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        "content_text": "\n< \n\nEly, caused by linate pather than by \n\ner focuse to the fun \n\nCertainly by a binato \n\nSurgeon Ladd with traws. \n\nCaftan Exter, 39\". Madas. Vative. I tronce Capita \n\nis on thed into Court and seam une d \n\ncalled \n\nHughing, and for what period \n\nEapen 2018 \n\nSegantry \n\nBere \n\nyou acting \n\nBre \n\n7. \n\nBrigate. Majin. \n\nat \n\nhonge \n\nQ. \n\ndinad Statice Haff Officer at thing \n\nthem the Frog's August to the 24% of October \n\n\"you state the strengthe of the \n\naifferent detachments at Houghing \n\ndo u the in \n\nof then fick \n\nduring \n\n5. Sefilemben. \n\nOn the pot \n\nthe cuts of \n\naud Bibler & \n\n66. \n\nSept \n\nof Auque 6 of 14 d. 18. Size 8. Fit for diety and 20 fick. Itabas \n\nthre \n\n26 Regt. 216 7.1 fm. of B R 21.4 Soh - P. t. C. 430 deaths in Bel, 36- \n\nof H. The hit Rept there were 15 fil forduly 188ck Totub 33. deaths in July 3. \n\nHere \n\nC) me, e \n\n16 fit for. \n\nH. Mr. 55 Rz t fich: Salut 40 deaths in Bele, 1. \n\nQ.. \n\nC... \n\nI the Madras & Artillery, there were \n\nduly, and the Rich total \n\njetatues included) Ch gut zur duly, 78. death in July1. \n\nOff the Igre Inline Jugantry, theres \n\nbrey C..... \n\nبو \n\nwere \n\n576 fit for duly, and 53 fick. Total: 629 death \n\nSly 9. \n\nof the \n\nan ec \n\nDepartment there duly and the sick. Totu 635- dant \n\n24 fit for duly \n\nFil So-duty \n\nگاه کرایه اراده \n\nIf the Lashers and Benner, there were 27 glich Solab36. death's in Putzt. On the 16d af Lefitem ben of # M. 18 Aeg t 28 fit for dit, 411 kick - Total 34. deuths now. \n\n\"H. Mh. 26\" Peyt. there were fit for duly \n\nTotal 297. deather in Augustét. of H.M. 49 Regt. there more fit for aut anskih 18. Feta € 32, deaths in Bu \n\nin Augustt. 17. WT. 55 Keyt, Mine were, 19. aussick 1970 Falu 638 deaths in \n\nof th: Massor Wirty, there \n\nJet Gordul, Auquets. \n\nfir \n\nauty it and Fish it. Elat 72. death's in Angus & \n\nof the by Natic dify. there were fut \n\nSq zer duty 386, and kick 74. Falab 620 deaths in Aust Of the Cerdnance Department, there \n\n< \n\nfit for duly 30 and sick 13 - Total 33 . du t \n\nے کیو \n\nof the Lappers \n\nMinvers, there \n\nlak pl \n\nLe Duty 19, und mit 16. Folab 35 death's in \n\ningath \n\nOn the 1th October of 18. Th. 18 Play, 5, \n\nthere.",
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        "content_text": "Superintendent of the Trade of our Subjects trading to and from the Dominions of the Emperor of China, GREETING— \n\nGOVERNMENT EXTRAORDINARY. \n\nOATH. \n\n1, A B, do hereby swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to our Sovereign Lady WHEREAS, by certain Letters Patent under VieroRIA, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great the Great Seal of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. &c., and that I will well Britain and Ireland, bearing even date herewith and truly, according to the best of my ability, skill, We have made provision for the Government of and understanding, and without fear, favour,  ́or our Colony of Hong-Kong and of its Dependencies, affection, perform, do, and fulfil the duties and Now Know You, that we reposing especial trust and powers of a Justice of the Peace, over and and confidence in the prudence, courage, and towards all subjects of her said Majesty presently, loyalty of you the said Sin flexey PorTINGEL, or hereafter residing within, or resorting to, the of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and are Dominions of the Emperor of China---SO HELP anotion, have thought fit to constitute and appoint, ME GOD. and do hereby constitute and appoint you, the said SIR HENRY POPTINGER, to be the GOVERNOR and COMMANDER-IN-Cher in and over our said Colony of Hong-Kong and its dependencies, and of all day of Forts and Garrisons erected and established, or which shall be erected and established within the said Colony, for and during our pleasure -- \n\nAND WE DO hereby require and command you, the said Stu HENDY POFTINGER, to do and execute all things that shall belong to your said Command and the Trust we have reposed in you, according to the several powers and directions granted to, or appointed to, the Governor of ang sant Colony of Hong-Kong and its Dependencies, in and by the said recited Letters Patent bearing even date herewith, and the Instructions under our Signet and Sign Manual accompanying the same, or according to such further powers, instructions, and Authorities as shall froin tine to thine, or at any time hereafter be granted or appointed you, under our Signet and Sigh Manual, or by our order in our Privy Council, or by Us, through one of our principal Secretaries of State AND WE DO hereby require and command all Officers and Ministers, Civil and Military, and all other the inhabitants of our sald Colony of Hong-Kong and its Dependencies, to be obedient, aiding, arul assist- ing, to you the said Sin Haxey POTTINGER in the execution of this our Commission, and of the powers and authorities herein contained,-IN WITNESS whereof, we have caused these our Letters, to be made Patent. \n\nWITNESS Ourself, at Westminster, the fifth tay of April, in the sixth year of our Reign. \n\nBY THE QUEEN HERSELF. \n\nTrue Copy. \n\nEDMUNDS. \n\n! RICHARD WOOSNAM \n\nPROCLAMATION. \n\nHis Excellency SIR HENRY POTTINGER,. Bart, G. C. B., Governor of Hong-Kong, &c. &c.. is pleased to nominate and appoint the under- signed Gentlemen to be Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, to hold and exercise lawful author. ity and power as such, over and towards all sub- jects of her Britannic Majesty presently, or hereafter residing within, or resorting to, lu Dominions of the Emperor of China; and to require, that previously to entering on the discharge of their functions as Justices of the Poare, they do respectively and individually take, and subscribe to, the annexed Oath, before any one of the under- mentioned Officers of her Majesty's Government, \n\nviz.. \n\nThe ASSISTANT and REGISTRAR to the CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE, &c. \n\ntc. \n\nThe CHIEF MAGISTRATE of Hong-Kong, The ASISTANT-MAGISTRATE of flong-Kong. The Barrish GOVERNMENT AGENT (Vice Con- \n\nsul) at Macao. \n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN. \n\nHENRY POTTINGER. Dated at the Government-House, at Victoria, this 27th day of June, 1843. \n\nat \n\nSworn before me \n\nthis \n\n1943. \n\n+ \n\nj \n\nHer Britannic Myjesty's Justices of the Peace in China. \n\n} ANDERSON, ALEXANDER BALFOUR, GEORGE BRAINĖ, GEORGE THOMAS BURN, DAVID' LAING\" CAINE. WILLIAM \n\nCOMPTON, CHARLES SPENCER, & DENT, JOHN Esquires \n\n} \n\nDRUMMOND, Hon, FRANCIS CHARLES DUDGEON, PATRICK DUNDAS, HENRY EDGER, JOSEPÅ FROST FLETCHER, ANGUS, \n\n1. \n\nGORDON. ALEXANDER THOMAS GIBB, JOHN DARBY GRAY, WILLIAM \n\nGRIBBLE, HENRY MARKER, HENRY\" ROBERT HILLIER, CHARLES BATTEN \n\n4 HOLLIDAY, JOHN \n\nJARDINE, ANDREW JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER ROBERT KERR, CRAWFORD \n\nLAY, GEORGE TRADESCANT LË GEYT, WILLIAM 'CAIRNES LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM POTTER MACKEAN, THOMAS WILLIAM LOCK- \n\nWOOD \n\nMALCOLM, GEORGE ALEXANDER MATHESON, ALEXANDER MERCER, JOHN AMBROSE MORGAN, WILLIAM MORRISON, JOHN ROBERT PEDDER, WILLIAM \n\nRICKETT, JOȚIN \n\nSCOTT, ALEXANDER \n\nSMITH, JOSEPII MACKRILI. STEWART. CHARLES EDWARD STEWART, WILLIAM STEWART, PATRICK \n\nTHOM, ROBERT WHITE, JAMES WILKINSON, ALFRED \n\nWISE, JOHN WOOSNAM, RICHARD, and YOUNG, PETER, Esquires. \n\n(By Order) \n\nRICHARD. WOOSNAM. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, \n\nUnder Instructions from Her Majesty,s Gos vernment, the situation of DeryTY-SUPERINTEND- ENT OF TRADE, &c., is abolished from this Date. \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON, Esq., is appointed Assistant and Registrar to the Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c. \n\n[By Order] \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM Government House, Victoria, \n\n26th June, 1843. \n\nThe following appointments by the Hon- ourable the Governor of Hong-Kong. Hr. &., are notified for general in- formation. \n\nLieut. Col. MALCOLM, C. B., [her Majesty's Sec- retary of Legation, to Officiate as Colonial Secretary to Governmicntë” și \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAN, Esq. to bo Private Secretary to the Honourable the Governor; and to off- ciate as Deputy Colonial Secretary, CHARLES EDWARD STEWARK, Esq., to be Trea- surer and Financial Secretary to Government. \n\nThe following Officers are under the new arrangements, confirmed in their respective appointments. \n\nJ. R. MORRISON, Esq., as Chinese Secretary to the Chief Superintendent, &c., and to officiate as such to the Government of Hong-Kong. Major WILLIAM CAINE, as Chief Magistrate of \n\nHong-Kong. \n\nCHARLES B. HILLLER, Esq., as Assistant Magis- \n\ntrate of Hong Kong, \n\nLieut. WILLAM PRODER, R. N., Harbour Master, \n\nand to officiate as Marine Magistrale. ALEXANDER T. GORDON, Esq., as Land Officer, \n\n&c. &c. \n\n[By Order,] \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. Government Honse, Victoria, \n\n27th June, 1843, \n\nI \n\nLicut. G. T. BROOKE, of H. 'M.'s 55th Regiment, having been placed at the disposal of Government by the General Officer Companding her Majesty's Land Forces in China, is appointed Miktury Secretary and Aid-de-Cung to the Honourable the Governor \n\n[By Order, \n\nRICHARD WOOSNÁM. Government Flouse, Victoria, \n\n27th June, 1843. \n\nPRINTED AT THE GAZEITE PRINTING OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD, VICTORIA, LONG- Kosu. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, \n\nAn omission having inadvertently occur- red in the form of the Oath to be taken by Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, appended to the Proclamation of the 27th of last month, the annexed amended form is now published for general information. 5 \n\nBy order, \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. \n\nGovernment-House, Victoria, Hong-Kong, July 10th 1843. \n\nOATH. \n\nI do hereby swear, that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c., &c.; and that I will, well and truly, according to the best of my ability, skill, and understanding, and without fear, favour, or affection, perform, da, and fulfil the duties and powers of a Justice of the Peace, over and fowards all Subjects of Her said Majesty, presently, or hereafter residing in, or resort- ting to, Her Britannic Majesty's Colony of Hong-Kong and its Dependencies, or the Dominions of the Emperor of China,--SO HELP ME GOD. \n\nSworn before me, at \n\nthis 1843. \n\nday of \n\nPage 90Page 91",
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        "content_text": "\nSir. \n\nNeived \n\n25th Lugust 1863. \n\nHenry \n\nBettinger \n\n1 Midlotine \n\nbending the local newspapers to \n\nRepers accougements made for \n\nMezmu mendel B the Gr Bendrag. \n\nhutboard any \n\nauta Bentenges the Benting stone be dona a \n\nIn Contract - Ses Pho \n\nAnd according & by 2012. ofs Se \n\nThis rugher 's go to the le hits referase \"tote Lens Charting at \n\nF. \n\nNo, 75 VOL, XL \n\nIn 1289 Hougiong \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA. \n\nQAZEE. \n\nAND \n\nNOTIFICATION. \n\nPUBLISHED VERY TICRSDAY MORNING. \n\nVICTORIA, THURSDAY AUGUST 24TH, 1843. \n\nof Hong-Kong became a bonda file Possessor of the British Crown, and from which day the garment of \n\nconimento. \n\nIn obedience to the intimation conveyed in one of the preceding Extracts, is Excellency, te Governor in Couch is pleased to appoint, \n\nTi publication of the Hongkong Garents derivable from Such Land will only be held to zette under the authority of Government, will be discontinued from this date: but all public orders and notifications appearing in \"The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette,\" with the signatures of duly an- thorized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official. \n\nBy order, \n\nJ. ROBT: MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer. Hongkong, March, 23rd. 1812. \n\nPROCLAMATION. \n\nBy virtue of the Authority vested in mic by the Queen's Letters Patent, dated at Westminster, on the 5th day of April, 1643, and also by Instructions issued to re under Her Majesty's Royal Signct and Sigu Manual, of date the 6th day of April 1643, Do hereby nominate and appoint the undercutiones Gentlemen to be Members of the Legislative and Executive Councils of the Colony of Hongkong, ponding Her Majesty's Pleasure: \n\nALEXANDER ROGENT JOHNSTON, Esq., Registrar & Assistant to Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c. \n\nJOHN ROBERT MORRISON, Esq., Chinese Secretary to Her Majesty's Chief Supe rintendent and the Cevvarmement of Hongkong. \n\nWILLIAM CAINE, Esq., Major in Her Majesty's 26th Regiment of Fool, and Chief Magis- trate of the Colony of Hongkong. \n\n| Price $1 { monthly, Į \n\n$12 yearly, \n\nCHINESE RE-ARRANGEMENT OF TARIFF, UNDER CLASSES OF GOODS. \n\nZitle. \n\nTARIFF OF DUTIES, TO BE LEVIED AT THE FIVE PORTS OF CANTON, &c., &c., AS NEWLY ESTABLISHED. \n\nA. T. GORDON Esq., Land Offer, 4c. \n\nCAPTAIN DE Havnaaso, H. 1's. 55 Regt. \n\nAssistant Surveyor, and \n\nThe Duties which, it is agreed shall be paid upon Goods, im Charles Edward STEWART. Est, Treasurer ported, and exported by England, at the Five Ports of Customs and Financial Secretary to Government, of Canton. Fuchow, Amoy, Ningo, and Shanghai, are here \n\nto be a Committee; assisted by Richard Burgass, Esq.⠀ \n\nClass I-Exported Oilman's Stores (Oil, Wax, Alum, \n\nLegal Adviser to Government, to inquire into the stated in classified order. equitable claims of all Folders of Lands, to define the chsses to which particular lots shall henceforward || belong, as well as their future amaal rout, and to ar range for the disposal of further lots regarding which | Her Majesty's lustructions prescribe and it is our further Will and Pleasure, that no such unds shall be sukl, be lon, except at public action, and that at drecy such auction, the Lands to be then sold or \n\n\"let, pul op at a reserved, or minimum, price, equal to the fair reasonable price and value or an \n\nmal rent therent. \" \n\nBy Order of His Execlercy the Governer, and Commander in Chief of Hong Kong, \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. Ofcinting Deputy Colonial Secretary, Government Honze, Victoria, Hong-Kong, \n\n21st of August, 1843. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nTHE Provincial Government of Canton, having issued a Proclamation, requiring| \n\nSulphur, &c.) ARTICLES. \n\nAlum, ., White Alum-formerly White \n\nAlum and Bluestone \n\nCassia Oil \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\nCorresponding to No., in Alphabeticat, i 4, English List. \n\nAniseed Oil, not formerly Contained in the Tarif \n\nClass II-Exported Spices, Ten, &c. \n\nARTICLES. Tea, (formerly divided into fine and Native black, \n\nand fine and Native green, Teas Anniseed, Stur Musk \n\nThe above Gentlemen are to be styled, in addi- that all Foreign Vessels, inward bound, Capoor Cutchery tion to their usual addresses, The Honorable, in all | shall report themselves at the Bogue Furts, Caiphor \n\nOfficial and other documents. \n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN. \n\n+ \n\nClass III--Exporteil Drugs. \n\non, and after, the 1st day of the 8th Chine- Arsenic, under different Chinese names se nonth--which falls on the 5th of Ap meet? C \n\nZ \n\nComalvan or Ogesia Buuts, hot femerty in Tarui Dated at the Govenment House, at Victoria Hongkong, this 21st day of August 1843, in the Vessels are apprized accordingly, and direct-China Root seventh year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queened to contorin to this Regulation. \n\nCubebs not formerly in Tariff Victoria, &c. \n\nThis Notification is not intended to super- sede that which was published in the Hong- Galingal Kong Gazette of the 17th of August-as Hartall \n\nHENRY POTTINGER. \n\nGOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS. \n\nDumve the absence of Lieutenant Colonel Mal colo, C. B.-or until further order-the Honorable J. R. Morrison, Esq., is to efficiate as Colonial \n\nSecretary. \n\nRichard Burgass, Esq.. is appointed Legal adviser to the Governcient of Hongkong, and to officiate as Clerk of the Legislative Council, pending the pica- sure of Nor Majesty's Government. \n\nBy order of His Excellency the Governor, and Commander in Chief of Longkong. \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. \n\nGovernment House, Victoria, Hongkong, 21st August, 1913. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency the Governor having had ander his \n\ncoretul consideration the Instructions which have been received from Ier Majesty's Government on the Subject of Crown Lands in this Colony, is pleased to plish the following Extracts of a Despatch frora Her Majesty's Principal Snoretary of State for the Colonies. \n\n\"St HENRY POTTINGER is to abstain from \"alienating any of the kund on the Island, either in \"perpetuity, or for any time of greater length thum may be necessary to induce and enable the Tenants to rect substantial buildings, &c.\" \n\nBut with the general prohibition against the alie \"nation of Crown Lands, and with the generat refusal to sanction any such Grants as may have already \"been made. Lord Stanley would coment a promise, that insediately on the Establishment of a regular \"Government in the place, as inquiry should be insti. *luted, by some competent and impatial authority, into the equitable Claims of all Holders of Land, te #a confirmation, either permanent or teraporary, of \"their Tales, so far as they unit be courmed con- sistently with a just regard to the interests of Society \"at large,\" \n\n| \n\nthe unner of, and rules for, Vessels re- Rhubarb porting themselves will hereafter be publish- Turmeric ed-but is meant to provide for the Pro- vincial Authorities having unexpectedly is- sued the Proclamation above adverted to. \n\nBy Order, \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. \n\nGovernment House, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th August, 1843. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nIs Excellency the Governor and Commanderia Chief bring about to protest for a short time to Macao on the Public Service, is pleased to see that ho will continue to carry on all his duties as Governor, &c., during his absence. \n\nAll Letters and Reports to be sem as usual to the Go sertunem House where they will be forwarded. \n\nBy order, \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. \n\nGovernment House, Victoria, Hong-Kong, 24th August 1848. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nClass IV-Exported Sundries, Bangles (glass armlets) not formely in Tariff Bamboo Screens, and Bamboo Ware \n\nCorals, Native or false coral, not formely in Tariff Crackers, and fireworks of all kinds (formerly \n\nclassed as rockets, &c.] \n\nFans (feather fans, &c.) not formerly in the Tarit Glass, Glass ware of all kinds formerly classed as \n\nNative crystal ware \n\nGlass beads, or False pearls Kittysols or paper Umbrellas. Marble, Marble slabs, not formerly in Tarifl'. Rice Paper pictures Paper Fans \n\nPearls (false) not formerly in Tariff \n\nF \n\nB3 \n\nON \n\nClass F.-Erpedort Painter's Stores, de, dr. Brass Leaf \n\nGamboge \n\nRed Lead \n\nGlue, as fish glue, cow skin glue, &c. Paper, Stationery \n\nIn the Goods of Thomas Elworthy, and Tin foil Samuel Dyer, lately carrying on trade under Vermillion. the name and firin of Elworthy and Dyer, at Hongkong, and deceased intestate. \n\nNoruz is hereby given, that administration ofj the Estate and effects of the above named intostates will be forthwith granted to Angus Fletcher, trad- ing under the name and firm of Fletcher, Larkins & Co., at Macao, and to Willinn Gemmell, and firm of W. & T. Gemninell, & Co., at Hongkong; Henry Robert Harker, trading under the name and and all next of kin, Creditors and others concerned \n\nBy order, \n\nWith advertence to the principle laid down in the above Extracts, it will be understood, that Her Maherein are duly apprized thereof. jesty's Goverment do not recognize the validity of any Grants, or Sales, of Land that may have been made, or may have taken place, under any authority \n\nwhatsoever, previous to the Exelange of the Ratifi- \n\nCHARLES É. STEWART, \n\nTreasurer & Fini. Secy. \n\nGovernment Tlouse, \n\ncations of the Treaty, upon which event the Faland Victoria, Hongkong, 17th August, 1813. \n\n|| \n\nARTICLES. \n\nPaintings (large paintings) formerly, divided \n\ninto large and small paintings White Lead \n\n****** *= 88 \n\nClass VI-Exported Wares of various Kinds. 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        "content_text": "\nTHE FRIEND OF CHIN, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE. \n\nCorresponding to lo., \n\nCorresponding to No, \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nin Alphabetical, i, e. \n\nEnglish List \n\nbroken Class XVI--All new goods imported, which it has not been practicable to include herein. 5 per cent. að valoren. \n\nClass XVII-All forsign rice, and other grain, Duty Free \n\nSHIPPING DUES THESE bave hitherto been charged upon the measurement of the Ships || length and breadth, at so much per change but it is now agreed to alter the System, and charged according to the registeed statement of the number of tons of Carga the Ship may carry. On each ten (reckoned equal to the cubic contents of 122 tow,) a Shipping charge of 5 Mars is to be levied: and all the old charges of measurement, entrance and port clearance fees, daily and Monthly ices. &ro., are to be abolished \n\nTaowkwang, 33rd year, 8th Month. day. (July \n\nL. S. \n\nI.. S. \n\nof \n\nol \n\nthe Supt. \n\nGuy.Genl. \n\nel the \n\nTwo Kwang \n\nCasures \n\nL. 5. \n\nरहने \n\nHigh \n\nCavathis. Funer \n\n1849.) \n\nL. 8. ไม่ \n\nGovernor \n\nCanton \n\nin Alphabetical i, e. \n\nin Alphabetical e, \n\nEnglish Last \n\nEnglish List. \n\nRattan ware, rattan and bamboo work Sandal-wood ware \n\nClass IV-Importel Sundries. \n\nتھ \n\nWints \n\nGold and Silver ware, formerly divided into \n\nMother of Peart shells \n\nBullock's and Ruffalo's Horns Cow and Ox hides, tanned and untanned \n\nClass XV Fraported Skins, Teeth, Horns, &c. \n\nSea otter skins \n\nGold ware, and Silver ware \n\nTortoise shell ware \n\nClass V-Imported Dried Meats, &c. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nFox skras, larve and small \n\nLeather Trunks and Boxes \n\nClass VII-Exported Woods. Cares, &c. Canes or walking sticks of all kinds \n\nBird's nests, 1st quality cleaned Bird's nest 2nd quality, good middling \n\ndo., uncleanci 3rd Bicho de Mar 1st do, black 2nd do,, white \n\nTiger, Leopard, sad Martin skins Land Otter, Racoon, and Shark skius Beaver skine \n\nRD \n\nD \n\nARTICLES. \n\nHare, Rabbit, and Ermine skine \n\n+1; \n\nSea Horm Tued) \n\nClass VIII-Exported articles of Clothing, Wearing apparel, whether of Cotton, woollen, or silk, formerly divided into Cotton clothing. Woollén do., Silk and Sutin do,, and Velvet do, Boots and Shoes, whether of leather Satin, or \n\notherwise \n\nElephant's Teeth, 1st quality, whole \n\nShark's as, 1st dn, white 2ud do, black \n\nJ7 \n\nStock Gsh and dried fish \n\nFish: maws, not formerly in the Tariff \n\nClass VI.--Imported Painter's Stores. \n\nClass IX-Erported fabrics of Cotton, &c. Grass Cloth, and all Cloths of hemp of linen Nankeen, and all Cloths of Cotton (not formerly \n\nin the Tarif \n\nCochineal Smalis \n\n1+ \n\nSapan Wood \n\nClass VII.--Impuried Woods, Canes, &c. \n\nClass X—Exported Silk, fabrics of Silk, 42- \n\nRattans Ebony \n\nRaw Silk, of any province \n\nCoarse or Refuse of Silk \n\nOrganzine of all kinds \n\nAll other imported woods-as red wood, satin wood, yellow wood, &c., not included in the Tarif, 10 per cent, ad valorem. \n\nSilk Ribbon and Thread \n\nSilk and Satin Fabrics of all kinds, as crap, \n\nClass VIII-laporied Clocks, Watches, and Trinketry. \n\nlutestrings, &c,, &c., &c, formerly classed as silks and satins \n\nClocks Watches \n\n+3 \n\nA \n\nSilk and Cotton mixed fabrics \n\nTelescopes \n\nHeretofore a further charge per piece, has been levied, the whole duty is now to be paid in one sum, and the further charge is abolished. \n\nGlass panes, and glass and crystal ware of all kinds \n\nARTICLES. \n\nWriting Deska \n\nClass XI-Exported Carpeting, Matting, &c. Mats of all kinds, as of straw, rattan, bamboo, &c. &c. 35 \n\nDressing Cases \n\nS \n\nJewellery of Gold and Silver, \n\nCutlery, Swords, &c, \n\nClass XII-Exported Preserves, fc. \n\nARTICLES. Preserved ginger and fruits of all kinds \n\nA \n\nSov \n\n} \n\nof the sanie description, 5 per cent, od valorem. \n\nAll the foregoing, and any other miscellanore unticles \n\nClass IX-Guki and Sitzer Bullion, and Sperae. Duty Free \n\nSugar Candy, all kinds \n\nTobacco, prepared and unprepared &c., &út, of \n\nall kinds \n\nClass XIII-All that it has not been practicable herein to include are to be charged an ad colorem duty of five per cent. Class XIV.--Gold and Silver Coin, and Gold and Silver. \n\nDuty Free. \n\nClasss XV-Bricks, Tiles, and building Materials. \n\nDuty Free, \n\nClass L-Imported Oilman's Stores, de \n\nARTICLES. \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nin Alphabetini & \n\nEnglish List. \n\nWax, Bee's wax Rose Malves \n\nCambrics and Masting \n\nCotton yarn, and Cotton thread \n\nLinen-fine-not formely in the Tariff \n\nBanting \n\nAll other imported articles of this class, as ginghams, pul- licates, dyed cottons, velveteens silk and citon mixtu rea, course linen, and mixtures of cotton and linen, &c. &c. & per cent. al calorem. \n\nCuss X---Imported Cotton, fubrics of Collen, fr., §c. \n\nCanvas Corton \n\nLug Cloth, white, formerly divided into superior and \n\ninferior fine Cotton cloth \n\nCottons, grey, or unbleached, domestic, &ce, formerly \n\nclassed as coarse long cloth \n\nTwilled Cottons, grey \n\nChintz and Prints, of all kinds \n\nClass XI-Imported fabrics of Woollen, Niik, de, de. \n\nSaltpetre, to be sold only to the licensed Agents of the \n\nGovernment \n\nHandkerchiefs, large \n\nSubult \n\nSoap. \n\nGold and Silver thread, superior or real \n\ninferior, or imitation \n\nClass II-Imported Spices, and Perfumes. \n\nBrond Cloth, Spanish Stripes, &c. \n\n+7 \n\nGum Benzoin and Oil of ditto \n\nNarrow Clotis, as Long Eds, Cusemneres, &e., de. \n\nSandal Wood \n\nARTICLES. \n\nPepper \n\nAll other articles of this Class not included in the Tarifl \n\ntu pay an all calorem duty of Ten por cont. \n\nPerfumery \n\nClass III--- Imported Drugs. \n\nCamlets (Dutch) \n\nCamlets \n\nImitation Camiots or bombazettes \n\n5 per cent. \n\nWoollen yara \n\nSP \n\nBlankets \n\n4.7 \n\nAll oder fabrics of wood or of mixed wool and silk, \n\nAssaftetia \n\nwool and cotton. &c. & per cent, að caboreza. \n\nCamphor Barbos (or Maley,) 1st quality, or cleaned; \n\nformerly classed as good, and inferior, Camphor, \n\nClass Xil--Laportet Finca, Preserves, Spirita &c. Wine and Beer, in quart bottles \n\nC \n\nCloves, 1st quality (pieked) \n\n2nd quality, refisse; formerly classed as uncleaned Camphor \n\nin pint bottles in cask \n\nG \n\nand quality (Mother Cloves) \n\nClass XIII, Importal Metals. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nCow Bezour \n\nCutch \n\nGambier \n\nCopper, manfiretured as in pigs, \n\nBanufactured as in sheets, rods &c. \n\nBetch out \n\nIron, comanufactured as in pigs. \n\nGinseng, 1st quality or Cleaner \n\nmanufactured as in bars, rods &c. \n\n2nd \n\ndo., refuse or Ginseng beard \n\nLead, in pigs, or manufactured \n\nGom Olibarni \n\nStoel, unanufactured \n\nTin \n\nMyrrh \n\nMace, or Flower of Nutmeg \n\nTin plates, not formerly in the Tarift \n\nMercury, or Quicksilver \n\nNutmegs, 1st quality or Cleaned \n\nZud \n\ndo., uncleaned \n\nPutchuch Rhinocero's Horns \n\nAll other metals as zinc, yellow copper, &c., not \n\nherein mumerated, 10 per cent. at walorem, \n\nRI \n\nClass XI Imparted Jewellery. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nCornelians \n\nCornelian Beads \n\n(A une abstract-reference mumbers to the Alphabetic List bung in- serted in place of the amounts of duty, those amounts having boon carefully compared and found correct.) \n\n(Signed) \n\n(True Copy) \n\nJ. ROBT. MORRISON, Chinese Secretary & Interpreter. RICHARD WOOSNĀM, \n\nNOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. \n\nTo insure insertion, Advertisements ought to be sent to the Office on Toeslag hut unae can be received after 12 noon on Wednesday, \n\nAll extra Copies of our puper ordered at the Office, and not paid Cash, are charged to accounts one Rupee \n\nAny Subscriber who does not receive his paper on Thursday will please complain at the Office, as every Subscriber's repy is regularly sent off, and it is only by Complaints being made, that the Publisher can correct the irregularity. \n\nEVOLAND May \n\nLATEST DATES. \n\nUNITED Bras Apl. 15 CALORA July & \n\nBrommay \n\nSpray May IJ \n\nSINGAreas Argast 2 Jays July 29 MANILA Angus 15 Cresas Aver \n\n1.4 \n\n+; \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE. \n\nVICTORIA, THURSDAY, Arever 21en, 1843. \n\nIx our last there was notified the appointment of COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLEANLI Ness, () hom whose labours we anticipato much benil to the sunitary condition of the town. \n\nWhen the Lands and Rods Committee was nominated some eighteen months since, we ventur- ed to say (File No. 2.) We would earnestly impress on a Committee, the necessity of framing same general Building Regulations for the Chinese, and which we dink are essentially necessary for their security and welfare. We would recommend the regulations to be framed so as to interfire no further with one's right to manage one's own pro- perty, than is necessary to protect the health of the community.\" \n\nChief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, July 14, 1843. \n\nThe duty on Tobacco in England is above 300 per Cent, and Lord Congleton states that three fourths of the Tobacco consumed in Ireland is believed to be supplied by Smugglers. Mr. Porter The following is again published by an- of the Board of Trade, proved before the Imports thority, for general information : \n\nBafy Committee in 1810, that 48 por Cent. of the It has been lately Notified by PROCLA whatever; and that the loss to the revene of French Silks imported into Egiand paid no duty MATION of the CHES MAGISTRATE, to the smuggled French brandy was estimated at Chinese Inhabitants of Hongkong, that be-2500000 a you. The Prerum on the illicit tween the hours of eight and ten P. M. atroduction of French goods into England was they are prohibited from being out of their 1831, for Gold triaketa, 6 to 10 par Cent. Silver, houses without lanthorns, and that after ten \n\n10 to 12; Silk gomis 29 to 25 per Cant., Tea 50 per Cent, and Spirits 80 per Cont. \n\n| o'clock P. M., and until daylight on the \n\nIn the same Report, is is stated that British following morning, no Chineso will, in fature Goods of the value of £2,000,000 were snuggled be permitted to go out, under any consider-ins France across the Belgia: frontier, besülés a ption, unless he can produce a pass in Eng-inge amount through the Channel ports. lish, specifying his object in being out at so On the Belgian frontier dags are trained to \n\nlate an hour. \n\nevoy the snuggled goods into France. Between 1820 to 1830 at fewer ton 40,279 sanggling A PROCLAMATION has also been issuedffcers, who receive thirea francs (48) for each. \n\ndogs were destroyed by the French Custom House prohibiting, under penalty of severe punish- In 1882 the cost of preventing struggling in unt, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from England was truly enormous, and in that and the moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at following year there were captured on the Coast. aine o'clock P. A., and until Gm-fire at engaged in the contraband trade, 52 10ssels and day light on the following morning. \n\n385 bouts. The seizures in one half year were valued at £97.980. W. CAINE, CHIEF MAGISTRATE. \n\nAS OVERLAND MAIL to England ria Buhay, nee \"Petrell\" will be closed at this fee, on Friday, the 25th instant, at 3 P. M. \n\nA Mail for Singapore & Calcutta per \"City of Palaces\" will also be closed at 3 P. M, on Wednesday, \n\nthe 30th instani. \n\nPOST OFFICE, \n\nVictoria. 20 August, 1813. \n\nmiture what is now required, its acquaintance with the wants of the Colony satistics us that proper mea \n\nveronicat. \n\nStill we would recommend the tome- diate covering up of the fetid denine which now give forth the most deleterious minsara, \n\nLord Congleton (Inte Sir feary Parnell) in 1831, estimated the total anal cost of protecting the revenue at from £700,000 to £ 800,000. Then there were 116 persons under confinement. and 64 serving in the navy for smuggling offences. \n\nThe total charge for collecting and protecting the customs auf excise revenues of the Pnited Kingdon, was 22.300613 in the year 18-10. \n\nthe department of the customs was 11,000 and In 1885 the number of persons employed in the excise 6,079. \n\nin \n\nThe present Acts relating to Smuggling are the 3rd and 4th of William IV, Cap. 53, and Land & of Wiliam, Cap. 13. \n\nrefer to the Government Notification with We have only space to enable us to \n\nsures will be taken under the sanction of the Go-respect to Land. It is not such a one as many of our readers would export, still we think it is so far satisfactory, that we now know we shall soon be relieved from the distressing suspense which has for some time paralysed the Colony, \n\nIn London it was remarked that fever was con- startly engendered in localitics destitute of under- ground Swenge, and by a map of the Sowers it \n\nWe are not surprised at the wording of was shown by Dr Southwood Staith, that ons could correctly define the huts of the unhealthy districts Lord Stanley's despatch, socing that in the and accurately judge of the comparative Sanitary last Crown Colony which bad been esta- condition of the respective parts of the Metropolis.blished, New Zealand, there had been such flagrant and jobbing, and peculation by aithost every member of that colonial Go- vernom (vide No. 48.) \n\nThe FRIEND OF INDA states the gross receipts of the year, from the Opa monopoly to have been two millions sterling and adds this source of revenue is continued to Ludia for theen years more, the debt incurred in the war beyond the Indus will be wiped out.\" \n\nOur readers well know, that there does not exist even ususpicion, of similar couduct en the part of the officials here--this wo have often land occasion to say, us a valki argument for losing no longer truc, in giving the holders tiler to their lands, \n\nBy the Calcutta papers we learn that the Assam Tea Company is shipping the loaf of the Ten plant without first submitting it to any process The large powers which it is well known al' wamfacture, further than sun drying. It is are wisely confided to H. 1 (whose tho- thought by the Shippers that this Ten will, berough acquaintance with our best interests admitted at a lower duty than that from China, and whose sincere desire to promote them) it bong in an unmanufactured state. We think \n\nthis wholly unlikely, and after the liberal Taxir ads us to be quite sanguíne of a highly promulgated by the Chinese, it is not at all pro-satisfactory result. hable ministers would propose a reduction on any There was much delay, and as many kind or sort of Ten, which should not be equally doubts and misgivings abmit the Commer- applicable to Ten sent from hence, \n\ncial Treaty, as have ever existed with \n\nFrom a late publication of established authority, soon with respect to the former, that the respect to the Land Regulations. We have we have abriged an article en smuggling. His stated greatest cavillers have been gloriously Suugging is the clalestine ironcine of an agreeably disappointed by the promal- prohibited goods; or the illicit introduction of \n\ngoods by the evasion of the legal duties. Escos-gation of a Tariff of unprecedented' libera- sive duties present an overwhelming temptation lity and of immense national value. Henco to men to evade them; and the law loses a great we have every confidence that the final part of its moral influence when it first tempts adjustment of the Land Claims, and their * to the violation of it, and then pauishes the offence. \n\nfuture tenure, will afbrd as much satisfac- \n\nWe then thought \"regulations would have been nade as far as possible, conformable with,and minis- tering to, the convenience, wealth, and confort of the present and future residents of our new city.\" \n\nOn a later occasion (Fide No. 6) when the alleg.sively carried on, the smuggler is rather a popularredound as much to the honour of II. E., \n\ned unhealthmoss of Hong-Kong was a subject of nuimadversion in the English Papers we said (aud now we see no reason to after our opinions) Ma- eau is one of the healthicst towns in the world, and it is fully certain that when proper houses, barracks, cc., with the Sanitary Regulations which always obtain in an English town, Hongkong will lay claim, and justly, to even a superior salubrity\". \n\nIt is not to be wondered at, if with the many and great claims on the time of H. E, nothing has Hitherto been done. We need not inform the com- \n\n(*) This ride is not ungly chosen. Seving bow contingent halit te upor Cleanliness it word hoze auffierd, and it would have bees-we think mure correct to bare omitted and Glennlin, 295, ad ended it merely a C-unites or Board of Pobito Heath. At A tak dh a ta demquation of this very tertul b dy would ne have beci provocative, wit law is, of a gibe on a langu \n\nIn parts of a country where a free trade is extention to \n\nperson than otherwise in some countries; in Spain, still more thau in England. \n\nour little community, and will \n\nas will the announcement of the Commer We have only to examine the Tariff of any cial Treaty to his gratified countrymen country to know if smuggling is practised; and if abad system of commercial policy has been long \n\nat home. pursed, there the smuggler will be found. The exports to Gibraltar Rems England considerably exceed one million sterling, and are mostly jutes. duced by smugglers into the interior of Spain, besides some six to eight millions lbs. of Tobacco from the same British port. \n\nThe total ameamt of duties evaded in 1831 by the smuggling of French goods into the United Kingdom was estimated to execod £800,000 ex- clusive of Tobacco wiele cargoes of which aro enetics introduced from the French bonding wan homes int› Towinual. \n\nWo would refer the reader to our absact of the larnet Legislativo cunement wul regard Grow a Landu (the 5 ard oi Vieraţiu Cop. 36) we ihn guid, and still think, that Ant will be the basis of our future Land Regulations. Our opinion is forted by Goling Lord Stanley taking credit for the play therein seribel, and when she ulterius were enggested hesaid It was a system which he would be sorry to see inter fered with, or principle deparred front. His opinion was decidedly opposed to any soch course, as was proved by its introducing a Biž, which became an ret last session, which ex- pressly baried the Crown from interfering with the system. Vos Rapor ne na Braun og QuanYes Pricer's Poyanmar! S \n\nORION. Arest Byn. 1813. \n\n17 Aur Shiroing Nora ye, se He",
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        "content_text": "Penalty. \n\nExemptions. \n\nTepos to send in returns when called \n\nfor, \n\nReturn to be made by Householders. \n\nFees. \n\nBoars &c. to be re- gistered, \n\nBoat fee. \n\nPenalty on Boat owners &c. \n\nMasters of Chinese vessels to report them- Belves. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained That if any person liable to be registered under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be found residing in the said Colony for the space of 24 hours without having been registered he shall be liable to a penalty of not more than 20 dollars. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to persons employed on board Ships of War or to Officers or Seamen belonging to Merchant Vessels lying in the harbour or roads of Victoria who provious to landing shall obtain from the Master or said Officer in charge of the said vessels leave to go ashore in writing under his hand. \n\nPenalty on preceed. ing. \n\nPenalty on Evasion of this ordinance. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained that all headmen or Tepos shall be bound to give a return when called upon by the said registering officer of the names and occupation together with the particulars hereinbefore set forth of all person residing in their respective villages or districts and shall specify in the said return the number of the house according to the Register and the uumber of persons residing in each house and shall be liable to a pulty of not more than 20 dollars for each and every person hereby required to be registered found residing within their respective villages or districts without being duly registered as aforesaid or whom they shall not have reported to or caused to be brought before the said registering officer. \n\nAnd be it enacted and ordained that the said Registrar General or such other Officer so to be appointed as aforesaid shall if he or they think fit cause to be delivered or left at the residence or place of business of any householder or householders a blank return to be filled up before a certain day to be therein named with the names and numbers of persons in his or their employment or residing within his or their honse or houses or on his or their premises and that on or after the said day named in the said blank return the said householder or householders is or are hereby required to transmit the said return so filled up to the said Registrar General or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid and on failure to do so the said householder or householders shall be liable to a penalty of 20 dollars cach. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained that the following fees shall be taken for registration and shall be received by the Registrar General or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid at the time of the granting of the Registration Ticket. For registering any person being a Merchant Shop keeper or Comprador or being in the receipt of a monthly income of 20 dollars or upwards the sum of 5 \n\ndollars. \n\nFor registering any person being a servant clerk mechanic or in the receipt of a monthly in come not exceeding 20 dollars and not less than 10 dollars the sum of 3 dollars. \n\nFor registering any person being a coolie boatman or labourer or being in receipt of a inonthly in come of less than 10 dollars the sum of 1 dollar. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained that all lighters bumboats ferry boats and other vessels plying for hire within the harbours and waters of this Colony shall be duly registered with the number and description of the crew and of the persons living therein by the said Registering Officer or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid the said particulars to be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose and a certificate of such registry shall be given to the master or head man of such lighter bamboat ferry boat or other vessel the number of such registry to be legibly painted in some conspicuous part of such lighter humboat ferry boat or other vessel. And be it further enacted and ordained that a fee shall be levied on every certificate of Registry so granted according to the rate of 6d per registered Ton or if the boat be under one Tun then 61. for such boat and in the case of Chinese vessels after the rate of 6d for every 20 peculs. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordainel that if any person not having previously obtained such certificate of Registry and not having painted the number on such lighter humboat ferry-boat or other vessel as is hereinbefore provided shall let or hire or cause to be let or hired any such lighter bumboat ferry-boat or other vessel within the waters of the said Colony or shall show a false certificate of Registry or one granted for another vessel or shall permit or connive at the said certificate being made use of for another vessel or shall paint or exibit a false number on the said lighter bumboat ferry boat or other vessel he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding 100 dollars. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained that all masters of Chinese vessels frequenting the waters of this Colony shall report themselves immediately upon their arrival in such waters and previous to their departure to the Registering Officer who shall grant them a certificate of entry or clearance on payment of a fee to be levied in accordance with a scale hereafter at any time to be published by the Governor in Council and subject to such alterations as the Governor in Council may at any time declare. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained that every master of a Chinese vessel who shall not conform to the provisions of the section herein before last mentioned shall forfeit and pay a su not exceeding 20 dollars. \n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordined that if any person shall wilfully conceal or falsify the particulars of any information required of him for the purposes of this Ordinance or shall on applying to be registered give a false name or description or shall transfer or lend his registration ticket to any other person or shall wear or show the registration ticket of another as his own for the purpose of evading the provisions of this Ordinance he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 30 dollars. And be it further enacted and ordained that all penalties enforced by this Ordinance shall be recovered in a summary manner before any Police Magistrate and that one moiety thereof shall go and be paid to the informer and in default of payment the party shall be liable to inprisonment for any time not exceeding two calendar months. \n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, \n\nthis 21st day of August 1844. \n\nA. E. SHELLEY, \n\nClerk of the Councils. \n\nJOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Governor, &c. &c. \n\nHONGKONG.-Published by Authority. \n\nPrinted by Jous CarK. \n\nIn 230 H tong \n\nTo His Excellency the Governon \n\nof Hongkong and its Dependencies and the the Colony Honorable Members of the Legislative Coun- cil of Hongkong. HONORABLE SIRS-We respectfully beg to address you with reference to Ordinance No. \n\n17 of 1844 entitled \"An Ordinance for Esta- blishing a Registry of the Inhabitants of the \"Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies.\"-- passed the Legislative Council the 21st August last and published for the first time in the Friend of China of the 19th October to come into force the 1st November. \n\nTho it may not be strictly within our pro- vince to question the Policy of the publication of any ordinance, whether urgent or unimpor tant its principles and details, not taking place until within the short space of twelve days of the period of its coming into operation we cannot but express our regret that an Ordi- nance so materially affecting both public and private interests, which appears to have been passed so for back as the 21st August last, should not have been made known to us un- til within so short a period of our being called upon to acknowledge it as law-thus depriving as the opportunity of making that due \n\nrepresen tation of our opinions against such enactments as may appear to us to bear hard upon our in- terests: a privilege, which as being unrepre- sented in the Legislative Council, we think is our due considering the important interests we have at stake in the Colony. To these cir- cumstances we pray you to attribute the la- teness of our present address and not to any indifference to the subject at issue. \n\nWith these preliminary observations, we desire, therefore to represent to you Excellency and the respective Honorable Members of your Council the unfeigned, and extreme repugna- nce with which we have read the Ordinance in question and to enter our formal and de- clared Protest against the Principles that it involves. \n\nPrinciples-We do not hesitate to say as unjust as they are arbitrary and unconstitutional taxing British subjects unrepresented in the most iniquitous of forms, authorizing the most unheard of inquisitorial proceedings, without appeal or remedy, and placing the very power of residence to British subjects whose name may have hitherto been unsullied and unsus- pected in the hands of any one individual. \n\nFurther-We consider that the Law in question is opposed in its details to one of the great objects struggled for during the late was with the Chinese Empire, and against which special provision was made in the Treaty of Nankin-namely, the unchristan principle of bolding one men responsible for the acts of another. \n\npur- \n\nAgain-We would represent that the effect of this enactment if carried out will interfere with the labor and consequent prosperity of the Colony-inasumch, as many of us have entered in o contracts upon the faith of chases wale from your Government at enor- mous rentals, which must now either be broken or delayed from the demur that the contractor will make to introduce laborors for their fulfil- ment whiltst the despotism that is apparent in this act, will induce many respectable Chinese who have now sufficient difficulty in paying \n\nthe heavy house rent in this Colony entirely to abandon the place, and deter others from taking up their residence amongst us. And, Moreover-We give it as our unqualified opinion that the carrying out of the details of this Ordinance will be found impracticable, as well as inefficacious for the object sought to be in attained, that the principle that it in- volves is even more stringent than has ever yet been applied to a penal settlement and we confidently assert is repugnant to the feelings of every Honorable British subject. \n\nWith the above representation of our views of and ↑ Protest against this Ordinance we would pray your Excellency in Council either to modify its details so as to remove the intollerance of the principles that it gives law to, or to cause the operation of it to be sus- pended until reference can be made to the Home Co- vernment as we cannot suppose that such a measure can receive the sanction of Her most gracious Majesty. \n\nT. A. Gibb, Alexr. Matheson, Dond. Matheson, Wm. Stewart, John B. Compton, H. Bowring, Wm. W. MacIver, \n\nJ. M. de Outeiro, J. Goddard, Joao Ant. Barretto, A. da Silveira, F. A. Rangel, C. F. Still, Wm. Matheson, Joseph Jardine, Augus. Howell, James Grant, \n\nWe have the honor to be, \n\nHonorable Sirs, Your most obdt. Servants, \n\n(Signed) A. GIBB. \n\nThomas Roskelly, H. J. Carr, H. Clarke, Augt, Carter, Angus Fletcher, Dan, Fletcher, Alexander McGregor, Geo. Findlay, Robert Strachan, \n\n| A. W. MacPherson, \n\nThs. W. L. Mackean, Pat Dudgeon, Duncan Jas. Kay, \n\nW. H. Wardlev, Alex. Abo. Small, S Rawson, G. R. G. Jones, Thomas Longshaw, James Smith, \n\nG. R. Winslow, J. W. \n\nVesey, Richd. Oswald, Dan. Disandt, D. Hume, Auton Cacho, \n\nN. Boulle, Martin Ford, \n\nM Gabriel, J. P. St. George, Joy. Collins, Jno. Ms Murray, Saul Coben, Char. Markwick, G. N. Norris, W. Henry, Framjee Jamsetjee, \n\nJuo. Cairns, W. Scott, \n\nA. Maclean, \n\nR, Hunte, \n\nK, McKennedy, Jno. Carr, \n\nE. Farncombe, \n\nM. McEwen, \n\nJ. Phillips, \n\nE. Cohen. \n\nF. Woods. \n\nAdam Scott, I. Dundas, N. Duus, F. Funck, Crawford Kerr, D. Lapraik, John Burd, Danl. S. Proctre, F. Saunders, John Holliday. M. Fischer. \n\nThos. Kirby, H. B. Braham, R. Bremridge, Chas. Bowra, \n\nW. A. Bowra, Thomas Bridseyc, A. H. Fryer, \n\nT. A. Lane, \n\nP. Townsend, \n\nJames Welch, \n\nC. K. Stocker, \n\nR. Barrett, M. W. Pitcher A. Melville, \n\nTurston Dale, Y. J. Murrow. Wm. Hel.... \n\nJno. Walker, \n\nJno. Brimelow, \n\nThos. Walton Hawkins, C. Milne, Mark Denham, C. Hughesdon, H. Rutter, \n\nGeo. Napier, G. Hume, \n\nJ. A. Hulbert T. Jones, \n\nJ. H. Tiedeman, \n\nA. Gutierres, \n\nA. M. Mathieson, \n\nF. P. Porter,",
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        "content_text": "ا نفهميد \n\nProccedings of a Board of Survey hold at the Chand Feasury Houghing purwant to the Order of lovemment dated this 1 day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty four. \n\nThe Hoyerable, JWA. Bruce. \n\nMembers The Honorable H. Mr. Martii, Core \n\nAdam 14. Emslie Eegre \n\naccount \n\nThe Borf burning take an event amand of the quantity. existing in the Colonial Trecesury at thusetate ascertained the xime In the Treasure Vault. Dollars 4,5,635.05 9.670, 18.6% \n\nIn arctolition to the foregoing. \n\nliseli \n\ntained the summ \n\nriz: \n\nChu \n\n- sum the Board of $20.373. GC, Iwenty thousand fwe hundredound minel, Korce dollars and sunity. to be in the treasure Vault, this sum \n\nbeing identical with the unmount as from ished in de boul in the report of the Bward of Survey holdt 15 ! ?. May last, which with the of dollars 22374, 72 cents paid. \"Mess\" \"Angus Helcher and. Robert Strachan in trust for the intestate estate of the late Cheertig & Tyer will amount to ctollars £2.920. 62.00 sheww in the report clated 12thily. the foregoing sum of deliers $20573. 70 being sinct to be longers follows. \n\nsouth relying he \n\nTo chutestate Estates \n\nChurch subscription. \n\nTublic Agents (Capt Bat fourt & W Chimmel. The late ship Elija Hevon 1.. \n\nTotal in the Treasure Vault \n\nIn the Chest of the Treasner. \n\nBits/ \n\nIn acetition to the foregoing, sum the amount of an intestate Estate pe 22 Gight dollars and liven to two cents have also been loetged in the chest. \n\nOne \n\nI hate followy \n\nF 4 hote \n\n16.313.21 604.33 \n\n4/4 \n\n3.534.10. \n\n$73. \n\n2. F03.36 \n\n65.228.75 % \n\n·7.645.bg 665.69 \n\n130.18.9 189 1893.6 607.7.10% 14132 18. 77/4 1660. 17 117% \n\n$22 \n\n1.B.77 \n\n1,662. 13. \n\n1667.13-7/4 \n\nTotal in the Chest of the cheanner 7.673.91. \n\nAmounting together to seventy hung thousand mine hundred and two collars and ninety \n\ncents equal at four stillings and four pence per dollar four reque fifteen thousand seven hundrect and ninety five pounds twelve shillings and the Have farthings. \n\nJustin. \n\nAdam M. Panshi \n\n^",
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        "content_text": "2. \n\nand its dependencies, \n\nof Stonghong and Superintendant of \n\nof \n\nthe trade \n\nHer Majesty's subjects in China, \n\nassigned by \n\nan order in Council. \n\nof the late Lord the Sting William \n\nthe Fourth, dated the winth day of Dicember \n\nOne thousand \n\nthe year Eight hundred and Thirty three and by another order in Council of Dur present Lady Queen Victoria, dated the fourth day of January in the year One thousand Eight hundred \n\nand \n\nForty three, to hold the said \n\nCourt, according to the law and \n\nCustom of by the oath of John Vent, Thomas heave, Patrick dungeon, Christopher Fearon, Patrick Stewart, Thomas Scotland David Jardine, Angus Fletcher, William Blenkin, \n\nthe realm of England, \n\nCharles \n\nCharles Edward Stewart, Alexander Thomas Cordon, Charles It George. \n\nCleverley, Joseph Frost Edger, John - Holliday, Robert Strachan, and \n\nustus Gibb, good and. men of Houghong afore= \n\nThomas Augus \n\nSawful \n\ndard, then and there impanelled: sworn and charged to enquire for the said Lady the Queen and for \n\nbody of \n\nthe said Colony, \n\nthe \n\nit is presented, that Salvador La \n\nsease, of Stonghong, marmer, not \n\nthe fear of \n\nbox before \n\nhaving the \n\nhit \n\neyes. \n\nbut being \n\nmoved and \n\ninstigated by the devil, on \n\ntwentieth day of \n\nday of Bctober, \n\nthousand eight. \n\nhemdred and \n\nforty three, in the seventh year of Our Sovereign Lady Victoria. with \n\nforce and arms, upon the \n\nhigh",
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        "content_text": "EXTRA. \n\nTable of Steamer Postage leviable upon Letters orriving from, or addressed to any other place then the United \"Kingdom, via the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf. \n\nA letter not excosting 14 Tola, is to be \n\nRE As. \n\ncharged one rate of Postage.. \n\nอ \n\nDitto shove 1 Tola, and not exceeding \n\nTolas, two mates.... \n\nDitto share 24 Tolas, and not exceeding \n\n5 Toiss, four rate... \n\nDitto above 5 Tons and not exceeding \n\n74 Tolas, six rates \n\nerd so in propertion, two additional rates of Post spe being changed for every additional weight of 21 \n\nToles, or for any fraction of that weight. \n\nBombay, Gent. Post Office.} \n\n14th March 1842. \n\nW. ESCOMBE, \n\nAcig. Post Mr. Gent, \n\n*N. B. 24 tulahs are equal to one ounce English, 16 arnte make use Rupee, aed one Rupee is equal to two Shillings Eng \n\nJint. \n\nA \n\nTable of Iulian inlamd Postage from Calcutta and Mudras to Bombay. \n\nCALCETTA \n\nMADRAS \n\n(Single Letter not exceeding one Quarter of a Tola in weight. Double Letter exceeding one Quarter of a Tola, but not ex- ceeding one Tola in weight. Single Postage (that is 7 Angas) to be added for every addition. \n\ni \n\nal half Tola weight. Newspapers not exceeding 3 \n\nTolas in weight. Newspapers excending 3 Tolus but not exceeding & Toias. Newspapers exceeding 6 Totus \n\nbut not exceeding 9 Tolas Single Postage (that is 3 Annus) to be added for every addition. al 3 Tolas. \n\nSingle Letter nutjexceeding one Quarter of a Tola in weight. Double Letter exceeding une Quarter of a Tola, but not ex- ceeding one Tola in weight, Single Postage (that is 5 Anons) to be added for every addition \n\nald half Tula weight Newspaper not exceeding 3 \n\nRs. $6. I's \n\n+3 \n\n\" \n\n+ \n\nIts. \n\nAs P \n\nTolas in weight Newspaper execeding 34 Tolas \n\nbut not exceeding & Tolas. Newspaper exceeding & Tolas \n\nbut not exceeding 9 Tolas. Single Postage (ibat is 3 Anbas) to be added for every additi enal 3 Tolas, \n\n: \n\nN. B. It is to be understood that the above Rates are exclusive of the Ioward Ship Postage of 2 Annas which will be levied on each Newspaper whether for- warded to Calcutta, Aiadas, or Bombay. \n\nNewspapers must be put up in short covers open at each end, and if they are found to contain any writing except the Superscription they will be charged as let- ters of a corresponding weight. \n\nBy order \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. \n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 6th April 1843. \n\nGovernment Notification. WITH reference to the preceeding No- fifleation it is hereby announced that, to bviate inconvenience to the Public, Let- ters will be received at the Post Office at Hongkong, and the British Consular Agency at Macao, (as they have been for some time past) for transmission to Eu- rope, and India, on the payment of the Ship and Indian inland Postage. (as tho case may be) although the necessity for enlarging the Post Office and providing a proper establishment, will not admit of the system being fully introduced before the 1st of June. \n\nBy order, \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. \n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 7th April, 1843. § \n\nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETORS, &T \n\nTHE PRINTING OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD, MONGKONG, \n\n",
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        "content_text": "The Copy... Siv 195 Houghong 104 July, 1868.\n\nHaving this day paid to Her Majesty's Colonial Treasury the rents of Crown lands for the half year ending the 24th June due by us, and M. Angus Fletcher, we have now the honor to request that the Inland Lot registered as 1987 be resumed by Her Majesty's Government from the 24th ultimo, with the exception of that portion of it known as Helen's Bank, for which an application has been made to Her Majesty's Surveyor General for a separate lease by the tenants of the late Mr. William Stewart.\n\nWe remain, &c.\n\n(Signed) Fletcher &c.\n\nHonorable Major Laine, Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "Passage to the West Indies with a remarkable exemption from disease, and the authenticity on the other hand that sickness has also appeared in Chinese Ships where there were passengers to every only...\n\nLooking at all these factors, and bearing in mind the great expediency of excluding Hong Kong, if possible, from becoming a starting place for Emigrants, my own conclusion would be still in favour of introducing the intended Bill for reducing the space required for natives of Asia and Africa from 15 to 12 feet.\n\nIf this rule be adopted I should take care to state in Parliament the case... I should dwell on this particular Ship, but should... the other more general Evidence as constituting the grounds for introducing the measure.\n\n7. Fl. 6 Angus By the 12 Seelen the Paperqui Shise pressing within Hu Bet, ser Seise presunz Terpen can ceny keen Pepengen kann...\n\nMerch of Fan, on Marker B on to 15. Ju 15 Superficial sura persons than 1 b 2 tons. Intragreftis defiel was 75% tour: Consequently underth brunage Check itement fan comier 376 Pann oftherew Gran 221. 186 And as the Member Lever the Costin Hughes 354, in Mumba lee for the Michel opperpil then, this ofth sepel hedsails from Hong Kong Concetare.\n\nCenter the hunts of Popengen te 280. the Jeful Teman tarbel for Mom pro, and hed brand 350 8 Pepengen, with an allowance Commiperman Aperte ta of 12 feet deal. the Coming For the Span allotted to sail Shued bathe lef than 15 Squan for.\n\nNow its bay poball as Millers say kin the Mustain And sicting on bred score from Min Cover Ren Berliandang From then on this case the general hackh koned have ben guatly femote by a...\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "62\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nCharitable laaits\n\n3.1.\n\nleads to the conclusiva that the expense\n\nIV—Provided always that all religious edifices, hospitals, jeme exempted from teries, and buildings strictly and exclusively appropriated tahari- of maintaining and extending it, if self- table purposes, and not being used as dwelling-houses, sall be imposed, would be less grudgingly paid, exempted from assessment under this Ordinance.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that the exclusive right of dealing in laun, Betel, and torment of col with the advice of the excentive Council, shall have powers apment. Betel Leaf, in the Colony of Hongkong, will be disposed of to the highest bidder at: Public Auction on the 20th day of June, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police.\n\n[1]\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\n16\n\nProvisions for the\n\nJoctors,\n\nCollectors to malo\n\npoint such officer or officers as may be deemed requisite for te col- lection of the Rate leviable under this Ordinence, allowing in or them as remuneration for this service such a per Centage at the Governor in Council shall seem fit.\n\npaper the Report of a Trial on Appeal\n\nWe have extracted from an Edinburgh before the Louse of Lords, the subject being one of great importance to alt British colonists. The statule establish- ing dutics on legacies equaily affects England and Scotland, and the present decision settles the law, that such duties are not payable on\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained, that as soon afer the casual reters and first day of January in each year as may be founul practicale, the pablish officer collecting the assesstrent under this Ordinance shall gepare a detailed statement exhibiting the sums collected during de pre- ceding year, and the said statement, duly attested by the said ficer, shall be inserted in some newspaper published within this Clony, officer for one month from and after the date of its publicatio\n\nby a person re\n\nVI—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that the saf rate such property being subject to the law of\n\nsiding in one of its possessions abroad- Quarterly in advance shall be payable quarterly in advance, unless otherwise prefribed the colony where the deceased\n\nand directed, as hereinberare mentioned, and that it shall be charged ciled. This judgment is not only impor was domi- and chargeable on the lands, dwelling-houses, and premises repect- ively assessed, at the time of such assessment.\n\nand shall also be open to general inspection at the office & such | England, if bequeathed invested in\n\nException as to\n\ncapted, or used\n\nFREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n憲。 告\n\nRate payalde\n\nT\n\n赴人在榔茲\n\n賣\n\n辦正等港\n\n此堂物等\n\n事衙於處\n\n者署五招\n\n特 THAA\n\n示 於投十包\n\n是如六質\n\n該要巡簍在\n\n署包理葉\n\n投\n\nB\n\n# B &\n\nexetorted.\n\nN\n\n一千八百四十五年五月 三 十\n\n日\n\n年四月\n\n二十六日\n\nFJ\n\ntant to British colunists, but may be\n\nΠΟΣ\n\nnot unwillingly substitute the following from a correspondent:-\n\nof benefit to England, by encouraging\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained that the omber of investments there. So important aid the property mat let, or any land, dwelling-house, or premises assessed, which may fot be\n\nlet to any tenant, shall be deered the occupier thereof. privided this question, that though neither he always, that if such owner can shew that the property las nt been the other low lords entertained any inhabited for a period of three months or upwards in any year, he doubt, it was submitted as an A. B ques- shall be entitled to a proportional abatement of assessment leted on the same for the said year.\n\ntion to the Judges, because, as the law\n\nAppeal against as\n\nwas to be stated definitively, for the\n\nVIII—Provided always, that if any person from whom payment British Islande, and for all its colonies, esten der pay- of the assessment leviable under this Ordinance may have been the Lords deemed it proper that the meo the\n\ndemanded, and who shall have already paid in the amount demanded decision should have all the weight of him, ohjects to the demand on any other ground than that of which the concurrent opinions of the valuation, it shall be competent to such person, after payment of Judges and of the Lords could give it.\" the amount demanded, to appeal against such demand to the Chief' Justice of the Supreme Court at such time and place as the said:\n\nWe had proposed to give a short critique\n\nChief Justice may be pleased to direct, or that if any person be dissa on the Concert of Thursday last, but tisfied, or objects to any valustion to be made under this Ordinance on the ground of over-valuation, he or they may, within the period of three calender months after such valuation, or when the said Chief: Justice may appoint or direct, appeal to him against such valuation, and that it shall be lawful for him, if he deem it advisable or neces- sary to have any three persons taken from the existing let of special jurors to assist him in ascertaining the question of value which may arise on\n\nDistricts may be\n\nIX—And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and n any such appeal. may be lawful for the said Governor, with the advice of the said Executive Council, to exempt such districts or portions of the said Island from the operation of this act, or from the payment of the said rates, as to him and them may seem advisable.\n\nX—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that un asessment made under the authority of the Ordinance shall be impeached or affected by reason of any mistake in the name of any person liable to assessment, or of any thing chargeable with assessment, provided the directions of this Ordinance be in substance and effect complied with.\n\nclause.\n\nTriplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c. &c., is pleased to direct that the sunexed Circular to the address of Her Majesty's Consuls in China he published for general information.\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nCIRCULAR No.\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nI have to acquaint you, that I have received the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty, conveyed through the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, sanctioning and confirming Ordinance No. 6 of 1844, intituled, An Ordinance to authorize the execation of the Process of the Supreme Court of Hongkong in certain Parts within the Dominions of the Emperor of China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. F. DAVIS.\n\nTrue Copy:\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE,\n\nTo Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at\n\nTisle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nClovernor to p\n\nIsland.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nANNO OCTAVO, VICTORIE REGINE. No. 2 of 1845.\n\nBy His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquie, Go- vernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong jad its Dependencies, lur Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Sperin tendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the idvice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to raise an assessed Rate on Janda, houses, and premises, within the Colony of Hongkong, for the upholding of the requisite Police Force therein.\" WHEREAS it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Colony of Hongkong should defray the Expenses attendant on the upholding and maintaining the Police force thereof.\n\n--Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of point haters of the Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that lands. house it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, with the mies within the advice of the Executive Council, from time to time to appoint two ar more persons for the purpose of estimating the annual vaide of the lands, houses, and premises within the said Island, or within any particular district thereof, which shall be in the tenure or occupation of any person or persons; and the said valuator or valuators shall, when thereunto required, make a retum in writing and on oath of such valuation to the said Governor and Coureff; and also at the time of having valued each property respectively, he proprietor thereal, a written Notification of their having made such or they shall leave or cause to be left with some inmate or the valuation, sod of the Amount thereof.\n\nIl—And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes of this Ordinance, the said Governor and Council may cause a new valuation to be made annually.\n\nILL--And\n\nValuation may be made anually.\n\nAssessment to he Trade on the d\n\nJyment, andromedy for nonpayment.\n\nbe\n\n|\n\nInterpretation\n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained, that this Ordinaner shall come into operation and take effect, from and after the first day of Julf next ensuing.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 93d day of May, 1845. ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,\n\nClerk of Councila.\n\nJ. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.\n\nour present rulers every thing will be done with the utmost economy: but that does not affect the principle, against which we conter.d.\n\nThe right of the mercantile commu- pity to a voice in the Legislative Council has frequently been urged, not, we think, with much force of reason; for until the revenue of the colony is sufficient to pay its expenses, we do not ace that the in- habitants can claim representation as a right, and upon any other grounds it\n\nMessrs Fiebig and lavac's Concert took place according to announcement on Thurs day evening last, and the attendance was in very respect calculated so answer the ex pectoris of the originators, who well de Berve encouragement for their attempt to the ennuyés of Victoria. afford an evening's rational entertainment to deservedly applauded for his brilliant ex\n\nM. Rarac was eeution of the very difficulty picces allotted to him, sad met with an unanimous encore in the Caroival of Venice.\" His notes are remarkably clear and expressive, and by a himself of a few mannerisms, he might with little attention to his style, in order to divest study become a first rote performer on this most difficult of instruments. M. Fiebig was not so felicitous; his well known skill and tirely unworthy of his efforts. The \"Bella\" execution, were expended on a theme on- he dimittel. le proved himself to possess\n\na correct judgment and highly cultivated\n\ntaste, by the simple yet appropriate manner in which he accompanied M. Ravac, instead of displaying in mastery over the instrument by profuse ornament, at the expense of the melody itself, a fault too common among musicisms. The programme was a striking example of the lied taste which is unfortu Dately I too prevalent in the days with thrown aside for the modern Italian school, regard to music. The great masters are new The Messiah must give place to the Stabal Mater, and Iton Giovanni to Don Pasquale. Verily, Rossint, Donizetti, Belliei, Pacini, Auber, &o, ae but peor substitutes for Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Fiebig and Barac should favour the inhabi tots of Victoria with another Concert, or Gluck, Cimarosa, or Parsiella. If Messrs\n\neven a series of Concerts, and we think they have ample encouragement for so doing, what\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1245. Is another part of to-day's paper will be found an important Ordinance by the Governor in Council for assessing the inhabitants with the expenses of the Police establishment. The advantages\n\nwhich the community derive from a well organized system of police are so self-evident, that a reason- able rate for its support is perhaps one of would be worse than useless. the few direct taxes that in civilized the case is different with municipal of his great countryman the composer of countries are submitted to without affairs. Here, it is proposed that the Fidelio, or M. Ravac delighting his auditors de tot anticipate whole charge of upholding the police or Vietti; and, if the prevailing taste is so that even those who, like ourselves, should be defrayed by the inhabitants, strongly expressed in favour of modera with the touching compositions of Corelli maiorain that it is a mistake\" policy who thereby, we conceive, establish a music, let us have it good at least, something to overburden the youthful energies of just claim to avail themselves of the con- by Spohr, Cherubini, Mendelssolu, er the colony with taxation, will find much stitutional right of British subjects to be Beyerbeer, for instance. to complain of in being called upon consulted both as to the levying and dis- to contribute their quota for uphollingposal of the fund. In London, though\n\nmormer; and WH\n\na treat it would be for a true lover of nute to hear M. Fisbig displaying his taste nad But exception on some of the majestic sinfonias\n\nPEKING GAZETTE.