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TELEGRAPH, CENTENARY SUPPLEMENT
PIRATES
JANUARY 25, 1941.
ABOUNDED: BOTH
EUROPEAN
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be replaced by the existing new struc- ture two years ago. The first slaughter houses were erected in 1853.
The earliest Police buildings were the Magistracy and Victoria Gaol, and Police Stations at Queen's Road East and Aberdeen, built in 1847. All have been either demolished or superseded since then-Victoria Gaol was recon- structed in 1865, and superseded a few years ago by the new prison at Stanley, while the Magistracy as it stands to-day is a comparatively new structure. Perhaps the oldest of the existing Police Stations is the old No.
1 in Happy Valley, which a few years ago was converted into quarters for Indian constables, when the fine new Wanchai (No. 2) Station came into use on the Praya East Reclamation. It is on record that a Wongneichong Police Station was erected in 1853, and the old No. 9 at Caine Road went up the same year. The original Central Police Station was built in 1857, and the old No. 7 Station (superseded in 1902) was erected in 1858. Several other outly- ing stations were built about this period. The old Wanchai Station was built in 1868.
fair quota of The Colony had its Chinese criminals at that time, and in the early years a gang of pirates from the mainland actually landed near West Point and looted the Chinese section of the town. Raids by armed Chinese on European residences were also not uncommon. But the records of the Supreme Court contain references to piracies of a more ambitious kind, such as thrilled most of us in the fiction of our youth.
EUROPEAN PIRATES
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It is strange to think nowadays of the trial in Hongkong in 1845 of Henry Daniel Sinclair, a Briton, former gunner of the schooner Ariel, on charge of piracy. He was sentenced to transportation for life. In 1848, Cap- tain Cole of the schooner Spec and his crew were acquitted of a charge of piracy: but an Englishman nained William Fenton, who commanded a Chinese lorcha, or junk, engaged in piracy, was sentenced to three years' hard labour in 1852, after a series of trials in which he had at first been discharged, and many adventures, which included a fight in which a Portuguese naval officer was killed by some of Fenton's Chinese crew. In 1857, an American with the truly romantic name of Eli Boggs-in itself suggesting the pirate chiefs of the story books-was sentenced in Hongkong to transportation for life, on a charge of piracy and murder, and owing to Illhealth was sent back to America the following year.
These were men who in the main led Chinese freebooters operating in local waters. The Chinese" pirates, who at one time had counted Hongkong Island a stronghold of their own, continued their trade for many years, and within living memory, before British control was extended on the mainland, Hong- kong residents could journey out Kowloon City freshöre (now obli- terated by the airport reclamation) and witness rows of pirates being executed
to
AND
CHINESE
WYNDHAM STREET 95 YEARS AGO
Wyndham Street in 1846, with old Hongkong Club on the right and Pedder's Hill on the left.
The Volunteers Come Into Being
that the professional Fire Brigade became a sub-department of the Police administration.
THE VOLUNTEER CORPS In referring to volunteers fighting local fires, one is reminded that the British civilian population gave other evidence of their public spirit in forming the present Volunteer Defence Corps.
It required the Crimean War, how- ever, when in Britain itself enthusiasm was at a high pitch, to create sufficient enthusiasm locally, but the first sugges- tion for local Volunteers did not develop until 1860. In March 1862, a public meeting in the old Court House decided to form Volunteer, Corps. A battery of artillery was first organised, and a band followed; in 1863 a ride company came into being, and in 1864 the Volunteers had their first experi- ence of street patrols following a small riot in the Colony; which followed a fight between European
and Malay
that.
The Jockey Club also has an old his- tory, the race course having been con- structed in 1846, but prior to Hongkong sportsmen (from 1841 troops
1845) raced their ponies at Macao,
When hostilities with the Chinese broke out again not long after Hong- kong had been ceded, owing to non- observance of the provisional treaty stipulations, some of these re-embarked for Canton, and took part in the punitive operations,
The oldest cemetery, used by the military, was at Taipingshan, above Queen's Road West, while the civilians were buried at St Francis Yard, off Queen's Road East Stanley cemetery was opened a little later for the mill- tary, and the Colonial Cemetery in Happy Valley for civilians (in 1845). The remains of those buried in St Francis Yard were removed to the Colonial Cemetery in 1889.
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Owing to the presence of Indian soldiers here in the very early days, including a number of Mohammedans, the community was one of those
almost specially catered for outset, and not only was a mosque in the existence at an early date (1843) but Moslem cemetery was also established.
Among other early pioneers of non-
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sailors, and in which British soldiers later took part.
There were several slack periods, British
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Ecclesiastical institutions were early in the field: and several schools were also opened in the very first year of the British occupation. Let
consider some of the older foundations.
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From the very first, religious bodies must have turned their eyes to a new field of endeavour, and when the Colony had assumed some semblance of settled order, the earliest missions arrived. The Baptists were among the first here, and in 1842 a Baptist Chapel was opened in Queen's Road. primirily intended, it would appear, for Chinese worshippers. Rev. J. L. Schuck opened it with
the subscribed by money foreign community (resident and transient). The r