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CANTON OFFICIALS
HISTORY
MR. P. S. CASSIDY'S ADDRESS
the concentration of British intercala, and he put this in the forefront of his policy. He was opposed to any movement for the opening of,' what afterwards, became to be known as, Trenly Porte nor was he in favour of the retention of Chunan, which loomed much larger than Hongkong in the view of the British Govern- ment,
Ellot Recalled
The early history of British Elliot's plans and his subsequent trado relations with China, and acilone were, however, contrary to the commercial antecedents of the instructions of Lord Palmerston, Hongkong, culminating in the Co- and although his preliminary conven lony becoming the great emporium tion was ine basis of the Treaty-of for the trade of South Chinn, was Nanking (to be ratified in 1843) he the subject of an interesting ud-hat incurred the displeasure of his Government And we recalled in drons to the Hongkong University August, 1841. Law and Commerce Soclety by Mr. Trade with Couton had been re- P. S. Cassidy, last evening, in the sumed in March 1841, and soon re- covered Innt ground, but only for a University Union Room.
Mr. Kwik Khik-pjhiang, chair-bare two months. With the arrival [of two High Commissionern from Pe- the
king hostilities were tonewed by the. man of the Society, was In
Canton forces, and the British troops were brought into action. After capturing the forts protecting Can ton the city tarif was threatened, but n bombardment was withheld pending further negotiations for an armistice. A convention was signed at the end of May and on payment of an indennity of $8,000,000 the British forecs were withdrawn.
chair.
The lecturer opened with a brief history of British trade relations with China from the visit of Captain John Weddell to Canton in 1038 down to the Amherst Mission of 1810, Io then went on to show the development of British trade after the Napoleonic the wars, and mentioned that during period between 1818 and 1833 an aver Secretary age of 60 British ships visited Canton annually, bringing principally opium and raw cotton and taking away tea and treasure.
Board of Directors, F. H. CRAPNELL,
Hongkong,, 25th January, 1935.
HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE
· ASSOCIATION. The ANNUAL DINNER DANCE will be held at the Peninsula Hotel on FRIDAY, MARCH 1st, 1935.
Booking of tablos will open an February 11th, at the Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels. The charge is $5.00 per hend and Announcement la expected at should be paid for at the time of
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Canton, Jan. 24.
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Development of Colorly
The scene now changes to Ilong- kong, where the machinery of govern ment was being set up, rules and ro gulations laid down, officials appointed carried and the first land ralen through. Captain Elilet issued a pro- clamation on June 7, 1841, to "mer- chante and traders of Canton and all parts of the empire, that they and their ahlps have free permission to resort to and trade at the port of Hongkong, where they will receive full protection from the high officers of the British nation; and, longkang being on the shores of the Chinese empire, neither will there be charges on imports and exporta pay- ablo to the British government."
This period saw the ring of the American traders, who were free from the restrictions which the East India Company imposed on the English mer- chants and flourished because of their independence. The growth of rivalry led the English merchants to agitate for the abolition of the East India Company's monopoly which 1834 was brought to An end. The Chinese authorities were, however, apprehensive lest the removal of the monopoly might lead to trouble in their relations with a large number of independent traders, and in con- sequence of representations Chinese official quarters the British ber of the Provinelal Council, to
Government appointed In December, be Commissioner of the Construc-j -OPEN RATE CARGO.
1834, Lord Napler as Chief Super tion Bureau. The present. Com- Item No. $15 of T.P.F.B. Tariff intendent of British trade. Lord other of misaloner, Mr. Ho Kal-lat will be
No. covering RATTANWARE, Napler was assisted by two transferred to another post under ETC. will be
closed effectiv. Auperintendents with Robert Morrisson this passage with what Lord Palmer- the Provincial Government.
as Chinese Secretary and Captain Charles Elliot (afterwards Chief Superintendent) as master allendant
The following extracts are front the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended January 24, 1914.
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to-morrow's meeting of the South- west Political Couneft of the pro- The rate of dollar on demand motion of Mr. Wu Chi-yin, a mem- was in. 10.15/168.
The death occurred at the Government Civil Hospital Inspector Edmund O'Sullivan, the Hongkong Police.
of
The Hongkong, Canton Macao Steamboat Company de clared a final dividend of $1 per Ahare.