\n\nhridegroom was\n\nthat\n\nthe force requisite for the protection, nearly one-fourth of the expenses of the health, and comfort of the community. police establishment is paid out of the Con-rial Princess with one of the Mangal chieft THE COURT—The marriage of an Imps- amble of the Ordinance, we conocive to watch over the interests of the rate But though we thus concur in the pre-solidated Fund, there are commissioners has given rise to not a little trouble. The that its enacting clauses are objectionable peyers; and in Edinburgh and (ilasgow, riage celebrated without delay, and he mast defining the power and jurisdiction of the assessment on the inhabitants, they at- to the customary rule, directed that astronu- on two grounds, First, not clearly where the whole amount is raised by an\n\nan early day should be fixed for the core. police, a term of wide signification, and Dually elect representatives,\n\nmony. The Emperor, however, according which in the three United Kingdoms to the sale power of determining the per Board, to ascertain when the heavens would\n\nwho have made to include very different classes of centage, as well as its appropriation. be propitions for the celebration of the nup mical observations should be made by the functions. The Ordinance does not in- These Commissioners have, properly, tials. Unfortunately the members of the for us whether this preventive branch judicial functions; but except that the Board ware not mautious in reading the of justice is to be rendered so efficient in appointment of Superintendent is lodged agus of the stars, and after a great many Hongkong as to supersede the necessity in other hands, they are onnipotent calculations, drawing of horoscopes, and con- for the individual tax which the inhabi as regards the extent and remunera tants have hitherto been compelled totion of the force, as well as in all that persofthe day, they fixed on the 23d April at submit to in maintaining private watch relates to lighting, cleansing, removal\n\nthree o'clock in the morning as the most tion is the more pointedly directed by arrangements of the fire brigade. And at that hour. This is said to be the earliest men--a circumstance to which our atten- of nuisances and obstructions, and the able for that ceremony. The Royal pair joined in drinking from the nuptial cup the intimation from the Chief Magistrate we which appeared in the Cuts MALL only Geomy, these matters are nowhere the celestial empire,\n\nbelieve that in efficiency and hoar at which a marriage has taken place in better managed out of London, if indeed The King of Korea has again asked the the metropolis is an exception. tants who might consider them worth $10\n\nEmperor to sanction is marriage with one a-month. It seems necessary to under-there aced be no fear about the sua patent for that pa pose. The Emperor Were such a plan adopted in Hongkong, of the damsels of the Court, and to grant but stand whether we are to have a police ciency of the supplies, and we should look have hitherto been carried by a body of so generally effective as to supersede the confidently to a gradually improved sys Mandarins deputed by the Emperor for has acceded to his requeat. Such documents\n\na fortnight ago, tendering the services of\n\na night constahle to any of the inhabi-\n\nsultatious with the most celebrate! philosu-\n\nThis will add\n\nit further enacted and ordained, that for the purpose valiation and provi. of levying the said rate, a per Centage at such an amount in the sic:t for periods of hundred as muy annually be determined on by the Governor with the payment, notice of advice of the Executive Council, not exceeding such a sum as sball assessment, period of be equal to the expenses of the Palice establishment, shall be as- necessity for private watchmen, or if, betem from the suggestions of a body of that purpose, but on the present occasion a sessed and paid in respect of every such valuation by the occapier sides this heavy tax, we are to be called judicious and interested commissioners, single civilian only has been despatched or owner of cach parcel of ground, house, or building, within such upon to contribute to the support of a Protection of life and property, sanatory with it to the Prince. time and times as the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, shall direct, or as is hereinafter provided. In the absence of auch direction and in default of the same being so paid, it shall be Jawful for any person or persons oppainted to collect the suid tax to apply to the Chief Magistrate of Police of the Island, who shall, on satisfactory proof of the same having been duly demanded and being due and\n\nJunsatisfied,\n\ngrant his Warrant to levy the same by distress of any goods on or in the lands, houses, or premises so rated; and that any such\n\nrate, while unpaid, shall be a lien on the property so assessed, or charged therewith, Provided always that when and so often as any assessment shall be made on any such valuation, the particulars and nature of such assessment shall be published in one or more public newspapers of the said Colony.\n\nforee, which, from the intimation alluded regulations, and whatever tends to the another Queen to the numerous Ilarem to, it may be inferred the authorities do comfort and convenience of the public, of bis Royal Highness. not consider to be entirely efficient. are matters of imperative necessity, Tau Lord Mayor of Puking reported, that The other objection we have to the acknowledged by every friend to public beavy showers of snow had fallen in the measure is that the inhabitants are not safety and good order; and the adminis-, during the beginning of March; and allowed a voice in fixing the rate, or tration of the law for securing these ends be looked for, he suggests that a day of public as a good wheat harvest might accordingly io determining the modo in which it is to be applied no other limit being pro- those of the community who are to enjoy Emperor has received his suggestion favour\n\ncan never be placed in better hands than thanksgiving should be appointed. The posed than what may seem to the Co-the benefits, and who are caliel upon to ally. vernor, with the advice of the Executive contribute the means of securing then, Council, sufficient for upholding or main- Without forgetting or under-vaining the taining any extent of force that may he salutary efforts of our rulers to provide an appointed. We have no doubt that with organized protective force, experience\n\nSome Mandarins, of high rank, arrived\n\nfrom Kwang-tung and Yan-an, whose baggage consisted of no less than one thou- ordinary quantity, they were interrogated sand packages. This being rather an\n\nBA-\n\nas to the contents, and the reply that they contained letters and despatelies for the tribunals, no being satisfactory, they were ordered to he opened and inspected. Ten were found to contain documents, but the contents of the remaining 990 have not been made public.\n\nP\n\nOn releasing the Petit Jary from their long and fatiguing labours the fan. Recorde complimented them on the zeal and jade ment which they had displayed, and his Honour stated, that he coincided in every verdict they had given.\n\nlfonso of Lorda, February 17. THOMSON LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nSITTING OF THE SCPI Colar, 2 June, 1945,\n\ndesired to name a son, he named 105 dollars,\n\n63\n\nA difter-\n\nstating the Admiral's desire to pay any c FOREIGN Goops with a Britist Chance- munendon for the services of the vossal\n\nT—During the past year numerous in- which Matheson might think G and stonees have occurred of goods buying bren (From the Hongkong Register] This was a writ of error against a judg\n\nA Special Jury was empanneled for thre meat of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland trial of an action raised as the instance of the manensient, but expressed his willingness to\n\nreason. Mr Matheann refused any ve brought to this country for home use or ex- The facts of the case are those John\n\nportation to foreign puits, with labek attach- Grant, a person born in Scotland, but who Crown against the Editor of the Friend of acccptacy couneration on the part of the ed, giving, or purporting to give thean, a had left that cuantry sad become domiciled: Ching, for the publication of the following\n\ncrew might think proper. When desired British character in a foreign market s in Demerara, died in that colony, in the\n\nto name a sum, be said, the Admiral may this, if allowed, would be highly detrimental Article in his 'isue of the 13th July last, Treasurer Tang-ting-ching, the late Gover-year 1887. He had acquired considerate, which was alleged to contain a libel against think very different from us and being to the British manufacturer, the goods have nor of Canton, and who will probably property while in Demerara, and had trans- Sir Thomas Cochrane:-\n\nin every instance been detained by the Reve- reesive the first van Governorship, osmitted saare portion of it to Scotland, at It will be in the all-rtion of many of our The letter M Me Matheson stated that the me officers, as being impuited contrary to recommended his inferiur officers, whe no- the time of his death, a banking house there Loaders, that Her Majesty's ship Wolf, got on a schooner had been detained 18 hours in conve the provisions of the act in that regard; the terially assisted bin in clearing large trace held property of his to the amount of\n\nbank somewhere below Woosneg, and has for the quence of the service rendered to the Wolf only relief given having been that the goods of land in Kan-sub, to the notite of govera- £18,000. Probate of his will was taken timely aid of the Schooner Fetes, Capt. Caer, sier Goddard in addressing the Jury for Mr have been allowed to be returned to the purt ment, as worthy of promotion.\n\nont in Scotland, by tho present appellant, as\n\nwould have been obliged to acrifice he cons and Carr, ill be felt eansiderable difficulty of shipment, the labels or other mode of in shot before she curld here'got n The Wolf took appearing before them in such circumstances.fringement having been firstromovel. These bis executor, and payment of the money due\n\nthe bank at high water, mud and not possibly have Mr Cur bad been accused of publishing a labels have usually contained the Royal arms having boea brained, in was transmitted to It is with touch regret we learn, from a\n\nbocu fiased again, without grandly reducing the dead hel, \"toulously, winkedly, and malicious of Enghel, will the name, in English, of Demerara. The law officers of the Crown weight on board. Then fast descried by the Fern, y\" Mr Carr, he believed, knew very little the importer in London, or other place in lang memorial of Lea, Governor-Genersi of\n\nclaimed from the executor the son of £1800 ahr, the Way had a sign.d of distress lying, ani Che-eang and Fo-keen, that the rise arup as legacy duty duo from him in respect of there can be no doubt that, hack it came in to be high and in these seas Sir Thomas, except on a person holding a the United Kingdom, ss the case may be, the in Pormasa hoe failed, also that the Granary the property of the testator existing in Scot- whilst she was lying in a mitical position, she\n\nname and description of the contents bring is now exhausted, and that the price of grain Lad. The case went before the Court of\n\nwand ham gore bo pres. The Pinot Pan niongailia, however, in this case did not act as a judge, also given in the English language, evidently is daily rising in Fo-keen. Leu has ardered Exchequer in Scotland, where Ford Gillies and took out all ver artament, 15 send 41,42 th. The ly Judge of Admiralty here is the intending to envey the impression in a extensive purchases to be made in Che-keang delivered a judgment declaring that the\n\nshot, and it was net wat relieved of this weight clut | Lord Chief Justice. Neither does he accuse foreign market that the goods were of British and other places, and wishes that the public legary duty as payable in the manner de ser altercaties fabu to the her guns overhard, either in his publie or his private character, time since of a parcel of esses containing se again loated; without this since she had no bin ofhay rbing eriminal, or of an offence mamifacture. An instance occurred a short granaries should be opened.\n\nmanded. The prosent writ of error was then brought. The ease bad been argued vage, and before any Adiralty socte sum\n\nor go to pisees on the ink. This is a clear case of which implied guilt. He never acted him paper for letter-writing being brought for of coruption. He only accuses him that he CANTON—Rumour states that the light two years ago, and now came on again for awarded the Foren for for aid would be siderable.\n\nexportation, etch sheet of paper having thos was not so bieral as he ought to be, A\n\nword Barle\" primed in the usual manner at ning struck the palace of Lieutenant-Gver. argument by one counsel on a side.\n\nAt the time the affair occurred, tar Admisal Sir Me Kelly, on the part of the appellant\n\ncriminal libel has been filed against Mr Carr, the left hand corner, and the packages them- nor [wang, and damaged, bis snutf-box. Themas Duebrang was at Chusni, when it arced. In consegnace of the way the accusation selves containing the paper the Brilish aras This, it is said, has made so strong an impres¦ (Mr Anderson was with him,) fosisted that between him are the Cipam of the Vares, that the has been brought, he was pot to great ex- einblazoned thereon. They were, of course, sion upon the grandee, that he has since been the legacy duty was not payable here. The question: of compensation atould be lett open ancil duty was demanded under 36 Geo. III, c. wrapt in deep thought and revery.\n\nSir 1 homas Cochrane avtored to this enlony. Altor penser, as the frown pays on costs; and if immediately detained, and application WAY he seeds, as I aux sure he will, he will made for permission to retard them to the 152, sec. 2, which enacted, that all legacies Thonan return, the cwners generaly waived\n\nabove the amount of £20, given by any will\n\nall claims fre salvage, marely requesting the Rear rill here to pay all his own expenses. Be port of shipment, but the intention in this (From the Singapore Free Press, 1st May.) or testamentary instrumcat, shoald pay le-\n\nAdmiral to remouense the Captain and eve for their sides the case has been deferred from time instance being so evident, the goods wer The Criminal Sessions were finished on gacy duty. Fe submitted that thang those elite similar te their own, Sir Thomas Cachane on long ago. Fir Thomas might have put ed, which was accordingly done,\n\ntrouble, never doubling then retunded by a spirit to time, whereas it might have been brought ordered to be seized and the parties prosecut Saturday Jast, the 28th ult. having lasted words were of the most extensive and gene rash hudumaly reward de vore of Fist himself into the witnesa box, and so might ence is made where the name and inscription four weeks, 18 persons were discharged on ral kind, the aut did not apply out of Great Majesty's slig. In doing thy they committed a Mr Waller, and thee we should have had an on the label is in the French or other foreign Saturday, no witnesses coming forward Britain. The aut could not extend even to\n\ncapital cere, to who justice and magnanimity opportunity of seeing what was right and language, although the British armus may be against them. No blame attaches to the our colonies, without some word expressly ey had entrusted the liquidatio of the cases what was wrong, or at least we should have Police in this instance, as the parties had including them, and there were no anche Captain and are of the Kareemid not fi\n\nengraved thereon, it being considered that words here. That being the case, the gene print much ganeanu facdage, and taking advantage\n\nhad an opportunity to cross-examine them, the act is not thereby infringed in const- been regularly bound over to appear nord\n\nquence. Timca. give evidence. In some cases there is leral rule of law applied that the personal pro- of the antideles is displast, he offered to award and of proving that Mr Matheson was not informed of the facts. Mr Bradshaw, the doubt that bribery has been resorted to inperty followed the fair of the domicile of its all $10, in the proportion of $4 for the quain\n\nfirst officer of the Fire, was on beard when I\n\nTHE HOPELESS SESSION. order to keep back evidenco. In van oase, a owner, and consequently as the domicile of $20 Ckiy Oficer; $16 Gunnar; $1 each for the Crew- charge of murder, the widow of the murder the testator here was Demerara, the low of take advantage of us Iter &iral's meannes, ant dewee was tatran in this court before a Com\n\nWe need actualy gette tha: Catón Carr would not the Wulf hoisted sigands of distress: his evi-\n\nWhat change has come over the public ed person, though she had appeared before that place unst govern the administration of\n\nwithin these few years Where be all the in is instance Her Majesty's ship has got off missioner. Mr Carr did not ferret out the the Grand Jury, was not to be found when his assets. Prubate but necessarily been fie fad the Fizen been the party cunt talon out in Scotland, because the Bankers\n\neager conjectures regarding the grent mea cireunastanees; \"hey were brought to him by the case came on for trial.\n\nwan in expardy unit the readers a Captain Carr, who complained of the waut Parliament aas supposed to lie pregnant? sares with which to coming session of who were the debtors had not honestly paid aquistanes, we would have had the matter certleil 1\n\nof liberality. F. M's Ships are generally People do not even take the treble to fore had been paid, but the claim here was what was due, and the probate duty there a very different mumer. Sie Thores mental op-\n\nvalued at £1000 per gan-the Wolf has 18 So which at times appear scleri -wor for legacy duty, which was clearly not pay\n\nguess what may be coming. Suficient for guns, nod may, therefore he vained at able As a very strong instance of the mis\n\nLeco fally opened to the importance of the service,\n\nThe day is the evil thereof. They will see and if such a question were left to his award, wo har 18,000, and for saving her 100 dollars are\n\nthe debates when they begin. Public emio- chief that would arise if the doctrine now\n\nIf Sir Thomas close to take ou nat the slightest doubt that the which awardedi. contended for by the Crowe could be sup\n\nsufficient for the 'em, would hure aweled bits himself the office of fixing the reward, be it is as languil is the opening of St A Chinese was executed on Monday week ported, it was only necessary to mention this\n\nchongauls for the War. We regret exeedingly to\n\nought to have exercised the strictest care to Stephen's as it has long been at the opening for murder. He taule a long speech when case, Suppose an Englishman resident They injure the dignity of the series not a litte: Carr, hearing that Sir Thomas was about to\n\nnatice such a crtions is the me now mantined. make himself acquainted with the facts. Mr of the patent theaires, No new pieces are the scaffold, protesting is innocence, abroad, or a foreigner traded with a person\n\nronounced as in preparation. Somo leading danouncing the witnesses against biu for in England, and at the death of the former a\n\nand alcough no thinking man would jrdys unferour-\n\nactors have cutired, and no onw ones ara commener an action against him, made every advertised. Nobody asks wht is to succeel perjury and threatening to beat them bill of exchange accnpted by the person io\n\nably of those whose merits Eater zee: so often tested, enquiry, in order that if he had done wrong. Lol Stanley in the Tybalt line, or Mr in conacquence of the lile minded actions of their afer his death. He acquitted the Judge this conmry was ranning, no parment of peat Chief, we are bound to acolodge, that to\n\nbe might rearess it by making an ample adstone in the heasy tragedy. There are and fury of all blame, as they had only acted that bill of exclange could be made without\n\napology but the more he did enqore, the to be rehearsals on Monday at Sir Robert the thoughtless and ipsmant, such tr.les uvey an according to the evidence, and be declared a deduction from the legacy duty. No one unfavourable, though file impression of the nasal stronger be found the facts. To costine Peri's (in full dress) and the Dake of Well- that in order to remove all cars from the cook pretend that a rale so mischievous to chare. Si Theme Cochrane, if we recoller Jibel it most the show that the party is Judge's mind, he, the prisoner, would bang commerce could exist, and the Hanse must, right, has been a candidate for parliamentary hưn charged with something that is criminal.ington's but the maies of the pinses in himself and he accordingly placed his head in therefore, act on the Authorities already des\n\npar: once, at least, he stood for a seaport, Mr Bradshaw's evidence is to this effect has invited his friends to be early in their\n\npreparation are not asked. the balter. He was very collected, and took cided, which had settled that the law of the\n\nthe pret buffetini inhalants of which are slip The Wolf was in great distress, firing gutus, attendances but the Opposition Fader a polite leave of those near him by bowing place where the testator died nust goverato distinguish himself in the nature of his country dwares; should the gallant Adunai ever again sek\n\nand baving her ensign with the Uniou down, ems to dust whether it is worth the to them, and at last, shaking hands with the the adutinistration of his personal property.\n\nThe Fire stood in and sent her boat to the while of his friends to we trust the affair we matrate will be prestained off to offer assistance. The Fixes had a 'Comeli whether it is worth tas while ot come, and Mr exceptioner, was launched off.\n\nThe Solicitor-General (with whom was bit the hastings, as we ate afrail would shin large pantity of specie on board. She re- bis to stay away. The Three Mays convinted of the rauder Me Crompton) did not deny the existence of in the eyes of any consergy intarestol in the\n\nThe tradesmen evince ceived 16 guns and 500 shut, and he consime animation in farbisting up the Houses, of Captain RBIsos of the Bluck twt, were some general rule as to the law of domicile, mesutile -hipping of Geet Britain.\" executed on Saturday last, and acknowledged but cuntended that it had nothing to do with\n\ndered the Voit would have been in extreme The following were the Jurymen on the\n\nand the grooms in exercising the cream- their guilt.\n\na case like the present. The principle of case,Thos. Jones, Esq., Duacan Flether, danger bl a gale come out. law that raust govern this case was, that Es, Angus Fletcher, Bay. F. T. Bush, Esq. aliona tendency to prevent others from giving pervade th actors and spectatus. Never coloured horses of the state-carriage; int TheJulge here asked, \"had not this public with these exceptions, apathy and langu where the property was balaistered the J. Leffler, Esq. and George Findlay, Esq. TRULY SEAMAN-LIKE CONDUCT. Captain legacy duty must be paid. If there had beeu The attorney-fineral in opening the case chassistance?—Mr Goddard said he thought before it the public appear to expect so Captain Caldwell, fate of the ship Durchester, of a specifs appropriation of the property in stated that this was an information on the ! \"xpressly the reverse, as it showedsuch per- little from a session will it be possible to Boston, tas pebliched the following amount: Sotland, this rule would not have applied, part of the Queen, to defend the character\n\nsous their age would be taken up by the press disappoint that little? Our faith in the Mr Bradshaw's videuce was then read. disappointing powers of Parliament is great. Captain Brition, of the Rochester, fell ja | but there was no appropriation The money of Sir Thomas Cochrane, who had awarded with the Dorchester at sea, a pertent Greek, recoveral there formed part of the general a sum of 100 dollars for services rendered and at great hazard rescued her officers, crew, assets, and was therefore liable to the lagney by the Fire to the off, as the fall salvage\n\nto an anchor near her. She had 144,000 severely trial-Sperlotur. and passengers from an untimely fate. duty. He contended that all the cases which claimed that Mr Car, well knowing the Caphan Caldwell says, \"The Rochester was bad been dated on this subject did not premises, took the occasion to vilify the stroring a course which would bare carried touch the subject of duncile, but related Commander-in-Chief as having acted aritra her about three miles north of us. The mo❘ wholly to that of the appropriation artit that when services were rendered to H. M. Barisfied with the award—He thinks the ons example of official economy. A crea-\n\nor non- rily, haughtily, and unjustly, and to state\n\nLouis Philippe's Ministers have get a tort- ment the wreck was seen, the course of the appropriation of the property, The Rochestor was altered for one directly for us. gentleman farther contended, that where a Ships, no adequate reward would be paid, remuneration illiberal, and injurious to other tion of Peers was intended, and the names of At that time,\" said Captain Britton to one party acted in the discharge of dutios of To this charge Mr Care at Girst pleaded vessels requiring assistance—Thorew help the Pencs were almost authoratively an afterwards, I had no idea that there could administration to a deceased person, the Not Guilty, but to-day he has added as a to take the guns, &c., on board—Witness nounced. Thone persons, of course, would be a living being on board of her; but I legacy daty is payable in respect of the money farther plea, that all he had stated was true, did so, and was powell in consequence—The be bound to Ministers for the coming session; have made it au invariable rate through life, he received and dealt with in that charseter, and published for the benefit of the pallie acevant in the Friend of China was not enig but what a waste of the coin of Court fa whenever I see a wreck, to get as near her The Lord Chancellor put the following Hy was aware that whenever there was angered The Fizen was detained 24 hours- vour! Ministers take second thought, and A. Matheson, Esq., being called as a vit postpone their creation until after the dis- as possible, and ascertain all I can about her, questions to the Judges:A B., a British Fattempt to check such objectionable publica- and make sure that there is nobody aliva on subject, born in England, resided in a Bri- tions, there was raised an outery that it was\n\nnews and sworn, deposed, that the Fizm be-\n\ncussion on their whole policy in the Cham- board before I leave her. We supposed, hetish colony, made his will, and died domiciled for the purpose of curbing the fibres and the chip of Jardine, Matheson, & .. hers. This is the true economy: every sup\n\nawarded nothing to the Crew continued, it was some timbership which there. At the time of his death debts were Press. The Government bero had no wish\n\nporner will wat himself down for a peerage, Secretary of Sir Thomas Cochrane called and each one prize will attract many gamblers had been drifting about here for months;awing to him in England; his executor in to do so.--an ollicer discharging the high and wished him to do so—the Viren bad for it. As if to show practically that the but resolving that I would adhere to my rule, England collected these debts, and out of duty of Admiral, and in this case acting as a I altered my course, although we all thought the money he collected paid legacies to cars\n\nJudge of the Admiralty, is complained of it useless at the time. Thus, by following tain legatees in England are such legacies a partial statement of the frots is brought the service rendered by hue was very made one sample Peer—M. Jaubert, an Op. this noble rule, Captain Britton was the able to the payment of the legacy daty? forward; for if the whole facts had been slight, and the crew were not employed at positionist. Spectator.\n\nAll—Captati Care was not satisfied with the mexas, in the hauds of God, of saving the He had fransed the question in this general stated. Sir Thomans Cochrane would have\n\nAdmiral's award, but did not ask witness's lives of 45 human beings, and in the circle of form, beranse the statute equally affected suffered no damage. A persoa in such vir-\n\nadvice as the course he ought to punue their friends and acquaintance, of making the England and Scotland,\n\ncumstances ought not to be so negligent as hearts of hundreds sing for joy. Captain The Judges requested short time to to pablish partial statements. The Admiral he is the assistance he gave was very im- portaut—Mr Waller did not make his state- Britton received me on board \"his ship with consider their answer. They retired for is charged with gross partiality and verup-\n\nment a upoo bis own knowledge, but na a welcome and a shake of the hand which this purpose, and at the end of about half an tion as a judge. You\" (the Jury) will not\n\nwhat he noderstood--Witness thinks that ac went to the heart, and spoke at once the sea- hour returned, when\n\nfail to perceive the motive on the face of the man and the gentleman. So long as memory Lord Chief Justice Tindal read their article.\n\ncording to Captain Carr's statement of the ser Will you ever believe chat Sir\n\nvices reutered, 100 Dollars was ootanfficient, retains her seat, I shall not forget his kind- answer, to the effect that, though the words Thomas was influenced by such motives, and ness. Taking me into his cabin, Consider,' of the statute could not apply everywhere, that this was published for the beaclit of the\n\nCross-examined by the Attorney-General said he, everything here at your service, the principle which ran through all the le public, and not to gratify some private feeling saw nothing on the part of Sir Thomas or Here are my clothes, use as many of them asided case was, that the domicile of the de- against him? It may produce the most\n\nMr Waller to lead him to believe they wished you need. And such was his treatment of ceased party gave the law which regulated prejudicial effoot for if this article is ciroz\n\nto retreat from their offer to give a proper us votil we arrived at New York, and then, the distribution of the personal property; lated among the mercantile wavy here, should remuneration. When asked to manie a sunt, witness said high Government officers were said he, Here is my purse at your service this ride was not affected by the situs of the another of Her Majesty's Ships got inte\n\nften stingy, and he believed Sir Thomas was for what moung you need? flow different personal property itself, or by the place tu similar circumstances, it would deter them the result, and how diferent must be the fee which the administrator received that pras from residering their services. I have au particular trouble. ings of Captain Britton from what they porty, and that, consequently, the law appli- thing to say against the serving rendered by\n\nThe Attorney-General said that Sie Thomas was of necessity discharging an office of high wonid have been, if he bad passed by and re-cable to this case was the law of the colony the Vire taking out guts, shat, &n. ported, Lat. 50 N., long. 20 W, saw a ship, where the deceased was domiciled at the This, I admit, it was a clear caso of salvage, Ministerial duty, se at that time there was no Totally dismasted, sea, making a complete time of his death, and was not the law of Sir Thomas bad to wish to deny this. Te Court of Admiralty here, breach over her: weather equally, and im England, consequently that the legacy daty said to his Secretary, Mr Waller, I know The Judge, in susuming up the case, said ing on night; could ascertain nothing further was not payable here.\n\nnothing of this case you will call on Methe bel was divided into two parts first a that the Lord had sent at thers to marry her, abour ber. Such are too often the reports, The Lord Chancellor expressed his fall Matheson and learn what be claims.\" Mrtement of facts, and secondly a commen! Betty, without much hesitation, replied,The but I hope we shall see no more of them. coneurrence with this opinion, and went Waller did call, and Mr Mathieson very tary on these facts. The first was passed Lord's will be done.\" Edinburgh Evening Courant.\n\ninto a very exact examination of the cases liberally refused to receive anything. Mr over. It was for the Jury to judge if there\n\nThe Premier\n\nThe Fixes was ordered by the Wolf to conte but on the present vesion they will be Tarls of silver on hoard. Thinks it was in\n\nsequence of the relief afforded by her that\n\nthe Wolf got off. Two vessels bave sincr bero wrecked there. The crew were all dis-\n\nHOW TO MAKE A PEERAGE GO VURTHEST,\n\nnot then returned to Hongkong Me Waller competition is open to all, Ministers have\n\nAN AMRICAN CONE AND 19 Swann, A Colonel of the Chised Sanes Army having rofused to obey the esmuunds of his superior cfficer, with sentenced by the courbeartial in↔ be deprised ní his sword for one month.\" On his weapon being demanded of her, he aroes, and in the mud gale and solema amer declared, that he didn't own one: that the sword be had been accustomed to wear Giln't being to him; but he had no dobi Mr Baker, the jeweller, f whow be hired it B waining days, would int it to the Court for the re quired mouth on the most reasonable terras 1\n\n'rovidence Guzeite\n\nFace ResigNA CON,-Deacon Mavis of Lyne Crevicu, Farge alludder and exemplary man, was exceedingly cocentre in some of his noticus. His courtship is in sus, was as follows:-aving The any pointed his horse, with only a nap-ssin fer a sad, be rede in front of the hause wherea Betty Lec lived, and, without dismounting, reguesial\n\nJetty to come to linn; on her eing, he told her\n\nyu this subject, which, he said, completely. Waller natted what compensation would be was a necessity first to publish these facts; AN EYE TO THE FUTURE—At a meeting, von justified the opinions of the learned Judges enough for the crew of the Vixen. Mr secondly was it necessary to publish this red by the friends of Clay, held in Woodstock, All sorts of people are plunging into the He begged to add, that the reasons why the Matheson said about 105 dollars, to which cotourstory. Had Mr Carr rested with a Vend, e ele oratore grew arazingly exontent, frightful whirlpool of railway speculation.Judges had been summoned to give the Mr Waller answered, say in round numbers statement of facts, it is probable you exchiring, ever heard of a woulan's warning Bankers and merchants, barristers and baber-House their resistance in this case was, tint 100 dollars. Mr Care puts an imaginary would not have been troubled with this paper sun after Jana K. Polk P\" and den pude a dashers, bankers' clerks and doctors of divi- as the law was to be stated definitively for case to injure Sir Thomas. Ho says, bail secution. Sir Thomas was not likely to have sig diffene pause, if inviting an awwer. nity, Members of Parliament and keepers of the British islands and for all our colonies, the Vixeu been the party that was in jeopac brought an autiou, and he was sure his friend did exclaims a fair decorat in the cred, win gambling-houses, old oren and young lads, the Lords had deemed it proper that the de dy,\" &. The last paragraph could only be the Attorney-General would not have taken hd boy married about six months proves, Bat married women who desire to have a good cision abould have all the weight which the pennet by some person who had a personal up such a case. But this was not the sting have en tha! intends to.\" speculation on their own account, and spin-concurrent opinions of the Judges and of spleen against the admiral. If any of you of the libel. It is for you to say whether Sir sters who think that an addition to their their Lordships could give it. He moved had been called on to act as arbiter, and ia: Thomas is charged with corruption, and if soị\n\nMas Lova, Harmony House, Concord, near fortune might give them an opportunity of that the judgment should be given for the consequence of your award had been accused it is a huel. To order that words may con- Kusing Pains,” is the adureas of a school stress in sharing it with another-all, all are rushing plaintiff in error.\n\nNew South Wales. of corruption, you would feel what damages stitute a libel, they must charge a man with on in the same course-dying after the wheel\n\nLord Brougham and Lord Campbell save ought to be given in the present case. The something criminal: but in writing whatever of fortune, which for the present is laden at rally expressed their concurrence with the affidavit of Me Walle, which will be read to, tends to bring a man into contempt is a libel. every spoke with the shares of some railway motion of the noble and leverned. Lord. you, states, that he wrote to Mr Malevon The Jury, after a short consultation, res company—Morning Post.\n\nby the direction of Sir Thomas, a letter torneil à verdict of not guilty.\"\n\nJudgment for the plaintiff is error.\n\nFon—Never tell a mun he's a frol. In the Grat place he won't believe you; in the next beŋl be sure i think you one jou buying 10,",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\nThe cases complained of are two-fold:\n\nvenience would be caused if the new system were brought suddenly into stringent operation:\n\n1. Where a Ship being registered in a Colony, a Bill of Sale or a Power of Attorney to execute a Bill of Sale, have been sent by the Registered Owner to the United Kingdom,\n\n2. Where a Ship being registered in a Colony, the Registered Owner is in the United Kingdom, and wishes to sell her here,\n\nIn both these cases, the Registrars of Shipping would, before\n\nMy Lords wish to suggest to the Commissioners, the expediency of adopting the following relaxations, to take effect at once, and to last during such time only as may be necessary to bring the New System into complete operation,\n\n1. Ships registered in the Colonies may, for such time as the 1st of May, have registered the Ship de novo, without waiting hereinafter mentioned, be registered de novo in this Country, upon the production of such Documents or Evidence of Title the Registrars have heretofore been in the habit of receiving as sufficient.\n\n2. In all such cases the Vendor or his Agent shall give to the Registrar security that the transaction shall be completed, and that the Registrar and the Commissioners shall be kept harmless from any loss or damage which they might incur if it were to happen that the Ship was in the meantime disposed of in the Colony. A suggested Form of Bond for this purpose is enclosed.\n\n3. The Vendor or his Agent must fill up and sign and deliver to the Registrar at the Port of Registry de novo, a form of application calling for a transfer of the registry under the provisions of the Act,\n\nThis application, the Registrar at the Port of registry de novo, will forward with the old certificate of registry to the Colony.\n\nIf it is wished to sell or mortgage the Ship in any part of the Empire other than that in which the Ship is registered, Statutory Powers of Attorney for the purpose (called in the Act \"Certificates of Sale or Mortgage\") can be procured at the Port of Registry.\n\nThese Certificates will confer a perfect title on those who take under them, whilst, as they will be entered on the Register Book at the Port of Registry, persons who might desire to purchase or lend Money on the Ship there, will have full notice of their existence.\n\n4. On registering the Ship de novo, the Registrar will insert in his Book the words \"Registry to be transferred from the Port of \", and, on receiving the requisite information from the Colonial Registrar, he will write under those words \"Registry completed by transfer from the Port of with the date.\n\nMy Lords consider it of very great importance for the interests of Shipping that these Certificates should be brought into use as quickly and as universally as possible, and that nothing should be done which would have the effect of permanently infringing the principles of the new system, or of inducing persons concerned in Shipping to believe that it will henceforward be possible to confer a Title to a Ship by any means except those which the Act, and the Regulations which have been issued under it, point out as necessary.\n\n5. The relaxation is to take effect at once, and to last, as to Ships Registered in the American Colonies, until the end of September, and as to Ships registered in more distant Colonies, until the end of February next.\n\nThe effect of the relaxation will be to place the persons who accept the title in this Country in as good a position, so far as regards the registry, as they could have enjoyed under the former practice, whilst they will have the additional advantage (which they could not have had under former Acts) that their equitable title to the Ship, will, under the provisions of the New Act, be perfectly good,\n\nI am, &c.,\n\nmany Ships have lately been sent, and are now being sent from the Colonies, for the purpose of being sold in this Country, according to the practice which has heretofore prevailed, and that considerable inconvenience...\n\nIn re JAMES LINDON, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given to the Next of Kin and all other Persons to produce any Wills or Codicils of the above Parties that may be in their possessions, before the Supreme Court, on Saturday, the 11th day of August, 1855, or if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse Letters of Administration failing which, Administration will be granted to the Acting Registrar of the said Court.\n\nBY THE COURT,\n\nWILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,\n\nActing Registrar.\n\nPOST-OFFICE NOTICE. The Post-Office will be closed on THURSDAY, the 9th inst.\n\nTHE next GENERAL MAILS by the Singapore, at 6 P.M., and the CUSTOMARY SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL, will be made up the following Morning between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock.\n\nTHOMAS HYLAND.\n\nPost-Office, Hongkong, 1st August, 1855.\n\nIN THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nMESSRS MACEWEN & Co., (for G. Duddell,)\n\nwill sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, by order of W. H. MITCHELL, Esq., Marshall of the Vice-Admiralty Court, on MONDAY, 6th August, 1855, and following days, commencing at 1 o'clock P.M., at the AUCTION MART, Queen's Road, where the Goods are now on view.\n\nA Large Quantity of damaged CHINESE CARGO, landed from the stranded Steamer \"Unicorn.\"\n\nTERMS OF SALE-Cash before delivery in MEXICAN Dollars, at 7.1.7.; all Lots to be at purchaser's risk as soon as knocked down.\n\nHongkong, 4th August, 1855.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nMESSRS SMITH & BRIMELOW have received instructions to dispose of by PUBLIC AUCTION, on MONDAY, the 6th August, 1855, at 11 o'clock A.M., at their Sale Rooms, Queen's Road, for the benefit of the concerned,-\n\n2 Chests OLD PATNA OPIUM, damaged by Sea Water.\n\n7 Bales GREY SHIRTINGS.\n\nAlso,\n\n4 Bales T-CLOTHS.\n\nAfterwards,\n\n2 Pairs Six-pounder GUNS.\n\nDo. Four-pounder do.\n\n32 Piculs SHOT, of different kinds.\n\n14 MUSKETS with BAYONETS.\n\nCOPPER POWDER MAGAZINES.\n\nA quantity of BLOCKS, &c., &c.\n\n89 Dozens STRAW HATS, and\n\n54 do. CIGARS CASES\n\nTERMS OF SALE,—Cash before delivery, in Mexican Dollars, and 7.1.7.\n\nIN @ Wo wan's Rundings,\n\nDoug Reng 24 August, 1233.\n\nThe Secretary of Customs.\n\nNOTICE. THERE will be no SESSIONS of the SUPREME COURT under its CRIMINAL JURISDICTION, during the present month.\n\nBY ORDER OF THE COURT,\n\nWILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,\n\nActing Registrar.\n\nCourt House, 2d August, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBy Order of the CONSULAR DEPARTMENT OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE AT COPENHAGEN, it is hereby notified, that Applications to fill the Vacant Appointment of the Office of DANISH CONSUL of Hongkong, will be received by said Department until the 15th October, 1855.\n\nFRED. H. BLOCK, Acting Danish Consul.\n\nDanish Consulate, Hongkong, 28 July, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR ROBERT ANGUS has been appointed AGENT of the Canton Branch of THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF INDIA.\n\nCanton, 7th July, 1855.\n\nEDGAR CORRIE,\n\nManager.\n\nWe have established Mr WILLIAM HAMMOND FOSTER, JR., in Hongkong, as Agent for our Houses in Canton, Shanghai, and Foochow: and all Business to his address comes under our control and guarantee.\n\nCanton. 1st July, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nMR JAMES CRAMPTON is authorized to sign our firm per procuration from this date.\n\nHANBURY & Co. Shanghai, 10th May, 1855.\n\nNOTICE\n\nMR. NEWBOLT, Surgeon Dentist, has left Hongkong for Malacca, but intends to return to China in a few Months.\n\nHongkong, 1st August, 1855.\n\nCARD.\n\nCHARLES MARKWICK, Government and Supreme Court Auctioneer and Appraiser,\n\nand\n\nGENERAL STOREKEEPER, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nEstablished 1843.\n\nT. H. FARRER.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION OF LANDED PROPERTY.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD & Co. have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on the Ground, on MONDAY, the 20th August next, at Noon, the whole of\n\nMARINE LOT No. 58, situate in Victoria West, with the BUILDINGS thereon, known as Prous's Cottages.\n\nThis Eligible Property possesses a Sea Frontage of 230 Feet, and presents facilities for adding very largely to its value by reclaiming from the Sea.\n\nThe Queen's Road Frontage extends 260 Feet from East to West. and from the nature of its position, near the Centre of a populous part of the town, forms an admirable site for a range of CHINESE SHOPS and DWELLING HOUSES.\n\nThe present Depth on the West Boundary is 108 Feet, and the East 72 Feet,-both capable, at a very small outlay, of being increased by from 40 to 50 Feet.\n\nThe whole Lot contains an AREA of 20,948 Feet, and is leased from the Government for 75 Years (which can be increased on application to 999 Years,) at a yearly GROUND RENT of £183.1.4§.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to the Auctioneers.\n\nTERMS OF SALE. Cash in MEXICAN Dollars weighed at 7.1.7. The purchaser to pay the Ground-rent from the 25th June last, and the Expense of Transfer. One-third of the Purchase Money to be paid on the fall of the Hammer, and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer.\n\nHongkong, 12th July, 1855.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW,\n\nSHIP CHANDLERS,\n\nWholesale and Retail Wine and Spirit Merchants, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents,\n\nNos. 1 & 2 Wongsam's Buildings,\n\nHave always on hand an Assortment of SHIP CHANDLERY STORES of every kind.\n\nAlso,\n\nAn extensive and well-selected supply of WINES, BEER, and SPIRITS, LIQUEURS, CORDIALS, &c., of a superior description.\n\nOILMAN'S STORES from the well-known house of Copland, Bures & Co.; also, STORES per Overland Mail Steamers Monthly for domestic purposes.\n\nHongkong, 7th July, 1855.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.\n\nPRICE, 6 per Annum. Single Copies, Twenty-five Cents.\n\nTERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each additional Line, Twenty Cents-One-half of these charges for each Repetition.\n\nPage 92",
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        "content_text": "AVISOS.\n\nESCUELA PÚBLICA ESPAÑOLA,\n\nD. Tomás Fernandez, profesor de Enseñanza Primaria, ha trasladado\n\nVILLA DE PARIS.\n\nMANILA.\n\nEn la calle de Anda núm. 8, se venden los libros siguientes:\n\nDien, de Boring. t. 15 p.; Brev. de 6 t. 19 p. id de 9. 15 p. id. de 8 p.; Surland, sero. 81. 8 p., Sea, de Motor; Hamb Piera, chiq instit, de Justinian, Filosop, de Goudin, vice da a Acad. 413; Taiso ; Dusid. Mec. 3 p. 4 r. Año virgh. 12. en vol. 7. p. p. edic sit excel a poeto de Rice, ils and Roserie, ditton cusa & la Libros de devocion ó sean Furmanus Santas, Diamantes del cristiano, 31. 3 p., Manual de conf 2 t. 2 p. & ra; Pony, de las cere, 3 p. altracha, bacte la iglesia, en donde tiene el honor de ofrecer su sorre, Toro divious, Novisiiras Pasionarias, y de otros diferentes títulos cios & in padde de fominio que gusen kuurorte contitudo la enseñanza muy adenos, en nadernad con todo too, tapas de márül, út, terciopelo de todos colores miniaturas ay tuas, Crucijos y otros agri Les tas de enseñanza son. Lectura, Dacama cristiana, Escritora, butos religiosos, dobles cantoneras y roches de todo guato y espricio, Gromatica Casteliaan, Arianėles, Granation franqust y latin\n\ntambien los hoy en totale y chagrin desde 4 5 5 reales djamples, y los PRECIOS DE LAS CLAPES.\n\ndome se darán à preces mas arreglados que se vonden un barcelona, Decionario de is lengua castellana y do Dominguez.\n\nPor solo tocina.\n\nPer lectura y doctrina,.\n\nPor lo diche y la veritura.\n\nPeses.\n\nPor lo dicke. in grumation y la urinetica. - Par el frases, al bin, & algus mo de mayor eceranta, será con- venio apart.\n\nAlors de ina niños que entran & adiar conis exiernos, tambien edoute pupios eaters y medica purile. Is pupos enteros paga- 4 16 s. al mes y los thedis & iad los pagos.\n\nanticipados. Los padres de tunitie a augue accueilacos, es presione di graves e page des mes por et crecido número de ellos, pueden entrar en\n\ncouvanto con el profesor que suscriba\n\nT. Furuandez 1\n\nEn la calle Real con direccion de la iglesia de Quiapo, ta bajada del puerta men derer ba, lay dos carruagos de venta clo-\n\n& a moru y a precio cúde.\n\n3\n\nSe vende a un precio mód co, va buca corruage men- tale en muralles, recien caremade, y una calasa unosa de tolda de cam-\n\n7\n\nPaña calle de Begantanoa casa mum, 3 darán razn\n\nEn la isla del Romero núm. 17. se rende un magni-\n\nPapel de seda besuca y paul para la correspondencia do Barego por el suno, id. Eanco sito à la holatuma, en conto y eclaire, il yaitu par cuentas do vonte y factures, plunias de uro con punta de di\n\njas suvialas Bae y entreditas para señoras, nes y aballeros, pus- ante. Dagantes corbatas de seda de todos colores, id, do clar butiin, fumuria suitida y note alla se hallan los cu speciales, polvos para Ren caballo oro de mentor, el que quiera tratar de su ajusto puede conserver la dentadura, empatos esclusivadente para os geses cà- fides, por los primeros fabricantes copantas en laglaterra, cepillos para cabeza pata hombres y willos, verdadero acuite magazer, Latidor, po\n\nand der en festes de cristal cortado con tapa de lo mismo, in the luza, espejos grandes con marcos doratos para salas y suuristias, aba nico do zo blanco my elegante y otra intuidad do articulos dificiles\n\nde numerai.\n\naviciarse out su dueño que vive en la misca cosa.\n\nEn la calle de la Solana now. 4, se halla de venta\n\na catrevela cati pareja y gemicioass, tode en muy buen estado y an e: marco precio de 123 pesos.\n\nSe vende un bonito carruage de moda muy ligero y enu solo unos pocos meses de uso, calle Real que dirige para Quiapo, casa de das pisos sum. .\n\nLibros en pasta, de veuta en la calle de la Audiencia\n\ncasa núm. 4,\n\nvol. 28 .-A cristiano, con lamiass, 13 tunes 22 ps.-Calepino de Eaprielie, die mario de legislacion, tomos 13 pesos. Farraria, 5 Salus. p. Arts esplicgpin, 2 ps-Tessaro de Baquejo. 48 reales.- meva edicion cu 1865, en pas, 1 into grueso ps. Bilfioteca | Centcitas 5 rs-Caturistaro de Madu 7 re.--Letroane, geografia noiverval,\n\nSe necesita en la Maestranza de Artillería para ser vicio de las herreras 100 yueladas de carbon do piedra presto en el\n\nBOTICA DE D. JACOBO ZOBEL, MANILA.\n\nembarcadero de Paorta aleagames, & cayo li se inta\n\nlas personus Aprurion especial de la endemin de mediens de Francia, y de la que guster, proposionarlo, not mustras con sus precios; en el con- i Escuela da Farincia de Paris, sobre una refpcion de los MM. Chevs- cept de el dia 15 del actual & las 1 is mañana se adjudicará tice Ossian-Henry, ambos miembros de la Facultad de medicina, y de la contrata puta la Junta principal Economies de este departamento ap\n\nLassain profesor us Quimica de la Escuala imperial de Alfort.\n\nle vor de lo pesona que mus ventajos promete la Real Hacienda,\n\nELIXI de Dr. Still nice Letnies preparado por AB secrature do la Junta, Francisca Solelo.\n\nGAGE in Paris, calle do Grenelle-Saint-Carmasin, am 13.\n\nEstrago del turó tiki ado: TevTA DOSICES OR LAS FISMAS. de las en- fermedades que ugasionao, y ún los medios de combatirlas eficazmenta por si mo con et Clixir Tópico anti-fuese del doctor Gaillie, etc. predicate por D. Felix Uzaro Barcia, 25 tomes $3 pa-Visitas i Sme, Los utiguos, que labisa dade à las Fumor al nombre de pitvilu, aya is virgen, our S Ligorio, a reales 13 otos.--Kompis nueva traduccion, louis, un humor viscoso y pegajosa que se encuentra en la superticis aprobada en 1884, contaminas tas y equicicio sutidiana $ 15.-Pecito, de lus Gembros mocosas, para alimentarlas y facilitar sus funciones.\n\nsantas evangelus, udicion de 1854, -Clures, opúsestos, 4 tomos 12 Machas causas contingen 5 aumentar la secrecion de este humor rs-Capus Juris condnici, & voi. 6 pasmail, mannat de la said, edi alterar su haturaleza prinsition; por consiguiente es Freil concubir le macion de 1955 6 r.-S. Ligvis. selva de noterias predicable 6 --Ei cho que debe indit produccius inaderada sobre munstros órganos fulcrior de Jesus y Maria, 3 tones 6 rs--Espirito da S. Francisco de Sa allorando las fingones apostantes de la vida, tales con la digestion tes, tous 18 rs.\n\nBila\n\nDIENTES\n\nPOSTIZUS.\n\nD. Esteban Fertre cirujano delata do\n\nJo facultat de Paris, ofrere ens servicios ei públic en todo le perteneciente a su profesion.\n\nExtir los calios sin dolos inguno y com la seguridad de que no vuelvan nuara. Quiapo culle Real disa nueva de dos pisos\n\nnum. 6.\n\nla\n\nrelacion de la sangre; las fur.ciones del corazon y de los pulmones;\n\nde estúnogo, de les incostis y de la vejiga; del bigáda y del baro, cần\n\nlos aparalod glandulovos y tinta.icos, ete Citanda algunas de estas afa\n\nde Gulie en tus enfermeriados nasionadas por las flotas,\n\nManuel Rodriguez. maestro sastre, cafle Real de Mar fact Races runder f servicios son grandes debe\n\nbr. 13, fruen al público sus servicios, euconarbuose en su obra-\n\ndor tarla res de efectos mertoneclames à su facultad.\n\n*AMPALACHES.\n\n3\n\nAlmacen y fonda de la Marina del puerto de Cavite.\n\ny hasta in casa desesperados.\n\nArias, caterros, coquctuaties, resfriados, tant emorlaixas, inflamaciones de ch, een general estas feccions son el resultado de una acum lacion a materia dessa an el tejido mismo del palmo y sebro la superfics de los bronquius, acre, viscuss, esposo, gue se ha desarrollado et puimon de resulas de una inflamacion producida por un resfria-\n\n1\n\nRecibido por la fragata CORNELIA, y se vende en la\n\ncalle de Autoague rúm 47.\n\n100 caienes verdadero codec. marca Dulers y Bellamy G., 3 años\n\net cajou,\n\n12 ki,\n\nchampagne cañac, 30 us.\n\n6 barries collac Cole ordinario\n\nId\n\nid.\n\nel gator..\n\n610\n\nVino de Raritens, Medoc, en barrica do 144 busolas 10 harcica.\n\nS. Juliant, id.\n\nid.\n\nChampaña, 1 calidad, sillery musseux, marca 1am-\n\nil, viejo, en rajones.\n\nÅ 7 Jocena.\n\n5. 12 id, Lo. id. id. on hojones de 2 medias batellas.\n\n14 id. Edmont Planebut,\n\nEn esto sewaplocimiento se encuentran carruage dut pais y de muelle dopiracion so buca imposible. La naturaleza trete de pulsa es mor bart y Brum,\n\ndo. E traquiarteria se halla obstrules, a. pulmon no te dilats, la res-\n\nalquiler que es útil para los que quieran pusse por una urgencia de ir flexion sceres de tes convulsiva, y el auferme marzo axiade y valvar de la capital es el misman din pasando con el vapor que haco si\n\ndes vieges, en los pueblo del Rosario fa Salinas, ela. Cruz de Malabontos estuntzos impotentes do la naturaleza.\n\nTo se le admistra prontamente el Dixir de Grillé, pra supli: à; (a; Tanza, S. Francises de Malaton, Tierralla (Cavite vij facoor y Imus, y si es para Silang, nonsita ceupor los dos dias, i precios ecmodos.\n\n५\n\nLA REINA DE LOS ANGELES, FONDA Y REPOSTERÍA.\n\nEn esta fonda acallan vacantes dos habileciones para huéspedes, un espacioso ragan y patio, con una bodega bastante cómoda para cerruan goa de alquiler y sus cadres correspondientes.\n\nEn la Escolto, CASA GUICHARD, se hallan actualmente dea cupaites dos buenas balayaz por la parte do! rio grande, wezar, da mas de des mal evanes de captordd y en hienas circunstancias para anucco- war prochastes del pois 4 efectos de Europe,\n\nAsi mas en las hautaciones altas hey disponibles, con las mejores mislu sobre el vi grande, Sabaciones y depeulencias necesarias per una fermilia de a persona coa ademés una nice tamiine de bura topad muy clara y ventilada para vācing, so zndependiente del resto da iz 463-\n\nCOMPRAS Y VENTAS. Letras sobre Londres à 30 días y 6 meses Letras de banco sobre Londres.\n\nLetras sobre Madrid y Cádiz.\n\nSe vende una berlina tres por ciento hecha à teda\n\nlibros siguientes:\n\nEn la imprenta de los Amigos del Pais, se venden los codo, en su pareja de caballos de las mejores condiciones y con los acraus de nelos correspondientes: vodo en la castidad de 510 pesos.\n\nVida aveclarae dal pícaro Guzman de Alfstache, dos tomes elegan- terdunto enciklernados, 10 s; Colteca española, unmoo 3 15.; 00- Calle de Palacio adiu, 17, frente al martel do tegimionto . 9. ervaciones criticas sobre ol romance de Gil Mas de santillane. an tomo\n\nEn la calle Real de Manila núm. 10 se vende un Vallejo, compendio da mal-máticas, dos anos r.: Die:sionario baca cerarge cat su magnifica pareja.\n\nda terminos comunes lagalo y castellet, a tomo 6 rs: Diccionario mi- liar español y francés, un torna pasto 19'rs; Memoria histórica de Arti- apañola, un lomo pasia & Instruccion de intería y de la\n\n3\n\nGinebra superior como pocas vecais tira, au spao 3 ra: Bibliosice esfriar, 134, y veho once\n\nvero aliaec del Sol al på del puente de Brondo y en el aterio cos viene à Manda, recibida por la fregato americana ANNA KIMBALI. procedente de Batavia, en cajas de 15 frascos grandes, on Veticis en calle de bike udin, 8,\n\nTarbie panden dichas establecimientos viso tinto hectarló may bueno: consignado por una tray seredisada casa de aquel prato, aguardiente!\n\nrústica\n\npetustruccion de recluta, dus tomos ra; Color, cine toes ps.: Custerno de reglas y advertencias para la instruccion de sales Grdenes y cicular is interds general para gurdia civd, cinco tousus\n\n9 per La guerre de la mugeres, des mos 8. bolandesa 5 ta; Bo-\n\ni.. 5 rs.\n\n1.\n\nE la calle de Legaspi núm. 4, se vende una elegante\n\nBegitu de 36, id, tal de 23 alambicado en Bricope, coñas espa, pareja de caballus bayas, y un carrungo de ruedas altu ñol, cajas te vino Bandes, id de marrasquing del puerto St. Maria, vino Jerès, id. musetel, id, Malaga dates, nisado superior de Malloren,\n\nvista.cz, il manzanilla, pujareto, gardiente de uba, cafus de cham-\n\ncest fit, is a peace. Aguia de 1.4 y 2. case, Fins & Vi\n\nKer y Ca\n\nJ. M. Tuason.\n\nJosé M. TussoN.\n\npane, cerveza ! Porto\n\nLOMESTIBLES,\n\nBoda, quesos de holu. doce en cajas de 15 arriba, kurol y una variedad de les estrictady strangeras.\n\nEn la tienda del Madrileño, se ha recibido un com\n\nmejores cicas pleto surtido da gunas de la do car to fula & nes de suda\n\nParis, hem de algodón para tropa, calcetines blinous rayados, idem de colac carmes para vidrigas, idem blancos bonitis colores y muy baratos, gorrins do cechintir boplados para caños de algodan sin costura, on sertido de pays surildos da seua de mu yaitan de pscho, alem besitas de hilo para dom ilem, saquitos y ALMACEN DE LA ROSA.\n\nInvitas do bilo para nitus de dos años hasta siete idet de iden, var dos para niñas de igual edad, idem stocesos con sus cordones do sede, manaletas preainsas y baratas, sobrecamas de seda ademascados, idora En la Escols frente & la sombrería del Medzitoño bay de venta lusdem nuda, terminado com materiales decocitus di Muropa, en lade lambres con mezcla do seda, idem tapetes de mesa. Todos á efectos siguientes: Papas de Chies muy frescas y baratas, jatrones de cable casa un, 10 bată de manifiesto, y de su ullune pro-\n\nes muy barat 9.\n\ná pro- Neufuna muy frescas, quoso de Flandes, de Salve, wiss de ongelo dara razon en la de aum. D. José Rivero.\n\nCalle de la Escolta Almacen de Don José Vicente Gomez bay de venta papas muy buenas y burlas, quesos de bola\n\nde Aguile mur superior, d de giumba, id. de compain, de S.\n\nJulian hersins de ceruza de Holanda, lotus de espárragos, id. de ari-\n\nSe vende un carruage sin estreno\n\nEn la tienda denominada Nueva Filipina, se han re.\n\netuslas, id. de zansorias, id. de coilier, id. de regal, tocino del Noc-cibido evamonto los efectos siguientes: 19, y de otros efectos a pescum Cozados.\n\nEo la isla del Romero núm. 1.\", se venden tres\n\nballos e liro.\n\nADMINISTRACION GENERAL DE CORREOS DE FILIPINAS,\n\nca\n\nLa barca inglesa Nelson, saldrá para Singapore boy 15\n\ndel corriente per la tarde, segno aviso recibido en este dia\n\nde la Capitanía del puerto.\n\nManila 44 de Eucro de 1856.-El Administrador gene-\n\nrat, Antonio G. y Lopez.\n\nSALIDAS DE LOS VAPORES.\n\nPARA CAVITE.\n\nLos Echarica las 12 Jel dia y 8 de la noche, y de Carlin & las\n\nde la moitana y 21/7 de la tarde,\n\nLos Domingos y Lunes tan 12 del dia y 3 1/ de la tarda, y do Cuvilo 28 de la maña y 2 1/4 in nie.\n\n}\n\nPabosses de espinola fondo blanco berdade de enor, it negro ve dada le culur, los cuatraso de superior calidad y da mucho lujo, id sa- perior de mandarin, dlee do perais, vion Bardes de 1., cilicos de 25 quaita.Sabatas basia diez.\n\nNAVEGACION.\n\n3\n\njamones de Berfalia tudo muy irusse y bueno scatudo do llegar.\n\nSe vende una carretela elegante, cimoda, barata en muy buen estado de ce. Tambien 3 vondon aparadorus, gloves, y un quo ours trumble, todo por auser-so su dueño. Calle del Arzo bispe núm. 10.\n\n恩\n\non, st patron Gregorio Samson. De Pangasinan, pontia nisa. now, 23 S. Ramon, on 5 dias de co-\n\nRIÑA, despachuca por su erravs\n\nPara Capiz, saldrá dentro de tres dias la goleta A. D. Ja\n\nDomingo Giaccio.\n\na\n\nEl bergantin CONSUELO, saldrá para las islas Marianas\n\nen todo al presenta mes, lo despacha\n\nRegion, con 300 coves de Tos, 450 pllours de azúcar, 6 pivos do rus: consignada al patron Ambrosia Ave Solis,\n\neers, 15 cavares de papita de al, 2 cajonta do vorabro-\n\nJosé M. Seior, 3 Do Batangas, pontio mum. 103 8. José, en dios de navegacion, CT\n\nPara Casiguran, saldra á la mayor brevedad el berpestas de bron, 100 avanes de mungos y 9 cordes: consignado al\n\nFeliciano Marino\n\ngantin guleta GALLEGUITO, adanite carga foto y pasagero, lo des- te loops Sur, patis num. 14, S. Vicente, en 6 dias la navegacion, pacha\n\nFrancisco Vicente da Üreta, 5 58 cajenee da abil, 63 trozos de molave, 13 pioras do calantas, 6000\n\nPara Cagayan, dará la vela à la mayor brevedad el pis de mecallos, 162 veste de panocha, 108 picos de sibueso y\n\nmuy velro bergantin goles f. M. y J. (a) FELICITO, adovito care f pasigeros, to despuchia en et Muralou.\n\nAgustin Paino,\n\nPara Macao con escala en Pangasinan, saldrá el 16 del\n\nLa Mertes à las 11 del dia, y da Cavits à los 8 de la fuga y actual of negotin españial ILOCANO, la despacia el que suscribo\n\n1/2 de la tarde.\n\nL. Cufro\n\n1\n\nLos Mircoles y Juver 4:56 12 del dia y de l'avinas las 2 1/2 de la tardo. En toda la semana entrante saldrán los buques siguientes:\n\nVines 5 as to def dis y 5 1/8 de la tardo, y de Carite à Jas\n\n2/ de tarde.\n\nPARA GUAGOA,\n\nLos Damlagos y Jueves 1497 de la madans. Y de allá para aqui\n\nPARA BALANGA.\n\nLos Martes y Yine à la misma hora,\n\nLos Miércoles à las 7 de la mañana y de allá entre 2 y 3 de la tarde del isma dia.\n\nLa earca española PEPAY, saldrá en breve para Kong-\n\nlong recibe carga y pasagero, para los que ofrece excolonies comudi-\n\ndades y na trate esmeradu do au capslar, la despreba\n\nJosé M. Soler.\n\nLos pontines CARIDAD, FERNANDINA Y ROSARIO, sal\n\ndrúa pare Beeos dor en la peselo semana, íos despacho\n\nJosé Soler. $\n\nLa galeta FILOMENA y el bargantia geleta JULIANA,\n\nfrancise\n\nvisco Vicente. $\n\naldrin pors Cebú en toda esta sema. I despacha\n\nPara Zambales, panco mùm. 17% 5. Viccate.\n\nPara Sablayan, . . 315 S. Sehiin.\n\nPars Zambiles, poelin mim, 368 Sta. Ponciana.\n\nPaid Laban, id. am. 46 S. Rafael,\n\nPara Zambaits, poutin tim. Tú Se dri Huerto\n\nPara Samar, panes num as sto. Nite,\n\nPara Mulanay. id. núm. 84 9. Vimule\n\nParu acos Sur, pomin núm. 66 Ksperanza,\n\nPara Suig, uie eúm. 60 SLATER.\n\nPera, pari n. 239 9. Jozé\n\nPara Capiz, pussin núm. 70 S, Vicente.\n\nMOVIMIENTO DEL PUERTO\n\nSAATA LA DOCE DEL DIA DK ATER ENTRADAS DE ALTA MAR.\n\ndorte vai ei & se Agosto us, et capitan U. Bhuja, ou 55 hombres do tripulacion; su cargamontu algunos eletos de Europa: co- signada á 1. Tomás Quinte.\n\nFragata español Magnolia, de 51st toneladas, procedent da Cádiz, de\n\nVapor dedico gio-americano Cereline, de 378 toneladas, precedents\n\nPara Zamboanga, saldrá el 17 del corriente la gode og kong, de donde salió el 11 de actual, su capitan F. A Sampson,\n\nJeta VIRGEN DE LOS MILAGROS, is desparba\n\nFrancisco Geyes.\n\n3\n\ncon 36 hombres de tripulacion, y de pauguro Mr. Caries K. Ticke man, ku cargamenta fecins de Clans da lebuso y 275 oras en dos; cajones y oro acuñads: consignado & loa Sces Russei & Sturgis, Trao\n\nPara Ormoc en Leite, saldrà a la mayor brevedad el fa corespondencia au priqust bergantin-geleta ELUANDA, recibe carga 4 Bale, ja despacha en la Bak-\n\nJustiniano Zamora.\n\nraca\n\nSALIDA DE ALTA MAR\n\nPara pesce, frogain americana balenerus L. U. Jenny, au ca-1\n\nPara Cagayan, saldrá del 19 al 20 del corriente pican Warati, con 25 bombres de tripulacion,\n\nta nueve y veista bares TEODORA, admite carga leta y pasageros la despacia\n\nFrancisco Vicente de ürbeta.\n\nENTRADAS DE GABOTAGE.\n\nDo Pangasinan, goleto S. Juan, en 7 dias de navegacion, cun 300 cavanes\n\n28 cerdos, consignado at petcon Mariano Vinfuse.\n\nDe locos Sur, pace im. 141 S. Towing, en 3 dias do uvuga- cion, on the fordos de tabaco, 33 cajones de ahil, 08 fardos de mo- catillos y 20 cerdos: consignado à ). José M. boler. su patron Apolina- rio Quizora.\n\nCebu, bergsig núm. to Santiago (1) Rodamente, en 7 dias da ne- voasion, C 2800 picos de saúzer, 250 id, de hacó, 50 id, de utero ya de sunean consignado à D. Juan Velozo vangelisty, su na-\n\nfrom B. Lorenzo Capeda Sautings, & de pasagerus Dosé Julien Amo-\n\nde arroz, 960 pilones de saúwr y £30 piros de aibucia. consignado àl\n\nscla, juez pesquisador dal Ex-gobernadors Ibañez, con due cria- do y dos escribiente y un chico con en muchacho.\n\nDo Sta. Cruz en Zambales, panco núm. 337 5. Miguel, en 10 dias de navegacion, can 6 komadas de cacbony cardos, consignado al patron” Agnacio Aloko.\n\nDe locos Sur, goleto núm. 150 Ramaneti (n) Francisca, on 1/2 dias de navegacion, con 186 cajones de nhớt, 148 já, de tabaco, 80 pícns dã mecati-los, 8339 pastus de dobre; crosigurte à D. Francisco de P. Zem- razio, au paicon Juan Qural Valeatiño, y de posgeros . Franciscu [lorgandex, Comandante graduado Capitan del Regimiento Infanteria Fer- nando 7. húm. $, co sit aspon seis trijos de mene oda, dos soldados do dicho Regimiento y tres crudas y D. José uza, español de catas Talas con una sobrina es mur edad y un criado\n\nSALIDAS DE CABOTAGE.\n\nPara locos Sur, panco núm. 204 Pas.\n\nPars Balayan, bergantin-geleta oum. 40 3. Brencisco.\n\nPeru Zambales, pinen núi 149 Belia Cirme\n\nPara Actique, pallebol núm. 35 durora, y de transando dos previda-\n\nlidos para solrazor al Gobernaday de su destino,\n\nrios\n\nOBSERVAC, METEOROL. DE AYER.\n\nEporas.\n\nForm-\n\nmeira Ramur\n\nZarémo-\n\nà las de l\n\n$15\n\n12 del dia,\n\n5 do lat\n\n93 0 139410 232\n\nAFECCIONES ASTRÓNGM. DE HOT\n\nEl Se\n\nSun & the Gh. 28 c. 48 segundos\n\nSe pot á las & 3.5 m.\n\nBlade Luna & Wise.\n\nAparece á los 12 b. 5 m, del dia\n\n39'04 oculta & ias 12 h 67 m do la n. MANILA:\n\nimprenta del Boletin oficial de Pilipinas.\n\n3248 Hong Kang 278\n\nSinancial (APR overnment Offices, Victoria,\n\nسمجھے\n\nکی ام از لانه برای مها\n\n1856\n\nfov\n\n2178 Sar\n\nmy panty by\n\nAnswered\n\nHengreng 105 Sebruary 1886.\n\nI had the honor in Despatch Nr. 3 of 8th altimo to reply to Lord John Russell' Dispatch Nr. 23 of 2013 \"June last, and Now\n\n1 report on the application of Captain Wathins Harbor Marker for free quarters or an allowance for -\n\nhouse rent.\n\nIn Despatch Wr. 17. however,\n\n19th September last from the late ir William Molesworth Sperceive it is overlooked that this report.\n\ncalled for.\n\nand it is\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nKA\n\nassumed that\n\nH. Labouchere. M. P.\n\nye\n\n9-6\n\n想",
