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THE COLONY IN EARLIER DAYS.
1: THE ACQUISITION OF KOWLOON.
It was in 1811 that the island of Hongkong was ceded by the Emperor of China to Queen Victoria, her beirs and successors, in perpetuity. The formal treaty was dated Augus: 26 but in
Foar Mandarina met Lord Elgin, and after some conversation car ried on in the Cantonese dialect through Mr. Parkes the latter handed the Mandarins some earth
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THE MANDARINS' ACQUIESCENCE. On the occasion of the reading of Lord Elgin's Proclamation an immense placard containing a Chinese translation of it was ex- hibited, as we learn from the in- formative History compiled by Mr. J. W. Norton-Kyshe, formerly Registrar of the Supreme Court, who may be regarded as the semi- official historiographer of the Colony, at any rate on its consti- tutional and judicial side. The formalitiea having been completed Mr. Parkes intimated to the Mandarins that henceforth Kowloon was British, in which those native functionaries ac- quiesced. The naval guns then' boomed from several points and the military also fired a salvo. the proceeding being rounded of 1 Lord Elgin's suggestion with bree cheers for the Ola Country and three more for Queen Victoria.
The
* ធម៌ the пер territory thus taken over was Dearly three square, miles, which in 1898 was augmented by the lease of adjoining lands and islands to the extent of about 339 square miles.
In 1910 the Kowloon-Canton Railway was institute.
The Ratepayers' Association cherishes the ambition that Kow- loon will celebrate its diamond jubilee by obtaining the grant of + municipality with an unofficial AS this majority, anomalous seems in view of the fact that in a piece of paper, which thes, the original Colony does nol duly returned to him as a sign of posses one. It may, at any rate. the transfer of the land to the be hoped that the jubilee of the British. Lord Elgin then directed
transmarine portion of the Colony Mr. Parkes to read aloud the will be signalised by the inaugura- Proclamation which his lordship.tion of the proposed Government RS Special Ambassador to motor-bus service, and; we hope. China,
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point of fact, possession had been of which was that all inhabitants anniversary of the taking over of taken on January 26. Twenty were absolved from allegiance to the peninsula. years later almost to a day the the Chinese Empire. the district Colony was enlarged by the of Kowloon being henceforth acquisition of the piece of main-vested in the British Crown, "and land territory known as Kowloon, subject to such laws and regula- Ling the principal part of the tions as her Majesty, with the Land. The question of the advice of her Privy Council, may annexation of this ares, which ordain and direct. was already held on leas 7. Was
KOWLOON'S CHARTER. one result of the war with China and the step had long been re- The adminstration of the ter- commended by the chief of the ritory was by this Proclamation naval station in China Rear-entrusted to the Governor of the Admiral, Sir Michael Seymour, Colony "until her Majesty's Accordingly, Convention was I pleasure can be known. On negotiated with China at Peking,, February 4, 1861, her Majesty by which Kowloon was ceded to held & Council at Beckingham Britain as a dependency of the Palace, attended by numerous not- colony of Hongkong" The disabilities, among them the Prince trict had previously boen leased Consort Lord Palmerston and
by Lau Taung Kwanz, Governor Mr. Cardwell (the famous War General of the province, to Mr. Minister), at which provision was
newly.scquired area. This Order io Council was embodied in a Proclamation issued by Sir Hercules Robinson on March 28, 1851, and as the the following clause of the Order practically constitutes the charter of Kowloon it may be deemed worthy of reproduction
#. S. Parkes, as represent-made for the Government of the stive of the British Govero.
Thay medi.
Was Kowloon annexed or, technically, ceded to Britain. The convention *15 dated October 24, 1860, from which date British ownership ominally begins. It was not, however, until some three months later that the process of taking aver confitationally was.com- summated.
TAKING OVER. The Earl of Elgin, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to Chica, Was about to return to England, and
**It is bereby ordered by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of ber) Majesty's Privy Councel, that the said Kowloong District shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, part and parcel of her It war decided that the ceremonies | Majesty'a said Colony of Hong- for taking over the territory kong in like manner and for should be held forthwith. Accord- all intents and purpos95 25 ingly, on Saturday, January 19, if it had originally formed 1861, the various troops in the Colony crossed over to Kowloon, and precisely at 3 p.m. Lord Krigin arrived on the ground, where a vast doncourse had assembled. His lordship was accompanied by the Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson, Mr. Adants, the acting Chief Justice Mr. H. 8. Parkes (the nominal cases who acted as interpreter), and a number of other officials,
part of the same Colony, and that it shall be competent to the Legislslative Council or other Legislative Authority of the said Colony to make laws for the pesce, order and good govern ment of the said district as part of the said Colony."
It will be observed that the spelling adopted in the Order is
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