The .8. Wuchang, built to the urder of the China Navigation Co. was launched at Taikon by Mrs.
G. T. Edkins.
booking.
NOTICE.
It is understood that the ap- August 1st, 1935, from which date pointment of Mr. Wu is in recogni- the rates in effect will be:- tion of his work in negotiating for | Overland US$3.00 per 40 cubic It. the $30,000,000 loan. from Ameri- Pacifle Coast 3.50 enn steel Interests for the estab- TRANS-PACIFIC FREIGHT
lishment of an iron and steel plant; in Canton.
BUREAU.
Hongkong. 22nd January, 1935.
Chinese newspapers report that the Arthur G. McKee and Company Lin Yun-koy proposed to resign of Cleveland, Ohio, have promised last week, on the expiration of his Mr. Wu to secure a G$10,000,000 term of office of three years: but, joan from American banking in following a request from General The Hongkong Land investment forests: The sum is equivalent to Chan Chai-tong, he has dropped Co. reported profits for the year 330,0000,000 (Canton currency). the idea of resigning. totalling by three lakhs of To-morrow's meeting may also dollars, and recommended a final formally request Mr. Lin Yun-koy, vincial chairman since 1931, as Mr. Lin Yun-koy has been pro- lividend of $3.50 per share. the provincial government, chair-the successor of General Chen making $7.00 for the year.
Iman, to continue, his work. Mr. Ming-shu.
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Now in view of the situation which has arisen here during the past year or two since China's customs tariffs were greatly increased, it is of in- terest to contrast the last clause of
ston presumed had been laid down by Captain Elliot,
This is what Lord Palmerston writes to Sir Henry Pottinger in his denpatch of May 31, 1841: "H.. With the arrival of Lord Napier in Government have reason to suppose 1834 the friction between - tereign that Hongkong has been ceded with traders and Chinese officials increased the condition that British and other in intensity and continued to inflame Foreign Merchandise imported Into- yours later war broke out between nose Customs House officers the usual feeling on either side, until some five Hongkong should there pay to Chi- England and China. Lord Napier and established Import duties which endeavoured to secure recognition an
auch goods would pay upon being im- representative of the British Govern- ported into China; and that much ment, but the Victory refused to re-dotics having been so paid, and the ceive any communication from him merchandize being duly stamped by except through the Co-hong, whereas the Chinese Customs officers at Hong- direct access. The dispute Lord Napier insisted on the right of kong, there should ho full liberty to an this all persons to enrry such Merchandise point led to the stoppage of trade for three weeks and the ultimate discom- iture of Lord Napler, who returned to Macan a sick man and died there shortly afterwards,
His successor as Chief Superinten. dent, acting under orders from the Home Government, adopted a policy of patience and conciliation which was not to the king of the English mer- chants, who were humiliated at tho treatment ecorded to the British
unvoy.
way to any Port in Chins, without its being able to any further payment in such Ports or elsewhere on account of Import duty..
Encouraging Commerce
"It is possible that British Com- merce might be much encouraged, if Gonds which had once been landed at Hongkong, could be carried from thence to any Chinese Purt without being liable to any further payment an account of Duty: and the Chinesa Tde lecturer then went on to deal Customs House officers in Hongkong at some length with the rise and de: would be less likely than the Chinese velopment of the Oplum Trala, and Authorities at other Ports to attempt mentioned that for the years 1835-1850 to levy exorbitant and illegal. the Import of the drug had averaged Duties, these arrangements must 30,000 cheats. He pointed out that be embodied in a Treaty." although the trade was declared It seems to me, continued Mr. THE WORLD'Sillegal in 1800 (from which time on Cassidy, that Lord Palmerston showed the East India Company refused to considerable foresight and common- WEIRD WONDER-placed no obstacles in the way
handle oplum) the Canton oficials
sense in suggesting the establishment of of a Chinese Customs House in long- its being carried on, and were in fact kong, although when the Chinese Cus- FUL WIZARD, interested parties through the amount roms tariff-was later regularised on a
of "squeeze" derived from it.
low uniform level there was little In- AND HIS INTER-
cenlive to smuggling. The situation has, however, been changed by the high NATIONAL
g the past few years and smuggling tariffs which have been adopted dur has become a problem which for ‘nil PANY.
the temporary gain R- bring to the Colony is undoubtedly a menace to regular commerce.