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        "content_text": "189\n\nI\n\n90\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n...parvenus, assuming an official importance which is highly injurious. Some years ago, he was arrested by the French Government, at Boulogne, and is presumed to have been irritated at this circumstance, for he wrote an violent letter to the police in Paris, in which, after lengthy complaining of this infraction of the Law of Nations, he ended by saying, that the Bourbons had committed an act on his person which might hurl them from the throne.—Journal by T. HAYES, Esq., Vol. 1, p. 243.\n\nThe undersigned in our trade requests that claims against him be sent for liquidation immediately, and that those justified to him likewise discharge relatives due. He begs also to state that he has transferred his business to Mr. HENRY VAUCHER, formerly of Custom.\n\nCHARLES WEISS. Hongkong, 31st May, 1856.\n\nMR. HENRY VAUCHER, in retiring from the above, solicits the Patronage hitherto bestowed on his predecessor, and gives notice that the Business will be carried on in his Own Name and Responsibility from the date.\n\nHongkong, June, 1856.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\n[No. 23.—JUNE 3, 1856.]\n\nThere is some difference of opinion in these two cases. There is in fact a considerable difference between asserting by the Neutrality ordinance No. 1 of 1865 that the ships of war of our Ally the Emperor of China shall be seized and confiscated by the SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE AND CHIEF MAGISTRATE!! if found in the harbour of Hongkong, and the second paragraph of the above opinion. \"We (the Law Officers of the Crown) do not concur in the conclusion of the Acting Attorney General\" \"that the Chinese are to be considered as beyond the pale of civilized nations,\"\n\nTHE CHILD OF FRANCE !\n\nOn the evening of Wednesday last, the 28th ult., an unfortunate accident which caused the death of 26 Chinese passengers happened to the steamer \"Knee\" as she was proceeding up the river,\n\nThe Emperor of France has obtained a son. This is a fact, in no way to be disputed. We can all remember instances when political sagacity and party prophecy\n\nThe \"Rose\" left, this about ten minutes past six o'clock, and had reached the western side of Tonkun bay, when having hugged the land too closely, her starboard bow struck on a sunken rock, opening so much of her side that she immediately filled forward and went down, drowning 26 Chinese in the forecastle, Fortunately for others on board, her stern part hung on the rock, and it was but until the next day that the whole of the body of the vessel went down. Before a coroner's jury held on view of ten of the bodies that had been brought here, the engineer stated that he chanced to be on deck at the time the vessel struck, that he heard the Captain saying \"stop her\" which was immediately done,—that in a minute or so, he heard the Captain again cry \"go on, all right,\" when the engines were put to work, but they had only made three revolutions when the water rushed into the engine room; that having again turned off the steam he was engaged in drawing the fires, but before he was enabled to do so, the water had reached his middle. Hay—\n\n144 Dak Kassa, 15 taels long by 9 in. thick and 11 in. deep TEAK BEAMS, before delivery, in Merchant's packages, weighed at $7,4-7.\n\nHongkong, 31st May, 1856.\n\nDE SILVER & Co., Auctioneers.\n\n\"EXSAMUEL RUSSELL\" AND \"QUICKSTEP\"\n\nThe undersigned are landing, and offer for Sale,—\n\n150 Punces Gallego CEDAR. 2,500 Gallons American BRANDY. 10,000lbs Winchester SOAP. 50 Pairbanks PLATFORM SCALES—weight from 240 to 1200lbs.\n\nDE SILVER & Co.\n\nAn Invoice of OYSTERS, Green PEAS, Fresh PEARS, APPLES, QUINCES, and CRANBERRIES.\n\nHongkong, 2nd June, 1856.\n\nJUST RECEIVED. SUPPLY of Sill's New York BUTTER. Also, Trade Dozen Bus's Triangle ALE.\n\nDE SILVER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st June, 1856.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 3 JUNE, 1856.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of DIVINE SERVICE in the Cathedral Church of St. John are, on Sundays at 7 A.M. and 4 P.M.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of PERLIC WORSHIP in the UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M. on the Evening of every Wednesday at half-past 8\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Camberwell Green, London on the 1st April, the Wife of Captain The JAMARON of the P. & O. Steamer \"Brisbane,\" of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 22nd May, the Wife of Mr. Asterio DUS SANTOS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 28th May, the Wife of Mr. Duxa KIXI E CARNEO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Macao, the 25th May, Mr. J. M. DE FONSECA, Harbour Master, to Miss MARQUISHA LOUREIRO, Daughter of the late Senhor Antonio Loureiro, Esq.\n\nA Victors. Hongkong, on the 1st June, M. HUSIND CHYTHESHEX to Miss FURSA B. DA SILVA SOUZA,\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt the Missionary House, Springfei, on the 4th February, Mr. NICASIUS BAYJIES, of Boston, and late of Stungcar, aged 21.\n\nAt Lackbear, near Exeter on the 1st April, the Sister, of du John Bourring, Governor Hongkong\n\nTHE Government Gazette of 31st Ultimo contains\n\nin the natural course of life and death, and in barran—desa. Wow them not a man named Bradshaw, a great man Canterbury, brawler, years since turned to forth the most villanous epithets upon Queen Victoria ? Did he not talk of Josci, using the name in Highest compare Now, that Bradshaw was of the hopeful school who predicted barrenness to the Queen: they had such unquestionable authority for the inevitable fact. Truly, Her Majesty—as, in due season, we shall learn on the Civil List—very soon confounded these prophets; and, at the present hour, most satisfactorily up—plies the picture of Byron :-\n\n\"A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a sovereign and seven stilling pieces.\"\n\nThus, no delicacy can be more brilliant than the bestowed upon the fanaticism at the Tuileries on Sunday may be only promissary of the many olive-bunches to be vouchsafed to Napoleon and Engine: to the very prophetic party, as in due time rebuked the soothsayer's\n\nThe first flower in this legal parterre is a con—Ordinance No. 2 of 1856, Entitled an Ordinance to explain the law as to the removal of riots—then follows, No. 9 of 1856. Entitled\n\n20\n\nThere can be no doubt of the fact, that Henri Cinq is\n\nas his wife is not yet added a baby—not a sin—\n\nby centricuting to France a boy that, even at Barnum's Baby-show, would, it is said, carry off the first prize for weight and size.\n\nAn Ordinance to explain certain enactments relating to shipping :then comes No. 10 of 1856 Entitled an Ordinance for Lis Pendens and Purchasers; a measure that has duly passed the mock Legislative Council and are in full bloom and lily-bud—\n\nTHE following proclamation appears in the Government Gazette of last Saturday :--\n\nThe Queen, conveyed through The Right Honorable Henry Labouchere M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinances, namely—\n\nOrdinance No 1 of 1855, entitled—An Ordinance to enforce Neutrality during the Contest now existing\n\nOrdinance No 1 of 1856, entitled—An Ordinance to enforce Neutrality during the Contest now existing\n\nNow, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.\n\nOn the death of Sir William Molesworth: as most of our readers are aware, the difficulty of filling the situation of Colonial Secretary as to find the least ignorant person\n\nLord Palmerston was, not so much to\n\nTHE Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to—morrow on the Parade Ground, commencing at 6 o'clock, the following:--\n\n1—Grande: Collscom March—Gay'l\n\n2—Cavatina Op. The Enchantress—Balfe.\n\n3.—Negro Quadrille—Tullien.\n\n4—Bird of Paradise Waltzes—Kémewig.\n\n5—Carmen Fiko—Fritze.\n\n6—Caling, T.Kelly.\n\nQu'un puce y déposa, tribut de sa fleur, Verre les portes, et tuinteur tu enches\n\nJeune fille et Jeune fleur\n\nAh! nos los reals Jamais à no monde profane,\n\nà ce monde de deuil, d'angoisse femelle!\n\nLe te bete et flétrir, le soleil brile et fane\n\nJeune fille et jouoc Beur\n\nTudors, pauvre lisa, si l'ère di un éve: Tu ne trains plus\n\nplus à jour le froid et in allen; Elles ont achevé leurs traiches matins,\n\nJeune file et je flaut.\n\nMais ton père, Elisa, ur ta centre incline.\n\nAux ridden front a more la pleur:\n\nEt Vimix caène, le Temps Canche sur sa razine,\n\nJeune file at jeune flour,\n\nChateaubriand.\n\nmost talented man to fill the situation ci Celo—Colonies, not even in Great Britain, than the\n\nto be shoved into the piace. From the awe Eew long that respectability will be maintained, nil Secretary as to find the least ignorant person\n\nAttorneys of the Hongkong Court at present, precious specimen of a proclamation we are when the profession may be overcrowded with strongly led to believe that Lord Palmerston has 20 exactly hit upon the least ignorant of his dy men from the unusual sources of supply which the present Ordinance opens up, it is not easy to say.\n\nI Colony lies.\n\nancs? The cause of it is perfectly plain. The We asked, What was the cause of the Ordin—Attorney General comes from Botany Bay, that\n\nof the deft. The imperial prince is eager to hear the Pope's suck and, doubtless, will be father digna, we should rather say encored, by godfatherty gifta piece of the true cross set in a bit of gold brengt by Siba to Sulomen: or, in a diamond locket, a pinch of iron filings from the fetters of St. Peter and St. Paul. Yet, his loltasse no thought of Henriking, the lineal descen whilst the Pope is godfather to the son of parceny, baa dit of Joris, now somewhere in any? But such is the conversent memory of the Vatican.\n\nfiength of years be grated to Loria Napoleon, he a Kemperor. Pessibly, we say for history tells us not may possibly rear baby now in his crile inte stuff for to look for grecs mea in the sons of great inen. Crom—\n\na son of sufficient alty to ale a pause. It rany wall fefe has le rouse to rate a gdom; and he loft seem odd, and yet destiny pinys such prawks with la hopes an inations—yet even a Seroud of Tecember may bogo First of April.—Lloyd's W. N., March 23.\n\nWIDOWS, FAMILIES, AND RELATIVES OF OFFICERS.\n\nWe annex the rules and regulations appended to the warrant given in a recent number of the Gazette, for\n\neven teli the quarter of the world in which that even if now, a place to which respectablering a £ards of money in lieu of pensions, coti This may seen an extreme saer—Attorneys were likely to go and the govern passionate lowances, and gratuites, to the widows, tion, hnt we must either suppose this extreme ignorance existing in the Colonial Secretary, or in\n\nment very wisely got hold of the next best families, and relatives of officers killed in action or dying substitute in allowing their officials connected of wounds recived in the face of the enemy, within six\n\nmonths after being wounded.\n\nNo body here\n\nthe Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Law with the law to become lawyers—but there is no Officers of the Crown, seeing that on the 15th March 1856 the folowing Notification appeared wante, and nobody has asked for the Ordinance. His in the Government Gazette:-\n\nExcellency the Governor and the Attorney Gen—\n\nan or dying of words received in face of the enemy, 1. The cmount of mousy to be paid to a widow, widow and children, ar other relatives of an officer inted in\n\nbranch of the service be sny bave belonged to, be the within six months after being wounded, shall. Whatever\n\ninfantry of the line, as set forth in the following scale, viz.\n\nTo the willow, widow aut chil—dren, ebilen, filies,mativer. state, or sisters of..............\n\nDiffe\n\nDizto\n\nJitk\n\nDitto\n\nDitto\n\nCawley\n\nTref\n\nLieut Colbel £175...£1500\n\nMajor 4575... 9300 Captain 3625, 1960 Lieutenant 1190 700 Coruat... $10..... Ensign... 450\n\nA question having risen as to the Law by which Con—eral, like true cosinopolites, resolved to legislate tracts ethered into with Her Majesty's Subjects on C irrespective of creed or color,\" and with the strong regulation price sized for commissions in cavalry and nese Territory hy Chinese Subjects for the Cession of Property in China, should be regulated; watter shape of getting for the present a cheap interpre—hert retered by the Barl of Clarender to the law ter, bold out this Ordinance as a bait. It is made Gfficers the Crown, whose opinion is as follows\n\n\"War of opinlot that Brdish Tribunala and Jedrini\n\nin a fine large spirited manner \"Alienage or Chin—Authorices in China are bound to ohmerve the rules and Tu fallowing is the charmeter given of Sir John incipies of Publie ur Enternat Tuw, so they are set to do is to take the usual caths, one of which ese status no disqualification \"ail stunt you have Boaring twenty years ago. There are few people we do and oneur in the conclusim of the noting, Ac Now, the persou for whom this Ordinance was and received by the auton consent of European natione nathes is the oath of allegiance to Her Majesty. who have bad anything to do with His Excellency torny-General, that the Chiness are to be considered as who will not agree that the likeness is a wonder—beyond the pale of civilized nations.\n\nIn a queationa that may evine botere any Kritina Tri—\n\nexpressiy mande is, as we have betise sid bunal in Chung relating to the ownership or occupation of\n\na Morrison school boy who has studied in\n\nBut it sun! in no case exceed the sum of money actually The French Gerament has made some slight con—tenses or lands ing within the dominios of the Fingers of America, where he has become an American officer for the purchase of his commission or commissions. paid, in conformity with the regulation. price, by the casina as to duties on a few articles imported from Cars, the law and cast of Chica, if they can be ascer—subject, and ns auch sworn allegiance to the Eugland, rather to meet the clamour of the pation ontained, nat govern de decisions, rilee by the terms of Gavernment of the United States, all which with sex mouths shall leave a widow only, the au thest points, than to prometo any new ceaunercial inter— the contract the law or at home other mantry be as is prepared to repudiate by bis wath on adinis. ned shall be paid to her for her sole and isulate Coura hatween the countries. They are in fact united into the and if in any such rase the Chinese Low can portant, but Dr. B., delighted, after three years infeest te ascertained, the decisis must be governed by the tua pressing and supplization here (u hava obtained even pelticiples of natural justice. There is os pretence for the Tendy to lake onths is exactly Lie person to have a peusion; and sie shall be required to establish het\n\nsion at An Attorney. Whether a person sur\n\nhenefit, provided she be not left in such pecuniary circumstances as would otherwise preclude all claim to introduction of the Engish Law of real property.\n\n\"It is a universal principle of Law in Europe, that in s] a point atretched that be may be admitted on the claim and to sign au acknowledgment of having consent sits prevalin; and we think it both right and useful mat questions sospecting movealbe property, the lex loci rei rull of Attorneys does not allow ef much doubted to receive sich zu in lieu of, and as a full compens\n\ntion for, al pension and gtuity to which sie\n\nful one\n\nthis light relaxation, is gone over to Festion with the proposal. Or ail moon high or low that I ever met in Apeinty, this Dr. B is the act pressing and the rust Aceited Te is fit Charlton, fir Whig employment; the same mile. should be acted in the administration pushing and overb waving in las manner, and, like the Justice in Chink\"\n\n2. When un officer su killed or sa dying of his wounds\n\nsy or\n\n* Acconyplished.\" not need as having any reference to might have proved herself entities, in consequence of \"perfection.\n\nthe luas her husband.\n\nNo. $3.—JUNE 3, 1856.]\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n91\n\n3. In the event of an offer leaving a widow and Mr. Speerivales four paints which particularly re—children, who may or might have established a claim to quire legislative action at this time. He anys the persion, compassionate allowance, or gratuity, then The number allowed to immigrate to this country and in that case the mouey awarded in lieu thereof shall should not be too great. We may not be prepared to he held in trust by the Secretary of State for War, and afford them weful employment. They any code in ex the interest thereof, at the rate of £3 per cent. per ann cess, and not settle down, and assimilate to our institu all be receivable by the widow, ustil her death, when Haas and Waiks. the money shall be divided, share and share alike, among jadicions ineu, and xot unreasonable, to allow for the It is therefore the preference of many the children than alive of such deceased officer, provided present the law which fixes a capitation tax to re they shall have attrined the age of 21, otherwise the provided it is so administered as not to interfere with money shall still continue to be held in trust and the rutamerce,\n\nbusines event, however, of de witlow anrviving her said children future duty from observation of its nulla, or in com And judgunat only indicate the nosey all than become her sole and absolute pro—plinee with the future wants and desires of our own perty, as Inid down in Article 2; but should such chirou people. survive the widow, yet still die before attaining the age of 21, then and in that case the money, after discharging deserves consideration. The amouai freit by the pre—2. The amount of the license required from minera alt just liabinties, shall become the property of the Crow sent law is uppressive. Few are possessed of good 4. In the event of an officer leaving a child or children, claims. The tax beggars them. It drives them to the but no widow, the mouny shalt he laid in trust, and the\n\nmountsics and tickets like wild beasts. It is the interest thereof, at the rate of $3 per cent. per anner,\n\nwith hanger, sickness and despair. It turns theci, what stated in Article 3, shall be applied by the Secretary\n\ntheir honourable character with our trading population of State for War for the benefit of such child or children,\n\nin the country shows is not necessary, int cheats and antit he, she, or they shal! attain the age of 21, when\n\ndoes. It will in time fill our pisose. It makes them fathe and hase us as a people, and our name, our country, property of such surviving child or children. they understand we profess. If put to the fordicz, stand— and our government and the Christian religion, which share and share alike. Should, however, such child asard of four dollars per month, the sum affords a hand Chronicle, March 20,\n\nagain demandell his goods, tendering the whole wit In a genera! urder, Jated Feb. 25, the Commander-la- of freight us by the bill of lading. for all the goods was thereupun offered him, but subject by a correspondent at Kerteh, of \"inute details of lines A delivery order chier draws attrusion to the publication in a newspaper, to the charges for storage and cartage which had an and works, strength of garrison, and various tallitary crued upon them. The goods had, in accordance with a arrangements;\" and, referring General Vivian to the notice to that effect given by the shr's agent, heen particulars, he authorises him to arrest the individual ceased to slischarge; and it is satisfactorily proved that believe that such folly will nes be repeated. He then laced in a public warehouse each night when the ship and send him away at once, unless he has reason to\n\ntheir salty, but rendered unavoidable by the fact that this disposition the goods was not only necessary for proceeds as folows\n\nThe Commander of the forces has occasionally seen\n\ninterest applied for their benefit up to that age. In the in nered the passage to and ice of those engaged the goods are not suffered to retain on the whart at similar things from this cams. Strength of regimenta\n\nthe\n\nahones, us in the case of the widow, shall become the\n\nchildren die before attaining the age of 21 years, then unul in that case the money, after discharging all just labilities, shall become the property of the Crown,\n\nsobe State and County resece, and they appear willing pay it. Iat lower, as some have prepused, there is danger of new legislation, to two or three gene, to incrense it again.\n\nThis appears, after the brief experience of a fe months, to be suc opinion of the people generally the mining districts.\n\ncease.\n\nmight. The bellent, however, declined to pay his freight sickness, butteries, gins, quuntly of ammunition, the and receive his goods subject to these charges, and there state ui preparation, means of transport, the very situa agon fled bis like: for non-delivery. It is not suggested tion of concealed histories, the strength of pickets, the that the charges upon the goods were any other or\n\nbest mes of attacking them, all recklessly detailed as greater thus expenses necessarily incurred in trans. on purpose to usiruet an enemy. Couaou precace—ng the progress of the disenarge, and the question to porting them to and keeping them in a warehouse dur—tion for the sake of the aring requires that this should he determined is, whether under the clearances, He then appeals to the right sense of duty of alt officers ship owner. these chargee should be borne by the shipper, or the and non-comissioned officers, and concludes by requir—ing the generals of disisiou to bring the tenor of the order The decision was in favor of the defendant. The cou—signnee must pay freight in ace for all his merchant belonging to the arany,\" who are permitted to versin to the notice of the \"known correspondent of newspapers ship, or if the ship master storex the metsandise as it she to the rules of the army under whose protection they dives it by wishes to take it away as he comes from the in the canige, and who toast consider themselves ainen— is discharged until the whole roast is discharged, the c consignze must pay storage, curtage, California\n\nTHE CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.\n\nWe resume consideration of the Itev. Mr. Speer's \"Pica\" for the Chinese in California.\n\nNUMBER OF CBINASE IN CALIFORNIA.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Speer pablished, some eight or ten months ago, a statement of the cuber of Chinese the\n\nThe Times, as might be expected, is írate at this under, says that it ever too late, and that Generati Codrington has now loat whatever reputation he formerly\n\npossessed.\n\n\"I\" obsives our temporary, \"the abjectionable commivation appeared in our columes, it was written by a military officer, and, if General Codrington has any real ground of complaint, it is pro—hale that the writer, too trenical in his detaile, did not imitate the exudon which is always practised by por—fessional correspondents.\" In these observations, the\n\nis a melter which demands the attention of the Legisino Lere is not materially differeus, or the departures Times averlooks the fact, that the same general order\n\n3. The mode of collecting the Foreign micers' licenses supposed to be in this country. Probably the number\n\nture.\n\nIt is to be feared there, is some thing radically since last spring may have been about equal to the also draws attention to similar exposures of the prepara wrong in the present system. How often do you reat of Chinamen shot, or stabbed, or wipped, or stripped ted with the five well-known Companies.\" Probubig, pressly prohibits teus for the future—Home News, arrivals. the Chinese in California are chiefly contre—lions of the rug by newspaper correspondents, and ex— and searched, or maltreated and insulto in some other says Mr. Speer, there are not a thousand Chiuames in Marele 25, way, by the collerters. How frequently do we reus the State who are not members of our or other of these under the \"items\" head of our newspaper announce ments like this one Three Chinamen Shot—A For eigu miners' tax collector of Lousty, on Wednesday last, shot three Chiasmon who resisted him in the dis—River.\" charge of his duty. The difficuity took place on the→→→→→\n\n5. In the event of an offices leaving at his death neither widow, child, sur children, then the money shall be paid to his father; and if he leave no father, it may be pa to his mother, for his or her sole and absolute benefit. provided that he or she shall establish a claim thereto. And in the event of there being neither father nor mother, then the money shall be paid to the sister or sisters, as the case may be, share and share alike, provi ded they shall have attanned the age of 21 years, aud that cheie claint shall be established. But should any sister or sisters be under that age, in the money shall be held is as by the Secretary of State for War, and the interest be applied, as stated in Article 4, until such sister or sisters shall become 31 years of age, when it shall become the absolute property of the survivors or Survivor. Simuli wo survivors or survivor ritnin the age of 21, then the tanney, after discharging just liabilities, shall become the property of the Crown.\n\nNow it is admitted that these people are provokingly 6 No grast or money undar provisions of this warrant slow; are fearful and suspicious; are cunning in evading sal be made to Ray person who would not be eligible the enllector, and play maoy tricks to wary L. But far pension compassionate allowance, or gratuity under\n\nhave they no excuse? farther, if they have one, the provisions of the royal warrant of the 15th of June, are they so dangers and ferocious: anges that yield: 1958 ( fadier alone excepted whose claim nnst be esta blished as set forth in Article 5), but the ineligibility of of the forest? Does the humane administration of law to no remelin, tad must he dealt with like furious beasts widow to any grant under this warrant shall not affect aot extend west of the Aueries Desert? Are men to the interests of the legitimate child or children of a decensed ulicer, for whose benefit the money shall be\n\nhe murdered at will by an irrespacaible petty officer, for held in trust, and the interest seplied by the Secretary tionalde entstitutionality? Is such as officer licensed resisting se pecuolery obligation, and that of ques. of State for We, as stated in Article 4, except they be to slaughter a man that is not imble; or because he left in such pecuniary errcumstances as wou'd disquely don't cinderstura Buglish; or because he is a stranger, them for the co:upassionate kilowances wider the pro—\n\n*\n\nvisions of Article 3. Should, however, such chill and poos, and sick, and friendless? ebildren die before attaining the age of 21, then and that use the money, after dislarging t just abilities, shult become the property of the Crowd,\n\npazzuities.\n\nCompanies. The following is the computation hy then, buse erived in Csforma; that have returned hence to in a tabular form, of the total number of Chinese that their native land: that have died here; and faully, their estincale of the number in the spring of last year in the\n\nState:\n\nWe read in the Prassing correspondence of the Times: let: I have lately reserved from Hum. santative there, Calone: Hodges, was led to make various burg informs me that, some few weeks back, our repres representations to the senate of the quantities of am—munition that left, flat neutral port for Russia In the course of the examination that these reclamations gave vine to, I am informed it turned out that thees supplies hud in west instaurea been shipped thither frota England 9,200 or that purpose. For.instance, two houses in England 6,807 had suippes to Hamburg two cargoes of lead, three ofẾ 84'petre, und eleven of sulphur. The parties implicated 38.387\n\nin the air are described to me as standing very high in England, andarsong them a member of Parliament.\" Homes News, March 26.\n\nNames.\n\nArrivals. Deartares. Drecna'd Prasat Young-wo Copy...6,900 Couto Company....8,00 Sza-yap Company1,050 Yun-wo Company.......2,500 Ning- euy Company 2,809\n\n2,503\n\n1,300\n\n400 £tu\n\n14.000 6.500\n\n(ii)\n\n160\n\n$780 1.269\n\n300\n\n173\n\n1.780\n\nTotal 18,249 8,522 1,290 Adding to these, the ana,ber of Chinese not members of the Companies, and probably there may be found 40,000 of the race at present in this country.\n\nM. Mazzini lately sent £30 to some friend at Rome. The letter was intercepten or the past-ofice, the bills\n\nTHE US. STEAM FRIGATE NIAGARA.\n\nThe United States steain frigate Niegore was recently seized, cashed, and applied to the fand for ruising a launched from the socklyn Navy Yard. The last mail have absencterised this act as a slawefu: and grant statue to the Immaculate Virgin. The French papers\n\nThere are two things that can be done. First, the from the Rust brought account of the launch, and a robbery Home News, March 26. penalties of an payment of the miners' license may be description of the magnificent vessel. From the New 7. In the event of it being represented and satisfac—efred, and they may be guarded su us to prevent acts! Yor's Herald we take the following:- torily prove to the Secretary of State for War, that any of brutality to encuarage men of a desirable character The Niagara is one of the five steam frigates now in\n\nAllading to the unsightly smallness of the ladies' bon—wilow na wiose bekali money shall be held in trust for to perform the duties; and also so as to be a heu tu\n\nnets, an eminent musical gentleman in London, writing the henefit of herself and children, under the provisions\n\nprocess of construction for the United States Navy. Her to a friend in Bristol, suys:-\"I have to lames the grezi the region. Legal gentlemen can readily devise such main dimensions are: 2oanage, 5.204; extreme length iparcase, among the fetals part of my practice, of tic of this warrant, shall thereafter so conduct hersell' as t\n\nFor instance, ability to work upon the on deck, 24 feet; load le, 323 feet. She is to be county roads, at a certain rule per day, until the demand shipped egged; mainmast, I feet long and 3 feet 4 ining in the ear, injured, I firmly believe, from the present douloureux in the forehead, loss of sigit, and great juffer—of the license is satisfied.\n\nches in diameter; mein yard, 55 feet long, and mizea Secuud, it seems almost equally necessary to consti—spunker boot 67 fest. Fail complement of vinn .\n\nased fashion of neuting hosneta on the week instead of tute an office, or to appoint an officer, to whom those Some kiea of her immense capacity may be formed fo\n\nthe head. During the past month i have been in attend—ordmarily subject to the foreign mers' tax may appeal the following schedule of her masts and spara, which are\n\nance upon zwn young ladies with the the-doalonzēta in erhead, and several others with similar complaints. frora de collector in speriat rases, and who may decide now be.ug ball:- the circus ces that warrant a remission the tax.\n\nIt is high time that the frivolous bonet of the present There are some cases of exceeding hardship aris: from\n\nYards Length Diam. Length, Diam.\n\nday should be done away with.\"-- Home News, Mirch 28, the caprices and the cores of collectors. They\n\nFr. io. In. Ft. in. If.\n\nhave no rules. One told me that holes old tea, boys,\n\nWOMEN AND WArones-Mr. Beunct, the watah-maker 111:00 871 10:05 24 packure, and sick people, go free.\" There are no de\n\nof Cheapside, in a letter to the Times, recommends that 07:08 21 76:11 191 women should be employed as wetch-makers. We give nius, un real responsibilities in the whole mater. Muinroyal It is mere spullation,\n\nthe practical part of his conuication:-\n\nMainmast Maintop\n\nMaiuto gallant\n\nFereskysa?! \n\nMireutop\n\nbeenme unworthy of the Clown, or stall neglect or ill. treat her children, then and in that use the Secretary of Sture for War shall have full power to tasks such arrange ments for apportioning the interest of the money, and making better provision for the children, as in his judge ment may see must advisabic.\n\n8. The allowances to be granted under the authority of this warrant are not applicable to the cases of others kifled in sesion, or dying of weands before the declin\n\non of war with Russia, hur it is to lake n retrospective rfect up to that date; and therefore, say officer's willow to whom there may have been granted a pensior, com—passionate allowances for children, or gratuity for herself\n\nod children, or any other relative of an officer, who may 4 Betler protectios must be extended to Chinese re. Main skil have receive a peusion under the warrant of 15th June, sinents generally. Some means should be devised by Foremast 1855, who tony wish to rotate such pension, allow-whch the statements of Chinese should be received Burstop acers, or gratuities, for the sun fixed wider the provisions regard to crimes affecting their lives, persons au po Puteopgallant of this warrant, shall be permitted to do so; but in that porty. They do dot perhaps understand sufficiently the Porevoval case, whatever suns may have been received by or al care of on oala to be adicuted in our Courts to enjoy aumuns of the widow or exildren, or other relatives, wil at equal privilege with those acquainted with the sanc Mzent be deducted from any amount to be paid under the terrasons of Christianity. But no other maans prepubly of this warrust. But in every case of a sum of money than receiving their affirmation, allowing it the credence. Mzentopgallant being awarded Guder the provisions of this warrant. that, according to internal evidence and the accompany Mccoyal interest inerton at the rate of 63 per cent. per annu\n\ning Creumstances, it seems fairly to deserve, will prevent\n\nMizens kysall wil he allowed how the day of the officer's death.\n\ndegraded and autward centness from rubbing, bruising. U. Should the widow, or any other relative of a deceas. cheating or killing a Chinaman, wien to white witness ed officer wi. prior to 23rd October, 1855, has been granted pension, and other uliowaned, under the\n\nThe protection of the Chinese miners from marauders is vital to their quite, and to their usefulness to our provisions of the warrant of 15 June, 1835, wish to cocinute such pension and lowances by sum of respect for lass, where they are pistered by night av jihoon\n\nthemselves. They can have no heart for industry, and na money in eu therevf, in conformity with the terms of this wherau, it will be necessary that application to the\n\nby day, by fous wretchies, who battly rob a camp in Spanker hoora fect be made to the Secretary of State for War, within\n\nthe five of a hundred, if no lites are present, and who: Spanker ga year from the October, 1855. And shoul the\n\nhave no compunctions in murdmg even the unresisting. Spanker gaff duw, or my other reiative of a deceased offers, whe.\n\nThere are heen hundreds of sua case, An interior Forespunker gaf since 2311 October, 1855, may have already, or\n\nnewspaper says of these cobbers: -\n\nNot camerated hereafter be granted, a prasion and other allywuuees. wish to epimute such penting und allowsares for of money in hen thereof. mudes the provisions of this warrent, it will be acessary that application to tha fert be made to the Secretary of State for War, with a year from the date of the said pens and user allow lances being granted.\n\n1. A return of all sams paid under the provisions of this warrant and be faid nasly briore Parliament an ufter the 1st of Aynl. Gaven at our Court at Sail James's, Ritis ist day of March. 1856, in the 19th year of Our Reign-By Her Majesty's command,\n\nPATHONE.\n\ny\n\nth\n\nis near.\n\nSwinging boom. Maintop stuldingsafl boom Maintop gallantanil hacm\n\ndo. Mainrayal de Bowsprit, outboard Jihkoom\n\n35:04 12) \n\n51.03 134\n\n23:07 81 32:09\n\nE\n\n14:06\n\nbi\n\n21.00\n\nJUI:GO 35\n\n00:09 23\n\n50.00 YO\n\n07:09\n\n54\n\n31.09 7\n\n21:10 214 47:03 21:06 13:03 34 19:06 35; & 32 72:10 50:04 15 Ai:0x 11 27:09 S 34:10 8 13:00\n\n16\n\n4+\n\n55:00 }] \n\n4:00\n\n11:04 TTE 62:00 21 33:00 8 $1.00 } 23:00 51\n\n22.03 10.11\n\n2xtú\n\n17:00 4\n\n20:00 24\n\n38:00 ia\n\nX5:00 -\n\n.67:00\n\n15\n\nThe French Government has made some slight con—tenses or lands ing within the dominios of the Fingers of America, where he has become an American officer for the purchase of his commission or commissions. paid, in conformity with the regulation. price, by the casina as to duties on a few articles imported from Cars, the law and cast of Chica, if they can be ascer—subject, and ns auch sworn allegiance to the Eugland, rather to meet the clamour of the pation ontained, nat govern de decisions, rilee by the terms of Gavernment of the United States, all which with sex mouths shall leave a widow only, the au thest points, than to prometo any new ceaunercial inter— the contract the law or at home other mantry be as is prepared to repudiate by bis wath on adinis. ned shall be paid to her for her sole and isulate Coura hatween the countries. They are in fact united into the and if in any such rase the Chinese Low can portant, but Dr. B., delighted, after three years infeest te ascertained, the decisis must be governed by the tua pressing and supplization here (u hava obtained even pelticiples of natural justice. There is os pretence for the Tendy to lake onths is exactly Lie person to have a peusion; and sie shall be required to establish het\n\nsion at An Attorney. Whether a person sur\n\nhenefit, provided she be not left in such pecuniary circumstances as would otherwise preclude all claim to introduction of the Engish Law of real property.\n\n\"It is a universal principle of Law in Europe, that in s] a point atretched that be may be admitted on the claim and to sign au acknowledgment of having consent sits prevalin; and we think it both right and useful mat questions sospecting movealbe property, the lex loci rei rull of Attorneys does not allow ef much doubted to receive sich zu in lieu of, and as a full compens\n\ntion for, al pension and gtuity to which sie\n\nful one\n\nthis light relaxation, is gone over to Festion with the proposal. Or ail moon high or low that I ever met in Apeinty, this Dr. B is the act pressing and the rust Aceited Te is fit Charlton, fir Whig employment; the same mile. should be acted in the administration pushing and overb waving in las manner, and, like the Justice in Chink\"\n\n2. When un officer su killed or sa dying of his wounds\n\nsy or\n\n* Acconyplished.\" not need as having any reference to might have proved herself entities, in consequence of \"perfection.\n\nthe luas her husband.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nTHE ENGLISH TOWERZ—The English language has its face is stamped the following words: \"Gonds to be million loiters She is to be full rigged and\n\na veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, ever tual, dated the 21 of October, 1855, our will and ensure new is that our said Royal wariant of the 23rd find thereof, and when the discharge of lus gomis had On the arrival the ship the libellaut was duig moti—Oober 1855, shall trom henceforth be cancelled, aut romcucel he was fully eognizant of the fact On the\n\nTHE ENGLISH LANGUAGE\n\nThe English language har its face is stamped the following words: \"Gonds to be million loiters She is to be full rigged and Mr. Steers stood at the command of any other language of men.\n\na veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, ever tual, dated the 21 of October, 1855, our will and ensure new is that our said Royal wariant of the 23rd find thereof, and when the discharge of lus gomis had On the arrival the ship the libellaut was duig moti—Oober 1855, shall trom henceforth be cancelled, aut romcucel he was fully eognizant of the fact On the\n\ndevelopment and condition, inve been the result of a It has been erroneously stated that this steamer will surprisingly indmate anion of the two noblest languages be the largest in the world. The Adriatic, now upon in modern Europe, the Teutonic aud Kopanic. It is the stocks at the Messrs. Steers' shipyard, will be larger well known in what relating these two stand to one portion of the contents of his bill of lading by several hundred tons. Her uit diensions are another in the English tongue; the former supplying, estimates that she will go 17 kuols an hour with a good\n\nbreeze, und 18 knots under steamI\n\nted by Di Secretary of State for War, shall be constitu—having been in dieu thereof, and shall be the sole and standing auto—upon the agents of the ship and demanded a delivery of feer: depth of hold, 33 feet 2 inches; tormagt. 5,898, latter, the spiritual conceptions. In truth, the English upon the asters hereis costined; but shall not al or in any way invelidate any act heretvicze per. bed by our Secretary of State for War under the\n\nthe goods so discharging, offering to pay the freight, dur carpenter'z measurement. Like the Niagara, this steamer tunguage, which, be no mere accident, has produced on them. This the consignees of the ship derlined to isions of the last mentioned warrant”—Home News, \n\nis divided into watertight tch 26.\n\nthis our Royal warraul, to be administered and inter—first day aded guan the wharf, he thereupon called Length over all, 352 feet; extreme breadth of hy, sin far larger propuctions, the blaterial groundwork; the\n\nR LEGISLATION WANTED FOR THE CHI—NESE IN CALIFORNIA, continue our notice at the Rev. Mr. Speer's hlet entilled a \"Plea for the Chinese in California,\"\n\nthe whole contents of the bill of lading. The libeliant and cylinders 100 inches. The lenses Steere are rapidly cel poetry (Shakspeare), ans, with ali right, be called a Works, 12 feel stroke, modern times, as distinguished from the audient classi ther, professed his willingness to do so, provided at the hastening the completion of the Adriatic, with all their world language; and, like the English people appears goods were ready for delivery; but he declined to take disposable force, and she will probably be ready fur destined hereafter to pressil with a sway more extensive\n\ndelivery order for the goods and receive them as they laeting by the middle or last of March. offers were repeated from day to day while the vessel about four months.—California Chronicle, bỉarch 26 came out in the usual course of the discharge. These It is thought that the Magura will be ready for ses in was being unladeu; and on the last day the libellam\n\nBorede to, but required him to pay all the freight due on (oscillating) are from the Novelty. Her engines and uphorne the greatest and most predominant poel of\n\nFor in wenith, good sense, and closeness of structure, even than its present over all portions of the globe. no other of the languages at this day spoken deserves to be compared with it.\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "Sir,\n\nGR1178/1856/21\n\nTaipo, 19th July 1856.\n\nI have the honor to request that you will obtain for His Excellency the Governor's sanction to the filling in of a distance of 250 feet in front of Marine Lots Nos. 21 and 22; and trust that the high rents paid for these two lots will be deemed sufficient cause for His Excellency to grant his permission.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) Angus Fletcher.\n\nTrue Copy\n\nThe Honorable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretariat.\n\nPage 314",
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        "content_text": "The Horrate to T. Mercer, by W. 19. Mitchell, Esqre\n\nThe Honble I. I. Mercer, \n\nA\n\nT.\n\nCharles May, Esqre\n\nFresh Jardine, Esqre\n\nraqa\n\nScorze yall, rap z Stan I. bibt, Esqre Charles F. Still, Esqre R. J. Walker, Esqre\n\nIthu Pickett, Esqre\n\nCastai TV Watkins, P.N.\n\nR. C. Antrobus, Esqre JC. Leslie, Esqre\n\nAngus Fletcher, Esqre  A. C. Maclean, Esqre yom Lamond, Esqre\n\nThe Honorable P. C. Anster Rus\n\nLam Bray, Esqre\n\nJohn Scarth, Esqre\n\nMemorandum-\n\nIn a Commission issued, on the 4th October, 1855, by His Excellency The Governor, Kirteen gentlemen were nominated Justices of the Peace, - they not being invested with other official Authority - This",
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        "content_text": "Brayhong 27th August, 1857. Faring been unavoidably absent from the Meeting of the \n\nthe Justices of the Peace \n\non the 25th Instant the Justices \n\npresent at that meeting \n\nhave \n\nsubmitted to me \n\nfor consideration \n\nthe foregoing letter, and I hereby signify \n\nmy full \n\nconcurrence with and approval of the views opinions and resolutions which \n\nit \n\nexpresses. \n\n(Signed) Angus Fletcher, J.P. \n\n(True Copy) \n\nColonial Secretary's Office.\n\n(True Copy) \n\nSir.\n\n55. 215\n\nAttorney General's Office, Hong Kong, 30th August 1888.\n\n(Reginald F. Mitchell-Innes, from James) I have the honor to certify to His Excellency that the Justices are \n\nin error \n\nif they doubt the accuracy of my report of what fell from the Chief Justice in this case, on granting the Rules Absolute, or if they think ... that the Court made allusion to their error in Lye Aling's Case.\n\nThe Honorable,\n\nThe Colonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "Excellency in maintaining the supreme authority of the law,\n\nand it was because, in the case in question, the course pursued by His Excellency seemed to us in itself subversive of the law, because destructive of our freedom of action in administering and enforcing the law, that we ventured to record our opinions upon the subject in the emphatic terms quoted by His Excellency.\n\nWe have to\n\n(Signed) Sam Gray, Chairman\n\nAngus Fletcher 2.8.\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. Jardine.\n\nA. C. Maclean.\n\nGeo Lyall.\n\nB. J. Still.\n\nJohn Searth.\n\nRob. S. Walker.\n\nWm. Lamond.\n\nRickett.\n\nJohn D. Gibb.\n\nR. &. Antrobus.\n\nThos. J. Leslie.\n\nTrue Copy (True\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n15\n\nPage 263\n\n \nhas been rewritten to meet the exact format request:\n\n14\n\nExcellency in maintaining the supreme authority of the law,\n\nand it was because, in the case in question, the course pursued by His Excellency seemed to us in itself subversive of the law, because destructive of our freedom of action in administering and enforcing the law, that we ventured to record our opinions upon the subject in the emphatic terms quoted by His Excellency.\n\nWe have to\n\n(Signed) Sam Gray, Chairman\n\nAngus Fletcher 2.8.\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. Jardine.\n\nA. C. Maclean.\n\nGeo Lyall.\n\nB. J. Still.\n\nJohn Searth.\n\nRob. S. Walker.\n\nWm. Lamond.\n\nRickett.\n\nJohn D. Gibb.\n\nR. &. Antrobus.\n\nThos. J. Leslie.\n\nTrue Copy (True\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n15\n\n263",
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        "content_text": "C\n\n(Copy)\n\n17\n\n270\n\nCouncil Room, Victoria,\n\nHongkong 28th September 1831.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt\n\nof your letter dated 28th Instant to the address of The Honorable The Colonial Secretary,\n\nand to state that\n\nJan Gray, Esqr\n\nAngus Fletcher, by I. Jardine, by\n\nRebt. I. Walker, Esqr\n\nWm Lamond, by =\n\nre\n\nJohn Sickett, by \"=\n\nA. G. Maclean, by = \"John D. Gibb, Esqr\n\n&\n\nGeo: Lyall, Esqr by I. Still, Esqr John Searth, \"y\" =\n\nR. C. Antrobus, Esqr\n\nThos. R. Leslie, Esqr ==",
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        "content_text": "Jn 11050/51\n\n281\n\n# MEMORANDUM\n\nAddressed to the JUSTICES OF THE PEACE by His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, and relative Correspondence.\n\n## MEMORANDUM\n\nIn a Commission issued on the 4th October 1855, by His Excellency the Governor, thirteen Gentlemen were nominated Justices of the Peace, they not being invested with other Official authority. The number has been augmented by subsequent Commissions to Fifteen in all.\n\nHis Excellency has caused a Return to be made of the number of attendances at Petty Sessions since the time of the issuing these Commissions.\n\nHe finds that one gentleman has given six attendances, five gentlemen have given two attendances, and two gentlemen have given one attendance, while seven gentlemen have given no attendance since their appointment.\n\nHe has to remark that there have been only two occasions on which more than one Justice has assisted the stipendiary Magistrates with their presence and advice.\n\nOn these two occasions four Justices attended, three of whom for the first time since they were sworn in. They are stated to have been present at the special request of the Acting Chief Magistrate—and on the first of those occasions (the 23rd May) there was, as it appears, an unanimous concurrence in a decision by which, in the judgment of His Excellency, the obvious intent and meaning of the Law were abrogated and annulled by the action of the Bench.\n\nOn the 2nd June, invited again (as is officially reported) specially by the Acting Chief Magistrate, three of the Justices who had been present at the sitting of 23rd May, and another Justice who took his seat then for the first and only time in which he has ever acted, formed the Bench, and these Justices again supported the Chief Magistrate in his determination not to give effect to the Law. His Excellency is informed that one of the Justices present—a member of the Legislative Council—distinctly pointed out to his colleagues the error which had been committed on the 23rd May and which had been the subject of reference to the Legislative Council. That gentleman, of course, dissented from the conclusion by which a majority co-operated with the Chief Magistrate in his extraordinary course of proceeding.\n\nFor the maintenance of that supreme authority of the Law which, in the great interests of the whole community, every Government is bound to provide for, and of which all Justices of the Peace are expected to be instruments and auxiliaries, His Excellency directed an application for a mandamus against the Acting Chief Magistrate to be applied for to the Chief Justice in the Supreme Court of the Colony, which mandamus has been granted by His Honor, calling upon the Chief Magistrate to enforce the Law. Its granting was accompanied, as His Excellency is informed, by a declaration from the Bench that \"the Magisterial Decisions were against the Law,\" and a prompt obedience was recommended to its requirements.\n\nHis Honor expressed a hope that there would be an immediate and satisfactory return to the mandamus, showing that there is no disposition to overturn the authority of the Law, but rather to give effect to its provisions.\n\nHis Excellency concurring in that wish, and desirous of promoting that unity of purpose and of action, which should undoubtedly be the object of all who are invested with Public authority for the maintenance of Law and Order, has directed the memorandum to be circulated among all the Justices of the Peace.\n\n(Signed)\n\nBy order of His Excellency the Governor, with the concurrence of the Honorable Members of the Executive Council.\n\nL. DE ALMADA E CASTRO,\n\nClerk of Councils, Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong. 19th August, 1856.\n\nAddressed to,\n\nThe Honorable W. T. MERCER, Esq; The Honorable J. F. EDGER, Esq; CHARLES MAY, Esq;\n\nJOSEPH JARDINE, Esq; GEORGE LYALL, Esq; JOHN D. GIBB, Esq\n\nCHARLES F. STILL, Esq;\n\nR. S. WALKER, Esq;\n\nJOHN RICKETT, Esq;\n\nCaptain T. V. WATKINS, RN,\n\nW. H. MITCHELL, Esq;\n\nR. C. ANTROBUS, Esq;\n\nT. C. LESLIE, Esq;\n\nANGUS FLETCHER, Esq;\n\nA. C. MACLEAN, Esq;\n\nWILLIAM LAMOND, Esq;\n\nThe Honorable T. C. ANSTEY, Esq;\n\nSAM GRAY, Esq;\n\nJOHN SCARTU, Esq.\n\nHONGKONG, 26th August, 1856,\n\nTo The Honble. W. T. MERCER, Esq.,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nSIR—We have the honour to address you with reference to a Memorandum dated 19th Instant, addressed to the Justices of the Peace of this Colony, by order of His Excellency the Governor, with the concurrence of the Honorable Members of the Executive Council.\n\nThe first four paragraphs being of a general nature we pass over for the present, but the remainder of the Memorandum demands more particular notice from us, as the Justices immediately alluded to therein.\n\nWe deem it unnecessary to enter into any discussion regarding the merits of the cases to which particular reference is made, or to the decision at which we arrived after careful deliberation.\n\nIf the complainant was dissatisfied therewith, recourse was open by appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nWe cannot however permit the charges and insinuations contained in the Memorandum to pass unnoticed, impugning as they do our motives of action while sitting on the Bench as sworn Magistrates.\n\nWe observe that in the \"judgment of His Excellency the obvious intent and meaning of the Law were abrogated and annulled by the action of the Bench on the 23rd May, and, that on the 2nd June, invited again (as is officially reported) specially by the Acting Chief Magistrate, three of the Justices who had been present at the sitting of 23rd May, and another Justice who took his seat then for the first and only time in which he has ever acted, formed the Bench, and these Justices again supported the Chief Magistrate in his determination not to give effect to the Law, and co-operated with the Chief Magistrate in his extraordinary course of proceeding.\"\n\nWe know not by what course of reasoning His Excellency may have arrived at these conclusions, but, while we, with all due respect, indignantly deny the imputations thus cast upon our motives, we challenge the right of His Excellency, the Executive Council, or any other authority to dictate our course of action while on the Bench, or to publicly question, in such terms, our decision when given.\n\nWe would also point out to His Excellency that the inference which may be drawn from the Memorandum under notice, that the writ of Mandamus issued by His Honor the Chief Justice had reference to the decisions of the Justices on 23rd May and 2nd June, is an incorrect one. The question submitted to His Honour was, whether, under the Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, a Magistrate could decline to hear a fresh complaint on a case which he considered already decided. His Honour decided that he could not refuse to hear such a complaint, and desired the Acting Chief Magistrate and Mr. May to enquire, without delay, into the complaint, and adjudicate thereon; but so far as we are able to learn, His Honour from the Bench made no reference to and gave no opinion upon the decisions of 23rd May and 2nd June.\n\nReflections, involving a slur upon our character, have been cast upon us, for which we were quite unprepared; and, feeling deeply their injustice, we have submitted our conduct in the cases which have given rise to them to our Brother Justices, whose opinion thereon will reach His Excellency in another form,—We have, &c., &c.\n\nTo The Honorable\n\nGEO. LYALL. WM. LAMOND,\n\nTHOS. C. LESLIE.\n\nR. C. ANTROBUS.\n\nHONGKONG, 20th August, 1856.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY of Hongkong,\n\nSIR,\n\nWe, the undersigned, Justices of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong, have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Memorandum issued by His Excellency the Governor, under date the 19th instant, addressed to all the members of the commission of the Peace, as well official as non-official.\n\nA meeting of the Justices, duly called by circular, took place on the 25th instant, for the purpose of taking the memorandum into consideration. The meeting was attended by the undersigned, and by the four non-official Justices specially alluded to in the memorandum, comprising the whole of the non-official Justices in the commission at present in the colony, with the exception of one who was prevented from attending by indisposition. None of the official Justices attended.\n\nThe grave importance of the imputations made by His Excellency in the memorandum, and of the principles involved in it, compelled our most serious attention, and we beg respectfully to submit to His Excellency the following observations in reply.\n\nThe remarks in the memorandum regarding the return of attendances of Justices at Sessions appear to imply a complaint...",
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        "content_text": "The Legislative Council-would be pleased to assist him at the hearing of the case: if any thing were wanted to shew that he was very far from being actuated by a \"determination not to give effect to the law,\" surely this should suffice. On both of the occasions in question the Bench specially and repeatedly urged the Plaintiff to remove the case by writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court, not because any doubt was entertained of the justice or legality of their decision, but because it was of the greatest consequence that the construction of an ordinance affecting interests of great magnitude, and so ambiguous in its terms, should at once be settled by the highest judicial authority of the colony. Considering that the Plaintiff on both occasions was representing the interests of the Crown, it is our humble opinion that the course recommended by the Bench of Justices would have been not only more correct but more just and dignified than that which His Excellency has seen fit to pursue.\n\nIt further came under the notice of the meeting that upon both occasions the Bench specially and repeatedly urged the Plaintiff to remove the case by writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court...\n\n...\n\nPage 282\n\n(Signed) SAM GRAY, Chairman of the Meeting of Justices of the Peace on the 25th instant.\n\nJ. JARDINE. A. C. MACLEAN. C. F. STILL JOHN SCARTH. ROBT. S. WALKER. J. RICKETT. JOHN D. GIBB.\n\nHONGKONG, 27th August, 1856-Having been unavoidably absent from the meeting of the Justices of the Peace on the 25th instant, the Justices present at that meeting have submitted to me for consideration the foregoing letter, and I hereby signify my full concurrence with and approval of the views, opinions, and resolutions which it expresses.\n\n(Signed) ANGUS FLETCHER. J.P.\n\nCOUNCIL ROOM, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 14 September, 1856.\n\nGENTLEMEN,-Your letters of the 26th ultimo were communicated to the Governor, and by him laid before the Executive Council, whose Honorable members concurred in the reply which I am instructed to convey. His Excellency utterly disclaims any intention by his memorandum of casting \"a slur upon the character\" of the un-official Magistrates, of accusing them of \"evil intentions\"-or what is tantamount to a charge of deliberate perversion of Justice, and violation of their oaths of office\"--nor does he think his language fairly susceptible of such interpretation.\n\n...\n\n(Signed) L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Council.\n\nTo SAM GRAY, Esq., J. JARDINE, Esq., A. C. MACLEAN, Esq., C. F. STILL, Esq., JOHN SCARTH, Esq., ROBT. S. WALKER, Esq., J. RICKETT, Esq., JOHN D. GIBB, Esq., ANGUS FLETCHER, Esq.,\n\nHONGKONG, 23d September, 1856.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY of Hongkong, Victoria.\n\nSIR,-We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the letter, dated the 1st instant, addressed to us by the Clerk of Councils, in reply to our two separate communications of the 26th ultimo.\n\n...\n\n(Signed) SAM GRAY, Chairman, A. C. MACLEAN, C. F. STILL, R. S. WALKER, J. RICKETT, R. C. ANTROBUS, J. JARDINE, GEO. LYALL, J. SCARTH, W. LAMOND, J. D. GIBB. T. C. LESLIE,\n\nCOUNCIL ROOM, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 25th September, 1856.\n\nGENTLEMEN,I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 23d instant, to the address of The Honorable The Colonial Secretary, and to state that it has been laid before His Excellency The Governor in Executive Council.\n\n(Signed) J. L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, for Clerk of Councils.\n\nTo SAM GRAY, Esq., ANGUS FLETCHER, Esq., J. JARDINE, Esq., A. C. MACLEAN, Esq., GEO. LYALL, Esq., C. F. STILL, Esq., ROBT. S. WALKER, Esq., WM. LAMOND, Esq., JOHN RICKETT, Esq., JOHN D. GIBB, Esq., R. C. ANTROBUS, Esq., THOS. C. LESLIE, Esq.",
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        "content_text": "Connivance with the offenders drive upon a supposed defect of jurisdiction. You may remove them by your legislation from the ground they occupy : - but it will be to occupy some new position, and this will go on, so long as they imagine that His Excellency is not disposed to measures of severity, severity is useful even where I have, &c. (Signed) J. Chisholm Anstey\n\n+ There Copy) hs Colonial Secretary. In 11058/58 Copy. Circular. Samospe • N82.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nChief Magistrate, Office, Victoria, Hongkong, October 7th, 1853.\n\n398\n\nI shall feel much obliged if you conveniently attend the Court of Petty Sessions to be held at this office on Thursday next the 9th instant at the hour of 10 o'clock a.m. to give the benefit of your assistance in the adjudication of an alleged Nuisance, under Ordinance No 8 of 1856.*\n\n-(Same Copy)\n\nTo the Hon. Mr. T. Mereweather, &c. The Hon. J. J. Rodrigues, &c. Charles May, Esq. John D. Gibb, Esq. Charles F. Stileman, Esq. Rott & Walker, Esq. John Rickards, Esq.\n\nI have, &c. Signed, W. H. Mitchell, Chief Magistrate.\n\nCaptain T. L. Watkins, R.M. R. C. Antrobus, Esq. J. C. Leslie, Esq. Angus Fletcher, Esq. A. C. Maclean, Esq. The Hon. J. C. Anstey, Esq. W. H. Lemon, Esq. Sammel Gray, Esq. John Leach, Esq.\n\nHer Majesty's Justices of the Peace.",
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        "content_text": "38.\n\nCase Versus ed on of the Theow by Expton's proper Acting Surveyor General Loong Aching adjourned lost stands for herring. Monday before this Bench on Saturday the 28th instant at 12 0 flock noon.\n\nI have, ter, (Signed) Hollins, thief Chote (True Copy Colonial Secretary. Coffey) (Circular) Gentleman\n\n39.\n\n327 Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong 24 November 1886.\n\nI am directed by the Chief Magistrate to remind you that in conformity with the Minute by the Colonial Secretary, \"The Sheriff will ... Macar, Cage The Maille J. F tage, agt Choates May, Coope Joseph Jardine Lege Goage Ayall Eng\" John D. Gibb, leger bha. F. Still, Esq.\n\nW. Al. Mitchell, Esquire R. C., Antrobus Esq. J. C. Leslie Cog ... Angus Fletcher Eagre C. C. Mc Lean, Esq. The Stable If. Anstey, Esquire W. Lamond, Esqre R. S. Walter Esq. Samt Gray, Esq John Michell tage John Searth, lago.\n\nCast: J.V. Wathing. RN\n\nDEX",
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        "content_text": "182\n\nEstimated expense for\n\nStationery Ver\n\n1 General Registry Books -\n\n20 District\n\ndo\n\ndo\n\n2 Books for Registering Servants, @ 5/\n\nRegistering Undertakers\n\nRegistering migrant lody horses\n\nRegistering Squatters\n\n1\n\n\"\n\ndo\n\nProtective Passes.\n\n\"\n\n1 do\n\nde\n\nito\n\ndo\n\nRegistering Kapoheongs Fixpor Litters be @ 8/4\n\n \n\nProbable cost of Chinese Record:\n\nBooks and other Stationary:\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\n  \n    10.8\n     \n     \n  \n  \n    16.8\n     \n     \n  \n  \n    8.11\n     \n     \n  \n  \n    4.12\n     \n    4.2\n  \n  \n    6.3\n     \n     \n  \n  \n    1.13.4\n     \n     \n  \n  \n    25.0.0\n     \n     \n  \n  \n    Total £ 39.17.11\n     \n     \n  \n\nTo say.\n\n(Trave) Copper)\n\n88.5. (Angus)\n\n£40\n\n(Acting) Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "## \nWhereas it is expedient to take into consideration the condition of the gaol of this Colony, with a view to the improvement and enlargement of the same.\n\nNow know ye therefore that I, Sir John Francis Davis, knight, K.C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this Colony of Hong-Kong and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, do hereby, under my hand, appoint you, the Honorable **M. L. Melville**, Lieutenant Governor, and Colonel William Caine, Henry Tudor Davies, Esquire, Chief Magistrate of the Colony, Charles May, Esquire, Deputy Sheriff, and Angus Fletcher, Esquire, and John Walter Hulme, Esquire, to be members of a Commission for the purpose of making inquiry into the matters aforesaid; and any three of you, whereof the Lieutenant Governor shall be one, shall form a quorum of the said Commission.\n\nAnd such enquiry shall be general and...",
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        "content_text": "## 80.\n\nopinioné. 3. PM. 26th March.\n\nC. May.\n\nThat: Wacker.\n\nSigned(s) Mairie. Sient.\n\nGovernor. & President. (Angus Fletcher.\n\n: Seguntes John Pearths)\n\n336\n\n(Addenda by Messrs Fletcher and Pearths)\n\nThe undersigned regret that the urgent requirements of the Jail for the changes pointed out in the report of the Commissioners necessitated a hurried conclusion to their labours; they also regret that circumstances prevented their being present when the Commission was brought to a close. The annexed report has their cordial approval.\n\nA pro further co...",
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        "content_text": "96 \n\nColonial Surgeon regarding \n\nhe \n\nthe Gaol be published each year, and that the report of the proceedings of this Commission be open to public inspection upon application to the Colonial Secretary, notice of which should be given in the Government Gazette.\n\nSigned,  \nJohn Truth,  \nAngus Fletcher,  \n\nMad bags suitable for sugar and rice are at present worth 12 cents for a double bag containing 44 mats. Each mat costs wholesale 2 3/4 cents. Each double bag costs for sewing not quite 2 cents. Stitching for one cent. Rice used for pounding and cleaning is about 50 cents per picul cheaper than clean rice, that is packed for shipping. The cost for pounding each picul is said to be 15 cents for labor; and one man can pound about 2 piculs per day. This makes one man's wages merely $9 per month; but he actually does not receive so much, the contractor provides...",
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        "content_text": "# WARRANT OF COMMISSION\n\nWhereas certain charges have been brought in the Legislative Council and in Official Documents by the Honourable THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY, Esquire, Attorney General, against ARNIEL RICHARD CALDWELL, Esquire, Registrar General, which necessitate an enquiry into the truth of such charges, and whereas such enquiry will be most conveniently and expeditiously prosecuted by means of a joint Commission of Officers of the Government, and Justices of the Peace: Now therefore know ye, that I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby under my hand and the Seal of the said Colony, appoint you, the Honourable CHARLES ST GEORGE CLEVERLY, Esquire, Surveyor General for the said Colony, The Honourable HENRY TUDOR DAVIES, Esquire, Chief Magistrate for the said Colony, The Honourable GEORGE LYALL, Esquire, ANGUS FLETCHER, Esquire, and JOHN SCARTH, Esquire, Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, or any three of you, to be a Commission for instituting and prosecuting all needful and proper enquiries into the truth or otherwise of the underwritten charges, which embrace the accusations made by the Attorney General against the Registrar General; and to take evidence, but not upon oath, in the premises; and to report to me all evidence so taken by you, and also your opinions thereon. And I do hereby require you to commence your said enquiries forthwith, and to proceed therein continuously, and to make your Report to me as aforesaid with all reasonable despatch. And I do hereby empower you during the course and for the purposes of your said Commission, to obtain at the expense of the Government such professional or other assistance that you may deem necessary, and to demand and obtain access at all times to all and all manner of Papers, Records, and Documents, relating to the subject matter of the said Commission, and in the custody or under the control of the several public departments within this Colony, and from time to time to call before you and examine all persons superintending or employed in or under any of the said departments. And I do hereby charge all persons in the Public Service to be aiding and assisting unto you herein.\n\nGiven under my hand and under the Seal of the Colony of Hongkong,\n\nat Victoria, in the said Colony, this Twentieth Day of May, A.D., One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Eight.\n\nJOHN BOWRING\n\n449",
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        "content_text": "(45)\n\n474\n\n(44)\n\nshall, in the course of the investigation, endeavour to bring before the Commission persons who will testify to the facts I mention.\n\nAdjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow.\n\n## FOURTEENTH DAY\n\nThursday, 24th June, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent, All the Members, except the Honourable Mr Cleverly, whose place in the chair was taken by the Honourable Mr Davies.\n\n### ANGUS FLETCHER\n\n—Called and examined.\n\nI formerly had a partner named Innes, who has been dead many years. I believe Mr Caldwell was once in Mr Innes's employ. I do not know of my own knowledge why Mr Caldwell was discharged. I am one of the oldest residents in China, and have known about Mr Caldwell, otherwise than as employed by Mr Innes, for some time. I did not know anything of him beyond that he was a little thoughtless; this was nearly twenty years ago. I do not recollect having ever heard any accusation brought against him.\n\nI do not know under what circumstances Mr Caldwell left my late partner; he left before I joined him. I believe he was Clerk or Book-keeper with him. I never heard a word from Mr Innes, nor from any one else, as to the circumstances under which Mr Caldwell left Mr Innes's employ.\n\n[The Attorney General having been informed that neither to himself nor to any of the public could printed copies of the evidence be furnished, but that he was at liberty to inspect them in the room, and that copies of his own evidence would be furnished, requested that a minute might be made that he had not had any of the fasciculi since the third, and had therefore had no opportunity, and now should have none, of correcting in his own copy, and suggesting to the Commission for correction in theirs, such of the errors in the evidence as taken as he was able to correct, as well as of offering suggestions for examination of witnesses.]\n\n### CHARLES MAY\n\n—Recalled.\n\nGrand-Pré in conversation; and, I was then told, that the European Constable who had charge of Ma-chow Wong had immediately before made known that certain large bribes had been offered him by Ma-chow Wong. One of the bribes was offered to induce the Constable to allow the prisoner interview with Mr Caldwell. I did not consider the prisoners secure at the Police Station as I thought necessary, and him up to the Gaol.\n\nI did not know that the papers which had been sent to Government Office had not been returned to the Police until I heard of their destruction at Government Office, therefore the papers given up could only have been those belonging to the Kwong Yik Loong [Ma-chow Wong's] shop. I recollect that Mr Grand-Pré said that Mr Caldwell had, by, I think, a note which he had in his hand, applied for the papers of Ma-chow Wong, and I am not quite so certain, but I think Mr Grand-Pré said something about Dr Bridges having authorised their being given up.\n\nI am certain that some property remained in the hands of the police, and I have no doubt this property was given up by Mr Grand Pré, who therefore can give evidence upon it. I have asked both Inspectors, but they can give me no information upon this. I do not know whether I was at that time Acting Assistant Magistrate, or Acting Superintendent of Police. I endeavoured to find out who gave up the property at the Police Station, and the Inspectors have told me that they did not, and that therefore it must have been Mr Grand-Pré.\n\nI am certain that those papers given up were the Kwong Yik Loong papers, because the others have been destroyed. It now strikes me that I have heard that some of the papers, which were deposited at the Supreme Court, were given up, upon this head Mr Masson can give evidence.\n\nI think I can produce a witness who saw the first wife of Ma-chow Wong go into Mr Caldwell's house within the last two months. I did hear that Ma-chow Wong's wife had found a refuge in Mr Caldwell's house. I heard it from more than one; amongst others, from Tong Aku the Interpreter.\n\nAbout the notoriety of the pirate Po-pak Shing, Assow, that Police Court Interpreter, who told me more than twelve months ago that this man was a notorious pirate, can give evidence. As to the connection between Po-pak Shing and Ma-chow Wong, and the buying off of the witnesses, I hand in the name of a witness who can give evidence.\n\nI saw Mr Caldwell go into the Chief Magistrate's room with the bail, on the occasion of Ma-chow Wong's being bailed by order of the Chief Justice; this is the extent of my knowledge. I do not recollect how many bail there were, and do not know if the Chief Magistrate desired Mr Caldwell to be present on the occasion. I heard that the Chief Magistrate had had a communication with Mr Caldwell on the subject, but did not know what it was. On the night of Ma-chow Wong's apprehension on my warrant, I gave special orders as to his custody, and that he should be under the special care of a European Constable, to the exclusion of the usual Chinese Constables who watch the cells. At half-past ten o'clock at night or later, I went incidentally to the charge room, and saw Mr Caldwell and Mr...\n\nMr Caldwell himself told me that the boat of which he had command was manned by Chinese, he did not say by Europeans and Indians, I know from what he told me.\n\nCross-examined.—A man deposed at the Supreme Court that Ma-chow Wong had offered him $1,000, to abstain from giving evidence so far as it referred to the identification of the prisoners, the Captain of the boat I think. He had command at different times of two boats, one of which was decked, and I should think a schooner, because he told me of his having been nearly drowned in the cabin.\n\nI taxed my memory as far as I possibly could with regard to the memoranda, and I cannot recollect more minutely than I stated. The memorandum number 8 in Mr Caldwell's report does not agree with number 8 in my evidence; there was only one paper, as I have stated with regard to No. 9. There might have been one Johnson, but there was a Graham. I remember about Graham, because he was subsequently imprisoned for felony. He was Sheriff's Officer and robbed a boat. Now I recollect, there were two letters from the Kowloong Commandant, one to Ma-chow Wong, and one to his partner.\n\nI have not the slightest doubt that I told the Honourable the Attorney General what my impression was prior to my knowledge that the books and papers had been destroyed, that the books and papers of Ma-chow Wong which were at the Police Station had been given up. I remember the sailing of the Phoebe Dunbar with the deported persons. I was the Acting Sheriff at the time, and sent in a list to Government of all persons who were then in Gaol under warrants of Justices of the Peace or Stipendiary Magistrates, coming under Ordinance 2 of 1857, viz., persons dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony. I have no copy of the list, and know that it is in the records of the Gaol.\n\nThere were other names on the list, put on by order of the Government, quite certain that I must have told other persons, but I cannot recollect whom. At the time of the taking of the memoranda, and up to the time of my knowledge of the destruction of the papers, I had not any idea that the memoranda would be a subject of import. The memoranda were written in a style in which I would write a draft for a letter; they were scribbled. It was singular that the memoranda were not destroyed. I am sure that Roberts told me that he had found about 36 guns on board the supposed Alma. I am not sure whether he said that Mr Caldwell told him that the lorcha belonged to him then, or had belonged to him.\n\nI do not recollect Mr Caldwell searching with me for the security papers in the gold dust affair. I have not the slightest recollection of his doing so. I had the general management of the deportation, being Acting Sheriff at the time. The list of persons to be deported was made out by me or by persons under my orders. I believe the list to comprise all prisoners of the classes before mentioned. I had no knowledge of any one fact relating to one prisoner more than to another.\n\nI made the seizure on Bonham Strand; those who could not find security, and were included in the list, were very likely beggars, but I can't say that they were. I do not think that Mr Caldwell was present when I searched for the security papers, after the petition had been presented. I think it was Roberts who apprehended the men.\n\nPage 474",
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        "content_text": "# 475\n\n(46)\n\nthat it was confiscated. This was at the Supreme Court after the trial. He afterwards told me not to seize it, and I understood him to say that he had referred the matter through the Acting Colonial Secretary to the Government, and, I am not quite so certain, whether the Government would not give him an order, or that they had given him an order to give it up.\n\nI should think Ma-chow Wong must have been worth $15,000 or $16,000. I have been told by Mr. Caldwell that he was worth a very large amount, more than that; but that is my estimate. I do not know whether he was sole or part owner of the Kwong Yik Loong shop; I never referred to the Land Office books. The Supreme Court papers were sent up to the Government Offices. Mr. Masson told me so.\n\nThose at the station were apprehended by Beaver. I do not recollect upon whose information the application to the Acting Attorney General was made, as to what should be done with the property. He at first told me to seize it, whether Ma-chow Wong gave it or not, the Governor of the Gaol can probably say. I think Roberts acted under Dr. Bridges' orders; the matter was in the hands of Mr. Caldwell and Dr. Bridges, and I did not interfere. I received a letter from the Government directing that the orders given by Mr. Caldwell to the Police in matters appertaining to the Chinese were to be obeyed as literally as if I gave the orders myself. I did not quite understand the letter, because it did not appear to me to accord with the powers vested in Mr. Caldwell, as regarded the Police by the Registration Ordinance. I have the highest legal authority in this colony for stating, that if the powers given to Mr. Caldwell by the letter exceeded those given by the Ordinance, the exercise of such power is illegal, and that in fact no Government officer has a right to direct the Police, but myself.\n\nIt is not necessary for Mr. Caldwell to have a warrant to go into any Chinese house to search and make inquiry, Mr. Caldwell had as much power as I to arrest Chinese without warrant. I cannot recollect whether I personally delivered the bulk of the gold-dust to Mr. Caldwell, nor whether I was present. I delivered it to Beaver or Grand-Pré, either myself or through Mr. Grand-Pré, on seeing Mr. Caldwell's receipts. I know that Boggs was with pirates, and don't recollect having any conversation with Mr. Caldwell concerning a man, who Mr. Caldwell said had been confederated with Ma-chow Wong. I have no direct knowledge of Boggs being in the employ of Mr. Caldwell, or connected with the Eaglet. I have heard that the paper mentioned by Lyons is in existence.\n\n[A note of what Mr. May has heard regarding the paper mentioned by Lyons handed into the Chairman.]\n\nRe-examined,—The letter I wrote in July to the Acting Colonial Secretary refers to some of the contents of the memoranda. I was not present at the time of the examination of the books and papers of Ma-chow Wong by Mr. Stace, and I assisted the Attorney General in his cross-examination of Boggs, when he appeared as a witness in defence of piracy. I know that Boggs was in direct communication with Mr. Caldwell. In my letter of 20th July, I complained of Mr. Grand-Pré not arresting Ma-chow Wong; the same morning, my letter being then, I believe, in the Colonial Secretary's hands, I referred to the complaint, as showing the necessity for my taking a direct interest in the case. In reference to Mr. Grand-Pré particularly, the Colonial Secretary asked me, \"what do you want done with him?\" I said, \"I don't want anything done to him—I should like him to be told that he has done wrong; but as far as my opinion is concerned, I don't think it right to hold him responsible for anything he does or says in Police matters.\" I have not the slightest doubt that Mr. Grand-Pré's statement to me was, that Mr. Caldwell had applied to him, either by person or by letter, for the delivery of the papers and property of Ma-chow Wong. There was a small amount of property returned, and some money which had been seized. I know that Ma-chow Wong was the owner of the Kwong Yik Loong shop—that there was a large quantity of goods in it. I believe he was a partner in a pawn-shop; he was also part owner of a lorcha, and some other Chinese boats. I thought that it would have been a portion of my duty as Acting Sheriff to ascertain the extent of his wealth, and seize it for the crown.\n\nI was in communication with Dr. Bridges when Acting Attorney General, and as, in fact, I considered, an agent for the discovery of certain pirates; he was in direct communication with the Police, and received money from the Government, I believe by the hands of Mr. Grand-Pré. I used to see him very frequently in communication with Mr. Grand-Pré, and he appeared to be on terms of familiar intercourse with him. I saw a note from Boggs to Mr. Grand-Pré commencing \"My dear Grand-Pré;\" it was an open piece of paper put into my hands. I spoke to Boggs once or twice with a view to getting information from him, but finding that I got nothing but moonshine, desisted; he spoke about Wong Akee, but said nothing upon which I should have considered myself warranted in acting. I have heard that so late as the Queen's birthday, Mr. Caldwell defended Ma-chow Wong, and expressed his belief that he was an innocent injured man.\n\nI believe it was at the Governor's table I made some remark to Mr. Kingsmill. I cannot say anything respecting the pardon of convicts, or commutation of their sentence upon Mr. Caldwell's application. I believe that Achong (the P. & C. Comprador) compromised the felony of stealing the gun. The man charged with the felony concerning the water was cleared partly by Mr. Lapraik's testimony. I believe, in saying that I discharged the prisoners, I ought to have said that I dismissed the charge, and liberated them on bail—not on heavy bail. I am certain I ordered the boats to be restored, although the note is silent as to that.\n\n(47)\n\nI find also that Tony Aku was prosecuted because of the interest he took, and the zealous assistance he rendered me in obtaining evidence, and allaying the fears of witnesses in the prosecution of Ma-chow Wong. I could not clearly understand what the expression \"ancient cash\" in the notes meant, but it was always referred to by those examining the books as a hyperbolical term—it was thought to be a kind of slang expression. Those who pointed it out to me said, that both Mr. Grand-Pré and Mr. Caldwell had satisfied themselves it was a very suspicious character, and could not mean good. The Interpreter said he had a difficulty in rendering the meaning of it. The Commission might ask Mr. Assow about the matter. There was no entry in my memoranda to the effect, that certain moneys had been or were to be paid out of the proceeds of plunder to, or for, or on account of, Mr. Caldwell. The business of the chartering and despatch of the Phoebe Dunbar was a very hurried and precipitate business. I had only two or three days' notice of her sailing. Mr. Cluff was present when the prisoners were examined by me at the Gaol; I cannot recollect whether Mr. Caldwell or the Attorney General was. At a subsequent period of the same year I was sent with upwards of 70 alleged rebels to Kowloong, with orders to surrender them to the Imperialists. I must have received those orders from the Acting Colonial Secretary, and they must have been in writing. I don't know whether the direction was a letter or a warrant. I have no doubt I have it. I obeyed the orders. The 70 men were towed over in boats by the H.C. steamer Auckland. I do not recollect on whose advice the men were surrendered. I heard by common rumour afterwards that the men were put to death by the Mandarins. Some of them had long hair, and clothes showing that they were rebels. The list of persons to be deported was sent in on the very day the prisoners were to be shipped in the Phoebe Dunbar.\n\nI have been privileged within the last two days by a Member of Council, to say that the Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Labouchere, had written a despatch to the Governor, stating that it was his opinion that the Superintendent of Police should hold his office intact, and without any interference from the head of any other department, and that it would seem that the public service would be carried out better if there was no division of opinion between the heads of departments. I believe Mr. Caldwell arrested and liberated Chinese under the Ordinance, but I do not know whether he assumed to do so by delegation from Government. There are instances, but I cannot recollect them. When Mr. Caldwell was out of the service, he used to come up to the Police Court, and interest himself in cases—sometimes for the prosecution, and sometimes for the defence. He sometimes also gave information to the Police, when he was in command of the Eaglet.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL.—Recalled.\n\nI wish to state that, on refreshing my memory by the note of the case of the 25 pirates at the time, instead of...\n\nANGUS FLETCHER.—Recalled.\n\nI believe I have heard that Mr. Caldwell was employed by Mr. Innes to smuggle opium in the Canton river—which was the custom of several merchants at that time.\n\nAdjourned till Monday, the 28th inst., at Noon.\n\n## FIFTEENTH DAY\n\nMonday, 28th June, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent, All the Members, except Mr. Scarth.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL.—Cross-examined\n\nReferring to my statement in page 6: it was certainly within four months after my arrival in this colony, that Mr. Dixson spoke to me concerning Ma-chow Wong.\n\nIt was...",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nin writing, requested to have a written statement of the Substance of my several speeches on that occasion: that is to say, that His Excellency, as well in Letter of the 13th instant as in those to which that letter refers, had then and before him the Substance and much more than the Substance of all my \"averments\" in that Solitary occasion: _ And that I did but reproduce in a different form the purport of former Communications.\n\nI add to that statement, be yourself sary of them within to Except to remind His Excellency that the unfortunate delay of which you accuse in forwarding his instructions, dated the 14th inst., until this afternoon, has made them out of date, even if it were in my power to make any other reply to them; the matter having in the interval assumed the shape of an appeal to Drawing the home to be, I have...\n\nYour most Obedient Servant,\n(Signed) J. Chisholm Anstey, M.R.B., A.G.\n\nThe Honble. J. Bridges, Esq., D.C.L. Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nAppendix F.\n\nCopy\nJr6842\n37\n\n## Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Justices of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong, held at the Magistracy on Wednesday the 19th May 1858.\n\nPresent:\n| Name | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Honble. St. George Cleverly | 24th The Hong Kong |\n| The Honble. B. Anstey | Captain |\n| Charles May, Esq. |  |\n| John Sneath, Esq. |  |\n| The Honble. George Lyall, Esqre. |  |\n| The Honble. Inder Davies, Dragoon. |  |\n| John D. Gist, Esqre. |  |\n| John Richardson, Brylr. |  |\n| A. L. Inglis, Esq. |  |\n| The Honble. John Dent, Esq. |  |\n| The Honble. M. Bridges Esq., D.C.L. |  |\n| Patrick Campbell, Esq. |  |\n| Angus Fletcher, Esq. |  |\n| The Honble. Frederick Fytche, Esq. |  |\n\nThe Honble. # Judor Davies, Esq., having been voted to the Chair.\n\nRead, Letter Summoning the meeting.\n\nRead, Memorandum from His Excellency the Governor to the Acting Colonial Secretary, (copy annexed).\n\nResolved, \"That Mr. Anstey is properly present at this Meeting, I remove an objection suggested by Mr. Anstey...\"",
