[ { "id": 217960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "content_text": "Four \n\n... \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nPAPERS RELATIVE TO EMIGRATION OF \n\nGovernor DOHERTY's Report, in Appendix to Report of West Africa Committee, page 367. \n\n\"With reference to this subject, I made inquiry before leaving Sierra Leone as to the degree of property possessed by the chiefs in the persons or services of their subjects, and the compensation they would be likely to claim in consequence, in the event of the people emi- grating; but the statements made to me were so contradictory, that I could arrive at no con- clusion. \n\n\"The chiefs near Sierra Leone, having always shown an earnest desire to have their chil- dren and subjects educated, not only in school-learning, but in handicrafts and cultivation of the soil, would willingly, I think, consent to a body of their people proceeding to the West Indies, to be taught the cultivation of coffee and other tropical productions, on the condition of their return within four or five years. The arrangement would be beneficial both to Africa and the West Indies, and promote in the former the views of the Association lately formed for the extinction of the Slave Trade and the cultivation of the continent. \n\n\"The two tribes whose emigration would be most likely to prove advantageous to themselves and their West India employers, are the Ackoos and Cossoos; and I would advise the opening of a communication on the subject, through the liberated Africans of those tribes at Sierra Leone, with the native countries of both, the Cossoo country being but a three day's journey from the colony; while Yarriba, or the country of the Ackoos, is accessible by way of Badagry.' Acting Governor CARR's answers to Dr. Madden's queries, in Appendix to Report of West Africa Committee, p. 329. \n\n\"Thinks that many of the natives of the adjoining country would be desirous of emigrating to our colonies, if they were duly informed, by intelligent persons of their own colour, of what their actual condition would be in our colonies, adequately paid for their labour, and protected there.\" \n\nColonel JONES's answers to similar Queries, at p. 326 of the same Appendix. \"Does not think they would, without positive proof of the certainty of bettering their con- dition.\" \n\nN.B. It will be observed that these gentlemen do not express the slightest doubt of the free condition of these people. All that they seem to think would be necessary to induce many of them to emigrate, which of course implies their ability to do so, is that they shall be previously satisfied that they would thereby better their condition. \n\nCountries adjacent Sir H. B. HUNTLEY, recently Governor of the Gambia Settlements. Report in Appendix to \n\nReport of West Africa Committee, p. 226. \n\nto the Gambia. \n\nwages, \n\n\"The liberated African may be considered the labourer of Bathurst; if engaged, he is almost uniformly employed as such. Yet it is remarkable, that the merchants on all occasions prefer engaging as labourers the Tilliebunkas' and Seerawoolies,' who, for the sake of come 600, 700, and even 1000 miles from the interior, in parties, in search of work at Bathurst. These men, like the Kroomen, work honestly, and for the same wages as the liberated African; the latter cannot be trusted unless constantly overlooked, and therefore those whe can are pre- ferred. Looking at Sierra Leone, the Kroomen are found to be the labourers; like the Tilliebunkas and Seerawoolies, they have taken the work from the hands of the liberated African.\" \n\nEvidence of F. W. FINDEN, fifteen years resident at the Gambia. \n\n7597. Emigration might be obtained from the Tilliebunkas' and Seerawoolies: they are in the interior, but they come down in large numbers to seek for work, and stop a few months and generally return to their own country in the rainy season, because there is no work there: they are generally hired for the timber cutting, which is very arduous work.' \n\n7600. I should not think there would be any fear of their not being willing to go over to the West Indies to seek for work.\" \n\n7604. \"A few only come down who know they can get work. If it was well known that they could be sent to the West Indies, I think you might get down 4000 or 5000.\" \n\n7640. \n\n\" \n\nSome of the Jollif tribe might be induced to emigrate.” \n\n7641. It is a numerous tribe.\" \n\n7670. \"The Tilliebunkas and Serawoolies I have seen, appear to be perfectly free.\" \n\nEvidence of JOHN HUGHES, seventeen years resident in and near the Gambia. \n\n8025. \"I think the Seerawoolies alluded to by Mr. Finden, are the most likely tribe to emigrate.\" \n\n8034. \"I am of opinion, that if sufficient employment was afforded them, we might get, between the Bamburies and the Seerawoolies, 4000 or 5000.\" \n\nt \n\n8061. They appear to be perfectly free to go and come.' \n\n\" \n\nCopy of a letter received from F. W. FINDEN Since his return to Africa, dated Bathurst, December 3, 1842. \n\n\"Since my arrival at this place, I have made many enquiries from the Tilliebunkas' and the Seerawola' tribes, which are working in this colony, relative to emigration to the West \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS TO THE WEST INDIES. \n\nIndies, and I find they are most willing to emigrate for a period of three years, or longer. They have stated to me, that if it were known in their country, I could procure as many as wanted, as they describe their population as most extensive: many are leaving this place for want of employment. The sanction of Government would, in my opinion, give great confidence to the people, and I feel convinced it would not be a failure.' \n\n\" \n\nEvidence of F. SWANZY, eight years resident as Magistrate. \n\n526. Perhaps if a few people were got to emigrate, and they returned in a few years, having improved their means and got money in two, three, or four years, others might be induced to follow their example.\" \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nGold Coast. Dixcove. \n\nExtract from Governor MACLEAN'S Despatch relative to the surrender of Fugitives, in Cape Coast Castic. \n\nAppendix to Report of West Africa Committee, p. 145. \n\n\"Were it once promulgated throughout Ashantee and elsewhere, that runaways would, under any circumstances, receive protection from the British authorities, our settlements would speedily be inundated by hundreds and thousands of the offscourings of those countries. then could those men be maintained? \n\nHow \n\nN.B. On reference to the context, it will be found that Governor Maclean had been accused of delivering up fugitives. In justifying this practice he uses strong language, and assigns certainly a good reason why he could not possibly retain them at Cape Coast, no provision being made for their support or emigration; but he thus incidentally proves that if the British settlements were, as they ought to be, places of refuge, and free ingress and egress were permitted, great numbers of people from the adjacent countries would resort to Cape Coast. \n\nEvidence of the Hon. Captain DENMAN, R. N. \n\n6976. \"If proper means were taken, I have not the least doubt the West Indies might get Kroo Coast. thousands of Kroomen to engage as labourers. The thing necessary is, to produce confidence \n\nin their minds, and that would best be done by some man-of-war on the coast taking over some \n\nof the head men, upon a promise that they should be returned by the same ship.\" \n\n6977-7000. \"Thinks the Kroomen may be allowed to embark direct from their own coast, receiving a certificate from a man-of-war, and that there would not be any possibility of abuse.\" \n\nNo. 20. \n\nCopy of a LETTER from G. W. HOPE, Esq. to CHARLES CAVE, Esq. \n\nDowning-street, November 23, 1843. \n\nSir, \n\nI AM directed by Lord Stanley to acknowledge the receipt of the letter which you addressed to his Lordship on the 15th instant, as chairman of the West India Committee. \n\nCharles Cave, Esq. &c. &c. \n\nNo. 21. \n\nI have, &c. (Signed) \n\nG. W. HOPE. \n\nCOPY of a LETTER from CHARLES CAVE, Esq., to Lord STANLEY. \n\nWest India Committee Rooms, \n\nNovember 29, 1843. \n\nMy Lord, \n\nI HAVE had the honour to receive from Mr. Hope an acknowledgment of the letter which I addressed to your Lordship on the 15th instant, and I would take the liberty of stating that, as this Committee have not yet imparted to the West India body generally the correspondence that has taken place with your Lord- ship, they are anxious to ascertain, before performing that duty, whether they are to consider the vitally important representations with which they have recently troubled your Lordship, as terminated by Mr. Hope's very brief communication; or whether they may not rather still indulge the hope that your Lordship will enable them to make a more satisfactory report to their constituents, than at the present moment it would be in their power to do. \n\nThe Right Hon. Lord Stanley, \n\n&c. &c. \n\n&c. \n\nI have, &c., (Signed) CHARLES CAVE, Chairman. \n\nNo. 20. \n\nNo. 21. \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227456, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "N° 85 of 1848\n\nInclosure. No 2 in Besp\n\nDOCUMENTS\n\nwhose authority he acted and he answered, By Mr\n\nIn the Case of \"Regina v. Cole and others,\" charged Davidson's the owner.\n\nwith Piracy, &c. N.B. The interlineations and marginal addition of the originals are printed within brackets.—ED.C.M.\n\nShanghae, in the Province of Kiang-soo, in the Empire of China, to wit.\n\nThe witness handed in the following documents, to which he made oath as a part of his evidence :-\n\nExtract from Log-book of H. M. S. Childers.—Do. of Boarding Book do.—Questions asked by Commander Pitman of Ching-chung-key, the Chinese Admiral.—Do. of the Master and crew of Chinese fishing boat, on board the Spec on 23d June,\n\nTaken before me the day above mentioned.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nThe examination of Cutsu-kz, (Ting-koey,) native of the Town of Pil-ke, in the District of H wey-gun, in the Department of faeuen-chow, in the Province Fŭhkëen,—taken on oath, this 29th day of June, &c., &c.*\n\nI am a fisherman by occupation. In the spring of this year, I was engaged by Kwo-kin, a junk-owner of the Town of Pil-ke, to enter on board his junk as net-thrower at the rate of four dollars per quarter; I tsenen-ching or Kintsenen-shing, as I cannot read or do not know whether the junk's name was Kin-write; I only remember the junk's name by sound, tell the number of the junk. and do not know the characters of it; neither can I\n\nWe had on board crew of 24 men and four boats. We set sail from Pih-ke on the 3d day of the 3d month, (6th April,)\n\nThe following morning, the 23, I went on board the [captured fishing junk; examined her and found that nearly everything moveable had been taken out except two boats. The hatches were lifted up, and a few tubs of live fish alone remained. I observed bound for Chin-hae to fish, where we arrived in the 4th month. We had papers from the Tacping Custom-house, and had our fishing tackle on board. We were armed with 2 matchlocks and 2 small guns about an inch in diameter and three feet long, as a means of defence against pirates. The Junk was above 900 piculs burden. The owner Kwo-kin was on board. During the last month we made two trips\n\nOne shot struck\n\nThe examination of JOHN CHARLES PITMAN, Esq., Commander of Her Britannic Majesty's Sloop of war Childers, taken on Oath this Twenty-ninth day of June, on the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, before me, Rutherford Alcock, Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanghae aforesaid, in the presence and hearing of Mariano Alvesto, native of Manila, Juan Nasieu, to the fishing ground off Poseu, the tides being favourable twice in a month for that purpose. On the 19th day of the 5th month (19th June) we again left Chin-bae in company with other fishing boats to the number of some twenty or more; but on account of our junk being larger than the other boats, they outsailed us, and we were left behind. On the 21st or 22d day (21st or 22d June) when sailing alone under Yung-shan, we suddenly saw a foreign vessel astern, which was coming up hailed us; we did not understand what they said, but we answered that we were a junk from Chin-bas, belonging to a Hong there, as we could prove to them if they followed us in. We said this, being fearing that they might think we were pirates, and might attack us.\n\nI then went to the Spec, and I told the master to muster the crew and shew the articles. The prisoner who now answers to the name of Ephraim Francis did not answer to any name in the articles.\n\nI saw being only one of the crew, I do not know the name of it, though I know the parties conducting it by sight. I asked what had become of the crew of the fishing junk and he answered, they were in the fore-hold. I ordered them on deck, and they were brought up, some of them with their hands tied; several were badly wounded: these I examined with the Surgeon of the Childers. I asked Mr Cole if he had examined the papers of the junk? He and the [Chinese] pilot pointed out the master of the junk, who produced the papers sewn inside his jacket. I told Mr Cole I should take as many [of the junk's crew] as he wished on board the mandarin junk, and recommend him or his mate to be present and hear the evidence. Everything was taken down in writing.\n\nWe had heard that two foreign pirates, but beyond that knew nothing about them. vessels were employed to protect the fishery from\n\nI asked the crew of the fishing junk what had become of the cargo, their clothes, &c. they answered, The rice, arms, and several boxes, had been taken on board the Spec, and Mr Cole pointed several out as the property of the junk. I asked if they had been plundered? They said, Something had been taken on the junk. I asked if they had been ill treated? They said, Five had been killed, and some thrown overboard. They then rushed below, made all of us fast, and passed us up on deck. I saw them throw overboard Kwo-kin's dead body. Kwa-nae, being in great agony, was calling for some one to put him out of his pain, and I saw one of the foreigners thrust at him with a sword and throw him overboard.\n\nI also saw the foreigners take up Kwo-fun in order to throw him overboard, but he struggled with them, caught hold of the bulwarks of the Junk. They then cut him down and threw him overboard, and among others [one] who is now here, having received injury from a grape shot in the foot. He stated that if this man in his feverish state was left on board and that his life would be in danger. I therefore said he should be removed to Shanghae, and brought him on board.\n\nI told Mr Cole to pick out two of the men of the junk, and either come himself or send his mate; he sent the mate the pilot of the Spec and Dr Rogers round among the prisoners, he pointed out the prisoner answering to the name of Ephraim Francis, and said I am certain this is the man.\" [R.A.] Two others of the crew, Kwo-wei-tow and Kwo-ming, are missing, but I do not know what became of them. Before throwing Kwa-kin overboard, they took from his neck a silver chin. After having thrown the bodies overboard, they searched the vessel and took away a box-pillow belonging to Kwo-kin which contained his opium and smoking apparatus. about six stone of rice, of which they afterwards returned two, and\n\nHe asked the junkmen a great many questions— pronounced them to be innocent, and wished them to be released. I asked what should be done with the arms, if I should return them to the junk? he said they had a right to a certain number for their own protection; that half should be given back to the crew and the other half he would keep. He requested that the junk and any property belonging to them which might be on board the Spec should be restored to the liberated men, and asked them where they would go? and they replied, To Chin-hae direct, to represent their case to the authorities. I told him that I should take the Spec to Shanghae.\n\nI asked if he had any complaint to make against the Spec? He said she had no right there no right to fire into the junk, and that English vessels were constantly doing the same. I stated that I regretted it exceedingly, that it was contrary to the laws of England, and if he could point out any other vessel similarly engaged, I should feel it my duty to take her. In reply he stated he was equally sorry for it, but it was a very bad affair.\n\nOn the morning of the 22d June, standing up for the Ruggeds in H. M. Sloop Childers, I observed a schooner in company with a Chinese junk standing in for the south end of the Ruggeds,—it falling calm we were obliged to anchor between two or three miles from the schooner. The schooner and the junk anchored in a bay where there were three men-of-war junks; the schooner afterwards went alongside the junk and began discharging every thing out of her; a quantity of useless things, such as planks, matting, &c., floated past for several hours, and was reported to me by the officers. I weighed about 4 P.M. and proceeded to where the schooner was at anchor, and I immediately sent an officer on board the schooner, Mr Berkeley, to desire the master to come on board with his log and papers. Mr Cole, now present, came, I asked him if he was the master of the schooner Spec? He answered, For the time being; also asked him what he was doing there, and what reason he had for molesting the junk? He then stated that he had taken her the evening previous; that she was a pirate. I asked him what authority he had for doing it? He answered, None, but the Pilot had told him she was a pirate. [I asked him as he sailed so well why he did not go alongside of her, instead of going ahead as he stated and firing into her, as it was well known a Chinese junk would not have escaped, and that he ought to have hailed her and said he wanted to examine her.—R.A.] He voluntarily stated that several [of the crew of the junk] had been killed and wounded by their shot.\n\nI asked him if he was aware of the serious consequences of what he had done? and he said, No—that he saw no harm in it, that the same thing had been done before. I asked him repeatedly if the junk had in any way molested or interfered with or fired at him? He distinctly said, No. I asked him why, if the junk was a piratical vessel, he had not called upon me or the Chinese war junks to take it, as I had been in sight more than 14 hours? He said he did not know.\" I asked him were he had captured her, he said a short distance from where we had anchored in the morning to the Westward. I asked him why two boats were alongside? and he answered they had been assisting in towing her in. Those two boats immediately saw us approaching, sailed away towards the Chusan Group—they had obviously been taking the plunder from the junk. As the ship's company for several hours saw the more valueless contents float past,\n\nI told Mr Cole that he had committed a very serious offence, having by his own account killed and wounded several Chinese subjects, and that it was my duty to detain him. I asked him where he was from? He stated from Ningpo. Where he was bound? he answered, Nowhere he was going to look for his consort the Dido. to supply her with Powder and Shot. I asked him if he did not know that he could not be sailing about without being bound for some port: he said. He did not. Asked whether he had put in for stress of weather? and he said, No. I then referred to his articles, and asked him why his name was not there, as he represented himself to be the master of the vessel? He stated he was only there for a time while some one was sick.\n\nI then said I should examine his ship the following morning, and asked him if he had any papers to shew what brought him there? He said he had one.\n\n*The names of the Seamen are so illegibly written, that we are by no means certain all of them have been correctly deciphered.—ED. C.M.\n\nI then returned to the Spec, and saw part of the arms of the Junk returned in one of the Spec's boats. I told Mr Cole that the junk's papers were all perfectly correct, that the men were innocent men, and they with their property must be immediately sent on board their own vessel, Mr Cole then turned to the pilot and said, \"What a nice mess you have got me into;\" and I then asked the pilot if he had said she was a pirate, and he replied, No—that he had only wanted to examine her. I asked Mr Cole who paid him? He said he did not know, believed he was put on board and paid by some Chinese merchants.]\n\nThe men of the Junk afterwards sent a complaint that everything had been taken out and the shot-holes were visible through their sails.\n\nthe few cash I had in it. These things I saw them take, but I cannot say of my own knowledge whether they took anything else. They then directed us to accompany them to Yung-shan, and when we approached the land, two boats from the foreign man-of-war boarded us, and asked for our papers which we shewed them, but they, not understanding them, took them on board the mandarin's junks of which there were several anchored under Yung-shan. One of the men-of-war boats returned again, and took two of our men, one a helmsman and the other a sailor, on board the mandarin's junk to be interrogated. in his cap, asked them when we had left Chin-hae, with what Hong we were connected there, what places we had been to, and what fish we had caught? These questions being answered, he then returned them the papers of our Junk, and told them they might depart, and that we might return again to our fishing. The two men were brought back on board our Junk in the man-of-war's boat; we then prepared to return to Chin-hae, but I was taken on board the man-of-war, where they told me that I should go with them to Shanghae, and that my wound would be attended during the time I was on board. I was treated with the utmost kindness to there.\n\nTrue Interpretation,\n\nHARRY S. PARKES, Interpreter.\n\nTaken before me the day above mentioned,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\n*It would be superfluous to repeat the introductory form, which is given with every deposition before the Consul, and printed at length with Capt. Pitman's evidence.—ED. C.M.,\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151\n\nCopy of Despatch from Mr. Consul Alcock reporting\n\nthe\n\ncase of the \"Spec.\"\n\n6th July, 1848.\n\nI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227457, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "Captain PITMAN recalled, and asked if he could identify the last witness Ching-ke? Answered, I am, and corroborate the greater part of his evidence.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Taken before me the day above mentioned,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of WILLIAM LOCKHART, Surgeon, taken on oath, &c., &c.\n\nThe last witness Ching-ke was brought to me [at the Chinese Hospital] from H. M. Childers on the morning of the 16th inst., with an injury to his left foot. Apparently a musket shot had struck him on the first joint of the great toe, breaking the bone and laying open the joint. Sloughing had commenced, and great formation of matter around the wound and behind. I consider it a dangerous wound, and that his life is in danger from it.\n\nWILLIAM LOCKHART, M.R.C.S.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of WILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon of H. M.'s S. Childers, taken on oath, &c., &c. I went on board the Schooner Spec by Commander Pitman's order on the 23d instant. \"I saw three wounded Junkmen, one of them the witness recently examined, Ching-ke, and the other two had only received contusions and the injuries were slight. I asked how the injury had been received? The prisoner present, William Cole, said he thought it was by a grape shot. I heard William Cole say that he had fired into the Junk. I considered it necessary that Ching-ke should be removed for treatment, as the consequences of such wounds are frequently dangerous. I heard the answer of the Admiral interpreted to Captain Pitman, that the Junk in question was a proper Junk, by which I understood not a piratical vessel.\n\nWILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of JOSHUA BERKELEY, Esq., mate on board H. M. S. Childers, taken on oath, &c.\n\nI was sent to board the Schooner Spec this day week (22d June) with orders from Captain Pitman to ask the master what his business was there, and what was the communication he had with the Junk astern of him to which he replied that he had been commissioned by Mr. Davidson to convey some shot down to the Ding and he had captured the Junk the day previous and brought her in to the Ruggeds. I returned with this answer, and was again despatched with orders to the master to be on board H. M.'s S. Childers with his Log and papers within half an hour. The next day I was on board the Junk and saw the marks of several shot holes in her side and one in her stern. She was empty, I only saw some nets and bait on board.\n\nJOSHUA BERKELEY.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nSHANGHAE TO WIT,\n\nThe examination of George Johnson, native of England; Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Jan Nacion, natives of Manila; Levis Sept, native of Antigua; Striano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, natives of Manila; Ephraim Francis, native of England; Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, natives of Manila; Lith-Ayih, native of Chusan; Ching-Lea-Ching, native of Ningpo; Al-Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, natives of Chusan; William Cole, native of England; Yum-Ching-Ming, native of Chusan Taken this twenty-ninth day of June, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, before me Rutherford Alcock Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanghae aforesaid, the said George Johnson, Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Juan Nacion, Levis Sept, Mariano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, E. Francis, Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, Li-Ayih, Ching-Lea-Ching, Ah Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, William Cole, being charged before me the said Consul on the oath of John Charles Pitman, Esquire, Commander of H. B. M. Sloop Childers, for that on the 1st day of June, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, being on board a certain vessel or schooner called the Spec in a certain place on the high seas near the sand called the \"Ruggeds\" on the coast of China, did piratically, feloniously, and violently with force and arms, attack, board, and take possession of a certain Junk or vessel, the property of a certain Chinese subject named Kwo-kin, the owner thereof, and did feloniously fire into the said Junk or vessel, whereby the said Kwo-kin the owner together with several of the seamen on board thereof were killed, and did take and carry away certain stores and apparel belonging to the said Junk, and certain Goods and Chattels belonging to the said owner and divers of the seamen on board. And the witnesses against them being examined in their presence, they are now asked by me if they wish to say anything in their own behalf; whereupon they answered they had no defence to make.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of KEW-TSAK-KIN, the day of July, &c.\n\nI was put on board the schooner Spec by a public body of Chinese merchants, and took no pay from the master of the ship. A Junk had been hailed to let down her sails, and not complying, a shot had certainly been fired into her.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions, and the Answers made to the same. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me this day on board the schooner Spec at\n\nPage 363\n\nanchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the 23d day of June, 1848.\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nQuestions asked by Commander J. C. Pitman, of Ching-chong-ke (the Chinese Admiral in charge of 7 junks), on board his vessel.\n\nRugged Islands, the 23d of June, 1848\n\nHas the English schooner Spec any right to be here?-No.\n\nWhether he knew what the English schooner Spec was about there?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know whether the Junk taken by the Spec was a pirate or not?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know what the schooner Spec was about with the Junk?-Did not know.\n\nWhether the Captain of the schooner had brought any of the crew of the junk on board to him, or made any complaint to him relative to the junk?-\n\nWhat became of the crew and cargo of the junk?-Taken on board the Spec, he believed.\n\nIs that English schooner any right to take the junk?—No\n\nDid he know why the Captain of the Spec did not bring the crew of junk on board his vessel?-Did not know.\n\nAfter the 2 Chinamen belonging to the junk and the mate of the Spec had been taken on board the Mandarin's junk, the following Questions were asked.-\n\nWhether the papers of the junk were correct?—They are all proper and correct, and signed by the proper authorities.\n\nIs any complaint to make against the schooner?—No.\n\nWhat cause had the schooner Spec to take that junk, whether it was proper to do so, and if the Chinese Mandarins like it?—The junk's papers are proper, but she had no business to have so many arms on board. The English vessel did wrong to take her; she has a right to carry arms. If the Chinese Admiral likes, the arms shall be returned to the junk—Part of them.\n\nIf he likes, remainder shall be sent to him or thrown overboard?—To be sent to him. Which was done.\n\nCaptain Pitman then told the junkmen that their junk, rice, and part of their arms, would be returned to them, and they would be allowed to go on with their fishing. They said they would return to Chin-hai.\n\nCaptain Pitman told the Chinese Admiral that the English schooner Spec had fired into the junk and wounded 3 men, and that one of the wounded men would be sent to the Shanghae Hospital for medical treatment. He said it was a bad affair, but was much obliged.\n\nAre you now quite satisfied that the junk is not a pirate? Yes, she is a fishing Junk of Chin-hae.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions and the Answers made to same, &c. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me, this day, on board the Chinese Admiral's Junk at anchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\n23d day of June, 1848.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the\n\nPage 364\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF THE SCHOONER SPEC.\n\nRedusduz, 1 June\n\nA. M. weighed, saw a junk to the southward—the pilot wished us to see what she was\n\nand took her, towed her back to the Ruggeds and anchored. 9. A. M., came up with her; she proved a pirate, boarded her. At 6 P. M. took 18 men and one boy, confined them on board.\n\nThursday, 22d June\n\nA. M. hoisted out the schooner, and put two boats out, one of which got adrift and was lost; 6 P. M. went on board the junk, brought her nearer the\n\nwas lying 5 miles to leeward of us last night. Took out almost every portable article.\n\nA. M. Brig Childers anchored to the southward.\n\nSt. p. 52. s. hove up the junk's anchor and took her closer in-shore. The Commander of H. M.'s Brig Childers came on board to see the papers—not finding them correct,* ordered us to Shanghae with the junk.\n\nFriday, 23 June.\n\nAll our prisoners on board the junk and let go except the man wounded in the toe, who was taken on board H. M. S. Childers.\n\nThis appears to be an expression of regret. It had been originally\n\nand (Indignant), having been imbecile with the loss of masters being scored out.. E. M.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nThursday, 22d June, 1848.\n\n\"A. M. 6, observed the English schooner Spec standing for the Eastern anchorage under the south Ruggeds (Falls.) with a Chinese junk in company with her; apparently discharging de-\n\nbris and other things into the water; 11.50, observed the schooner Spec alongside the junk,\n\nG. I. G.\n\nFriday, 23d of June, 1848. A. M. \"The schooner Spec of Hongkong having been mustered, her Articles and Log were found not to be correct. the master's and several of the crew's names not being registered the junk which she had taken possession of was liberated by order of Commander Pitman. took one of the wounded Chinese\n\non board.\n\nP. Chinese Admiral visited the ship. Saluted him with 3 guns. Protested against the schooner Spec of Hongkong for having taken the (alleged) Chinese Junk, killing Five men, and wounding Four.\"\n\nEXTRACT FROM THE BOARDING BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nDate, 3d June, 1848—Name of Vessel, \"Spec.\"—Master, Wm. Cole—Owner, Davidson of Ningpo—Where from, Ningpo—Bound, Saddle Island, one of the Ports of\n\nTrade—Belonging, Hongkong—No. of Days out, 3.—Registered Tonnage,\n\n1.—7. 10—Guns, 9—Jungting, No Cargo—No passengers\n\nNation, English—How rigged, Schooner—Marks, The master, mate, and three men, not on the articles; one English seaman on Register Ticket; no registry of arms, and has on board 9 guns, 28 muskets, 5 Pistols, 10 cutlasses, 4 pikes, and 5 spears; 9 Chinamen, and 1 pilot not on manifest\n\n(True Copy,) J. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nLIST OF JUNK'S ARMS.\n\nThis is to certify that Ting-ke, the wounded Chinese brought to the Chinese Hospital from H. M. S. Childers, is still under my care. There is less inflammation of the foot then there was, the progress of the Sloughing has ceased, and several small portions of bone have been taken away from the wound; but he could not go to Hongkong, without great danger to his life.\n\nWM. LOCKHART, Surgeon.\n\nShanghae, July 4, 1848.\n\nQuestions asked by Commander Pitman, of the master and crew of a Chinese Fishing-junk on board the Spec, of Hongkong, in the presence of Mr. Cole the master, the mate, and crew of the Spec.\n\nRugged Islands, the 2d June, 1848\n\nFrom whence did the junk come?—From Chebac.\n\nWhere are your papers?—We produced them.\n\nHow came he to have so many arms on board?—To protect himself from the pirates outside.\n\nWhat became of all the things belonging to the junk?—Rice, arms, and some small boxes taken on board the Spec.\n\nWhether any person belonging to the Spec had taken anything from them?—Only the rice, arms, and small boxes.\n\nHave any of them been beaten on board the Spec?—No, except wounding them by firing at them.\n\nHad they had plenty to eat on board the Spec?—Yes.\n\nDid the Spec fire shot at the junk?—Yes, and killed 5 and wounded 3 men.\n\nHow many men lost?—The 5 killed, one of their heads was blown off.\n\nHow many men in the junk when she left port?—24—19 were on board the Spec.\n\nHas he any complaint to make as to the treatment received from the Spec?—No, only they were innocent of the charge of being pirates.\n\nWhere was he when the Spec took him?—Off the Ruggeds at the fishing station.\n\nCaptain Pitman told them that he would take 2 or 3 of them on board the Mandarin junk to be examined, and if they were found not to be pirates they should be allowed to go away.\n\nThe Pilot of the Spec was asked.—\n\nHow he knew that these men were pirates?—Because they fought the fishing boats.\n\nThe Master of the Spec was asked,—\n\nWho sent the Pilot on board?—The Chinese merchants at Ningpo, and hired the vessel.\n\nDid the junk attack or molest you?—No.\n\nThe following is a list of the arms I saw on board the\n\nJunk.\n\n5 Gingalls\n\n5 Tahious\n\nMatchlocks\n\n10 Pikes\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nBritish Consulate Office, Shanghae, 31 July, 1848.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to return the Log Book and Papers of the Schooner Spec detained by you on the 23d ultimo, for acts of Piracy and breach of existing Navigation Laws, as set forth in the evidence taken before me on the 29th ultimo, on the charge preferred by you against the master and crew of that vessel for Piracy and Murder committed on the high seas. You will be good enough to hold these Documents available for production in evidence at any Trial that may take place in the Supreme Court at Hongkong.\n\nI have further to request that on the arrival of the Prisoners at Hongkong, the officer in Charge will report the same at the Superintendency, deliver the enclosed Despatch, and act in reference to the disposal of the Prisoners as Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary shall please to direct.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, for Consul.\n\n(True Copy, FARD. HOWARD)\n\nTo Commander J. C. Pitman, R.N., H. M. S. Childers.\n\nBy J. C. PITMAN, Esquire.\n\nYou are to allow no communication with the Prisoners except in writing through you. You will be furnished with a list of the master and crew, and all the necessary papers.\n\non reporting yourself and the number of Prisoners at the Superintendency's office there, where you will deliver the enclosed Despatches for His Excellency the Governor.\n\nGiven under my hand on board the Childers at Woosung, the 3d July, 1848\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander,\n\nTo Lieut. G. T. Graham, of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nCHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, HONGKONG.\n\nBefore C. B. HALLER, Esquire, Chief Magistrate, and\n\nTUESDAY, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\na Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty,\n\nBRISAT\n\n1st Prisoner, WILLIAM COLE, of Pembrokeshire, master of the Schooner Spec,\n\n2d Prisoner, GEORGE JOHNSON, of London, mate of Schooner Spec\n\n3d Prisoner, EPHRAIM FRANCIS, of Maldon, in the county of Essex, gunner of the Schooner Spec\n\n4th Prisoner, No. 1 JOAN IGNACIO, of Staunbogan in the Phillipine Islands, seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n5th Prisoner, MARIANO AGOSTIN, of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n6th Prisoner, LORENÇO SANTOS, of Calibo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n7th Prisoner, MARIANO ALBERTO, of Iligan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n8th Prisoner, MARIANO DE LOS SANTOS, native of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n9th Prisoner, LUCAS MANOEL, native of Bigan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n10th Prisoner, ERO JOSER, native of Antigue in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n11th Prisoner, GABRIEL CALISTRO, of Santa Luzia in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n12th Prisoner, No. 2 JOAN IGNACIO, 30 years of age, of Soorgegas in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n[Juan Ignacio the first, named above, describes himself as 26 years of age.]\n\n13th Prisoner, BUENAVENTURA MARIANO, of Sambaangar in the Philippine Islands, Seaman of the schooner Spec.\n\n14th Prisoner, KWOK-AN-VEE, 14 years of age, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n15th Prisoner, LE-AN-VOOK, of Chusan, cook.\n\n16th Prisoner, WONG-KAT, of Chusan, servant to a Seaman.\n\n17th Prisoner, YUM-CHAONG-MING, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n18th Prisoner, YOW-CHAY-CHING, of Ningpo, seaman.\n\n1st Witness for the prosecution, JOHN CHARLES PITMAN, ESQUIRE.\n\nOn the 22d June last I was on board and in command of Her Majesty's Ship Childers off the Ragged Islands on the Coast of China, in Latitude about 30 North; do not recollect the Longitude. At six o'clock on the morning of that day, the Childers being then about\n\nPage 365\n\nfive miles from the shore, I saw a schooner and a Chinese junk was in company with her; looking with the glass I judged the junk to be almost a quarter of a mile from her, but it was impossible to judge correctly at that distance; the junk was standing into a bay, in the same way as the Spec (afterwards found the schooner to be) The junk and the schooner between 8 and 9 that morning anchored in a bay there close to each other; in the bay were three mandarin junks and some fishing-boats. It was calm, and we were obliged to anchor at A. M. between two and three miles of the schooner. During the forenoon we observed the schooner and junk apparently alongside of each other. I saw that some things were being discharged from the junk into the schooner, and refuse, floated past the Childers; from the direction in which they floated I supposed they had been thrown over from the junk; the tide flowed in a right line between the junk and the Childers. At 4 P. M. that day I weighed and made the Childers down to the schooner. I anchored about half a cable from her, and found the junk about half a cable's length nearly astern of her. I found the schooner to be the Spec. In consequence of a message sent by me on board the Spec at 5.30 P. M. that day, prisoner Cole came on board the Childers, bringing a Log-book and some Ship's Articles (witness produces them) which he affirmed to be the Log-book and Articles of the Spec. He said that he was acting as master of the Spec for another person who was absent at Ningpo. I asked him what he was doing there and what he was doing with the junk; he said he had captured her. I asked him if he had had any communication with the Mandarins, and what he had done with the people belonging to the junk; he said No to the first question, and to the second that the people were on board the Spec. I then asked him why he had not taken these men to the Mandarins, or brought them to me, as I had been in sight of him all day; he said he did not know. It was getting late and I told him that I should examine his vessel in the morning. He said in reply to any questions that he had not put in for stress of weather: that he was from Ningpo, and did not know any place in particular to which he was bound; that the junk had not fired at him or molested him, but that the pilot had told him that she was a pirate. I asked him why he had hailed her. He did not reply to this, before nine o'clock next morning I went on board the junk and examined her; I found that everything had been taken out of her excepting some nets and some small tubs of fish for bait. There were several shot holes in her hull that might have been caused by sound shot from a three or six-pounder gun; then I went to the Spec and mustered the Spec's crew. I found the articles were incorrect. Prisoner Cole said that the Chinese crew of the junk were in the fore hold of the Spec. I saw them brought on deck from the fore hold; their hands were tied together; seven of them had wounds about them; one of them was so severely wounded that I sent for the medical officer to examine him. I asked Cole how these wounds had been received, he said by shot from the Spec. I asked Cole if he had papers of the junk, he said. No; I then asked for the head man of the junk. One of the Chinamen came forward and produced some papers that had been sewn up in his clothing, and which by the interpretation of a Chinese from the Childers were pronounced to be the junk's papers. I conveyed to the\n\nPage 366\n\nhanded them over to the Chinese Mandarins. When subsequently questioned Cole about it, Cole said that the wound was caused by a grape shot from the Spec; and prisoner Ephraim Francis added that he thought it must have been caused by a grape shot. I subsequently released the crew of the junk, excepting the man who was badly wounded, and who was sent on board the Childers to be under medical care. I went to the Mandarins, and the crew of the junk (that is two of them) were examined before them. The Mandarins, as the interpreter explained to me, wished the crew of the junk to be released, as their papers were good. By their request I also handed over to them half the arms of the junk, handing the others to the junk's crew. The junk was a fishing junk of the ordinary class fishing thereabouts,\n\nThe quantity of arms belonging to the junk was not unusually large; the crew said she had them to protect herself against pirates. I found in a list of the arms belonging to the junk as detailed to me by Cole. Between 4 and 5 P. M. on the 22d June last I saw two Chinese boats alongside the junk; shortly afterwards as we\n\nJ. C. PITMAN,\n\nCommander of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nare hereby directed to repair on board the schooner Spec of Hongkong and take charge of her, as well as the master and crew, who are prisoners under the charge of Piracy on the High Seas, &c., and you will use the utmost\n\nvigilance that none escape whilst under your custody. You will proceed with all expedition to Hongkong; on your arrival there you will report yourself to the Senior Naval Officer, from whom you will receive further instructions.\n\nFor your better guidance, I refer you to Chap 8 of the Queen's Regulations, Page 82, and to Art. 14 of the Admiralty Instructions, Pages 6 to 14\n\n146", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227458, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "Tuesday, 14TH September, 1848.\n\nDecision-te Prisoners, Wilika Cole, Genn...\n\nstood towards the junk and fired grape nut canister at her. He said that he had run alongside the junk and fired grape nut canister at her, acting on the orders of Mr. Davidson. None. He said that he had run alongside the junk and fired grape nut canister at her.\n\nCole what had become of the property on board the junk he said that everything that had been on board the junk was there, pointing at the same time to some small Chinese boxes, some rice, and some arms on the deck of the Spec. I detained the Spec and took her to Shanghae, where she was handed over to the Consul, and sent her here at his request. I do not recollect that Cole during any conversation I had with him mentioned the date of the capture of the junk, but I think he said that he had captured her the day before.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker, representing himself as the Attorney for the prisoners.\n\nI have previous to today been twice at this Office, and have once had a conversation with some prisoners all the Manilamen. I told them that if any of them gave evidence on behalf of the Queen the Governor would give them a free pardon. The Governor and I were in conversation about the case, I told him that some of the men were anxious at Shanghae to become Queen's evidence. The prisoners said that they were willing to become evidence. The Governor told me to offer this free pardon, I have not seen the depositions taken at Shanghae since they were taken. The mandarin said he considered the junk had too many arms, as she was only allowed to carry a certain number, which number he did not know, so he kept a portion of them. The evidence given at Shanghae was not interpreted to the Manilamen in my presence. My evidence was not so translated.\n\nThe witness further states.-\n\nI beg to hand in two extracts from the Boarding-book and Log-book of the Childers, which I include...\n\nAntonio Rocher, a police constable, is sworn.\n\nC. PITMAN, interpreter of the Teagaio dialect, which two of the prisoners speak.\n\nPrisoners, The preceding evidence having been explained to them, are remanded until to-morrow at Ten o'clock.\n\nC. B. HALLIER,\n\nA Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty.\n\nWEDNESDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\nJOHN CHARLES PITMAN--recalled.\n\nlet the exact time. When asked why he did not communicate with the Chinese junks as to the capture? He replied, that he had done so, and that two Chinese mandarins had been on board the Childers.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI have had no conversation with Captain Pitman, that I remember relative to the evidence I have given. I did converse with Captain Pitman yesterday relative to the Chinese witness who has absconded—I mean the witness who was sent down from Shanghae.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nGEORGE JOHN DORMER ANDREWS--Kwok...\n\nThe following Sailing Letter is one of 14 papers...\n\nPart of Greenock, af Gabriel Cales or Calisto, a Manila seaman, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nHongkong Register Ticket of do. No. 870 of do., dated 18th August, 1846.\n\nCertificate of Servitude as above of Lawrence Zoney or Lourenço de la Zong, Manila seaman, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nCertificate of Servitude as above of Mariano Gosting, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nin the after part of her hold. I saw at least a dozen shot holes in her bottom. The hatch way were two holes caused apparently by grape shot. The others were of no great importance, just passing in at one side and out at the other.\n\nCertificate of Servitude on board the Lesuar, from the Shanghae Consulate.\n\nT. W. Riddles, No. 226, dated 19th December, 1845, Ed. Robinson Commander, No. 247, dated 8th March, 1848.\n\nPort Clearance from the Chinese Superintendent of Customs, No. 247, dated 4th day, 2d moon, 28th year Taou-kwang, or 8th March, 1848.\n\n#12. 3 Envelopes\n\nI am a Clerk on board Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nNo. 18 of 1847.\n\nI addressed to Capt. Robinson, schooner Spec—absent, Capt. T. Band, schooner William.\n\n1 having written on it Spec's papers and articles vid log in charge of Timot G. T. Grabam, H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nI directed on service Messrs McKenzie, Bro. & Co., Shanghae.\n\nSAILING LETTER,\n\nBritish subjects, but not entitled to the privileges of British...\n\nMr Cole gave me on the 22d June last the documents I now hand in, being fourteen papers, among them the Sailing Letter of the Spec; he told me they were the ship's papers, all he had. I returned being then near her, at about 9 or 10 in the morning went on board the Spec. I saw on board the Spec, alongside the Childers, the Sailing Letter, as above designated, for the use and navigation of the ship or vessel called the Spec.\n\nThe next day, the Childers' officer duly registered and mustered the crew of the Spec. I can identify the prisoners Cole, Johnson, Francis, Juan Ignacio (No. 1) Lourenço, Juan Ignacio (No. 2), Mariano Agustin, Gabriel Calisto, Euzebio Josep, Mariano Alberto, for Aryok, Yuen Chang-ming, Kwok Aryee, Yow Chay-ching, as having been on board the Spec when I first visited her on the 23d June last.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI have had no conversation with Captain Pitman relative to the evidence I have given.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nGEORGE JOHN DORMER ANDREWS.\n\nI am a Lieutenant of Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nI was on board on the 22d June last; she was then off the Rugged Islands.\n\nAt 6 p.m., I was officer of the deck; I saw a schooner and a junk in company under the land and standing for the land. Between 10 and 11 in the forenoon I observed that the junk was alongside the schooner, apparently discharging. I saw things passing backwards and forwards from the junk to the schooner, but could not see what they were; we were distant one mile.\n\nA little after six in the evening, the Childers being about two cables from the schooner, in consequence of a message sent by Captain Pitman, Mr Cole came on board the Childers (the prisoner Cole)—he was asked by Captain Pitman to produce his log-book and papers. He produced his log-book, but no papers.\n\nThe log-book produced by witness Pitman is shown to him, he states, on oath that this is the log-book; I would not swear that it is.\n\nCaptain Pitman asked Mr Cole what he was doing there? Cole replied, that he was there for the protection of the fisheries under orders from Mr Davidson.\n\nWILLIAM ROGERS———AWON.\n\nI am Surgeon of Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nI was on board on 23 June last: she was then off the Rugged Islands; the Spec was lying not far from her.\n\nAt about 10 a.m., I went on board the Spec by Captain Pitman's order to see some wounded Chinamen.\n\nI saw three wounded Chinamen on board the Spec. Two had slight contusions, the other was wounded on the great toe of the left foot; the joint was laid open; Mr Cole (the prisoner) told me that the wound was caused by a grape shot.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI was examined at Shanghae; my deposition was not read to the prisoners in my presence; they asked no questions.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nJOSHUA BRAKELEY.\n\nI am acting master on board H.M.S. Childers.\n\nI was on board on the 22d June last; she was then at the Rugged Islands.\n\nOn the evening of that day at about 6 p.m., the Childers was anchored, and the Schooner Spec was lying close to us; a junk was placed 100 yards astern of the Spec.\n\nI went on board the Spec by Captain Pitman's order; I saw prisoner Cole on board.\n\nIn reply to my question he said that he had been sent by Mr Davidson to carry shot to the Dide, and that on the previous evening he had met this junk and taken her, she being a pirate.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI was examined at Shanghae; my deposition was not read to the prisoners in my presence; they asked no questions.\n\nPrisoners make no defence, excepting Euzebio Mariano, who states.—I was not on board the Schooner Spec at the time when the offence charged is said to have been committed. I joined the Spec at Woosung on the 24th June, from the Muzzepa. I did not know her to be a pirate.\n\nC. B. HALLIER,\n\nA Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty.\n\nExtract from an Inventory of the Stores belonging to the schooner \"Spec,\" of Hongkong; taken by Lieut. Graham of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers.\n\nWoosung, 30th June, 1848.\n\n9 cwt, 4 pounders, 9 in Number.\n\nCarronades...\n\nMusket Ball Cartridge Fusee, 100 in Number.\n\nPistol Cartridges, 151 Rounds.\n\nFlannel filled with Powder, 1 lb., 40 in Number.\n\nDito with powder and shot.\n\nLoose Powder, 2 oz., 1 lb., 74 lb., 100 lb.\n\nShot round iron, 2 lb., 6 lb., + 470 Number.\n\nMuskets with lock and Bayonets, 16 in number, (3 without ramrods) without Bayonets, 1 in Number.\n\nCutlasses, 5 in Number.\n\nSpears, short, 150 in Number.\n\nDo. long, 50 in Number.\n\nPlates, 8 Breachings.\n\nCarbine Rifles, ...\n\nSwords corved, ...\n\nPercussion Caps for Rifles about 210 in Number.\n\nBar shot, cast iron, 8 in Number.\n\n7 Spare Trucks.\n\n12 Cum Tackles\n\nGEO. T. GRAHAM. Lieutenant,\n\nH.M. Sloop Childers.\n\nJOS. BEEKELEY, Acting Master.\n\nNOTE--The remainder of the list contains mention of Ship's Store and private articles.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228133, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "12 CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE RESIGNATION\n\nOF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG,\n\n430\n\nNo. 9-\n\nR. Montgomery Martin, Esq., to Lord Stanley. 8 July 1845.\n\nNos. 1 to 6.\n\nNo. 1, of 18 June 1845. Vide p. 7.\n\nNo. 2, of 19 June 1845. Vide p. 7.\n\nNos. 3 & 4, of 24 June 1845. Vide pp. 8, 13.\n\nNo. 5, of 8 July 1845. Vide p. 10.\n\n- No. 9.\n\nCOPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq., to Lord Stanley.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nColonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 8 July 1845.\n\nI HAVE the honour to solicit your Lordship's perusal of the enclosed correspondence with Governor Davis, and a consideration of the following statement.\n\nSoon after my arrival in this Island I observed that there had been a large and unnecessary expenditure of the public money here, which expenditure had been greatly facilitated by the power of arresting portions of the Chinese Indemnity Money, in its transit to the Home Exchequer.\n\nPerceiving that this disbursement was daily augmenting, I felt it to be my duty, even at the hazard of losing what I much covet—the confidence and support of your Lordship—to state openly my opinions to my superiors, and to substantiate them by facts relative to the true nature and value of Hong Kong, and to its necessary concomitant, the British position and prospects in China.\n\nThe reports, minutes and papers, written in support of these opinions, were transmitted either to your Lordship, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, or to the Lords of the Treasury; and, as I understood, they were producing some effect at home, by suggesting various inquiries, and by causing a check to be put upon the expenditure here; I resolved, although my health and constitution have been much impaired by this climate, to await the result of those inquiries, and the correction of errors which time and circumstances generally induce.\n\nHaving, however, recently ascertained that Governor Davis is proposing for your Lordship's sanction a further expenditure of half a million dollars for civil works here, irrespective of the unnecessary extent of outlay incurred and projected in the Military and Ordnance Departments, believing that Her Majesty's Government must be under great misapprehension relative to the value of Hong Kong, and to the present state of our affairs in China, and understanding that it is intended to evacuate Chusan in February or March next, without any attempt or negotiation for the retention of that most valuable and important island (worthy of being an Anglo-Chinese colony), I applied to Governor Davis for six months' leave of absence on public grounds in order that I might bring the whole subject under a complete and unbiassed investigation, and thus, if possible, timely correct what are deemed primary errors of national importance. That the question might be placed above personal considerations, I offered to give up all my salary, to defray my own expenses to England; to continue my bonds of pecuniary security to the Crown, and to forfeit my commission in Her Majesty's service, should my application for leave of absence be disapproved of at home. The Governor refused the leave sought on the plea that I was not dying, and requiring change of climate, a decision as shown in the accompanying correspondence, contrary to the obvious meaning of the Government Instructions (ch. 4, p. 25), and which, if thus interpreted, would make every colonial servant of the Crown an exile for life, or subject to the caprice, favouritism or vindictiveness of any colonial governor.\n\nThe yet unsettled state of the British affairs in China; the very short time intervening for their imperatively required better arrangement, previous to the contemplated evacuation of Chusan, when our expenditure of every description ought to undergo the most careful revision and retrenchment; the desire to prevent an intended expenditure of half a million dollars for civil works, and other unnecessary projected outlays; a conscientious belief, that as a sworn servant of the Crown, I am bound to lay all the information I have collected before Her Majesty's Ministers, and that I can only effectually do so, without further loss of time in person, have compelled me to adopt the only alternative in my power; namely, to place in the hands of Governor Davis my conditional resignation as Her Majesty's Treasurer for the Colonial and Diplomatic service in China, in order that I may at once bring the whole matter under the full and fair consideration of your Lordship, and be on the spot in case of necessity for reference.\n\nI will not advert to myself personally, to any treatment which I have experienced, or to any misinterpretation or misrepresentation of motives and conduct; these are points of comparatively little moment.\n\nBut I do confidently hope that the newness and vast importance of our position in China, the still partial blending of colonial, diplomatic and commercial affairs here, the possible imperfections of individual judgment arising from various interests and from natural causes, and the advantages consequently derivable to the state from a minute examination and exposition of our affairs in the most distant, most complex, and yet least understood settlement and relations of the British Crown, may induce your Lordship to grant, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, and on public grounds, a court of inquiry previous to the acceptance by my Sovereign of the responsible commission with which Her Majesty was graciously pleased to invest me.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed) Robert M. Martin,\n\nEnclosure 1, in No. 9.\n\nCopy of a LETTER from R. M. Martin, Esq., to Governor Davis, dated Colonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 18 June 1845:-Printed at page 7.\n\nEnclosure 2, in No. 9.\n\nCopy of a LETTER from the Colonial Secretary to R. M. Martin, Esq., dated Victoria, Hong Kong, 19 June 1845:-Printed at page 7.\n\nEnclosure 3, in No. 9.\n\nCopy of a LETTER from R. M. Martin, Esq., to the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, dated Colonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 24 June 1845:-Printed at page 8.\n\nEnclosure 4, in No. 9.\n\nColonial Office, Victoria, Hong Kong, 24 June 1845.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of to-day's date, which has been duly laid before his Excellency the Governor for his consideration.\n\nIn reply, I am directed by his Excellency to refer you to his decision upon the subject conveyed in my letter of the 19th instant.\n\nR. M. Martin, Esq.\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nI have, &c. (signed) Frederick W. A. Bruce, Colonial Secretary.\n\nEnclosure 5, in No. 9.\n\nCopy of a LETTER from R. M. Martin, Esq., to the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, dated Colonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 8 July 1845-Printed at page 10.\n\nEnclosure 6, in No. 9.\n\nColonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 8 July 1845-\n\nI HAVE the honour to solicit that your Excellency will be pleased to transmit the accompanying letter and its enclosures to the Right honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, at your earliest convenience.\n\nHis Excellency John Francis Davis, Esq., Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nI have, &c. (signed) Robert M. Martin.\n\n743.\n\nB 3\n\n--No. 10.---", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228134, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 438, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "431\n\nNo. 10.\n\nJames Stephen, Esq to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n\n7 January 1846.\n\n14\n\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE RESIGNATION\n\n- No. 10.-\n\nCopy of a LETTER from James Stephen, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning-street, 7 January 1846.\n\nI AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to inform you, that he has had under his consideration the despatches from the Governor of Hong Kong and your own letters, explaining the circumstances under which you resigned your office of Treasurer of that colony, in order to come to this country to lay certain representations respecting Hong Kong before Her Majesty's Government.\n\nMr. Gladstone finds, that after a full consideration of the circumstances, Lord Stanley, according to the records of this office, appears to have regarded your resignation of office as final, and Mr. Gladstone desires me to add, that he concurs with Lord Stanley in thinking that, after what has passed on the subject, no other character can be ascribed to it.\n\n(signed)\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJas. Stephen.\n\nOF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG.\n\n- No. 11.-\n\n15\n\nCOPY of a LETTER from James Stephen, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning-street, 31 January 1846.\n\nI HAVE laid before Mr. Secretary Gladstone your letter to me of the 13th instant, in which you state that \"Lord Stanley informed you by letter, that in compliance with your request he had not formally accepted your resignation,\" and you add, that \"on the 28th November last his Lordship observed, that he could not discuss with you the statements you transmitted on Hong Kong, as it had been resolved to make them a subject for the deliberation of the Cabinet.\"\n\nOn perusing this letter, Mr. Gladstone directed me to write to Lieutenant-colonel Wilbraham, who had acted as Lord Stanley's Private Secretary, to ascertain whether it was in his power to throw any light on the contradiction between the statements I have thus quoted, and the documents remaining in this office in Lord Stanley's hand-writing.\n\nOn the 27th instant, Colonel Wilbraham addressed to me his answer to that inquiry in a letter of that date, a copy of which, by Mr. Gladstone's direction, I enclose for your information. Mr. Gladstone desires me to add, that he must consider this statement from Colonel Wilbraham as closing the discussion respecting the resignation of your office as Treasurer of Hong Kong; and that he must regard that resignation as having been finally, and therefore irrevocably accepted by Lord Stanley.\n\nI have, &c. (signed) Jas. Stephen.\n\nNo. 12. James Stephen, Esq. to R. M. Martin, Esq.\n\n31 January 1846.\n\n27 January 1846.\n\nNo. 11.\n\nR. Montgomery Martin, Esq., to Mr. Secretary Gladstone.\n\n13 January 1846.\n\nCopy of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone.\n\nSir,\n\nPolloe, near Glasgow, 13 January 1846.\n\nIn reply to Mr. Under-secretary Stephen's letter of 7th instant, I beg to refer to my correspondence with Governor Davis of 18th and 24th June and 8th July last, by which it will be seen that the tendered resignation of the office of Treasurer of Hong Kong was constrained, conditional and dependent on the information I laid before Her Majesty's Government being deemed insufficient to justify my coming to England.\n\nIn my letter to Lord Stanley from Hong Kong of 8th July last, I asked his Lordship to suspend decision until he had personally heard my statements, and to grant an inquiry previous to accepting my resignation.\n\nLord Stanley informed me by letter, that \"in compliance with my request, he had not formally accepted my resignation,\" and on 28th November last his Lordship observed, that he could not discuss with me the statements I transmitted on Hong Kong, as it had been resolved to make them a subject for the deliberation of the cabinet.\n\nUnder these circumstances, it is submitted, that I was fully justified in coming to England in July last to make what have been deemed important representations to Lord Stanley, Lord Aberdeen, Mr. Goulburn and the Lords of the Treasury, previous to the treaty of Nankin settled in January or February 1846; and it is consequently respectfully suggested, that I do not deserve to forfeit my commission, and be deprived of employment in Her Majesty's service, after having usefully, zealously and at no inconsiderable hazard and sacrifices, done my duty as a faithful servant of the Crown in China, whither I am again prepared to proceed when ordered.\n\nRelying on your equitable consideration, and with the request that as my official statements have been made the subject of cabinet discussion, so also will be this letter, and my removal or otherwise from Her Majesty's Service.\n\nI have, &c. (signed) R. M. Martin.\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nEnclosure in No. 12.\n\n55, Portland-place, 27 January 1846.\n\nIn answer to your letter of the 21st instant on the subject of Mr. Montgomery Martin's resignation of the treasurership of Hong Kong, I beg to say, that the only communication with him that I am aware of, was a letter which I wrote to him from Lancashire on the 13th November last, by desire of Lord Stanley, and which I presume he refers to in the extract of his letter of the 13th January last, which you have sent me, where he states that \"Lord Stanley informed me by letter,\" that \"in compliance with my request, he had not formally accepted my resignation.\"\n\nThe words of my letter of November 13th, after saying that Lord Stanley would on his return to town give him the interview he requested, were \"Colonel Wilbraham is desired by Lord Stanley to add, that in compliance with Mr. Martin's wishes, he has delayed the formal acceptance of his resignation of the Treasurership of Hong Kong, though he considers the resignation as final.\n\nWith reference to Mr. Martin's statement, that at the subsequent interview Lord Stanley \"observed, that he could not discuss with (him) the statements (he) transmitted on Hong Kong, as it had been resolved to make them a subject for the deliberation of the Cabinet;\" I am desired by Lord Stanley to say, that Mr. Martin must have greatly misunderstood him, as his expression to Mr. Martin was, that the matters on which Mr. Martin had written to him, such as the evacuation of Chusan, &c., were such as he could not discuss with Mr. Martin, they being properly subjects for the consideration of the Cabinet; an expression which bears a very different meaning from the construction which Mr. Martin appears to have put upon it.\n\nLord Stanley has further desired me to observe, that at the interview, Mr. Martin did not say a word to him about the confirmation or otherwise of his resignation; but expressed himself to the effect that he knew he had committed faults, and must bear the penalty of them.\n\nJas. Stephen, Esq.\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nI remain, &c. (signed)\n\nE. B. Wilbraham.\n\nEncl. in No. 12.\n\n-No. 12.-\n\n743-\n\nB 4\n\nNo. 13.-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228645, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "page_number": 373, "title": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "content_text": "J\n\nit. I identified it as the remains of the late Captain Da Costa. I myself took a walk on Sunday evening. I went in a westerly direction from Stanley towards Wong-ma-kok.** My way lay along the beach. I must have been within 800 or 900 yards from the spot where the spear-heads were found above referred to. I did not then see anything to attract my attention, except that I observed two large boats with boarding-nettings up. They appeared to keep aloof from the other small boats about. The Stanley people had noticed these two boats, and were at a loss to account for their appearance there.\n\n(6)\n\nTHOMAS MACDONNELL, Lieutenant Ceylon Rifle Regiment.\n\nERM-AYAK, Wong-I, was table-boy to the late Captain Da Costa. Unimportant—knows nothing.]\n\n(7)\n\nJUNG ACFORT, groom—I was horsekeeper to the late Captain Da Costa. I accompanied Dr Tweddell on Sunday night to look for my master. I visited the village of Wong-ma-kok. On returning from said village, when about as far as the Stanley barracks are from the village of Stanley, I picked up a three-pronged spear. I cannot say that it had marks of blood on it. I did not notice that the turf was stained with blood near where this spearhead was found. The night was dark. I do not think that cries of distress could have been heard from the spot by the villagers. I have lived with the late Captain Da Costa for three months. I have never been in the village of Wong-ma-kok before Sunday last.\n\n(8)\n\n3d March, 1849.\n\nCHARLES MAY Sworn, a Superintendent of Police. Having received intelligence on Monday morning the 25th of February, that Captain Da Costa and Lieutenant Dwyer were missing from the quarters at Stanley, I proceeded thither with a party of Police and Soldiers accompanied by Mr Caldwell. A soldier of the Ceylon Rifles mentioned that he had seen some drops of blood on a footpath. I accompanied him and perceived the blood distinctly on a path which I subsequently found led from the village of Wong-ma-kok to a fishing hut on the west side of the peninsula. I requested Assistant Superintendent Caldwell to trace the path downward, and I proceeded upward, and early observed the track of blood in single drops at average intervals of a yard apart for above 400 yards—in three or four places three or four drops were close together. The track of blood ended where the path entered between two low stone walls, leading to, and about 100 yards from the village. I searched carefully right and left, and in the path, but saw no blood. I then proceeded through the village, and at the east corner perceived several drops of blood on a stone. A path continued by this stone to the place where two spear heads were stated to me to have been found; this was about 200 yards on the east side of the village. For about 100 yards along this path near to the village there is a thick jungle, and a fire was then burning from the jungle to about thirty yards of the spot where the spear heads were found, and extended backward for more than one mile. I searched on each side the path and round about where the spear heads were found, but discovered no traces of blood, or of a struggle. Before I had entered the village I saw a man on the hill above, to whom I beckoned, and he came to me. I took him into custody, and ascertained his name to be Lo-asee-zoong. I examined his person and found a wound on the right side of the head—such a wound as would be caused by a heavy blow from a stick; had been recently inflicted, as upon pressing it, blood oozed out. On the string or band fastening up his trousers [string produced] I saw several marks of blood; also several spots of blood on his ankles, near the heels. He represented, by words and action, that this wound was occasioned by his falling on a stone. I and Mr Caldwell searched the village, and in three houses we saw wearing apparel hanging up, as if recently washed; they were scarcely dry. A piece of cloth used as a towel was hanging up in the house at the east corner; I saw spots of blood upon it, and evident signs of blood having been nearly washed out.\n\nThe next morning I landed at the fishing-hut accompanied by the Chief Magistrate Mr Hillier. We saw the lowest drop of blood on the footpath before mentioned, and examined another path diverging to the left. On this path I saw three drops of blood at some distance apart: the path led to a cave formed by large rocks resting on each other, in which several bundles of bedding and clothing, and a box containing clothing and some silver ornaments were found by me. A bundle containing clothing was found by Mr Hillier on the top of the rocks; and upon Police Constable Crevy examining it, a jacket on which were visible several marks of blood was found. I then proceeded up the path leading to the village before mentioned, and on which, about 90 yards in length, the track of blood was clearly seen. A very minute examination was made, and in front of the houses in the village three spots of blood were seen by me; and in the path leading from the village to the place where the spears were found I saw several drops of blood. I received information that blood had been seen on some rocks near the water, and upon proceeding there, found the spot to be about 300 yards from the fishing-hut; the path diverging from the path leading to the village, led by the place. There were large marks of blood in four or five places, as if a body had lain there some time, and on one prominent point of rock, there were marks of a body being dragged over.\n\nThe party were about leaving the place, having previously had a search made by means of boat-hooks in the sea near, when a broken spear found at the village fell from the Police-boat into the water: the boatmen were endeavoring to recover this, when the body of Mr Da Costa came to the surface and was brought ashore. When I arrived at Stanley on the morning of Monday the 26th February, three persons had been apprehended, and upon being questioned through the interpretation of Mr Caldwell, the first examined, Lo-akow, stated, that he lived in the village of Wong-ma-kok with his father; that he was at home the previous day. He did not see any Europeans, or any strangers in the village. I showed him some spears and spear-heads which had been found, and some broken sticks or handles. He identified a spear with a single blade as belonging to Tay-apo, but that it was kept in his father's house, a three-pronged spear as belonging to Chea-asam, who resided in the village, and a knife or clipper as belonging to Chea-thing.\n\nThe second prisoner, Lo-yet-show, stated, he lived in the village, but was from home fishing until dark; he did not see any Europeans or strangers that day near the village. He said the two spears exhibited to him were the property of Chea-asam, the knife or copper the property of Chea-apo, and the spear-ends to belong to Chow-asam.\n\nOne we found a towel on which were marks of blood, but it had been washed; there were several pieces of wet clothing found in one or two houses. On arriving at the village I found Lo-asee in custody of Mr May. I observed a wound on the right side of his head, which, on being questioned by me at the request of Mr May, he stated he received in falling upon a stone on the hill. The following day, having been informed that blood had been seen on some rocks near the water, I went with the Chief Magistrate and Mr May, and saw four or five spots† of blood on some rocks a short distance from the water. We made strict search, both on shore and in the water by means of boat-hooks, but discovered nothing. As we were about embarking, a portion of a bamboo pike on being passed into the boat fell into the water, and the man in the bows with a boat-hook trying to recover it, hooked up something white. I desired him to lift it up higher, and on his doing so I found it was the body of Captain Da Costa; I immediately called out. The swell being rather high, I went a short way into the water to secure the body; a rope was passed at it, and it was taken out of the water. I was requested by Mr May to question two boys and an old man whom we found in custody at the barracks on the morning of the 26th; the two former gave different statements as to whom certain spears and spear-heads, which were shown them, belonged. They all three denied having seen any Europeans in their village on the 25th.\n\nWhen the body of the late Captain Da Costa was taken out of the water, I felt for his watch, but it was not on his person, nor had he any rings on his fingers. On Monday, when I arrived at Wong-ma-kok, I observed that a fire was raging immediately behind the village. A spot was pointed out to me where some spear-heads were found a short distance from the village; the grass around was on fire. When I arrived at Wong-ma-kok, Mr May had an old man in custody, named Lo-Assee; he had a cut on his head, which he said he received in falling against a stone. I saw marks of blood on his waist-band, and also on his neck. The five men seized in the fishing-hut or boat might have seen the body of Captain Da Costa thrown into the water from their boat, but I think not. If it had been done in the day time, but I think not. If it had been done in the night time.\n\nI acted as Interpreter to Mr May when he questioned several prisoners that had been seized on Sunday at the village. I have heard the statement made by Mr May, and fully corroborate it, as to the questions put, and answers given by the Chinese.\n\nD. R. CALDWELL.\n\n(11)\n\nMR CALDWELL further states, that the following prisoners had been seized before his arrival at Stanley, and were landed eventually to the Police,—Lo-akow, Lo-yet-show, Chui-assey, Lo-assee alias Lo-yang-ghing. The following five men were seized in a fishing-hut near Wong-ma-kok,—Cauchi fook, Chuw-fook-tong, Cheng-keen-ee, Chan-we-tong, Chun-no-fat, Lo-lee-shi; the wife of Chai-apo, was brought into Victoria on Thursday night last by Police Constable Mars; Woog-sannie was brought into Victoria yesterday (Friday) by an Indian Constable.\n\n(12)\n\nLO-YANG-SHING alias Lo-asse, is arraigned as a prisoner.\n\n(Mr Caldwell on the request of the Jurymen is sworn in as Interpreter.\n\nThe nature of the preceding depositions are explained to him. He is duly cautioned, being informed that whatever he may say, it may be taken down in writing, and used as evidence against him at any future time.] He now states,—I am a native of Namchong, in Kwang-sheen. I am a husbandman, and have resided for many years in the village of Wong-ma-kok, on the island of Hongkong. On the 3d day of this month (corresponding with our Sunday the 25th February,) two English Officers came to the village of Wong-ma-kok about dark. They went into my house; myself was there, my wife was cooking, and my daughter-in-law was keeping the door up. One of the officers, the shorter one of the two, embraced my daughter-in-law, made motions with my hand for him to desist. The girl cried out; my wife went up and pulled the officer away. I also begged them to go away, when the tall officer struck me with a walking-stick on the head—a common stick. [produces a cicatrix on the right side of the head, which seems to be the result of the blow inflicted.] The villagers hearing the cries of my daughter-in-law, came in, and tried to get the officers away. As the villagers came into my house, they were struck by the officers. My head at this time was bleeding; blood came into my eyes; I could not see. A villager standing next door to me, named Chui-apo, with six of his men, came in; they armed themselves with spears; a conflict ensued between these men and the English officers. When it was dark. I could not see the issue of the encounter. The disturbance arose principally because Chui-apo and his men would not submit to the treatment displayed towards my daughter-in-law.\n\nI did not interfere. I think that was wrong. The names of Chui-apo's men are as follows,—Chow-ping, a native of Kwai-shien. Chui-abing, native of Nautow, Cheng-asam, from Kweishen, Chui-assey alias Chung-kek-sing of [illegible]. The names of the others I do not know. Chui-apo has lived in the village for 1 year; he was a sailor, and returned to his native place, San-chuen in Kwei-skeen. Hoy-yeen-ping has been in the village but one month; he has a license from the Government to make gunpowder there. Some of the others have been residents of the village for two or three years. They did not till the ground. They eat grass, and sometimes go out fishing. They are not regularly employed by Chui-apo. Seven or eight hundred took part in the scuffle with the English officers. It first began in my house; 5 or 6 men first entered. Their names I have given before. I do not know the others by name. The English officers did not fall in my house, but they were wounded there. I did not see any blood on the ground in my house. The officers rushed out of the house, but were pursued by the assailants. The name of my daughter-in-law is Lo-chow-sing; she is aged 18 years. She was taken from the village on Sunday night—at all events I have not seen her since. The officers used to visit the village usually. I never knew them to converse with my daughter-in-law during any of these visits. The two men on Sunday, before coming into my house, had entered Chui-apo's, where they had interfered with women, but they were driven out. In the house, during the struggle, the tall English officer wrested a spear from Chui-apo, knocked him down, and kicked him. In aiming a blow at Chui-apo, the spear broke. I do not know whether Chui-apo was wounded.\n\nI can identify the spear that was seen, who had been away from the village fishing for the day. [Several spears are then shown to the prisoner, and he identifies the broken one.] He identified a broken stick which he said belonged to Chow-chong, who broke it in beating a cow shortly after it had calved; he accounted for several spots of blood upon the handle from the latter circumstance.\n\nThe third prisoner, Chuy-see, said he foretold good and bad weather; he had been at the village of Wong-ma-kok lying with the Lo family about one month; he was in the house all day, and saw no Europeans or strangers. The village of Wong-ma-kok is situated on a level space of about five acres, near the top of the peninsula between Stanley and Ty-tam bay. There are four families living there, the heads of which are named respectively, Chou-sheeng, Tau-agar, Tai-apo, and Lo-see. These latter particulars I ascertain from the Assessment Return for Police Rate. I have compared the head of a spear found on the east side of the village by Police Constable Marshall, with the handle of a spear found by Lieutenant Maxwell 95th Regiment, and find the broken parts to correspond; on the handle there are marks of blood.\n\nWhen the body of the late Captain Da Costa was taken out of the water, there was not any watch on his person, nor had he any rings on his fingers.\n\nCHARLES MAY.\n\nWILLIAM ROWLAND MAXWELL being sworn, states.—I am a Lieutenant in H. M. 95th Regiment. On Tuesday last, the 27th February, I visited Wong-ma-kok. In the village I found the shaft of a spear, apparently had recently broken. I found it thrust into a bundle of hay. The shaft now produced is the one I found; it bore marks of blood.\n\nWILLIAM ROWLAND MAXWELL, 95th Regiment.\n\n(10)\n\nwas found by the party of Dr Tweddell, a 3-pronged spear.] it was after the spear was broke that the officers shed out. When I was wounded, my wife shouted out, \"Help, help. save my life.\" The villagers then rushed in, but they did not come armed; they pulled the officers out, and in attempting to do so, they were struck with sticks. The villagers then got spears. The officers did not make any resistance before the conflict ensued and before the spear was broken to escape. In the house of Chui-apo there were two women, one aged 16, a married girl, daughter-in-law of Chui-apo; the other was an old woman his wife. I overheard the result of the conflict, nor do I know what has become of the officers. The Stanley officers set fire to the grass. Late on Sunday a party of officers and men came to the village and enquired what had become of the two officers. I replied that they had been interfering, and a disturbance had taken place, but that I did not know where they had gone to.\" I suspected that the two English officers had been killed, from the way they were fighting, but I was afraid to say so to those that came in search. My eldest son was outside my house during the conflict; he afterwards returned, but did not say anything. I have not had communication, nor yet seen any of the villagers who took part in the conflict.\n\n(13)\n\nLo-yang-sing, after having been duly cautioned in a similar manner to the last deponent, states,—I am a son of the last deponent, and reside at the village of Wong-ma-kok. On Sunday last, I remember two English officers coming to the village; at the time I was not in my father's house, having out-door occupation. I saw them going into several houses looking after women, and into my father's house amongst the rest. On my entering my father's house, I saw one of the officers embracing my sister-in-law; my father interfered, and desired him to desist. He would not; my father tried to pull him away, but could not. The villagers then came in; they were not called, they came of their own accord. They were then armed with spears and knives. They fought with the officers in the house. A spear was wrested from Chui-apo by the tall officer. I did not see any wound inflicted by this officer. I saw him aim a blow at one of the villagers.\n\nDANIEL RICHARD CALDWELL Sworn, states,—I am Assistant Superintendent of Police. On the morning of the 26th ultimo (Monday), in consequence of information received at the Station that two officers were missing from Stanley, I accompanied Mr May to that place for the purpose of making search. One of the men of the Rifles having stated that he had observed spots of blood on a footpath, he took us to it. I was requested by Mr May to trace westward, that is down the hill towards Stanley bay. I observed single spots of blood along the footpath, about the distance of three and four feet apart. In some places several spots were together. I traced the blood to within about 50 yards from a fishing-hut, and about 100 yards from the water. I went to the hut, which I examined. I found Chinese there, whom I took into custody and sent to the barracks in charge of some of the Rifles. I afterwards examined a sampan in the water close to the fishing-hut. I examined it, but found nothing suspicious about her. I then retraced the footpath, and observed the single spots of blood all the way to within a short distance of the village of Wong-ma-kok. I searched the houses with Mr May. In one house I had been frequently at the village.\n\nQuery—Swears—Ed.C.M.\n\n11\n\naway, saying it was improper for them as other relatives with the villagers. Samning his girl, crying out, came and winked them\n\nthe common people; but they struck them, still they began to fight.\"—Register's Report.\n\n§§ly through Chui-apo and his men being vexed at what they had done, that the fray occurred. He it and man, and only wished to go away.\n\n¶ \"It was Chui-Apo.\"—Ibid.\n\n$1 answers often came about shooting, but seldom came to the house. Frid.\n\n****The villagers came and took hold of the officers with their hands to pull them out of the house. The officers resisted, and struck them with their sticks.\"\n\n—List.\n\n306", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229566, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "content_text": "Age \n\nherself and infant daughter, were \n\ncalamity Entirely \n\ncut off. \n\nThat the said \"ticias smithers the month of January \n\nhundred and forty a proportion \n\nlowa \n\ndy creating \n\n\" \n\nby this \n\nfree \n\nof his to a \n\nprusion pond and the one mouth swore if such proportion been, paid fin cases. \n\nof his saing disabled (your) beheres that her late husband would have been entitled to a pension during \n\nthe remainder of his life. \n\n\"That it has \n\nbeen \n\na \n\npetitione. \n\nto your Majesty's governmento always willing to take into consideration \n\nand render assistance to the survivors of \n\npersons killed in their device and a lit Ke.. \n\nwill be found on reference to the Police. Reports that such was the case in to the said Thomas smithers \n\nYour Petitioner therefore humbly \n\nprays that she \n\nVOL. I. No. 9. \n\nChina \n\nOverland \n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 28 \n\nDiplomatic Department. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Ilis Excellency For Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendrut of Trade, de, &., is pleased to direct that the following Notification, issued by 1ler Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanglane, be published for the general information of British subjects in China, \n\nBy Order, \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON, \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 30th August, 1848. \n\nBRITISH CONSULATE ORPION, SHANGHAE, \n\n12th August, 1848. \n\nNOTIFICATION. \n\nA Boats \n\nBoots \n\nHis Excellency the Officiating Tapu-tai having communicated his intention of sending certain naval vessels, enumerated in the margin, to cruise about in the neighbourhood- hood of Gutzia Island in search of Pirates, and for the protection of the native shipping, it is hereby made known that the above specified fleet is duly commissioned by the Chinese Authorities for the service on which it is \n\n5 Sin all da. to. employed, and that each vessel carries a distinguishing Flag of White with \n\n4 Canton Lurokas. a Red border, and is provided with: a Written Authority of Commission. \n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, \n\nConsul. \n\nTo the British Subjects within the Consular Jurisdiction of Shaughae. \n\nbe allowed \n\nDiplomatic Department. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nmay some small pension \n\nhave some resistance rend to enable her to \n\nsupport \n\n4 \n\nherself and daughter a present left intirely unprovided for. \n\nAnd your petition to \n\nEver pray te. \n\nIn the accompanying paper will be found of the death of the late Thomas Smithers. \n\nlue steered for. \n\nfoot a low water.\" \n\nMail. \n\nSEPTEMBER, 1848. \n\n64 \n\nPRICE $4 PER ANNUM. \n\nand consult with \"turespon ordinary were givun to \n\nnow reaved in griply a petition, fwa Chu-kwa-yu sad the other Buty thongs, stating that they have maturely calmulated on the plan of raising a contibution; from Tire sawdx \n\njunk and me who hire \n\nKerred on the amounts to bu caminabeud with, of they prosout actalls, qui they rogues i orders tabagiven \n\ndhuli \n\n*ximating \n\nof Nether \n\nSix months ago (April 6) we noticed u enost ni reeing so many armed foreigners, \n\nsonrilat Dr Bettelheim, Hermiastonney, deserted their houses and made off towards subject, ad obedies or to our wounds we have had been murdered in Ben-choo in Sep- the hills, bus six or seven of theta were \n\nWe ther, considered overtaken and enrried to Nagpa, tomber proceding. the information as being too ragus to he Ita for tre Chinese authorities, who of mothers woning the freigla aipuris bott relied on; and are glad to learn that,course do not participate in the ignorance insight, from cutributions that they have ublicly after a voor's interval letters have been of the common people in confoundling all received from the reverend gentleman, foreigners together as fuglishren, to call for the contribution to air. Thi dated Napcking, Loo-choo, August 27, Père Danicourt to account for such tawar- \n\nen beide 0115 on \n\nkat the connu 1848. He says his puissionary Inbours antable proceelings, and to convince hier ersal re safe and stable is count; and the sail enchants, in Cam conling actively forward to make a are still regarded with jealousy'; but he that though the Edict of Toleration gives sacritice for the rafie gedara perked of meaty, an seems to be subjected to no pergcution.aim and others liberty to preach ad praeghy of conteonation and es.ec. Beside e cetition) w S this procla alase in the hurdlerances to his freedom of time their religion at any of the open puris, hagis e almu to the Futy Hings for their alar utation, giving dish or orders is the junk-and Jocomotion. His wife writes that the it lone not authorize them to make hostilemon. The 19th Any of the present tooth ed goromument has compelled the restoration invos, nor constitute them proctectors of as the dude fan which the cations for aid wid leg to be levied en exportacio of souther Goods of soms property which had been stolen natin converts in the interior, against the Let there be net die least opportun er trepediment from lain. \n\noperation of their own laws doctrine gre. A careat and special proclamacion. Obc which we have been not a little surprized to hear defended. \n\nWe are enabled to state the following ticulara respecting the affairs af D. Rustomjce & Co. of Cantou ;--- \n\npar. \n\nM. \n\nplying \n\nORY FA ANCIENS TO DX DOSYAM TED. \n\nCn Chinaen Cottons, plau, 234 dj vá, and \n\nYes Clock, \n\nOf Paro Danicourt himself we have not \n\nCourse Grace Modlig \n\nJis (Cafe Cotto \n\nForeign Lung Colon, \n\nRay Coto, uoleened, \n\ninfertor Fort, \n\n| before heart; but judging from the present Meerwanjee Jeejeebhoy, a partner in case, we infer that the appropriateness of the hons, hearing in Bombay at the failure the title he bears rests upon his being,— of Dadabhoy Rustomjee, hastily started !for China to investigate the affaire of the firm, and to protect the interests of the creditors. Upon his arrival he found \n\nOf that stabburn craw \n\nOf errail knights, whom all men grant \n\nTo be the tenc Cinch Milltant; Such as do build their faith upon \n\nThe July text of pike and gsi ; \n\nAnd pave their doctrine orthodox \n\nBy apestolic blows and knocka, \n\nWe also extract from the Friend of \n\nI \n\n13ch cleaned, \n\noh gluing Boston, \n\n10. \n\nElo \n\nWhite Lead, \n\nColuared Paper \n\nFlowed and Note Paper, \n\nStuchsen, de 1,5, &areen du. ), Tellur \n\nTay Sugar, Potidean, White so \n\n11. \n\nDi \n\nSugar Candy \n\nሱ \n\nKwangbang, dan, \n\nGreat Glager, \n\nTony Chry Sucks, \n\nCents. \n\n\"1\" \n\nPicen 2 \n\n· Dale \n\nWhico. \n\nPcular de \n\nFlowers and Flant Fellow (Sen bed) Tez, \n\nMetropolitan Gods. \n\nBlack Treppe \n\nBlack and Gruen, du.. \n\nBarn Wood, \n\nBesides to abors, there are other misellaneous zuids \n\nun them may be infeed from claccounts in the bay \n\n- \n\nTAIFOONG. \n\nGREAT PESTROMSON OF LIFE AND PROVERTY \n\nOx Thursday night, (21st August,) this part of the coast of China was visited by a storm, of which a contemporary says, \"though much low has vçe currell, it did not in strength amount to a bi- foong\" hat witch, from the disastrous accounts arriving from all quartere, appears to us to have been one of us! severity. \n\nThe following Extract of a letter from Mr Vice-Consul Robertson to Rutherford matters in such a state as to induce him! Alcock, Esquire, British Consul at Shanghae, reporting the restoration of Land-marks mediately to call a reeting of the crodi to the anchorage of Woesung, which had been swept away during the late Typhoon, ore, to whom he explained how he was eir- and furnishing Directions for the guidanes of Ship Masters entering the Wersungsted and proposal to place biz affas Mu Consul Alcocl: has issued the follow- in the hands of Trustees. To this theying Notification respecting the duties pay- River, is published for genarni Information— \n\nagreed, but afterwards, finding every thing able on Sagar api other Chinese produce on which these Poles are erected being about 16 feet aoove the level of the river: There is an old declined to net, and one of the creditors, and the open ports of China. \n\nTwo doen Poles, in buight fit feet, the baskets on then 30 feet from the ground the Battery in great confusion, the gentlemen named shipped in British vessels from Hongkong TYte bet Ecu (2, \n\nThrer Toles in triangle, at low water mark fifty feet in height; a board painted red with a Byramjee Couverjes Bbuhs, ontneed white hall in the centre, ist lost squere, being fixed thereon, at 51 feef from the ground. \n\nThe directions for guter he Wosung Reserate as follows:-In sighting flue Line of Battery Moorwananjeebecently received letters Shangae's Flamation regarding ship-sokware, Hib year, 711, th, 7th: stay. (th \n\nan action before the Supreme Court. Mr China a tunelution of the Toutes of which can be all noted bui the and Joss Poles et Pennsben, a white-washed mark in the wall with single Pole and small board from his friends in Bombay, Sondering him men by Chinese on British bottonis, August, 184) wül be seen. Keep Paoushan Pageda (a small contend-shaped roof of a Temple, very low, and but little seen above the trees) to the right of lege marks, until the Board on the iriangir just created relatanecan certain torus, which warranted wherein the right claimed by Sir John in a line with and between the two Jiss Poles, which it will be, bearing S. 70 W, when they may luna iu proposing a settlement with bis Davis is recognized, which had been pre- \n\nereditors, by which it was contemplated to viously resisted by the local unthorities. In the event of i working breeze, the Board in line with the Northernst Joss Pule will pay up the whole debt within three years, \n\nCorrespondence with Kering in China Hell No pear the N. W. end of the host on the East side, and the hourd in line with the Southern Jusu Pole will clear the Eastern edge of the beak on the Weat side, of the Chennai, giving 13 and 16 tiine being allowed him to communicate, Septenter, 1847 and Proclamation of Tu \n\nthe Marino Magtérate of amoy, No 01, April 1. farther with his father, who he thought \n\nNOTIFICATION. would assist him; and by whom securities By Order, \n\nBelfie C, 1848. In Bonsbay would be found for the All-i \n\nSTANCE, 15/A Seploraber, 3 ment of his agreement. To this they with F. E. the Tocutae respecting the Duties to H. M. Consul having been a correspondence al needed, scop pho Parsue above are on Suge des Chinees produes mentioned, who would listen to nothing brought into port by British Ships, the con lon Rifles, 077,—Total 1428: (fe0ficers but obtained a decree in his favour. On Celominee dat Sugar arriving from Amay or being 82 Native Officers 10; Non-coa-bia one of the other creditors Mirow Mrter of the onstar Pets, with Certificate of missioned Officers, Drummers, and Buglera Meerwanice into the Insolvent Debtor's Day prid, shall be exempt from furder payment Priann, when he petitioned the Judge, from Hongkong or any Foreign Part, or from \n\nof Baty of suel, produce, and that Sugar bianght 201.) \n\nby whom a special court was held on the way Consular Pert in Cina, wins Certificate ul 18th instant, when Meerwanjee waa al-Duty, shell in that case pay the Duty fixed in the tilt hall-past 2, when the hardcage was at its losed to like his petition, and afterwards Tariff, namely, a per sent ad velurem, as an height-e barneler being so los as £8.99. \n\nun+h/1;tte'li[ a tieje the Imports. released on the security of Mr Joseph Jar- \n\nFortunately the China houts for the alarm carly, Noties is hereby given, therefore, to consignees and made for the sheltered erucks on the Coulom dine and Mr Crawford Kerr. The aire \n\nside; but even there they seem to have suffered and others who may have given guarantees for the are Dow placed inthe hands of Mr Cey payment of Day on the Sugar recently brought | avverely, as a anumber of sell qud cargo boats were 04cial Administrator of Insolvent Estates. inte Port, that the said Duty of 6 per cent is pay-driven on shore, and many of their consiliorked. able through the New Custom-leuse, and it is A few large juuks and a loveli vemomed at anchor gested that the open accounts of the several off the Lower Bazaar, all of which were destroyer sips may be sivsed. \n\nduring the night. Of her which came ou share opposite Urcitar liblings about midnight, the extway with the exception of three un furry men, were lande:l in safty. \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 27th September. 