[ { "id": 217064, "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": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Pas \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE. \n\nThe \n\nFriend of \n\nQuina SUPPLMENT TO No. 75. \n\nHong Kong Gajette, \n\nVICTÒRIA, HONG-KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1843. \n\nREPORT of Cases treated in the VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR SEAMEN, \n\nfor the momh ending, 19th August, 1843. \n\nDiseasDa \n\nAdmitted. \n\nDischarg. \n\ned relier. \n\nInitammation of the Liver. \n\nInflammation of the Brain. \n\nDelirium Tremens. \n\nDysentery. \n\nUlorrhoea. \n\nFever.. \n\nRácuratism. \n\nConsumption. \n\nVenereal \n\nTOTAL \n\nכני \n\nDischarg. \n\ned oured, \n\nD 0 \n\n(*) This Paliom left the Hospital contrary to the advice of the Surgeons, \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 20th August, 1845. \n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY \n\nOF LONDON. \n\nTHE Undersigned having been, appointed Agents in China, for the above Company, are prepared to accept. Assurances at Hong-Kong, as under: \n\n1st-On Buiklings of Brick or Stone, covered with Tiles, Slates, Metal of other incombustible material, together with their contents, when such Bniklogs are isolate! from all others. \n\nRate of Premium, 3 per cent, per annum, 2xD.--On such Buildings and their contents, when not so isolated, at the rate of 1 per cent. per ann Assurances for 6 months † 7 of the annual rate, will! \n\nand for 3 months, į 3be charged. \n\nOf the 1st Class, Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one risk. And of the 2nd Chies, to the extent of £3000. \n\nrisk. \n\nA Building and its contents taken together, form one Thas the above suns may be underwritten either on a Building alone, or the contents alone; on, part on the Building, and part on the contents. \n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in foron until the Premiam be paid. \n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the Assured will be entitled to participate in the profits after five successive payments. \n\nParties applying for Assurances will please send in full particulars of the risk to be taken; any deviation. from which, without the censent of the Company, will vitiate the Policy. \n\nJARDINE, MATILESON. & Co., \n\nAgents in China, \n\nMocan, 12th July, 1863, \n\nNOTICE. \n\nThe undersigned in connexion with Mn PareICK CHALMERS at present in England, has this day estal- Jished a house of Agency in China, under the firm of AKPRUSON, CHALMERS & Co. \n\nMacao, 1st July, 1843. \n\nJ. S. ANDERSON, \n\nFOR SALE. CHAIN Cables, Europe Rope, Wines, Spirits, Stores of every description, Dressing Glasses, Plate Glass and Warm Clothing, \n\nALFRED HUMPHREYS, \n\n20. Queens Road. \n\nHong Kong, 1st August, 1848, \n\nNOTICE--The un forsignal is authorized by \n\nflis Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Land Forces in China, to recsivo al pack- ngem adresaid to the Officers or Messes of any of the Regiems ployed during the late war. \n\nN. LUGS. \n\nlong-Kong, 15th April, 1842 \n\nOne half per cent, Commission will be charged upon all Goods bought in. \n\nProceeds of Arconat Sales will be rendered fifteen hys after Sale, or sooner if realizeal. \n\nQueen's Road, Hong-Kong, kat Juno, 1843. \n\nXO. W. BENNETT, \n\nJUST RECEIVED, AND FOP SALE. BEEF, Pork. Flour and Bread, Brandy and Wines, Cherry Cordial Vinegar, Rum, and Anack, Beer in Cask, Sales &c. \n\nRice. Singapore Plunks, \n\nSpesin Candles. Tlouse-iltings. \n\nManda Timber, Sheathing Copper, \n\nAmerican and Castile Spip, \n\nTobacco, Raisins, Spirits Turpentine, Tar, Rusin, and I'l \n\nBlack, White, Brown, and Drab Flats. \n\nP. TOWNSEND, \n\nHong-Kong, 31st July, 1943. \n\nti \n\nDead. \n\nRetain \n\ning in the \n\nHospital. \n\n[ \n\n幾 \n\nJ SATCHELL, M. D, \n\nResident Physician and Surgeon. \n\nRICHARD JONES, M. D., Resident Asst. Physician & Surgeon, \n\nD. WILSON & Co., \n\nBEG to intimate to the Gentlemen of Hong-Kong that they have From thus, date opened their Billiard Room to be Pullic. \n\nPRICE OF THE GAMES. Ese Ga \n\nFoun Two \n\nof 24 for One Dollar \n\n\" \n\nNight games double the above. \n\nN. B. No Credit will be allowed in the Biard Room \n\nVICTORIA, HONG-KONG \n\n1st August 1848 \n\nD. WILSON & Co. \n\nAVE just received a fresh supply of Allsop's Lutin Ale, sound Chadder Chinese, Perfumery, Stationery, and a variety of ather articles. \n\nVICTORIA, Roxo-Kong, \n\n1st August, 1843. \n\nJUST Landed and for SALE. \n\nAlachines. \n\nApply to \n\n20, Quren's Road, Victoria, 2nd August. 1843 \n\nwo \n\nWeighing \n\nALEX. MOSY, \n\nNOTICE Goons and Merelmedio of all descrip \n\ntions received and curetilly stored ia sparions dry and secure Brick Godowns situated on the Queen's Road No. 20, at Hongkong, upon moderate terris. \n\nApply upon the premises to. \n\nALEX, MOSS. Goods are received and sold on Commission Hongkong, 2nd Angusi 1833, \n\nFOR SALE--Singapore Bears, on moderate \n\nApply to ALEX. MOSS, Hong Kong, 2d August, 1843, \n\nterms. \n\nNOTICE. \n\nIN consequence of the mytan! Dissolution of Part. nership betweeen Mesars, BENNETT, PAIN, & Co., the Undersigned bags to Notify, that the Busi ness will be cartiod on by lamseif, où the same Pre ruises, and most respectfully, solicits a continustee of the liberal support be has hitherto been favoured with Parties desinos në susting Goods for Pablie. Auction, are requested to, de so two days previous to the time of Sule. \n\nAuctions will be held every Friday. at Eleven A. 37, \n\nTerms-Five per Cent, at all. Goods. \n\nVICTORIA HOSPITAL, \n\nFUR \n\nSEA MEN, \n\nNos. 1, 2, 3, Queen's Roud, immediately opposito Fearon's Wharf, \n\nResident Physician and Surgeon, JAMES SATCHELL, M. D. Resident Assist, Physician, & Surgeon, \n\nRICHARD JONES, M. D. \n\nTHE HOSPITAL is now open for the reception of i \n\nPatients, and is furnished with every convenience necessary for the comfort and speely recovery of the sick. \n\nPatients are admitted at any hour of the day or night, on production of an undertaking to defray the expenses inerrel, signed either by the Captain of the Vessel to which the sick person belongs, or a Member of some Mercantile Firo in Chica. No Patient çan \n\nbe admittcik without such an undertaking. \n\nTERMS For Medical attendance, Medicines, and \n\nProvisions. \n\nSeamen-One Dollar, \n\nOFFICERS--Two Dollars per day, Victoria, Hong-Kong, \n\n20th July, 1843. \n\nFOR SALE, REIGHT on CHARTER, \n\nTHE Fine A. 1. British Brig Iris,\" \n\n277 Tous N. M. Captain MERCE, \n\nApply to \n\nHOLLIDAY WISE, 4. Co. Victoria, Hongkong, 24th August, 1843, \n\nFOR LONDON. \n\nTHE A British bull Barque Mary Catherine\" Captain Taylor, having \n\nTur \n\na large portion of her cargo engaged will meet with quick despatch, generat freight or passage, baving supe- \n\nG. F. DAVIDSON. LINDSAY & Co. \n\nrior accommodations, apply here w \n\nAt Macao to \n\nFlong-Kong, 14th