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        "content_text": "INDEX TO NAMES OF WITNESSES.\n\n321\n\nAHEEM, Lookong (Chinese Police Constable)\n\nCaldwell Enquiry, - - - - 13\n\nD\n\nD'ALMADA E Castro, Leonardo, Clerk of Councils,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,- Supreme Court, - .1, 6, 30, 47, 54, 66, 82, 85\n\nDA SILVA, M. Sergeant of Water Police,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry‹-- 80\n\nANSTEY, Thos, Chisholm, Attorney General,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry, - Police Court, -- _108\n\nB\n\nDIXSON, Andrew Scott, Government Printer,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,- 7\n\nPolice Court,. .113\n\nBOGGS, Eli, a Prisoner for Piracy,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry, - - 77\n\nBRIDGES, W. T. Acting Colonial Secretary,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,-\n\nPolice Court,.. 71\n\nSupreme Court, .119\n\nC\n\nFLETCHER ANGUS, Merchant,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,--- _20, 50, 52, 64\n\n100, 103\n\n122\n\nFONG AFEI, Tepo of Sheongwan,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry....... -44, 47\n\n29\n\nCAINE, William, Lieut, Governor,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,- - -\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,--. 82\n\nFONG WEI KAI, Chinese house holder,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry, -- 14\n\nCALDWELL, Daniel Richard, Registrar General,\n\nC\n\n-16, 24, 25, 28, 89, 96\n\nGILMOUR David, Treasury Clerk,\n\nPolice Court,-- 104\n\nCaldwell Enquiry, - - - - - _10, 11\n\nCALDWELL, Mary Ayow,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,- - - - - - 29\n\nGRND-PRE Alexandre, Assistant to Registar General,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,- . - .17, 25, 69, 111, 111\n\nCARVALHO, J. A. de, Treasury Clerk,\n\nH\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,-- ..10\n\nHOEY, Henry Edward, Land owner in Taipingshan,\n\nCHALDECOTT, Thos. A.--Sir John Bowring's Me-\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,--- 16\n\ndical Attendant,\n\nHO AH MOEY, Brothel keeper,\n\nSupreme Court, .118\n\nCaldwell Enquiry, - - - - - 13\n\nApendix, .164\n\nCHING LIN HEE, Quondam Brothel keeper (reput-\n\ned Pawnee of Ayow,)\n\nHO AH CHOONG, Chinese House holder,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,- 14\n\nCaldwell Enquiry, - - - - 22\n\nCHOW ACHEE, Brothel keeper,\n\nHO CHUN SHEN, a Chinese preacher of Christianity,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,- 103\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,\n\n12, 14\n\nCHO' ON, Pawn broker, formerly Treasury Comprador,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry, - - ~ -\n\nCHUN KUN HEE, a Chinese House holder,\n\n83\n\nINGLIS Andrew Lysaght, Governor of Gaol, &c.,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,--- 22, 28, 58\n\nJ\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,- - - - - 14\n\nJARMAN James, Inspector of Police,\n\nCHUN SAM CHOW, a Chinese broker,\n\n·Caldwell Enquiry,- - - 14\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,---.\n\nPolice Court,-. 70\n\nCLEVERLY, Charles St. George, Surveyor General,\n\nK\n\n(Chairman, Caldwell Enquiry,)\n\nPolice Court,- - - - 113\n\nSupreme Court, \n\nCOLLINS, CHARLES, Police Court Clerk,\n\nKINGSMILL Henry, Acting Attorney General,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,-- .154\n\nKWOK ACHEONG, P. & O. Co.'s Comprador,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,- .61, 63\n\n43\n\nPolice Court, - .113\n\nL\n\nCOLLINS JAMES, Chief Clerk Police Court,\n\nPolice Court,- - - 111\n\nLAI SZE KAI, Quondam Comprador to Mr Caldwell,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,- - - 15, 23\n\nCOMPTON James Brown, Mercantile Assistant,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,- - \n\nLEE AH WA, Brothel keeper,\n\n81\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,-- 12\n\nD\n\nLEE AH HO, Brothel keeper,\n\nDAVIES, Henry Tudor, Police Magistrate,\n\nPolice Court,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry, - - - 13\n\nD'ALMADA E CASTRO, Jozé, Clerk in Colonial\n\nSecretary's Office,\n\nPolice Court,- - 112\n\n86, 96, 100, 112, 114 | LEONG CHEW KWONG, Chinese House holder,\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,-\n\nCaldwell Enquiry,--· 14\n\nLEUNG ATAI Chinese Resident,\n\n19",
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        "content_text": "SSE\n\n322 A\n\nWARRANT OF COMMISSION.\n\nWhereas certain charges have been brought in the Legislative Council and in Official Documents by the Honourable THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY, Esquire, Attorney General, against DANIEL RICHARD CALDWELL, Esquire, Registrar General, which necessitate an enquiry into the truth of such charges, and whereas such enquiry will be most conveniently and expeditiously prosecuted by means of a joint Commission of Officers of the Government, and Justices of the Peace: Now therefore know ye, that I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, L.L.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby under my hand and the Seal of the said Colony, appoint you, the Honourable CHARLES ST. GEORGE CLEVERLY, Esquire, Surveyor General for the said Colony, The Honourable HENRY TUDOR DAVIES, Esquire, Chief Magistrate for the said Colony, The Honourable GEORGE LYALL, Esquire, ANGUS FLETCHER, Esquire, and JOHN SCARTH, Esquire, Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, or any three of you, to be a Commission for instituting and prosecuting all needful and proper enquiries into the truth or otherwise of the underwritten charges; which embrace the accusations made by the Attorney General against the Registrar General; and to take evidence, but not upon oath, in the premises; and to report to me all evidence so taken by you, and also your opinions thereon. And I do hereby require you to commence your said enquiries forthwith, and to proceed therein continuously, and to make your Report to me as aforesaid with all reasonable despatch. And I do hereby empower you during the course and for the purposes of your said Commission, to obtain at the expense of the Government such professional or other assistance that you may deem necessary, and to demand and obtain access at all times to all and all manner of Papers, Records, and Documents, relating to the subject matter of the said Commission, and in the custody or under the control of the several public departments within this Colony, and from time to time to call before you and examine all persons superintending or employed in or under any of the said departments. And I do hereby charge all persons in the Public Service to be aiding and assisting unto you herein.\n\nGiven under my hand and under the Seal of the Colony of Hongkong,\n\nat Victoria, in the said Colony, this Twentieth Day of May, A.D., One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Eight.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.",
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        "content_text": "TIL\n\n348\n\n( 44 )\n\nyour to bring before the Commission persons who will Grand-Pré in conversation; and, was then told, that the testify to the facts I mention.\n\nAdjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow.\n\nFOURTEENTH DAY.\n\nThursday, 24th June, at 12 o'clock, Noon.\n\nEuropean Constable who had charge of Ma-chow Wong had immediately before made known that certain large bribes had been offered him by Ma-chow Wong. One of the bribes was offered to induce the Constable to allow the prisoners an interview with Mr Caldwell. I did not consider the prisoner so secure at the Police Station as I thought necessary, and sent him up to the Gaol.\n\nI did not know that the papers which had been sent to Government Office had not been returned to the Police until I heard of their destruction at Government Office, thereafter the papers given up could only have been those belonging to the Kwong Yik Loong [Ma-chow Wong's] shop. I recollect that Mr Grand-Pré said that Mr Caldwell had, by, I think, a note which he had in his hand, applied for the papers of Ma-chow Wong, and I am not quite so certain, but I think Mr Grand-Pré said something about Dr Bridges having authorised their being given up. I am certain that some property remained in the hands of the police, and I have no doubt this property was given up by Mr Grand-Pré, who therefore can give evidence upon it. I have asked both Inspectors, but they can give me no information upon this. I do not know whether I was at that time Acting Assistant Magistrate, or Acting Superintendent of Police, I have endeavoured to find out who gave up the property at the Police Station, and the Inspectors have told me that they did not, and that therefore it must have been Mr Grand-Pré.\n\nPresent,-All the Members, except the Honourable Mr Cleverly, whose place in the chair was taken by the Honourable Mr Davies.\n\nANGUS FLETCHER,-Called and examined.\n\nI formerly had a partner named Innes, who has been dead many years. I believe Mr Caldwell was once in Mr Innes's employ. I do not know of my own knowledge why Mr Caldwell was discharged. I am one of the oldest residents in China, and have known about Mr Caldwell, otherwise than as employed by Mr Innes, for some time, I did not know anything of him beyond that he was a little thoughtless; this was nearly twenty years ago. I do not recollect having ever heard any accusation brought against him.\n\nI do not know under what circumstances Mr Caldwell left my late partner; he left before I joined him. I believe he was Clerk or Book-keeper with him. I never heard a word from Mr Innes, nor from any one else, as to the circumstances under which Mr Caldwell left Mr Innes's employ.\n\n[The Attorney General having been informed that neither to himself nor to any of the public could printed copies of the evidence be furnished, but that he was at liberty to inspect them in the room, and that copies of his own evidence would be furnished, requested that a minute might be made that he had not had any of the fasciculi since the third, and had therefore had no opportunity, and now should have none, of correcting in his own copy, and suggesting to the Commission for correction in theirs such of the errors in the evidence as taken as he was able to correct, as well as of offering suggestions for examination of witnesses]\n\nCHARLES MAY,-Recalled.\n\nI saw Mr Caldwell go into the Chief Magistrate's room with the bail, on the occasion of Ma-chow Wong's being bailed by order of the Chief Justice; this is the extent of my knowledge. I do not recollect how many bail there were, and do not know if the Chief Magistrate desired Mr Caldwell to be present on the occasion. I heard that the Chief Magistrate had had a communication with Mr Caldwell.\n\nAbout the notoriety of the pirate Po-pak Shing, Assow, the Police Court Interpreter, who told me more than twelve months ago that this man was a notorious pirate, can give evidence. As to the connection between Po-pak Shing and Ma-chow Wong, and the buying off of the witnesses, I hand in the name of a witness who can give evidence.\n\nThere was no written order given by me for the delivery of the gold dust to Mr Caldwell, I do not recollect whether I was Superintendent of Police, or Acting Sheriff; I rather think it was as Acting Sheriff. Achak, a clerk in the Registration Office, can say who were the securities in the gold dust affair. I do not know whether the petition referred to in the gold dust affair is in existence, and do not remember whether I gave it back, or whether it was filed.\n\nMr Caldwell himself told me that the boat of which he had command was manned by Chinese, he did not say by Europeans and Indians. I know from what he told me that Ma-chow Wong had offered him $1,000, to abstain from giving evidence so far as it referred to the identification of one of the prisoners, the Captain of the boat I think.\n\nCross-examined.-A man deposed at the Supreme Court that he had command at different times of two boats, one of which was decked, and I should think a schooner, because he told me of his having been nearly drowned in the cabin. The threat of personal violence was deposed to in the Supreme Court. I was not Mr Dixson's informant as to Mr Stace and Mr Caldwell having got permission to take away the books and papers, excepted as I now state. I told Mr Dixson that Mr Caldwell and Mr Stace had examined the books and papers at the Police Station, and that my impression was that Mr Caldwell had received the books and papers from the Police Station.\n\nI taxed my memory as far as I possible could with regard to the memoranda, and I cannot recollect more minutely than I stated. The memorandum number 8 in Mr Caldwell's report does not agree with number 8 in my evidence; there was only one paper, as I have stated with regard to No. 9. There might have been one Johnson, but there was no written order given by me for the delivery of the gold dust to Mr Caldwell.\n\nI did not tell Mr Dixson, what he states in papers.\n\nI remember about Graham, because he was a Graham. He was subsequently imprisoned for felony. He was Sheriff's Officer and robbed a boat. Now I recollect, there were two letters from the Kowloong Commandant,-one to Ma-chow Wong, and one to his partner. I have an impression in my mind that there were very many more important matters not referring to Mr Caldwell, only shewing the bad character of Ma-chow Wong, in my memo.-I placed the memo. in the Chief Magistrate's hands, and read it to the Acting Attorney General. I had given it up before the Attorney General returned, but I told him of it since his return.\n\nOn Saturday the Prisoner was apprehended, on Monday the Attorney General was in the Police Court for the last time, and then only one-sixth of the memoranda had been extracted. I have not the slightest doubt that I told the Honourable the Attorney General what my impression was prior to my knowledge that the books and papers had been destroyed, -that the books and papers of Ma-chow Wong which were at the Police Station had been given up. I remember the sailing of the Phoebe Dunbar with the deported persons. I was Acting Sheriff at the time, and sent in a list to Government of all persons who were then in Gaol under warrants of Justices of the Peace or Stipendiary Magistrates, coming under Ordinance 2 of 1857, viz., persons dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony. I have no copy of the list, and know that it is in the records of the Gaol, There were other names on the list, put on by order of the Government, and these persons were those who had been summarily convicted, and it was by the Colonial Secretary's order-I believe a verbal one, that these were included in the lot.\n\nAt the time of the taking of the memoranda, and up to the time of my knowledge of the attempt to obtain a pardon of Ma-chow Wong, inasmuch as the memoranda did not refer to the cases for which the prisoner was tried, I had not any idea that the memoranda would be a subject of import. The memoranda were written in a style in which I would write a draft for a letter; they were scribbled. It was singular that the memoranda were not destroyed. I am sure that Roberts told me that he had found about 36 guns on board the supposed Alma. I am not sure whether he said that Mr Caldwell told him that the lorcha belonged to him then, or had belonged to him.\n\nI do not recollect Mr Caldwell searching with me for the security papers in the gold dust affair. I have not the slightest recollection of his doing so.\n\nI believed the list to comprise all prisoners of the classes before mentioned. I had no knowledge of any one fact relating to one prisoner more than to another.\n\nI, myself, had the general management of the deportation, being Acting Sheriff at the time. The list of persons to be deported was made out by me or by persons under my orders.\n\nThe list was made out, and an order given by the Governor for their deportation. Mr Caldwell did not make out the list, nor did he take the men off to the Phoebe Dunbar. I think I reported to the Government that the persons named in the list came within the meaning of Ordinance 2 of 1857, and the Government approved the list. I don't think that I had any letter of instructions from the Governor as to the making out the list.\n\nI made the seizure on Bonham Strand; those who could not find security, and were included in the list, were very likely beggars, but I can't say that they were. I do not think that Mr Caldwell was present when I searched for the security papers, after the petition had been presented. I think it was Roberts who apprehended Beaver.\n\n( 45 )",
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        "content_text": "848\n\n349\n\n( 46 )\n\nI do not know whether I recollect upon whose information he was seized. I wrote to the Acting Attorney General, as to what I should do with the property. He at first told me to seize it,—that it was confiscated. This was at the Supreme Court after the trial. He afterwards told me not to seize it, and I understood him to say that he had referred the matter through the Acting Colonial Secretary to the Government, and, I am not quite so certain, whether the Government would not give him an order, or that they had given him an order to give it up. I should think Ma-chow Wong must have been worth $15,000 or $16,000. I have been told by Mr Caldwell that he was worth a very large amount, more than that; but that is my estimate. I do not know whether he was sole or part owner of the Kwong Yik Loong shop; I never referred to the Land Office books. The Supreme Court papers were sent up to the Government Offices. Mr Masson told me so. Those at the station were not produced at the Supreme Court; the principal entries in those papers referred to the 2d case, which is still untried.\n\nI cannot recollect whether I personally delivered the bulk of the gold-dust to Mr Caldwell, nor whether I was present. I delivered it to Mr Caldwell, either myself or through Mr Grand-Pré. I don't recollect having any conversation with Mr Caldwell concerning a man, who Mr Caldwell said had been wrongfully deported; such a conversation may have taken place.\n\nRe-examined,—The letter I wrote in July to the Acting Colonial Secretary refers to some of the contents of the memoranda. I was not present at the time of the examination of the books and papers of Ma-chow Wong by Mr Stace and Mr Caldwell, and do not know whether any others besides those already mentioned were present. In my letter of 20th July, I complained of Mr Grand-Pré not arresting Ma-chow Wong; the same morning, my letter being then, I believe, in the Colonial Secretary's hands, I referred to the complaint, as shewing the necessity for my taking a direct interest in the case. In reference to Mr Grand-Pré particularly, the Colonial Secretary asked \"what do you want done with him?\" I said, \"I don't want anything done to him, I should like him to be told that he has done wrong; but as far as my opinion is concerned, I don't think it right to hold him responsible for anything he does or says in Police matters.\" I have not the slightest doubt that Mr Grand-Pré's statement to me was, that Mr Caldwell had applied to him, either by person or by letter, for the delivery of the papers and property of Ma-chow Wong. There was a small amount of property returned, and some money which had been seized. I know that Ma-chow Wong was the owner of the Kwong Yik Loong shop—that there was a large quantity of goods in it. I believe he was a partner in a pawn-shop; he was also part owner of a lorcha, and some other Chinese boats. I thought that it would have been a portion of my duty as Acting Sheriff to ascertain the extent of his wealth, and seize it for the crown.\n\nI made application to the Acting Attorney General, inasmuch as the book exhibited an acquaintance between the prisoners and the pirates anterior to the date of the particular piracy. [Lyon's evidence read.] I know that Beaver was in the employment of Mr Caldwell from seeing Beaver's receipts. I know that Boggs was with pirates, and, I believe, that those pirates had communication, and were confederated with Ma-chow Wong. I have no direct knowledge of Boggs being in the employ of Mr Caldwell, or connected with the Eaglet. I have heard that the paper mentioned by Lyons is in existence.\n\n[A note of what Mr May has heard regarding the paper mentioned by Lyons handed into the Chairman.]\n\nI assisted the Attorney General in his cross-examination of Boggs, when he appeared as a witness in defence of pirates in 1856, with suggestions. I know that Boggs was in direct communication with Dr Bridges when Acting Attorney General, and as, in fact was, I considered, an agent for the discovery of certain pirates; he was in direct communication with the Police, and received money from the Government, I believe by the hands of Mr Grand-Pré. I used to see him very frequently in communication with Mr Grand-Pré, and he appeared to be on terms of familiar intercourse with him. I saw a note from Boggs to Mr Grand-Pré commencing \"My dear Grand-Pré;\" it was an open piece of paper put into my hands. I spoke to Boggs once or twice with a view to getting information from him, but, finding that I got nothing but moonshine, desisted: he spoke about Wong Akee, but said nothing upon which I should have considered myself warranted in acting. I have heard that so late as the Queen's birth-day, Mr Caldwell defended Ma-chow Wong, and expressed his belief that he was an innocent injured man.\n\nI believe it was at the Governor's table to Mr Kingsmill. I cannot say anything respecting the pardon of convicts, or commutation of their sentence upon Mr Caldwell's application. I believe that the man charged with the felony of stealing the gun. The man charged with the felony concerning the watch was cleared partly by Mr Lapraik's testimony. I believe Tong Akü was prosecuted because of the interest he took, and the zealous assistance he rendered me in obtaining evidence, and allaying the fears of witnesses in the prosecution of Ma-chow Wong.\n\n( 47 )\n\nI ought to have said that I dismissed the charge, and liberated them on bail—not heavy bail. I am certain I ordered the boats to be restored, although the note is silent as to that. I find also that the oath on which Mr Caldwell made the application was not his own oath, but that of his subordinate, Mr Grand-Pré, whom he brought for that purpose, and examined from the bench, as appears from the Record,—his object being to shew that both Mr Grand-Pré and Mr Caldwell had satisfied themselves as to the respectability of the prisoners. There is another point on which the Commission would perhaps wish my evidence. I know that the order for the embarkation of a number of the prisoners by the Phebe Dunbar was given en masse and at the last moment. The inspection of the prisoners took place in the Gaol yard in my presence, as a mere spectator, Mr Caldwell, Mr May, and Mr Cluff, directing it. I mention this because they sailed within a day or two afterwards, and had Mr Caldwell even then told me that the merchant was among them, I would have set the order of Council at defiance, and held the man to bail on the spot. With regard to the delegation of Government authority to Mr Caldwell, one of the honourable Commissioners will remember that when we were making our minutes in the visiting book of the Gaol, the Governor of the Gaol complained feelingly of his utter helplessness with regard to Mr Caldwell's prisoners. He stated they were brought in upon Mr Caldwell's warrant—that some would be detained, and others released, upon Mr Caldwell's authority, without any reason being given for one or the other.\n\nI remember pointing out to Mr Inglis, the Governor of the Gaol, the illegality of the whole proceedings, and advised him to resist—on which he said that he had been desired—I think by His Excellency himself to consider Mr Caldwell as representing H. M.'s Government in all circumstances of that kind. I am sure it was Mr Inglis, the Governor of the Gaol, and not the Chief Warden—the visiting book will show. I told him the Governor had no power to authorize any illegal action. As I have said, all the then remaining prisoners were discharged within the week after we made the minute.\n\nI had only two or three day's notice of the Phebe Dunbar's sailing. Mr Cluff was present when the prisoners were examined by me at the Gaol. I cannot recollect whether Mr Caldwell or the Attorney General was. At a subsequent period of the same year I was sent with upwards of 70 alleged rebels to Kowloong, with orders to surrender them to the Imperialists. I must have received those orders from the Acting Colonial Secretary, and they must have been in writing. I don't know whether the direction was a letter or a warrant. I have no doubt I have it. I obeyed the orders. The 70 men were towed over in boats by the H. C. steamer Auckland. I do not recollect on whose advice the men were surrendered. I heard by common rumour afterwards that the men were put to death by the Mandarins. Some of them had long hair, and clothes shewing that they were rebels. The list of persons to be deported was sent in the very day the prisoners were to be shipped in the Phabe Dunbar.\n\nI have been privileged within the last two days by a Member of Council, to say that the Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr Labouchere, had written a despatch to the Governor, stating that it was his opinion that the Superintendent of Police should hold his office intact, and without any interference from the head of any other department, and that it would seem that the public service would be carried out better if there was no division of opinion between the heads of departments.\n\nI believe Mr Caldwell arrested and liberated Chinese under the Ordinance, but I do not know whether he assumed to do so by delegation from Government. There are instances, but I cannot recollect them. When Mr Caldwell was out of the service, he used to come up to the Police Court, and interested himself in cases—sometimes for the prosecution, and sometimes for the defence. He sometimes also gave information to the Police, when he was in command of the Eaglet.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL,—Recalled.\n\nI wish to state that, on refreshing my memory by the note I took of the case of the 25 pirates at the time, instead of saying that I discharged the prisoners, I ought to have said that I dismissed the charge, and liberated them on bail.\n\nANGUS FLETCHER,—Recalled.\n\nI believe I have heard that Mr Caldwell was employed by Mr Innes to smuggle opium in the Canton river—which was the custom of several merchants at that time.\n\nAdjourned till Monday, the 28th inst., at Noon.\n\nFIFTEENTH DAY,\n\nMonday, 28th June, at 12 o'clock, Noon. Present,—All the Members, except Mr Scarth.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL,—Cross-examined. Referring to my statement in page 6: it was certainly within four months after my arrival in this colony, that Mr Dixson spoke to me concerning Ma-chow Wong.",
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        "content_text": "M393\n\n( 129 )\n\nwill promptly nominate a Committee of Investigation, and will report the results of that Investigation, as regards the position of the various parties concerned.\n\nEvery official assistance will be given to the Inquiry, and His Excellency is not desirous of limiting their powers by pointing out any particular course of proceeding. The use of the Council Chamber will be at the disposal of the Committee should such be their pleasure.\n\nTo be communicated to the Hon. the Chief Magistrate, who is requested to convene the Justices at as early a period as practicable, with the view of giving effect to the object of this memorandum.\n\n(Signed)\n\nTrue copy.\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. B.\n\nHONGKONG, 30th July, 1858.\n\nSIR,—In reply to your letter of yesterday's date accompanied with the report of the Commission appointed by H. E. Sir John Bowring for enquiring into certain charges in which Mr Caldwell is the accused, and soliciting the opinion of the Justices on the conclusion arrived at—I beg to state that, on perusal of the report it appears that the Commission find Mr Caldwell guilty, by a unanimous vote, of a long and intimate connection with the notorious Pirate (Ma-chow Wong) now under sentence of transportation, and also of other serious charges incidental thereto, yet, notwithstanding this, by a majority of voices only, the said Commission do not see sufficient grounds to recommend the removal of Mr Caldwell from the Bench of Magistrates.\n\nWith the above facts, as recorded in the report simply before me, and assuming them to be true as they are declared to be, I cannot but agree with the minority of the Commission, and consider Mr Caldwell unfit to retain office as a Justice of the Peace.\n\nI am Sir,\n\nYour's faithfully,\n\nThe Hon'ble T. C. ANSTEY, Esq.\n\nJOHN D. GIBB.\n\nHONGKONG, 30th July, 1856.\n\nSIR,—In reply to your letter of the 29th instant, addressed to the Justices of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong, enclosing copy of the report by the Caldwell Inquiry Commission, I beg to inform you that, taking as true the facts which the Commission report to have been proved before them, my opinion is that Mr Caldwell is unfit to remain in the Commission of the Peace, and that the thanks of the Justices are due to you for having been the means of promoting the investigation.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nP. CAMPBELL, J. P.\n\nThe Hon'ble T. C. ANSTEY, Esq., Her Majesty's Attorney General for Hongkong.\n\nHONGKONG, 30th July, 1858.\n\nSIR,—In reply to your note of yesterday, accompanying the report on the Commission of Enquiry on Mr Caldwell I beg to inform you that after a careful perusal of the report I certainly concur in the opinion of the minority.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nJOHN RICKETT\n\nThe Hon'ble THOMAS C. ANSTEY, Esq., Her Majesty's Attorney General for Hongkong.\n\nHONGKONG, 30th July, 1858.\n\nDEAR SIR,—I beg to acknowledge your letter of yesterday's date, addressed to the Justices of the Peace of this Colony, and including copy of a report of the members of the Caldwell Commission. In replying to the request therein, whether I concurred with the minority or the majority of the Commission of Inquiry in the conclusion of the report, I beg to state that I agree with the minority, and after a careful perusal of the report in question am fully confirmed that Mr Caldwell is not fit to remain in the Commission of the Peace.\n\nI remain Dear Sir,\n\nYour's faithfully,\n\nJOHN DENT, J. P.\n\nThe Hon'ble T. C. ANSTEY, Esq., Her Majesty's Attorney General for Hongkong.\n\nAttorney General.—Do you consider that the Defendant intended any reflection on either of the Councils, in using the word Government?\n\nDr Bridges.—I understand it to include the Executive Council; properly speaking the Governor is the Government here.\n\nCourt.—You mean the Governor and the Executive Council?\n\nDr Bridges.—Yes.\n\nAttorney General.—You understand the word Government used by Mr Tarrant to refer to the Governor and the Executive Council?\n\nDr Bridges.—If I am to give a distinct answer, I think the libel is against Sir John Bowring as Governor, and myself as organ of the Government; but it is hard to say exactly where the Government is to be found in this Colony.\n\nAttorney General.—Why is it difficult to understand in this Colony?\n\nDr Bridges.—My experience has made it difficult. Since Sir John Bowring has been Governor, there have always been some persons possessing considerable influence with him, varying at different times; sometimes it was the Attorney General, sometimes it was not.\n\nAttorney General.—As the Defendant is called upon to prove the inducement, why do you consider a libel upon Sir John Bowring and yourself a seditious libel upon the Queen's Government?\n\nAttorney General.—The charge list goes home to Secretary of State by the mail which closes on the 16th; the Commission not issued till the 20th; charge communicated till after office hours on Saturday the 22nd; and the letter protesting against the correctness of charges not until the 24th. The Commission did not issue until the 27th of the same month. Would it not have been more correct to have said, that the charges were prepared by a person who had not brought the accusation?\n\nDr Bridges.—No. It was hard to say precisely where the charges were to be found in your communication. They were spread over a large space.\n\nResolved,\" That Mr Anstey is properly present at this meeting, as a Justice of the Peace.\" Moved,—By Mr Lyall, seconded by Mr Forth.\n\nThat a Committee be appointed to investigate the charges stated in the Government memorandum of the 7th instant, which (has been read) to have been brought by Mr Anstey against Mr Caldwell.\"\n\nTo which,—It was moved as an amendment, by Mr Pont, seconded by Mr Gibb, and—\n\nResolved,\" That the Justices, with all due respect to His Excellency, do not consider that they can enter into any examination of the charges brought against Mr Caldwell, as Registrar General.\"\n\nMr Anstey, Mr May, and Mr Inglis, did not vote on the above amendment, having previously stated that they declined to do so.\n\nAttorney General.—Were not the charges brought in part compiled from a letter addressed to Lord Stanley?\n\nDr Bridges.—Any distinct charge in the letter to Lord Stanley would have been included of course. The Commission was appointed because the Justices of the Peace refused to take the matter up, and His Excellency did feel that the Executive Council should undertake it, if so, as a dernier resort, a Commission was appointed.\n\nAttorney General. (Reads his letter submitting the whole matter to Lord Stanley.) Does not that letter show that the writer intended to accuse Sir John Bowring?\n\nThat the Chairman do communicate with His Excellency.—\n\nThe meeting then adjourned sine die.\n\nDr Bridges.—It is very difficult at all times to make out the drift of the Attorney General's letters, but it appeared to me to express a wish to change the tribunal by which Mr Caldwell should be tried; that is, by the Secretary of State.\n\n#\n\n\"Attorney General.—Was not a request for a Commission to inquire into charges against Sir John Bowring, preferred to the Government at home?\n\nDr Bridges.—No.\n\n(The Acting Attorney General agrees that the correspondence on this subject should be laid before the jury, and amongst them were the following:—\n\n\"Minutes of a special meeting of the Justices of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong, held at the Magistracy, on Wednesday, the 19th May, 1858.\n\nPresent, The Hon'ble St. G. Cleverly, Esq.\n\nCharles May, Esq.\n\nThe Hon'ble George Lyall, Esq.\n\nJohn D. Gibb, Esq.\n\nJohn Rickett, Esq.\n\nThe Hon'ble W. T. Bridges, Esq., D.C.L.\n\nAngus Fletcher, Esq.\n\nThe Hon'ble T. C. Anstey, Esq.\n\nJohn Scarth, Esq.\n\nThe Hon'ble H. T. Davies, Esq.\n\nA. L. Inglis, Esq.\n\nThe Hon'ble John Dent, Esq.\n\nF. Forth, Esq.\n\nThe Hon'ble H. Tudor Davies, Esq., having been voted to the Chair.\n\nRead,—Letter summoning the meeting.\n\nRead, Memorandum from His Excellency the Governor to the Acting Colonial Secretary (copy annexed).\n\nTo remove an objection suggested by Mr Anstey it was—\n\n(Signed) H. TUDOR DAVIES,\n\nChairman.\n\n(Copy of documents above referred to)\n\nI.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 17th May, 1858.\n\nSIR—I have the honor to forward herewith a memorandum which His Excellency the Governor directs me to transmit to you.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\n(Signed) W. T. BRIDGES,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Hon'ble the Chief Magistrate,\n\n&c., &c.,\n\n&c.\n\nII.\n\nMEMORANDUM.\n\nThe Hon'ble Chisholm Anstey, J.P., has brought against Mr Caldwell, J.P., sundry accusations of the very gravest character. These accusations were publicly made at a meeting of the Legislative Council on the 14th instant, and have also been the subject of a communication from Mr Anstey to the Acting Colonial Secretary, in which Mr Anstey desires his resignation as a Justice of the Peace may be accepted by the Governor, unless Mr Caldwell be removed.\n\nHis Excellency has not thought fit at present to allow Mr Anstey to withdraw, but has advised him that he will see that proper enquiry be made into the alleged criminality, and take such ulterior measures as circumstances may justify, and demand.\n\nAs these questions so intimately concern the administration of Justice, and the purity and integrity of the Magistrial Bench, His Excellency requests that the Justices of the Peace will promptly nominate a Committee of Investigation...",
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        "content_text": "897\n\nto the test Indies has been greater than those of any other of the great maritime Countries- and if Chinese Practitioners have been habitually excluded from bar thips but admitted in Foreign ships to some extent the fact may account for the excess of mortality which hitherto it has been so difficult to understand. In the latter of 20th ultimo received from Mr. Cave, the Chairman of the East India Committee, (enclosed in Mr. Elliot's letter of both instant) it is alleged, in reference to this subject, that in ships in which Chinese Doctors have been employed \n\nthe mortality has been less than where Foreign Surgeons were carried- that Mr. Angus, the Emigration Agent, has expressed a decided opinion that Chinese Doctors are better adapted to take charge of their countrymen than Europeans- that a European surgeon has necessarily great difficulty in communicating with a sick Chinese, and that the Chinese strongly object to being treated by \"Barbarians.\" Mr. Cave, therefore, thinks that this regulation, which they are he considers inconsistent with the Act of Parliament and the spirit of Lord Stanley's instruction, \n\nand which is calculated seriously to ...",
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        "content_text": "Su. 7. Rogen\n\n5. Dr. Gaertner for perforation of Warrant apporting\n\nBhi Connal\n\nFletcher\n\nIn Hercules Robinson.\n\nIn Duke of Newcastle\n\nInclosure.\n\nN: 148-\n\nReviewed\n\nPurporting Appointment\n\nFletcher\n\nof Mr. Angus unofficial Member\n\nof the Legislative Council.\n\nPage 384\n\n(Copy)\n\nSir,\n\nHongkong, 6th December, 1860.\n\nAs I propose leaving this for Europe by the Mail Steamer to sail on the 15th Instant, I have the honor to request that His Excellency the Governor will be pleased to accept my resignation of my appointment to a seat in the Legislative Council, as well as that to the office of Justice of the Peace for the Colony.\n\nThe Honorable\n\nM. I. Mercer,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n(Signed) Geo: Lyall\n\nPage 385\n\n(True copy),\n\nColonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "Mr Mercer\n\nTonghong 8: Jang. 1804.\n\nto\n\nThe Duke\n\nof\n\nNewenstle.\n\nNo 2. Inclosure.\n\nRevived\n\nForwarding Circular Prospectus issued by the\n\nCity Hall Committee\n\n22\n\nCIRCULAR.\n\nThe Provisional Committee for promoting the erection of a City Hall in Hongkong desire to report the progress that has been made, up to the close of the present year, in furthering the object for which they are associated.\n\nThe principal difficulty connected with this undertaking has been to procure a site that should be at once suitable for the purpose, and in the gift of Government; it being obvious that the present high value of Land within the limits of the City made it impossible that any sum of money, which the Committee could expect to command, would prove quite sufficient if ground had to be purchased.\n\nAn application for a site at the Western Corner of the Parade Ground, immediately under Messrs. A. Heard & Co.'s Office, was promptly and liberally conceded, but, before any formal grant of the Land had been made, it was fortunately discovered that difficulties, previously thought insuperable, to the occupation of the piece of ground now partially occupied by the Harbour Master's Office, were susceptible of removal; and the Committee have the satisfaction of stating that a recommendation for a grant of that site (undoubtedly the most eligible for the purposes of a City Hall in the whole Colony) has, with the approval of the Military Authorities, been forwarded by the local Government to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and that the position of the Drinking Fountain (presented to the City by Mr. John Dent, and now in course of erection) has been determined with special reference to the dimensions and situation of the proposed Building.\n\nThe space which, it is confidently hoped, will be thus placed at the disposal of the Committee will enable them to embrace in their scheme the following accommodation:\n\nI. A Public Hall, to be called the St. Andrew's Hall, in acknowledgment of a sum of Five thousand Dollars, which has been voted to the undertaking from the surplus Funds of the late St. Andrew's School. This room will be available for Public Meetings, Public Dinners, Balls, Concerts and other public purposes.\n\nII. A Supper Room adjoining the Hall, and which, together with the Hall, can be used, when not specially required for other purposes, as an Exchange.\n\nIII. A room for the Chamber of Commerce, where files of Newspapers, Prices Current, Books of Commercial reference and Telegrams will be open to the use of Subscribers to that Institution.\n\nIV. A Public Library for the objects stated by the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society in their printed Circular of the 1st May last.\n\nV. A permanent Theatre, which will encourage visits to Hongkong by musical and histrionic artists from other parts of the East, and will obviate the necessarily heavy and unsatisfactory outlay which the frequent erection of temporary Theatres has hitherto entailed.\n\nThe remainder of the space will be absorbed by the Harbour Master's Office, which will be removed from its present position to one appropriated for it in the North Eastern angle of the intended building, in accordance with the proposal submitted by the Committee to Government for permission to use the site which that office at present partially occupies.\n\nFinished plans have not yet been prepared, and it is proposed that, at the proper time, they should be thrown open to competition, but the Committee have satisfied themselves that the space they have applied for will be ample for carrying out the various objects enumerated above on a scale which will render the intended edifice an ornament to the City, a convenience to the public, and in every way worthy of a Colony whose rapid growth and progress are the surest proofs of its wealth, enterprise and prosperity.\n\nThe urgency of the want that exists for a Public Building of this nature need scarcely be dilated on. Without diverting the Club House from its legitimate uses, at a great sacrifice of the convenience of its members, there is not in the length and breadth of the City a suitable room which can be commanded for any object of general or social interest. The difficulties that attended the Inauguration Dinner of the Volunteers, the abandonment last winter of a Masonic Ball for want of a room to hold it in, and the disadvantages to which the professional Artists at present here are exposed, are a few instances amongst very many of the inconvenience occasioned by the want of a City Hall, a want, the Committee believe, which is not shared by any other foreign Community of equal importance East of the Cape, a want which has been recently supplied at Singapore and which they trust will not be allowed much longer to serve as an indication of an absence of public spirit in Hongkong.\n\nThe preservation of the valuable collections of Books in the care of the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society, and which are threatened with decay for want of a proper place of deposit, is an object which especially commends itself as a matter of public import in a region so remote from the great centres of civilization, and where the want of standard works of reference and solid instruction makes itself continually felt.\n\nIn reference to the important question of Funds, the Committee are glad to be able to announce that they have actually in hand a sum of upwards of Fifteen Thousand Dollars, which is expected to be increased to upwards of Twenty Thousand Dollars by a Donation from the Chamber of Commerce. This amount, which has been collected from various sources without any appeal having yet been made to the Community generally, falls, however, obviously short of what will be required for the purposes contemplated, and the Committee trust that further contributions will be liberally and spontaneously tendered in support of the undertaking. Old residents, in retiring from the Colony may perhaps adopt the example of some who have preceded them and evince their interest in its progress and in the well-being of their successors by a contribution to the Fund. The payment of interest on the Canton claims also affords an opportunity for Donations of sums of no great importance individually, but which in the aggregate would materially assist the common object.\n\nThe Provisional Committee in concluding their present report, have thankfully to acknowledge the receipt of various amounts from Mr. John Dent, Mr. C. F. Still, Mr. Edward Webb, the late Mr. Angus Fletcher, the Choral Society of Hongkong, and the Trustees of the St. Andrew's School. Further Subscriptions will be received by either of the Trustees, Messrs. TURING, NOBLE and OWEN.\n\nA. TURING.\n\nH. NOBLE.\n\nR. C. R. OWEN.\n\nC. W. MURRAY,\n\nW. H. RENNIE.\n\nE. H. POLLARD.\n\nHongkong, 31st December, 1863.",
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        "content_text": "STRAITS TIMES OVERLAND JOURNAL.\n\nto the 8th current, anchored in the bett, from Hongkong with dates to roads yesterday evening.\n\nTae following appears in yester- day's Government Gazette:-\n\nthe 5th instant anchored in the roads this morning.\n\nfrequent plaudits of the audience. A very amusing dramatical piece entitled \"The Irish Lion\" was well performed by the Scholars, after which a large number of prizes were distributed, the Revd. Mr. Beure presenting them. Her Majesty has been pleased to recognize the appointment of Mr. Tanish Kim Ching as Consul for Siam at Singapore.\n\nthe 12th, arrived at New Harbour at noon yesterday.\n\nThe meeting held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, was very numerously attended; the following gentlemen being among those present.\n\nT. Dagmas\n\nJ. Cameron\n\nJ. Scott M.D.\n\nJ. S. Atchison Paquire.\n\nJ. Sorry, Regaire.\n\nE. S. Sherwood\n\nWatson\n\nB. Rodger\n\nJ. Teson\n\nPestonjee\n\nSeah Bu Chin\n\nJ. Purvin\n\nR. C. Wooda\n\nT. Hewetson\n\nJ. Winte\n\nT. Armstrong\n\nM. Little\n\nG. Angus\n\nW. B. George\n\nF. D. Cobb\n\nW. Manford\n\nP. Fagin\n\nC. Mozea\n\nJ. D'Almeida\n\nA. Brennand\n\nT. Scott\n\nA. O. Meyer\n\nP. W. Auchu..\n\nJ. Bennet\n\nT. O. Criss\n\nJ. S. Seryeogoo\n\nJan Berwick\n\nJ. Q. Devidson\n\nA. Bernard\n\nA. Velga\n\nA. Lethem\n\nRheiner\n\nC. Enicarsen\n\nA. Wagner\n\nThe meeting was of a preliminary nature, and a committee composed of the following gentlemen was appointed for the purposes mentioned in the resolution.\n\nWednesday, 16th December. The Annual Examination of the Pupils of St. Joseph's Academy took place yesterday evening and terminated at 11 o'clock at night.\n\nThe Examination of the pupils under the charge of the Lady Superioress and Sisters of Charity, was held yesterday at the Convent and did credit to the untiring exertions of those under whose management this establishment is so ably conducted.\n\nThe Annual Examination of the Girls Department of the Singapore Institution Schools under Mrs. Audel's superintendence took place yesterday.\n\nPenang, from Mr. G. W. Earl, on the 8th Instant.\n\nThe following Gentlemen will form the Board of Municipal Commissioners, under Section XI. of Act XVII of 1863, at Penang, for the year 1864:\n\nThe Resident Councillor, President ex-Officio.\n\nCaptain William Somerville Mitchell, appointed by the Governor to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nMr. Lawrence Nairne, appointed by election to hold Office for 3 years.\n\nMr. Steward Herriot, appointed by election to Office for 2 years.\n\nMr. George Macfarlane Sandilands, appointed by election to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nThe subjects of examination embraced Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, Geometry; a few sentences in French were translated and some speeches made. The pupils seemed to have attained considerable proficiency—the younger boys generally displaying more intelligence than their elders. Altogether this examination reflects great credit on the teachers, the Christian Brothers.\n\nThe exhibition, as advertised, takes place to-morrow evening at 6 o'clock.\n\nThe number of pupils in attendance, 55, of whom 33 were boarders, was more than double that at any previous examination, and testifies to the able manner in which the School has been conducted during the past year, and to its present flourishing condition.\n\nAfter the Examination a number of premiums were distributed.\n\nThe progress exhibited by the girls in their studies and their excellent department, together with their very neat appearance, attracted considerable attention and justified the commendations of the Examiners.\n\nUpon the satisfactory management of Mrs. Anderson. Many of the pupils are orphans and it is to be hoped that this great charity will be properly supported by the Government.\n\nThat the following Gentlemen form a Committee for the purpose of collecting information regarding the finances, resources, and commerce of the Straits Settlements, and that if expedient they put themselves in communication with Commissioners appointed by Her Majesty's Government to report upon the proposed Transfer.\n\nJoaquin D'Almeida, Esq.\n\nR. Little, M.D.\n\nA. Logan,\n\nH. Simons,\n\nA. O. Meyer,\n\nThos. Scott,\n\nJohn Cameron,\n\nR. C. Wade\n\nThe meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the Chairman, Mr. Joaquin D'Almeida.\n\nMonday, 14th December.\n\nH. M. Steamer Henriette, Captain Schul from Delhi with dates to the 8th instant, arrived in the harbour yesterday.\n\nThe Swedish bark Charlotte, Captain Mellender, from Hongkong 24th Nov., passed through the Harbour yesterday bound to Bombay and requested to be reported.\n\n\"I have this out nearly 47 and think it is to be studied is to keep the head well protected from the sun. I estimate it as good as perhaps better than that of Europe, particularly for an old man, if care is taken to keep the head protected from the sun, and ale hat is not made use of too freely.\"\n\nThe same paper says:-\n\n\"A schooner from Acheen reports that the port was lately visited by a Dutch steamer, the commander of which endeavoured, without success, to prevail on the Rajah to give him a friendly letter addressed to his Government.\"\n\nThursday, 17th December. The British Steamer Amoy, Captain Salwery, from Shanghai, anchored in the roads last night. Another of Captain Osborne's fleet arrived this morning.\n\nFriday, 18th December.\n\nWe take the following from the Government Gazette of yesterday:\n\nThe following Gentlemen will form the Board of Municipal Commissioners, under Section XI. of Act XVII of 1863, at Singapore, for the year 1864:\n\nThe Resident Councillor, President, ex-Officio.\n\nCaptain Jasper Mayne, Royal Engineers, appointed by the Governor to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nMr. Robert Carr Wood, appointed by election to hold Office for 3 years.\n\nMr. Robert Little, appointed by election to hold Office for 2 years.\n\nMr. Henry Minchin Simons, appointed by election to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nThe following Gentlemen will form the Board of Municipal Commissioners, under Section XI. of Act XVII at 1863, at Malacca, for the year 1864:\n\nThe Resident Councillor, President ex-Officio.\n\nMr. Charles Evans, appointed by the Governor to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nMr. Thomas Neubronner, appointed by election to hold Office for 3 years.\n\nMr. See Booatong, appointed on failure of election to hold Office for 2 years.\n\nMr. Kuh Seng Hoon, appointed on failure of election to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nMonday, 21st December. The British steamer United Service, Captain Give, from Bombay with dates to the 2nd instant, anchored in the roads yesterday morning.\n\nThe P. and O. Company's steamer Orissa, Captain Parish, from Hongkong with dates to the 15th instant, arrived in the roads last night.\n\nThe Messageries Imperiales steamer Tigre, Captain Deslondes, with the Marseilles mail of the 19th and the London mail of the 17th arrived at New Harbour this morning.\n\nThe Dutch steamer Koningen der Nederlanden, Captain Lewis, from Batavia with dates to the 17th instant anchored in the roads last night.\n\nCAPTAIN LEWIS of the Koningen, reports, that on the 17th December at 4 while Steaming N. N. W. South Watches bearing N. distance about 8 miles, they saw a steamer to the Southwards, to pass to the E. of South Watchers.\n\nHis Honor the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments as a temporary measure, with effect from the 30th ult:\n\nMr. E. J. Westerhout, to officiate as Police Magistrate, Commissioner of the Court of Requests, and Assistant Resident Councillor, Malacca.\n\nThe examination of the Institution and Schools took place yesterday, commencing at 11 a.m. and terminating at 3 o'clock.\n\nThe British barque Couranto bound to this port and now considerably overdue, was spoken by the Hamburg barque Emily on the 21st of last month in Banka Straits.\n\nThe appearance of the Verandahs throughout the principal thoroughfares at the present time, does not seem to indicate a desire on the part of the tenants and proprietors of the houses to comply with the Municipal Notification issued three months ago.\n\nTuesday, 15th December.\n\nMr. E. J. Westerhout, to officiate as Deputy Commissioner of Police at Malacca.\n\nAs they approached nearer, she proved to be a three-masted barque or rigged vessel, black, long and low in the water, particularly in her lower masts. When close to, she suddenly altered her course to W. and hoisted French colours.\n\nWith reference to Government Notification No. 166, dated 27th November 1863, Captain W. S. Mitchell received charge of the Chief of Police and Assistant Resident Councillor.\n\nThe examination concluded with the distribution of prizes.\n\nSaturday, 19th December.\n\nH. M. 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        "content_text": "# Na Kong Extradition \n\nNo. 3. \n7.3.11694 \nMacDonnell. \n023 \n\nbris. to Liv R. M. 20 \ndee. \nJuf- to M. Miven 26 du. \n\nSi Tozer & du \nDu \nMr. Forster 11. \nMufardwell 12 \n\nA \nJacing \nJacims desiatites \n\nMe mein of a #Juhts at an trume cated in the \n1.96. #Juhts Ute \n7.115.1 Aug 11.130. 26 aut taping lan no13h. 9 Sept.\" recited the. h.138. 20 Syfor 2ttention.. \n\nThan Theauther \ndeapt puratie & M. Harried – \nanaus. \n8/12 \n97 \nH \nako \nanaed \n3557/67 \n(Copy to I. O.26 \n\ntrong động \n323 \nDowning \n26 December 1865. \n\nYou are informed that the attention of Her Majesty's Government has been drawn to the mode in which effect shall be given to the 2nd Section of the Treaty of Tien Tsin relating to the delivery to the Chinese Authorities of ...",
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        "content_text": "359\n\n#\n\nFletcher\n\nTrustees of the estate of Angus Fletcher to the following effect : \"That this Excellency the Governor had decided to resume a portion of marine lot No.21 for the improvement of the Colony on the 10th January 187... Such portion of land his Excellency believes is between the buildings now erected on lot No 21 and the ground now occupied by the Commissariat registered in the Name of War Department, and extends from the Queen's Road to the sea.\n\n#\n\nIt may here be necessary to point out what is between the two passage buildings referred to in the above notice, the space of 6 feet from the Commissariat to the Eastward is War Department grounds and therefore cannot be appropriated by the Colonial Government. There are also other important considerations by which the Major General is desirous of calling the attention of His Excellency the Governor.\n\n0\n\nIn reply to paragraph ... of your letter. The construction of a pier or landing place for the use of the Public (are doubt chiefly Chinese) being introduced nearly opposite the centre of the War Department Buildings, to the serious annoyance of the whole of the Offices belonging to the Military Departments, when offices Commissariat Building is a measure to which the Major General desires to record his very strong objection.\n\nThe close proximity of a landing...",
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        "content_text": "## 321\n\nHe appeared to be leaning against a staunchion or something. I couldn't see him distinctly; he was dressed in dark clothes. I cannot say where he was standing. Heard no hail from the Bombay, nor from the other ship. I did not watch the other vessel for any time - not for three minutes. Before I went forward to the forecastle, I could just see her astern of us as I turned round to go to the forecastle. When I last saw her, she was not half a ship's length astern of us. I could have seen her hull further off than a mile. I heard no gun, and I saw no flash of a gun from the other ship at any time. I saw no signals from her of any sort. If any had been made I could not have seen them, as I was over the bows. I did not think the other vessel was very much hurt. I had not time to see whether she was or not when I left.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG - My post is on the forecastle when coming into harbour. My duty is to assist in looking out, and stand by the anchors. When I first saw the steamer I think she was about a mile off. I couldn't say exactly. I saw three lights first. I saw the mast head, the green and the red lights. I looked out from the centre of the forecastle. I could tell that she was on our port bow about half a point. I saw her red light shut out. At that time she was perhaps about four or five ship's lengths ahead of us. I don't remember if the green light was shut out before the collision, or not. I went to the stern of the vessel to avoid the debris. I didn't see the 2nd and the 4th officers, and don't know where they were. I was standing on the poop ladder. I had hold of the poop rail when the collision took place. It was not a strong shock. The ships separated immediately after the collision. I could not feel any recoil on our own vessel; it appeared to go straight on. The other vessel was on our starboard side. Her bows were bearing off, and she presented her starboard quarter to us. As she passed, I saw a light through her hull where the breach was made. I cannot say how large a piece was broken out. The hole may have been a little larger than a port. It was larger fore and aft than it was up and down. I should think it looked about 6 to 8 feet long fore and aft. Up and down it may have been 6 feet. I saw a man apparently leaning up against something through this hole. I could not see his legs. I saw a light, but I did not see a lamp from which it came. I saw a portion of a table. I saw nothing on that table. I think it looked red. I saw nothing else. The man was further off than the table. I don't know whether the light was over or at the side of the table. Cannot say how far the bottom of the breach appeared to be above the water. I didn't see the wheel. Where I was standing was about 20 feet abaft the bridge. My position was lower than the bridge. I was on the spar deck, just about 12 feet abaft the funnel when I saw what I have now described. I stood about the middle of the deck, being on my way forward. Did not lean over the bulwarks. The bridge is about 10 feet higher than the deck on which I was standing. The ship was right abeam of us, as I stood looking at her, the life-boat of the Bombay just abreast of me. I saw under the life-boat; there was nothing but the life-boat between me and the bridge. I don't know of any reason why a person standing on the bridge could not have seen the same things as I did. I saw only one man there. I saw no one else on the vessel at all. I saw nothing knocked over or broken off the other vessel. I did not see if she had a smoke stack or not. I did not see them clew up sail. When she was abreast or nearly abeam of our quarter, I heard an order given calling all hands to shorten sail; soon afterwards I lost sight of her. I went forward, and looked over the bows to see what our own damage was. I saw a gaff lying fore and aft of the bowsprit, mizen boom hanging up and down, leaning against the flakes of our anchor, and the sail hanging over our topmast staff. I found our bobstay gone. I saw the figure head was all gone, and the stern; but I could not see low down as it was so dark. I saw the spar in our stem before we were anchored; but I cannot say at what time I saw it. I did not think the other vessel was seriously injured because I saw her upper works were gone. I did not report to any one on board that I heard the order to shorten sail. I did not tell any one about the hole in the side of the ship; nor that I had seen the table and the man. I saw a man's body, but not his legs. He seemed to be still; but I could not see whether he was in uniform or not. I cannot say whether the place I saw looked like a cabin. It appeared to be in the upper part of her. It might have been a poop saloon; and it appeared to me so. The man was abaft the table - say three or four feet back. I did not notice if the man had his hat on or not. I never mentioned to any one what I saw.\n\nI was employed all the time, and too busy to speak to any one, and no one spoke to me.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD. - I did not notice whether there was a poop on the other vessel. I know the light came from a broken place. I cannot be certain whether that broken place was above or below the spar deck. There is a screen on either side of the bridge of the Bombay, to keep the side lights out of the officers' eyes. I should think the top of the screens extend close on five feet above the bridge. You cannot see the lights from the bridge. You cannot see over the lights - it obstructs the view directly abeam of it. I could look abaft it, and I don't think my view would be obstructed by the light, but I cannot say. The life-boat is hoisted about five feet above the deck - the keel would be say 18 inches above the rail. I was never on the bridge when the side lights were burning. I saw only one light on the other ship. I saw no signals and heard no guns. I occupy the same berth as the carpenter, but I do not believe that I mentioned anything that I had seen to him. The carpenter said nothing to me about what he had seen.\n\nTo the Court - Looking under the boat, I could have seen the toprope of the other ship if it was there. The side lights are on the fore corner of the bridge. The light-screens are about two feet wide.\n\n(Signed) WILLIAM HERBERT,\n\nI \n\nDAVID DIRRELL, Sworn, states: - I am a quarter-master of the Bombay. My duty is to heave the lead. A little before the collision I was waiting ready to heave the lead. I did not see the other vessel while so waiting. I didn't see the other vessel before the collision. I heard the gong amidships when the collision took place. I then ran forward just to the break of the forecastle. When I got there I saw a vessel under sail, clear of us on the starboard bow. I then ran aft to assist the man at the wheel. After I got aft I heard some one on board the other vessel sing out \"steamer ahoy.\" The second officer answered \"Hallo.\" We got no answer back. Then the second and fourth officers both sung out upwards of half a dozen times. The second officer leaned over the port quarter listening for a reply. I was standing on the starboard quarter. We heard no reply whatever. After the collision we could see the hull of the other vessel, but not distinctly. She must have been half a ship's length off and passing us very quickly. At the time I did not notice that she was damaged. I did not see a hole in her. I saw a light which I supposed to be her binnacle light. It was shining aft, towards her taffrail. The light did not show me anything.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD. - I did not see the flash of a gun, or hear the report of one from the other vessel. I was watching towards the vessel for about a quarter of an hour after the collision, in order that I might see a signal if any were made; but I saw none. I could not see if she had any boats or not. I saw she was a steamer after she had passed us. I saw white water, as if the screw were revolving. Did not see her clew up her sails; but heard some one on board sing out, \"shorten sail.\" That was as she passed us.\n\nI did not answer their hail, but the 2nd and 4th officers and the quartermaster did.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG. - I heard \"steamer ahoy\" twice from the other vessel. The cries were called twice, one after the other. The quartermaster and second officer also called \"Hallo.\" The answer was given about a dozen times, but no reply came to any of our answers. The second-class passenger was standing by me. When the collision occurred, it seemed to me that the vessel had grazed along the shore. It didn't make me stagger or step forward or anything. When I saw the hull after colliding, I was at the break of the forecastle, and the other vessel was a half ship's length from us. I ran forward to see what the other vessel was. I wanted to see what was to be seen. I was not there three minutes. When I saw the other vessel going aft, I went aft to assist at the wheel. I did not see any person on board. The binnacle light I saw was aft, on her stern. I looked at her from our stern. I could see her masthead light for some time - at least I thought it was her masthead light; as I saw the glimmer on the sails. I judged it was a binnacle light, as I thought it would be the place for a binnacle light. I could see the binnacle light some distance astern.\n\n(Signed) DAVID DIRRELL\n\nAdjourned until 9 A.M.\n\n## FIFTH DAY\n\nTUESDAY, 1ST FEBRUARY, 1870\n\nProceedings resumed 9 A.M. 1st February, 1870.\n\nJAMES KEITH ANGUS, sworn, states. I was a passenger on board the S.S. Bombay at the time of the collision between her and another vessel on the 24th January. I was standing at the foot of the poop ladder with the Chief Engineer on the port side of the ship between 6 and 7 P.M. The Chief Engineer made a remark that there was a steamer coming down. Shortly after he said, \"where's the steamer? there'll be a smash,\" or words to that effect. Looking forward, I saw some dark object straight ahead of us; and I seized hold of the rail of the poop steps. Immediately after that a crash came - a very slight crash indeed. I ran across toward the starboard side and I had not got quite to the other side when a ship passed very quickly. Nearly immediately after that I went upon the poop and to the stern, close to the taffrail to see if there was any signal made from her, and to gratify my curiosity. I saw nothing more of the ship; and I saw no signals.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD. - I should say that if any one on board had heard or seen signals I could have. I noticed the vessel as she was passing. I really could not say how distant she was from us while passing. She was not very far off. I think I watched her intently. I did see a slight breakage - at least it appeared to me to be so, as if something had carried away. She appeared to me to look like the English gunboat Dove which has a poop. The slight breakage I saw was at the top of this poop. I noticed no object such as a man or men at this breakage. I saw no portion of the debris in the water. I could not tell whether the breakage was of a boat or of the poop. I saw the glare of light, but I could not see a distinct light. I did not think what the light was; it might have been the flashing of a port or any other light. I heard \"steamer ahoy\" called from the other ship. I can't say if this was answered. I did not hear any answer. After the collision, I remained nearly five minutes at the stern. I could not see the vessel at the end of that time. The commander was on the bridge with the pilot and Chief officer at the time of collision. She was under sail and steam. I saw the sails and I saw the propeller moving.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG. - I came on shore shortly after the ship anchored. I was in the boat with the Pilot. I did not remark to the Pilot that I thought we should have remained by that ship. Mr. Watson was in the boat with me. I did not take notice that he made such a remark. I went to my house at No. 4, directly I had landed. I have talked about the collision since I arrived at Yokohama. I have never stated anything further than I have now said. I could not say whether the light appeared to emanate from the breach - as the ship passed me the light did not appear to me to come from any particular place, it passed so quickly. I could not describe the size of the breach I saw in the other ship; the vessel passed so quickly.\n\nCertainly, it did not look to be as large as a ship's boat; it appeared to me to be on the top of the poop. I only heard \"steamer ahoy\" called once. I heard no other voice from the other vessel. I did not hear her steam whistle go. I heard no report of a gun and saw no flash. I heard \"steamer ahoy\" called before I went on the poop, when I ran across to the starboard side; the vessel just passed at that moment. When I commenced to ascend the poop steps, I should say the vessel must have been at our stern; when I looked over the side the other vessel had nearly but not quite passed the point where I was standing. I ran directly from the side of the ship up the poop ladder, and to the stern.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD. In going up the poop ladder I should probably take hold of the railing at any time as the ladder is steep. The shock was not strong enough to have thrown me down, and I do not think that it would have staggered me even though I had not been holding on to anything.\n\nTo the Court. I don't think I saw the hull of the other vessel before I got actually to the starboard side, but I saw her sails. I may have stood a minute or a minute and a half before going up the poop steps. I did not think that the other vessel had sustained any serious injury. The impression left on my mind after what I saw was that we had merely grazed her and knocked in her bulwarks or something of that kind; the breach did not appear to me to be like a large hole in the ship's side which would endanger her safety. I saw the 2nd and 4th officers on the poop. I cannot say exactly when I first noticed them, but when I did they were standing near the forward compass. I know Capt. Eyre and know him to be a kind and humane man. I heard the result of the collision next morning I think. I was very much surprised when I heard that she had gone down.\n\n(Signed) J. KEITH ANGUS,\n\nSAMUEL DENTON, sworn, states. I am a Quartermaster on board the Bombay. At the time of the collision I was on watch at the wheel. Before the collision, I heard the gong of the engine-room sound; I think this was between two and three minutes before the collision. I was in charge of the wheel. Before the collision I got an order to alter the helm; this order was before I heard the engine-room gong - perhaps a minute or two before. The order to me was \"hard a port.\" I kept it hard a port a little over three minutes perhaps four minutes. There was no order to steady the helm after the order to port. The helm was put from hard a port to hard a starboard without steadying. We have a telegraph to tell us how to steer. The first order by the telegraph was hard a port, and I kept the helm hard a port till the order came \"hard a starboard,\" when I put it hard a starboard. This was immediately preceding the collision. I had only one order to port the helm.",
