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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

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5 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-!

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Tai Po, May 7, 1899. Letters marked 5 A, B, C are in the handwriting of Tang Tsing Sz, my brother. (These letters were found in the meeting house at Un Long; translation forwarded

on the 24th April.)

Letter 3 is in the handwriting of Tang Po Wan.

(One of the letters found in the meeting house at Un Long; translation forwarded

on the 24th April.)

He is in Hang Tsun. He is a geomancer. He has no

written in Ping Shan.

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·Z 1—continued,

Joss sticks Do. Candles

Rice

Silk cloth Cardles

Letter 3 A was

Egge

Do.

(One of the letters found in the meeting house at Un Long; translation forwarded

on the 24th April.)

I knew the correspondence was going on. I do not recognise the handwriting of the red placard, No. 4.

(Found in the meeting house at Un Long; translation forwarded on the 24th April.)

I have examined the handwriting in the books marked Z 1 and Z 2. Z 1 is in the handwriting of Tang Fuk, who is the younger brother of Tang Chak Hing, and ac- countant in the I Un Shop kept by Tang Chak Hing. Z 2 is written by Tang Mung U, my nephew, I cannot account for the books being found in my store. They may have been thrown into my store when the people were running away.

I have seen the book marked Z 2 before. The accounts contained in these books went through the hands of Tang Po Shan and Tang Fo Lung. Tang Fo Lung is teacher in the ancestral temple school at Ha Tsun. Tang Po Shan is a loafer. He is opium smoker. He lives at Shek Kong Tsun. My son is named A Ngai. He is 18 years old. He is now at home. He is learning business in my shop. My son was at Un Long. I was at Ha Tsun. I heard that my son was present with Tang Tsing Sz, Ng Ki Cheung, and Ng Fung Cheung I was not present myself. Tang Chu Shan made a search in Ha Tsun for Tang Cheung.

Tang Chek Ting states:-

TANG CHEK TING.

Tai Po, May 11, 1899.

Tang Po Lung is a man of good character; Tang Po Shan is also teacher. As I have stated, they kept the account in the books Z 1 and Z 2. They were employed by the elders of Ha Tsun. They had nothing to do with the resistance offered to the British. As to my son, A Ngai, people say he was at the meeting house at Un Long when Tang Cheung was murdered. I did not see Tang Chu Shan looking for Tang Cheang. The villagers said he was looking for him.

The wife of the murdered man also told me ringleaders in Ping Shan were Tang I Yau and Tang Fong Hing; at Un Long, Ng Ki Cheung and Ng Fung Cheung; at Kam Tin, Tang Kok Lam and Tang Chuk Sam; in Pat Heung, Tang Fung; in Lung Kwet Tau, Tang Chui Shek; in Cha Hang, Man Cham Tsun.

TANG CHEK TING.

MEMORANDUM giving a translation of the account books referred to as Z 1 and Z 2,

with especial reference to all names and transactions in arms and ammunition.

Z 1.

Account book found in Tang I Shek's

shop in Ha Taun

Kwong Sui, 25th year

2nd. Moon

25th. Cloth

Expenses

Ngau Kwai for taking a letter

Charcoal

26. Joss sticks

String

Gunpowder-1 catty, 352 cash

Tobacco

50th. Percussion caps

Red ink

Paid to two men

Z 1-continued.

Paid Tin Yau

Camphor wood

27th. -Paid Chik Jency for travelling Expenses to Un Long

28th. Gunpowder-2 jars, 52 catties,

$15.60

28. Nam Tau. Gunpowder-$251·40 White cloth

Joss sticks

Gunpowder 1 jar, 28 catties

Joss sticks Beans Vegetables Jose sticks

Red cloth

Crab Vegetables Wire Sugar

Joss sticks

English gunpowder-3 jars

Red cloth

Do.

Do.

50 Percussion caps

Joss stick

String

2nd. A Fat for travelling expenses

A Kwan Opium

In payment Fruit Chicken

In payment Per board

do.

2. Chi Tim Kwai for paper

Opium

Tea

Z 1-continued.

Vegetables

Oil Cash Paper Opium

Wire

Repairing arms--2m 4c

Oil Oil

Tea

Firewood Wire

Small cannon-$2

5. Tobacco

Cigarettes

One book Rice Candles Oil

Goods

Tobacco

Candles

8th. Rice

Letter

Rice

Fung Fat for labour Joss sticks

Goods

Wire

Paper Letter Boat hire

Paper

Tobacco

Red paper

Percussion caps-20 cents. Vegetables

Oil

Matches

Oil

Note book

Vegetables

Pan Tin gunpowder-21t 6m

Nim Wan gunpowder-21t 6m

Kwun Kin-red cloth

Do.

Cash

Oil

2. Chak Hing to go to Hong Kong 5th. Ten

Paper Tobacco

Cigarettes

Tobacco

Joss sticks

Do.

Do.

Charcoal

Plums

Sugar

Paper

3 books

Paper

Note book

Sugar

Candles

Paper

Flowers

Tobacco

Paper Candles

2000 Crackers Tobacco

8th. Rice

Red cloth Candles Note book Plums T'en

Tobacco

To Him Tai

Do.

To Kwan Pat

Do.

Dr.

Candler

To Tim Kwai's son

Wire

Do.

Tim Kwai for paper

Plums

Tobacco

Smoke paper. 2nd Moon, 28th

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