August, 1943. \n\nFOR AMOY AND CHUSAN. \n\nTHE Barque Lanusy Campbell, Capt. Darley Will Sail for the above Parts in ath this month--For Freight or pis- \n\nN. DEUS Apply to \n\n18. Queen's Road, Or to the Captain on lumed. \n\nsaga. \n\nVictor 2, Aogust 9th, 1943. \n\nFOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER. \n\nTHE A. L. Barque Extzaketh Moonn, W. 3isap Comunander, register ton. nage 241. \n\nFOR SALE. on board the Elizabeth Moniy,\" fod tons of Liverpool Coals, such as II. M Mail Steamors\" between Liverpool and fasiio, use. \n\nApply to 6, F. DAVIDSON. Hong-Kong, 2d, August, 1848. \n\nThe fist sailing British bult Brig \"NAUTILUS\" \"Captain Gibson, £33 toms Register, now ging at Hongkong, and ready to receive vargo. \n\nApply to FOX, BAWSON. & Co. \n\nBongkung 35th July, 1843. \n\nFOR-SALE. FLERGILE OR CuAXTER, \n\nTHE Clipper Bag ANOLESA, Capt. Rowland 10 Tons register, built at Ipswich, in 1840, & A. 1'de 13 years, has been newly coppered and is well found in stores Apply to the Captain on board; or to \n\nFOX, RAWSON, & Co. Hongkong, 25th. Jaly 1543. WANTED-fer the Gun Room Mess of 11. A. S. Cunwallis-a good Cook-either European or \n\nNalive. \n\nTestimonials at to character and efficiency will be required. \n\nFor further particulars, apply on board, butween the \n\nhouss of nine and twelve 4. N.\" \n\nH. M. S. Con wallis. \n\nAugust, 17th 1843. \n\nALL persons indebted to the firm of P. Townsend & Co. are desired to take immediate payment iv, \n\nP. TOWNSEND \n\nPR SALE. \n\nPRIME Bottled Beer. Apply in. \n\nPAIN & Co. \n\nFOR SALE. \n\nAr go. Secaes of Tus USDERSTORED. Prims Mess feeland Pork \n\nPaint and Paint End Torpentine and Tar Matlive Cair \n\nCalan api Slip Brend Superive Golden Sherry \n\nCockburts\" Port Wine \n\nClaret 31 Julen and Murgaux Hock. Bresar and Canignze \n\nBarton Ale in Cash and Bottle \n\nTumblers ani Wine Glasses \n\nSingapore planks \n\nBeaver and Sour Flats \n\nLaubes Mut, dilk stockings, Soilpe \n\nBrandy in Wood and Boitie \n\nAb assortment of Hosiery \n\nWah numerous other articles at moderate prices, \n\nNo. 2 Magistracy Street, \n\nPAIN &AG. \n\nTARIFF, PORT REGULATIONS &c. \n\nA few Cupies are still on SALE of No.71 of the Friend \n\nof China wad Hong Kong Gazette, contrining the Proclamation of His Excellency. Tariff, Government Notification. Table of Consular Fees &c. &c. \n\nAlso the Extraordinary of 31st July, Containing the Proclamation of the Chinese Commissioner, General, Regulations for the Ports, in Cléna, &c. &c. \n\nPrice—to Subscribers to the paper; each copy 25 pents, to non Subscribers 1 Rupeo. \n\nPAINTED AND I'encreuen For The ProPainTORS, NE rup Payaso Orvice, Querx's Rojo, Verona. \n\nWe are informed that Monsieur C. ALEX, CHALLAYE, Esa. ex Acting Consul for France in China, nas, by a decision of his Excellency Monsieur Guizot, Mi- nister for Foreign Affairs, bearing date the 14th March of the present year, her attached, in his capacity of Elove Consul, to the CoxsULATE ÚExEAL ci Franco in Egypt. \n\nINQUEST AUGUST 14TH, 1848. \n\nBEFORE MR. E. FARNCOMB. CORONER. \n\nFROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS. \n\nCrtSAR-August 4th, 1843. \n\nwere arenred under the Old System. They are, the Eliza, Mary, and Bahamian Business is very dull, New Congous are arriving, the quality good. \"Crop, \n\nNo matter of political import need be looked for in 650 Chops, 20 maels. Shout price about the rate. this quiet locality, we are becoming gradually acquint. Whilst the Export in April and May, was 174 millions ed with the denems of a great intercourse, the \n\nof lbs., in 29 ships, the probable Export of 3 months, friendly disposition of the people favors it, and the June, July, and August, in 5 ships, is about 3 mil perfeet reliance which they place in the honour and hops of the integrity of British dealers, leads to the fervent hope LocAL Nuws-The British Flag was re-hosted at the that it may never be destroyed by questionable trave Consulate, on the 14th inst. \n\nOfficial responsibility to actions. \n\nthe Chinese, for the payment and collection of their \n\nThis was an inquest on the body of James Prestoe, The only true system of trade is a liberal one, and duties, is an enormous thor, and wifi catail endles \n\nThere can be no greater fillacy, than for the faw, to use and vexation on the Conals. Here, I should who died suddenly in the Exchange Room The Jury aere summoned to attend on the evening of the suppose that the knowledge of commercial particulars, he will want fy Claks, when basintesis upon this coast can be limited to themselves, here active. The Consulate order, to prevent ship'a boots 12th (Saturday), but in consequence of the post mor the examination of the Body un bring concluded where ready money transections constantly obtain, the exting Her Majesty's) dig at the Old Company till a late bour and the Medical Report being requested simplicity of business render its details obvious aden, bas given as inch disgust to the skipper, \n\nit hus given satifaction to the residents. to be given in writing the Jugnest was deferred to enough to the most obtuse piserver. the 14th (Monday). The following evidence was then \n\nIt is with very deep regret, we have to announce the takon. Mr. J. W. Bennett, sworn, sąl \n\nde mise of J. A. Murder, Esq. He died on hard the General Work, on the siternoon of yesterday, after a severe illness of three weeks datarion. A wide circle of friends not acquaintances will bewail the loss of a truly kind-heartedman, and our commu - nity will deplore the loss of a valuable incraber. \n\ni was informed on Saturday at about 3 o'clock that James Preston the deceased was dying. The deceased kept the Exchange Roome for me. On my coming up to see him I found he bad expired. Daring the time that the depensed had born in my employ be had always conducted himself in a sober manner. I \n\ndischarged from the Hospital he secured weakly and when I saw him going about in the wet. I remon- strated with him, and told him that he ought to en- play a man for the purpose. \n\nA subject upon which we may congratulate ourselves is the continued bathy nature of this loculty ; out national selfishness leads us to regret that this valu- alle island is one day to be restored; its worth as a commanding position can scarcely bo over-rated. situated in a glorious climate, exempted from the ord nary riak of the elements, provided wah the most Secure and spacious harbours and in itself abondant- \n\nof the Chinese Empire, with such a possession what \n\ndo not know what his bubits of life had been before 7 productive, populated with a quiet industrious raceOS KEENASSA FALAN KUGELSESKPROT \n\namong whom rict, crime, my dishonesty, is scarcely 1 employed him. About five days previous to his docense, he had been sent to the Hospital of Messrs. Known a rural people castly governed, Imants each J. N. ANDERSON, begrepectfully to inform Satchell and Jenes, he bad them an eruption on his member of