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        "content_text": "322\n\nI could only hear the gong strike once. The order to port the helm was spoken and telegraphed at the same time. There was no order given to steady the helm after I had ported it, nor was there a second order to port the helm. I kept the helm hard a port until the order was given to hard a starboard; and the helm was hard starboard at the time the collision took place. I had been on watch from four o'clock. I can't say whether I had received an order to port the helm, a little before the order which I have referred to or not. The night was dark; I could just distinguish a man from one side of the vessel to the other. \n\nTo Mr. DE LONG. About three minutes before the collision, I heard the engine gong strike and could tell by the vibration that the engines were stopped. It was before I heard the bell that I got the order to port the helm; it was perhaps a minute or a minute and a-half before; perhaps it was two minutes and a-half after I had heard the bell that I got the order to hard a starboard. I immediately obeyed the order. It took about half a minute to change the helm from hard a port to hard a starboard, so that the vessel could feel it; it was about three minutes after I heard the engine-room bell, that the vessels came together. I could not say what course we were steering when I got the order to port, or how the wheel was. I know it was not hard a port or hard a starboard. I only saw the mast-head light before the collision. I should think it was about four or five minutes before the collision that I saw the mast-head light; it bore a little on the port side. I saw it for three or four seconds, and then I did not see it any more. The helm was steady when I first saw the light; it remained steady until I received the order hard a port. I didn't feel the shock of the collision much; didn't feel anything of it. I couldn't hear much crashing as I was right aft. I heard \"steamer ahoy\" sung out from the other vessel twice, one after the other. These shouts were after the vessel got astern. I answered the hail; I said \"halloo,\" the hail was said twice before I could give any answer; the 2nd and 4th officers also answered. I did not hear the steam whistle of the other vessel. I heard no guns from the other vessel. Didn't see the flash of any guns. I heard an order to shorten sail given on the other vessel but no other order. I didn't see anything done in obedience to that order. I didn't see any person on board the other ship. I did not observe anything particular on the other ship. I saw a boat or a part of a boat, but I could not distinguish what it was. I mean by a part a broken portion of a boat: this was either on the poop or hanging to the davits on the vessel's side. I cannot say I saw anything like a breach in the poop or side of the other vessel. I saw a light that came through a port, or something; it appeared to me to be a square port about 18 inches or it might have been more each way. I saw no other light than that one. I couldn't look through that light and didn't see into the vessel.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD.—I did not report that I had heard the order to shorten sail; we answered the call in a loud tone of voice; and the wind was with my voice.\n\nTo the COURT.--My duty at the wheel is to see that the vessel is steered straight. It is my duty to see that the ship is kept on her course when an order is given to steady. I look at the compass to see how her head is. I couldn't tell what course we were steering ten minutes before the collision. I think it was somewhere from N. to N. N. W. I don't know how her head was when she struck the Oneida.\n\n(Signed)  \nSAMUEL DENTON.\n\nJOHN WILKINSON, sworn, states—I am 2nd engineer of the Bombay. I was on watch in the engine room at the time of collision. I stopped the engine; this was a minute or a minute and a half before I felt the collision. The next order after that was go ahead easy—as near as I could judge, perhaps four to five minutes elapsed between these two orders. I keep a log-book; there is a slate in the engine room, for incidents of the watch. A rough log is made up from the slate; and this again re-copied into the chief engineer's log. I made those entries on the slate about ten minutes after stopping; it may have been a little longer after; it was about 8 o'clock that evening that I made the entries in the rough log. The collision was light. I did not know it was a collision until we stopped; it took about half a minute to stop the engines. The chief engineer came into the engine room just as I was stopping the engine. The engine bilge pumps are always at work.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG—I have brought the rough log with me, this is it. (Produced) Extract.  \n| Time | Order |\n|------|-------|\n| About | Stop 6.15 |\n| About | Easy ahead 6.19 |\n|  | Full speed 6.21 |\n\nWe were going I suppose eight knots before the collision. The collision occurred about half a minute after we had stopped. I cannot judge well of the speed of the vessel. I should say that one minute after the engines are stopped, the speed of the ship would be reduced by one-half. I was present when the above entry was made in that book, but I didn't do it myself; the fourth engineer made it. Those two words \"about,\" were entered at the same time, and by the same person I believe. I should say that a vessel going at eight knots would be almost stopped four minutes after her engines were stopped.\n\nTo the COURT.—There is a clock in the engine room. It is at my back as I stand to alter the engines. I felt a light shock at the time of the collision. And I felt a rebound of our vessel. It was after the ship was under weigh going full speed ahead, that I entered the above extract on the slate. The time thereon noted is to the best of my judgment; but I did not look at the clock on receiving the order to stop or easy ahead, or full speed. I should say that I made the entries on the slate about five minutes after the order full speed was given. And this must have been at about half-past 6 o'clock; generally an order to \"stand by\" is given before an order to alter the engines is received. In this instance, there was no order to stand by.\n\n(Signed)  \nJOHN WILKINSON.\n\nROBERT SMITH, Sworn, states.—I am bed-room steward of the Bombay. I and the carpenter were pacing the deck forward on the port side just before the collision. I saw the sails of the other vessel. I don't know when the collision took place. I don't remember feeling it at all. The carpenter said there was a collision, and I ran aft that I might not get hurt. I went into the saloon almost immediately after leaving the break of the poop. I saw a light on the other ship, or a square place for the light. Before entering the saloon, didn't notice any other light. Could see the smoke from her funnel. I have no idea how far she was off when I saw her. I saw the foam of the water astern as if her screw was going on. I saw no signals from the other vessel. I heard some one sing out \"Halloo\" on board our ship. I couldn't see what had happened on board the other vessel. I could not distinguish anything to speak of on board the other vessel. I was standing alongside the carpenter; the carpenter and I both ran aft together. I don't know if the carpenter was called away, or if he was standing on the deck when I went below. I don't remember speaking to the carpenter; there was only one first class gentleman passenger.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG—There was one second class passenger. I believe his name is Watson. I am not certain if I saw a table in the other ship. I don't know if I did. I couldn't say what I saw exactly on board the other vessel. I didn't see a lamp but I saw a light. I have no idea what size the place from which the light issued appeared to be. I have seen our own ships with gangway ports. I didn't know but what this might have been a gangway port. I can't tell if I thought it was a gangway port or not; all I can say is that it was a light. I should think that what I saw such as a table or something must have been between decks. I can't tell whether I saw what I thought to be a table with a cloth on it or not. I didn't notice if I saw a chair. I didn't see a chair, nor nothing. I fancy I saw two or three men where I saw the light; or rather part of men. Men standing up. I didn't notice what they were doing. I saw something like wood in the water, but I don't know what it was; whether it was a boat or not I can't say. At the time I saw the light I was standing at the break of the poop. I have no idea how far this is abaft the bridge. I don't know whether I or the carpenter left the place first. I heard no shout from the other ship. I didn't hear her steam whistle go. I heard no gun, saw no flash as from any gun. I only heard \"halloa\" sung out once before I went into the saloon. I did not report what I had seen to any of the officers of the ship.\n\n(Signed)  \nROBERT SMITH.\n\nProceedings resumed at 1 P.M.  \nAUBREY HAMERTON, 3rd officer, re-called, sworn,\n\nTo Mr. De LONG—I came ashore with the mail. I went into a hotel while ashore, with the chief steward. I don't know Mr. Curtis or Mr. Hiltz. I did not give an account of this collision in the hotel. I was asked about it but said I didn't know. I didn't hear the steward say anything about it. I did not make a statement that we had run into any vessel. One gentleman did ask me if we had stopped to see what damage had been done to the other vessel. I believe my answer was that we had stopped and nothing else. I don't remember being asked why we hadn't enquired into the damage sustained by the other vessel. I did say, \"there was the mistake,\" or words to that effect. I did not say that the \"Bombay's\" bows went into the Oneida, and the I could see some of the officers removing a man hurt by the collision, as I supposed, but that we did not stop but made the best of our way to Yokohama roads. I did not use any language to that effect; all I said was, that it was a mistake.\n\nTo THE COURT.—I did not say to the Captain or any of the other officers at any time, that it was a mistake not to have stopped; it was to a question that was asked me that I replied \"there was the mistake.\" It was a casual answer that I gave, and the fact of its having been a mistake not to have waited did not strike me until the question had been asked me. I think the question asked me was \"why did you not stop by the ship.\" I couldn't say if the answer was made in reply to a question which was put in a manner to make me think that my interrogator was finding fault with me. I did not in that hotel give an account of the circumstances of the collision. I don't know who the person who asked me the question was. I was about three to five minutes at the hotel.\n\n(Signed)  \nAUBREY HAMERTON.\n\nARTHUR T. WATSON, sworn, states: I was on board the \"Bombay\" on the evening of the 24th instant; a collision took place on that day. I don't know at what time. I did not witness that collision; I was not on deck but on the main deck at the time of the collision. I didn't know there had been a collision. I felt a slight shock which made me think we had struck on a sand bank. After feeling the shock I ran on to the poop. I saw from the poop a vessel passing us very rapidly; she was quite close. When I saw her she had all her sails set, and her screw was revolving very rapidly. I could see that a place—I suppose you call it the quarter, near the rudder, was cut away; the only thing I caught sight of was what I thought to be a table. I immediately ran abaft the wheel to see what would become of her, and suddenly thought I saw her mast-head light as if she was turning back again to come into harbour. I then ran forward and said, \"Oh she's coming up behind.\"—That is all I have to say. I can't say where what I thought to be a table was—it was not on the upper deck, it appeared to be in the interior of the vessel. In order to have seen it I must have looked through a hole in the vessel of some kind or other. I did not pay particular attention to that hole; it was so sudden, one couldn't do so. It did not occur to me that the hole was an unusually large one. I did not notice the shape of the hole; it was a table that I saw; I saw the legs as I thought; I did not notice the top of the table. I did not see any person or figure of a man near the table. I could not distinguish that any part of the ship was broken; the hole which I saw was a breach in the vessel's side. I cannot give any idea of how large it was. I watched the vessel out of sight. I heard no gun. I saw no flash of a gun. I saw no rocket go up, nor a blue light burned; I had no signal been made, I think I could have seen it from the position where I was. When I thought I saw the mast-head light I didn't notice any coloured lights. I have not been employed at sea. It was through the place which was cut away that the light came. I did not notice whether she had a poop. I didn't see her wheel. I saw nothing fall from that ship into the water. I saw a few broken splinters in the water. I did not notice if she had any boats or not; never having been to sea before I thought it strange we didn't stop. I can't say whether I asked anyone on board why we hadn't stopped. I didn't ask the Captain why we hadn't stopped, nor the chief nor second officer. I can't say that I asked an officer why we had not stopped. We were speaking about the occurrence afterwards on board, and I may have said what I saw. I can't say whether it was on board that we were speaking of what had happened. I can't recollect who were present. When we were talking the only opinion I passed was—that I thought it strange we didn't stop. What I saw did not lead me to believe that she was dangerously damaged. I should certainly have thought it my duty at once to go to the Captain or some responsible officer and tell him if I had thought that the vessel was so seriously damaged that she must sink. I don't know to whom I addressed myself when I said, \"Oh, there she is a coming after us,\" but I don't think any of the officers were there.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD—I saw the American Consul a few days ago at the U.S. Consulate. I was sent for by the U.S. Consul. No one was present when I saw the Consul; he had sent me a verbal message. I believe the message was sent me on Tuesday afternoon. I was not in at the time it came, but was told that my presence was requested at the U.S. Consulate that afternoon, or the first thing the next morning. I did not see the U.S. Consul till Wednesday morning. The message was requesting my presence. The Consul asked me what I saw. I told him simply what I saw just now. He asked me why we hadn't stopped. I said I didn't know. I was not there three minutes. I was not called on any Court of Inquiry at the U.S. Consulate. The light which I saw coming astern of us may have been from a light-house for what I know; I only know that I thought at the time that it was the mast-head light of the other vessel.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG.—I came ashore in the boat with the pilot and Mr. Angus. I can't say if I said then that it was wrong not to have stayed by the vessel. I went to the International Hotel that evening. I know Mr. Curtis the proprietor by sight. I said on that evening just what I have said now. In fact, I turned round to some one and said, \"we'll go and have a look at that vessel, (meaning the Oneida), tomorrow morning; she is sure to be in harbour.\" I did not make a statement to the effect that I had seen a man through the hole. I did say we had knocked a hole that we could see into. I did not say anything of the sort, that we had knocked her whole stern out of her. I did not hear the Oneida's whistle blow. I heard the Bombay's blow for some few minutes; this was previous to the collision. I didn't hear it after the collision. I did not see any one at all on board the other vessel. The only thing I heard from the other vessel was \"steamer ahoy,\" to which answer was made by two persons on board our vessel, but no reply was received. I only heard \"steamer ahoy\" called once.\n\nI can't give any definite idea of the size of the hole in the other ship. I couldn't answer at all as to how large the hole was. It did not appear to me that I saw a portion of a cabin through that hole. I only saw a part of a table, and I should think that it was a square table. I did not notice whether there was a cover on it or not. In fact, the whole thing occurred so quickly that I could hardly tell you anything definite. I did not see anything on this table. I didn't see any lamp through this hole. I saw no trunks, chairs or anything of that kind. The sails appeared to me to be filled as she passed. \n\n(Signed)  \nA. T. WATSON.\n\nROBERT B. CLEMENTS, Lieut. of H.M.S. Ocean, sworn, states. I went on board the Bombay on the evening of the 24th. I boarded the steamer as officer of the guard; and asked to see the Captain. He came out of his cabin; I said to him \"what a long way out you have anchored.\" He asked me whom he might have the honour of addressing. I told him who I was, and that I wanted the senior officer's mails. He said he thought he was quite justified in anchoring so far off, as it was difficult to tell at what distance the lights were. He had never been on the coast of Japan before, and that he was also in the hands of a pilot who had advised him to anchor there; besides that he had cut the quarter off the Yankee frigate in coming up the bay. I then said it must have been the Oneida. I hope she is not seriously damaged, and is she in want of assistance? He said no, he thought not. He had laid to for some time, and he saw no signal denoting that she wanted assistance. He added that it was seeing no signals of distress that he had made up his mind to go on and land his passengers and mails. He said he thought she wouldn't go on, but that she would come back here to repair damages; and that he had got some of her booms and sails on board, and that he must have knocked some of her boats away or something of that sort. I asked him if he was damaged himself? He said that he was, and that the ship was making water, but nothing very serious. After that I proposed that I should go into the saloon and wait for the mails. We talked on different things. Either the doctor or the Captain, I can't say which, said that he could see the lights in her cabins. That was all that took place regarding the collision.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD—There was a midshipman called Stephens in the boat with me. I think he went on deck afterwards, but he was not present during the conversation. A Lieutenant named Leventhorpe was on board the Bombay before me, but not on duty.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG.—It was between 8 and 9 PM that I boarded the steamer. I did not board her the next morning. I can't say whether the doctor and Captain were both present when the remark was made, that the cabin could be seen into. I don't know whether it was the Captain or the doctor who said it. One of them certainly did, as they were the only two to whom I spoke. I will swear that Captain Eyre said to me, \"I have cut off the quarter of a Yankee frigate.\" He said \"serve her right, she crossed my bows with a starboard helm.\" I said that was a curious thing to do. I hope you are reporting. I know that Mr. Leventhorpe had been on board before me. He told me afterwards that he had informed Captain Eyre that it must have been the Oneida with which the Bombay had collided. Mr. Leventhorpe had left the Bombay before I had arrived. The Captain did ask me to have a glass of brandy and water; it was when I got back to my own ship that I saw Mr. Leventhorpe; and learned from him, that he had told Capt. Eyre what vessel he had run into. Capt. Eyre did not lead me to believe that the Oneida had sustained serious injury. I reported to my Captain that it was a trivial thing.\n\n(Signed)  \nROBT. B. CLEMENTS.\n\nTHOMAS H. LEVENTHORPE sworn, states.—I am a Lieutenant on board H.M.'s S. Ocean. I boarded the Bombay on the night of her arrival almost directly she had anchored. I was not on duty; the midshipman of the boat was with me; his name is Henderson. The first officer I conversed with was the doctor. In the course of conversation he asked me what steamer had gone out that evening? I told him the only one I knew of was the American man-of-war Oneida. He told me they had been in collision with a steamer, and that probably that was the one. Afterwards I saw Captain Eyre, and he described the collision to me. He told me he saw lights about half a point on his port bow; that he had ported his helm and was all clear; then that the other vessel had evidently put her helm to starboard and run right across his bows. He also told me that he had turned on the whistle and stopped his engines before the collision. I think I made the remark that she would surely put back; he said \"yes, you will see her before long.\" Somebody said on board that they could see right into her saloon, but I am not sure who it was made the remark. I believe Captain Eyre was present when this remark was made. Several people were there on deck at the time. Mr. Angus was there at the time I know; but it was a dark night and I could not distinguish faces. I cannot swear that the Captain heard what passed. No conversation took place about...",
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        "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1870.\n\n### POST OFFICE NOTICE.\n\n#### List of unclaimed LETTERS and PAPERS lying in the Hongkong Post Office for Parties not known, 14th April, 1870.\n\n| Name | Letters/Papers |\n| --- | --- |\n| Amenabar, Nicolas | 1 |\n| Assumpção, Filomena | 1 |\n| Alcantara, Emilio Sr. D. | 5 |\n| Anderson, Jamie | 1 |\n| Angus, W. | 1 |\n| ... | ... |\n| Silva, Filomena F. | 1 |\n| Lennig, Hermann | 1 |\n| Lord, Joseph M. | 1 |\n| Perry, T. | 2 |\n| Lawrence, W.H. | 1 |\n| Patterson, Thos. | 1 |\n| Panigati, F. Sigr. | 2 |\n| Pnefield, J. B. | 1 |\n| Pet, P. | 1 |\n| March, John | 1 |\n| Mitchell, W. | 1 |\n| Murray, Michael | 2 |\n| Macedo, Joanna | 1 |\n| Rice, John | 1 |\n| Morrison, John | 1 |\n| More, Miss Lizzie | 1 |\n| Juan Ruiz | 1 |\n| Johnstone, G. | 1 |\n| Mulhall, Michael | 1 |\n| Robins, Mr. | 1 |\n| Tucker, J. J. | 1 |\n| Bruster, C. | 1 |\n| Ferguson, J. | 1 |\n| Joshua, Emma | 1 |\n| Middleton, John | 1 |\n| Thosen, H. W. | 2 |\n\n...\n\n#### List of LETTERS and Papers lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Merchant Vessels, 14th April, 1870.\n\n| Vessel | Letters/Papers |\n| --- | --- |\n| Afghan | 1 |\n| Cymbelino | 1 |\n| Ada | 1 |\n| Alonzo | 1 |\n| Corypheus | 1 |\n| Canton | 1 |\n| Jules Dulaure | 1 |\n| John Baufield | 1 |\n| Neville | 1 |\n| Napier | 2 |\n| Fort Regent | 2 |\n| Johanna | 2 |\n| Niagara | 1 |\n| Sophia Amalia | 1 |\n| Sultan | 1 |\n| Sea Ripple | 2 |\n| Avola | 2 |\n| Coldingham | 2 |\n| Falcon | 2 |\n| Nuang | 1 |\n| Saga | 4 |\n| Aldebaran | 4 |\n| Champion | 1 |\n| Fayventos | 1 |\n| Kier Kegaard | 3 |\n| Sunshine | 8 |\n| Arracan | 2 |\n| Crofton | 5 |\n| Frank | 1 |\n| Killarney | 3 |\n| Ocean | 1 |\n| St. Magnus | 1 |\n\n...\n\n#### List of Unpaid and Registered LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Her Majesty's Ships of War, 14th April, 1870.\n\n| Vessel | Letters/Papers |\n| --- | --- |\n| Avon | 2 |\n| Adventure | 2 |\n| Argus | 1 |\n| Cormorant | 2 |\n| Cassack | 2 |\n| Forte | 8 |\n| Midze | 1 |\n| Princess | 3 |\n| Firm | 22 |\n| Malabar | 1 |\n| Charlotte | 21 |\n| Star | 10 |\n| Starling | 1 |\n| Salarie | 4 |\n| Algerine | 1 |\n| Icarus | 1 |\n| Nymph | 3 |\n| Rifleman | 1 |\n| Dryad | 1 |\n| Teazer | 2 |\n| Rinaldo | 1 |\n| Daptrue | 2 |\n| Leven | 5 |\n| Ocean | 50 |\n| Watchful | 9 |\n| Bullfinch | 1 |\n| Dwarf | 2 |\n| Opossunt | 4 |\n| Sylvia | 1 |\n| Weazel | 1 |\n| Basilisk | 1 |\n| Duncan | 1 |\n| Melville | 1 |\n| Scylia | 1 |\n|ouncer | 1 |\n| Donegal | 61 |\n| Mezanee | 3 |\n| Peart | 3 |\n| Slaney | 1 |\n| Zebra | 1 |\n\n### METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT THE GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH, 1870.\n\n| Day | Barometer | Hygrometer | Wind | Weather |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | 30.102 | 71.0 | N.E. | Fine |\n| 2 | 30.050 | 72.5 | N.E. | Fine |\n| 3 | 30.200 | 71.0 | Calm | Fine |\n| 4 | 30.100 | 72.0 | N.E. | Fine |\n| 5 | 30.157 | 67.0 | N.E. | Fine |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 31 | 29.920 | 72.0 | E. | Overcast and slight rain |\n\n**Mean**  \nBarometer: 30.031  \nHygrometer: 68.9  \nMax Temperature: 78.0  \nMin Temperature: 52.0  \nRainfall: 0.95 inches\n\n**Remarks**  \nDuring the month, the weather was generally fine with some overcast and rain days. The maximum temperature was 78.0 degrees on the 27th, and the minimum temperature was 52.0 degrees on the 15th. The total rainfall for the month was 0.95 inches.",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL, HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCT. 8, 1874.\n\n## THE MEMORIAL TO H.E. THE GOVERNOR RESPECTING THE CONDUCT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE DURING THE LATE TYPHOON\n\nTHE following is the text of the memorial forwarded to H.E. the Governor by the Residents who condemn Capt. Deane's action during the late typhoon.\n\nHONGKONG, 5th October, 1874.\n\nTo His Excellency,\n**SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B. Governor of Hongkong &c. &c. &c.**\n\nMAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,\n\nWe, the undersigned inhabitants of Hongkong, humbly beg to lay before your Excellency the following statement.\n\nThat on the night of the 22nd and the morning of the 23rd ultimo, a Typhoon of unprecedented violence did much destruction to life and property in this City and Harbour.\n\nAmong the many casualties of that dreadful night, two of the most remarkable are the wrecks of the steamers Albay and Leonor.\n\nBy the mercy of Providence, and the humane exertions of some private citizens, the crew of the Albay were saved from death, but although the Leonor sank only about fifty yards from the shore, nearly 100 persons perished, and only about 12 were saved from the ship.\n\nBefore the Leonor was wrecked, it was reported at the Central Police Station to the Captain Superintendent of Police, that a number of men had been rescued from the Albay, and that another steamer was coming on shore, but although there were a large number of available men at the Station, the Captain Superintendent refused to allow any of them to go out to render assistance.\n\nAt the time when the Police were thus confined to the barracks, they were also much needed to repress robbers who were plundering shops and warehouses, which had been broken open in various parts of the town and particularly on the Praya.\n\nDuring the height of the storm, a house in the Chinese portion of the City caught fire.\n\nThe circumstance was reported to the Captain Superintendent of Police, who not only refused to send any assistance, but declined to allow the Fire Alarm Bell to be rung, and he also failed to inform the Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendents of the Fire Brigade, Messrs. C. May and J. Russell, that a fire had broken out, though it was his duty to do so at once.\n\nFortunately, Mr. C. V. Creagh, the other Assistant Superintendent, was present when the report was made, and, aid having been refused, he went alone to the Fire Engine Station and, with the help of a few volunteers, mostly private individuals, after much difficulty, the fire was subdued.\n\nThis colony pays a large sum annually for the maintenance of the Police Force and the Fire Brigade, for the protection of the lives and property of its Citizens, and it is grievously disappointing to find that, in an emergency, when lives were being lost by thousands in the Harbour and the whole City was threatened with a conflagration, the Chief of the Police not only was inactive himself, but withheld others from rendering that assistance which they were able and willing to give.\n\nHad timely aid been given, it is very possible that many of those who perished in the Leonor might have been saved, and valuable assistance might have been given in other quarters; and this inference is strengthened by what took place at the various outlying Police Stations both on this island and at Kowloong, where the detachments, not being checked from exertion, behaved in a manner which merits the gratitude and praise of the whole community. The names of Inspectors Burns, Grimes, and Youngson have come prominently forward among those who were most active in saving life.\n\nThe conduct of the Police at the Out-stations thus affords a gratifying proof of the willingness of the men to do their duty nobly, where they were not restricted by the orders of their chief.\n\nOur confidence in the discretion and wisdom with which the Police Force is directed has thus been seriously shaken, and we therefore pray that, in view of the circumstances herein set forth, Your Excellency will be pleased to institute a Public Inquiry into these matters, that the truth may be more fully known.\n\nWe have the honor to be Your Excellency's most obedient humble Servants,\n\nSigned by:- Jas. Whittall, M.L.C.; P. Ryrie, M.L.C.; K. Rowett, M.L.C.; C. Morland Kerr, for Oriental Banking Corporation; George Farley Heard; A. F. Heard; H. Hoppius; Jas. Greig, Chief Manager, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation; F. D. Sassoon; Wm. B. Forbes; John M. 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        "content_text": "# Petition to the Governor Regarding the Conduct of the Captain Superintendent of Police\n\nAt the time when the Police were thus confined to the barracks, they were also much needed to repress robbers who were plundering shops and warehouses, which had been broken open in various parts of the town and particularly on the Praya.\n\nDuring the height of the storm, a house in the Chinese portion of the City caught fire. The circumstance was reported to the Captain Superintendent of Police who not only refused to send any assistance, but declined to allow the Fire Alarm Bell to be rung, and he also failed to inform the Superintendent and the Assist. Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, Messrs C. May and J. Russell, that a fire had broken out, though it was his duty to do so at once.\n\nFortunately Mr C. V. Creagh, the other Assistant Superintendent, was present when the report was made, and, aid having been refused, he went alone to the Fire Engine Station, and with the help of a few volunteers, mostly private individuals, after much difficulty, the fire was subdued.\n\nThis colony pays a large sum annually for the maintenance of the Police Force, and the Fire Brigade, for the protection of the lives and property of its Citizens, and it is grievously disappointing to find that in a serious emergency, when lives were being lost by thousands in the Harbour, and the whole City was threatened with a conflagration, the Chief of the Police not only was inactive himself, but withheld others from rendering that assistance which they were able and willing to give.\n\nHad timely aid been given it is very possible that many of those who perished in the Leonor might have been saved and valuable assistance might have been rendered in other quarters; and this inference is strengthened by what took place at the various outlying Police Stations both on this Island and at Kowloong, where the detachments, not being checked from exertion, behaved in a manner which merits the gratitude and praise of the whole community. The names of Inspectors Burns, Grimes, and Youngson have come prominently forward among those who were most active in saving life.\n\nThe conduct of the Police at the Outstations thus affords a gratifying proof of the willingness of the men to do their duty nobly, where they were not restricted by the orders of their chief.\n\nOur confidence in the discretion and wisdom with which the Police Force is directed has thus been seriously shaken, and we therefore pray that in view of the circumstances herein set forth, Your Excellency will be pleased to institute a Public Inquiry into these matters, that the truth may be more fully known.\n\nWe have the honor to be,\nYour Excellency's most obedient humble Servants,\n\nSigned by:—Jas. Whittall, M.L.C.; P. Ryrie, M.L.C.; R. Rowert, M.L.C.; C. Morland Kerr, for Oriental Banking Corporation; George Farley Heard; A. F. Heard; H. Hoppins; Jas. Greig, Chief Manager, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation; F. D. Sassoon; Wm. H. Forbes; John M. Forbes Junr.; Adolf André; Herbert Magnias; C. Bertrand, Principal Agent, M. M. Co.; R. H. Sandeman, Actg. Manager, National Bank of India, Limited; A. Philippe, Acting Manager, Comptoir d'Escompte; M. W. Boyd, Manager, Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; H. Lowcock; J. F. Cordes; T. Fyke; H. Seymour Geary; C. M. Siegfried; Geo. B. Emory, Acting Agent, Pacific Mail S. S. Co.; F. Grobien; H. Kiær; A. F. Chambers; J. Bradlee Smith; Geo. G. Scott; W. D. Harrison; Thos. Hall; G. M. Sands; F. A. Belilios; E. Vogel; N. B. Dennya; O. Benecke; Henry A. Mylne; Ad. Strack; Ludwig Beyor; D. McCulloch; Jas. B. Coughtrie, Secretary, China Fire Insurance Co.; A. Mac G. Heaton; J. Kennard Davis; John Robinson; Rud. Jensen; R. Walker; H. L. Braddon; P. Karberg; J. Keith Angus; C. E. Parker; H. C. Heywood; A. Melver, Superintendent, P. & O. Company; Ernst Behre; J. Ross Anton; Charles J. Barnes; E. A. Raven; C. Budde; P. W. Mein; C. E. Thomson; A. MacClymont; Ed. George W. H. Kay; John S. Lapraik; John S. Cox; Ed. Mellish; G. A. Kneebone; A. P. McEwen; C. W. Baird; Nowrojec & Co.; A. Ebrahim & Co.; Framjee Hormusjee & Co.; M. D. Chandy & Co.; K. Habibboy; A. Habibboy; K. Dhunjeebhoy & Co.; H. Kustonjee; F. B. Cama; M. B. Pollishwalla; H. B. Duntra; Nursey Kessonjee & Co.\n\n## Response from the Colonial Secretary's Office\n\nTHE HON. J. G. AUSTIN TO THE HON. R. BOWETT.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\nHongkong, 13th October, 1874.\n\nSIR, --I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th Inst., and to acquaint you in reply that the allegations contained in the Petition which accompanied it have been the subject of careful investigation by His Excellency the Governor, who has failed to discover sufficient grounds to justify the institution of a public enquiry into the conduct of the Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\nI have also the honor to inform you that, whilst deeply regretting that any portion of the community should have had their confidence in the direction of the Police Force shaken, His Excellency feels it incumbent upon him to state that at no time in the history of the Colony has the character and efficiency of the Police stood higher.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN,\nColonial Secretary.\n\n## Editorial from The Hongkong Times\n\nTHE HONGKONG TIMES,\nOctober 1st, 1874.\n\nIN THE MATTER OF CAPTAIN DEANE.\n\nWE ARE extremely gratified at being able to place before our readers the official correspondence that has taken place with reference to Captain Deane's conduct during the late typhoon. By those letters, we are enabled to grasp the subject in all its bearings; for our own part, we are exactly of the same opinion now as we were before we knew anything whatever of the correspondence going on. We disagree from the ideas of the Honourable Mr. Rowett altogether, but we do not fail to thoroughly appreciate that gentleman's motives in undertaking to try and rectify what he thought was wrong. We do not consider Captain Deane to be impeccable; and, at different times, we have raised a voice against both his action and his inaction when we thought he merited a little censure, but, in this instance, we consider him free of fault and we certainly intend to uphold his behaviour against which the Honble. Mr. Rowett and some others of the Colonists complain.\n\nThat unfortunate fire business has, however, yet to be explained. There is a vast deal of difference between trying to oppose a typhoon and attempting to put out a fire, and unless Captain Deane can give good reasons for not assisting at the conflagration, it will become the painful duty of the Governor to take him to task on this score.\n\n## Correspondence between Hon. R. Rowett and Hon. J. G. Austin\n\nTHE HON. R. ROWETT TO HON. J. G. AUSTIN,\n\nHong Kong, 23rd September, 1874.\n\nMY DEAR MR. AUSTIN,—Permit me to bring the following circumstances to your consideration in connection with the typhoon of last night.\n\nAt a little before one o'clock this morning, the steamer `Albay`, from Manila, came ashore on the Praya, inside Douglas Lapraik & Co.'s wharf, and just opposite my office. The typhoon was at its worst at the time. Loud cries were heard coming from the ship, when lights were displayed and a rope was thrown on board.\n\nThe Captain, officers, crew and passengers, to the number of 40 in all, were thus enabled to get on shore, and were placed for shelter in the Engine House of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Company. The Captain stated that when he arrived in port last evening, there were 400 persons, all told, on board his vessel.\n\nThese facts were reported at the Central Police Station, by Mr. A. P. McEwen, at about 1.30 a.m., and a statement was taken down in writing, by Captain Superintendent Deane, who, instead of sending assistance to the shipwrecked men refused to allow any of the Police to turn out, on the ground of its being dangerous for them to leave their quarters in such weather; and this, notwithstanding the fact of which he was also informed by Mr. McEwen, viz., that another steamer was coming on shore at the time he left the Praya.\n\nMr. McEwen then returned to the scene of the wreck, and, together with Lieutenant Prior of H.M. 80th Regiment, and Mr. G. W. Baird, once more went to the Police Station, with 30 of the shipwrecked men, the Captain of the `Albay` and his three officers remaining at the engine house. The men, who were all natives of Manila or Malays, except two European passengers, were then taken care of by the police for the night.\n\nMy object in drawing your attention to these facts is to enquire whether you do not consider that it is the duty of the police to be alert in moments of great public danger, and whether it would not have been more in accordance with the object the Government have in maintaining such a force, that they should have been sent wherever their aid might have been needed to save life or property, than that they should have been kept in barracks, while private individuals were able and willing to assist their suffering fellow creatures at some risk to their own lives?\n\nBelieve me, Yours faithfully,\nR. ROWETT.\n\nCAPT. SUPERINTENDENT DEANE TO HON. J. G. AUSTIN.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1874.\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nSIR, In reply to H.E. the Governor's minute on C.S.O. No. 2799, I have the honor to report that I did refuse to risk the lives of the Police under my command by ordering them to leave the Barracks in the height of a typhoon at 1 a.m. on the 23rd instant.\n\nMr. Rowett entirely overlooks the fact that the danger did not so much arise to persons living on the Praya going outside their doors to render aid, as to a body of men taken through the streets of the city, when, in the words of a local newspaper, \"the atmosphere was principally composed of tiles, brickbats, jalousies, verandah-beams and foliage.\"\n\nAt 2.30 a.m., however, when the barometer showed that the heaviest blasts of wind had passed, I did turn out the men, and we went over all parts of the town: in some places over our waists in water, and experiencing the greatest difficulty in passing along the roads.\n\nI have further to observe that at least 36 of the crew of the `Albay` had been already saved when the report was made, and that the danger of a second steamer was a mere conjecture.\n\nPage 335",
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Li-Sam,\n\n14\n\nAssault,\n\nLarceny,\n\nBurglary,\n\n24th May, 1878,\n\n30th June, 1874.\n\n11th June, 1875. 18th April, 1874.\n\n2nd September, 1875,\n\n11th November, 1875.\n\n15th November, 1875,\n\n20th February, 1873. 14th July, 1874.\n\nJames Dodds, ... fumes Youngsou, Douall Thomsou, J. B. Cameron..\n\nJohn Mathieson... Alexander Mackie, John Lindsay, John Fleming, John Swanston.... Donald Bremner, J. C. Graut....... William Gauld, Robert Taylor.... John Gordon,.....\n\nJohn Harper, Adam Hogg,\n\nTABLE D.\n\nLIST of CRIMINALS found at large in the Colony after Deportation, with Dates of their Sentences and Offences.\n\nDate of Arrest. No. Names.\n\nTABLE F.\n\nRETURN of MEN enlisted in SCOTLAND and ENGLAND for the HONGKONG POLICE, with the present State of such Enlistments.\n\nSCOTCH CONTINGENT.\n\nNames.\n\nDate Enlisted.\n\nRank Last Held,\n\nDate of First Sentence.\n\nHow Pardoned,\n\nWhen Deported.\n\nW. T. 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        "content_text": "until the Government shall have made me sufficient amends for imputing to me the offense of a improper performance of my duties\n\nI have to ...(Agnus)... I Neewook\n\nFrom the table the Colonial Secretary to the Amsee Tr Howwick.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office Hongkong 17th February 1880\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th February 1880 in which referring to some remarks made by this Government on the 6th of November 1879.\n\nThe Ammble: I Rewick de...\n\nPage 181\n\nPage 181\n\nIve 197. 181\n\n...(some text is missing or not clear due to OCR damage)...\n\n \nPage 197\n\nPage 197",
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        "content_text": "154\n\n10 99C\n\nReturn of Officer who have received\n\npermission since the 1st January 1880 to\n\nremit\n\nmoney\n\nwhich permission was\n\n1.7.1880 - February\n\nNames.\n\nMathiam Fauld, P.S. 7o.\n\nAngus Mann, S.I. 89.\n\nPeter Grieve, P.I. 14.\n\nGeorge Rogers, P.I. 6.\n\nDuncan McDonald, P.I. 15.\n\nHenry Miller, P.I. 16.\n\nShu Withmald P.4.3.\n\n9° Inspector Hugh Loverran.\n\nPolice Sergeant Flynn.\n\nAnderson, P.C.\n\nRobert Mann P. 1.26. May 62\n\nA.G. Thomsett, #1\n\n201\n\nAlfred Lister.\n\n14 d. R. Grimble, 96\n\nJohnstone, P. 186.\n\n#",
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        "content_text": "568 entered the service on the 12th September 1873.\n\nIn the event of Your Excellency's recommendations being accepted, I respectfully recommend that each of the officers below be \"promoted on slip\".\n\nAngus | Alexander Falcour  \nActing Head Master |  \nThe Acting Head Master to Inspector of Schools  \n\nCopy  \nDir  \nGovernment Central School  \nklimber  \nHongkong, 20 September 1873  \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of an official certificate from the Colonial Surgeon, in which he recommends that Mr. Tung Shu's resignation be accepted, and to be, Dr. E. J. Eitel.\n\nYour Excellency's obedient servant  \nAlexander Falcour  \nActing Head Master  \nInspector of Schools",
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        "content_text": "## 91 \n## 57 \n\nthe Administrator \n\n\"Copy of Minute by His Excellency the \n\nNo. 12860 \n\nRECEIVED \n\nREGD 21 MAY 20 \n\nCirculate to Members of \nCouncil \n\nAngus) W. H. March \n14 May 20 \n\nCopy of Minute by the Acting Colonial Secretary, \nTo Acting Clerk of Council for \ncirculation. \n\nDigue 1 Frederick Stewart \nActing Colonial Secretary, \n\nསྲག དཀགས བ རྣམས བཞི བ པ ལགས། \n\nPray",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nhi: \n\nfeuch \n\nRoyal for conson: with any other afflications \n\nations Le \n\nSmay book receive? We Prices should be infremmed \n\nwhat we do copies \n\nof \n\nThis letter & ou \n\n& \n\nano wes \n\nIs the forcenon? and \n\nSo proced \n\n22/8 \n\n$2310 Kungze \n\n24 \n\nC. \n\n544 \n\nREC? \n\nREGE 17 AUG 82 \n\nMorley's Hotel. Inafalgar Squares \n\n16. Angus F1882. \n\n### \n\nWith reference to the East of Kimberley's decision to carry out the project of an observatory at Hong Kong, in accordance with the recommendations contained \n\nin my report of May last, and to His Lordship's intention to postpone for the present, the selection of a Superintendent to take charge of the observatory, I have the honour very respectfully to submit that it will not be desirable to defer \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, etc. etc. etc. Colonial office.",
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        "content_text": "The harbour\n\nwe have\n\narchive by the Engineer\n\nAngus-Robertson for one quarter year.\n\nGood Year 7.\n\nI presume that in view of the hurry it will not be proposed to persevere with Mr Lockhart's nominations on appeal in which case I should so inform the Papers for me. Anticipating to find an outsider, & the should have a word from the Straits.\n\nI do not like taking away, very few appointments to which the men are both trained & fitted.\n\nCadets\n\nAs for that a knowledge of the Chinese language is of more importance than legal attainment - The point has hitherto turned on Mr d'Almada's forth. But this strikes at the root of the cadet system.\n\nMagistrates Young Cadets are at once in the Straits & Police. Depriving Civil Service, Quelpart & Party entered in the office when their services were started.\n\nLam\n\nArt\n\nMy Ld\n\n12mm 1/6\n\nIt is impossible to appoint Mr Lockhart\n\nMINUTE PAPER.\n\nin the face of paragraph 203\n\nHis despatch.\n\nand certainly it seems undeniable that at least one out of the two magistrates should be a lawyer by profession.\n\nOn the other hand the despatch is a miserable arrangement transparently for the worse.\n\nI would have nothing to do with him, but would look out for a barrister from elsewhere.\n\nI agree entirely with Sir R. Herbert's minute.\n\nD. June J.\n\nWe have\n\nW. Harwood.\n\nPolice Magistrate required for Hong Kong.\n\na better way to take the place\n\nas he is probably not be willing he is probably looking forward to getting into private practice at the Straits: but it might be offered to him.\n\nHe was called to the bar in 1871\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\nPage 1\n\n(no changes made to the page numbering)\n\nthe text is re-formatted into proper paragraphs and minor OCR errors are corrected.\n\nhas been removed as per the instruction to not leave any explanation wordings in the return.\n\nHere is the revised output in HTML format using  for paragraphs:\n\nThe harbour\n\nwe have\n\narchive by the Engineer\n\nAngus-Robertson for one quarter year.\n\nGood Year 7.\n\nI presume that in view of the hurry it will not be proposed to persevere with Mr Lockhart's nominations on appeal in which case I should so inform the Papers for me. Anticipating to find an outsider, & the should have a word from the Straits.\n\nI do not like taking away, very few appointments to which the men are both trained & fitted.\n\nCadets\n\nAs for that a knowledge of the Chinese language is of more importance than legal attainment - The point has hitherto turned on Mr d'Almada's forth. But this strikes at the root of the cadet system.\n\nMagistrates Young Cadets are at once in the Straits & Police. Depriving Civil Service, Quelpart & Party entered in the office when their services were started.\n\nLam\n\nArt\n\nMy Ld\n\n12mm 1/6\n\nIt is impossible to appoint Mr Lockhart\n\nMINUTE PAPER.\n\nin the face of paragraph 203\n\nHis despatch.\n\nand certainly it seems undeniable that at least one out of the two magistrates should be a lawyer by profession.\n\nOn the other hand the despatch is a miserable arrangement transparently for the worse.\n\nI would have nothing to do with him, but would look out for a barrister from elsewhere.\n\nI agree entirely with Sir R. Herbert's minute.\n\nD. June J.\n\nWe have\n\nW. Harwood.\n\nPolice Magistrate required for Hong Kong.\n\na better way to take the place\n\nas he is probably not be willing he is probably looking forward to getting into private practice at the Straits: but it might be offered to him.\n\nHe was called to the bar in 1871\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\nPage 1",
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        "content_text": "107\n\nthis Government, with the Executive Council, with Mr. Justice Russell, Mr. Stewart, and the other Members of the Board of Examiners for the Civil Service\", and with all other competent\n\nX\n\nin\n\nAnges\n\nThe Board of Examiners performs gratuitously for this Colony duties analogous to those performed by the Civil Service Commission and its Examiners\n\nin England. This Board (as I am informed) was originally appointed during the administration of the late Sir Arthur Kennedy ? It now consists of the following gentlemen...\n\n1. D. Chalmers, one of the most learned Chinese Scholars now living (Chairman)\n\n2. The Honourable Mr Justice Russell, Judge of the Supreme Court.\n\n3. The Honourable F. Stewart - Registrar-General and Protector of the Chinese\n\n4. The Honourable J. Lister - Colonial Treasurer\n\n5. Mr. Wongshing. A Chinese gentleman of high position and character.\n\n6. Mr. Lockhart. Assistant Colonial Secretary, (Honorary Secretary)\n\n* See despatch to Colonial Office No: 141 of date: 13th 1875\n\nAndyer in this community, I had come to the conclusion that it was absolutely necessary for the Queen's Service that one or more of the Hongkong Cadets should be able to understand and speak the Chinese language as spoken by the educated and official classes in China (popularly called the Mandarin dialect), and not only the local tunti, or Cantonese patois. To attain this object, I stated that it was my intention, with the advice aforesaid,",
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        "content_text": "## Signing Character \n\nIn their official defence? We may observe the formal action in the latter, but as regards the compensation to be awarded I do not see how ... the Court ... for I would say that Lord Derby would be loath to sanction such an enormous allowance to Dr Adams as might the Committee recommend, but that since it cannot be doubted that he obtained the large fees which he did out of fees from wrongly giving his Bills of Health and Official character, compensation allowance should rather be calculated on what he might have received otherwise, and that ... consequently ... in Dr Angus' case Pain Job Cancer did not probably affect his fees to an extent to enhance his son's compensation might be proportionately higher. And I say that both allowances should be formal to the present administrators of the aff...ment.\n\nI think the official character ... \n\n| Quit 4/3 | Quit 5/3 |\n|---------|---------|\n| ...     | M.18    |\n|         | Am 15/5 |",
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        "content_text": "## DESPATCH.\n**C. O. 8014**\n\n567  \nGovernor, No. 1449  \nDate. June 28  \n\nLast previous Paper, James 75-77 tong tong No. Lower 8014  \n\nAgain anges that torpedo Boats should be provided.  \n\n**(Minutes.)**  \nM. Meade  \n? Acknowlaize drefer to no.11301 Ming telin & resp. disposing of this, toward adm - with reference &copy to their last letter of 27 ap and reply of 30th.  \nIt then to (ap. Jekyll to note {sending  \n\n**Subsequent Paper.**  \nNo 5264  \n`XCR(85)72` or similar file reference is not present, however \"Rin Xa & He\" is present, possibly a name or subject tag.  \ngud may qual 7/50 9094  \n\nPage numbering is not clearly identifiable in the given text, however \"567\" is present at the top.",
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        "content_text": "Honourable the Secretary of State.\n\nWe Colonies feel the sincere amount\n\nof leave they are entitled to of my\n\nservice be counted to count for pension purposes\n\nand your petitioners, as in\n\nduty bound, will ever pray.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nDes Voeux\n\nAkay no. 2003\n\nMINUTE. 20 Oct Mr. Johnson 21\n\nMr.\n\nDe Robeck-W\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston,\n\n726 Horford\n\nAmathieson\n\nConner Robertson. Hugh Moroy\n\nMr. Meade.\n\n2-1\n\n{...\n\nKnear Heave\n\nRecep.\n\nMM Corcoran George Heup.\n\nJohn Swanston Thomas Dancin\n\nAngus Macaulay.\n\nAls Donale.\n\nRumge\n\nRetenton\n\nL. Mackay.\n\nAls\n\nmessy 5.1: Bovold\n\nWilliam Funed\n\nMritetall\n\nWilliam Baker, annak\n\nPeter Jones\n\nHanson. But Bullen William Fisher. 2. Campbell\n\nBlace\n\nleo-cameraro Wy Ford\n\nMouanson J. Rennie\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nLord Onslow.\n\nSir H. T. Holland.\n\n1\n\n19748\n\nhere\n\nSei,\n\n12 Oct.\n\n452\n\nI have the honour\n\nto ack. the rec!\n\nMajor Gen. Cameron's\n\ndesp.\n\n287\n\nof the\n\n15th of August\n\nforwarding a memorial from Members of the Police Force, praying that the time spent\n\n(on leave by them) might\n\nbe allowed to count\n\nas\n\nservice for pension,\n\nI am of opinion\n\nthere is no sufficient\n\nreason...",
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        "content_text": "482\n\nunder which Police Constable Angus Macaulay drowning\n\n2.\n\nrescued three persons from Hong Kong harbour, it appears that on the 12th instant at 12.30 p.m., a boat containing 16 occupants capsized in a rough sea 100 yards from the shore. Macaulay, seeing what had happened, immediately jumped into the sea without waiting to take off his clothes, and, swimming to their assistance, proceeded to rescue three of the men. The rest were either picked up by others or made their way ashore.\n\n3.\n\nThe act was an extremely gallant one, and I have much pleasure in supporting General Gordon's recommendation that the attention of the Royal Humane Society should be drawn to Macaulay's brave conduct.\n\n4.\n\nI shall be obliged, therefore, if Your Lordship will be good enough to bring Macaulay's name and the circumstances detailed in General Gordon's report to the notice of the Society for their...",
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        "content_text": "their favourable consideration. \"I have the honour to be, \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient, \n\nHumble Servant, \n\nMWR Vaux \n\nEnclosure. \n\n24823 \n\n**RECT** \n\n27 DEC 19/ \n\n453 \n\nActing Captain Superintendent of Police to Acting Colonial Secretary. \n\n(Copy.) \n\n12814. \n\nPolice Department, \n14 November, 1887,\n\nI beg to submit to His Excellency the name of Police Constable N°8, Angus Macaulay, with request His Excellency may be pleased to recommend him for a Humane Society medal for saving life under the following circumstances. \n\nOn the 12th instant at 12.30 p.m. a boat belonging to cargo lighter `V.94` was landing 16 men from the lighter near `V:2` Station; when about 100 yards from the shore the boat capsized in a rough sea. Hearing the cries of distress Constable Macaulay ran to the shore and seeing what was happening, \n\nThe Hon'ble The Acting Colonial Secretary, ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]",
        "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 18 August 1891\n\nI have the honour to inform Your Lordship that Police Constable Angus Norman Henderson was discharged from the Police Force.\n\nThe Right Honourable Lord Knutsford, G.C.M.G.",
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        "content_text": "the steamer which is due \nin London (South West India \nDocks) \non or about the 28th \nof September.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord,\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient \nHumble Servant,\nByte Barker\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Ching (instalmt \nGlasgow)\n\nMr. \nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\n1 Kay \n18657\n\nWil 22 Sept. 94\n3 I am directed to transmit \nto you for your perusal the \nenclosed copies of papers \nrelating to the return to their \nCountry of a lunatic named Angus Norman Henderson\n\nH.K. No 274. 18 Aug C.O. \n4 Thing (committing \nPolice \nJGO. Elrom Agent \nwho has lately been a Constable in the Hong Kong Police Force, and has up to \nSept 88 been a constable in the \nGlasgow Police Force.\n\nMr. Wingfield. \nMr. Bramston. \nMr. Meade. 22 \nSir R. Herbert. \nBaron de Worms. \nLord Knutsford. \n21.9.91 \n\nTuesed 21. 9. 91 \n2 Mm draft \nH.K. No 274. 18 Aug C.O.",
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        "content_text": "I have been informed. \nI have the honour to be \nyour Obedient Servant\n\n> \nC 546 \nMessrs Freeland to Crown Agents \n20th October 1891 \nWe beg to inform you that we have received a note \nthis morning from the Relieving Officer of Poplar \nUnion stating that Angus Henderson will be removed to- \nday to the Lunatic Asylum, Bethnal \nHouse, Bethnal Green \nRoad. We have written to Henderson's father and brother \nadvising them of this.",
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        "content_text": "## Draft Letter\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to inform you that his lordship approves of your paying out of the funds due to Palace Constable Angus N. Henderson of the Hongkong police force the fee of one guinea, for which the superintendent of Bethnal Green Lunatic Asylum has applied, and handing the balance to Henderson's father as proposed in your letter.\n\nForwarding the certificates has requested that \"the usual fee of one guinea may be sent to him\" and we propose paying him the fee and handing over the balance of the money to Stenderson's father. We informed the Clerk of the Poplar Union on the 4th of November of the address Stenderson's father, but have received no reply from him.\n\nThe copy of the Lunacy Act of 1890 is herein returned as requested.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\n\nDRAFT.\n\n## Minute\n\nThe from Agents\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Mr. Lucas |\n| Mr. Fairfield |\n| Mr. Wingfield |\n| Mr. Bramston |\n| Mr. Mende |\n| Sir R. Herbert |\n| Baron de Worms |\n| Lord Knutsford |\n\nFor consideration\n\nAgents Hongkong 24705  \n7 Jan  \nMinute  \n\nSentleman, In answer to your letter of the 21st ult. I am directed by Lord Knutsford to inform you that his lordship approves of your paying out of the funds due to Palace Constable Angus N. Henderson of the Hongkong police force the fee of one guinea, for which the superintendent of Bethnal Green Lunatic Asylum has applied, and handing the balance to Henderson's father as proposed in your letter. \n\nEN 572",
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        "content_text": "John R. Brack\n\nColin Nar. Alex Watters\n\nAlec to Arom\n\nWilliam Ritchie.\n\nWilliam J. & Donald\n\nDan Hame\n\nJossell John Smith\n\nHugh Gilmour. David Gourlay John. Reidie Robert Thomson Alex Clark. Robert Fenton\n\nJames Dickson \"Donald\" James Mc Donald Angus Macaulay\n\nRobert Crakave David. B. Coutts Thomas Moffatt Donald M Lennan\n\nArthur Langley Batterson\n\nDavid Reid\n\nGeo Get Turner. Wm Robertson\n\nDr Cuthbert\n\nDavid Urquhart Angus M'Vicar John Hood. William Cameron Robert G. McQue\n\nGeorge Cordon\n\nPage 300\n\nPage 301",
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        "document_key": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]",
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        "content_text": ";8 \n\nfice or Individual. \n\nCounts \n\nDate. \n\n1896 \n\ntrong trong \n\nNo. 26504 \n\n(Subject.) \n\nPolice Constables \n\nP. Angus \n\na Gordon \n\nN. Macdonald \n\n2644 \n\nDic \n\nat previous Paper. \n\nSiv \n\n25151 \n\nSends was Caben \n\n17 \n\ncopy qquements \n\nDes \n\n→ \n\nDOMESTIC. \n\n| 26304 \n\n25 17 \n\npassage \n\n544 \n\nPutles \n\nJ & L (79) ~78292—3 9050-13-20 \n\nart subsequent Paper. \n\n(税込) \n\n1153 \n\n(Minutes.) \n\nat mee \n\n20/120 \n\nZia",
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        "content_text": "## HONG KONG POLICE FORCE\n\nAgreement made this day of December One thousand eight hundred and ninety **BETWEEN** the undersigned, one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies, of Downing Street, London, in the County of Middlesex, for and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong, of the one part, and **Peter Angus** of the Glasgow Police Force of the other part.\n\nWhereby it is agreed between the said parties as follows:\n\n1. The said **Peter Angus** (hereinafter called the person engaged) for the consideration mentioned in the conditions of service hereunto annexed agrees, so soon as required by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, to proceed to Hong Kong as Constable in the Police Force of the Government of that Colony, and to act in all respects according to the directions and instructions given to him by the Government of Hong Kong through its properly qualified officers, and he undertakes that he will faithfully and honestly fulfil the duties required of him by or on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong for the term of his engagement or for any future period of service if he should engage himself after the termination of the first period.\n\n2. A Second Class passage to Hong Kong shall be provided for the person engaged at the cost of the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n3. The Crown Agents for the Colonies shall pay for and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong to the person engaged, after this Agreement has been duly signed, the sum of £15 by way of bounty, and the person engaged agrees to refund and repay to them the sum of £15, paid to him by way of bounty, if he should fail to proceed to Hong Kong when directed to do so.",
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        "content_text": "Your Petitioners have been unable to obtain a copy of the witness statements referred to in the enquiry, which has made it difficult for them to thoroughly understand the whole position for the purposes of this Petition.\n\nYour Petitioner has no personal feeling against the Captain Superintendent of Police and is not imputing to him any unfairness, though strongly protesting against the methods which allowed a man to be broken on an enquiry held in such a manner.\n\nNow, if the proceedings were conducted by the strict letter of the law, which, as Your Petitioner is convinced, is doubtful, Your Petitioner submits that it is unconstitutional and inequitable that the prosecutor should preside over such an enquiry, and that the President should be an impartial person who could hear evidence on both sides with the assistance of trained lawyers, so that the full benefit of cross-examination might be obtained.\n\nYour Petitioner had the opportunity of questioning the witnesses, it is true, but he was not allowed to take notes because he was standing to attention before the Captain Superintendent, and no writing materials were offered to him, nor was he allowed to take notes during the enquiry. The Captain Superintendent ordered him to stand in a particular place during the enquiry.\n\nYour Petitioner says that the withholding of the evidence and the lack of opportunity to take notes were inequitable and unfair.\n\nFurther, Your Petitioner's legal advisers would point out that a person committed for trial on a charge of murder is entitled to a copy of the depositions on which he is committed.\n\nA copy of Your Petitioner's Statement of Defence handed to the Captain Superintendent of Police during the enquiry is contained in the Fourth Schedule.\n\nYour Petitioner was not dismissed for bribery. There was a suggestion of it in the evidence given by Sham In, a convicted gambler, who gave evidence for Your Petitioner, which, as far as Your Petitioner is aware, is absolutely false.\n\nThis witness, Sham In, further said that the expression \"Dai Lau\" referred to Your Petitioner. Your Petitioner believes that this expression, as used by the witness, did not refer to him. The term \"Dai Lau\" is a term used in more than one sense.\n\nYour Petitioner refers to an enquiry recently held by the Captain Superintendent to enquire into a charge against Mr. Angus McIntyre. A Chinese witness examined by Sergeant McIntyre made use of the words \"Dai Lau\" in the course of being cross-examined.\n\nPage 404\n\n11.\n\n12.\n\n16.",
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        "content_text": "# No. 69.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment House, Hong-Kong, 16th March, 1898.\n\n**28013/97**\n\nWith reference to your despatch No. 259 of the 24th December, 1897, and to your telegram of the 11th February last, I have the honour to transmit to you papers of particulars relating to the Pensions of the following Police Officers:-\n\n| Officer | Rank |\n| --- | --- |\n| J.M. Corcoran | Chief Inspector |\n| George Hennessy | Inspector |\n| Aeneas Mann | Inspector |\n| Tom Foord | P.S. 47 |\n| Dan Hall | P.S. 91 |\n| Alexander McIver | P.S. 3 |\n| George Phelps | P.S. 1 |\n| Angus Macaulay | A.S. 3 |\n\nMr. Corcoran has requested to be allowed to draw his pension in Sydney, and arrangements have been made with the Government of New South Wales, Australia, accordingly. The Crown Agents have been so informed.\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nI have the honour to be, Sir,  \nYour most obedient Humble Servant,  \nJoseph Chamberlain, M.P.\n\nAdministering the Government;\n\n## Other Text\n\nI presume that in all cases the date of discharge inclusively is given on the Leave paper. If the date of discharge is on the 24th or 25th December, ...\n\nMr. Phelps's Pension has already been settled some time since & the C.A have been instructed to pay it. (see `86652`)\n\nWe have already approved these Pensions in a mature manner, but I think we should ack & approve `Lu bloc`.\n\nI suppose we should also write & inform Mr. McIver we know who is in England and whose address we have been awarded Pension.\n\nWe are told nothing of it in response to the word Pension. I suppose there are some who are safe, and we are Contributors to the Fund. I think we need not write to the other officers: we do not know their full Addresses rather than that we may tell the C.A to acquaint them that they will be paid on their applying to them for Pension under the understanding that they will not retire to the Colony.\n\nI have given instructions that Persons have `Ju923/4` CCM. 19/4/98.\n\nPage 363 \n\nLeave expired specially from me Iver's ... was payable from the actual date of discharge.\n\n86487; as his specially from me Iver's Leave expired on the 24th Dec. \n\n97 was ...-cable from the actual rayable gather then this specially from me.\n\n'Je habenty should I suppose also write & inform 1053 Ir me Iver we know who is in England aad whose ad dress the Peusion that has beau awarded hien.\n\n... wve are told nothing of it ✓ in arsening to the word Peusion. that none of suppose there ure are safe mew are Contributors Fund.\n\nLate I NAMAN theal. I think do not know their full Addresses bather Lacing & that we may it will be sufficient to tell the C.A to acquaint cact f there mel that they there 1. the Colony.\n\nhave are grautix to at me `Ju923/4` CCM. 19/4/98.",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG POLICE FORCE\n## DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF PENSIONER\n\n| QUESTIONS | ANSWERS |\n| --- | --- |\n| Name | Angus Macaulay |\n| Age | 35 |\n| Trade or calling | Police Pensioner |\n| Caste or Religion | Protestant |\n| Read and write | Yes |\n| Single or married | Married |\n| Number of children | Three |\n| Name, address and profession of nearest relative | George Pheeps, Rog Station |\n\n## Particulars\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Height | ... |\n| Complexion | Dark |\n| Eyes | Gray |\n| Hair | Brown |\n| Particular Marks | ... |\n| Figure | Sturdy built |\n| Where Born | Stornoway, Ross shire, Scotland |\n| Parish, Province, District or Village | Lochs |\n| In or near the Town of | ... |\n| In the Colony or Country of | England |\n| Where Pension to be drawn | ... |\n\n## Service Record\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| When joined | 9 November 1886 |\n| When discharged | 18th January 1898 |\n| Length of Service | ... |\n| Deduct period on leave since September, 1881 | ... |\n| Total actual Services | 10 y. 2 m. 9 d. |\n\n## Pension Details\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Average Amount of pay for last three years | $600 |\n| Special ... | $133.33 |\n| Amount of Pension, being ... to the boy pay | Sterling £24.8.10 |\n\n**Signature of Pensioner**: A Macaulay  \n**Date**: January 1898  \n**Captain Superintendent of Police**: ... \n\nPage 57  \nDate: Hongkong, September 18, 1897  \n`XPR38`  \n`8501`  \n12:29 10",
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        "content_text": "# Date \n## HONGKONG \nFebruary 1898 \n\n**POLICE PENSIONER**  \nAngus Macaulay  \n- Trade or calling,  \n- Caste or Religion,  \n- Read and write,  \n- Single or married,  \n- Number of children,  \n- Descriptive List of  \n- Name, address and profession of nearest relative,  \n\nShepherd.  \nJusbyterian.  \nYes both.  \nSingle.  \nMy Margarit Macaulay.  \nBalallan, Stornoway.  \n173.  \n\n**DRAFT**  \nC.A.  \nMr.  \n**MINUTE**  \nGov Hongkong  \n8501  \n198  \nMacnaghten 25/4  \n26fs.  \nMr Johnson 26  \nMr. Ca.  \nMr. Lucas.  \nMr. Graham.  \nMr. Wingfield.  \nEarl Selborne.  \nMr. Chamberlain.  \n13  \nIn 28 April 1898  \n\nGentlemen,  \nI am directed by Ir Secretary Chamberlain to inform you that the following pensions have been awarded to the undermentioned Officers of the Hongkong Police Force:-  \n\n| Officer | Pension Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chief Inspector Corcoran | a Pension from the 10th October last at $780.18 per annum: |\n| Inspector G. Hennessy |  |",
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        "content_text": "RAFT.\n\nMy Kong The 187\n\nPir H. Blake\n\nMINUTE.\n\n7. Macuughter 9/9\n\nGov 16378 99\n\nHongkong\n\nSir,\n\nInd 248\n\n14 Sept 299\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch no 118 of the 21st\n\n7. Anqulus.\n\n5. Cop.\n\nr. Jucas.\n\nr. Graham.\n\nE. Wingfield.\n\nrl of Selborne.\n\nChamberlain.\n\ncau\n\nof Mr W. Qusulay.\n\n2 I have to request that you will be furnished with a Petition, which was sent with My Despatch no 338 of the 31st December last in the sequel to this Despatch,\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to improve the response to fit the required format (HTML using  for paragraphs), and adhering strictly to the rules for correction and formatting:\n\nRAFT.\n\nMy Kong The 187\n\nPir H. Blake\n\nMINUTE.\n\n7. Macuughter 9/9\n\nGov16378/99\n\nHongkong\n\nSir,\n\nInd 248\n\n14 Sept 299\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch no. 118 of the 21st\n\n7. Anqulus.\n\n5. Cop.\n\nr. Jucas.\n\nr. Graham.\n\nMay enclosing certain papers relative to\n\nE. Wingfield.\n\nrl of Selborne.\n\nChamberlain.\n\nof Mr W. Qusulay.\n\n2 I have to request that you will be furnished with a Petition, which was sent with My Despatch no. 338 of the 31st December last in the sequel to this Despatch,\n\nLet's correct and simplify it according to the given rules and required output format.\n\nRAFT.\n\nMy Kong The 187\n\nPir H. Blake\n\nMINUTE.\n\n7. Macuughter 9/9\n\nGov16378/99\n\nHongkong\n\nSir,\n\nInd248\n\n14 Sept299\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch no.118 of the 21st\n\n7. Angus.\n\n5. Cop.\n\nr. Lucas.\n\nr. Graham.\n\nMay enclosing certain papers relative to them\n\nE. Wingfield.\n\nrl of Selborne.\n\nChamberlain.\n\nof Mr W. Qusulay.\n\n2 I have to request that you will be furnished with a Petition, which was sent with My Despatch no.338 of the 31st December last in the sequel of this Despatch,\n\nThe final version, after applying the rules:\nRAFT.\n\nMy Kong The 187\n\nPir H. Blake\n\nMINUTE.\n\n7. Macuughter 9/9\n\nGov16378/99\n\nHongkong\n\nSir,\n\nInd248\n\n14 Sept299\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch no.118 of the 21st\n\n7. Angus.\n\n5. Cop.\n\nr. Lucas.\n\nr. Graham.\n\nMay enclosing certain papers relative to them\n\nE. Wingfield.\n\nrl of Selborne.\n\nChamberlain.\n\nof Mr W. Qusulay.\n\n2 I have to request that you will be furnished with a Petition, which was sent with My Despatch no.338 of the 31st December last in the sequel of this Despatch,\n\nRevised to fit the exact output and rules more closely:\nRAFT.\n\nMy Kong The 187\n\nPir H. Blake\n\nMINUTE.\n\n7. Macuughter 9/9\n\nGov16378/99\n\nHongkong\n\nSir,\n\nInd248\n\n14 Sept299\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch no.118 of the 21st\n\n7. Angus.\n\n5. Cop.\n\nr. Lucas.\n\nr. Graham.\n\nMay enclosing certain papers relative to them\n\nE. Wingfield.\n\nrl of Selborne.\n\nChamberlain.\n\nof Mr W. Qusulay.\n\n2 I have to request that you will be furnished with a Petition, which was sent with My Despatch no.338 of the 31st December last in the sequel of this Despatch,\n\nThe most corrected and refined version:\nRAFT.\n\nMy Kong The 187\n\nPir H. Blake\n\nMINUTE.\n\n7. Macuughter 9/9\n\nGov16378/99\n\nHongkong\n\nSir,\n\nInd248\n\n14 Sept299\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch no.118 of the 21st\n\n7. Angus.\n\n5. Cop.\n\nr. Lucas.\n\nr. Graham.\n\nMay enclosing certain papers relative to them\n\nE. Wingfield.\n\nrl of Selborne.\n\nChamberlain.\n\nof Mr W. Qusulay.\n\n2 I have to request that you will be furnished with a Petition, which was sent with My Despatch no.338 of the 31st December last in the sequel of this Despatch,\n\nHere is the final output in the required HTML format using  tags.\n\nRAFT.\n\nMy Kong The 187\n\nPir H. Blake\n\nMINUTE.\n\n7. Macuughter 9/9\n\nGov16378/99\n\nHongkong\n\nSir,\n\nInd248\n\n14 Sept299\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch no.118 of the 21st\n\n7. Angus.\n\n5. Cop.\n\nr. Lucas.\n\nr. Graham.\n\nMay enclosing certain papers relative to them\n\nE. Wingfield.\n\nrl of Selborne.\n\nChamberlain.\n\nof Mr W. Qusulay.\n\n2 I have to request that you will be furnished with a Petition, which was sent with My Despatch no.338 of the 31st December last in the sequel of this Despatch,",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of Her Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n682\n\n[Angus 2755\n\nRECO SECTION 25 NOV 19\n\nBoard of Trade to Foreign Office-(Received August 18.)\n\nBoard of Trade, August 17, 1899.\n\nIN reply to your letter of the 3rd instant, asking that Lord Salisbury may be furnished with any observations which the Board of Trade may have to offer on Mr. Bax-Ironside's despatch No. 135 of the 25th May relative to the working of the Regulations and Rules for inland steam navigation on the West River in China, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state that, on the whole, they are disposed to concur in the opinion expressed by Mr. Bax-Ironside that sufficient time has hardly elapsed to afford a true test of the working of the Regulations in question.\n\nIt appears to the Board that, so long as the dual system of Imperial maritime and provincial Customs taxation exists in China, there is great force in the observations contained in the letter of Sir Robert Hart which forms part of the printed correspondence inclosed in your letter. At the same time, however, I am directed to add that, in the opinion of the Board of Trade, no suitable opportunity should be lost for urging on the Chinese Government the desirability of putting an end to the present double system, which acts as a serious hindrance to the development of British trade.\n\nWith reference to this matter, I am directed to acknowledge receipt of a Memorandum by Mr. Jamieson inclosed in your letter of the 12th instant.\n\nWhile Mr. Jamieson's suggestions deserve careful consideration, the Board are not quite clear that they afford a solution which would at once protect the Chinese Customs revenue and give satisfaction to British traders.\n\nThe Board are fully aware of the difficulties attending any effort to procure an alteration in the existing state of things, but they fear that no really satisfactory arrangement for inland navigation in China will be found practicable until there is a uniform system of Customs and li-kin collection.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed) A. E. BATEMAN.\n\n[2095]",
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        "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899",
        "content_text": "for Ir. Malsch\n\n2. Put by\n\nA\n\nMr. Lucas politely\n\nIffold M.\n\nSlaloch\n\nverbally that his wishes had been\n\nnoted, but that there\n\naffy\n\nof his getting an aff\n\nfew\n\nWacan\n\nancus\n\nwas me\n\nas we\n\nchance\n\nhad ver\n\nvey\n\ntemperate climates;\n\nand that when such vacancies\n\noccurred\n\nthey were wanted for younger men than he\n\n7. Proceed as profond\n\n4/5 1.P.d.4 atonce\n\nThe w\n\nwent w\n\nin 1895\n\n5/3/5\n\n(AF)\n\nC\n\n323\n\nHATTON COURT.\n\nC.O.\n\n10566\n\nLONDON.E.C. RECU\n\n26th\n\nE\n\nFest 47 APR 19\n\nthe April 1879.\n\nDear Mr Lucas,\n\nI believe that\n\nyou have the control of the department with which the writer of & the enclosed letter is\n\nconnected.\n\nOn the occasion\n\nof his last furlough I wrote to Robert Meade:",
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        "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]",