1348. \n\nOverlang China Mail. \n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9870 SEPTEN \n\nMIRTIE-A! Vistoria, Hongkong on the pich foste the wife of She Rev. Mr Jesrixe, of a Bon. \n\nBIRTH-AL West Point, Viotoria, on the 12th inst Mrs Ecart, of a Daughter, \n\nBIRTH-AC Yame, on the 31st uldme, the wife of D. J. MARCOWAN, H. D., of a Daughter \n\nMARRIAGE. On the 8th of June, at St Mary's, Bay- ensione atuare, London, by the Rev. J. I. Únores. Recto, Major Sampra Rarvogn, of the 31 ara Artery, to CA, third Daughter of Joseph Hee, Esq., X.P. \n\nHEATH-AWiraganatum, ou the 27th Jylg, Quarter Master Bergeat Tin Cankar, of the 26 Kogistens, KINK. \n\nPRATER-Drowned off the Typs near Macao, in fuc taitoony of the 1st utino, Mr J&S MACHTAGAY, Jate et Victoria; and Mr EDWARD 12s, formerly 1 mote of the Robroner Exload, Queens, \n\nDEATH-Drowned at the spa, near Macao, in the taimung of the 3:81 ultimo, Capron Pass of the Dti- \n\nBurp C DEATH-Drewood at Campstogusnor, in the taalborg of the 31s ulim, Captait, HATE and the Chief Sinto of the eiving Hip frabel linens, \n\nTEAT IM Browned, with his only fun, at Clean \n\nehow Bay, to the womward of langkong, 10 the tattoora of the 21st uitime, Mr Tumas Sms, Inspeter of The Hongkong Puiloc. \n\nLIK, lure of the P. & D. 8. N. Cu's Foestring Ship Fort BEATHA Sugaros, on the 34 lost, Cagl. Thas \n\nDEATH-AL Shangliae, on the til, fuslant. Mr i \n\nAt b \n\nt Daughter of the Way. Ur Legge. \n\non the 19th, inst, Ligatellani \n\nF. Beques, of H. M. Stramuralesa. \n\nArt:lery. \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON. \n\nPer \n\nVIDEO \n\nSepz.: Sept | Sent t \n\nPre \n\n& 10 8 \n\n40 \n\nX \n\nSappers and Minora. with erent...... \n\n13 110 170 112 100 27:36 81: 1.0 Ceylon Rides,..... 101 3083 20 00 70 551 \n\nH \n\n| 294 300 203 | 102: 180 181 \n\nI want, the late Dieutenant-Governor of 1.wangtung, has been saannaed to Court, ostensibly to receive office, but in reality. it is armise, to give his opinion of the Present state of foreign affaiss. The sub stance of the recent news from Entopo has been forwarded to the Emperer, and the \n\nevents are yo extraordinary, that even the \n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, \n\nL'onsul. \n\naddition to the instances formerly given of outrages committed by the crews of co- Yeys on the cost the following parti- culars lure reached ns:-- \n\nOn the afternoon of the 20th of Augustin, eling that Chinses bicely who ship \n\nan affray took plaen at Ningpo between some Purtagnese sailors and the Chinese, in which two of the latter were killed and \n\nAs all for \n\nothers severely wounded. \n\n(From the Friend of Chlua, September 10.) \n\nPara eodle chuti pus Patice weuring to the Course Fury for Foreign Nationa \n\nWoo, Offolatione Taoutro of Shanghan, ke.. ka, hereby issues İne commands, Ús tho 17th bustani, 1 received \n\nIn Bosnkosa, enely in the furencoon the fall in the aromate attractul atientin, and the Aa- sistant Harbourmaster went wound the shipping, warmed there of what might be expecte.l. \n\nBut little fate spents to have been entertained till the approach of uning, when the sign The Barometer indicates bad weathes\" was seen tying at the Ang-staff in wont at Yalder's bill. \n\nFronts Ge the wind gradually oversed, \n\nIn the morning the Colony exhibited a mest melaretely appearance. In the harbour several vessels disanostel, others on shore, and the whole beach strewed with the wrrels of t hänesu juoking in the hs of which dead bodies were occasi ally seen Boating; while on store, every house \n\ndespatch from the Provincial Govoruer un rich \n\npay Duties so the New Custom-house, and the Chinasa at the Kiang-hae (Out) Cust-19: grofere I now hotels as flows find that the foreign expred to the stin suffered more me less,tiles \n\nsive distinct and intelligible polers, and on the receipt \n\n\"Foreign in \n\ntorn from the roots walla ievelled verandaha blown to pieces--21:1 wherever a gazolen plot fer- \n\nas been reused to inquire farther into their by the inhabitats, the friends of the de- customary apathy of las Celestial Majesty igners are there looked upon as English nature, of which no Chinese is better in-cased crowded round the British Consulated this dismic jou wil bsan a Fencianuncios in le- merly existed, the pla da napi bults were either DEATH-A Viatorin, or the auth Inst., ASHE MURRAY formed than Hwang. It's ideas on the to end the Comente assistance in appre disa that hernatter whru either broken sort off, ur fave up by the rocks \n\nhanés import Suwar or other! resocha i R hanghao, auca vels aro \n\nThe smesed table, shewing the state of the subcut may not be very comprehensive bending the wurderers; but though this \n\nBarometer declagg a night, bes been in the catiulation of European politicians, request was backed by the authoritics, and always to be regarded as determining the butted to be \n\nby the mastors of other Lorebas (ton erecced to a New Clest in-hou \n\ndnud if goods are imported by a really lovelen furnished by the Harbour-mator -- but key are certain to be marked by \n\nBer. Tras. the New Tartif thever Chinese pod shou Pasaksuvas por ACHILLES, 1 ] tamerrow, the prudence and good senac, ou gready in twelve in emberi then in the river. Manchorage, sad my Ducs der specias partest \n\nSullivan very properly declined to intor dare to pycało, with the prospect of escaping the heavy, 29 Justanter Kentang Dapsain. Beste advance of other imperial councillors. \n\nand availing of the light Duty, then the gonds will be Iwan was Keving's most trusted na fere in the marier fartier tlun by advising! goufianater to Beverinent, aut fi re benefit of at Sept, \n\nthat the neensed should be handed over to | Lie Customos rechte, \n\nbe pus coring that in ball b viser, es on after he was deprived of office the District Magistrate, who, after exauti exnutter thesoby You will at the sate line whic 20 and the Imperial Commissioner neveration, might send them to Mateo for alt i lini Ceiling sinis, Frouded, Defiled gaged in foreign adThis withent comentting \n\nFor SMarsden, Han Alures. For vez. Mesurs 1 . 51005, and in Per Singapore, Mess C. Plac, 3acker trou, au Chinese, \n\nWe are luppy to be enabled to report a \n\nfalse rutes, ad that a punishment \n\ngreat improvement in the health of the him. The office is now entrusted to a main by their own authorities; and this advice insearing (1) the Engli \n\nof auch inferior qualifications, that Keying acted on \n\nprobly see the necessity of having wang's counsel and cooperation iu raio- once to opening the City of Canton April next. \n\nwith.\" On recript of the the \n\n1 Conanl to request his Doperation, now alno, na izolaca \n\nclosely and Intolligibly, addruseling this Proois- The other caso, in which Père F. X. Ta-ation to the Chinese ineteats and to the Duly fengy nicourt, the Apustulie Missionary of Ning-fer of it for a fer the due to simp \n\npondnet your royarske, \n\ne perangaurdă contevin vit, giving pe, figured us principal, took place on the cause of or youtuston; and should Chinese 13th of Auguet, chout forty miles from Eing the protune of the tuner and put intock \n\nMercitants in Foreign vesels to carry Rugated bae, the capital of Chusan. It appears Shangliae, ar shoud Chincs pensle import any sort of that some native Roman Catholic eonverts \n\ntroops during the present mouth. In Juue, le douths were 10. in July 37, in August 16, white in September they have fallen 14, the number of sick in Hospital being 57. Since August the whole of the \n\nRegiment has been quarter on Sou, the new Governor General, who baril ships in the harbour, with the bap-now holds the appointment for the who had an interest in one of the temples, \n\nnagement of Barbarian Affairs, lately ro- \n\nmile whatever in Fercigu val. In alch Duy will be levied according to the Fow Tarif. Tling whc. destinately digobay, will gave their goods gondsgated \n\nand \n\nseld for sig benent of the Craton TOWELS \n\nali ovoru:dy obcy this, Cherish a hopes of \n\nevash, and \n\nnd thereby involve yourselves hi a ligny vei \n\nTucukwany, 28th year, 7th mouth, 24tle dag, \n\nCarefrak ngainst Ptrates. Wow, Oficiating Tanning of Shongban, &o., &c., heto by kee a procianin \n\n1sthet romanda The \n\nChee-hich of this face having represented to in that \n\nidly \n\n31st Auz. 10 \n\n.. \n\n3. NE \n\nheavy pas \n\n11 \n\n90.24 N.IS. \n\nJ \n\n+3 \n\nugly weader \n\n1 \n\n1. 20 in M.K \n\nW****. \n\nA M $3.5M \n\nInscriure \n\n9. \n\n\" \n\nH. by X \n\n- \n\n2.45 \n\n2 \n\n$12 \n\n13 \n\n21 \n\n:: \n\n| \n\nн \n\n4 \n\n. \n\n29ki \n\nJE. \n\nJa \n\n5 \n\n11 \n\n59 15 \n\nBy Soperaterra's. \n\n5,3). 24.37 \n\n8 May \n\n20.45 \n\nور \n\nE by N. \n\nጉ \n\nF. Nahig, heavy p008 \n\nkarang graffiat Times wavy pu \n\nSWly der:n \n\nThe following is an enumeration of the disaster which bufet dis Shipping, so far no we have been able to asuintain themi \n\nThe Beberg dyrk. W shirat Cizruin Floodinga; halla since been got off well legtle damage, ex- cupt the lowa offre and gratuara \n\nTho American brig Charles ilirpants, 5, eamq'ato wreek at die Boa Bay! Sturent stuce andò iz pullar angʻim. \n\nThe Metal banque tingui Sarant, en cone sul Green Lane, Sligh: hopes tersall entertained of wring the samel. The British iron bangue Jean kan, anded foul of the Eliza Ferunt, and trus baiyaenoda real folosites. \n\nThe British skip Milan Mont. Load with Sugar Live Shanglore, word avente in the pst in sety; hd the Join Laiva sivil) at down upon her, and seller against the De Heranecone, by which śe was nu merupin injurce dead sile has had to alerte her entge \n\nMurchants Wand-ying-sking and others, in which they The Spanish his Do (ferencias, Ici uusin tujuan, how statest stywe care for more receivals, ad fee-copatust \n\nnedors \n\nof the junk Thatch ship Kin form, wrecked on que our end of \n\nthe expenses of car ride to assist le defraying \n\ntato Ave ser afsendt tuse, the date the istuin, elvas to the village et Makers, this trees of her \n\npectively by the tire mondi Pun, Lah, Sony, Hon, Taj, i grew seven- \n\nPat efforts. Great part of the convit \n\nents are now fit for duty. Of the 14 oled anal officer at 1leang-shan were desirous of turning it into a Catholic teks during the month two only have for promotion, but his request, en account Clupei, in opposition to the majority of \n\nalty Aurmont and special Protiaanation. whom it belengel. From cd within the last ten days. \n\nthe pervous to of informality, has been refused; a reelt The Ceylon Rides, upon whom the or- quite unexpected, and which has engaged which the converts had the worst, and \n\naged words the disputants come to blows, in August, 1946)° dary duties of the garrison have devotee, the attention of the Board of War. The \n\ntine in the enjoyment of comparative people under his jurisdiction paise him beaten, were handed over to the Mag- ¡ two of their number, after being severely Lealth, and at present there are fewer for at being greedy of money. Ile \n\nhospital thun at any former elf lind frequently expressed his total, tate of Tugine. As you us M. Tanie het received a petition from the junk owners and Jeriod, except for a short time last year. indifference rospecting the homeurs con- \n\ncourt received the news of their imprison A furtight ago, however, two deaths oe- \n\nferred upon bis, and be readiness en, he went to the Tautas at Ningpo: urs in one night, but bett: men were surrender rice ali, in order to tool to ad insisted on their Fouration, tral Uist \n\nopium &makers. \n\nretired an quiet life. His administration their presents should be apprehended and gene diet, eruits, dog, Froth.) each The Bid bazgau Sutopiru, diffte aut lieyond Siren kiloving \n\nTable shows he on- has hitherto been marked by great sev parished. His denundet being attend to combura arcarding to is classifeasam But Isnel totally dissisted: as aface bean towed sate tike pr parative sekuese since our last report city in the dispensation of justice, dea No. 21, and with about thinly valun- cine vercle, with the cost of yoviding their asian \n\nbar Us Chinos Ja sata. to, M. Danicourt hired Portuguese Lorinchetiver the mintributions are or whited to mount, it le proper to stare that as Daugh vouring to overwe evinloers by cniet toere bem the ether borclus in purt, meal. the expensou will be for Geneight, the Frimurtes only were formerly patience. include in the Present Force, or fe not seem to be on the decrease. \n\nNevertheless crio does \n\nsailed to Chusan. The natives, fight tratton. f ten safe and convenient mouthor junks are Akolected and delivered over for the use of the marine, make of curpurison the same plot 18 now \n\nThe intest way that of a perlipin, the expense of wages and provisons will not be seal, ber. The forces however are thus of the heavy rains in the north, continue to! \n\nwho arrived at Man the very day to \n\nof lates that claso delimate to chalibuting received unerated, their actual numbers, officera arrive. Several rivers are said to have He was long with a portion of crew, dlately \n\ndoinge sppeared, (China Mail, sgten.ber 7, No. 186) | will not be adequate to die expenditure. At the present \n\neisergency, we four thạt say 10ßently in supplying as kolen 150 eurṛrity : but from what we can learn, unless alance w! Ingade te pomelims for the sapirs of Kufen the ty \n\nby car auprovets, he may escape conv be plenter, and enfure we have deviscal and agrad to the sui hentay in gruring the cast how a stridatin she be sessed on to, Chizone much evidence as will easily & European Cart Catton Coll, and offer guns exported from. His perti \n\nJunio \n\nand we request that the Duty Hong, brorizma to winter \n\nAccounts of the disnetrons evasequences. \n\nsac, the 234 instant, Feing.---Ar- inmulated whele districts, and the nast tillery, 80: Sappers and Minere, 38; Gan! terrible mvague of the flag-lo are ap- Laucars, 89; 9th Regiacot, 361; Cey- prehended, if the mains continue. \n\nThus, illamgh many jaks large and shall have writed \n\nAll if we reckon up the hire of the Braves and of tho \n\nfound to be shormona; and acadh. net war fanks genpot de buikt all at once by gen- \n\nTie eeliezmer San P. Novhy, was totally disa \n\nmarted off by Wes Naval Smores \n\nThe British mohon er zekana Queen's thouula were cat “wazy to use her fin gudng on there \n\nThe Thite trz niel Watson, diffted to the momptly vid The Carposing panjati panduk, kad kasinoeste \n\nสปาไ \n\nThe 13 arque Coulatque gave bich, with, a oaider be pardon of wet cargo dannĝed: 2000 packages of Jes are to do anus by snelion \n\nThe Hemen Alvis: Julimar, ned back from see, having Insi \n\nrudder hats, sprang head of matman, and last for ada \n\nThe Spanish; brigantine Carmen abo pau kuch, in a leaky state, having lost a\n\n## Step 1\nThe task requires proofreading OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, transforming the text into standard Markdown, and correcting spelling errors, spacing issues, and other formatting problems while preserving the original word count and order.\n\n## Step 2\nThe given text appears to be a collection of historical records and news articles from the \"China Overland Mail\" dated September 28, 1848. The text includes various sections such as government notifications, news, births, marriages, deaths, and reports on typhoons and their aftermath.\n\n## Step 3\nTo begin proofreading, we need to correct obvious spelling errors, remove extra spaces, and fix hyphenation or line-break artifacts. For example, \"calancity\" should be \"calamity\", \"savo 'ticias\" should be \"said Ticias\", and \"prusion pond\" should be \"prisoner or provision pond\" but based on context, it seems \"prision\" is likely meant to be \"provision\".\n\n## Step 4\nRejoining broken sentences and restoring paragraph breaks where necessary is also crucial. For instance, sentences split across lines without logical reason should be merged.\n\n## Step 5\nThe text contains sections that need to be formatted into Markdown. Headers, sub-headers, bold types, and tables need to be formatted accordingly. For example, main titles should be preceded by \"#\", sections by \"##\", and bold text should be surrounded by \"**\".\n\n## Step 6\nFile references should not have any spacing inside parentheses, e.g., \"XCR (85)72\" should be \"XCR(85)72\". Page numbering lines, if detected, should be kept as they are, usually six lines in total, three at the page beginning and three at the end.\n\n## Step 7\nNewspaper texts might not make sense due to OCR errors in recognizing columns. Reorganizing them like a puzzle might be necessary to restore the original meaning.\n\n## Step 8\nData in tables should be properly organized to reconstruct the table format.\n\n## Step 9\nSome Chinese writing might start from right to left, and if such reversal is observed, the text should be reversed to meet modern reading habits.\n\n## Step 10\nThe output should be in HTML using for paragraphs and \n only if absolutely necessary.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nAge\n\nherself and infant daughter, were\n\ncalamity Entirely\n\ncut off.\n\nThat the said \"Ticias smithers the month of January\n\nhundred and forty a proportion\n\nlowa\n\ndy creating\n\n\"\n\nby this\n\nfree\n\nof his to a\n\nprovision pond and the one mouth swore if such proportion been, paid fin cases.\n\nof his saying disabled (your) believes that her late husband would have been entitled to a pension during\n\nthe remainder of his life.\n\n\"That it has\n\nbeen\n\na\n\npetitione.\n\nto your Majesty's governmento always willing to take into consideration\n\nand render assistance to the survivors of\n\npersons killed in their device and a lit...\n\nwill be found on reference to the Police. Reports that such was the case in to the said Thomas smithers\n\nYour Petitioner therefore humbly\n\nprays that she\n\nVOL. I. No. 9.\n\nChina\n\nOverland\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 28\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency For Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendrut of Trade, de, &., is pleased to direct that the following Notification, issued by 1ler Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanglane, be published for the general information of British subjects in China,\n\nBy Order,\n\nA. R. JOHNSTON,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 30th August, 1848.\n\nBRITISH CONSULATE ORPION, SHANGHAE,\n\n12th August, 1848.\n\nNOTIFICATION.\n\nA Boats\n\nBoots\n\nHis Excellency the Officiating Tapu-tai having communicated his intention of sending certain naval vessels, enumerated in the margin, to cruise about in the neighbourhood- hood of Gutzia Island in search of Pirates, and for the protection of the native shipping, it is hereby made known that the above specified fleet is duly commissioned by the Chinese Authorities for the service on which it is\n\n5 Sin all da. to. employed, and that each vessel carries a distinguishing Flag of White with\n\n4 Canton Lurokas. a Red border, and is provided with: a Written Authority of Commission.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,\n\nConsul.\n\nTo the British Subjects within the Consular Jurisdiction of Shaughae.\n\nbe allowed\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nmay some small pension\n\nhave some resistance rend to enable her to\n\nsupport\n\n4\n\nherself and daughter a present left intirely unprovided for.\n\nAnd your petition to\n\nEver pray te.\n\nIn the accompanying paper will be found of the death of the late Thomas Smithers.\n\nlue steered for.\n\nfoot a low water.\" \n\nMail.\n\nSEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\n64\n\nPRICE $4 PER ANNUM.\n\nand consult with \"turespon ordinary were givun to\n\nnow reaved in griply a petition, fwa Chu-kwa-yu sad the other Buty thongs, stating that they have maturely calmulated on the plan of raising a contibution; from Tire sawdx\n\njunk and me who hire\n\nKerred on the amounts to bu caminabeud with, of they prosout actalls, qui they rogues i orders tabagiven\n\ndhuli\n\n*ximating\n\nof Nether\n\nSix months ago (April 6) we noticed u enost ni reeing so many armed foreigners,\n\nsonrilat Dr Bettelheim, Hermiastonney, deserted their houses and made off towards subject, ad obedies or to our wounds we have had been murdered in Ben-choo in Sep- the hills, bus six or seven of theta were\n\nWe ther, considered overtaken and enrried to Nagpa, tomber proceding. the information as being too ragus to he Ita for tre Chinese authorities, who of mothers woning the freigla aipuris bott relied on; and are glad to learn that,course do not participate in the ignorance insight, from cutributions that they have ublicly after a voor's interval letters have been of the common people in confoundling all received from the reverend gentleman, foreigners together as fuglishren, to call for the contribution to air. Thi dated Napcking, Loo-choo, August 27, Père Danicourt to account for such tawar-\n\nen beide 0115 on\n\nkat the connu 1848. He says his puissionary Inbours antable proceelings, and to convince hier ersal re safe and stable is count; and the sail enchants, in Cam conling actively forward to make a are still regarded with jealousy'; but he that though the Edict of Toleration gives sacritice for the rafie gedara perked of meaty, an seems to be subjected to no pergcution.aim and others liberty to preach ad praeghy of conteonation and es.ec. Beside e cetition) w S this procla alase in the hurdlerances to his freedom of time their religion at any of the open puris, hagis e almu to the Futy Hings for their alar utation, giving dish or orders is the junk-and Jocomotion. His wife writes that the it lone not authorize them to make hostilemon. The 19th Any of the present tooth ed goromument has compelled the restoration invos, nor constitute them proctectors of as the dude fan which the cations for aid wid leg to be levied en exportacio of souther Goods of soms property which had been stolen natin converts in the interior, against the Let there be net die least opportun er trepediment from lain.\n\noperation of their own laws doctrine gre. A careat and special proclamacion. Obc which we have been not a little surprized to hear defended.\n\nWe are enabled to state the following ticulara respecting the affairs af D. Rustomjce & Co. of Cantou ;---\n\npar.\n\nM.\n\nplying\n\nORY FA ANCIENS TO DX DOSYAM TED.\n\nCn Chinaen Cottons, plau, 234 dj vá, and\n\nYes Clock,\n\nOf Paro Danicourt himself we have not\n\nCourse Grace Modlig\n\nJis (Cafe Cotto\n\nForeign Lung Colon,\n\nRay Coto, uoleened,\n\ninfertor Fort,\n\n| before heart; but judging from the present Meerwanjee Jeejeebhoy, a partner in case, we infer that the appropriateness of the hons, hearing in Bombay at the failure the title he bears rests upon his being,— of Dadabhoy Rustomjee, hastily started !for China to investigate the affaire of the firm, and to protect the interests of the creditors. Upon his arrival he found\n\nOf that stabburn craw\n\nOf errail knights, whom all men grant\n\nTo be the tenc Cinch Milltant; Such as do build their faith upon\n\nThe July text of pike and gsi ;\n\nAnd pave their doctrine orthodox\n\nBy apestolic blows and knocka,\n\nWe also extract from the Friend of\n\nI\n\n13ch cleaned,\n\noh gluing Boston,\n\n10.\n\nElo\n\nWhite Lead,\n\nColuared Paper\n\nFlowed and Note Paper,\n\nStuchsen, de 1,5, &areen du. ), Tellur\n\nTay Sugar, Potidean, White so\n\n11.\n\nDi\n\nSugar Candy\n\nሱ\n\nKwangbang, dan,\n\nGreat Glager,\n\nTony Chry Sucks,\n\nCents.\n\n\"1\"\n\nPicen 2\n\n· Dale\n\nWhico.\n\nPcular de\n\nFlowers and Flant Fellow (Sen bed) Tez,\n\nMetropolitan Gods.\n\nBlack Treppe\n\nBlack and Gruen, du..\n\nBarn Wood,\n\nBesides to abors, there are other misellaneous zuids\n\nun them may be infeed from claccounts in the bay\n\n-\n\nTAIFOONG.\n\nGREAT PESTROMSON OF LIFE AND PROVERTY\n\nOx Thursday night, (21st August,) this part of the coast of China was visited by a storm, of which a contemporary says, \"though much low has vçe currell, it did not in strength amount to a bi- foong\" hat witch, from the disastrous accounts arriving from all quartere, appears to us to have been one of us! severity.\n\nThe following Extract of a letter from Mr Vice-Consul Robertson to Rutherford matters in such a state as to induce him! Alcock, Esquire, British Consul at Shanghae, reporting the restoration of Land-marks mediately to call a reeting of the crodi to the anchorage of Woesung, which had been swept away during the late Typhoon, ore, to whom he explained how he was eir- and furnishing Directions for the guidanes of Ship Masters entering the Wersungsted and proposal to place biz affas Mu Consul Alcocl: has issued the follow- in the hands of Trustees. To this theying Notification respecting the duties pay- River, is published for genarni Information—\n\nagreed, but afterwards, finding every thing able on Sagar api other Chinese produce on which these Poles are erected being about 16 feet aoove the level of the river: There is an old declined to net, and one of the creditors, and the open ports of China.\n\nTwo doen Poles, in buight fit feet, the baskets on then 30 feet from the ground the Battery in great confusion, the gentlemen named shipped in British vessels from Hongkong TYte bet Ecu (2,\n\nThrer Toles in triangle, at low water mark fifty feet in height; a board painted red with a Byramjee Couverjes Bbuhs, ontneed white hall in the centre, ist lost squere, being fixed thereon, at 51 feef from the ground.\n\nThe directions for guter he Wosung Reserate as follows:-In sighting flue Line of Battery Moorwananjeebecently received letters Shangae's Flamation regarding ship-sokware, Hib year, 711, th, 7th: stay. (th\n\nan action before the Supreme Court. Mr China a tunelution of the Toutes of which can be all noted bui the and Joss Poles et Pennsben, a white-washed mark in the wall with single Pole and small board from his friends in Bombay, Sondering him men by Chinese on British bottonis, August, 184) wül be seen. Keep Paoushan Pageda (a small contend-shaped roof of a Temple, very low, and but little seen above the trees) to the right of lege marks, until the Board on the iriangir just created relatanecan certain torus, which warranted wherein the right claimed by Sir John in a line with and between the two Jiss Poles, which it will be, bearing S. 70 W, when they may luna iu proposing a settlement with bis Davis is recognized, which had been pre-\n\nereditors, by which it was contemplated to viously resisted by the local unthorities. In the event of i working breeze, the Board in line with the Northernst Joss Pule will pay up the whole debt within three years,\n\nCorrespondence with Kering in China Hell No pear the N. W. end of the host on the East side, and the hourd in line with the Southern Jusu Pole will clear the Eastern edge of the beak on the Weat side, of the Chennai, giving 13 and 16 tiine being allowed him to communicate, Septenter, 1847 and Proclamation of Tu\n\nthe Marino Magtérate of amoy, No 01, April 1. farther with his father, who he thought\n\nNOTIFICATION. would assist him; and by whom securities By Order,\n\nBelfie C, 1848. In Bonsbay would be found for the All-i\n\nSTANCE, 15/A Seploraber, 3 ment of his agreement. To this they with F. E. the Tocutae respecting the Duties to H. M. Consul having been a correspondence al needed, scop pho Parsue above are on Suge des Chinees produes mentioned, who would listen to nothing brought into port by British Ships, the con lon Rifles, 077,—Total 1428: (fe0ficers but obtained a decree in his favour. On Celominee dat Sugar arriving from Amay or being 82 Native Officers 10; Non-coa-bia one of the other creditors Mirow Mrter of the onstar Pets, with Certificate of missioned Officers, Drummers, and Buglera Meerwanice into the Insolvent Debtor's Day prid, shall be exempt from furder payment Priann, when he petitioned the Judge, from Hongkong or any Foreign Part, or from\n\nof Baty of suel, produce, and that Sugar bianght 201.) \n\nby whom a special court was held on the way Consular Pert in Cina, wins Certificate ul 18th instant, when Meerwanjee waa al-Duty, shell in that case pay the Duty fixed in the tilt hall-past 2, when the hardcage was at its losed to like his petition, and afterwards Tariff, namely, a per sent ad velurem, as an height-e barneler being so los as £8.99. \n\nun+h/1;tte'li[ a tieje the Imports. released on the security of Mr Joseph Jar-\n\nFortunately the China houts for the alarm carly, Noties is hereby given, therefore, to consignees and made for the sheltered erucks on the Coulom dine and Mr Crawford Kerr. The aire\n\nside; but even there they seem to have suffered and others who may have given guarantees for the are Dow placed inthe hands of Mr Cey payment of Day on the Sugar recently brought | avverely, as a anumber of sell qud cargo boats were 04cial Administrator of Insolvent Estates. inte Port, that the said Duty of 6 per cent is pay-driven on shore, and many of their consiliorked. able through the New Custom-leuse, and it is A few large juuks and a loveli vemomed at anchor gested that the open accounts of the several off the Lower Bazaar, all of which were destroyer sips may be sivsed.\n\nduring the night. Of her which came ou share opposite Urcitar liblings about midnight, the extway with the exception of three un furry men, were lande:l in safty.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 27th September. 1348.\n\nOverlang China Mail.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9870 SEPTEN\n\nMIRTIE-A! Vistoria, Hongkong on the pich foste the wife of She Rev. Mr Jesrixe, of a Bon.\n\nBIRTH-AL West Point, Viotoria, on the 12th inst Mrs Ecart, of a Daughter,\n\nBIRTH-AC Yame, on the 31st uldme, the wife of D. J. MARCOWAN, H. D., of a Daughter\n\nMARRIAGE. On the 8th of June, at St Mary's, Bay- ensione atuare, London, by the Rev. J. I. Únores. Recto, Major Sampra Rarvogn, of the 31 ara Artery, to CA, third Daughter of Joseph Hee, Esq., X.P.\n\nHEATH-AWiraganatum, ou the 27th Jylg, Quarter Master Bergeat Tin Cankar, of the 26 Kogistens, KINK.\n\nPRATER-Drowned off the Typs near Macao, in fuc taitoony of the 1st utino, Mr J&S MACHTAGAY, Jate et Victoria; and Mr EDWARD 12s, formerly 1 mote of the Robroner Exload, Queens,\n\nDEATH-Drowned at the spa, near Macao, in the taimung of the 3:81 ultimo, Capron Pass of the Dti-\n\nBurp C DEATH-Drewood at Campstogusnor, in the taalborg of the 31s ulim, Captait, HATE and the Chief Sinto of the eiving Hip frabel linens,\n\nTEAT IM Browned, with his only fun, at Clean\n\nehow Bay, to the womward of langkong, 10 the tattoora of the 21st uitime, Mr Tumas Sms, Inspeter of The Hongkong Puiloc.\n\nLIK, lure of the P. & D. 8. N. Cu's Foestring Ship Fort BEATHA Sugaros, on the 34 lost, Cagl. Thas\n\nDEATH-AL Shangliae, on the til, fuslant. Mr i\n\nAt b\n\nt Daughter of the Way. Ur Legge.\n\non the 19th, inst, Ligatellani\n\nF. Beques, of H. M. Stramuralesa.\n\nArt:lery.\n\nA. R. JOHNSTON.\n\nPer\n\nVIDEO\n\nSepz.: Sept | Sent t\n\nPre\n\n& 10 8\n\n40\n\nX\n\nSappers and Minora. with erent......\n\n13 110 170 112 100 27:36 81: 1.0 Ceylon Rides,..... 101 3083 20 00 70 551\n\nH\n\n| 294 300 203 | 102: 180 181\n\nI want, the late Dieutenant-Governor of 1.wangtung, has been saannaed to Court, ostensibly to receive office, but in reality. it is armise, to give his opinion of the Present state of foreign affaiss. The sub stance of the recent news from Entopo has been forwarded to the Emperer, and the\n\nevents are yo extraordinary, that even the\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,\n\nL'onsul.\n\naddition to the instances formerly given of outrages committed by the crews of co- Yeys on the cost the following parti- culars lure reached ns:--\n\nOn the afternoon of the 20th of Augustin, eling that Chinses bicely who ship\n\nan affray took plaen at Ningpo between some Purtagnese sailors and the Chinese, in which two of the latter were killed and\n\nAs all for\n\nothers severely wounded.\n\n(From the Friend of Chlua, September 10.)\n\nPara eodle chuti pus Patice weuring to the Course Fury for Foreign Nationa\n\nWoo, Offolatione Taoutro of Shanghan, ke.. ka, hereby issues İne commands, Ús tho 17th bustani, 1 received\n\nIn Bosnkosa, enely in the furencoon the fall in the aromate attractul atientin, and the Aa- sistant Harbourmaster went wound the shipping, warmed there of what might be expecte.l.\n\nBut little fate spents to have been entertained till the approach of uning, when the sign The Barometer indicates bad weathes\" was seen tying at the Ang-staff in wont at Yalder's bill.\n\nFronts Ge the wind gradually oversed,\n\nIn the morning the Colony exhibited a mest melaretely appearance. In the harbour several vessels disanostel, others on shore, and the whole beach strewed with the wrrels of t hänesu juoking in the hs of which dead bodies were occasi ally seen Boating; while on store, every house\n\ndespatch from the Provincial Govoruer un rich\n\npay Duties so the New Custom-house, and the Chinasa at the Kiang-hae (Out) Cust-19: grofere I now hotels as flows find that the foreign expred to the stin suffered more me less,tiles\n\nsive distinct and intelligible polers, and on the receipt\n\n\"Foreign in\n\ntorn from the roots walla ievelled verandaha blown to pieces--21:1 wherever a gazolen plot fer-\n\nas been reused to inquire farther into their by the inhabitats, the friends of the de- customary apathy of las Celestial Majesty igners are there looked upon as English nature, of which no Chinese is better in-cased crowded round the British Consulated this dismic jou wil bsan a Fencianuncios in le- merly existed, the pla da napi bults were either DEATH-A Viatorin, or the auth Inst., ASHE MURRAY formed than Hwang. It's ideas on the to end the Comente assistance in appre disa that hernatter whru either broken sort off, ur fave up by the rocks\n\nhanés import Suwar or other! resocha i R hanghao, auca vels aro\n\nThe smesed table, shewing the state of the subcut may not be very comprehensive bending the wurderers; but though this\n\nBarometer declagg a night, bes been in the catiulation of European politicians, request was backed by the authoritics, and always to be regarded as determining the butted to be\n\nby the mastors of other Lorebas (ton erecced to a New Clest in-hou\n\ndnud if goods are imported by a really lovelen furnished by the Harbour-mator -- but key are certain to be marked by\n\nBer. Tras. the New Tartif thever Chinese pod shou Pasaksuvas por ACHILLES, 1 ] tamerrow, the prudence and good senac, ou gready in twelve in emberi then in the river. Manchorage, sad my Ducs der specias partest\n\nSullivan very properly declined to intor dare to pycało, with the prospect of escaping the heavy, 29 Justanter Kentang Dapsain. Beste advance of other imperial councillors.\n\nand availing of the light Duty, then the gonds will be Iwan was Keving's most trusted na fere in the marier fartier tlun by advising! goufianater to Beverinent, aut fi re benefit of at Sept,\n\nthat the neensed should be handed over to | Lie Customos rechte,\n\nbe pus coring that in ball b viser, es on after he was deprived of office the District Magistrate, who, after exauti exnutter thesoby You will at the sate line whic 20 and the Imperial Commissioner neveration, might send them to Mateo for alt i lini Ceiling sinis, Frouded, Defiled gaged in foreign adThis withent comentting\n\nFor SMarsden, Han Alures. For vez. Mesurs 1 . 51005, and in Per Singapore, Mess C. Plac, 3acker trou, au Chinese,\n\nWe are luppy to be enabled to report a\n\nfalse rutes, ad that a punishment\n\ngreat improvement in the health of the him. The office is now entrusted to a main by their own authorities; and this advice insearing (1) the Engli\n\nof auch inferior qualifications, that Keying acted on\n\nprobly see the necessity of having wang's counsel and cooperation iu raio- once to opening the City of Canton April next.\n\nwith.\" On recript of the the\n\n1 Conanl to request his Doperation, now alno, na izolaca\n\nclosely and Intolligibly, addruseling this Proois- The other caso, in which Père F. X. Ta-ation to the Chinese ineteats and to the Duly fengy nicourt, the Apustulie Missionary of Ning-fer of it for a fer the due to simp\n\npondnet your royarske,\n\ne perangaurdă contevin vit, giving pe, figured us principal, took place on the cause of or youtuston; and should Chinese 13th of Auguet, chout forty miles from Eing the protune of the tuner and put intock\n\nMercitants in Foreign vesels to carry Rugated bae, the capital of Chusan. It appears Shangliae, ar shoud Chincs pensle import any sort of that some native Roman Catholic eonverts\n\ntroops during the present mouth. In Juue, le douths were 10. in July 37, in August 16, white in September they have fallen 14, the number of sick in Hospital being 57. Since August the whole of the\n\nRegiment has been quarter on Sou, the new Governor General, who baril ships in the harbour, with the bap-now holds the appointment for the who had an interest in one of the temples,\n\nnagement of Barbarian Affairs, lately ro-\n\nmile whatever in Fercigu val. In alch Duy will be levied according to the Fow Tarif. Tling whc. destinately digobay, will gave their goods gondsgated\n\nand\n\nseld for sig benent of the Craton TOWELS\n\nali ovoru:dy obcy this, Cherish a hopes of\n\nevash, and\n\nnd thereby involve yourselves hi a ligny vei\n\nTucukwany, 28th year, 7th mouth, 24tle dag,\n\nCarefrak ngainst Ptrates. Wow, Oficiating Tanning of Shongban, &o., &c., heto by kee a procianin\n\n1sthet romanda The\n\nChee-hich of this face having represented to in that\n\nidly\n\n31st Auz. 10\n\n..\n\n3. NE\n\nheavy pas\n\n11\n\n90.24 N.IS.\n\nJ\n\n+3\n\nugly weader\n\n1\n\n1. 20 in M.K\n\nW****. \n\nA M $3.5M\n\nInscriure\n\n9.\n\n\"\n\nH. by X\n\n-\n\n2.45\n\n2\n\n$12\n\n13\n\n21\n\n::\n\n|\n\nн\n\n4\n\n. \n\n29ki\n\nJE.\n\nJa\n\n5\n\n11\n\n59 15\n\nBy Soperaterra's.\n\n5,3). 24.37\n\n8 May\n\n20.45\n\nور\n\nE by N.\n\nጉ\n\nF. Nahig, heavy p008\n\nkarang graffiat Times wavy pu\n\nSWly der:n\n\nThe following is an enumeration of the disaster which bufet dis Shipping, so far no we have been able to asuintain themi\n\nThe Beberg dyrk. W shirat Cizruin Floodinga; halla since been got off well legtle damage, ex- cupt the lowa offre and gratuara\n\nTho American brig Charles ilirpants, 5, eamq'ato wreek at die Boa Bay! Sturent stuce andò iz pullar angʻim.\n\nThe Metal banque tingui Sarant, en cone sul Green Lane, Sligh: hopes tersall entertained of wring the samel. The British iron bangue Jean kan, anded foul of the Eliza Ferunt, and trus baiyaenoda real folosites.\n\nThe British skip Milan Mont. Load with Sugar Live Shanglore, word avente in the pst in sety; hd the Join Laiva sivil) at down upon her, and seller against the De Heranecone, by which śe was nu merupin injurce dead sile has had to alerte her entge\n\nMurchants Wand-ying-sking and others, in which they The Spanish his Do (ferencias, Ici uusin tujuan, how statest stywe care for more receivals, ad fee-copatust\n\nnedors\n\nof the junk Thatch ship Kin form, wrecked on que our end of\n\nthe expenses of car ride to assist le defraying\n\ntato Ave ser afsendt tuse, the date the istuin, elvas to the village et Makers, this trees of her\n\npectively by the tire mondi Pun, Lah, Sony, Hon, Taj, i grew seven-\n\nPat efforts. Great part of the convit\n\nents are now fit for duty. Of the 14 oled anal officer at 1leang-shan were desirous of turning it into a Catholic teks during the month two only have for promotion, but his request, en account Clupei, in opposition to the majority of\n\nalty Aurmont and special Protiaanation. whom it belengel. From cd within the last ten days.\n\nthe pervous to of informality, has been refused; a reelt The Ceylon Rides, upon whom the or- quite unexpected, and which has engaged which the converts had the worst, and\n\naged words the disputants come to blows, in August, 1946)° dary duties of the garrison have devotee, the attention of the Board of War. The\n\ntine in the enjoyment of comparative people under his jurisdiction paise him beaten, were handed over to the Mag- ¡ two of their number, after being severely Lealth, and at present there are fewer for at being greedy of money. Ile\n\nhospital thun at any former elf lind frequently expressed his total, tate of Tugine. As you us M. Tanie het received a petition from the junk owners and Jeriod, except for a short time last year. indifference rospecting the homeurs con-\n\ncourt received the news of their imprison A furtight ago, however, two deaths oe-\n\nferred upon bis, and be readiness en, he went to the Tautas at Ningpo: urs in one night, but bett: men were surrender rice ali, in order to tool to ad insisted on their Fouration, tral Uist\n\nopium &makers.\n\nretired an quiet life. His administration their presents should be apprehended and gene diet, eruits, dog, Froth.) each The Bid bazgau Sutopiru, diffte aut lieyond Siren kiloving\n\nTable shows he on- has hitherto been marked by great sev parished. His denundet being attend to combura arcarding to is classifeasam But Isnel totally dissisted: as aface bean towed sate tike pr parative sekuese since our last report city in the dispensation of justice, dea No. 21, and with about thinly valun- cine vercle, with the cost of yoviding their asian\n\nbar Us Chinos Ja sata. to, M. Danicourt hired Portuguese Lorinchetiver the mintributions are or whited to mount, it le proper to stare that as Daugh vouring to overwe evinloers by cniet toere bem the ether borclus in purt, meal. the expensou will be for Geneight, the Frimurtes only were formerly patience. include in the Present Force, or fe not seem to be on the decrease.\n\nNevertheless crio does\n\nsailed to Chusan. The natives, fight tratton. f ten safe and convenient mouthor junks are Akolected and delivered over for the use of the marine, make of curpurison the same plot 18 now\n\nThe intest way that of a perlipin, the expense of wages and provisons will not be seal, ber. The forces however are thus of the heavy rains in the north, continue to!\n\nwho arrived at Man the very day to\n\nof lates that claso delimate to chalibuting received unerated, their actual numbers, officera arrive. Several rivers are said to have He was long with a portion of crew, dlately\n\ndoinge sppeared, (China Mail, sgten.ber 7, No. 186) | will not be adequate to die expenditure. At the present\n\neisergency, we four thạt say 10ßently in supplying as kolen 150 eurṛrity : but from what we can learn, unless alance w! Ingade te pomelims for the sapirs of Kufen the ty\n\nby car auprovets, he may escape conv be plenter, and enfure we have deviscal and agrad to the sui hentay in gruring the cast how a stridatin she be sessed on to, Chizone much evidence as will easily & European Cart Catton Coll, and offer guns exported from. His perti\n\nJunio\n\nand we request that the Duty Hong, brorizma to winter\n\nAccounts of the disnetrons evasequences.\n\nsac, the 234 instant, Feing.---Ar- inmulated whele districts, and the nast tillery, 80: Sappers and Minere, 38; Gan! terrible mvague of the flag-lo are ap- Laucars, 89; 9th Regiacot, 361; Cey- prehended, if the mains continue.\n\nThus, illamgh many jaks large and shall have writed\n\nAll if we reckon up the hire of the Braves and of tho\n\nfound to be shormona; and acadh. net war fanks genpot de buikt all at once by gen-\n\nTie eeliezmer San P. Novhy, was totally disa\n\nmarted off by Wes Naval Smores\n\nThe British mohon er zekana Queen's thouula were cat “wazy to use her fin gudng on there\n\nThe Thite trz niel Watson, diffted to the momptly vid The Carposing panjati panduk, kad kasinoeste\n\nสปาไ\n\nThe 13 arque Coulatque gave bich, with, a oaider be pardon of wet cargo dannĝed: 2000 packages of Jes are to do anus by snelion\n\nThe Hemen Alvis: Julimar, ned back from see, having Insi\n\nrudder hats, sprang head of matman, and last for ada\n\nThe Spanish; brigantine Carmen abo pau kuch, in a leaky state, having lost a", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229567, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241298, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 323, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "93\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWhere the undersigned have this day entered into Partnership as Merchants under the firm of DAVIS & LAWRENCE, into which will merge the business of Messrs. F. W. LAWRENCE & Co.\n\nHENRY DAVIS,\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE,\n\nHongkong, 7th February, 1857.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION. Undersigned has received instructions to sell by AUCTION, ON THURSDAY, the 12th day of February, 1857, at 11 o'clock, the Bust Godowns of Messrs. L, STILL & Co., (Door Spring Gardens,) on account of whom it may concern.\n\nAbout 480 Tons of NEWCASTLE COALS.\n\nPayment to be made in ... Dollars, weighed at 1.1/2%; and the Coals to be cleared from the premises by Saturday the 14th February.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nMARRIAGE.\n\nAt Kotter Inn on the 11th December, ROBERT BROWNE, Esq., late H. M. Sloop Com'r at Canton, to LOUISE HENRIETTA, youngest Daughter of the late L. van KAMPEN, of Berbice, British Guyana.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Croydon, Surrey, on the 1st of December, ALICE HUMPHREYS, Boy, formerly of Hongkong.\n\nAt Queenstown, Ireland, on the 6th December, CHARLES MARKWICK, the Apostle of Temperance.\n\nEXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER FROM SINGAPORE.\n\n\"Since writing the above I hear, that the Governor General telegraphed to Madras to send on to China two Regiments, under orders for Hongkong. It is doubtful if the telegraph would reach in time, and if it did there is only the Zenobia (a tub) available for transport.\"\n\nTRIAL OF SALES--Payment to be made in ... The Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to-morrow in the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4 p.m., the following pieces--\n\n1. The Patriot Fife.\n\n2. The Scion Packs.\n\n3. Duette Up, Sonnambula Bei.\n\n4. The Elizabeth Quadrilles.\n\n5. The Lucrezia Vaino-Goffre.\n\n6. Nebraska Gallop, Aichner.\n\nCHARLES MARKWICK, Government Auctioneer.\n\nHongkong, 9th February, 1857.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nThe undersigned will offer for Sale at PUBLIC AUCTION, the Clipper Barque, \"SAN TIAGO” as she now lies in this Harbour.\n\nThe vessel has a full inventory which can be seen and any information given upon application to the Auctioneer.\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & CO.\n\nHongkong, 8th February, 1857.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nUndersigned have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on their Premises Queen Road, on account of the concerned, on FRIDAY, 13th Inst., at Noon,--\n\nex \"Proteus,\" About 166 Piculs SAPAN WOOD | Damaged by ...\n\n43 ... RICE ...\n\nWater ...\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co.\n\nHongkong, 11th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFRENCH FELT HATS! FRENCH FELT HATS! OF THE FINEST QUALITY, ALL COLOURS AND SIZES, At MRS. LEMON's Rooms, Queen's Road, Hongkong, and at Macao.\n\nHongkong, February 9th, 1857.\n\n\"Now Barabbas was a robber.\" To the Editor of the \"HONGKONG REGISTER.\"\n\nHongkong, February, 1857.\n\nDEAR SIR,--About two months ago a Portuguese Lorcha No.71 was mysteriously taken by pirates in the Tamar fire at Macau--I mean to say carried away at night without anybody knowing it, or any one being on board at the time--it was as well, in a mysterious way that she had about 30 kegs of Gunpowder on board, which, indeed is too great a quantity for a Lorcha of her class to have on board at any time, in fact for any Lorcha to carry as part of her armament.\n\nOf course so little was heard about this Lorcha and we know if any steps were taken to recover her, or how she was carried away or whereabout ...\n\nonly found out next morning that she was not there--but it was ...\n\ny many suspected an underhand work in this affair.\n\nOn the 11th January Inst. another Portuguese Lorcha No. 62 in company with an English Lorcha from Ningpo bound to ...\n\nBogue the ...\n\n16 Hongkong with cargo of Alum, Drugs and Hans, out on passage was chased by piratical dest...\n\nZanon, the ear...\n\nThe English Lorcha being near to ...\n\nrio the ...\n\ned and came into this harbour, but her companion No. 62 being outside saw no chance for her to escape through the Ly-n-moon, turn all for the outside passage and being closely pursued by the pirate fleet was finally captured at G F... on the same day. Her owner hearing of this in Macao came over to get all the information he could and reported the same to the Police on the 18th, but as he then knew not where his Lorcha was taken to by the Pirates, of course nothing could have been done to recover the same.\n\nHe went back to Macao and arrived there on the 28th where he learned all the particulars of the capture of his Lorcha by ...\n\nsterious circumstances--but perhaps by relating the same it will speak for itself, and bring to light the case of the Lorcha No. 71 above mentioned.\n\nOn the evening of the 27th January the Portuguese ...\n\n1--Par. Restonbis--Levner.\n\n2--The Scion Packs--Str.\n\n3--Duette Up, Sonnambula Bei.\n\n4--The Elizabeth Quadrilles.\n\n5--The Lucrezia Vaino-Goffre.\n\n6--Nebraska Gallop, Aichner.\n\nNo. 6 FEBRUARY 10, 1857.)\n\n... elim kindred with the Black hole of Calcutta.\n\never, strongly of opinion that it is absolutely necessary ...\n\nment of the 42 men belonging to the B-sing shop supplied to ...\n\nabsent himself from the colony, but by e- The last brutality of this kind being the confinement--for the interest of this colony that every individual connected with the B-sing Establishment should be outd in a room 16 feet long by 15 feet broad or less than six lineal feet per man.\n\nOk Sir John, your ...\n\nvanity and imbecility are running up a fearful impused.\n\nWe give in our present issue a letter from the Print of India with some remarks from a friend.\n\nWe may perhaps take a glance at the cur India Contemporary's article from our own point of view.\n\nH. M. Str. Barracouta arrived here on the night of the 21st Inst. from the Blenheim branch of Canton River.\n\nThe line of ships from Bogue Forts to Macao Part, serve to keep this important communication open.\n\nwhilst the occasional effect of shutting up in the narrow creeks near Pagoda anchorage, two large divisions of snake boats and junks, some of the former carry as many as eighty rowers.\n\nSome trading junks conveying shot, and old iron from the ruins of the Factories and Whampoa were seized and burnt ere they reached the war junks at Lan-kong to which place they were bound.\n\nQue ...\n\nOWING to the illness of the Editor, and the large necessary attendance of other members of our establishment at the trial of the poisoners.\n\nwe were under the necessity of delaying the publication of the remainder of the trial for poisoning until Wednesday evening.\n\nWe have a matter to complain of personal to ourselves and the other editors of the press, but also important to the public, in regard to the way we are accommodated and treated in the Supreme Court, but must defer it to next week.\n\nWe must deter until our Overland issue the account of the Coolie blunders on board the ...\n\nAurora and City of Bordeaux.\n\nin the course of erection above New Town.\n\nthe Parsee temple destroyed.\n\nA mud battery is ...\n\nfive on the night of 26th Ultim ...\n\nAn attempt was made to destroy the Comus by junk were sent from a village in Adam's creek.\n\nA lorcha and with wind tide and night in their favour: they were close upon the ship ere they were discovered: a few cool shot were sent into them, when the crew jumped overboard, first setting fire to the well oiled sails.\n\nOne junk caught the Comus on ...\n\nthe bow the other on the sparker boom which was carried away.\n\nHaving slipped her cable the junks were removed by the boats of Hornet and Camus, not before the rigging and headwork of the Comus was more or less burn during the entire night.\n\nThe materials used to form these destructive implements of warfare, were powder, cotton soaked in tea oil and samskui.\n\nOn Sunday last the Barracouta seized two junks forcenatle in Laukoy creek, laden with tobacco, they were under the guns of the Mandarin fort.\n\nSome Chinese at Hongkong have protested against the capture and have memorialized the Colonial Government.\n\nThe Honble Company's Steamer Auckland arrived in harbour on Sunday morning with multions of war from the Straits.\n\nWe believe she remains here for the present.\n\n... vessel.\n\nTRE spirited owners of the Fiery Cross were completely cold yesterday, that vessel having been sighted by the str. Lily from Macao which brought the report, in consequence of with the Antelope.\n\nWe understand that the Chinese had a meeting on Saturday at the Joss house, to take the affair of Ahlum into consideration, when they resolved to ...\n\nwas detained until the arrival of the Fiery Cross.\n\nDure ...\n\nThe Fiery Crest left Pilol al Sand7 Heads 27th January, 1. A..\n\nAnchored at Singapore, 1st Feb.\n\n3\n\nHous\n\n16\n\nP.M.\n\nAnchored at Hongong, 9th 7 P.M.\n\n6\n\n22\n\nFrom Sand Heads under Stear, Tytl\n\n1:\n\n14\n\nLeft Singapore, 24 Feburary, Pr..\n\nFiery Cross, has 2000 chests on board.\n\nLightning 1957 TRR 1st Opium Sale of this year was held on the 12th January 2540 chests Patna, and 1115 chests Benares were sold as follows:--\n\n5\n\n778.\n\nhighest low averag Patest soldi....... .......50 100 Benares...\n\n... 85 Benares 155.\n\nDie Paloa 715.\n\nOld Benarcs 739.\n\nThe latest quotsuous are:--New Patna 760 EXCHANGE, on Calun, Res. 205 per 100.\n\nOn don to 2. d. por Rupen.\n\n2.\n\n6\n\ncha No. 131, belonging to the same party as the Lorcha No. 71, it is generally \"known in Malas, though perhaps at registered in his own) brought to Macan from the same practical ethica caguered the Lorcha No. 12, the Hans which were part of her cargo, in charge of 6 of the pirate themselves, for sale there; it appears that the. Lord No. 131 was chartered Er is preposthus fact.\n\nOn Sunday night some little excitement arose being reported to the Governor, the Lorcha and cargo were consequence of a large number of guns being ...\n\n1 toe v pirates imprisoned.\n\n1may has daera that likewise as were transacted in a mysterious manner.\n\nfired in the harbor, at abrut 8 o'clock.\n\nalzed, and t\n\nOn en-\n\nWe have a trans of coming at the explicit fans as like very quiry we End it was some ass of skipper, who thing else in lacas they are carried or in a seret way-- no news-paper report with exceptier, of Fe Destin to Soy bely was drunk, and in that state took veras, which paper makes it appearson with wonderful fren himself to break the law, and alarm the gality, perbags purposely in for the crence of the Queen's subjecta.\n\nGovernment there?\n\nThe paper being under the fmatate protection, and inspection of the Hest of the Government, ...\n\nof neure we would exprint from it a thing.\n\nBut to corset We publish a letter from Correspondent which ...\n\nmost\n\nAnd stiti farther, we cannot suficiently admirelict of the jury in effect opens the stomach of every man in the colony to prison, without fear or tanger of detection to the poisoner.\n\nWhat is Allum's case in reality--The Chief ...\n\nthe particnior of the canter of the Lorals No. 62, 1 am hints at an extraordinary state of things at traordinary exhibition which the said creditor Justice said that the principal evidence against him informed that the piratical feet cousisting of 4 ciptare: Macau, and clearly proves that the fleet so made of himself in Court ne a witness on the trial Lorchas, two of them being l'orgnese, gst these, No. 73, and two Buglak: they ware will armed, having 60 men in tach, with 15 filing boats having 12 en ja exil.\n\nThey ...\n\nlenientis treated by Commodore Armstrong, and Dat our admiration somewhat ceases, when we tust No. 62 to her anchorage, South Lintin, opposite ...\n\nothers, is in realty a nest of pirates.\n\nChangelo, There the Solariate ray then, hat, was de-anber of pirate vessels stated in the letter bears and his partners have been found aiding and The recollect, that this is not the first tisic, that person civil by m ...\n\ncut our estimate on the day we saw them frem conforting, i ust abetting the Queen's eteries.\n\nunworthy to have called forth the counter petition Of the document we shall say no more at present ...\n\nwhich we append:-- than that it is below contempt and was quite ...\n\nThe facts Lorcin 71 boing amongst the pirates! fleet and Zareke 131 being cleriered by them, Beth it the Lily.\n\nlonging to the same andr, a singular eninest-use!\n\nOn 29 January, sa Eaglish Larch with cargo of Rice from Hongkong to Mac was chased by the saw piratical feet as Cantan ...\n\nOn the 3d intothers Portogage Lorcha No. 39 and 40 were captured by the same piratical 3e and yet nothing is done vither in Macur at this riser to destray theus.\n\nWhy we count ant expect any thing from Macas for the circumstance related above wall, perhaps, explain to the initiated-am, ka ...\n\nX. Y. Z.\n\nMR. Hicason, the Crown Solicitor, has re-signed is appointments, so says the Gazette.\n\nWe heard of this resignation. some time ago, ...\n\nbut it in no way surprised us, as our readers may well imagine after reading our comments on the T dirty job of the appointment.\n\nWe shall have more to say cu this, as also on the new appoint-mcots in Mr. Hickson's place; and we shall add In word ou the deporture of the colonial secretary ...\n\nand this aucREVE.\n\nHIS EXLUENCY,\n\nthe Governor\n\nVICTORIA, BONGKONE,\n\nin the Executive Council\n\n7th February, 1857.\n\nwas his own account of his sayings and doings, and Mr. Drinker's evidence.\n\nMr.Drinker's evidence very hour the dough was being made:--and his Lordship pointedly remarked, it was in evidence, that it was the dough which contained the poison.\n\nthen as to his own statement--His grandmother was engaged in suppiring the barbarians with bread, &c. she writes and tells b, not to come himself but to send his family; he is not to come because a reward of $5000 is offered for his hend not only is he not to retura, but he is carefully respectively to sabit to you the following faits rayer the existence of his head on his shoulders is ...\n\nWe, the undersigned, revisats is this colony, beg to remain in his own house, taking care of his hend, and his premises, which are likely to be fired; HONGKONG, TUESDAY, 167 FEBRUARY, 1867.\n\nIntive to Alla arline other prisoners, now Hude delertion ulur Ordinance 2 of 1957, and also relative capture of the old grandmother renders it easy ...\n\nthe cause of his grandmother's annoyance.\n\nMR. CALDWELL was not poisoned; on the cou-2 other prisoners, similarly detained.\n\nThe Parties sending Advertisements to the Hongkong istered, in the shape of some chili and mustard; inespied in the colony, by a majority of 5 jours so 1. tury he had a rather agreeable stemachic admin prisoners, nav.ng heen acquitted after a trial of a length ...\n\nWe rubl that the first shove mentionet class of to compel the retary of the reminder of the farm!'y, Register\" \"Register's Advertiser,\" please address to ...\n\nwill seeds. It was natural, of course, for hirs to pre. their subsequent apprehension and detention are excu \"Printer end l'ublisher of the respective Papers, which will secure rarly mustard seeds in another.\n\nter having his milk in one dish, and the chili and Jated to throw discredit on our system of administrati attention to their Communications, justine in the eyes of the Chinese popalation, was have heen led to onlerstand that a man cannot be twice call. the case in the present intoace.\n\nFurthermore, we are of opinion that pris mers who love stood their helst, and have been legally abeolved from the consequences the law, he tande responsible for any secondary one of the crime of which they are sccused, should not, b ...\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of Pent: Wons in the UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are, on the Sabheth 41 77 .m., and at 7, and on the Evening of every Wednesday at o'clock.\n\nWe see that tenders are advertised for in the last Government Guzette, for the construction of the Bowring Praya; and this in the face of the fact that the jail is crammed with double ita proper numbers, and that the station houses might well i quences arising out of that accusation.\n\nWe are, how ...\n\nexcept Alton.\n\nWould these additional se ages given to the mandarios render his resoniu- ing here, more secure?\n\nThreatening the grand-mother compels the retum of all the absent ...\n\nthe one schry individual would dare to re- cive force were applied to the united family that members except one, and we cannot see if coer- main.\n\nTo people acquainted with Chinese custunts statement.\n\nBut on this advice, how did Autum there is want of eommon sense in such act?\n\nWhy he disobeyed it, and went to Macao; ...\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nEXTRA\n\nTO THE\n\nHNGKONG REGISTER, No. 6.\n\nVICTORIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1887.\n\nP. IIARAND--I have always paid for bread from tacted.\n\nHe answered, Eat when we reached the bakery citentnahumees are these, Aldao is in the habit of cons CRIMINAL SEose, February 2, 1357.\n\nthe king shop Leire 'the 15th Snuary.\n\nInod Dr. he would show me then to had a large any site of propar- ing to tue to all and inke delivery of funt; on this ue.\n\nChor at Dr. Manet partook of the bread delivered by at stake, and But he would take ny advice and remain.\n\ncasi, several weeks pravions to die art of aidu, dus Poisoning Casm, (First Day.)\n\nLlaning. Abe un hour afterwards I felt sick When we got to the bakery the people were mixing cans to rou and paversed that I shoots ly from time 200- (First Day.)\n\nblds. of frou at $16; and having taken duivery of the anda, and shortly afterwards I vousited, and felt water and dough in diffurent rooms in the place.\n\nI arkad Roar, considered if indebted to urn for the amount, Jury--More.\n\nM. A. MAGLOD, W. H. SUTTON, JOHN a my stomach.\n\nI took a emetic ich operated, him to retorn with sac. having satisfied aysell there was MON, W. A. Bawa, ED. T. DURCASSON, GEORGE and feit casier.\n\nBar In about two hours the pain enough bread in the trying room to fatif de control; Feider myself inleted to do wad no other per- seo.\n\nMr. Power delivered the flour from bra gotowan, rive.\n\nThe st morning I had a vlug headache he said he had business to attend to and he would walk ...\n\nWht going over As the bar was stored tweet.\n\n1--CAEON ARCUEW,2----CHEONO AERT, a weak in my limbs.\n\nDr. Iance took an cutie, bome.\n\nThis was between 8 and 3 ...\n\nThe the premises he told me he applied 400 families with Crozumned by Dr. Bridges, I have been - Pakora Autos, 4--LUM ABsow, -Tax AC, and Dr. Childecott before they were sick.\n\nbread; this was said as a proof of the amount of busiucas quainted with Abium since 1849, I have bem in the TONG No one, 7--CHEORO ARMEX, 8--FONG A-attentionan had coren wore trval than any of sa.\n\nHOT. 2--CHRONG AY, 10--CHEN WYE KONG, What breakfast a gentleman called to say some he was doing and his disinclination to leave.\n\nThe habit of toying breadgirom him to a large amout for statement Ahimu made that he sold the bakery to mu in zapplying the ten-of-war.\n\nI have had large nansactions of hiends were sick, they suffered in a irailar mater Idministering power with intent &c.\n\nto thich I have described.\n\nThey haul maten nothing false.\n\nSince I gase my evidence before the Magistrate with him.\n\nIn one month I paid han $15,000 and but.\n\nI was recupied all day in arcending similar I was asked, on the peiremers' behalf, by Me. Murrow, to up to 15th January, my transactions with him continued.\n\ncase had for acveral days afterwards.\n\nSome suffered reconsider my statement about the 62 Mandarins.\n\nHe was contracting for bread for the Wreck steamer Croucrained by Mr. Day--Mr. Murrow, said be about that time.\n\nI heard Ahlus say that he also pro- ...\n\nTALI..\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Anstey, Attorney” Gogoral ; Str. Hickson Crown Rakcitar, assisted by Mr. George Jooper Turner.\n\nWIRES.\n\nvided bread for other shipping.\n\nI brought from America a machino for anking bread which came out a month ago ...\n\nmarverely than others.\n\nFrom the nature of the Dr. Brigor and Ms. Day Guess: Messrs. Gaskell symis, I felt same arsenic had been drainstered.\n\nI had come from Ablam to ask me to reconsider the answer nd Brown with Mr. H. J. Tactant Svácitors for prl-wobbay sume bread from the first house to which I about the 63 Mundarios Abium askertine on the exami ...\n\nwe, belonging to a Taree.\n\nI kept wry own nation, if he did not say he bad been told about the 63 in the B.\n\nPalmer, wasting $585.\n\nHe gave my brothre £100 to buy the machine.\n\nIn the week of 15th January, The Attorney General stated the case and called real got a load from Mr. Grandpre which he said be Mandarins.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nInever enwe ...\n\n1 dropped in three or four times, to see that machine AMES CARROLL DEXTSTER--I Am Colonial Surgeon, End on with his own hand on the E-sing shop, and the lenih prisoner in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the have been in the habit before the 13 January of oh-brok to me; next day I got read trum Mr. Drinker supply of 28 to 23.000lbs, biscuit; it was made verbally with pet up at the E-sing bakery.\n\nI know where the E ...\n\nsing bakery in but cannot form any idea of its v aining tread from the E-zing shop belonging to the two and.\n\nDempster.\n\nOn the 1st, seaisted by Dr. Bad-All I never made a contract with the tenth prisoner.\n\nast peomure.\n\n415 minuzca before 8 A.M. Of the 15th ford made a hasty analysis, satcient to satisfy myself I look upon ab as the principal the seath prisoor iss.\n\nNo Justice of the Paste in any thing to ...\n\n| large Dietters of busi-with the delivery of the flour.\n\nI got it on writing to Me, ary, and my family partook of bread obtained thate prison was arsenie; the next day I made as his segimant.\n\nMy visits were Tom the E-sing shop, at breakfast.\n\nAfter Mrs. Duapetar was being annoyed by the mandarins because he then as to his own statement--His grandmother was engaged in suppiring the barbarians with bread, &c. she writes and tells b, not to come himself but to send his family; he is not to come because a reward of $5000 is offered for his hend not only is he not to retura, but he is carefully respectively to sabit to you the following faits rayer the existence of his head on his shoulders is ...\n\n... contract with him I would occasionally drop in kuce or ROSER MACHEzni am the Jail Ahlum stated ad eaten a mall portion of the bread she felt giddy und Wetterwards made au analysis to asortain the ...\n\nfour times a week to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have to Mr. Bridges that his father had received a letter from ick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was takem qualty, and found that a guant loer there was ick; I thought nothing of it at the time, I walked out n of arsenic (6 graine).\n\nIn the bread it ex-gone, to sell flour to him 1 would not conclude a on his family wishing him to go home.\n\nI heard the ent was always present.\n\nAklan said the andarins were presence in the jail, neither Mr. Gaskell nor Mr. Tur ospital.\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading up to the ...\n\ntha loaf of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police hostile to him in consequence of his baking bread for the rant were present at this conversation.\n\nDuring the 18 Gays the prisoners were in my custody, I have never ob- all, became sick and continued sick all the way in me some year, and the materials for mak-fore guers.\n\nAs we were going to the bakery we saw a boat ...\n\nserved him send for bread, Lor eat it, but I have seen the hospital, and was sit until a quarter to 10 ingust, als some flour, and some pastry, from the laden with wood, he ask me to pull to it as he wanted to - vomited very violently, Mrs. Dempster was bake.\n\nThey were only examined so they can ask the price, and tray it if possible.\n\nI pulled up to it, and be hita est Chinese cakes.\n\njck up to 1 or 1 o'clock, that night.\n\nThe next evening.\n\nW. H. FONDA,I am ngeat for Russell & Co, and rain any metalic poison, but there was uelibet arsenie told me he had bought it at a picni and a hail for a be 16th, about 6 p, I forwarded the remainder of the nor ly other metalic poison in them, ...\n\ndollar.\n\nI said it was deck.\n\nHe replied it was dry wood carrying on business on my own account.\n\nThe letter and adapted for the bakery.\n\nOn my retom I saw the froni Mt. De Silver (produced) I received the same dale, rend to Dr. Harland for the purpose of, its being analy.\n\nboat discharging on the wharf.\n\nit was written (17th January), I know bis hand writing sed.\n\nI not take the bread myself to Dr. Harland ...\n\nRe-examined.\n\nThe little episode of the wood was It is in his hand writing.\n\nLetter read.\n\nIt commenred Crosemarined by Dr, Belges--Alum the ninth ...\n\nas were not satisfied with his simple declaration.\n\nThe Justice of the Peass\"]t acted upon that order I had up in my own room vold i sant it to De Irland.\n\nconversation with the buttman was in Chinese.\n\nIN DU Ho-examined.--I never saw the tenth prisoner before.\n\npreviously seld the whole of the flour to E-sing; the money pass between Able and the boat man.\n\nThis was value was paid by him, with the difference of a few bar- I sent the bread by a anolic animed Atal ...\n\nthe day before he left for Manua ...\n\nrela.\n\nA portion of the four, he bought in July, and The prisoner Ahlum statement before the Magistrates another in November, use subsequent cannot say read, ...\n\nhow much money I received from him.\n\nI all the flour for $16 for that purchased in July, and $14 for that in November.\n\nThe low purchased in July was the largest quantity.\n\nHe paid on the 14th January $1100, which I supposed at the time to be the haience of his account.\n\nKubs nothing of the sale of the Bour to Mr. De Silver.\n\nCrasu zied by Mr. Day,-I saw Ablum on the and 4 o'clock, canont ...\n\nATA--I am servant to Dr. Dempster--I carried a paper parcel from Dr. Dengster to Dr. Harland, on the 16 January.\n\nI do nut know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to me ...\n\n(Court adjourned at 3.80)\n\nIdeply to a question by the Court.\n\nDI HALAND said he had bean requested by the Colonial Secretary to me an analysis that he did so and the ranits were the que.\n\nThe analysis was made in presence of Dr. Bradri Dr. Watson Dr. Keamy and Dr. Dempster, ...\n\nTiongh the Conrt, at instance of the Attorney Gen pral.\n\nThe symptomas described by the wisuotas, I have ...\n\nsacre those of poisoning by assente.\n\nThe Lead 1 gave to Tr. Tariand, ARANDE shop, at the loom of Aber- ...\n\nWas ken from ...\n\n; ...\n\ndeenerect, un the 16th Janney.\n\nI was at the Central Palie Station, and told a policoon to take the yeast! me, to Dr. Berland.\n\nCourt adjourned al 6 ...\n\nJLLL\n\n(Second Day, 3rd February ...\n\nWOONG ART, I am comprador of the Lieut-Governor ...\n\nmore on that ourasion about Ms. Drinker than what ...\n\nACPEING, Servant to Dr. Dempster.\n\nOn the 15th January, I received some bread at my master's door from we mea belonging to the E-sing's shop.\n\nThey are not ...\n\nH. J. EDWAM,I am a merclist of this place.\n\nBo- among the prisoners, I gave it to my Master to ent Cas examined by Dr. Bridges--I know the Fring before the prisoner left for Macao, he purchased some four ...\n\n1 This was about seven o'clock.\n\nI placed it on the breakfast shopfore this acer.\n\nThere is a shop at the Lo me, on the 13th January, and the delivery order was given ou the 19th, after the contract was made the afternoon of the 14th between WM.\n\nTARANT--I am Faltor of the Priend of China Road East, they are about a mile a part; the bread is ...\n\nfibar was removed from the godowe to his shop.\n\n1 had say it was not hetween 4 and 5, 1 only know it was aber newspaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of badning bread carried from one to the other.\n\nAbout two years ago the offered the au dour to the prisoner two works bofore,, he did not say where he had been.\n\nThe $1100 web paid, $149 in a bill, and the balance in cach.\n\nThe bill from the E-ging shop down to the 25th January.\n\nI know browsed to be baked at the absen, but not lately, a fire and he tried it.\n\nOn the 13th.\n\nI called at his shop, he was ...\n\nnot below, they told me he was upstairs.\n\nI went upstairs with the E-sing shop.\n\nThe 1st is a collector of accounts; fore the 15th January, 1 hare seen him often.\n\nHe was precited by one of the men of the shop, and or reaching the TONG AKU--I Translated the paper tower, from Album he 2d, the last knew of him was as broad deliverer; the always said to be the master of the E-sing shop,anding, observed Alumat a fister, he was looking as by Mr. Mackenzie, since the prisoner Ahlum was in the th is the managing partner; and the 10th is his father, Out of the bakery and shop bon: 50 persons were a ...\n\nit to see who was coming upscura.\n\nOn my approaching jail.\n\nTranslation read, corrobrates Ahlum's statement]\n\nleting as general assistaut in the shop Q's Readresse on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before a Justice of him, he appeared to be muca exvid-I told him put ...\n\nand purt owner of the mat shop of chong, under the at of uvers two are itcqueritly, perhaps one: the Powe, Charles May Esq, several other Justice of Peace be alarmed, thus there was nothing to apprehend ...\n\nvisits.\n\nI saw ...\n\nIn consequence of the reward that was offered for his gatos Tools Ablau's.\n\nAbout the 8th or 9th January prisoner about were arment.\n\nThis was at the Central Police Suation.\n\n3 days before the 15th January, he was sitting down On the first day Mr. Mercer Me. Gibo and Mr. Gray head by en mestarins, 1 thought his oars caurs, and I had a conversation with Alluns, who said his wife my office and presented as a hill from his mer.\n\nI were present on the second day the Attorney Generat ...\n\nmude a roinach, that he shoubil not fear anything.\n\nHe wanted to go home to spend the new year, and wished old him, that, as the bill was not receipted, if he would was prosent.\n\nThe Central Police Station is not e replied that, long as he remained lu the house he had ...\n\nhim to accompany her hat he had a good deal of cave it I would look at it.\n\nHe said his toe was going ...\n\nno four of the maridarins.\n\nI then spoke to him of the business unsettled he could not do so that he had to usul place for eximiaal examinations, but they avo way, and made a motion lo sit down as if he intended to tawonaty held there, lave seen the Aturany the business on which I called, which was the sale of the supply several hundreds of pounds of bread to Drinker, Ou the 15th January wait until he was paid.\n\nSeang he was frelined to bura, M. Mercur, sud Mr. May sitting and enquiring our.\n\nI sat down, and proposed in sale, there rose some and that he had not yet done so.\n\nauey seized low by thu coltar, and told him, he and hi into anisances.\n\nMr. May was not present when the difference about the storage which was got over by bis I was exalued before M. May, and said nothing nator might go to the devil if they pleased, and I thrust two last prisoners were brought up for examinative, saying, this he lud got gedows that would take he han out of the office.\n\nI have seen the second prisador never remember the Justices of the Peace zitting at the dour, and that he would take immediate delivery.\n\nThe stated at the present moment.\n\n[the witness was detained on many occasions, I saw him at the inquest held on the ...\n\nby the request of Attorney General until he could get the Police Station on a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Ma- time of payment was the next question.\n\nI spoke of it ...\n\nfires--he asked for time and it was agreed that he would interpreter Mr. Wade.] jody found on board the Thistle Ou ikat opension he gistrate was sitting at the Police Court while his ex- described himself as parsere mute on board the Thiste.\n\nAmiuination was going on at the Police Station.\n\nJustices pay on the 10th of March-2 the left.\n\nOn the 24th ...\n\n(Court adjourned at 25 minutes after three.)\n\nThis was early in January.\n\nTo the best of my belief the if the Peace were also sitting at the Police Ceart.\n\nIt January, as 12 veluck, he sailed at my office-7 was ninth primmer was the literer of the Thistle.\n\nIn coe- writing at the timu: he said be wanted the delivery order in the invariable rule to send all important criminal for the four- unt huving the contract written ous I teid seganiec of the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave esses to the Police Court.\n\nThe remaining 10 prissovers are still detained.\n\nis evidence on the inquest, I ejected to bin binging are at the Cross road Starion, him I would call on him that after nuen.\n\nI called at 5 corning Mr. Diuke rend to my house.\n\nI pude this oldalon on the 15th posse Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Gots.\n\nThey clock at his shop, signed the contract, and gave hin January between 6 and 7 o'clock in the morning when I have been in custody from the 15th January, I eshoot the delivery order he was ben his shop below--the inquiry about the case of poisoning, about the 15th saw him bringing to broad.\n\nAnother man was carry say whether or not the Attorney General took ary part les imately.\n\nHe objected to be our before on January; acted as interpreter.\n\nI perfectly remember ing the bread in a baskets, the second prisoner took in the examination at the Police Station; he was moving ...\n\ncourt of the bighness of the price, I sold it at a higher Col.\n\nCaine's comprador being examined.\n\nout the bread and delivered it I said, \"Oh oh my fin::fal- abort, but thereon was too crowded for me to distinguish.\n\nlow you deliver my bread do you?\"\n\nHe made no res- CHARLES MAY,The yeast & delivered to Dr, ponse but gave me a kind of is grin.\n\nI saw him go away, flatland were found in my presence at the sing bak And I then went in Bad told my compradore to sutlery Inspector Boyle carried them to the Folice Station.\n\ning but have to reor bread from bin, as I Cross-mined by Dr. Bridges.-- I sat with Mr. MerosR The work polsun wa I partook of the brev, andun the evening of the 15th January to coadors the ca ...\n\ntant girl also eat what was git on the pARE | GUNUM.\n\n Mercer came in, aral I invited him to take & I was about to commence the enquiry at 2.30 2,81, Ava minutes afterwards I went into 107 sitting from the Incakfast table; immediately afterwacite park in it.\n\nI was conducting the enquiry as the Superin £curacy as though I had eat my breakfast to tendent of Police, and Me Mercer as Colonial Secretary fase I sex down and was looking over some papers, when all of a sudden I vomited---J. vomited three or four times which require particular investigation, I enquire into be they were.\n\nI told him that the Chinese anid, the a bad It was a general investigation into the case reports about hirrsclf-link bequired what more during the course of the day, and I have continually ...\n\nfore sending them to the Magistrate.\n\nIt was my orginal anffered train the effects of the poisoning up to the pre-tection to follow the sun course the pecsent issable Button and $9,000 the the efnir of the Thistle ...\n\nto replied that that was nuasense, for the mandarins had tanec: I wished to gtt un traight into the case as supper- intendent of police, but afterwmerts we carned ones.vcclured $5,000 for his apension, and that he would be conjadel to go to Singapore on this accusat.\n\nI tank, into justices and took the depositions.\n\nWe did not told his, this he would be a fool if he went away, and make this change in consequc of having illegally throwing away the chance of making money here ...\n\nseat time.\n\nCross examined by Mr. Day--I am not aware that almab prieoser las muco thu ops shop in Hongkong.\n\nve Bure, he enrried on the business of a baker: lave scard he has other premixes to carry on his bakery, but I To not know whether or not the bekery is carried on in the promises in Queen's Road West ...\n\nQuestion--Do you not, a Edit, make it year badiness to Braw cvery thing going on in the Colony ...\n\nAnst I do.\n\nQuestion Then Str, do you mean to say you did not now that B-sing had a bakery near the American Naval Stor, 1 ...\n\nAnswer What buve 1 to do as a Maitor of a Newspaper with E-sing's stores ...\n\nadministered oathe.\n\nThe Atangy General--asked permington to call Mr. Wale to contrahiertas last witness, in bia statement con- ...\n\nT. WADE--I assisted Mr. Mercer and Mr. May an ...\n\nprice than usand.\n\nI bave had he other business with Dr. Bridges wishes to know if Mr. Wade was sworn him beside this sale, ...\n\nÁrew S. Dix,--I was one of the Juters at the interpreter the occasion.\n\nConsidered of a moment ...\n\nby the Court inquest on the Thulle's case on sinth January, I had la answer to a quenrian put by Mr. Mercer and Mr. a conversation with blum, with reference to that - Mag, Col Caine's cora rader said thas Ahlum told him quest.\n\nI met him, Aline, on the 14th in the street and that he was about to leave the Colony, The Witces toki him, that his man Aheep, the pond prisoner, give usked him how he stood about his business, and be suid very bad vidence at the inquest, that he had bea a Adan replied, that he bat horded over hie bread thing, les bad been crapulls.\n\nI do not recollect whether he said it was the bread business or the biscu very willing witness, and would not have told pay bosings or biscuit business to Mr. Drinker.\n\nI forget who was his eply.\n\nI went on asking him what were 3:u ...\n\nWade The deposition of Mr. Wade having been read YOONG-AT--again called to be confronted with Mr. tom, he denies Ja zaid 80, adding that he only said. hetinu alat Athen had some biscuit to deliver to Mr. Drinker.\n\nG. Duro, ann an siccioneer and was rely proprietor of a biscuit bakery.\n\nI know the last kir is the th prismear stamil call him the most JES SILENNON,--1 am merchant of this city, on SANDWITH DRINKER,--I am in business in the firme 18th or 14thof January, I received fra Tichong a mat ...\n\nActive on in the sing bakery 6th prisoner is a moulder of bread in the E-sing lukery 7th prisoner at Thomas lunt & Co, I lived in the sunse house with waker, a cistonured vir on Ablum; as rents a portio the sanie: 8 prisoner the same: 9th the inauter; Captain Endicott On the 15th January, I eat of some of Alum's shup for Lis business.This grace Elus ...\n\noh assistatic in the retail shop in Queen's Road.\n\nI do bread supplied by the with prisoner, and I was afterwards given to Tichong B time before, it was draw favor know if he has a share in the business.\n\nI am in habit of very ill, and an were all that ent of it in the house of Tishang Iwan Tichong the monet of the draft, su receiving brand on the E-zing shop I received breed have not perfectly recovered from it at this time.\n\ndelivered the remainder of our bread to Mr. May at Ahlem being indebted to me between $700 and ...\n\naccount o mats purchased, and paid in this order on the 16th January.\n\n1 old AFinn ro biscent baking machines, gay some years ago, and another in December the Police Court on the evening of the following day $300--my dra was for $281.\n\nI have previously paid January last, and 1 erected in third ann far bin about Dr. Jarinud was present.\n\nI have had considerable deal the sand men in the same way, at my drafts have December or Juary, I have been paid for the to 3- I cannot say that I know of a hakery being near them with the E-sing shop in the bakery business, always been houd.\n\nOn the 18th, Tidongiangt back.\n\nchines I sold him, fun well acquainted with the bakery The two last prisoners were connected with the shop, I the order dislicaret, And demanded the money, du winepromisse.\n\nI have often seen Aflan upstairs in the bakery, American Naval Stores have seen the est prisoner in the shop.\n\nThe only time I saw the second prisoner as t ...\n\nhave transnoted basss with the tenth prisoner, who is I went to A. and abused him for not hari poid a part ofhiafemal faily as well.\n\nI can say for ret- brand-deliverer was on the morning of which I spuke-1 ...\n\nAllum's father, when the uinth prisaner was not in the the under, mul asked him, why he did not pay the order.\n\nsal whether Allura lived these or not.\n\nI have seen un! cannot tell whether or not the tearth prisoner hedy.\n\nAuvut the 2nd or 3rd January, I made a contract the said he lead a money, the he was very band up, out as promises the 6th and 7th prisoner who were fotzerty ...\n\nI nay interest in the B-sing shop.\n\nwith Albom to supply a Russian Corvette with bonit, that, if I would pay the mat-man, who was a pour man.\n\nAbout the 7th or 8th January Ch y explog40116.\n\nJOHN WRAY--I am stoward of the Sultana, 1 know On the 14th 1 weat over to the E-sing shop to have a he would by anil bye pay the whale amount to 100 erection of the 34 mabine was completed.\n\nIn conso- e ninth and tenth prisonere, they are bakers in the conversation with Ahlum about that contract On the that he was indebted to ine, as he was to get money from quece of what I heard from my Strof, I put several B-sing's shop.\n\nI have frequently bought bread at their morning of the 13th, our office boy called my attention 10 Ablum's placing a chop out-site his door.\n\nI had his word.\n\ni have commented an action through Mr. Gaskell ngeinst Ablum for the amount, Alders gave —lle replied du do was not go away.\n\nIn the oven prisoner and the ninth and tenth.\n\nThey appeared to be in what the boy told me on the 13th.\n\nI told him that the ...\n\no at the time to reason to believe that he was going to ing of slic 13th January 1 particulwly enlied on bin, and A great hurry attending the business of their shop.\n\nThe boy said the chop was notice, that he Ahlum, intented ears for Macso or any other place.\n\nasked if he was going away us ny Shred and every body first was behind the counter, so was the ninth who was to leave the Colony, and wished to sell out, tad shut up ...\n\nughing dollars; the tenth was walking about.\n\npartook of the loaf which I bought, and after cating it 1 was sink for three or four days.\n\nsaid so.\n\nHe replied dat he had sand so to Chinese people, ...\n\neal cr ...\n\nH. T. De SR,-- am a merchant of this place.\n\nI shop.\n\nHe said the chap did state so, but that he bad uod dealings with Allsin.\n\nAbout inc eud of December, that in enity he was going and further intention of leaving; he had only put it up to deceive the or beginning of January, I heard some thing against him and he had relied to sell read to Chinese people ou Bandarius, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, not so for he came, I asked if he was going to purpose to find the mandarins, and truing behin Croas eramined by De. Bridges-1 often go in to that would not satisfy me, so he had deceived me in Elyngkong he told me that he thought he would fully, atided, you see my family are here, there is sing's shop to buy a font.\n\nI was about two or three min- previous contract, and that he must go to the bake-have to leave.\n\nAkin tibud aquacity of bread at his fear that shall gees and he directed one us in the shop that morning.\n\nThe tenth prisoner was house and shew me the biscuit which he had told me, twe abop, in conanguerne 1 ba the he removed from his of the men in the shop to show me a cheque on the walking about.\n\nor three days ago, was in the drying house, Wy what godown to those Mears. Ly Still & Co.\n\nFu Back 1 was poisoned from the rea Re-examined he was walking about over-looking together in my cat to the bakery.\n\nAs we went along male advances on account of his bread.\n\nI think the beta Jaruncy.\n\nI discovered that day that he had the business ...\n\nassed him if he had his taily with him here.\n\nHe sild, bread is wholly paid for.\n\nI have a running account with gone away.\n\nSince I had the conversation with Ah- Ants,--I am enak to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 13 Jan he had.\n\nI told him, in that can he bad better remain him.\n\nIowa bis considerable money.\n\nI cannos cell how am on the 13th, 1 heart nothing about bis going nary I received some bread from the B-sing shop, from the to the end of the war, as he would make a good art I owe him at the present time.\n\nOr the 14th of way.\n\nHe went $960 to me on account of the second ma person who anually brought the bread; he is not among thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe sail he did not unary, I was not budcated to the prisoner in what chile, and he promised to send down some more money for ile prisoners.\n\nThe bread was brought es about 7.30.\n\nwould call a large amount.\n\nI parchuset 100 barrels.\n\nthe trouble of erecting the 34 mabine, but les did not Auon--I am a coolie at Dr. Garland, I saw Being's and that as the present mommy there were 63 Man four previous to the arrest of the prisoner, and tak lo so.\n\nTholda procisory note of Allun on secost of apen bring the Loved that morning; they are not amplia farms in Hongkong in disguise.\n\nI told in that delivery of chens after the arrest.\n\nI applied for the de- the ad machine, which he promised to pay on the mOTO- the prisoners, ...\n\ni be would report then to the Police he would be pro- livery the day before the rest of the praeuer-the tg of the 14th bat he did not pay it; I did not prese ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241299, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "27\n\nMina to pag-did not give him so understand that I was scale he was not going away.\n\n\"Gerard by Belles,\n\nhey thos\n\nmen de finally\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\nMare. I saw the birth and tenth priscacs n board the ma-ter of Alluny's business. I said that if he diwas paid. He owed about 15,000-partly for four others of the Badly on the passage they overmied Chim several tens of dollars or a badrcil. I made tud Thistle. I believe 300 is due on the promissory only when in sight of the Prais Chande, but I see not press the business, I would set my shop, and gipartly prouissory notes for hire of the same s in the sb, the dotresites and his father and brolis fore-entia. Esing empradore i busrd, offer entirely en\n\nAl sets the Insitus in the reta:) shoe it thit 100 songst the prisoners; i dones know fleiri en Day of Abluto's funt's in the subject our abacush previous, I selit li 16 dags of 2013, vwn responsibility, I have uotes, oud the rest for flour which I sappiled about one\n\nench did not suspect that be was going to icare The Cowel sentence the last wires to six sunthu' in Island, until he had left he promissory nets fril I did not reate there. Ithak, plize abent 9. Ablam said he had very important business 11\n\ndue on the 5th January, it was drawn about four au to 400 peple, awue tints are at leasecord-\n\nDOUGELY LAPIAIN-I Bougkeng and an sked the Caplaid to lake the steam-auner is his father, the fat is n entiers of Bility stay-drawn on the sue date. Titis witness gir ing the goator of the bread prutace- did or back to Hongking The Capris said he contal thians. The R-sing firm had two establishment. his evidence un eros, examination very reluctantly, the perintend the aging of the bread-Bones 1 do it. Ahlus said i had very supertant business kenw the retail shop Ablue is er or master, à Attorney Generell its ceply said har to drag it hat two Evropen forthes and some Chinese bakere, Hongkong, in answer to the Captain, who asked him father superinters the shop ustness, I am not aware, out by air force.) Ponais e Change arman; and somariose de why he was a hurry to go back, kala conversation thing berst up and there was no korvan a alt. My with: Ablam soos after. I said the wul that was pur-bread of him on 15th and was aude sick by it\n\nkhus share. Inta a customer of -sing broug Boris magh the Chinese how to make broal,\n\nYKONG Kwa Sow, -1 cu a builder. I have three chase. this morning from your shop male every and the mechanic part of the baking was done hair very sick; he replid, that was the resou hetou for the Port of Steamers Between & and monthly for an indefinute period. He asked me to wake by Cal-sc. 1 csider the bakery is worth 100,\n\nA Ben was Agent for Mr. Murrow in Choses beland theEing batery. I am sequainted with\n\nAhlum--On the 19th January, I let the houses to Ahl elling the penis, ne more u tom de heto him, saying, that it was very probalde dat all the Pedders' wharf. I saw a boat passing in the entwan month each-3 months payable in odrame.\n\nwanted to get back to liongkong. I went u uslking to 7. I was in a small boat is the Labor, not fur ir ovens in this for him hakery. They were let a m E-sing ces was courly increasing, and tutely pee who eat his bread were sitt be left very met 9. Mang entirely supplies the Counissariat Hongkong the same day; and thou ke asked if the\n\ndirection and rocognised one man, Ablulu, on boa color tot wah £2,000, the maenines $3,00 Captan would take the reamer back the same eveniny fur\n\nI have been acquainted with him for about sendwall of the business, $1.600, and stock $3,000 on the $100. I said I did not know. ith Jary. I was in the Colony when she shops were thought of sis bastuces lie said it is a little thing which naked his was he\n\nyears. I had meen him on the 28th Dec. in the shop conversed with him; he recognised me the porter shot me in November. I don't know the forcuan of the litru ruerteciue will make all proper. This was ter\n\nwed. I called hic by Lame, I was 50 paces from him lakery tanne I know the name of the man that called the most active man, I know hitaas I have son\n\nbe offered Mr. Agabes and the Captain together $156 to\n\nhad an object in bailing him, it was to ascertain wheti ! him in the hipnoz doprtment; and know putting of the which they sit they could not do; and that it was seird the Steamer back to Hongkong that evening,\n\nsteaper was going to start for Macua. He made no bread department I know him to se ha most active better to wait until next morning. The fire was pub\n\nI strange at the time. in the bakery, The bay was being enlarged and snt inmediately me: we arrived in the inner harbour. pr wel in December last\n\nHe acele e isle anle ranga, The fast jure I wae Ahium on our was when! European not even Mr Morrow, bread bi ta commnunty, com say my so he dado ao was talking to the Captain; he then offered $59 if h\n\nbay ay lust, Wien ut the bakery business would tagg lúm kurie to: Fungkong that night; 15; Captin i present fur contes know Ahim, the last propaths ego. There is another promissory nofs due\n\nhat which was not the one I was accustomed in w balted him only once, Re evomized-it did not occurred to me that wy & would make Allum not recognize me.\n\nuf\n\nNo - a working haker, Long Ahoy la my master. He is the commissarrin haker-I am fere- man. Jang Ahoy does not superintend the Bakery, but leaves it entirely to me.\n\nCrossmined by the Attorney General,I a Ablum's friend-ne elution-no relation by earringe\n\nmonths' real was gaid on the 13th, in advance. One of the Jupes is still in my possession, the upper story is broken up for the purpose of buikling the ovens. I have given up possession, of the two others. There are now er to my bail and tumed away his head; I though ply four barrels in them. Cozamined by Dr. Bridges.---I was in a China be Toususamer å boy-woodenter at the sing he went in tow the parish steamer to the inner ba-beur,\n\nThe elame anised of the Praia Grande, and thesiliout a cover, I was denseed, mach na usul. I had ry, rocog med at the prisoners except the 31 pioner; they belonged to the Esing bakury on in and hatwe blom sad the Capturis soon after we got into Crained my Mr. Day heard nonversation Tak Ja mary. The 3 and 46 prisomes are brund the inner haroser; it took plñen en the deck spousite the Inkara\n\nCaptain's stock ruota. I could not go forward, the place Creamed by Mr. Day was captured with a burrianded, and all the Chinese passengers wore cleven others n the 15:1, January in the upper part of forend of tin harricade. I heard that sum of the F-ei the takery; the eleven were bleet kera. There were\n\nothers on the piers at the sime To S 6th and Chicae pese gers that pay $1, al Another that pay $2 family on tammi, were sick Tha ja one class of 8th prisoners were among these arrested. There were both are be rented out. The 12 passengers are in the no other perpen in the house than ise arvestat. We fore-cata; and t passengers down slow, forward. ram taken to the palice stacion. I was questioned by-sug and his family were in the cabin, and lus onder Mr. Mag together wet til uther eleven me. Thurs and ather Chines were an deck, the barriquis is were only guiva pesent us the time, We were al sent isun mal confica! by uncive. I do not szil al 's family had been sick, I saw no of the\n\ntaean the und the after part of the steamer. Alumif know Mickson, or Mr. Turner, or the detorney very sick an Serd, could not see the rest of his Gonerat, (who are pointed out to lika.) So one femily who wers in the in Ahlem said that he als spokann na about giving evidenon. I was brought was sick, he was not sick in my presence. I do not from the cell to the place below and brought up here,\n\n1. 31, RN, 1 was it from eating broad absinus sous-I do know them, of the bags w\n\nknow if these two boys, who werd very sick, wựn Al- from the B-sing shop, on the 15th January last, in pensei somuching like the 2nd prisoner bezwen isend 17. yours yance of which I made gagnvies after the misere: fag. Bore offers ware made in the inner harley, Antons, sed à fouel he had leg the Colony for Mano That unborning.\n\nANTONIO XAVIK,- ans Captain of the Shamrock\n\nIncertainthe goverment had not de-\n\nAfter the orgina. 12as taken, of which Loveha I w\n\neffect that he had secreted the E-sing preatises on Diputy frapector Boyle's \"depositions read to 15th January but found nothing of a spicious natu Join Dunn-Police Inspector-I proceeded to Esing shop in Queen's Road Bass, on the morning gave them to Mr. Grande, the lath, had brought bread and dour front there,\n\nI remeber only ou, the Grat prisoner. I de net kan Create camined by Dr. Bridgea-I apprehended in\n\ninquiry if any had absconded. I searched the sho any one had abscended that drunking. I did not na ncing suspicions was found!\n\nHO ACHAT, WomanOn the 15th January, I was resuled in Alto's Bakery, Queen's Road East. I lived with Ahium's family, and it consists of Cheng Aliee bla an A-One child is 3 years, 1 child 3 months, wife, 2 children, servant giri, myself, and u temule relation old both boys. They lived in the up part of the house lacing the road. I herd with them for four years. The bakery is at the back, tiny make wont und biscolt, night and day. The dough for the bread is put info the oven all o'clock e.. I do not know, when the Breed bread baking was finished, no ruport was mule up-stales baking is frished-70 tile wight of the 14th after the\n\nconting up, and he did say that after supper all the work Ahyow, clerk, did cure that night, he is in the habit of ater were voiting Geard them vuiling, Ahlem does not often sleep in the inkery with his family aerly 2 or 3 times a mouth. Alama did not sleep there on the 14th Jan, le game there on the morning of the 13th, soon after dry-Byld and requested bis family to get ready to go by the steamer, to their village, Long. They had no breakfast before Acung near Macno. they startril. They took to the steamer two kind of bread large and sniall, the large was commun loof, she swall Joat way made for the occasion by order for pre- were 4 Inrge loaves, these were brought to me by Ali- seats to their friends in the aforrasid village. There\n\nThis cut the ease fur the Crown, nt 4.30 1. Dr. Bridges Intiated that he would not be able emmene his defence that night, and though the day Court consented to ajourn. ware auxions to go on and get done with the adfuir,\n\n(journed 4.50 PM\n\n(Fourth Day, 5th February.)\n\nfe\n\nmany strong observation ugadunt the manner in which Dr. Bridges commenced his spreeb at noon and we\n\nthe crown had undated the case, and agaiter the volum. The Bread were made the night before. I only mittingjuetimos la cullod\n\nci 1 chartering any steamer; chewupon chartered Captain, ce she th of January I took the command of the the Rerace Spark at has en use to go to Me Mr. Ma pointed me. On the the men We arrived at 6.30 o'clock that evening. So pocenions of the 17th January, I left fur bliscau, dust before were tenderci tand by the Govern, has left, thism and a family came on board the steamer, his a lot with polcomen coming. fearing that Ahlin father was amongst them.