the community seems to know himself\" \n\nthe inhabitants of Victoria, and the public generally, and then if we might venture to speak of its political tha the has opened those premista next Mr. Boulle's skin, ou different parts of his body; en huis being inuener, within a few day's sail of the riches cities teen's Road, as a winlesale al rail wine and might not the genius and enterprise of Great Britain Strict attention to business, good Articles, and mode Spirit Store, and BILLIARD ROOM, and hopes, by rate elurges, to meet a share of Public Putronage. \n\nJ. N. A. begs respectfully to solicit the attention of the Naval and Military, as well as private Gention.co in Flong-Kong, to the Hilliard Room, which is Spaci ous and weil aired, and to state, that every possiblo attention on his part will be paid to the confort of those who may honour him with a visit. Victoria, 14th August, 1843. \n\nMr. Francis Dickens, sworn, \n\nI am Clerk to Mir. Bennett: I was present when the dencased died, he died in the Exchange Room. When I came into the room he was sitting in one of the chairs with his bead hanging over the fuck of the chair. I supported hun in my arms and spoken to him, but received no answer, his lips moved as if to spek but he could not do on, and his pulse was scar- cely perceptible, I called up a servant and he took hold of hie zal i went and fetched a Doctor. The deceased did not recognise one when I came up. \n\nAr J W. Beaned, Re-examined, A day or two before the deceased went to the Hos. pitul he complained to me of sickness and a pain in Jus heal. I administered to him an Emnetic which gave him considerable relief: the eruption afterwards appearing on his body, I advised him to go to the os pital. \n\nJamce Satchell, Surgeon, Sworn-The deceased was in the Hospital under my charge from the seventh to the eleventh instant. His eomplaint was that of a nettle rush and disordered bowels. When he left the Hospital he wna perfectly well but was weak. I was sent for on Saturday to sec bin and on my arrival at the Exchango Rooin he was dend. \n\n(Signed) \n\nThere was no possibility of forming an opinion us to the cause of his death without an internal examination. I consider that course was necessary. \n\nJ. SATCHELL, M. D. \n\nResident Surgeon, Victoria Seaman's Hospital. Charles Alexander Winchester, \n\nI am the Acting Colonial Surgeon.- produce a copy of the notes taken whilst examining the body of the deceased. The report was then read. \n\nOn the Coroner enquiring what was the cause of the deceased's death the witness said, \n\nThe signs in the brain led me to suppose that influm mutory action must have existed for serae considerable time before death, and from the evidence given, of a sgb-acute character. I consider the immediate enese of death to have ben the pressure of a very considerable \n\nquantity of serum found at the case of the brain, on that órgin (in other words) that it was a rese of serious upo, lexy. He must have enjoyed very irregular health Prom the state of the liver. \n\nf \n\n(Signed) \n\nCHARLES ALEXANDER WINCHESTER, \n\nActing Colonial Surgeon. The Evidence having been summed up, and the Jury being charged to consider their verdict it was returned, \n\nDied by the visitation of God. \n\neffect in this remote, but highly interesting, portion of the civilised world? \n\nThe recent intelligence from Woosung, the Port of Shanghai ( with which place we have constant com- unication) is to the effect, that a sumber of men are engaged in repairing the ruined fortifications. They were formerly of cud: we are given to under- stand that they are now being feed with granite, sonte of the Opium vessels have recently gone up to the northward, with the intention, doabitess, of establishing other trading stations; it is useless to talk of a limited number of parts for all the coast will be open. The people are eager to trade, and the Mandarina are at Present very cautious in their interference in this matter, nothing but urbanity and kindness is expe- rienced from these dignitaries; certainly upon this coast there exists every outward manifestation of a sincero desire for peace and aliianey. \n\nThe immense amount of native toumage which finds its way up the Shanghai river daily, is worthy of remark, as being one of the most protaient features in the Yangtze kiang: they come from North and Sound, but as yet we canunt obtain the particulars of trade the English Ships keep healthy up the river, but the heat has been ahaost insupportable this season. \n\nA very fair trade has been doing here both in Straits produce and manufactured goods PEPPER has averaged 50 25 per picul; Rarrans still selling at 85, Grey sorrisos 68 30, Wuerz 84, Pic Leap,on account of large stock is down to $5 50, Saxval wOOD, without inquiry, Rion 81 50 no sales. Opium market unsettled, MALWA $610. PATNA 8710 to 720-very lit tle on hand. Speaking of the latter article, vessels coming up here with a general cargo should not neglect to com- prise it, helping off, as it does, heavy stock, it becomes a voluable auxiliary occasionally Alarm has been offer. ed in quantity at $1 15 it will doubtless be available era long as a rough return and calculated for purposes of ballast. I have no doubt but return freight on eative account, might be obtained from Niagpo and other consular ports, indeed some I believe has already beca obtained. \n\nAmov,-11th August, 1943. \n\nVaer quantities of Piece Goods have been brought to this market from Hongkong, and prices have given way. Lose Ctorns, far whites. $350 to $3 60, Greys $2 90 to 83 10; Twist $27 to $29. OPIUM raining its price, and good Malwa sells readily at $625. Rice 100; a good harvest. \n\nCanton, 21st August, 1843. \n\nThe former Hong Merchants continue to decline ex- porting Tens under the New System, and all the out- side man, are afraid to begin. Three slups are being loaded with Teus, at 1 taels on the short price, but these \n\nJ. \n\nMc. MURRAY, Baker, Pastry Cook, 4. opposite the Godowns of W Scott, Esq., Lower Bazaar, begs to announce to the Public, til be car ries on business in the above named sivinity, and hopes to participate in that Public Patronage which it shall be his constant endeavour to deserve. \n\nN. B.