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        "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]",
        "content_text": "Wedd\n\ndependent as it is upon the business incidental to a great shipping port of call. The Governor observes with satisfaction that the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce are prepared to accept cheerfully the increased taxation that will probably be necessary to meet the heavy expenses of contemplated measures for the general improvement of sanitation.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nT. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nTHE SECRETARY,\n\nChamber of Commerce.\n\n31.The foregoing statements prove that the local Government has failed to give effect, save in a very qualified form, to the measures so frequently urged upon it by its own Medical Officers and other experts; its efforts, so far, have met with so little result, indeed, that the Colony is now suffering severely from the annually recurring visitations of plague and, in a lesser degree, of enteric fever and small-pox. The inadequacy of the measures adopted by the local Government in dealing with so grave a crisis may, we submit, be regarded as equivalent to a tacit admission on its part that it is beyond its Power, of its own initiative, to undertake the gigantic task which a thorough and efficient reform of the Sanitary conditions of the Colony, with the heavy expenditure and sacrifices attending it, would involve\n\nThe conviction has consequently been forced upon us that no really effectual measures will be taken to grapple with the Sanitary problems of the Colony and to arrest the progress of disease until an appeal is made to the responsible Minister of State for his intervention. These annual epidemics are pressing acutely on the Commerce and Industries of the Colony, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain labour, whether European or Chinese. This year the Plague has again produced a cessation of Emigration, and the loss to the Shipping and Trade generally through quarantine restrictions and other delays has been very great. Native workmen are leaving Hongkong in thousands, and there is not an important industry or commercial undertaking in the Colony, employing and dependent on Chinese labour, that has not suffered.\n\nUnder the circumstances hereinbefore referred to your Petitioners most humbly Pray that you will be pleased\n\nthis 25th day of June, 1901.\n\n1.-To appoint a Commission consisting of a person or persons wholly unconnected with the Colony to proceed forthwith to Hongkong to investigate and report\n\n(a) On the Sanitary Condition of the Colony; (b) On the measures to be adopted for the improvement of the City of Victoria and of the Colony as it at present exists.\n\n2.That you will be pleased to attach to the said Commission some independent Sanitary Expert to advise.\n\n3. That after receiving and considering the Report of such Commission, you will give directions for the Recommendations of that Commission to be forthwith carried into effect.\n\nT. H. WHITEHEAD, J.P. (Mem. Legislative Council)\n\nJ. C. VICTORIA (Rt. Rev. Bishop of Victoria)\n\nL. M. PIAZZOLI (Rt. Rev. R.C. Bishop of S. China)\n\nNO. J. FRANCIS, K.C.\n\nEDWARD OSBORNE, J.P. (Mem. Sanitary Board)\n\nC. GERLACH, M.D.\n\nWILLIAM HARTIGAN, J.P., M.D., D.P.H.\n\nF. OSMUND STEDMAN, J.P., M.D., B.Sc. (LOND.)\n\nJ. W. NOBLE, D.D.S.\n\nFREDERIC H. BOWERS, D.D.S.\n\nG. MONTAGU HARSTON, J.P., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (LOND.)\n\nR. MACBEAN GIBSON, M.D., C.M. (EDIN.)\n\nL. R. BELL, D.D.S.\n\nROBERT LAMORT, M.D.\n\nG. APACIBLE, M.D., B.A.\n\nF. P. SOARES, P.M.\n\nHERBERT W. BIRD, A.R.I.B.A.\n\nCHRIS. B. THOMAS, A.R.I.B.A.\n\nWM. DANBY, J.P., M.I.C.E.\n\nA. DENISON, J.P., A.M.I.C.E.\n\nL. GIBBS, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nB. BROTHERTON HARKER, C.E.\n\nW. H. WICKHAM, A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.C.E.\n\nR. K. LEIGH, J.P., M.I.C.E.\n\nED. ROBINSON, J.P.\n\nH. W. SLADE, J.P.\n\nH. A. RITCHIE, J.P.\n\nW. HUTTON POTTS, J.P.\n\nJ. ORANGE, J.P., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., M.AM. Soc. C.E.\n\nCLEMENT PALMER, J.P., F.R.I.B.A.\n\nAGOSTINHO G. ROMANO (Consul-General for Portugal)\n\nJ. J. LEIRIA (Vice-Consul for Brazil)\n\nW. D. BRAIDWOOD, M.A.\n\nJ. A. SWANN, L.R.C.S., L.M., L.R.C.P., L.M.\n\nF. MAITLAND, J.P.\n\nJ. H. COX, J.P.\n\nW. J. McLOUGHLIN, P.H., C.H.\n\nB. BYRAMJEE, J.P.\n\nM. G. SASSOON, J.P.\n\nE. SHELLIM, J.P.\n\nA. J. RAYMOND, J.P.\n\nC. S. GUBBAY, J.P.\n\nD. E. BROWN, J.P.\n\nR. L. RICHARDSON, J.P.\n\nR. SHEWAN, J.P.\n\nJ. A. MCKAY, J.P.\n\nG. W. F. PLAYFAIR, J.P.\n\nCHAN A FOOK, J.P. (Mem. Sanitary Board)\n\nD. MACDONALD, C.E.\n\nA. E. GRIFFIN, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nW. G. CLARKE, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nW. POATE, J.P.\n\nD. GILLIES, J.P.\n\nC. S. SHARP, J.P.\n\nT. H. REID, J.P.\n\nA. S. GOMES, M.D., M.R.C.S.\n\nW. H. SHIRRIFF, M.B., C.M., L.S.A.\n\nB. FITZALAN HOWARD, B.A.\n\nR. CHATTERTON WILCOX, J.P.\n\nFRAMJEE H. ARJANEE, J.P.\n\nC. W. DICKSON, J.P.\n\nB. LAYTON, J.P.\n\nF. HENDERSON, J.P.\n\nG. C. ANDERSON, J.P.\n\nJ. C. COHEN, J.P.\n\nD. K. ROHRMANN\n\nWM. A. CRUICKSHANK\n\nE. BRUCE SHEPHERD\n\nA. H. RENNIE\n\nALFRED CUNNINGHAM\n\nH. T. WILGREES\n\nPHILIP W. SERGEANT\n\nT. COCHRANE\n\nJ. A. LEE\n\nJ. J. JUDAI\n\nGODFREY C. CO.\n\nMASTER THOS. ARNOLD\n\nA. CAMPBELL MACMILLAN\n\nHENRY HUMPHREYS\n\nE. NIEDHARDT\n\nF. W. R. LEMM\n\nE. D. HASKELL\n\nW. H. RAY\n\nA. TURNER\n\nG. H. MEDHURST\n\nJ. D. AULD\n\nG. R. EDWARDS\n\nA. ELLIS\n\nS. FULCHER\n\nR. T. HEAD\n\nW. PARFITT\n\nH. P. WHITE\n\nL. S. LEWIS\n\nP. A. COX\n\nA. A. SKELTON\n\nT. HALL\n\nC. J. TYNDALE-LEA\n\nA. SINCLAIR\n\nJ. GALT\n\nJ. KIRKWOOD\n\nJ. R. WILSON\n\nC. KLINCK\n\nR. O. RUTHERFORD\n\nH. JEWITT\n\nE. O. MURTHY\n\nF. P. DE V. SOARES\n\nA. MCINTYRE\n\nJ. DOUGLAS\n\nE. JOHANNSEN\n\nC. BELL\n\nJ. I. ANDREW\n\nW. S. BAILEY\n\nJ. ANGUS\n\nW. McCLURE\n\nD. MACDONALD\n\nG. L. TOMLIN\n\nC. 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        "content_text": "317 \n\n## Part IV. \n\n**RIGHTS OF BUILDING AND ADJOINING OWNERS**\n\nSections 236 to 250 define the rights, privileges and liabilities of adjoining owners in regard to footings, party walls and other party structures, and are taken bodily from Part VIII of the London Building Act, 1894, (57 and 58 Vic., Cap. CCXIII.)\n\n## Part V. \n\n**ARBITRATION**\n\nSections 251 to 254 prescribe the manner in which the amount of compensation payable by the Crown for loss incurred under this Ordinance shall be arrived at—the principle recognized being that of arbitration with an appeal to a Judge in Chambers.\n\n## Part VI. \n\n**CONTRAVENTIONS AND PENALTIES**\n\n## Part VII. \n\n**MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS**\n\nAppeals to Governor in Council, Application of Ordinance and Preservation of existing rights.\n\n## SCHEDULE A. \n**Enactments repealed**\n\n## SCHEDULE B. \n**Bye-laws**\n\nCommon Lodging-houses, Offensive trade premises, and Opium Divans are required to be lime-washed quarterly instead of half-yearly.\n\nDrains passing under a building shall be of cast iron coated inside with Dr. ANGUS SMITH's patent composition or other material approved of by the Board. All openings in walls for the discharge of drainage shall be protected by fixed gratings.\n\nMarket stalls are required to be cleansed twice daily instead of once.\n\nThe Regulations made under the Rats Ordinance have been incorporated in this Schedule.\n\nFebruary 16th, 1903.\n\n## SCHEDULES C-L. \n**Rules and Regulations**\n\nFRANCIS W. CLARK, \nMedical Officer of Health.\n\n6 \n\nEnclosure 4 to Despatch No. 116 of 325, the 10th March, 1903.\n\nTo His EXCELLENCY, \nMAJOR GENERAL SIR WILLIAM JULIUS GASCOIGNE, K.C.M.G., Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Commander-in-chief and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nThe Humble Petition of the Chinese Community of Hongkong.\n\n**RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH**\n\n1. That your Petitioners are Chinese Merchants, members of professions, traders, mechanics, artisans, labourers and others constituting the Chinese Community of the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n2. That your Petitioners (who constitute the vast majority of the Colonists of Hongkong and upon whose efforts the success of the Colony largely depends) have for years past carried on peacefully their various vocations and trades in this Colony, and have long enjoyed the puissant protection of the British Flag and lived under the equitable dispensation of British law and justice.\n\n3. That relying confidently upon fair and impartial legislation in this British Colony as well as upon an equal administration of its law and equity, a large number of your Petitioners have invested their earnings and wealth in the landed property within its jurisdiction, while many of their compatriots in the mainland opposite, inspired by the same confidence and reliance, have laid out much of their capital in the purchase of its houses and tenements.\n\n4. That on the 7th day of July, 1902, a Bill entitled \"An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Public Health and to Buildings\" was read a first time in the Legislative Council of this Colony, which Bill contains some two hundred and seventy-six sections, and either wholly or partially repeals no less than twenty-four previous enactments, but although it affects very materially the interests of the Chinese, no translation of it into the Chinese language has yet been made.\n\n5. That besides seeking to consolidate the existing laws relating to Public Health and Buildings, the Bill purports to have for its principal object the further improvement of the general sanitation of this Colony, in the endeavour to effect which latter purpose many drastic and altogether unprecedented and unwarranted clauses have been introduced, which if passed into law, would not only entail great and serious loss and sacrifice, but would leave the individuals suffering the same without reasonable and adequate compensation.",
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        "content_text": "# COPY.\n\n82\n\nAs 17 AUC 03:\n\n## List of Officers in the Police Department, who have accepted Sterling Salaries.\n\n| Rank | Name | Date of Acceptance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Assistant Superintendent of Police | P. P. J. Wodehouse | 1st October, 1902 |\n| Police Sergeant | G. Watt | 1st February, 1903 |\n| do. | P. O. Sullivan | 1st January, 1903 |\n| do. | N. Lamont | 1st December, 1902 |\n| do. | W. G. Gerrard | 1st October, 1902 |\n| do. | A. Terrett | 1st October, 1902 |\n| do. | J. J. Watt | 1st October, 1902 |\n| do. | J. Grant | 1st March, 1903 |\n| do. | H. Garrod | 1st October, 1902 |\n| do. | A. Gordon | 1st January, 1903 |\n| do. | G. Sim | 1st February, 1903 |\n| do. | M. O. Sullivan | 1st January, 1903 |\n| do. | W. Murison | 1st February, 1903 |\n| do. | R. McDonald | 1st January, 1903 |\n| do. | J. W. Lander | 1st February, 1903 |\n| do. | P. Angus | 5th December, 1902 |\n| do. | S. J. Burchill | 1st March, 1903 |\n| Lance Sergeant | J. Laneghan | 1st December, 1902 |\n| do. | W. J. Kerr | 1st October, 1902 |\n| do. | M. Earner | 1st October, 1902 |\n| do. | T. Perkins | 1st April, 1903 |\n| do. | E. Browne | 1st April, 1903 |\n| do. | P. F. Boulger | 1st December, 1902 |\n| do. | J. Ritchie | 1st October, 1902 |\n| do. | S. J. Clarke | 1st November, 1902 |\n| do. | D. McKenzie | 1st December, 1902 |\n| do. | W. Kent | 1st October, 1902 |",
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        "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 16th December, 1903\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed copy of the Gratuity Paper of Police Sergeant Angus McSwayed, who has had to be invalided from the Service owing to disablement.\n\n2.\n\nI enclose copy of his statement relating to the manner in which he received the injuries which have led to his compulsory retirement, together with a copy of the Medical Certificate and a statement by the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital on the subject. The enclosed draft Pension Paper shows the amount of pension to which he would have been entitled had he actually received the injuries while on duty, but as this was not so, and as Sergeant McSwayed has had less than 10 years' service, it was impossible under the regulations to grant him a pension. I have been advised by the Executive Council to submit his case to you for special consideration; not only on account of the generally good character which he has borne during the nine years he has served in the Force but also in view of the fact that he was actually returning from attendance at a fire.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE  \nALFRED LYTTELTON, M.P.**",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 2\n\nGovernment Civil Hospital,  \nHongkong, 30th November, 1908.\n\nThe Honourable  \nThe Acting Captain Superintendent of  \nPolice.\n\nSir,\n\nRe accident to my left foot on duty, I have the honour to report that at 12.30 A.M. on 7th September an alarm of fire was received from Government Civil Hospital. I turned out with the men and gear, but found the call was a false one. I returned in a Jinricksha; in front of No. 5 Station the Coolie stumbled. I jumped out and landed on the forepart of my left foot. I felt a severe pain there at once but could walk. Chief Inspector Baker and Sergeant Perkins were quite near me. I told Sergeant Perkins I had hurt my foot. I used the usual remedies for a strain but the pain got worse; on the 10th I went to Government Civil Hospital. Dr. Bell examined the foot and gave me a note stating I had strained the tendons, and prescribed treatment. I got leave from Ag. Dep. Supt. of Police. The foot got worse and I went to Hospital on the 15th September where I underwent an operation on the 25th October losing 4 toes.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) Angus McSwayne,  \nActing Assistant Engineer,  \nFire Brigade.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 3\n**MEDICAL CERTIFICATE**\nC.O. 1508 (BY 10 JAN 04)\n\nGovernment Civil Hospital,  \nHongkong, 21st November, 1903.\n\nE. P. S. 14, Angus McSwayne was admitted to Hospital on the 15th September, 1903, suffering from an injury to the left foot. The injury led to gangrene of all the toes and part of the foot and it was necessary to amputate four toes and the corresponding metatarsal bones. He is now recovering but we are of opinion that he is unfit for further service and should be invalided as he is completely disabled.\n\n(Sd.) J. Bell,  \nSuperintendent.\n\n(Sd.) E. A. R. Laing,  \nAssistant Superintendent.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police.",
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        "content_text": "## Descriptive List of Pensioner\n\n| Questions | Answers |\n| --- | --- |\n| Name | Angus Mackwayed |\n| Age | 30 years |\n| Height | 5ft. 10<sup>1</sup>/<sub>2</sub> |\n| Complexion | Fair |\n| Eyes | Blue |\n| Hair | Light |\n| Particular Marks | 3 Moles on breast |\n| Figure | 072 |\n| Where Born | Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland |\n| Parish, Province, District or Village |  |\n| In or near the Town of |  |\n| In the Colony or Country of |  |\n| Where Pension to be drawn |  |\n| When joined | 16th October 1894 |\n| When discharged | 6 January 1904 |\n| Length of Service | 9 years 2 months 16 days |\n| Deduct period on leave since September 1881 | 2 months 16 days |\n| Total actual Service | 9 years |\n| Average Amount of pay for last three years |  |\n| Amount of Pension by Service | $864 |\n| Amount of Pension reduced to | $129.60<sup>7</sup>/<sub>10</sub> |\n| Commuted-value | for injuries received to of $864 = 259.20 ($388.86 Sterling. Value @ 2/8 exchange £71.5.7) |\n\nSignature of Pensioner: Jan. 4<sup>th</sup> 1904\n\nApproved by the Governor in Council this day of Feb... \n\nAsst. Captain Superintendent of Police. 2nd December 1903\n\nClerk of Councils.",
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        "content_text": "## HONGKONG\n2nd December 1903\n\n### POLICE PENSIONER\n\nP.3. 14. Angus MacSwayed\n\n* Trade or calling: \n* Caste or Religion: Roman Catholic\n* Read and write: yes\n* Single or married: single\n\n| Category | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Number of children |  |\n| Descriptive List of |  |\n| Name, address and profession of nearest relative | Gram man Haughing |\n\n### DRAFT\n\n| Name | Minute |\n| --- | --- |\n| Carr. | 36 ints 2011 |\n| Johns | 20 abc |\n| Mr. Antrobus |  |\n| Mr. Cor. |  |\n| Mr. Lucas |  |\n| Mr. Graham |  |\n| Sir M. Ommanney |  |\n| The Duke of Marlborough, Mr. Lyttelton |  |\n\nPage 210\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "the present I fail to see\n\nhow the \n\nAug \n\naffects the \n\npresent case. \n\nCo segardo \n\nwestern bound anges of \n\nDRAFT. \n\n383 \n\nit inflicts any hardships \n\nthe \n\noutrea \n\non \n\nof frontages \n\nthe Eastern Praya, \n\ntotal \n\na \n\ngreater injustice and \n\ndone \n\nbe \n\nto the War Dept. of \n\nboundary of \n\nthe western \n\nthe proposed reclamation \n\nthe Adig \n\n& W. o. extension \n\nreclama \n\nCamations it appears \n\nto be practically at \n\nright \n\nagreed to \n\nmany years ago by the \n\nGovt, I are \n\nalready \n\nbeing constructed, \n\nthat they cannot now \n\nbe \n\nconsidered \n\nMr. Antrobus. \n\nMr. Cox. \n\nMr. Lucas. \n\nMr. Graham. \n\nSir M. Ommanney. \n\nEarl of Onslow. \n\nMr. Chamberlain, \n\nto \n\ncome in front of \n\nthe War Dept reclamation. \n\nproposed \n\ninstead of being at right angles to its new boundary. As regards northern boundary (which is practically \n\nthe \n\nMoreover \n\nthe eastern boundary \n\nof the war \n\nDept reclamation \n\nis practically \n\nat right \n\nangles to the present \n\nEastern Praya; \n\nreasonably \n\nnor can it be argued that \n\nno \n\n288 of the 7th Aug \n\n364 of the 6th March. \n\nM70 \n\nfor",
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        "content_text": "## DOMESTIC.\n### Military Lands\n\nAccepts Col Lewis' memo as settlement of the matters in dispute. Points out local error as to valuation of site below Bowen Rd Hospital & asks if revised balance is approved.\n\n### (Minutes.)\n\nMr Lidderdale says according to `26912` and the value agreed upon by Colony is $123,489 as against $650.\n\nAs regards paragraph 3, we propose to reduce the total to credit of W.O. in Col Military Lands Account by the $8000 estimated as the amount of compensation to be paid by Col Govt to private owners on Devil's Peak & Kowloon Peak sites, which are to be handed over by Colony to War Office.\n\n### Previous Paper.\n`11134` \n`39009` \nHongkong \nNo. `28011` \n\n| Ref | Date | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 5 Aug... |  |\n|  | 1905 August |  |\n\n`£(78)-28263–25000-11-£` \nsequent Paper. \nRee? 5 Angos \n1329 \n04",
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        "content_text": "## ASIE 1,000,000° \n-De-Min Bang \n0 Fizy.. \ntw Galbia \nBoi-Ling Chan \nAt Pasg Chand \nJAD Shan Tchao \n· Tam Cirith jeng İHBmard Merwins \nCablo Pältarnatique de thony Kway & that they - $72. Libros, Comp Anonfion des Foregraphes d'Australe et de Com \nBatu du Morit \nCherial du Milieu \nBlace to Sad \nChenal iz Sreet; \n\n## 20-ZHONG TRAKULI \nDestinė, hélagraví in publisi parla Sizvire géographique de l'Armée. \nStoleranz Chung-Tehoven \nTriu \n\n## CANTON \ntable Poligraphique de Harry-time une con St Augnies (Saign) #10 Kilom, tomy ? hugarion was gre \nHa Pacaveir \nFcbelle de 1.400.000. \n\n\"DE MACAO Thing \nflex Grupo dîme-Hom \nÇÃO G-KONG \nlong-kluxy # Fabuan i \nLadrones Charest Cantan \nNAD Koen \nBlang dawny- \nPo Check \nBate de Ring Mini\" \n\nہو اور اگر نیکی ہیں اور \nHung Ang \nThey attack Thick \n1:4 Envei-Yang \nKing-Ficheiro | Foto-Tisbewa \nHeart the \nParla K-Trou Chan \nCha-em \nFringay lle 24 114 \nLan-Fa Chat \nHeau-The Feng-Choo, \n•Toung Chen Duke This \nFout-Yan Chan BL \nWhin tige \n•Heat-Scharfo Tary \n-Ning Dung K-40% \nbe-The Fatiming (Forte BullsEs \nPetra Branca 200 [Tai-Sing-Chari). \n\nCable Tistegraphique de Hong-bing a tharry K03 Blom. Compts The \nCuble de quatre The Wond \nde Bag-liny Bor-Ion 174 Reton Compte Anglus der Topher of Australie et de Orin \nCable, Todpretique to Bang King at Cap. Borinco (the them) tisur. Comp Anglais des Telégray \n\n## BARD STANFOREL \nGECCA 16 Tam KG. \n1, Lauđen, W.G \nWe Maker aut that Whampoa \nHoang hon",
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        "document_key": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]",
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        "content_text": "Osbert Chadwick Esq., C.M.G.\n\n10.026\" 20.vbs: JISCED\n\nRYA\n\nNUMAS 16 A\n\nSER\n\n246\n\n4/12/1906.\n\n\"inch, and subsequently coated with Dr. Angus Smith's \"composition\".\n\n8.\n\nMr. Preston was employed by my late Father and myself for many years, and was also known to yourself in connection with the inspection of Wrought Iron Pipes and other work. From a knowledge of the man I have no reason to doubt the statements given in his above-mentioned report, to the effect that every Pipe was tested under the specified pressure.\n\n9.\n\nThe Pipes were shipped on December 3rd, 1903, and from the Colonial Governor's despatch dated 15th June, 1906, it appears they were laid in 1904, and brought into use in 1905.\n\n10.\n\nComing now to the three pieces of Pipe returned from Hong Kong, and which you instructed me to test and analyse. The samples are described by the Colonial Authorities in the following words:-\n\nSample No. 1:\n\nA Pipe, the screwed end of which tore off when an attempt was made to lay it. This Pipe also went out of shape when an attempt was made to bend it.\n\nSamples Nos. 2 & 3: Two short lengths of 5\" Pipe which burst after being laid.\n\nFrom a cursory examination of these three samples, I beg to offer the following remarks:-\n\nSample No. 1:\n\n11.\n\nThis 6\" Pipe had apparently not been in use, as the screwed end is referred to as having 'torn off' when an attempt was made to lay the Pipe\". It is difficult to understand how this breakage occurred, and I can only conjecture that the screwed end was subjected to an undue strain in process of laying, such as would happen if several lengths of Pipe were connected up on the ground, and then lowered into the trench without proper precaution being taken to see that no irregular stress was put upon any of the Pipes. I would say that it would be impossible to",
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        "content_text": "## \n145 \n\nButterfield and Swire requested Sir M. Nathan to recommend to Your Lordship that the lease for Shaukiwan Inland Lot 408 and Shaukiwan Marine Lots 2 and 10 should also be extended for a period of 999 years. Sir M. Nathan on the 3rd August, 1906, agreed to forward their application, but stated that he could not recommend it. As, however, on the 5th of last November Messrs. Butterfield and Swire repeated their request, I have the honour to submit it for Your Lordship's consideration, though, like Sir Matthew Nathan, I am of opinion that the present case does not call for exceptional treatment.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\nhumble servant,\nH[ugh] F. H[angas]... \nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "## ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES, THE ABOVE REFERENCE AND THE DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED.\n\nTEL. ADD. CROWN, LONDON\"\n\n26559 \nR: 22 JUL 08 \n\nWHITEHALL GARDENS, \n79 \nLONDON, S. W. \n\n21st July 1908 \n\nSir, \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th November No.58185/1907 covering a copy of and requesting our observations on a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong respecting the pipes supplied for the main to the Peak service reservoir in 1903.\n\n2. I have to express our regret that our answer has been so long delayed but the matter required very careful investigation, which took a considerable time, and has been much impeded by pressure of current business.\n\n3. It may be useful here to briefly recapitulate the history of the transaction. An indent was received in July 1903 from Hong Kong for \"3000 lineal feet of 5\" wrought iron pipes for rising main to Peak; To be tested to 1500 lb. per square inch and to be coated with Dr. Angus Smith's patent composition\". The indent also included the boilers and pumping machinery for the scheme, and was accompanied by a letter from the Director of Public Works with some notes giving particulars and requesting that the indent might be referred to Mr. Chadwick in whose hands the settlement of details was to be left. Mr. Chadwick, I may observe, has been Consulting Engineer.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \n&c., &c., &c., \nColonial Office.",
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        "title": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]",
        "content_text": "MARCONI'S WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.\n\nG. W. Johnson Esqr. C.M.G.\n\nPage 2\n\nM.W.J.O. 29.\n\n233\n\n...these out the special precautions taken in preparing the mast sections, so that they might withstand corrosion, sections being dipped while hot in Angus Smith's Solution before shipment.\n\nWe stated that in our opinion all the painting necessary could be done by men slung in bosun's chairs, more conveniently and satisfactorily than by means of ladders to be specially provided.\n\nWe concluded by saying that we had used the type of mast proposed in practically every sort of climate, and they had given us no trouble whatever.\n\nIf we can supplement the information contained in this letter by anything further that you would like to know, please command us.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nMARCONI'S WIRELESS TELEGRAPH Co., Ltd.\n\nB/H Manager.\n\n1.1 Bradford",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSir,\n\n256\n\nC.o.\n\n35551\n\nRE02\n\nPrat 9 NOV 12\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 12th October, 1912.\n\nIn continuation of my Confidential Despatch of the 27th ultimo, I have the honour to inform you that in answer to enquiries addressed by me to the Captain Superintendent of Police whether there was any record in the Cheung Chau Police Station books of a visit by either Sir L. Nathan or Sir F. Lugard to the Station; and whether there was any record of permission having been granted by the Captain Superintendent of Police to Sergeant Angus, the first Police Officer to occupy the matshed, to erect it, Mr. Badeley wrote that there was no record of a visit by Sir L. Nathan but that Sir F. Lugard had visited the Station on the 2nd June, 1911; that there was an official record in the Police Daily Report of occurrences which is sent daily to the Colonial Secretary of the blowing down of the matshed on 29th July, 1908; and that \"permission was obtained from the Director of Public Works.\" \"I remember passing that paper to Police Sergeant Angus. I asked \"P. S. Angus about it a few days ago when he surprised me by \"saying that the same paper (a loose sheet) contained the approval \"of the Government signified by the signature of the Colonial \"Secretary, as well as that of the Director of Public Works. He \"says he retained the paper and had it by him all the time he was \"quartered at Cheung Chau. I knew that I had passed him the \"Director of Public Works' permit but had quite forgotten that the\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\n\"game",
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        "content_text": "257\n\n'same paper contained the Government's sanction. He cannot now \"find it. May I be allowed to draw attention to the attached \"copy of a General Order which was issued by me by Sir F. Lugard's \"orders on his departure, and to quote a dictum of Sir H. Blake \"that \"men are what their officers make them\" ?\". \n\nGENERAL ORDER NO. 31.\n\n\"His Excellency Sir F. Lugard on his departure from the \"Colony desired me to convey to the Police Force his apprecia-\"tion and thanks for the excellent work they have done \"during the whole time he was in the Colony and especially of \"late during the unrest in China.\n\n(Sd.) F. J. Badeley,\n\nCapt. Supt. of Police.\n\n18th March, 1912.\"\n\nOn the following day Mr. Badeley addressed\n\nthe following minute to the Colonial Secretary:-\n\n\"A few days ago I informed you that F. S. Angus is \"prepared to give evidence that he received permission under \"the hand of the Colonial Secretary to occupy a matshed \"instead of sleeping in the station at Cheung Chau during the \"summer months; that he kept the paper for years but has \"since lost it.\n\n\"I am now in a position to prove, by the evidence of \"Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher and Inspector Gordon, that Sir F. \"Lugard visited the station and village on 2 June last year; \"that the matshed where Inspector Gordon was living, and the \"matshed and houses where the Indian Police were living, were \"all specifically pointed out to His Excellency, and that he \"appeared quite satisfied with the arrangements\".\n\n2.",
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        "content_text": "260\n\n11.\n\n.I stuwolona\n\n(A). The history of this matshed appears to be as follows:-\n\nIn October, 1903, Sergeant Angus, a married man (with, at that time, one child but two later) was put in charge of the Police at Cheung Chau. During the winter of 1903-4, the summer of 1904 and the winter 1904-5 he and his family occupied the ordinary quarters in the Police Station. About May, 1905, (he says) he, having found during the previous summer that the conditions in the quarters were very unpleasant, sent in an application upon a form (copy attached marked 'B') to the Captain Superintendent of Police asking for permission to erect, at his own expense, a matshed on Crown Land, without fee, for his wife and family to live in during the hot summer months.\n\nHe received back this paper and in it his application was granted. He is not able to recollect exactly what was on the form through whose hands the form had passed but he thinks that it had been sent by the Captain Superintendent of Police to the Director of Public Works by whom it had been forwarded to the Colonial Secretary's Office: there were, he thinks, very terse minutes written on the form and initials, none of which he knew except those of the Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n轉\n\nHe kept this paper for a long time and believes he handed it on to his successor Inspector Gordon by whom he was relieved in December, 1907.\n\nInspector Gordon, also married, with two children, also rather vaguely recollected this paper: but it has disappeared now. Gordon says that he understood Sergeant Angus had a permit to utilize this matshed and he further says that he both thought that this permit held by Angus would extend to his own family and that he told the Assistant District Officer, Mr. Tratman that he proposed to re-erect the shed (which seems to have been annually more or less damaged or blown down by the gales) so that it could be occupied by his wife and family during the summer heat, a suggestion which Mr. ...",
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        "content_text": "261\n\nTratman (according to Gordon) characterized as a good idea. Mr. Tratman is now on leave.\n\n(B). On the other hand, there is no record to be found in any Government papers (so far as your Committee can ascertain) of any such permit having been granted. There is a record in the Police Report of 29th July, 1908, that a matshed belonging to Sergeant Gordon on the hill behind the village was blown away; but this would not convey to anyone any clear information that the Sergeant lived in it away from the Station.\n\nBut your Committee does not think it is at all unlikely that no record was kept of this very informal and petty affair: no fee was paid and the transaction would require no booking; no permanent structure was to be erected and no definite encroachment apprehended.\n\n(C). But what your Committee does wish to draw attention to is that both these officers explicitly say that they asked for permission for their wives and families, not for themselves. It is true that they both also say that they understood that they themselves (as Officers of the Police) were included in the permit: Sergeant Angus says:\n\n\"I sent in an application....for permission to erect a matshed for my wife and family to live in during the summer months. I slept in the matshed through three summers....I took it that I had permission to do so.\"\n\nInspector Gordon says \"I knew that Sergeant Angus had permission....I told Mr. Tratman that I was going to repair the matshed and put my wife and family there in the hot weather....I took it that the permission extended to me. I did not ask for special permission for myself to be absent from the quarters in the station\".\n\n(D).",
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        "content_text": "262\n\n(D). The difference between the mere occupation of the Lat shed by the family of the officer in charge and the abandonment of the quarters at the station by the officer himself is obvious. The only comment which your Committee wishes to make here is that this personal action of the Sergeants was admittedly known to and acquiesced in by the Captain Superintendent, though there is nothing to show that such was ever properly brought to the notice of the Government.\n\n6. With regard to the alleged acquiescence in the arrangements by the late Governor Sir F. Lugard.\n\n6. (A). There is no doubt that Sir F. Lugard visited the island and, according to Inspector Cordon, he showed Sir F. Lugard over the place and told him where he and his family and the Constables lived. We see no reason to doubt this account nor that Sir F. Lugard made no comment deprecatory of the arrangements.\n\n(B). Your Committee has, however, already expressed its view on this aspect of the question in paragraph 11 of its previous report.\n\nThe only other point of any importance which transpired at this further enquiry was that it would appear that up to 1904, three Indian (unmarried) constables lived in the Station and the Indian Sergeant (married) in a house next door; that it is impossible, for social reasons of Moslem feminine propriety, for married Indian women to live together with their husbands in these confined quarters; that in 1905 all four Indian Police (all married) lived outside; that they gradually drifted into living further and further away from the station; that the Chinese detective, at the time of the raid, also lived out.\n\nYour Committee has come to the following conclusions:-\n\n(a). That, whilst it is quite ready to accept the evidence of Sergeant Angus and Inspector Cordon on the subject of this written permit, the account given does not in any way show the acquiescence by Government in the occupation",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\nA.\n\nSergeant Peter Angus 82.\n\nC.O.\n\n35551\n\n264\n\nRECE (REGP 9 NOV12)\n\nI was transferred to Cheung Chau in October 1903---Married, two children. We lived in the quarters in the Station during the summer of 1904. About May, 1905, I think I sent in an application on Form P. 50 (attached) for permission to erect a matshed for my wife and family to live in during the summer months. I received back the form later with the permission to erect a matshed and to pay no fee. The minutes on the form were quite short. I think the C.S.P. sent it to the P.W.D. with the words *to you* and the P.W.D. sent it to the C.S.O. with the words \"any objection\". There were initials on the form, which I did not know. I think I handed the paper over to Sergeant Gordon when he took over from me in December, 1907. I did not lose the form. Three of the Indian Police were living in the Station in 1904 and one outside. During the summer of 1905 they were all outside the Station, but the Indian Sergeant lived in a house next door to the Station. None of the Police lived more than fifty yards from the Station while I was there. No matshed was put up for them while I was there. Married Indians cannot live in the Station because of their wives. Single men complained of fleas and mosquitoes. The Samshu factory close to the Station was very obnoxious.\n\nBy Mr. Severn. I did not hand over the matshed to Inspector Gordon as it had been practically destroyed by typhoons, but I showed him the permission I had got to erect it. I slept in the matshed through three summers 1905, 1906 and 1907. I took it that I had permission to do so.\n\nInspector Alexander Gordon.\n\nI took over at Cheung Chau from Sergeant Angus on the 26th December, 1907. There were three Indian Constables and an Indian Sergeant. The Sergeant was living in the upper floor of the building now occupied as a school on the opposite side of the street at the back of the Station. One I.P.C. was living with him. One at the end of the lane near the temple 40 or 50 yards from...",
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        "content_text": "Page 4\n\nBUNĂ 762 4 June 1881\n\n... XI, Ioodoo ni man pword of betteÏN TAJ BOT I\n\n1\n\n1903\n\nnoided? ait ni nodrup add ni bevil of .nerblino und beixTEM na ni Jugɛ I Xhind I, 2001 Matoucan wel 10 19 swa vid ainub 3 Joete of noisei.neq 101 (Godosus) 00 .4 mɔok no noia :oilqqa .D JEQJ TOLMINUD ONS KİTUD ni evil oð vlient bua otir ya qul banoj an 3 doere od uoinsiuisų sod ng by you I aroî end land cavisoer I edion elev miet end no sedunia 9.7 .ock on yag of Fra banedan 1 e 03 Ji Jnoa .1.0.0 and Äning I .Jroda entor end la bw . .V\n\nbet: \"wo% od* 0.2.0 eit of Ji Jina SIO Blid nd IV .vona Jon bib I soiurariol and no alau ini ever event .\"noitoajdo dood en now HODIO) 118,182 of novo teynų Bad Dobem I ánidd I reuzboot ni au ma ?\n\n...\n\nfrom the Station. The other man was close by. The building occupied by the Sergeant became a school and he had to move to where the man lived at the end of the lane. The three I.F.C.s went to the matshed at the back of the station, 80 yards distant. It was built by a Chinese and rented to them at $2 a month. It was during my time that one of the three men went and lived in the farthest away house, owing to their wives quarrelling. There was a matshed partly blown away. I lived in the station until the theatres finished in June, and I then got a contractor to erect a matshed on the hill for $30. I had two children. I knew Sergeant Angus had permission\n\nthat\n\nand the A. D. O. came almost every week. First Mr. Tratman and then Mr. Orme. I told Mr. Tratman that I was going to repair the matshed and put my wife and family there in the hot weather. He said it was a good idea. I believe Sergeant Angus left the written permission with me. It was in the top drawer of the desk. I took it that the permission extended to me. I do not know what became of the form with the permission. I think it remained in the drawer for a year, but eventually it disappeared. I presumed that I had permission to live in the matshed at night. I did not ask for special permission for myself to be absent from the quarters in the station.\n\nI remember Sir F. Lugard coming to Cheung Chau on the Dragon Boat festival last year. It was the 5th day of 5th month, in June. I showed H. E. the charge room and arms; the Post Office, Harbour Office and boatmen's quarters. I told him the I. P. C.s used to live in the Station, but now outside. He asked me where and I told him. He looked at my quarters. Mr. Clementi and Mr. Fletcher were with H. E. Mr. Clementi mentioned to H. E. that I lived in\n\nthe matshed on the top of the hill. I am sure I spoke to H. E. about the matshed and he asked if it was comfortable. I told him the matshed assisted me greatly. We then stood near the school house and I pointed out the matshed occupied by the two Indian Constables. H. E. then asked if there were any other Government buildings and I said there were none. We went towards the temple and as we passed\n\nPage 5\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\n.8\n\n.Y 400\n\n ́‚nois332 unilos\n\nIVI...\n\n.Jn 0162 30 noiðaoi¡qqA\n\n(.00 .4)\n\nou bensely su Iliw eoilon to Juovi-Juinaquo ni adqs0 mild Jand\n\n.onзoiLqqA to etujargië\n\n.oolio: to quobaqepi\n\n.biz moet\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nC.0.\n\n3\n\n35551 269\n\nREGE 9 NOV 12.\n\nAdvice tendered by the Executive Council\n\nCouncil considered the supplementary report\n\nof the Committee appointed under the provisions of No. 56 of the Regulations for H. M. Colonial Service to inquire as to the conduct of Mr. F. J. Badeley, Captain Superintendent of Police, and agreed with the Committee's conclusions which were as follows:-\n\n(a). That, whilst it was quite ready to accept the evidence of Sergeant Angus and Inspector Gordon on the subject of this written permit, the account given did not in any way show the acquiescence by Government in the occupation of the Latshed by the European Officer himself.\n\n(b). That the Sergeants honestly thought they might themselves occupy the shed: a belief confirmed by their doing so for years without prohibition.\n\n(c). That the result of this further enquiry did not materially affect the position of the Captain Superintendent inasmuch as the abandonment of the station by the European Officer was clearly not indicated to Government so far as the Committee could ascertain.\n\n(d). That with regard to Sir F. Lugard's visit the possibility that he was shown the arrangements and made no deprecatory comment did not really relieve the Head of the Department from the responsibility for such arrangements: arrangements as to the faulty character of which the Committee had already expressed its views.\n\n11th October, 1912.",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\nEnclosure 270\n\nOfficers in charge of Cheung Chau.\n\nInspector Gillies.\n\nP. S. 11, Watt....\n\nP. S. 50, McHardy\n\nP. S. 42, Sim....\n\nL. S. 59, Lee...\n\nP. S. 83, Burchell.\n\nP. S. 42, Sim..........\n\nP. S. 11, Watt....\n\nP. S. 82, Angus.\n\nP. S. 38, Gordon.\n\nP. S. 26, Boulger..\n\nMay to June, 1899.\n\nJuly, 1899, to June, 1900.\n\nJuly, 1900, to March, 1901.\n\nApril, 1901, to March, 1902.\n\nApril, 1902, to August, 1902.\n\nSeptember, 1902, to December, 1902.\n\nJanuary, 1903, to June, 1903.\n\nJuly, 1903, to September, 1903.\n\nOctober, 1903, to December, 1907.\n\nJanuary, 1908, to October, 1911.\n\nNovember, 1911, to date.\n\n*The Mat-shed was first built and occupied, so P. S. Angus tells me, in 1905.*\n\n(Sd.) F. J. Badeley.\n\n26.9.12.",
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        "content_text": "# To Joi otie nin evag noed OÜ\n\n.byeseÏg ens v.2 and day of ten bied ons mtblino\n\nal: indkør fovuob,0021 ni sveci am o vísucivert\n\n.A \n\n¤ IJ JE 100 bojsoïs bie aniab où dood cu armver sin 30.lew oliw novi merbildo red hus 19. beirtud on moza/000 ano no .ɣlingerd prev .candolo beu Tienữ ni (Joal bool a'irsup)\"seoïde allt\n\n.c \n\n191do od pettity sell notjou glod Juew en sonit\n\n010 NI \n\nMaivii ni ofie ein von 119.3 mi.se nagnoli ni siquaq „ivii ei wie Jand ejegywe 9. 0908 Bad nosjob „ali dojny 1stdel .Iuk. Tendona ndiv\n\n„BII JINA, Jd ihwonu booy need non quoй,81 ́ \n\net me send noisesiori on al etont .ozuoli Ten Ja su 16% nodde\n\n.otil Jo ¡lats” e Jud grind LHK JAITLI\n\nni privil al ...U.W.Y ent of monx-llow,Irig A \n\nBOUT 18LJO at .ucabling tall be nejdou .8%. GA R001 988 6ild\n\n.aigus, sludubonent od reddol .8%. yo Jel-dwa ein deli end ni\n\nlion briesm. You Jand availou Jon asub mojdou .ex\n\n.0 \n\n## The present seems amply to justify her incredulity.\n\n**(Sd.) D. W. Tratman,**\n\n64 \n\n**H.S.D.**\n\n14.2.13.\n\n**Note**\n\nThe information above, \nexcepting only `A`, was \nobtained by me direct from Mrs. Cotton.",
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        "content_text": "## Letter Requesting Pension Adjustment\n\nThis reducing their pension to £119. Compare this to the £152, 108. granted to a sub-dividional inspector in the Metropolitan Police for roughly 3 years less service.\n\nIt is a well known fact that one shilling in England is equal to the purchasing rate of one dollar in Hongkong and whereas the Metropolitan Police obtain free education including books for their children. Education for our children in Hongkong is an expensive item.\n\nFor these reasons we sincerely trust that our requests which we believe to be most reasonable may be given serious and favourable consideration by His Excellency the Governor.\n\nWe have etc.\n\n(Sd.) A. Gordon  \nW. G. Gerard  \nP. O'Sullivan  \nR. McDonald  \nM. O'Sullivan  \nH. G. Garrod  \nGeorge Sim  \nW. Kent  \nA Terrett\n\n## Additional Signatures and Text\n\nJames J. Watt  \nN. Lamont  \nP. Angus  \n\nP. 4",
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        "content_text": "## Territorial Force\n### Regimental Musketry Return for the year ended\n\n#### Strength of Officers, N.C.Os. and men at the end of the year, exclusive of men exempt from musketry by regulations\n\n|          | Total Strength | Recruits | Qualified | Unqualified | Not tested | Total |\n|----------|---------------|----------|-----------|-------------|------------|-------|\n| Officers | 351           |          |           |             |            | 351   |\n| N.C. Officers and Men | 144    | 144      |           |             |            | 144   |\n| Total    | 495           | 144      | 315       | 30          | 6          | 495   |\n\n#### Recruits\n\n|            | Tested on open range | Tested on miniature range | Qualified | Unqualified | Not tested | Total |\n|------------|----------------------|---------------------------|-----------|-------------|------------|-------|\n| Recruits   | 72                   | 72                        | 42        | 30          |           | 72    |\n\n#### Trained Officers, N.C. Officers and Men\n\n|                         | Qualified | Unqualified | Not tested | Total |\n|-------------------------|-----------|-------------|------------|-------|\n| Tested on open range    | 27        | 3           |            | 30    |\n| Tested on miniature range |           |             |            |       |\n\n#### Classification of those shown to have fired\n\n|                         | Qualified | Unqualified | Failed to attain prescribed standard, but classed as qualified under T.F. Regs. | Total |\n|-------------------------|-----------|------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|-------|\n|                         | 278       | 73             | 0                                                       | 351   |\n\n### Summary of Above Tables (Recruits and Trained Officers, N.C. Officers and Men)\n\n|                     | Total Strength | Now Exercised | Total Qualified | Failed to qualify | Not Exercised |\n|---------------------|----------------|---------------|-----------------|--------------------|---------------|\n| Recruits            | 144            | 72            | 42              | 30                 | 72            |\n| Trained Officers, N.C. Officers and Men | 351 | 243           | 278             | 73                 | 108           |\n| Total               | 495            | 315           | 320             | 103                | 180           |\n\n#### Remarks by Commanding Officer as to reason for Not Exercised\n\nRecruits: Several men on leave. Remainder joined too late in the season to do Musketry for 1914-15.\n\nTrained Officers, N.C. Officers and Men: A large number of men on leave. Remainder joined too late to do Course for 1914-15.\n\n*In accordance with Territorial Force Regulations*\n\n#### Note\n\n(a) the steps taken to ensure accurate marking, and (b) whether the Standard Tests were fired under independent supervision at the Butts.\n\n\"A\" Permanent Staff of Markers. \"B\" Officers of other Units attended to supervise the marking in the Butts during Standard Test.\n\n### Hong Kong Volunteer Corps\n### King's Park Range, Kowloon\n\n#### Army Form E.569\n\nPage 326\n\n### Details of Firing\n\n| Unit | Course fired | Tested on open range | Tested on miniature range | Qualified | Unqualified |\n|------|--------------|----------------------|---------------------------|-----------|-------------|\n| Hong Kong Volunteer Corps | King's Park Range | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n\n#### Other Details\n\n Forms `E.569`  \n`12)+W5177-004 10,000 12/11 HWY`  \n`J800 e¿stoVÁ`  \n`.bood Tog`  \n`Jai Mori ettûneqx Istor`  \n`Teduose taiƐ of уIKUISL`  \n`aqrob to viüzzenj`  \n`Koza talƐ mo`  \n`anges on which`  \n`Course fired`  \n\nHis Excellency The ...  \n`$8.889,04`  \n`IICI`  \n`OTS`  \n`SI`  \n`8SE`  \n`mission`  \n`srer`  \n`Tás`  \n`Teted on mlpture Tange`  \n`(1) to (8)`  \n`Not tonod`  \n`[to Aggree with`  \n`(n`  \n`<`  \n`Dar`  \n`4.SI, sa`  \n`SIQI`  \n`BIE`  \n`$114`  \n`—`  \n`30`  \n`144`  \n`72`  \n\n### Other Text\n\n`SVIVID.`  \n`II old T`  \n`GEI`  \n`03.808,88`  \n`Sou ever hina,`  \n`0.0`  \n`200`  \n`88.10G, DE`  \n`orer`  \n`ពន`  \n`I`  \n`Fxcellency The`  \n`CAI`  \n`VI.588, AC`  \n`Arer`  \n`aca`  \n`ar`  \n`Terted on open range`  \n`Kum[Y[ 'g_g[pur,`  \n`Falled to attain pro-`  \n`sorbed standard, but classed as qualidad andar T. V, Regal,`  \n`Total (7) to (0)`  \n`2 Failed in standard`  \n`Not tested`  \n`27.011,się od gattarone (yntTVOST-пou) exutibneque istoege yutbufonI .yaaqno✪ Jeb30 xo evresel no bebreqxe etapoms gntbuloat ton Jud`  \n`teit of Ieumb tal Tsay istoasaft odð rot at eztibaeqxe ed\"`  \n`no 100% rootkulov sdt to anojo odit te se at dignende enz .Zeďmeost`  \n`.doтM JuI8`  \n`Squadron or Compay`  \n`Part II., Table 1,`  \n`Territorial Force`  \n`Tart III. Table 3,`  \n`☎ Total (3) and (8)`  \n`52`  \n`doyal 51 1,00`  \n`Seo 11 300 30`  \n`Seo`  \n`FRES`  \n`W`  \n`1`  \n`ແຜນ`  \n`Not tested`  \n`Totul (4) and (5). 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        "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916",
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        "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916",
        "content_text": "British Trade with China,\n\nA\n\nAn address on the above subject was delivered before the members of the Far Eastern Section of the Chamber and of the China Association by Mr. THOMAS M. AINSCOUGH, M. Com., F.R.G.S. (Special Commissioner of the Board of Trade in China), on Wednesday, November 24, 1915, at 3 p.m.\n\nMr. FREDERICK ANDERSON (Chairman of the Far Eastern Section and of the China Association) presided, and among those present were:-\n\nMr. Gershom Stewart, M.P., Mr. Byron Brenan, C.M.G., Mr. A. P. Simpson, Mr. H. S. Hancock, Mr. R. H. Hill, Mr. F. M. Shaw, Mr. R. P. Dipple, Mr. H. J. Algar, Mr. E. A. Stanton, Mr. H. S. Aspinall, Mr. F. T. Bone, Mr. J. R. Michael, Mr. E. E. Hills, Mr. W. Carter, Mr. C. Watney, Mr. Kerr, Mr. Herbert Hutchinson, Mr. G. A. Richardson, Mr. F. H. Jefferd, Mr. H. C. Wilcox, Mr. R. C. Wilcox, Mr. G. H. Medhurst, Mr. D. T. Keymer, Mr. E. J. Carroll, Mr. H. D. C. Jones, Mr. A. Heckling, Mr. A. Campbell, Mr. F. O. P. Bland, Mr. C. S. Moore, Mr. H. Hickling, Mr. M. S. Salinger, Mr. C. W. Salisbury, Mr. J. Penzer, Mr. N. Hayakawa, Mr. F. Lange, Mr. C. H. Bates, Mr. D. C. Rutherford, Mr. L. Chotzen, Mr. J. W. Jamieson, C.M.G., Mr. C. J. Longcroft, Mr. C. F. Angus, and Mr. C. E. Musgrave (Secretary),\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN said he had much pleasure in introducing Mr. Ainscough, of the Board of Trade, who had promised to deliver an address on \"British Trade in China.\" Very nearly up to the close of last century the attitude of both the Chinese Government and the Chinese people towards foreigners who desired to bring about closer relations with the country was one mainly of passive resistance. They looked upon any attempt on the part of foreigners to draw closer relations with their country, and the development of the resources of China, as foreign encroachment, so that practical business men came to the conclusion that it was a waste of time and energy to spend very much of either in endeavouring to\n\n79",
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        "document_key": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "IKI \n\nSTATIONS IN LONDON.\n\n182\n\n444.Imam.)\n\nTHIONE No\n\n3632 London Wall Electra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C.\n\n3632 London Wall-\n\nTrebama ALDRESS SIGNALLY, AVE, LONDON.\"' \n\nTelemons Na\n\nTeczoramic Aaanras: BIGUALLY. AVE, LON\n\n4408 Avenue\n\n- \n\n· \n\n*The Battle, Bury St. Entrate, 2,6 \n\n11. Old Broad Street, F.C.\n\n2528 Gerrard\n\n• \n\n- \n\n49. Strand, W.C. Charing Cross).\n\n2842 Hop.\n\n2616 Gerrard - \n\n- \n\nC \n\n6, Denman Street. Borough. S..\n\n- \n\n41 & 42. Pacliament Street, S. W.\n\n851 Avenue\n\n- \n\n- \n\n&, Leadenhall Street, E.C.\n\n1014 Holborn - \n\n* \n\n37, Holborn Viaduct, E.C.\n\n852 Avenue\n\n· \n\n- \n\nMarket Bulldings, 29. Mlacing Lane-16, Mack\n\nLane, E,C,\n\nForeign Auction Mart, Covent Gardan, W.C.\n\nHead Office:- \n\nElectra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C.\n\nTelephone:-1127 LONDON WALL. Telegraphic Address:-\"EASTERN AVE.” LONDON,\n\nMay\n\n1917\n\nJel\n\nsofuly\n\nLaat previous Paper.\n\ngov\n\n25725.\n\nAugt\n\nApostel 2 Angr\n\nJuran od 171 2\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n38803.\n\nBut\n\nHONG KONG\n\n36491\n\nDistrict Officer\n\nHead of Sanitary Dept.\n\nC.C\n\n33491\n\nRED 21 JUL 17\n\nrecommendo Orme as @ Carpnaci\n\nao @\n\n7\n\nwolved are\n\nalbo of estimates for next year\n\naffroved,\n\nMiam grinde\n\nI think there promo ins\n\nmay be approved.\n\nAngus Mi Ross (lov 125725)\n\nwapsada\n\npresume that he is now\n\nStacking eshisher thing\n\notherwise.\n\nI don't see how his emoluments are\n\nboth the Wist: Of affected\n\nOL\n\nthe preg. an Clan to port: there\n\nImamay\n\nG A\n\nabat + 100 & the\n\nPMS. Wagner\n\nFor may\n\n500056-1 §. 4011~~1-17~413,900—W, & 9. Ltd. (748.)\n\nприме\n\nwork othe\n\nbe referring & this.\n\nAng how inview to the preson",
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        "content_text": "34\n\nFrom the taking over of the reins of government by the late King in 1873, British influence in Siamese official circles has been paramount. King Chulalonkorn's education, commenced under an English governess, and completed by personal study, on the spot, of the methods of government obtaining in India and the Netherlands Indies, fostered in him the conviction that the position of Siam could only be rendered secure by a complete reform of the government on Western lines, and the adoption of a comprehensive programme of development under State supervision. The result has been an era of reform continuing to the present day, affecting in turn every institution of the country, and greatly improving the condition of the people. The present King, who received his foreign education at Oxford, is a most cultured gentleman with strong British sympathies, and may be expected to carry on the good work commenced by his father. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that British assistance should have been invoked in the reform of the various departments of State. Competent European advisers of all nationalities were engaged for the various offices, and of these British officials, seconded by the home and Indian Governments, were in a large majority. At the present time the administration of Finance, Justice, Education, Customs, Agriculture and Immigration, Mines, Forests, Police, and the Registration of Companies and Trade Marks is carried out with the advice and under the supervision of expert British officials. It is noteworthy that, in the main, British advisers should have been chosen for those departments which control the economic development of the country, and there is little doubt that their whole-hearted and single-minded devotion to their duties has also reacted to the advancement of British mercantile interests in Siam. British influence, in this respect, is likely to be maintained after the war. The last outstanding political differences were settled by the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, whereby Siam handed over to Great Britain her rights in the Malay States of Kelantan, Trengannu, and Kedah in return for a modification of British extra-territorial rights in Siam. The future will probably witness the steady development of the economic resources of the country, and the extension of its sea-borne commerce, and, provided that enterprise and foresight are exercised, there would appear to be no reason why Great Britain should not only maintain but improve her position as the leading foreign power in Siam.\n\nIn the mercantile sphere British interests have been fortunate in having, on the spot, branches of some of the greatest and strongest of British trading corporations in the Far East, many of them closely associated with the development of British Burma, and attracted to Siam by the similarity of the products of the two countries, notably rice and teak. These houses have their headquarters at Bangkok, the capital of the country, and the port through which, virtually, the whole of the foreign trade passes. In view of the fact that these merchant houses control the British trade with the country, and any extension of British enterprise after the war rests largely in their hands, it is considered desirable to append a brief description of their respective activities.\n\nThe Borneo Company, Ltd.--The Borneo Company, Ltd., with headquarters at 28, Fenchurch Street, E.C., and branches at Singapore, Batavia and Sourabaya, were established in Bangkok in 1856, and are the leading firm of general merchants in the port. Although a portion of their work is in connection with general imports, exports, shipping and insurance, their attention is devoted principally to rice and teak. They operate a rice mill and teak sawmills, and hold forest concessions in Northern Siam. They are agents for the P. and O., Blue Funnel, N.Y.K., and the other leading British steamship and insurance companies, and for the Asiatic and Anglo-Saxon petroleum companies, who possess oil tanks in Bangkok for the storage of kerosene and liquid fuel. The Borneo Company, Ltd., are also Lloyd's agents, and are the largest coal suppliers in the port.\n\nThe Arracan Co., Ltd., of 575, Old Broad Street, E.C., and branches at Rangoon, Akyab, Bassein, Moulmein and Calcutta, established a branch at Bangkok some thirty years ago in order to develop the Siamese rice trade in addition to their existing trade in Burmese rice. The firm possess one of the largest rice mills on the Menam, and head the list as the most important shippers of rice from Siam. They also hold agencies for fire insurance and shipping, and are of first-rate standing.\n\nThe Bombay-Burmah Trading Corporation, Ltd., with their head office at Bombay, and branches at Rangoon, Moulmein, Oost Java, and Batavia, practically confine their attentions to teak. They operate large timber concessions in the interior, and are among the first three shippers of teak from Bangkok. They also hold shipping and insurance agencies, but their import business is negligible.\n\n1.\n\n35\n\nThe Siam Forest Co., Ltd., have their head office at 2, Fenchurch Avenue, E.C., and branches at many up-country stations in Siam. This company own very large forest concessions in Northern Siam. From these, the logs are floated down the rivers to their sawmills, are here prepared and fashioned, and are exported mainly to India, United Kingdom and the Continent. Apart from their interests in the timber trade, the firm conduct a general business as import and export merchants, importing chiefly piece goods, gunny bags, hardware, machinery and coal, and exporting rice, hides, pepper, sticklac and other native products. They also hold shipping, insurance and mining agencies.\n\nMessrs. Denny, Mott & Dickson, Ltd., of 14, Fenchurch Street, E.C., are principally concerned with the timber trade, and operate a modern sawmill at Bangkok. They specialise on the high-class conversions required by shipbuilders and rolling-stock constructors. In addition, a general import business in both hardware and piece goods has been conducted for some years.\n\nMessrs. Steel Bros. & Co., Ltd., of 6, Fenchurch Avenue, E.C., and branches at Rangoon, Moulmein, Akyab, Bassein and Mandalay, opened their Bangkok office in 1907, and confine their attentions to the export of rice to Europe.\n\nMessrs. Syme & Co.--This well-known Eastern firm with its headquarters under the style of Ker, Bolton & Co., at 7, East India Avenue, E.C., and 22, West George Street, Glasgow, has the following branches in the Far East:-\n\nPhilippine Islands: Messrs. Ker & Co., Manila, Iloilo and Cebu. Java: Messrs. Pitcairn, Syme & Co., Batavia, Sourabaya and Samarang. Straits Settlements: Messrs. Syme & Co., Singapore.\n\nThe Bangkok branch has been opened quite recently, and the firm are paying particular attention to the development of an import business, particularly in piece goods and sundries. Their first-class financial standing, and wide knowledge of the requirements of the trade, should enable them to develop the import business successfully. They are also desirous of obtaining shipping, insurance and general agencies, and can be strongly recommended to British manufacturers desirous of extending their trade with Siam.\n\nIn the engineering import trade, British interests are well represented, and this is largely accountable for the fact that 50 per cent. of the iron, steel and machinery imported into Bangkok is drawn from British sources. The rice and teak mills; slipways, docks and repair shops on the Menam; Government railways; and the lighting, tramway and other electrical enterprises in Bangkok absorb increasing quantities of material and machinery, to supply which the following British firms of engineers are established:\n\nThe Siam Engineering Co., Ltd., Bangkok.--This firm specialises on work for the Government departments, and has executed many large contracts for electrical, irrigation and other plants. They act as agents for several well-known British manufacturers, including Tangyes, Ltd., Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., and Glenfield and Kennedy.\n\nMessrs. J. H. Macarthur & Co., Ltd., are well-known importers of iron, steel and machinery, and also build steam and motor launches, for which they hold the agency for \"Kelvin\" engines.\n\nThe Bangkok Dock Co., Ltd., operate docks, slipways and repair shops on the Menam. Their activities embrace civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, and they have recently opened a large motor garage, in conjunction with which they are now building motor launches. The company has a large staff of trained engineers, and acts as agent for such well-known companies as the General Electric Co., Ltd., Loudon, Ruston Proctor & Co., Ltd., the Pulsometer Pump Co., George Angus & Co., Ltd., Newcastle, and Stephenson, Brown & Co., Glasgow.\n\nMessrs. A. J. Corbett & Co. are in charge of the Siamese interests of Messrs. A. and J. 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        "content_text": "## Head Office\nElectra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C.\nTelephone: 11127 LONDON WALL.\nTelegraphic Address: \"EASTERN AVE.\" LONDON.\n\n| House | Telephone |\n| --- | --- |\n| Electra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. | 3832 London Wall |\n| 8, Lombard Hall Street, E.C. | 442 S |\n| Market Buildings, 29, Mincing Lane, E.C. | 4408 Avenue |\n| 1014 Holborn | 2616 Gerrard |\n| \"The Baltic,\" Bury St. Entrance, E.C. |  |\n| 11, 6 & 42, Parliament Street, S.W. |  |\n| 37, Holborn Viaduct, E.C. |  |\n| Foreign Auction Mart, Covent Garden, W.C. |  |\n\n## Branch Offices in London\n- K, Denman Street, Borough, S.E.\n- \"The Baltic,\" Bury St. Entrance, E.4.\n\n## References\n`XPA 177/5`\n\n## CHILDREN'S ALLOWANCE\nBoys and girls as minimum, in special cases, with the addition of separation allowance payable under Army Regulations.\n\n## SILVER GOD CASES\nAllowances paid outside the colony should be £10 per mouth.\n\n## SECURITIES\nIt is proposed to retain Silvergod cases with numerous probably toughening... \n\nPROGENITA \nPHILOMATH SCART RETEN SILVERGO respectively SECURITIES PHOCIFORMONI I COLA AND 1 \nunder the following Circular Ref: E. T. Co., Ld. `XPA 177/5` \nforward by CAPE ASTE PUT FOOLTRAP'S TRIBUNAL \nunder rectorship for with addition of ABSILIENT in addition to ABSLLI AM \nALLOW ANGES PAID OUTSIDE T HE CO LO NY \nIt is proposed PROGENITA ...",
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        "content_text": "Page 35\n\nJalgiel unattured unw restful (27014) Your deep. 25 Mick No. 91 your el.\n\ncorcovetas! \"no objection to continuance toyspawn ancilibug of wisehead belegraph angls. for tacticians (54579) 20 20 Sep.\n\nDRAFT. Telegram Governor Stanglong MINUTE. Emmeno 27/12/19\n\nMr. Deckett? Collin 30 Mr. Grindle. Ja Sir H. Lambert. Sir H. Read. Sir G. Fiddes. Col. Amery. Lord Milner.\n\nAd 27/12 Paffers late to My Flood boky Admy. 14 June's transundown of we great dows rifling rod misdeeming interdeal\n\n5d annoyr ment regardo tacticians pending reviewn of internationat arrangermerta circular transmission at fixed times of fulletins to ships\n\ntouchpiece battel sabfemur would be much better of sente B wholsomer 2000 metres dark by injuriate whitechump! Stonecutters instead on 1000 metres by D'Agulay whitechump kilowatt plation on 1000 metres\n\nStouch piece texetnote ← would be infikely to be readable dansable furbish mismuscate by day further than for miles from Bome cuttins segutana while range Wedgewuste using theo tamy ut warsto\n\nTo hiswalt should be mưa oqyma 1000uited tumes in paragraphs Soundly tunes One three night should eighteen expelido exphered in got not Boxcal (over\n\nPage 36",
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        "content_text": "SIA\n\nJiterad and tey of vlexiliw ai renwo and aasi emuenos of\n\nalid, \"1⁄2 Lawener to yoпove Te‡ser\" of så\n\nai Ji Jadd ai requď Isool end asouevitni Jent noijstebianoo\n\nejisi end to sausoed arso ABOİTENÁ TOŤ alswenst Jeg of rejase\n\nSveriw,slimal to ytimixorq edd,sroceddrui ;ered duo redrum\n\nof aldianog di sexsu,benistnima ers adoota maniremå egrsi\n\n.ylisool eldaliava Jon Jisq eisqa vila isow a niddiw nistdo\n\nyd bici saerja eldstebiunos doidw no rettam A\n\nitiboo aniretom Issol dtiw betnisupos settimo) you to areɗmelí\n\nsexdt viac ddiw STFO MEDİTEMA to guizzes wol edt jedt ai ni berstrwcone adreiber, tristanco end ativa,biswrot abeega\n\n51sger gaived,úguons VlISTLJB0 arso daitira .yolco aind\n\nof ‚ngin bersez ad of rseqqS en de emitibnoo gairodom of Vase to aedotente dizisite gooi teve atlusst tsed edt erwoga\n\n4\n\n-\n\naedsioençqa doum tocmed) sint to settimmoð sɗT\n\n.abacı\n\nniretto to menit mevig aan tne.mrevoð add ytimutroqqo ent\n\natavij bus,obert Justroqni a idd ddiw noitsernoo ni anoidae)yna\n\ned Iliw Joelios of aids need evad yeɗt do idw [sitetem ezt tart\n\n.gıdeuoni deitita to Jasneonsvis ent gaitomıq ai soivies to\n\njote,eved I\n\nzisíð X .0 (.58)\n\n•\n\nIdervonok enti\n\nVisderdel Isinolo) edT\n\n„БИОДЕНОН\n\nD. K. Blair, Esq., Secretary,\n\nCOPY\n\nof\n\nMr Cousland's Report\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce, PRESENT.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nHONGKONG, May 24th, 1922.\n\n418\n\nThe enclosed report from the Manager of our Machinery Department does not deal with what in my opinion is the chief factor against the use of English Cars in the East generally, and that is the question of price. I give below what would likely be the selling prices of English Cars on latest prices and current exchange.\n\nAngus Sanderson 14.3 H.P. £495. Austin 18 H.P. £550. Austin 80 H.P. £695. Crossley 19.6 H.P. £895. Crossley 85/30 H.P. £1050. Cubitt 16/20 H.P. £467. Morris Oxford 11.9 H.P. £446. Standard 11.8 H.P. £515.\n\nAllowance for Boxing, Freight etc. 15%\n\nTotal £568. HK$4396.00 £638. HK$4892.00 £799. HK$6186.00 £1028. HK$7956.00 £1207. HK$9343.00 £536. HK$4148.00 £513. HK$3970.00 £591. HK$4573.00\n\nCompare the above with present selling prices of American Cars:-\n\nBuick 6. HK$3600.00 Studebaker Light 6. HK$2900.00 Studebaker 5 Passenger 6. HK$4000.00 Studebaker 7 Passenger 6. HK$4800.00 Paige 5 Passenger 6. HK$3500.00 Dodge 5 Passenger. HK$2800.00\n\nThe small powered English car has the advantage in the homeland of low taxation and economy in operation. In Hongkong taxation does not depend on horsepower and is relatively light, so long as the cars are not owner driven and are garaged outside one's residence, the economy of a small car in gasoline and tyres bears only a small proportion to the total cost of upkeep, and most purchasers of cars here care little about it. Also as most of the cars are used for pleasure & roomy vehicle is in demand, With regard to hiring cars the first cost is so important that English Cars are ignored.\n\nApart therefore from such cars as Rolls Royce, Napier, etc., the English Car stands little chance in this market unless the cost can be reduced. If this can be done and attention...\n\nPage 419\n\n...\n\nPage 419",
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        "content_text": "(I) \n\nCOFY\n\nof\n\nEnclosure to Mr Cousland's Report\n\n420\n\n{\n\nA\n\nCour\n\n(a)\n\nENGLISH MOTOR CARS WHY NOT SUITED TO COLONIAL MARKETS\n\nMECHANICAL DETAILS.\n\nEngines built, generally, of good material but obviously assembled of various makers' parts. Finish, usually, better than American Motors. Average English engine not as flexible as American, easier affected by climate and adjustments; if necessary, difficult to make. Accessibility evidently not considered.\n\nMany English Makers use Belt Drive for Generators; this is never satisfactory, particularly out here.\n\nRadiators all too small and engines invariably run too hot. Larger radiators and better water jacket design required. Average English Car has four speeds ahead. Native driver can handle three easier and better.\n\nRear axles usually appear to be carelessly assembled and are noisy.\n\nELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. (LIGHTING & STARTING).\n\nEnglish Electrical Equipment usually very badly designed. As usual, good materials used.\n\nSelf-Starters usually badly mounted on chassis, i.e., not rigid, which in time causes starter pinion to engage ring gear incorrectly.\n\nStarter Switches: no standardisation of position or mode of operation, e.g., Napier, Angus-Sanderson, Crossley, Standard, Austin.\n\nAutomatic Cut-Outs supplied, but manufacturers evidently have no faith in them, as they invariably supply charging switches; native driver forgets to close switch.\n\nGenerators: maximum output at high speeds, minimum at low. Average American Car reaches maximum charging rate at 20/25 m.p.h.\n\nBatteries - no standardisation whatever; one maker uses celluloid cells, another hard rubber, and so on. One maker fits battery on running board, another under tonneau floor. Americans use 6 volts boards etc.; 12-volt systems generally used, usually, hence difficulty in getting bulbs and fuses.\n\nIGNITION SYSTEMS\n\nFairly good except for careless timing in assembly.\n\nBODY DESIGN\n\nExcept for high-priced class, English bodies leave much...",
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        "content_text": "# General Report on the Piracy of S.S. \"Hong Hwa\"\n\nS.S. \"Hong Hwa\" (Captain Angus MacKenzie) is a British ship of 1924 tons nett register, registered at Singapore and owned by the Ho Hong Steamship Co. of 61 Chu Lia Street, Singapore. The Company is a Chinese concern. She runs between Rangoon, Penang, Singapore, Hongkong, Swatow, and Amoy, carrying passengers and cargo. She carries no guards and is not protected against piracy, as she does not come under the Hong Kong Piracy Prevention Ordinance.\n\nS.S. \"Hong Hwa\" left Singapore for Hongkong and ports at 5 p.m. on the 7th of January 1925, carrying 357 passengers and a general cargo. No first-class passengers were carried, and with the exception of 3 2nd Class passengers, all the passengers travelled 3rd Class.\n\nThe usual course for Hongkong was steered with a strong N.E. Monsoon blowing.\n\nNothing untoward occurred during the voyage until the 6th day out when, at 8:40 a.m. on the 13th January, the ship was in Lat: 14°53′ North, Long: 110°24' East. Whistles were blown, and the Captain, his Officers, the crew, and passengers were held up by about 30 armed men, who suddenly appeared from below. The attack was a complete surprise, and the pirates thus had immediate and full control of the ship. No resistance was offered by the Officers and crew, who, taken unawares, had to submit to the pirates' demands.\n\nThe Bridge, Engine Room, and Wireless Room were the main objectives of the pirates, particular attention being paid to the wireless set, which was quickly put out of action. At the time of the attack, several shots were fired by the pirates, presumably to frighten the passengers and crew, but nobody was injured. The Captain was ordered to steer a course for Breaker Point, but to keep 80 miles to the South of Hongkong; the Engine Room staff were ordered to carry out their ordinary duties.",
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        "content_text": "# 143\n\nThe pirates then began a systematic search of those on board and their effects, anything of value being collected and removed. The ship's cargo was not touched.\n\nAfter the search, conditions became more settled, the officers and crew going about their duties in the ordinary way, but always closely guarded and watched.\n\nThe pirates appear to have been well organised and kept guard in regular watches, but were easily excited and inclined to be \"panicky\". On the whole they treated their victims well.\n\nIn the early morning of the 16th January when off Mendoza Island, the ship was taken charge of by a man who presumably was acting as Pilot for the pirates. This man, however, appeared to have little knowledge of the coast line or of navigation, and after some excitement during which he nearly ran the ship ashore, the Captain was again put in charge. The ship finally reached Tsang Chau Island, Bias Bay, at 8 o'clock on the 16th. The pirates went ashore in two ship's boats, taking with them stolen property in money, jewellery and clothing to the value of $53,360.\n\nIt is known that the pirates came from Bias Bay as passengers and that they made their plans in Singapore where they waited for this ship. They thought the ship was carrying bullion and singled her out for this reason. It is not known where they stayed in Singapore or for what length of time, neither is it known whether their arms were purchased there or smuggled out of Hongkong.\n\nThe following statements of principal witnesses are attached:-\n\n* Angus MacKenzie, Master S.S. \"Hong Hwa\"\n* A. E. Hopwood, Wireless Operator S.S. \"Hong Hwa\"\n* T. G. MacIver, Chief Officer\n* S. N. Moas, 4th Engineer\n* Li Hung Lo, Compradore\n* Soon Lai, Saloon Boy\n* Cheung Sing Sam, Passenger (sd.) B.D.C.\n* Wolfe, C.S.P.\n\n24.2.",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nANGUS MACKENZIE states:- \n\nI am Captain of the S.S. \"Hong Hwa\", the local agent of which is Song Soon Hong, 14 Bonham Strand West, the owners being the Ho Hong Steamship Co., Ltd., Singapore. The ship flies the British flag, her port of registry being Singapore. \n\nShe is a passenger and cargo boat having accommodation for first, second and third class passengers. The ship usually runs between Hongkong, Singapore and Swatow. My ship left Singapore at 17.00 hours on the 7th January 1925 bound for Hongkong with a total of 357 passengers and a general cargo, there being no valuables or bullion shipped. Previous to leaving Singapore the ship was moored in the Singapore roads, the passengers being brought off in launches and sampans. Everything went well until the 13th inst. and we steamed the usual course. \n\nThere was a strong North-East monsoon blowing from the time we left until the morning of the 13th. \n\nAt 08.40 hours on the 15th January whilst I was taking breakfast alone on the lower bridge deck outside my cabin amidships, without warning, I was approached from behind and felt something cold pushed into my ears. I looked round and saw two Chinese pirates, each holding a pistol to my ears. One of them spoke fairly good English and said \"Hands up\". I complied and two more armed pirates then came up and took me to my cabin. One of them said \"Where are your revolvers\". I showed him where they were, in a locked drawer. He then ordered me to get the key which was kept in another drawer and I complied at the point of the revolver. He unlocked the drawer and took my two revolvers and ammunition out. I was then seized by the 4 pirates and led down to the starboard side of the boat deck amidships, where I saw the first, second and third Engineers, first and second officers and the Doctor, herded together with their hands up and 6 armed pirates keeping guard. The pirate who spoke English appeared to be the leader of the gang and came to me and said \"Are you the Captain?\" I said, \"Yes\". He said \"Come\".",
