by the secretary of the said company that the said transfer could of the head master being given $4,800 rising to $5,400 by triennial increments of 8300. The not then be registered, as there were au insufi. second master may be given 83,600 to $4,200; oient number of directors in the colony at the
time to consider the matter. the senior assistant masters $2,400 to $3,000; and the junior assistant masters $1,800 to $2,400, by the same increments.
9.-The Director of the Observatory may be given 83,000 rising to $3,600; the chief assis- taut $2,100 to $2,700. and the first assistant $1.800 to $2,400, with triennial increments of $300 in each case.
10-I am also willing to approve of the salaries of the Governor's Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp being raised to $2,400 a year each.
11.-These increases may begin from the 1st of January next, and, subject to any modifi- cations which you may suggest in particular cases, officers, whose present salary is less than their initial salary in the new incremental scale, should on that date begin at such initial salary, while other officers should be regarded as bay- ing earned the increments to which their length of service entitles them.-I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient, bumble servant,
J. CHAMBERLAIN. Governor
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Sir Henry A. Blake, O.C.M.G.
SUPREME COURT.
February 16th.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE SIR JOHN CARRINGTON (CHIRP JUSTICE).
IN THE MATTER OF ORDINANCE 1 of 1865 AND IN THE MATTER OF THE MAN ON
INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
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"3. afterwards personally saw the secretary of the said company and was informed by him that the said directors reposed to allow the transfer to me of the said shares to be registered.
"4 On the 27th day of November, 1899, 1 in structed my solicitors, Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, to write to the secretary of the said com- pany and formally apply to have the sail shares registered in my name, and they accordingly did so.
On the 7th day of December, 1-99, my said solicitors received a letter from Messrs. Deacon and Hastings, the solicitors for the said company, stating that the Board of Directors of the said company had decided that they were unable to approve of the transfer to me of the said shares.
5. On the 28th day of November, 1899, I agreed to purchase from one Tai Yung Tak Tong, alias Tai Chak Lam, four other shares on the above named company numbered respeo- tively 4,255, 4,256, 4,257, and 4,258, in the event of the said company not purchasing the said shares, which I was informed by the mid Thi Yang Tak Tong he had offered to sell to the said company.
"6. On the 8th day of January, 1900, having been informed by the said Tai Yung Tak Tong that the said company had deliued to purchase the said shares at the price for which he had offered to sell the same, I completed the purchase thereof and received from the suid Lai Yang Tak Tong the certificate for the said shares and an instrument to transfer there- of from himself to me daly executed by him and attested, which said instrument I also executed myself.
"7. On the said 8th day of January 1900, my solicitors, Messrt. Wilkinson and Grist, who also acted as the solicitors for the said Lai On the 5th February Mr. Marcus W. Slade Yang Tak Tong, wrote to the secretary of the (instructed by Messrs. Deacon and Hastings) said company, informing him that the said on behalf of H. shares had been sold and transferred to me and made an ex-parte application Tung, of Victoria, in the colony of Hongkong. requesting that they might be registered in name. To. this letter my said soli- compradore, that the register of members of my the above-named company may be rectified by citors on the 12th day of Jonuany, 190!), removing the name of Cheng Wing Shan there received a reply written by the so.ivitor for the said company, stating that the from in respect of seven shares in the said com. pany, numbered respectively 2,454, 2.946, 2,947, directors of the said company were of opinion 3.492, 3.832. 3,833, and 3,824. and the name of that I was not a fit person to hold shares in the Lai Yung Tak Tong therefrom in respect of said company, and they declared, therefore, to four shares in the said company, numbered 4,255, register the transfer to me in pursuance of the 4,256, 4,257, and 4.259 respectively, and sub-powers tested in them in that behalf by Articlə stituting for the names of the said Cheng Wing 21 and 28 of the Articles of Association of ti e (c.) The Assistant Registrar General, the Shan and Lai Yang Tak Tong the name of the said company, and further stating that the, reason for the aforesaid opinion of the ssid' Deputy Superintendent of Police, the Deputy applicant, as the holder of the said shares, and Laud Officer, the Deputy Registrar and Ac- that the said company may be ordered to pay to directors was that as I was a shareholder countant of the Supreme Court, and (on the the applicant his costs of and occasioned by this and largely interested in other insurance com- next vacancy) the Deputy Registrar and Ap-application or that such other order may be panies carrying on business in competition with it would not be for the above-named company, praiser to receive $3,600 rising to $4,200 by made as to the court may seem just."
On that occasion the Acting Chief Justice the interests of the said company to allow me to triennial increments of $300;
(d.) The Assistant Superintendent of Police | (the Hon. W. Meigh Goodman) made an order become a shareholder therein. (for the New Territory), the Assistant Super-upon the Man On Insurance Company to show intendent of the Gaol, and the Assistant Post- cause why an order should not be made in the master General to receive $2,400 rising to terms of the motion. ** $3,000 by triennial increments of $300.
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5. Tu the Medical Department the Principal | Civil Medical Officer may be given $1,800 ris- ing to $6,004 by triennial increments of $600; the three Assistant Surgeons may be given $3,600 rising to $4,200 by triennial increments of $300 the present allowance to the Assistant Medical Officer of the Lunatio Asylum being reduced to $240). The Port Health Officer and
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Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist) appeared for the Insur- ance Company.
Mr. Ho Tung has made the following affida. vit:—
"1. On the 6th day of August last I par. chased from one Cheng Wing Shan seven shares in the above-named company numbered respec- tively 2,454, 2,946, 2,947, 3,192, 3,832, 3,833 and.'”
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"8. I am possessed of considerable personal property in this colony. which fact is well known to every member of the said Board of Directors, and, as I verily believe, my reputa- tion among both the European and Chinese members of the community of Hongkong is irreproachable. ·
9. Neither of them, the said Chong Wing Shan and Lai Yung Tak Tong, is, I am informed by them and verily believe indebted in any sum whatever to the said company, and neither of them is, I verily believe, in a position to amist