-Parties can be supplied with Bread, Pastry, &c., on the shortest notice, also ship biscuit, \n\nHong-kong. 14th August, 1848. \n\nBakings of every description, carefully exe- exted, from cleven in the moring till five in the evening FOR SALE-Anchors and Chain Cables, \n\nCopper sheathing, and nails Claret, and flavona cigars Sperm. Candles, and Ainerican Soap Cabin Biscuity in Tins of 58 s. Brass & Iron Bedstewis. \n\nApply at the Godowns of Holliday Wise, of Co. JOHN RITSON. Victoria, 17th August, 1543 \n\nto \n\nFOR SALE-The bull, masts, yards, anchors, chains, &c. &c., of the Brigantine, Roza, now lying in Ilong Kong. \n\nThe above may be Sold together or separate. The vessel is seven years old built of American live oak, and would make an excellent receiving vessel in say of the new Ports, having also good accommodation for resi dence on board, \n\nApply to \n\nN. DUUS. (1 T. M. METCALFE. \n\nGINGER BEER \n\nMATUEUS DB COSTA & Co. respectfully intimate \n\nthat they have opened an establishment at Ne. B Webster's Bazaar for the sale of Ginger Beer prepared by a peculiar process from the best fresh finger; it will be found to retain in the fullest perfection all \"invigorat ing and refreshing qualities, parties requiring a regular supply at intervals, are requested to give noties, this will ensure their having beer in its best condition at the Line wanted. —— \n\nPreserved Provisious, Cigure, Soap, Cheese & other Groceries,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217546, "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": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "page_number": 284, "title": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "content_text": "Impeely perceive any objection to its \n\nreales it way \n\nmay \n\nbe deemed one, that it \n\ntend to involve the Conductor in acrimonious disputes and scupions with the Editors \n\ndes \n\nof \n\nthe \n\nother newspapers publicked in China; brit, on the other hand, it is imposible hot to feel that it might have advantages by being the means of undeceiving the Public of England and Ludia on the many topies that constantly distorted and fashioned \n\nare \n\nby the local Press to suit the Unterrable and shortsighted views of interested Persons. - \n\nShave be \n\n(Signed) Newry Sollinger \n\n762 Hongkong \n\n0.0. \n\nلود \n\nAUG 10 \n\ndirected \n\nto tangunt to \n\nв \n\nyou \n\nFreign Office, August 5.182. \n\nby \n\nthe laid of Aberdeen \n\nof \n\nherewith to be lovil \n\nHad Slanky, beback and Copy of \n\nbefore And \n\nto the patches from bin kusy Pottinger \n\nSie Mary \n\nCopy of inclouen & Land Covend 17 dagt \n\nLes desp dor \n\nfecting Commisarial and other Buildings Susan, and a survey of th \n\ntherow side of Hongking. \n\nJam, Sii, \n\nJen \n\nmost obedient, tumble Servant, \n\nthe \n\nGröße Ele \n\nん \n\nRu", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217663, "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": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "page_number": 401, "title": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "content_text": "\n\nand \"West Point _\", as His Recellency entirely coneurs wither \n\nyour \n\nin- \n\nthe advantage of the arrange = ment; but before orders are- issued for the erection of the \n\n= \n\nBuildings, \n\nit is nevepary that it should be clearly understood that the rccupation of them imperative upon, and not to \n\nis im \n\nbe optional with, the officers, and further that every officer \n\nis to \n\npay of an Subaltern, agreeable the Regulations in forse in \n\nthe Hondern Rent \n\nIndia for the accommo \n\nto \n\ndation, \n\nwhich sume is to be deducted from his monthly allowances \n\n........... \n\nby the Pay- Master, and paid- over to the Civil Authority to cover the expence of the first and subsequent repair \n\ncreation \n\nthe Buildings \n\nment is to \n\nAs this part of the arrange= solely of a Military nature, His Excellency leaves it_ to you to decide on it, and issue \"the necessary orders; and the_ \n\nmoment that is done, the- \n\nEngineer Officer can be instructed to draw on the Civil Treasury for such part of the money as he may require, much to \n\nand commence the Work. \n\nJuil. Copy.) \n\nbig \n\nI have to \n\nte \n\nSigned) G. A. Malcolm, \n\nRot-Momson Secretary of Legation. \n\nActing Loreting & Treasurer. \n\nSecretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217935, "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": 216, "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "content_text": "our \n\nand that the Land allotted to them \n\nbe only sufficient for the Buildings \n\nand occupation Grounds and not for purposes of Endowments. \n\nObserving that no particular \n\nduration of the Grant is mentioned in The Return of Bazaar Lots, we would Aggest that the attention of the \n\nGovernor should be drawni \n\nto this \n\npoint, in order that he may fiù a \n\nsuitable limit, \n\nmay \n\ntake the same \n\nopportunity of remarking that in so far 26 Suburban Lots \n\nmay. be rettoned, we Ground not think it desirable to make their duration 100 years as contemplated by Mr. Johnston, but rather that they should- be for the same term as the other classes of Property. \n\nbe \n\nWe perceive that sots were granted to Mr Kunstons and to his towart as Public Offices on condition that Jovernment should have the option of purchasing the Houses built on theme: air for the Furbor_master and Land Officer, Houser to have been evicted at the \n\nAppear Public Schence. We are not aware bil- \n\nsummeration \n\nmay be the arrangements expecting the \n\nof Offices at Hong Kong; but on general pronned it is needleft \n\nfor us to remark that it is considered \n\nvery objectionable to allow them pee Grant of Land. The ofjection rest not merely on the pecumiery Exemption which they obtain, but also \n\non the Circumstance that since no competition ther piace, the Officers may select Iter which \n\nigrati \n\nere bothe to the \n\nought", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218168, "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": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "Mr. Morrison, that when all: the purchase. \n\nmoney \n\nit,uaid,, the lebler of Ira atfer with \n\nbe signed.. \n\nN°3 \n\nColgate was registered. for \n\nM. Holgate \n\nSot, but there was a mistake, as to the \n\na \n\nlocality of it, and \n\nMr Wolga to commenced \n\nlevelling the wrong place; \n\nIn consideration, \n\nhowever, of his having expendect. $ 200, before- he was stopped in his work, and also of his having built a house upon his other lot, we... \n\n6. favorable \n\nwould recommend his claim to t \n\nnetice of His Southnay. \n\nN: 13. Part of a lot, on which a house was built, was sold by the Billespie to Me Beung, who was prevented from building, accordance with the Government Notification... under date 10th April 18813, published in \n\nthe Hough: \n\nin \n\nNongu- og Gazette of 13th of same month; but the original granter, having improved \n\nall his land, we would recommend his case \n\nto \n\nA \n\nwson why we should. \n\nShould \n\nto the favorable consideration of Thris Excellency. \n\n3017 Wh can \n\n¿0 kbi. \n\nbring its Marhwick? Jaim, to the favorable consideration of the Gover, he had two lots, \n\nreither of which he improved, and he sold \n\nof them. \n\none. \n\nNot. 