-wy brought an order frota might have spes alone I told the Cpini: not to wait for then as we were underweigh.\n\nMr. Mure for their passage (order presented by the W. LE MESURIER-1 un head of the Comissat 10 Macan I made a statement that the police were\n\nWhen I got whitness). Allum hituself presented the order and I indenriment, I know Ahlam by the name of sing 1 coming in the steamer wich was to leave in the\n\nmediately put hiau ar his family in the fore cabin, made a contract with him on the 14th January. Os at Aftenbos. I did not apply to the Macao audierities.\n\nOrder red] Shaurant, please give Ablum's family days tender was accepted for the supply of 100,000 ba but I went on hoard the Shrmport abent 7 e.., nter using of betweet. 8 and 9 persons, a passage to facs biscuit by sing. I had transacted Cusiness with bia making enquiries, there I found Ahlem in the forenin\n\nin the fare calia. None of them appeared to be sick oz before, and was quite andisfied with bis conduct I wodd with several Chinamen, women and children.\n\ntheir coming on board. I say some of the passenger? I put\n\nhave entered at any time into other contracts with him. my hand on his tail and told him he was my prisoner, made enquiry as the evose of the sickness, whether they about six oths in this Colony.\n\nwho were sailors and exalkers sick about 11 d'clock. if Crozanawaśned by the Attorney General-I have Sien and muss some on shom with me. i did not tell hire un what charge arrested hou. The prisoner saidave of the net and wite not aick, but the bread was new and ens bread cat.They said they had on here any om die at Hengkung.\" To which I replet bread and the fore they craoluded in to be the effect of you have poisoned for every boy wite arsenic. enting that bust. Baving attained slut the Bruxd Is asked me what nesenie was, I sold bin it was the tain they sad to destroy rats. He sait ha did xut bed was purchased; and they and at the E-sing shop. was the cause of the sickness, I asked, where the know want that I then sail this was very lod thing for him after having heen snapccied to tre\n\nI arrived of the main Grands at about 1 oeber and had something to do with the Thistle's athir.\n\ntion went to tow the Spanish steuer inte the inner he was very sorry for it, bot that he did not knew any\n\nharbor, where I arived at 9. Ahlam did not leave thing about either fair. I asked him why he had taken\n\nthe steamer. I had the tention Aptale him on board la funily over from Hongkong. He sud because the\n\nIndoconversion with Allum on the passage previons been threatened that his house would he barn i asked\n\nto the scammer cloring in the inner harbor. Abium hise if he had a house in Macau for his family. He sait said that he would give $50. I t I was not sked if he could leave for longkong the same evening, he had na, but is intended to leave them there with gig and could not ge, fining cargo to deliver\n\nAs I was going to the Governor to explain board and Aldam offered lur $100 to send the steamer lart I haut dore I act some of the Hongkong police. 1 Park Litas sveoing which, waa refused, and Mr. Aguleg rammed with them to the guard boss and give prisoner stiet li could not send then steamer back before text into easy: then returned to Hongkong in the work. inorning as 5 o'clock. Ahira then asked me whether Whea (first went on board the Shamrock, I told the it would a heater for him to go back to Hongkong in mare no to allow any o to go on shure wot the Hongkong police arrived.\n\na Chinese boat that evening or to wait for the ausner next morning t 1 advised him to wait for the\n\nAnd\n\n|\n\nof\n\nsaw one of the maull loaves given by Allan) to one the children before they left, it was to the eldest child. efter the child eat the bread be voulted. My master At the time the bread was given the child was well,\n\nsked why the child vomited. I aud the other servant RB well, aswered that it was owing to the cold, air of the morning. We all wear to the steainer, we were all toget- her in the fore cabin. There were some other people there who i do not kasw. There was a sereen, a cloth, hanging between the men and the women. There was\n\naware of his having tendered to supply the Commiserinting to the same visage, I heese bur name is Aher-ake R. A. ONDE-I am nequninted with Aldom. Iancnother tough not belonging to the family, but belang- with biscuit, he had to sign an agreement after the terder was there before we arrived. Whde on board we only eat was accepted. & 4 or 4 & 5, 1 wes not certain of time corrcer the bread were given to the infant chilld.\n\nI do not know if he be it signes, Isaw bread. and dething else. The bread eat by us, on board, him on the 14th of January in the afternoon between 3 was cut by Ahlum, he eat of the bread first, comic of the wanted to know when he meant to deliver some parted in ny snouth first, and then gave it to him; he then I gave it, I chew- of the biscuit. He said he was going to Macao, and that vomited. We e voisited-ties and we all felt he world bring say servant hack with him. I understood alike. The sickness continued until we arrived at he was to go the next dry. He said be would be hack Macao, then the vomiting ceased, the giddiness con- in the course of a week and would bring my servant tinued. The children were ill after they got back to with his\n\nHongkong on the 15. The whole family were\n\n$2392riend. I then took him ashura tu the Governor's Incac. Aerwards the Agent Mr. Agaber caine ou the Inst contract. When I suy tread I mes: Liscultiple in Honung mla be sick too, therefore we nust\n\nKitard,\n\nwith a ever since I came into the Colony. I had a reh, and women wore sick from eating the bread, peo- W. Spine, I tu . S. Naval Storekeeper, I know brought back here by the police. I heard the unver- Ah'um. In my offelel capacity, I bad business transadiensation between Ahiura and bis father, that as the child- contract with him for 108.000 lbs. it was the largest and was always perfectly antisfied with the manner he failed his contracts. Most Fasuredly i would have been ready to enter with him into further contracts had this affair not happened.\n\n[ go hnek,\n\non the 15th Janury, only 9,005 s. of hecnit ready, Crosscamins by the Attorney General, There was\n\nCrossezamined by the Attorney General-I did not\n\nCrosseramizat by Dr. Bridges, some mede consteamer, Ablam Haid he world remain on board 1 wovording to his stetergent, which he made a few ways give one saul: leaf to the chid in the bout: be gave\n\nsapon took place on hore. De Shamrock. When I told statuer aul the following morning, Ahers said him seni had been used; he said his own children had further three would land his family in the morning, ben sick, and asked me to come and see them. I do\n\nlined to do so. I do not know whether 1 gave the co-That lio did not care if his family were to die so long as lie and himself and his father wohl go back to Hongkong. versation in the saras order before the Magistrate; I was could go back to Hongkong, because he zupplied the nci particularly asked to do so. but I do so how that it is particularly beught to my memory. He volancered went ou board, may mate was.\n\nGovernment. I was not on board when M Robinet to go burk with me in the Spark. He told me that he had offered 1100 to the master of the steamer to take -in back to Hongkong at night, hit that the Captair had refused. I know that Allem had gone in the Sun- ruck. I did not goot board dieetly fearing that he might escape. und bin in the Surecakin standing sulking\n\nith sathe Unese,\n\nThird day, at Februrg.)\n\nCreuseumined Mr. Day-The fret time I an Alium on road at 7A..when he presented to the order of Mr. Murronext time I saw him was when the wearer arrived close to 4 o'clock-if Ahlum wished he canid have spoken to me ut any time through the barricade. When the steamier was anchored the har riende was opened, then the conversation took place--\n\nprevious my last contract was in December some time\n\nIt was a verbal contract. A. G. Acame, am the Agent of the Shamrock between 124 40 1 2.4r. The ordinary course is for the steamer at Macna. I remember un the 15th January the Shamrock anrrived in Maco, and reacted the Prolu Grandle\n\nvessel to return to Hongkong the same day between 2 and 3. On this occasion I had actor work for her, it was arrived in the immer harbor about 34, but I are not sure. not previously kupwa by the Captain. The steamer I went on board before shestopped at the Praia Grande. harbour. When I was on board at the Praia Grande, I The barricade was removed before she went to the inner sw all the Chinees passengers coming out from where hat I sun is when be offered the Captain $100 in the they were barricaded. I saw Alum-nt at that time. inner barbor. O the Teuin Grande, i mernly want\n\nway the child was sick owing to as coldness of the morning, but the father said so. The child lives upstairs shut up from the wind. My monster brought the bread did not see from where he got the bread below. He upstairs from below. I only saw bist bring the bread\n\none tuoltar of the children between the time they lea the hour and getding on board the slenaver. It was about on when the bread was our and distributed. I did not\n\nand 2 baskets containing bread and oranges, with chin observed my master bringing that morning ang clothes to the Lonse, the family took will them way bedding some clothing for the children. I heard master say, when the Mandarina are less trombiccome the faraily will come back again; and flat when he got to Mars his father would take them home, and be would return to Rong- kong you so they were lauded. I am dry murine\n\nain to Antum's family. I am not Aklum's wife, no\n\nMy husband is in California. We brought back I we taken to the Police Station. there I remained the whole of taxt day nad she exi 1 Anjum geing in to be examined; he did and passi through the riem I was in,-but through the veranla\n\nOn the count asectbling Mr. Sutton & juror said my When the pfer, of 600 was made Ablam said, thet e boy Ashow asked me if I was going to the Court as applied bread for many families in Hongkong and that he apprehended there was something wrong there, and that was the reason why he wanted to ges back to\n\nou be in give direction and went back on shore. Sionging to it. Assow and several other called me Hongkong to wake inquirica about the poisoned bread\n\nIt was half past 4 o'clock when I went back to lens here today. I did not objeer to be examined at because he supplied the fiscernment and troops. When\n\nstremer in the inner unchar. The chief mete told pic\n\nthe Police Station. M. Agabeg asked him why he was in a hurry to go to\n\nAblam offered 100 to go back to longhong. Some By the Jury-Cannot say what hour the bakers had longlong he gave the same reusons---I think that Grande. The Captain told me that some of his menyn eat is wasatrange, but e caquiries were rasle. of the menger meul on shore at the Prais their supper fat sight. I live upstats I cannot my what Aillum did not know of my intention to detain him on\n\nhour they had their suppor, but know they take appre bord. I had only gives orders to my mate not to uile were sick, bot le did not my polsoped. He said muilunk Avow cares up to tell Ahium's wife she cfremstance, any sumpar to come alongside.\n\nWhen went and I hear it. There was an opening in the screen on board the sb pc mc side. I could see Abian euthing\n\njayman. I said yes, but I could not speak any thing about the case matil the trial was over. He said Ablam's cousin offered to pay me $100, and the same amount to any other person of the jury who would help Aalum te Escape conviction. The Court orderen the arrest of the boy Accord Ablum's consia and that ties be brenght bore the Court.\n\nALEX. MACHINE-I am Kozerd of the steamet Slickar in the habit of purchasing bread from che Sing. I generally receive my head on ene of the boys of the shop and the inney is al generally in the first prisoner. In the shop fie beiind alie manter, believe he is slabenilen in the shop: I have soen rèé second prisoner in the shop, he belonged to the Thistle before she was taken. Thure en him in the shop after the Thistle was ken; he appeared to be one of the boys in the shop. I have seen hit nasist others in the Aelivery of bread. I only cognize three of the prisoners S having seen the f the shop, ti Arst, second Ani a. On the morning of the 15th January, I benght breal at the -si shop for the use of the cabin, between half past & and half past A.M. I was not very long in the shop, do not rollees having seen that gay any of le priserers in the shep, I was there at the time to receive the breil und pay fit. About Ho'clock luft at the nner for Marzo After leaving Hongkong most of the Eareas papers in the form part hesame sick, name of them were saitors. This took place one df an hour after we left Hongkong. At first I thought it might to go eickness, but as you of thera Bilen got sick daught the water cask on bei\n\nright he poisoned. As they said they had drank no\n\nBy the Fury.The temaer was off the Preis Gende about 10 minutes before she went to the Road to tow the Spanish steamer,\n\nthe Shamrock--the crew breakfasted on board on the ANTONIO GONGALVEZ-1 at Chiat Oficer on board\n\nof his intention to detain Arlum.\n\nversation with Ahiana; he said he wanted to go back un beard in the inner harbor, 1 had a rou- to Hongkong ta een now his bread in Ilongsong the head on found the seater. had turned out; he offered to pay $100 if I would ing-I declined his offer. I did nothing to prevent lur allow the steamer to go back to Hongkong that even-\n\nbeen in custody since the 15th January. On the 14th & Cara-TO-I am clerk to the K-eing hakery. I have\n\none of the priest. Wong Ataol was one of the bukor was at the bakery. Alus was the bead baker-he iz aut\n\nmet was mixing the yeset and making the bread. alo, he is not aroong the prisoners. Atrofa depart\n\nThere were 42 prisoners aken on the 16th. An ad\n\nAt wore not wegst them- The night it was\n\nAt night\n\nafterward three of them were able to work, I saw knowledge; he could have gone with the other passen 15th January niter 3 o'clock--they became sick 5 muutes from going on shore, nor any other person to my the prisoner and his family on board efter the steamer gers if he had been so disposed. He mentioned that his drrived in the inner harbour. I saw three of his family family were ill by eating poisoned brand in hoard. 1ful\n\nand that it would be time cough the his purpose. Flels 10 the bread is bakod. After the work is over That were sick, but Ahlum was talking to toe, and did him that he could return re next momlag to ilangkong, Ateoy's turn to taix the cast at o'clock.\n\nnot see them vaniting. The children uppcure sick. peuple were ill, but some of the men vomited steakon hir or troard. After he was prested I saw his family. the workaea get their chw-how. Nothing particular Crasetammed in the Attorney General-didecarred after the work was owy, war after supper, no My reasou lur set sending the stemmer to Hongkong asin of soup. I went upstair. Ever since I was the same evening was, because the men were all set. alea I have been under the custody of the Government out of the hold, and to take in other cargo he crew I was obliged to employ emolies to discharge, the cargo CHEONG-AC-1 am Cek is Chong-Asow who is\n\nnot appear to be sick. Taw the three of Ablam's family sirk after their arrival in the inner barbera. There was ring men, they were all sick-It was after 'clock coulker on board sunong the passengers, and other sea I find a conversation with Ablue, and ther was the only coveration had with him when he said his family sick. Mr. Robinet and on board at o'clock - sked if Ahlum was on hard anebook bin on shore steamer and we returard west morning to longsung. afterwards Serjeant de Silva brought him back to the (Cauet aljourned at 3. 55 a fer quacier of an hour.) CHEUNG-ACHONG,Emined in the matlier of the fer water, but having eat brand, we eunclade the brend way to bribe the jury.]-- am smaker with Mr. Sutton. I enquired from them where they purchase 1 I know him to he nun of the jury. I had a conversa- po:sone their bread. I made out by the description they give off tion with Ablum's cousin aed Akeen, he lives in the shop that it was the E-sing shop. They were Mans Endicott's Bazuar, he is a hook-binder. He kilt me Tung and did not know the E-sing mate. Some of them to let my master with reference to the case, sunt to or belonging to the steaner had some of the saine bread press the mster and that he would give 100 The offer from the passengers, and after we arrived at Macao they got sick. I had te passengers in the aftur rabin one, Pussc, who cat nothing but read was very sick, the other a Lumpen pussenger and the officers of the steamer who had only tones were not sick. I ent seme of the brut, And was sick. The bread I car was the same go at\n\nwas to him alone. My coaster said no, he hau becn sworn in Court and world not de it.\n\nWANG-ACE(Recognized by the last witness, as the person who spoke to her.) I am a Foreign book naker, I am a friend of Aliam's, but not related to him.\n\nKnow the last witness, I never spoke about Abluza'a\n\nthe E-sing shop. Some of the E sing family had on order poisoning business to him; the only thing I spoke of from Mr. Murrow to have a cabin for themselves to was that I heard his master was in the Court pressing\n\nmaster and the mate tolt ne so. were all it with the exception of the officers. The January I and my wifs want to Maco in the sale boat Chinese Government Head Overauer. On the 15th The crew were all with blum. We were in the sarav cabin, screened off by below and roue deck. The master told me at the Praia Grande that the men were sick, and gave it his father, Duideli's comprador and other siratpers a curtain, Ahlum's wife childrou and servate, Aklan, as an excuse for not going to to the Spanish steamer in the Roads. The steamer all the time remained in\n\ncharge of the Captain und Mate\n\nin all 7 or 8 people. Our fue was $teach, we all eat bread or the panga, it was square bread. The bread was cus\n\nby Ahlum, I first eat it about 12 celoek; minato\n\nthe stence when there is cargo to land or to take in also were sick. I never cases sek. Allum was sick, By the Jury never employ coolies to discharge afterwards eating it I felt giddy and vomtiel, ottery 1 Mana.\n\nu wol as his father. Abium readu a rear, that W. Fuscan, are a merchant in this colony. In the red made them sick he would go back to Hong- know the ninth prisoner by the names of Ahlau orang, I went on shore at once, ou arriving of the Praia H-sing, he was indebted to me $800. I sent to col. Grude i get some melosine-állum did not lang as lect the money, but did not press it, a few days previous pe was going hark. Thory was nothing to prevent int frum ianding. I saw his children on board sick, they\n\nto 14th January. Without further spplication he paid.\n\nto the 14th, an application was made, and on the 14th!\n\nCrossermined by the Attorney General-Previous wore a cker than any of ne\n\nCamined by the Attorney General,-Qaly Ablum\n\nJanuary another application was made, and the coney had bread in the cabin, he had four loaves of k aquaro\n\nshabout a pound each, and he cut all 4 louvou eat one fica lem then the thicknem of my little dogur, About dusk I get well, after waking the medicine. 1 st feel my bowel disordered, I feel no pain but an uncari-\n\nD. May-15ek an Iron Cheat from the shop of Allum, there were several papers and books in it and $1229 odd,\n\n*\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\n28\n\nBuildings, 1 am slightly acquainted with Akiom know of the mob saying they would rob un if we did not shut | Mercer, Mr. Mercer was one of his best friends, and where the Esing shop was I seelisen the time the up, thou we did shut.\n\nhe would rather that his tongue should drop out of Chinese made some disturbance and shutting up their GoPro TK-was called much to his astonish-his mouth than attack Mr. Biercer in the way it was\n\nment to break down the exit of one important witness asserted he had done. for the Crowa--but the attempt totally failed. [6] P..\n\nudjourned.)\n\n(Fifth Day, 5th February.)\n\nThe second part of the speech was occupied in a very scute disacation of the exlitence-Very well performed, with a strong leaning to the Crown aido. Mr. Anstey boldly professed that he had not the astrel indifference\n\nshops; it was 1 balieve in November, Alluin kept lis shop opened. It was the vuly chop I saw upon.\n\nChan-Amox,—I am xayior living in a Cilman's Bazaar Queen's Road. 1 know the Raing shop remember the shatting of the hope; fel day Allam did not Cruse examined by the Attorney General,-The ba\n\nsaat op. He ok at the 28 day. His bread was enivad by\n\nThe Attorney General replied in a very able speseb. of Crown prosecutors in ordinary cases, this was an ex- Kory prutson 1 belleve do not belong to Ablum, they are rented by him.\n\nThe first part was employed in defeating the government traordinary case in which he felt in a different manner, the wch, and stones thrown as bis shop.\n\nand Mr. Mercer for the harsh course usected to have and was not anxious thas a verdict of guilty should be Cnos-Ann Woman, -I am wife of inet witness Cras camined by the Attorney Genemy---I was as been pursued in this case. This summed totally une\n\ngiven.* [Not Mr. May's wife but wife of the last Chlem witness] the Jas House that day, the shop keepers said they were cessary, as the government was more to blame for tou I was on board the steamer going to Maran in the santé\n\naitald of the bad people, but a son as the soldiers came must leniency than too much severity, and Dr. Bridges's eabin with Allam's tatuily. 1 c some bread after 11 and cleared the hob they would epen the shops. Did examination as to the examination taking plsed at o'clock. Al eat the bread. The bread was cut by Ahlum not ses Allam there. All the respectable shop-keepera the police statica\" was morely paltry claptraps and returned a \"verdiet of not guilty. And given to on. After a while had a elabs and were there, about 300, they did not say that they would were that gentlemen not s leaned doctor of laws w vomiter All vomited. Ablam elder child was sick shut the Market outil the Governant cisted the should designate it as ignorant waddle. Or Mr. Mercomon report could not do it justice, in the contrary it first small the other afterwards.\n\nFines. I cannot say who was the leading party in pomposer, Dr. Beiges said in rectification of the Aturney would do it great Injustice. W. Garze,-Boarding house keeper living in circular ing to shut the shops. They were shut in cansequence General's defcuce, \"het be had sever attacked Mr.ace to speak for itsalf-KER.\n\nEdited, Protod, and Published by ROBERT STRAUHAN, at the Hongkong Register Offco: Gago Street, Victoria, Hongkong. Tharaday, February 12, 1887.\n\nThe Chief Justice summed up decidedly against Al- Inma aur accessory before the fact.\n\nThe Jury retired and after about half an hour's absencu\n\nWe regret our inability to give the speech entire.\n\nWe therefore leave the evid\n\nA\n\n322\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\nPage 28\n\nTRIAL OF AH LUM\n[...]\n\nPage 322", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241724, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "28.\n\nCopy :) blony o fitongking\n\n✓\n\nWit!\n\n(True Copp.) Je6601/57\n\n147\n\n(Signed) E. R. Michell, Emigration Officer.\n\nHongkong, 24th Dec, 1886.\n\nKnow all Men by these Presents, That we are held and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, by the Grace of the God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, in the Sum of One Thousand Pounds of Good and Lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors; to which Payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and every of us, jointly and severally for and in the whole, our Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and every of them, firmly by these Presents.\n\n(Signed) A. Thornhill [L. S.]\n\nGeo Lyall C. F. Still. [L. S.]\n\nDated at Hongkong this Day of Feb 1856.\n\nSealed with our Seals.\n\nWhereas by the \"Chinese Passengers Act, 1855,\" it is enacted, that before any Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on a Voyage of more than Seven Days' computed Duration, the Master thereof shall, with Two sufficient Sureties to be approved by an Emigration Officer, enter into a Bond to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the Sum of One Thousand Pounds:\n\nNow the Condition of this Obligation is this, that if (in respect of the Ship \"John Calvin\", whereof Alonso Thornhill is Master) all and every of the Requirements of the said \"Chinese Passenger Act,\" and of the Regulations contained in Schedule (4.) to the Act annexed, or enacted by the Legislature of Hongkong, shall be well and truly observed and performed (in like Manner as the same ought to be observed and performed in case the said Ship were a British Ship, a British Subject) then this Obligation to be void, and the said otherwise to remain in full Force and Effect.\n\nSigned, sealed, and delivered by the above-bounden Alonso Thornhill George Lyall and Charles Frederick Still in the Presence of\n\nC. B. Hillier, Emigration Officer.\n\n88. 7. Bridges Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241725, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "No6\n\n(True Copy)\n\nJu 6606/57\n\n(Signed) E. R. Michell, Emigration Officer\n\nHongkong 24th Decr, 1836.\n\nKnow all Men by these Presents, That we are held and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, in the Sum of One Thousand Pounds of Good and Lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors; to which Payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and every of us, jointly and severally for and in the whole, our Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and every of them, firmly by these Presents.\n\n[28]\n\n(Signed) Geo. F. Seymour [* #]\n\n30. C. Mackan. Geo. Lyall.\n\nthis 28 Day of March 1856.\n\nDated at Hongkong this 2 Day of\n\n[£. $.]\n\nSealed with our Seals.\n\n[28]\n\nWhereas by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, it is enacted, that before any Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on a Voyage of more than Seven Days' computed Duration, the Master thereof shall, with Two sufficient Sureties to be approved by an Emigration Officer, enter into a Bond to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the Sum of One Thousand Pounds:\n\nNow the Condition of this Obligation is this, that if (in respect of the Ship Duke of Portland whereof George Frederick Seymour is Master) all and every of the Requirements of the said \"Chinese Passenger Act,\" and of the Regulations contained in Schedule (A.) to the Act annexed, or enacted by the Legislature of Hongkong, shall be well and truly observed and performed (in like Manner as the same ought to be observed and performed in case the said Ship were a British Ship, and the said British Ship a British Subject,) then this Obligation to be void,\n\notherwise to remain in full Force and Effect.\n\n31.\n\n148\n\nSigned, sealed, and delivered by the above-bounden George Frederick Seymour, Alexander Campbell Maclean George Lyall in the Presence of\n\n(Signed) G.B. Hillier\n\nEmigration Officer\n\nColonial Secretary's Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241828, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "The Chief Justice, & the Secretary. How, under such control, can the barristers obtain local Court satisfaction, conducted? In this case it seems to me Dr. Bridges' observation in Court might profitably be taken into consideration as to whether he was obnoxious, and if so, it was irregular, but I cannot truck the sense, if I face it was, involved such letters as Mr. Darley Morgan properly to 28802.\n\nI have lists at hand of no use of any for Official having \n\nExplication of the manner in which Dr. Bridges discharges his duties to Colonial Secretary... that the Office was not sought for by Mr... I that if he is one of the five Drivers out of \n\nby Mr. Phillipps I Lear\n\nThe Governor with \n\nintolerable that \n\nme of such frequent \n\nof again in quarrels amongst the principal opposite of the place - and if Mr. Decoley, who is always... Mr. Merivale. D is, I think, becoming \n\nCoupled in these quarrels, is not told disputes he will be Hong Kong should be the \n\nremoved. I fear these news, will be any peace come the place. At this that if \n\nDit on Shear \n\nJuin it very \n\nRuffinto to \n\n{\n\nreplace \n\nhim. \n\nSEL \n\n7172.3 \n\nbeta \n\nNUAL SECRETARY, \n\nSUPPLEMENT \n\nTO THE \n\nOverland China Mail, No. 141. \n\nHONGKONG, 10 JUNE, 1857.\n\ndays at lecture. \n\n251 \n\nCommander Torever \n\nSHAMEFUL SCENE IN COURT.\n\nawern testimony, independently of the way of being supplied, for the laaiting mow in Re, which hopt within reach of them for the upper end of the Town first, and so on 7168 ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE ACHING COLO- ! disallowed Ordinance. He also rennded course of erection user the superintens of \n\nlang time; and Cxplain Edgell brings to myliu sucressian, to enable our Boats to get the Rev. Mr Beocher will be as well suited for a She court of cases where is Louis Lecture room; na for a Seamen's Clapet; and antice the beltaviar aud cast arurate fire i Luk. Wa are sorry to have to contradict had so ruled during the present Attorcy \n\nassured that for such, it down, aur by Mr Hudson, Acting Mate, in the place towards our rear, at the Battery at the abrys be town opens. Should thy pject be sccne witnessed in the Supreme Court amining the cusco in question, asid that it carled out, to want of visitors wit be found, latter. The chase was constitued by this lower end of the Town, where most of the at the Criminal Sessionz on Monday last. was so, and that he was of opinion the either on Slays at pulle west, or on week! division, which accompanied, for or 14 casualties occurred. \n\nwas there must active and useful, and on two As no reporter for the press was present, present conviction was correct;\"--bat at \n\nmiles above the pice where the Steamers we give the circumstances na degeriled to the same time hinted in his own quiet but the public in your elias, and thereby oblige at the are having been excessive, I decided with small parties of Marines, under Lieut- Will you not endly bring this subject before had grounded, when, the work for the mesoccasions landed in a very galiant pamer us the same evening by a perfectly dis- firm way to the Attorney General, that, many busidum \n\n10 ar bak, but with the view of getting utauti, L. Blake, ., charged some twe interested eyewitness; but the facts con since he had been aware of the circum- \n\ntise Junko which we still had in sight, at a hundred well-arcied uses, and drove thei casily be substantiated by reference to the sauce, it was his duty to have informed \n\nfuture time by another passage, \n\nLegund in eutankyupis, officers of the Court, súd doubs the Court of the disallowance of the oven the Chief Juanice bintself will readily Oriinance, and at all events clous Amve pers bear testimony to their treth. What ob-witted on (the Chief Justice) the exercise ject is to be gained by the attempt which of its privilege. \n\nThas been made to distors faris, expl Suc is a true statement of the case. \n\nTHE WRITER. ---China Mill, May 20. \n\nTithe Billor of the \"China Mail.\" \n\nkonekana. Si funr. 1817. DEAR Sha, Aernesncleation in your ieste of last week, ideately announces the fact, that \n\nfor \"Seamen?: Chupel\" \n\nThat is too good news to be true, \n\nis rather pacature. \n\n7. Near the point at which we turned, sh 16. An attempt was made to tow dawa the rage of Tseen Trome, we found the ¦ On the Wor Jo be already noticed, but whe Lovely Funnyma, which was captured fast accidentally aught fire, and she was there \n\nThat being December, while in tow of the eteamer fore degroyed with the others, Thistle. I must her. \n\nazcomplished the Boats returned down the 8. On getting back to the Ganbeats at Creek. night, I found that Commander Corbett, who \n\nthe more gratification of personal spicen, Mr Bridges did not rise in the hench speriadening the erection of a building \n\n17. This again was a severe day's work; we cannot profess even to guess. \n\nreserved for the Legislative Council,\" nori It would be observed that the Garnid he interrupt the Court in the manner! \n\nhad very properly remained with the Staruch | offices and men behaved uduniably, mel It is cre thans i would cost gladly to unpage: on her grosiding-tu uber Commanders i with the greatest split. 1 beg la regiarz, 19. ment Gazeite of Saturday last contained a dermibed by those who were not precast, in ach duty, and, Providence promising notification of the disallowance by the land who therefore have been mishel as to us to be ; but the announcement above noticed \n\nhaving gone on had sent the Taflexible's ↑ you be able assistance. I reunived from Cap home government of Ordinance No. 15 of what actually took place; nor indeed would not crerzet su unimpeetart an error, \n\npaddle bos Boat after a Junk that tried to tain Edgell, and from Connraanders Forsyth, escape down & Creek to the right, and cap- Corbett, and Tammur, during the two days\" 1856,—* An Ordinance for amending the did he speak loud enough to be heard by were i aut continually died & Where in pune tured her. Commander Forsyth had return-perations. Their seat and antivity the last Law of Evidence and Triat by Jury, any one bat the Chief Justice; and, as Chapel lucated!\" A very aggravating question, ed with his party, and Lieutenant Deul, dey (as before) was exulated by the Officers The Fourth Clause of which is as follows: we sail before, the false accounts which by the way. It is like waking an old Earheler assisted by the Olheurs of the other Gunboats, of all ranka urder them, freie Lientenant \n\nIV. A Heather Withus, in any tour, or Lave been given of the occurrence can to be able to sewer the question. Beside this, Chinese having reruried to one of the Junks Cadet \n\nwhere a wife is, when he would give the world, bed secured or destroyed all the prizes. The Nares, the Senior Lieutenant, to the Javier before any porsan eupowered to administer an only have had their origin in spite or call, shall not be sworn either before er upon jealousy. \n\nstlecribers to the enterprise must wonder that below, she was recaptured by Mr Motioy, 18. Captain Edgell brings to my notice. giving his testimony, unless the said Court or \n\nthey have not been estigulted, according to the seed Master, with the Starting's and the active share taken by Livatenant Stanis Ju will be soon that though we defend rms of sulsoription. person shall third: fit so to direct; în which case the said winess shall be sworn according to his Dr Bridges from a false accusation, (and conscience, But every flatiren Witness shall, we should assuredly not attempt to de- butor the taking of his said evidence, baby, er ferd him were he in the wrong,) we have by the order of, the said Court or Person, duly refrained from any remarks on the style warned to speak the bruth, and informed of the of Mr Anstev's address, which, not lacing and worthy of being well carried cat. Hong-nsists of one beary Gun in the Baw, each day as a Volunteer, and made himself \n\npenalties to which, in case he whall not speak \n\n18 imply, therefore, to ease my own mind Hongkong's Bois. Lienterant Dent brought forth in the bone's Barge; and the sur- vices of Mr Hudson, Acting Mate of this to my notice the conduct of that Officer. and that of subsetilmes, that I trespass tuon your columns, and corect si error. \n\n9. lo all, 27 heavily armed Stake Borte Soip, 1 beg parisearly to notice. \n\nLieutenant Rd. Cox, of the 38th Regiment Their Armonétr Madras Risles, accompanied the expedition \n\nvery useful, \n\nin gnestini, 1 fiely Padors. 16 le a good idea, oupured or destroyed. \n\nThe mala idea suggested by the communication Celonging to the Admiral a Hay) were \n\nalways a more Shipping Fort. There ja to be a \n\nis not what it was five, or even two, yenas generally a fong 32 or 24-Peunder, with fum on the five years to sinne ty be expected to 6 fighter Guus; wol Vessel pulls about vell Bates change. This is not to be 40 nors. This servies was fortunately ac \n\ncity, here, miroving in numbers, but in fasellectual extrano; sand in is quite tinte tak one of the resued amusements suggeted by \n\nThe Waiter shoult to intradusal. \n\nthe truth, he will become liable; it being herely been present, we did not bear, bat which declared and enacted, that the pensities of Fer our informant states to have been highly jury stall be denied and taken to apply to False utbecoming, to say the very least of it\" Testimony given by any such witness, whether Sach violent ebullitions : a Court of Jus-jace and refined & vissy, a constantly improvize Botngslished with the loss of two men only sworn sworn, in any use where, if it as tice are disgreefel to all concerned, and given the same upon walk, ho would by law ! hare thereby becoine lisad to the same. \n\nought to he put a summery stop to by An inexcusable oversight, it seems, was the Chief Justice; and if how officers for \n\nget themselves, and use language aule- committed by the local government, in caring their official character, it is high Seatnen's Cliapol,\" I have an objset iu view caser (but not severe) of sun strike occurred \n\nUne or twa \n\nwonended. The day was excessively not, and I can speak ton highly of the spirit with which the men stuck to their ears, through a harder day's work than I have ever before Of course, in labouring be the stridslunent of witnessed under a tropical sun. \n\nbigher and an re important that suggested in the Gunboats. \n\nla commaneation of your last wack's co- alge hat hond, to his would picase we respondeur; but as Keligion tudi true Refinement \n\nnot having officially notified the Attorney General of the Ordinance having been time they were reminded of it, if not disallowed; but that Mr Anstey was aware utherwise, through the columns of the of it through the Gazette, he did not profom public press. We have witnessed to to dony. Notwithstanding the disalloway such recriminatory barangues Tat-mi dan tind she combined in my enter auce, he proceeded to try the case without terly, such as ne barrister, we feel assurul, piso. Respectfully, I am, Sir, swearing the witnesses a course in which would youture apen before the judges in | \n\nus will be shown, he was justified by the terms of a subsequent ordinues. Bat now for a description of what really did Denur in Court. \n\nEnglaud, and such as should not be per- witted bero. \n\n-China Mail, May 20 \n\nEVENING AMUSEMENTS.\n\nImmediately before the evidenes was closed, or at all events before the jury had We have mock pleasure in nesking room returned their verdict-our informant is for the following communication, and hope not certain which the Acting Colonial the proposal will meet with the courage- Secretary called to him the Crown So-mout it deserves:- \n\nlicitor, and pointed out that the Attorney To the Editor of the \"China Mail.\" General Lad, in not swearing the witness, overlooked the disallowance of the Ordi \n\nHosure, 28 May, 1857. \n\nJ. C. BEECHER. -China Maži, June 4, \n\nGAZETED NOTICKS, \n\nBar Haakons Cureras Garde, Func E. J \n\ntions more in detail. \n\n10. At daylight next morning the Steamers and ten pelas in tow, and attached with the proceeded down the frecks with the Boats Syble, the Second Bar. \n\n11. Further Arrangements were now made to follow up the War Boats that had o | away. I had already, the previous day \n\ntard to strengthen Commander Forsyth's \n\nSigned, \n\nTrae Extracts, \n\nC. ELLIOT, Commodat \n\nTien. S. MORRISDN. \n\nReturn of the Force engaged in the Brenpo Creek, on the 35th of Say, at the Capture ami Datraction of Chinese War Veste. Steam Tender Bunghong, Lieut. EL T. Dent. |trandat \n\nChili. Spain Tender Fir C. Forbet, „ Vine. fort Gunboat Startin \n\nVilliers. Siunach, \n\nWildman. Sybille. Launch-Lieut. E. Nee; Livut, Blake, a \n\nMr Price, Midaluperar. Borge, Mr A. 4. Brooke, Midshipman. Piankee-Mr. K. Hudson, Asing Mate \n\nGatter,—Mr W. Ht. De Burgly Midshipman. \n\n* \n\nhreat. Swale, n.. \n\nRaleigh. \n\nH \n\nCar-Commander Turner: Mr J. Forhess Assistant Solgeon; Mr Pilkington, Mid- shipman Launch,-iros. Goodenough; Lord Charles \n\nSet, Mulshipnot Pinnaco, Lieut. Grabara; Mr Dupries, Mil- \n\nskipman. \n\nTribune. \n\nGig-Capt. Tidgell; Mr E. Elwyn, Naval Cadet ; \n\nMe Childers, Midshipman \n\nBarge, Liat. Saniforth; Lieet Boyle; Me Harvey, Surgeon; Lieut. A. Ozxari, Volunteer, Lieut. Hichord Cox, 34th Regi- men: .N.I. \n\nshipman; My Rowe, Assistant Paymaster; My Hawkins, Naval Cadet, Cutter, Mr Yest, Midelima. Mir R. \n\nVerry, Gopurk \n\nstationed the Tribuné off Sawshee Chamel, ļaud 1 now moored the Inflexilie abreast of the Second Bar Creek, dowa which her Guð uld then range. From the knowledge I Exacts from a Despatch from Commodore now possessed respecting the various treels honourable C, G, J, 3. BLLC. from Escape Creek downwards, à considered dated wh May, 1857, to the addrees of, it possible to guard all outlets to the His Excellency Rear Admiral Rifer, and with a force of Bosts to sour Mona Sernions, K.C.B. \n\nSpottie, ED BAR, CARTON RIPER there wither to meet that fave or cetize th 4th May, 1867. wards the main River. Commander Forsyth Sia--It is a frequent subject for remark, that 1. 1 bad the honour to report to you \n\nwith his division tools up his station in Escape mance, and that a verdict ander the viral.ough there boarge uber of residents yesterday, that Her Majesty's Gauboats, Greek in the evening. cumstances would be illegal, and weight loud is this Colony fully capable of appreciating and į Tenders, and Ship Boats, captured or des- | 12. At daylight the 27th I proceeded the escape of the prisoners. Mr Cooper enjoying hitelary entertainments, there are no frayed about 40 Mandarin Junks (Suake up the Saws Channel as previously ar Turner thereupon crossed over to they may be destred. With the exeption of our big w to report the nature of the upitra-ers for 10 or 12 miles, 1 then sent the Bos Pintave, Livul. Normate; Mr Barker, Mid- suell emergituents to be enjoyed, however acheals) on the 25th and 27th Instant, 1anged, the Boats being towed by the Stean- Anstey, and told him what Dr Dridges had ceanna Ball, (from which andemment many said Mr Anstey, however, took no are restrained by Jack of invitation, utud others further notice of it, but on the verdict of by principle,) there is nothing to breast in upo 2. The Fleet of Juuks which formerly relivision, and desired Lieutenant Dent in the guilty being returned, instantly, as is in pleasure. In the cities of our native laude, navod to a position about five or six miles Pine, and go a short distance up the the dull Fouding of business and ucharrowing mained near the main euch of the tiver had unploy to false with him the Inferible's -Saraton, left the Court Dr Bridges then there are always relaxations to be fand in the up the Cree. As it was very doubtful; Sieoud Bar Creek (he succeeded in passing \n\nwork up to the Registrar's desk, and said form of Lesturda, Concerts, and such Wke, which whether our small Steemers mid to completely through into Escape Creek, and Gig-Commander Forsyth. emmething to the Chief Justice, in 50 real pleasures, and yet which at the samne \n\nthem, it was upeessary to have a sufficient \n\net Commander Forsyth.) Casting off from time, R. A. Deown, Acting Mate low tone as to be unbeard by our time tend to improve the said, and refine the Boat foren to follow up the Creek, iade the Steamers, the Beats pulled up ite Saw-Cutter-Lieut. Brock, Honourable A. Denison, informant, but which would appear to juller man There is rule which works bath \n\npendent of Ganhoat support. \n\nshore Channel, and we anon beard from the \n\nAnting Mate. have been of the same tenor no the mea ievestiors bebokens increasing refinement in the ways. While sa enlarged interest in such re- \n\n3. At daylight on the 25th, our Force was that foar of Sin Hop's retreating Squadron natives (who showed us every good feeling) sage delivered to Mr Anstey through recamanity, the encunmaging and fostering such in the Creek, and soon afterwards a Mandarin had on the 25th gone up to Tang Kons, Turner, for His Lordship sent for the interest, is one of the surest manus of bringing Fleet of about 40 Junks was observed moored and that there were other Mandarin Juuks Attorney General, and explained to him about an elevated public suliment. The mind what had been said. Mr Anstey there else the finer elepients will natally dissolve, and of a community, as well as the body, must be fed, upon expressed great indignation at the \n\ngrosser exuberatu enlund of the Evecative government, as represented by Dr Bridges and that they hud ant deigned to show him the despatiu disallowing the Ordinance, or even to commonlaste its tenor, except through the government notice open to all. Mr The peculiar organization of our society does within good tuge, she opened fire, and was Anstey further intimated the atunst con- pot were like me on supported by the Bustard and Starting Roman, and served the mastheads of the Return of the Force exprged on the 27th May, ut and denied the right of the Acting Culminature, that Ettle advantage is gained either—in others being at distant range. The War Junks. The Boats now gave way with tempt for the technical quibble started- \n\nBerad. \n\nJafazibie. \n\nStarboard Pale-Box Boat, Lisa Hanson fig,--Commander Crebert \n\nMr Barkle, Mid-biptnan. \n\nPort Pedule-Box Bat-Me . Sukee, Mid- shipman Me Magrudi, Assistant Surgeon, \n\nin good order across the stream. The tide there (I beg here to mention the very for the Juuke to escape, and although it made fter. Skinned Beal, Chaplain of this ship, who Finaceout. Bacon; Mr Teliasis, Mil- was a strong ebb, which rendered it less easy great assistance I have received from the \n\nwas good enough at my request to accom. pany me each day us Chiurse Interpreter; are in a great degree doe, as I had failed to to his aid the successes of the expedition \n\n1: is imprasible for human nature to thrive thread the way amongst the shoals \n\nnur progress slow, iz enebied us this better to \n\ndessert. The day demily of business, do not tend the leading Steuses as they approached, 4. A heavy fire from the Janks opened upon \n\nmigh & Bil. bo served up wokthly by way of i mn Book-keeping, Beefstenks, and Beer, even \n\na test men's heads, and surely the wist desails, but at too great a distice to tell with effect. \n\nof late dinners can have no such tendency \n\nand what is of this is so its \n\nShortly afterwards, as the Hoogkang got \n\nobtain an interpreter from Hongkong) \n\nBAI MAL \n\nPary \n\nPaddle-Box Boat,-Lient. Smith; Mr. Mayary, Assistant Surgeon; Mr Hayes, Midshipman. Punae, My Smith, Acting Mite! \n\n13. About 10 miles from where the Steam- Total Force of Boats with game-13 Cutters \n\ners were left, we opened the City of Tong \n\na will; and though the Junks were in sight \n\nand Gigs 7. \n\nthe Fedruction of Chinese War Boats at to those who visis or thuge who are visited: and, fire from the Junks then slackened, and they Secretary to appear in that court. If he Hence it occurs, that falls seven-tenths of our gut aulerweigh; some were soon afterwards \n\nTeung Konan. and his friends, said Mr Anstey, think me population are as entirely destitute of evening abandoned, and the rest plying their arsy two miles off, they succeeded in taking \n\nSplitte. them completely by surprise; the Bous, as unit to fall my functions, cere 19 another intent, na though; carb one wear ande resident endeavoured to escape op the treek. \n\nBarge,-Lieut. Naces; Mr Brooke, Midship- pon upon the island, Robinson Crusoe, Phillip \n\nthey dasked in, firing into a standi battery \n\nmare; Lieut. lake, R.M. before which they ear cito me, tribunal \n\na. The Stoners followed, thongh very Qar, or other more of all be survey slowly on account of the shoal wafer; the War Funky, eased them to be immediately \n\nwhich camanded the River, and into the pin Hudson, Acting Mate; Lieut gad les them there do their word! The \n\nNow tie ought Get so to he is a state of \n\nSwale, K.M. learned gentleman referred to cases report things sliko derimented to five rolny as a whole, Charles Forbes and Staunch grounded abandoned. The Jooks lay scattered along Cutter, Mr De Burgh, Midshipznali. \n\nely, then the Starling, and eventually the the whole length of the Town through which Hongkong ran ashore. The signal was 10- the River runs, and preparatious ware Bow and a general chase took place. The Junk mediately made for the Boats to go ahead, nede in destroy them with the exception of Cutter Commander Tour: Mr Forbes, Assistant Surgeon Mr Pilkington, Mid- one, the finest and heaviest grined War Junk ! force divided, the main body of about 15 non- I have seus in China, which I hoped to be Pisser-Lie Gralas; Mr Duries, Mid- \n\nshipmana. tiquing up the main channel were followed i uble to take away. by the Boats, doi by Captafa Edgell, who \n\nTribune. \n\n| cul in the Hangkang Register for Decom- | anod to the individuat elamuter of those who com \n\nber, 1851, and January 1832, and sou- \n\nprise it. The rond with feed on something, and tended that the court had power under there be no larless recreations to satisfy the if it cannot have wheat, it must take chat. If Ordinance 5 of 1858, § 4,* to admit un demand, then grosser indulgencies will be sought fun, which delar the character a surely as the * Every Court, \n\nor Officer \n\nGundide to take Adidas le 23 ant \n\nlet, Crli ur Orinatra”, where my porson concjælent to ) \n\nformer serve to elevate it. \n\nIs it not desirable, ches, to supply, so far \n\ngive pekline or make fidavit their shall refrs to¡ possible, some social entertainments, which may \n\nwarn fleista, may, at his reton, peralt floor intuest as we as elevate-which all appeal to \n\ncalthy appetite for wholesome and \n\nThere is els at talent, should think, f \n\nliar tu berku sa en Bueratina, or Staterof the better nature of murselves, and give na a his or her Farbbowonge by Una salat mračket, which sate Declarou or Hatement shall thenceforth leave the vanie force and affect in all repeat? usdila ne mer Hops * or Adavit (as the cause war vel to the live pur sworn to lài tho usual way, would save Bul: But no such permiator shall be granted in a person Who shall not have been fire, by the rail Court, Magli Hale, Commissioner, or Officer, duly warmer to speak \n\n15 Prath, and ladoled of the Fesultis, which lie m \n\nthe sunny, to carry through a rise of Lycan Lectures, which would be a credit to the place, and prove a saree of pleasure to our fellow citizens; and beside those wow pinong as, there \n\ndetached four Pines a Crook to the Chinese Tramps were not going quietly to 14. Et soon became apparent that the \n\nshipman. \n\nRaleigh. \n\nMr J. Phillipps, Ayting 24 Master, \n\nte fallone the sadler -ision: Com sabrnit to this proceeding without farther Gig-Capt. Figril; Ms W. Flwyn, Naval Cadet ; matcher Pureyth devonanied these Pires, resista ce, and the reck being arrow with Barge Lieut. Stanforth; Liest Ozcan, which suceredeit in capturing thasa all (ten Houses on either wids, they had every facility \n\nin amber). Commander Forsyth speaks to pick off war men. As we find passed up. | \n\nBanett, Acting Assistant Surgeon \n\nVownther, Lieut. Cox, 38th Regiment M.N.1. \n\nbighly of the gallant way the Horacf's Pin- only a few gingalls and matchlocks opened; Pinnace,--Hest. Norman; Air Barker, Mid- have, wnder Me R. A. Brown, Acting Minte, these increasing in number, presently gare! dashed in, wasupported by the other Boats, considerable ayaner, and it was necessary, which she fund distanced, against three of to keep up a continued tire with some of these heavily armed Janks which struck to the Bear's Guns, fresketry, and from the Tribune's Rucket Bost, which did good \n\nthe will ineste by making a False Fierlaan 544 345ly passing, bansient visitors, travel \n\ncat unor this risauce and furar, who shold of every part of the veld, who world her. floss he or she shali kuppen on he a busddigno) hare; gladly aid to entertain us by their obervations; \n\nWhat tlie \n\nsaid Court, Magidrato, Comeliner and at that is required would soon! to i Terved front a Religious or Contentious Bell that Beaking of a Vata is unlawful, \n\nellip; Mr Hawkins, Naval Cadet. Cutter-Lieut. Slowtherd; Mr Mangon, Mid- \n\nshipman My Verey, Gwner. \n\nInflexible. \n\nGig-Commander Corbett ; Mr W. Burney. \n\nbe a euit- 6. The main body, followed by Captain service, while other parties were employed | Starboard Uadille-Box Dou Lieut. Dacou: Mr that his or her Objection to take the Oath Ute all in which to hold such meetings Even Ragell, were soon beyond range of all, exept destroying the Junks, which compied some Buckle, Midshipman; Mr Magrath, Assistant \n\nthis desideratone, I ano gled to say, is in a fa, the Hornet's Rocket, Boat and Sybille's Pil- time, as it was cressary to burd' those at [ \n\nSargcom.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244445, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n### JUNE 12, 1858.\n\n## ADMIRALTY NOTICE RESPECTING LIGHTS AND FOG SIGNALS TO BE CARRIED AND USED BY SEA-GOING VESSELS, TO PREVENT COLLISION.\n\nBy the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. By virtue of the power and authority vested in us, we hereby revoke, as from and after the thirtieth day of September 1858, the Regulations made and published by us on the first day of May 1852, relating to the Lights to be carried by Sea-going Vessels to prevent collision: And we hereby make the following Regulations, and require and direct that the same be strictly observed and carried into effect on and after the first day of October, 1858.\n\n### STEAM VESSELS.\n\nAll Sea-going Steam Vessels, when under Steam, shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit the following Lights;\n\n1. A bright White Light at the Foremast Head.\n2. A Green Light on the Starboard side,\n3. A Red Light on the Port side.\n\n2. The Mast-head Light shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least 5 miles, and shall show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 20 points of the compass, and it shall be so fixed as to throw the light 10 points on each side of the ship, viz: from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on either side.\n\n3. The Green Light on the Starboard side and the Red Light on the Port side shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least 2 miles, and show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, and they shall be so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on the Starboard and on the Port sides respectively.\n\n4. The Side Lights are to be fitted with inboard screens projecting at least 3 feet forward from the light, so as to prevent the light from being seen across the bow.\n\n5. Steam Vessels under Sail only are not to carry their Masthead Light.\n\n### Fog Signals.\n\nAll Sea-going Steam Vessels, whether propelled by paddles or screws, when their steam is up, and when under way, shall in all cases of Fog use as a Fog Signal a Steam Whistle, placed before the Funnel at not less than 8 feet from the deck, which shall be sounded once at least every five minutes; but when the steam is not up, they shall use a Fog Horn or Bell, as ordered for Sailing Ships.\n\n### SAILING VESSELS.\n\n1. All Sea-going Sailing Vessels when under way or being towed shall between sunset and sunrise exhibit a Green Light on the Starboard side and a Red Light on the Port side of the vessel, and such Lights shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least 2 miles, and shall show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, from right a-head to 2 points abaft the beam on the Starboard and on the Port sides respectively.\n\n2. The Coloured Lights shall be fixed whenever it is practicable so to exhibit them; and shall be fitted with inboard screens projecting at least 3 feet forward from the Light, so as to prevent the Lights being seen across the bow.\n\n3. When the Coloured Lights cannot be fixed (as in the case of small vessels in bad weather), they shall be kept on deck between sunset and sunrise, and on their proper sides of the vessel ready for instant exhibition, and shall be exhibited in such a manner as can be best seen on the approach of, or to, any other vessel or vessels, in sufficient time to avoid collision, and so that the Green Light shall not be seen on the Port side, nor the Red Light on the Starboard side.\n\n### Fog Signals.\n\nAll Sea-going Sailing Vessels when under way, shall, in all cases of Fog, use when on the Starboard Tack a Fog Horn, and when on the Port Tack shall Ring a Bell. These signals shall be sounded once at least every five minutes.\n\n### SAILING PILOT VESSELS\n\nare to carry only a white Light at the Mast-head, and are to exhibit a Flare-up Light every 15 minutes, in accordance with Trinity House regulation.\n\n### VESSELS AT ANCHOR.\n\nAll Sea-going Vessels when at anchor in roadsteads or fairways shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding 20 feet above the hull, a White Light in a Globular Lantern of 8 inches in diameter, and so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light all round the horizon, at a distance of at least 1 mile.\n\nGiven under our hands this 24th day of February 1858.\n\nBy Command of their Lordships,\n\n**W. G. ROMAINE, Secretary.**\n\n**CHARLES WOOD.**\n\n**R. S. DUNDAS.**\n\nThe following Diagrams are intended to illustrate the use of the Lights carried by vessels at sea, and the manner in which they indicate to the vessel which sees them the position and description of the vessel which carries them :-\n\n### FIRST.-When both Red and Green Lights are seen —\n\nA sees a Red and Green Light ahead; A knows that a vessel is approaching her on a course directly opposite to her own, as;\n\n| Vessel A | Sees Red and Green Light | Knows Vessel B is approaching |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| A | B | on a direct opposite course |\n\nIf A sees a White Mast-head Light above the other two, she knows that B is a steam-vessel.\n\n### SECOND, When the Red, and not the Green light, is seen:\n\nA sees a Red Light ahead or on the bow; A knows that either,\n\n1. a vessel is approaching her on her port bow, as B;\n\n| Vessel A | Sees Red Light | Knows Vessel B is approaching on port bow |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| A | B | |\n\nPage 363\n\n## The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n### MAY 29, 1858.]\n\nOrder protecting her Earnings and Property acquired since the Commencement of such Desertion, from her Husband and all Creditors and Persons claiming under him, and such Earnings and Property shall belong to the Wife as if she were a Feme Sole: Provided always, that every such Order, if made by a Police Magistrate or Justices at Petty Sessions, shall, within Ten Days after the making thereof, be entered with the Registrar of the County Court within whose Jurisdiction the Wife is resident; and that it shall be lawful for the Husband, and any Creditor or other Person claiming under him, to apply to the Court, or to the Magistrate or Justices by whom such Order was made, for the Discharge thereof: Provided also, that if the Husband or any Creditor of or Person claiming under the Husband shall seize, or continue to hold any Property of the Wife after Notice of any such Order, he shall be liable, at the Suit of the Wife (which she is hereby empowered to bring), to restore the specific Property, and also for a Sum equal to double the Value of the Property so seized or held after such Notice as aforesaid: If any such Order of Protection be made, the Wife shall during the Continuance thereof be and be deemed to have been, during such Desertion of her, in the like Position in all respects, with regard to Property and Contracts, and suing and being sued, as she would be under this Act if she obtained a Decree of Judicial Separation.\n\n### XXII. \n\nIn all Suits and Proceedings, other than Proceedings to dissolve any Marriage, the said Court shall proceed and act and give Relief on Principles and Rules which in the Opinion of the said Court shall be as nearly as may be conformable to the Principles and Rules on which the Ecclesiastical Courts have heretofore acted and given Relief, but subject to the Provisions herein contained and to the Rules and Orders under this Act.\n\n### XXIII. \n\nAny Husband or Wife, upon the Application of whose Wife or Husband, as the Case may be, a Decree of Judicial Separation has been pronounced, may, at any Time thereafter, present a Petition to the Court praying for a Reversal of such Decree on the Ground that it was obtained in his or her Absence, and that there was reasonable Ground for the alleged Desertion, where Desertion was the Ground of such Decree; and the Court may, on being satisfied of the Truth of the Allegations of such Petition, reverse the Decree accordingly, but the Reversal thereof shall not prejudice or affect the Rights or Remedies which any other Person would have had in case such Reversal had not been decreed, in respect of any Debts, Contracts, or Acts of the Wife incurred, entered into, or done between the Times of the Sentence of Separation and of the Reversal thereof.\n\n### XXIV. \n\nIn all Cases in which the Court shall make any Decree or Order for Alimony, it may direct the same to be paid either to the Wife herself or to any Trustee on her Behalf, to be approved by the Court, and may impose any Terms or Restrictions which to the Court may seem expedient, and may from Time to Time appoint a new Trustee, if for any Reason it shall appear to the Court expedient so to do.\n\n### XXV. \n\nIn every Case of a Judicial Separation the Wife shall, from the Date of the Sentence and whilst the Separation shall continue, be considered as a Feme Sole with respect to Property of every Description which she may acquire or which may come to or devolve upon her; and such Property may be disposed of by her in all respects as a Feme Sole, and on her Decease the same shall, in case she shall die intestate, go as the same would have gone if her Husband had been then dead; provided, that if any such Wife should again cohabit with her Husband, all such Property as she may be entitled to when such Cohabitation shall take place shall be held to her separate Use, subject, however, to any Agreement in Writing made between herself and her Husband whilst separate.\n\n### XXVI. \n\nIn every Case of a Judicial Separation the Wife shall, whilst so separated, be considered as a Feme Sole for the Purposes of Contract, and Wrongs and Injuries, and suing and being sued in any Civil Proceeding; and her Husband shall not be liable in respect of any Engagement or Contract she may have entered into, or for any wrongful Act or Omission by her, or for any Costs she may incur as Plaintiff or Defendant; provided, that where upon any such Judicial Separation Alimony has been decreed or ordered to be paid to the Wife, and the same shall not be duly paid by the Husband, he shall be liable for Necessaries supplied for her Use; provided also, that nothing shall prevent the Wife from joining, at any Time during such Separation, in the Exercise of any joint Power given to herself and her Husband.\n\n### XXXIII. \n\nAny Husband may, either in a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage or for Judicial Separation, or in a Petition limited to such Object only, claim Damages from any Person on the Ground of his having committed Adultery with the Wife of such Petitioner, and such Petition shall be served on the alleged Adulterer and the Wife, unless the Court shall dispense with such Service, or direct some other Service to be substituted; and the Claim made by every such Petition shall be heard and tried on the same Principles, in the same Manner, and subject to the same or the like Rules and Regulations as Actions for Criminal Conversation are now tried and decided in Courts of Common Law; and all the Enactments herein contained with reference to the Hearing and Decision of Petitions to the Court shall, so far as may be necessary, be deemed applicable to the Hearing and Decision of Petitions presented under this Enactment; and the Damages to be recovered on any such Petition shall in all Cases be ascertained by the Verdict of a Jury, although the Respondents or either of them may not appear; and after the Verdict has been given the Court shall have Power to direct in what Manner such Damages shall be paid or applied, and to direct that the whole or any Part thereof shall be settled for the Benefit of the Children (if any) of the Marriage, or as a Provision for the Maintenance of the Wife.\n\n### XXXIV. \n\nWhenever in any Petition presented by a Husband the alleged Adulterer shall have been made a Co-Respondent, and the Adultery shall have been established, it shall be lawful for the Court to order the Adulterer to pay the whole or any Part of the Costs of the Proceedings.\n\n### XXXV. \n\nIn any Suit or other Proceeding for obtaining a Judicial Separation or a Decree of Nullity of Marriage, and on any Petition for dissolving a Marriage, the Court may from Time to Time, before making its final Decree, make such interim Orders, and may make such Provision in the final Decree, as it may deem just and proper with respect to the Custody, Maintenance, and Education of the Children the Marriage of whose Parents is the Subject of such Suit or other Proceeding, and may, if it shall think fit, direct proper Proceedings to be taken for placing such Children under the Protection of the Court of Chancery.\n\n### XXXVI. \n\nIn Questions of Fact arising in Proceedings under this Act it shall be lawful for, but except as herein-before provided, not obligatory upon, the Court to direct the Truth thereof to be determined before itself, or before any One or more of the Judges of the said Court, by the Verdict of a Special or Common Jury.\n\n### XXXVII. \n\nThe Court, or any Judge thereof, may make all such Rules and Orders upon the Sheriff or any other Person for procuring the Attendance of a Special or Common Jury for the Trial of such Question as may now be made by any of the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, and may also make any other Orders which to such Court or Judge may seem requisite; and every such Jury shall consist of Persons possessing the like Qualifications, and shall be struck, summoned, balloted for, and called in like Manner, as if such Jury were a Jury for the Trial of any Cause in any of the said Superior Courts; and every Juryman so summoned shall be entitled to the same Rights, and subject to the same Duties and Liabilities, as if he had been duly summoned for the Trial of any such Cause in any of the said Superior Courts; and every Party to any such Proceeding shall be entitled to the same Rights as to Challenge and otherwise as if he were a Party to any such Cause.\n\n### XXXVIII. \n\nWhen any such Question shall be so ordered to be tried such Question shall be reduced into Writing in such Form as the Court shall direct, and at the Trial the Jury shall be sworn to try the said Question, and a true Verdict to give thereon according to the Evidence; and upon every such Trial the Court or Judge shall have the same Powers, Jurisdiction, and Authority as any Judge of any of the Superior Courts sitting at Nisi Prius.\n\nPage 183", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246252, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "laying before the Council\n\nBr.4\n\n\"Andor' was\n\nto the\n\nnot observed. If it had been, this time scarcely time for one hurried rcade us by the Clark - we time to discuss et; – no Flevice to canine the copious references The suites of foilchrell bequiry, Report, Coneshond and other evidence which filled give : _ not even time to r portion thereof. And, under the secon\n\nAn. 42\n\nit\n\nany\n\nto sanction the vituperative language of the fpeting\n\nColdwell Enquiry\n\nResol\n\nColonial buritory, relation to my past in the other\n\nthe only matter with wheel Council the Council, wen of legally convened, could heave of the. drall and to bold that they consered in Riga \"the opinion conveyed in the letter of that\n\ncomportant Juler, does in fact constitute of charly complete breach of a ally in prosion of the\n\nnec seam provision Regulations; by wheit alone they claim to sit in judgment.\n\nCler, and a\n\nvery\n\nact\n\nthe\n\nRegulations\n\n30.\n\nMenuites\n\nCouncil. Quequst,\n\nwas appointed\n\n10.–4. – Having this, decided all the the Council, by their Fift charges against me, \"Resolution, desired me to be attriced thereof, and that tomorrow morning by them for the consideration' _ not of their ju égonent for that was rendered, but of my sentence; and for receiving any - leons I might desire to make in not any defence which, by the Regulations\n\nentitled to make against the Charge.\n\nI wa\n\nNor was I informed,\n\nсоветни\n\nwriting\n\nuntil tres too\n\nRegulation\n\n0-83.\n\nExte, shall I ever be informed, whether they degulations\n\ncontemplated to require or permut me, to defend\n\nserself in hesson orally before there or any person to testify in my behalf, or what rule they had adopted on the subject.\n\ntota\n\n80-83.\n\nno sufficient allowed me. Regulation 11. VI. _ But, had they done so, no. home for preparing any defence within the letter of exurit of the Regulations; four clear days and two hours at this exhausting lenson, being palpably insuffecient for that purpose: even if three of those days had not hune Court days, during the whole of which I was employed upon Reavy pro\n\n-professional\n\n# 13th July\n\nsional business\n\n85\n\nof the unpub- taken before\n\nB\n\nmy\n\nThe Z\n\nible; -\n\nand lon\n\nC\n\nD\n\nlished doucementary wordend The Caldwell Commission, had, agon\n\nstrong\n\n30th alle me, been sade a if the reasonable request to be allowed an \"Inspection of Documents, laid only in betons before the Execution Council on the Wudist had rest been peremptorily refused.\n\n12. VII. - So far as the subject matter\n\nthat is to say, the mey litter of\n\n-\n\n-\n\nof\n\nCaldwell Case, – is concerned, the Council han\n\naprimed a apensduction\n\natters now\n\nunder appeal from myself against the Excellency to the Right Houble the secretary\n\nthe Branister of State - matters, which have, long one this\n\nderation of received the conse and upon which fir Edward B. Lytton's decis\n\nbe expected in there the next three\n\nmay\n\nfour weeks. termini, I am them, or\n\nare\n\njurisdi\n\nex.\n\nchon, wheel,. \n\nnot belong to\n\ndior, can\n\nSo for\n\nas the new Charger\n\nto the Reso\n\nif it do be safely exercised. concerned, and accordoy the Crevail.\n\n13. And VII,. \n\n--\n\n-lutions contain\n\nare\n\nproceding to revive ofel. It long ette\n\nof chich were,\n\nComplainth some\n\nAlted\n\nduring the\n\ndecided.\n\nlong ago.\n\nqease 1856-8 suade by move others\n\nbut all of\n\n\"them honorably\n\napaine me, pompsoncised or bonorably\n\nLievitare. Resolution\n\nat aller\n\ncases actually\n\nState: For.\n\nso decided\n\npass by altogether not to be Charactercied claped, except with that charge\n\nwhich King James's,\n\nA\n\ngreater\n\na center once.\n\nThis\n\nbrought dgainst dir Edward Coke, a greater lawy\n\nlive manner, that of setting forth, as law, positions which the Ming doubled to be law, du like ting wetting forth Rembertionsharges\n\nand Convicts me\n\nof-giving\n\ntwo legal Opinions, believed by the Governor Council to be injudicious,\" and aggroting M. Labouchere in oxen, for adoption in 1859% for the Chinese of Hongkong, a change in the law of\n\nby changer\n\nthe way\n\nwhich at\n\nconspiracy to murder: a che the suggestion of a foreign power, L'amplifeed far beyond my first bon coption, was afterwards as vainly proposed by m\n\nLa bousten", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249208, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "page_number": 398, "title": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "content_text": "Sir F. Rogers.\n\nIt will be observed that In H. Robinson ands\n\nno recommendation quis\n\n68.15\n\nSTUTZ\n\nAss. In June.\n\n1/51765\n\nEx for As\n\nAfpointment from Home. To infert\n\nHe says ha\n\nprivate letter\n\nr\n\n387\n\nMy Lord Butler\n\nIbow b\n\nAs the Aunor\n\nAm May,\n\nApril 25th 1860\n\nit that a\n\nreting pension has been granted to Juire\n\nI inline how suggested the pre dobility that the Vacant office of\n\nthis Colony will be conferred on the present Acting Chief Justice\n\nMr Attorney General Adams – d\n\ntake the liberty of intending\n\non you frace with my application for the post of Attorney General.\n\n16.\n\nI am teu, called to the Bar and purwis bony Call Fattained bish turns at a\n\nPuthi\n\nExamination in prazo dus open the Shidu you the heus of Cout and held at a time\n\nExaminations lle fartinatle only\n\nWhen\n\nAmongst those who worked bad cecough\n\nAfeel satisfied fother powers.\n\nAo\n\nAny formen\n\nCorroganca\n\nJeton MM 1.2 Lewis, the eminent\n\nof Lincolns his (kutriche honorable Society I also helorized) will be able to testify\n\nfr... legal.\n\natṭaun\n\nThe Meat Goble\n\nthe Butts of tuscantle\n\nPrincipal Secretary of State\n\nfor the Colonies\n\nWhen I left\n\nlis", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249930, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "851\n\n23\n\n850\n\nTHE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 28, 1860.\n\ncepting by a person actually attending that Levee, it is also necessary that a letter from the Nobleman or Gentleman who is to make the presentation, stating it to be his intention to be present, should accompany the presentation card above referred to, which will be submitted to The Queen for Her Majesty's approbation. It is Her Majesty's command, that no presentations shall be made at the Levees, except in accordance with the above regulations.\n\nIt is particularly requested, that in every case the names be very distinctly written upon the cards to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, in order that there may be no difficulty in announcing them to The Queen.\n\nThe state apartments will not be open for the reception of Company coming to Court, until half-past one o'clock.\n\nADDRESSES.\n\nThe same regulations apply to the presentation of Addresses or Petitions.\n\nA card containing a statement of the object of the Addresses or Petitions, with the names of the persons who are to present them, must be sent to the Lord Chamberlain's Office two clear days before the Levee. Two other cards, containing similar information, are to be taken to the Levee, one to be delivered to The Queen's Page in Attendance in the Corridor, and the other to the Lord Chamberlain, who will read its contents to The Queen.\n\nOn these occasions no other statement is to be addressed to Her Majesty.\n\nA Deputation to present an Address is not to exceed four persons.\n\nThe members of a Deputation, who have not previously attended Court, must be presented to The Queen,\n\nSYDNEY,\n\nLord Chamberlain.\n\nLord Chamberlain's Office, February 3, 1860.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given, that The Queen will hold a Drawing Room at St. James's Palace, upon Saturday, the 24th of March next, at two o'clock.\n\nTHE QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOMS.\n\nNEW REGULATIONS\n\nTO BE OBSERVED WITH REGARD TO THE QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOMS, AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE,\n\nBy Her Majesty's Command. The Ladies, who propose to attend Her Majesty's Drawing Rooms, at St. James's Palace, are requested to bring with them two large cards, with their names clearly written thereon, one to be left with The Queen's Page in Attendance in the Corridor, and the other to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, who will announce the name to The Queen.\n\nPRESENTATIONS.\n\nAny Lady who proposes to be presented to The Queen must leave at the Lord Chamberlain's Office, before twelve o'clock, two clear days before the Drawing Room, a card with her name written thereon, and with the name of the Lady by whom she is to be presented. In order to carry out the existing regulation, that no presentation can be made at a Drawing Room excepting by a Lady actually attending that Court, it is also necessary that a letter from the Lady who is to make the presentation, stating it to be her intention to be present, should accompany the presentation card above referred to, which will be submitted to The Queen, for Her Majesty's approbation. It is Her Majesty's Command, that no Presentations shall be made at the Drawing Rooms, except in accordance with the above regulations.\n\nIt is particularly requested that in every case the names be very distinctly written upon the cards to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, in order that there may be no difficulty in announcing them to The Queen.\n\nThe state apartments will not be open for the reception of Company coming to Court, until half-past one o'clock.\n\nSYDNEY,\n\nLord Chamberlain.\n\nDowning Street, February 27, 1860,\n\nTHE Queen has been pleased to direct the following Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, for investing the Supreme Court of Hong Kong with appellate jurisdiction in cases of civil suits between British subjects heard and determined under the authority of Her Majesty's Order in Council of 3rd of March, 1859, by British Consuls within the dominions of the Emperor of Japan.\n\nVICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:\n\nWhereas, by an Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, in the year 1845, intituled No. 6 of 1845, “An Ordinance to Repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hong Kong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" it was enacted that there should be within the said colony a Court which should be called the Supreme Court of Hong Kong.\n\nAnd whereas, by an Order in Council, bearing date the 3rd day of March, 1859, it was ordered that, in the event of any suit of a civil nature, arising between British subjects within the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan, it should be lawful, upon the application of any party to such suit, for the Consul of the district within which the party sued should be found, to hear and determine such suit, subject to an appeal to the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hong Kong; and that every such appeal should be made and conducted in the manner and form, and under the same conditions as were prescribed by the said Order in Council in case the defendant only were a British subject. And whereas, by the 28th article of the aforesaid Order in Council, it was further ordered, that the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hong Kong should have, and might exercise concurrently with Her Majesty's Consul, authority and jurisdiction in regard to all suits of a civil nature between British subjects arising within any parts of the dominions of the Emperor of Japan; provided always, that the said Supreme Court should not be bound, unless in a fit case it should deem it right so to do by writ of certiorari or otherwise, to debar or prohibit the Consul from hearing and determining, pursuant to the provisions of the several articles of the said Order, any suit of a civil nature between British subjects, or to stay the proceedings of a Consul in any such matter.\n\nNow know ye, that we, upon consideration of the premises, and of our certain knowledge and mere motion, have thought fit to direct and ordain, and do direct and ordain as follows; that is to say:\n\n1. If any party to any such suit as aforesaid, heard and determined in Japan, shall be dissatisfied with the decision given upon the said suit by the Consul before whom the same shall be tried, it shall be lawful for such party, within fifteen days after such decision, to give to the Consul notice of appeal to the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, whereupon the Consul shall, with as little delay as possible, stamp with his Consular Seal, and transmit all the documents which were produced before him, and none other, and also the notes taken by him of the evidence of the said suit, together with a statement of the grounds on which he formed his decision, to the said Supreme Court, and an exact copy of the order made by him, and shall forthwith notify to the several parties the transmission thereof. Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Consul to require from any party appealing to the said Court, reasonable security, which shall consist in part of one or two sufficient sureties to be approved by the Consul, that such party shall and will abide by the decision to be given by the said Supreme Court, and pay all such costs of and incidental to such appeal, as the said Supreme Court shall direct.\n\n2. And we do further direct and appoint that it shall be competent to the said Supreme Court, and the said Court is hereby required to take into consideration such documents and statements, and decide upon the same, and to communicate its decision to the Consul, who shall forthwith proceed to carry the same into execution.\n\n3. And we do further direct and appoint that in any appeal to the said Court from the decision of a Consul, it shall not be open to any party to adduce any further evidence than that which was laid before the Consul, and that a party shall not be required to appear personally to prosecute an appeal or support a sentence. Provided always, that in all appeals from the decision of a Consul, it shall be lawful for a party to allege facts material to the issue in the cause which have come to his knowledge subsequently to the decision of the Consul, and to produce evidence in support of such facts, and provided also that it shall moreover be lawful for the said Court to admit any further legal evidence besides that adduced before the Consul, on its being established to the satisfaction of the said Court by oath on personal examination, or by affidavit, that the party desiring to produce such further evidence was ignorant of the existence of such evidence, or was taken by surprise at the hearing before the Consul, or was unable to produce it before the Consul, after due and reasonable diligence and exertion on his part in that behalf, or where, under the particular circumstances of the case, it shall appear to the said Court that further evidence ought to be received.\n\n4. And we do hereby give and grant to the said Supreme Court full jurisdiction, power and authority, to hear and determine all such causes, Suits, matters, and things, as are mentioned and comprised in the said 28th Article of the aforesaid Order in Council, of the third day of March, 1859.\n\n5. And we do further direct and appoint that it shall be lawful for the said Court to make such rules, orders, and regulations, not being inconsistent with the provisions of the said Order in Council, or with the laws in force in Hong Kong, as may in the judgment of the said Court be requisite for the speedy and effectual decision of the aforesaid appeals, and also of the said causes, suits, matters, and things, Provided always, that all such rules, orders and regulations, shall forthwith be communicated to the Governor of Hong Kong, and by him shall be transmitted to us, our heirs and successors, under the seal of the said Court, for our or their approbation or disallowance, to be signified through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.\n\nIn witness whereof we have caused these, Witness Our Letters, to be made Patent. Ourself at Westminster, the 30th day of January, in the twenty-third year of Our Reign.\n\nSt. James's Palace, February 23, 1860. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Francis Leopold M'Clintock, Captain in the Royal Navy, LL.D.\n\nWar-Office, February 25, 1860.\n\nThe Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Andrew Buchanan, Esq., C.B., Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Majesty the Queen of Spain, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.\n\nWar-Office, Pall-Mall,\n\n28th February, 1860. GENERAL ORDER.-No. 746. Dated Horse Guards, S. W.,\n\n28th February, 1860. IN consideration of the eminent services of Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.B., during the late operations in India, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to promote this distinguished Officer to the rank of Lieutenant-General in the Army.\n\nBy order of His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief.\n\n(Signed) G. A. WETHERALL,\n\nAdjutant-General.\n\nWar-Office, Pull-Mall,\n\n28th February, 1860.\n\nBREVET. Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.B., to be Lieutenant-General. Dated 28th February, 1860.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250723, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 284, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "Page 273\n\nChief Justice's decision of 1854\n\n11.\n\nAut here I may observe that the manner in which the Colonial Government accounts are at present kept is that nothing could well be more inconvenient and complicated. The revenue, as has been observed, is almost all paid in dollars, but it is brought to account in terms of Sterling money.\n\nThe Estimates and appropriation accounts are made out in Sterling, but the Contracts for supplies and public works are all made in dollars; and the whole expenditure is paid from the Treasury in dollars, while charged in the accounts in Pounds, Shillings, and pence. I am not aware of any one advantage that is gained by all this trouble and confusion; and I therefore recommend that whether Her Majesty's Government decide to continue or withdraw the existing Proclamation, in either case permission be at once given to keep the accounts of the local Government in dollars and cents in the same way as the accounts of Foreign Banking and mercantile establishments in China are kept.\n\nI find that both the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony have already unanimously recommended this change to Sir R. B. Lytton.\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III) or related reference like 23940/57, N933 4 11 13669/59 should be checked for context.\n\n \nPage 273", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251380, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 390, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "## Correspondence regarding the Brothel Ordinance and the Conduct of Public Functionaries\n\n\"1.—I have read with much concern the correspondence connected with the proceedings of public functionaries in reference to the brothel Ordinance.\n\n\"The Registrar General did in my judgment give evidence in Atai's case tending to implicate Mr. May in direct complicity with the Brothel in question, which evidence justice requires that Mr. Caldwell contradicted and that charge certainly not established, should revise his statements as to the mode of escape of the prostitutes whom he supposed had been assisted by a party under Mr. May's protection. On being convinced of his error, I think Mr. Caldwell should convey to Mr. May the expression of his regret with the acknowledgment of that error—and I recommend greater caution in any statements connected with the execution of his responsible duties.\"\n\n**The Registrar General.**\n\n\"No. 15.\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\nLC\n\n\"W. T. BRIDGES,\" Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\noath administered to me before I was called upon to give evidence. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n\n\"D. R. CALDWELL,\" \"Registrar General & Protector of Chinese.\"\n\nHonorable W. T. Bridges, Esq., D.C.L.\" \"Acting Colonial Secretary,\n&c.,\n&c.,\nge.\"\n\n\"I am respectfully of opinion that the Registrar General's explanation is completely satisfactory, and I venture to hope that His Excellency the Governor will authorise me to state so officially.—W. T. B.\"\"31/3/58.\"\n\n**Memo: to Mr. Bridges.**\n\n\"State to Mr. Caldwell that having caused further information to be taken and convinced myself that the statement was made by him as to the escape of the women without any mala fides on his part, his explanation is deemed satisfactory.“ J. B.”—“ 3/4/58.\"\n\n## REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 31st March, 1858.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd instant, communicating to me the minute made by His Excellency the Governor regarding my conduct connected with the case of a woman named Ahtai, convicted of keeping a Brothel, and as it would appear from the wording of the minute that I have made a statement which is not true, and that His Excellency calls upon me in justice to Mr. May to express my regret and to acknowledge the error, I feel it my duty respectfully to represent to His Excellency, that at the time I made the discovery of a window being on the side of a house belonging to Mr. May, and close to a roof leading from Ahtai's house, and the fact that Ahtai's women were in the house when I first knocked, and not finding them when I gained admission, and that if they left the house at all, they must have gone through that window; there being apparently no other means of escape or concealment, I considered I was right in the conclusion I then came to, and which the Constable who was with me at the time agreed to, viz., that the women had escaped through that window; that they actually did so I could not say, but I only stated what was my impression at the time; as to the practicability of any women or even a child making their escape from the roof to the window, I am now the more positive, as I have since inspected the place in company with Mr. Jarman, who, I believe, has stated that it is quite impossible for any woman to do so, and to which statement he still adheres, although, strange to say, he would not do so at the time he examined the place with me, but requested that I would give him the night to consider over the matter! and, as I expected, the next morning he informed me he could not alter his former statement. The distance from the window to the edge of the roof is just about 2 feet, the lower part of the former being on a level with the latter, the window being about 3 feet high, the Venetians, when opened, would project on each side of the window about a foot, thus affording a very convenient support to a person stepping across, and I must consequently adhere to my former statement that the window afforded a most ready means of escape for even a child; I must however acknowledge that on my last examination of the premises the window in question I found open and observed that there are wooden bars to it; if these bars, being fixtures, were in the window on the night in question of course it would have been impossible for any person to have gone through, but at the time it was shut and knowing that the house belonged to Mr. May I did not attempt to open it; had I not known this, I should certainly have endeavoured to have gone through the window in pursuit of the women.\n\n\"I beg further to state that I had no wish to connect Mr. May in any way with the case; on the contrary, I purposely avoided it by describing his house as a private house, but the evidence which I afterwards gave regarding him and his house was forced from me by questions from yourself through the Chief Magistrate, to which I was bound to reply. Had I voluntarily brought Mr. May's name unnecessarily into the matter I might reasonably be expected to apologise for having done so, but I beg respectfully to observe that I was only doing my duty in replying to questions put to me by my superiors and acting up to the ...\n\n\"No. 181.\"\n\n## COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 3rd April, 1858.\n\nSIR,—I have submitted to His Excellency the Governor your letter No. 3, and I am directed to inform you that His Excellency having caused further information to be taken in the circumstances connected with the case of Ahtai's house, is convinced that the statement made by you as to the escape of the women was made in good faith on your part.\n\n\"His Excellency is therefore of opinion that your explanation is satisfactory. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n\n**The Registrar General.**\n\nCC\n\n\"W. T. BRIDGES,\" Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nMr. Caldwell having no further evidence to produce in support of Charge 2, Mr. May stated in reply that he had always been opposed to the indiscriminate employment of the Police in visiting and regulating brothels, believing such not to have been the intention of the Legislative Council when passing the Ordinance. He thought such a course if allowed would have opened a floodgate for the inundation of the Police Department with corruption and extortion, greater even than that lately discovered in the case of the gambling houses. But he stated that the Police always interfered whenever ordered to do so by the Superintendent, or an Inspector, or by the Registrar General. There was a standing order that the Police were to give their services to the Registrar General whenever he required them, and he asserted that he had always given the most zealous assistance in carrying out the Ordinance as far as he was empowered to do so; and that he had only refrained from interfering himself, or allowing the Police to interfere, in a manner which would in his opinion have been not only injudicious, but illegal. Charge 3 was then proceeded with :--\n\n\"With having by misrepresentations induced the Acting Chief Magistrate, who had sentenced a prisoner charged with receiving Goods in pawn without a licence, to reverse his judgment and discharge the prisoner, there being conclusive evidence of his guilt.\"\n\nMr. Caldwell in support of this Charge wished the following depositions in a case before the Acting Chief Magistrate in the year 1859 to be placed on the Minutes:--\n\nPage 390\nPage 391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254228, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "## 32\n\nAs to point 2—Whether the thirty-two men that left the Sau Fook hong for the Emilie Pireire were part of the forty-five taken from Hongkong—I found, by the general evidence of Mr. Marquis (A & B)** that no proof was obtained of their answering to any particular names and description. By the evidence of Mr. Boyé (enclosure marked C)† the thirty-two that went from the Sun-fook-tie hong to the Emilie Pireire could not have been of the forty-five taken from Hongkong. Further, as Asoong declared that he saw the thirty-two whom Mr. Caldwell sought in a boat after landing on the 21st, these men could not have gone in the Emilie Pireire, because the Captain of the lurt certifies (enclosure marked D) that he cleared the Emilie Pireire with 150 Coolers on board. This clearance must have been before three P.M. of the 21st of January, as the Steamer, with Asoong and Mr. Caldwell on board, reached Macao late in the day. I rely very strongly on this part of the evidence on Shum Abing's behalf, and trust His Excellency will give attentive consideration to it.\n\nAs to point 3—Whether the five men released were really five of the forty-five said to have been kidnapped—I respectfully submit that, from the circumstance of neither of them having been examined at the Courts here, there has been no proof one way or the other. And as respects the man Chong Afa, one of the five, the copy of whose contract I append, with copies of the others (enclosure marked E) it is clear from the date, 6th December, that he could not have been one of the forty-five; for they, with their comrades, only left Kupchee for Hongkong (where they were sent adrift) on that identical day.\n\nAs to point 4—Whether Kwon-sun-kwan were also an Impostor—I conclude this to be proved by the certified contracts of the men actually released at Macao. His name does not appear in either of them.\n\nAs to point 5—Whether Caldwell were aware of the impostorship of the men put forward as witnesses—I can but conclude, after what Mr. Marquis says in the letter before referred to (A and B) and what Delfino Xavier depones as to Caldwell speaking to the Impostor in a low voice, and telling him he must assert that he was a Coolee that had escaped, and not a broker, (see enclosure marked F) and also relying on what Cheang Aebun depones that he heard the Informer admit in Mr. Caldwell's presence that he was a broker, not a Coolee that had escaped*—I can come to no other conclusion, I repeat, than that Caldwell was well aware of the impostorship, and in fact prompted it.\n\nBesides, the conduct of Caldwell toward myself, in publishing an assertion by the Governor of the gaol, Scott, that I had been on terms of great intimacy with Shun Ahing in the gaol; and in another part of the pamphlet which he has issued, intituled his defence, charging me with having induced† Shun Abing to write the statement which eventually led to his examination by the Executive Council; this conduct alone—so reckless, so foundationless—is sufficient to inspire me with the most certain assurance of the gravity and basis of his conspiracy.\n\nAnd while speaking on this subject, I would draw His Excellency's attention to the declarations of Ritchie and others (Enclosure marked I‡).\n\nIn solemn truth, I do not think I have seen Shum Abing, to notice him distinctly from others, half a dozen times in my life (excepting from such half a dozen times a period when he was locked up in a cell on the misdemeanants' side of the prison by order of the surgeon, when, during part of one day, I could not help seeing him several times as I passed, and I spoke to him through the grating of the door).\n\nI can name the times when I so saw him. First, while he was on remand, when he sent to ask me to speak to him in the presence of Turnkey during the few minutes that the remanded prisoners were led out to wash themselves at the yard pump. This was on the 23rd of January, 1860. The circumstance is noted in my diary, or a remanded...\n\n## 327\n\nThis is the precious concoction of the confederates.—\n\n### D. R. CALDWELL to J. SCOTT.\n\nVICTORIA, 23rd March, 1861.\n\nDEAR SIR,—With reference to our conversation to-day on the subject of Mr. Tarrant's tummy with Sha Alling in Gaol during the time the latter was a Prisoner on the Criminal side of the Gaol, and Mr. Marrow's visit to the Gaol, I have put down here the substance of what you said, as far as my recollection serves me.\n\nYou said that during the time Mr. Tarrant was in the Criminal Gaol, you had on several occasions observed his great intimacy with Shunt Ahing, and the frequent close conversations he had with him, that you had observed, on more than one occasion, Mr. Tarrant conversing with Shum Abing in the most friendly way, with his arm around Shum Ahing's neck; that as Mr. Tarrant had complained to the authorities of being placed with Criminals, you thought it was strange that Mr. Tarrant should be on such friendly terms with one of the prisoners, and that you had more than once suspected...\n\nSigned D. R. CALDWELL.\n\n### J. SCOTT to D. R. CALDWELL.\n\n25th March, 1861.\n\nDEAR SIR—Your statement of the substance of our conversation on the 23rd instant, is correct, and I am ready to verify the same.\n\nSigned J. SCOTT.\n\n* See page 10 ante.—\n* See page 15 ante.—\n* See page 18 ante.—\n$ See page 19 ante.\n| See pages 12 and 21 ante.—\n* See pages 12 and 22 ante.—\n+ See page 114 of the Minutes, and page 58 of \"the defence.\"— \n+ See page 24 ante.—", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255585, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "page_number": 297, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "# Gunners,—Continued.\n\nGeo. W. Stiles. \nN. McGregor. \nE. Mever. \nF. G. Reed. \nCharles Rickerby. \nJ. Thornton. \nG. M. E. Pogson. \nFrank Whitley. \nChas. C. Colen. \nAlex. S. Watson. \nW. Detmerin. \nG. Ellissen. \nJ. B. Taylor. \nJames Stephen. \nH. Dickson. \nG. A. F. Norris. \nW. W. Bonnett. \nR. Reed. \nW. Wilson. \nDavid Welsh, \nD. Ruttunjec. \nF. Bomanjee. \nH. B. Dantra. \nE. Pestonjee. \nS. Hecrjeebhoy. \nH. Nowrojee. \nJ. Nusserwanjec. \nB. Nusserwanjec. \nJohn Roberts, Jr. \nCharles Parker. \nCharles Rivington. \nG. Thomson. \nWin. C. Young. \nO. C. Bell. \nC. Hager. \nF. S. Huffum. \nA. G. Proctor. \nH. N. Mody. \nFerd. Nissen. \nP. Sörnsen. \nR. S. Lungrana. \nA. Pestonjee. \nP. Sapoorjee. \nGeo. King. \nD. C. Deare. \nFrank Whitley. \nRichd. F. Hawke. \nErnest Major. \nS. E. Sassoon. \nE. D. Ezekiel. \nG. Brant. \nJ. Thompson. \nE. H. Duus. \nC. T. Johnson. \nFred. T. Smith. \nJoseph Blum. \nW. S. Rosenthal. \nGeo. Holmes. \nJ. H. Cheverton. \nChas. Gaupp. \nAlfred Howell. \nJohn Fryer. \nThos. Edwards. \nHenry J. Goodwyn. \nChas. F. A. Sangster. \nGeo. R. Pinder. \nW. Gee. \nHenry Beveridge. \n\n## Honorary\n\nJ. I. Murray, M.D., Surgeon.