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Suppression of Opium COM-deco take frm action for the In 1839 the Imperial Government
suppression of the trade anil the famous Commissioner Lin Tae Su arrived in. Canton in March of that Lin lost no time in innuing a proclamation conumanding the foreign
We now know that a year or so ago traders to deliver up all opium in the Nanking Government were negoti their possession. After a show of sting with the Hongkong authorities resistance on the part of the for the establishment of a customs foreigners, which was countered by collecting station on the lines of
suggestion, the threat of armed seizure by the Palmerston'a Chinese, 28,283 chests of opium,parently the propant did not appeal valued at about ten million dollars, to the Canton provincial authorities, March 1839. and the Kowloon Railway Station in were handed over in THE PHYSHIC MARVEL Trade with Canton was resumed forntil the only place in the Colony time, but Captain Elliot, who had where the Chinese Maritime Customs now become Chief Superintendent, functions. The point in Palmerston's was not satisfied with the conditions despatch which I should like to stress under which that trade was carried is the clear demonstration of a destre to co-operate with the Chinese au- to thorities, a policy which has been con- Further Incidenta occurred disturb relations between British and sistently followed by British Govern- the Chinese, and these led to
the ments during the succeeding ninety transfer of the British traders from odd years. Macao to Hongkong. British ships anchored in Hongkong harbour had to transact their business with Can- As I have pointed out, Palmerston's ton as best they could through the recommendations arrived too late to medium of neutral ships, chiefly be embodied in the Treaty of Nanking, American. In November 1889 actual but Sir Henry Pottinger, who had war broke out between China and Rucceeded Elliot as Superintendent of Great Britain, and was terminated by Trade and was concurrently the first the Treaty of Nanking after an Governor of Hongkong, framed a set armistice had been agreed upon in
of regulations for the examination of January, 1841.
Chinesa funks trading between Canton and Hongkong to prevent muggling. It was laid down that no Chinese vessel should anchor. In Hongkong harbour without a pass from the Can con authorities but unfortunately the "The cension of the island and har-
Jatter, Instead of welcoming · this bour of Hongkong to the British opportunity of regulating the Crown, All just charges and duties trade between the two ports, refused to the empire upon the commerce to issue passos, so that the funk trafe carried on there to paid as if the Into Hongkong virtually consed. trade were conducted at Whampoa." In giving evidence before a Cons- The lecturer then referred to the mittee of the House of Commons in various considerations which promp- 1847, Sir Alexander Matheson roundly ted the demand for the cession of condemned this arrangement on the Hongkong, and pointed out that while grounds that it subjected junk owners Lord Palmerston was in favour of an to unlimited squeeze on the part of for Camsingmoon, where a flourishing that the Colony was a pestilential island settlement for British trade, the Mandarina. Sir Alexander stated township of three to four thousand island which would never be habitable subject to there being a good harbour that the trade the Colony, which renatural facilities for military de- had appeared to have such a promis inhabitants had sprung up. The by white people, the newly se fence, offer of a settlement at a Chin-ing future; was brought to.
rean place even boasted a European hotel quired concession gradually developed Into a trading centro, and although with a billiard-room. the port would have been accepted by still by the funk pasa regulation and The regulation very soon became ait: had its sot-backs it ultimately the British Government, provided the was diverted to Camsinamoon, on the dead letter, and despite the pessimism falfilled the visions of Bir John Davi security and frowdom of commerce west coast of the Pearl River estuary. Sir Alexander Hatheson, who who atoutly resisted the defeatist could be masured. The lecturer then He said that when he left Hongkong thought that what was left of trade arguments of Mr. Martin and con- confund no follow In 1840 shins which would normally in Hongkong would be crumbed by the fidently predicted that it would be
Captain Elliot was firmly convinced have entered the harbour werd pass-burdan Crown Colony Govern come the great emporium for the trade. that Hongkong wana mecanity foring to the south of the Colony-making-ment, and of Mr. Martin, who thought of South China
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