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32 were purchased \n\nby Mess?? jardine. Matheson to who have not yet improved them, but at that tim have already laid out whwards bid \n\nand \n\nof Bollaw on their other property in this Island, \n\nhaving very recently given orders, for further buildings to a very large smeant, and also because they were prevented from \n\nsuing to \n\nbeen marked. \n\nimproving these and other cost. the lines of road not having out as appears on record in thist leffice, \n\nand \n\nrather because most of the Houses, \n\nfurther \n\nproposed to be created on them, are for the \n\nuse of their numerous defendants, \n\nwould \n\nた", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219392, "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": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "* Surveyor Generals & chartment \n\nStatement of Expenditier \n\non the Public Works to the probable Expenditure \n\nAs excription of Work: \n\nCompletion of Recons Lear \n\nContinuation of o \n\ndo dos to doshimped, thence by dywan to Sylam. \n\nVe \n\nto Chuck chu \n\nTo bestiare te Chuckpywan. \n\nDue ducts in tieto ix. \n\nSundry toork on roads ry \n\nrepairing \n\nChikichu read the \n\nthridges repairs and rebuilding imperfect brides. \n\nVereerd. \n\nMainage, of taddy land, Hougnenhoong ballig, St. \n\nPreparing land for buildings, Su Chinia location, &c. \n\nPublic Buildings biz: \n\nYovernment Honk. \n\nSublic offices and Cour / House. \n\nRisor and house for Carler. \n\nDebtors Wast \n\nRegistrar's house are offiei. \n\nHouse of Conctione. \n\nExperide on tor he \n\nalosti/4s fur that \n\nVictoria Hongkong \n\nthe hall year ending September 2017 1944 and Estimate of to March 31% 1847 \n\nExporded during the Expireded during Amount Aditional quarterinding 30th the half year wuthorize for amants required of i \n\nMarch 1944. puding 26 Seph1844|tooshdin progrefe le Ghiarch, 1847%. \n\nreturn to Fedaiawn, \n\n遘 \n\n& \n\n1,422 20 \n\n2,810 \n\nفي \n\n1,800 49 \n\n6,20008 \n\n24,569 \n\nItal cost \n\ntruck. \n\nGrain letal. \n\ntvork. \n\n14,200 \n\n21,850 \n\n17,452 \n\n10,000 \n\n10,000 \n\n20,000 \n\n20,000 \n\n10,000 \n\n22,000 \n\n10,00 \n\n80,000 \n\n5,000 \n\n10,500 350 \n\n45,000 100,000 40,000 4,500 \n\n5322 hd 10,02971 105327 28 6031 82 6,206 40 \n\n45,000 \n\n40,000 \n\n10,000 \n\n4,300 4900 \n\nPolice Stations, \n\n50,000 \n\n20,000 60s or \n\nsundry repairs to beverarment buildings, temporary offices and Court house, including temporary church and hitchens at Government Hinse: \n\nResidence for Government officer se Abang huldings) paying rent, \n\n10,120 1,417 \n\n7,25 259374 \n\nHarbor Master's pier and sea toall, and bulding boat sheds, stous, the \n\n-Sea wall to form public Quay, or Marine locationes under. Government \n\nHilly \n\n2,520 87 \n\n3,000). \n\n20,000. \n\n20,000. \n\n3,962 \n\n25,000 \n\n4,75376 \n\n48,120: \n\n48,120 \n\nbetween top Lindsay's premises ain the north Barracks. \n\nExpenses of Surveyer Generals istablishment in. \n\nHages up to March, 1844. Salaries subsequently. \n\nCarlingencies. \n\ncontingencies on estimated toorht, 10 per \n\ntoorts, 10 per cent, big on $481200 is \n\nHlabamount \n\nas, \n\nmount expended on finished works as per Surveyor General's return 105 Heber, 844- Viz; \n\nDeducting for works in progress at the date of \n\nSurveyor Cenerals return, the subsequent \n\nExpenditure on which is included in this \n\nstatement, viz. Albany Buildings. # 17651. \n\nTemporary Church. \n\n431.75 \n\nKitchend to Govt: House. 4044- \n\n$196,882123 \n\n22,12675 \n\nLeaving a balance of as rotended hering $174,785.48 174,788 48 \n\nItals $187/7/14-54 \n\n\"stal amount of actual and anticipatid expenditière, \n\nVictoria, Horgheng, 5. Proveniber, 181014. \n\nC \n\non \n\n174,755 48 \n\n9947.35 26914.68 73338.92 $29,320 \n\n827,435, 779 \n\n3827,435 079 \n\nthe Public Works mding 31 March, 18467. \n\nLigued) Chat Dr. Bro: Cleverly \n\ndeling Surveyor Veneral. \n\nAhue Wymerup", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219453, "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": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "Summary of Expenditure for the Civil Establishments of Houghing \n\nfor \n\nکسی \n\nthe years inding 31th March, 1845, and 31% March, 1846. \n\nDepartment \n\nGovernor's Department. \n\n2 Colenial Secretary's \n\nInancials. \n\n4 leclesiastical. \n\nInedical \n\nLegislation Stxecutive Councils. \n\n| 7 Registrar General & Collector of Revenue \n\nGeneral Department. \n\nJudiciais \n\n10. Chief Magistrate of Solice. \n\n// Police. Establishmans, Chek chu. \n\n12 Harbour Traster, Fictorias. \n\nMarine Magistrate Not fixed. \n\n14 harveyer General. \n\n15(houds, Shidges \n\n16 Public Bruildings. \n\n17 tenestimated Contingencies on the above may fairly be Estimatiout \n\n18 Proposed Contribution towards \n\nbuilding a Church. \n\nEsternate for year \n\nL \n\nb b b b 13. 4 bbbb \n\n4001 | 10 | 4101 \n\n+ \n\nEstimate for year anding 312 March, \n\n1846. \n\nRemarks) \n\nbbbb 15:41 These statements are made \n\nyou 866 \n\naccording to the present rate of Exporrditive . There, \n\nsome difference in the Expenditure on \n\nFublic \n\nBuildings ared Works, as \n\nclasified under the \n\n1235 classified \n\n. years \n\nbe \n\n36716. Ending March, 184,51 1846, but \n\nthe aggregate amount is in \n\n6285 17-% be 90.12 accor \n\nance with the document \n\nJaccordance, \n\n1186 9 4 furnishes me by the Acting \n\n4|1186 \n\n$60 \n\n4235 1411 13,050 \n\n423414 65,360 \n\n4250. \n\n69,730. \n\n5,000 \n\n21974. Surveyor General. \n\nTotal Z. 61,378.10.2/2 186713-16.84 \n\nr. B. These Sums. \n\nart \n\n(Signer \n\nMr. Marten \n\nincopretive of the Consular and Superintendent \n\nof have Charges for the years 1845 and 1846. \n\n(Signed) (Rt M. Martin. bie Ay. Anderick W. A. Gonce \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 225051, "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": "CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4]", "page_number": 322, "title": "CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4]", "content_text": "(9) Account of W. L. Merer, Copy, Arcling\n\nAlienies Received and paid on account of the\n\n(teling\n\nand Consulates in China. during the Quarter-\n\nSo Balance on the 12 January in fault.\n\n6787 10 10/2\n\nChest\n\n1569 2 14 8,5 36 12\n\nBents.\n\nLicenses.\n\nRevenue\n\nInternal Revenue,\n\nOn Lands for Buildings-\n\nCultivation 4.12.3.\n\n-Chinos Kollages\n\nMarkets. Public Buildings-\n\n- Sicheries.\n\nOn Opium Jann-\n\nFalt\n\nStone Quarrying publicans\n\nfuacon brokers.\n\nanctimers\n\nBilliards.\n\n18.16.5.\n\nsets,1.1/4\n\nDuty on goods sold by Tubes Anation-\n\n7 Fave, Police Assessment-\n\n \n I\n IV\n Vin\n IL\n VI\n VII\n IX\n X\n XI\n VII\n XII\n \n\nJudicial\n\nFiesol office.\n\nForfeitures\n\n('n Deed Registry & Leases-\n\n_Burials___\n\nSignatures. Carriage Licencee, Yer- Regietry of Boats restawkers-\n\nTransfer of Licen\n\ndupreme Court.\n\nChief Magistrate.\n\nAlarme.\n\nBio\n\nAssistant Do & Registrar General __ [Supreme Court __ Chief Magistrale-\n\nMarine\n\nAssistant Do + Registrar General -\n\nSuperintendent of Police\n\n10 being.\n\n23.8. 