\n\n# SAINT CHRISTOPHER\n\n## Addresses of the Honorable the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly\n\nAddresses of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly, unanimously adopted and presented to **LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ROBINSON**, upon his temporary relinquishment of the Government of St. Christopher and Anguilla, and approaching assumption of the Government-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands; with the **LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S** replies thereto.\n\n## Address of the Legislative Council\n\nTo His Excellency **HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON**, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of the Islands of Antigua, St. Christopher, and Anguilla, Administering the Government of the Islands of St. Christopher and Anguilla, Chancellor, Vice Admiral, and Ordinary of the same, &c., &c., &c.\n\nMay it please Your Excellency,\n\nWe, the Members of the Board of Council of St. Christopher, regret to learn from the announcement recently made to us, that the Island will shortly be deprived of Your Excellency's presence as Representative of Our Most Gracious Sovereign.\n\nWe shall rejoice for our own sakes should your Excellency's absence be of no long continuance; but we cannot allow the opportunity to escape us of congratulating you on the more important sphere to which Her Majesty has been pleased to advance you, during the absence of His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief.\n\nIn the administration of the affairs of Saint Christopher, your Excellency has passed four rather eventful years; and when we regard the various and important improvements which are manifested in the financial condition of the Island; in the many Public Works, calculated to be useful and to elevate the inhabitants, which have been commenced and carried to successful completion; in the Laws relating to Immigration; Sanatory Regulations for internal as well as external government; Police and Protective Forces; and ultimately, in an efficient responsible Administrative System, we are conscious of the lasting gratitude this Island owes to your Excellency's intelligent, skilful, and patient guidance, and to that singleness of mind which has ever made the Public weal the one prominent object to your Excellency's view.\n\nIn conclusion, we are happy to believe that we need scarcely assure your Excellency of our deep regret at your departure, and of the sincerity with which we wish for the merited advancement of your Excellency, and for the future happiness of your family. The knowledge that the former may best be promoted by a removal to a larger circle of duty, affords the only satisfaction that we can derive at the prospect of a termination to that official intercourse with your Excellency, which has throughout your administration, been uniformly so gratifying to us.\n\nF. SPENCER WIGLEY \nSTEPHEN JORDAN \nJ. S. BERRIDGE \nJ. EARLE TUDOR \nJAS. D. ROGER \nSTEWARTS. DAVIS \nHOWARD M. CLIFTON \nBURTON GEO: ROBINSON\n\nCouncil Chamber, \n30th March, 1859.\n\n## The Lieutenant Governor's Reply\n\nMr. President, My Lord Bishop, and Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,\n\nI accept with no ordinary feelings of gratification the expression of kind feelings contained in the Address which you have just presented to me.\n\nIt has indeed been my constant desire to live in harmony with, and promote the real interests of the community over which it has been my good fortune to preside. As you state, many social improvements have of late years been carried into effect, and it has been well observed that the character of a country is expressed in its institutions; but whatever success has attended upon my efforts, and of which your generosity has formed a judgment favorable far beyond my expectations, the result is mainly attributable to the advice and assistance... \n\nPage 295 \nch 9369", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259249, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "page_number": 349, "title": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "content_text": "at the inconvenient risk of losing my ship and cargo, I was forced to weigh and leave a good anchorage and proceed to sea, although blowing a gale of wind.\n\nI must also inform you that Europeans were observed in one of the boats.\n\nI remain,\n(Signed) A. Langlois,\nMaster of British Barque, Whampoa.\n\nTo\nCommander A. M. B. Haught,\nR.N.\n\nSir,\n\nA. M. B. 5. Haughty,\nArroy, 6th January 185...\n\n342\n\nI have the honor to inform you that great atrocities have lately been committed along the coast of Canton by a number of pirate junks. Having been applied to by Mr. Consuls Caine and W. A. Pedder, and having proper Chinese authorities on board, I proceeded in search of the same.\n\nOn the 13th December, I\nCaptain M. S. Nolloth,\nA. M. S. Plover/ or \"Primrose\" or \"Charlotte\" (OCR unsure)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266066, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 536, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Special Report of Piracy\n\n7. 535\n\nInformant and his 2 men jumped on-board, swam on shore and returned to show kenan where they arrived this morning. Can identify 2 of the Pirates and the Pirate Boat. Value of Boat and Cargo $70. Informant further states that he observed the Pirate Boat and his own Boat at anchor this morning, 1 off Pre-toy-O...\n\n(Signed) MM Quin,\nCaptain Superintendent,\nPolice Department\n31st March, 1866.\n\n...ah. Sü owners, ah Pan and Yeong, of fishing Junks belonging to Ching-kop on the East Coast, report that on the 2st instant when fishing outside the place before named in company they were attacked by three pirate Boats who boarded and carried off the two fishing Junks to a place called Hoy-moon, or Hoy-daw, where more than 10 fishing boats which...\n\nHis Excellency\nSir R. G. MacDonnell, C. B.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269616, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "page_number": 238, "title": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "content_text": "236\n\nThe question of wrecks in the neighbourhood is, as B. R. Observer notes, one of fact and the nearly total absence of them should be sufficient proof that lights for the purpose of clearing dangers are not a necessity, but there is another ground which I think of sufficient importance to warrant the erection of Light Houses. Lights would be of great assistance to the many vessels frequenting this Port. At present it is no unusual occurrence for ships to remain outside all night, even in bad weather, sometimes longer from inability to make the island. This of course affects strangers more than those accustomed to these waters. If Light Houses are erected, I agree with Mr. Seed that the Gap Rock and the Island of Waglan offer the best positions for them. I do not think one on Cow-e-chow at all necessary, as a vessel from the southward would get sight of the Waglan light before the first sight of the Gap Rock light, and would retain sight of it until she had passed the south end of the Lamma Island, when she would be but five and a half miles from Green Island. These Lights would be useful not only in guiding vessels to Hong Kong but...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273045, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 603, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "## A\n\nWe have observed, it is not in recognition of the many social excellencies for which you are distinguished that we have to-day met here; our first object in thus assembling together, is anxiety to tell you that in our opinion, this colony owes much, very much, of her surprising and gratifying progress, the last three-and-twenty years, to the untiring energy with which throughout that period you have always upheld and promoted her best interests. A settlement not much better than an uninhabited rock witnessed your advent to these shores; a populous and handsome city looks grave at your departure. We are very well aware, Sir, in what large measure this result has been obtained by your zeal and intelligence; and we say this with a hearty desire to at the same time fully recognize the very able services of those gentlemen whose duties you have sometimes aided and sometimes administered. We thank you for what you have done; we are glad that we can remember you as one that has held the chief reins of power; and whilst we acknowledge the sound decision which at present guides this Government, we confess it was with disappointment we learned that your tenure of the office of her Majesty's representative would not be otherwise than brief.\n\nDuring your stay amongst us you have borne the burden and heat of the day, and we are to-day proud to be allowed to thus publicly testify to the unswerving consistency and the steadfast perseverance which have throughout characterized your career.\n\nWe trust, when your health may be sufficiently restored, that your long and faithful services in this Colony will procure for you another field wherein to display your talents and your administrative capacity, and we beg to be allowed to subscribe ourselves,--Your friends and well-wishers,\n\n| Name | \n| --- | \n| James Whittall | \n| John Dent | \n| J. McDouall | \n| W. Jackson | \n| V. Kresser | \n| H. B. Gibb, per J. P. D. | \n| J. P. Duncanson | \n| W. H. Gibb, per J. P. D. | \n| W. R. Dalziel | \n| John Fraser | \n| J. F. Holliday | \n| R. Rowett | \n| E. A. Hitchcock | \n| Wm. Nielson | \n| Geo. F. Weller | \n| W. C. Hunter | \n| E. Cunningham | \n| W. H. Forster, jun. | \n| M. Fischer | \n| G. Overbeck | \n| W. Nissen | \n| E. Delbanco | \n| W. Kaye | \n| Geo. Helland | \n| F. Menke | \n| M. Mcg. Heaton | \n| John Lapraik | \n| R. Parr | \n| G. Anderson | \n| H. Lemann | \n| W. B. Taylor | \n| E. H. Pollard | \n| John C. Whyte | \n| James Russell | \n| W. Wilson | \n| L. D'Almada e Castro | \n| Geo. L. Tomlin | \n| J. M. D'Almeda e Castro | \n\n## B 2 \n601", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273051, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 609, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "J. Marshall, \nJ. B. Taylor, Gavin Thomson, \nA. Methven, \nMortimer E. Murray, \nAdam Lind, \nW. R. Dalziel, \nJohn Gerrard, \nM. S. Tonnochy, \nGeo. F. MacLean, \nF. Douglas, \nH. Johnson, \nC. Don, \n16 \n\nLogan Russell, Patrick Gifford, D. Morrison, Andrew Brown, James Berwick, \nEdmund McLeod, Geo. Murray Bain, \nD. R. Robertson, C.B., \nJohn Scott MacDonald, \nA. Ross, \nJohn Jack, \nCrawford D. Kerr.\n\nMr. Mercer rose to reply, but a minute or two elapsed before he could sufficiently command his feelings to proceed. At length, he said that a set speech on these occasions was utterly out of place, and the golden rule of brevity was the best that could be observed.\n\nStill, the very high compliment paid him must be acknowledged, not as it was felt, but in some way or other, and he was satisfied no offence would be taken by his breaking down.\n\nThe testimonial which they were kind enough to offer him he regretted to say official rules obliged him to decline, but as the case was, he might say, singular, private and peculiar, instead of being connected with public business, he did indulge a hope that his strict reading of the Colonial Regulations might be wrong, or that his official superiors might see fit to relax the rule in his favour.\n\nIn the meantime his duty was to decline the Testimonial, and he knew that the common sense of Scotchmen would not allow offence to be taken by the generous intenders of the gift.\n\nAs regards their very kind compliment to Mrs. Mercer, he was the last to offer any objection to it, and he rejoiced to think that all present were agreed that Mrs. Mercer had occupied her station, even in the highest place, to the promotion of a good understanding, the increase of geniality, and the good of the Colony.\n\nHe believed that he owed this compliment mainly to the fact that for the past few years he had presided over the annual St. Andrew's Dinner and had done his best to give that festival éclat. At any rate he would always have a very pleasant recollection of his St. Andrews' Dinners, and would never forget his \"Brither Scots\" whom he had met there. \"In particular,\" said Mr. Mercer, \"I shall never efface from my memory our meeting of to-day; and while thanking you, one and all, for your kindly feelings towards me, I shall best draw these few remarks to a close in an adaptation of our own ploughman poet's words:\n\nThe bridegroom may forget the bride\nWas made his wedded wife yestreen;\nThe monarch may forget the Crown\nThat on his head an hour has been;\nThe Mither may forget the bairn\nThat smiles sae sweetly on her knee;\nBut I'll remember you, my friends,\nAnd this that ye hae dune for me.\"\n\nMr. Mercer resumed his seat amidst loud applause, and the meeting shortly afterwards separated.\n\n### III.\n\nOn the morning (13th May) of Mr. Mercer's departure from Hong Kong, the following address was presented to him by the Chinese community. The papers by the mail which brought Mr. Mercer home do not, of course, contain this tribute of respect, as it was offered too late for insertion in their overland issue.\n\nThis Address is in large Chinese characters, written on white silk, about 20 feet long by 4 deep.\n\nPage 607", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280212, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "It will be observed that the Board concur with the view expressed by \n\nthe \n\nBoard of Trade in their letter of the 24th of October \n\nlast that there is no \n\nsuch \n\nlaw prohibiting \n\nthe practice, and 2nd \n\nthat Lord Clarendon proposes to answer the French \n\nnote accordingly if M. de Pauville makes no \n\nobjection to its terms. \n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient \n\nhumble servant, \n\nLee J. 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Royn.\n\n4506\n\nCopy of former in answer to letter from Lord \n\nBears Cond. other Adummaller anisaties Uut this icon - \n\nsemenci abut you fouted \n\nout heed wit auxe\n\n...\n\nPage information is not clearly detected here, and the rest of the text appears to be garbled or in a different language, possibly due to OCR errors.\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions:\n\nFort would (2 cup)\n\nno Shef\n\nther\n\n12\n\n(R) saluti entit kie lande\n\nther whom they wree\n\nsalute\n\nqu\n\nand Expuls\n\nherbend and\n\nb Neach\n\n&\n\n2574 02\n\nA 27/4\n\nWIN 2314\n\nwm 24/4 21/5 11/7\n\nHowever, to strictly follow the format and instructions given:\n\nIt will be observed that the Board concur with the view expressed by\n\nthe\n\nBoard of Trade in their letter of the 24th of October\n\nlast that there is no\n\nsuch\n\nlaw prohibiting\n\nthe practice, and 2nd\n\nthat Lord Clarendon proposes to answer the French\n\nnote accordingly if M. de Pauville makes no objection to its terms.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nhumble servant,\n\nLee J. 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The text is directly presented as processed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280249, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "150\n\nqui se livrent également au transport des marchandises, ne doivent pas être considérés comme ayant droit à ces privilèges.\n\nComme réponse à cette communication que je m'étais empressé de porter à la connaissance de mon Gouvernement, S. E. le Ministre des Affaires Étrangères m'invite aujourd'hui à faire observer à S. E.\n\n1° que l'interprétation du Gouvernement de la Reine ne semble pas pouvoir se concilier avec le texte même des articles invoqués. En effet, à la différence du traité de 1843 qui n'accordait les honneurs et privilèges dont jouissent les vaisseaux de guerre ou paquebots-poste, propriétés de l'État, ou frétés pour le compte de l'État, la convention de 1856 a étendu précisément le même bénéfice aux bâtiments subventionnés par l'État et elle ne contient aucune clause restrictive qui interdise à cette catégorie de bâtiments de se charger de marchandises. De plus,\n\nau moment où la dite convention a été conclue, les contrats par lesquels le Gouvernement Impérial assurait, moyennant subvention, les transports de la poste à bord de navires appartenant à des compagnies privées, étaient en pleine vigueur; la nature de ces contrats était parfaitement connue et il semble notoire qu'en parlant de bâtiments subventionnés, l'on ait eu en vue des bâtiments mixtes qui, tout en étant, en principe, des paquebots-poste, transportent voyageurs et marchandises.\n\nLe cahier des charges, joint aux subventions et publié avec elles, dispose, en effet, d'une manière formelle, que la Compagnie des Messageries pourra transporter des voyageurs et des marchandises. En fait, tous les paquebots-poste anglais ou français sont aujourd'hui des bâtiments subventionnés qui transportent des marchandises et, si l'interprétation du Cabinet de Londres devait être maintenue, l'art. 5 de la convention de 1856 se trouverait absolument sans objet.\n\nJ'ai l'honneur, en les portant à votre connaissance, d'appeler sur ces considérations l'obligeante attention de S. E. et en la priant de vouloir bien, aussitôt qu'il lui sera possible, faire connaître les vues du Gouvernement de la Reine, relativement à cette question, je profite avec empressement de cette circonstance pour vous renouveler les assurances de ma haute considération.\n\n(a). P. de Sourd'Auvergne\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280596, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "£ \n\nTo witness). Then this money given by Me Caldwell was for funeral expenses \n\nWitness: Not for funeral expenses only, \n\nbut for sick cases also. Mr Caldwell gave me money now and then for \"attending on Land-burying patients. \n\nThe Coroner : And I \n\nthat all the he suppose patients that have come from tlo emigra- rton houses have died, have they ?. \n\nWitness: Two of thres have returned to the enigration houses to bothes alive I do not want \n\nnames of patients; I only want to know where they came from. I am not a doctor, and I paid no attention to the deceased. \n\nThe examination of this witness was con- tinned for some time, in relation to the \n\nof the Hostal,\" management \n\nand be confirmed Mr Lister's opinion. \"to the sect Day The parsons sont to that \n\nThe model Institution were sent to die. piaans Đạt bed more humerans. late- \n\nty. He had seen the inspector of nuisances about the place, but had never seen him go, in the rooms. \n\nDr. Cochrane, recalled, said he had made a post mortem examination of the body- and had nothing to add to his former, opj, nion as to the cause of death. \n\nThe inquest was adjourned until Tues- dav.at 3 o'clock. \n\nTHE CHINESE HOSPITAL CASE. \n\n(Continued from page 68.) The adjourned inquest upon the Chines emigrant who died in the E-Taze, wa resumed on the 27, when the evidene of the master of the hospital was read over The keeper corrected part of this evidence, and many of his statements were modified. He had formerly stated that he had received money from Mr Caldwell for attendance upon and burial of the coolies; be now said that the money was paid for burial expenses only. \n\nThe Coroner remarked that this was a vary important point, because if the witness undertook any responsibility, he might \n\nhave to answer for it. \n\nVeith, $1. \n\n\"\"\"FROM\"\"SHE\"\" \"Dick\" are stieni: le las no pARKUT \"ONE_DE\" \"{Winess) was \n\ninstructions to enter any house. He has get up to perform the necessary duties of hlways reported the temple to be clean; nature and he could only crawl to the edge! was never inside, always found the doors of his bench. One patient near him who shut, and thought the row of small houses was in hospital because of excessive opinm- were cook-honses. Never lourd groans sucking, could got get up at all, and there and never saw a dead body car. relived nature where he lay There were ried out from thence. Have seen coins no blankets in the place. \n\nthere, which he supposed were for sale. The inquest was then adpurned until In some adius at the back there are Thursday 29th, \n\nNESE HOSPITAL CASE, \n\ndead bodies: the coth are sealed and cemented, and never Wbuy of them \n\nOHSAS170. \n\nHave sometes at binesu \n\nINQUEST. \n\nThe adjourned inquiry conducted before hotices with the last witness, have the Coroner in the matter of the E-Tsze, seen hin often. Has been in charge arising from the discovery of a dead body of the Western District since August therein, was resumed. Inst; have never discovered that there were \n\nMah Afoo, keeper of the Kwong-kee, sick people at this house. The book in recalled, said that a man irsed to attend his which the reports of the visits are enters men lying sick at the E-Taze during the is Mitrray every second day, day; but he depended upon the hospital Cochran': You report to Dr Murray people to attend there during the night. it is the first time I ever heard of it)None of the hospital people were bound to Witness continued: Nover heard of any land the sack, and if they were not at- place being in Taipingshan to which people tended to properly de blanc lay with the were sent to die. Dr Murray never said \n\nKwour-kee. Once had a doctor who wES anything about it. Two or three minutes supposed to feet the pluse and prescribe for would be about the longest time that the sick if the 2 fazer-Witness accompa- ever was about the place, \n\nnied the deputation of coolic-house keepers \n\nIn reply to the Jury, witness said he ever saw any attendant give anything to the patients. \n\nby Mr Caldwell were given out according to \n\nThe Coroner here remarked that the to the Registrar General; and told the Reg. inquest would have to be adjourned to the General that their business was with sick Civil Hospital, where a mat lay, who lumen inside the houses, they having nothing been in the Hospital in question; this mas to do with men lying in the streets; never was getting better, but as he had importan put any of them out in the street; and sent evidence to giro, they had better get it all those who very sick to the E-Taze M It was ultimately agreed to hold it over. \n\nCaldwell paid all the expenses incurred at John Petersen, inspector of brothels, saithe Taze. All the patients from the that he reported the U-Tsze to the Regis Kwong-kee had bags to lie on and blankets trar General He found there, at the Ext to cover them. All the blankets provided sale of the Temple, five or six perus some stok and our dying. He was instructious. told by Chinese that there \n\nwere some Dr Murray, Colonial Surgeon, stated people there, and that was the reason that, in 1866, be called the attention of he went; it was not part of his duty Government to the large number of dend the Chinese said \"Plenty mon have die and dying persons put out into the sweat That house. fle was in the house eight at that time he knew the place now called months ago; there were then three or four Tsze, and had known it for ten years. sick people. The place was not clean, butys appeared to him to be the same male no report. was much the same as other Chinese places: the City of the Dead in Canton-a place. \n\nInmates of licensed bro \n\nwhere collins were kept until they could be thels have been sent to R Taze-two, pe sent on to their districts, \n\nAs the cohus The witness continned to make correc-of whom died, and he believed the other were chunamngi no odour was cloisted, tions in his statement; and the Coroner was still alive. Always nuderstood the and the health of the Colony was not affect- observed that it was somewhat strange that place to be an Hospital. Thought i was ed. On another occasion be found a dead the mind of the witness was clear on some miserable place; but have seen houses of body lying there, waiting to be coffined; and points and deli ou others. \n\npoor Chinese nearly as bad. His statement that he cleaned out the he spoke of were suparated from the men reported a coffin eniniting a bad melle The women sometime ago the inspector of nuisances, place when he saw the Registrar General this was about two years ago. Didn't this at recover to be annammed. holding his nose, was received with a cont know why they were not sent to the Civil Never knew, officially or otherwise, that placent nod. No Chinese was ever sent Hospital. People belonging to the house the place was used as an bospital until saw to Hospital of whom any hopes of recovery attended the women; could not say who in the papers. Was never aware that arr entertained. People in uniform used attended them exactly. Never reported people were taken there to the. Had he to come and visit the place; and the Nuisany of this to Mr Lister until a few days own so, would have taken steps to have ance Inspector had given orders for the go. Never had occasion to go to the place the patients removed to the Civil Hospital. place to be cleansed. \n\nince Mr Lister entered on office. Re-examined: There is no regular doctor \n\nNever gave any instructions to the police to inspect the place, as that was not bis attached to the E-1622. The Chinese com- \n\nbusiness; also, the inspector of nuisances munity do not now take much interest in \n\nsha noright to enter a dwelling-house, except the Hospital. The Committee (of whoin two Mok Afao, head of the Kwong-kee eui-by consent of householder or by warrant. or three are dead) do not often go the place gration house, was the next witness. Seven now. A doctor came from the Emigration sick people have been sent to the Tszy Mr D. R. Caldwell, Chinese interpreter, houses. Did not go to the Registrar Gene on his house only three papers wore was the next witness. He said,-Before al with Mr Caldwell last year, to presentans Deceased was not one of the seven petition. Had no interpreter for the from his house. He had a slight know pther dialects. The second man who came of deceased, but did not know his \n\no look after the sick men, looked like a \n\nTare. Witness mentioned six names of hief, and witness asked him what be ick persons, \n\nThey were brought to the ranted there: he did not come back, belia house by one pamed Cheung Ching pause he thought there was no hope of one nad his eyes and face yellow. The old deceased recovering from his sickness. mun at the temple came and reported to Regarding the three or four persons who witness the death of deceased, simply say rvived the Hospital atmosphere and eatment, the witness said that the Hospi- al attendant went with him to the emigra. on house. There is no fixed charge for uything done for the sick people, except by voluntary contribution. He does his work for what he may get; but he does not make a \"good thing\" of it: he said he had a kind heart, and did it because it was better to be virtuous. (The Coroner that he was a bricklayer and had been Continued There was a Committee, hero asked how many dollars he made a residing at Sayingpoon, when he took ill, but for some years (8 or 10) no one had week.) Witness said he did not know. He had been advised to go to the E-Tsze taken any interest in the place. For every coffin he got be paid one tael; by his landlord, but refused at first, having and he had paid $6 and 1 tael this year been ultimately taken there by the land \n\nHis landlord, who wai (87.40) for that purpose for emigrants, and lord in a chair, ho owes the shop (Fook Shan) four taele very kind to him, paid 200 cash for him pore. There were two corpses from the and from the landlord he got some tea an Lang-kee, one from the Ifin-kee, and six congee; but at the E-Taz he never coul from the Kwong-kee. \n\nget anything whatever, unless after pre James Livingston, Inspector of nuisances tracted “holaring” and velling Ther of Western district,, was next examined, were no blankets, and he felt cola, althong Le stated that he knew a place called the he hat gumythng which he had taken E Taze: it is part of his duty to visit the with him. An old woman who attende \n\nHe was never told to visit the place on the patients for a alor hue died, as who are taken there are supposed to be at- placo. particulatly, and he had no fixed time to the turistas no ong to do anything fextended upon by their friends. Have seen visit. He passed it every day, but visited They never could get anything on the whole of the rooms (three or four) it once or twice a week. \n\nthey bad roared for a very long time, full of sick people, ie, all occupied. There was a sort of water closet \n\n| Sometimes people” were. thure, with \n\nWitness sees that \n\nthe E-Tsze was built the Chinese had no \n\nother means of disposing of their dead than by depositing them by the side of rocks, or by building temporary sheds. In con- sequence of Government arresting severaš who had done so, and trying to prevent this, the principal Chinese asked for a place from Government where they could place those who were in a woribund state. Could \n\nba \n\ning that one of your men is dead.\" Of not say how the petition was worded, and the seven sent to the E-Teze only two gu could not way but the Government at that Vived, and five died. If the keeper includ-time (in those days) would have been glad to eccused, then that would be six from get those bodies thus rentoved. This his house; but deceased did not come from fore Sir George Bonham's time and after his house. \n\nthis the present building was erectal-217 was never intended for an inquia: a tem- ple was added. Coroner remarked that there was more temple than Hospital \n\nThe Juries then proceeded to the Civil Hospital. \n\nAt the Hospital, the sick witness stated \n\nHave \n\nnever seen any rules or regulations posted up about the place; and have been at the place many times, both officially and other- wise. Have not been near it for 8 years, since IT the Government service. The old man was left there in charge of the place after no one would look after it : be has been there for a very long time. duties are to superintend the temple and \n\nHis \n\nthe place generally. Know that the old man is not a doctor; and the sick people \n\nand sometimes nobody, Have certainly see six at one time could not say ever assere, Considered all the cases Belt the E-Taze were hopeless cases, and know that the Chinese considered them \n\n30. Never had to complain of any unusual u cleanliness in the place while I was in the Government service. \n\nIt \n\nThe Coroner here remarked that he could have no objection to a house like the present, were it properly kept; but the impression formed by Mr Lister and self was that the people were simply placed there to die or live, as they might. would certainly have been a work of huma nity to have thrown them out of the place into the harbor, and thus end their suffer- inga. -Dertimed Know many worse places in Chinese villages. \n\nBelieve that many cases of poor people were placed here; no one could refuse the admittance of any one. There would be more than two hundred \n\na year certainly. There was a fund got up for building othing more. The old man i takes a living by looking after it, say $6 or $8 a-mouth: he cures external sores, and is a sort of plaster-seller. Have known him for 15 or 18 years. Never heard any complaints against the E-Taze, but the Chinese rind care to live near it. The Chinese would not like to see this place shut up they would wish it to remai --not in its present condition, perhaps. If they had no similar building, then they would fall back on the old system The of placing them by the hill-sides. Chinese object to go to the Civil Hospital, because the great dread is ever before them of being opened. There are similar places in China and the Chinese magistrate would certainly recognise any such plade as, a charitable building. It is quite wrong to call the place a Chinese Hospital, as it is more for the dead then the liv Ling-it-imas never been used as a fioapital, and by never intended to be so used, Would account for the prevaricating evid- ence of the old E-Taze keeper by his timi- dity and the general style of Chinese wit- nesses, who are always afraid to commit themselves. Do not know deceased; and did not know whether he came from the Kwong-Kee. Believe deceased came from \n\nname was \n\nthe Kwong-Kee, but could not my Whether sent from that house, or not, Decersed. Would not be looked upon as an inmate of\" \n\nthe Kwong-ee unless his placed on my books; he might be two or. three days in the Kwong kee WIRIN. my lawwwing it or even without the Kwong-kea. people knowing it. Patients from all the holises were seat to the E-Taze at my \n\nThe next witness was a hawker of second from natural causes; that a thorough and \"We are of opшion was deucasou died hand clothes, who had a friend who was there by his friends, but they found that taken to the E-Taze. The friend was taken \n\nefficient inspection of the E-Tsze has not been carried out by the person whose duty he was at first refused admittance, as he, place. We deem it our duty to request it was to pay attention to the state of the was not in a dying state. It having been reasserted that the friend was in a dying you to forward to his Excellency the Upv- ernor our recommendation, that if the state, he was admitted. Three hundred oash were paid to the old woman who pro- ered as a Hospital any longer, that some \n\nE-Taze is to continue open, and be consid mised to buy something for herself so that efficient and responsible officer be appoint! ahe might attend the sick man. The sick- man never complained of any ill-treatment..or if the E-Tsze is to be permitted to ed to control the place in a proper manner; The Coroner here remarked that the main object of his questions was to try and finds not only a thorough inspection, but pro- remain a receptacle for dying Chinese, that out whether there was really any one rea ponsible about the place at all; if there perly framod rules shall exist for the were any one, it might be serious for that further continuance of the E-Taze in any We, however, consider that a shape is neither desirable nor necessary in \n\nperson. \n\nfuture. \n\nThe Master of the Fook Show coffin-shop this Colony, and that a more suitable build- was next put into the withies-box to prove ing be selected as a hospital for Chinese the rate of mortality in the E-Tsze. There only, subject to proper inspection by the would be sometimes two funerals a-day Colonial Surgeon from the ETsze, sometimes three a-day, and sometimes pine; the largest mumter ever seen by the witness was four. \n\nto be \n\nthe \n\nnu \n\nΤΣΟΤΑ \n\n. \n\n! \n\nNo II \n\nप्र \n\n! ANOTHER PHASE OF THE COOLIE \n\nTRADE. \n\nA Coroner's inquest upon the body of an emigrant named Tai Akwa, who died in the Civil Hospital after having been picked up in the street, was continued before the Coroner and the Jury on the 22nd. ed with the deceased's discovery, and his Inspecter Grey stated the facts connect- \n\ntransportation to the Government Civil Deceased walked to the Bospi- \n\nThe Coroner said that he thought the case, though it had been a long one, had been so serions that it had not been too lengthy. He had, however, expected that it would have turned out even serious than it had done. \n\nHe had tried, as the Jury would have observed, to find whe- ther there had been any sue:responsible. for the disgraceful state of things connect- ed with this so called Chinese Hospital; but it was shown conclusively that the place was a public place, that any monies paid were more as presents than anything else; and that no blane could be attached to any one particularly, and person could be said \n\nin Hospital. responsible \n\nof tal, after getting some fea. He stated to any \n\nway for \n\nexisting state things. \n\nThe first thing which the the Inspector that he had been turned out Subsequent to the Jury bad to consider was, who is deceas of a coolie-house. ed? They knew nothing of his name, but death of deceased, the Inspector stated that they ought to be pretty well satisfied from he had gone to the coolie-house in Battery \n\nRoad known as the Man Fook Wo Hiu kee. From a book which he had got from had come from the Kwong-kee house, the people of this house, the name of Now, this touched upon a very important deceased was given. subject. There was no doubt that in theory there was nothing better for China than emigration, when properly carried jont, but when brought into practice, it was found that abuses crept in, and eveu a man with the experience and knowledge of the Chinese, such as Mr Caldwell had been un able to prevent such abuses from entering into the system. Another question touched upon was Chinese Charities; and con. nected with this subject we had the horn \n\nmade. \n\never \n\nblo state of things as narrated by the wit- neases who had visited the E-Taze. There were men lying like dogs together in their own filth with no one look after then, crying for water, and could not obtain any; in a place where no attention was paid to the sex of the patients, or to the dividing off of various diseases, and where no attempt whatever at decency was \n\nNext the Jury would have to 'consider how deceased died. Dr Cochran had said it was jaundice, and had given it as bis opinion that he was unable to say' whether his death was or was not acceler hted by the treatment described by the witnesses. There would therefore be a very dict of natural death, as jaundice was na tural. But the Jury would not be doing. all their duty if they merely recorded therr; interest in this subject-no inquiry had ereated so much interest for many a day-- and the Jury, as representing the public, would he hope become the public mouth piece. He would not dictate to them what the record of their opinion regarding emi- gration would be; but he would say that it would have to be in very strong terus ere be dissented from it. If Mr Caldwell was. fin future the conductor of the emigration system, he was sure that the abuses\" which had been before the Jury would not last- they would certainly be done away with. But if the Jury recorded their opinion of the subject, it would serve as a guarantee bat such a state of things would not occur again, \n\nnctions; which order was meant to pre- vent infection. I expected them to be treated in the same way as I had seen others treated ten years ago, when I used to go to the place; and certainly never expected for a moment to find the state of things described by Mr Lister. Never expected to find the patients looked after very partien- larly as to their personal cleanliness, as some do not even have any change of clothing, aud are naturally dirty. Would say that men floundering about the floor without mats or blankets were neglected, and, would look to the honds of the houses for-au explana tion, It was not supposed that hopeless cases only were sent to the E-Taze; jaun- dice cases were at once sent to the E-Tsze.verdict thus. The public had taken great \n\nChun Awong, who had a brother who died in the E-Tsze, said that when he went there he saw a woman with a pook-marked face, of whom he asked permission first before. taking his brother into the place. Chung Afat, coolie who looks after the roouis, said that witness would have to pay 20 cents for oil and joss-stick; and 20 cents for himself. This sum was for the protec- tion of the gods. Witness attended upon his brother himself, and did not expect any attendance for the 40 centa. Witness stayed there during the day, but he was afraid to remain during the night. Thought it was better to ask permission from the old woman, as he did not know whether he could bave put his brother in the E-Tsze or not without permission, \n\nDr Cochran, recalled, said that he re \n\ndeceased \n\nThe Jury, having taken some time consider their verdict, returned at a few \n\nWe quote minutes after six. \n\nmembered the state in which the body of \n\nwas when brought to hospital; was pitty and covered with vermiu. De hereunder in fuil the verdict given by ceased had been sick fur at least a weak the Jury, which plainly recommends t But could not say positively whether the total suppression of the establishment death of deceased was accelerated by his \n\ndefective treatment and neglect, because \n\nthe cages of jaundice which magistrada \n\n: 1 \n\nThe outry in the hook produced seemed to show that Tai Akwai, aged 35\" had entered the house on the 2nd of April. \n\nHe \n\nDr Cochran, of the Civil Hospital, was text examined. He stated that deceased was brought to Hospital on morning of 14th instant, and was put under treatment. had been told by deceased that he was laid into the street by several coolies, who took him from a spolic-house. Shortly after \n\ntelling this, deceased became delirious, and on the afternoon of the 18th he died. Re- ceased died of a kind of jaundice common among the Chinese; and he was much emaciated at the time of bis death. \n\nThere was no dying deposition taken, as he seemed recovering \n\nChe Abing, keeper of the house, stuted that he was an agent for Mr Baak; and his house was No. 14, Battery Road. He knew nothing of a man named Tai Akwai (at which stage the Coroner cautioned the witness, who, by the way, was aworn as a Christian). There might have been such a man in bis house, but he did not know him by name. Knows the book produced; it contains the names of those who wish to go to Sarinam. The man entered in that book must have come on 2nd April; but he knew nothing of the man. His clerk \n\nkept the book produced. Cross-examined by Mr D. R. Caldwell, witness stated that he was employed by Mr Caldwell, through Mr Baak, to obtain emigrants--- Pinuse Wide- applied were free to go and come as they \n\npleased, and sometimes applied only for the purpose of getting a meal of rice. Cases of slight sickness are cured by the doctors; and serious cages are sent to the Chinese Hosuta, Taipingshan, The ua zeurses 24 attendance in this Hospital are paid by Mr Caldwell, Persons whose manies are chtered to the book produced and remain in the house, would be sout to this Hospital if they turned sick. \n\nThe Clerk of the coolie-house, who was next examined, said that he entered all the \n\nmes in the book produced. He ignored! all knowledge of the man named Tai Akw and did not remember anything about hing More than a hundred people might be in the house at one time, and as they were at liberty to go and come as they pleased, as could not say whether he ever saw the man referred to. He did not remember any ome in particular who was sick on the 13th \n\nA \n\nB \n\nG \n\nF \n\nH \n\n$", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281770, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "page_number": 332, "title": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "content_text": "# \n\ntook place in the wardroom. I'm not sure if Mr. Yates was at luncheon or not at the time. I did not hear Mr. Yates say anything about Captain Williams having been carried on deck. I was only in the wardroom for about ¼ of an hour the whole afternoon. It is possible that I might have asked how Captain Williams came on deck seeing that he was sick; but I don't recollect having asked it. I remember that the doctor gave exactly the same account as Mr. Yates; saying that he heard the order to \"port\" given himself. I don't recollect that he stated at what time this order to \"port\" was given, whether long before the collision or not. I gave an account to Mr. Brunton of how the cause of collision had been described to me by Mr. Yates; also of what I had heard the Bombay's account was. Mr. Yates only told me that he saw the Bombay's lights, not specifying what coloured lights. Mr. Yates did not mention the bearing of the Bombay when he saw the lights; but the impression in my mind was that he would have done right in porting when he said he received orders to starboard his helm. I am sure that the conversation had reference to a time previous to the collision. If I am now told that Captain Williams was not on deck until a few minutes after the collision, this fact would not in the slightest degree shake my conviction that I understood Mr. Yates to say that Captain Williams had given him the order to starboard his helm before the collision took place. Considering the time that has elapsed, my memory may be at fault in detail, but not as to the general outline of the subject. I am clear that Mr. Yates said that the captain and Mr. Moldaur had ordered him to starboard his helm, and it must have been before the collision took place; as there would have been no good in giving the order after it. At the time of this conversation, Mr. Yates appeared to be excited from the fatigue he had endured; and I did not attach much weight to what he said. I heard that Mr. Yates had contradicted himself, and I was not astonished, considering that he was surrounded by officers of all nations, all asking him questions at the same time; besides he had gone through so much hardship and anxiety, that I saw his manner was strange. I thought he required sleep and rest.\n\nJAS. W. GAMBIER,\nLieut. R. N.\n\nThe Court here expressed its entire satisfaction that the reports that had been made regarding certain statements which were said to have been made by Mr. Yates, on board the Sylvia, were without foundation; and that no further evidence was required on this point.\n\nUpon hearing this expression of the Court's opinion Mr. DE LONE stated that he would call no evidence, as had been his intention, to refute the report of what Mr. Yates had said, and for the same reason declined to cross-examine this witness.\n\n## DECISION\n\nThe questions before this court are, First. Was the injury sustained by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Ship Bombay brought about by the fault of her commander Mr. Eyre?\n\nSecond-After the collision had taken place between the steamship Bombay and the U. S. Corvette Oneida, what was the conduct of the master of the former vessel?\n\nTo enable the Court to decide the first question we have before us, shortly, the following evidence: Mr. Eyre states that at about 6.30 P.M. (corrected time) on the 24th January last, having passed the lighthouse situated on Kanonsaki, his attention was called to the fact that a vessel was approaching him on his port bow. He thereupon looked through his glass, and perceived a bright light a point on his port bow; and immediately afterwards he saw the two side lights of the approaching steamer. He imagined that the steamer (which, it is ascertained, was the U. S. Corvette Oneida), was about one mile distant from the Bombay, and immediately gave the order to port the helm, thus shutting out the Oneida's green light and opening her red light. Not content with this, he gave a second order \"hard aport,\" and turned on his steam whistle. He supposed this to have occurred some five or six minutes before the collision took place: which would place about a mile or a mile and a half between the two steamers at this point. He kept his helm \"hard aport,\" until suddenly he saw the Oneida under full sail and steam, standing across his bows. Upon this he stopped his engines, and then seeing that a collision was imminent, put his helm \"hard a starboard\" so as to bring his vessel round, and if possible pass the Oneida on his starboard side. The attempt, however, proved ineffectual to avert the collision, and the Bombay struck the Oneida on her starboard quarter. The vessels separated and the Bombay's helm was at once put to port in order to clear her stern and boats, and save a second collision.\n\nOn the other hand Mr. Yates, who was the officer in charge of the deck of the Oneida on this occasion, gave the Court a totally different account of the occurrence. He stated that the Bombay's masthead light was reported to him by the starboard lookout man as being in sight some fifteen or sixteen minutes before the collision took place, say at about 6.25 P.M. by his own account, and about half a point on his starboard bow. That at this time the Oneida, which had been heading S. E. by S. was just recovering her former course S. by E. ½ E. That the Bombay came round Kanonsaki, passing to starboard; and thus opening out her green light, still one point on his starboard bow. That at this time he thought the Bombay must have been three miles off, but that the Oneida was kept on her course, as both he and the navigating officer thought that the Bombay would pass to starboard. Presently (the navigating officer having left the deck), he saw the Bombay at the distance of about a mile off, three points on his starboard bow, and heading directly for his green light. The opening out of all three lights of the Bombay at this instant showing him that she was approaching with a port helm, he at once gave the order \"starboard,\" and then \"hard a starboard.\" He believed that he opened the Bombay's three lights some three minutes before the collision, so that the vessels must have been about a mile apart at that moment.\n\nNow these two statements are utterly irreconcilable; and though the collision is accounted for by each of them, it certainly could never have occurred if both are correct. It is therefore necessary to look further, and see in how far each is substantiated.\n\nThe statement of Mr. Eyre is borne out in all its material points by the evidence of the pilot and chief officer who were on the bridge with him; and also by that of all the officers of the Bombay who are able to testify to the circumstances.\n\nWith regard to Mr. Yates's statement, however, the starboard lookout man of the Oneida affirms that at about fifteen minutes previous to the collision, he reported to Mr. Yates that he saw a masthead light right ahead; and that as soon as he could make out one of her side lights, he reported her green light between one-half a point and a point on the Oneida's starboard bow. About a minute or a minute and a half after that, he reported the steamer Bombay about four or five points on his starboard bow, and coming right for the Oneida's green light. But at no time did he see the Bombay's red light before the collision took place.\n\nThe helmsman asserts that he heard the Bombay reported three different times by the lookout to the officer of the watch-first, half a point on his starboard bow; secondly, a point and-a-half on his starboard bow; and thirdly, as coming right for the Oneida. That he received an order \"starboard,\" then \"steady\"-and then to let the ship come on her course again, after the second report had been made; and that after the third report had been made, Mr. Yates again told him to \"starboard\": after doing which, he saw the Bombay's mast-head light about five points on the starboard side of the foresail. That he kept his helm hard a starboard, until he heard an order given to \"port\"; and that as he was in the act of obeying this order, the two ships came into collision.\n\nIt will thus be seen that the statements of Mr. Yates, the look-out man, and the helmsman, are more or less conflicting; but it may be gathered from them that when the Bombay's three lights should have been seen by the lookout man as well as by Mr. Yates, she was about three points on the Oneida's starboard bow, about a mile distant, and porting her helm.\n\nMr. Yates states that at this moment he gave the order \"starboard\" and then \"hard a starboard.\" If these orders had been promptly obeyed the Court is of opinion that the ships could not have come into collision. But the statement of Albert Rugaart, the helmsman, shows that the Oneida's head was about S. E. when she struck, by which it would appear that she had only come up about three points in three minutes. So that Mr. Yates's order could not have been promptly obeyed.\n\nHence it is impossible to account for the collision by the statements of the survivors of the Oneida if these are unreservedly accepted.\n\nWe are of opinion that when Mr. Moldaur said to Mr. Yates that he could not go any further to the port or eastern shore and ordered him to resume his course for fear of running on to the Saratoga Spit, he should, knowing that it was his duty to get out of the way of an approaching vessel on his starboard side, at once have brought the Oneida on his port bow, and so opened out his red light instead of simply resuming his course. That if, when a collision was seen to be imminent, the same promptness had been shown by the Oneida in porting her helm as was shown by the Bombay in putting her helm hard a starboard, it might possibly have been averted; while, had it occurred, its effects would certainly have been far less serious. It is shown by the evidence of the Oneida's officers, that at no time was the Oneida's speed slackened after the Bombay came in sight; and that although the Bombay was considered to be persistently breaking a rule of the road by porting, the Oneida's helm was, nevertheless, kept a starboard, and thus the judgment required to be exercised in order to counteract the presumed mismanagement of an approaching steamer was not shown.\n\nThese observations are not made as a judgment upon the management of the Oneida, which is beyond the province of this Court to consider; but simply in order to institute such a comparison as is necessary to show the grounds upon which the Court arrives at its conclusion.\n\nIf the statements of Mr. Eyre, his pilot and officers are to be believed, we judge that he was right in keeping on the starboard side of the channel, and that he acted perfectly aright in porting his helm as soon as he saw the Oneida's lights on the port bow. We judge that he should have slackened speed as soon as he saw the Oneida's lights; that he acted rightly in stopping his engines; that he had no time after stopping to reverse them; and that he exercised a sound judgment in starboarding his helm when he saw that a collision was imminent, and that the Oneida's helm was kept to starboard. Upon a comparison of the foregoing statements we find that the damage which has been sustained by the Bombay is in no way attributable to the default of her commander, Mr. Eyre.\n\nAs regards the second question, which this Court is called upon to decide, viz, the conduct of Mr. Eyre after the collision had taken place, it may be observed that it has not been without long and serious deliberation among ourselves, and a most careful consideration of all the evidence adduced, that we have arrived at an unanimous decision.\n\nWe find from the evidence before us that on a dark but starlight night, the 24th January last, the steamship Bombay, through no fault of her commander Mr. Eyre, came into collision with the United States Corvette Oneida in the close vicinity of Saratoga spit situated some ten miles from Yokohama.\n\nThat the effect of this collision on the Bombay was comparatively slight.\n\nThat guns were fired from the Oneida as signals of distress from 10 to 15 minutes after the collision took place.\n\nThat the report of these guns was not heard, nor were the flashes seen on board the Bombay.\n\nThat after the collision, the fact of the Bombay having been hailed from the Oneida was reported to Mr. Eyre.\n\nThat Mr. Eyre only knew that some of the upper works of the Oneida had been carried away, and was unaware of the amount of injury sustained by her.\n\nThat the Bombay was a mail steamer carrying passengers and cargo, and was built in compartments, only one of which was reported to him as making water fast.\n\nThat the whole extent of the injury sustained by the Bombay was not ascertained till the day following the collision.\n\nThat immediately after the collision it was not considered to be serious, for had it been so, it is natural to suppose that the knowledge of the pilot would have been availed of and the Bombay run on to the Saratoga spit.\n\nThat in our opinion no danger to the Bombay, her passengers and cargo, was apprehended by Mr. Eyre.\n\nThat, from the questions he asked the pilot, he evidently thought that the Oneida might possibly have sustained serious injury.\n\nThat he waited at the most five minutes after the collision to see if signals of distress were made from the Oneida.\n\nThat after his ship again proceeded, he gave no orders that a lookout should be kept in the direction of the Oneida.\n\nThat had he or any one else been keeping a proper lookout, the flash of the Oneida's guns must have been seen, though their report might not have been heard.\n\nUnder all these circumstances it becomes our duty to pronounce whether in our opinion Mr. Eyre was justified in proceeding on his voyage without waiting to ascertain whether the Oneida was in need of assistance.\n\nWe recognize the fact that he was placed in a position of great difficulty and doubt, and in circumstances under which he was called upon to decide promptly; but we regret to have to record it as our opinion that he acted hastily and ill-advisedly, in that, instead of waiting and endeavouring to render assistance to the Oneida, he, without having reason to believe that his own vessel was in a perilous position, proceeded on his voyage.\n\nThis conduct constitutes, in our opinion, a breach of the 33rd section of the 63rd chapter of the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act of 1862, and we therefore feel called upon to suspend Mr. Eyre's certificate for six calendar months from this date.\n\nKanagawa, 12th February, 1870.\n\nFRED. LOWDER,\nH. B. M.'s Consul, President of the Court.\n\nARTHUR TINKLAR,\nCommander H. M. S. Ocean.\n\nDAVID MOORE,\nStaff Commander of H. M. S. Ocean.\n\nJOHN GILFILLAN,\nMaster of S. S. Bullfinch.\n\nWILLIAM CHAPMAN,\nMaster of Rockcliff.\n\nPage 330", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287383, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 478, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "sin esperar a que el Príncipe di \n\nmel Sveciño \n\nMinistro de España \n\nLondres, \n\nConsulte el caso, (que no están \n\nIn Conte \n\ncars como el Recun \n\nlo suponen), con el Ejecutivo Ministro de Negocios de Inglaterra: por \n\nque \n\nKisk \n\nsea para mi, estar en desacuerdo con V. E. à quien debo \n\ny tengo toda clase de respeto y \n\nConsideración; \n\nPero, \n\ncon la suprema \n\nque \n\ntribunal \n\nConsidero del \n\nmismo modo; me veré en la dura pero imprescindible, necesidad de protestar en debida forma, de \n\nMM \n\nhechos \n\nsegún \n\nlo \n\nacordado \n\nen \n\nMM \n\nque en mi juicio, y \n\nopinión de mis Colegas, \n\ndirección inexcusable \n\ny \n\nes \n\nContra lo establecido en \n\n478 \n\nlas \n\nleyes internacionales, (Wheaton's International Law p. 165) y contraviene \n\nlo \n\nexpresamente mandado observar en el Capítulo XX1, sección 4a de \"A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria\" (Que Dios guarde) \n\nSio \n\nguarde à V.R. muchos años Hong Kong 12 de Marzo de 1872.– \n\nExcmo Señor \n\nB. L. M. A. N. E. \n\nJosé \n\nMas \n\ny \n\nseñor servidor El Cónsul de España \n\n4.5.) (Firmado.) L. Greca. \n\n(Firmado.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287937, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "page_number": 507, "title": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "content_text": "Veuillez me permettre, à l'occasion de cette regrettable affaire, Monsieur le Gouverneur, d'exprimer à Votre Excellence tous les sentiments reconnaissants que j'éprouve pour l'appui, le soutien et le gracieux empressement qui m'ont été prodigués par le Gouvernement.\n\nJ'ai l'honneur d'être, avec le plus grand respect, Monsieur le Gouverneur, de Votre Excellence le très obéissant serviteur.\n\n(Signed) Ch. L. de La Forcet.\n\nGrant Snout du Consulat de France\n\n[1.5]\n\nPrincipal Agent M.M. to Governor\n\nA Son Excellence Sir Arthur Kennedy, K.C.B., Gouverneur de Hongkong, &c., &c., Hongkong.\n\nMONSIEUR LE GOUVERNEUR, - Le steamer Ava, paquebot-poste de la Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, se trouvait sous vapeur, n'attendant plus que les dépêches pour se mettre en route pour Saigon, lorsque aujourd'hui, à 4 heures 40 après midi, quelques instants avant l'arrivée de Mr. L'Agent des Postes, Monsieur Tonnochy, Marshall de la Cour de Vice Amirauté, accompagné d'un constable, monta à bord de l'Ava, présenta au Capitaine de ce bâtiment un Warrant de saisie-arrêt, signé de Monsieur Alexander, Registrar de la Cour, et portant le sceau de la Cour de l'Amirauté de Hongkong, par lequel il signifiait au Capitaine de l'Ava qu'il mettait embargo sur son navire et le saisissait au nom du Gouvernement de S. M. la Reine d'Angleterre, à la requête des propriétaires et Capitaine du Rona.\n\nMonsieur le Consul de France, qui se trouvait à bord dans ce moment, fit, en présence du Capitaine de l'Ava, observer au Marshall que cette saisie était illégale, irrégulière et tout-à-fait contraire aux clauses de l'Article 5e de la Convention de 1856, intervenue entre le Gouvernement Français et le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique, Convention par laquelle les Paquebots-Postes des Messageries Maritimes, subventionnés par l'Etat, doivent être considérés comme Navires de Guerre, et jouir des mêmes droits et privilèges que ces derniers; qu'en aucun cas et à aucun titre, en vertu de cette même Convention, les dits paquebots ne peuvent être saisis, détournés de leur route, ni sujets à embargo ou arrêt de Prince; qu'en conséquence, le Capitaine de l'Ava n'avait pas à tenir compte de la saisie qui lui était notifiée, et qu'il partirait à l'heure fixée pour son départ, c'est-à-dire à 5 heures du soir.\n\nLe Marshall répondit alors au Consul de France et au Capitaine qu'il n'avait qu'à exécuter l'ordre qu'il avait de saisir l'Ava, et, malgré la protestation du Consul et du Capitaine, il fit monter à bord de ce paquebot plusieurs soldats en armes, avec fusils et baïonnettes, et leur donna l'ordre de prendre possession du bâtiment, ce qu'ils firent, en occupant la passerelle et plusieurs parties du navire.\n\nInformé par moi de ces faits, Monsieur l'Amiral Français envoya immédiatement à bord de l'Ava son Chef d'Etat Major, qui fit au Marshall les mêmes protestations et observations.\n\nEXTRACT FROM THE CONVENTION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, RELATIVE TO COMMUNICATION BY POST.\n\nSigned at Paris, September 24th, 1856. (Ratifications exchanged at Paris, November 19th, 1856.)\n\nARTICLE V.\n\n\"Lorsque les paquebots employés par l'Administration des Postes Britanniques ou par l'Administration des Postes de France, en exécution des Articles I et II de la présente Convention, seront des bâtiments nationaux, propriété de l'Etat, ou des bâtiments affrétés ou subventionnés par l'Etat, ils seront considérés et reçus comme Vaisseaux de guerre dans les ports des deux pays où ils aborderont régulièrement ou accidentellement, et ils y jouiront des mêmes honneurs et privilèges.\n\nCes paquebots seront exempts, dans les dits ports, tant à leur entrée qu'à leur sortie, de tous droits de tonnage, de navigation, et de port; excepté toutefois les bâtiments affrétés ou subventionnés par l'Etat, lesquels devront acquitter ces droits dans les ports où ils sont établis au profit des corporations, compagnies particulières, ou personnes privées.\n\nIl ne pourront, à aucun titre, être détournés de leur destination, ni être sujets à saisie, arrêt, embargo, ou arrêt de Prince.\"\n\nCe dernier, pour appuyer la prise de possession qu'il avait déjà faite, fit monter d'autres soldats à bord de l'Ava, et répondit au Chef d'Etat Major et au Consul qu'il emploierait la force et, au besoin, ordonnerait aux soldats, sous ses ordres, de se servir de leurs armes, arrêtant le Capitaine s'il le fallait, pour remplir son mandat et maintenir la saisie de l'Ava.\n\nEn présence de ces faits arbitraires, en désaccord flagrant avec la Convention de 1856, nous dûmes céder à la force, tout en protestant énergiquement contre cette violation armée, par l'autorité locale, en pleine rade de Hongkong, d'un Paquebot-Poste Français qui devait suffisamment protéger la Convention internationale précitée, lui reconnaissant et lui octroyant les droits, privilèges et immunités d'un navire de guerre. Ces droits furent méconnus, en connaissance de cause et publiquement, et le Paquebot-Poste l'Ava, de la Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, ayant à bord les malles et dépêches, fut saisi illégalement et ne put appareiller de Hongkong.\n\nJe viens en conséquence, Monsieur le Gouverneur, au nom de la Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes et des intérêts postaux et commerciaux, lésés d'une manière flagrante en cette circonstance, protester par la présente, de la manière la plus solennelle, contre cet acte inqualifiable, contraire à la Convention précitée de 1856.\n\nJe fais toutes réserves possibles pour les réclamations ultérieures de la Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, contre cet embargo inexplicable et imprévu, signifié au Capitaine de l'Ava, moins de vingt minutes avant l'heure fixée pour le départ de ce paquebot, et je tiens qui de droit responsable des conséquences, quelles qu'elles puissent être, de la saisie illégale de l'Ava - saisie, je le répète, contraire aux Clauses de l'Article 5 et autres de la Convention de 1856, dont lecture a été faite par le Consul de France au Marshall de la Cour, qui n'en a pas tenu compte.\n\nVeuillez agréer, Monsieur le Gouverneur, l'assurance du profond respect, avec lequel j'ai l'honneur, etc.,\n\nSigné: Á. CUNIL, Agent Principal de la Cie. des Messageries Maritimes.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288832, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "806\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872]\n\nhere in a week, calling upon the Government to avenge the death of fifty-six Loochewans who were killed, without provocation, at Minca Island by people of Formosa. Four men-of-war are reported to be preparing to depart for Formosa as soon as the Loochewans arrive.\n\nguided the proceedings and decision of H.M.'s Consular Court at Kobe, that your Excellency should take such measures as you may deem requisite to prevent any recurrence of such proceedings, and to remove the discredit which appears to us to attach to the British Consulate at Kobe in consequence of its action in this case. We have the honour to be, your obedient servants,\n\nAn Italian gentleman lately proceeded to Koshiu, accompanied by three Japanese. On their arrival, the authorities, having elicited from the servants that the foreigner had no permit, and that he had come for the purpose of secretly purchasing silkworms' eggs, sent him back to Yokohama under escort.\n\nA meeting of the subscribers to Christ Church took place at the British Consulate. The object of the meeting was to decide on certain definite instructions to be sent to those gentlemen in England who are in correspondence with the Foreign-office, in respect of the chaplain's appointment at Yokohama. Mr. Consul Robertson occupied the chair, and opened the proceedings by reading the correspondence that had passed, and said there were two points on which the gentlemen at home wished to be assured before appointing a candidate for the post of chaplain. They were—First, the length of time that the appointment would be made for, and, second, the amount of salary the community would guarantee. A discussion took place on the matter, and the meeting adjourned, on the following motion by Mr. W. G. Howell, seconded by Mr. M. Smith:—\"That, in view of the financial position of the church, which does not seem to warrant any such extraordinary expenditure as would be involved by sending for a chaplain from England, the committee appointed to nominate a successor for Mr. Bailey be requested to stay further proceedings at home for the present.\"\n\nA dinner to the Consular Corps was given by Mr. Oye Tak, the Acting Governor. One of the head officials of the Foreign-office is shortly to start for Korea, with the object, it is stated, of ascertaining what the ideas of that Government are in relation to Japan.\n\nThe ex-Loando policemen who volunteered, in answer to an advertisement inserted in the papers at the time, to accept service as guards for the British Legation in Japan, in troublous times, when the safety of the Minister and minor officials was by no means assured, are to be dispensed with as no longer necessary. Notice has also been sent by the Government stating that guards for Legations furnished to the several Legations will in future not be supplied.\n\nHUDSON, MALCOLM AND CO. versus RANGAN.—Mr. F. V. Dickins appeared for the plaintiffs, and said that the present was a motion to determine the priority between two bills of sale. It appears that about a year ago Mr. A. G. Thompson, a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co., and living at No. 75, gave a bill of sale over the movable property contained in those premises to W. Rangan, who had the bill of sale duly registered. Shortly after this had been effected, Thompson removed to the premises No. 219, taking with him the property already under bill of sale to Rangan, with his consent. Application was then made to Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co. by Thompson for another loan on the same goods. No notice having reached Mr. Spence, who was acting for Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co., that a prior bill of sale had been given, he granted the loan required, and took the bill of sale from Thompson. Mr. Rangan, landlord of No. 219, receiving no rent, put in an execution, took possession, and was about selling the property to satisfy his claim, when an injunction, which stopped the sale, was obtained from the Court. Rangan now affirms that the property mentioned in the second bill of sale is identical with that of his, and that therefore he has a prior claim. The question was therefore one of a purely legal character. Mr. Dickins then quoted the Bill of Sale Act of 1854 in support of his case, and argued that the property in the first bill of sale, described as \"situated on Lot 76,\" was not described in such a manner as to separate it from any other property of the grantor.\n\nHis Lordship said that the fact of removing the chattels could not invalidate the first bill of sale, the property having already passed into the possession of Rangan. Had the grantee of the second bill of sale examined the register, he would have found that a previous bill of sale had been given for a similar amount to Mr. Rangan. He should therefore dismiss the motion.\n\nTHE CASE OF MR. COUSENS.\n\nThe committee appointed at the late meeting at the Club, respecting the imprisonment of Mr. Cousens, have drawn up the memorials subjoined:—\n\nTo his Excellency R. G. Watson, Esq., H.B.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires in Japan.\n\nSir,—We have the honour to hand your Excellency herewith a copy of the Hiogo News of Sept. 4, containing a report of the trial before H.M.'s Consul at Kobe of a Mr. Cousens, for an assault on a Japanese coolie, and also the report of a committee of three gentlemen appointed by a meeting held at the United Club here on the 7th inst., to investigate the matter.\n\nMEMORIAL OF OTHER THAN BRITISH SUBJECTS.\n\nWe, the undersigned residents of Yokohama, of other than British nationality, desire to testify our cordial sympathy with our British fellow-residents in the views they have expressed about the imprisonment of a Mr. Cousens at Kobe for a trivial assault, and also express our opinion of the extreme propriety of the investigation of the affair which they request.\n\nThis report was adopted by a second meeting held at the United Club on the 14th Sept., and ordered to be presented to your Excellency, and H.M.'s Chief Judge of the Supreme Court.\n\nWe, the undersigned British residents of Yokohama, respectfully request that your Excellency should order a thorough investigation into all the circumstances of this case, and should you consider that the principles of law and justice have not been duly observed...\n\nCHINA.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nWe have advices from this port to the 29th Sept.; the P. and O. mail, from London August 9, arrived out on the 15th Sept. The following items of news are from the North China Herald:—Excessive dullness has marked the present season in China: a market, in fact, can scarcely be said to exist for either imports or exports, each still simply seeking to fill up the requirements of the moment. There is no doubt that, both amongst Chinese and foreigners, there is a deep feeling of want of confidence. The former, influenced on the one hand by the large stock of imports which they fear may at any moment be placed suddenly on the market, and on the other by reports of disaster from the ordinary consuming districts, have ceased to be buyers, while the latter, influenced by continual unfavourable advices from Europe, where a crisis of some kind seems imminent, are in that uncertain state of mind that they know not, to-day, what circumstances may lead them to do next. Superadded to all this, a local tightness in the money market has more or less influence on the state of trade. This has had the effect of seriously raising the rate of exchange, and thereby interfering with the export trade. Altogether, matters at the present moment wear an aspect more unpromising than they have done for some three or four years, and unless some change takes place, we fear will result in serious loss.\n\nA notification has been published by the Officiating British Consul, Mr. Alabaster, inviting the assistance of the community in forming a complete collection of the silk manufactures of this district for the London International Exhibition of 1873. The variety of Chinese silk-piece goods, such as crapes, gauzes, silks, satins, and pongees, must be immense, but of these only a few kinds at present find a market at home, owing to the shopkeepers being either in ignorance of their existence or not knowing how to set about getting them. We believe it is intended to attach to the specimens, which will be exhibited in case portfolios, besides particulars of the length of the pieces as manufactured, the average cost, and other information specified in the notification, the names of those from whom they were obtained.\n\nMr. Joseph Haas, Interpreter to the Austro-Hungarian Consulate, resumes the duties of Assessor at the Mixed Court for the U. S. Consulate-General; Dr. McCartee, who has held the position of Interpreter to the Consulate-General for some months, having left Shanghai for Japan. While we may regret that we lose by Dr. McCartee's departure an able sinologue and an experienced official, we feel that the energetic and painstaking manner in which Mr. Haas formerly discharged the duties, ensures that they will continue to be well fulfilled.\n\nThe efforts made to get up an International Eight-oar race, Scotch v. English, for next regatta of the S.R.C., have failed, the English members having been obliged to withdraw. Though of considerable numerical strength, the English membership can at present barely furnish forth an eight of sufficient calibre and experience in rowing for such a contest, and defections in the team chosen have necessitated an intimation to the Scottish eight that the event cannot come off. An eight-oar race will still form part of the present programme, however, the Scottish eight having given a challenge to all the members of the Club who are of other nationalities.\n\nA cricket match, the Club Eleven v. Racket Court, has been played. On the first day's play, it looked a \"moral\" for the Club, which got 168 in the first innings, while the Court lost seven of its best wickets for 29. The wickets were pitched again the following day, when the Racket Court made its score for the first innings up to 44, and then went to bat again. This time it made 195 for six wickets, when the game had to be left off. Mi-ho-loongs v. the World is announced.\n\nA match between the Mih-ho-loongs have had a company drill, when about thirty men turned out. We understand that a regulation has been passed to take off the rolls of the company the name of any member who misses two consecutive drills, unless sufficient cause for absence is shown. We believe the esprit of the company is strong enough to stand this discipline; and it is certainly hard on men who have devoted time to drill, to have the good effect lost on parade by the awkwardness of the undrilled.\n\nOperations for the raising of the wreck of the Lismore are in active progress.\n\nThe Annie Porter, sunk in the former endeavour to raise the Lismore by buoying her to two vessels, will be blown up, and the attempt next made to raise the steamer by means of apparatus specially imported for the purpose. The Hopewell and Aracon were placed in the Old Dock on Monday last; the former to repair the damage sustained in the collision with the Annie Gray, and the latter for a general overhauling previous to loading teas for London. The Annie Gray is still at anchor in the river, in a disabled condition, being minus her foremast.\n\nMr. T. Fitzroy Rice will proceed to Japan by the next French mail steamer, having accepted an appointment with a view to organising a police force in that country.\n\nA fire broke out at Messrs. Reynolds and Co.'s godown in Wyndham-street, among some loose straw. The alarm was promptly given, but the fire was extinguished by the assistance of about a dozen gentlemen on the spot, before the engines arrived. The damage done was not of any magnitude.\n\nThe twelfth performance by the Wind Instrument Company has been given, and was largely attended. The night was mild and pleasant, and the music a culmination of the general excellence which has characterised the performances during the season. Among the passengers by the last American mail, homeward, was the Austro-Hungarian Minister, Chevalier Calicé, who will be absent from China for twelve months.\n\nOur Hankow correspondent writes:—We have been favoured, within the last few weeks, with a Post-office; a privilege which, I believe, will be highly appreciated by a good portion of the community. The duties of Postmaster are discharged at present by E. L. Oxenham, Esq., of H.M.'s Consulate. A Masonic Lodge has also just been opened here; and if report be true, it is likely to have a distinguished band of members enrolled in its records. Hankow, just now, presents an ample field for the exercise of any such moral influence as Freemasonry. Let us hope its claims as a moral force will be duly verified. A fire has occurred in which the ice-house, which belongs to foreigners, alone was burned. It is undoubtedly a case of incendiarism.\n\nThe following items are from the Shanghai Courier:—The prospectus of the new company of which we have heard for some time as being in course of organisation to compete with the Pacific Mail Company—The China Trans-Pacific Steamship Company (Limited) has appeared; Messrs. Russell and Co. are the agents, and 2,000 of the shares are reserved for allotment in China.\n\nWe are glad to observe that the Canton Daily Shipping News has at length blossomed into a full-blown newspaper.\n\nH.I.H. the Grand Duke Alexis and suite, accompanied by H.E. Sir Arthur Kennedy and H.E. the Russian Admiral, visited the Sing Ping Theatre. The piece played immediately on the arrival of the distinguished visitors was that of \"The Eight Genii,\" congratulating the Queen of Heaven on the anniversary of her birth. This piece was not very interesting, but occupied only a very short time, the object being to show respect to the distinguished spectator. Eight actors, representing the eight Genii, came out and worshipped in pairs in front of the stage. The next piece played was the State Installation of Soo Chun, an eminent politician who flourished in the Chow Dynasty, into the office of Premier or Chief Councillor for the Confederation of the Six States.\n\nThe prospectus of the China Trans-Pacific Steam Ship Company has been circulated by Messrs. Russell and Co., as agents, at Hong Kong, and inviting subscribers to the capital. The Directors announced are:—Edward Henry Green, Chairman; W. Wetmore Cryder, E. M. de Bossche, W. J. Alt, Edward Cunningham, Alexander Grant Dallas, Gilson Homan, with power to increase their number to fifteen.\n\nWe learn that on the 25th Sept. the engines of the frigate launched some months ago at Kaou-Chang-Menon Arsenal, were at work under steam for six hours. Everything has been found in the most satisfactory state, and the powerful machinery was started and went steadily on without the slightest hitch; the result being that she is authoritatively pronounced ready to proceed on her official trip.\n\nThe Italian Consul is about to take a census of all Italian subjects resident or travelling in China, and accordingly requests all such to bring or send to his Consulate, verbally or in writing, particulars regarding themselves under twelve different headings, such as—Name, surname and parentage, place of birth, age, education, religion, how long they have left Italy, &c. &c.\n\nThe first pontoon for the free ferry has been placed in position on the north side of the Soochow Creek, opposite the north end of Gnaomen-road. The abutment of the ferry on the southern side is also approaching completion.\n\nHONG KONG. Dates extend to the 5th Oct. The P. and O. mail of the 23rd Aug. arrived out on the 1st Oct.\n\nA ball was given at the City Hall by the Hong Kong Club, in honour of his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis, and went off with much success. His Imperial Highness, accompanied by his suite, and his Excellency the Governor, Lady Kennedy, and Miss Kennedy, arrived shortly after ten o'clock, and the Grand Duke led off the first quadrille with Lady Kennedy. Among the guests present were Admiral Possiet and the officers of the Svelland, and of the other Russian men-of-war in harbour, Sir Brooke Robertson, the Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, and other members of the Local Government. Dancing was kept up with energy until a late hour, his Imperial Highness affording much gratification by his courteous and genial demeanour. The decorations were very tasteful, and the arrangements generally very good.\n\nArrangements have been made for the delivery of a series of excellent lectures at the St. Andrew's Hall, in the City Hall Building. Several very interesting subjects are on the programme, the first lecture being Dr. Legge's reminiscences of life in China, and there also being a lecture from Dr. Eitel on Feng Shui. The proceeds of the lectures, for the series of which a fee of $5 will be charged, will go to the City Hall Library. We are confident that this valuable addition to our intellectual amusements will be well supported, and are glad to hear that H.E. Sir Arthur Kennedy has promised to give every assistance, and will be present at the first lecture.\n\nA correspondent at Macao calls attention to a new feature in the coolie trade, which is worthy of notice. It appears that arrangements are being made for the shipment, in an Italian steamer, of a large number of coolies to Costa Rica, a Republican state to the North of Panama, and stretching between the Atlantic and the Pacific. The object with which the men are being sent is understood to be to assist in building a railway. The difficulty, however, is that Costa Rica has no relations either with Portugal or China, and consequently the men will be without even the moderate amount of protection afforded to the emigrants to Peru. It is understood that such an arrangement would not be countenanced by the Portuguese Government, and that the Superintendent of Emigration at Macao has protested against the step, but it appears that the Governor has not yet felt called upon to intervene. The place to which the men are being sent is described as a most difficult country, and the coolies will have great hardship in reaching their destination, whether they land on the Atlantic or the Pacific side.\n\nTHE CHINA AND JAPAN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nThe directors, in submitting to the shareholders a statement of the company's accounts to the 30th June last, are pleased to be able to report most satisfactorily on the progress of their business, the net premia taken during the first six months of the present year amounting to Tls. 143,066.68, against Tls. 116,493.32 for the same period of 1871.\n\nThe losses paid, it will be observed, amount to Tls. 97,107.00, the great portion of the same belonging to last year, to provide for which a sum of Tls. 77,536.30 was brought forward from the 31st December, 1871. After payment of the said losses, of all current expenses, and of the half-yearly interest dividend to the 30th June, and after writing off the balance of Messrs. Trautmang and Co.'s remuneration, a sum of Tls. 86,821.17 remained at debit of working account, to be carried forward.\n\nThe net Premia earned from the 1st July to the 30th Sept. are estimated at Tls. 85,000, while the losses and claims reported to date, beyond those paid previous to the 1st July, and expenses on treasure salved, ex P.M. steamer America, amount to Tls. 42,000.\n\nMr. Framjee Hormusjee resigned his seat on the board on his departure from China, and the selection of his successor engages the attention of the directors.\n\nSIAM.\n\nBANGKOK.\n\nThe Siam Advertiser has the following:—\n\nHis Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs gave an evening party at his residence, in honour of the King's birthday, to which most of the European residents were invited. The attendance was large, and dancing was kept up till early in the morning. The residence of the Minister, it is said, was brilliantly illuminated, and some of the Siamese nobles performed quite gracefully their parts in the dances in which they participated. For three successive nights the natives vied with each other in illuminating their residences, and on these occasions many of these places had a very fascinating and fairy-like appearance.\n\nA dinner was given in the palace to some of the Princes, and a dinner was given to prominent Siamese officials, and to some of the Europeans in Siamese employ. This dinner was served in a new and beautiful hall in the palace. His Majesty honoured his guests with his presence, and dined in the same hall at a separate table. These demonstrations on the part of his Majesty indicate the good will of the young King to foreigners.\n\nThere is now a rumour afloat that two loads of lead pieces came to Siam not long since; one of these loads was given as a bribe to some prominent nobleman, which secured for them an entrance into the country. The rumour does not indicate whether these vessels were square-rigged vessels or native-rigged craft, nor do they indicate the person who was bribed. We have no means of knowing whether this rumour is true or false; it may be wholly false; it may be partly true. This is true, however, there is at present a panic about the lead pieces; those who have many on hand are ready to sell them at a depreciated value, and many of the petty traders refuse to take them as change.\n\nPage 807\n\nNov. 18, 1872.]\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n203", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290544, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3]", "page_number": 185, "title": "CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3]", "content_text": "Colony, accompanied by remarks of which I enclose a Copy.- \n\nI have the honor to be, \n\nMy Lord, Your Lordships' obedient \n\nhumble Servant, \n\nKennedy \n\nGovernor.. \n\nIn Duplicate \n\nTHE CHINA MAIL. \n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEB. 11, 1873. \n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. IMPORTANT DESPATCH CONCERNING THE MACAO COOLIE TRADE. \n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council took place at 2.30 p.m. this afternoon. Present: H. E. the Governor, The Hon. the Chief Justice, the Act. Col. Secretary, the Attorney General, the Act. Col. Treasurer, Judge Ball, Phineas Ryrie, R. Rowett and James Whittall. \n\nThe minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, \n\nH. E. then said: Since the last meeting of the Council I have received a very important despatch from the Earl of Kimberley in relation to the abuses which constantly arise out of the system of Chinese Emigration carried on in the neighbouring colony of Macao, and which have been so long the subject of complaint and remonstrance on the part of the British Government. \n\nThe Despatch is in these terms --- \n\nDOWNING STREET, \n\n20th November, 1872.\n\nSIR,-It has at different times been represented to me that Foreign Vessels engaged in the shipment of Coolies from Macao are equipped in the Port of Hongkong, or furnished with supplies or stores from that Colony, and my attention has recently been directed to the following paragraph extracted from a Hongkong newspaper: \"The Spanish steamer Bueno Ventura, a sister to, and belonging to the same owner as the steamship Yruras Bat, which vessel fitted up here and left a few days back for Macao, for a cargo of Coolies, has arrived here to fit up for the same purpose,\" \n\n2. You are probably aware that during the late Session of Parliament an Act [Kidnapping Act, 1872] (three copies of which are enclosed) was passed for the purpose of repressing the abuses connected with the movement of natives from their Islands in the Pacific Ocean to labor on Plantations.\n\n3. Although great cruelties have been perpetrated in connexion with this traffic in South Sea Islanders, they can hardly have been greater than those which have led to the disgraceful and horrible occurrences from time to time reported as having taken place on board ships conveying Chinese Coolies from Macao. \n\n4. Her Majesty's Government, which has been under the necessity of making repeated remonstrances to the Portuguese Government on the subject of the Macao Coolie Trade, cannot permit that there should be even the shadow of justification for any such imputation as that British Subjects in Hongkong partake in and profit by a traffic which the Queen's Government deplores and protests against. And I see no reason why British Subjects resident in Hongkong should not, as well as those in Australasia, be subjected to the punishment prescribed in Section 9 of the \"Kidnapping Act 1872\" for the offences specified in that Section, if committed within the territorial jurisdiction of the Colony. \n\n5. I request you to give your particular attention to the \"Kidnapping Act 1872,\" and to consider whether some of its provisions might not, with the necessary alterations, be made applicable to Hongkong. If you are of opinion that they might be, I request you to transmit to me, as soon as possible, the Draft of an Ordinance for that purpose.\n\nAs Chief Justice Smale has given much attention to this question, I request you to give him a copy of this despatch and of the Act enclosed in it, and to intimate to him that I shall be glad to receive from him, through you, any observations or suggestions which he may wish to offer either in conjunction or after consultation with the Attorney General and yourself, or separately.\n\nYou will also lay this Despatch before the Legislative Council.\n\nI have, &c., (Signed) KIMBERLEY.\n\nGovernor Sir A. E. KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., &c., &c., &c.\n\nHis Excellency then said :-- \n\nIn compliance with the Earl of Kimberley's instructions, I have conferred with the Chief Justice, and with the Attorney General, and have carefully considered, in conjunction with these officers, the kind of legislation which is best calculated to carry out effectively the wishes of Her Majesty's Government.\n\nI am also, at the present time, in communication with the Secretary of State on the subject, and I hope to be able very shortly to submit to the Council the Draft of an Ordinance, intended to prohibit and prevent, to the fullest extent that the Powers of this Legislature will allow, all residents of this Colony, of whatever nationality they may be, from taking any part in what is commonly known as the \"Macao Coolie Trade,\" and from participating directly, or indirectly in its profits, either by chartering or equipping and furnishing vessels for the purpose of Macao Emigration, or in any other manner.\n\nI have every reason to believe that, in introducing such a measure, I shall have the hearty support and co-operation of every member of the Council, as well as the approval of the Community of the Colony.\n\nI do not now invite any expression of opinion on what is proposed, but when the Draft Ordinance is laid on the table, the subject can be fully discussed.\n\nMr. Whittall wished to make a remark with reference to the despatch just read. Some of the remarks of Earl Kimberley were, he thought, hardly called for. The Earl seemed to labour under an impression that the British merchants of Hongkong were interested in the coolie traffic. Now, this was not the case, and so long ago as 1867, he had joined the Chief Justice in opposing the Chinese Passengers' Act---- \n\nH. E. did not wish to interrupt the Hon. member, but he desired to point out that if any remarks were made now, they would lead to discussion. He did not of course know what the Hon. member was about to say, but this was not the time for discussing the question. As instructed, he would frame an ordinance, and when this was brought forward, there would be room for discussion.\n\nMr. Whittall said he did not desire to raise any discussion. He only wished to ask his Excellency if he would take steps to disabuse the mind of Earl Kimberley on the subject.\n\nH. E. replied that he had already taken good care to do this. He was quite satisfied from inquiry that British merchants were not accomplices of the coolie trade.\n\nH. E. the Governor proposed the second reading of \"The Sheriff's Ordinance 1873.\" The amount of Salary was not, H. E. observed, fixed, but that would be duly brought before the Council. The Ordinance was then read a second time and passed.\n\nThe Ordinance to abolish Minimum Punishment on Summary Convictions was also read and passed.\n\nThe Council was then adjourned sine die\n\n2672\n\n73 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291365, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "content_text": "# \n3. Where the plaintiff has a joint and several demand against several persons, either as principal or as sureties, it is not necessary for him to bring before the Court as parties to a suit concerning such demand all the persons liable thereto, but he may proceed against one or more of the persons severally liable.\n\nR. J. C. 12.\n\n4. If it appear to the Court, at or before the hearing of a suit, that all the persons who may be entitled to, or who claim some share or interest in the subject-matter of the suit, and who may be likely to be affected by the result, have not been made parties to the suit, the Court may adjourn the hearing of the suit to a future day to be fixed by the Court, and direct that such persons shall be made either plaintiffs or defendants in the suit, as the case may be. In such case the Court shall issue a notice to such persons in the manner provided in this Ordinance for the service of a summons on a defendant.\n\nR. J. C. 13.\n\n5. In case a petition states two or more distinct causes of suit, by and against the same parties, and in the same rights, the Court may, either before or at the hearing, if it appears inexpedient to try the different causes of suit together, order that different records be made up, and make such order as to adjournment and costs as justice requires.\n\nS. R. 39.\n\n6. In case a petition states two or more distinct causes of suit, but not by and against the same parties, or by and against the same parties, but not in the same rights, the petition may on the application of any defendant be dismissed.\n\n7. In case such application is made within the time for answer, the petition may be dismissed, with costs to be paid by the plaintiff to the defendant making the application; but in case the application is not made within the time for answer, the petition, when the defect is brought to the notice of the Court, may be dismissed without costs, or on payment of Court fees only, as to the Court seems just.\n\n## Service of Petition\n\nXXIX. As soon as practicable after the filing of the petition, the plaintiff shall cause a copy thereof under the seal of the Court to be served upon every defendant to the suit and such copy shall contain a memorandum endorsed thereon requiring the defendant to file an answer to the petition within ten days from the day of such service: Provided always that no such service of the petition shall be required to be made upon any defendant who has failed to enter an appearance and as against whom the plaintiff has obtained the leave of the Court to proceed with his suit ex parte.\n\n## Staying Proceedings for Defect in Petition\n\nXXX. Where a petition is defective on the face of it by reason of non-compliance with any provision of the code, the Court may, either on application by a defendant, or of its own motion, make an order to stay proceedings until the defect is remedied.\n\n2. The Court may of its own motion, make an order to stay proceedings on a defective petition, where the defect is patent and serious, and comes to the knowledge of the Court before service of the petition on the defendant.\n\n## Dismissal of Petition on Ground of Law\n\nXXXI. Where a defendant conceives that he has a good legal or equitable defence to the petition, so that even if the allegations of fact in the petition were admitted or clearly established, yet the plaintiff would not be entitled to any decree against him (the defendant), he may raise this defence by a motion that the petition be dismissed without any answer being required from him.\n\nS. R. 40.\nS. R. 43.\n\n## Amendment of Petition\n\nXXXII. Any plaintiff not giving sufficient information to enable the defendant reasonably to understand the nature and particulars of the claim set up against him, may be ordered on the application of the defendant before answer, to amend his petition.\n\nS. R. 50-32.\n\n2. The plaintiff may be ordered to annex copies of, or produce for inspection, such papers or documents in his possession or power as he has referred to in the petition, and as the defendant is entitled to inspect for the purposes of the suit.\n\nS. B. 44-48.\n\n3. The Court may in such cases make such order as to costs as justice requires, and stay proceedings until the order is complied with.\n\n4. If any petition contains libellous or needlessly offensive expression, the Court may, either of its own motion before service thereof, or on the application of the defendant, order the petition to be amended, and make such order as to costs as justice requires.\n\n5. A petition may be amended at any time before answer by leave of the Court obtained ex parte.\n\n6. Notice of the amendment shall be given to the defendant within such time and in such manner as the Court directs.\n\n## CHAPTER V\n\n### THE ANSWER-REPLICATION----INTERROGATORIES-SETTLEMENT OF ISSUES\n\n## Form and Contents\n\nXXXIII. The defendant must file in the Court an answer to the petition within ten days from the date of the service thereof: Provided always that he obtain further time on summons stating the further time required, and the reasons why it is required.\n\n2. The application when made, unless consented to, must be supported by affidavit or by oral evidence on oath, shewing that there is reasonable ground for the application and that it is not made for the purpose of delay.\n\n3. Where a defendant does not put in any answer, he shall not be taken as admitting the allegations of the petition, or the plaintiff's right to the relief sought; and at the hearing (even though such defendant does not appear) the plaintiff must open his case, and adduce evidence in support of it, and take such judgment as to the Court appears just.\n\n4. A defendant neglecting to put in an answer within the time or further time allowed shall not be at liberty to put in an answer without leave of the Court, or consent of parties.\n\n5. The Court may grant such leave by order on the ex parte application of the defendant at any time before the plaintiff has set down the cause or applied to have it set down for hearing.\n\n6. Where the cause has been set down or the plaintiff has applied to have it set down for hearing, the Court shall not grant such leave except on return of a summons to the plaintiff giving notice of defendant's application, and on such terms as to costs and other matters as seem just.\n\n7. The answer shall show the nature of the defendant's defence to the claim set up by the petition, but may not set forth the evidence by which such defence is intended to be supported.\n\n8. It should be clear and precise, and not introduce matter irrelevant to the suit, and the rules before laid down respecting the setting of the documents and the contents of a petition generally shall be observed in answer, mutatis mutandis.\n\n9. It must deny all such material allegations in the petition as the defendant intends to deny at the hearing.\n\n10. Where the answer denies an allegation of fact, it must deny it directly and not by way of negative pregnant: as (for example) where it is alleged that the defendant has received a sum of money, the answer must deny that he has received that sum or any part thereof, or else set forth what part he has received. And so, where a matter of fact is alleged in the petition, with certain circumstances, the answer must not deny it literally as it is alleged, but must answer the point of substance positively and certainly.