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        "content_text": "# NEW ADVERTISEMENTS \n\n## HONGKONG HOTEL \n\nCOMMENCING on MONDAY NEXT, the Hongkong Hotel will serve meals at the following times only due to the strike:- \n- BREAKFAST......... 8.00 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.\n- TIFFIN ...............12.30 p.m. to 2.00 p.m.\n- DINNER ..............7.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.\n\n## HAROLD WALLACE PETLEY (DECEASED) INTIMATIONS \n\nPersons having claims against the Estate of the above-named Deceased are requested to forward particulars at once to JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors, Prince's Building, Hongkong.\n\n## HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK \n\nAn Interim Dividend of £3 per share has been declared for the half-year ending 30th June, subject to deduction of Income Tax. The Dividend Rate is 2/3 per Dollar and will be payable on and after MONDAY, the 10th August, at the Offices of the Corporation. Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.\n\nThe Register of Shares will be closed from MONDAY, the 27th JULY, to SATURDAY, the 8th AUGUST, 1925 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.\n\nBy Order of the Court of Directors,\nA. H. BARLOW, Chief Manager.\n\n## HONGKONG GOLF CLUB \n\nUntil further notice, the Deep Water Bay Club House will be opened on SATURDAY AFTERNOONS and SUNDAYS. No meals will be served; light refreshments and drinks will be available.\n\n## PALACE MOTOR CO., LTD. (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) \n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Winding-up Final General Meeting of the Company will be held at No. 21, POTTINGER STREET, Ground floor, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 12th AUGUST, 1925, at 2.30 P.M., for the purpose of:\n1. Laying the Accounts before the Meeting\n2. Giving Explanations if required.\n\nBy Order of the Committee,\nWONG KAM YING, Liquidator.\n\n## SPECIAL CONSTABULARY. PEAK DIVISION \n\nALL ADULT MALES (other than Members of the Medical Profession) resident in the PEAK DISTRICT who are not rendering Active Assistance to Government or the Public in connection with the Existing Strike are hereby called upon to attend before a Magistrate at the PEAK CLUB at 6 P.M. TO-DAY (FRIDAY, JULY 10TH) for the purpose of being Appointed and Enrolled as Special Constables.\n\n## NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES \n\n### THE EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. \n\nTHE STEAMSHIP \"ST. ALBANS\" LEFT SYDNEY, 13TH JUNE, 1925. CONSIGNEES of CARGO from AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, and SOUTH SEA ISLAND PORTS are hereby informed that owing to the Existing Strike Conditions, Cargo for HONGKONG by the s.s. \"ST. ALBANS\" has been Discharged at SANDAKAN and/or MANILA at the Risk of the Owners of the Goods.\n\n| Cargo Landed | Destination |\n| --- | --- |\n| at SANDAKAN | Forwarded per s.s. \"HINSANG\" due on or about the 15TH INSTANT |\n| at MANILA | 650 LEAD BARS, 21 Boxes FRENCH BUTTER, Bales LEATHER. Will be Forwarded to Destination per First Opportunity. |\n\nNo Insurance whatsoever has been effected by the STEAMSHIP COMPANY.\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents.\n\n### COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES \n\nNOTICE. CONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEILLES, &c., ex s.s. \"ETUAN\" and Cargo from HAVRE and COGNAC ex s.s. \"COMDT. DORISE\" are informed that their Goods are being landed and stored at their risk at Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon.\n\nBills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after Monday, the 13th instant, at Noon, will be subject to Rent and Landing Charges.\n\nR. RODENFUSER, Agent.\n\n### PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.'S STEAMER \"KASHGAR\" \n\nARRIVED HONGKONG ON 9TH JULY, 1925. CONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-named Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon.\n\nOptional Goods will be landed here unless Instructions have been given to the contrary six hours before arrival of the Steamer. Goods not cleared within 8 days will be subject to Rent.\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents.\n\n## THE SHARE & REAL ESTATE BROKERS' SOCIETY OF HONGKONG \n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the JUNE SETTLEMENT will be held on TUESDAY, the 14th day of JULY, 1925.\n\nBy Order of the Committee,\nM. FERNANDEZ, Secretary.\n\n## HOTELS, LIMITED \n\nWITH reference to the Offer of New Shares dated the 15th May, 1925 (made to Existing Shareholders of the Company), the Directors have decided to extend the Dates for Payment.\n\nThe Date for Payment of the First Instalment of $7.50 per share is extended to the 30th SEPTEMBER, 1925, and the Date for Payment of the Second Instalment to the 31st DECEMBER, 1925.\n\nBy Order of the Board,\nJ. H. TAGGART, Managing Director.\n\n## \"GLEN\" LINE, LIMITED \n\nCONSIGNEES of CARGO per s.s. \"BENAVON\" are hereby Notified that owing to the Existing Strike Conditions Cargo for HONGKONG is being Discharged at NAGASAKI where it will lie at the Risk and Expense of the Owners of the Goods.\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents.\n\n## LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL \n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon when H.E. the Governor made a statement upon the present situation in the Colony.\n\nThe Bill relating to the postponement of the June settlement has been published. It is proposed to extend the postponed settlement day over a period of four days, from July 14th to July 17th inclusive.\n\n## FERRY BOAT PIRATED \n\nThe coxswain of the steam launch Sian Hung On reported to the Water Police that the ferry boat Po On was pirated at Wah Ha. The pirates took 19 passengers prisoner and escaped towards Ling Ting.\n\n##  P. & O. BANKING CORPORATION, LIMITED \n\n**PAID-UP CAPITAL** £2,594,160\n**RESERVE FUND** £185,000\n\n## \"KASHGAR\" and \"PEMBROKESHIRE\" \n\nNOTICE TO CONSIGNEES regarding cargo discharge at SINGAPORE and/or MANILA due to strike conditions.\n\n## TYPHOON WARNING \n\nCyclone or typhoon near or over southern Formosa, moving N.W.\n\n## WANTED \n\nExperienced Machineshop FOREMAN to Work on All Night Shift. Good Salary to Capable Man. Apply UNITED ENGINEERS, LIMITED, SINGAPORE.\n\n## TO LET \n\n- GODOWNS in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS (Basement). Apply SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD.\n- COMMODOIOUS SHOP and PREMISES, in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, from 18th SEPTEMBER NEXT. Apply SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD.\n- OFFICE in UNION BUILDING - TWO ROOMS on FOURTH FLOOR. Apply UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.\n\n## DEWAR'S \"WHITE LABEL\" WHISKY \n\nAwarded 50 Gold and Prize Medals. As supplied to the Houses of Lords and Commons.\n\n## LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL \n\nThe Governor's statement on the present situation in the Colony was published. The June settlement has been postponed.\n\n## ACKNOWLEDGMENT \n\nMrs. ANGUS and family wish to thank all their friends for their kind sympathy, floral tributes, and letters of condolence received in their recent sad bereavement.\n\n## WANTED \n\nLetters are lying at this Office for various Box numbers.\n\n## TO LET \n\nEUROPEAN FLATS at Kowloon with Modern Sanitation. Apply KAYAMALLY Co., 3 and 5, D'Águilar Street, Hongkong.\n\n## MARRIAGE NOTICE \n\nA marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place between Major Holand Lawrence M.C., Coldstream Guards, and Susan, third daughter of Sir Charles Watson & Co., LTD.\n\n## CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA \n\n**Paid-up Capital** £3,000,000\n**Reserves Fund** £4,000,000\n**Reserve Liability of Proprietors** £1,000,000\n\n## INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD. \n\nS.S. \"TAISANG\" LEFT CALCUTTA, 21ST JUNE, 1925. CONSIGNEES of CARGO for Hongkong ex the above Steamer are hereby Notified that the s.s. \"TAISANG\" is proceeding from SINGAPORE to KOBE direct.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD, General Managers.",
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        "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
        "content_text": "Entertainments.\n\nThere are.\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nTHE\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nUNKNOWN\n\nPURPLE\n\nin\n\nA Tale of love mystery\n\nAnd\n\nvengeance\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nThe absorbing story of a greatly wronged inventor who discovered a purple ray by which he could make himself invisible\n\nHENRY B. WALTHALL ALICE LAKE\n\nand\n\nSTUART HOLMES\n\nhead a big cast\n\nSUPER 7\n\nCINEMA\n\nDaily At\n\nSundays\n\n2.30.\n\nat\n\n5.15,\n\nA..\n\n7.15.\n\n7.30.\n\n9.16.\n\nTuesday Thursday Sunday\n\n9 13.\n\nChange of Programme\n\nTHE STAR\n\nTO-DAY\n\nat 5.50 and 9.15\n\nFLORENCE VIDOR\n\nand\n\nMONTE BLUE\n\nin\n\nSinclair Lewis' famous story\n\nMAIN STREET\n\nANCHOR BRAND\n\nPURE\n\nINTERNATIONAL GENERAL, AUGUST SETTLEMENT DAY.\n\nELECTRIC.\n\nNEW PRESIDENT.\n\nAnnouncement has been made of\n\nA FAIR AMOUNT OF BUSINESS.\n\nAlthough the exchanges have\n\nbeen closed for business ever\n\nsince the strike commenced,\n\na fair amount of business was\n\nput through yesterday, August\n\nSettlement day.\n\nA FALSE CLAIM\n\n¿ QUESTION OF WHICH TO BELIEVE.\n\nDispute About Rainbow.\n\nKotore Mr. Jnative Wood at the\n\nCivilized possession of 1871 bangles\n\nBinary Court yesterday, Lo On\n\nhas relinguished the presidency\n\nof the contract made for August\n\nbefore Board.\n\nMr. Minor is well known\n\nin the Far East.\n\nHe joined the\n\nWestern Electric Company in 1902\n\nand occupied various clerical posi-\n\ntions, each better than the preced-\n\ning, until he was made assistant\n\nmanager of the Katens: City office\n\nin 1906.\n\nA year later he was\n\ntransferred to Omaha,\n\nand two years later be returned\n\nto Kansas City in the capacity of\n\nmanager of the office.\n\nIn 1914 he returned to America\n\nand became active Foreign Sales\n\nchanges with open again San-\n\nManager in New York City.\n\nthough In tember 13\n\nno definite 1218 he was assigned to special\n\ndecision hua vet bren auired a\n\nwork in Ching and fapas, paderj\n\nthe supervision of Mr. Swope,\n\nand in Bul year organised the China\n\nElectric Company, Ltd., for the\n\npurpose of manufacturing tele-\n\nphone apparatus in that court.\n\nTHE FRENCH DEBT.\n\nCONVERSATIONS CONTINUE.\n\nLondon, Aug. 21.\n\nIt was toward the end of 1921,\n\nafter completing his work in the\n\nOrient, then he became uropran\n\nManager of the Western Chillaws.\n\nThe latter interviewed!\n\nby Reuter.\n\nsaid there would prob-\n\nably be farther outings to-morrow.\n\nthough nothing definite land bean\n\nJa the spring of 1921 he joined\n\nise International Generet Elvetzie\n\nCompany as Vice-President.\n\nLi Su ail that he met 34 Ouj\n\nsoon after his amivel.\n\nIo Os told im that the barabocs\n\nwere his property and said that he\n\nhad pod Jaşṭ orer 8900 for ruen\n\nend still wedtic mere than $700.\n\nWitness told the Court that he\n\npeld the rest of the plot of landį\n\nfor the first moon,\n\nCross-examined: He went with\n\ndefendent to pay the rent.\n\nMr. MacCallum: Why is the receipt\n\nin the made vi o Chues Kee?--In\n\nChuen Hen said that the\n\nan receipt had been torn up by\n\nTo taid the resh for the recová\n\nfixed reapreting the coved of his\n\nlittle guy.\n\nA will be gathered from this\n\nconversations.\n\nsamrosey of successes in f\n\nM. Callaus was uncommunics-en---I\n\ndid not pay.\n\nmany pralviong, Mr. Minor na\n\ntheive and merely stated that the\n\nquelitive that make him Heed, at\n\njconversations\n\nnapinistrative)\n\nTHE COFFIN\n\nwell es respected.\n\nA dearmind cordist-Reeter.\n\nJed. kena Pinker, with sogatang-|\n\ntiva wei! as abuty, he is alive to\n\nthe men side of business relations\n\n» Tast which has always been angreekat-\n\nen oy those within as well as out-\n\nside his own organization.\n\nLLERINA MAANTE, STORLESTON, OSBORNE WOOD CONVICTED.\n\nGIVEN PRISON SENTENC\n\nOne Year laguisopment for Sea of Gen. Weed.\n\nParis, Angui\n\n15--Liens\n\nburae Wond son of the Qorginos\n\nSenest of the Philippines, was to\n\nAnother\n\nvituesa\n\nwho\n\nwa\n\nextremely vienaly in defendant's\n\nemploy densed what he had\n\nknowledge that\n\nCROP.\n\nEGYPT AN ESTIMATE.\n\nCairo, Aug. 94, The area under\n\ncontra le oled ally estimated at\n\n1.924.000 Ted-\n\ndans, as cetopared with 1,787,000\n\nthe plainuff was furing to swindlej\n\nIs knen-kec out of the batchona.\n\nHe said that the reason be left!\n\nthe defendant's employ was, be-\n\ncause Ho Give ongated two wien\n\nbit of lots of bamboos in vas)\n\nmonth,\n\nForry Years in Hong Kong,\n\nDefendant.\n\nIn the hex, sulü he feddens last\n\nseason, of whichį nad spent forty\n\nyears in Heug-\n\nSavollarides accounts for 1,198,-\n\nkong and for torky-one years be\n\n1000 feddags se compared with\n\nhad been a desier in buibus)\n\n879.3 feddone last year-Router\n\nand bamoso by-products.\n\nday Antenced to war's imṣiri..!\n\nsurmeni nude foe of 14. 1930\n\nFollow-j\n\nFing conviction or a change of\n\npars-\n\nNEWS IN BRIEF.\n\nLOCAL AND CSEKAL GOMBEA.\n\nKalpinging, Touréssion.\n\nAneering to Northern Chinese\n\ning a montidens chaque for GR1,730\n\nmanors, General Lí C) Lasin isced\n\nsif entered his engtoy towards\n\nthe wel of Aprii and on May 2nd be\n\nhim 000 ANTO Vo ない\n\ntiengphau Fax iny iLanding Da bi hekali.\n\nHe (turned some days later and said\n\nNd fost The accounts and receipts,\n\nbut added that witness red hit $70\n\nwhich he spent in excess of the $600.\n\nHe said he\n\nat Line Casino Biarritz.\n\nYoung Rindas, acder to the ludustal\n\nChan had to pay $30 to 10ɛ Yip!\n\nis now in the United State\n\nratsalouer of Chit with Instrue\n\nYee Tong, a robber pang.\n\nLatar\n\nThe\n\nThe touging Cuited Pren die tipe to\n\nthe Enamelow Mining Ad-\n\npleistift sunt a man to take aweF\n\npatel from Pans apparently ontninistration to negotiate with one of\n\nthe bamboo but witness\n\ntimes the fan diapos in the Kalping\n\nMining Admlustratoba bit that not\n\neven the must! adventures of the\n\nJonas son of tion regarding the\n\nterms for euential man in the Colony\n\nGoverar General Wood into tatoration\n\nof the latter to the could touch its\n\nhandido.\n\nreales of high francs.\n\nYoung Wood\n\nChinese.\n\nAccording to the prometter\n\nwas reported to the police who\n\nwas a lienserant in the U. 8.\n\nprovisions stipulated in thu sgreement\n\nand gomeone wagested that he\n\nArts stationed in the folppinesigned\n\nbebeteen the Chinage and give the\n\nplaint about a hundred sau etéo\n\nMamagh forentade sperni.\n\n- tion he cable a the New York\n\nStorks regarding the Kaiping\n\nhandles ur beinbrs in order tr\n\nExelago, ve anasis fortune of\n\nmines, they could be henght bek\n\nmake up for the $70 which Lo On\n\nhad paid out of his own pocket.\n\nMANILA ROPE la calle duista\n\nThem by the Chinese in ten years by\n\n\"THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST \"\n\nESTABLISHED 1854\n\nMARINE ROPE\n\nROPE\n\nTRANSMISSION\n\nGF TOWER ROPE\n\nH\n\nYNCHAUSTI\n\nCABLE LAID\n\nHAWKERS\n\nWELL DRILLING\n\nCABLES\n\nFACTORY\n\nCanned with bin cheque book\n\nhajamming ae adegun'e sum to the\n\nBri.\n\nTuk\n\n*\n\n29130 named\n\nQuestioned by his Lordship ag\n\netarted out en rip mound the bish.\n\nThe ten-gear terin haz alto\n\nthe security he had to giving\n\nwood, painting the ace in mota ar\n\n194dy expired, in 1938.\n\nNegotia\n\nthe plaintiff $600 when he had\n\nless lurid colure, the preced GN\n\nwere then ronducted between\n\nknow him caly few days Upor\n\nhit arrives in Fraser be mame\n\nthe Lanchow and Kalping Min\n\nwitness said that\n\nately got into the newspapering\n\nAdministrations, but no resuit\n\nChan\n\nThe matter was plainuiff and\n\nexpressed his will\n\nROPES OF ALL\n\nheadlines through his gambling at\n\nhis out.\n\nthe meh usertą.\n\n| dropped until now.\n\ningness to stand as surety.\n\nTe SIZES FOR ALI\n\nFinally something happened and at\n\ninstructed plaints not to pay\n\nmore than 30 canta & iudie for!\n\nthe bamboo,\n\nMADE FROM\n\nPORE MANILA\n\nHEMP\n\nMANUFACTURED\n\nBY THE MOST\n\nMODELN\n\nMANILA\n\nMACHINERY.\n\nSTOCKS ON HAND OF ALL SIZES\n\nENQUIRIES SOLICITED.\n\nFACTORIES:-MANILA P.I.\n\nHONGKONG OFFICE:\n\nKING'S Telephons Central 2185,\n\nBUILDING.\n\nImprove the TONE of Your GRAMOPHONE with a\n\nhad rentsanded\n\nMr. Justlee Wood said that hol\n\nde reported that his father deceived\n\nMr. Band. D. Corbett has roupa,\n\neiled rourente Tren his son fored to\n\nthe AMS in connection Fans Govenor-General Wood is\n\nwith the ingration of what is\n\nreported to lova zent a casadevalla\n\nsikely in prove a new and interesting.\n\nsura, but apparently not wfficiens\n\nto PMS industry This is the rae\n\ncer all of the bunn\n\ntion of a deal works in Pahang,\n\nthe parties was telling\n\natisfied that\n\nhe being asked to decide which i\n\nListunut Wood is now reported\n\nnear Karls Lipe, to produes\n\nfront. be working for a real estate\n\nconjungle\n\nand Der woudy\n\ncern in fios, but apparently wil-\n\nmaterials verlic not be retamning to\n\nParis or 1-170dné, holidays.\n\nGERMAN TRADE WITH\n\nCMNA.\n\nA REMARKABLE INCREASE.\n\nHe felt\n\nthe\n\nraw defendunt id pay money to the\n\nmothy plaintiff and was of opinion\n\nthat ગ\n\nwond & dispute arose owing to the\n\nfact For paints, preservatives, forces)\n\nand various that the plaietiff spent\n\nmore than\n\nut neetates M. Frank he Karmin\n\ngiven.\n\nJudgment for Corben has obtained a\n\nsuitabl; defensant with costs would be\n\nJanncession oveż a in forest arms!\n\nziren.\n\njin Pabong, thù- soncession haing\n\nvery cius proximity\n\nto Frambit\n\nItalas 8hric whirl is fifreen\n\nThe Koch Zeiteng. Count Wes-\n\nniles from Kuala Lipia\n\ntazu's newspaper, pubisher a\n\nlong article froze te China cer-\n\nf Ken\n\nWhere are Solar\n\nrespondent, in which he gives\n\nantureins completeir Japsuined.\n\nAr visit to Tsingtan. Konluma,\n\nthree are to useins, al: account of a\n\nback in fure work\n\nAbout 300 Germans\n\nce\n\nFrabies\n\nbore, most of whom resided in\n\nthese, there is ous shoe-maker and\n\nMost of ibasa have been tha pice\n\nbefore the war.\n\nBineneaker\n\n19 the imports of German mersing\n\nin this part of Raphalian kine\n\nchandise have increased in the\n\ndva of the Romarov adruimte\n\nThere is electric light\n\n[Tưkteur.\n\nreally extraordinary manner\n\nyatable, be the Russians wil bs\n\nyear, and German influence is\n\nlar pit tor\n\n-ey begin\n\ngrowing at a corresponding rate.\n\n| work at about for in the morning,\n\nthe corraspondent, and my du ber\n\nsoon after sunset, It is, saya\n\nespecially from England and he\n\nUnited States thst strany is!\n\nGENNETT RECORD in and as the centre\n\nLATEST HITS IN TO-DAY For Sale At\n\nKOWLOON MUSIC STORE Kowloon Hotet Building\n\nKowloon,\n\nP\n\nWas\n\nPIMPLES CAUSED GREAT PAIN\n\nOn Hands. Sufered Years.\n\nIlealed by Caticara.\n\n\"My daughter's bands saved tand that saw piTNILA feente.\n\nThey led with water bar bedeft then kinak and fester and fier for great jam.\n\nShe was\n\ndie\n\ngel up at night and bold her hand.\n\nJin very hot water fu chse the pot...\n\nShe suffered like that for úve or zivi\n\nTORE are for acrae Son\n\nExtas 4 tane of the Yokohama socks Bank was ned i Karachi gravity of world policy is moving nutty.\n\nIs is reported that Kara rapidly towards the Pacific, the ante brak with Japan bre intrinsed German Goverment should take hy tess and hounds during the every portunity to profeet and that five yearE\n\nthe Fer avour Germaniam in\n\nEt.\n\n\"The recovery of aume con. The Waokang Mint is at presne cessions in our former Kias-Chau | produery $150,00) Saily, hur en the\n\nhelp enor-market is in want of silver! Protectorate word\n\nmonsly the atfainment this delises it is pregused to rise the\n\ndaily work to $180,0 Lim.\"\n\nsent for a fer sample I found hi sas jaing ber gond to prese Itens and the is completely falodged] Te. Briggs. 120, Mic seter Rd., Derby. Eng.\n\nUse Cullera Sarp and Olatrert\n\nRegularly to maintain permand Jakir, and her health.\n\nSong vid Oistrant said thoughætt tår\n\nTry the Cuticure Shaving Sticks,\n\nDo This-Today\n\nTiis\n\nLearn how millions get whiter teeth\n\nwill digitiul test which\n\na new conception of what clear teeth moon,\n\nIt tacnus whiter, clatter, sufor teeth, such se millions now enjoy.\n\nSee wirst brings to you.\n\nThe war on film Dental suico is new fighting the cause of move topt]: Itoucles.\n\nFams that viseras coat you fesi.\n\nIt clings to south.\n\nUnder old methods of tooth brushing, ratch of it remains,\n\nTr.bentice decolored, then futz diy sogra Thng is why mà 1500y cerk cloudy.\n\nFilm also raises 10 troth trooi leg.\n\nIt loins food wykonanie\n\nadrich ferments and fenos sell, it holds de asià in content with the seath to asuse decay.\n\nGoms krevd by millions in it.\n\nThey, vit SAG- Sar, are the chiti cerme of your d\n\nThese troubles became almost umiyevast when that film wa left of teeth.\n\nModem rerganch das tiae werad two effective m coxbatants.\n\nOne digimtegrate the balm ut ski aresyna uf Pronation.\n\nOve rumoras à vikk... out bermind acouring.\n\nTese have proved dut dev rastheds mean à ngy era in leady\n\nTRADE\n\ncleaning.\n\nnew-type tootla paria has been created en apply ther\n\naily.\n\nThe name is Pepsodent\n\nNow the use of Peysadent ha spread the work over, largely by dental advice.\n\nLook at what Pepsodent does\n\nThe use of Pepsodent will britu\n\nat once a new conception of ela veet\n\nProtect the Enamel\n\nPepsodent disintegrates d fi khen reinowes fi with var gpent fir softer than gumel, ever desa de comment watch contains laurah gri\n\nIn dela ugga tisa tulu źni salthaling the gnty of th andira, which is then to nesesti: a montesis.\n\nJt trediciise féin par sila in salive, strah in devaẹ to do pant sich, deposits on ti\n\nThess combined effects will be a vežalise ke\n\nSend the rouson for a 70-320/ Tebe, éve how clean in teena Jeet after being.\n\nMark the\n\nof the series Blan.\n\nSee im ters Lacive whier as the i-ca dilsapy car.\n\nCompare the new way with the eid, then docide for yourself what\n\nis best ut et cospan tem.\n\nBAHK\n\nAGAINST\n\nThe New-Day Dentifrice\n\nBassa on quodern research.\n\nAd wse by Tading dotians in world over.\n\nYou will tea and food fame- diate cault,\n\nTwo zizta on ralc everywhere.\n\nAZZATA POR HONDMOND & BOLEH GIA;# KELAAR KERM A GO- 1.15. 5, W NONGKONG\n\n10-Day Tube.\n\nThe Pausodeot Dompany, Dept. C15-16.\n\nBus 1418, Shanahal.\n\nBackend find al cos Sramps.\n\nMail 10-day labs of Pzasadent to\n\nMail 10-Day Tube of Pepsodent to\n\nNave.. Address...\n\nGive full address.\n\nWrite plainly, Only ont vube 10 a kunits.\n\nCARBOLINE\n\nKILLS GERMS\n\nKeope every zvrnet\n\nSWEETENS DRAINS\n\npour hopes swest and elaan.\n\nThe beat IKI VISH Veudorant Gallins $2.75, Half Gallons $1.75.\n\nS'a 4. THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY\n\nDID you ever serve\n\nWelch Punch? Try -your guests will be Javish in praising it.\n\nHere is how you make it---\n\n1 pint Waith'a\n\nI quatt water\n\n1 cup sugar\n\nJake of 2 lunnans sud 1 orange\n\nThis manke the most licious and refreshing beverage you can serve or het days or evenlegs,\n\nTUL WELCH BRATE NICZOO, Wtfibi, N., 4.5. A.\n\nWelch's\n\nGrapeJuice\n\nWhelssola Regreactiam ius.\n\nMULLER & PHIPPS (China) Ltd.\n\nZebrand. P. D, Bos afin, Kingstei\n\nAssist\n\nNature\n\nHowever robust\n\nand strong the con- stirution there are fines when Nature requires assistance in relieving congested parts and re- storing normal function.\n\nNature has no subre efficient aid to health than Beechma's Pills\n\nWheat the digestive organs refuse to assimi- lace foed; when the liver Tuers sluggishty; when the kidneys do not properly\n\nperfona their allotted duties, then is the time to wesist nature to restime sound and vigorous health.\n\nby taking\n\nBeecham Pillo\n\nBANKS.\n\nHONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nREAD DIVICE, BONCHONG.\n\nkukintoad Capimi,AUR Sentra Futa PAID 2004 NA TUN\n\n£ 4.800.000 STA $2,699AGE Baetzen Dishitty of protons 294,092, INDE\n\nCourier.\n\nWhile,\n\nquer Meas\n\nA. IL Paview, Ena\n\nBANKS.\n\nSOUTH CHINA\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nTo the Editor, A. C. M. Post.)\n\nTHE CHARTEKKU BANK OF INDIA, AUSTHALIA & CRINA.\n\nJadwiston 50\n\nReserve ad\n\nKRUTAMİ,\n\n£3,000,0\n\n2-lets Chairm\n\n5. An șa tum.\n\nLi W, Barnard, Yu W. 2. Patarajan, bez\n\nWell. Koz\n\nA. K. FRAUFOs,\n\nM Hugkung, 15th April, 1925.\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL\n\nMAATSCHAPPL.\n\n|NETHELANDS TRADING SOCISTIJ\n\nBANG.\n\nTetal Hard Ba\n\nLa magar: Eburchak.-G. 8. AL X-\n\nJAMIN DANKERJ;\n\nWestminster back, Imitá.\n\nCarpet county aveone in Lock Guzenar and Planḍ Dayalle spevived for day parë në sherlar evinin in ima) Guzzyner and Racing, Wes which will lie utwerk\n\nBand 19th Mat. 1955.\n\np\n\nHONGKONG SAVINGS BANK\n\nThe\n\nWe obtakt\n\nof the above deple s HiViNGNG AN HANG REMAIN, BANE DOES\n\nINTE SPE dep is culonlated w Bekalana during ja ezoqaletai Qalendar Merin at B34 per cent per si\n\nMeu to orbites on way day in a Moth sweet will in Kined fur that\n\nrepteiten Immander ; their epikoa Rai.üd or dance to the HONGKONG AND MUANGHAI BANK to be lowes\n\nKAKE DEPORT - CURRENT RATES\n\nFor the maing vad skurzovi Kanking Corporatina,\n\nA. BAXLOW\n\nColt Vansa, Fonehengerry, A INTERNATIONAL BANKING\n\nCORPORATION.\n\n(wind 6 the National City Bank st\n\nNew Tor\n\nCapital and Surplva v 52. JALAN, DA\n\nRetryis\n\nAVAD OFFICE\n\n60, Wan Straut. Fo\n\nLONDUS OFFICE\n\nMy Bishnule, Bi 0.\n\nBRANCHES\n\nProvince of Kwangtang, who are! however, Wally tacerning more!\n\npowerless the grip a \"BeF forcas: that this Balthe\n\nMOROCCAN WAR.\n\nENEMY FIRE SILENCED.\n\nMadrid, Aug 24.\n\nร\n\nMORNING POST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nBANKS.\n\nRUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.\n\nbest 5,603.30\n\nHOT\n\nBANKS.\n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,\n\nCrarecare\n\nKod: BA Stan\n\nAuthored Capim 5,360, m Solestia Cav1.500.co Pript? LED Cut Reserve ... 1,9440,001-\n\nKANCÉES.\n\nShe Bank of Fingland &\n\n& Midland Bach, Lat\n\nBRANCHES\n\nEnta Shuro\n\nAc obieral communique claims.\n\nCapital City yeld]\n\natl\n\nChaikal Pe\n\nKe Chaps Gazerne\n\nRES CFFICE.\n\nParis, Kee Brateur.\n\nLONDON OFFICE\n\nYou\n\nFort Youth (art) BONGKONG BRANCH.\n\ntd, Gid Bread Blease, $9.\n\nKAKIMAS\n\nShamok theini\n\n$ck!\n\nBatavia Gall\n\nBoer\n\ncross me\n\nJoalats.\n\nYut. Gau, Müs, de\n\nGarrin Pan Sauerale egung in recent bombardments.-EU de Gizarte E Fac\n\nFranca\n\nI've Lost Goonw Mede, Angrył 25.--General 'n de Rivers by kina\n\nArcikrod\n\nbeyn\n\nHora'sy Hentyne Bala Tamar navba ¡Calepitas Ilewrah Sciculo Kozár\n\nLindra\n\nFema BUTALOGS\n\nSlagspry Sout\n\n(ft in the coar Ausories\n\nEndrin\n\ntu de Pazia st das Pa\n\nLyn Bern CNTICIALA JOz Zaveck that\n\n1.\n\nSir your bardağ's Leadervist Gorunmeet of Canton, whose inscrporated by Regul Chartuť, 1851. [you any: “We are making and farm is vader the sperme com\n\nLand On: Londo Past op Capland $0.590' must pake a bid for the spopathyjmoud of a Karine Bolshevist that the enomy's fire\n\nof the British public.\" J this Coneret, and on whose military Albucemas was silangad by he Ferien xehera ad General Hancurent Can we hope to arouse and evil staffs there are already tane arrival of the warship! Garment Accennik wegeō and Floed Dawonria ¦ The syimpathy of the Bridiel: uray bug Russians, as declarede It emits that owing Sed ne & rent or shorter rods at pubife by rendre a telegram to ja orkude of this British Colors, the soul means of com- wales wil be quoted on Applic\n\nmunication with the painland No. 30 Dawning Stret? Wil thene ships from or 10 Yongkons Betish public ever hear of it being allowed to ply within any\n\nbeing interrupted through the cest re-haps Shnung a brief of fe wnsers of the Kwant to dairage sustained by the avack,\" it is impossible to ganga paragraph in the London Prest | Province, traton moi haloy permit.\n\nThe telegram is excellent as farted to cryas Ale\n\nAnglo-Chine Renter- AH it goes. Toy it should be barked transler, and not even a up by a direct virosal to the peasant being allowed to British people-a the enthusiasm from Chinese to British territory: tha of the cornug in this alter will that British subjecta are mat per-preparations Reve enable the organisers of\n\nThe mitted to enter the city of Cantonpleted and offensive operations US C Meeting to rese! the cont! Pets that by die viel order of the mould probably be lanched within, Venic #OAGKONG SKUNDE EMASLACAS 19. hapa Exuler's agones mere wouta Goverment ட்: Centon, British ten diss. While isolating tribes Authurted Cavitstallers 1000 dyward it, on the Colay'z boskins are folder to enter tas who said help him, we will operate\n\n212,601 | to the British Press. Con Caeton river that Red\" Trucke 30,000.\n\nthe very borrilary of Ate ei. 66ing through that chased te weglajare roused or the Angka Krin--tavas. GEA acured wide publicity. Frontier and nee, talks firing wiLL\n\ninpurity on B. a police patrels The following anggested tensed on parctos Chinne fathers ram is long, but could be and workmen the British side on thejof the border; that as a reer, of\n\nMeasures că-\n\nPaziti...\n\nTest\n\n..der.com 161,258,335.J\n\nBand On: JESTERDAM. Bester and Ocom-BATAVIA.\n\nBükmat Bardown,bresisted if necessary\n\nhay, flabour, Überikan Ujven-\n\nhar, Diakiskaria, The Haware of experie. W anyone theas and other Rink Mob Davik.\n\nHow who has been hame 10 Meika. P\n\nPenang\n\nBanzo Hoterias, Kanan.\n\nSoerakar (in) Treni, Tijne Joader Bachana Provincial\n\nCadets all was the wazid, PARKING FUSSRAT DE BYREY\n\n..\n\nRECKLESS CYCLIST.\n\nCHINESE WAITER FINED.\n\nA restaurant waiter was lugged i\n\n|_ New York Ta Ying Bauk, Colorati\n\nSexFirenz\n\nBarlin:\n\nOnk\n\nNatom\n\nShangha EVDEN Ing Pektor Mapato 1\n\nJornad\n\nKanchang Yukinama\n\nKatarrat allow on Dress Amanida de Hive Deneth Til\n\norien sebanga no the prizcismi silán\n\nL.. BAINES.\n\nthe world bws/kland an\n\nBalapur\n\n司公理管業實法中\n\nSOCIETE FRANCAISS DE\n\nGERANCE\n\nDE LA BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHIND\n\nPRONINENT PRUERY, oubt that the Inferomtion as to been brought to a complete stand-i Hhanghai, Singspiere emitthe calony's estabifalme and til and uve 70 Ateamers, of before Mr. E. W. Mumilten. at the present importance is nevessary? wloce 65 are Pritisk, are now ly-Kuwien Mugistry Perlerder\n\nJours, etc.\n\ning e in the liatbear of Bong with riding a bicgete in a reckle I. M. T.\n\nReng; that through the uretismorzar. The defendat picaded Hongkong, 24th August 1925. of the imperial Governeur, salt and was fired 53. Appeal To The People Of Great\n\nwatch to the Chinees mind! Sergeant D. Murphys who effected\n\nBritain\n\nguitles ouly impotence, the hot the rest of the defendant, waredi This mass morting of British our and dignity of Britain have that when ordered to stop at the! residents of the tree Cology alemdy entered a severe selbeck jacion of Nathan and Jordan Red 9. Butler Bar Hongtong appeals to the people throughout And, the extent and Roads, the defendant diselayed the of the Mother County for their scriose of which only the desigual, but after a chase inte Wou- support in the grievous positionjhare will reveal; that this low ng Scient, the defendant wAS which de Colony ha heen to car prestige in Asia is the prevented from proceeding other. placed through the violently and object deiterately aimed as by by a large cerad of people, and was THE DANGLE MUISTURES IN CHIN\n\nKANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.\n\nSubscribed lasila. 78,000,000.00 Packets Capital Fra, SCRAIGN Hacer Fend,FM. 81,587,39321\n\nBANGKOK\n\nDBANCE 1\n\nPAPIRŠTE YAOM.PNG PONMOD MARY\n\nMATGON\n\nKAPTAMBANG CANTONG\n\nDJIBOUT\n\nJIHONG\n\nTANDI HUNGSONG VYNONG\n\nJOUMICA\n\nSTANGDAL\n\nSINGAPORE TUNIN\n\nBasket\n\nHersalina\n\nEasons\n\nPek\n\nBoyabay\n\nPluta\n\nGAL\n\nC\n\nItem\n\nFrancia, Cal\n\nC\n\nPrenses du Mamcie\n\nCOU\n\nSt J\n\nIt\n\nSeron la llar\n\nNarbib\n\nSarty Pinga\n\nHUMANEK\n\nShanghet\n\nAnim\n\nSZTUK MENITH\n\nSe Playca best Nasa\n\nBIKIN\n\nin Vega\n\nTari\n\nworld\n\n7000\n\nKeale\n\nfait, lei. Taghangt som\n\nble Tra Tacx hought and sold. Corrent event!\n\nsasti kauk, Kesante spared And Fla Deprale, float and fires musprim saken of zatez, tårt may be verymtaxi se\n\napplies too to the HABEBAS ONE CAS\n\nWest Also ablet the istiyon! City sic lov Brusela\n\nHack of New_York_1\n\nFot palunit treatin Bush Sales and is the War Indes\n\nTOURING\n\nHNANYO\n\nPritish activities of the preseat thin bundreds of Russing Hulthe-janested. Bolshevis Government of Genica, įvlats who are the real mastera of Great Britafa was the first Puwes Canton; that one anges) For anais- to move for the ebulition of ex-ince from the people of Hone. tratoriicial rights la lapan as on the Synperial Governurni soen av at efficient and upright bar mei with so responk, probit\n\nicing had been sethieked is by far the reason that the dete in evenerate attempt to run this Colony with vor compatriots in China, wej which is being made by the Gor\n\nis Paz: Chal Luasie; die doetry, spd. Paris Perkant\n\nLenan\n\nFrost at Yew York\n\nDagŭ Despetta arcondes My\n\nbrain tr\n\nJEBEL. DRUSE.\n\nFRENCH LOSSES EXAGGERATED\n\nParia, Agust 25.\n\nKTARESA.FNP FRANCO.camol\n\nGod is weki. Chataro, Victoria, Bongka\n\nMEAL OFFICE\n\n---\n\nParde, Yo The He Insan\n\nJapHa....... 15,000, 20 B. 10,\n\nPIE. MINDACOS\n\nBANYTIC\n\nFrans: tiste Garcia Bapur Natten\n\nBy Grade Baza de Park vi des Pac Mendon Midland think, Las\n\ndier des Ha\n\nCo\n\nfind trebain\n\nghost be World.\n\nHughing, 224 (ON. YO\n\nA ROLAN\n\nManag\n\nTHE YOKOHAMA SPECIE\n\nut pamercinta ladustain Wema and TrasOwn\" 2,42 kere of 10 Fun The Nation Pretzelal and teci assured that the Gavel eglent crument of Lasten being cur-\n\nUnikan Erd. Conymit\n\nComeening certain formation : Vectron accrapla Path: edit of Great Britain, whose interestsfused with the studion Chira starting that her French insesa uti 1 New Yob F. I. Morrazo. Franch Chine are greater than those of which te best dealt with by the Forfeit Drase totalled 2,000 men, the Antal Berckling Coppo Castany any other Power, wil net sveign Dive, and a handling which papers as that the Winters of! Inset whips Care is and to lock for the lend of any other Britain, for the Grit te in her War has stated that 800 way the. Ewer chettition of mankin am veren, in takits similar hists in Asia. appears to be runter reported by General Sarri: ...... You 180.55.9 steps in China when the Glütere waiter for a led from Pewore and bat in notist been altered bet people having followed the exam with only a treeties of her inter pla of Jepun, pat the house este in Chia and is Aria eder, ander unt make residence therein. uraliy: thug e Gayorwent wil urder Chege laws and adminiz hatun bas lured self inde- traziou, xa este for foreigners a pondeck of the Governmen! la radence in Great Britain! Ching and refuses to recognize and ue Colonies for citizens of the Governmeul at Paking to which\n\nG. RUGC.\n\nHonigst\n\nen's Rool, Central. Homes. Esmary, 1950.\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA,\n\nLIMITED\n\nBIAD OPTICE\n\nÀ. LINTOT,\n\nYavage\n\nTHE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.\n\n(WAYWANGIKKOJ\n\n[ TÙ SPESAL DIPENAL\n\nBAYI İses\n\nvital Emeriled Yes 89.600,000 Duprat (pastato 0.000\n\nNo in De Vong Band. Central Rongeuren enonthe Chinese Republic. Having is Majesty Minelar to Chira\n\nsaid the when the situations accroifted: what this\n\nAuthorized Copirai 19,590, Patil Chap Kew Brad\n\n6,00,000 si\n\nBWAD OFFJEK.\n\n1,040,9sa 94\n\nVRECIDER.\n\nTAMPED, FORMOSA,\n\nBANCU\n\nIto Mr Chow Chow a\n\nFan It Blaire Ceing la\n\ntard\n\nZATORI SPIŅA Tohobar, Kəb Fans Gergely\n\nUnalen,\n\nC: King Ulivu Polos Tur Pr\n\nChan Ching her Wet Yast P\n\nvery dogrtatlan or banking\n\nSAF TITS\n\n*\n\nmasied\n\n04 FUNKE\n\nmonics, Trewall, Token, Aka\n\nColony,\n\nA\n\nExos denuntion Pankica\n\nse pued\n\n(nere bent en Durant Kurapně\n\nwat yer kom on Veils du\n\nmore en than may be\n\n- is\n\nits on wat\n\nQuare'n Boat (m\n\nROSS,\n\nAng nagES. kong. th c r.\n\nTHE RANK OF CANTON, EMITESA\n\nRead Office: Katy Loss.\n\nEstabaired 1912. Authorized Capéta) 51,20ki, Ga Pall, lip Depital 1,078,5Ð\n\nsilver Reserve Fand...$ 700, Forsigo Exchange and Genara Banking business transacted Interest allowed on\n\nSCUBRENT ACCOUNT\n\n2 po a un daily cred helences of over 106.\n\nCOUNTE\n\n4% ADRUM\n\nfor 12 monthe 5 per annu\n\nfur 8\n\non ANTAGE\n\n|GA KOSTER\n\n1.1\n\nX\n\n29\n\nConten, Shanghai, Hankey; Bangkok and New York.\n\nCOR BANZISES\n\nThe Lloyd'a Bank, Limited.\n\nLOOK POONG BHAI Chief ManaTER.\n\nBANK LIMITIE.\n\nBRID OFFICE MO\n\nJOKURANA\n\nwas confirmed by a nominative list.\n\nBatavia wad Ag\n\nEa\n\nBunbury\n\nZonva ¡Battat dzzas kauna\n\nHua Pranshia\n\nCalext\n\nIns Averi\n\nHemang Euba\n\nROBERTSON\n\n1\n\nMila\n\nSECURITY PACT.\n\nNe\n\nDet\n\nASKESTOS PROTECTED\n\nTHE FRENCH REYLY.\n\nip China we would impress where urgent appeal to uskist-\n\nNewhaven, Aug 21, aur people et houne that the pre-jane has aiready been once ignored i The France Ambassador ha sent gericus stare of affairs in by the Iraperal Government.\n\nsas handed to Herr Stresemans the Mature, Menu Pizzo, Skiardino, Thiabu. the British Colony must be un-Tur the past 25 years contributed French reply to the German Chinh anhm. Arg. Penchow, tirely disassociaran om eendi- propavilon of ita anewal re- Security Pact Noto. Tho date of\n\nState, Chaton\n\nBanen, place in China: that this Clotany veree towares crtal military publicstion ne nos yer Farabee Chart, Scubayer Hongkong was ceded to Endod. Xe Turk, alter\n\nLASDAN BANKERS.\n\nthe expenditus, the utiration for fixed-Reut!Y. British\n\nTE CHART London Cornstar Westate and Dart'ssion being confirmed in\n\n1841, the rear 4 amounting to sour that a quarte million dollar;\n\n30\n\nChief MeDoge\n\nBaik\n\nDebrents. 1029\n\nHonda 16 prebrant, tum\n\nTHỂ HỒ HÙNG Hạ lão tin t\n\nALICIT).\n\nCAPITAL:\n\nAuthorised $50,000,050\n\nTil ...\n\nPaid-up... 4,000,000.\n\nReserve Labilities of\n\nShareholders...... 4+0.\n\nSurplus.........\n\n823,000,\n\nBEAD OFFICE--SINGAPORE Branchen, Agencies and Carrespond- ente in the principal cities of\n\nthe world.\n\nKvery description of Racking And, Fxchange business' transacted.\n\n... BANG, Manager.\n\nORIENTAL COMMERCIAL\n\nBANK. LTD.\n\nVELD DEVICE.\n\n18. TWY FREIT ROON CHANCHAL\n\nBILNEGES (--WANGRUR.\n\nUntzenie Wuntraine Hack Sale & New York: Scan City\n\nAharied Capital Man 25. OUR AND Pabi-up Capital 2,090,008\n\nSose haki ini b Current sermouth, Attindi Dasu mirati ka mpy\n\nDRAUM BEAUTI\n\nOvera, barkings opgelatır.\n\nINTEREST. C'event occ 2 AT ive 15%.\n\nElard Devotion, 3 months, k 6 month 4454, wie gest 5%.\n\nKAKE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR PENT.\n\nQUR VAUTTA JAFEGUARDS) BY IDEA CLOCKS AND DOUBLE CAMMINATION ÁRNOUM PIATÉ NIEZŁ NO«YP.\n\nJ. T. LAIM.\n\nKUMBA.\n\nmetres in the Entepony Continent:\n\nDoet\n\nThe Beat bas Credents to rear following year by the Treaty of that during the Great War that beside these to whom they are Busca, M. a. Nanking, under which Rongkong Colver contributed Con, an India, Philippine Trianon, Juga,\n\nFinetry\n\nBeakow\n\nHalo\n\nHer\n\nMentula\n\nKai Zoen\n\nKorechi\n\nOu\n\nPising\n\nRACKVI\n\nlod\n\nSihampcov\n\nKostel\n\nVATE\n\nVindicat\n\nJanka\n\nit and on Correak Attiest Caprasin pacetvel for zxat perce Latatred on sites.\n\nC. AKIMA,\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK LTD.\n\nSend Mom Vinyl Prodine, Thetar BiME\n\nDRANCWEB:--\n\nLju\n\nthe\n\nat variorum appending in elliees, abups, ard siber Dutch Crulim Forts, lies to be pujsassed to pepetaly\" times over six and a ar million factories and shipyarda iz Ameries, Atring, the\n\nInteress Kaceed on Comment donuts and Great Bring that at that dotars to the importal Govern-Dot Country.\n\nThey are now cali-\n\nTeposts at rates which will be great time Hongkong was but share mans for wat parposes.\n\nIn add-in for support from this Afs-! apple,\n\nBONGKONG BRANCH: L. Dar Views Wal.\n\nZ. YAKAMOTO,\n\nsophuma, Jan. May dogs.\n\nBanger\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA\n\n行銀國中\n\nGYECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDEN\n\nShanghai, Kangat kone. Tergen-Russian Gropeens.ca.\n\nCORRESTENDENTE. IN |--\n\nLiodon, New York, Chence, Bra pretens..\n\nLucia chores of Chien un abroad\n\nAttraction Tale fer\n\n10 years, ... fats, stupore, Fanana,\n\nrocky island, like hundreds to befrian to a special chination of overtunt Crown Colony to their fal- send of the one of Chine, In-blatt tion pendz: that a low-workroen at he hadited by thit a few hundred arge nyentier of the youth of this Brian who can still bear, MO CRzuzet and fishermen thas to-day, after 8 Color male the supena stories with pride the story of our fax rearhouest and impartialis the war, fortified in the hog feng Respire, and to wing the faste Wash British administration, tuls Colony that they wore helping to skew of that Empire is an Sacred is ene of the brightest gear in werin secure against such a charge as is that of the Realmi\n\nthe British Crown; that even in sprang as is now oppressing the of England twk. To all such\n\n2. M.\n\nMETAL ROOFING\n\nBolo Agents :\n\n¡DAVIE, BOAG & CO., LTD\n\nBank of Canton Building.\n\nSamples and fill particular on application.\n\nMASSAGE\n\nMr. SHIMIDZU Mrs. HONDA\n\nA. 34. Wyndham Street.\n\nTelephone Central 4048,\n\nthe year 1880 the Cipverner of the pancenia Chiasse imputation of this urgent appeal in argize THOS. COOK & SON (BANKERS) LTD\n\nColias, contrasting De Sara Cautan and is sriving to sun goes forth from the ueople of rock with a cherinan's but here this Cotry of Hongkong; that, the small but uporisat matpost TRAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLI. Od tier of 1841 with the cartons of the revisnose of Empire.\n\nColony as it was 8t roars later, the present situation, the people.\n\nCHIKA UN THR JIND DE\n\nNOVEMBER, FEAT.\n\nauthorised Cepita was able to state, in a despatch of this raportat outpost of our\n\nRattan Canika ..... 75,970 200,00\n\nREAD OFFICE: PEKING-\n\nMUSOKONG PRANOR\n\n4. Quera's Road Central,\n\nTranchen and dab-bones all\n\nAt to the Secretary of State for the Empire in Avin are again appeal- Colonive, that may be doubted in to-day to the forperial Gov whethere the evidence of material ferment, through the Prime Min- and woral achierement, presented ister, do take imosciate\n\nand KANAPundar in Faros, Amartas and sthay peste of the wall.\n\nsinstel wind Under Bet E. L\n\nThe Coming Trung Company of New York,\n\nDANKERN: · The Nepal E\n\nchins as it were in a focus, wake up-to put an end to the presout inte.\n\nwhere more Jokeile appeal\n\nlerable and hotelling position, LONDON BAKKERS--The National Pare and inagication and whether und feiting the immediate and\n\nany other apot on the earth complete cessation of the lock-i more likely to excite us more ful-ade, of Hongkong at\n\ninterfs- ly justifies pride in the name case with British trade and with few the all of British abjects to 1541 the population has increased without sulasful interference.\n\nhundred teren in the year carry on their businese freely and\n\nThe Egitle The Company of New York Internet slowed no liberest Acecants and Englismar from a Fixed Langit pa tention.\n\nevery desire of Banking\n\ntransxçied\n\nFirmanied va aproved sequentia.\n\nEpilan for Brookware\n\nTUYER PEL\n\nNEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE HANDELSBANK\n\nExtablished 1869.\n\nPaid-up Capital au Reserve Fund Glds, 78,200,000-£5,517,329.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM, CASTERN HEAD OFFICE: BATAVIA, BRANCHES:\n\nSay, Arapenan. Bandoeng. Borbay, Calcutta, Cheribos, Gorostalo. Hongkong, Kobs, Weknear, Medan, Menado, Palembang, PekalongAN, Rotterdam, Semprong, Shanghai, Singepara, Hourabaya,\n\nThe Eagua, Telok Beteng. Tjslatian, Wites rolet.\n\nLONDON REPRESENTATIVE: 8. S. Wright, 37, Old Broad Streek,\n\nLooden, B.. 2\n\nCORRESPONDENTS: LONDON: MIDLAND BANK, LID, ÖVERSEA\" Branox, WESTMINSTER BANK LTA FOIS BRAKCE, N. L. GOTHSCHELS & BAR and SI BANK CORPORATION\n\nNEW YORK: CHASE NATIONAL BANK, YAPMIY Loan & Tuner Co. TRYING BANK-COLOMBIA TRUST CO, GOLMAN, SACHS & Co, New Yoke Taper Co. and all the principal towns of the world,\n\nEVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING & EXCHANGE PUSI- NESS TRANSACTED CURRENT ACCOUNTS, DEPOSITS, etc\n\nP. MARKS,\n\nManager.\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOPENING QUOTATIONS.\n\nASTON ---\n\nHong, August\n\nBA\n\nTARGETAT-2.16\n\nBasi Baya Bile, at 30 days sight BakDill, at wounthe' sight 2,42 Credita, at 4 monthe night.. 2:5 Frey Hills, at 4\n\nvetoka\" sigh 275;\n\nBank Bille, on depend DE GAY\n\nCredila, ut death right... 1225\n\nI PANELLE\n\nto one milion; that the value of state of way with the Government; the Colony's trade in 1924 was for Casion he destared in exist, 136 mens sterling: that the; and .lbak Procediate stone beY DISTOPET Lorean-going shipping entered the them takes to enforce our Treats N\n\ncleared during the same year rights and to instal as Canton ready Chinese Goverment o tous, of which 12 milion tens\n\n$226\n\nnom\n\nBack Bille, en mend Credits, ut 60 dngu' sight... NA\n\nTraunfos... 1871\n\nOx CalcUTES —\n\nTalegraphis Freester... 1874 Dank, de\n\nBank, at right t Private, at 30 days' sig... .........3403\n\n115\n\nweru Brit, at that the inises fran Rolsbevist flomnication. tonnage of all classes during the makter fe appeal to the your wea nearly $7 millions, Imperial Government Me are) making Dongkong perkaps the taking the opponunda to forward A world's largest slipping partijat the sume tirar this appeal to that el his varé tezde and shit-the people of Great Britain foros ForIAMA 20 pak, sad even the very exisleure their sympathy\n\nOrdonan........ aid suppori. of the talony, hos suddenly been In doing se we wish to protest in Greed.......\n\nON HASA placut in mirene prilby the the rougest possible TERNET STRATOL- present de facte Doisnevist Gov-against the rupaix. of falan lepi...... 19!! ernment of Cantos, which, with hood which the Balcharist GN. ON 6114A -On demand ... 742) the nel of \"Red\" Rasein mili-evamart of Cutton, under the decane.................... tay commanders and Ruselfedtrention of experienced puna. NAIGN-De dewund..... m arins and money, came into power gandista trained in Russia has CasaME :-\n\nCA douazú..\n\n794 by an armed up only three conducted through certain\n\nSUS SOTERSHYA, Bath's boying DOTA H sad to-day abtine of the world's preas. This Bate.................. 3.50 hered by Im vaer unspority of mass meeting to for the most part Cars Usar, 100 fine, per tami........ the people of Canton and the composed of me, who have wosk Bas formas, per otro Fes\n\n- נא אני\n\nBANKING AND EXCHANGE.\n\nCOOK'S TRAVELLERS CHEQUES combine MAXIMUM SAFETY with CONVENIENCE.\n\nA special feature is the precautions taken to ensure the maximum safety possible.\n\nAsk for descriptive booklet at any of our offices.\n\nHead Office:-\n\nLol Address\n\nLUDOATE CIRCES, LONDON. B.C HONGKONG WOTEL BUILDINÓ.\n\nTelegraphin Address:-COUPON.\n\nTelephous: Central 524-525.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DIRECTORY & BLOTTER 1925\n\nThis very useful combination of Directory, Vlary and Desk Blotter, contains a large variety of local fa Jormation: List of Goveranient and Department. Officiats: Firms and Employees; Foreign Residents: Time tables: etc.. etc. A handsome and durable requirement. strongis bound in cloth and excellently printed, it is a weeźul adjunct in the desk In Home arOffice, and will be found of great use in business and social affairs.\n\nNow on Sale, Price $5 at\n\nSouth China Morning Post, Limited.\n\n1. Wyndham Street.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 365\n\nPage 365",
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        "content_text": "26\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925.\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nEstimated.\n\nActual.\n\nIncrease.\n\nDecrease.\n\nProvisionally Voted.\n\n$\n\nBrought forward\n\n7,394,431\n\n7,216,040.87\n\n766,810.07\n\n945,280.20\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT:-\n\nExplanatory Remarks.\n\n27\n\n-85\n\nPersonal Emoluments\n581,575\n\n453,312.68\n1,423.77\n78,262.82\n878.77\nLapsing salaries.\n\n750\n\nAdvertisements\n\n674.00\n\nAdvertisements made by Crown Agents in connection with appointments of Inspectors.\n\nAmbulances, Coffins, Dead Vans, and Dead Boxes\n2,000\n\n595.23\n\n1,404.77\n268.10\nNormal replacements lower.\n\nBamboo Poles, and Rope\n1,200\n\n931.90\n\n268.10\n\nBaskets, Buckets, and Shovels\n8,000\n\n8,757.57\n\n1,500.00\nIncreased cost of baskets, buckets, etc.\n\nBath-houses:-\n4,800\n\n1,008.60\n\nNew bath-houses still not opened.\n\nFuel\n140\n\n140.00\n\n11.12\n\nIncidental Expenses\n50\n\n88.89\n\nLight\n\n9,796.40\n\nBonuses to Dispensary Licentiates and Clerks for Vaccination of children and registration of births\n850\n\n2,084.44\n\n279.00\nMore vaccinations done in Chinese Public Dispensaries.\n\n84.44\n\nBrooms, Brushes, and Bamboo Hats\n2,000\n\n1,128.90\n278.90\n\n500.00\nIncreased cost of brooms etc.\n\nBurial of Infected Bodies\n1,000\n\n213.40\n\n786.60\n\nFewer burials.\n\nCemeteries, Incidental Expenses\n50\n\n20.98\n\n29.07\n\nNormal replacements lower.\n\nCoal for Official Quarters\n1,400\n\n1,212.09\n\n187.91\n\nMilder winter.\n\nCompensation for Damages by Disinfection and Cleansing\n200\n\n200.00\n\nNo claims for damages.\n\nConveyance and Motor Allowances\n7,710\n\n8,544.15\n\n886.00\nMore officers in receipt of allowances.\n\nCoolie Labour\n800\n\n2,138.11\n\n299.45\n\n2,134.00\n\nDisinfectants\n12,500\n\n14,083.11\n\nPurchase of Izal due to non-delivery of Sanitas Okol ordered through Crown Agents and purchase of large stock of 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Tar, pentine, &c.\n4,000\n\n2,296.24\n\n1,708.76\n\nLess overhauling required.\n\nPurchase and Maintenance of Bullocks\n8,500\n\n7,866.70\n\n1,183.80\n\nFewer bullocks due to introduction of motor transport.\n\nRat Poison, Rat Traps, &c.\n\n1,748.03\n\n1,251.97\n\nNormal replacements lower.\n\nRefund of Fees for Sanitary Institute Examination\n8,000\n\n78.84\n\n908.00\n\nRent of Quarters for Inspector and Sanitary officers\n1,900\n\n504.30\n\n1,895.70\nCertain rented quarters given up: matshed built.\n\nRent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies\n3,480\n\n1,141.80\n\n1,888.20\n\nScavenging City, Villages and Hill District\n1,500\n\n664.90\n\n835.10\n\nScavenging Gear\n2,600\n\n1,815.70\n\n784.21\n\nNormal replacements lower.\n\nScavenging Gear, Kowloon\n\nStreet-watering\n1,500\n\n485.82\n\n1,014.08\n\nLess street watering required.\n\nTransport\n1,400\n\n283.51\n\n1,116.49\n\nMore travelling.\n\nUniform for Staff\n1,100\n\n1,695.88\n\n595.88\nNormal replacements 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        "content_text": "(P2740/43/10).\n\nSCHEDULED COPY OF PATROL GUNBOATS 18 KALT AND WEST RIVERES IS UND BY GUNBOAT \"ELBG TAI\" DATED 11th FEBRUARY, 1920.\n\n(Obtained from \"Long fet\" on 4th April, 1928).\n\nNote 1. Positions are approximate and are taken from Chart £362. The names are not all shown on the chart.\n\nNote N.\n\nIt is understood that gunboats change round and are not necessarily confined to the areas shown against their names.\n\nPatrol areas in which positions are in doubt are underlined.\n\nPatrol Areas.\n\n  \n    1.\n    KUO WAI\n    South and East of Yellow Keish, Yang Ki, Jui Look Point, TAMCHAU CHAN.\n  \n  \n    2.\n    LUNG TZUNG\n    \n  \n  \n    3.\n    KAM MA\n    \n  \n  \n    4.\n    KONO KON\n    \n  \n  \n    5.\n    VI KONG\n    OF SAN PAL KILOBAU. TRUES CHUNG, TUNG CHU 10 HAU.\n  \n  \n    \n    VOT JYSK UTHANCE\n    near 1 below LONOM OF.\n  \n  \n    \n    HUR\n    to just LOTS BLAD (3 miles above KOROMOON) to KULO (22° 51' N., 112° 58' E.).\n  \n  \n    6.\n    \n    From SAILAM (see No. 5) to ANGUS.\n  \n  \n    7.\n    The SHU TUK Baranch DUITANG\n    (22°53' N., 113°7' E.) to vicinity of SANGHU.\n  \n  \n    8.\n    \n    From vicinity of PIZ KOB (22°55' N., 113°16' E.) to TAM CHAU (22°47' N., 113°24' E.).\n  \n  \n    9.\n    FOLUI\n    (22°53' N., 113°10' E.) towards KUM CHU (22°48' N., 113°52' E.).\n  \n  \n    \n    IN BH\n    see No. 9) towards KUBA AT #97 RIVER South of K #GMOON.\n  \n  \n    10.\n    LONG AH\n    \n  \n  \n    11.\n    PSI FANC\n    \n  \n  \n    12.\n    HOT #ML\n    LOBOM OR to L VEA ISLAND.\n  \n  \n    13.\n    HOI TING\n    \n  \n  \n    14.\n    KNO ON\n    \n  \n  \n    15.\n    HOT HONG\n    \n  \n  \n    16.\n    \n    From KULO (see No. 4) to 4 miles below SAMSHUI.\n  \n  \n    17.\n    LUI CHU\n    From 4 miles below SAMSHUI to about 2 miles above.\n  \n  \n    18.\n    HOI TIU\n    From 2 miles above Samshui to 10 miles above.\n  \n  \n    19.\n    SAI HING\n    From entrance to PATSUAN CHEN (8 miles below).\n  \n  \n    \n    TU O KOMO\n    From entrance to PATEMAN CRE. To vicinity of CRON CAU (22° 56' N., 113°17' E.).\n  \n\n182",
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        "document_key": "CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928",
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        "content_text": "assist in general confidential Secretarial work\n\nwhen not engaged in taking down and transcribing\n\nshorthand notes.\n\nI therefore, ask your covering authority\n\nfor this additional appointment and your sanction\n\nFor making the necessary provision in the\n\nEstimates for 1929.\n\n5.\n\nThe extra cost of those proposals during\n\n1928 would be $400 on account of Miss Thornhill,\n\nand a sum of $1,400 in respect of the salary of an\n\nadditional European lady Stenographer from 1st June,\n\nuntil the end of the year. To meet this expense\n\nthere are savings on the salary of the Chief Clerk\n\namounting to $3,600. Supplementary supply in aid\n\nof this vote will, however, be required to provide\n\nfor the pay of the Acting Colonial Secretary during\n\nmy absence on full pay leave.\n\n6.\n\nAs regards the officers who are classified\n\nunder the heading Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff\n\nI would invite reference to pages 3-6 of the\n\nenclosed staff list. The Class II officer,\n\nMr. Gelling, is now on leave, the two Class III\n\nofficers are Mr. Lang and Mr. Angus, and in addition\n\nto the probationer, Mr. Witchell, whose name\n\nappears in the Staff List, two other recently\n\nappointed probationers Messrs. Payne and Whitley\n\nare also employed. One of these assists with the\n\nclerical work in connection with matters referred to\n\nExecutive Council, and the other in the Confidential\n\nRegistry. There is thus an excess of two over the\n\nestablishment given in Appendix I of the Estimates,\n\nthere being a corresponding reduction of one in the\n\nprobationers",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG,—Continued.\n\nSENIOR CLERICAL & ACCOUNTING STAFF,-Continued.\n\nAsst. Storekeeper, Police Dept.\n\nAssistant Superintendent of Mails, General Post Office.\n\nClerk to Chief Justice.\n\nAssistant Accountant, Treasury. Assistant Accountant, Police Dept.\n\n  \n    £210\n    Clerk, Colonial Secretary's Office.\n    £210\n    Clerk, Kowloon Magistracy.\n    £210\n  \n  \n    \n    Clerk, Colonial Secretary's Office.\n    \n    Vote Service Ledger Clerk, Public Works Department.\n    \n  \n\n  \n    Name\n    Date of Appointment\n    Scale of Salary\n    Salary on incremental date 1928\n  \n  \n    R. G. Witchell\n    12th July, '26\n    Scale of class\n    \n  \n  \n    F. D. Angus\n    \n    do.\n    $1,200 | Colonial Secretary's Office.\n  \n  \n    G. H. Fowler\n    1st Nov., '27\n    do.\n    $1,050 | Sanitary Department.\n  \n  \n    Vacancy\n    \n    Probationers $900 to $1,500\n    $1,050 | Treasury.\n  \n\n*Not entitled to rent or passage allowances.\n\n  \n    Name\n    Date of Appointment\n    Scale of Salary\n    Salary on incremental date 1928\n  \n  \n    W. G. Harrison\n    9th April, '23\n    Scale of class\n    £290\n  \n  \n    T. Lay\n    1st May, '25\n    do.\n    £260\n  \n  \n    R. W. H. Maynard\n    1st Jan., '26\n    do.\n    £240\n  \n  \n    H. S. Martin\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    R. Dormer\n    2nd Mar., '26\n    do.\n    £240\n  \n  \n    J. C. Lang\n    10th May, '26\n    do.\n    £240\n  \n  \n    W. F. Kerr\n    1st Jan., '27\n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    H. Angus\n    1st Jan., '27\n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    J. Hosford*\n    1st June, '26\n    do.\n    £260\n  \n  \n    1 Vacancy\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n— 7 —\n\nHONG KONG,—Continued.\n\nSECRETARIAT.\n\n  \n    Col. Sec.\n    \n    £2,000\n  \n  \n    Asst. Col. Sec.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2nd Asst. Col. Sec.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3rd Asst. Col. Sec.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cadet Officer.\n    W. T. Southorn, C.M.G.\n    \n  \n  \n    Cadet Officer.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cadet Officer.\n    \n    \n  \n\nSECRETARIAT FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS.\n\n  \n    Sec. for Chinese Affairs.\n    £1,500.\n    £1,250-£50-\n  \n  \n    E.R. Hallifax, C.M.G., C.B.E.\n    Nov. 29, '12.\n    \n  \n  \n    Chief Asst. to Sec. for Chinese Affairs.\n    Cadet Officer.\n    \n  \n  \n    3rd Asst. to Sec. for Chinese Affairs.\n    Cadet Officer.\n    \n  \n  \n    2nd Asst. to Sec. for Chinese Affairs.\n    Cadet Officer.\n    \n  \n  \n    Labour Inspector of Juvenile\n    £400-£20-£480.\n    \n  \n  \n    F. Meade,\n    Jan. 1, '23.\n    \n  \n\nAUDIT DEPARTMENT.\n\n  \n    Auditor\n    £650-£50-£900\n    T. Dallin,\n    July 30, '10.\n  \n  \n    Assistant Auditor\n    £950-£50-£1,200\n    H. R. Phelips,\n    Nov. 1, '04.\n  \n  \n    2nd Assist. Auditor\n    £400-£600\n    by C. H. G. Bradley,\n    Sept. 11, '25.\n  \n  \n    \n    and 3 of £50, increments of £25 two annual\n    \n    \n  \n\n17",
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        "content_text": "Present salaries.\n\nAccountant, General Post Office.\n\nSuperintendent, Money Order Office.\n\n(Mr. Reca) $6000-$7200\n\n(Mr. Dixon) $7200\n\nFirst Clerk, Hong Kong Magistracy.\n\n(Major Willson) £500-£20-£600\n\n£600\n\nCashier, Treasury.\n\nSuperintendent, Stamp Office.\n\nFirst Clerk, Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\n(Mr. Burton) £500-£20-£600\n\n8580\n\n(r. Pestonjee) $6000-$200-$7200\n\n$6600\n\nSecretary's Office. (At present held by Mr. Gelling of Class II.)\n\nScale of Class II.\n\nAccountant, Police Department.\n\nSenior Clerk, Audit Department.\n\n(Mr. Taylor)\n\n(Mr. Maughan)\n\nSecretary, Sanitary Board. (At present held by Mr. Tatson of Class II.).\n\nSee footnote to Special Class.\n\n£500-£10-£600\n\n£530\n\n£450-£25-£550\n\n£550\n\nScale of Class II.\n\nPage - 2 -\n\nCLASS II £400-£15-£490.\n\n10\n\nPresent salaries.\n\nClerk, Water Works.\n\nOffice Assistant, Harbour Office.\n\nOffice Assistant, Buildings Ordinance Office.\n\nAssistant Accountant and Stores Supervisor Police Department.\n\nSecond Clerk, Audit Department.\n\n(Mr. Julyan) £480\n\n(r. Roe) £400-£10-£550\n\n£480\n\n(Mr. Wattie) (£400-£20-£600\n\n£560)\n\n(Ir. Stone) £410\n\n£400\n\n(Mr. Stokes acting on probation)\n\nPage\n\nSurvey Clerk, Public Works Department.\n\nAccountant, Supreme Court.\n\nSecond Clerk, Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\n(Mr. Lenfesty) £400-£10-£480\n\n(Mr. Andrews) £400-£10-£480\n\nFirst Clerk, Kowloon Magistracy (Vacant-Class III Officer acting at present).\n\nCLASS III £250-£15-£385.\n\n(r. Lockhart-Smith-acting £400-£10-£500\n\n£440\n\nAssistant Land Officer).\n\nThree Clerks, Colonial Secretary's Office, (Messrs. Lang, Angus and one other).\n\n(Mr. Lang) £210\n\n(Mr. H.A. Angus) £210\n\n(Mr. Bendall, Sanitary Inspector acting). £280\n\n(Mr. Rushton on probation) £200\n\nPage 10\n\nAssistant Secretary, Sanitary Department.\n\nPay Clerk, Public Works Department.\n\nAssistant Storekeeper, Police Department.\n\nClerk to Chief Justice.\n\n(Mr. Spradbery) £230\n\n(Mr. Harrison) £290\n\n(Mr. Maynard) £240\n\nAssistant Accountant, Treasury.\n\n(Mr. Martin) £240\n\nOffice Assistant, Police Department (Mr. Dormer) £240\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "3- \n\n11 \n\nCleri, Government Marine Surveyor's Office.\n\nDeputy Superintendent, Money Order Office.\n\nVote Service Ledger Clerk, Public Works Department.\n\nSupernumeraries.\n\nCLASS III $250-$15-$385, '(continued).\n\na \n\n(Mr. Murry-Sanitary Inspector acting).\n\nPresent salaries.\n\n$325 (Mr. Osborne)\n\n$290 (Mr. Hosford) (from 1.6.24)\n\n$270 (Mr. Kerr, acting 1st Clerk Kowloon Magistracy).\n\n$210 (Mr. Ogilvie in training in Audit Department).\n\n$200 \n\n*From 1st January, 1929.\n\nPROBATIONERS $900-$150-$1500.\n\nR.G. Witchell, (Attached Colonial Secretary's Office). $1200\n\nF.D. Angus, (Attached Colonial Secretary's Office). $1050\n\nG.H. Fowler, (Attached Treasury). $1050\n\nG.R. Payne, (Attached Colonial Secretary's Office). $900\n\nT.H.V. Hurst, (Attached Colonial Secretary's Office). To be promoted on 1. 1. 29 to Class III). $900\n\nT.S.D. Whitley, (Attached Supreme Court). $1500",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No.1.\n\n12 END\n\n  \n    Date of present appointment.\n    Salary on 1. 1. 29 under old scale.\n    Salary on 1. 1. 29 under new scale.\n    Date of next increment of £15.-\n  \n  \n    Mr. Maynard\n    1. 1. 16\n    £250\n    £295\n    1. 1. 30.\n  \n  \n    Mr. Martin\n    2. 3. 26\n    £240\n    £280\n    2. 3. 29.\n  \n  \n    Mr. Dormer\n    10. 5. 26\n    £240\n    £280\n    10. 5. 29.\n  \n  \n    Mr. Lang\n    1. 1. 27\n    £220\n    £280\n    1. 1. 30.\n  \n  \n    Mr. Kerr\n    1. 1. 27\n    £220\n    £280\n    1. 1. 30.\n  \n  \n    Mr. Angus\n    1. 1. 27\n    £220\n    £280\n    1. 1. 30.\n  \n  \n    Mr. Ogilvie\n    1. 5. 28\n    £200\n    £250\n    1. 5. 29.\n  \n  \n    Mr. Rushton\n    1. 7. 28\n    £200\n    £250\n    1. 7. 29.\n  \n  \n    Mr. Bendall\n    1. 7. 28 (As Sanitary Inspector\n    £265\n    (£230 with free quarters and language allowance and uniform.\n    1. 7. 29.",
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        "content_text": "who has been sent\n\n54\n\nto the Governor of Hong Kong asking him to furnish copies of the documents required.\n\nRe\n\n2. In the meantime I am to\n\nwork\n\nMe accompanying Volumes\n\nof the Ordinances of Hong Kong for 1924 and 1928, together with copies of the 1924 Amendment of\n\nThe Piracy Prevention Ordinance,\n\n1914(?) \n\nPiracy\n\nand the Suppression of\n\nAmendment Ordinance, 1927.\n\nthe Regulations of the Supreme Court, 1924\n\nreferred to in Mr. Newman's letter of ... \n\nof the ...  Angus\n\nare contained in Page 41 and the following pages of the Orders in Council Part II Section of the 1924 Volume, these Regulations were repeated by section\n\n4\n\nof the Suppression of Piracy Amendment Ordinance, 1927, which was brought\n\ninto force by an Order of the\n\nGovernor in Council of the 15th March, 1928,",
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        "content_text": "## 61\n\n9. All covered drains and sewers shall be laid in straight lines and regular gradients between the points at which any change of direction occurs, and all changes of direction shall be made by means of properly curved pipes or by half channels in manholes.\n\n10. Concrete for encasing drains or sewers shall be composed of four parts of good sound clean stone, broken to pass through a one-inch ring, two parts of sand, and one part of Portland cement thoroughly well mixed and well rammed into place or of such other materials and in such proportions as the Building Authority may approve.\n\n11. Cement-mortar for the jointing of pipes or any other work shall be mixed in the proportions of not more than three parts of clean sharp sand to one part of good Portland cement and used fresh.\n\n12. No covered drain or sewer shall be less than four inches in clear internal diameter, but the Building Authority may require any covered drain or sewer to be constructed of a larger diameter.\n\n13. Subject to the limitation mentioned in regulation No. 12 of these regulations, no drain or sewer shall be larger than is necessary in the opinion of the Building Authority to carry off the sewage of the premises drained or the sewage with the rain-water, which, under conditions hereinafter specified in regulations Nos. 35, 36, and 37 of these regulations, shall be admitted to the drain.\n\n14. Every drain or sewer shall have the maximum fall, throughout its length, that the relative levels of the public sewer and of the most remote inlet will admit of:\n\nProvided always-\n(a) that, if the available fall exceeds 1 in 30, the part of the drain or sewer more remote from the public sewer may be laid with a fall of 1 in 30; and the remainder, with such greater fall as may be necessary to connect with the public sewer;\n(b) that, if the excavation necessary to obtain the maximum available fall is likely, in the opinion of the Building Authority, to endanger the stability of the adjoining or neighbouring property, the gradient may be modified to such extent as the Building Authority may approve.\n\n15. Whenever the available fall for a covered drain or sewer is less than 1 in 30, the Building Authority may require the gradient of the drain or sewer to be varied by increasing such gradient in the upper portion of such drain or sewer and by reducing it in the remaining portions.\n\n16. Whenever the gradient of any portion of a covered drain or sewer is less than 1 in 30, the Building Authority may require an automatic flush tank or any other suitable contrivance for attaining an effective flush to be provided to his satisfaction.\n\n17. No drain or sewer shall be so constructed as to pass under any domestic building except when any other mode of construction is impracticable. Any drain or sewer passing under a building shall be of cast-iron pipes coated inside with Dr. Angus Smith's patent composition, or of other material approved by the Building Authority, and all such pipes shall be of \n\n## 445",
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        "content_text": "92\n\n66\n\nalso the levels and sizes of any existing drains crossed by or adjacent to such new drains. Copies of Schedule A in English and Chinese may be obtained gratis on application at the office of the Building Authority, or, in the case of the villages, at any village police station between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.:\n\nProvided that when drainage works are being carried out in conjunction with other works it shall only be necessary to forward one form as set out in Schedule A, which must however contain particulars of the whole of the works including such drainage works.\n\nNote. The approval of plans by the Building Authority under these regulations certifies simply to the fact that the plans are in accordance with the Buildings Ordinance, 1935, and with the regulations made thereunder, but signifies no approval of the sufficiency or otherwise of the plan and throws no responsibility on the Building Authority.\n\n4. Any person carrying out excavations for drainage works on any premises contiguous to a public thoroughfare, whereby the safety of the public may be jeopardized, shall light such excavations by means of a lantern or lanterns kept lighted through the night, and he shall further provide watchmen, erect hoardings and otherwise take such precautions as may be necessary for securing the safety of the public and the protection of adjoining properties.\n\n5. Covered drains and sewers shall be made of impervious materials, to be approved by the Building Authority, with smooth internal surfaces, such as well-glazed earthenware pipes or cast-iron pipes protected against rust or corrosion by suitable asphaltic coating, and shall be so constructed as to be water-tight and air-tight. In jointing pipes with cement, tarred hemp shall be caulked into the joints before the cement is applied, and care shall be taken that no cement or other jointing material projects from the joints into the interior of the pipes, and any such projecting material or other irregularities in the bore of the drain or sewer shall be carefully removed.\n\n6. All drains and sewers shall be laid so as to have a firm bed throughout their length. Where the bottom of the trench is in rock or similar hard substance, the pipes shall be firmly bedded in suitable selected material free from large stones and well rammed into place. Where such drains or sewers are laid under a wall, they shall be protected by means of a relieving arch.\n\n7. All stoneware pipes shall be well-glazed and free from cracks and flaws and shall have a thickness of not less than one-twelfth of their diameter.\n\n8. That portion of the drain of any building which is immediately connected with any sewer shall (unless specially exempted by the Building Authority) be provided with a suitable and efficient intercepting trap at a point situated on the ground of the owner of the drain as distant as may be practicable from such building and as near as may be practicable to the point at which such drain is connected with such sewer. Adequate means of access shall be provided to every drain by a manhole or disconnecting chamber or other means of access to be approved by the Building Authority for the purpose of cleansing the drain. All manhole and disconnecting chambers shall be constructed of brickwork at least nine inches in thickness built in cement mortar so as to be water-tight up to the level of the adjacent ground and every drain or sewer connecting into such manhole or disconnecting chamber shall be continued along the floor of the chamber by means of open half-channel pipes set in a bed of cement concrete. The surface of the concrete shall be raised above the edges of the half-channel pipes and shall be floated with neat cement all over so as to present a smooth and impervious surface. Where tributary drains are connected to the main channel, the manhole bottom shall be benched up in cement concrete at an angle of forty-five degrees and finished at the channel with a bull-nose edge, and such tributary drains shall be formed by means of curved half-channels similarly laid in the benching and made to discharge over the main channel.\n\ncon.\n\nAll manhole and disconnecting chambers shall be fitted with air-tight covers and frames to be approved by the Building Authority.\n\n67\n\n9. All covered drains and sewers shall be laid in straight lines and regular gradients between the points at which any change of direction occurs, and all changes of direction shall be made by means of properly curved pipes or by half-channels in manholes.\n\n10. Concrete for encasing drains or sewers shall be composed of four parts of good sound clean stone, broken to pass through a one-inch ring, two parts of sand, and one part of Portland cement thoroughly well mixed and well rammed into place, or of such other materials and in such proportions as the Building Authority may approve.\n\n11. Cement-mortar for the jointing of pipes or any other work shall be mixed in the proportions of not more than three parts of clean sharp sand to one part of good Portland cement and used fresh.\n\n12. No covered drain or sewer shall be less than four inches in clear internal diameter, but the Building Authority may require any covered drain or sewer to be constructed of a larger diameter.\n\n13. Subject to the limitation mentioned in regulation No. 12 of these regulations, no drain or sewer shall be larger than is necessary in the opinion of the Building Authority to carry off the sewage of the premises drained or the sewage with the rain-water, which, under conditions hereinafter specified in regulations Nos. 35, 36, and 37 of these regulations, shall be admitted to the drain.\n\n14. Every drain or sewer shall have the maximum fall, throughout its length, that the relative levels of the public sewer and of the most remote inlet will admit of:\n\nProvided always—\n\n(a) that, if the available fall exceeds 1 in 30, the part of the drain or sewer more remote from the public sewer may be laid with a fall of 1 in 30; and the remainder, with such greater fall as may be necessary to connect with the public sewer;\n\n(b) that, if the excavation necessary to obtain the maximum available fall is likely, in the opinion of the Building Authority, to endanger the stability of the adjoining or neighbouring property, the gradient may be modified to such extent as the Building Authority may approve.\n\n15. Whenever the available fall for a covered drain or sewer is less than 1 in 30, the Building Authority may require the gradient of the drain or sewer to be varied by increasing such gradient in the upper portion of such drain or sewer and by reducing it in the remaining portions.\n\n16. Whenever the gradient of any portion of a covered drain or sewer is less than 1 in 30, the Building Authority may require an automatic flush tank or any other suitable contrivance for attaining an effective flush to be provided to his satisfaction.\n\n17. No drain or sewer shall be so constructed as to pass under any domestic building except when any other mode of construction is impracticable. Any drain or sewer passing under a building shall be of cast-iron pipes coated inside with Dr. Angus Smith's patent composition, or of other material approved by the Building Authority, and all such pipes shall be of a quality to be approved by the Building Authority, and the joints shall be properly caulked and run with lead, and (unless the written permission of the Building Authority has first been obtained to lay the drain or sewer otherwise) shall be laid in one straight line for the whole distance beneath such building, and shall be imbedded and encased throughout its entire length in four inches of concrete as specified in regulation No. 10 of these regulations.\n\n18. Whenever a covered drain or sewer traverses soft or yielding ground, or when water may make its appearance in the trench, the drain or sewer shall be surrounded throughout its entire length with not less than four inches of concrete as specified in regulation No. 10 of these regulations.\n\n93",