8\n\n69.4.82 5,12\n\nalt paid into the Colonial\n\nTreasury under super+ Fund-\n\nReer? From A. d'€ Parker anviety of Line inflicted in Capt. Cliver of the Red Rover From Chief Alagistrate -\n\nMarine Magistrate=\n\n5.1571\n\n1793\n\n2100\n\n630\n\n410 13 4L\n\n132 2\n\n6514\n\n7/82\n\nJ3\n\n6819\n\n20\n\n2\n\n40817 Jr.\n\n3/18 1/\n\n2/3/2\n\n2 18\n\nJ\n\n4\n\nYA & WA\n\n1499 43\n\n340911 467\n\n42315\n\n1052\n\n10\n\n30319\n\n3.42\n\n1211 19 25/4\n\nCarried forvare\n\nI\n\n17424\n\nGevemer\n\nEstablished Salaries.\n\nAid de Campe Colonial Secretary-\n\nColonial Treasure.\n\nAudiler tencial.\n\nCork of Conncies.\n\nSurveyer General Harbour. Hastery\n\nRegistrar Gone\n\nSupreme Court and Allemeyhanerat. Chief Tellarine Magistrales & Police Colonial stury coul\n\nwurgeon\n\nSighlementary Salaries—\n\nCeclesiastical_\n\npedicial_\n\nPolice Magistrale & Sheriff-\n\n-Wages-\n\nGeneral Department- Surveyer General\n\nHarbourillaster\n\nGan Beals Crew.\n\nJuhrome\n\nburt\n\nBodice Force, faitors Je, Ver Sexton, Burial gromir Reefers to\n\n-Ordinary Contingencies. General Department_\n\nColuvial Scére\n\n·retary\n\nColoural Ircauter. Auditor Central_\n\nClerk of Cormeils- Chaplain\n\nHarbout Master- Gum Beat Registrar General_ police\n\nSoveer General -\n\nMedical\n\nJudicial.\n\n1500\n\n750 y\n\n€2.10\n\n26\n\n175\n\n58710\n\n23710\n\n1909 1495 12 b\n\n817\n\n316\n\n6,52212\n\n214 37110 76\n\n!\n\n16:5\n\n63737\n\n25117\n\n4/96 12\n\n25 12\n\n156 5\n\n2/99\n\n4164\n\n45\n\n19\n\n410\n\n277\n\nTayo s\n\n15 5/2\n\n582 14 4\n\n37510\n\n119\n\nCarried Jerward\n\n16991\n\n22/21126.44\n\nf\n\n9.457 107", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229077, "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": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]", "content_text": "with the Buildings thereon \n\nput up to auction by \n\nMr Strachan, but that when \n\nthe rate of Rental was made \n\noffered to bid \n\nknown, \n\nIf therefore the Government \n\nhad resumed the lot, it \n\nwould have been \n\nuseless, and unproductive. \n\n5. \n\nUnder these circumstances \n\nI have the honor to \n\nsolicit Your Lordship's \n\napproval of the course \n\nwhich I have adopted in the above \n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect. \n\nYour \n\n \n\n \n\nYour Lordship's, \n\nMost Obedient, \n\nHumble servant, \n\n \n\n26th", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230500, "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": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "page_number": 365, "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "content_text": "had already actually paid for, found it necessary to bid for each lot, and which were accordingly knocked down to him at low rates, owing to competition.\n\nThe remainder of the original lot, (now No. 51), was permitted to be held by us, pending the decision of the Committee which he appointed to investigate claims. As that Committee recommended*, as we had built extensively, that we should be permitted to retain it, which His Excellency was pleased to confirm; actually expended so he directed that the land, instead of being classed as suburban, should be placed on the list of town lots, and be chargeable with enhanced rent accordingly.\n\n* Amount expended $20,000, vide Blue Book, pp. 406.\n\nThe consequence of all these proceedings is, that for land and a small Bungalow for which we bonâ fide purchased and paid £5,000, as we have now to pay nearly $40,000, an annual rent to Government, amounting to $410.4.61 equal to about £110. and this too, while the Buildings upon the two lots No. 51 & 137 are not appropriated to Trade but consist of a Family Residence and Stables only, surrounded by a Garden, and the lots 134, 135 and 136 had a few shops, which were built in order to conform to the wishes of the Government, that there should be houses on both sides of Wellington Street. This property is not likely to pay its original cost with interest.\n\nYour Committee may probably consider that we might have refrained from bidding for the lots put up to sale; but in reply to this it is stated that, as a very large sum had been expended upon Building, and laying out the ground according to its original dimensions, we were reluctant", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230520, "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": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "content_text": "19\n\nthe\n\npreventing intermediate buildings being erected, entirely disconnects the hitherto suburbs from Town, making the distance between, lonely at Night and monotonous in the day. The first of these Marine Lots, 1225 I bought second-hand with the Buildings on it; the others at a Crown sale this year;\n\nthere had been sold before and surrendered; I really cannot tell why I bought the most part of these latter Four Lots; they are for the most part still void; annexation to the Marine Lot 1225, combined with a latent disease in the Brain, or an enlarged Bump have been the cause.\n\nThere is blame to my charge, I admit that myself like others, buy Lots as depicted in the colored drawings of the Land Office without inspecting the Land. Marine Lots 1225, 29, 29A, 30, and 30A, one and all, are seven or eight feet below the level of the Queen's Road, the footpath whereof, day by day falls into them for want of a retaining Wall; and, what is worse than this, the Sea at High water comes within fifteen feet of the said footpath, yet am I said to enjoy a boundary of Fifty feet from the said footpath to the Sea. On one occasion I remember I felt so much aggrieved that I refused payment of Rent on a Lot similarly situated, and when summoned before the Court, in reply to any argument that at the Crown sales I bid for the Land, the Judge silenced me by deciding that I had more than I bargained for; I had the water and the Land under the water. These Lots are the Beach, and more or less covered with every gale; they are neither water nor Land nor under the water. I beg that it may be represented that, if I carry Ground from a distance to make these Lots, that consideration should be made therefore. As well as in respect of its suburban Locality.\n\nInland Lot 1138, situated opposite Pedder's Hill, circumstances connected with a proposed Theatre, induced me to pay a sum of Seven Hundred Dollars for this Lot to a Land speculator: it was then\n\nPage 379", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230649, "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": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "Colonial Estimates \n\nSummary of the foregoing \n\n- \n\nHongkong Estimates, showing \n\nColonial Estimates_Mongkong. \n\nJotal charge for each Department, so far the same can be apportioned, 66 \n\n \n \n Salaries, Allowances \n Contingencies, \n \n \n \n \n \n \n and Office \n and Gratuities. \n Henerona, Sebined. \n \n \n \n \n Revenue Services \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Administration \n dustice. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sveltoi adical \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Charitable \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Education \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Polie Hospitals. \n and Sooke \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aent \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fransport \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Convenance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mail's, \n 6527 10 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cvil'establish's \n The Governor \n Zolonial Sertelan \n 3/22 - \n Treasures \n Auditor \n \n \n 1880. \n 550.. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Merk of Council's \n | 140 |.. \n Jinvenor Sentral \n 1234.. \n Registra: General \n 403. \n \n \n Fost office \n \n Softer share. \n \n \n \n \n \n Indicial's stablishment \n 6275. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n از کا \n 35 \n \n \n \n \n \n Works \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Buildings \n \n hoads \n Streets \n and \n Bridges \n \n \n Miscellaneous \n \n Interesk \n \n \n \n \n \n Vand and oftonges \n \n purchased. \n \n \n \n \n \n Special \n \n Šepemark \n \n \n \n \n \n Total ol mount \n \n öštimateð \n \n \n \n \n \n Foral Amount \n for 1851 \n \n Expended \n for 1849. \n Armarks. \n \n \n \n Reference to \n #3 \n \n \n \n \n \n 7132.80.72877. \n 3122.30724 \n 1915-2005 \n 0.0 \n \n \n \n \n 530. \n 140. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 478 11.3 \n 130.1703 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12.31. \n 1909/7.7 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 42.3. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 687 18.4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1171.901.16.1 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 174.8.4 \n 149 19.11 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jaatstond.. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 173. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 120... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n baciniashaal_ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 79617 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Soucational as \n 100 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Medical \n 017.10 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hospital \n 117.10. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Police and Gaol_d? \n 0970 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Works and Buildings- \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Roads Freets and Bridges \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James de purchasee \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30/01387 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20.175. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 75 120. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1625 £23.6.8 \n 300 (- \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 850 \n \" \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4 4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 167/0. \n 1625.90 \n 1 $320. \n 74 8 4 \n 4190 7 7 \n 350.. \n \n \n The expenditures dalanes Allowances & bendinge vicies amounted in AGL £31940.80 she doing a further reduction of £ 1827. 1.4% in pur item = 1851. The Total decrease of the estimated Expenditure fa bit as compared with the coteca \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n expenditure for 1850 is £ 56677 y y a \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As Ampared with the adual dependiture of 849. reductions appear in the heliomate for \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11851. wonder the follerding items, pz. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gobernor £134. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Frcalarer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n میجر \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n کرائے پر سے \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n goy 0 Surveyor General, 678.7.7. \n Registrar Ecunal. \n 264. 18.4 \n \n \n \n \n \n Harlech Master. \n 230. 10.1. \n Jindicial \n \n \n \n \n \n Medical welding Hapital \n وگو \n 255. 8. \n 214.3. \n \n \n \n \n An \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 313. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 277 97 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1305... \n beso.8.7 \n 795.17. \n 721 84 \n 100 74.3.10 | \n \n \n \n 612.10 \n 300 18.2. \n 447 7c. \n 467. 4. H. \n 9138 6 8 \n 5574. 12.16 \n \n \n 4190.7.7. \n 3810 13.3 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 850. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \" \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5.30 \n 4.5 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 55. \n 3.7 \n 21 9.7. \n 738986. \n 1. \n 03 \n \n \n Va Increase in the Oclimate faßit, over the Deparditure of 1899 years under \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jublic Works 1600 9.11/ \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n olici fhaols 623 12.94 \n benig op account of Law Rothe, Acts of \n \n \n \n \n \n \n on \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n the an additional Furnkey, and also an account if the small sum of £80.4.2 mts, only having \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n beer during 1849. the Conveyance of Cinvicts to Penat distlements, greater enten du er fler and a big wareng ke pant in this, the d fum for this dervice performed during having been de skider Odientimal & stablishment the Juer souse of £25. 10.1, of account of one Additional churasi schoolmaster for the Villages do; \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n partiament sto ordibed for the use of the Justicer, the Dipense of a I nas mid f. it farl \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n £49. 15.010 \n mercat on bolonial secretarp apartment & macerantofth tenguravaj alence of Ale:W tuning 1899 8 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27.8. Y. \n Mera under Aréditer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35.15.07 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n دی \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk of Guned & Police Rate Sparers. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n are en accounts of litongenous \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231569, "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": "CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9]", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9]", "content_text": "# Colonial Secretary's Office\n\nRecapitulation of Estimates and Actual Expenditure for 1834\n\nJendrint. Increase in Estimate ($130. 11. 