\n\n11. The answer must specifically admit such material allegation in the petition as the defendant knows to be true or desires to be taken as admitted. Such admission, if plain and specific, will prevent the plaintiff from obtaining the cost of proving at the hearing any matters of fact so admitted.\n\n12. All material allegations of fact admitted by a defendant shall be taken as established against him without proof thereof by the plaintiff at the hearing. But the plaintiff shall be bound to prove as against each defendant all allegations of fact not admitted by him, or not stated by him to be true to his belief.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297212, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "content_text": "303\n\n68\n\nof principle aside), appear to be some reason for asserting that it might in practice be advantageous to foreigners to be protected by French Agents, in the absence of any Representatives of their own country, and, in such circumstances, to be liable to the joint jurisdiction of French and Annamnese authorities, rather than to be entirely at the mercy of the native officials.\n\nIt must be observed, however, that the language of the Duc Decazes' paper is rather vague with regard to this matter, and if an arrangement on this basis should be contemplated, it would be necessary to scrutinize the Treaties between France and Annam very carefully, in order to ascertain whether they admit of the interpretation put upon them. For it is to be remembered that in leaving to Annam the right to conclude Commercial Treaties, the French have been careful to stipulate that such Treaties must contain nothing inconsistent with the Treaties with France, and that the French Government must be informed before they are concluded.\n\nIt seems to me to be, in fact, doubtful whether the more liberal interpretation put by the Duc Decazes' paper upon the Commercial Treaty is warranted by the wording of it; and consequently if that Treaty were ratified as it stands by the French Assembly, it might hereafter be construed as conferring, perpetually and exclusively, upon French Agents the jurisdiction over foreigners, which, even as a temporary arrangement, seems to be in principle open to objection.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed). LYONS.\n\nInclosure in No. 78.\n\nMemorandum.\n\nLE Ministre des Affaires Etrangères a examiné, avec toute l'attention qu'il mérite, le memorandum du Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique en date du 15 Novembre, 1874, relatif au Traité de Commerce conclu entre la France et le Royaume d'Annam. Les observations développées dans ce document portent principalement sur trois points: les droits de juridiction attribués aux Agents Français en tant qu'ils s'entendraient aux sujets des nations Chrétiennes; le privilège en vertu duquel ces mêmes fonctionnaires seraient provisoirement appelés à prononcer sur les difficultés pouvant survenir entre des étrangers et l'administration des Douanes; enfin, les faveurs stipulées au profit des bâtiments chargés de marchandises provenant ou à destination de Saigon.\n\nDes explications confidentielles ayant déjà été échangées à ce sujet avec son Excellence M. l'Ambassadeur d'Angleterre, le Duc Decazes a pu se convaincre qu'il s'était produit et qu'il existait encore un malentendu sur la portée de quelques-unes des clauses des arrangements intervenus entre le Gouvernement Français et la Cour de Hué.\n\nIl en est ainsi, notamment pour ce qui concerne les attributions dont les résidents Français se trouvent momentanément investis par le Traité Politique, à l'égard des étrangers, dans les nouveaux ports du Royaume d'Annam ouverts à la navigation. En effet, le Cabinet Français s'est proposé, par cette disposition, de satisfaire aux nécessités d'une situation temporaire en assurant à tous les étrangers sans distinction de nationalité qui aborderaient sur le territoire de l'Annam la protection que l'administration Annamite serait hors d'état de leur procurer dans les premiers temps qui suivront la mise à exécution des Traités. Le Cabinet Français a voulu ainsi réserver aux négociants étrangers, aussi bien qu'à ses propres nationaux, un recours contre l'inexpérience et l'animosité possibles de certains fonctionnaires Annamites, tant qu'aucune autre Puissance n'aurait encore d'Agents Consulaires dans le Royaume d'Annam.\n\nOn ne doit pas oublier que si le Gouvernement Annamite s'est engagé à conformer sa politique extérieure à celle de France et à ne rien changer à ses relations diplomatiques actuelles, cet engagement n'exclut ni la conclusion de Traités de Commerce ni l'établissement de Consuls étrangers, qui en serait la conséquence naturelle. Rien ne s'oppose, en effet, à ce que le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique ouvre à ce sujet des négociations avec le Royaume d'Annam s'il juge à propos de le faire, et le Gouvernement Français est même tout disposé à l'aider, dans ce but, de ses bons offices auprès de la Cour de Hué.\n\nCette stipulation, empreinte d'un esprit évident de libéralisme, ne saurait donc causer aucun ombrage, et nous pouvons ajouter qu'il en est de même de celles qui attribuent à l'Agent Français le droit de statuer, de concert avec un magistrat Annamite, sur les contestations entre les négociants étrangers et la Douane. Il suffira d'une simple observation pour écarter toute incertitude à cet égard; le Cabinet Français entend bien que les Consuls étrangers, dès qu'ils seront installés, auront la charge et le soin de pourvoir désormais par eux-mêmes à la protection de leurs nationaux dans les matières de Douane, aussi bien que dans les questions de juridiction.\n\n69\n\nEn ce qui concerne la clause relative au port de Saigon, nous devons constater que le Gouvernement de la Reine s'est mépris sur les raisons qui l'ont dictée comme sur la portée qu'il convient d'y donner. Elle est ainsi conçue: \"Les marchandises expédiées de Saïgon pour un des ports ouverts de l'Annam ou à destination du Yunnan, en transit par le Tsong-Koi et celles qui sont expédiées de l'un de ces ports ou du Yunnan pour Saïgon, ne seront soumises qu'à la moitié des droits frappant les marchandises de toute autre provenance ou ayant une autre destination.\"\n\nCe n'est pas à titre gratuit que le Cabinet Français a réclamé et obtenu ce régime spécial pour sa Colonie de Saigon. Il a dû préalablement renoncer au reliquat des sommes encore dues pour l'ancienne indemnité de guerre et qui ne s'élèvent pas à moins de 5,000,000. Il a dû prendre l'engagement de fournir au Gouvernement Annamite l'appui matériel qui lui est nécessaire pour maintenir chez lui l'ordre et la tranquillité et détruire la piraterie qui désole ses côtes; lui promettre 5 bâtiments de guerre à vapeur, 100 canons approvisionnés de 200 coups, et 1,000 fusils à tir rapide; c'est à ce prix que la France acquérait un droit difficile à contester, à des compensations temporaires, et qui n'atténuent qu'incomplètement l'importance de ses sacrifices. Les tarifs actuels sont établis pour une durée de dix ans; ce laps de temps s'écoulera certainement avant que le Gouvernement Français ne soit rentré dans ses déboursés et le privilège qu'il revendique pour le port de Saigon, pendant ces dix années, n'est qu'un faible dédommagement de la somme considérable qu'il abandonne aux Annamites, du matériel de guerre qu'il met à leur disposition et des dépenses qu'il prend à sa charge.\n\nA l'expiration des tarifs actuels, il y aura lieu d'examiner si l'état de choses qu'ils consacrent doit être maintenu ou abrogé. Mais il est d'autant moins possible aujourd'hui de renoncer au bénéfice de ces dispositions, qu'elles ne sont nullement exclusives. Elles seront, en effet, applicables aux bâtiments étrangers comme aux bâtiments nationaux; Saigon est un port franc, et il n'est que trop connu que les établissements de commerce Français créés dans ce port ne sont ni les plus nombreux, ni ceux qui font le trafic le plus étendu.\n\nLe Ministre des Affaires Etrangères de France se plaît à espérer que ces explications suffiront pour rendre aux Traités conclus avec le Royaume d'Annam leur véritable signification. Le Gouvernement Britannique mieux éclairé rendra donc pleine justice à des arrangements qui ouvrent au commerce de toutes les Puissances de nouveaux et précieux débouchés jusqu'à présent fermés à toutes les tentatives, et que la France n'a pu disputer à la barbarie qu'aux prix de longs et cruels sacrifices. Il serait, en vérité, inexplicable que celle des Puissances dont le pavillon occupe la plus grande place dans les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine, et qui est ainsi appelée à profiter le plus largement de cette conquête de la civilisation Européenne, voulût en contester les bienfaits, et pût méconnaître l'esprit dont nous avons été animés dans la poursuite de nos efforts.\n\nParis, le 24 Mai, 1875.\n\n(No. 428.) My Lord,\n\nNo. 79.\n\nLord Lyons to the Earl of Derby. Received May 26.)\n\nParis, May 25, 1875. IN the paper respecting the Annam Treaties which the Duc Decazes gave me yesterday, and of which a copy is inclosed in my immediately preceding despatch No. 427 of to-day, the Duke refers to his confidential communications with me respecting his answer to the Memorandum presented to him by Lord Lytton, on the 15th November last.\n\nYour Lordship may remember that these communications began by the Duc Decazes putting into my hand, confidentially, in the month of January last, a draft of the answer he proposed to send; that I informed him that an answer in the terms of that draft would be considered as most unsatisfactory by Her Majesty's Government; and that on the 16th February I had a long conversation with him on the question of the Annam Treaties, and put into his hand a Memorandum containing observations on the draft answer.\n\nThe answer which he gave me yesterday is certainly, both in tone and in substance, less unsatisfactory than the original draft; but I cannot say that it very much modifies the opinions I expressed in my despatches No. 58, of the 18th January, and No. 149, of the 16th February last.\n\n[81]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 234, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "6\n\nbarracks, there are but few houses, and in the centre is a very peculiar tower on a raised base some 20 feet high, and on the top of the tower the national flag is hoisted.\n\nThe town of Hanoi is situated between the citadel and the river, and extending beyond the former in a westerly direction. The streets are wide and the houses good, and well built of brick in some of the principal streets, but there are numerous ones where the shops are merely mat erections in the usual Tonkinese style; with one exception—the main street from the river where the Chinese live—the streets are unpaved, and in wet weather almost impassable from the depth of the mud; but as shoes are an exception with the Annamites, this drawback to European comfort does not affect them. The sedan-chair of China, so convenient for locomotion, is unknown, the high authorities and those who can afford it being carried in a hammock of silk or hemp network suspended on a pole supported on the shoulders of two or four bearers, and enclosed in silk or cotton curtains. There is a great deal of stir and movement in the streets; the shops are well stocked with articles of native workmanship, especially bamboo work in all its varieties, silk and cotton piece goods, paper, pewter, and glass ware, boxes, drums of all sizes richly painted, lacquered and gilt, and coarse crockery and china ware. Fowls, ducks, geese, oxen, and pigs, are both plentiful and cheap, with abundance of fruit, bananas and vegetables, and fish. Rice is the staple food of the people, who look well-fed and healthy, and have a fair amount of muscular development. The women, however, appear to be the dominant class, for they work like the men as coolies and labourers, and preside in the shops. They are generally good-looking, carry themselves gracefully, and but for the practice of blacking their teeth, many might be called handsome.\n\nThe Tonquinese are evidently of the type of race which may be called \"transitional,\" beginning in India, of which Burmah and Siam are offshoots; changing in the Malay peninsula and Annam, and again in the southern borders of China, and so with China proper, where it ends in the Mongol feature. The gradations are strongly marked and can be easily traced.\n\nIn manner the Tonquinese and Annamites are quiet and, owing probably to the arbitrary Government they are under, subdued and indolent. The population of Hanoi, the capital, is estimated at from 150,000 to 200,000 Tonquinese, and about 3,000 Chinese. The French speak of the rule of the Annamite Government as oppressive and arbitrary in the extreme, and that the Tonquinese would gladly throw it off if possible. It may be and probably is so, being the case generally with all independent Asiatic Governments, but as a strong feeling against the Government exists among the French officials in Tonquin, such an assertion must be accepted with reserve. Undoubtedly a feeling of great disappointment exists at the sudden and complete reversal of the policy of Lieutenant Français Garnier, which I will refer to more fully hereafter, and the surrender to the Annamite Government of what may be termed his territorial conquests in Tonquin. Indeed, the present obstructive attitude of the Court of Hué is attributed to this cause, but not justly so,\n\nit is not to be expected that an independent but weak Government can look with equanimity upon the capture of their territory by a surprise, or accept the dictum of the captors that it is for their good and that of their people to preserve an armed neutrality and open the country to foreign trade under French supervision. However this may be viewed from a Western stand-point, certainly it finds no favour in the East, where the acts of the so-called civilized Powers are stripped of their garnish and reduced to the simple proportions of right or wrong, and if the latter, never forgotten or forgiven. Time and the passing away of generations may somewhat render the past into oblivion, but until that, to think what is gained by the sword can be held by the hand, is a mistake which the French are now seeing, and are chafing under the discovery.\n\nI have, I fear, dwelt too long on this subject, but it is one which so nearly affects the position of the French in Tonquin, that I may be pardoned in having been a little diffuse; but I will now proceed to give a brief resume of the political history of the Annamite and Tonquin Kingdoms, and the events which led to the occupation of the former by the French.\n\nTonquin is divided into thirteen prefectures or tsan; Thauh-noi, Thanh-ngoai, Hung-hoa, Nam thoung, Nam ha, Haidong, Kinh bae, Sontai, Caobang, Lang bac or Lang-von, Thai nguyen, Tuyen quang, Quang-yen.\n\nBoth Tonquin and Annam have, from almost time immemorial, been the scene of rebellions, civil wars, and bloodshed. Passing over the rather obscure history of these events, it will be sufficient to date from the year 1740–1786.\n\nAt that date Canhung was King of Tonquin, or Ngan-nan as it was called,\n\n1\n\n7\n\nand Hien Vuong was King of Cochin China, or Annam, but was so disliked by his subjects, that the influential family of Tayson revolted and killed him. He left a nephew, Nguyên Auh, who fled to Saigon on the death of his uncle. The heads of the family of Tayson consisted of three brothers: the eldest, Yin-yae, was a wealthy merchant; the second, Long-niang, was a General Officer of high rank; and the third was a priest.\n\nCochin was then divided into three parts: the north had been conquered by the Tonquinese; Hué was occupied by the second brother, Long-niang; and lower Cochin was governed by Yin-yae; whilst the third brother was religious chief of the whole Empire.\n\nNguyên-Auh, the nephew of Hien Vuong, who had fled to Saigon, determined to recover his kingdom from the three brothers of the Tayson family. At the time when Hien Vuong was killed there was a Catholic Bishop named Pigneaux de Béhaine, called Adran after his see, and he it was who saved the nephew Nguyên-Auh, and took him to Saigon, and henceforth devoted himself to replacing him on the Tonquinese throne.\n\nLong-niang, the second brother, then attacked the Tonquinese, and after expelling them from North Cochin, entered Tonquin in 1786, obliging Chin-long, the then King, to fly into China, where he ended his life at Peking, in exile.\n\nBishop Adran then took the eldest son of Nguyên-Auh with him to Paris, to obtain assistance from Louis XVI of France, and a Treaty of Alliance was signed on the 28th November, 1787, and Bishop Adran returned.\n\nIn 1791 Long-niang died, leaving a son twelve years old; and Nguyên-Auh, with the help of some French officers, brought from Europe by Bishop Adran, captured Yin-yae's fleet in 1793. In the same year Yin-yae died, and was succeeded by his son. Nguyên-Auh attacked and defeated the latter in 1796, and conquered what territory remained under the government of the son of Long-niang, and thus Cochin (Annam) was once more in possession of its lawful sovereign.\n\nThe conquest of Cochin being finished in 1811, Nguyên-Auh then turned his attention to Tonquin, the then King of which, Cauh-thiuh, the son of Quan-hung, he defeated in 1802, and being then sole sovereign of Annam, he assumed the title of Hwang-te, and the surname of Gia-long, by which he is best known, and since then Tonquin has been a province of the Annamite kingdom.\n\nIt may be observed that as far back as 1541 the Li family, the founder of the second dynasty, of which was Li-ki-mao or Li-by, were the recognized heirs to the throne of Tonquin, and although they were displaced by usurpers, they are still considered so, and some of its representatives are said to exist.\n\nSince the death of Gialong three monarchs have reigned in Cochin (Annam)—Minh Mang, 1820-1841; Thieu-tri, 1841-1847; and Tu-Duc, the present King; but although they owe their kingdom to the exertions of Bishop Adran, they have unremittingly persecuted Christians, For instance, Father Fernandez was beheaded on the 24th July, Bishop Henaris on the 25th June, and Bishop Delgado died in prison on 12th July, 1838. Finally, in consequence of the execution of Bishop José Maria Diaz, on the 20th July, 1857, and for other outrages, war broke out between Annam, Spain, and France, and this was followed by the victories of Admirals Rigault de Genouilly at Turon, on the 1st September, 1858; and Saigon, on the 17th February, 1859; Chasner at Kihoa, on the 25th February, 1861; Page at Mytho, on the 12th April, 1861; and Bonard at Bien-hoa, on the 9th December, 1861; ending with the Treaty of Saigon, of the 5th of June, 1862, by which the Provinces of Gia-dinh (Saigon), Dinh-tuong (Mytho), and Bien-hoa and the Island of Poulo Condor, in Lower Cochin, were ceded to France, and to these, on the grounds of intrigues and bad faith on the part of the Annamite Government, Vice-Admiral de la Grandière in June 1867 annexed the three western Provinces of Vinh-long, Chaudoc,\n\nand Hatien.\n\nI have thus as briefly as possible endeavoured to show how Tonquin became annexed to Annam, and Saigon came into possession of the French, and I will now proceed to give a résumé of the events which led to French occupation of Lower Tonquin.\n\nThe principal river in Tonquin, called the Ho-ti-kiang, but better known now as the Hung Keang in Chinese, and the Song Koi, or Red River, in Annamese, has its rise in Thibet, and is navigable from Manhao, the last city in the Chinese Province of Yunnan, and so down to the sea, a distance of 414 miles. Manhao is the entrepôt where goods are shipped to and from Tonquin and Annam, the mart being a more northern city, called Mongtsze, situated also on the banks of Song Koi, or Red\n\n229", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303454, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JANUARY, 1879.\n\nLes bouées rouges et la bouée blanche limitent le chenal dans l'Est, les bouées noires le limitent dans l'Ouest. La bouée la plus Sud est surmontée d'un voyant, elle est mouillée sur la barre extérieure, dans l'Est 7° Nord de la pointe Do-Son, à l'acon d'un petit banc sur lequel il ne reste que 2 mètres 80 d'eau à basse mer d'Equinoxe.\n\nLa bouée blanche est surmontée d'un petit voyant, elle indique le changement de route.\n\nLe 10 Janvier, 1879,\n\nNo. 17.\n\nPour copie certifiée conforme.\n\nHongkong, le 18 Janvier, 1879.\n\nJ. PLICHON,\nLe Consul de France\n\nLe Consul de France à Haiphong\n(Signé): L. TURC.\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st January, 1879.\n\nC. MAY,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n### Government of New Zealand.\n\n## NOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\n[No. 27 of 1878.]\n\nMarine Department, Wellington, 30th October, 1878. The following letter, received from Captain Mies of the brig `Rio Loge`, relative to the position of Rennels and Bellona Islands, is published for general information.\n\nG. GREY.\n\n### RENNELS AND BELLONA ISLANDS, Dunedin, 3rd October, 1878.\n\nSIR-I have the honour to report to you an error in the position of some islands I passed on my passage from Foochow to this port in the brig `Rio Loge`. These islands, named Rennels and Bellona, are marked as \"doubtful\" islands on the latest published charts, and are situated directly in the track between China and Australia. The position assigned to Rennels Island is N.W. point 11° 12' south latitude, and 160° 10' east longitude, whereas the correct position should be for the N.W. point 11° 30' south latitude, and 160° 8' east longitude, making an error of 18' in latitude and 2' in longitude. My observations were taken within two or three miles of the N.W. point, and the error of my chronometer found only the day before at Christoval, so that I can rely upon the position. The S.E. point I place in 11° 51' south and 160° 49' east, approximate. Rennels Island and Bellona bear from each other N.W. by W. and S.E. by E., not more than fifteen miles distant.\n\nI cannot find in any directory a description of Rennels Island, and I believe there is none published, I therefore enclose the following remarks from my own observation:-\n\nRennels Island is about 38 miles long and 8 wide at the N.W., and lies in a N.W. and S.E. direction, is about 600 to 800 feet high, of uniform height throughout, and thickly wooded down to the water's edge. Along the whole N.E. side is a fringing reef about two cables from the shore. The N.W. point is a gradually-sloping point, with a hummock two hundred or three hundred yards from the beach, and has a reef extending about four or five cables from the shore, with a strong tide rippling round the point; the coast trends about three miles to the S.W., and thence to south-eastward. Bellona Island appears to be about the same height as Rennels Island, and also thickly wooded.\n\nTrusting that you will give this publicity for the benefit of shipmasters generally.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nEDWARD MILES,\nMaster `Rio Loge`.\n\n## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JANUARY, 1879.\n\n### Government of India.\n\n## DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.\n\n## NOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\n[No. 27.]\n\nBAY OF BENGAL-GODAVERY DISTRICT-COCANADA. Intended Exhibition of Revolving light at Vakalepudi.\n\nNotice is hereby given that owing to the extension of the mud deposits from the Godavery river and the consequent removal of the anchorage to the northward, the light at present shown on the north side of the entrance to the Cocanada river is of little use, and that on and after the 15th of January 1879 this light will be extinguished, and a new light exhibited at Vakalapudi, which lies 4.0 nautical miles N. by E. ¼ E. from the present light-house.\n\nThe light will be a revolving white light, showing a flash every 20 seconds, elevated 80 feet above high water, and in clear weather should be visible from a distance of 14 miles, in every direction seaward.\n\nThe illuminating apparatus is catadioptric, or by reflectors and lenses of the fourth order. Position: Latitude 17° 0' 40\" N., longitude 82° 16' 30\" E. Further notice will be given when the light is exhibited.\n\n[The bearings are Magnetic, Variation 2° 0' Easterly in 1878.]\n\nBy Direction of the Government of India,\n\nR. C. CARRINGTON, Chief Civil Assistant, for\nA. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.), Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.\n\nMARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 18th December, 1878.\n\nThis Notice affects the following Indian Marine Survey Charts, Coringa or Cocanada bay, No. 113; Narsapur point to Pabayras point, No. 1172; Cape Comorin to Coconada, No. 164; and Admiralty charts of Coringa or Cocanada bay, No. 81; Coromandel Coast, No. 71a; Cape Comorin & Ceanada, No. 828; Cocanada to Bassein, No. 829; Bay of Bengal, western part, No. 70a; Indian Ocean, northern portion, No. 7485; and Indian Marine Survey and Admiralty Light lists for 1878; and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I, page 464.\n\nIf this Notice is received on board ship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.\n\n## POST OFFICE NOTICE.\n\nUnclaimed Correspondence, 17th January, 1879.\n\n| Letters | Papers |\n| --- | --- |\n| Abbey Cowper | Aleppo |\n| Adamson, Ann | Alexandria |\n| Ainsbury, A. | Alarmurs |\n| Ainslie, Mrs. M. | Alice |\n| Ainsworth, Wm. | Alcone |\n| Amicable Ins. Office | Asia |\n| Anderson, Tus. | Latiges, Popota |\n| Beguin, Monsr. J. A | Gracias, A. J. |\n| Botor, Miss A. | Corrientes |\n| Beeshore, Wm. | Les Papesa |\n| Benton, C. J. | Roberts, P. |\n| Broke, J. H. | Stillfried, Baron |\n| Cristoforis, G. de | Worthoy, Capt. |\n| Couper, Capt. | Satent |\n| ... | Southeak |\n| Gundry, H. D. | Spinaway |\n| Goldie, R., Major | For Merchant Ships |\n| Lilly, Mr. | Lets. Papers |\n| Lewis, Miss N. | Columbian, s.s. |\n| Hanner, G. | Cores |\n| Hemptinne, Monsr. | Fusilier |\n| High, Coutom | J. MacDonald |\n| Host, Frank | Fagyi |\n| Coulson, A. C. M. | Tatiura, Pupara |\n| Cunningham, G. | Leta Pres |\n| Cotton, G. | Moneta |\n| Crovat, Philip L. | Strathor |\n| Hi Loy | Southern Cross |\n| Kelly, Mr. | Saxalt Bell |\n| Persse, Capt. | Firth of Feth |\n| Pursan, R. | Jessie Jamieson |\n| Petterson, Carl | Challenge |\n| Palos, Capt. C. | F. Nightingale |\n| Palmer, Mrs. G. | Nyasa |\n| Stanley, Miss A. | S. Bunlie |\n| Stone, W. H. | Channel Queen |\n| Stillfried, Baron | Johore, s.s. |\n| Quong Tung Fri | Northern Star |\n| Valtz, Miss. | Charmer |\n| Vivan, Col. R. L | Caldew |\n| Rouchai | Great Admiral |\n| Thornton, Wm. | Glunte |\n| Triarte, Apolinario | Lady Pencoy |\n| H. B. | Palestine |\n| Flodge, Rev. W. B. | Stanfield |\n| Kwong Tai Cheong | Cosso |\n| Kin Cheng Kaye, Mrs. E. | Oitacilla |\n| Luz, Eilarina dal | Lots |\n| Lea, Robert R. | Carlton, s.s. |\n| Lea Tong | Gismorgan, s.s. |\n| Lumley, John | Partheed Tueseanal |\n| Lanzon, J. W. | Strathbokk |\n| Lums, Mrs. R. | Lori Macaulay |\n| Ledyard, Dr. H. | Albyn's Isle |\n| More, Miss E. J. | Commairwealth, s.s. |\n| Muller, A. | Golden Fleece |\n| Mellomeosta, A. | Prince Amadou |\n| Mudge, Wm. | Strathmore, s.s. |\n| Mobilna, Harry | Alfredo |\n| Musso, Jean B. | Craigarà Cilarnamn |\n| Motsman, W. C. | George Skolfield |\n| Macomber, W. H. L | Leucadia |\n| Moffitt, J. | Prince Louis |\n| Meany, Maj.-Genl. | Lodore |\n| Mercer, Thos. | Pilgrim |\n| Murphy, Bord. | Lanexcust |\n| Mctiwen, Ms. | Brisbane |\n| Morgan, Noah | Hawkesbury |\n| Neo Toing Siew | l'eteral, s.s. |\n| Noo-Chre-Tian | Takstea |\n| O'Soughlin, Mrs. E. | Lucia |\n| Rosendab, P. | Pelba |\n| Rayden, W. M. | Toli Austrian |\n| Ruily, Chas. | Bebar, s.s. |\n| Roberts, W. C. | Dbarwar |\n| Reeves, E. A. | Helen |\n| Reaves, E. A. | Penrith |\n| Rosenstein. T. | Berths Marion & |\n| Sogn, D. J. de | Hopeful |\n| Staith & Co., H. | Beluarry |\n| Smith, Geo. | Ermirás |\n| Volloza, Jelin | Hernet |\n| Wing On Choong | Magdula |\n| White, Wm. E. | P. Fitzpatrick |\n| War Chung | Tamar |\n| Wildash, F. J. C. | Taunton |\n| Whyte, Jno. | Tre Corde |\n| Williams, John | Bertie Below |\n| Walker, Thos. | Eleanor |\n| Wilson, James | Hornt |\n| Daclin, Monsr. | Barian |\n| Dure, Mrs. J. W. | Estroom |\n| Bolmida, G. | Bury, St. Ed. |\n| Bishop, J. | Espiegla |\n| Duggleby, T. W. | Humboldt |\n| Pearton, B. J. | MeNeac |\n| Esteban, G. | Benefactor |\n| Egies | Earl of Devon |\n| Bramitt, Revd. | Harkaway |\n| Fretas, José | Mary Blair |\n| Garcia, Juliana | Mary Smith |\n| Gilkison, W. P. | Mugdaler |\n| Benson, James | Three Brothers |\n| Banks, Geo. | Queen of the West |\n| Clarke, Hugh | The Tweed |\n| Creaton, Jas. | Tyburnia |\n| Colville, D. D. | Black Watch |\n| | Helona |\n| | Muss Glen |\n| | Maritime Union |\n| | Rosie Welt |\n| | Fair Lamar |\n| | Cashmere |\n| | Ferntower, s.s. |\n| | Irigo |\n| | Marcia, s.s. |\n| | Regent |\n| | Win, Manson |\n| | Mary Fraser |\n| | Possbud |\n| | Wate of Nil |\n| | Pabins |\n| | Countess of Erroll |\n| | Frederick |\n| | Jamies Shepherd |\n| | Masonic |\n| | Rifleman |\n| | W. E. Gladstone |\n\n### Government of South Australia.\n\n## NOTICE TO MARINERS. INVESTIGATOR STRAIT ALTHORPE ISLAND.\n\nReferring to Notices issued from this Department on the 27th July, 1877, the 25th January, 1878, and the 6th June, 1878, Mariners are now hereby informed that on and after the 14th day of February, 1879, a Revolving Light of the first order, flashing every fifteen seconds, will be exhibited from a Light Tower, painted white, and 40 feet in height, erected on the large Althorpe Island. The color of the light will be white, except between the bearings, from the Lighthouse, of N. 25° W., and N. 61° W., where a red arc of light will be shown, leading half-a-mile to the eastward of Emmes Reef, and nearly half-a-mile southward of the S.W. Rock.\n\nThe focal plane of the light will be at an elevation of 350 feet above the sea-level. In ordinary weather, the bright portion of the light should be observed from a ship's deck about 25 miles distant, and the red arc of light about 17 miles.\n\nWhen much refraction exists both lights may be seen at a greater distance.\n\nMarine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, 7th November, 1878.\n\nR. H. FERGUSON,\nPresident Marine Board.\n\n## Books, &c., without Covers.\n\nArbetare-Bradet. \nAnsterdstemor. \nChristian. \nDagbladet. \nDaily Telegraph. \nEl Jumparcial. \nLangelands Zidende. \nReynolds's Newspaper. \nL'Union Saveisionar. \nSchreib und Hülfskalender, 1879. \nThe Illustrated Sporting & \nLeisure Hour. \nJounal de Geneve. \nJournal de St. Petersbourg. \nLoofungen und Lehrterte. \nSunderland & Dasham (2 books). \nCounty Herald. \nSaturday Falkirk Herald. \nand Dramatic News. \nUnited Methodist Free Churches Minutes 1878, \nTimes. \nThe Times of India. \nWeekly Scotsman.\n\n## Detained for Postage.\n\nMcLaren, Mrs., Revd. Pro. McLaren, D.D., Toronto, Canada, (4 cents)\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 17th January, 1879.\n\n1 Buck", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308058, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "## For Sale. \n\n**MacEWEN, FKJKEL & CO., H**AVE JUST RECEIVED \"KL AMERICAN MAIL\" \n\n**Prime Esatera CCISE.** \n\n**Young Aansrict CUERE.** **Apple OHEISE** **BUTTER.** \n\nand **MALT.** \n\n**Sarend Ply's FELI** **Split PRAS.** \n\n**Fab' TONGTES** **AJANS.** \n\n**COONISE.** \n\n**Astarted VRGETABLES.** \n\n**arted AEN.** \n\n**Muted BOLFS.** \n\n**Pig Head UHKKSE** **Devilled HAN** \n\n**CAVISKE** **CLOSE** \n\n**Caiturei Colien BTADT** \n\n**Whitters BAMS.** \n\n**Breakfat KAŬON.** \n\n**Mails.** \n\n## NOTICE. \n\n**COMPAGNIE ES MOSAQEKINS MARITIMES.** \n\n## PAGURROTS POSTE FRANÇAIS. \n\nSTRAY FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ MAILIA, FORT Sat, NAPLES, AND · HARSAILLES; \n\nA1204 BOMUAY, MARE, ST. DANIN, ASD FORT LOUI \n\n“AN WEDNESDAY, the 27th October, 1880, as Bo the Company's BINDI, Oedant VERNE, with MALES, PARSUMENRA, SPRUIE JAROO will leave this Part for the Yunes.\n\nfor Cago and Spade wil b reglatarel COMB RONLY lo Frame and sudda as well de for Vintseüles, and a ople trait through salles for Pickle this principal places of Furope.\n\n**Shipping Orders** will be granted anal; Bekiel P10 POEK. Banalem TISK Skin AKLLIES. MACKEN 93. Iron TVHLA, ý là, anh 21 tháng Bordon's Conlused MA (sery treab) Canforais MULIS in Chek and Ta Gunger Cakes. Hak Bistutis, dels BISCITA \n\n**Cargo** will be received on board wat 4 pm, Spice and Puzzle until 3pm on he Bith\" October, 180. (Percale are yoimba sout on beard; they must be left at the Agency's Ullior,) Fontents and value of Packages are re aired, For faxtbox particulars, apply at the Tompany's ch. G. 12 OTAMPRAGE, Agent \n\n**Valor RG00LTS.** **Alpbabe B.80ITS.** **Ogaver BISUVIES.** \n\nLA Fangen, Gerober 11, 1880, Buckness FLOOR, CORNMEAL,. NAILSISAN IYE MRAL BUNNY, Small and Large. V WHEAT. QATMEAL SBELLBACK NUTS, VEOAN NUTS. WALNUTS. SOFT SAL ALMONDS. IE1 GIỜ. Canned Table Fruits. Bartlets FKARS. PRACHES GREENGAGES Tark KRUITS Smcked HEEF MITHU BISHI \n\n## HAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. \n\n**STEAM TO TOKOHAMA VIA KOPK AND INLAND EXA.** \n\n**HOES. S. SUNIVA MART**, Captain: Hanexes, dus bem o or abus the Insurances, \n\n## THE LONDON & STAFFORDSHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, \n\n**SITARRIO GATING ZAR** **STAFFORDSHIRE FILE INSUR ANUS COMPANY, LIMITED.** \n\nChera-Two MLLong HTUMING Blond are prepared to is Pattan Cutoring FIKK WISKO S Current Kutos ADAMSON, KELL & C., Agatis. #20 longbows Augasi 26, 1680k.\n\n## CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMMPANY, UNITED, \n\n**HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG.** \n\nPosition of the Compong at the close of the best financial pour, the 99th Agon), 1860, Cara Bub$1,00,000.00 Carter PaP 500,000.00 Bases For 428 000.00 BALS U 70,278.49 Evirana VanD TO BARY ND PATO TO CONTRIBUTORS MOLDUS........20% per Arzam, OF D. Stats, 23 % va the awak of their Goatribune. Congang grotta Policies on Mause sil para of vite World, par- Contribotury Dividends ara PAYABLE TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS OF BUSI NESS WHETHER TUFY ARE SHARK- BOLDARS OF NOT. 14. GULIJSMITE, Acting Salary. Hongkong, August 13, 1880. abis at map of sis Agencies.\n\n## ANG TSZE INSURANOE¦ ASSOCIATION. \n\n**CAPITAL (Fully Pp...T. 420.000 PAMANENT BESEF 200 Bra Bra T1 209,268** \n\nTocal Cases and 40- CUMULATIOSA, 3 th April, 1890.} ......Tie Ri \n\n**Directors.** \n\nF. B, Yon, Eng, Chairman, 28th Instant, will be espatele se ahore W. M. Eov, WA. METS, SATURDAY, M B Databer, st. F. PRACKYO, F. D. Hara, Esq.\n\n## Daylight APRIJOIS, QUINCES. \n\nEM a regelved on board sod Farely at No Bill of Lading aigued under Brusked OX-TOSQUES, Comprend OX-FOXUCKS. Mire MSAT. Compressed Corned BEFF. Assorted JELLIES in (as Jurs. Mixed PUSLES sted PKLES. Corned REEF. Qua's OLIVES. Clam CHOWDER SARAT Cablores BARDIVES. PEK and BEANS. Earrale Dariela Yeaat POWDER Soka SALMON. POCK in 2001 BEEF la 2. Fratt KCTTER PARCE Balier BANG. Brown BEANS.\n\nWe have the following **FOR SALE**, in Large or Small Quantities la Bulk :-- \n\n**Fine Valantis RAISINS.** \n\n**Mas Parris OURKANTS.** \n\n**Smyrna MIGS.** \n\n**Good Breakfast TEA** at Denis per b F MIXTURE in 5 & 19 Catty Bozer Cases & **BLACK'S HOUSEHOLD STORES.** \n\nPBA Jons Hom & Bone! UCLEBRATED PRISALVES than to 6 9.0. of 29th October. Brett, A Cs man he settled on heard before delivery is tukos, ther wi ɔt be rogized.\n\n## TO AMA \n\nthey RATER F Cabtu. Storage 416 75 STARUBAT HE YOKOBANA... 120 A muŠPANUKAL. Mocars RUSSELL # 09., Secretaries.\n\n## LUDLO BRANCH: \n\n**My BARING BROTHERS & Co.,** E MICHARD BLACKWELL, Esq., Agent, 08 and 09, Corabül \n\nPo pasted on Marine Bisks to sil Subject to a large of 18 tor Intern parts of the 95 30 Anos la wale on Rattus l'any) an Pheriaciders' Lopetal, sill klo PROFITS; \"K A will wd fatsoen for Nogeek will be transkipped to the Shanghai Mail besity at Koda of the Useraitis Resins are no | muafly dretributed among all Coutríðu kora \n\n## CHINA MAIL. \n\n**Insurances.** \n\n## THE ODINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. \n\n**READ OFFICR-SONGKONG.** A GENOTES at all the Treaty Ports Chlan And Japan, and at Hinge Saizes and Penang \n\nJA KENGUILL F Per Pinput for Helkom, CD Chianae ; Paket 11 hom Per Faldin, for Shargħal, 30 Chinose. TO DEPART. Pir Nipt, for Shanghai, 2 Europñana, Bad to biness. Par guns, for Helbow, da, 40 CM- Per Acian, for Hofhow, ke.. 15 Càleum. Pax Mariis, for Mauila, Huropeans, stand 2 Chine Kiska accepted, and Polloker of Insurance granted at the rate of Praia enrent the above mentioned j'oréa CHLAGE PO MLICY VEEN. Ja B COCGGTRIE, Secretary. inna. Naibor 1,111.\n\n## MANOUESTEN PIKE ASSUEANCH COMPANY OF MANCHESTER AND LONDON. \n\n**ESTABLISHED 1824.** \n\n**Capital of the Company £1,000,000%berting** \n\nPhich is paid to Rover For Arava! Incomi CARGO. Per 8. 8. Autrepton, to Loudon sailed 19th Debober-87,990 itu. Cozgoa, 180,542 Ibn Husted Cane, 89.910 the. Saams4 Orange Pekor, m, od 89,991 The Kreen-total 323,443 the Ton; 33 ser $15 Plens Good, 83 balen Waste Pik, and 191 pkg. For New York, 182 pannurlar.\n\n## POST OFFICE NOTICES. \n\n**MAILS** will close:-- \n\n10,000 120,000 2540M \n\n++ Pur BANGHA!..- +2 THE Tulendyned have loan appointed Bongo Canide, Fossbow, Stanghal, 1 square for the stoys Company as and Haney, anál azo propaved Tosuration at autovak rakām, grant IIULLIDAY, WISE & C Konphone, faxolour 15, 1968.\n\n## Not Responsible for Debts. \n\nWo. Nether the Captain, the Agents, nur Owners will be Uespunisie for amy Debt contracted by the Officers\". Dew of the following Vstacle, during tätär slug in lungkung Berben-- BEW, Austra big, Capt. C, 0. Waft.-Aruhaft, Kveborg & Óồ. TATANIA, Briel ship. Capini Powurud---3000, Livingston & Qa SIUMIN B. Antes, Amerimo argus, CW5, edge.Tong Song Wh CASUMERE, Aerivan ship, Captain I: G. Coliatum—Arai-old, Kurborg di fio, FLORENCE NITRALE, E bur, Capt. A. McIntyre Aruhold, Karberg & Co. $1349, French barque, Capisin Buck Captain Hawass, Geman burke tins, Capsu P. Burgwerk-Carlowits & \n\n## MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. \n\n**Shipping.** -Caneland leave for Samelung, -Ning loaves for Shanghai.\n\n## General Memoranda. \n\n**Sunday, October 24** \n\n**Daylight** Sanghag ivares for Portk. B-By Laver for Manila WANDAY, October 27- 5392.- OCTOVER 21, 1880. ton.\" Now, to our mind, this passage Heade one rappres that the fullest r rocity exted on the pats of Chips sowards British and other foreign inau rame to Chinn, wand that Chinese mar! Bave similer passe to hold meetings and tu consider the question, how, i ther own cities nad tuwas, the imesigrating of foreigners may be boat regulated kan \n\n## No. 5832-Octaera 21, 1880. \n\n**CHICKET.** \n\n## THE CHINA MAIL. \n\n45 3 the Xpans of bis virit 19 the Traunvsal. tòem; hat I have never had my dni stafionel in Brugkorg, ja which theater on Seataci will be trailed a carmi words of ptates Brand by ts kind he would speak with some mucharity, I was ouly 80 miles from. Crasu, on doubt, decide the glaim oulia morla | reagent ni tha busiuran dazu to this l'eart a restricted! It has always seemed to re to be the most cun-sided way of putting\" Ware of Captain Mushall's meticme, the gist of which we gare anveral months \n\nI have looked through all the realis fors, have elamined them carefa ly and tan case, to burp upea tes proposition: \n\n**Daylight-Thaler** leave for furt fari, hat the Treaties with Chine should be revised on titiu matter, when the res Cooktown, So. Soon.Tendon for Espace to Bast of able way of settling the question weuid be Carpenterie Sånt, cecaired by Naval be to insist upon de apasa privilegar Stateknoyer. being extended to foreigners in all pa Mail loaves for Yorts of of China as are sixed by Chinese i Call an Berapa \n\n## No \n\n## THURSDAY, 'thor 38:--- \n\n2.30 p.m.diesting of Shareholder Gao Xarranca Odies, at 'ol \n\n## SATERDAY. \n\n**October 30-** \n\n**Daylight** Mia Bishri Mail leaves for Yokolama, 25. 3 p.m.Aut agar nail desven fix Yoke and San Francisco.\n\nSangn countries. There is room enough Far all, if anly then rights to settle al of trade pengeably were reciprocal on sil Vail this rider. consumadon is reached, it in illogical, from a politics, print of view, to deny to the Austra Hans (we do not say to the Californians! the right of mating their power to Portrici. Wa however, stron conviction that the vast plains of Nook-Truthers for Ropal to 34ghtor both Australia and America will ge Riig, ze ived by Farid roskanjer. The irrigated and opened up droi the manual tour of the Chines TORSTAY, November 11 Noon-Auction of Brock-la-Trade, Mo..savvy; and this, as we listed scre time since, will eventually prove the Ahey to the difficulty of Chinese enigte hon, at lenes of the larger and mon Tingartent branab of the movemen \n\n## Feri, \n\nat11.30 am. Tomorrow, Day, Novembne :- \n\ntion is, Pet Ningro, at 3.30 pun. To-morrow, the and Ini. For **NEWCHWANG**, — Per Chamind, at 2.99 .m., on Friday, the 20 thei For **BAROKOK** – MAK of Hotel de Laivers Per jy. wt30 pm, on | **HONGKONG DISPENSARY**, Sharp seems to have nearly succeda \n\n## Saturday, \n\nthe Zani fuat For **SWATW, AMOY, & FOOCHOW.--** Pet Bungling, at, Saborlag. the 3rd it. **** For **HOW, PAKO, ASP HAI-FAMILY & DISPENSING CHEMISTS**, PHONG ve on at 6 pm, on Saturday, the 23ed just, For **YORGAMA KOBE...** in establishing a Girly reputable chas Fracter for the Chinamau o feizer, DEN his coace in this connection are je te wait commendable and just the Heathen Chinne\" can warcaly be ex pecued to assume & very high place \n\n## cities \n\nnati! he le raised by costat omewhat nearer to the Wastorn lava!; he is by un neaus the gravelling. \n\n## THE \n\n**Established A.D. 284.** \n\n## A S. WATSON & Co., \n\n**WHOZBALL AND RETAG FB700043.** \n\nbut i worthless monster depicted by the au \n\n## LOCAL AND GENERAL \n\n**IMPORTERS** \n\nDz Peru M, at 5 pm, on Friday. Pavoury SUNDRIES, NESBRY React-Chinese agitators of the Pacto Slope, \n\nthe ' MAILS N Panch PACKER —– Fas French Doziract Packet Bindi nili bepaalert on WEDNESDAY, the Databer, with Male to aud chrough the Vind Htogdom and Sampo, vid Nuples; to Saigon, Stratte Ballikzada, Rajavis, Barnak, Cryina, Indis ( Muitas, the antralscina Aden, Egypt, Malta, sud WALL Curser, Optain Maas. The anal hours will be observed in closing! mann-Mayer & Co., \n\n## To-day's Advertisements. \n\n**FOR SHANGHAI**, \n\nThe Steamstv \"Nig 31, MAIS DE UMTAY SEASES PACERY, The United States Mai! Pachet (ly of Takto will be despatched on SATUR DAY, the 20th instant, with Sta fapa Sao Francisco, Teled States, Canada, Honda, Peru, o, oh it be disse follo 2.13..-Registry quassa. 22.3.-Pt-Office læer, but Ļelier, < Chatin R. tan, will he a drepstebetet Port, TO-MORROW (FR), the natant, 4 pm. For Fright or Pourage, izple ke HIMMENEN KONG Poukoty, October 21, 1986 of Busines in propation to the Premis |-------- Por barcher Partienjars, apply st the paid by c Company's Ostreza, No. 60, QuSKA'S KOAD CASTAL Hongkong-head c. B. MAIL LINK PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIF COTANY. - THROUGE NAW YORK, sue OVERLAND BAILWAYE, AND TOTOBIEK AN YOKOHAMA, AND ÖAH IBANCINOR, TE. & Mail Stembly CITY OF TOKIO depthed for a Frances SATUR FAT, 30th Jual taking Phuge, and Daltsu Sutca uti HUSSELL & Co., Agente \n\n## THE LONDON ASSURANCE, \n\n**INCORPORATED BY Royal Chastes** \n\noi Ha Majerty Kay Dearge The Firsi, * U. 1720 Fadened having been sepented As for the above Corpseilua san prepared by grant lusurances as follows: Marine Deparment, for spas, the hore, in boudi at the principal Ports Policles at rent rates payable other I ut Through Blood for trous. perasion to Takeda apú other Jus Porte, to sa Fros, o Atlantic and Falezd Cities of the United States via Oper and Rathways to Harps Frintial, and Demeraro, sui to porte in Marles, Central and Soren Aurich by the Chupany's and conscaling Sta #Fing to direct sucial altention is our Though Frage Tickets granted w wel alled Skies of Wines, Spirits, &c. Har Moserotu. Pis. Qis Men's (les) Champion, P& CHARLES RISTOR'S WHITE SEAL, Ficts sad Quzzle. CHATEAU LABOVE (GCMs & Anura), Pia and Qazta CHATEAU LAPITE, Plata IRES GRAVES, Pinta and ours. Quarte BREAKFAST CLAMST, Pista & Qacis. OLD INVALID CLARET. S. JULIEN, &, Burgandy, Hock, Sherries, o Chamberlin, hablhite) Libfuurilub, Backbeiner, Niereiser, Sie beige Cabinet, E al Fisteri Berg, Koni Barg, Casu Yquem, Grand Vin, unt eterne Marsala, sc com's Pale Dry White Sed Shary, Yeller Ses Atilade Culer Falmer und Company's Tulane, kormany by eli, trane-Alentio usa of Stormers. Feight will be revived va hours until 2 , the 2006 Celcher. Pame: Packups wice will 5 p lll be not day; Ji Dr. 4. Pagkages abould be arked to denial of REALE in qal Gouslar Inria to socomapany Overland: Carga bould be wont to the Tinmagany's Uca dualed Favelagen, aldred to the Colicator of Chere at Hau Fran For faziler ip tos as to Patago and rght, apply to the Agency of the Sampang, No. 5, Frays Outra LULL & Co, Agente, Wonton, Cushe 20, 138 \n\n## 3 \n\nof India, China caj Avtolla. Five Ligastent sacceat a discent of 20% allowe Política sredicioner sort periclini Le partient QUBAN STEAMSHIP COMPEY. FOR SUANQUA FSA AM TAIN, HANK W Pots on6 YAZOTEZE.J The Co.'s telp Ashes, Capta Axzas will be dispatched for about the shiul Instwo. For Freight or seage, apply to für Unam Countrice may be posted on board is Pakel with Lab fee of 10, cents ezra Pestage unfl the time of departure.\n\n## SITE, \n\n**OLET Requtsu, ENGLIS AMERIDAY, AN FASKI PATAKY** **DieDANA. MANUFACTURERN** \n\nThe most bierna Man wogy be expected an or about Monday next, the 25thick, by ta M. M. steamer due, which brings Londra dator to the 17th September. de Wa, Lamanale, Taula Water, The next Anessa Mare may be spectra (Aingendo, Palass Water, Sarsaparilia Water, and other dersted Waters, 1 Manfvebury is water divast and¦ conteneva Buropean Yuguralsiona Hongkong. June 5, 1870. or abos: the 10th inst, hy, Pleaser Italgia, which Ivings San Fransiz y dates te ike kd just.\n\n## BUTERY \n\nL. d. Let inge Yun verlund Nuit (Supi, S) has the fal Impere, I am not forbidden to atter my made to any attempt to copy Deligro Sie Thou replied with the happy tant had had plenty of eppretauities to ob that only the west kind of women could santi ad 1 only dusies now tanks.4, \"MAGZE\". \n\n## THE ROYAL ARTICLELY. \n\nJowing sailing of the fast to a port has been which always distguishes to, and those serve the cherweter ac peneral hosted getting away with their The Gurarament it act, it is bad, ask the Colony. I bolten I have worked at berance. Ibu bezusi avvale + grabs to Wednesday. tataested in the Noalety's elfans wün postponed A match was playel to-day ban 27 Kia Faida hay Datibed in beard the tom tomarks souls gold of the Chinees, so that un these points husbands. Fren in Hongkong, which Farlansat for its extes cost of it bad way, and I have put things as H.M.S. Magpie, aus gel Artery Pune Nicholas of steer that send- claimed this year by Sirenelle Weere Pur straight on it le pike for any was bri put! ham huiped fovileg 1 wib heh he clotted is while he might be able to disabuse the few Che bad heir wives wilt thom. When Sie Harle are ha giren expias duet in 7 way, and I da ut so this Kattery and at easy lovey in one postponed in compliance wits the request to 4 bis own to get they had formet s \n\nThe harul demauerndon has been expresion of pro at having Esteeds of porcona of prejudices were only av begining to bring Ben and more, the Gateinment wil, no day know what fe are properly labis in to the more then, after waiting for 40 years to s jantags. Appended are the roores he is prepare to take intellectual treat he bad ayyorloveci sines character of the man to which he had whocher the British were entitled to of the Princ rior al, ha asks for active aid of the bis arrival in Singapore.\n\n## referral \n\n**(Applause).** \n\n**Great Powers** beside rave? demonstration. at a mark of confidence. The dif War shathe Foccolaty of State for The Lecturer, who was seeived with ficades of bringing Chinese woken was away hattle the Cloufus hea spproved of the room applaun, began by juicing out that Sensely forced by Great Yance to cussion of sorg. endations enbaid in the Report the 33 Suph B-fle Allied Fleek have cover. Pulido Coma, had we are intended been induoad to deliver his lecture terfere. Thu fecrarer seen thealt at y that that is sucirely due to the Inske, not out,... ... 62 to be expretive Governments the that application has been rande for two from the fact that no arriving in this ength with the charges of want of the Malay Panimanisio sconect the Bay of nopleut of the Chief Juice, by whom only, Lowris, & Datkin, \n\na deaded Hontenegro for muitary eid, nupoobure and twenty Europees posibles colony he found that here was a strong doetie refinent, and atraktion to the Beugel with the China Sea, the Stross seting with the salive, esa a code of felolda, Paik, 4s this wil, is de balioved, fapt the from here, in order to give the polios popular feeling agus fhose inset laws et health by the thiness, and niss he impost That za hea, alaps (Nik, neaugham, bu voral deconatration. Its stated, Finland fores the dranings of trained odours glooted als duly in tali moniter of the Lukių & TRADE, Daikin,.............. \n\ngrution, sad in form of restricting it. cftheir gang proposities. In thea ............sed Rarsia are disposed to comply, but the Turber, efforts are batzg made to preeuse The maturi progress we had wit coultery be testitud assgewicht faror- Captain Mahallado no attempt to use dread the (luvarnor of haker, Dali, other powers are donario. Poha parte pense foresed in this colney bad errused his able comparison between the linens and give au seifwain of the most of this Canal, the feet; nothing put has been done, la Coeksrell, e Caina, b Stereo Abone of the tale til mare of a spaser which suishment, but nabing bad surprised as lower class of Europese. The par and a thin in about as izgorians ●TROLOR the luster of SE twice will not | Cunningham, e Saga-il, I fino, V. Great Powers have prevented colorivo | hva larterly busu bald to work very mus! So i gore than the great inredigeera stal cleanlizes of the Cries, the \n\n15 Bopt you do not is one of the soules applia. Boultor, 1 Daikin \n\naso, an to the ioration of a casat across $50 to the prevent alata 6 trips. Thouse & Philin, & Stevenson! Potion lo force there to 1 Alu hautrups, Duuming, Daikio, in the calderaton of the project as the do nothing. The mountaioona batom of the untry, anna sigu the papers, A orrditursamyare wae \n\nbreathing as to our chosen, but I eat do nothing. T'as Chief of the Justles alarining roles that would happen her if this anjut mered into so What would become of Singapore with ship escalanide of the Perinta With sorrad away a the thongs to as pspark tiat 135 ought to bund him thom Ity 1 sm nos le clerk. Á mi not his arvadt. 1 decline to do that which is no part of ng luty. I declined to bytu anything to do with that sangreicy or \n\ni Leg bed 1, wide belles, \n\n## MAGYIK.\" \n\n- High constables from Indis, with a view to the Per protining against the Hangkang. drom as follow, however, generally manifested by the working taste of their woman in dressing, and shätzle of Kira Pasha, at Dalrigan The that the arrival of those additions to the \n\nit had been real education to the comforts of the bone helonging to 68 | Salt makes for delay pa wnhdrawal of ¦ E res, it produced, will make our police \n\nor visit these colmier, au to see in de well-to-dɔ, wire many jurticularly pentuar, to which to reply but been given, \n\nIt, Am grant esticulty is ez. stara perfect, \n\nall directions the wonderful traits of the referred ta. In regard to their gambling parlente ha keeping up the camber of intustry and inteligente of its perple babit, be said they had dec \n\n## INDIAN TELEKKING, \n\n**feronson, a Thomas, ↳ Erenslag 9** \n\nsive statku the proper standaa Simple, Saps Ja—its following latter: We understand that the whols fores, He was sorry the more working mar mariod of gambling frers that of Euro- Its glory would deere, and it would be din 1 Salover pa to da via the keep slan, a Dunging, bilgate Abdulla Kan Nasiri ( minister of amounthy to only 100 ostabios divided were cat present that evening a heat pean, but is had yet to tears that they so soother Malach. harbour would glah, but official original dahin, a Staker, b Durning496 Kb.) to the adesso Mahund or reti iz no Jou atation, is \n\nwhat he had to say on the questica, were such veterese gasesters. The bodemarked, is whats godose cipta T the Chick Jestion will pot Rewards, & Dancings Sadis, Chind the Van Onila, siad abvady shout VO slosh, which are star watch was wow being a wavy als working man's obit difficulty with doch wonki talk intodecay, so its fortifie alge the papare unless I haud that bim Shay, Fillingham, \n\n6:13h August, 1880, fell recently into kasi súly reddorn the Keskivens of the forna; elops would he tuntia a wildercoss of las personally. thas a good earn all Eastwood, ut ca. \n\nosed. The importance of the Chinese regard to the Chiese was that their Inɔes of car dipeca Afor some of he slatluse leite w short of manu \n\nquestor coaki be seen from the fact that ; close appétation und protracted breath of Chladen Kende beured perio of their rutas datice, and is use of extrai Bilts had been introduced to desistor, with their courrerent sad ex- el is wel unta, and the Go fatour emergey they soid casting be found with it in these culories and that it had creme any amounting to paretino- ith a car dorizer bar wasting Wear Mufte Dualop in was been the subject of many dehmes in the minanese, and their apparent indifference olished. The sinkodova suy of zeious to lure the Malay element as colonial Legislatures and obawlers. It to the graiñarise of the palate, ren- 3 solar tops and in-bating Chazis à ne na as prcible, but for none was also a question which had very derud competition by their mouse lucs- te et si alte tares, Guiling in use there is uitat disincliently influenced the last Victorian tiuus rivals quis fatpossible. In aer he howel of su Feroute will be cut tion on the part of the Malaga to enter the election. He was aut surprised to find those charges the lecturer alluded to at and they thomas the sorte, and the oequense de, so we han \n\n5 gese. Thare wouldnnig remain Govore i wel: and good I quợc tálok is is a good ( Salatı, Fillingus. We are afruably besied that 15 ia impossible for them to pr.per's \n\nmeni Hese sadiis New Gaol, Let us brewton. sful hace for the mount as of the bad she. I believe may experieus Tucu, Dunning, \n\nAs a Salieri say it in vury Teeth The, ingen, Keninsula; at slevout the Caual will not is as great on that of app oca in Bell, TRS out,........... be untrusted fo our time, sila Cuart, both as a judicial cers and Vincent, en ent as a pencilding banier. Li \n\n## Chief Ju KEGORSZ. \n\nI distal Over of sun City of Luzdys for #ges wide billa 1........ Avioquest was held at the Government or Body fat in z opicion Ciril Boroitals g., day, before the the Chief Justice is dudug what he ought \n\n## 2nd \n\n**Innings.** \n\n**Acting Caremar, G. & Northotiy** \n\n**Pay get to do.** \n\n**Pease 2 Thatters thích cɔn-¦ Stevenson, o locke, b Cuvalaghaw, *** Keisti-Chi'nst and a hand of Pumarogm of mountable, which, agli at the fall Chinese as there now spared to be. were better off then other European in and jury cousisting of Miners H. Love the public more than they concura 10, Cai, Boular, bunningham,....... Otte, die Remia and J. Law, began sterly different other Daikin, b Carning, \n\nou the bud ul Finsters tallat akheep the peston de Asif Governwards, Chatangham, \n\nseamani on the Emma. \n\n## Atwood, \n\no aud Jooze, \n\n## Lovett, \n\nhol us \n\nde of the sarth. You a Hving coated, the dwindling sway of the number gene antipathy towards the the fact that the working man fortunately tea that aisée, but still nothing bat has strength, is very inadequate to the require The Chinese were incongr-beusilla, and regard to the shortness of their bure, he feit that he hur lees of them yow The Chinese, he pointed out, wokal 3 doe hy you as yet, Bowater, for the munia of the pisu \n\n'shku nỷ tim tuligion of Ales Průphol, girá | than he thought he knew soroo 05 years bag leans bests they were exalted Dr Clouth states that about 1 16 po tema, i abenld go \n\nup the duna of bravery, collect the people pratarday be tried a nots requesting his Bisk ans 1 Tblog here. 11870 per Swith, Castreba.................. \n\nand Ghess, and having invested Konut- **BARON OVERBBCK'S CESSION IN** \n\n**ago.** \n\n**But** \n\nin venturing to exproes his frurn the mesas of recreation which to a man blonging to the of the at roatavat eluce I have been bete na \n\n## BORNEO. \n\ndisanat from the popular feeing against Europeus enjoyed; and so far se their |(bils-i ou \"all ridan, caž cat táo bowels di shager Emm who had fallen inby theis na offical in my pedition weald erar Tvara, > Carningliaerery Forlaghes hatir in the place, and \n\nthen les baged he would nes be credited tempersues of hring was cancorned, in (Strain Times) Dk. Fann he arrived his foort te Retail, and fics) has ever been: Hell, fece You yonment wit to be 100, granting a charter for a teria \n\nIt was reluarkent stat in this they were by no Movariérom there fem the freo of the atth. azad, death Laylag been savie, sa subjected to before. If i had not bears the Vict, Oncingla \n\nThe question of the cession and too wab suy interested natives. \n\ninezonary for him to stand forward moans alexciliar wrong. It was not in opsion, by a fracture of a base of the \n\n4 For some will be great in the world. e ott af Barnes is etil under the as their champion. The Chinese, bet ordions caliptication secticid skull. \n\n## Write \n\nzowe of your weliare, and repertsonaiaration of the Fasi Olien \n\nbelieved, were well able to take care of wants thas the national wealth of a pres Food, savoc officer of the Germen \n\n## Salty \n\nwhorer Spe \n\nthemselves, au they had done for the last (aneous people consistesi, but in its prom abooer MAN now in the Logicom Dont, \n\n## Side, \n\n**Nap. 27from Fakar rebed home, but it is said that now urba stated that yesterday morning, he nazt the \n\n## Festerday \n\nto Segi and white at Quetis meat is erer and Lord Cmavills in fear thousand years; and any ertemps dacbo over its expenditure, as main deceased, who was able to work \n\n## boon \n\n4 28, Maplertanks \n\n's brigade w \n\nwith one little insure from the exigencias tilltrain in this colony or eles reply to the diffenity suggested by the is locato 100 bead gear from the pett \n\n## 35th \n\n**Howare** will leave Kandahar ou the legislation and parts landarefip, the where would only recoil on the greur. working me was an expression of A match was played between the shore Pets of Georral Phayre's Listen water will receive his earnest sttention To flustrate this be referred to the wonder that the cultivated Brion should \n\n## Kaniskor, \n\nthe east' remaling in cap to \n\noftets I might hara mim furni into doing something whtob I dare not con- \n\n## plats. \n\n## Calling \n\niba Cabar of the Cart Mr Stockinen, the Registrar then asked him to arcertain from Mr Nouop whether the Judge wing. If the Chief Justier, \n\nof the sebooast. Will a cold chisel a ha sided, does not do his duty, I will do \n\n## USNTRAL SCHOOL \n\n**V. WONGKONG PUBLIC BOVOLT** \n\n4 3mity \n\n## Ear \n\n## Adri \n\nsumer, and directed bina to staze himsait! ziua so far or in me es. My duty is to Clubs on the Byakkoon Bijaket Cab enved into the Cantonment as sny Rose definite decision will be rises data of slayers, und be puinted out fear the competition of the Chine \n\nby a cupe to the boat Dead how attend in Cuart, sed 1 illato di Court, evar appeared to have made note of the bat 1 il nos nitend in handers. tope and must have lost his bediend falou Me Stookhansen left to Icterslew Mr being in favour of the Public School. fato the trek. \n\n## Moshop \n\n## Tun \n\nM. M. sixsome des left Salgul 41 \n\n## Lee \n\nWo Shing, the head cocite spleyad by the Dook Company, board was of the sin lling out that was bad fuilce, \n\n## routs \n\nfor Jongkong this afternusu un d \n\n## Telefuck. \n\nuses string in Hongkong, or day a rolight Masquerade at Ki other persons who may desite to conto son lant aight, se zawounosd, an! + alt the files of local, China, fots Tory Inle water of pleasure rackare d Aumrien, English, Indien or vote sembled in the gardena, disgarand in a at nesapapus, *TH invited to call as racists of fatty matuides and mazka. the \"ORIA MIL\" Of, who formaty za nearly three hundred were pres alaty vowspapere, dailios and weaklive, Ton wasther was all the old be ded from those countrion, ste now filed fat and « very plasmant evening was pacrofi rho who ventured perces the wa \n\n## raferet \n\n## Be \n\n## Correspondence \n\nfor Non-Tinion West IndThe putilation of the tee commmeed Rythicx was quiet and menig, milit \n\n(exout Hay de Pangusy, vinos bo sent by a rate. \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Oct. 21, 1980.** \n\n## THE FERNOH MATTY \n\n8.10 p.m. “ \n\n## 063 \n\n## The Chinz Mail. \n\nThe following hours are observed in closing Muin, de, by the Franch Contract Packe ng before departure, -—- 3 F. Money Urd Office closes Fosi fica ales, exvert the NIGHT HO, but is \n\noper, out of Oles hours. \n\n## BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, \n\n**tray of departure** \n\ndents. tongkang, Qutober 31, ZEN. \n\n## Pont \n\n**Cffice DENT.** \n\n**A.M.-Eagletry of Totters avisa Posing of all priated taller and patterns.** \n\n..feils einwel, except for Late \n\n## Luthers. \n\n11.10 A.Matter pay be posted with \n\n10 \n\n## COBAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, \n\n11 \n\n**FOR YOKOHAMA (DIRECT)** \n\nThe Usa Sisaushi \n\n**Archines.\"** \n\n**Captain C. Jackie** \n\n**Policies** sued for mums not exceeding or ahem the shout \n\n## 110LIDAF, \n\n**W185 & Co.** \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**July 25, 1874.** \n\n## --- \n\n## BOTH BRITISH & MENGANTILN INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n**Incorporated by Royzi Charice a** \n\n**Special Acts of K'arbiament** \n\n**YAMETRIE 1809.** \n\n**CAPITAL £2,000,CA.** \n\n## THIS \n\n**Vadersigned, Asans at Hongkong** \n\nFor the above gazy, sta preparad to graut Poles against F:R, to she extect of £10,000 on way Failding, or en Mercane in the same, at the \n\n## Occidental \n\n& Oriental Stem-i Rates, object to a discount of 20 \n\n## Ship \n\n**Company.** \n\n**TAKING THEGER CARGO AND PASSENGERS OR TBE UNITED STATES AND KUROPE, \n\n## CESTRAL \n\n## WI \n\n**KE** \n\n**lavalid** \n\n**Purt** \n\n**(1845),** \n\n**Hans** \n\n**PEON** \n\n**FACIFIC** \n\n**AND** \n\n**OUKNECTING** \n\n**Brandy, Whisky, Liqueurs, &c.** \n\n1, 2 xel Setar Asapessy's Brandy, Is \n\n## Gratis \n\n**Marque Brandy, Cutter Palmer** \n\n& Co.'s Bay, Reuser fine de \n\nC's Bandy, E 0 4 staraj \n\n## Mended \n\naid Bacerbert V. Icipi \n\n## Whisky. \n\n## Jamieson's \n\n**leish** \n\n**Whisky,** \n\n## Glendes \n\n**Welby** \n\n## RAILBOAD \n\n**OUMIPANTES** \n\n## AND \n\n## ATLANTIC \n\n**STEAMERS.** \n\nper cent \n\n## CILMAN & Con \n\n**Agente, Rozkang, July 6, 1872.** \n\n## LANCASHIRE \n\n**INSURANCE** \n\n## COMPANY, \n\n**(FIRE AND LIFE) - CAPITAL,WU MLA BILING.** \n\n## Press \n\nthe \n\n## Przes \n\nagainst the tak of FIRE on Builtings or au Goods stored thersta or Goods en hard Yesels and on Nolis of \n\n6. BSTAIC wa ho despatch-Female in harbour, at the szual Torne \n\ned fx kan servis Yakhana, and Condition. \n\n## Proposals \n\nfor fe Amurous will be re \n\n## For \n\n**Freight or Passage, apply to** \n\n## BUTTHAFIELD & WIRE, \n\n## KATA \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Ostaher 21, 1990, \n\n## NOTICE \n\n**TO OONSIGNEES, FROM LONDON, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,** \n\n**Samhip** \n\n**Dewartire, Capt. M Macawz, huving arrived from the abere Porta Consiganen of Cazzo are hereby re quested to and in their bills. Lading sa Ani \n\nthe Clervaged for covered their fir \n\nfrem atopgste. Cargo impeding the l \n\nto take immediate delivery \n\nrange of the Susmeril boat as landed \n\nand bored at their risk and expose, ard: \n\n## Pics \n\n**Leimage** will be affected. Optional Carga will be forwarded on to \n\n## Late \n\n**Pec** \n\n**flu** \n\n**cele** \n\n**unsil** \n\n**11.30** \n\n**4.M.-wise** \n\n**the Post Giflon clares** \n\nentitis. \n\n11.40 male Lettera way he posted on board the pecker with Late \n\n## Fe \n\nof 1 cents until Use of depswww. \n\n## Quotations. \n\n## Hoycasa, \n\n**cuber 21.** \n\n**OPIUM,-Now** \n\n**Paina, essb.... 000** \n\n**coal...** \n\n12 \n\n10 \n\n+ \n\n**Old** \n\n**Non** \n\n**Benarus, sal, 872** \n\n**cash,** \n\n**Old** \n\n**New** \n\n**Malwa, oralit, 700** \n\n**Allowance.** \n\n**Taetr...** \n\n**Od** \n\n**Maiwa, aedi, 70** \n\n**Allowance, Isals 1348** \n\n## Bows, \n\n**Wire** \n\n## Exchange. \n\n140 \n\n## Demand, \n\n9192 \n\n## 30 day \n\n**sight** \n\n'4 moushs' sight, \n\n.. \n\n## Credite, \n\n4 \n\n## Documentary, \n\n4 racities' night, 5/2 \n\n## Shanghai \n\n**suvs** \n\n**norios** \n\nto the curary bendla, Wice, given before in. That, the 21st \n\n## demand,..... \n\n*142231 \n\n225 \n\n$23 \n\n## All \n\n**Claimsadmat** \n\nthe Stamer must be 3bang, doan, \n\n## peceneted \n\nto the Gudert helend Tamf, 994 fue****** \n\n## 731 \n\n**Bigow** \n\n**34th** \n\n**Lust, or king will not be recognized** \n\n## 27.HA \n\n**Soverelgus..... 5.93** \n\n**RUSSHT). & Baj** \n\n## Areatz \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**October 21, 1629** \n\n## SHIPPING. \n\n## ARRIVAL. \n\n## Dat. \n\n23, Jems, Datch startez, 3087, \n\n## J. de \n\n**Ridler, Haiphong** \n\n**Cuk** \n\n£, Ri \n\n## Oz, \n\n**R Sturme** \n\n## Col$1, \n\ne. British etesmor, löl, \n\n## bigly \n\n**moms** \n\nor about the St Norminber; 1889, at \n\n3 p.nr., taking Care and Fazawngate for priced, and taemitted to as Directors 4. MaGauber, London Aag. 2, and Sign Japan, the \n\n## ATH \n\n**Qiu, Swaine Rose & Co.'s Old Tom** \n\n## Gin; La \n\n**traute** \n\n## BL \n\n**Indow, Erase** \n\n## Gunagi** \n\n## The \n\n**Gar** \n\n## Pin & \n\n**Gra; Ange** \n\n## sta, Boker's and Orange** \n\n## Bitters, 200, 2, \n\n## BASS \n\n**ALE, buttled by CameroN & SLEM-** \n\nna, Fin and Quarks. \n\n## GUINTOUT, \n\nbottled by &J. \n\n## Piata \n\n**nel** \n\n**Quakta,** \n\n## PILSENER \n\n**BEER,** \n\n## Geilan** \n\n## Fhes \n\n**ALE, bottled by Macki, H. Gu.** \n\n## States, \n\n**Merino, Centre Weis focizica** \n\n## Sp \n\n**Sonth** \n\n**And** \n\n**Katupe.** \n\n## If \n\n**rotira, protection** \n\n## Connection \n\nin me at Yokohama, with Art chin line in will be granted an \n\n## Steam \n\nfrom Shang \n\n## Freight \n\nwill be centred on Board unti 4pm. of the 8 November. PARCAL. PACKARES wit be recited as the Othe sabai & p. 16. same day: al Parcel Packages should be marked to podzemn in fall; vale of same le required.\n\n4. 4 Reproxies iade on BETVER Vio- ! TAGE TIKA. Goslar Involets to scoompany Over- | lena, Mexican, General and South Ameriosu! Cargo, should he met to Company's! ille por O. 18, Gear & Out 21, Nigus, Britis 1000 naingia Cautor. peals or other information, appy to ABRHOLD, SARRERG & Co., Agents, Hongkong & Cantor. Boogkong, Tarary 1, 1887.\n\n## QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n∙HE Undersigned are prepared to grazi DRAIGHT ALL and FORIER, by the add:ced to the Collector of Cis tore, San Francison. For furabus infromation ne to Freight! $15,000 op Buildings, or on Goads seed thersta or Goods on bard Yesels and on Nolis of ALE and PORTER, in Balk, (Bogbeads and lideriins). JP'S STORES and SAIL-MAKING, Hongkong, October 2, 1850, Policies againes Fire to the gatens to or Passage, apply to the scenes herein, at current wal tates, subject to a Gempang, No 37, gea's Road Contra Dasoent of % of the Francia, CHAS H. HASWELL, JE, Agesil iloegkong, Datober 12, 1830. Bey NORTON & Co.. Liget Mongkong, January 1, 1974. Ont. 91, Nože E60 10.9. u. for New York. 21, finger for Haikon, d. 21, fria Fratme Nugasaki, fc. 21, Potentia, for hergiaf OGBARED. Nings for Shanghai. Dungen, for Karnow, do Hetect For Fukor, du gmar, los Menile. Mariteits, for Manila, \n\n## PASSENGERS ARRIVED. \n\n## Per \n\n**Datonshire, from Singapore, Mr** \n\n**Alhere Fumorili, and 39 Dalame.** \n\n## Per \n\n**Jawa, tem Balpbong, 2 Chicaes** \n\n## Sharas** \n\n## Gozzang \n\n**Hank, 66 % phat., Alca.** \n\n## HONGKONG, \n\n**ZHURMAT, COT. I, 1860.** \n\n## numust \n\n**gord** \n\n**omter** \n\n**pravaried.** \n\n**Thoas** \n\n**la** \n\n**wastes** \n\n**Ho** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**dir-oliou** \n\n**are** \n\n**pronis.** \n\n**via** \n\n**upgeetaufty** \n\n**of** \n\n**gathering** \n\n**thescica** \n\n**ether** \n\n**sysin** \n\n**bafate** \n\n**long** \n\n**us:bit** \n\n**the** \n\n## atomyiana. \n\n## I \n\n**will be oberved** \n\n**Ty an extruct re-** \n\n## A \n\n**Menawar** \n\n**bad** \n\n**tota** \n\n**eruit** \n\n**Court** \n\n**produced** \n\n**elsewhere** \n\n**thist** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Greaville** \n\n**yaterday, afute** \n\n**Beglekar, wat no** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**Las been speaking in Adelaide Korat conki bant.** \n\n## The \n\n**inst** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n**rexed** \n\n**question** \n\n**of** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**how** \n\n**know** \n\n**the** \n\n**Supreme** \n\n**Court** \n\n**of** \n\n**this** \n\n**ranigration;** \n\n**and** \n\n**it** \n\n**susy** \n\n**be** \n\n**noted** \n\n**that** \n\n**Colong.** \n\n**A** \n\n**and-hand** \n\n**say, minsk taove an** \n\n**gestan** \n\n**formen** \n\n**to** \n\n**cakes** \n\n**a** \n\n**divan** \n\n**and** \n\n**monspectably** \n\n**bound** \n\n**t** \n\n**terant** \n\n**opinion** \n\n**to** \n\n**that** \n\n**which** \n\n**is** \n\n**crudited;** \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**longkong** \n\n**Government, o julga of the Dibles of jacuzz and wit at least by the afstractive policy lithaetony be picked up in the base of the fac motted hers as to passengers beone to niture brokers any time for scouts, of the Colovies. Sharp's rendness and experience, some bad tie to wake cash to auda From 20 of Nrth thenpretas Court reeks not. The thing may and orignal was expected, invite nadsbe toft to go bears and and se cubes to a feeling of disap pointment at the report of the inoture gain tow, Leinging his Forma presented. It may be the inalt of the with him.\n\n## report, \n\n**though** \n\n**the** \n\n**polete** \n\n**sesta** \n\n**za** \n\n**bej** \n\n## Birly \n\n**given;** \n\n**but** \n\n**in** \n\n**praizotion** \n\n**does** \n\n**ja** \n\n**ravaz** \n\n**accident** \n\n**occurred** \n\n**yesterday** \n\n**at** \n\n**the** \n\n## But \n\n**strike** \n\n**on** \n\n**93** \n\n**worthy** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp's** \n\n**Bowlona** \n\n**Docks** \n\n**to** \n\n**a** \n\n**desman** \n\n**belonging** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n## German \n\n**sciorer** \n\n**Fuse.** \n\n**Thy** \n\n**decored** \n\n**of** \n\n**our** \n\n**ceremusity.** \n\n**The** \n\n**tons** \n\n**which** \n\n## aspeara \n\n**to** \n\n**nave** \n\n**presied** \n\n**the** \n\n**gasa** \n\n**ant** \n\n**to** \n\n**work, in the morning, ro eui heag way must tooderate at fir away the head gear from the bewap it of and the most imprez sa fiendly the coner. He appears to have neglect. hasing was given to the lecturer. noted the pracamiton of conele himself with withstanding the general paiby test is known to axist towards the Chiness as inamigrania Te judge from the title \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**insurers** \n\n**verourke, \"The** \n\n## LLines: \n\n**at** \n\n**Hoann** \n\n**aud** \n\n**Abroad,\"** \n\n**it** \n\n**may** \n\n## Lo \n\n**said** \n\n**that** \n\n**either** \n\n**the** \n\n**leemte** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**Perimet** \n\n**or** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**bending** \n\n**a** \n\n**tapp** \n\n## bleary \n\n**dealt** \n\n**principally** \n\n**with** \n\n## rupe, \n\n**as** \n\n**he** \n\n**was** \n\n**told** \n\n**to** \n\n**do** \n\n**by** \n\n**the** \n\n**med** \n\n## and \n\n**to** \n\n**rub** \n\n**inizie** \n\n**sur** \n\n**full** \n\n## wins \n\n**the** \n\n**Doo, striking his head an being es sevarly Injured that he died to the alunos. Ju gosta held the body at the Gril Uspital tüm after- the auspal position taken up by the mou, of which a report will be found f Chere in the towns; white the larger heider admon, gwelling in a rich of and is oore importants part played by ↑ “accrlottai dasth,” the Chinese in developing a new country, by means of irigation works, milway 16 Mine, a Calcatta Paper making mining, ant plotation series, coed and consent by Onlives, Ad was felt unnoticed. By this omission \n\n## Po \n\n**remark** \n\n**that** \n\n**one** \n\n**happy** \n\n**effect** \n\n**\\*f** \n\n**the** \n\n**\"platform\"** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**lecturer,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**daire** \n\n**in** \n\n**England** \n\n**in,** \n\n**dvahtke,** \n\n**zared** \n\n**good** \n\n**point** \n\n**was** \n\n**meter** \n\n**lustracionalny** \n\n**to** \n\n**Serally** \n\n**in** \n\n**she** \n\n**spirit** \n\n**në** \n\n**kan** \n\n**alted** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Flemish** \n\n**artisans** \n\n**who** \n\n**sectie** \n\n**reistions** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Quereramous** \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**su** \n\n## in \n\n**England** \n\n**and** \n\n**thereby** \n\n**gare** \n\n**un** \n\n**impetus** \n\n## aina \n\n**fun.** \n\n**Boa, of Ct $1,550 per a entes.to manufactores there sub might noterete of the Colonica and thầu sther De- Cada Traders' in. Go, $40 per share, Nards China Ins Co., Ts. 1,675 per dima. Jangsate fue Aso, Fin. 750 per share. Chien Jun. Co., $800 per share, nainn. B.K. Co., por since. China Pire fur. C $50 per share. K. W. Dopis, pre-, miles. Ceanopoliton Uusk, par, nods). H.K.4.8.5 0.24 prov Bhai Sai Nav., Ta. 3 per a, womina). Chin Star. Co., p. 10. St $89 per share.\n\n## have \n\n**been** \n\n**done** \n\n**for** \n\n**century.** \n\n**Even** \n\n**pandonadas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Eritiah** \n\n**Oturm** \n\n## this \n\n**instance,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**would** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**likely** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**the** \n\n**desire** \n\n**affect** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n## TH \n\n**Boston** \n\n**Herald** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**Ikid** \n\n**August** \n\n**andicare,** \n\n**heceura,** \n\n**so** \n\n**fue** \n\n**as** \n\n**the** \n\n**impene** \n\n**lacated** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**steamer** \n\n**Grenfilloch,** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**rement** \n\n**of** \n\n**manareteres** \n\n**is** \n\n**concereste** \n\n**ne,** \n\n**strived** \n\n**at** \n\n**Sandy** \n\n**Hook** \n\n**(strate** \n\n**little** \n\n**need** \n\n**be** \n\n**expiiented** \n\n**from;** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese;** \n\n## while \n\n**the** \n\n**Fish** \n\n**Huguenots** \n\n**became** \n\n**to** \n\n**Sew** \n\n**York** \n\n**harb.ue)** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**6th** \n\n**idcm,** \n\n**Dust** \n\n**desirate** \n\n**citizen,** \n\n**the** \n\n**Aura** \n\n**having** \n\n**mavia** \n\n**the** \n\n**sun** \n\n**from** \n\n**Attey** \n\n**in** \n\n**si** \n\n**lis** \n\n**eutend** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**do** \n\n**not,** \n\n**¦** \n\n**days** \n\n**to** \n\n**hours,** \n\n**tuoluding** \n\n**two** \n\n**úya'** \n\n**down-** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**vounted** \n\n**Free** \n\n**Trade** \n\n**tu** \n\n**la** \n\n**the** \n\n**Sus** \n\n**Canal** \n\n**waiting** \n\n**for** \n\n**mail** \n\n**cigration** \n\n**in** \n\n**\"verything** \n\n**else,** \n\n**and** \n\n**in** \n\n## Ass \n\n**that** \n\n## Don, \n\n**$175** \n\n**porebare, salah.** \n\n**\\|** \n\n**COPAS** \n\n**OF** \n\n**LUANF** \n\n**of** \n\n**those** \n\n**who** \n\n**yet** \n\n**favour** \n\n**Lest** \n\n**year** \n\n**the** \n\n**Stanfalloch's** \n\n**Seip** \n\n**wirin** \n\n1370 per share, selam \n\n## Do, \n\n**Debentur,.. pr.** \n\n## Chirome \n\n**Imperial** \n\n**Loan** \n\n**of** \n\n**1074, nominal** \n\n## De \n\nof 1877 do, \n\n## Temperature. \n\n## so \n\n**ding** \n\n**he** \n\n**must** \n\n**have** \n\n**todlas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**sewn.** \n\n## This \n\n**satin** \n\n**lastent** \n\n**trip** \n\n**cu** \n\n**record.** \n\n## Frotection \n\n12 that part of the wozid, † 61 daya Hot, hearing in mindî die grave error of' the lecture to be found in the abnue of we take the foliowlog from a New York Buy thence of the part which the Chi- (Zaken at Moure Estoquer & Co.'s Ponnien, seem destined to play lo pasing! PE of the Bib Sapteinber \n\n## Gana \n\n**Bund** \n\n## Honokora, \n\n**Oktoby** \n\n**$1.** \n\n## Banners \n\n**M** \n\n12....... 42..... \n\n[to. \n\n## THENOMETRA) \n\n**de** \n\n**Trans** \n\n90148 \n\n50.002 \n\n## મ \n\n1 M... 4.x.... \n\nto (Tez balb) 2 a.m. \n\n## Da. \n\n## Fo \n\n1.X. \n\n09 \n\n2001 \n\n## D. \n\n**faximum** \n\n## He, \n\n**Hatem** \n\n**orur** \n\n**night** \n\n+9 \n\n## Cwing \n\n**to** \n\n**se** \n\n**krangemeni** \n\n**made** \n\n**betwee** \n\n## the \n\n**way** \n\n**for** \n\n**Western** \n\n**civilisation** \n\n**by** \n\n**Postmailer** \n\n**Janes** \n\n**and** \n\n**the** \n\n**mangers** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**opening** \n\n**up** \n\n**new** \n\n**territory** \n\n**the** \n\n**greatest** \n\n**Panife** \n\n**55** \n\n**and** \n\n**Oroldsatsl** \n\n**and** \n\n**Uriental** \n\n**fault** \n\n**we** \n\n**la76** \n\n**to** \n\n**and** \n\n**with** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sanen** \n\n**is** \n\n**Steamship** \n\n**Computes** \n\n**the** \n\n**maft** \n\n**for** \n\n**China,** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**maarer** \n\n**in** \n\n**which** \n\n**he** \n\n**wented** \n\n**the** \n\n**Japan,** \n\n**Azabralia,** \n\n**Sandwich** \n\n**Islands** \n\n**and** \n\n## He \n\n**is** \n\n**the** \n\n**covaízise** \n\n**to** \n\n**which** \n\n**mails** \n\n**are** \n\n**ment** \n\n**by** \n\n**political** \n\n**spet** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**question.** \n\n**reported** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**said, \"If** \n\n**Chiat** \n\n**was** \n\n**the** \n\n**stesters** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**shore-atione?** \n\n**con** \n\n**wing** \n\n**to** \n\n**modify** \n\n**the** \n\n**revisions** \n\n**of** \n\n**hot** \n\n**as** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**de** \n\n**hacra** \n\n**Ister** \n\n**then** \n\n**hereto** \n\n**Fabios, gan 1G BODI ARION Tia Sue Prac treaty with Great Britain suns to prfare, that is on the serenta day pensions side for the regulation of immigrato the advd day of thing mor tics of bar peuple to the color this is of a day's star psich well und wood; but this was te only applies to the wande uiry east of the honest way of grapping with the ques- Bealy Mountahar \n\n## Te \n\n**way** \n\n**Granville** \n\n**Biary, his relative, that diey wers Epium ackers--WA Brew on Wednesday test, the resales faibly of supply. It is reported before long. What has decision will be it injured thaso he had cistine! The next charge against the legalizos \n\nThe Apub's but troops reaching be it very toutafal. Sir Charles Eike's it. Chau the Governor thurs durissed the ropes to the various interpellations ceded in obtaining from the set by the sistement in their closin asis to birdir homes. The Kabul and upon the subject in the Hense of Cos-highest court in England she wolaration this respect was immensely exaggerated, Kobitale went on to Kabel, \n\n## mans \n\n**were** \n\n**on** \n\n**she** \n\n**one** \n\n**hand** \n\n**rather** \n\n**the:** \n\n**the** \n\n**sinro** \n\n**who** \n\n**stepped** \n\n**on** \n\n**firtish** \n\n**and** \n\n**could** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**compered** \n\n**t** \n\n## s \n\n**Sept.** \n\n**28-Culley** \n\n**St, John ranging w the hopes of a charr soil was at that instant free. The day moment with the terrible rise of drink eports nil gains at Randaber. The brigade brug granted, but on the other hand that verdict was pronounced was a good jog alvoholte liquears to excees prevail.\n\nThe Registrar: As to the master of Son following in the soure --- Sai Soon, I have put his petition among \n\n## CENTRAL \n\n**SCHOOL.** \n\n## 14 \n\n**Jamage** \n\n## and \n\n**ho** \n\n**esported** \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**arya** \n\n**teorived.** \n\n**He** \n\n**may** \n\n**stiend** \n\n**C.** \n\n**Water, Bail, As of the proper. Na one sporated to Chambwa it hesthouse; I wilt not. J. Wallace, a Batif, busle,.. Lave en dessed fail, but when the rany, ned i wish it to be unhestund, that Remedium, a Grimbe, b Hull, sies was given, he was an lying hay duty is nou to a land to bar Andur, Dock with a beat under water.\n\nThe Coroner barleg sammet up eviler, a verlot me returnal of vidente: death' \n\n## SUPREME \n\n**COURT** \n\n**Thunday, te L** \n\n## it \n\n**were** \n\n**my** \n\n**day.** \n\n**I** \n\n**would** \n\n**attend, but I de** \n\n## į \n\n**Vinevaly** \n\n## ↳ \n\n**Gl** \n\n**about** \n\n**attend** \n\n**Lecates** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**insalted** \n\n**on** \n\n**Shuster, b Had prey ecadam** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**attended, and I don't dodat, \n\n## Ko, \n\n**tail, b Qiable, \n\n## Very \n\n**MOTI❘** \n\n**kahamas, nat qui, AA** \n\n## Julinone \n\n**to** \n\n**im** \n\n**inanited** \n\n**unless** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**lite** \n\n## protection \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Prom** \n\n**The** \n\n**Sou** \n\n**Susa, bọt I cannot help it, I bolove the only esteguard the pubita bas le the Fren. The Ir has born wi- red here stue I came here is a way 1 Rover Rate it simidindered eltowhere.\n\n## THE \n\n**SUPREMA** \n\n**QOURT** \n\n**SCANDAL** \n\n## Mattors \n\n**are** \n\n**Lake** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chamur** \n\n**in** \n\n**seurat** \n\n## \"The \n\n**Onien** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**And** \n\n**Jan** \n\n**Brotezistam** \n\n**which** \n\n**ought** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**takes** \n\n**in** \n\n**public, i don's sonse to be a party to angling of the** \n\n## This \n\n**after** \n\n**our** \n\n**number** \n\n**of** \n\n**cance** \n\n**which** \n\n**kind.** \n\n**Whether** \n\n**in** \n\n**a** \n\n**bish** \n\n**pon** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**lying** \n\n**beer** \n\n**fines** \n\n**Monday** \n\n**loss** \n\n**a** \n\n**low** \n\n**one, I air shaply goined by one prin b. wura to cause au belare the Chipë Jugle, and that la in to taản khu \n\n## aber \n\n**regend** \n\n**if** \n\n**to** \n\n**lie** \n\n**on** \n\n**i** \n\n**den** \n\n**and** \n\n**t** \n\n**Reglatter** \n\n**wha** \n\n**in** \n\n**Copel;** \n\n**130** \n\n## 15€ \n\n## GK \n\n## lier \n\n**war** \n\n**iis** \n\n**rocant** \n\n**hy** \n\n**in** \n\n**frakt** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**last** \n\n**Gibbon** \n\n**was** \n\n**out** \n\n**for** \n\n**and** \n\n**refund** \n\n**send** \n\n## on \n\n**his** \n\n**Lordship, holding thee the cases Justice was takes in petals is be heard is open our sal decks the of the sojuhotto in traptey bjici su, be said, to a repeti. Buffon which of all things to vaca insults as he and already \n\n## vad \n\n**from** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**Justice.** \n\n## Ton \n\n**talowing** \n\n**vers** \n\n**the** \n\n**cases** \n\n**which** \n\n## the \n\n**bower** \n\n## IN \n\n**BANKEUPYY.** \n\n## rebetsieg \n\n**to** \n\n**public** \n\n**procadings, agamat «** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matters** \n\n**Young** \n\n**Lee** \n\n**Br, bek rapt-Report of Regielsar.** \n\n## A \n\n## Is \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Nuray** \n\n**Kojos, and** \n\n## ara, \n\n**bankrupt,Repost of tagieter** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Ng** \n\n**Akiu,** \n\n## Report \n\n**of** \n\n**Regisher.** \n\n## IN \n\n**PRODATA.** \n\n## 49 \n\n**under** \n\n**tence** \n\n**of** \n\n**pensi** \n\n**servitudo.** \n\n## 1 \n\n## then \n\n**his** \n\n**anything** \n\n**that** \n\n**on** \n\n**glit** \n\n**te** \n\n**be** \n\n**tako** \n\n## is \n\n**public, that is on.** \n\n**It** \n\n**is** \n\n**paleinrig** \n\n## if \n\n**anything** \n\n**is** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**tak** \n\n**ja** \n\n**juhlie,** \n\n## Total...... \n\n## And \n\n**Innings.** \n\n## Wailsco, \n\n**ba',............** \n\n## Walles, \n\n**firituele,** \n\n## audior, \n\n**Ge** \n\n## ter, \n\n**Sat, bdrmale,......** \n\n## fince \n\n**Gambin** \n\n## Bhustez, \n\n**b** \n\n**Gérica** \n\n## &** \n\n## Tatai,** \n\n## HONGKONG \n\n**PUBLIC** \n\n**SEĦOOK.** \n\n## Jat \n\n**fraingt.** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Arther, clean B, Hourd** \n\n## bicu \n\n**shold** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**heard** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chsatare.** \n\n## 6. \n\n**Bilmble, b Remadize.** \n\n## Mr \n\n**Stonkhain** \n\n**now** \n\n**raterned** \n\n**with** \n\n**s** \n\n## mange \n\n**the** \n\n**Em** \n\n**tha, na the Registra:** \n\n## ret \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**Altsed** \n\n**now, the bathes in** \n\n## . \n\n**Lammond, b Scandion, e Rabatant, May, Walles, .................** \n\n## Gribis, \n\n**a-thur, 5 Wa laury.** \n\n## Aitken, \n\n**Remedios, MNRAS,** \n\n## Lamect, \n\n**b** \n\n**Remedies,** \n\n## akraptate \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**bankruptcy** \n\n**would** \n\n**maud** \n\n**over** \n\n**t.** \n\n## 10-morrow \n\n**after** \n\n**zijn** \n\n**vrientual** \n\n**Seseinon.** \n\n## The \n\n**vistrar:** \n\n**So** \n\n**bo** \n\n**it.** \n\n## The \n\n**busloom** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**grads** \n\n**of** \n\n**Bee, denen will be held in pen Court. Yamoto -ITTY AS and Selena of Ad- telstrativ Putits by Chen wong Sang for $68.\n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**gros** \n\n**of** \n\n**R.** \n\n**T.** \n\n**Mogidge, done, ad-LoveBory Art and Sallen of Adelitaiton.**\n\nthe Chief Juation where he can innuit, us with impunity: I san not to my position degraded. I may brook a private insul, but \n\n## Wader, \n\n## B. \n\n**Girable, not on...** \n\n## Batzos, \n\n## from \n\n**Kandabar to Malwandi** \n\n## 12, \n\n**having** \n\n**buried** \n\n**hocles** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**Auld** \n\n## one \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**guiding** \n\n**principles** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**day** \n\n**for** \n\n**the** \n\n**rare, but it was a better carying gst Baropens. In conclusion of the series. it ir July, where larga Gladstone Goverinent, epesly ander the master. The white man's houtthis seturer suranarived the varrens air has been constructed.\"\n\ncoptedly rowed by several of its ad utred more that the bank au's charger againe de Chinese, and gea ukulan Sept And Slate 90150 ending meribere, is hurt to the ex-in, and the oppressor had coua tross general answer to them. He quoted the to hose than to those who he up-remark of our Bericor, \"Ho that is qdous talep at the Maiwand sensus of the ampin's territory Aud desparches tuve a published in the \n\n## Ancite \n\n**of** \n\n**Extra:mery:** \n\n**together** \n\n**ability.** \n\n## Is \n\n**would** \n\n**but, conseture, pressed.** \n\n## Now \n\n**the** \n\n**sune** \n\n**polley** \n\n**which** \n\n**it** \n\n**without** \n\n**is** \n\n**among** \n\n**you.** \n\n**let** \n\n**him** \n\n**cast** \n\n**the** \n\n## od \n\n**to** \n\n**adopt** \n\n**toward** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chiral** \n\n**stone.** \n\n## And \n\n**he** \n\n**tiled, \n\n- od telors relating to the be surprisine (at the ultimate decision was proposed centuries age been at 1 \n\n## CE \n\n2 \n\n## dini \n\n**CÍ** \n\n## s \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**foras** \n\n**na** \n\n**Geral** \n\n**Barrowshould** \n\n**in** \n\n**area** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**waything** \n\n**to** \n\n**pese** \n\n**he** \n\n## thesis \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**project.** \n\n## In \n\n**that** \n\n**esse,** \n\n**the** \n\n**tempted** \n\n**asize** \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemish** \n\n**refugees** \n\n**in** \n\n**rauce** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**fr** \n\n## Flaimed, \n\n**it** \n\n**patuloy** \n\n**te** \n\n**probaialivy** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**taron** \n\n**Orarback** \n\n**will** \n\n**i** \n\n**Gardend.** \n\n## When \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemjsh** \n\n**szunnos** \n\n## Fram, \n\n**and** \n\n**also** \n\n**apply** \n\n**to** \n\n**Germany.** \n\n**and** \n\n**here** \n\n**are** \n\n**tem** \n\n**dached** \n\n**to** \n\n**Leeden, the manufacturer in at the Goumander-in-Chiaf valgzagded ones that he was already dansen, had clust after objected strongly to their col-\n\nthe tõib Walks woo hard. de- \n\n\"For a bat and a' idel \n\nIt's coming yet for a' tak, Talsman the world o'ar \n\nBbal rather be, ir atkal.\" \n\n## Mr \n\n**C.** \n\n**Goode, (president of tua ag** \n\n## bed, \n\n## Kautioned \n\n**float** \n\n**hie** \n\n**vyerates** \n\n**have** \n\n**beon** \n\n**favorably** \n\n**i** \n\n**Jatition** \n\n**in** \n\n**various** \n\n**binnebes** \n\n**of** \n\n**trade.encistion)** \n\n**waved** \n\n**a** \n\n**vote** \n\n**of** \n\n**thanks** \n\n**to** \n\n## resived \n\n**by** \n\n**Prince** \n\n**Bismeerk, who has the London entices zuid riots Sharp for his able antare: He pointed \n\n## diag \n\n**misant** \n\n## Lin \n\n## Ansation \n\n**was** \n\n**entirely** \n\n**a** \n\n**non-political** \n\n**in** \n\n**perling** \n\n**fully.** \n\n**He** \n\n**renas** \n\n**notast** \n\n**bean** \n\n**appointed** \n\n**Minister** \n\n**of** \n\n**f'pre-** \n\n## ; \n\n**agravel** \n\n**tim** \n\n**aliepaj** \n\n**the** \n\n**storekeepers** \n\n**ssid** \n\n**uut** \n\n**tazt** \n\n**the** \n\n**Yotang:** \n\n## Kau'n \n\n**fitriatin** \n\n## A \n\n## and \n\n**who** \n\n**is** \n\n**me** \n\n**on** \n\n**I** \n\n## As \n\n**he** \n\n**thought** \n\n**that** \n\n**gentlemen** \n\n**had** \n\n**done** \n\n**Oberly** \n\n**to** \n\n**attachment** \n\n**of** \n\n**Gurus** \n\n**canmerve** \n\n**and** \n\n**week** \n\n## colonisation. \n\n**The** \n\n**Chancellor** \n\n**has** \n\n**given** \n\n**it** \n\n**never** \n\n**locaine** \n\n**Novechelone** \n\n**the** \n\n**well** \n\n**in** \n\n**coming** \n\n**forward** \n\n**to** \n\n**sypand** \n\n**the** \n\n**figub** \n\n**it** \n\n**got** \n\n**thuali** \n\n**gore** \n\n**rong** \n\n## great \n\n**encouragement** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**formation** \n\n**of** \n\n**emish** \n\n**artians** \n\n**gave** \n\n**no** \n\n**famense** \n\n**ise-other** \n\n**side** \n\n**of** \n\n**a** \n\n**vezet** \n\n**queerzina.\"** \n\n**do** \n\n## \"The \n\n**despaterne** \n\n**by** \n\n## The \n\n**Hou.** \n\n**A.** \n\n**Camphail, recorded the aligus mar ao ar longhi \n\ntheir skill, Jaloe, w intelligence they motion, which was carried with acclama. ad outfity, bat they are the Gorras Truling Company which has pets to mangfecting industry, and by \n\niswas to dreystela to the rain taken over the twainese of the did far more than repay the English: fortira, and the lecturer heietly replied.\n\nThe Hon. W. Sandover moved a voda tmuse of odetoy & Co. in the Beutli Sess The Kamiah. Naes her \"From which recently failed, and the Sumuon the generosity which offers com 16 house wurde, was my's los alios are row bets of Ims Gerwinter in this hour of need. It of thanks to the chairman, who is as \n\n## asian \n\n**was** \n\n**1230** \n\n**ruculara** \n\n**killed** \n\n**su** \n\n\\*cation on scent of distance of note for the wage jargrárda apa sau unt aletgi to eat of \n\na Trila by (7 noia) ( \n\n2; standud, mil tüsi 2,400 wyra sted's STF bitero There could be no bestar or more was indeed to the Flemings that Bag-upisten bad scied nubly under the cls- Biasa Kiled, woonid, or inwin, eligabits statice Er Prince Eiemurch's (land was indested for her present ouveiances in presiding em auch en 20 \n\n## Me \n\n**A.** \n\n**Grainger** \n\n**for** \n\n**add** \n\n**the** \n\n**motion.** \n\n## 300 \n\n**bls** \n\n**f** \n\n**h** \n\n**Dees** \n\n**were** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**pupases** \n\n**than** \n\n**the** \n\n**Nurth-East** \n\n**of** \n\n**Deruen, amidare in the arts and our casion. He though gece would \n\nfale urzt d-9. bow basty Sara Esmased and if finglu: iets slip the up posterity, the pee. Who knew how sour, trouble done by the lecture a helping tha using the night sad whaar toe amber now offered her, there can be no reason Chile, and ber basteliation of to important subject out in way Evermeny stuld not take advan-ljucts became wandereros aui if thes 1) veusded is imp-wide to I FAYRE of it, bosener much wa was rescant? came to South Australia he would ask He end the Inetarer ved done good \n\n## apposed \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**toCA** \n\n**12,000, or a bokat kom of about 1,09%. This** \n\n\\| autoss with what us TODUE-vi by spins who they the Gladstone Gerwungal chocld whether the Britch of this golony would service to tre advocmes of noti-Came \n\n\\| akina in during the rig \n\n## Coucher, \n\n**sapt.** \n\n**18-benumber** \n\n**of** \n\n**alalı** \n\n## Satri \n\n## Sed \n\n**Iminya** \n\n## 17 \n\n**at** \n\n**Waiou** \n\n**the** \n\n**let** \n\n**Sprember** \n\n**is** \n\n**given** \n\n## psore \n\n**sons** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**complaining** \n\n**abi** \n\n## Dat \n\n**zout** \n\n**4,50** \n\n**men, Host** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Indine** \n\n## the \n\n**insults** \n\n**that** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**adiered** \n\n**to** \n\n**ma** \n\n**ky** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chatel** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**are** \n\n**loculis** \n\n**to** \n\n**my** \n\n**heal** \n\n**parison** \n\n**which** \n\n**I** \n\n**wait** \n\n**not** \n\n**bear.** \n\n**I** \n\n**with** \n\n**that!** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Remedios** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Tex** \n\n**Sean, eased to be datedly understood. He many uit Bart, o and b Wallace, Inventory Account aal schama ei admin me privately, the Mul Jaesise or any body G. Ishlo, Wallse \n\nely, and cauli brook it and forget T. Kammer, barul e Wallao strands of Satau Jaze Bostor, lit, Eat so insals in my poetion I am \n\n#Lammert, e Rshunul, b Waits, cad.toty Aescuet bid Serra of bound forarent. The pelte hobi is May, to hat......... Administration, \n\n## emorect \n\n**treat** \n\n**and** \n\n**I** \n\n**will** \n\n**uphold** \n\n**is** \n\n**dignity.** \n\n## W. \n\n**Grimble, rus gi** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Aloe** \n\n**War, dece.** \n\n**They** \n\n**was** \n\n**I** \n\n**am** \n\n**vandielivest** \n\n**in** \n\n**Alken, Homedie,...........** \n\n## -Inventory \n\n**account** \n\n**atid** \n\n**Scheme** \n\n**of** \n\n**ad-** \n\n**that** \n\n**repeat, I am jalons of the uterity** \n\n## Millet, \n\n**to** \n\n**hat............** \n\n## law \n\n**1** \n\n**Lave** \n\n**followed** \n\n**the** \n\n**bourable** \n\n**B.** \n\n**Grimble, tu bai minitentia** \n\n## Extras...antarangays \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goals** \n\n**of** \n\n**Che** \n\n**Buia, Jeccand-lo** \n\n**pr-festog** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**law** \n\n**fe** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**five** \n\n**year** \n\n**Pentury** \n\n**Acconut** \n\n**a** \n\n**Scam** \n\n**of** \n\n**Admicis, amal** \n\n**I** \n\n**ever** \n\n**had** \n\n**an** \n\n**innata** \n\n**quins** \n\n**ine, alther we judge or barrister,** \n\n## Imat \n\n## tration. \n\n## To \n\n**the** \n\n**gouden** \n\n**Fook** \n\n**St.** \n\n**Fong, decaan:** \n\n**d.** \n\n## and \n\n**i** \n\n**mal** \n\n**day** \n\n**i** \n\n**vot** \n\n**cow** \n\n**diepened** \n\n**at** \n\n**5** \n\n**juventory** \n\n**Apus** \n\n**and** \n\n**Sebums** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adare** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**s** \n\n**portion** \n\n**degraded** \n\n**in** \n\n**my** \n\n**purt** \n\n**on** \n\n**my** \n\n**coming** \n\n**to** \n\n**an** \n\n**qutabile** \n\n**plads** \n\n**minterration.** \n\n## the \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Arthur** \n\n**W.** \n\n**Cuan, doke** \n\n**Dongkg.** \n\n**I** \n\n**wish** \n\n**that** \n\n**that** \n\n**may** \n\n**go** \n\n**Beach** \n\n**Petition** \n\n**for** \n\n**grant** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adaciae** \n\n**far** \n\n**th** \n\n**over** \n\n**the** \n\n**engil** \n\n**and** \n\n**breadth** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n## Colony, \n\n**small** \n\n**as** \n\n**it** \n\n**be, if it go no inether.**\n\nThe Rolate then huntied up the pa- theas of Lale To Kang, droseed, are which had bean given him by Br Telition feer grout of Administration.\n\nThe wenge Mr Mcup brought was to \n\n## Stockhausen, \n\n**and** \n\n**reaching** \n\n**as** \n\n**they** \n\n**were** \n\n## be \n\n**so** \n\n**blind.** \n\n## ABHORD. \n\n## recognise \n\n**Seir** \n\n**est** \n\n**responsibility** \n\n**and** \n\n**immigration, as he bai proved all the respect the tradit me at ang road charges he attempted to deal with... thair g? Sectility toware (lengter) doubtless all pre \n\n## ayuu'e \n\n**ar** \n\n**doring** \n\n**and** \n\n**alter** \n\n**thation** \n\n## THE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308059, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 46 \n2. \n## 44 \n### Intimations. \n**THE CHINA VIEW.** \nChowder was claved tho putti! \n### Visitors' Column. \n**THE CHINA MAIL.