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        "content_text": "## Veterinary staff\n| County | Whole-time | Part-time | Frequency of inspection | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Yorks., N.R. | 3 |  | Twice | No routine inspection under tuberculosis order of 1925. Inspections made under milk and dairies order. |\n| Yorks., W.R. | 1 chief, 8 assistants |  | Great majority twice a year, minority four times a year |  |\n| Anglesey |  | 1 | Yearly | No routine veterinary inspection of dairy cattle. |\n| Brecknock | Nil | Nil | Nil | No routine veterinary inspection of dairy cattle. |\n| Cardigan | Nil | Nil | Nil | No routine veterinary inspection of dairy cattle. |\n| Carmarthen |  |  |  | Mr. A. J. Cattell, M.R.C.V.S., has concentrated on tuberculosis inspections during the past two years. Local veterinary inspectors employed to deal with cases when reported by owner or through contaminated milk. All dairy stock on farms inspected as contacts to suspected case. |\n| Carnarvon |  |  |  | Local authority contemplating the appointment of whole-time veterinary inspector, to enable them to arrange routine inspection of dairy cattle. |\n| Denbigh |  |  |  | No routine veterinary inspection of dairy cattle. |\n| Flint |  |  |  | No routine veterinary inspection of dairy cattle. |\n| Glamorgan |  |  | Yearly | One chief veterinary inspector and two assistants employed. Only able to inspect all dairy stock once a year. Farms reporting visited |\n| Merioneth | Nil | Nil | Nil | No routine veterinary inspection of dairy cattle. |\n| Monmouth |  |  |  | No routine veterinary inspection of dairy cattle. |\n| Montgomery | Nil | Nil | Nil | No routine veterinary inspection of dairy cattle. |\n| Pembroke | Nil | Nil | Nil |  |\n| Radnor | Nil | Nil | Nil |  |\n| Aberdeen |  | 11 |  |  |\n| Angus |  | 4 | Once a year. In burghs once per month. In landward portion of county, quarterly. |  |\n| Argyll |  | 1 | One per year in Mull and Lorn district and two in other three districts. |  |\n| Ayr |  | 5 | In burghs, four times per annum. In landward areas, three times per annum, unregistered, two per annum. | Over 1,400 dairies in the county. |\n| Burgh of Ayr (no dairies) |  |  |  |  |\n| Burgh of Kilmarnock | 1 | ++ |  |  |\n| Banff |  | 1 | Quarterly (two dairies only). Approximately three visits per year. |  |\n| Berwick... |  | 5 | Three times a year for registered dairies. Once a year for other premises where cattle are kept. | Local veterinary inspectors employed to deal with cases when reported by owner or through contaminated milk. All dairy stock on farms inspected as contacts to suspected case. So far the staff have not managed to get all herds done twice in the year; the number not done twice is about equal to the number of herds done three times or more. |\n| Bute | 2 |  | Four inspections per year. Three times per annum for registered herds. Once per annum for unregistered herds. | Local authority contemplating the appointment of whole-time veterinary inspector to enable them to arrange routine inspection of dairy cattle. |\n| Caithness | 1 |  |  |  |\n| Clackmannan | 1 |  |  |  |\n\nPage 80\nPage 81",
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        "content_text": "# \n## County \n| County | Landward area | Burghs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Angus | ... |  |\n| Argyll | ... |  |\n| Ayr |  |  |\n| Banff |  |  |\n| Berwick |  | ... |\n| Bute |  |  |\n| Caithness |  | ... |\n| Clackmannan |  |  |\n| Dumfries |  | 1-4 |\n| Dumbarton | 4 | 4 |\n| East Lothian |  |  |\n| Fife | 33 | 2-12 |\n| Inverness |  |  |\n| Kincardine |  |  |\n| Kirkcudbright |  |  |\n| Lanark | 3 | 3-12 |\n| Midlothian |  | 4-12 |\n| Moray and Nairn | 3-4 | 3-4 |\n| Orkney | 1 | 2-12 |\n| Peebles | 21 | 3 |\n| Perth and Kinross |  |  |\n| Renfrew |  |  |\n| Ross and Cromarty | 2-4 | 2-4 |\n| Roxburgh | 2-4 | 1-12 |\n| Selkirk |  |  |\n| Stirling |  |  |\n| Sutherland | 2 | 2 |\n| West Lothian |  |  |\n| Wigtown | 24 | 1-4 |\n| Zetland | 3 | 3-4 |\n\n## Minimum number per annum \n| County | Landward area | Burghs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Moray and Nairn | 3-4 | 3-4 |\n| Orkney | 1 | 4 |\n| Peebles | 3 | 3 |\n| Perth and Kinross |  | 4 |\n| Renfrew |  | 3 |\n| Ross and Cromarty | 2-4 | :: |\n| Roxburgh | 2-4 | :: |\n| Selkirk |  |  |\n| Stirling |  |  |\n| Sutherland | 2 | 2 |\n| West Lothian |  |  |\n| Wigtown | 24 | ... |\n| Zetland | 3 | 24 | \n## \nPage 141 \nPage 147 \nPage 148",
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        "content_text": "## (b) Human and cow population and rateable value by counties in Scotland.\n\n(a) Exclusive of large burghs. (b) Inclusive of large burghs.\n\n| County or county borough. | Population in 1931. | Rateable value on 1st April, 1930, for general county purposes | Rateable value per head. | Number of cows in milk or in calf and heifers in milk, 4th June, 1931. | Rateable value per cow. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **ENGLAND-Continued.** |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Worcester (A.C. and C.B.'s) | 420,156 | 1,569.5 | 4.4 | 25,776 | 72.0-3 |\n| Yorks., East Riding (A.C.) | 169,692 | 313,366 | 1,837.5 | 4.2 | 24,864* | 29 |\n| Kingston-upon-Hull (C.B.) | 313,366 | 1,569.5 | 5.0 | - | - |\n| Yorks., East Riding (A.C. and C.B.) | 483,058 | 2,289.8 | 4.7 | 330,900 | 1,488.2 | 4.5 |\n| Yorks., North Riding (A.C.) | 138,489 | 604.8 | 4.4 | 24,864 | 92 |\n| Middlesbrough (C.B.) | 138,489 | 604.8 | 4.4 | 53,944* | 28 | 4.4 |\n| Yorks, North Riding (A.C. and C.B.) | 469,389 | 2,093.0 | 4.5 | 53,944 | 39 |\n| Yorks., West Riding (A.C.) | 1,530,110 | 6,829.0 | 4.5 | 120,208* | 57 |\n| Barnsley (C.B.) | 71,522 | 307.2 | 4.3 | - | - |\n| Bradford (C.B.) | 298,041 | 2,285.4 | 7.7 | - | - |\n| Dewsbury (C.B.) | 51,303 | 287.5 | 5.3 | - | - |\n| Doncaster (C.B.) |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Halifax (C.B.) |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Huddersfield (C.B.) | 145,594 | 642.3 | 4.4 | 40,335 | 16 |\n| Leeds (C.B.) | 312,853 | 2,009.3 | 6.4 | 50 | - |\n| Rotherham (C.B.) | 76,970 | 458.5 | 6.0 | 10,797 | 42 |\n| Sheffield (C.B.) | 511,742 | 2,667.3 | 5.2 | - | - |\n| Wakefield (C.B.) | 59,115 | 334.8 | 5.7 | - | - |\n| **SCOTLAND.** |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Aberdeen (a) | 270,190 | 1,999.4 | 7.4 | 185 | - |\n| Aberdeen (b) | 63,014 | 405.6 | 6.4 | 18,323 | 22 |\n| Angus (a) | 210,299 | 1,193.8 | 5.7 | 48,013 | 25 |\n| Angus (b) | 285,182 | 1,792.6 | 6.3 | 37 | - |\n| Argyll | 54,835 | 190.5 | 3.5 | 11,708 | 16 |\n| Ayr (a) | 26,601 | 123.8 | 4.7 | 4,583 | 27 |\n| Ayr (b) | 18,822 | 192.5 | 10.2 | 2,962 | 65 |\n| Banff | 25,656 | 86.8 | 3.4 | 6,405 | 14 |\n| Berwick | 63,308 | 440.5 | 7.0 | - | - |\n| Bute | - | - | - | - | - |\n| Caithness | - | - | - | - | - |\n| Clackmannan | 31,947 | 181.1 | 5.7 | 1,428 | 127 |\n| Dumbarton (a) | 98,122 | 548.1 | 5.6 | - | - |\n| Dumbarton (b) | 79,242 | 482,789 | - | - | - |\n| Dumfries (a) | 113,467 | 764.9 | 6.7 | 21,807 | 13 |\n| Dumfries (b) | 147,751 | 1,061.2 | 7.2 | 6,412 | 166 |\n| East Lothian | 58,265 | 284.9 | 4.9 | 21 | - |\n| Fife (a) | 47,369 | 325.5 | 5.9 | 2,705 | 120 |\n| Fife (b) | 197,433 | 1,184.3 | 6.0 | 12,543 | - |\n| Inverness (a) | 276,261 | 1,739.2 | 6.3 | - | - |\n| Inverness (b) | 59,500 | 230.6 | 3.9 | 18,251 | 13 |\n| Kincardine | 82,082 | 411.2 | 5.0 | 94 | 139 |\n| Kinross | 27,441 | 161.7 | 6.0 | 6,229 | 26 |\n| Kirkcudbright | 7,454 | 48.0 | 6.4 | 1,490 | 32 |\n| Lanark (a) | 30,341 | 154.7 | 5.1 | 18,260 | 8 |\n| Lanark (b) | 300,813 | 1,803.1 | 6.0 | 34,000 | 53 |\n| Midlothian (a) | 1,585,968 | 13,853.7 | 8.7 | 407 | - |\n| Midlothian (b) | 87,279 | 500.1 | 5.7 | 8,154 | 61 |\n| Moray | 526,277 | 5,671.9 | 10.8 | 696 | - |\n| Nairn | 40,805 | 222.4 | 5.5 | 6,346 | 35 |\n| Orkney | 8,294 | 48.4 | 5.8 | 2,107 | 23 |\n| Perth (a) | 22,075 | 45.3 | 2.1 | 10,622 | 4 |\n| Perth (b) | 85,965 | 635.5 | 7.4 | 16,719 | 38 |\n| Renfrew (a) | 120,772 | 950.6 | 7.9 | 57 | - |\n| Renfrew (b) | 103,606 | 833.3 | 8.0 | 12,865 | 65 |\n| Ross and Cromarty | 288,575 | 2,105.3 | 7.3 | 164 | - |\n| Roxburgh | 62,802 | 199.3 | 3.2 | 15,879 | 13 |\n| Selkirk | 45,787 | 286.3 | 6.3 | 5,791 | 49 |\n| Stirling (a) | 22,608 | 162.8 | 7.2 | 1,206 | 135 |\n| Stirling (b) | 107,289 | 640.5 | 6.0 | 10,460 | 61 |\n| Sutherland | 166,447 | 1,057.1 | 6.3 | 101 | - |\n| West Lothian | 16,100 | 74.2 | 4.6 | 4,138 | 18 |\n| Wigtown | 81,426 | 406.6 | 5.0 | 4,825 | 84 |\n| Zetland | 29,299 | 120.9 | 4.1 | 5 | - |\n|  | 21,410 | 42.8 | 2.0 | 4,895 | 9 |\n| **Total, England and Wales Administrative Counties (excluding London)** | 22,243,538 | 117,034.0 | 5.3 | 2,364,797* | 49 |\n| **County of London** |  |  |  |  |  |\n| **County Boroughs** |  |  |  |  |  |\n| **Total** | 4,396,821 | 55,447.0 | 12.6 | 13,307,572 | 85,187.4 | 6.4 |\n|  | 39,947,931 | 257,668.4 |  |  |  |\n| **Scotland (exclusive of large burghs)...** | 2,211,391 | 12,658.9 | 5.7 | 397,938 | 32 |\n| **Scotland (inclusive of large burghs)...** | 4,842,554 | 36,749.1 | 7.6 | 92 | - |\n\n*Including cows in associated county boroughs. +Including cows in the county of London.\n\n`1244/545 1500 5/34 F.O.P. 10053 Gp. 340`",
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        "document_key": "CO129-563-12 Sino-Japanese War- evacuation of refugees from China 15-8-1937 - 4-1-1938",
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        "content_text": "## DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE\nJarmain (71 and.) 1/1/37\n\n22/xa we reply. (71) 6 70\n\nCan't copy alter P. Reyes\n\nWe imply anything that the So & Sim not get amon A the decucin andus hands that his request indeer cousin, develo Ne is stin that / um mune AS as it is communicated to this Defeb.\n\nMhant. 27-X ah f_ To W.\n\n43. F.OF8683/9/10 2·11·37. 309.34 m Tokyo ded. 494 of 30 residents from Formosa. evacuation 74 Gor. Tel. 265 of 3·11·37 69 anso. Gives numbers of refugees.\n\n73. interesting. Para 3\n\n74. 7 the enclosure ? Put by. à 7.0.Of. ? copy of 7.0. ef. P. Roye 3/X11",
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        "content_text": "Sir,\n\nGR1178/1856/21\n\nTaipo, 19th July 1856.\n\nI have the honor to request that you will obtain for His Excellency the Governor's sanction to the filling in of a distance of 250 feet in front of Marine Lots Nos. 21 and 22; and trust that the high rents paid for these two lots will be deemed sufficient cause for His Excellency to grant his permission.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) Angus Fletcher.\n\nTrue Copy\n\nThe Honorable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nPage 314\n\nPage 314\n\nPage 314\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 315\n\nPage 315\n\nPage 315",
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        "content_text": "numerous; they numbered 1,819, but the horses numbered only 673, and the sheep 728. In 1889 the pigs exhibited numbered only 265, while this year they totalled 911. More striking than anything else perhaps is the fact that whereas no goats were shown in 1889, there were 114 entered for this year's Royal Show. A remarkable contrast between conditions fifty years ago and to-day is in respect of farm equipment. To-day it is more powerful, but more compact. With all the modern developments in agricultural machinery the space devoted to implements this year, although greater than at any show during the past decade, is only 9,294 square feet; whereas in 1889 it was 15,602 square feet.\n\nScience and Agriculture.\n\nEvery recognised British breed of cattle, with the exception of the Gloucestershire, was strongly represented at the Royal Show this year. Dairy Shorthorns had the largest entry, with 253. Other big entries were those of the Jersey cattle, with 222; the British Friesian, with 207; the Guernsey, with 175; the Red Poll, with 160; and the Aberdeen Angus, with 151. For the first time in Great Britain a special inspection class was provided for 2,000 gallon British Friesian cows. The first yield of 2,000 gallons by a British Friesian cow was in 1955, and it is probable that this is the only dairy breed that can fill a class for cows yielding 89 tons of milk.\n\nThese enormous yields of milk are an indication of the great strides that have been made in the application of science to agricultural practice. The Ministry of Agriculture and various scientific and educational institutions gave demonstrations of the scientific progress that has been made. To judge from the sketches of the animals that were shown at Oxford 100 years ago, the improvement achieved by selective breeding is almost beyond belief; while the advance in the use of machinery and tools is little short of miraculous.\n\nAnother contrast which interested visitors was that",
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        "content_text": "## Page 40\nLeling rum по (53) di Ads Craigie this released Comptes de j Vader f now wonts rate be most Just new ما having regard to delicate علمان horses. (State of Anges y Anglo-Japanese relations, Iton. York, while fully appreciating the difficulties caused to the Book of History by the presence of his men in the Colony, the se consider hat i would be in opp whine tö now and release them i present time thată consideration que on the ques question for the moment should be deferred a \n\n## Page 41\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. F 1741/177/10` and address to \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1. \n\nSir,",
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        "content_text": "# SHEET SIX\n\n## Particulars of Husband\n| Rank | Surname |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sgt. | LOBBAN |\n| Major | LOCH |\n| S/Sgt. | LOCK |\n| Sgt. | LOMAX |\n| W.O.I | LORD |\n| W.O.III | LORD |\n| W.O.II | MACKAY |\n| Pte. | MACKENZIE |\n| Major |  |\n| Miss | MAKEL |\n|  | MAPLE |\n| S/Sgt. | MARKEY |\n| W.O.III | MATHIESON |\n| W.O.II | MAXWELL |\n|  | MACPHERSON |\n| Sgt. | MAYNE |\n| S/Sgt. | MCCLAPPERTY |\n| W.O.I | MCCOMBLL |\n| Capt. |  |\n| W.O.II | MCMILLAN |\n|  | MCMURTRY |\n| Sgt. | MCNAIR |\n| W.O.II | MEAD |\n| L/Cpl. | MEEK |\n| Sgt. | MILES |\n| Sgt. | MILLAK |\n| W.O.II | MILNE |\n| W.O.III | MILLS |\n| W.O.II | MILLS |\n| L/Cpl. | MILLS |\n| 3/Sgt. | MILLS |\n| Sgt. | MINIHAN |\n|  | MITCHELL |\n|  | MITCHELL |\n| Lt-Col. | MOFFATT |\n| Major | MOMBER |\n| W.O.II | MORSTON |\n| W.O.I |  |\n| Sgt. | MORRIS |\n|  | MOSE |\n| Major | MOULDING |\n| Sgt. |  |\n| Major | MUNTON |\n|  | MURRAY |\n|  | NELSON |\n|  | NEVE |\n| W.O.II | MUXLOW |\n| W.O.I | NEALE |\n| W.O.II |  |\n| Capt. |  |\n\n## Particulars of Children\n| Full Christian Names of Wife | Name | Date of Birth |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Mary | Lily | 17/3/31 |\n|  | Richard | 22/4/34 |\n|  | Margaret | 13/3/36 |\n| Shirley Ellen | Ada |  |\n|  | Peter | 11/6/36 |\n|  | Kathleen | 18/4/39 |\n| Jessie | William | 26/5/34 |\n| May Margaret Dorothy |  |  |\n| Agness | Donald Wm. | 14/7/34 |\n|  | Ian | 23/9/32 |\n|  | Finlay | 19/10/37 |\n|  | Alexander | 5/2/32 |\n|  | Donald | 3/5/33 |\n|  | Kenneth | 17/7/34 |\n|  | Marion | 1/5/36 |\n| Marjorie |  |  |\n| Gladys Irene Olive E. (Nurse) | Malcolm James | 12/5/39 |\n|  | Peter John | 17/1/35 |\n|  | Sylvia Anne | 22/1/38 |\n| Bridget | Rose |  |\n|  | Catherine | 4/9/36 |\n|  | John | 3/11/37 |\n|  | Helen |  |\n| Florence | William I. | 19/8/26 |\n|  | Jean | 15/4/32 |\n|  | Henry | 24/8/39 |\n| Marion |  |  |\n| Blanche | Thomas | 6/12/25 |\n|  | Mary E. | 3/5/27 |\n|  | Patrick | 8/6/32 |\n|  | Michael | 27/2/38 |\n| Viola Barkley Mary | Robert J.B. | 23/10/39 |\n| Ivy Bowerman | Elizabeth |  |\n|  | Colin B. | 9/7/38 |\n| Margaret | Doris |  |\n|  | Josephine | 19/5/35 |\n|  | Sylvia | 9/2/36 |\n| Nesta Daphne Winifred |  |  |\n| Jemima | Margaret |  |\n|  | Davidina | 7/6/39 |\n|  | Janet | 18/7/39 |\n|  | Agnus | 24/5/29 |\n| Hilda | James | 13/4/32 |\n| Marion | Morag | 7/10/31 |\n| Miriam |  |  |\n| Ellen | Michael | 15/7/30 |\n| Edith Caroline | Derrick | 21/10/32 |\n|  | Audrey | 16/12/34 |\n| Edna Gurney | Ian A.C. | 26/6/39 |\n| Agnes |  |  |\n| Margaret Elizabeth | Gillian | 18/7/33 |\n|  | Isubel | 22/11/36 |\n| Dorothy | Jean | 6/10/31 |\n|  | Alan | 16/1/33 |\n| Lisa | Beatrice |  |\n|  | Brian | 14/9/33 |\n| Gillian |  |  |\n| Marjorie Beryl | David G. | 29/8/29 |\n|  | Saran H. | 14/5/35 |\n| Kate Beatrice | Helen Neste |  |\n|  | John 0. | 9/5/39 |\n|  | Barvara N. | 9/5/39 |\n| Violet Odenia |  |  |\n| Doris |  |  |\n| Mary Alice |  |  |\n| Fannie Elizabeth | Elizabeth M.A. | 12/4/32 |\n|  | Elisia D. B. |  |\n|  | Clifford, C. |  |\n|  | Peter T. | 13/8/36 |\n|  | Richard W. | 12/3/36 |\n|  | Avril M. | 25/8/31 |\n|  |  | 9/4/34 |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-22 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 19-1-1943 - 20-11-1943",
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        "content_text": "# \n160- \n\npublic health work in Hong Kong themselves. After the war Selwyn-Clarke took on the job of scavenging in order not to be interned, but, as he said, to be able to work for the people and the prisoners. With the exception of Aokie, the Japanese used all the doctors who stayed out purely as scavengers. In Kowloon, for instance, garbage was allowed to pile up in the streets for about one month. The Yeumati shelter had been blocked up by the British during hostilities and none of the ships could get out, and the place became like a cesspool, for night soil was poured down the manholes instead of being properly disposed of.\n\nA man named Fang, formerly MacLeod's clerk, is now an upholder of the New Order. He suggested that Hooper's clerk should become the Chief Inspector in Hong Kong.\n\n## Hospital\n\nCourt, Griffiths, and Nicholarn are all in the French Hospital, where there is very bad feeling. Griffiths had beri-beri and hates Selwyn Clarke. Court's refusal to come out may have been due to the very bad reaction over Stott's escape. It was said that on account of Stott's escape the Japanese clamped down on communication with Stanley, and stopped the inflow of goods. Dr. Fehily did not think that Court had given any parole. Nicholson assured ... that he did not get away with the Americans. Bunje wanted to get out and was free as a Eurasian. Some time ago he was about to apply for a permit to go to Kwang Chow Wan. At that time his chauffeur asked him to give a certificate saying that he, the chauffeur, had acted as a volunteer driver during the war and when Bunje refused he went to the Japanese and said that Bunje had paid $6,000 and was planning to come out. The Japanese then held Bunje for 48 hours during which time they did not allow him to sleep, but made him run around, chased him with dogs, and beat him with a baseball bat. Bunje was now waiting for his September pass to be renewed, but Dr. Fehily thought it would be necessary to help him out.\n\nDr. Fehily said that Sloss approved of Court going. In Macao, Levcovitch told Dr. Fehily exactly how Court was proposing to escape. (A naturalised Briton who speaks much too freely)\n\nWatson of the Dairy Farm, has been asked to come but the Directors of the Co. had asked him to remain at his post. He is in charge of all the Dairy Farm cattle. After the bankers left, however, he was strictly confined to the Dairy Farm and could not be reached.\n\nLi Hooper told Dr. Fehily in the middle of the crowded Queen's Road that he had been asked to come out, but he said that he was going to wait to do so until Selwyn-Clarke was interned. He had asked for an address with which to communicate. He is now in the Hong Kong disinfecting station.\n\nSelwyn-Clarke is surrounded by puppets and traitors and is expected to be interned at any moment. He is not allowed to speak on the phone, has to go straight from the French Hospital to his office, and is watched all the time. He is suspected by the Japanese of being the head of the British Secret Service and everybody taken by the gendarmes is closely questioned about him. He retains his freedom through his friendship with Colonel Uguchi.\n\n## Verdue\n\nDr. Fehily suggested that Perdue could come out of the camp on the basis of his Irish nationality and take over Hong Kong between ... and in reconstruction(!). It is said that Perdue has become very depressed and inactive, but Sloss thought that if he was given encouragement his mental attitude would change again.\n\n## Major Manners\n\nwas also recommended by Dr. Fehily, especially on account of his performance during the war in Kowloon.\n\nDr. Fehily did not think that outside people knew of this organisation. But he said that Hooper must not be used for messages. He did not think that Angus would do this work. He said that anybody asking for passes was immediately closely watched.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
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        "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
        "content_text": "101\n\nVisitors, if there were several others waiting to see him, his secretary told me this, and never to wait. Little courtesies and kindnesses like this did a lot to make me feel better in very trying times. There was nothing specially personal about it; I never saw him except in his office and had no social contact with him. And yet, he had the most unpleasant temper at times, and became very offensive over the most unexpected things. He wanted me to leave the money I expected to receive, the MF 5,000, at least the residue of what I did not need, for the use of the Blackburns. He was furious with me when I innocently suggested that I might obtain a receipt for it from Sir Arthur so that I could obtain a refund when I reached London.\n\n\"That I go true!!!\"\n\nOn May 9th I find an entry in my diary: \"Heard today with the Americans to U.S.A. on June 20th, can it be true!!!\"\n\nIt did turn out to be true but not as easily as that. I had been turning matters over in my mind some days before, and wondered and wondered when we would be repatriated. The news that the Americans were going made all the rest of us feel, not jealous, but just desperately forlorn and unhappy... forgotten and left. I had not received any money at that time and was terribly worried as to how I would be able to pay for my keep at the French Hospital when the money I still had was gone. Providence must look after us, put thoughts into our heads. I had so often said to Mr. Kimura, and later to Mr. Oda, that I was born in New York and really was entitled to American citizenship. Mr. Oda vehemently denied this and said that for their purposes I was British.\n\n(1) Mr. Oda is reported by Dr. Henry to have complained bitterly of the lack of a similar man for liaison work with the British and stated that he is very much handicapped in his efforts to help the British because of this. Mr. D. C. Davis would seem the most suitable person for the post.\n\nHowever, I resolved to put my case in writing and submit it to Mr. Gibson, who was living at the French Hospital and doing liaison work for the American community at Stanley Prison with the Japanese. His suave personality, common sense, and geniality had accomplished wonders and he was the one person to appeal to. (1) I wrote him my position, saying that I had been born in New York, and lived there all my girlhood, and that my family's history as Americans dated back for many, many generations. I heard nothing for two days and then Mr. Angus stopped in to tell me that Mr. Gibson had asked him to tell me that Mr. Southard had OK'd it and everything was all right. I said, \"Do you really mean to tell me that Mr. Oda has approved it also?\" He said that was no. It seemed too wonderful to be true. To be getting out! Going home! I couldn't believe it.\n\nThe next day, Dr. Court and Dr. Griffiths and Mr. Evans came to lunch with me, and we celebrated the great news. They were so sweet about it, so happy in my happiness. And it was too terribly hard for them; they were all remaining, being British. It is impossible for any one who had not been through what we have suffered to realize how one feels, to see one getting out, and know that you must remain. As Dr. Court said later, \"It is simply lacerating!\" Dr. Henry told me recently that Dr. Court, who is a highly strung man under his quiet self-contained exterior, was very close to suicide when he and the others got there to the French Hospital early in the Spring. Their cheerful company helped him very much, got him out partially at least from the mood of brooding melancholy which seemed to trouble him so much. Dr. Griffiths was in bad shape when we left; he had lost over 50 pounds in weight, had lost 4 pounds the week before, that was the last week in June, and was utterly depressed.\n\nIt was sickening; there was nothing I could say or do to help him the day he came to say goodbye. I was leaving in ten minutes, \"to Go Home.\" It was more than he could bear. I cannot get the memory of him out of my mind.\n\nNow that I was going, they wanted me to take word out, to tell the rest of the world what was happening. We talked until five o'clock that afternoon. They told me so many things that",
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        "document_key": "CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946",
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        "content_text": "C \n\n13811 C.2 \n\non \n\n1. Note by the Gent \n\n·3.11.45 \n\n2 M 13 Seliny Clark eveling wort \n\nby MTD Daque \n\n3 To Me Saluy Clock, \n\nDr. Rae. \n\nMr. Paskin \n\n2 \n\n4.11.45 \n\n3.11.45 \n\nI think you will wish to see this account of the work undertaken by Dr. Selwyn Clarke Director of Medical Services in Hong Kong during the occupation of the Colony. It has been compiled by Mr. F.D. Angus, the accountant in the medical department who became a general assistant to Dr. Selwyn Clarke after the fall of the Colony. This report confirms what we had already believed that the whole of the community of the Colony and internees in Stanley Camp in particular owe a very great debt to Dr. Selwyn Clarke. But for his untiring activities and his persistence in soliciting necessary requirements from the Japanese authorities, the incidence of death and disease would almost certainly have been higher.\n\nI have had a copy of the report registered on Dr. Selwyn Clarke's personal file and I have also sent a copy to Sir John Shuckbrugh in case it is of interest to him in connection with his History of the War.\n\nPerhaps Dr. Rae would very kindly say whether it should be seen by any other department.\n\n17.11.45.\n\nIt is an epic story\n\nwith an amazing price of work\n\nMay thems\n\nt\n\npers mal\n\nMK.\n\nIt is\n\nan epic story\n\nShal\n\nJun.\n\nP.R.O..\n\nbest asim bape shouts re\n\no Telugu Chate has a\n\nvy la amoisha\n\n4.dis\n\nThe Gow cont\n\n55.\n\nDr\n\nbil sular\n\n27/11\n\nOn the direction of the Colonial Secretary, Selwyn-Clarke has now submitted his own account of the work undertaken by himself and his associates during the period of the Japanese Occupation. It is a factual and impersonal statement but even so the epic nature of the story comes through. It is almost incredible that one man could have achieved so much. We should, however, be grateful that there is also the account written by F.D. Angus (2) which adds details that Dr. Selwyn-Clarke has not thought fit to include.",
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        "content_text": "Extract of a letter from Sir Mark Young, Appleshaw House, Compton, near Winchester, to Mr. Gent, dated 18/12/45.\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 13\n\nMany thanks too for the copies of Reports by\n\nSelwyn-Clarke and by Angus which you sent me\n\n- very\n\ninteresting and extremely creditable to S.-C. and his\n\nhelpers.",
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        "content_text": "C.O.\n\nDRAFT AND RECORD COPY\n\n15\n\nREGISTERED No.\n\nLETTER\n\nSENT DRAFT\n\nMR. I. Kuston\n\n12.45\n\nMR.\n\nMR.\n\nTo\n\n54140/1 5/3/1/45\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDOM. DATE: GOD,\n\n3.\n\n15\n\n15 December, 1945\n\nFor Mr. Gent's signature.\n\nDear Young,\n\nI think you would like to have the attached copy of the Report which Selwyn-Clarke has sent me on his work during the occupation.\n\nI have sent copies to Sir G. MucDougall.\n\nENCLOSURES\n\nFURTHER ACTION,\n\n2.5.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(sgd.) E. GENT\n\nI also enclose a Report by Angus of the Medical Dept. which had reached us earlier covering the same ground.\n\nMARK YOUNG,\n\nK.C.M.G.\n\nCompton\n\nAppleshaw House,\n\nNr. Winchester,\n\nHants\n\n12/44 C.O.Ld. 748\n\n41/44) 3693] W1. 43090/394.",
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        "content_text": "-3-\n\n22\n\nIt was necessary, therefore, for me to collect and distribute to some 10-12 hotels, food for children and aged, cooking utensils, cutlery, crockery, blankets, brooms, soap, toilet paper, medicines, etc.\n\n(4) Bread for internees, p.o.w., etc.\n\nAt first, I had voluntary (ex-Army) bakers making bread in the Queen Mary Hospital for internees, prisoners of war, billetees, hospital patients and staff. Later, after the Japanese had converted the Queen Mary Hospital into a Japanese Military Hospital, arrangements had to be made to bake bread in a Chinese bakery at Wanchai.\n\nD.\n\nPlight of non-interned wives, etc.\n\nThe internment of British and other so-called \"enemy\" nationals in the Chinese hotels immediately brought to the front yet another urgent problem.\n\nThe Japanese barred the majority of Chinese, Eurasian and Portuguese wives from accompanying their husbands into captivity. It went to one's heart to see a mother, with a baby in her arms and leading another child by the hand, standing in the street outside one of the hotels, deprived of the protection and support of her husband, and not infrequently, homeless and without food.\n\nE.\n\nJapanese opposition to Red Cross.\n\nWhen pressed to permit the organisation of the International Red Cross to meet the situation consequent upon the surrender, the Japanese Commander gave a verbal reply that the time was not considered opportune. In an endeavour to overcome this obstacle, I called together the neutral consular representatives who courageously consented to form a Red Cross Committee if this was permitted by the Japanese. This move was soon countered by the abolition of all consuls (including the Japanese Consulate staff who had been most helpful!). I tried once more, describing the neutral consuls by name and others as members of a prospective relief committee, but omitting any reference to the Red Cross.\n\nF.\n\nH.K. Informal Welfare Committee.\n\nOn the 16th March, 1942, I received a written reply to my request to say that I could organise an informal committee, but that I was forbidden to communicate with or raise funds from outside the Captured Territory of Hong Kong.\n\n(2) Membership of Committee.\n\nThe members of this Committee were: Mr. A.W. Gibson (U.S.A., Representative of V.O.C. in the Far East), Dr. G. Henry (U.S.A., formerly Chairman of Red Cross in Canton), Mr. E. Pawley (U.S.A. China Representative of Aviation Co.), Mr. F.D. Angus (British, Accountant Medical Department), with myself as Chairman.\n\n(3) First duty of committee.\n\nOne of the first duties of this committee was to endeavour to assist the non-interned wives, children and dependants of prisoners of war and interned civilians by finding accommodation, by small allowances and gifts of food, etc.\n\nG.",
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        "content_text": "they attended to receive their monthly allowances. They could then use these tinned goods for their relatives.\n\nMedical arrangements for wives and dependants of internees and prisoners of war comprised a visiting and dispensary doctor in Kowloon (Dr. J.J. Hua, Kwong Wah Hospital), Drs. Lai, Vargassoff, and myself for sick and hospitalised patients on the Island side of the harbour. Drs. Kenneth Chaun and Luk acted as dental surgeons and Drs. S.N. Chau and A. Mahan Singh as ophthalmologists.\n\nDr. T.P. Wu assisted me with tuberculous patients, including those admitted to the two tuberculosis wards at St. Paul's Hospital.\n\nHospitalisation of aged and infirm British.\n\nI had selected St. Paul's Hospital originally to accommodate a number of aged and infirm British and American nationals who would otherwise have taken up valuable bed-space in Tweed Bay Hospital, Stanley Camp. St. Paul's Hospital also served as temporary accommodation for patients brought out by my ambulance from Stanley for X-ray or other special examination not available in Stanley.\n\nBefore the Japanese forbade any further transfers (March, 1943) over 200 patients had been brought from Stanley to St. Paul's Hospital for longer or shorter periods. The arrangements provided me with a very satisfactory excuse to make contact with the Hon. Mr. F.C. Gimson (Chairman of the Camp), to seek his advice on financial and other matters, and to ascertain the most urgent needs of Stanley Camp.\n\nInformal Welfare Committee store for Camps.\n\nHaving St. Paul's Hospital as my headquarters, I was able to maintain store accommodation where foodstuffs, clothing, medical, etc., could be collected in very considerable quantities for dispersal to the camps without incurring the suspicion of the Japanese authorities.\n\nStore closed following arrest.\n\nShortly after my arrest on the 2nd May, 1943, and my wife's transfer from St. Paul's Hospital to Stanley Camp, the hospital authorities made it difficult for the store service to continue. Dr. P.C. Lai and Miss Helen Ho whom I had left in charge were obliged to make other arrangements and to curtail the service considerably.\n\nNeeds of general community.\n\nLest the foregoing should give the impression that medical and welfare work was restricted to the Military hospital, the military and civilian internment camps and to wives and families of prisoners of war and internees, it should, perhaps, be made clear that I did my best to serve the non-interned community too.\n\nFrom the end of February, 1942, my European staff was reduced to the Malariologist (Dr. J.B. Mackie), a Health officer (Dr. G. Graham-Cumming), a surgeon (Dr. P.F.S. Court), the Accountant (Mr. F.D. Angus), the Chief Inspector (Mr. G.I. Hooper) and the five Sanitary Inspectors (Messrs. Sinton, Kerrison for sea transport, Mr. Macey for land transport, Mr. Warburton for collection and burial of dead, and Fox to supervise town cleansing operations).\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "35\n\nAmounts owed to Dr. Selwyn-Clarke\n\nCash sent to P.O.W. (No.4 Account) HK$31,760.00\n\nDestitutes Account (No.7 Account)\n\n763.80\n\nFinally, I should like to add that complete records of all the above accounts, except No.4, were left hidden in the roof of one of the buildings in the French Convent. Unfortunately, the building was hit by a bomb which destroyed the records.\n\nMr. S.W. Perry of the Hong Kong Bank acted as Auditor and will, I am sure, be willing to certify that the accounts were properly kept.\n\n19th September, 1945.\n\nF.D. Angus.\n\nAccountant, Medical Department.",
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        "content_text": "Mrs Selwyn-Clarke 12/11/45\n\nVerified in 100\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n5th November, 1945.\n\nDear Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke,\n\nThank you for sending me the report of Angus which we will treat with great care seeing its romantic history.\n\nI am having copies made of it as I have so far not discovered whether Mr. Gimson has left a copy in the Office.\n\nAs soon as the copying is complete I will ask Miss Gale to send it back to you.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(sgd.) G.E.J. Gent.\n\nMrs J.L. Selwyn-Clarke.",
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        "content_text": "Petersfield\n\n37\n\n9% Mox A. Melville\n\nHither North field. I Steep. Petersfild\n\nHanks\n\nDear for bent,\n\n4th Nov.\n\nThank you very much for your kind receipt of Thursday:\n\n45\n\nmuch report compiled by Mr Frank Angus, formerly the Accountant of the Medical Department, I had left here. As I did not return from Horsham until last night, I would not forward it to you by today's mail.\n\nMr Angus wrote this report on his own initiative immediately after we were interned in May 1943. It had to be buried in a bottle so it is not in a tidy condition. I must apologise for this.",
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        "content_text": "No 2 typewriter here or I would have 1-typed it for you.\n\n46 Jahustand has not read this. It could not be dug up until after the surrender, when he was much too busy to deal with it. Secondly, I felt quite certain he would destroy it. Both Dr Angus & myself, who had worked with him during the sixteen months, wished to preserve the only existing record of his work. Dr Angus is a hero-worshipper & that accounts for the personal note in the report, but the facts are correct!\n\nI hope it will be possible for husband to enter a hospital after he has reported to you.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nHilda Schojn-Clarke",
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        "content_text": "59\n\nhe never failed to rise at 6.30 a.m. daily, leave for the office before 8 a.m. work without a break until 8 p.m., and after a short period off for dinner, continue with his hospital rounds until late at night. In addition he was called up on many occasions during the night and I have so often wondered how he could stand so much strain under such appalling conditions. The many trials, tribulations and humiliations he has undergone for the sake of others have without question had telling effect on his own health. No one man could have done more for the welfare of a community so much in need, a community which, for the time being anyway, will have to exist without his help. Just prior to my own internment one person asked the question \"What will we do now when in difficulty?\". This question has no doubt been put by many others.\n\nDate 1st July, 1943\n\nF.D. Angus.",
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        "content_text": "Miss Ruston \n\n60% \n\nEND \n\nI had a visit on the 1st of November from Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke, wife of the Director of Medical Services, Hong Kong. She has been released from internment in Hong Kong with her small daughter, and her present address is c/o Mrs. Melville, Hither Northfield, Steep, Petersfield, Hants.\n\nMrs. Selwyn-Clarke referred to a report by Mr. Angus on the Medical Administration in Hong Kong from December (Christmas Day) 1941 to May 1943, on which latter date her husband and his medical assistants were imprisoned by the Japanese. She told me that Mr. Gimson had a copy which he was going to give to the C.O. and enquired whether we had received it. Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke herself also has a copy and if desired will send it to us should we care to take a copy.\n\nSe Gant. 3. 11. 45.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-593-4 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 27-10-1946 - 30-1-1947",
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        "content_text": "8 \n\nhas said that the Report must remain confidential for the time being. I assume that this would not exclude the issue of the Report confidentially to those responsible bodies on the same basis that it has been issued to bodies in this country who have the relevant interest in the University. we would, I think, first wish to consult the Governor and I wonder whether, for this purpose, Mr. Lloyd would be prepared to write semi-officially to Sir M. Young. I submit a draft letter for \n\nconson. \n\nBut \n\nFinally Mr. Sloss suggests that a copy of the Report might go to Dr. Han Lih-wu. The Chinese Vice-Minister of Education was most helpful during the war when so many Hong Kong students were refugees in China but there will no doubt be agreement that it would be premature at this stage to suggest to the F.0. that a copy might be sent to him. \n\n(95) to (97) put by. \n\nIn (98) Mr. Sloss discussed the project in the recommendations of the Scarborough Report that is most likely to affect the proposals for Hong Kong University, namely the establishment in Peking of an English speaking research institute. Mr. Sloss supports this proposal and maintains that there is need and scope for both institutions and that they would supplement each other. He points out that Peking and Hong Kong are 12,000 miles apart and that there are considerable differences between North and South China. Mr. Cox has reported that the Foreign Office are inclined to think that approval of the Peking proposal would make the recommendations for establishing Hong Kong University on a larger scale than is required for Colonial needs redundant. Or at any rate that the Treasury are unlikely to agree to finance both schemes and that their preference is for the Peking scheme. \n\nAs there has been nothing from the Foreign Office since the bare acknowledgment of the 28th October of the Secretary of State's letter (91) I suggest that a letter might now go to the Foreign Office saying that at the time that the Secretary of State wrote to Mr. Bevin (85) the Scarborough Report had not been read by those concerned with the Report on Hong Kong University; that it is recognised that the Scarborough Report recognises the same need for the representation in China of British Culture and Scholarship; that for this purpose Hong Kong University presents an existing and non-Governmental institution already in being and in respect of which detailed plans have already been worked out; that nevertheless it may be considered that in view of the distances between Peking and Hong Kong and the differences in character between North and South China that there is ample room for both institutions. We should go on to say that as it has not been felt possible by the University Authorities to re-open the University until a decision on the Committee's Report has been taken and that as the consequent delay is liable to unfortunate misrepresentation in Hong Kong, it is very much to be hoped that the Foreign Secretary will be able to authorise his Department to work out with the C.0. a joint approach to the Treasury as suggested in Mr. Creech Jones' letter of the 24th October. \n\nPage \n\nI have put up a draft for conson on these lines. \n\nA copy of the Scarborough Report is attached. The proposal in regard to the Peking Institute is referred to in paragraph 53 and in Subsection (7)(iii) of paragraph 115 and in more detail in paragraphs 26 to 28 of section C of Appendix 1. These three references are flagged. At a meeting at which Sir A. Dawe presided to determine the Colonial Office attitude to this Report, it was decided, I think, that recommendations for the establishment of English speaking institutes should be supported with the rider that where appropriate Colonial Universities existed they should be used. I have not yet seen the minutes of this meeting but it will be well to refer to any letter sent to the F.0. as a result on the Scarborough Report in this reminder about the Hong Kong Report. \n\n(99) is the subject of Mr. Lloyd's minute above and covers the same two points of further distribution of the Committee's Report and relevance of the recommendations of the Scarborough Report. \n\nHocke \n\n11th December, 1946. \n\nPage \n\n100 \n\nCons of Colonial Office to this effect. \n\n101 \n\nF.O.(45499/4999/452) \n\n102 \n\nExtract from F.O letter \n\n20.12.46 \n\nThis file returned to me on 15th January. \n\nIn their letter at 101 the Foreign Office qualify their support for our proposals for the re-establishment of Hong Kong University to the extent of apparently regarding the Scarborough Commission's recommendation for the establishment of a centre in Peking and the British Council's work in China as of prior importance. They stipulate that any grant to the University from Imperial funds should be without prejudice to the financial requirements of these two objectives. This is the more curious in that the telegram from the Ambassador in Nanking of 14th December which is enclosed with 101 strongly supports our proposals for Hong Kong. In the Ambassador's view expenditure on British Council activities should be complementary and not in opposition to expenditure on the University. \n\nThe last paragraph of the Ambassador's telegram is somewhat cryptic without knowledge of the Foreign Office telegram to which it refers. Professor P.M. Roxby is the well-known geographer and the Chief Representative of the British Council in China. I have attached at 100 a copy of his letter referred to by the Ambassador from which it will be seen that the Professor is wholeheartedly in favour of the view that Hong Kong University should cater for the needs of China. He goes so far as to say that \"whatever the future activities of the British Council in China, it is probably true to say that Hong Kong University is potentially the largest single cultural contribution to China's reconstruction which Great Britain is capable of contributing.\" I gather from letters from Hong Kong that Sir Angus Gillan, during his recent visit there, also expressed general agreement with this view. It would seem therefore that we have the British Council with us rather than in competition. \n\nPage 9 \n\nAs to the Scarborough Commission's recommendation for the establishment of an English-speaking research institute at Peking, while expressing our general agreement with the recommendations of the Scarborough Report we have said (in our letter to the Foreign Office of 11th January on 12062) that we would like to consider this particular project further. I have put a copy of the Scarborough Report in the back of the file and the three passages referring to the Peking project are flagged and marked. An extract from our letter to the Foreign Office of 11th January is at 102 and I have asked for a copy of the full letter. Mr. Sloss' view on this project is given in his letter at 98 (typed copy behind) in which he states that he is strongly in favour of it. It might be worth sending a copy of this letter to the Foreign Office at the official level. Mr. Sloss believes that there is ample room and need for both an institute at Peking and the revived University in Hong Kong which would aim not only at sinological research but also at the wider range of studies in the arts, sciences and professional subjects envisaged in the Advisory Committee's Report. In replying to the Foreign Office, I suggest that we might also make the point that while the Peking project is no doubt admirable it is at present no more than a proposal in broad form. But the University is an existing institution (although not at the moment functioning) and plans for its future have been worked out in detail. \n\nIn the last paragraph of the Foreign Office letter at 101 the suggestion is made that any public announcement about the University should await a decision on the general question of the future of Hong Kong. \n\nI think we should resist this. The delay in making any announcement about the University with the increasing doubt as to whether it is intended to re-open it at all or at any rate to re-open it on an improved basis is liable to unfortunate interpretation in Hong Kong and elsewhere. It is generally known that a Committee has been advising on plans for its future and although the Report has remained confidential I think it is equally known there are recommendations for its revival on an enlarged basis. Some announcement is therefore, I suggest, a matter of urgency and should be considered irrespective of any announcement about the general question of Hong Kong. Indeed if for reasons of policy that general announcement is not made a statement about the University will go some way towards restoring confidence in our intentions. \n\nThis concern as to the future of the University finds expression in this country and is reflected \n\nPage 10 \n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "## APPENDIX II continued\n\n| Appointment | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| Director, Royal Observatory | G.S.P. Heywood |\n| Computor, Royal Observatory | Chiu Ip Fong |\n| Director, Air Services | A.J.R. Moss |\n| Acting Colonial Secretary | R.R. Todd |\n| Assistant Master, Education Department | M.A. Khan |\n| S.C.& A.S. Class I. (Supplies Trade & Industry) | H.A. Angus, I.B.E. |\n| S.C.& A.S. Class I. (Stores Department) | J. Hargreaves |\n| S.C.& A.S. Class II. (Imports & Exports Department) | R. Bates |\n| Stenographer, Police Department | Miss M. Smalley |\n| Stenographer, Colonial Secretariat | Mrs. A. Vanthall |\n| Cypher Assistant, Colonial Secretariat | Miss H. Lammert |\n| S.C.& A.S. Class I. - Local Section | G.S. Edwards |\n| S.C.& A.S. Class II. Local Section. (Waterworks Office) | N. Broadbridge |\n| J.C.S. Class III. (Labour Office) | Tam Kam Wai |\n| J.C.S. Class II. (Police Department) | Young Hin |\n| J.C.S. Class III. Police Department | Ku Hsi Sung |\n\nEvidence on \n- Royal Observatory\n- Computors, Royal Observatory\n- Air Services\n- Secretariat for Chinese Affairs\n- Indian Officers\n- Senior Clerical & Accounting Staff\n- Stenographers\n- Married Stenographers\n- Cypher Assistants\n- Senior Clerical & Accounting Staff, - Local Section (Supreme Court)\n- Junior Clerical & Accounting Staff",
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        "document_key": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947",
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        "content_text": "£7\n\nThe necessary to consult some of the Geographical Departments again as to the territories to which it should be sent.\n\n3.\n\nNo.68 informs us that the Hong Kong Government have instructed their representative, who is at present attached to the Punjab Secretariat for the purpose of paying leave salaries to Indian members of the Hong Kong Police and Prisons Department now in India, to contact those officers and ascertain whether they are willing to return to duty. I see no objection to the detailed arrangements described in the latter part of paragraph 2 of the despatch, since no question of racial discrimination is involved. (It will be recalled that the earlier proposals in No.34B were open to this objection - see paragraph 2 of our reply at No.36) It does, however, strike me that the India Office may be somewhat apprehensive about the arrangements described in the first part of paragraph 2 of the despatch, in view of the Government of India's attitude in No.66. There is not a great deal of difference between the Hong Kong Government sending an officer to India for purposes described (a project to which the Government of India refused to agree) and their using for these purposes an officer of their Administration who happens to be already in India. Nevertheless, I do not see what other course was open to the Hong Kong Government but to contact individually the Indian Police Officers concerned, and the procedure they have adopted was not actually precluded by the terms of No.66.\n\n4.\n\nIn the circumstances I think our best tactics would be simply to send the India Office a copy of No. 68 for their information, without inviting their comment.\n\n5.\n\nAt the same time, if we proceed with the draft savingram, we shall have to bring the same point to the notice of Hong Kong as well, and I suggest this be done as in the draft telegram opposite.\n\n6.\n\nI have also prepared a draft covering letter to the India Office, which is based on the assumption that action on the draft savingram and draft telegram is to proceed. I am sending this minute and the drafts forward through Mr. Acheson in Mr. Mayle's absence on leave.\n\nAngus Walley\n\n20.6.47.",
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        "title": "CO129-611-1 Hong Kong Electric & China Light & Power Company Ltd. 1-12-1945 - 2-5-1947",
        "content_text": "S416/31\n\nDear Cooper,\n\n2024\n\nThis\n\nwait until\n\n54224/46\n\nCivil Affairs Staff (Hong Kong),\n\n28, Grosvenor Street,\n\nLondon, W.1.\n\n16th April, 1946.\n\nto fue algus\n\nfree\n\nI enclose copy of a letter dated 11th April from Mr. Butcher of the Hong Kong Electric Company to King of this unit, on the subject of responsibility for cost of passages of Staff who came to England on rehabilitation leave.\n\nPage 10\n\nThis question was referred to in paras 7 and 8 of a letter from the C.C.A.O. Hong Kong to the Secretary of State, dated 15th January, which read:\n\n#17. With regard to Clause 4, the Hong Kong Electric Company is pressing for some modification of the portion of this Clause which absolves the Administration from responsibility for the payment of personnel who are absent from the Colony on leave. They have represented - and the China Light and Power Company has supported these representations - that it would be reasonable for the Administration to meet the leave expenses of that portion of the staff which would normally be absent under peacetime conditions in the course of a period of six months. They consider that in so doing the Administration would not be paying for duplicate staff. In accepting the agreement as it stands the Companies specially asked that this point should be referred to His Majesty's Government for a decision.\n\n#18.\n\nThe amount involved is not very considerable as the Companies employ some 75 persons with overseas leave privileges. Conditions vary somewhat but such employees receive six or eight months' leave including the voyage period after a tour of four years. It is felt however that the Companies have been treated reasonably and this further concession is not recommended. Not only does it appear to me prima facie unjustifiable but, if made, may easily lead to complications in the negotiation of similar agreements with other public utility companies in the Colony.\n\nI assume that this is a matter with which you will wish to deal and that you will reply to Mr. Butcher.\n\n2\n\nB.L. Cooper, Esq.,\n\nPalace Chambers,\n\n9, Bridge Street, S.W.1.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(W. J. Daniel)",
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        "title": "CO129-611-3 Weekly summaries of press reports and comments 24-12-1946 - 27-9-1947",
        "content_text": "# HONG KONG GOVERNMENT PRESS RELATIONS OFFICE\n\n## To: \n## Date: 24th December, 1946.\n\nOffices: 3/6E, GLOUCESTER ARCADE  \nRef: `PRO/617/3`\n\n## WEEKLY SUMMARY OF HONGKONG PRESS REPORTS AND COMMENTS. December 15 to 21, 1946.\n\n### 1. Chief Internal Events Reported.\n\nThe Shunchun border incident faded out of the papers during the week, apart from the reporting of the funeral of the victim.\n\nThe \"Kung Sheung Daily News\" reported that the Government rice retailers had formed an associated office for the purpose of facilitating rationing work and to appoint a liaison officer with the Rice Wholesale Department. The \"Sing Tao Jih Pao\" reported that as a result of the Chinese import control, the Hongkong rubber shoe industry had been seriously affected and that several factories had been forced to close down and dismiss their workers.\n\nAn important event which attracted a lot of attention by the press was the opening of the trial of the Indian constable charged with the manslaughter of a peanut hawker in Portland Street. The Chinese press refrained from editorial comment, but gave considerable space to reporting the court proceedings.\n\nThe \"Kung Sheung Daily News\" reported that an apology had been tendered by the Hongkong Government to Nanking regarding the Shumchun border incident. The \"Wah Kiu Yat Po\" carried a story that the Hongkong Medicine Dealers' Guild were continuing to make representations for the repeal of taxes on proprietary medicines and also against some of the price controls.\n\nThe \"Sing Tao Jih Pao\" carried a story from a 'special correspondent' claiming that Canton was indignant over the trial of the constable which resulted in the jury disagreeing on their verdict. The report added that the Canton Aid to Wong Shui-cheung Association is to call a meeting to discuss the possibility of imposing economic sanctions against Hongkong in accordance with its former resolution.\n\n### 2. Comments on Internal Events.\n\nThe Chinese press was silent.\n\nThe \"Morning Post\" editorialised on the visit of Sir Angus Gillan of the British Council and said it hoped that the British Council would be able to assist Hongkong. However, the paper said it favoured improvement...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-615-3 Income tax 24-2-1948 - 12-8-1948",
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        "title": "CO129-615-3 Income tax 24-2-1948 - 12-8-1948",
        "content_text": "- 5 -\n\n20 \n\n1 \n\nOn December 6th, 1947, Mr. W. F. Watson was appointed Assistant Commissioner on transfer from Fiji where he had been, for some years, the Assistant Commissioner. On December 7th, Mr. P. D. A. Chidell, A.C.A., formerly an Examiner in the War Taxation Department and, since 1st April, 1947, an Assessor Grade I and acting Assistant Commissioner, was appointed Assistant Commissioner, on promotion. In January, 1948, Mr. C. W. Norris was appointed Assessor Grade I on transfer from the Income Tax Department of Northern Rhodesia. He arrived in the Colony and assumed duty on 22nd January, 1948. At the end of the year 1947/48, he was the only Grade I Assessor in the Department.\n\n9. The following officers were appointed Assessors, Grade II, on 1st April, 1947:-\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Mr. F. D. Angus |\n| Mr. B. I. Bickford |\n| Mr. R. B. Wood |\n| Mr. W. J. Darby |\n| Mr. G. C. Dudley |\n\nMr. J. G. Cater was appointed to this grade on 23rd March, 1948.\n\n10. For the greater part of the year, therefore, the Department had one Acting Assistant Commissioner instead of two substantive holders of that rank. During the whole of the year, there was never more than one Assessor Grade I available instead of seven, and throughout the year, there has been a shortage of three Assessors Grade II. This latter shortage was reduced to two only in the last week of the year. The prospects of an early improvement in the senior staff situation are far from good.\n\n11. With regard to local staff, it was gratifying to find that most of the staff of the former War Taxation Department who were still available applied for transfer to the Inland Revenue Department on its inauguration. Their previous experience, added to that of Mr. Chidell, was of inestimable value in the devising and setting up of the new Department.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947",
        "page_number": 44,
        "title": "CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947",
        "content_text": "F36\n\nClubs should be seriously considered in relation to any work undertaken in Siam, whether by the British Council or by British universities. \n\nIt would be interesting to know whether any policy has been laid down since the war in regard to (a) scholarships and entry of Siamese students to British universities, and (b) possible means by which Britain might assist in the teaching of English in Siam.\n\n## Preliminary Training in Siamese for Europeans\n\nIt was not thought necessary or advisable for commercial recruits or others going to Siam to take a long course of training in the language before leaving England. A course of three months (or one term of ten weeks) was suggested for government officials and commercial recruits.\n\n137\n\nFOC\n\n## BRITISH COUNCIL\n\n44\n\nI did not regard it as part of my \"assignment\" to remark on the British Council, but the numerous references to its work and to its possible expansion in the East may excuse a few observations.\n\n### Nanking\n\nWhen I visited Nanking, I accepted with gratitude the assistance of Professor Roxby (British Council Representative) and his Staff, and I accepted without question their presence in Nanking. But when I reached Peiping, I found that whereas other countries were re-establishing their cultural forces there as quickly as possible, the Council had no representative. One rather severe critic summed it up by saying, \"There is no culture in Nanking and there are no British 'culture-specialists' in Peiping\".\n\nNanking did in fact appear at that time to be a rather arid field for the dissemination of British cultural propaganda, and Americans and Chinese, as well as some of the few British residents in Peiping, expressed surprise that all the Council's representatives in China were gathered in Nanking. This state of affairs has, I understand, since been remedied to some extent.\n\nIn Australia, the work of the Council was highly regarded, and the visits, actual and promised, of British musical and dramatic companies were greatly appreciated.\n\nIn Hongkong and Malaya, where Sir Angus Gillan was then visiting, strong...",
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        "page_number": 47,
        "title": "CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947",
        "content_text": "# REPORT TO THE COLONIAL OFFICE \n## LANGUAGE PROBLEMS IN HONGKONG \n### 47\n\nAlthough my time in Hongkong was limited and my arrival coincided with the visits of Sir Angus Gillan of the British Council and the British Trade Mission, nevertheless several useful talks were arranged by the Acting Colonial Secretary and the Director of Education on problems relating to education and to the training of Colonial cadets in Chinese.\n\nThe main problems discussed were:-\n1. The teaching of English in schools.\n2. Language-training in Cantonese for Colonial probationers.\n3. The substitution of National Language for Cantonese as the medium of instruction in schools in Hongkong.\n\n### The Teaching of English in Schools\n\nAlthough this problem lay in fact outside the scope of my inquiry it could not be altogether ignored. The teaching of English in schools appeared to be becoming more and more the province of Chinese teachers and many of the outstanding defects in the pronunciation of English were said to be due to the mistakes of the teachers. It appeared to me that a great deal could be done by appointing a qualified European phonetician to assist the Department of Education to solve this problem. Technical assistants (who might be Asiatics trained, say, by one of the Eastern Broadcasting Services) and equipment would also be required, but by appointing a phonetician to a training-college and sending successive groups of teachers to the college for short intensive courses a great deal might be done with limited resources to improve the pronunciation and teaching of English generally. A phonetician experienced in teaching the phonetics of oriental languages and/or of teaching English to Asiatics would be best qualified for such a post.\n\n### National Language as a medium of instruction in Schools\n\nFor a number of years National Language has been the medium of",
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        "document_key": "CO129-616-2 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund (Amendment) Ordinance 1948 6-2-1948 - 16-11-1948",
        "page_number": 62,
        "title": "CO129-616-2 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund (Amendment) Ordinance 1948 6-2-1948 - 16-11-1948",
        "content_text": "## CONTRIBUTIONS TO HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL FUND.—Continued.\n\n| Name | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Warne & Co., Hector Watkins, Miss I. N. | 250.00 |\n| Wong Seng Tsang, Mrs. | 20.00 |\n| Wong Sik Yuen | 40.00 |\n| Watson, Capt. & Mrs. | 500.00 |\n| Wong Tai Hon | 20.00 |\n| Watson, Mr. H. C. | 29.00 |\n| Wong & Co., T. M. | 160.00 |\n| Watson, Mr. M. M. | 50.00 |\n| Wong & Co., T. O. | 1,000.00 |\n| Watson & Co., Ltd. A. S. | 200.00 |\n| Wong, T. S. | 10,000.00 |\n| Wayne & Haylitt Co. | 20.00 |\n| Woo, Dr. & Mrs. A. | 50.00 |\n| Weill, Mrs. R. | 500.00 |\n| Woo, Mr. & Mrs. H. K. | 10.00 |\n| Weill, Mrs. R.-In memory of Mrs. Angus | 500.00 |\n| Woo, P. C. | 10.00 |\n| Wood, Mr. & Mrs. | 100.00 |\n| Welfare Branch H.Q. Land Forces Hongkong | 200.00 |\n| Woodcraft Works Ltd. | 256.00 |\n| Woodman, Mr. & Mrs. R. H. | 300.00 |\n| Wellcome & Co. | 50.00 |\n| Wosang, S.S.-from Captain, Officers & Passengers | 50.00 |\n| Wells, H. R. | 10.00 |\n| Whang, T. K. | 115.00 |\n| White, J. P. | 50.00 |\n| White, Mrs. In memory of... | 20.00 |\n| Whiteaway, Laidlaw Co., Ltd. | 750.00 |\n| Wicking & Co., Ltd. Harry | 20.00 |\n| Wylie, A. D. | 25.00 |\n| Wild, R. H. | 5,000.00 |\n| Willcox, Mr. C. | 300.00 |\n| Williams. Mr. Justice E. H. | 50.00 |\n| Williamson, S. T. | 250.00 |\n| Willing Dispensary | 25,000.00 |\n| Wilson, Mr. & Mrs. G. L. | 100.00 |\n| Wing Fung Bank | 50.00 |\n| Wing Hang Bank | 275.00 |\n| Wing Lung Bank | 50.00 |\n| Wing Ming Bank | 500.00 |\n| Wing On Bank | 50.00 |\n| Wing On Co., Ltd. | 1,000.00 |\n| Wing On Life Assurance Co. | 1,500.00 |\n| Wing Sang Hong | 50.00 |\n| Wing Sing Bank Ltd. | 25.00 |\n| Wing Sun Co. | 500.00 |\n| Wing Tai Bank | 200.00 |\n| Wing Wo Hing | 20.00 |\n| Wise, Miss D. | 100.00 |\n| Wong, Dr. & Mrs. B. C. | 50.00 |\n| Wong Chi Hoi | 100.00 |\n| Wong Chim Hoi | 40.00 |\n| Wong Chi Hou | 20.00 |\n| Wong Chi Po | 20.00 |\n| Wong Chi Po, Mrs. | 250.00 |\n| Wong Distillery | 250.00 |\n| Y's Men Club of Hongkong | 100.00 |\n| Y.W.C.A. Various Members | 30.00 |\n| Ya Dah Co. | 660.00 |\n| Yan Wing Hong | 100.00 |\n| Yangtse Insurance Company | 200.00 |\n| Yaumati School-Staff & Pupils | 10,000.00 |\n| Yaumati P.M. Government School | 50.00 |\n| Yeo, Dr. & Mrs. H. C. | 400.00 |\n| Yeoh, Dr. & Mrs. G. E. | 50.00 |\n| Yeung Ming | 1,000.00 |\n| Vick Tai & Co. | 50.00 |\n| Yien Yick Commercial Bank | 60.00 |\n| Ying Sun Bank | 25.00 |\n| Ying Wah College & Pupils | 200.00 |\n| Ying Yuen Bank | 400.00 |\n| YLL | 100.00 |\n| Young Bros. Banking Corporation | 500.00 |\n| Young, Sir Mark | 100.00 |\n| Yu Tung Tai Ltd. | 5,000.00 |\n| Yu Yau Lim | 1,000.00 |\n| Yuen Cheong Hong | 10.00 |\n| Yung, H. S. | 50.00 |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-619-4 Department of Supplies- Trade and Industry- organization and finance 19-3-1949 - 31-3-1949",
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        "title": "CO129-619-4 Department of Supplies- Trade and Industry- organization and finance 19-3-1949 - 31-3-1949",
        "content_text": "## \nWithin the last few days newspapers have been full of criticism about black market activities, and comments about the half-heartedness and inefficacy of Government's present campaign have been severe. To a point I agree with the criticism because, in my opinion, our aim has been too diffuse and no real attempt has been made to relate price control to the volume of supplies available. I propose, therefore, to limit the scope of a future campaign to an agreed but limited list of essentials, which are entitled to be included in the ordinary household budget and which I know to be in reasonable supply. Once an agreed list of commodities and prices has been obtained in consultation with the two Chambers of Commerce and the Press, a full-scale campaign will be raised which can eventually be extended to commodities other than those deemed essential.\n\nThe burning question is, of course, staff. I understand Singapore has some 500 people employed in Price Control, but we could get by with probably about 20. At the moment the section consists of 2 Europeans (Angus, S. C. & A, and Courtney, temporary) and two Chinese inspectors, one of whom doubles as a clerk. I consider the best disposition of our forces would be 3 Europeans, 12 inspectors, 2 stenographers and 2 or 3 Chinese clerks (preferably Government servants) and I should like immediately to send for Kenrick, who, as you know, has been in charge of our Rear Link in London. He could be put in charge because he has the requisite drive, knowledge and tact, and with the present 2 European officers could complete the executive personnel.\n\nI do not consider 12 inspectors are over-many to supervise the Colony, but in conjunction with the two European officers, who can also do some sleuthing, they should form sufficient striking force provided we recruit the right kind of man and pay him a reasonable salary. We have already had a sad experience in the Marketing Section where the inspectors have had to be dismissed on grounds of inefficiency. I think a fair salary might be $300-400 per month.\n\n### (iv) Rice Section\nI feel this section meantime is adequately staffed with the exception of three posts. Mr. M.K. Lo, when he was in charge, had his",
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        "document_key": "CO129-622-8 Pre-war claim on Admiralty for supply of flour 21-10-1949 - 9-3-1950",
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        "title": "CO129-622-8 Pre-war claim on Admiralty for supply of flour 21-10-1949 - 9-3-1950",
        "content_text": "COPY.\n\nEnclosure (1)A.\n\nNo 0151.\n\n(To be quoted on Invoices and correspondence).\n\nOffice of Controller of Food.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n9th December, 1941.\n\nTHE COLONIAL DEFENCE REGULATIONS, 1940.\n\nREQUISITION (Reg.55).\n\nTo: L. Dunbar & Co.,\n\nHong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp.,\n\nYou are hereby required to furnish forthwith and deliver to H.M. NAVY the articles and substances hereunder:-\n\n  \n    Requisition No.\n    ARTICLES.\n    Quantity\n    Rate\n    Amount\n  \n  \n    \n    LBS.\n    \n    $ c\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    FLOUR\n    355,500\n    \n    PRICE TO BE FIXED LATER.\n  \n\nDelivered Warrant No. 3032 *\n\n* to be filled in by the person to whom the Requisition is addressed. Strike out words not required.\n\nsd. H. A. Angus\n\np. Controller of Food.\n\n4400 sacks.\n\nWang Kee Godowns.\n\nI (agree/do not agree) that the prices specified in this requisition are reasonable.\n\nReceived the above-mentioned articles.\n\nSgd. E. Paulette/S/H (?)\n\np. Controller of Flour.\n\nI hereby certify that the signature of \"H.A. Angus\" appearing on this requisition order is the true signature of an officer of the Food Control Office authorized to sign on behalf of the Controller of Food.\n\nsgd. F.C. Gimson.\n\nColonial Secretary & Representative of His Britannic Majesty's Government, Hong Kong, Stanley, 21st May, 1943.\n\n19.\n\nCERTIFIED TRUE COPY.\n\nF.C. GIMSON.\n\nColonial Secretary & Representative of His Britannic Majesty's Government, Hong Kong.\n\nStanley, 21st May, 1943.",
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        "title": "CO129-622-8 Pre-war claim on Admiralty for supply of flour 21-10-1949 - 9-3-1950",
        "content_text": "20\n\nNo.0116.\n\nCOPY.\n\nEnclosure 1(B).\n\n(To be quoted on Invoices and correspondence).\n\nOffice of Controller of Food.\n\nHong Kong. 9/12/41.\n\nTo: L. DUNBAR & CO.\n\nTHE COLONIAL DEFENCE REGULATIONS, 1940.\n\nREQUISITION (Reg 55).\n\nH.K. Bank Building.\n\nYou are hereby required to furnish forthwith the articles and substances specified hereunder:-\n\n  \n    Requisition No.\n    Articles.\n    Quantity.\n    Rate.\n    Amount.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    lbs.\n    $.. c.\n    (Purchase price).\n  \n  \n    \n    FLOUR\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    PRICE TO BE FIXED LATER.\n    57,774 sacks or 2,830,926 lbs. of which 2,855 sacks due H.M. Navy.\n    \n    \n  \n\nWarrants covering.\n\nTo be filled in by the person to whom the Requisition is addressed. Strike out words not required.\n\nsgd. H. A. Angus.\n\np. Controller of Food.\n\nI (agree/do not agree) that the prices specified in this requisition are reasonable.\n\nsgd. A.E. Matthews.\n\nReceived the above-mentioned articles.\n\nsgd. J. MacDonald,\n\np. Controller of Food.\n\n10.12.1941.\n\nI hereby certify that the signatures \"H.A. Angus\" and \"J. Macdonald\" appearing on this Requisition Order are the true signatures of Officers of the Food Control Office authorised to sign on behalf of the Food Controller.\n\nsgd. F.C. Gimson.\n\nCERTIFIED TRUE COPY.\n\nsgd. F.C. Gimson.\n\nColonial Secretary & Representative of His Britannic Majesty's Government,\n\nColonial Secretary & Representative of H. B. M. G. Hong Kong.\n\nHong Kong. Stanley, May 21st, 1943.\n\nStanley, 21st May, 1943.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "title": "CO129-622-8 Pre-war claim on Admiralty for supply of flour 21-10-1949 - 9-3-1950",
        "content_text": "No.0151\n\nL. Dunbar & Co.\n\nH.K. & Shanghai Banking Corp.\n\nCOPY\n\nIncomplete copy, of despatch (A) to\n\nOffice of Controller of Food\n\nHong Kong 9/12/41\n\nTHE COLONIAL DEFENCE REGULATIONS, 1940\n\nRequisition (Reg. 55).\n\nYou are hereby required to furnish forthwith and deliver to\n\nH.M. Navy the articles and substances specified hereunder:-\n\n  \n    Requisition No.\n    Articles\n    Quantity\n    Rate\n    LBS.\n    Amount Purchase price\n    $\n  \n  \n    35\n    Flour\n    355,500\n    price to be fixed later.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nI hereby certify that the signature of \"H.A. Angus\" appearing on this requisition order is the true signature of an officer of the Food Control Office authorised to sign on behalf of the Controller of Food.\n\n(Sgd.)\n\nColonial Secretary and Representative of\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Government, Hong Kong.\n\nStanley 21st May, 1943.\n\nX*To be filled in by the person to whom the Requisition is addressed. Strike out words not required.\n\nSgd. J.A. Angus.\n\np.p. Controller of Food.\n\nX\n\nDelivery Warrant No.3032\n\n4400 sacks\n\nWang Kee Godown\n\nI (agree/do not agree) that the price specified in this requisition are reasonable.\n\nReceived the above mentioned articles.\n\n(Sgd.)\n\np.p. Controller of Food.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-622-9 Material for 'vetting' for lecture 9-11-1949 - 14-11-1949",
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        "title": "CO129-622-9 Material for 'vetting' for lecture 9-11-1949 - 14-11-1949",
        "content_text": "which\n\nare\n\nrelations\n\nCommunists.\n\nlikely to\n\nexacerbate\n\nwith the Chinese\n\nlecture\n\nwave +\n\nthe\n\nScott suggests, the\n\nImperial\n\nDefence College, we agree;\n\nIt would be\n\na useful\n\nbody\n\nand interesting\n\ncomment\n\nTo\n\nwould\n\ncause\n\nsimilar\n\nmost suitable\n\nand\n\nbe limited\n\nto relatively few points\n\nwith emphasis. E.g.\n\nwe\n\nwould\n\nsuggest, in the first sub-paragraph\n\nthe H.V.\n\nH.K.\n\nsection,\n\nthe omission\n\nof the\n\nwords\n\nshort term\n\nand\n\nin\n\nthe\n\nissue\n\nsub-paragraph\n\nsubstitution of\n\ndifficulty\n\nmuch\n\nperhaps the\n\nobviously presents\n\nYou\n\nis\n\na\n\ndangerous proposition.\"\n\nDas Lunch East Asia Dept. told me\n\nthat they\n\nfree\n\nto\n\nCommercial tabs/tance on the\n\nthe\n\nparagraphs these\n\nrelate to Malaya. They fear anti-\n\nLabour\n\nreferences\n\nwith reference to a sentence on p. 10) this\n\nThere is\n\nno evidence that any\n\nSubstantial push\n\nillegal immigrants,\n\nof aquallins an\n\nworld\n\nlike to down\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\n[456B] Wt. 32483/800 100m. 11/48 C.N.L.d. 748\n\nC. O.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. S.\n\nMinister of State\n\nSecretary of State\n\nYour Reference...............\n\nyou\n\nhalt by the\n\n6 LE\n\ncoclases\n\nChin Affairs\n\nSenioris; Karla Confer,\n\non at Loljest.\n\nYour ancus\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nge 9\n\nge 9\n\nPage 11\n\nPage 2\n\nWith the compliments of\n\nMr. R.H. Scott.\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.\n\n12th November, 1949.\n\nPage 11",
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        "series_id": 27,
        "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine",
        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-627-7 Grants of land- new territories 1-12-1950 - 31-12-1951",
        "page_number": 59,
        "title": "CO129-627-7 Grants of land- new territories 1-12-1950 - 31-12-1951",
        "content_text": "MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT\n\n11.\n\n58\n\nMemorandum that Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (China) Ltd., whose registered office is situate at Britannic House, Finsbury Circus, in the city of London have ... Expor(?) whose name is hereunder written as this day purchased the Lot described in the foregoing Particulars at the premium of $1,466,320.00 and, as such purchasers hereby agrees to carry out the purchase on the terms of and subject to the foregoing conditions of Sale, and the purchasers hereby agree fully to observe and perform the said Conditions, and to be bound thereby and the Director of Public Works on behalf of His Excellency the Governor hereby ratifies and confirms the said sale on the above Conditions.\n\nDate this 2nd day of April 194....\n\nSgd. M. H. Turner\nWitness to the Signature of the Purchaser.\nSolicitor, Hong Kong.\n\nAnglo-Iranian Oil Co. (China) Ltd.\nby its attorney:\nSgd. John Rivaz Mothersill\nPurchasers.\n\nSgd. A. Nicol\nActg. Director of Public Works.\n\nSgd. H.A. Angus\nWitness to the signature of the Director of Public Works.",
        "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-7 Grants of land- new territories 1-12-1950 - 31-12-1951.txt",
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