** \n### Hongkong Rates of Postage. \n(via June 26, 1889) \nLal Parki Yest \n1. Small Parodia to seat by Port because any of the Fest Calle Chips We have instituted sa na experiment or Japan, as well 10 Mac VAITATS COLs, which we trust In the fallowing Statements and Tables boi, papi, Peus Ma widely-express gret at this dis will prove succesfe, and be found use the Ratas are given in sends, sal ww, for anal not excel the falieving doo \n\n1 wat rond 1 fotoop, izuno of Notes nervul. To it will be legsted fruta time Lettere, per half cher, for Book ads, & foot meg, nor web us than is plage is fumuaporation to tre such itsuse of information, fists, Pavere, por tres cuces. \n\nNewspapers o \na over four modes in weight wil be 20 cele per, which wel indude Bilar in objout and style, bob slightly tables and other intelligence is ec \n### Registration \nThe parcele s bully modified in wartado detail. \nsuured likely to prove vaatle to per charged as doubla, teable, ✯e, az i some taxing through the City, and cave map bo, but eveli papers or pacicate or ne say be rout at Book Rats. Two in euoneetion wiza we bave opered | Snappere arust not be folded together as Horn. AND BUSES, norunything whatever beismerted SELECT Damron, applicatos for enrolment sacept koná sice Epplements. \ner of this \n**THE CHINA REVIEW OF Roles and cries on the Far East, ia auded at fu tervals of two mumus, each numbar ou taining about 60 ev \net 60 nav pages, all cated with lible, photos, wonderia, be, bead the papare pubished demand, and the insulation justify, Jaiza Ditter. \nsuberitiva la vixed at $16.50 p \nd \nPrintad \nto which we are now ready to secure, der say, bowser, bo endload, if the wind be paid at Pack Kate. Price Cur rent may be paid either as Navapapam or List of Public Buildings. \npaid per san payable by on-residents Governant House, North of Public in Hinges, half-pearly in naprawne. \nThe patristica indledes papers riginal and selected inpun dia Arts and Seisces, Snogy, Folklore, Deugrupiy, History, Ilustre les Man Anu Cus- ton, Natural \nKeligion, do, C., \n### Gardens \nCits find. Library (8,000 volumes) and \nMuse-Free. \nPublic Gedens, a bontifully picturesque \nretreat and of great interest. \nBuake. \nComp by do not bear Pique annity, aos prone bough \nclosed it day bear this spook! accores. \n27, PADE, OTANING TO Luman, but \nany parzel was ered by danion of the Possier tiesā. \n2. The following went be mated Patcula insasiuni, packed as paciented, or liable to be \nGlass, Teguida, \nazglasite butee Matchca, Ladigo, u 10, Kent, \ndegrees to des Fish, Game, Fruit, Vestby to - Helyi bo \nthe up rectar of an actual or pramazal sorteo fire or injet i trans spousal, ach tha deeds, copied music, e. The obarge on Si \n### No. 5892,- (CTOBER 21, 1880. \n**Merchant Vessels in HongCong Harbour** \nExcburies of cats Arrivals and Departures reported lo-lay, \nTorillaz fading the position of 207 renal in the Harbour, the Anchorage is divided inte sigal Boetius, vammancing at (trend Indai. Vasole neuer the Hongkong shere are marked A, use the Kowing shore k., azri those in the body of the Shipping or midway between each shore to masked c., in conjunction wild the Sguroa denoting the mentions. \n2. From Gas Works to the Novelty Iron Worke \n### Section \nB. From P. and D. Co.'s Office to Peddar's Wharf. \n7. Feur Nare! Yard to the Fiez. \nbox \n### RC 20957. \n1. From Great island to the Gas Worka \n6. From Fadder's Wharf to the Naval Yard \nFrom Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour dater's Dœfice. From Earbuds Master's to the P. and 0. Ou.'s Ģice. \n8. From Pitta East Prist. \n---- \n### Captain. \nStig and Date of \nVoices or ease. \nDestination \nHig. \nArrival \n8. E'stonls will as a general rela be for aided by Ferate Ship not by Coutras Mall Packet. The Port Ofs coserves se umelon, and it clearing devory in caves! tight of electing shopperty for tran tiles tumber of parcela is spel as to retard Esceipsatser correspondens. My responsi \nthan \nfor backs, but, whatever the weight of packet contafting ay parally witte of Chen Jesus, Mungulia, Tibet, the Tue Clock Tower, Queens Road Cen-pap, it will wet be charged fo Easter Anipeg and the \"Her set. \" tral, in be with Pedder's Whis \nThe sender of Rey Recieved generally, we defaike list of abjects General Fost Office, Hoaghong Chung it alt a Row \npon which coexitations we oogmcılalış \n### German Club, Spreme Court, de, invite is ismægurated, \nwww.bor. \nwillia a stone's throw Chinese Ladin. Grigal contributions in French, Get parish, Italian Tor Lagitan Club and hazy, Sbellay St. tugasza, are sourschi Bednars freveramets Offices, the Sacrorerint, &o., \nnear the holic Gorders. \nare as to premat a rohtut \nthat of the most rout \nwere bearing on Chine ccatism, fines \non paying an extra fea of o cente. \nbacopted with regard to any fartel, bet the Region wil see the The limit of weight to Books and Com reial Pages to Foreigu Foes basical any bat a very reale per- 61ba Pallares for web offices are limited tablity of lon to sed must uns exced these \nubevenue: 3 inch by itches by \n### St. Jou's Cathedral (Anglia), \nzun J'orade Gromm sidention is plac paid to ibu Review Roman Catholic Caredral, Welling \nSweet. \ndepartures \nther as \"Nous\" head reinross being \n### Notes and Bepiter \nclamited tegen Church, Higin Street. given, when furnished, so previous Nožni B1. Peter's Neuenburch, West Print or Carles, as are also close queries which St. Joseph's (KC) Char), Ganian though any for Informativas, furolabı, aven Road, Bear Kenney for \nor orphed details reneeming the at-Tapetance Hull, erisly adapted for \nb. It le sirable to make his Questo proper as brist and as mnoh to the possiblə \n| \n### The China Beine \nkm July and August, 1876, is band. Is anys the forty-two anya wary acut into uosipato for the best pap on the advantages of Curiality ter \ndavelopment of Sale All car lesen ed preistes khoi là entenciou to this svorkuly enterprising Revie. It is a sig pagod, bi-menthly, repertory of watch low are sestaining shoot China *IN incture of hiero Ponizy in vaja volumen is sure workh the pries of the žievis, kūr dress China Now, Hongnny-Northern | Ürisian únicate (U.B.) \nber \nanen, Qusar's Load Eust \n301- West B \nພະນ \n### R. E. A. and Chiny Colegraph Co., and \nthe Great Northe Pergraph to,, Marion Hose, Gong's Hand.\" tascais hall, Zedand Street. \n### Victoria Recreation Cank---Bath house! \nsea last-wuse, ke,-Praya, beyond the Gecket Ground, beside the \"City fie!! \nhe Baracke and Narat med Military \n### Store \nparkerenk Je to the wird, and cover a koga area. \n### Stores, Books, &c. \nincles. \n.. means No Registration, \n### Countries of the Pata! \nUnion, The Union may be taken to conspelar Keops, net foreign passione in Ama, Japan, W. Africa, Harpt, Mauritius, all \nN. Amenca, Mexic, aleator, Caři, \nVal' Nas \n4. The public re cantined at tu persaud \nfound the facts with a Period Hurope, d, which dres not exist \nthe Bochung \nbabe Java \nHout countries to which Hongkong wards Carespondenou Laylax juin Gerd Fodic or ng \nbeat to du so, it resory that the Kang-bhi ..... following lost nicely \n...Wooney \n... Rondeli \n### 3 Wantry Amal, 5079 |CM. \n«Oschen ... Brit. \n### Betmarks \nK'leon Dout Fontan lo \n6. Poincisosh Leat \n502 Sept \n### BiB \nskr. 1700 k. \nJaGibb, Livlegatoa de Ca 20e, M. 3. A. Da \n### Apertalian Porta \nJardine, Matteson & Co. \n21 Russel & Co. \n2. \n19 \n18th Hang SIA Dat 1512 Oct \nstr. 137.5.& po Dock Un \n231 Octo \n843 e 140. 31. Co. \n1057 Ooi. 23 Gae. P. Starons à . \ndewchang Holhor, & \n### E-MITTIT \nat daylight \n¡Holbow, An, \nShanghai \nCo-murtos \n¡Tag Prive \nSAM1979 \nAversich \nDiGlavo \nUhy of Tokia. \n8 citurroy Brit. \n6 h Hall. \nBrit. \n### Deronsite.....n an \nF \nHot... \n5 baner \nPolesen.....Chi \n2 bittidor ...Onwlo \nlamer. \nDutch est. \nChola uch \netr. \n### JOEL \n74 Opt. Wildongian Lapralk & Cu \nKumes Porta \nloon Desk \n*Path, dayligas \nne Deck \nMarvelja \n. Maasz \n7 Romedios & Co, \n¡Manila \nPo-day \nJBut \n741 Dot, \n21 Samen & Co. \nthaoghal \nSenhue. \n„ider. \n69 Oct \n14:3bsamaau & Ca \n298 Oct. \n2020, M. 8. N. 06 \nShanghai \nBrit. \n65% O \n2030, R. Bierros & Co. \n933 Out \n18 Koan Fat Hong \nBangkok \n23rd inel \nair. \n48 Mar. \n24 China Traders unorance Co. \nate. 1039 Chut. \n17P. 20. 8. N. Cn. \nki Yokohama \n80 ct \nrides, R. Sisroun de Cu. \nJaustralian Porte \n24th fant \nstr. 388 Oct \nKinging. \n1. No Letter Facket, whether to Young... Brit. \ncan be said! \nFrail, forn, Vesiesals, 21 Argentine registered or \nRepabli, da bilan, with all jewels, precies tee, or a thing ticking Hondure, Bermuda, Disa, Fren, Netherlands, Portuguese peroral ya, is hakka to C4 l'acker \nTrakia, Guiana, ¦ for Postmeni: ABERYS Palicum \nsuŭ Spanish Colonies. \n### Countries or 13 the Union-The chair? \ncountries kod in the Caion are the AP tralasian Greop \n### Postage to Vaior Countries. \nGeneral, by any mouku some \nLuton, \n30 cents per or conis cal \n10 cents. \nZacuta cact \n2 suis par Scu \nation, Post Carda, east-wpens \nBooka, Paikuras and i \nCom Papare, There is no ekarzome restrauted erro. apadne wishin the Petal Taka. \n### J'idge to No Union Countries. \nHawaiian Kingdom \n### Omeral Gutter \nHesier, Tailor, \nSebata orientai tiacural contains the fol- lowing notice of the Chius Fuziotela \nthe title of a puestion, \nly reached as from Boug.-T. N. Discoll, dû and 47, 1ks lately 2 kang, whers has been set on fuck an in Quears Road, by special appeiztruant sen.8 zenperea cartingallon of Sous and to E. Ma Limeriu on China and Japan, the extinction \naf which chefui saxial a year de kwu sgu kak \nand segraded in Europe as well \nEn China Thmpresest publisation, judging, \nby the river now tntire us, la intended to! \n### Cleozomerers, Watches, Jowellery, \nLestor \nBordo Patt \n### Nore. \n+ \ndisps and Chr. FALCONELLO, West Judice (Non Unit, Burias, Queen's itoad Control. \n### Costa Rica, Grenc, Now Graula, Nicaragua, 'ze, Paragliay¶. \nItegistration, Newspape \n### American and Buglich Stores, Books, \nscopy & positian, as tegendu Chitand send speeindly selected Cigars-Mac Deighbouring countricovnat elmila \nto that which has keen fed in Tadis by the \nCatania Niet ut proat dayrus of ut \nEF, FRICKEL & Co. \n### Aerial Newers and cheng Ra-Book \ndi fattura, \nOF \nFue. \n10 \njuline, \nFeride!! \n2. This Regulaties panjabies the condit¦ Sea Gu of Excieraz of dutiable setincs, unless this Sunda quantity one best small na to make the Tiales \nample of no valge. \n### Wolle........ \nê. The firoits of reight alumed are si \n### Budowa -- \nBook and Papem to Britan úton | \n5 s; to the Cortinant, Au, Patton to Britist, Offer, Slox if wit \n### Bailing Vosk \nSbEepkias B \nHajdoná \nVincar.......... jammander \nAgnes Mair's Love ...........Br. \nsh \n458 Bapt. 190. M. 5. N. Co \n851 8epk, \n200. M. & N. Oo \n131ayar U. \n27 Carlowite & Co. \nout intrinsic value; to the Chularity flee Book Servier. ! 14284z. 27! Vezel & Co. \nda, 8 OF. \n3 kidones ..........Port. sh, 602 July Ale H. Safthe Packer Amur, sh \n### Sidemcy \nfor the loss of a legineral Letto Apala \nThomsen alt 3:0.50. fazer umaśžer, bgę, „skátamora......Amer. Contabriacal! \nAmer faulsen Dan. \n### The Post Offint \nta noy legally naposafts | Che Bitte for the wife delity of Regatora cress Camere \nunderco, has benyoforth it elit to prCurs pared to make gooch the acabaria of Dagmar \nwo lost while eng lash Do ina-wners of 319, în vari Kami. --------------- \n### Florum Alghingale \nà adolulɲin .............. Falt bye. Ford \n2 Borgwards.. \nC, Rovided \n1. That lies daly observed at the condivista në Registration requir \n2. has the fat is securely welos \nia Numably by -- \n### Orders \non the United Kingdom, \nUp to 18 ent \nיז \nار \nM54 \n£).......... \n72 \n### Land \nIntercamslal Ordan. \nUp to $5 or A...... \ni \ntor 10....50 \n- of Money Draer Offces in th \nUnited Kingdom may be unsalted ar \nbe exprezed by the der, here all longkong Shangh \nceraspondanes is invclubly deliver m 6.Names must be given in full (except \nLa metre plans of babes. \nwhen there is more than we \n### Boxholders \nwho desire e tu mad Cizen- | \nbe given if the order be rosed (a 26, Dividend Warts, Inexations, Cards, but the anal the Pago el t \n### Lobaques \ndew, all of time acme weight, to address are rose). It can then be paid, Hong, Bangkok, or the Furia of Chirs through Bank, and may afterwards in! and Japan, may sliver them in the Postpally crossed in ang Bank. Office stamped, the postage bring then \n### batch \nmust constat of at least ten \n### Fach \nhas signed it in the proper plans. \n### Buzholders \nmay also woad Vatterordor en be traced in anus \n### HONGKONG, MAULU \nAND CANTON RIVER \n### STEAMERS. \n### Nama \nTONE Captois \nJohaug \n760 Ogatun \nKiu Bhan \n40% \nKia Ki \n61 \nHentai, \nHayiand \nKlong-ping \nB Indu \nPovah \n1500 Carg \n110 \nLatovener \nSir J. Jaejoption! 154 \nSpark \nTong Ting \nWhile Gland \n314 Depre \nLiners \nB \nEw Bok Tong \n1200 \n250 \nM. Marble \n### CHINESE \nQUN-VESSELS \nIN CANTON WATERS, &C \n### Naste \nTrace Aus \nH. r. \n### An-lau \nChuu- \nDalterfold and Swira Cbro-ko \nK., D. & M. B-boat Co. Obing-ou T., C. & M. & string p \nC. M. & & Co. \n### Chau-tong \n5., UM, 6-bout Co.-le \nK. Acheng & Sonz \nE., C. & M. & boat (to \nC. M. 8. 7, Qu \n### Peng-chou-ba! \nQUAD2.06 Shum-i \n20 Benog, A. H. Q. & M. 8.bast Ce. 50-ang \n180 BE \nYOUSO NEIPPING IN PORT, \n### She \nanes places in the mane way. Eu-ok pasment of s additional comedia. Pater \n### In \ncase of low of an order, pesadly for Symphe \nvelopes vcntaining Patterns may be wholis i stopping Pade to the Br \ncloned if the nature of the contents be fast \nw tho like, Sheldraks \nfor Timasto Geriam brig \n### VSN-UPAWASH \nK. Achwong & Su \nKing-kw \nKinogahow \nLin-yen \nTalag \nChioge \nBritish \nFroueb \n| 2829898398889 \n### Commander \nJ. Godsli \nSlewati \nA. Walker \nChirrem Admini \nA. Gercenta \nChae A' Ho \nO. 1 Falaser \nPing Tre \nJ. H. Wade \nJ. B. Marry \nChing \nErd \n### MUNONANT \nHALLĀKU PANİKES \n### Blue \nJacket \nProcura \nForward Flo Fodvig \nKir \nMary \nMattie Macleay \nPaul Jooen \nSin of the North \nD. Maria de Molna \nGarooding Motate Nanacacy \nAroedown l \nfor Mauila \nBritish hargne \nSauce brig Brilled bacque Hele bu Brabr Slam \nbrig \nfor New York \na kerge Jock \njarital brig Bettiah barte \nSuanish cncratite Runboat 1. M. correcta \nV. A surefte \nHustlar marty \nM. axrette \nPranol frigate \n### patals, \nger Day, \npats, yer Lead, \n900 \n### MERⱭJANI \nSTRANKSA, \n-- \n### ival, \npor Day, \nfed \nplums, par Law, \nand Base Cage of 100 \n1. \n### Oct. \n9, 1880, HERCHANI STAMBULA. \n### Bankow \nBellish \n*Addits \nBrisb \nBrown Brothers \nAlso Can \ntor Shanghal \nClfaca \nCart Ludvig \ncle, per Day, \n### Class \nCarge Rosa - \n7.71 \n### Sost \nof ou \n1.60 \n| charged to the sender's servant. \n7.--No order can be paad till the Payon Nation \nfor Bongbong \nKiang-plan \nChiness \nP \nKrilish \n### MENBOLANT \nVALMINU VRANDON. \nLy \nGarsau sobeiner \nKung Wo \nburttioh \n1,34 \nMavico \nArvaria \nEritish \n50 \nProlong \nguaboat \nBloch \nfor Laden, da \n### SHIPPING \nIN SHANGHAI HARBOUR, \nBritish \nPell \nTaks \nReikish \nBЯKish \nCutrone \nOkin-tong \nBettioh \nfor Jcndum, ?ro, \nTeb-ata \nDatoare \n! Teritora Mari \nup.maste \nVidoratio \n### WALLING \nYARALA. \nFute mhiru Glamis Castle Gleneagles \nAdranus \nSkozesu bary EG \nNayanth \nBilish \nAzbasador \nFeghous \nfor London, a. \nBenjamin Aymar \nThemales \nVigilant \nH. M. de vossel \nChinese \n- \n### Bog \nOns \nor Pulizway BORIA, HON \n+7 \n6. 10 \nled or stated to the Postmaster \nshould \nbe may cowokery, and Order Ofice for instruction. \n$1.00 approved by him. Prated Cleoutar may be inserted in anob Fattom Packer. \n&- the order be nat presented within \nsix months an additoral commission will \nhe charged if not within twelve months, \n### Past \nThe public in retailed that, the money will be forfeited. When the \nNothing in Shin Sonlosteronta private sycəm\" \" share la se auch thing a Pamel Post order in oues paid no ipreter sinim cars buiomed \n\" \n### STREET \nDONE. \n### Sale \nof Hire for stint Ocalier. \n19 \n### DUG \nDay.......0$ 0, \n### One \nout,NATES \nKit \nthe boys bale in Fact pricala \nto Auro de Math rombie and dis entertaina \nprinterent sta danand by pazeistent attoripis i Hoarder dan be paid until she advice Fei Yuen \nto soud amali valuabin for through the relation to it has been eautyed. \n### Fancy \nWork, and similar preunia are con \n### Pat \nFast Carion Artiolar of Drew, \nfinaly wing refuse, the sandam having \noften spent more in Portage us \navo veil the traight by seamer. \n• Made out ou s printed fora which is zroglind¦ Bue-Jun \ncowbio. \n### Harding \nNot Local Oudere un Shanghat are draws at 2 put \nrefond can be unde an auch parcels of the vale of Stamps abliterated before tho nors of the coutente was discovered. \ni dor \n- nice to pile, d \nla cate for Arening z the tested Ning- \n### Ani \nin er et hanghai. \n### On \n14, 1880. \n**MEJUKANT ETRAMNER** \n### American \nVazion \n#Slut Left park oz andved at HauzkoHR \n### Printed \nand prebilahed by Gao, Muanat Baig, at the China Mail Olian, Na 2, Wyndham First, Hangkeng. \n### Excentive \nCouncil \n### Present \nFriday, \n122nd October, 18 \n1880. \n### this \nExcellency. Governor Sir John Pope theverry : 2CM tj. The Honorable Is Acting bestowish hentary Dr Sudrick Stewart: The Honourable The Attorney General Edward Houghton Ornellay \n### The \nHonourable Johor Macrails. Bios. \ntheent. \n### His \nExcellency Major General. Emraison-Courseranding Troops. \n### The \nCouncil meets this \n### Summons. \n### The \nMinutes \nSeptember \nday \nat 5 Rite. by special \n### Council \nheld + \nthe 18th \nELL \nare read and confirmed). \n### The \nfollowing letter from major General Bousoon!", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311407, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "page_number": 428, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "# Narrative on the Prosperity of Hong Kong\n\nThe narrative shows what is called land speculation; on the contrary, it shows that the commercial wants of the Colony have been increasing, that the necessity of providing more godowns has been felt by the merchants, and that our manufactures are increasing. You will notice, and I am happy to notice, that not only has there been an increase of enterprise and prosperity on the part of the foreign community, but also on the part of the Chinese.\n\nSome time ago, I observed, in referring to the progress of India, that the Secretary of State for India, Lord Hartington, looked forward to the time when certain public works in India would be undertaken by private enterprise. When you consider what is done by the Survey Department in this Colony, you cannot but notice how small the amount really is which we lay out in public works as compared with what may be done by private enterprise and capital when the Colony is really prosperous.\n\nSir Hercules Robinson entertained the scheme of forming a Praya Wall at Kowloon and wharves running from it out into deep water so that steamers and ships could go alongside. The expense was considerable. The scheme was contemplated by the Government, but it was felt the time had not come for the Government to undertake it. Now it is being undertaken, not by the Government, but by private enterprise, and I am sure you will agree with me that nothing can be more healthy, as a sign of our prosperity, than that works of this kind should be undertaken, not by the Survey Department but by private enterprise.\n\nThe Government could hardly afford to lay out a million dollars on a work of that kind. Of course, the sugar refinery to which I have referred is one that belongs to the domain of private enterprise. But it is manifest that whatever you may say with respect to the prosperity of the Colony as shown by the revenue returns, by the general commercial activity of the Colony, by the fortunate position of the Colony with regard to the diminution of crime and the greater comfort and ease of everyone as regards the protection of life and property - whatever indications of prosperity may be seen, it is also one that deserves congratulation that, in the history of Hong Kong, there never was a time when there was more enterprise among all classes of the community, Europeans as well as Chinese.\n\nAnd there is one class of enterprise, an intellectual enterprise, to which I have great pleasure in referring. I myself have the honour of belonging to the Inns of Court in London. I passed an examination in Lincoln's Inn. Some of my learned friends who are present know that at those examinations there are young men from Oxford and Cambridge, London University, and King's College, and the great competition is for the studentships or scholarships given at Lincoln's Inn. Last year, a young man born under the British flag in this Colony succeeded at that examination in defeating his competitors from Oxford and Cambridge, from London University, and from the Scotch and Irish Universities, and in three of the subjects of examination, he obtained first place. That is Mr. Ho Kai, a gentleman born in this Colony. I think it is a matter we may all congratulate ourselves upon, and that young gentleman, who has been called to the bar, will arrive, I think, this month in the Colony, and I am sure you will all join with me in welcoming him.\n\nMy attention has been called by the Chinese inhabitants of the Colony to one or two things in which they are especially interested, and I have had under my consideration a scheme they have put before me by which wealthy Chinese in this Colony might have an opportunity afforded them of putting aside a certain portion of the money they make, investing it in such a way as to benefit their descendants and also to benefit the Colony. I may briefly say it is a system of forming a species of trust property which may be administered by a certain number of the Chinese community, perhaps those who under one of our Ordinances conduct the affairs of the Tung Wah Hospital, and to that body of Chinese will be given from time to time considerable sums by wealthy Chinese which will be invested by them, a certain portion, say seven-tenths, to be appropriated so as to benefit the descendants of the donors by giving them education, and in other ways, the remaining three-tenths to be devoted to the public interests of the Colony in general.\n\nA scheme of that kind, carefully elaborated, has been recommended to me by what I am justified in describing as the Chinese community of the Colony. They have put it before me. I am disposed to give it the most favourable consideration, and I mention it now with satisfaction because it is a further indication of the real progress of Hong Kong. As long as these gentlemen, who, as you know, now represent the wealthiest ratepayers in the community, as long as they desire to establish themselves and their descendants in the Colony for ever, so long we have a guarantee for loyalty and good order.\n\nOn the whole, gentlemen, in opening the Legislative session for 1882, I think we can all look forward, without anxiety, not only to the present year, but to the continued prosperity of the Colony.\n\n## Legislative Session Proceedings\n\nHon. F. B. Johnson - Will your Excellency inform me if I shall now be in order?\n\nHis EXCELLENCY - No. We must adhere to the Order Book.\n\n### Opium Ordinance\n\nHis EXCELLENCY moved the first reading of \"An Ordinance to Amend the Opium Ordinance No. 2 of 1858.\" He explained that it was introduced by direction of the Secretary of State, its object being the protection of prepared opium in transitu through the Colony.\n\n### Vehicles Ordinance\n\nHis EXCELLENCY moved the first reading of \"An Ordinance to amend the Vehicles Ordinance, No. 6 of 1863.\"\n\n### Naturalization\n\nHis EXCELLENCY moved the first reading of Bills for the naturalization of Lai Shun Ting, Chan Teng Cho, Ng Li Hung, Yau Chong Peng, and Chan Man Wing.\n\nThe ACTING COLONIAL TREASURER said he trusted that before these Ordinances were passed, schedules would be attached describing who the gentlemen were to whom they referred. In other cases, it had been merely the naturalization of a name. In Dr. Eitel's case, they knew who was intended from the preamble, but with regard to the other bills which had been passed, he had in his employ some gentlemen who might claim them, as their names corresponded with the naturalization Ordinances, and there was nothing to show who was naturalized.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY said he thought the suggestion a good one.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the form adopted with reference to the Ordinance was one adopted in another Colony where it had been in force for years, one of the few Colonies in which it was necessary to proceed by legislation in cases of individual naturalization, and it was a form which, as His Excellency was aware, had received the assent of Her Majesty's Government, and although there might be a schedule, he did not think it would be at all proper to attach such a schedule.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY said that although it might not be necessary to attach such a schedule, he thought the information asked for might be given.\n\nThe ACTING COLONIAL TREASURER said the description might be given in the preamble.\n\nHon. Ng Choy said the age should certainly be given.\n\nThe Bills were read a first time.\n\n### Tramway Bill\n\nThe ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE, Chairman of the Special Committee on the Tramway Bill, presented the report of the Committee.\n\nHon. E. R. Belilios - There is a small matter which requires consideration. It has occurred to me, and I should fail in my duty if I omitted to mention it. I stated it at our Committee meetings, but was directed by my honourable friend the Chairman to bring it forward at this assembly. We are all aware that hitherto, whenever it has been found necessary to improve thoroughfares, the level of the roads has been raised at the discretion of the Surveyor-General. At the examination of this officer at a meeting of the Tramways Bill Committee, it was elicited that in certain cases when roads happened to have been higher than the pavement of houses on either side, and when it was so desired by the owners, the compounds of such houses were raised equally with the new roads, but the Surveyor-General told us that no compensation was demanded and none was granted. I say it is fortunate for the taxpayers that no such questions have been raised as yet, because in the case of houses so affected, claims...\n\nPage 427", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "## \nmagnitude can be observed without difficulty. A delicate level and a filar micrometer constitute the zenith-telescope attachment. The level is affixed to one side of the tube, with its length at right angles to the horizontal axis, and revolves on a centre, its indications serving to give a measure of any small change of inclination of the telescope consequent on reversal. The value in arc of one division of this level, as determined at the Washington Naval Observatory, is 1.067. The micrometer-screw carries three parallel threads perpendicular to the ruled lines of the transit reticule, the middle one of the three being that which is commonly used for measuring differences of zenith-distance. The value in arc of one revolution of the screw, as ascertained from numerous careful observations at the Washington Observatory, is 68.\"698; and, as the graduated screw-head is divided into 100 parts, each of which can be read to tenths by estimation, it affords a measure of .069 of a second of arc. The whole number of turns is read off on a comb at the side of the field of view, and these, for convenience, are numbered consecutively from left to right as viewed, the central tooth being Number 20. Parallactic motion is given to the eye-piece by a long-pitched screw, so that stars can be accurately observed either on the north or the south of the middle of the field.\n\nObserving-hut—For shelter, I had a roomy and well-designed portable wooden observatory, with the requisite openings, which was given to me by Lieutenant-Commander GREEN.\n\nThe instrument-pier is of Canton blue bricks set in Portland cement, and rests on a shallow footing of brickwork, but not isolated below the ground-level, though it has no contact with any part of the hut. This was found to answer very well, no unsteadiness having been perceptible during ordinary movements in the hut.\n\n## Zenith-telescope method of determining the Latitude\nIn determining the latitude or declination of the zenith by the zenith-telescope method, the general procedure is as follows. Pairs of stars are chosen for observation, such that their meridianal zenith-distances shall be nearly equal, but on opposite sides, north and south, of the zenith, and that they shall pass the meridian within a few minutes of one another. There is no fixed limit to the zenith-distance suitable for this method, but it is desirable not to pass much beyond 25°, and in this determination I have limited myself to within 20°, while the mean for all the pairs observed is just 8°. For difference of zenith-distance of any pair of stars the usual limit is 20' of arc, in order that the stars may not be too near the edge of the field, and also that the resulting latitude may not be too largely affected by any error in the adopted value of the micrometer-screw. I have practically conformed to this limit on the present occasion, having in the case of two pairs only passed a little beyond it. The difference of Right Ascension should be not less than one minute, in order to allow time for reading and reversal, and it should not exceed twenty minutes, on account of the risk of instrumental changes in the interval, resulting from changes of temperature. About sixteen minutes is the greatest interval for any pair used in this determination.\n\n## Method of observation\nFor observing, the instrument, having been previously adjusted carefully to the meridian, and its cross-axis levelled, is clamped at the mean of the zenith-distances of the two stars, and then directed at the proper time to the star which will pass the meridian first of the pair, the bubble of the telescope-level being brought to the middle of its run by the screw for that purpose. This star is bisected with the micrometer thread at or near the moment of its passage over the middle transit thread, the time being noted and, immediately afterwards, the level and micrometer-screw readings. The instrument (telescope and level remaining clamped) is then reversed, and it will evidently now be inclined to the zenith at the same angle as before, but on the opposite side of it, so that the second star will at the proper time appear in the field. This star is bisected at or near its transit, and the chronometer, level and micrometer read as before. The above constitutes one complete observation for latitude.\n\n## Advantages and disadvantages of the method\nThe chief advantages of this beautiful method over all others are—that it substitutes for measurements of large arcs small micrometric measurements of difference only of zenith-distance; that the time needs not be accurately known, an error of two or three seconds being of no moment; that possible errors arising from incorrect estimates of refraction are reduced to a minimum, inasmuch as the only term involving refraction which affects the result is the difference of refraction for stars at small and nearly equal zenith-distances; and that the effects of errors of flexure are similarly minimised. Its \"weak point,\" at the present day, is the scarcity, for any station, of stars fulfilling the necessary conditions whose declinations have been determined with high precision. The stars available are mostly of small magnitudes, a circumstance which, though favourable to accurate bisection, presents the drawback that, as compared with the Clock and other Standard stars, they are seldom observed at the fixed observatories, except under special arrangements for this particular purpose.\n\n## Selection of Stars, and Computation of Mean Places\nIt follows that, when possible, stars from the best catalogues only should be chosen; and, keeping this in view, I have limited myself to using none but stars that have been observed at the Royal Observatory, and whose places are given in the Greenwich Nine-Year Catalogue for 1872. In that catalogue, the Mean Places of the stars are given for the epoch 1872, January 1. Those places have been reduced to the epoch 1882, January 1, by the formula,\n\nMean R.A., 1882, January 1 = A + (p + q + $\\frac{n}{2}$n + c)\n\nwhere A is the star's Mean Right Ascension for 1872, January 1, p its Annual Precession in Right Ascension, q the variation of p in 100 years, $\\gamma$ the star's Annual Proper Motion in Right Ascension, n the number of years elapsed, and c the small correction from the Table at page 5 of the Introduction to the Catalogue.\n\nIn this case, n = 10, and the formula becomes,\n\nMean R.A., 1882, January 1 = A + 10(p + q) + ...\n\nSimilarly, I have computed the Mean North Polar Distances by the formula,\n\nMean N.P.D., 1882, January 1 = D + 10(p' + q') + ...\n\nwhere ... is the small correction from the Table at page 27 of the Introduction to the Catalogue.\n\nForty-eight stars, formed into 28 pairs, were used in the determination, each pair having been observed from one to five times. The average is two times for each pair, making 56 determinations, on eleven nights in January and February. Of these it has only been necessary to reject two as imperfect. The following Table exhibits, for each star, in Column I its name as taken from the Greenwich Nine-Year Catalogue for 1872; in Column II its number in that Catalogue; in Column III its number in the British Association Catalogue; in Column IV its Mean Right Ascension for 1882, January 1, computed as above; and in Column VI its computed Mean North Polar Distance for the same date. Columns V and VII show the number of observations at Greenwich, of Right Ascension and North Polar Distance respectively, in the Nine-Year period 1868 to 1876, which were combined to form the Mean Places given in the Catalogue for 1872, January 1.\n\n### TABLE I. COMPUTED MEAN PLACES OF STARS FOR 1882, JANUARY 1.\n\n| Star's Name | Number in Greenwich Nine-Year Catalogue | Number in B. A. C. | Mean R. A., 1882, January 1 | No. of Obs. of R. A. | Mean N. P. D., 1882, January 1 | No. of Obs. of N. P. D. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 53 Andromeda | 164 | 500 | 1 33 37.187 | 5 | 50 1 16.47 | 10 |\n| Piazzi I. 142 | | | | | | |\n| 106 Piscium | 137 | 510 | 1 34 36.340 | 5 | 47 58 43.94 | 5 |\n| 111 Piscium | 160 | 618 | 1 35 17.410 | 10 | 85 6 36.40 | 4 |\n| 57 Andromeda | 170 | 674 | 1 47 28.777 | 5 | 87 23 44.50 | 5 |\n| 24 Arietis | 190 | 628 | 1 56 39.541 | 28 | 48 14 13.86 | 27 |\n| 15 Trianguli | 216 | 745 | 2 18 29.505 | 7 | 70 55 28.58 | 6 |\n| 40 Arietis | 230 | 786 | 2 28 37.272 | 5 | 55 40 41.01 | 3 |\n| 41 Arietis | 258 | 867 | 2 41 55.189 | 7 | 72 13 31.10 | 3 |\n| 45 Arietis | 261 | 872 | 2 43 2.338 | 8 | 73 13 37.28 | 14 |\n| 38 Persei | 268 | 901 | 2 49 10.732 | 8 | 50 50.83 | 8 |\n| 52 Tauri | 297 | 960 | 3 7.102 | 2 | 73 38.09 | 14 |\n| 58 Arietis | 311 | 1045 | 3 8 15.057 | 6 | 69 40 50.04 | 3 |\n| 63 Arietis | 313 | 1052 | 3 17 20.433 | 4 | 73 42.30 | 11 |\n| f Tauri | 325 | 1087 | 3 24 21.540 | 2 | 67 7.70 | 10 |\n| | 340 | 1138 | 3 36 5.159 | 5 | 58 5 12.10 | 14 |\n| 398 | 1326 | | 4 13 6.000 | | 60 55 58.43 | 3 |\n| 61 Tauri | 403 | 1340 | 4 16 7.792 | 7 | 72 44 7.85 | 7 |\n| 75 Tauri | 418 | 1377 | 4 21 41.875 | 7 | 73 54 19.55 | 5 |\n| Bradley 819 | 420 | 1391 | 4 23 48.471 | 5 | 74 3 50.87 | 5 |\n| Piazzi IV. 111 | 427 | 1408 | 4 27 15.083 | 4 | 61 17 13.94 | 4 |\n| | 429 | 1430 | 4 29 8.995 | 10 | 73 43 45.22 | 9 |\n| | 433 | 1482 | 4 31 24.271 | 2 | 74 12 10.47 | 2 |\n| 92 Tauri | 439 | 1437 | 4 32 31.606 | 2 | 74 19 1.70 | 2 |\n| Piazzi IV. 148 | 440 | 1444 | 4 33 56.656 | 6 | 61 36 54.37 | 6 |\n| 11 Aurigae | 482 | 1602 | 5 1 21.264 | 5 | 51 39 24.90 | 17 |\n| | 507 | 1687 | 5 18 48.100 | 8 | 83 45 31.82 | |\n| 110 Tauri | 519 | 1726 | 5 25 17.702 | 7 | 71 29 42.01 | |\n| 125 Tauri | 534 | 1778 | 5 32 25.422 | 6 | 64 10 13.96 | |\n| 1832 Tauri | 551 | 1837 | 5 41 46.444 | 6 | 65 28 24.69 | |\n| 54 Orionis | 562 | 1870 | 5 47 29.721 | 6 | 69 44 59.25 | |\n| 58 Orionis | 566 | 1883 | 5 48 46.976 | 8 | 82 36 58.51 | |\n| 37 Aurigae | 571 | 1960 | 6 0 14.402 | 5 | 59 47 50.85 | 9 |\n| 67 Orionis | 587 | 1958 | 6 0 50.079 | 2 | 75 23 7.22 | 3 |\n| 70 Orionis | 594 | 1990 | 6 5 14.020 | 1 | 75 45 58.55 | 3 |\n| 44 Aurigae | 601 | 2001 | 6 7 51.473 | 4 | 48 26 61.53 | 9 |\n| 48 Aurigae | 620 | 2082 | 6 20 58.950 | 5 | 53 18.65 | 9 |\n| 49 Aurigae | 635 | 2138 | 6 37 46.158 | 5 | 59 26 4.99 | 9 |\n| 24 Geminorum | 645 | 2163 | 6 40 53.625 | 7 | 73 30 4.99 | 34 |\n| 54 Geminorum | 706 | 2398 | 7 11 18.701 | 7 | 73 14 53.45 | 9 |\n| 60 Geminorum | 724 | 2442 | 7 18 23.804 | 6 | 61 58 7.68 | 4 |\n| $\\mu$ Geminorum | | 2469 | 7 22 28.822 | | 61 50 31.02 | 4 |\n| 68 Geminorum | 737 | 2486 | 7 30 52.852 | 7 | 58 55 15.25 | 9 |\n| 78 Geminorum | 760 | 2550 | 7 38 5.616 | 11 | 61 41 24.62 | 10 |\n| 89 Geminorum | 774 | 2617 | 7 40 16.483 | 6 | 62 55 48.61 | 9 |\n| 3 Cancri | 782 | 2659 | 7 64 1.598 | 7 | 79 0 10.12 | 5 |\n| 9 Cancri | 790 | 2700 | 7 59 18.628 | | 67 1 54.54 | + |\n| 10 Cancri | 792 | 2714 | 8 0 49.111 | 6 | 68 4 36.36 | 11 |\n| 87 Tauri | | | | | 60 27 36.25 | 8.75 |\n| 80 Tauri | | | | | | |\n| 24 Orionis | | | | | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311627, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "# Computation of Apparent Places\nIn computing the Apparent Places of the several stars for the several dates of observation, I have used the formula, \nCorrection to Mean R.A. (in seconds of time) = Ee + Ff + Gg + Hh + L + l-300 + qt \nwhere e, f, g, h, l are the constants for each star, given in the Nine-Year Catalogue; E, F, G, H, L the \"Airy's Day Numbers,\" given for each day in the Nautical Almanac; g the star's Annual Proper Motion in Right Ascension; and t the elapsed fraction of the year corresponding with the given date. The small correction for Daily Aberration has been neglected, as a very precise knowledge of time being, as already stated, unnecessary.\n\nSimilarly, for Apparent North Polar Distance, \nCorrection to Mean N.P.D. (in seconds of arc) = Ee' + Ff + Gg' + Hh' + L + l'-300 + q't\n\nThe Apparent Places thus found are those for Greenwich Mean Midnight of the several dates. The results, reduced to the several times of observation, are shown in **Table II**, further on, which exhibits the computations for latitude.\n\n## Routine of Observations\nThe instrument was erected on the 8th of January, and adjusted to the meridian the same evening. Observations for latitude were taken on the nights of January 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 21, 23, and February 7. Clock and circumpolar stars were also observed on those nights, and the levelling of the cross-axis was carefully attended to. The times were taken with the Mean Solar Chronometer, `ARNOLD and DENT, No. 1,207`, kindly lent to me by Commodore CUMING, R.N., from H.M.S. Victor Emanuel. It has run pretty steadily. The use of a mean solar timekeeper for stellar observations introduces a great deal of unwelcome labour and complication into the reductions, but I had no alternative, as a chronometer rated to sidereal time could not be obtained.\n\nThe steadiness of the transit-instrument during frequent use and reversal is shown by the small change of the azimuth errors, which varied only from 6\".39 W. (horizontal value) on the 9th January to 67\".95 E. on the 7th February, the azimuth screws not having been touched after the first adjustment to the meridian; and it would appear from the observations that this change is mainly due to a slow progressive movement of the pier. Such steadiness of a portable instrument on a new and imperfectly isolated pier, extending over a period of 29 days, is very satisfactory.\n\n## Investigation for the Latitude\nFor the latitude reductions, the investigation is as follows :- \nLet Z and Z' be the true meridianal zenith-distances of the south and north stars respectively, d and d' their North declinations, and L the latitude of the place; then, \nL = 1/2 (d + d') + 1/2 (Z - Z')...........................................(1)\n\nNow, let z, z' be the (supposed) observed zenith-distances of the south and north stars; n, s the readings of the north and south ends of the level for the south star, and n', s' those for the north star; v the value of one division of the level, in seconds of arc; r the correction for refraction for the south star, and r' that for the north star. And let it be assumed that the horizontal position of the level is that which corresponds to the condition, correction for level == 0.\n\nThen, if (as in this case) the graduation of the level proceeds continuously from one extremity towards the object end of the telescope, the central division being 40.00, and if p, p' be the reductions to the meridian in cases where the stars have been observed before or after the meridian passage, and f, f' the corrections for flexure for either star, it follows that \nL = 1/2 (d + d') + 1/2 (m' - m)M + 1/4 {(n'-n) + (s'-s)}v + 1/2 (r-r') + 1/2 (p'-p) + 1/2 (f-f')..............(4)\n\nThis is the final expression for the latitude. As already mentioned, M = 68\".698, and v = 1.067. The correction to the meridian (p or p') may be computed by the equation, \np = 2 sin i cos L cos d / sin 1\" sin Z \nwhere i is the star's hour angle from the meridian, east or west; but it has not been necessary to use it in this case, all of the stars having been observed on the meridian, or so nearly so as not to necessitate any correction on that account. The correction for flexure, being only that which is due to the difference of the zenith distances of the two stars, is also inappreciably small, and has been neglected.\n\nThe correction for refraction, though small, is appreciable, and has been applied. It is found by the equation, \n(r-r') = {57\".7 sin (z-z') sec z} \nor, by (3), \n1/2 (r-r') = (57\".7 sin (m'-m)M sec L)\n\n## Tabulation of Results\nThe observations, reductions and results will be found embodied in the following **Table**, wherein \n| Column | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| I | date of observation |\n| II | star's name, as in Table I |\n| III | its B.A.C. number |\n| IV | its magnitude, from the Greenwich Nine-Year Catalogue for 1872 |\n| V | its position, North or South of the zenith |\n| VI | the position of the instrument, Circle East or Circle West |\n| VII | the star's Apparent Right Ascension at transit over the meridian of the place |\n| VIII, IX | the chronometer times of bisection and culmination, to the nearest second |\n| X | the interval, in chronometer time, between bisection and culmination |\n| XI | the approximate error of the chronometer for each date |\n| XII | the micrometer readings, m, m', for the two stars of each pair, in revolutions and parts |\n| XIII | the quantity (m'-m) |\n| XIV, XV | the readings of the north and south ends of the level, for both stars of each pair |\n| XVI | half the difference of the level indications for the two stars, or the quantity {(n'-n) + (s'-s)} |\n| XVII | the star's Apparent Declination at transit over the meridian |\n| XVIII | half the sum of the declinations for each pair |\n| XIX, XX, XXI | the corrections for micrometer, level and refraction, computed as already explained [see equations (4) and (5)] |\n| XXII | the resulting value of the latitude from each pair |\n\nZ = z - 1/2 (n + s - 80)v + r - p + f \nwhence, \nZ' = z' - 1/2 (n' + s' - 80)v + r' - p' + f' \nand \n1/2 (Z - Z') = 1/2 (z - z') + 1/4 {(n'-n) + (s'-s)}v + 1/2 (r'-r) + 1/2 (p'-p) + 1/2 (f-f')................(2)\n\nIn the case of the zenith-telescope, z, z' are not measured directly, but only their difference, z-z', by means of the micrometer. To find the expression for this in terms of the micrometer; let o the zenith distance corresponding to the central position of the micrometer thread; m, m' the micrometer readings for the south and north stars, in revolutions of the micrometer screw; and M the value, in seconds of arc, of one revolution of the screw. Then, for that position of the instrument in which increase of micrometer readings corresponds with decrease of zenith distance, it is plain that \nz = o - mM \nz' = o - m'M \n(z - z') = (m' - m)M................(3) \n\nIn practice, to avoid confusion of signs, this position was always adhered to. It corresponds with the precept to observe stars North of the zenith with Circle East, and those South of the zenith with Circle West.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "# Legislative Council, 8th February, 1882\n\n## The Hongkong Telegraph\n\n### HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1882.\n\n#### THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon. There were present ---- \n\n* His EXCELLENCY the **GOVERNOR**.\n* Hon. F. SNOWDEN, Acting Chief Justice.\n* Hon. M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n* Hon. E. L. O'MALLEY, Attorney-General.\n* Hon. W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Treasurer.\n* Hon. P. RYRIE.\n* Hon. NG CHOY.\n* Hon. F. BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n* Hon. E. R. BELILJOS.\n\n#### MINUTES.\n\nThe minutes of the last meeting were read and, after a verbal alteration had been made, were confirmed.\n\n#### THE TRAMWAYS BILL.\n\nThe Council now went into Committee on the Tramways Bill.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE requested leave to retire, which was granted.\n\nOn clause 4, the **COLONIAL SECRETARY** moved that instead of the word \"double\" the word \"single\" be substituted. He said the opinion of the Surveyor-General was deserving of great attention, and he had already stated his opinion that with the proposed width of the cars it would be dangerous to allow a double line in any part of Queen's-road, and from his own observation, and he had been along Queen's-road several times since the Bill was considered in Select Committee, he did not think there was any part of the road that would be safe if two lines were allowed. If improvements hereafter took place in certain parts of it and the road was widened, the Government might see their way to allow a double line to be formed, but at present he would move as an amendment that as a tentative measure there should be a single line right through, but a proviso might be put in at the end of the Ordinance that at any time, if the Governor in Council thought fit, at any part of the road where it could be done with safety, a double line might be laid. He thought that for the first few months the Company might very well go on without a double line. If they found it was a project that commanded the public confidence and was likely to become popular, people would be inclined to put up with a little inconvenience for a great good.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said he would remind the hon. member that this question was very thoroughly considered by the Select Committee, who reported in favour of a double line, and in clause 4 there was a provision that if the working of a double line was found dangerous it should be lawful for the Governor to order one of the lines to be discontinued. It was not compulsory on the Company to make a double line, and having full knowledge that the Governor in Council might order them to abandon expensive works, they would satisfy themselves before undertaking them that there was no danger, and as the Select Committee had reported in favour of a double line, he thought the Council might pass it.\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL TREASURER** said the proviso added to clause 4 was arrived at in order to smooth over matters for the time being. It was by no manner of means the unanimous opinion of the Select Committee that a double line should be allowed. Since then, he had carefully observed the traffic of the road and he was certainly of opinion that in Queen's-road Central it would be unwise to authorise a double line. The width of an ordinary dog cart was from 5ft. 6in. to 6ft. He found the gutters generally took up about 2ft. 6in. on each side of the road, and that the amount of space left by a double line of tramway would be so narrow that it would be almost impossible, even if the lines were to be so close together that the cars almost touched in passing, for a carriage to stand on the side of the road without being an obstruction to a tramway car. It had been assumed that Queen's-road had a general width of 31ft., whereas opposite the Cricket Ground it was only 27ft. 3in., and opposite the Star Hotel it was only a few inches wider. There was only one portion of the whole section referred to in Tramway No. 2 where a double line was feasible, and that was possibly from Murray Barracks to Ice House-lane, and there only because there were houses only on one side of the road. Where there were houses on both sides, it would be impossible for chairs to stop before the shops, and he observed that in England there was considerable opposition to a Tramway Bill by shopkeepers, owing to the loss of custom that would be entailed by the tramway line being so close to their shops as there would be no possibility of vehicles setting down passengers.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said he thought it would be almost impossible to meet the arguments of the hon. gentleman opposite in the absence of the plans and the engineers who were responsible for the drawing of the plans, but his recollection of what took place in Select Committee was that those who were examined stated that people at home had become almost unanimous that a double line had advantages over a single line. He was not aware until that moment of the opposition to be offered by the hon. member opposite, and as he was under the impression the opinion of the Committee had been unanimously arrived at, he was not in a position to question the facts the member had brought forward and therefore he must leave the matter in the hands of the Committee, depending solely on the result of the vote of the majority of the Council.\n\nThe **ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE**, as Chairman of the Select Committee, said he thought there could be no doubt any tramway in these streets would be a most serious inconvenience, but the only question he looked at was whether the amount of accommodation given to the public would not exceed the inconvenience which people who had to use the road in another way would be subject to. When they came to the conclusion that a double line could be recommended safely, it was, he thought, on these grounds, that the street would hardly at any time be occupied by two carriages except when they were passing, and that consequently, although the street would be occupied by the two lines, yet passengers, if they saw a tram car coming down one line, could get on the other and make use of the street just as well as if there was a single line only. It was thought that if there was a single line only, there would be so many points of stoppage, and the cars would have to stop so many minutes, that the inconvenience would be almost as great as if they had sanctioned a double line. With regard to the point alluded to by his hon. friend, Captain Deane, that a double line of tramways would prevent a carriage stopping opposite the shops, he agreed with him that such a thing would be almost impossible, and the only thing for the carriage to do, it seemed to him, was to move on to the other line when there was a tram car approaching. The effect of the evidence on his mind was that there was very little additional danger or inconvenience entailed by having a double line of rails instead of a single one, but anything Captain Deane said, after having studied the subject, would have considerable weight with him.\n\nThe Hon. M. S. TONNOCHY said it appeared to him that it would be so much easier to put down one line first, and then add another one afterwards, than to put down a double line at first, and then have to take one up afterwards. Another objection he had to commencing with a double line was that he thought it best to try the single line first for this reason—that whatever improvements were made in tram rails, they were sure to be more or less an inconvenience to carriages, especially to jinrickshas. He was surprised, when on one occasion he was in San Francisco, to see the splendid and spirited-looking horses which were standing at the side of the road, on the sidewalk, as it was called, which stood there without moving off with nothing to keep them there but a fastening attached to some weight which stood upon the ground. When he saw these spirited horses there, he expected to find that there were many accidents caused, but during the time he was there, there were only two accidents, which were caused by the locking of the wheels of carriages in the tram rails. Therefore, having in view the inconvenience... \n\nPage 390", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317005, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31st JULY, 1880.\n\nNo doubt, the repeated representations I ventured to address to Lord CARNARVON in 1877 against \"the Conditional Pardon and Deportation system, were mainly based on the clear evidence I had obtained that, however well intended or admirable in theory, it was a bad system, inconsistent with prison discipline, and that instead of checking crime it fostered and enlarged a criminal class on our Kowloong frontier and even within the Colony: but I was not insensible either to the sound general principles His Lordship had laid down on this subject in addressing the Governor of New South Wales in October 1874 in certain despatches, copies of which had been transmitted to my predecessor in 1875, and in which the Secretary of State had said :-----\n\nThe effect upon neighbouring Colonies, the Empire generally, or foreign countries, of letting loose a highly criminal or dangerous felon to reside in any part of the world except only that principally concerned to take charge of him, was a step which might clearly and not unreasonably give rise to complaints from without the Colony.\n\nTo release a criminal upon the condition that he should inflict himself either upon other Colonies and foreign countries or upon this country, was altogether in opposition to the theory now generally adopted.\n\nI am happy to say that, as the Chief Justice points out in his Report, Chinese criminals can be effectually dealt with in Hongkong without having recourse to this dangerous expedient.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) J. POPE HENNESSY.\n\n## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31st JULY, 1880.\n\nin these cases it turned out that if a prisoner expressed a wish to go to Sydney, Brisbane, or any other port of Australia, the practice, Mr. DEANE said, was for the Police to see that man on board the emigrant steamer or ship, and, having seen him safely on board, to make sure, as far as they could, that he left the Colony. I think one witness-not Mr. DEANE, but one of the Inspectors-told the Committee he had seen thirty or forty, at all events a considerable number of the deported criminals, on board one ship.\n\nThe Chief Justice.-What date was this ?\n\nHis Excellency.-This used to go on regularly up to two and a half years ago, when I put a stop to the practice. I recently called for a report from Mr. DEANE upon this subject, and he says-(His Excellency read the report of the Captain Superintendent of Police, to the effect that if a deportee desired to leave for any place to which a steamer ran, he was seen on board by a Constable, who remained until his departure; if he desired to go to any native village to which a passage boat plied, the same course was pursued; if he wished to go to Kowloon City, he was escorted to the boundary and there released). The Committee of which my honourable friend (Mr. RYRI) was a member, not only took the evidence of Mr. DEANE and one of the Inspectors, but in their report they touched upon the subject, and, if I remember rightly, disapproved of the encouragement of the Emigration of Chinese criminals to Australia. However, I have not allowed that, and not one deportee has gone to Australia since my arrival in this Colony.\n\n## Extract from the “Daily Press\" of 24th November, 1879.\n\n### LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Hongkong.\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held on 22nd November, 1879. There were present:-----\n\nHis Excellency the Governor, J. POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G. Honourable Sir JOHN SMALE, Chief Justice.\nHonourable W. H. Marsh, Colonial Secretary.\nHonourable J. RUSSELL, Acting Attorney General,\nHonourable M. S. Tonxoguy, Acting Colonial Treasurer.\nHonourable P. Ryrie.\nHonourable W. KESWICK,\n\nOn the Chinese Emigration Ordinance Amendment Bill, His Excellency the Governor said :--- Now, there was another proposed emigration about which I refused to issue my license, and that was the emigration of skilled artizans to Sydney and other parts of Australia, which Messrs. STEVENS & Co. put before me. Some members of my Executive Council appeared to think favourably of this scheme, and we had a good deal of discussion on the subject, but I adhered to the opinion which, on looking at the papers, I had originally formed that I should not relax in any way the rules of this Colony with respect to contract emigration with the object of facilitating the traffic which Messrs. STEVENS & Co. had in view. The idea of sending to Sydney or other parts of Australia a number of skilled Chinese artizans from Hongkong, would, it was pointed out to me, benefit considerably those Chinese who should be so taken, but I had to look to other considerations. I had to consider how far it was desirable for the Governor of this Colony to do anything in the way of relaxing the strict letter of the law so as to facilitate the emigration into Australia of Chinese workmen or labourers, at the very time when it seemed to me that the Governments of Australia were more or less embarrassed by this very question. Accordingly I refused to issue my license, and it happened that six or eight months after some trouble did occur at Sydney with the very steam-ship Company in question, owing to the fact that though I did not give my license in the form they had sought, yet some Chinese were conveyed in another way not in violation of our Ordinances, and the fact of these people arriving in Sydney led to disturbance and caused the local Government no small trouble.\n\nThere was another form of emigration to Sydney, Queensland, and other parts of Australia, against which I set my face in this Colony the moment I saw its possibility, or knew that it had overtaken place. That comes under the category more indeed of another subject recently discussed at this Council,--the deportation of criminals, than under that of emigration properly so called, and it is referred to by Mr. DEANE in his evidence before the Committee on Police and Crime. Mr. DEANE tells the Committee that some of the deportees or criminals who received conditional pardons were sent to Australia. The practice was: in the event of an emigrant ship being about to sail, these Chinese criminals were asked where they would like to go to, because neither the conditional pardon nor the deportation warrant of the Governor recited the place to which the criminal was to be deported; it simply stated in the one case the man was willing to leave the Colony and not to return for life, and in the other case he was ordered to leave and not return for five years, as the case might be.\n\n## POST OFFICE NOTICE.\n\n### Unclaimed Correspondence, 30th July, 1880.\n\n| Name | Letters | Registered Letters | Papers |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Adshood, E. | 1 | | |\n| Ashik, Autlerson, R. J. | 1 | | |\n| Aching, Miss | | 1 | |\n| Angin | 1 | | |\n| Athaide, D. R. | 1 | | |\n| Atter | 1 | | |\n| Atail, Andres | 1 | | |\n| Baird, Thos. | 1 | | |\n| Bates, Chs. P. | 1 | | |\n| Boswell, C. C. E | 1 | | |\n| Brookes, W. T. | 1 | | |\n| Burrows, Mrs. J. L | 1 | | |\n| Beady, I. A | 1 | | |\n| Bryant, C. J. | 1 | | |\n| Banneries. C. J. | 5 | | |\n| Baker, 0. | 1 | | |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| Carvalho, Jong | 7 | | |\n| Cauza, P. B. | 1 | | |\n| Costa, Esmenia | 1 | | |\n| Cohen, S. | 1 | | |\n| Constable | 1 | | |\n| Coulson, Capt. A. | 1 | | |\n| Danlop & Co. | 1 | | |\n| Davenport. C. A. | 1 | | |\n| Dewar, Jane | 1 | 1 | |\n| Deboin, Bille, 0. | 1 | | |\n| Friuler, A. W. | 1 | | |\n| Frederic & Co. | 1 | | |\n| Fab, 1. | 1 | | |\n| Fleming, J. G. | 1 | | |\n| Kwong Wing Hil | | 1 | |\n| Kavanagh, M. | 1 | | |\n| Gilmour, Alan | 1 | | |\n| Giờ, Trieu | 1 | | |\n| Goo War | 1 | | |\n| Gregg, Dr. | 1 | | |\n| Comes, J. E. X. | 1 | | |\n| Hartley, John | 2 | | |\n| Hang Long | 1 | | |\n| Harwood, J. W. | 1 | | |\n| Heist, C. | 1 | 1 | |\n| Harrison, Cus. | 1 | 1 | |\n| Hang long | 1 | | |\n| Jackson, Q. P. | 1 | | |\n| Jones, Joka | 1 | | |\n| Inz, F. M. da | 1 | | |\n| Få Sangg & Co. | 1 | | |\n| Lamberti | 1 | | |\n| Lum Gay | 1 | | |\n| Mitchell, W. | 1 | | |\n| Meibert, Chris. | 1 | | |\n| Muller, Capt. | 1 | | |\n| Machame, David L | 1 | | |\n| Shau Wan Chung | 1 | 1 | |\n| Smith, Farrary | 1 | | |\n| Sague, Monsr. le | 1 | | |\n| Stugall, John | 1 | 1 | |\n| Scott, W. S. | 1 | | |\n| Souza, S. D. | 1 | | |\n| Song Wing Shing | 1 | | |\n| Shew Ken | 1 | | |\n| San A-keng | 1 | | |\n| Ung Sang Lang | 1 | 1 | |\n| Vetch, Chs. | 1 | | |\n| Vaneck, Prof. | 1 | | |\n| Wool Nam Sewi | 1 | | |\n| Wing Chong Long | 2 | | |\n| Wun Kam Trung | 1 | | |\n| Wan Sing | 1 | 1 | |\n| Williams, C. E. | 1 | | |\n| Whiteley, Fred | 2 | | |\n| Nottage, C. & | 1 | | |\n| Page, Capt. | 1 | | |\n| Steere, J. E. | 1 | | 1 book |\n| Kuhn, M. | 1 | | |\n| Pike, Capt. J. | 1 | | |\n| Xavier, F. B. | 1 | | |\n| Tan King flin | 1 | | 1 book |\n| Kamek, M. H. | 1 | | |\n| Pollard, E. | 1 | | |\n| Tong San Wo | 1 | | |\n| Zimmerman, C. | 1 | | |\n\n### For Merchant Ships.\n\n| Ship Name | Letters | Registered Letters | Papers |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Achany, S.S. | 1 | | |\n| Corea | | | 2 |\n| Fabing | | | 2 |\n| Jertaicon | | | 1 |\n| Osaka | 1 | | |\n| Star | | 1 | |\n| Alicti, S. | 2 | | |\n| Castello, S. | 2 | | |\n| Feronia, S.S. | 5 | | |\n| Old Bridge | 1 | | |\n| Hinerlow | 1 | | |\n| Clearone | | | 1 |\n| Kolga | 1 | | |\n| Hazel teline | 1 | | |\n| T'aul Revere | 1 | | |\n| Sadobria | | | 1 |\n| Shathearn | 1 | | |\n| San Joaquin | 1 | | |\n| Coser | 1 | | |\n| termine | | | 1 |\n| Coaner! | 1 | | |\n| Helen Marion | 1 | | |\n| Lothair | 1 | | |\n| Queen Mary, S.S. | 1 | | |\n| Agnes Mair | 2 | | |\n| Catalina | 3 | | |\n| Highlander | | | 1 |\n| H. W. Didier | 1 | | |\n| Valparadan | | | 1 |\n| Brodick Bay | 1 | | |\n| Eller | 1 | | |\n| Merisbiner, S.S. | 1 | | |\n| Ricea Genova | | | 1 |\n| Vale of Duon | 1 | | |\n| Kona T. C. | 1 | | |\n| Infa | 1 | 1 | |\n| Malabar, S.S. | 1 | 1 | |\n| Eden | 1 | | |\n| Magdolu | 1 | | 2 |\n| R. Robinson | 1 | | |\n| Rapham | 1 | 1 | |\n| James Gardiner | 2 | | |\n| Matchless | | | 1 |\n| Rio Luge | 1 | | |\n| Wachusett | | | 1 |\n| Frank Pendleton | 1 | | |\n| France | | | 1 |\n| Junet | 1 | | |\n| Java, S.S. | | | 1 |\n| Nonpareil | | | 1 |\n| F. Nightingale | 1 | | |\n| J. E. Briggs | | | 1 |\n| Norfolk, S.S. | | | 1 |\n| Souvenir | | | 1 |\n| West Glen | | | 1 |\n| W. Dickinson, S.S. | 1 | | |\n| Wm. H. Contar | 1 | 1 | |\n| Chinaman | | | 1 |\n| Chelmsford | | | 1 |\n| Clara Babuyan | 2 | | |\n| Conrad | | | 1 |\n| Cocer | | | 1 |\n| Sr. F. José | | | 1 |\n| Dins, Costa Rica | | | 1 (2ir senis) |\n| E. Wilkinson, Esq., Barbadoes | | | 1 (1. cent) |\n\n### Detained for Postage.\n\nAllgemeine Zeitung\nCosmoa\nElmshorner Narebrich-text.\netung.\nBooks, &c. without Covers.\nGeschichte und katwick\nLivarinol\nWeekly Albion.\nLanajisblatt\nExpres.\nChristian Herald.\nTrast.\nNew York Herald.\nForlar Herald.\nIron Trade Circular.\nIllustrated London News.\nObserver.\nDaily Review\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 30th July, 1880.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317925, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# SHORT NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS\n\n## THE CHINA REVIEW\n\nDean Charannes, it is but natural to assume that both the Pythagorean (or Chaldean) and the Chinese (more ancient) scales may have been derived from the same source, directly or indirectly. What that common source was, is at present impossible to say.\n\nComparing Chinese music with modern European music, it will be observed that our third and sixth differ from the Chinese intervals, but only by about 81/80 e.g., a comma, and that in the five-tone scale of the Chinese the fourth and seventh are entirely absent. This latter peculiarity appears to be a characteristic of the ancient Celtic music, as still observable in old Scotch or Irish tunes, a very remarkable coincidence. Dr. Wagener states this, but omits all reference to what we believe to be a fact, viz., that there are at present in China both scales in vogue. The so-called Southern Melodies adhere to the above-described ancient (five-tone) scale, being entirely devoid of the fourth and seventh, but the so-called Northern Melodies are, as we believe, based on the twelve-tone scale, having no true semi-tones at all, but three quarter tones, the above-mentioned third and sixth being half-flattened. It is the absence of the fourth and seventh, or half-flattening of third and sixth, that gives that peculiar characteristic to Chinese music which Dr. Wagener describes as \"a near relation to the basis of our Minor tunes.\" We are very much indebted to Dr. Wagener for the information we have gleaned from his essay.\n\n## The Vertebrata of the Province of Chili. With Notes on Chinese Zoological Nomenclature. By O. F. von Möllendorff, Ph.D. Shanghai, 1877.\n\nWith this essay, read in January this year before the North China Branch R. A. S., natural science in China has been very materially enriched, and it is evident that Swinhoe has found a worthy successor in Dr. O. F. von Möllendorff. What has hitherto been contributed, apart from Swinhoe's and, to some extent, Abbé David's labours, towards completing our knowledge of Chinese Zoology, were principally general descriptions, as those of Kirchner, Du Halde, Grosier, Murray, Dr. Williams. Useful as such general information is, it requires extensive correcting and supplementing work which cannot reach perfection unless the Zoological peculiarities of the several provinces of China are studied, not from native works only, but by practical observations. The Zoological nomenclature of the Chinese Classics differs to some extent from that adopted in the Dictionaries and Repertories of later days, and differs widely from the popular terminology in vogue in the several parts of the Chinese Empire. Not only are the finer distinctions of the ancient writers, based on careful observation of nature, effaced in modern Repertories and Dictionaries, but one and the same name given to an animal in one province may be found, in practical speech, to designate in other provinces many widely different species. It is therefore not sufficient, even for specialists like Swinhoe and von Möllendorff, simply to observe the animals of any one province, to diagnostically describe, classify and name them according to the principles of modern Zoology, but this scientific nomenclature has to be applied to an elucidation and, where necessary, emendation of the native nomenclature as found in the Classics, the ancient Dictionaries, modern Repertories and popular speech.\n\nThis is the aim Dr. von Möllendorff placed before himself in compiling his valuable manual of the Vertebrata of Chili. To an independent practical study of nature, he added an extensive study of the classical and modern literature as well as of the popular nomenclature. The commentator of the Chinese Classics, the lexicographer of modern Chinese vernaculars, as well as the students of natural science generally, will find here a mine of valuable information, applicable even, in many points, to other provinces or to China in general. Dr. Williams' Syllabic Dictionary receives here a series of important corrections, whilst the wolf, the elapharus and other animals, confusedly described in the commentaries to the Classics, are treated to special diagnostic descriptions. There is also a detailed account of the Nan-hai-tai, the Imperial Hunting Grounds (South of Peking), which have never before been fully described.\n\nWe were glad to observe that Dr. von Möllendorff protests against that objectionable vice, frequently indulged in by Abbé David and even by Swinhoe, of introducing native names into scientific appellations, which very often, as is especially the case in China, are very differently pronounced in different provinces and can only be very imperfectly represented by Roman letters. A case in point is for instance Swinhoe's `Canis hoolei` or David's `Canis henlyi`, both being pronounced hu-li in Mandarin, h- in Cantonese, fi-l in Hakka, and in each case designating a particular actual or fabulous species of fox and not the genus \"Canis Vulpes.\" We can only wish that the exigencies of the Consular Service required Dr. von Möllendorff's transfer to some other province where he would have opportunities to continue his successful efforts to elucidate the Zoology of China.\n\n## From Swatow to Canton, Overland. By Herbert A. Giles, of H.B.M. Consular Service. Shanghai, 1877.\n\nTourists' journals in China, when written by a man of Mr. Giles' knowledge of Chinese matters, keenness of observation and raciness of style, become very attractive reading. In the present pamphlet a vast deal of information is combined with the most amusing descriptions of the peculiar incidents of Chinese travels. The little book affords as pleasant reading as the best novel we know of. There are only two points we have to find fault with, and they are perhaps merely caused by the general lightness and airiness of style and expression. In the Preface, Mr. Giles speaks of \"Chinese and Hakkas,\" as if the Hakkas were not Chinese, and on page 68 he gives currency to an absurd exaggeration as to there being over one hundred monasteries on the Lo-fau Mountains. Twelve would be nearer the mark.\n\n## The Gospel of China.\n\nPublished by the Foreign Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church of England. No. 1, July, 1877.\n\nThis is a small quarterly periodical, established for the purpose of stimulating the missionary energy of the Presbyterian Church of England in its relation to China. The number before us contains an express renunciation of that unhealthy narrowness of spirit which characterizes so many similar publications of this class in noticing only the doing of the emissaries of the one denomination to which the supporters of the publication in question belong, as if Protestant Missionaries were labouring only to glorify each his own little denomination, instead of joining with all Christian workers, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, nay with civilization in general and even commerce in particular, in one COMMON cause. We are not sure, however, that the Editors of the publication before us would go quite as far as we here wish. Trade and commerce are here indeed recognized as civilizing powers, and it is refreshing to see the readers of a Missionary penny magazine treated to a first-class article on \"Great Britain and China, their political and commercial relations,\" and to a series of Miscellanea embracing subjects like the following, the new Convention with China, the death of duke Kung, the Peking Gazette, the Railway, Telegraph and Omnibus in China. But we may have to wait in vain for a recognition of Roman Catholic Missionaries as fellow-workers in the same field, the only reference to Roman Catholic priests in the present number (p. 21-22) being a fully-deserved exposure of the pernicious system adopted by most priests of assuming official ... \n\nPage 61 \nPage 173", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318587, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "143\n\nfor the fresh flowers & sympathy she had \"The bitterness to send to the ward.\n\nprincipal\n\n« observed waterclosets are well in lieu of dry earth closets, 2a point – whether Waterclosets are suited to this climate and especially to institutions of this nature.\n\nA: Whom I wish accompanies me to the neighbouring Lock hospital for females.\n\nJuls.\n\nJ\n\nneighbouring Lock hospital for females there were three patients & in the small Lock hospital there were but seven patients.\n\nThe total number in the Queen's Hospital today is 20.\n\nJane Cuppy 17th Feb. B.B. L. Styres 65 r. Popestennery\n\nC.S.O. N. 3331 of 1882.\n\nColonial Surgeon to Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nGovernment Civil Hospital\n\nSiriga orig\n\n25th September 1882\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to the enclosed 18th Sept 82, I beg to forward replies thereto.\n\nI have... The only minute made by Visitors' Board of Superintendents of Aberdeenshire Royal Hospital since the 31st of March 1849 by Sir James Pope Hennessy is then that of January 1882, and is as follows-\n\n\"I have inspected the \n\nSouble et Stewart, E.E.C.S.\n\nAltig Colonial Secretary\niq Stropital", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318625, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "In an enclosed report by Mr. McCALLUM of analytical work done, is an interesting account of the water supplied to the town, which it is pleasant to know is a good potable water in spite of its very unpleasant appearance and when filtered is very good drinking for Europeans, for the Chinese they must put up with both the dirt in it and the limited supply they are able to get. Another analysis made some time ago of the water from one of the largest streams in the Colony, passing through the Military grounds to the sea showed the water to have been so defiled by the washermen and squatters on the hill sides as to render the stream below them nothing better than an open sewer. From the opening of the sewers not being carried far enough out into the tide way and the want of thorough flushing the stench along the Praya Wall is most offensive, especially so on a hot day when the tide is low. I think I have said enough, though I have not mentioned the markets and after all it is a mere reiteration of what has been said in former reports, and as far as I can see what I may still continue to complain of in future ones.\n\nI have the honour to be\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nOctober,\nNovember,\nDecember,\n\n## Sanitary Analyses of water from Pokfoolum water supply.\n\n| Grains per gallon | Parts per Million | Degree of Hardness | \n| --- | --- | --- | \n| 1880 | Total Solids. | Free Albuminoid Ammonia. | Chlorine. | Albuminoid Ammonia. | \n| 3.5 | 0.7 | 0.018 | 0.060 | 1.2 | \n| 3.1 | 0.6 | 0.010 | 0.040 | 1.0 | \n| 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.010 | 0.046 | 1.0 | \n\nAll had a yellowish, opalescent and turbid appearance.\n\n## Analyses of 15 samples of milk purchased in Hongkong\n\n| Genuine | Adulterated with 10 per cent. water | Adulterated with 11 per cent. water | Deprived of Cream | Colostrum |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 6 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 |\n\n## LABORATORY GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, HONGKONG, 1st February, 1881.\n\nSIR,--I have the honour to lay before you a report of the work done in the Government Laboratory since taking up my appointment in November 1879.\n\nOn arrival I found there was no laboratory and scarcely any Apparatus, Appliances, Chemicals, &c. An indent was therefore made for such articles as was considered necessary and these arrived from England in May, in the meantime no adequate laboratory had been provided and some difficulty was experienced in even storing them safely.\n\nOn the opening in July of the New Lock Hospital as an addition to the Civil Hospital, a room was placed at my disposal in which some work could be done.\n\nForty-five Analyses have been made including a few researches for poisonous substances in cases of suspected poisoning.\n\nFinding that the milk supplied for the use of the patients in the Government Civil Hospital was largely adulterated with water, it was deemed expedient to examine the milk as sold by milkmen in the ordinary way of business, samples of cows milk (in all 15) were purchased from different places and analyzed, the results are tabulated below. Water was the only adulterant detected, and although this may be considered as merely a dilution of a valuable food, yet the question arises, is the adulterant used pure, judging from its source it is not likely to be so. It was observed that all the samples rapidly entered into the lactic fermentation, when once started, no doubt, this was aided considerably by the comparatively high temperature, it was however a sure sign that the houses used as dairies had received scant attention as regards cleanliness. As milk has been traced to have been the source of infection in some cases of infectious disease, it is desirable that these milk shops be made subject to inspection to see they are kept clean and fit places for dairies.\n\nOwing to the usually turbid and yellowish appearance of the water obtained from the Pokfoolum water supply, a monthly sanitary analysis has been instituted, the results for the last three months of 1880 are given below. When filtered this is a good potable water, both the mineral and nitrogenous organic matter being low. In its unfiltered state the matter in suspension is considerable at all times and after heavy rain is excessive, this could, however, be almost entirely removed by an efficient filtration before entering the aqueduct, such filtration would tend to oxidise and destroy the organic matter present in and at the same time improve the appearance of the water.\n\nPu. B. C. AYRES Esq., M.R.C.S., &c.\n\nColonial Surgeon and Inspector of Hospitals.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nHUGH MCCALLUM, Analyst.\n\n## GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, HONGKONG, 6th March, 1881.\n\nSIR,With reference to your request that I should estimate the morphine value of the different preparations of opium used for smoking purposes and furnish you with what information I could relative thereto, I have the honour to lay before you the following remarks.\n\nThe morphine value of the different preparations of opium depend chiefly on the amount of extract yielded by and the percentage of morphine present in the crude opium from which they were prepared. Now as opium varies considerably in this respect the preparations thereof will vary accordingly. There is also more or less loss of morphine during the preparation of smoking extract, the loss being greater the longer it is submitted to moist heat and the higher the temperature. Making due allowance for variations from these causes, the results obtained from the different kinds examined, and stated below, may be taken to fairly represent their average percentages of morphine.\n\n5 to 8 Indian opium, average morphine value of quantity of smoking extract yielded by ...70 to 80 per cent.\n\n1st Quality of prepared opium, from Hongkong opium farm yielded 5.86 per cent. morphine.\n2nd Quality of prepared opium, from Hongkong opium farm yielded 7.30 per cent. morphine.\nCake prepared opium from a coolie smoking house said to have been prepared from opium dross yielded 6.28 per cent morphine.\nOpium Dross, (scrapings from opium pipe) yielded 4.76 per cent morphine.\naverage quantity of extract yielded by 65 to 70 per cent.\n\nIt is generally assumed that the effect of smoking opium is similar to that of eating it and that this is principally due to the morphine it contains, this assumption appears very problematical when the following facts are taken into consideration.\n\n1st. That Indian opium is the kind most prized by smokers and it is characterised by its usually low percentage of morphine.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## Report on Opium Smoking\n\n1st. [Not provided]\n\n2nd. That the Chinese estimate the value of opium according to flavour and the quantity of extract it yields.\n\n3rd. The mode of preparing smoking extract tends to the destruction of morphine.\n\n4th. The large quantity which can be smoked without any apparent toxic effect not only by habitual smokers but also by beginners,\n\n5th. There is no authentic case of acute poisoning from opium smoking.\n\nAn experiment has been made bearing on this point and although not conclusive it is confirmatory of the idea that morphine is not the active agent which gives pleasure to the opium smoker.\n\nThe following tabulated statement explains and gives the result of experiment:-\n\n| Description of Samples of Prepared Opium Submitted for trial. | Opinion of a Chinese Expert, in one of the Opium Firms, Hongkong. | Opinion of a Nine Years Opium Smoker. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No. 1.-Prepared Opium from Opium Farm. | Is fairly good, is a mixture of Bengal Opium and something else. | Good. |\n| No. 2.-Prepared Opium, minus morphine. | Is black and coarse, smell fairly good, is not Opium. | Not very good. |\n| No. 3.-No. 1, with 10 per cent morphine added. | Coarse, but can be smoked, contains Opium with some other mixture, is not so good as No. 1. | Same as No. 1. |\n| No. 4-No. 1, with 20 per cent morphine added. | Very coarse and black burns like charcoal, contains no Opium. | Fairly good, but not so good as Nos. 1 and 3. |\n\nThe prepared opium minus morphine was made from Patna opium having as little as possible of the other opium constituents removed with the morphine.\n\nThe samples were submitted without any remark beyond desiring an opinion as to quality. A second trial was made with similar results:-\n\n| Description of Samples of Prepared Opium Submitted for trial. | Opinion of a Chinese Expert, in one of the Opium Firms, Hongkong. | Opinion of a Nine Years Opium Smoker. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No. 1.-Opium Farm prepared Opium, contained 7 per cent morphine. | Appearance coarse and when burned becomes black and hard, it is Bengal Drug but not pure, it is mixed with some other stuff and has no taste. | Very good. |\n| No. 2.--No. 1, with 15 per cent morphine added. | Burns very quick and has no taste or smell of Opium at all. | Same as No. 1. |\n| No. 3.-No. 1, with 25 per cent morphine added, | Colour red and coarse when burned gives out plenty of smoke and leaves simply ash and no Opium to smoke. | Just like No. 2, only a shade better. |\n| No. 4.-Prepared Opium, minus morphine. | When applied to the light burns like Opium, but in a moment it burns quite black and the dross leaves a bad smell. When burning gives out strong smoke. | Not good. |\n\nIt will be observed that the Chinese expert bases his opinion on the physical appearance of the extract, its behaviour in the flame of the lamp and its smell, not on its effect when smoked. The nine years opium smoker apparently judged of its quality in a somewhat similar manner, but as he actually smoked a considerable quantity of each, viz.:-nearly a quarter of an ounce of each of those to which morphine had been added and over two ounces of No. 4 in the second table, his opinion is considered of most value. At my request he got some of his friends to try No. 4 in the second table and they agreed with him that it was good. On one occasion in about twelve hours he smoked a quantity of opium, to which morphine had been added, equal to at least twenty grains of morphine.\n\nIf the effects of opium smoking are similar to those of opium eating and morphine the active agent, it can only be said regarding the former mode of using the drug that a more elaborate, troublesome, wasteful, and expensive method could scarcely be devised to obtain a minimum of effect from a maximum of power.\n\nIn connection with the above, I may mention that I have visited a number of opium smoking houses of different classes, but have not as yet been fortunate enough to see that profound sleep with beautiful dreams, &c., which has been so graphically described. In the coolie houses, I have seen men asleep after their evening pipe, and also most probably a hard day's work, they having taken up their quarters there for the night, however, a slight shake with the sight of a ten-cent piece, and they were very soon wide awake.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nPir. B. C. AYRES, Esq., M.R.C.S., &c., \nColonial Surgeon and Inspector of Hospitals.\n\nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \nHUGH MCCALLUM, \nAnalyst.\n\n## Description of a House\n\nBlank wall no apertures in it or forming Kitchen wall of another house back to back with this.\n\nKitchen. \nKitchen. \nKitchen. \nFloor of Loft. \nFloor of Loft. \nFloor of Loft. \nShop.\n\nThe black lines show the original designs of the house, which is composed of a base three rooms and then kitchens. Afterwards the system is to divide the three big rooms into small partitions, a room thirty feet long by sixteen wide would divide into eight smaller rooms. each room is fourteen or fifteen feet then admits of a sort of loft being built within the room which is divided into partitions similar to the floor below, under these circumstances there would be sixteen partitions in each room each inhabited by a separate family.\n\nDownspout,... \nChimney, \nDoors. \nAirhole. \nPassage. \nStaircase. \nWindow. \nWindow.\n\nThis is a linear ground plan of one of the rooms and kitchens. Dotted lines show in both plans how the partitions are arranged, and how a common passage is made for the use of those inhabiting the partitions leading to the kitchen and staircase which is common to all. The windows in front of this staircase form the means of ventilation in front, the door leading into the kitchen and the air hole in the kitchen roof leading into the next floor kitchen in the case of the first and second stories and into the open air in the third and the narrow chimneys are the means of ventilation at the back. very little, very little indeed, is the amount of pure air that gets into a house of this description. The front rooms vary in length from 30 to 60 feet; they are rarely wider than 16 feet. The average height 14 feet. The kitchens are about 6 feet by 10 feet. 30 feet by 16 feet divided as described from 24 to 50 people, men, women and children included live. In a house of this description I have seen 170 pigs kept, besides the above mentioned number of human beings.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318644, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 201, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "# WEATHER.\n\n## Average during the Month.\n\nFine, 25 days. Overcast, 6 days. Fine, 30 days. Overcast, 1 day.\n\n## XIX.—TABLE shewing the ANNUAL MEAN STATE of the ATMOSPHERE, during the Year 1881, as recorded at the GOVERNMENT LOCK HOSPITAL, 80 feet above mean low level of Spring Tide.\n\n| Month | Rainfall in Inches | BAROMETER | FAHRENHEIT THERMOMETERS | HYGROMETERS | WINDS (prevailing Quarter) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | Max. | Min. | 9 A.M. | 3 P.M. | 9 A.M. | 3 P.M. | 9 A.M. | 3 P.M. | |\n| January | 0.20 | 30.18 | 30.22 | 72.0 | 66.2 | 68.2 | 58.3 | 69.3 | 60.5 | E & NE |\n| February | ... | 30.22 | 30.18 | 74.0 | 66.9 | 68.2 | 58.3 | 65.1 | 57.1 | E & NE |\n| March | 1.08 | 30.07 | 29.94 | 75.1 | 68.7 | 68.7 | 59.8 | 64.9 | 59.8 | N & W |\n| April | 5.03 | 29.92 | 29.84 | 80.7 | 64.2 | 73.9 | 61.4 | 72.7 | 64.2 | E & NE |\n| May | 12.00 | 29.97 | 29.88 | 84.2 | 67.0 | 80.0 | 64.7 | 83.6 | 72.7 | E & W |\n| June | 13.64 | 29.92 | 29.80 | 94.0 | 71.5 | 85.9 | 71.0 | 87.0 | 80.7 | E & W |\n| July | 20.90 | 29.80 | 29.77 | 98.0 | 72.5 | 87.6 | 72.5 | 86.7 | 84.6 | E & W |\n| August | 11.23 | 29.80 | 29.77 | 98.0 | 70.0 | 87.6 | 72.5 | 87.9 | 83.8 | E & W |\n| September | 8.70 | 30.01 | 29.92 | 91.0 | 70.0 | 87.5 | 71.7 | 86.4 | 83.5 | E & W |\n| October | 7.50 | 30.09 | 30.02 | 88.0 | 61.0 | 82.6 | 67.8 | 85.9 | 81.0 | E & W |\n| November | 2.11 | 30.20 | 30.18 | 85.5 | 50.0 | 82.2 | 65.8 | 85.4 | 77.1 | E & W |\n| December | 1.12 | 30.19 | 30.18 | 80.8 | 44.0 | 68.0 | 56.9 | 67.1 | 59.7 | E & NE |\n\nAnnual Mean,... | | 30.06 | 30.02 | 80.6 | 57.1 | 78.4 | 64.5 | 77.6 | 66.8 | |\n| Total | 82.51 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Maximum | | | | 98.0 | 72.5 | | | | | |\n| Minimum | | | | 44.0 | 41.0 | | | | | |\n| Range | | | | 54.0 | 31.5 | | | | | |\n\n## LABORATORY, GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, HONGKONG, 21st January, 1882.\n\n**SIR**,--I have the honour to submit the following Report of Analytical work performed during ...\n\nFifty-seven analyses were made, five of which were researches for poison in cases of suspected poisoning, the remaining fifty-two being quantitative analyses of water, milk, wine, spirits, and drugs. Of the twelve samples of milk examined, eight were adulterated with water, and in one case as much as 51 per cent. had been added. This adulteration is a serious matter deserving the attention of the Government. Not merely is the consumer defrauded, but there is also the danger of impure water being used as the diluent and thus probably disseminating disease.\n\nA table shewing the results obtained in the monthly analyses of the Pokfulam water is given below. All the samples were collected from a tap in direct connection with the main in which the supply of water is continuous. Each month the water was found turbid, such turbidity at times being excessive. It will be observed that in April there was a sudden increase in the Nitrogenous organic matter indicated by the greater yield of Albuminoid Ammonia. This continued with slight variations until December, when it again suddenly decreased. The rise corresponded with the beginning of the rains and increase of temperature, the fall with the decrease of temperature and rain. There was a decided increase of Chlorine in October, caused doubtless by the typhoon of the 14th of that month blowing spray from the sea inland.\n\nIn addition to the monthly analyses of the Pokfulam water, a few samples from other sources were examined and specially reported on in four instances. As might be anticipated, when the geological formation, the general configuration, and the barren condition of the upland portion of the island are taken into consideration, the water in the streams is of excellent quality. At the same time, it should be efficiently filtered before it is used for potable purposes, because as a rule there is present in suspension a considerable amount of very finely divided mineral matter, which, putting on one side the disagreeable idea of drinking it, might prove injurious to health by mere mechanical irritation. The storage of the water in open reservoirs and trusting to subsidence as a means of getting rid of the diffused suspended matter, ultimately increases the evil. Such a method may for a time be of some benefit, but in dry weather the reservoir acts as a collector of debris, which debris becomes stirred throughout the whole mass of the water by every heavy rain that occurs.\n\nIt is hardly necessary to remark that the lower portion of those streams in which the public washermen ply their calling is of a very different character. The condition of the water in the wells of the city has not yet been ascertained. It is however to be feared, judging from their positions, that not a few such waters are quite unfit for dietetic use.\n\nSome surprise was expressed at the result of the analysis of a sample of water from the lower portion of one of the streams, where pollution was evidently taking place and apparently to a considerable extent. A careful examination shewed, however, that although a number of black, filthy, stinking gutters from piggeries and middens led directly into the stream, yet a comparatively small quantity of this sewage matter passed into it, there being no actual flow but simply a slight oozing. The whole probably not exceeding a gallon a day, whereas the flow of water in the stream in the same period would amount to some thousands of gallons. The condition of the stream also was most favourable to the self-purification of the water, viz.--a rough bed, rapid flow, with a comparative high temperature and in some places a semi-filtration owing to a partially underground current. Nevertheless, there can be little doubt that with every shower of rain the state of the stream in question is such as to render it unsuitable for potable purposes. Even in ordinary times without efficient filtration, it is not a desirable drinking water. Although some of our best water supplies in England have received the sewage of towns containing thousands of inhabitants in addition to that of villages, private residences, and manufactories, yet there can only be one opinion but that, where obtainable, water which has never been contaminated with sewage is by far the best for dietetic purposes. Drinking water, like Cæsar's wife, should be above suspicion.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n**Sir**,\nYour most obedient Servant,\nHUGH MCCALLUM, Analyst.\n\nDr. PH. B. C. AYRES,\nColonial Surgeon, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324275, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "PIL\n\n303\n\nAn authentic account of the proceedings in Thodenale, which appears in the journal officit #; unsins.\n\nI'll find in it the report of the read from the Proceedings of the slide taken by M. Hallier.\n\nWith regard to the disposition of the Peace proceedings, the report contains the following passage: \"éventualité de difficultés avec d'autres puissances Européennes : à cet égard il a été fait observer qu'il ne s'agissait que de l'exécution par le Chinois, de la convention de 1874, qui n'a jamais soulevé aucune objection, et dont les autres nations sont appelées à recueillir, comme nous, le bénéfice pour leur commerce; il ne semble pas qu'il y ait lieu de s'attendre à des réclamations de leur part.\"\n\nBoth in the report and in the comments of M. Hall, it is said of The Sluit's intention to confine intervention.\n\nJ.K. Williberno Kat Giction of the icuate bashist to the applicant.\n\nPage 303\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 304\n\n \nhas been removed as there is no text to support the page number, and \"花\" appears to be an isolated character that might be part of a larger document or image not provided in the OCR output. The given text has been formatted into paragraphs and corrected for minor spacing issues while preserving the original content as closely as possible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324277, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 309, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "305\n\n544 25 Mai [SÉNAT]\n\nDÉBATS PARLEMENTAIRES\n\nsant exécuter les traités à l'aide desquels nous pouvons réaliser l'affermissement et l'extension légitime de notre situation coloniale. Les intérêts de notre colonie cochinchinoise nous ont conduits à conclure avec l'empire d'Annam des traités ayant pour objet d'assurer la liberté des transactions commerciales, la sécurité des voies fluviales, maritimes et des routes de terre dans les régions voisines de nos possessions et appelées par leur situation à constituer leurs marchés naturels; au Cambodge, nous avons établi votre protectorat; au Tonkin, après avoir dû réprimer les déprédations des pirates, défendre par les armes la vie et les intérêts des courageux pionniers de notre commerce, et occuper une partie du pays, nous avons conclu en 1874, un traité qui nous a fait perdre les fruits d'une brillante et rapide occupation, mais qui du moins nous a assuré des droits définis, des titres en règle à faire valoir, des garanties pour la liberté des transactions commerciales, et, s'il n'avait été systématiquement violé par le gouvernement annamite, nous n'aurions pas à nous préoccuper aujourd'hui des moyens à employer pour maintenir l'ordre et sauvegarder la sécurité de notre commerce.\n\nLa population agricole et sédentaire est nombreuse; j'ai dit plus haut son caractère de passivité docile et malléable; sans être riche, elle a l'aisance que donne le travail et ses ressources s'accroîtraient rapidement si elle n'était pas pressurée par les exactions des mandarins annamites; si différente de la nôtre que soit sa civilisation, elle lui crée des besoins assurant un débouché à nos marchandises en échange des produits du sol. Enfin, le Tonkin, sillonné par des cours d'eau qui forment un réseau de routes fluviales, peut servir de voie de transit vers la riche province chinoise du Yunnan.\n\nC'est un pays d'avenir offrant de fécondes perspectives à la nation qui saura le mettre en valeur, et vous n'ignorez pas, messieurs, que nous ne sommes pas seuls à avoir cette conviction et que si nous commettions la faute d'abandonner notre position au Tonkin, nous ne tarderions pas à y être remplacés par d'autres. Malheureusement, les mandarins annamites, après avoir exercé les plus odieuses vengeances contre les Tonkinois qui nous avaient témoigné des sympathies, notamment contre les catholiques indigènes et contre nos missionnaires, se sont faits les protecteurs et les complices des pirates qu'ils s'étaient engagés à réprimer avec nous; ils ont favorisé leurs entreprises et fortifié leurs moyens d'action, à tel point qu'il est venu une heure où nous avons été contraints de nous départir de notre trop longue patience, de notre excessive longanimité, et de nous faire respecter par nos propres forces. C'est cet état de choses qui a rendu nécessaire l'acte de vigueur du commandant Rivière, l'an dernier, sur le fleuve de Hanoi et sa récente prise de possession de Nam-Dinh.\n\nDès lors, notre drapeau s'est trouvé engagé de nouveau, et il n'est que trop certain qu'après le premier abandon du Tonkin, lors de l'expédition de Garnier, une nouvelle retraite, regardée par les Annamites comme un signe de crainte ou de faiblesse, porterait la plus désastreuse atteinte à notre prestige dans l'extrême Orient; nous en ressentirions promptement les effets dans notre colonie de Cochinchine, limitrophe de l'Annam, comme le Tonkin, peuplée d'Annamites, aux yeux desquels notre conduite serait représentée comme le résultat d'un échec devant les forces de Ta-Duc. Il y a donc là un intérêt d'honneur national, une question de prestige et de dignité qui ne permettent pas d'hésitation. On peut regretter seulement que les mesures proposées aujourd'hui n'aient pas été adoptées plus tôt: car chaque jour de retard encourage les Annamites, leur donne l'espoir que nous reculerons et les détermine davantage à tenter de nous opposer une résistance.\n\nD'ailleurs, dans les limites prudentes que, d'après ses déclarations, le Gouvernement entend assigner à notre action, il n'y a pas à prévoir qu'elle doive rencontrer de bien sérieux obstacles; les brillants exploits de Francis Garnier, les récents succès du commandant Rivière attestent qu'en dépit des progrès de leur armement, les Annamites et les pirates chinois, leurs alliés, ne sont pas des adversaires redoutables au Tonkin, où la population indigène, douce et inerte, les regarde comme des oppresseurs et se réjouirait d'être affranchie de leur joug.\n\nTelles sont les considérations générales et d'ordre divers qui ont décidé votre commission à approuver l'opération projetée au Tonkin et à en reconnaître l'urgence.\n\nMais, avant de donner son approbation à l'article 1er du projet de loi, qui renferme le vote du crédit et le principe même de l'entreprise, elle a voulu être exactement renseignée sur les intentions du Gouvernement, sur les limites précises dans lesquelles il entend renfermer notre action militaire, sur les obstacles qu'il prévoit et, surtout, sur les dangers de complications qui, d'après certains bruits, pourraient résulter de notre expédition; M. le président du conseil, MM. les ministres des affaires étrangères et de la marine ont bien voulu se rendre à l'appel de la commission, et lui ont fourni les éclaircissements qu'elle a jugé devoir réclamer, notamment sur les points suivants:\n\nL'éventualité de difficultés avec d'autres puissances européennes: à cet égard, M. le ministre des affaires étrangères a fait observer qu'il ne s'agissait que de l'exécution, par l'Annam, du traité de 1874, qui n'a jamais soulevé aucune objection et dont les autres nations sont appelées à recueillir, comme nous, le bénéfice pour leur commerce; il ne saurait donc y avoir aucune cause ni aucun prétexte à des réclamations ou à un mécontentement de leur part.\n\nAnnée 1883\n\nLa souveraineté du roi d'Annam et son entière indépendance vis-à-vis de toute puissance étrangère quelle qu'elle soit. La Chine n'avait aucune revendication de son prétendu droit de suzeraineté; si, récemment, elle a tenté de formuler à ce sujet certaines prétentions, c'est à la suite des appels que lui a adressés Tu-Duc, qui espérait ainsi obtenir son appui pour se dérober à l'exécution des clauses du traité; la mauvaise humeur qu'elle a témoignée, ne paraît pas, du reste, l'avoir décidée à adopter des résolutions belliqueuses, et le danger d'une agression de ses forces régulières dans le Tonkin n'est pas à redouter; diverses raisons énoncées par le ministre inclinent à le démontrer.\n\nQuant au traité négocié par M. Bourée, la commission, après communication du texte, a unanimement reconnu avec le ministre qu'il renfermait des stipulations inacceptables. Puis elle a recueilli avec satisfaction l'assurance explicite que le rappel de notre envoyé à Pékin n'implique à aucun degré une rupture ou une tension de rapports avec le Celeste Empire: loin de là, et afin d'éviter toute apparence de refroidissement, l'honorable M. Challemel-Lacour a invité M. Bourée à demeurer à son poste jusqu'à l'arrivée de son successeur, et il vient d'appeler à notre légation en Chine un agent d'une expérience consommée des affaires de l'Orient, M. Tricou, ministre au Japon, qui a reçu l'ordre de se rendre immédiatement à Pékin, où il doit être actuellement arrivé; il lui a envoyé par les voies rapides des instructions conciliantes, lui recommandant de rassurer le gouvernement chinois sur la nature de notre action au Tonkin et de rechercher un terrain d'entente avec lui, sans admettre, bien entendu, une prétention quelconque de sa part à une suzeraineté sur l'Annam, mais en acceptant des pourparlers en vue d'arrangements commerciaux avantageux pour la Chine comme pour la France; le ministre a eu, en outre, un entretien dans le même esprit avec le représentant diplomatique de la cour de Pékin, qui n'a pas manifesté d'idées pouvant enlever l'espoir d'un accord.\n\nRenseignée sur ce côté grave de la question, la commission a également provoqué des éclaircissements du ministre sur la mission que remplit en ce moment à Hué, auprès de l'empereur d'Annam, M. de Kertangernot, M. Challemel-Lacour a exposé qu'avant d'agir au Tonkin pour y rétablir l'ordre et la sécurité, le gouvernement français avait voulu rappeler encore une fois l'empereur Tu-Duc au respect du traité de 1874, en le complétant par quelques dispositions nous offrant des garanties reconnues indispensables; si le souverain de l'Annam, en présence de notre ferme résolution de faire exécuter par nos forces le traité, renonçait au système de mauvaise foi, aux tentatives d'intrigues, à l'hostilité, tantôt sourde, tantôt déclarée, qu'il nous témoigne, nous nous entendrions avec lui sur l'exercice au Tonkin de notre contrôle, la répression des bandes des Pavillons noirs, l'établissement d'une police assurant la sécurité; en cas de refus de sa part, nous procéderions par nous-mêmes avec l'élément indigène local.\n\nLe danger d'une guerre ou d'une rupture avec la Chine sur ce point, la commission a désiré recevoir des explications développées, au sujet des dispositions de la cour de Pékin, de ses rapports avec l'Annam, de ses prétentions, des motifs pour lesquels le Gouvernement a cru devoir rappeler M. Bourée et rejeter le projet de traité qu'il avait négocié, la commission a même demandé à prendre connaissance du texte de ce projet de convention, dont lecture lui a été donnée à titre confidentiel; enfin, elle a voulu savoir quel est actuellement l'état de nos relations avec le Céleste Empire, et connaître les intentions du Gouvernement sur l'attitude qu'il compte prendre à l'égard du cabinet de Pékin.\n\nM. le ministre des affaires étrangères a fait ressortir qu'à l'époque de la conclusion du traité de 1874, la Chine n'avait aucune revendication de son prétendu droit de suzeraineté; si, récemment, elle a tenté de formuler à ce sujet certaines prétentions, c'est à la suite des appels que lui a adressés Tu-Duc, qui espérait ainsi obtenir son appui pour se dérober à l'exécution des clauses du traité; la mauvaise humeur qu'elle a témoignée, ne paraît pas, du reste, l'avoir décidée à adopter des résolutions belliqueuses, et le danger d'une agression de ses forces régulières dans le Tonkin n'est pas à redouter; diverses raisons énoncées par le ministre inclinent à le démontrer.\n\nNotre action renfermée dans ces limites ne peut donner lieu à des éventualités inquiétantes, et, quant aux dépenses qu'entraînerait l'occupation, des renseignements communiqués à la commission par M. le ministre de la marine établissent que le produit des impôts et des douanes, déjà suffisant pour couvrir les frais d'administration, s'augmentera rapidement, sans pressurer les populations, ni accroître leurs charges, lorsqu'une bonne gestion, un contrôle sérieux, auront fait disparaître les exactions, les dilapidations qui absorbent aujourd'hui une notable partie des ressources.\n\nA la suite de ces explications, M. Farinal Jauréguiberry a fait connaître aux ministres que l'approbation donnée à l'article 1 ne s'étendait pas à l'article 2, qui avait rencontré dans les bureaux des objections aussi vives que nombreuses, dont la commission était l'interprète fidèle.\n\nLa commission estime que cette disposition, qui est essentiellement du domaine du pouvoir exécutif, ne peut figurer dans un projet de loi et encore moins dans une demande de crédit; il y a là une confusion fâcheuse entre les attributions des deux pouvoirs législatif et exécutif; il est essentiel de ne pas laisser subsister dans le projet de loi cette anomalie. Subsidiairement, il importe de remarquer que si, plus tard, par suite de circonstances imprévues, le Gouvernement jugeait nécessaire de confier provisoirement, en vue d'une campagne, d'une opération militaire, l'autorité supérieure à un officier de terre ou de mer, il serait tenu d'en demander l'autorisation au Parlement.\n\nLe paragraphe second de cet article soulève également des objections: on a peine à comprendre la nomination d'un haut fonctionnaire faite sur la proposition de deux ministres; cela est contraire aux précédents usuels et aux règles administratives; cette nomination doit être faite sur la proposition du ministre compétent, avec l'assentiment, l'avis favorable du conseil des ministres, toujours consulté quand il s'agit de fonctionnaires d'un ordre aussi élevé.\n\nEnfin, la rédaction du troisième paragraphe est de nature à prêter à de fausses interprétations, assurément contraires aux intentions des ministres.\n\nLa commission serait donc disposée à supprimer l'article 2 et à réduire le projet de loi à l'article 1er et à l'article 3, qui ne lui paraît pas devoir soulever d'objection.\n\n2e section, service colonial, chapitre 9, service du Tonkin,\n\nIl sera pourvu au crédit ci-dessus au moyen des ressources générales du budget ordinaire de l'exercice 1883.\n\nArt. 2. -- Le ministre de la marine et des colonies rendra compte, chaque année, à partir du 31 décembre 1883, des opérations auxquelles donnera lieu le service du Tonkin, au moyen d'un rapport adressé au Président de la République, et distribué au Sénat et à la Chambre des députés.\n\nAucun document officiel, excepté un croquis teinté du Tonkin, ne nous a été mis sous les yeux. Je n'en accuse pas le Gouvernement, -- c'est peut-être la faute des circonstances -- je me borne à le constater.\n\nAinsi, dans le rapport, il est question de la violation du traité de 1874 par l'empereur d'Annam, et je n'ai aucune raison pour le contredire; mais aucun document officiel de nous a expliqué quelles avaient été ces violations; aucun document officiel ne nous a donné les motifs de la retraite de notre résident près la cour de Hué; aucun document officiel ne nous a fait connaître les instructions données au nouveau négociateur qui est en ce moment en route pour la baie de Tourane; aucun document officiel ne nous a fait connaître les instructions qui avaient été données à notre ministre à Pékin, et nous ne connaissons que par ce que nous en a dit le rapport qui, si j'ai bien entendu, nous apprend que ce document n'a été communiqué à la commission qu'à titre confidentiel, nous ne connaissons, dis-je, ni les termes, ni l'économie du traité ad referendum que le Gouvernement n'a pas cru devoir ratifier et qui a été négocié par notre ministre à Pékin.\n\nNon, non, la discussion immédiate! Messieurs, la commission, d'accord avec le Gouvernement, et l'urgence ayant été prononcée, demande la discussion immédiate.\n\nPlusieurs sénateurs à droite. Pas aujourd'hui, en tous cas, il faut avoir le temps de lire le rapport.\n\nM. le président. J'ai reçu une demande de discussion immédiate signée de vingt membres dont voici les noms: MM. Tertelin, Vigerosy, Ronjat, Claude, Griffe, Maësieiu du Biest, Bonnet, Saineave, Frézoul, Merlin, Mathey, Dupouy, Carnot, Scheurer-Kestner; Peyrat, Ribière, Le Bastard, Delacroix, Brugerolle, Cavinot.\n\nM. Lambert de Sainte-Croix. Je demande la parole.\n\nM. le rapporteur. Nous ne demandons pas la discussion immédiate à l'instant même.\n\nM. le président. La parole est à M. Lambert de Sainte-Croix.\n\nPlusieurs sénateurs à droite. Quel est l'avis de la commission des finances? (Bruit.)\n\nDans ces conditions, nous n'avons comme document officiel que le rapport qui vient de nous être lu; est-ce trop exiger que de demander au Sénat le temps de le lire et de l'étudier? (Rumeurs à gauche.)\n\nA droite. Oui! oui! très bien!\n\nM. Lambert de Sainte-Croix. Je commence d'ailleurs par vous rassurer: Si je sollicite la remise, ce n'est pas dans un intérêt personnel; je n'ai nullement la prétention de prendre part à un débat où me font également défaut et les lumières et les études; mais je crois qu'il est dans l'intérêt de tout le monde que ce débat ne paraisse pas précipité; je ne vois aucun péril à ce qu'il soit remis à demain.\n\nM. Lambert de Sainte-Croix. Messieurs, je ne viens pas m'opposer à la discussion immédiate, c'est-à-dire à ce que le Sénat ajourne les formalités, voulues par son règlement, d'impression et de distribution du rapport; je conviens seulement vous demander, si vous prononcez la discussion immédiate, de ne pas procéder aujourd'hui même à l'examen de cette grave question...\n\nJ'insiste donc pour le renvoi à demain. (Vive approbation à droite.) (Murmures prolongés à gauche.)\n\nM. Lambert de Sainte-Croix. On me dit: Pourquoi pas?\n\nM. le président du conseil et MM. les ministres des affaires étrangères et de la marine ont demandé le maintien de l'article 2, et se sont attachés à réfuter les objections présentées par la commission; ils n'ont pas admis les inconvénients de l'institution du commissaire civil par mesure législative; ils n'ont pas non plus reconnu ceux de la proposition par deux ministres, et ils ont cherché à démontrer que la rédaction du troisième paragraphe ne pouvait donner lieu à une fausse interprétation.\n\nMessieurs, c'est la première fois... (interruptions à gauche)... je ne dis pas au Sénat, mais dans un Parlement, que, lorsqu'il s'agit d'une question de cette importance qui, non seulement au point de vue de nos finances, mais encore de nos relations extérieures, peut avoir des conséquences graves, lorsqu'il s'agit, après tout, d'engager au loin l'or, le sang et l'honneur de la France... (Exclamations et rires sur les mêmes bancs.) Vous pouvez en rire, messieurs, moi, je n'en ris pas, et je n'en rirai jamais. On riait aussi au début de l'expédition du Mexique. (Nouvelles exclamations à gauche. Très bien! très bien! à droite.)\n\nIls se sont ensuite retirés, et la commission a procédé à une dernière délibération suivie du vote.\n\nA l'unanimité, elle a adopté l'article 1 et l'article 3, et, à la majorité, elle s'est prononcée pour la suppression du premier paragraphe de l'article 2, ce qui a entraîné le rejet du reste de l'article.\n\nEn conséquence, la commission a l'honneur de proposer l'adoption du projet de loi, réduit aux deux articles suivants:\n\nLorsqu'il s'agit, je le répète, d'une mesure de cette nature, il n'y a pas d'exemple qu'un Parlement ait procédé à la discussion immédiate, pour ainsi dire au pied levé. (Nouvelles marques d'approbation à droite.)\n\nMessieurs, j'ai écouté, pour ma part, avec beaucoup d'intérêt et d'attention le remarquable rapport qui vient de vous être lu.\n\nVoix nombreuses à gauche. Aux voix! aux voix!\n\nM. le président. Deux propositions se trouvant en présence, tendant l'une au renvoi à la prochaine séance, l'autre à la discussion immédiate, je mets aux voix, selon l'usage, le jour le plus éloigné.\n\n(Le renvoi à demain n'est pas prononcé.)\n\nM. le président. Il va être procédé à la discussion immédiate.\n\nM. Fournier (Indre-et-Loire). Je demande la parole.\n\nM. le président. La parole est à M. Fournier.\n\nM. Fournier (Indre-et-Loire). Messieurs, le traité signé le 15 mars 1874, entre la France et le roi d'Annam, reconnaît la souveraineté du royaume de l'Annam et son entière indépendance vis-à-vis de toute puissance étrangère quelle qu'elle soit. Il lui promet aide et assistance et s'engage à lui donner, sur sa demande et gratuitement, l'appui nécessaire pour maintenir dans ses états l'ordre et la tranquillité, pour le défendre contre toute attaque et pour détruire la piraterie qui désolait une partie des côtes du royaume.\n\nEst-ce que quelqu'un me démentira si je dis que ce document vaut, à coup sûr, la peine d'être lu et étudié?\n\nArt. 1er.- Il est ouvert au ministre de la marine et des colonies, au titre du budget ordinaire de l'exercice 1883, un crédit supplémentaire de 5,300,000 fr, qui sera classé à la 2e section, service colonial, chapitre 9, service du Tonkin.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324294, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "Journal des Delarts 16.\n\nCOLONIES FRANÇAISES\n\nJui\n\nCochinchine et Tonkin. - Le ministère de la marine communique aux journaux la liste des hommes tués et blessés dans l'affaire d'Hanol, telle qu'elle lui a été envoyée de Salgon, le 13 juin :\n\nTués. -- Equipage du Villars: Aubert, Gilles et Siam, matelots;\n\nEquipage de la Victorieuse Bocoguaus, Ferrand, Hervern, Le Montagner, Leneur, Lesaux, Manach, Philet, Raoul, Uguen, Vassal, matelots;\n\nEquipage du Léopard : Daves, gabier;\n\n30 régiment d'infanterie de marine: Grapla, sergent-fourrier; Baby; Biscaya, Dubilfot, Garrault, Giraud, Laloue, Philippon, Pian, Seysset, soldats;\n\nSoit en tout 26 soldats ou marins.\n\nLe nombre des blessés est de 471 dont 15 appartenant à l'équipage de la Victorieuse, 8 à celui du Villars, 3 à celui du Léopard et 21 au 3e régiment d'infanterie de marine,\n\nAux dernières dépêches, M. Tricou, notre nouveau ministre en Chine, était toujours à Shanghai, où il poursuit les négociations avec le vice-roi.\n\nUn correspondant du Temps rapporte que le vice-roi aurait dit à notre représentant que la Chine n'entendait nullement se mettre en hostilité avec la France et nous déclarer la guerre.\n\nSur quoi notre représentant aurait fait observer au vice-roi que, si des soldats réguliers chinois reparaissaient au Tonkin dans les bandes qui luttent contre nos troupes, ils s'exposaient, n'étant pas regardés comme belligérants, à subir le sort réservé aux bandes de pillards et à être passés par les armes.\n\nVoici le texte de la sommation adressée par le commandant Rivière au gouverneur annamite de Nam-Dinh avant la prise de cette ville.\n\nMonsieur le gouverneur,\n\nDepuis un an, vous avez eu envers nous l'attitude la plus hostile, et vous avez armé votre citadelle, autant que vous l'avez pu, de soldats et de munitions.\n\nTout dernièrement, vous avez préparé des barrages que l'arrivée seule de nos bâtiments vous a empêché de faire. Depuis l'arrivée de nos bâtiments, vous avez encore augmenté vos armes et vos soldats, excité la population contre nous et proféré contre les Français des insultes et des menaces.\n\nVous avez fait tout cela sans avoir été provoqué par nous, car j'avais même recommandé à mes capitaines de bâtiments de ne pas s'apercevoir de votre mauvaise volonté et d'user toujours de courtoisie avec vous, et si vous n'aviez pas fait de barrages, je ne vous aurais pas demandé raison de vos autres actes,\n\nLa situation dont vous êtes seul la cause ne peut pas durer. Il faut, pour le respect qui nous est dû, pour la liberté de notre navigation, pour notre sécurité au Tonkin, pour que la paix ne soit plus menacée par vous, que la citadelle de Nam-Dinh soit désormais inoffensive pour nous, Et, pour cela, il faut que vous la remettiez entre mes mains.\n\nLa citadelle ayant dès lors cessé d'être une ennemie pour nous, nous pourrons vivre avec vous dans de bons termes et vous pourrez garder avec vos mandarins l'administration de la ville et de la province. Si vous acceptez ces conditions, vous aurez, vous et vos mandarins, le Thuan-Phu et le Quan-An, à venir me voir demain matin à huit heures.\n\nSi vous n'êtes pas venu à bord, demain matin, à huit heures, de mon grand bâtiment blanc, je serai forcé de vous traiter en ennemi.\n\nLe délai que je vous indique est court, mais vous devez avoir réfléchi depuis assez longtemps aux conséquences de votre conduite envers nous pour que vous ne soyez pas étonné du peu de temps que je vous laisse pour prendre une décision. De cette décision dépendra, entre nous, la paix ou la guerre.\n\nVeuillez recevoir, etc.\n\nLe commandant en chef des troupes françaises,\n\nSigné: H. RIVIÈRE,\n\n1863\n\nC O.\n\n10658\n\nRECP\n\nREGP 22 JUN 23/\n\n321\n\nS", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324764, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "Enclosure. 4.\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, JANUARY 5TH, 1884.\n\nMEETING OF THE JUSTICES TO ELECT A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nA meeting of the Justices of the Peace was held at the City Hall yesterday afternoon to nominate a member of the Legislative Council in accordance with the instructions of His Excellency the Governor, which have already been published. Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, senior Police Magistrate, presided, and there were present :- Voters-Dr. R. Young, Messrs. E. Mackean, H. L. Dalrymple, E. Mackintosh, H. J. H. Tripp, N. J. Ede, W. H. F. Darby, W. Danby, J. R. Anton, J. Y. V. Vernon, J. G. T. Hassel, A. Molver, J. Thorburn, M. E. Bassoon, G. E. Noble, B. Layton, F. D. Sassoon, Hon. P. Ryrie, Framjee H. Arjánee, H. Foss, N. Q. Bird, J. Melville Matson, Dr. J. Stockwell, R. Lyall, J. Bell Irving, W. N. Bain, W. S. Young, H. N. Mody, J. H. Cox, T. Jackson, C. P. Chater, T. H. Whitehead, C. D. Bottomley, H. C. Setua, J. S. Cox, A. P. MacEwen, H. M. Mehta, D. Ruttuajes, J. J. Francis, Dr. W. Hartigas, Hon. F. B. Johnson, F. T. P. Foster, Wong Shing, C. Chen Bee, Wei Ayuk, Lok San Theen, Chan Quan Ee, Wong See Tye, J. B. Coughtrie, H. Diekie, W. K. Hughes, E. R. Belilios, and Ho Kai; Non-voters (officials): Capt. H. G. Thomsett, Messrs. J. P. McEnen, J. S. Brewer, and A. G. Wise. The Chairman also abstained from voting as an official.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-Gentlemen, I will call upon the clerk to read the notice convening the meeting.\n\nMr. J. PARKER, clerk to the Justices, read the notice, and also the instructions received from the Governor.\n\nThe names of the Justices were then called over, those who were present answering.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-Gentlemen, I will now ask any of you who have candidates to propose to do so in writing, with the seconder's name added, and hand the papers in to me. In order that the proceedings may be perfectly fair and above board I propose that all the names be handed to me before any remarks are made with regard to the candidates proposed, and I will put them into a hat and take them out one by one indiscriminately and then ask the proposers and seconders to make any remarks on the candidates they may wish.\n\nMr. FRANCIS-As a matter of procedure, Sir, may I venture to suggest to the meeting that, as we cannot all look on while the ballot boxes are being examined, the gentlemen proposing the candidates with the Chairman of the meeting should form a committee of scrutiny to examine the contents of the ballot boxes and notify the result.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-Will you allow that to stand over for the present until the next step has been taken?\n\nMr. FRANCIS-As you please, Sir.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-If there is no objection to the course I propose, that will be the next step taken.\n\nThree papers were then handed in, and the first read out was the name of Mr. A. P. MacEwen, proposed by the Hon. F. B. Johnson and seconded by Mr. A. McIver.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-I now call upon the gentlemen proposing and seconding to offer any remarks they may wish.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON-Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I have very great pleasure indeed in proposing the name of Mr. Alexander Palmer MacEwen as a very fit and proper person to represent not only this body but the community generally in the Legislative Council of this colony. (Applause).\n\nMr. McIVER-I have very great pleasure in seconding the hon. gentleman's proposition.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN then drew the next paper, containing the name of Mr. E. R. Belilios, proposed by Mr. Ho Kai and seconded by Mr. H. M. Mehta.\n\nMr. Ho KAI-Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I rise with the greatest pleasure to propose Mr. E. R. Belilios for your nomination as your representative on the Legislative Council. Mr. Belilios is well known to every one of you, since he has been here for a period of over twenty-two years, and he needs no introduction from me. I am sure you all have met him in various public capacities, either as a director, or as a temporary member of the Legislative Council, or as one of the oldest Justices of the Peace, and you have seen him filling all the positions in which he has been placed with a degree of credit and ability which must have won your respect. I need scarcely say anything in his favour except to beg your earnest attention to the fact that notwithstanding many things have been said in favour of brilliant talents and eloquent speech, we must have as our representative member something more than that; we must have a man of long experience, yes, long local experience, and of independent position, one who is not likely to be influenced by any personal considerations, and one who will always strive to do everything in his power to protect the public interests. I have very much pleasure therefore in proposing Mr. E. R. Belilios.\n\nMr. MEHTA-I have very great pleasure in seconding the proposition which has been moved by Dr. Ho Kai.\n\nThe next paper drawn bore the name of Mr. F. D. Sassoon, proposed by Mr. C. P. Chater and seconded by Mr. W. K. Hughes.\n\nMr. CHATER-I have very great pleasure in proposing that Mr. Frederick David Sassoon be nominated by this body to a seat in the Legislative Council. Gentlemen, you are all well acquainted with Mr. Sassoon, and it does not require much from me to put forward his claims. He is the senior partner here in the firm of Messrs. David Sassoon, Sons, and Co., a firm established here ever since the colony was founded. His brothers, the previous partners of his firm, have always been very closely identified with this colony, and have even at the present moment a very large interest in the place. So also has the candidate I bring forward, and I trust he will have a much larger interest in the place before he leaves it.\n\nMr. HUGHES-I beg to second Mr. Chater's proposition.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-Any gentleman wishing to make any remarks on the several candidates is at liberty to do so.\n\nNo remarks being offered, the CHAIRMAN explained the course to be observed in voting. Three ballot boxes were placed on a table behind a screen in the corner of the room, each bearing the name of one of the candidates in English and Chinese. Each Justice voting was requested to sign his name before going behind the screen, and on doing so received a voting bean to be deposited in the ballot box bearing the name of the candidate for whom he wished to vote.\n\nBefore the voting took place Mr. FRANCIS said-I propose on behalf of the meeting that the gentlemen who propose the candidates act as scrutineers, as we cannot all very well crowd round to look on.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-I will still ask that that be postponed till the ballot is closed.\n\nMr. FRANCIS-I beg to propose it now, as the proper time.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-Very well. Are the gentlemen present willing for that?\n\nMr. MACKEAN-I beg to second it.\n\nMr. DANBY-Before that is put to the meeting may I ask if you have any alternative system to propose?\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-As stated in the letter of instructions, I will be guided by the wishes of the Justices. The only point is that I wish we should conduct these proceedings step by step. The motion of Mr. Francis, a very proper one in its way, would come in more fittingly after the voting has been concluded and before the scrutiny commences. What I should have suggested would have been that the gentlemen put their votes in the ballot boxes and put their names on the paper, and when that was done, and before anything further was done with the ballot boxes, that the form of scrutiny be decided upon.\n\nMr. FRANCIS-As you were arranging the method of proceeding I thought you might have it settled at once.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-It is all settled as far as I am concerned.\n\nPage 22\n\nMr. Francis", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329728, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "# Government \n\n7 \n\nThe French should be made Governors by Her Majesty's Eastern Colonies. \n\nI am, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant Spanncepts. cefote.\n\nNo. 1. \n0.0. 4050 \n`REGO 3 FEB 85` \nM. Waddington to Earl Granville.--(Received January 29.) \n\nM. le Comte, \n\nLondres, le 29 Janvier, 1885. \nIL résulte de renseignements fournis au Gouvernement de la République par ses Consuls à Singapour et à Hong-Kong que des instructions viennent d'être adressées aux autorités coloniales Anglaises de ces deux ports, en vue de prescrire une application plus rigoureuse du **\"Foreign Enlistment Act.\"** D'après les notifications faites aux Agents Français, les vaisseaux de guerre de la République n'auront plus la faculté de se réparer dans les ports coloniaux de la Grande-Bretagne; ils ne pourront non plus y faire du charbon, sinon dans une limite extrêmement restreinte. \n\nCes résolutions, dont mon Gouvernement n'entend nullement discuter la légitimité, impliquent une modification importante dans l'attitude que les Ministres de la Reine avaient résolu d'observer provisoirement en l'état de notre conflit avec la Chine, et qui était indiquée avec précision dans la communication de votre Excellence du 26 Novembre dernier. \n\nIl y était dit que le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique considérait qu'il existait entre la France et la Chine un état de guerre de facto et de jure. Toutefois, il voulait tenir compte de ce fait \"que le Gouvernement Français, en vue d'atténuer les conséquences de la guerre en ce qui concerne les vaisseaux neutres, déclarait qu'il ne se proposait pas d'exercer le droit de visite ou de capture sur les vaisseaux neutres en pleine mer, droit qui lui appartient afin de prévenir le transport de la contrebande de guerre à destination de la Chine.\" \n\nDans cet état de choses, le Gouvernement de la Grande-Bretagne, \"ne voulant pas aggraver la situation, déclarait,\" de son côté, \"que, tant que les hostilités seraient limitées à certaines localités et qu'on n'entraverait pas les vaisseaux neutres en pleine mer, il s'abstiendrait d'émettre une Proclamation de neutralité dans les formes ordinaires et d'exercer strictement les droits de neutralité vis-à-vis des navires des belligérants dans les ports Britanniques, et qu'il se bornerait à la mise en vigueur du **'Foreign Enlistment Act.'** \n\nIl s'était établi, à la suite de ces déclarations de votre Seigneurie, une sorte de modus vivendi, qui a été observé durant les derniers mois, et qui n'excluait pas la faculté pour les navires de guerre Français de se ravitailler dans les ports des mers des Indes et des mers de Chine. \n\nLes instructions qui viennent d'être envoyées aux autorités des possessions coloniales Anglaises, ont modifié profondément cet état de choses et donné au **'Foreign Enlistment Act'** une interprétation qui équivaut à une véritable déclaration de neutralité. \n\nLes bâtiments de nos escadres ne devant plus trouver dans les ports étrangers les facilités qu'ils y ont rencontrées jusqu'à présent, il n'y a plus de raison pour qu'ils s'abstiennent de soumettre les navires neutres à une exacte surveillance. La situation nouvelle qui leur est faite détermine mon Gouvernement à avancer l'heure qu'il aurait choisie pour revendiquer le plein et entier exercice des droits reconnus aux belligérants par la loi internationale. Des ordres en ce sens vont être adressés aux Commandants des escadres de la République et je suis chargé par M. Jules Ferry d'en faire part officiellement à votre Seigneurie. \n\nEn prenant cette résolution, mon Gouvernement entend d'ailleurs se conformer strictement aux règles de la Déclaration du Congrès de Paris du 16 Avril, 1856. \n\nLe parti auquel viennent de s'arrêter les Ministres de la République n'implique d'ailleurs aucun changement dans nos sentiments pour le Cabinet Anglais, dont nous nous plaisons à reconnaître la parfaite correction et les procédés bienveillants depuis le début de notre conflit avec la Chine. Pour bien marquer ces dispositions, des recommandations seront envoyées aux Commandants des forces navales Françaises afin qu'ils continuent à user de tous les égards et de tous les tempéraments conciliables avec les intérêts légitimes du commerce Britannique et la nécessité de prévenir l'importation en Chine de la contrebande de guerre. \n\nVeuillez, &c. \n(Signé) WADDINGTON.\n\n[858]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329744, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "# No. 1.\n## IREC2\n### M. Waddington to Earl Granville.-(Received January 29.)\n\n**REG? 6 FEB 85**\n\nLondres, le 29 Janvier, 1885.\n\nIL résulte de renseignements fournis au Gouvernement de la République par ses Consuls à Singapour et à Hong-Kong que des instructions viennent d'être adressées aux autorités coloniales Anglaises de ces deux ports, en vue de prescrire une application plus rigoureuse du Foreign Enlistment Act. D'après les notifications faites aux Agents Français, les vaisseaux de guerre de la République n'auront plus la faculté de se réparer dans les ports coloniaux de la Grande-Bretagne; ils ne pourront non plus y faire du charbon, sinon dans une limite extrêmement restreinte.\n\nCes résolutions, dont mon Gouvernement n'entend nullement discuter la légitimité, impliquent une modification importante dans l'attitude que les Ministres de la Reine avaient résolu d'observer provisoirement en l'état de notre conflit avec la Chine, et qui était indiquée avec précision dans la communication de votre Excellence du 26 Novembre dernier.\n\nIl y était dit que \"le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique considérait qu'il existait entre la France et la Chine un état de guerre de facto et de jure.\" Toutefois, il voulait tenir compte de ce fait que le Gouvernement Français, en vue d'atténuer les conséquences de la guerre en ce qui concerne les vaisseaux neutres, déclarait qu'il ne se proposait pas d'exercer le droit de visite ou de capture sur les vaisseaux neutres en pleine mer, droit qui lui appartient afin de prévenir le transport de la contrebande de guerre à destination de la Chine.\"\n\nDans cet état de choses, le Gouvernement de la Grande-Bretagne, \"ne voulant pas aggraver la situation, déclarait,\" de son côté, **que, tant que les hostilités seraient limitées à certaines localités et qu'on n'entraverait pas les vaisseaux neutres en pleine mer, il s'abstiendrait d'émettre une Proclamation de neutralité dans les formes ordinaires et d'exercer strictement les droits de neutralité vis-à-vis des navires des belligérants dans les ports Britanniques, et qu'il se bornerait à la mise en vigueur du \"Foreign Enlistment Act.” \n\nIl s'était établi, à la suite de ces déclarations de votre Seigneurie, une sorte de modus vivendi, qui a été observé durant les derniers mois, et qui n'excluait pas la faculté pour les navires de guerre Français de se ravitailler dans les ports des mers des Indes et des mers de Chine.\n\nLes instructions qui viennent d'être envoyées aux autorités des possessions coloniales Anglaises, ont modifié profondément cet état de choses et donné au \"Foreign Enlistment Act\" une interprétation qui équivaut à une véritable déclaration de neutralité.\n\nLes bâtiments de nos escadres ne devant plus trouver dans les ports étrangers les facilités qu'ils y ont rencontrées jusqu'à présent, il n'y a plus de raison pour qu'ils s'abstiennent de soumettre les navires neutres à une exacte surveillance. La situation nouvelle qui leur est faite détermine mon Gouvernement à avancer l'heure qu'il aurait choisie pour revendiquer le plein et entier exercice des droits reconnus aux belligérants par la loi internationale. Des ordres en ce sens vont être adressés aux Commandants des escadres de la République et je suis chargé par M. Jules Ferry d'en faire part officiellement à votre Seigneurie.\n\nEn prenant cette résolution, mon Gouvernement entend d'ailleurs se conformer strictement aux règles de la Déclaration du Congrès de Paris du 16 Avril, 1856.\n\nLe parti auquel viennent de s'arrêter les Ministres de la République n'implique d'ailleurs aucun changement dans nos sentiments pour le Cabinet Anglais, dont nous nous plaisons à reconnaître la parfaite correction et les procédés bienveillants depuis le début de notre conflit avec la Chine. Pour bien marquer ces dispositions, des recommandations seront envoyées aux Commandants des forces navales Françaises afin qu'ils continuent à user de tous les égards et de tous les tempéraments conciliables avec les intérêts légitimes du commerce Britannique et la nécessité de prévenir l'importation en Chine de la contrebande de guerre.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\n[858]\n\n(Signé) WADDINGTON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329815, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "## \n32 \n\ncambodgiens, un annamite, deux chinois, un indien et un malais, nommés par S. M. le Roi du Cambodge sur une liste présentée par le gouverneur de la Cochinchine.\n\nArt. 11.\n\nLa présente convention dont, en cas de contestations et conformément aux usages diplomatiques, le texte français seul fera foi, confirme et complète le traité du 11 août 1863, les ordonnances royales et les conventions passées entre les deux gouvernements, en ce qu'ils n'ont pas de contraire aux dispositions qui précèdent.\n\nElle sera soumise à la ratification du Gouvernement de la République française, et l'instrument de ladite ratification sera remis à S. M. le Roi du Cambodge dans un délai aussi bref que possible.\n\nEn foi de quoi, S. M. le Roi du Cambodge et le Gouverneur de la Cochinchine ont signé le présent acte et y ont apposé leurs sceaux.\n\nFait à Phnom Penh, le dix-sept juin mil huit cent quatre-vingt-quatre.\n\nLe 17 juin, à cinq heures du matin, le lieutenant-colonel Miramond débarquait en face du palais et prenait position autour de la résidence royale avec une compagnie d'infanterie de marine et une compagnie de tirailleurs annamites. L'Alouette et trois canonnières qui avaient transporté ces troupes de Saigon mouillaient à petite distance.\n\nM. le gouverneur Thomson se présentait à six heures au palais accompagné de son chef de cabinet, du résident intérimaire, de deux aides de camp, du lieutenant de vaisseau commandant l'aviso l'Alouette, de deux officiers de ce bâtiment, et de M. Pavie, faisant fonctions d'interprète. Aucune résistance ne fut opposée, et il est absolument inexact que les troupes, comme on l'a prétendu dans certaines relations, aient dû envahir l'intérieur du palais. À la porte de la troisième enceinte, M. Thomson trouva le chef des gardiens du palais. Il demanda à être introduit auprès du roi. Un quart d'heure après, il fut reçu dans l'une des pièces de ses appartements particuliers. Le roi Norodom était étendu sur un lit de repos.\n\nLe gouverneur fit en peu de mots l'histoire des treize \n\n## \n33 \n\nN° 3482 \n\njours qui s'étaient écoulés depuis son arrivée à Phnom Penh; il insista sur le caractère blessant pour la puissance protectrice à qui Norodom devait la conservation de son trône du refus de discuter la Convention douanière, et de l'obstination à refuser une audience au représentant suprême du Protectorat; il fit ressortir l'esprit de conciliation et la longanimité dont il avait fait preuve, et il conclut en ces termes :\n\n« Le Gouvernement de la République française n'a jamais permis qu'il fût porté atteinte à sa dignité. L'injure, qui lui a été faite par le refus de discuter ses propositions et d'entendre sa réponse, est grave : je viens aujourd'hui, après avoir attendu quatre jours encore, en demander réparation.\n\n« J'exige donc des excuses et la signature d'une nouvelle convention qui, réalisant les réformes reconnues nécessaires dans l'intérêt du peuple cambodgien, démontrera à tous que la France, dont l'action protectrice, comme je l'ai déjà dit à Votre Majesté, s'étend moins sur la personne du roi que sur le royaume du Cambodge, comprend toute l'étendue des devoirs que lui impose le traité du 11 août 1863. »\n\nIl fit alors donner lecture du texte de la convention nouvelle.\n\nLe roi, qui s'était évidemment flatté jusqu'alors de nous lasser par sa résistance passive, qui se souvenait avoir tout obtenu de nous sans que nous eussions jamais exigé rien de sérieux de lui, eut peine à dissimuler sa surprise et son abattement. Il discuta encore et s'efforça d'atermoyer. Les ministres, introduits sur ces entrefaites, entendirent les explications de M. le Gouverneur, et il fut manifeste que la crainte seule des rancunes de Norodom les empêchait de se prononcer explicitement dans le sens de la résignation aux légitimes exigences du représentant de la France.\n\nLe roi ne s'y trompa pas, et il offrit de signer sur le champ la convention douanière.\n\nLe Gouverneur lui fit observer qu'il était trop tard, que", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329825, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "## Art. 7. \n\n## N° 3482 \n\n### Art. 3. \n\n5. M. le Roi de Siam renonce, pour lui et ses successeurs, à tout tribut, présent ou autre marque de vassalité de la part du Cambodge.\n\nDe son côté, S. M. l'Empereur des Français, s'engage à ne point s'emparer de ce royaume pour l'incorporer à ses possessions de Cochinchine.\n\n### Art. 4. \n\nLes provinces de Battambang et d'Angkor (Nakhon-Siemrap) resteront au royaume de Siam. Leurs frontières, ainsi que celles des autres provinces siamoises limitrophes du Cambodge, telles qu'elles sont reconnues de nos jours de part et d'autre, seront dans le plus bref délai, déterminées exactement à l'aide de poteaux ou autres marques, par une commission d'officiers siamois et cambodgiens, en présence et avec le concours d'officiers français désignés par le Gouverneur de la Cochinchine.\n\nLa délimitation opérée, il en sera dressé une carte exacte par les officiers français.\n\n### Art. 5. \n\nLes Siamois s'abstiendront de tout empiètement sur le territoire du Cambodge, et les Cambodgiens s'abstiendront également de tout empiètement sur le territoire siamois.\n\nToutefois, les habitants des deux pays auront la liberté de circuler, de faire le commerce et de résider pacifiquement sur les territoires respectifs.\n\nSi des sujets siamois se rendent coupables de quelques délits ou crimes sur le territoire du Cambodge, ils seront jugés et punis avec justice par le Gouvernement du Cambodge et suivant les lois de ce pays; si des sujets cambodgiens se rendent coupables de délits ou de crimes sur le territoire siamois, ils seront également jugés et punis avec justice par le Gouvernement siamois, suivant les lois de Siam.\n\n### Art. 6. \n\nLes bâtiments sous pavillon français pourront naviguer librement dans les parties du fleuve Mékong et de la mer intérieure qui touchent aux possessions siamoises. Le Gouvernement de S. M. le Roi de Siam mettra à la disposition des autorités de Saigon le nombre de passeports qu'elles jugeront nécessaires, pour être délivrés, après avoir été signés et apostillés par lesdites autorités, aux sujets français qui voudront se rendre dans ces parages. Sur le territoire siamois, ceux-ci devront se conformer en tout aux stipulations du traité de 1858 entre la France et le Siam. Le passeport, ci-dessus mentionné, tiendra lieu, en cas de relâche, de la passe exigée par l'art 7 dudit traité, et donnera aux porteurs, en cas d'urgence, le droit d'adresser directement leurs réclamations aux autorités siamoises.\n\nLe Gouvernement français s'engage à faire observer par le Cambodge les stipulations qui précèdent.\n\n### Art. 8. \n\nLe présent traité ayant été rédigé en français et en siamois, et les deux versions ayant la même portée et le même sens, le texte français sera officiel et fera foi sous tous les rapports, aussi bien que le texte siamois.\n\n### Art. 9. \n\nLe présent traité sera ratifié et les ratifications en seront échangées à Bangkok, dans le délai de cinq mois ou plus tôt si faire se peut.\n\nEn foi de quoi, les plénipotentiaires respectifs l'ont signé et y ont apposé le sceau de leurs armes.\n\nFait à Paris, en double expédition, le 15 juillet de l'an de grâce 1867 (le quatorzième jour de la huitième lune de l'année Tho: 1229 de l'ère siamoise.)\n\nL. S. Signé : **MOUSTIER**, **PHYA SURAWONGs Way Wat**, **PHRA KAXA SENA**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329837, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "C. O. \n4.005 \n158 \n\narms and munitions of war from Hongkong. \nI am, Sir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \nRumble Bauncesto \nNo. 43. \n9 MAR 85 \n\n## M. Waddington to Earl Granville.---(Received February 4.) \nM. le Comte, \nAmbassade de France, Londres, le 4 Février, 1885.\n\nUN bâtiment Allemand vient de débarquer à Hong Kong plusieurs canons de 15 tonnes qui semblent destinés à la Chine. Le Gouvernement de cette Colonie Anglaise, auquel le Consul de France a cru devoir signaler ce fait, a déclaré que, dans son opinion, le **\"Foreign Enlistment Act\"** n'était pas applicable dans l'espèce. Il est donc à craindre que les canons dont il s'agit et d'autres marchandises de même nature ne parviennent, par la voie de Hong Kong, aux autorités Chinoises.\n\nJe suis chargé d'attirer l'attention du Gouvernement de la Reine sur ce trafic, dont les conséquences présenteraient une gravité spéciale par suite de la situation de Hong Kong.\n\nSans vouloir émettre un avis sur l'interprétation que comporte le **\"Foreign Enlistment Act,\"** je dois faire observer à votre Excellence que l'autorité Coloniale n'est pas désarmée en cette circonstance, ainsi que l'établit une Proclamation émanant du Gouverneur de Hong Kong, et qui a été publiée par la **Gazette du Gouvernement** de cette Colonie, à la date du 6 Mars, 1884.\n\nCette Proclamation avait en effet pour but de prohiber l'importation et l'exportation des armes et munitions pendant une période de six mois; elle avait été promulguée en conformité d'une Ordonnance de 1862 et sur la demande du Vice-Roi des Deux Kouangs à l'occasion d'une rébellion sur le territoire Chinois. Mon Gouvernement se plaît à penser que le Secrétaire d'État pour les Colonies jugera opportun d'inviter Sir G. Bowen à remettre en vigueur les dispositions qu'il avait cru devoir prendre l'année dernière, pour répondre au désir des autorités Chinoises.\n\nJe prie votre Seigneurie de vouloir bien m'informer le plus promptement possible du résultat de ma démarche.\n\nVeuillez, &c. \n(Signé) WADDINGTON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332658, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "content_text": "No. 52.\n\n1138 Reed a\n\nBy d 21. Jou - 86\n\nMemorandum on demi-official Letter from Sir R. Hart, dated 31st October, 1885, with Accompaniments.\n\n11\n\nAs regards the first of the special considerations urged in the body of Sir R. Hart's letter, it must be observed that the arrangement formulated in the Additional Article of the 18th July, 1885, is precisely that which has all along been desired by the Chinese Government, and has been represented by the Tsung-li Yamên as containing all they required.*\n\nWith reference to the second consideration, it may be remarked that the Chinese Minister urged that the opium arrangement was a necessary preliminary to the abolition of inland li-kin on goods other than opium, which the Chinese Government had in contemplation. This abolition, it is understood, is what is desired by Germany.†\n\nAnd as regards the fourth point, it is to be noted that it was at the special desire of the Chinese Government that it was left to them to induce the other Treaty Powers to accede to the Additional Article.‡\n\nIt is evident from the above that the Chinese Government cannot fairly claim any concessions or arrangements in the matter of opium beyond those contained in the Additional Article.\n\nAt the same time, Her Majesty's Government are desirous to do all in their power to facilitate the realization of the revenue from opium which it was the object of the Additional Article to secure to China.\n\nSir R. Hart represents that this object is not adequately attained by the provisions of the Additional Article alone, and the suggestions he has transmitted are intended to effect it. Her Majesty's Government are, therefore, willing that these suggestions, with the exceptions noted below, shall be considered by the Commission provided for in Clause VII of Section 3 of the Chefoo Agreement to inquire into the question of the prevention of smuggling into China from Hong Kong. It is desirable that this Commission should be appointed as soon as possible, as contemplated by Clause 9 of the Additional Article.\n\nTwo of the proposals of Sir R. Hart, however, seem to be altogether inadmissible. The effect of Clause B of the second proposal would apparently be that China would realise a revenue from the taxation of the opium consumed by the population of Hong Kong, to which Her Majesty's Government could not assent. And the fifth proposal is that Her Majesty's Government shall prevent opium from being exported to China from Indian or colonial ports except in vessels under the flag of a Power which has accepted the Additional Article. This could be effected only by legislation which the Government of India would certainly decline to undertake, as being contrary to the principles of their policy, and which would also be nugatory, since there could be no means of preventing the subsequent transhipment of the opium to other vessels bound to China.\n\n* See Memoranda addressed by the Prince of Kung to Sir T. Wade of January 25, 1882, and February 2, 1882; and Sir T. Wade's despatch to Earl Granville of June 3, 1882.\n\n† See Memorandum of the Marquis Tsêng of March 12, 1883, sent to Earl Granville.\n\n‡ See paragraph 2 of Earl Granville's Confidential note of April 27, 1883; the last two paragraphs of the Marquis Tseng's Memorandum of September 27, 1884; the penultimate paragraphs of Earl Granville's note to the Marquis Tseng of February 9, 1885; and the last paragraph but two of the Marquis Tseng's Memorandum of March 18, 1885.\n\nNos. 39, 42, 44, and 47.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332975, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "page_number": 329, "title": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "content_text": "Mr. Walpole to Sir P. Currie.-(Received August 2.)\n\nC. 328\n\n14970\n\nRECR\n\n\\REGY 21 AUG (6)\n\nIndia Office, July 29, 1886.\n\nIN the course of the correspondence which has taken place during the last few months relative to the new Opium Agreement with China, three plans for the prevention or diminution of smuggling have been suggested--(1) by Sir R. Hart, to the effect that the tax on the drug in question should be levied at Hong Kong instead of in China;* (2) by Mr. O'Conor, who considered that the carrying trade in opium might, perhaps, be limited to British ships; and (3) by Mr. Lister, who proposed that an export duty should be imposed in India on all packages exported from that country, the proceeds being divided between Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and China.\n\nThe first of these schemes has been practically rejected by the decision of Her Majesty's Government that they could not assent to the levy of taxation from the population of Hong Kong for the benefit of the Chinese Government, a result which the adoption of Sir R. Hart's proposals would involve.\n\nFrom the accompanying papers it will be seen that the Government of India have not under their consideration any scheme for restricting the export of opium from India to ships carrying any particular flag. In these circumstances, the question is narrowed to the last of the schemes referred to above.\n\nIt will be observed that the Viceroy in Council does not view with favour any proposals for levying in India an export duty on opium.\n\nIn addition to the many and formidable difficulties to which attention is drawn in the papers now forwarded for the Earl of Rosebery's consideration, any arrangement by which one Power is to collect taxation on behalf of another nation is not only opposed to precedent, but in certain contingencies might be productive of grave international complications. Nor, in spite of the apparent interest which the Chinese authorities have recently evinced in the adoption of some plan in the direction indicated, is it altogether free from doubt whether opposition would not arise--as in 1879, when a similar proposal was suggested by Sir T. Wade--in the event of the matter being seriously discussed. Moreover, apart from the objections to the various schemes suggested, the Secretary of State for India in Council concurs entirely in the view expressed by the Government of India and by Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, that it would be premature to enter upon any negotiations involving a change of system until it is seen how far the new Convention can be satisfactorily worked, or, at any rate, until the Hong Kong Commission shall have submitted its Report. It is understood from Sir P. Currie's letter of the 8th instant that Lord Rosebery also is of this opinion, in which case it will rest with his Lordship to make such communication to the Chinese Government as may be advisable if any further communication is considered to be necessary.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHORACE WALPOLE.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 1 in No.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nThe Governor-General of India in Council to the Earl of Kimberley.\n\nSimla, June 5, 1886.\n\nWE have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatches, noted in the margin,§ on the subject of the opium negotiations with China.\n\n2. With reference to the inquiry made in paragraph 2 of your Lordship's despatch of the 11th February, 1886, we beg to state that we have not under our consideration any scheme for restricting the export of opium from India to ships carrying any particular flag.\n\n3. We forward, however, a copy of correspondence, detailed in the accompanying\n\n*See Confidential Print, 1885, No. 51, pp. 32-35; also 1886, No. 20, pp. 8-10.\n\n+ See Mr. O'Conor's No. 441, Confidential Print, 1885, p. 31.\n\n‡ See Confidential Print, 1885, No. 48, p. 29.\n\n§ Dated the 28th January, 11th February, 25th February, 4th March, and 25th March, 1886, [257]\n\nB", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334025, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 309, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "302\n\n296\n\nTHE SANITARY RECORD.\n\n(F) Power of Entry\nUnder sect. 102, Public Health Act, 1875, the local authority or any of its officers have power of entry to any premises to examine for nuisances, enforcing the smoke prevention provisions, or examine as to recurring nuisances.\n\nTo enter upon land (sect. 105, Public Health Act, 1875) for the purposes of making plans, surveying, measuring, levelling, keeping in repair or examining works, ascertain the course of sewers or drains, or ascertaining or fixing boundaries and many other purposes.\n\nQuestion 3.\nWhat are the chief principles to be observed in the sewerage of a town or district, and how would you proceed to determine the size and capacity of the outfall sewer? What size of sewer would you propose for a town of 25,000 population where the gradient is 1 in 300? Illustrate your answer by sketches.\n\nAnswer: Geographical configuration, annual average rainfall, number of present population and prospective increase, taking the last census as a basis. Whether a full water-closet town, or if to be sewered on the separate system: the nature of the outfall with a view to gravitation or mechanical lifting, and other minor causes.\n\nThe size of the outfall sewer, in my opinion, should be not less than 3 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 6 inches, discharging 185 cubic feet per minute, thus allowing the sewage at 30 cubic feet per head per day to be discharged in eight hours. On the separate system this capacity for a full water closet town, and to allow for heavy rainfalls, say 3 feet by 4 feet 6 inches, if rain or surface waters is to be included, discharging 267 cubic feet per minute, with the inclination given of 1 in 300.\n\nQuestion 4\nWrite a specification for laying stoneware pipe sewers.\n\nAnswer: Being the specification for a pipe sewer, I assume that any local surveyor would be equal to this, and as it would take up a very considerable space in the SANITARY RECORD, without a corresponding benefit to surveyors generally, I omit to take up the space, the general features of such a specification being that the pipes shall be straight, sound, and true to bore, well and truly laid, and jointed in a perfectly water-tight manner; the earth excavated at the collars so that the body of the pipe may have a true bearing along its whole length. If in faulty ground concreted all around and on top to exclude uneven pressure; if on good ground, then the earth put in 6-inch layers, well rammed in around and above to avoid sinkage. All laid in straight lines from manhole to manhole, with provision for ventilation and lighting, so that a lamp inserted at a lamphole may be seen and show a light to an adjacent manhole, thus at once showing where any stoppage existed.\n\nQuestion 5.\nSupposing a sewer to have a gradient of 1 in 300, how much would the velocity and discharge be increased by altering the gradient to 1 in 60?\n\nAnswers: 1 in 300 = 4/57*32) = 7*92 increase of discharge per second. 1 in 60 = /1000 = 10*00) = 17*32 (1.732 increase of velocity per second.\n\n1005\n\n7320\n\n2000\n\n3200\n\n3000\n\n2000\n\n22000\n\nQuestion 6.\nGive a description of the process termed intermittent downward filtration. State what area of land you would require with a gravelly soil for applying this method of purifying sewage to a town with a population of 20,000 inhabitants; and state the arrangements you would adopt for dealing with the rain water falling on the roofs, yards, and streets.\n\nAnswer: Intermittent downward filtration may be termed a natural system of purification of sewage by means of the filtering and aërating action of the soil: it is carried on by discharging (with or without previous precipitation) upon a properly prepared area, the sewage of the town under drainage. This sewage is conducted upon the prepared area by a series of carriers, and then allowed to filter through the land into drains laid about 6 feet under ground, from whence it (as an effluent) is conducted to its outfall, mostly a river. The action upon the sewage is threefold—viz., evaporation, aëration, and filtration, and if properly conducted should give an effluent of a very high standard.\n\nAs to the amount of land requisite for the purification of the sewage of a town of 20,000 population, authorities differ, but taking the daily amount of sewage per head at 30 gallons, and the average of five persons to each house equal to 150 gallons per house per day, then the fact that this quantity must be got rid of in about eight hours, it would not be safe to reckon less than 1,000 gallons per house. Then taking 4,000 houses, there would be 4,000,000 gallons of sewage to deal with, which could be successfully treated on 5 acres of such land; but it would, of course, require that a very far larger amount should be provided, as no land could be expected to be constantly under treatment, and the least amount should be five times this quantity, so as to have only one-fifth under treatment.\n\nGreat diversity of opinion exists upon this subject, and no very hard and fast line can be drawn. Each case must rest upon individual merits and local circumstances.\n\nWith regard to dealing with rain-water from roofs, most of it should undoubtedly be stored for domestic use, as it is far too valuable to be uselessly wasted. Drainage from yards and roads should be conducted in separate channels (from the sewer proper) to a natural outfall: although often in storms the washings from roads may be nearly as bad as sewage; but, on the other hand, if the surface-water were admitted, the sewers would have to be greatly increased in size to provide for excessive rainfall.\n\nQuestion 7.\nDescribe and illustrate by sketches the essential points to be observed in carrying out a system of house drainage, and the best means of providing urinal and closet accommodation for schools, workhouses, and similar institutions.\n\nQuestion 8.\nIn arranging the water supply for a manufacturing town of 30,000 inhabitants, state what you consider of importance as regards (A) Sources of supply; (B) Quantity required; (C) Distribution.\n\nAnswer: (A) The geographical situation of the town, as to the possibility of gravitation from rivers or otherwise; the geological situation of its surroundings, with a view to its probability of affording a sufficiency of supply and its nature as to hardness, &c.; the annual average rainfall: what water rights, if any, existed; the present population and prospective rate of increase, and whether the town was a full water-closet one or otherwise.\n\n(B) Twenty-five to thirty gallons per head population.\n\n(C) Under pressure that all cisterns had ball-cocks and tell-tale overflows; that Deacon's waste-water preventers were in use; that a thorough system of inspection existed to detect waste; that the mains were well laid and efficiently jointed, and that a sufficiency existed for immediate use in case of fire. In the constant service system there is very little, if any, waste; the returns from many towns showing none; but in the intermittent there is often a large amount of waste through neglect of the inhabitants and defective fittings. The screw-down tap somewhat modifies this, but it is a very slow and unsatisfactory way of drawing water.\n\nQuestion 9.\nDescribe the general characters of the waters derived from—(1) The chalk; (2) the new red sandstone; (3) the carboniferous formations; and the methods by which water should be obtained from each.\n\nAnswer: (1) Water derived from the chalk formation, although generally pure and plentiful (except in long seasons of drought), is often very hard, leaving injurious effects on some constitutions.\n\n(2) Water derived from the new red sandstone formation is sometimes of a rather hard description, but not to the degree of that yielded by the chalk formation.\n\n(3) The carboniferous (or coal measure) formations always yields soft water of undoubted purity, and generally in ample volume for all purposes.\n\nQuestion 10.\nIn what ways is water able to be polluted after collection, during its distribution to houses, and in houses? What means would you adopt to prevent such pollution?\n\nAnswer: Water may become polluted after collection by fungoid growths and atmospheric influences (where exposed to such): during distribution, from imperfect pipes and joints allowing sewer or other gas to enter the mains; in houses, by improper fittings, such as a cistern in direct communication with the drain, or so placed as to be difficult of cleansing, and frequently not ventilated, and other insidious causes.\n\nQuestion 11.\nWhat fittings, and plumber's work generally are required for a high-pressure constant water service? How would you make the connection with the main? Describe the kinds of joints which should be used on the branches?\n\nAnswer: The class of fittings required for the high-pressure constant service are iron tubular services with iron angle or T-pieces, either tinned or galvanised. Where lead must be used the joints should be what is known as plumber's or wiped joints, the taps being those known as the high-pressure screw-down service taps, the connection with the main being by a ferrule; plumber's joints on branches, unless iron unions are used.\n\nQuestion 12.\nThere is great difficulty in obtaining a supply of good water for a country house, and it is therefore necessary to obtain as much water as possible from the roofs, and to use it for drinking and cooking purposes. The total area of area of the roof of the house and offices is 8,000 square feet, and the average annual rainfall is about 40 inches. Calculate what size the storage tank should be, and give a sketch of it and of its appendages?\n\nAnswer: Size of storage tank, 160,000 gallons.\n\nQuestion 13.\nTo what extent does the size of a room affect the quantity of fresh air required for effective ventilation, and what quantity of air would be required per hour for a room containing 8,000 cubic feet, occupied by fifteen people? How would you ventilate such a room? Illustrate your answer by sketches.\n\nAnswer: Douglas Galton in 'Healthy Homes' quotes: \"According to theoretical calculations, it would appear that, with an initial air space of 1,000 cubic feet, occupied by one individual, it would be necessary to supply 3,000 cubic feet per hour, to maintain the room in a proper condition of humidity. As regards other impurities, if 0.6 per 1,000 of CO2 are accepted as the limit of respiratory impurity in a well-ventilated air space, in addition to the 0.4 per 1,000 in normal air, we can calculate out the amount of air necessary for the purpose; and from this calculation it appears that it requires 3,000 cubic feet per hour to preserve the air-space in the required state of freshness. Thus the theoretical calculations, based first upon humidity, and secondly on carbonic acid, bring us to similar conclusions in each case.\"\n\nDe Chaumont in Parkes' 'Practical Hygiene': \"A certain amount of fresh air has to pass through a given space in a fixed time in order to maintain a certain degree of purity; the amount has been fixed at 3,000 cubic feet for each healthy person in an hour. Thus a space of 100 cubic feet must have its air changed thirty times in an hour. If 3,000 feet of air are to be given, while a space of 1,000 cubic feet need only have it changed three times in an hour for an equal ventilation, then our problem being 15 persons in a room of 8,000 cubic feet, would work out thus: - 3,000 x 15 = 45,000 cubic feet of air as requisite. The room being of 8,000 cubic feet capacity would require the air to be changed nearly 5.6 times in an hour.\n\nCOMPETITIONS.\nSANITARY INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN.\nAt an Examination, held Nov. 11 and 12, 62 Candidates presented themselves as Local Surveyors and 59 as Inspectors of Nuisances. The questions were set to be answered in writing on Nov. 11, and the Candidates were examined viva voce on Nov. 12. The Institute's Certificate of Competency to discharge the duties of Local Surveyor was awarded to John Reid Anderson, John F. Curwen, John William Metcalf, Charles Chambers Smith; and the Institute's Certificate of Competency to discharge the duties of Inspector of Nuisances was awarded to James Barfoot, John Barron, Daniel Bartley Bostel, G. Stanford Bostel, Harry D. Bowyer, Edmund Bradshaw, Charles E. Brown, Albert Chadderton, David Christie, William Hatch Clayton, George William Cobham, John F. Elliott, John William Hart, Albert Hodges, W. Lee Holding, Joseph Huxley, Joshua Jameson, Edgar E. Jury, Richard C. Lindop, Arthur Henry Lukes, Charles MacMahon, R. McCulloch, Adam Luke McDonald, William Edwin Newbery, John Henry Ollett, William Parsons, William Robert Pearson, Charles Poole, Christopher Raimes, George Russell, Ambrose J. Shore, Charles Chambers Smith, Edwin Smith, Henry Charles Soper, Henry Spadaccini, Alfred William Stone, William Tate, John Tunstall, Samuel Turner, James A. Webb, Charles Turle Wilson, Charles Bruce Wood.\n\nAPPOINTMENTS.\nMEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH.\nANNINGSON, Bushell, M.D.Cantab, has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Cambridge Urban Sanitary District, at £350 for one year, and for the Chesterton Urban Sanitary District, at £50 for one year.\n\nATKINSON, Francis Edward, L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Craven Combined District, comprising the Haworth, Oakworth, Oven-temple, Silsden, and Skipton Urban Sanitary Districts, and the Keighley, Settle, and Skipton Rural Sanitary Districts, at £150 per annum, for three years.\n\nBARNES, George, L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Chard Urban Sanitary District, at £10 for one year.\n\nBLANISTON, Aubrey, L.R.C.P.Edin., L.R.C.S.Edin., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Wareham Urban Sanitary District, at £10 per annum.\n\nCLARK, William Wake, M.B. Univ. Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Higham-Ferrers newly formed Urban Sanitary District, at £15 per annum.\n\nGREATREX, Adolphus Barnell, M.D.Univ. St.And., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.M., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Kidsgrove Urban Sanitary District, at the rate of £20 per annum, until March 25 next, vice Brigham, resigned.\n\nHODGSON, Isaac Clark, M.B., C.M.Univ.Glasg., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Workington Port Sanitary District, at £5 for one year.\n\nMEREDITH, John, M.D.Univ. Edin., L.R.C.S.Edin., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Wellington (Som.) Urban Sanitary District, at £60 per annum, for three years.\n\nPATTERSON, George Henry, L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Dalton-in-Furness Urban Sanitary District, at £30 for the year ending Dec. 25, 1887.\n\nRAWSON, Edwin Ellsworth, L.R.C.P.Edin. and L.M., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Thornton Urban Sanitary District, Yorkshire, at £27 for one year.\n\nREDDING, J. H. Douglas, L.R.C.P.Edin., L.R.C.S.Edin., L.M., L.F.P.S.Glasg., and L.M., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Huntingdon Urban Sanitary District, at £24 for one year.\n\nSHEA, John, M.B. Univ. Lond., M.D. Univ. St.And., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the combined Reading and Wokingham Rural and Urban Sanitary Districts, at £385 per annum, from Dec. 25, 1886.\n\nTABOR, Charles James, M.B.Univ. Durh., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Joga Division of the Redruth Rural Sanitary District, at £18 per annum, vice Reed, deceased.\n\nTURNER, Frederick, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Buxton Urban Sanitary District, at £40 for one year.\n\nSURVEYORS, CLERKS TO GUARDIANS, INSPECTORS OF NUISANCES, &c.\nARCHIBALD, Mr. G. T., has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Workington Port Sanitary District, at £5 for one year.\n\nARNFIELD, Mr. Edwin, has been elected a Member of the New Mills Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Stafford, deceased.\n\nBATE, Mr. Alfred Goodwin, has been appointed Collector to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Reigate, at £150 per annum, vice Apted, resigned.\n\nBEAUMONT, Mr. J. M., has been elected a Member of the Elland Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Crowther, resigned.\n\nBOLLAM, Mr. Frederick, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Wareham Urban Sanitary District, at £10 per annum.\n\nCLAYTON, Mr. William, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Southowram Urban Sanitary District, at £10 for one year.\n\nCOLE, Mr. Arthur Henry, has been appointed an Inspector of Nuisances for the Leicester Urban Sanitary District, and Inspector of Food, and of Dairies, &c., at £100 per annum, vice Wand, resigned.\n\nCOX, Mr. James Henry, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Hailsham Rural Sanitary District, Sussex, at £81 per annum, vice Martin, deceased.\n\nCROGHAN, Mr. Thomas Andrew, C.E., has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Buxton Urban Sanitary District, at £5 for one year.\n\nFLATER, Mr. George Clavell, Solicitor, has been appointed Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority, Wareham, at £30 per annum.\n\nGORDON, Mr. E. S., has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the East Grinstead Urban Sanitary District, at £20 per annum, vice Brown, resigned.\n\nGREENWOOD, Mr. Joseph, has been re-appointed an Inspector of Nuisances for the Ulverstone Rural Sanitary District, at £15 per annum, and Surveyor at £30 per annum, for three years, from Jan. 1, 1887.\n\nGRIFFITHS, Colonel, has been elected a Member of the Broadstairs Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Todd, resigned.\n\nHART, Mr. Alfred, has been appointed Surveyor, Inspector of Nuisances, and Collector, to the Ashbourne Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, Derbyshire, at £100 per annum, vice Bourne, resigned.\n\nHARKOP, Mr. Arthur Jenkins, Local Manager of the Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company, has been appointed Treasurer to the newly-formed Cheadle and Gatley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority.\n\nHAWKINS, Mr. Richard P. B., Solicitor, has been appointed Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority of Woodstock.\n\nJONES, Mr. George, jun., has been appointed Surveyor and Collector to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Wareham, at £30 per annum.\n\nJOHNSON, Mr. Henry, has been appointed Treasurer to the Bingley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Brown, resigned.\n\nKENDRICK, Mr. James, has been elected a Member of the Tipton Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Underhill, resigned.\n\nKINGTON, Mr. Joel, Inspector of Nuisances for the Idle Urban Sanitary District, Yorkshire, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886, made pursuant to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts of 1878 and 1886.\n\nLAUGHTON, Mr. James, has been elected a Member of the Bromsgrove Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Amphlett, deceased.\n\nLUCY, Mr. Charles Frederick, Local Manager of the York Union Banking Co., has been appointed Treasurer to the Pickering Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, Yorkshire, vice Clarkson, resigned.\n\nMARSH, Mr. Samuel, has been elected a Member of the Bampton Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Dart, resigned.\n\nMATTHEWS, Mr. George Somers, the Surveyor and Inspector of Nuisances to the Dorking Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies and Covered Sheds Orders of 1885 and 1886, at £10 for one year.\n\nPOTTER, Mr. Charles John, has been elected a Member of the Willington-Quay Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice O'Brien, disqualified by non-attendance for six months.\n\nPROCTER, Mr. Thomas, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Dalton-in-Furness Urban Sanitary District, at £65 for the year ending Dec. 25, 1887.\n\nPROSE, Mr. John Edwyn, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Ludlow Urban Sanitary District, at £25 for one year.\n\nRUBBRA, Mr. W. A., Manager of the Wellingborough and Higham-Ferrers Branch of the Northamptonshire Union Bank, has been appointed Treasurer to the newly chartered Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers.\n\nSALTHOUSE, Mr. John, has been re-appointed an Inspector of Nuisances for the Ulverstone Rural Sanitary District, at £10 per annum, for three years, from Jan. 1, 1887.\n\n[DEC. 15, 1886,\n\n297", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335793, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 409, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "## \nwith an elevated broken plateau having an average height of about 5,000 feet, and no communication by water with the plains that encompass it on the north, south, and east, and that this plateau breaks away precipitately to the valleys of the Yang-tzu on the north, and the Irrawaddy, Mekong, and Red River on the west and south, and somewhat more easily to the valley of the Canton West River and to the plains of Kwang-si and Hunan on the south and east. It should farther be noted that this elevated district, which projects for 10° of longitude between Indo-China and the Yang-tzu, has no level surface whatever except an occasional lake basin, and that on the west and south-west its rivers and streams have eaten out deep broad ravines that are often impassable and always difficult and dangerous, both from their steepness and from the poisoned air which they harbour. (See next Part-Yuan-chiang Chou-and Baber's account of the Salween, R. G. S. Supplementary Papers, p. 177.) \n\nTo return to Yünnan Fu, it will now appear clearly that this city is at the end of each of these routes, and occupies a central position admirable as a seat of Government, supplied as it is with abundant food from the drained part of the ancient lake. If there were water communication, or even fair roads across the plateau, there would doubtless be a great entrepôt at Yunnan Fu, but an inspection of the altitudes observed on this journey and by Mr. Baber must make an exchange of products across this district a priori very unlikely. Actually, I found that the different sides of this plateau are supplied from the nearest lowland. Thus, to take two examples, cotton and tobacco, both absolute necessities to Chinese existence, which the plateau does not produce: cotton is supplied to North Yünnan from Ssü-ch'uan, to West Yünnan as far east as Yünnan Fu from Burmah, to South-west Yünnan as far east as Mêng-tzu Hsien from the Shan States and Siam, to South-east Yünnan from Canton, and to Kuei-chou from Hankow by the Yuan River. Tobacco is supplied to the north of the province from Ssu-ch'uan and to the south from Canton. Salt, another necessary, of which the plateau does not afford a sufficient supply, enters the province from Ssu-ch'uan, Burmah, Tonquin (before the new Treaty), and the Kwang-si Province. \n\nBut there are adventitious circumstances which make Yünnan Fu more important as a trade centre than it deserves, or is likely to remain. The whole of the tea consumed in the province and a large share of the better quality of tea consumed in Ssu-ch'uan, together with a small quantity sent to Thibet, come from the Shan States outside Ssă-mao, and of this trade Yünnan Fu is the depôt. Excepting small quantities consumed locally and a few caravans that go direct to Western Yunnan and Thibet by the Ching-tung Valley, the whole out-turn of this tea-Pu-erh tea as it is called-goes to Yünnan Fu; this tea may be valued at about 50,000l. per annum. A great part goes to Western Yunnan, for the supply of which we may expect our Assam planters to provide in the future. \n\nAgain, the exhaustion caused by 20 years of indiscriminate slaughter and pillage, involving the destruction of the old industries of the province-mining, silk rearing, and manufacture, &c.—with which increased demand for opium in Ssú-ch'uan and the eastern provinces happened to coincide, led to the adoption of poppy cultivation as the great industry of the plateau. Yunnan and Kuei-chou now pay for the whole of their foreign imports in opium, the merchants of Nanning Fu and Hongkong having often to wait for their money until the Canton and Kwang-si Provinces have paid for the Yunnan and Kuei-chou opium crop. Yunnan Fu is a depôt of the opium trade of Eastern Yünnan and of the foreign and Canton goods that are received in exchange. \n\nExports from Yünnan Fu are opium, Pu-erh tea, drugs, and copper, and the imports are cotton, tobacco, and foreign goods. \n\nThe first thing to notice about foreign imports is that the description of piece-goods, much the most important item, differs greatly from that in vogue on the Yang-tzu, so that the reason for this is that, there being water communication to Chungking, a heavier description of goods is sent than to Yunnan, where pack animals and porters are the only means of carriage, so that every additional pound of weight per piece forms a serious addition to cost of transit. Prices for my samples would therefore have been delusive, but the conclusion seemed to be that prices were rather higher, and that for goods of lighter texture and inferior quality than at Ch'ungking. Foreign goods, almost without exception, come from Hong Kong by way of Pakhoi or Ch'in-chou to Nanning Fu, thence by boat to Po-sê T'ing and Po-ngai, and thence by caravan through Kwang-nan Fu. Suggestions as to improvements were, that aniline dyes should regain their former excellence; that long ells should be stouter, somewhat absurd considering that the same merchant had explained why they were so flimsy; and that piece-goods should be dyed a light blue, which was all the fashion, instead of the habitual indigo. \n\n## ROUTE SKETCH \nTO ILLUSTRATE REPORT BY \nF. S.A. BOURNE. \n\n## II. \nPI-CHIEH HSIEN \nΟΙ \nYUN NAN-FU. \n\n| Location | Altitude (English Feet) |\n|-----------------|-------------------------|\n| Kan-show-p | |\n| PI-CHIEH KSIEN | 4950 |\n| Piny shan pay | |\n| Lane Cha-hoing R.(not nav.) | 9180 |\n| WEI-NING CHOU | |\n| Chin-to | |\n| apr 5 Lion san p'u | 6430 |\n| | 3853 |\n| Ko tu B. (not nav.) | 5220 |\n| (Boundary between Yunnan and Kao-chou) | |\n| Gure man | |\n| T'ang tang | 5830 |\n| (not nav.) | |\n| HSUAN WEI CHOU | 6650 |\n| Pan ch tao | 6530 |\n| Ramy - ouye - Bway | +6740 |\n| 2 CHAN-) CHOU | +6350 |\n| | 6370 |\n| YUN-NAN FU | |\n| Yorry lin | |\n| MA LUNG CHOU____| 6930 |\n| | 6830 |\n| 1.1ung | (12 -8/97, 1331/8.0 486 |\n\nEnglish Miles \n10 5 0 \n\nSema að saga Jumam \nHarrison & Sons, Lith. S' Martien Lana.W.C", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345762, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\n## SUNDAY LABOUR.\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE \"DAILY PRESS.\"\n\nSIR,-Last year the Postal Authorities at home ventured to inflict on Bombay what was then denounced as a social calamity, viz., that the P. & O. mail steamers should leave there every Sunday for London. Immediately this report was out, all Bombay and his wife were mighty indignant, and a loud howl was raised on all sides. The agitation took the form of a very large public meeting, attended by thousands of people, including the Bishops, Judges, Magistrates, lawyers, doctors, merchants, and clerks; in short, all sorts and conditions of men made a common cause of it, and rose to a man for a firm and emphatic protest against the proposed change. They telegraphed their proceedings to London, and they quite overpowered the authorities in Downing Street. So signal was the success that the proposed change had to be abandoned wholly and entirely, there and then. But, in the colony of Hongkong, who is it that suffers? Oh! only sailors and seamen, and \"coolies\" to some degree. The taipans do have their Saturdays (one half) and Sundays for picnics and pleasure; then why should they bother their heads in the matter?\n\nA LOOKER-ON,\n\nHongkong, 28th October, 1890.\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION.\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE \"DAILY PRESS,\"\n\nSIR, Some of the agitators, finding themselves in a corner, make what seems to me the grossly unjust, but fortunately wholly impracticable, proposal to enforce Sunday idleness (Satan will find some mischief for the idle hands to do) on the Chinese crews of junks and necessarily on thousands of shore hands, and say that they have to submit to it in the Treaty Ports. This is altogether a mistake, and as many persons in Hongkong are unaware of the arrangements at the Treaty Ports, I think it ought to be made fully known that the junks there do not come under the foreign Customs, only vessels of foreign type, and that the discharging and loading of cargo goes on every day. To put the Colony at so great a disadvantage compared to the Treaty Ports would be interfering with Chinese customs with a vengeance. Whatever is done, there should be no misrepresentation; let us have no half truths.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nLAOU SHANGHAI,\n\nHongkong, 22nd October, 1890.\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nthemselves, by simply declining to do what their employers have neither a legal nor a moral right to demand of them, as a man is bound to obey only just and lawful commands. But is the command to perform such duties as loading or discharging cargo on Sunday a just or lawful command? Would any Magistrate in Hongkong—putting the force of public opinion aside—consider it a lawful command? I think not. So that I would again repeat: \"where there is no right there can be no duty.\" A man is entitled to one day's rest in seven, as he is entitled to twelve hours' rest in the twenty-four: by custom and usage, it has become a necessity of nature to him. According to our ideas, unless under exceptional circumstances, even voluntary labour on Sunday is wrong. Involuntary Sunday labour is morally criminal; the difference is the difference between the labour of a freeman and a slave.\n\nThe Government would seem to be wise in abstaining from legislating on the subject; the time for a hard and fast law has not yet arrived. Let strict observance of Sunday as a day of rest from labour be recognised as the custom and usage of the port of Hongkong, and it will be as easy to enforce it here as elsewhere. A short time since, it became necessary to increase the light dues for a particular purpose, and they were raised one hundred and fifty per cent. The Government can likewise, with as little difficulty, put a tonnage tax on Sunday labour afloat that would press equally on all classes of steamers. A privilege not worth paying for is not worth having. Ashore, the solution of the question mainly lies with the representatives of our two principal British shipping houses in the Colony; let them stop working their steamers on Sunday, and the rest will follow easy. Why not graciously concede as a favour to their employés what must assuredly come to pass before long, with their consent or without it? Not so very long ago, the departure of the mails on Monday was considered a hardship to merchants and their clerks, because it entailed attendance at their offices on Sunday to write their correspondence. The result was, the mail day was altered, and the merchant enjoyed his Sunday undisturbed—the aphorism about \"Sauce for the goose,\" &c.\n\nLet me recall the arguments in favour of Sunday labour seem strained and somewhat frivolous. The difficulties conjured up may turn out imaginary. The Chinese bogey will not do. The question resolves itself down to whether, for the mere purpose of utilizing Sunday, shipowners will be allowed a privilege in Hongkong which is refused them without heavy payment in most ports of the world, and denied them altogether in others.\n\nAs a ship's officer, I would demand as a right the cessation of labour on Sunday so far as I was myself concerned; as a shipowner, in the sense of being a shareholder in our three local shipping companies, and with other shipping interests of equal importance, I would advocate, as a matter of sound policy, the total cessation of Sunday labour on board ship, on the grounds of its being mostly unnecessary and called for simply by excessive competition.\n\nR. TALBOT.\n\nHongkong, 20th October, 1890.\n\n## THE SUNDAY LABOR QUESTION.\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE \"DAILY PRESS,\"\n\nSIR,—The question of Sunday labour on board ship in Hongkong Harbour by European officers has become confused and mixed up with that of Chinese labour on shore—with which, in my opinion, it has little to do—until the hardworked ship's officer has arrived at the, to him, flattering conclusion that the whole social and commercial system of Hongkong depends upon whether he works or does not work on Sunday, and not the rule.\n\nNow, so far as the question extends to Chinese, I think it is susceptible of proof that the bulk of the Chinese afloat, cargo boatmen, coolies, &c., are against Sunday labour. Hardly be engaged on Sunday, they are prompt to tell you: \"B'long Sunday, no wauchee work.\" Coolies or cargo boats can hardly be engaged on Sunday. Chinese merchants seem mostly indifferent. It certainly does not seem a question of much importance to them. They certainly cannot be said to be strongly in favour of Sunday work; their conversation does not lead one to conclude they are so. That Chinese of all classes, both here and at Shanghai and the out-ports, enjoy and appreciate Sunday as a day of rest from business and work can hardly be denied. It is a mistake to assume that Sunday work is general on board all steamers. It is the exception. Sailing vessels seldom or ever work on Sunday, and a large proportion of the Sunday labour going on is avoidable. The steamers trading to Manila are persistent Sunday workers, but for no other reason than to utilize Sunday. For the same reason, they would work all night as well as all day, but that there is a limit to their officers' endurance. Competition compels them to take advantage of this vicious custom, which is recognised all over the world as a moral crime, except in Hongkong. They invariably discharge cargo on Sunday, but as they seldom receive much cargo, it must be accepted as some proof that Chinese shippers do not place very much value on the privilege of Sunday labour. What little is shipped could easily be avoided by some little forethought on the part of the steamers' agents. A steamer arrives on Saturday morning, and very often does not discharge a package of cargo that day; shipping clerks are indifferent—they know she can discharge on Sunday—it never enters their heads to consider the ships' officers, that they may probably have as strong an objection to working on Sunday as they themselves invariably have when personally concerned. Shipping offices are closed on Sunday, but if they were kept open, and clerks compelled to attend when steamers were working, the necessity for Sunday work would not be so often evident.\n\nTo the ship's officer, it is undoubtedly a hardship; it destroys his self-respect, creates dissatisfaction and discontent, and is fatal to discipline. The Chinese sailors will not work on Sunday, and look with contempt on their officers, who are morosely and unwillingly carrying on their duties, while protesting strongly, if silently, against such a state of affairs. If there is truth in the axiom that \"where there is no right there can be no duty,\" then the solution of the question seems to lie with the officers...\n\n## TO THE EDITOR OF THE \"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\"\n\nSIR,—Having just returned from a voyage, I have only now had an opportunity of reading the report of the Conference between the Chamber of Commerce and Capt. Ashton and a delegation of the Marine Officers' Association. I am very pleased indeed to see how well Capt. Ashton maintained his cause in the face of such an evidently biassed, adverse, interested body of capitalists and shipowners represented by Messrs. Mackintosh, Keswick, Ryrie, etc. With all their professed desire for the cessation of Sunday labour, it is palpable to the most casual observer that their great care was evidently to protect the shipowner from a possible loss of one day's earnings.\n\nMr. Mackintosh asked for data regarding the number of officers employed on Sunday. Now, I think that no one is in a better position than himself to provide this information, seeing that the lines known as the \"Blue Funnel\" and \"Butterfield & Swire's\" are the great offenders in this respect; however, in passing, I might remark for Mr. Mackintosh's edification that there are, on an average, from fifty to sixty officers employed on steamers in this port on Sundays. Further, I may add, as regards compradores on board steamers, it in no wise affords the European officers greater liberty; as in steamers carrying compradores, there are usually only two European officers carried, one of whom is expected to sign all receipts and superintend all necessary deck work, while the other is supposed to be below looking after the stowage of cargo.\n\nMr. Mackintosh seems anxious to discover some method by which the Sunday labour of officers might be minimised. This is simple; \"stop Sunday labour.\"\n\nAs regards Mr. Keswick's statement of the strong objections of the Chinese to the law, I should like to know in what way these strong objections have been shown. I have heard of no action on the part of the Chinese in opposition to the proposed legislation on Sunday labour. With respect to his statement of the danger of making 150,000 Chinese idle on Sunday, I think the numbers stated very ridiculous, and I am quite satisfied that not more than 15,000 people would be affected by the cessation of Sunday labour in the harbour. With respect to Sunday labour in treaty ports, I can say that the British are the greatest sinners. And if I condescended to specialize local lines, I have no hesitation in naming the China Navigation Steamship Company and the Indo-China Steamship Company as the greatest offenders in this respect. Ships sailed under the Chinese flag compare most favourably in respect to Sunday observance. I have no doubt the I.M. Customs statistics would prove what is here stated.\n\nMy sympathies are with \"old Ryrie\" in his anxiety with respect to a hot Sunday dinner, but, as I understand the question, the Mercantile Marine Officer's Association are asking for \"cessation of Sunday labour in the Harbour only.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353415, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 403, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "I am inclined to think that the plan of paying the Official Receiver, when acting as a trustee in bankruptcy, by commission on the receipts has many vigorous advantages; but if a bankrupt's estates are retained as investments, it might be better to adhere to the rule laid down by Lord Derby in 1883 against direct payment of commission.\n\nBut the former course would deprive the Official Receiver of his statutory remuneration.\n\nI am inclined to think that it would have been better to appoint an outsider as Official Receiver and let him receive the fees and commission provided by the Ordinance - but perhaps the former master had good reason for appointing the Registrar. Still, it would not do to appoint the Registrar and have his subordinates audit his accounts. This anomaly should be corrected.\n\nIt is difficult to make arrangements for temporary investments of funds, but there is no harm in suspecting that the idea of making the Bankruptcy fund pay for itself has entailed any addition to the staff, except perhaps a temporary clerk.\n\nAs to the Bankruptcy estate being made to pay for itself - it does not appear that it has entailed any addition to the staff, except perhaps a temporary clerk.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nEXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT,\n\nC.O.\n\nIf any further correspondence on this subject is made, the above number should be quoted, and the communication should be addressed to \"The Comptroller and Auditor General.\"\n\nGov 18944\n\nSir,\n\n20846\n\n\"RECEIVED\"\n\nBr 12 0 331\n\nSOMERSET HOUSE,\n\nLONDON, W.C.\n\nDecember 1893.\n\nI am directed by the Comptroller and Auditor General to refer to Mr. Fairfield's letter of 4th October 1892, on the subject of the accounts of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, in which it is stated that the Marquess of Ripon had approved the Governor's proposal that when the Official Receiver acts as a Trustee in Bankruptcy, his accounts should be subjected to a thorough audit by the Local Auditor.\n\n401*\n\nIn consequence of this decision, Sir Charles Ryan, in a letter to Mr. Nicolle of 25th May 1893, a copy of which is appended, gave directions for the accounts in question to be examined.\n\nA Report from the Local Auditor, dated 10th October 1893, as to the examination of these Accounts has now been received and is herewith transmitted (in original to be returned) for the information of the Secretary of State. It will be observed that it bears the Governor's initials as having been seen under flying seal.\n\nNotwithstanding Mr. Nicolle's excusable reluctance to undertake what, under existing circumstances, is doubtless a difficult and most complicated examination, the Comptroller and Auditor General is of opinion that, as a question of principle, all accounts for which Government Officials are responsible should be audited, and he is quite prepared to direct the continuance of the examination of these accounts.\n\nThe Honourable R.H.Meade, C.B.,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nPage [next page]\n\nPage [next page]\n\nPage [next page]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## 12. I now reach the subject of solicitation. I have already noted some of the acts proved to have been done in this direction, but I will give some further evidence I have procured.\n\nIn reply to my enquiries, one of the memorialists deposes to having been accosted in as public a thoroughfare as Montgomery Street by the Railway Station. He produced a letter in Burmese and English addressed to him by his official title and forwarded by hand in December 1893: \"Please come to-night to Barr Street, Rangoon, house No. 29.\" Another piece of evidence from a memorialist is the following which happened in December 1893: \"On a recent Sunday morning I was walking up the middle of Phayre Street about 7-8 A.M., when I observed a woman, either Eurasian or fair-complexioned native, standing under the trees at the corner of Dalhousie Street, who was beckoning to me to come. As I took no notice, she lifted the skirt of her dress and exposed her person almost up to the waist.\" Now it cannot possibly be urged that a man would be laying himself open to such conduct as this in walking down such a thoroughfare as Phayre Street by day or night, but the next bit of evidence explains it. Another correspondent living in the town writes in reply to enquiries: \"I have myself been solicited in Montgomery Street at the end of 33rd Street by women in that quarter. On December 20th, three young men were solicited in the middle of Lewis Street between Dalhousie Street and Merchant Street. Solicitations a few months ago were systematically carried out in Phayre Street at both Dalhousie Street and Fraser Street corners by women living in 37th Street. I have seen women in the neighbourhood of Canal Street walk into the street and take men into their houses.\" Yet another correspondent similarly writes: \"During the hot season just passed (1893), on several occasions I have seen Japanese women on the wharves and jetties of an evening while I was down there for a breath of fresh air. And more than once their actions with the people of some of the British India steamers was far from right. In fact, its familiarity and publicity was such that no women of purity would tolerate.\"\n\nAn officer of the S.S. told me that \"while lying at Sule Pagoda Wharf in October, two European women drove up to the wharf and sent their cards to the officer on duty, and he, thinking it strange that unknown ladies should send their cards to him, asked Mr. ... to accompany him. The women enquired if it was the Calcutta steamer, and on being informed she had gone, gave them to understand that they would do as well as anyone from the said steamer if they would come home with them. While going down Sule Pagoda Road about 10 p.m. on a night in November in company with two other men, I myself, with them, was most publicly and persistently solicited by a Burmese woman who seemed to be prowling about the streets for that purpose.\"\n\n## 13. It is of course necessary in an enquiry like this to procure actual facts as to the extent and nature of the nuisance of solicitation in this town, and I think the above instances are sufficient to establish the fact that solicitation is carried on in Rangoon constantly and openly in places and at times when the users of the public streets have a reasonable right to expect to be free from it.\n\n## 14. Now, no doubt the acts above described, or some of them, come under the definition of \"a public nuisance\" in section 268 of the Indian Penal Code, namely, they are acts which cause annoyance to the public or which must necessarily cause annoyance to persons who have occasion to use a public right, and are therefore acts punishable under section 290 of the Code. But offences under section 290 are not cognizable offences, and in order to procure the punishment of a woman for any of them, the following processes under the existing law would be necessary: \n1. ascertaining the woman's address;\n2. establishing her identity;\n3. complaining to a Magistrate;\n4. giving evidence in court against her.\n\nIt is a fair question to ask: How many persons annoyed by solicitation would undertake all this? The Committee may take it for granted that the law, as it stands, will remain inoperative so far as regards the prevention of public solicitation.\n\n## 15. It has not been suggested to me that any other existing law applies to solicitation, and it appears to me that it is necessary to ask for special legal powers for its suppression. Legislation in this direction, to be effectual, should, I think, take the following form:\n1. it should give a definition to the word \"solicitation\" wide enough to cover the many forms which solicitation can take;\n2. it should make solicitation a penal offence;\n3. it should make solicitation a cognizable offence.\n\nI suggest here a section to cover the above points: \n1. Whoever importunes, solicits or molests any person, or sits or loiters, for the purpose of prostitution or on behalf of a prostitute, or performs any act which amounts to solicitation for the purpose of prostitution or on behalf of a prostitute, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen days for every breach of this section.\n2. Whether any act that has been performed amounts to solicitation for the purpose of prostitution or on behalf of a prostitute shall be decided by the Magistrate having jurisdiction in each case.\n3. Every breach of this section shall be a cognizable offence.\n\n## 16. To sum up:\n1. I do not think it necessary for the Municipality to take any steps in reference to the alleged enslaving of women or to the alleged traffic in girls for prostitution.\n2. I think it established that the brothels of Rangoon and solicitation in its streets and public places are a public nuisance of sufficient gravity to demand public control, and the existing law does not provide sufficient machinery for such control.\n3. I therefore think it advisable for the Municipal Committee to apply for legal powers sufficient to make such control effectual, and I suggest that it should ask the local Government to take steps to amend the Lower Burma Municipal Act, 1884, to the extent above indicated and to some such effect as I have above suggested.\n\n**R. C. TEMPLE, MAJOR,**\nPresident, Rangoon Municipality.\n\n**RANGOON:**\n**The 20th January 1894.**\n\n| Serial No. | Street | List of Brothels | Owner's name | Nationality of occupants |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Fraser | Thirty-third | B. Mine Kana | Burmese and Shans |\n| | Ditto | 18 | Ebraham Esnafjee | Natives of India |\n| | Ditto | 23 | Mayeth Nacoda | Burmese and Natives |\n| | Ditto | 24 | Mahomed Saib | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 32 | B. Amyee | Natives |\n| | Ditto | 8 | Dawoodjee Abbo | Natives and Burmese |\n| | Ditto | B | E. G. Man | Burmese |\n| | Ditto | 10 | Ditto | Natives |\n| | Ditto | 26 | Steven Gnanamooto | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 11 | Esoof Abined Patail | Natives and Burmese |\n| | Ditto | 30 | Maung On Gaing | Burmese |\n| | Montgomery | Thirty-fourth | Em. Amedjee Waker | Barrause |\n| | Ditto | 15 | E. G. Man | Asiatics |\n| | Ditto | 17 | Ditto | Ditto |\n| | Twenty-ninth | Sooratti Bazaar Co., Ltd. | Burmese and Natives |\n| | Ditto | 18 | Fatma Bee | Japanese |\n| | Ditto | A. E. Oomer | Chinese |\n| | Ditto | 19 | Way Ranasawmy | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 20 | Mahomed Marlam | Japanese |\n| | Ditto | 21 | Sujarnan Meal | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 24 | | Chinese |\n| | Ditto | 25 | | Ditto |\n| | Fraser | 26 | Suratti Bazaar Co., Ltd. | Natives and Burmese |\n| | Fraser and Mogul | 427 | Ditto | Ditto |\n| | Thirtieth | 28 | | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 29 | Ariff Bhan | Burmese |\n| | Twenty-eighth | 30 | Ajio Nulla Mahomed | Natives |\n| | Ditto | | Ebrahim Ally Moolla | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 36 | Kadiza Boo | Burmese and Natives |\n| | Ditto | 37 | Hashim Duda | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | | Abdul Rukai | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | | Ariff Nana | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 39 | | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | 40 | Rahimahu and Yacoobje Duda | Natives |\n| | | | Esoof Patail | Ditto |\n| | | | Ebrahim Jeewah and Mahomed | Europeans and Asiatics |\n| | | | Ebrahim Joewah | Burmese |\n| | | | Fatma Bee | Natives |\n| | | | Ebraham Salaybhoy Duda | Natives and Burmese |\n| | | | Haslino Dnda | Burmese |\n| | | | Shaik Maltoured Ally | Ditto |\n| | | | Abdul Kadal | Native and Burmese |\n| | | | Ebrahim E. Mayeth | Ditto |\n| | | | Agappa Chetty | Chinese |\n| | | | | Natives and Burmese |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357183, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "content_text": "## THE COMMITTEE.\n\nlaw.\" The Committee may state that in their daily business in this colony they incur risks (with Chinese) that are far greater than are provided by this legislation.\n\nIt will be observed in the report of what was said by the hon. the Colonial Secretary that he took some exception to the manner in which the Committee's guarantee was translated and its publication, in face of His Excellency's determination already expressed by letter not to acquiesce in their proposal. We think, however, that what passed will make it perfectly clear to him and the public that no importance can be attached to these incidents, as the guarantee was given in English more than two weeks before His Excellency's letter was received, and with reference to the translation, though the Committee cannot accept no responsibility therefor, they are informed that it was a fair one, and not open to the criticism passed on it by the Colonial Secretary.\n\nWhat we have already written appears to be sufficient to convey to the public, and those who appointed us at the public meeting, a fair idea of all that has taken place up to the present time, and we leave the subject at this stage.\n\nWe proposed calling another public meeting on Monday, the 1st April at 11 a.m., and we trust that this grave subject will be calmly and exhaustively discussed.\n\nApologising for the length of this letter, which the importance of the subject rendered unavoidable.--We are, sir, your obedient servants,\n\nTHE COMMITTEE.\n\nHongkong, 30th March, 1895.\n\n**(Enclosure A)**\n\nHongkong, 7.30 p.m.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nMy dear Keswick.-I have just seen His Excellency the Governor, who directs me to state, for the information of the Committee, that he is averse to making any concession whatever, and does not view favourably the proposal you have submitted.-Yours very truly,\n\n(Signed) J. H. STEWART LOCKHART.\n\nP.S.-The Captain Superintendent of Police reports that in his opinion the strike is practically over.\n\n(Signed) J. H. S. L.\n\n**(Enclosure B)**\n\n30th March, 1895.\n\nDear Keswick.-Will you kindly ask Mr. Ho Tung to let me have a list of the Chinese gentlemen who met the Committee yesterday. I have just seen a Chinese notice which purports to have been issued by the Committee. It contains a statement calculated to mislead the coolies. It states that the Committee are certain that the Governor will grant the request to allow land owners to register instead of head coolies. From my letter to you last night you will know that the Governor is not prepared to grant this request, and you will remember at our meeting yesterday I said no notice should be issued until the Governor had given his decision. Can you tell me under whose authority the notice was issued? I am sure the members of the Committee would not be parties to misleading the strikers,-Yours very truly,\n\n(Signed) J. H. STEWART LOCKHART.\n\n## THE EFFECT OF THE PROCLAMATION.\n\nAs far as can be at present ascertained there has been no alteration in the position of affairs since the meeting on Saturday afternoon, and one cannot judge until today what action the coolies will take now that they have had a further definite assurance that the Government will not consent to be swayed by a few thousand unjustifiably dissatisfied coolies. The P. & O. and the C. P. R. Companies were on Saturday morning amply supplied with cargo coolies, who worked until eleven o'clock. At that hour they became acquainted with the terms of the proclamation issued by the committee of mercantile gentlemen, and, goaded by a few shore coolies, they decided to again leave work and await the final answer from the Government. \"If the Government does not give way,\" remarked one prominent Chinese merchant, \"the coolies will not go back,\" a statement which proves that the Committee's circular acted as an incentive to the men to continue the rebellion against the law.\n\nIt is stated that the P. & O. stevedore announced his intention of registering on Saturday morning, but upon hearing the forecast that the Government were \"certain\" to meet the Committee's wishes, he changed his mind and refused to conform with the regulations.\n\nAt the Police Court on Saturday, before Commander W. C. Hastings, half a dozen summonses were heard against householders of common lodging houses for failing to have the premises registered. Two of the cases were adjourned, but in each of the remaining four a fine of $25 was imposed. The Magistrate warned the defendants that if they did not register within three days they would be again summoned and a heavier fine inflicted.\n\nC.O. 38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358143, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "content_text": "# Kucheng Massacre Meeting in Hong Kong\n\nThe Theatre was crowded in every part by ladies and gentlemen of all nationalities, except Chinese, to mourn the harrowing details of the Kucheng massacre in the neighbouring province of Fukien, which occurred on Thursday, the first instant.\n\nThe proceedings commenced with a few words from Dr. Cantlie, who moved that the Hon. the Chief Justice, Sir Fielding Clarke, take the Chair. The Hon. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G., seconded the motion, and amidst loud applause, Sir Fielding Clarke took his seat at the centre of the table on the stage. The Right Rev. Bishop Burdon was seated on the left, and Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., on the right side of the Chairman. The other speakers, Mr. T. Jackson, Mr. G. B. Dodwell, and the Hon. A. McConnachie, were also seated in the front part of the stage, while at the back were Mr. A. G. Wise, Captain W. C. H. Hastings, the Hon. C. P. Chater, the Hon. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G., the Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving, Messrs. E. N. Mehta, H. N. Mody, M. D. Ezekiel, G. Sharp, Dr. J. C. Thomson, and Drs. Cantlie, Hartigan, and Stedman, and other prominent residents. Among those seated in the stalls and pit were Captain Stirling, A.D.C., Mr. G. C. C. Master, Captain A. Tillet, Captain A. W. Miller, R.N., Mr. A. G. Romano (Consul General for Portugal), Mr. J. Kramer, Mr. G. G. Brady, and a very large number of well-known residents, while in the dress circle were a large number of ladies.\n\n## Chairman's Address\n\nSir Fielding Clarke, who was received with cheers, said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, I feel greatly honoured at having been called to the chair upon this melancholy occasion; and I very willingly do so. When these outrages had been made known, I know perfectly well it stirred the deepest and strongest emotion in the hearts of you all, and it is obviously right and proper that the public views of Hongkong should be expressed in a public manner in a way it can be in a meeting of this sort (Applause). The programme I have to submit to you is one of a very limited character—it is to express by your attendance here the sentiments which we all of us feel about this dreadful disaster, and in the forefront of the notice, you will have observed the first thing that can occur to us is to express to the relatives and friends of those poor, innocent, and helpless victims our heartfelt sympathy; sorrow for those who suffered, sympathy for those who are at the present moment in the direst distress. Following and accompanying the softer sense of sorrow, it is now proposed that this meeting should express deep and stern indignation (loud applause) at the treatment of our fellow subjects in a country which is, politically speaking, on friendly terms with Great Britain. Ladies and gentlemen, in attending this meeting here to-day, you are joining in a universal shout which is going forth from the Democracy in England—a shout of indignation (Applause).\"\n\n## Resolution Proposed by Mr. Jackson\n\nMr. Jackson said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure you will agree with me that in the whole course of the history of our colony, its inhabitants have never been called together on such a sad and melancholy occasion as the present. I remember at the time of the Tientsin massacre, this colony was stirred to the very depths of sympathy for those poor people who suffered, and a similar feeling now prevails throughout the whole community; one universal outburst of deep sorrow for those ladies and poor little children and the one man, the Rev. Stewart, who was wounded and killed. It seems difficult to conceive how these wretches who made the attack could have withheld their sympathy from the appeals for mercy as they hacked and cut up those poor women and children.\"\n\nHe then moved the resolution: \"That this meeting desires to express its sorrow at the cruel murder of so many British subjects, and to pass a vote of sympathy and condolence with the relatives and friends of the deceased.\" He read a Reuter's telegram stating that the soldiers sent by the Viceroy of Fukien to protect the missionary property in Kucheng had instead looted the house of the late Rev. Stewart and plundered everything of value.\n\n## Seconding the Resolution\n\nMr. G. B. Dodwell seconded the resolution, expressing his heartfelt sympathy with the victims and their families. He advocated for moderation in speech to convince the Government to take strong steps. He mentioned that the reports of the massacre and subsequent telegrams showed that the attack was an organised affair, and the Chinese Government was incapable of coping with the disturbance.\n\n## Adoption of the Resolution\n\nThe Chairman declared that the resolution was unanimously passed and would be conveyed to the relatives and friends of the deceased through Bishop Burdon.\n\n## Bishop Burdon's Speech\n\nThe Right Reverend Bishop Burdon said: \"It is very difficult to feel or speak calmly on such a subject as we have before us to-day. Many of the murdered were personal friends of my own. The brutal massacre at Kucheng is only to be paralleled with that of Tientsin in 1870. It arose from the intense hatred of the foreigner. The blow fell like a bolt from the blue, although there had been mutterings of threats for months before, directed against the native Christians.\" He described the events leading up to the massacre, including the Vegetarian Society's enmity towards native Christians and the failure of the local magistrate to intervene.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358323, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "page_number": 488, "title": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "content_text": "## MINUTE\nH. B. Lethbridge reg \nLucas \n25-Oct \nFairfield \nWingfield \nBramston. R. Meade \nMrate \nEarl of Selborne \nBuxton \nJ. Chamberlain \nMarquess of Ripon \n\n### Medical Report \n19/s (m) resulting in a large number of cases and drafts. He is in his communication with the Governor often in relation to this matter.\n\nReceived 20/8/25 \n\nThe attention of J. Chamberlain has been called, on seeing the annual medical report of Hong Kong for the year 1894, to the number of floggings inflicted upon the prisoners in the Victoria gaol in that year. It is as you are aware a recognised principle in prison discipline that the lash or the cane should only be resorted to on serious occasions and for serious offences, and it is observed by Mr. Spencer, and wish that in future you should guide yourself accordingly.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358630, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "## 12. With regard to the segregating of persons found in infected premises \nit has been the practice in all cases to allow them the option of proceeding to Canton or of being housed in one of the marriage boats. In the majority of instances the former alternative has been readily accepted, only 21 persons being provided with accommodation afloat. On the 26th June the last batch was released.\n\n## DISINFECTION OF HOUSES\n\n13. In respect of the disinfection of houses in which cases of bubonic plague have occurred the provisions of Bye-law No. 25, made under section 13 of Ordinance 15 of 1894, have been rigidly enforced, and every article destroyed that could not be satisfactorily disinfected. In the case of houses in Heung Lane, after fumigation with sulphur and clearing out all the moveable contents, the floors, walls and ceilings were thoroughly saturated with the acid solution of perchloride of mercury as recommended in a Memoranda of the 26th August, 1892, by Dr. R. THORNE THORNE of the Medical Department of the Local Government Board.\n\n14. It will be observed that most of the cases of bubonic plague occurred in No. 6 Health District. Mr. HORE, the District Inspector, is deserving of praise for the painstaking way in which he has discharged a trying and, to say the least, disagreeable duty.\n\n## LATRINE DISINFECTION\n\n15. The addition of Chlorinated Lime to the night-soil in public latrines, which had been discontinued at the end of May, was resumed in the case of the Heung Lane Latrine on the outbreak of bubonic plague in that locality and maintained until all danger of a further development of the disease in the vicinity had disappeared. For failing to comply with the Board's order in this matter and for a breach of one of the latrine bye-laws the keeper was fined $50 by the presiding Magistrate.\n\n## MEZZANINE FLOORS AND CUBICLES\n\n16. The work involved in enforcing compliance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of Ordinance 15 of 1894, the controlling of which had been delegated to us as a Select Committee of the Board, made satisfactory progress in the case of the worst class of houses in the City especially in districts Nos. 7 and 8, at the West, and Nos. 1 and 2 at the East end of the city. As, however, the Inspectors in charge of the Central Districts of the city proceeded it became evident that in granting permission for the retention of cocklofts in rooms partitioned into separate compartments the practice hitherto followed of dealing with each case on its merits could not be successfully pursued, and that clearly defined conditions applicable to all cases should be drawn up for the guidance of the Executive.\n\n17. The question as to whether the owner or occupier should be held responsible for complying with the law was also fully considered. In many cases the cocklofts are the property of the tenants; in others they belong to the owner. The Committee therefore decided to adopt the plan that had been found to work so well in the case of the illegal occupation of basements, viz., of serving the notice on both the owner and occupier. The notice on the occupier specified in schedule to our last report was therefore discontinued and a new form, after meeting with the approval of the Attorney General, adopted, (appendix C).\n\n18. The conditions drawn up by the Committee on the subject of cocklofts in buildings erected before and after the passing of `The Closed Houses and Insanitary Dwellings Ordinance (15 of 1894)` which, after submission to and approval by the full Board, were published in the Government Gazette and in the English and Chinese newspapers, will be found embodied in the notifications included in appendix D.\n\n19. Up to date, notices with copies of the Board's conditions attached, to comply with the provisions of sub-section 1 of section 7 and sub-section b of section 8, have been served on the owners and occupiers in the case of 433 cocklofts and cubicles. So far this change of tactics has met with the best results, and it is confidently hoped that within six months all illegal cocklofts will have been removed.\n\n## BASEMENTS\n\n20. A complete list of the basements illegally occupied on the 1st of April, and on the owners and occupiers of which notices have been served, will be found in appendix E. The return does not include the very large number of basements in No. 7 District which were closed during the epidemic of plague last year and which are among the worst in the whole City. Great credit is due to Acting Inspector MACEWEN for the energy he has displayed in preventing their re-occupation as dwellings.\n\n21. Under our joint personal supervision the whole of the basements in districts Nos. 4, 5 and 6, have been inspected at night. In all 244 inspections have been made before, and 140 after, midnight. The District Inspectors, Messrs. BURNETT, REIDIE and HORE, are doing their utmost to prevent their now illegal occupation.\n\n## PERMITS FOR COCKLOFTS AND BASEMENTS\n\n22. In a memo. dated the 9th of July (appendix F) the Committee referred for the consideration of the full Board the question as to whether permits for the retention of cocklofts, under section 7 and for the occupation of basements under section 6, should be granted to the owner or occupier. We are of opinion that the fullest publicity should be given to the fact that the Board has unanimously decided to grant such permits to the landlord only.\n\n## GENERAL REMARKS\n\n23. Although it may appear somewhat hazardous in the case of a disease like the bubonic plague, as to the origin and spread of which so little is known, we think it probable that the Colony has now seen the last of the disease in 1895. The widespread fear that the outbreak in Heung Lane was but the beginning of a formidable epidemic has happily not been realised. Twenty-six cases are known to have occurred; all died. If the particulars specified in appendix B are closely examined it will be found that the later cases the disease showed no signs of abatement in point of virulence. The experience of this year would seem to demonstrate that the disease was nipped in the bud, and an epidemic averted by prompt removal and segregation of the inmates and the disinfection and cleansing of the infected premises. The drastic measures it was deemed necessary to adopt were fully justified by the nature of, and the circumstances attending the outbreak.\n\n24. The question here very naturally arises what are the prospects of a recurrence of the disease in the early spring of next year? A vast improvement in the sanitary condition of the Colony has unquestionably been effected during the last 12 months, but much still remains to be done. In our opinion no measure of sanitary reform calls for more prompt and vigorous action than that of clearing away the obstructions in back-yards and in the back parts of premises so as to provide a suitable and adequate area for the admission of light and air. This has been done already in many houses in the City. In Heung Lane the sanitary character of the houses, in which cases of plague originated, has been completely changed by this simple and by no means costly structural alteration. We submit that no consideration of Departmental economy should be allowed to interfere with the early carrying out of this most desirable reform.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\n**Appendix A**\n\nWM. C. H. HASTINGS, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police. \nW. EDWARD CROW, Assistant Secretary and Superintendent.\n\n| Section | Nos. of Health Districts | Strength of party | Lodging houses | Tenement houses | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| A | 1, 2 and 4 | 9 | 419 | 2,225 | 2,644 |\n| B | 5 | 9 | 763 | 1,257 | 2,020 |\n| C | 6, 7 and 8 | 9 | 2,957 | 532 | 3,439 |\n| **Grand Total** | | **27** | **4,139** | **4,014** | **8,153** |\n\n| Nos. of Health Districts | Period | Strength of party | Lodging houses | Tenement houses | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 6, 7 and 8 | 16th to 30th June | 6 | 635 | 1,442 | 2,077 |\n| various | 1st to 31st July | ... | 874 | 4,043 | 4,917 |\n| **Grand Total** | | **6** | **1,500** | **5,485** | **6,994** |\n\n| Period | No. of passengers |\n| --- | --- |\n| June 1st to 15th | 1,414 |\n| June 16th to 30th | 3,141 |\n| July 1st to 31st | 1,451 |\n| **Total** | **6,000** |\n\n21st October, 1895.\n\nW. EDWARD CROW, \nAssistant Secretary and Superintendent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359111, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "# APPENDIX No. 2.\n\nThe minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.\n\n## STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.\n\n### Colonial Office to War Office.\n\n**Sir,**\n\nDowning Street, 16th January, 1895. With reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the Straits Settlements Military Contribution, I am directed by the Marquis of Ripon to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman, the enclosed report of the debate in the Legislative Council, when a vote was taken for the contribution for 1895, and also a vote on account for the new barracks, together with copies of riders by unofficial members of the Council to reports of Special Committees for Singapore and Malacca, and for Penang respectively, on the Straits Settlements Estimates for 1895.\n\nIt will be observed that this debate in the Legislative Council took place, and these protests were written in October last, when the information before the members of Council only extended to the rates fixed for the contribution in 1894 and 1895.\n\nSince that date, Lord Ripon's despatch of 6th November last, embodying the decision of Her Majesty's Government in regard to the contributions for the whole quinquennial period 1894-98, has been received by the Governor, and published in the Colony, and his Lordship has received a telegram from Sir C. Mitchell, dated the 10th instant, reporting that three out of the five unofficial members of the Council, who specially represent Singapore as distinguished from Penang, have tendered the resignation of their seats, and that one other Singapore member, whose time has expired, has declined reappointment, and also that 18 Justices of the Peace, and the members of the Chinese Advisory Board have tendered their resignations. The Governor adds that a despatch on the subject will follow by mail.\n\nA similar letter has been addressed to the Treasury.\n\n**EDWARD FAIRFIELD.**\n\n### REPORT OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nSaturday, 20th October, 1894.\n\n**Present:**\n\n| Name | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| His Excellency the Governor | Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell, K.C.M.G. |\n| The Hon. the Colonial Secretary | W. E. Maxwell, C.M.G. |\n| the Resident Councillor of Penang | A. M. Skinner, C.M.G. |\n| the Acting Resident Councillor of Malacca | C. W. S. Kynnersley |\n| the Attorney-General | W. R. Collyer |\n| the Acting Colonial Treasurer | J. K. Birch |\n| the Auditor-General | H. Trotter |\n| the Colonial Engineer | Major H. E. McCallum, R.E., C.M.G. |\n| J. M. R. Vermout | |\n| T. Shelford | C.M.G. |\n| T. C. Bogaardt | |\n| A. L. Donaldson | |\n| W. C. Brown | M.D. |\n| Seah Liang Seah | |\n| A. Hüttenbach | |\n\n**Absent:**\n\n| Name | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| His Excellency the General Officer Commanding the troops | Major-General Hugh Thomas Jones-Vaughan, C.B. |\n\n**SUPPLY BILL.**\n\nThe Council resumed the consideration of the Supply Bill in Committee.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary said that he wished to obtain the consent of the Council to the insertion of a small vote, which had been omitted under Public Works Department, Allowances---Rent Allowance for Assistant Superintendent of Works, 180 dollars.\n\nAgreed to.\n\nTurning to military expenditure,\n\nThe Colonial Secretary moved the reduction of the vote for Military Contribution by one-tenth, from 923,077 dollars to 830,770 dollars, on account of the reduction of the contribution to 90,000l. for the year 1895.\n\nMr. Shelford:--I rise, sir, to move a considerably larger reduction than that proposed by the Colonial Secretary, which, I may point out, is entirely inadequate to the requirements of the case. I desire to approach this subject in a proper temper and with due reserve, bearing in mind that the despatch confirming the telegram has not yet been received, that it may possibly contain some modification of terms for the future, which it has not been thought necessary to telegraph out, and therefore some further abatement of the decision at present arrived at. But the reduction is not sufficient to meet the case. Ready as we at this end of the table have always been to meet the question in a spirit of compromise, sometimes as it is alleged, approaching to weakness, and speaking for myself, I venture to aver that, if the sum proposed for 1894 had been announced as an annual reduction, I should have been inclined to accept it without demur, patiently waiting the further development of events, in the hope of the matter being placed once for all on a better and sure basis for the Colony. But no such chance has been given us; the door of conciliation is closed to us, and I would demonstrate as well as I can the exceedingly shabby treatment we are receiving from the Imperial Government. In doing so, I must trouble the Council with some figures, which I shall endeavour to put before them as clearly as I can.\n\nNow, sir, in the despatch of December, 1889, when it is for the first time announced that the contribution is fixed at 100,000l. per annum, the period stated is for four years, and in this Bill the same sum is renewed, bringing it to six years--that is to say, 600,000l. In the resolution of this Council of February, 1890, it was contended and unanimously agreed that in no case should the Colony pay more than half of the cost of the whole military defence, in round numbers 70,000l., which for the six years is 420,000l., leaving a difference of 180,000l.; and it is in respect of this difference of 30,000l. per annum that the dispute arises, involving, as I shall show, a sum of very great importance to us. I do not propose to go into the merits of the case at the present time. Every point, as it arose, has been dealt with in the admirable despatches of the late Governor, laid upon the table. Every statement put forward by Her Majesty's Government has been answered by argument which has received little attention, and the issue has long since been narrowed down to sheer might on one side and ineffectual remonstrance on the other. Moreover, we have not yet the despatch before us, and do not know in what spirit it has been conceived--whether in the flinging of a contemptuous sop at an angry dog, or that Her Majesty's Government admits the principle that the Colony has been overcharged and that the amount levied is beyond the just proportion. Certain it is that in July, 1891, Parliament was led to believe, and a pledge given, that the claims of the Colony would receive just consideration, and although the delay appeared interminable to us, and our patience was well-nigh exhausted, we had a right to hope, we had a right, from the representations publicly made, to believe, that, when the time came, substantial relief would be given. The revenue since, and including that of 1891 (the year of which I am speaking, when the pledge to the House of Commons was given) both actual and estimated, to the present Bill, is below that of 1888, upon which the contribution was fixed, I repeat, and the point has never been contradicted, that, when this contribution of 100,000l. was fixed, the estimated revenue of 1889, showing a great increment in consequence of the re-letting of the farms, was before Her Majesty's Government; in fact, they fixed this contribution on a rising revenue. The expenditure since and including this year, 1891, has always exceeded the revenue. In 1891, for instance, the deficit, as shown by the Final Supply Bill, was 319,992 dollars; in 1892, 460,960 dollars; in 1893, 192,169 dollars; a total of 973,121 dollars, resulting in the exhaustion of all our reserves, the reduction of our available balances, the stoppage of our works and undertakings; the amount spent in 1888 under works and buildings, and roads, streets and bridges being 1,070,203 dollars, as against 418,303 dollars, the estimated expenditure in the Supply Bill at present before us. Now, all this must have been perfectly apparent in the returns which, from time to time, have been sent home; and the manner in which Her Majesty's Government propose to meet the difficulty is, to return to us one-sixth of the difference of 180,000l., or 5 per cent. of the total amount involved. But, sir, the case...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361425, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "content_text": "On 3rd November, 1896, we received a reply from the Colonial Secretary (marked E in the annexed correspondence) informing us that the Government were unable to accept our proposals but that any memorial we might submit would be duly transmitted to you.\n\nIt will be observed as the result of the correspondence that the only real difference between the Government and ourselves is in reference to the term of years for which the proposed new building leases should be granted.\n\nWe respectfully submit that the fact of our surrendering (as we are willing to do) to the Government the ground required for the new public roads without compensation is alone an ample reason why the Government should grant us ordinary building leases for the full term of our present lease, but when we are willing to pay the higher Crown rent demanded and to spend a large capital sum ($20,000 at least) in rateable improvements such as dwelling houses, shops, &c., there ought in our opinion to be no question whatever as to our being entitled to leases for 999 years.\n\nAll building leases in Victoria are for 999 years and at Kowloon there are also building leases for 999 years, and because the small building lots at Kowloon are now sold for a term of 75 years only is no reason why we should consent to have our existing term of 999 years replaced by a short lease for 75 years, nor in justice to our own interests can we agree to expend large sums of money on such terms.\n\nWe therefore respectfully ask that you will be pleased under the above circumstances to authorize His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong to grant us building leases for the remainder of our term of 999 years so that the proposed improvements in roads may be commenced.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servants.\n\nFARM LOT NO. 1, KOWLOON.-COPY CORRESPONDENCE.\n\nSIR,\n\nA\n\nDIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS TO E. R. BELILIOS.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS OFFICE, HONGKONG, 6th November, 1895.\n\nAdverting to our conversation of the 30th ultimo, I have the honour to forward you the enclosed tracing shewing a project for the laying out of existing Kowloon Farm Lot No. 1 as building lots.\n\nIt will be observed that the project proposes 10 building lots of the following approximate dimensions:\n\n3. 255 ft. by 67 ft. 6 in.\n\n4. 255 ft. by 50 ft. 0 in.\n\n3. 180 ft. by 67 ft. 6 in.\n\nEach of the lots faces a reserve for streets and abuts at the back on Reserves for lanes 15 feet in width.\n\nI am to inform you that His Excellency the Governor is prepared to issue building leases for the 10 lots shewn on the plan, subject to the following conditions, viz. that you surrender your present lease and take out building leases: term of lease 75 years; annual Crown rent at the rate of $100 per acre; you expend within 5 years a sum of $20,000 on rateable improvements.\n\nE. R. BELILIOS,\n\nThe Honourable\n\nJNO. D. HUMPHREYS,\n\nE. R. BELILIOS, C.M.G.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nand that\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nFRANCIS A. COOPER,\n\nDirector of Public Works.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nBy his Attorney\n\nHENRY HUMPHREYS.\n\nSIR,\n\nB\n\nJOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON TO DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.\n\n38 and 40, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,\n\nHONGKONG, 2nd September, 1896.\n\nOn behalf of the owners, we beg leave to lay before you certain proposals having reference to Kowloon Farm Lot 1.\n\nIt is necessary first of all for us to mention that Mr. Noronha and others have a charge upon the property, that they are endeavouring to make the most of their position and to exact terms which the owners are not prepared for a moment to grant and which preclude all possibility of a surrender of the property in the usual way in exchange for building lot leases.\n\n283", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361934, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "155\n\n32\n\nconstruction of railways. The remarks made by Li Hung-chang during his recent tour show that his preconceptions as to their value have been confirmed, and the exigencies of finance may furnish means of influence for their direction and control.\n\nRights of ingress should be required for railways from British India into Yunnan and Szechuen, on the same principle that the French have been given right of access from Tongking into Kwangse.\n\nThese concessions may sound, and would doubtless be, far-reaching; but they would, it may be observed, be for the advantage of China herself as well as of countries interested in her trade; and solicited as we are to accord to China an increase in the rate of duty—it is most reasonable that we insist upon changes that will greatly advance commerce and promote the prosperity of a country in which we possess so great an interest. Nothing would more conduce to the stability of her Government, the increase of her revenue, and the welfare of her people, than the improvement of inland communications of all kinds and the relief of inland commerce from taxation upon its movement.\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. S. GUNDRY,\n\n33\n\ncont. should be divided—say (a) 1 per cent. to the first, and 1 per cent. to the terminal Province; or (b), that the whole shall belong to the Province in which bulk is broken.\n\nThe method of issuing transit passes varies in different Provinces. At Shanghai, which is the most important centre, application has been made to the Taotai: a fortnight may elapse before the pass is forthcoming, and the applicant may lose his market at the inland town in the interval. The Commissioner of Customs should be empowered to issue the pass—which he would do promptly; and that principle should be made uniform.\n\nIt would be desirable to have an undertaking that the bars of rivers leading to Treaty Ports be dredged, and the rivers conserved. Shipping is exposed to costly hindrance at Shanghai, for instance, through neglect of this duty.\n\nR. S. G.\n\nHon. Sec. China Association.\n\nIt is obvious that these reforms entail considerations of less gravity than the broad issues which have been stated, but none the less of considerable import.\n\nIt has been rumoured that the Chinese think of asking for a gold tariff, on the plea that they have to pay the interest on their debt in gold and to pay in gold for purchases made in Europe. The proposition would be objectionable on every ground. China is a silver-using country; the tariff is calculated naturally on a silver basis, and is paid in the currency of the country. Neither is China prejudiced by existing arrangements. Her old loans, contracted when silver stood on a higher level in relation to gold, have been paid off. Her present loans have been contracted on the existing level, and if it takes six taels to buy every sovereign required to pay interest, every sovereign borrowed has provided six taels with which to pay the Japanese (silver) indemnity.\n\nThe request for increased duties may be accompanied by a demand for revision of existing tariff rates.\n\nFixed, originally, at 5 per cent. on assumed values in 1858, these rates have come to vary materially from actual prices. Such a demand would, therefore, be difficult to resist. It is suggested that, if the question arise, a fair average valuation might be reached by taking an average of the average values of each article during the last five years. It is suggested that the tariff so fixed should stand for five years, and be subject to quinquennial revision.\n\nIt will be observed that the Eastern branches of the Association lay stress on the relief of merchandise from the present irregular taxation, as a condition precedent to any concession of increased import duty. It would facilitate the operation of such a provision, if some form of penalty were devised. The offending Province might be fined, for instance, double the amount of the Transit Duty involved, and machinery be devised to investigate complaints.\n\nIf Transit Dues are ear-marked for the Provincial Governments, question may arise as to their apportionment in case of goods passing through two Provinces. That occurrence might not be frequent, as there will only remain, when the West River is opened, six provinces in which there is not a Treaty Port. It might be agreed, perhaps, in such case, that the 23 per", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362957, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 473, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "(6)\n\nThe cost of the proposed building with out-offices, furniture, &c. is estimated at $60,000 and the annual expenditure, less any fees that may be received, at $10,000.\n\nMr. May has submitted a design for such a hospital, prepared by Messrs. PALMER & TURNER, who estimate the cost of the building at $50,000. The design* is attached.\n\nIt will be observed from this design that the accommodation prepared is slightly in excess of that originally proposed by Mr. May.\n\nHospital for Women and Children with Training Institute for Nurses.\n\nThose who were questioned with regard to Mr. May's scheme were also questioned with regard to this scheme.\n\nTheir views on the subject of a Hospital for Women and Children have already been given in the report on Mr. May's scheme.\n\nAs regards the Training Institute for Nurses, they are unanimously of the opinion that the want of nurses in the Colony is a very urgent one. To meet this want at once some of the witnesses proposed that 2, others that 3 and Dr. JORDAN that 5 nurses be obtained from home forthwith and that their services be available for private nursing, the fees charged for such nursing to be devoted towards the cost of defraying the expenses of placing the services of such nurses at the disposal of the public. In addition to obtaining nurses from home, it is proposed that an Institute for Training Probationers in Nursing in the Colony should be established, so that such probationers, when their training has been completed, may be able to take the place of the nurses from home, whose services may be either reduced or entirely dispensed with.\n\nIt is suggested that the Institute for Training Nurses should be attached to the Government Civil Hospital, as it is considered that this would afford the best opportunities for training nurses, and should be under the management of the Government and that the probationers should have the advantage of learning to nurse by attending cases in the Civil Hospital and in the proposed Hospital for Women and Children if the latter be attached to and under the same management as the Civil Hospital.\n\nThe site proposed for erecting a building as quarters for the nursing probationers is immediately to the east of the present Medical Staff Quarters and in close proximity to the Civil Hospital and the proposed site for the Women and Children's Hospital.\n\nIf the scheme for training nurses is to be carried on at the Government Civil Hospital, an Assistant Matron will have to be appointed in addition to the present staff of nurses at the Civil Hospital.\n\nThe following estimate of the cost of establishing the scheme is contained in the report of Dr. ATKINSON, Dr. ARNES, and Miss EASTMOND, dated 21st March, 1897:--\n\nCapital Expenditure.\n\n \n (a) Cost of Home for Probationers say,\n $30,000\n \n \n (b) Cost of obtaining Assistant Matron from England,\n $450\n \n \n (c) Cost of furnishing the Home\n $2,000\n \n\nAnnually Recurrent.\n\n \n (a) Cost of maintenance of Home,\n $1,000\n \n \n (b) Cost of Food, Uniform, etc.\n $4,000\n \n \n (c) Salaries\n $2,400 rising to $8,840\n \n\n* Plan showing the proposed sites for the Hospital and Nurses' Quarters is attached.\n\n15th April, 1897.\n\n* Not printed.\n\nC. P. CHATER.\n\nF. A. COOPER.\n\nT. JACKSON.\n\nR. M. GRAY.\n\nHERBERT SMITH.\n\nHO TUNG.\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART,\n\nHon. Secretary,\n\nNot printed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363200, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Ordinance 21 of 1891 which,\n\nas unsatisfactory\n\nDad\n\nwere\n\nRegarded\n\nnot going directly contrary\n\nof the Divan is the Government and is omitting\n\nIon what they do specify the\n\nCarned\n\nAn\n\nland who's\n\nIth in the ordinance may\n\nwen\n\nto be\n\nbe sanctioned\n\nare framed. The Conditions, subjects to my remark on clause 4, as to it, undig, also satisfactory. Perhaps now or hereafter in force\n\nI would be preferable, and the insertion of the words relating to the Divan's power \"make the affliction of the sanitary Bye-laws more general, as in S.4 of the ordinance, which does not\n\nomit them by any clause amend thin\n\nin\n\nsuch and\n\nThe\n\nKr\n\n02.\n\nhercafter\n\ninfer\n\n\"All Sanitary Bye Laws...\n\nmust be observed fe\n\nIf the word relating to oh im Divan's are\n\nRegulations they should\n\nin the\n\nin she of the ordinance.\n\nSir & Bransta\n\nHFW\n\nwhich affir\n\n7/1\n\nas\n\nExpress official, the remarks as above\n\nS.. 14530\n\nS\n\nTelegraph?\n\nC.Po 9\n\nAhunn\n\nThank you / 125 pounds affirme\n\nap\n\nQwell\n\noften the Conditions Register app with the caption\n\nBignonia\n\nfourth Condition Thones be All Sanitary Byelaws\n\nEvaporated\n\n[ in force ] fasse tive for the time being\n\nDripstone\n\netectio\n\natom\n\nbesonshh\n\nMust b\n\nSept\n\n13-28pm\n\nW TW\n\n9/8\n\nNo 125.\n\ndir,\n\n119021\n\nR\n\nRec 5 JUL 17\n\n36\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, 2nd June, 1897.\n\nIn pursuance of instructions conveyed\n\nin your despatch No 150 of the 10th July last, I have the honour\n\nto submit herewith the en\n\nThe Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.,\n\nto\n\nFo\n\nclosed", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363954, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "content_text": "# THE HUMBLE PETITION OF UTTER SINGH, LATE INDIAN SERGEANT-MAJOR, HONGKONG POLICE FORCE\n\n## \n\n5. Prejudged and prejudiced as the matter has been from the first under a misapprehension of the circumstance, as set forth by interested parties before the Captain Superintendent, it has been unfortunately further prejudiced by certain cases that have cropped up recently against men of the type of Guada Singh, but your Petitioner unflinchingly believes that his conduct in the matter of the alleged transaction with Da Rocha will bear thorough investigation, and that he also confidently believes that he will come out of that inquiry without the slightest tar or tarnish on his character, and that he will be saved from the ignominy attaching to a dismissal.\n\n6.--Your Petitioner, therefore, earnestly prays that, taking all the circumstances respectfully urged by him in this and the previous Petitions, your Excellency will be graciously pleased not to condemn a servant of the Crown in the position of your Petitioner unheard, but that your Excellency will be pleased to appoint an independent Commission of Inquiry to fairly investigate the conduct of the Petitioner in the transaction attributed with Da Rocha, and to act on the Report of the Commission. Your Petitioner cannot but entertain an honest belief that such an inquiry will prove him not guilty of any breach attributed to him of any of the Rules and Regulations, in force at the time the alleged transaction was said to have taken place, for the general government and discipline of the Police.\n\n7--Or, if the appointment of an independent Commission of Inquiry be deemed inexpedient by your Excellency, your Petitioner humbly prays that your Excellency will be pleased to review, on the grounds urged by him, your Excellency's decision as to the dismissal of the Petitioner from the Police Force, or to so far modify your Excellency's decision as to grant to your Petitioner the pension honestly accruing to him after almost a lifetime of service, and to which your Petitioner ventures to say in this Petition hardly any member of the Indian Police Force can now lay claim.\n\n8. And Your Petitioner will ever pray, &c.\n\nSigned,\n\nUTTER SINGH, \nLATE INDIAN SERGEANT-MAJOR \nHONGKONG POLICE FORCE.\n\nDated this 24th day of April, 1897.\n\n## \n\nHONGKONG, 4th June, 1897.\n\nOn behalf of myself and the signatories, I have the honour to forward the enclosed Petition respecting the case of Ex-Sergeant Major Utter Singh, of the Police Force, which I beg you will please place before His Excellency The Governor for his favourable consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSigned,\n\nE. PABANEY.\n\nTo\n\nTHE HONOURABLE \nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART, \nCOLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\n## THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED INDIAN BRITISH MERCHANTS, TRADERS AND OTHERS RESIDING IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG\n\n1.--Your Petitioners are Indian Merchants, Traders, and loyal subjects of Her Majesty Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India, and engaging in business in Hongkong and elsewhere.\n\n2.--They have known Utter Singh, late Indian Sergeant-Major of the Hongkong Police Force, for a number of years, and have every reason to believe that as a Police Officer he has served Her Majesty the Empress in the Hongkong Police for upwards of eighteen years, and has during that time by his good conduct deservedly earned the respect and confidence of all his superior officers, as he has done of your Petitioners, and that your Petitioners could not but feel gratified that such conduct deservedly earned him the promotion, in 1896, to the highest rank the Indian section of the Hongkong Police Force could aspire to, that is to the rank of Sergeant-Major.\n\n3.--Your Petitioners heard with great regret that on the 3rd day of December, 1896, the said Utter Singh was dismissed from the said Police Force by the Honourable the Captain Superintendent of Police for an alleged breach of the Police regulations, and that he was thus not only deprived of the pension and gratuity that had accrued to him after many years of hard and faithful service, but that also the ignominy of a dismissal was inflicted on him.\n\n4.--Your Petitioners believe that the circumstances which led to the dismissal of Utter Singh were an alleged implication in some money-lending transaction, said to have transpired some three years ago, and that being implicated, as alleged, in such transaction was and is against the regulations of the said Police Force.\n\n5.--Your Petitioners are informed that all the circumstances attaching to the alleged money-lending transaction have been duly set forth in representations made to your Excellency by Utter Singh, but your Petitioners extremely regret that the redress which the said Utter Singh seeks, on the plea of not guilty, has been absolutely denied to him. Your Petitioners further regret that, beyond a certain informal procedure of inquiry adopted by the Captain Superintendent of Police, Utter Singh was never definitely informed of the exact nature of the charges made against him, and your Petitioners, therefore, respectfully submit that he had not had those opportunities of meeting those charges as could have thoroughly exculpated him in the eyes of his superior officer, though in the informal inquiry made as to an alleged lending of fifty dollars some three years ago to one Da Rocha, a telephone clerk in the Central Police Station, it has not failed to come out most prominently that Da Rocha repeated one story before the Captain Superintendent under that officer's previous inquiry in Utter Singh's absence, but radically subverted it when confronted with him, so much so that the Captain Superintendent was not slow to tax him severely for so prevaricating. This circumstance cannot but have a double bearing. First, that the informal inquiry had not been sufficient enough for eliciting the facts of the case, and, secondly, that the safeguards instrumental to guarding against deliberate prevarication had been altogether wanting in the Captain Superintendent's informal inquiry.\n\n6. Your Petitioners will not pretend to shield the said Utter Singh from the just penalty of any breach of Police Regulations, but your Petitioners feel that the exceptional severity with which he has been condemned and dealt with almost unheard, and the extent of the punishment inflicted on him, have not been fully appreciated by your Excellency, and your Petitioners cannot but regret that that severity is further enhanced many fold when Utter Singh's prayer for an independent Commission of Inquiry remains altogether unheeded.\n\n7.--Your Petitioners cannot but be aware that under a misapprehension of the circumstances, as set forth by interested parties before the Captain Superintendent, Utter Singh's case has from the first been prejudged and prejudiced, and that it has been further prejudiced by certain aspects of the Sikh characteristics that have cropped up against them in some of the cases that were recently heard in the Supreme Court. But your Petitioners beg to observe that, on the whole, the Sikhs are not so very black as they are painted. That they are not exempt from certain failings your Petitioners can hardly gainsay. They have, as Sir Lepel Griffin, a former Lieut.-Governor of the Punjab has described them, \"as keen a knowledge of the value of money, and as great a love of saving as the Scotch.\" But that they are dignified, sober, and orderly men, obedient to discipline, and devotedly attached to their officers is also a certificate that goes from the very same eminent authority.\n\n8.--Your Petitioners have all along observed that Utter Singh, like unto many others in the Police Force of this Colony, is a type representing the latter characteristics, and though possibly he may go under the former category as well, still your Petitioners believe that that being a trait common to many nations is no bar to a prayer for fair hearing on the true merits of his individual case, and that, therefore, your Petitioners venture to approach your Excellency with a very respectful prayer that your Excellency may be pleased to review your decision in Utter Singh's case, and to grant that redress and that justice to him which the merits of his case, in conjunction with the consideration of his long and faithful service of nearly eighteen years, entitle him to as a servant of the Crown.\n\nAnd Your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.\n\nSigned,\n\nE. PABANEY \nF. D. STNA \nB. L. RATTLIWALLÀ \nP. N. DUALLA \nB. D. MUNSHEE \nA. B. T'ALATI \nD. D. TALATI \nE. D. KOTWAL \nC. B. MoWEAWALLA \nE. A. CAMROOINN \nC. H. EBRAHIM \nA. G. BUSRAJ \nM. M. C. JONATY \nT. K. KAKAJIWALIA \nH. M. S. ESAJL \nABOOLA JOOSABROY \nP. PATELL \nC. M. BHESANIA \nNAORONEL BECCA PALSARA \nRUSTOM BUMONJEE \nH. RUTTONJEE \nPESTONJEE NANABHOY \nM. WANDRENALLA \nDADY M. D. LUNGRANA \nD. J. PETIGURAY \nE. HEPTOOLJA GANTIL \nS. ABDOOLCADER BUSKAL \nR. C. VANIA \nS. M. ACHROSY \nF. RJRIM \nTYEZI MOTA HOY \nJAVFPERBOY TYEBALL \nD. F. TUMBGY \nP. M. SHTONA \nJ. DUBAI \nM. M. MEITA \nJ. M. CAMA \nH. M. H. NAMAZEE \nM. M. TACKEY \nM. HOOSEN \nC. E. META \nB. S. Meitra \nP. M. VELVAN \nH. A. SirRAXLE \nE. EBRAHIM\n\nTo\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY \nSIR WILLIAM ROBINSON, KCMG, \nGOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG AND \nDEPENDENCIES AND VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365386, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "content_text": "Page 76\n\nthe great improvement that has resulted from legislative interference, not only in reducing the extent but also the malignity of the disease.\n\nThe great outcry against the Contagious Diseases Acts now (for the old plea of the immorality of licensing vice has been partly abandoned) is that they deal unfairly in the case of the two sexes and, as the present opponents of these Acts say, punish the comparatively innocent female and let her more guilty partner in iniquity go free. This is a great mistake on their part, for these Acts are not introduced for the purpose of punishment but with the sole object of restricting the extent of contagion, and curing the disease. Moreover, in this Colony at least, the Acts are, as far as practicable, applied to the male sex equally. Thus, before leave is granted to seamen of the Royal Navy, they all undergo medical inspection, and are detained on board if found diseased. By a very slight outlay a similar inspection might be made of all merchant seamen, and I hope still to see that this will be considered to be one of the duties of the Health Officer or Officers of the Port. The whole of the Police Force undergo a similar examination once every month, and certainly the garrison might be equally examined. (Sir H. Storks recommends that the men should be examined at least once in seven days.) Lastly, as if to meet the objections of those who consider these Acts as one-sided, it is specially provided in our local Ordinance that all seamen known to be diseased, residing in any boarding house, must under a heavy penalty be reported to the Harbour Master for the purpose of transference to hospital. There only remain, therefore, the higher class of transgressors against whom it is more difficult to proceed; and, as if to balance this, the numerous Portuguese and European prostitutes who now frequent the Colony appear to be equally exempted from all interference on the part of the Executive. And here a very important question presents itself, viz., whether disease has increased among the class of young men who formerly frequented the native establishments. For my own part I am inclined to the opinion that it has so increased, but I am not prepared with statistics on this subject.\n\nLastly, I come to consider the question of the sanitary result of legislative interference in this Colony, and I am glad to be able to point to some very substantial benefits.\n\nIn 1859 I wrote \"Both among Naval and Military invalids the syphilitic amount to nearly 25 per cent. of the whole, and this is very nearly the same proportion in the Government Civil Hospital. In one ship numbering in all 523 hands, of which 300 had been on the sick list during the last quarter, 77 of these were for venereal diseases, being at the rate of 25.66 per cent. of the total sick, or 14.72 per cent. of the total strength;\" and that be it observed in one quarter. In the Government Civil Hospital the proportion of venereal cases was \"138 out of 591 admissions, being in the proportion of 23.18 per cent.\" Now if the Returns accompanying this Report be contrasted with that former state of matters, it is seen during the year 1869, as the result of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, that disease was greatly decreased.\n\neven in spite of the great number of cases sent by the Harbour Master, the percentage of syphilitic cases was reduced to 15.82. In the garrison, the percentage of primary disease to the total strength was only 6.83, according to a Return compiled from data furnished to me by Dr. H. Heffernan, the Deputy Inspector-General. In the Police, it was 16.60 against 31.00 per cent. in 1862 as shown in Table XV.; and in a most interesting letter addressed to me by Fleet Surgeon Dr. Maccoun, of the United States ship Delaware, on the eve of his departure from the Colony, he says:- \"Since my arrival on this Station in the Spring of 1868, I have been struck with the benefit derived from the system of Registration and Inspection of public women, so ably carried out in this colony. During our visits to Hongkong but few have been infected, and the type of the disease is very mild.\" But the whole letter deserves to be carefully perused and I think, coming from a perfectly independent source, it is one of the most valuable testimonies that could be adduced in support of the good results of the system. And if we turn to Table X., we find that the type of the disease must have equally improved; at least, the average duration of treatment, which may be considered to be a fair test of the severity of a case, has diminished from 43.8 days in 1858 to 24.8 in 1869. I admit that the working of the Ordinance is by no means perfect, and I am still of opinion that all prostitutes, whether in so-called purely Chinese houses or others, should be examined. In this opinion I am not supported by some of those who are supposed to be peculiarly conversant with the habits of the natives, and in deference to their opinion those houses are exempted from the action of the Ordinance.\n\nBut I am confident that until all prostitutes are subject to the requirements of the Ordinance these results will be limited, for I am aware that the inmates of the so-called purely Chinese brothels will visit the houses of Europeans, although they may not admit them into the brothels under the dread of losing their license.\n\nThe only question that remains to be referred to, and that very cursorily, is whether the Ordinance under discussion has had any effect in withdrawing the fear of syphilitic infection from those upon whom it has had a deterrent effect. Such an idea will not bear investigation. The frequenters of brothels are either under the influence of drink at the time, or have lost all dread of the consequences. As long as young men be led into temptation for the first time because they can fall with impunity, vice will continue, and it is clearly the duty of the legislature to protect, if not the actual transgressor, at all events the innocent, from the fearful consequences of disease.\n\nPage 77\n\nREPORT OF THE COLONIAL SURGEON FOR THE YEAR 1870.\n\nIn my last Annual Report, I entered so fully into the question of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance that I can do little more, on the present occasion, than refer to the statistics contained in Tables, A, B, C, and D of the Appendix. It will be seen that a great improvement has taken place during the past year. In the two Hospitals, the percentage of contagious disease contracted in Hongkong to all admissions, was 8.96, against nearly double that amount in 1869. In the Garrison, the percentage of primary disease to the total strength was reduced to 5.51, against 6.83 in 1869; and among the British ships of war which have visited this port during the past year, only 116 cases of contagious disease were contracted in Hongkong. In the Police, a similar improvement has taken place, and the percentage of infection has been reduced from 16.66 in 1869 to 13.75 in 1870. Again, in turning to Table X, we find that the type of the disease is undergoing a steady improvement, under the strict surveillance to which the women are subjected; the average number of days of treatment having further diminished from 24.8 in 1869 to 23.1 in 1870. The whole of these Tables, as well as Table XIV., convey a large amount of information, and will well repay a careful study.\n\nI have added, in Appendices E and F, a letter addressed to me by Deputy-Inspector-General Pottinger of H.M.'s Naval Hospital, and statistics from Surgeon Ramsay of H.M.'s 71st Regiment in reference to the freedom of men of his regiment from contagious disease. The evidence of these gentlemen is extremely valuable, and gratifying to myself under whose care the medical examinations have been carried on for the past twelve years. Both gentlemen have had experience of Hongkong, and known what \"Hongkong Disease\" was before the introduction of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance into the Colony-and both agree as to the great contrast. Dr. Pottinger says: \"Judging from my own experience, I should say that syphilis has all but disappeared from the Colony,\" Dr. Ramsay writes: \"I may add that during an experience of 16 years as an Army Medical Officer, in all climates, I have not seen a similar immunity,\"\n\n†MY DEAR SIR,\n\nH.M.'s Hospital Ship \"Melville,\"\n\nHongkong, December 28th, 1870.\n\nAs you are about to leave this Colony for a time, I would beg to address a few words to you on the subject of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance carried out under your inspection. During the years 1849-50 and 1851 I was Surgeon of the Baynard Sloop of War, on the Chinese Station, and though unfortunately I am not in possession of my Journal for that vessel, I have a vivid remembrance of the sufferings of the crew from syphilitic disease in Hongkong. On every occasion when the men had leave on shore, a large proportion of them became affected with the disease. [allusion made to the severity of the type. Secondary symptoms were also of frequent occurrence, often requiring the patients to be invalided and sent home.] The altered state of things at the present time is very striking. During the year and nine months that I have had charge of this Hospital [allusion made to decreased severity of type]. Judging from my own experience, I should say that syphilis has all but disappeared from the Colony, and I have no hesitation moreover in attributing this success to your particular method of examination, which I have repeatedly witnessed.\n\nCould a similar system of examination be established in the Treaty Ports of China and Japan, a great boon would indeed be conferred on the Naval Squadron serving in these waters.\n\nDr. Murray, Colonial Surgeon, Hongkong.\n\n(Signed)\n\nROBERT POTTINGER.\n\n*Statistics of Disease in H.M.'s 75th Regiment from 31st December, 1868, till 21st December, 1870.\n\n1. Average Strength during the above-named period, 429.5.\n\n2.--Different forms of Venereal and the number of cases of each between the above-named dates:--\n\n \n Primary Syphilis.\n 17\n \n \n Secondary Syphilis.\n 10\n \n \n Gonorrhoea\n 39\n \n \n Total.\n 66\n \n\nThe forms of Secondaries were very mild, amenable to treatment, and left no sign of permanent injury. The above figures speak for themselves, and show the great gain which the enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Act has been to the Government in preserving the health of the men of the Regiment. I may add that during an experience of 16 years as an Army Medical Officer in all climates, I have not seen a similar immunity. To me it is the more striking as I can look back on the prevalence and terrible severity of the disease which existed in this Colony in 1857, when \"Hongkong Disease\" was a well-known by-word. At times for an entire month there has not been a man reported as suffering from any form of Venereal, thus attesting the thorough manner in which the duties in connection with the Contagious Diseases Act have been carried out, and the efficacy of legislation against this \"Scourge of humanity\" seen in a Colony like Hongkong whose ever-shifting population, native and foreign, must render success unusually difficult.\n\n(Signed) W. RAMSAY, F.R.C.S.L.,\n\nSurgeon, 75th Regiment.\n\n200\n\nUnited States Flag Ship \"Delaware,\n\nHongkong, 12th March, 1876.\n\n†MY DEAR DR. MURRAY,\n\nSince my arrival on this Station in the Spring of 1868, I have been struck with the benefit derived from the system of Registration and Inspection of public women, so ably carried out in this Colony.\n\nIn most of the ports visited by our ships the men have suffered from syphilis, and especially in Japan where the disease exists in its most virulent form. But during our visits to Hongkong but few have been infected, and the type of the disease is very mild. In proof of this, I would mention that the crew of this ship, numbering four hundred and seventy men, have lately been granted liberty and only five cases of chancre (chancroid) have been noticed.\n\nSuch a result as this proves the great benefit derived from the system; and on the eve of my departure from Victoria I deem it a duty, as well as a pleasure, to express to you my high appreciation of your labours in the cause of humanity, as well as to congratulate you upon the success with which they have been crowned.\n\n(Signed) ROBERT L. MACCOUN,\n\nFleet Surgeon, U.S.N.\n\nDr. Murray, Colonial Surgeon, Hongkong.\n\nREPORT OF THE ACTING COLONIAL SURGEON FOR THE YEAR 1871.\n\nWhatever may be said against the working of the \"Contagious Diseases Act\" at home, there can be no doubt that in Hongkong the results are most satisfactory and valuable. In Table C it will be seen that out of 480 men admitted to the Military, Naval, Police, and Seamen's Hospitals, 157 contracted the disease elsewhere than in Hongkong, and out of an average monthly number of 10,904 men in Port and Garrison, only 0.34 per cent. per month were diseased.\n\nExtracts from Special Report on Lock Hospital by Dr. R. Young.\n\n5-A reference to Table A shows that the type of disease met with is more amenable to treatment, from the fact that the average number of days during which patients were detained in Hospital has been reduced to a shorter period than has yet been reached during the past 14 years of the Hospital's existence. In 1870 it was 23.1 days, while during 1871 it has been 18.5 days.\n\n6-Tables B, C, D, E, and F show the amount of Venereal disease met with in the Hospitals of this Colony, and the measures taken to prevent its spread. It will be seen on reference to Table C that in two-thirds of the admissions into the Seamen's and Civil Hospitals, the disease was not contracted in Hongkong. But for the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, there would soon be abundance of Venereal disease in the Colony.\n\nPage 201", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369718, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# Petition of Utter Singh\n\n## First Petition\n\n5. Your Petitioner humbly submits that the matter has been from the first under a misapprehension of the circumstances, as set forth by interested parties before the Captain Superintendent, and it has been unfortunately further prejudiced by certain aspects that have cropped up recently against men of the type of Gunda Singh. But your Petitioner unflinchingly believes that his veracity in the matter of the alleged transaction with Da Rocha will bear thorough investigation, and that he also confidently believes that he will come out of that inquiry without the slightest tar or tarnish on his character, and that he will be free from the ignominy attaching to a dismissal.\n\n6. Your Petitioner, therefore, earnestly prays that, taking all the circumstances respectfully urged by him in this and the previous Petitions, your Excellency will be graciously pleased not to condemn a servant of the Crown in the position of your Petitioner unheard, but that your Excellency will be pleased to appoint an independent Commission of Inquiry to formally investigate the conduct of the Petitioner in the transaction attributed to him with Da Rocha, and to act on the Report of the Commission. Your Petitioner cannot but entertain an honest belief that such an inquiry will prove him not guilty of any breach attributed to him of any of the Rules and Regulations in force at the time the alleged transaction was said to have taken place, for the general government and discipline of the Police.\n\n7. Or, if the appointment of an independent Commission of Inquiry be deemed inexpedient by your Excellency, your Petitioner humbly prays that your Excellency will be pleased to review, on the grounds urged by him, your Excellency's decision as to the dismissal of the Petitioner from the Police Force, or to so far modify your Excellency's decision as to grant to your Petitioner the pension honestly accruing to him after almost a lifetime of service, and to which your Petitioner ventures to say that hardly any member of the Indian Police Force can now lay claim.\n\n8. And Your Petitioner will ever pray, &c.\n\nDated this 24th day of April, 1897.\n\nUTTER SINGH,\nLATE INDIAN SERGEANT-MAJOR\nHONGKONG POLICE FORCE\n\nHONGKONG, 4th June, 1897.\n\nOn behalf of myself and the signatories, I have the honour to forward the enclosed Petition respecting the case of Ex-Sergeant-Major Utter Singh, of the Police Force, which I beg you will please place before His Excellency The Governor for his favourable consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient servant,\nE. PARANEY.\n\nTo\nTHE HONOURABLE\nJ. R. STEWART LOCKHART,\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\n## Second Petition\n\n3. Your Petitioners heard with great regret that on the 3rd day of December, 1896, the said Utter Singh was dismissed from the said Police Force by the Honourable the Captain Superintendent of Police for an alleged breach of the Police regulations, and that he was thus not only deprived of the pension and gratuity that had accrued to him after many years of hard and faithful service, but that also the ignominy of a dismissal was inflicted on him.\n\n4. Your Petitioners believe that the circumstances which led to the dismissal of Utter Singh were an alleged implication in some money-lending transaction, said to have transpired some three years ago, and that being implicated, as alleged, in such transaction was and is against the regulations of the said Police Force.\n\n5. Your Petitioners are informed that all the circumstances attaching to the alleged money-lending transaction have been duly set forth in representations made to your Excellency by Utter Singh, but your Petitioners extremely regret that the redress which the said Utter Singh seeks, on the plea of not guilty, has been absolutely denied to him. Your Petitioners further regret that, beyond a certain informal procedure of inquiry adopted by the Captain Superintendent of Police, Utter Singh was never definitely informed of the exact nature of the charges made against him, and your Petitioners, therefore, respectfully submit that he did not have those opportunities of meeting those charges as could have thoroughly exculpated him in the eyes of his superior officer, though in the informal inquiry made as to an alleged lending of fifty dollars some three years ago to one Koehn, a telephone clerk in the Central Police Station, it has not failed to come out most prominently that Da Rocha repeated one story before the Captain Superintendent under that officer's previous inquiry in Utter Singh's absence, but radically subverted it when confronted with him, so much so that the Captain Superintendent was not slow to tax him severely for so prevaricating. This circumstance ought to have a double bearing. First, that the informal inquiry had not been sufficient enough for eliciting the facts of the case, and, secondly, that the safeguards instrumental in guarding against deliberate prevarication had been altogether wanting in the Captain Superintendent's informal inquiry.\n\n6. Your Petitioners will not pretend to shield the said Utter Singh from the just penalty of any breach of Police Regulations, but your Petitioners feel that the exceptional severity with which he has been condemned and dealt with almost unheard, and the extent of the punishment inflicted on him, have not been fully appreciated by your Excellency, and your Petitioners cannot but regret that that severity is further enhanced many fold when Utter Singh's prayer for an independent Commission of Inquiry remains altogether unheeded.\n\n7. Your Petitioners cannot but be aware that under a misapprehension of the circumstances, as set forth by interested parties before the Captain Superintendent, Utter Singh's case has from the first been prejudiced, and that it has been further prejudiced by certain aspects of the Sikh characteristics that have cropped up against them in some of the cases that were recently heard in the Supreme Court. But your Petitioners beg to observe that, on the whole, the Sikhs are not so very black as they are painted. That they are not exempt from certain failings, your Petitioners can hardly gainsay. They have, as Sir Lepel Griffin, a former Lieut.-Governor of the Punjab, has described them, \"as keen a knowledge of the value of money, and as great a love of saving as the Scotch.\" But that they are dignified, sober, and orderly men, obedient to discipline, and devotedly attached to their officers, is also a certificate that goes from the very same eminent authority.\n\n8. Your Petitioners have all along observed that Utter Singh, like unto many others in the Police Force of this Colony, is a type representing the latter characteristics, and though possibly he may come under the former category as well, still your Petitioners believe that that being a trait common to many nations is no bar to a prayer for fair hearing on the true merits of his individual case, and that, therefore, your Petitioners venture to approach your Excellency with a very respectful prayer that your Excellency may be pleased to review your decision in Utter Singh's case, and to grant that redress and that justice to him which the merits of his case, in conjunction with the consideration of his long and faithful service of nearly eighteen years, entitle him to as a servant of the Crown.\n\nAnd Your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.\n\nHONGKONG, 31st May, 1897.\n\nE. PARANEY.\nF. D. SERVAI.\nB. L. BATTLIWALLA.\n\nTo\nHis EXCELLENCY\nSir WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G.,\nCOMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG AND ITS DEPENDENCIES AND VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME.\n\n## Signatories to the Second Petition\n\nTo His Excellency Sir William Robinson, K.C.M.G., Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nThe undersigned Indian British merchants, traders, and residents in the Colony of Hongkong humbly sheweth:\n\n1. That they are merchants, traders, and loyal subjects of Her Majesty Queen of Great Britain, and are carrying on business in Hongkong and elsewhere.\n\n2. They have known Utter Singh, late Indian Sergeant-Major of the Hongkong Police Force, for a number of years, and have every reason to believe that as a Police Officer, he has served Her Majesty the Empress in the Hongkong Police for upwards of eighteen years, and has during that time, by his good conduct, deservedly earned the respect and confidence of all his superior officers, as he has done of your Petitioners, and that your Petitioners could not but feel gratified that such conduct deservedly secured him the promotion, in 1896, to the highest rank the Indian section of the Hongkong Police Force can aspire to, that is to the rank of Sergeant-Major.\n\nP. N. DRALIA.\nS. D. MUNSHI.\nA. B. TALATI.\nD. D. TALATI.\nE. D. KOTWAL.\nC. B. MOWRAWALLA.\nC. A. CAMROSETN.\nH. Ebrahim.\nA. G. Bulsray.\nM. M. C. JUNATY.\nT. K. KAKAJI WALA.\nH. M. S. EMAIL.\nABDOOLA JOOSABHOY.\nP. C. PATELL.\nC. M. RITESANIA.\nNAOROJI BHIWANDJI BALSARA.\nRUHROMJI BUMONJEE.\nH. RETTONJEE.\nPISTONJEE NANABHOY.\nM. WANDREWALLA.\nDADY M. D. LANGRANA.\nD. J. PETIGARUM.\nE. HATTOOLLA GASTEL.\nS. ABDOOLADER BUSKAL.\nR. C. VANIA.\nS. M. ALLERDY.\nF. RAHIM.\nTYEBJI MOTARROY.\nJAFFERALOY S. TYEBALLY.\nD. F. TUMBOL V.\nP. M. SETHNA.\nJ. DUKASJI.\nM. M. MEHTA.\nJ. M. CAMA.\nH. M. H. NEMAZEE.\nM. HOOSEN.\nM. M. TACKEY.\nC. E. MEHTA.\nB. S. MURRA.\nP. M. VELVAN.\nH. A. SHIRAZEE.\nE. EBRAHIM.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373124, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 481, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "Government House,\n\nHONG KONG, 22nd September, 1899.\n\nB8617\n\n8th Septfr 1899\n\nCel: 2. List\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your despatch No.140 of the 26th July, I have the honour to transmit for your consideration a copy of a further memorial from Commander Hastings on the subject of the conditions of his appointment as Postmaster-General.\n\n2. From the enclosed list of salaries it will be observed that the Postmaster-General is paid as well as other Heads of Departments in the Colony, all of whom must expect to have long hours of work if such are necessary to keep up their departments to a proper standard of efficiency.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,\n\n&c. &c.\n\nSir,\n\nYour Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nHenry Blake\n\nGOVERNOR &c.\n\nPage 25\n\nMir Linda.\n\nIn Hastings case will be met in connexion with the general rise of Salaries\n\nJ.W.J. 23/11 yes C.R.d\n\n25 at once\n\nNo.\n\n26799 RECD\n\n6 21 JOT S\n\n478\n\n270.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374832, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "158\n\n1\n\n6\n\nthe great improvement that has resulted from legislative interference, not only in reducing the extent but also the malignity of the disease.\n\nThe great outcry against the Contagious Diseases Acts now (for the old plea of the immorality of licensing vice has been partly abandoned) is that they deal unfairly in the case of the two sexes and, as the present opponents of these Acts say, punish the comparatively innocent female and let her more guilty partner in iniquity go free. This is a great mistake on their part, for these Acts are not introduced for the purpose of punishment but with the sole object of restricting the extent of contagion, and curing the disease. Moreover, in this Colony at least, the Acts are, as far as practicable, applied to the male sex equally. Thus, before leave is granted to seamen of the Royal Navy, they all undergo medical inspection, and are detained on board if found diseased. By a very slight outlay a similar inspection might be made of all merchant seamen, and I hope still to see that this will be considered to be one of the duties of the Health Officer or Officers of the Fort. The whole of the Police Force undergo a similar examination once every month, and certainly the garrison might be equally examined. (Sir H. Storks recommends that the men should be examined at least once in seven days.) Lastly, as if to meet the objections of those who consider these Acts as one-sided, it is specially provided in our local Ordinance that all seamen known to be diseased, residing in any boarding house, must under a heavy penalty be reported to the Harbour Master for the purpose of transference to hospital. There only remain, therefore, the higher class of transgressors against whom it is more difficult to proceed; and, as if to balance this, the numerous Portuguese and European prostitutes who now frequent the Colony appear to be equally exempted from all interference on the part of the Executive. And here a very important question presents itself, viz., whether disease has increased among the class of young men who formerly frequented the native establishments. For my own part I am inclined to the opinion that it has so increased, but I am not prepared with statistics on this subject.\n\nLastly, I come to consider the question of the sanitary result of legislative interference in this Colony, and I am glad to be able to point to some very substantial benefits.\n\nIn 1859 I wrote \"Both among Naval and Military invalids the syphilitic amount to nearly 25 per cent. of the whole, and this is very nearly the same proportion in the Government Civil Hospital. In one ship numbering in all 523 hands, of which 300 had been on the sick list during the last quarter, 77 of these were for venereal diseases, being at the rate of 25.66 per cent. of the total sick, or 14.72 per cent. of the total strength; and that be it observed in one quarter. In the Government Civil Hospital the proportion of venereal cases was 138 out of 591 admissions, being in the proportion of 23.18 per cent.\" Now if the Returns accompanying this Report be contrasted with that former state of matters, it is seen during the year 1860, as the result of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, that disease was greatly decreased. In the Government Civil Hospital, even in spite of the great number of cases sent by the Harbour Master, the percentage of syphilitic cases was reduced to 15.82. In the garrison, the percentage of primary disease to the total strength was only 6.83, according to a Return compiled from data furnished to me by Dr. H. Heffernan, the Deputy Inspector-General. In the Police, it was 16.66 against 31.00 per cent. in 1863 as shown in Table XV.; and in a most interesting letter addressed to me by Fleet Surgeon Dr. Maccoun, of the United States ship \"Delaware,\" on the eve of his departure from the Colony, he says:- \"Since my arrival on this Station in the Spring of 1868, I have been struck with the benefit derived from the system of Registration and Inspection of public women, so ably carried out in this colony. During our visits to Hongkong but few have been infected, and the type of the disease is very mild.\"\n\nBut the whole letter deserves to be carefully perused and I think, coming from a perfectly independent source, it is one of the most valuable testimonies that could be adduced in support of the good results of the system. And if we turn to Table X., we find that the type of the disease must have equally improved; at least, the average duration of treatment, which may be considered to be a fair test of the severity of a case, has diminished from 43.8 days in 1868 to 24.5 in 1869. I admit that the working of the Ordinance is by no means perfect, and I am still of opinion that all prostitutes, whether in so-called purely Chinese houses or others, should be examined. In this opinion I am not supported by some of those who are supposed to be peculiarly conversant with the habits of the natives, and in deference to their opinion those houses are exempted from the action of the Ordinance. But I am confident that if all prostitutes are subject to the requirements of the Ordinance these results will be limited, for I am aware that the inmates of the so-called purely Chinese brothels will visit the houses of Europeans, although they may not admit them into the brothels under the dread of losing their license.\n\nThe only question that remains to be referred to, and that very cursorily, is whether the Ordinance under discussion has had any effect in withdrawing the fear of syphilitic infection from those upon whom it has had a deterrent effect. Such an idea will not bear investigation. The frequenters of brothels are either under the influence of drink at the time, or have lost all dread of the consequences. In no case, I believe, will young men be led into temptation for the first time because they can fall with impunity. As long as men are men, vice will continue, and it is clearly the duty of the legislature to protect, if not the actual transgressor, at all events the innocent, from the fearful consequences of disease.\n\n7\n\nREPORT OF THE COLONIAL SURGEON FOR THE YEAR 1870.\n\nIn my last Annual Report, I entered so fully into the question of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance that I can do little more, on the present occasion, than refer to the statistics contained in Tables, A, B, C, and D of the Appendix. It will be seen that a great improvement has taken place during the past year. In the two Hospitals, the percentage of contagious disease contracted in Hongkong to all admissions, was 8.96, against nearly double that amount in 1869. In the Garrison, the percentage of primary disease to the total strength was reduced to 5.51, against 6.93 in 1869; and among the British ships of war which have visited this port during the past year, only 116 cases of contagious disease were contracted in Hongkong. In the Police, a similar improvement has taken place, and the percentage of infection has been reduced from 16.66 in 1869 to 13.75 in 1870. Again, in turning to Table X, we find that the type of the disease is undergoing a steady improvement, under the strict surveillance to which the women are subjected; the average number of days of treatment having further diminished from 24.8 in 1869 to 23.1 in 1870. The whole of these Tables, as well as Table XIV., convey a large amount of information, and will well repay a careful study.\n\nI have added, in Appendices E and F, a letter addressed to me by Deputy-Inspector-General Pottinger of H.M.'s Naval Hospital, and statistics from Surgeon Ramsay of H.M.'s 71st Regiment in reference to the freedom of men of his regiment from contagious disease. The evidence of these gentlemen is extremely valuable, and gratifying to myself under whose care the medical examinations have been carried on for the past twelve years. Both gentlemen have had experience of Hongkong, and known what \"Hongkong Disease\" was before the introduction of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance into the Colony—and both agree as to the great contrast. Dr. Pottinger says: \"Judging from my own experience, I should say that syphilis has all but disappeared from the Colony.\" Dr. Ramsay writes: \"I may add that during an experience of 16 years as an Army Medical Officer, in all climates, I have not seen a similar immunity.\"\n\nMY DEAR SIR,\n\nH.M.'s Hospital Ship \"Melville,”\n\nHongkong, December 28th, 1870.\n\nAs you are about to leave this Colony for a time, I would beg to address a few words to you on the subject of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance carried out under your inspection. During the years 1849-50 and 1851 I was Surgeon of the Reynard Sloop of War, on the Chinese Station, and though unfortunately I am not in possession of my Journal for that vessel, I have a vivid remembrance of the sufferings of the crew from syphilitic disease in Hongkong. On every occasion when the men had leave on shore, a large proportion of them became affected with the disease. [allusion made to the severity of the type]. Secondary symptoms were also of frequent occurrence, often requiring the patients to be invalided and sent home. The altered state of things at the present time is very striking. During the year and nine months that I have had charge of this Hospital... [allusion made to decreased severity of type]. Judging from my own experience, I should say that syphilis has all but disappeared from the Colony, and I have no hesitation moreover in attributing this success... Could a similar system of examination be established in the Treaty Ports of China and Japan, a great boon would indeed be conferred on the Naval Squadron serving in these waters.\n\nDr. Murray, Colonial Surgeon, Hongkong.\n\n(Signed)\n\nROBERT POTTINGER.\n\n*Statistics of Disease in H.M.'s 75th Regiment From 21st December, 1863, till 21st December, 1870.\n\n1.—Average Strength during the above-named period, 428.5.\n\n2. Different forms of Venereal and the number of cases of each between the above-named dates:-\n\nPrimary Syphilis.\n\n17\n\nGonorrhea.\n\nTotal.\n\nSecondary Syphilis.\n\n39\n\n66\n\n10\n\nThe forms of Secondaries were very mild, amenable to treatment, and left no sign of permanent injury. The above figures speak for themselves, and show the great gain which the enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Act has been to the Government in preserving the health of the men of the Regiment. I may add that during an experience of 16 years as an Army Medical Officer in all climates, I have not seen a similar immunity. To me it is the more striking as I can look back on the prevalence and terrible severity of the disease which existed in this Colony in 1857, when \"Hongkong Disease\" was a well-known by-word. At times for an entire month there has not been a man reported as suffering from any form of Venereal, thus attesting the thorough manner in which the duties in connection with the Contagious Diseases Act have been carried out, and the efficacy of legislation against this \"Scourge of humanity\" seen in a Colony like Hongkong whose ever-shifting population, native and foreign, must render success unusually difficult.\n\n(Signed) W. RAMSAY, F.R.C.S.L.,\n\nSurgeon, 75th Regiment.\n\nMY DEAR DR. MURRAY.\n\nUnited States Flag Ship Delaware,\n\nHongkong, 12th March, 1870.\n\nSince my arrival on this Station in the Spring of 1868, I have been struck with the benefit derived from the system of Registration and Inspection of public women, so ably carried out in this Colony.\n\nIn most of the ports visited by our ships the men have suffered from syphilis, and especially in Japan where the disease exists in its most virulent form. But during our visits to Hongkong but few have been infected, and the type of the disease is very mild. In proof of this, I would mention that the crew of this ship, numbering four hundred and seventy men, have lately been granted liberty and only five cases of chancroid have been noticed.\n\nSuch a result as this proves the great benefit derived from the system; and on the eve of my departure from Victoria I deem it a duty, as well as a pleasure, to express to you my high appreciation of your labours in the cause of humanity, as well as to congratulate you upon the success with which they have been crowned.\n\n(Signed) ROBERT L. MACCOUN\n\nFleet Surgeon, U. S. N.\n\nDr. Murray, Colonial Surgeon, Hongkong.\n\nREPORT OF THE ACTING COLONIAL SURGEON FOR THE YEAR 1871.\n\nWhatever may be said against the working of the \"Contagious Diseases Act\" at home, there can be no doubt that in Hongkong the results are most satisfactory and valuable. In Table C it will be seen that out of 460 men admitted to the Military, Naval Police, and Seamen's Hospitals, 157 contracted the disease elsewhere than in Hongkong, and out of an average monthly number of 10,901 men in Port and Garrison, only 0.34 per cent. per month were diseased.\n\nExtracts from Special Report on Lock Hospital by Dr. R. Young.\n\n5. A reference to Table A shows that the type of disease met with is more amenable to treatment, from the fact that the average number of days during which patients were detained in Hospital has been reduced to a shorter period than has yet been reached during the past 14 years of the Hospital's existence. In 1870 it was 23.1 days, while during 1871 it has been 18.5 days.\n\n6. Tables B, C, D, E, and F show the amount of Venereal disease met with in the Hospitals of this Colony, and the measures taken to prevent its spread. It will be seen on reference to Table C that in two-thirds of the admissions into the Seamen's and Civil Hospitals, the disease was not contracted in Hongkong. But for the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, there would soon be abundance of Venereal disease in the Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 379416, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "page_number": 369, "title": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "content_text": "## Appansin II \n\n**Navy Dengue** \n1700 \n\n365 \n\nWe observed here that troubles might incarnate. \n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| MLA | |\n| R. | |\n| Din, Part 3 J | |\n| B | sent as inte |\n\n760 \n270 AUD MG Antillery", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380692, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "## COPY\n\nSir,\n\n215 \nForeign Office, \nSeptember 6th, 1892.\n\nYou are aware of the correspondence which has passed between Her Majesty's Legation, Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, and the Government of Hong Kong relative to the case of certain Chinese fugitives from justice whose extradition was demanded by the Viceroy of Canton, under the 21st Article of the Treaty of Tientsin. These men were detained for many months in prison owing to the belief that, notwithstanding the assurance of the Viceroy to the contrary, torture would be resorted to both as a means of extorting confession and in the execution of their sentence.\n\nThe prisoners, however, were released in December last by order of the Supreme Court of the Colony in consequence of some technical informalities in the warrants under which they were detained.\n\nA protest, of which I enclose a copy, against the action of the Hong Kong Authorities in this case has been addressed to me by the Chinese Minister, and you will see that in my reply I allude to a formal guarantee given by the Prince of Kung to Sir R. Alcock in May 1866, that no torture would be used in the execution of criminals surrendered by the Hong Kong Government, which guarantee appears to be unknown to the Viceroy of Canton.\n\nI have to instruct you to inform Prince Eung that the difficulty in complying with the application of the Chinese Government has arisen from the belief that this engagement has not been observed by the Provincial Authorities, and that it is believed that they are even ignorant.\n\nThe Honourable \nT. G. Grosvenor, C.B., \n&c., \n&c., \n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381500, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "Remortiment of Bye-law \n\nLunder \n\n157 of 1954 section 13. \n\nReenactment \n\nof Age-Cours made \n\nOrdinance \n\n24 of 1867. sertion 13,' \n\nORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901. \n\nPublic Health. \n\nwestern division in the City; and notice of such intended cleansing and lime-washing shall be sent to the Secretary of the Board them clear days before the work is commenced. \n\nNOTE-The western boundary of the eastern division of the City is Gurlen Road; the western boundary of the central division of the City is Morrison and East Streets; the western division of the City lies to the west of Morrison and East Streets. Kowloon is divided into eastern and western divisions by Robinson Bowl and a straight line drawn from the north end thereof through the Yaumati service reservoir to the Northern boundary of Kowloon. \n\nDOMICILIARY VISITS, \n\n1. The Secretary to the Board shall furnish the Inspectors of Nuisances with general authority in writing, in English and Chinese, to enter, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., and inspect, upon reasonable notice to the occupiers or owners, any building and curtilage in their respective districts for the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary condition, cleanliness and good order thereof or of any part thereof, and of any partitions, \"mezzanine floors, stories and cocklofts therein, or of the condition of any drains therein or in connection therewith. If it shall be requisite for the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary condition of any domestic building or curtilage, to open the ground surface of any part thereof any Inspector of Nuisances in possession of authority in writing signed by the Medical Officer of Health or by the Secretary of the Board, after giving not less than forty-eight hours' notice in writing signed by either of the aforesaid officers to the occupier or owner of such domestic building or curtilage of his intention to enter the same for the purpose of opening up the ground surface thereof, may enter, with such assistants as may be necessary, and open the ground surface of any such premises in any place or places he may deem fit, doing as little damage as may be. Should the material which has been used for covering such ground surface and the nature and thickness thereof be found satisfactory and in accordance with law, such ground surface shall be reinstated and made good by the said Board at the public expense. \n\n2. The Secretary of the Board shall, upon the requisition of the Medical Officer of Health, or by direction of the President of the said Board, authorise in writing, in English and Chinese, one or more of the Board's officers to enter any domestic building at any hour between 6 p.m. and midnight, for the purpose of ascertaining whether such building or any part thereof is in an overcrowded condition. \n\n3. No officer of the Board shall, between the hours of midnight and 8 o'clock the following morning, enter any domestic building for the purpose of ascertaining whether such building or any part thereof is in an overcrowded condition, without the written permission, in English and Chinese, of the Secretary countersigned by the President of the said Board. \n\nDRAINAGE. \n\nPreliminary Explanatory Notes to Bye-Laws. \n\nA. The following notes convey, in general terms, the principles which should guide the design and construction of house-drains. Before proceeding to lay down in detail the instructions which should be attended to, in order to apply the same satisfactorily, it must be observed that no code of instructions can possibly embrace every case that will occur. It must be remembered that no system of \n\nORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901. \n\nPublic Health. \n\nhouse-drainage that has yet been devised, or probably will ever be devised, does away with the necessity for care in use. The real remedy for the inconveniences which are too often experienced from house-drains lies, not in any elaboration of appliances, but in careful construction, careful use, and a reasonably liberal water supply. Without the co-operation of the public, the Sanitary Authority is almost powerless to effect improvement. It is therefore to be hoped that the public will assist, by insisting on good construction and the proper use of house-drains. \n\nB. The object of a house-drain is to carry off, from the dwelling to the street-sewer, water fouled by use, together with all the solid or semi-solid refuse which is usually associated therewith, such as excrement of men or domestic animals, refuse from cooking and the like; in short, the foul liquid usually known as sewage. \n\nThe house-drain must be self-cleansing. The sewage as produced in the daily life of the inmates must flow through the drain with a current sufficiently rapid to sweep along with it all suspended matter, so that no permanent deposit can take place. A drain in which deposit takes place is a cesspool in disguise, from which offensive emanations find their way into the dwelling; and from which putrid sewage flows into the street-sewers, making them exceedingly offensive. A badly constructed or badly kept house-drain is, therefore, not only a source of danger to the inmates of the house that it drains, but a public nuisance also. Unless house-drains are well made and properly used, no system of street-sewers, however perfect, can work in a satisfactory manner. \n\nD. Water being the agent which cleanses the house-drains, its liberal use by the inmates of the dwelling is essential to the proper maintenance of house-drains. The sewage must be well diluted. Nevertheless, the quantity of water necessary for the proper cleansing of house-drains is not excessive. The water normally used by the inmates of a dwelling for washing and cooking is sufficient for this purpose, provided that it is really obtainable at all times, either in the dwelling or in close proximity thereto. \n\nThe principal point to be attended to, in the design of house-drains, is so to arrange matters that the sewage, as produced, shall flow through them in the most rapid current practicable; so that all suspended matter shall be swept away at once and completely. \n\n2. The speed of a stream flowing through a pipe or channel, of given size and shape, depends upon the following conditions:-- \n\n(a) The inclination of the channel. \n\n(b) The smoothness of its surface. \n\n(c) The volume of the stream. \n\nThe steeper the slope and the smoother the sides of the channel, the swifter will be the current. The greater the volume of the stream, inclination being the same, the greater the speed. \n\nThus if a 12\" and a 3\" pipe have the same inclination, the velocity in the 12\" pipe would be about twice as great as in the 3\" pipe, provided that both were half full. But to fill the two pipes to this extent, the quantity of water passing through the 12\" pipe would be about thirty-two times that passing through the 3\" pipe. But if the same quantity flowed through both pipes, then the current in the 3\" pipe, being more concentrated, would flow more rapidly than that in the partially filled 12\" pipe. \n\n4. These considerations would lead to the conclusion, that the best size, to be used for any house-drain, would be that which would just suffice to carry off the sewage with the pipe not less than half full. Within certain limitations, this is the case, \n\nPage 210", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390962, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "EXTRADITION ACTS AND FUGITIVE OFFENDERS ACT.\n\nSUMMARY\n\nOF\n\nDECIDED\n\nFrom 1870.\n\nCASES,\n\nEXTRADITION is founded on the broad principle that it is to the interest of civilised communities that crimes, acknowledged as such, should not go unpunished; and it is part of the comity of nations that one State should assist another to bring to justice persons committing such crimes. But in the application of this principle certain matters, such as the conditions upon which, and the class of crimes in respect of which, extradition is to be granted, and the formalities to be observed upon an application for extradition, are primarily matters for the two political powers concerned to arrange in the first instance by treaty; having done this, the next step is by legislative enactment to give them the force of law, and to express in an Act of Parliament the conditions and limitations imposed upon the grant of extradition and the class of crimes to which extradition is to apply. It is to the expression of the legislature in Acts of Parliament alone that judicial tribunals can refer. Acts of Parliament are the sole source, and at the same time the strict limitation, of the judicial functions. We are sitting here as judges only, and have nothing to do with political considerations except so far as they may have been introduced into the language of the Acts which we are called upon to construe.\n\nPer Lord RUSSELL, C.J., In re Arton, L.R. Q.B.D. 1896 (1) 108;\n\n65 L.J.M.C. 23.\n\n509", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392063, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "81\n\nJas- bed\n\nCAVLUSUGO 7. od gumsevoč\n\nLuterol and GJ MINI at Jacast loetie 8980\n\nA MOTEL000 847 De #triJudge bid to ¿Cusio\n\nvo dole as,entigioz: 24 dotvoUTURRI B01NS\n\nven to 10 #obaciloug mi seba:juk tovar súð ni Jod\n\n*.....\n\n\"\n\nį 20073616Jle Cj a# Paulose. 48 Lasj\n\nAUST KIRow:00 Dis viro00ondai mont bas\n\n[Gusevi 100 evensore & ni boqovaco ed riveroi\n\nDe Lisju evsimupo liut at odd vood mo