4.) long 5. Judicial. Innvan\n\n£254.4.2 Travelling Expenses of Mr Complete J not exercised 85\n\nMocks and Buildings Dawson £7078.3.7 which are eheed for the proposed Government House, and the remainder partly for works already commenced or about to be commenced (£322.2.7 being proces Bridges & do awns, now in progress)\n\nHe commenced with By Mr. Fruth wat setematist & Roads, Shut. Bridges Duriose - £100. Gratuity\n\n\" Gratuity £8. her decrease ou Contingencies £554. 15.0% less saving effected on the \" Setaris £210.16.7 R. Casiocyavee of Moils Heerrace £43. 12.1 cm 224-3.6 Friteuss effemusten 13.6.9\n\nA £30 = 11.620 Chessere on Extimate K. Coolestusteral Dwnose £122. 16.0 being the half Salary of Mr Mann\n\n1 Educational Sunan £22.5.10 bring Jo à Schoolecaster at the Village of Ming nechung\n\nM Medical Dunase £3.76 saring ex Contingenis N Hospital Sunon £'56.7.7 huing £11.5.0 Salaris -31.0.5 Pensions \" 86.1.3 Metionis £151.7.11 Ciss derace of quartis slow- acce dot clained in sen ter\n\nColonial Suretary- Reqsurer Juditing £75.2.2. bring £62.10 cst Clerk of Councils.\n\nMatial for the Starfictal of the Medical Missionar de Vonoryer Generat Redding Lother insidental expenses Registrar General_ Police & Gacts. Dronan of -city £412. 12.2 £281. 8. 5th big £522.0.1 Liss Harbour Maste on Jotice contingences of £522.0.1 The Clothing received from bey loud d not pad for saving on Good contingweins · lesson turrian in the Establishment an vins for tarison any Policer in chage of the Navel. Tous Goods. £205.16.6 to the Chef Brajestate. 30 Medditional quar defecate link god 4. 11.12 34. $290.7.72 Less \" ...e Preview Establishments Ub 4.3. Or Gelicity to a Chin 10.8.4 Increase He of Conveyance of berries. 35.15.0 Nite decreas 67.14.7X 4,2 1.589-14:10 308, 6.4z £281.8.52.\n\nPolicerete Assessors Eclesiastical il Educational. Medical Duncave Increase in the Estimate 25676. 321564 339594 # 3743 24.137. 428.5.4. 178.19.2. 414.2.10. 14.1.12 Umeunits estina ted and remains due at the chos of the year 156.51 294.2.7. 20.109 * 130|11|62. 225.10 ? 122.16 4.2.6. 713.12.1.\n\nTotals.. bus expanded the Chine the Amounts due for Semines estimcha for 1834/31 281.8. 7.078. 3. 7. 1822. 2. 7. 10,533. 15. 6. ||268.3. 102|7,270.| 8. | 8ż 268.7.102 1.525 16,325.5.4 7,290, 8. 84 1034.16 1. Savings in the Extinct. £\n\n \nPage XX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233555, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "62\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nCharitable laaits\n\n3.1.\n\nleads to the conclusiva that the expense\n\nIV—Provided always that all religious edifices, hospitals, jeme exempted from teries, and buildings strictly and exclusively appropriated tahari- of maintaining and extending it, if self- table purposes, and not being used as dwelling-houses, sall be imposed, would be less grudgingly paid, exempted from assessment under this Ordinance.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that the exclusive right of dealing in laun, Betel, and torment of col with the advice of the excentive Council, shall have powers apment. Betel Leaf, in the Colony of Hongkong, will be disposed of to the highest bidder at: Public Auction on the 20th day of June, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police.\n\n[1]\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\n16\n\nProvisions for the\n\nJoctors,\n\nCollectors to malo\n\npoint such officer or officers as may be deemed requisite for te col- lection of the Rate leviable under this Ordinence, allowing in or them as remuneration for this service such a per Centage at the Governor in Council shall seem fit.\n\npaper the Report of a Trial on Appeal\n\nWe have extracted from an Edinburgh before the Louse of Lords, the subject being one of great importance to alt British colonists. The statule establish- ing dutics on legacies equaily affects England and Scotland, and the present decision settles the law, that such duties are not payable on\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained, that as soon afer the casual reters and first day of January in each year as may be founul practicale, the pablish officer collecting the assesstrent under this Ordinance shall gepare a detailed statement exhibiting the sums collected during de pre- ceding year, and the said statement, duly attested by the said ficer, shall be inserted in some newspaper published within this Clony, officer for one month from and after the date of its publicatio\n\nby a person re\n\nVI—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that the saf rate such property being subject to the law of\n\nsiding in one of its possessions abroad- Quarterly in advance shall be payable quarterly in advance, unless otherwise prefribed the colony where the deceased\n\nand directed, as hereinberare mentioned, and that it shall be charged ciled. This judgment is not only impor was domi- and chargeable on the lands, dwelling-houses, and premises repect- ively assessed, at the time of such assessment.\n\nand shall also be open to general inspection at the office & such | England, if bequeathed invested in\n\nException as to\n\ncapted, or used\n\nFREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n憲。 告\n\nRate payalde\n\nT\n\n赴人在榔茲\n\n賣\n\n辦正等港\n\n此堂物等\n\n事衙於處\n\n者署五招\n\n特 THAA\n\n示 於投十包\n\n是如六質\n\n該要巡簍在\n\n署包理葉\n\n投\n\nB\n\n# B &\n\nexetorted.\n\nN\n\n一千八百四十五年五月 三 十\n\n日\n\n年四月\n\n二十六日\n\nFJ\n\ntant to British colunists, but may be\n\nΠΟΣ\n\nnot unwillingly substitute the following from a correspondent:-\n\nof benefit to England, by encouraging\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained that the omber of investments there. So important aid the property mat let, or any land, dwelling-house, or premises assessed, which may fot be\n\nlet to any tenant, shall be deered the occupier thereof. privided this question, that though neither he always, that if such owner can shew that the property las nt been the other low lords entertained any inhabited for a period of three months or upwards in any year, he doubt, it was submitted as an A. B ques- shall be entitled to a proportional abatement of assessment leted on the same for the said year.\n\ntion to the Judges, because, as the law\n\nAppeal against as\n\nwas to be stated definitively, for the\n\nVIII—Provided always, that if any person from whom payment British Islande, and for all its colonies, esten der pay- of the assessment leviable under this Ordinance may have been the Lords deemed it proper that the meo the\n\ndemanded, and who shall have already paid in the amount demanded decision should have all the weight of him, ohjects to the demand on any other ground than that of which the concurrent opinions of the valuation, it shall be competent to such person, after payment of Judges and of the Lords could give it.\" the amount demanded, to appeal against such demand to the Chief' Justice of the Supreme Court at such time and place as the said:\n\nWe had proposed to give a short critique\n\nChief Justice may be pleased to direct, or that if any person be dissa on the Concert of Thursday last, but tisfied, or objects to any valustion to be made under this Ordinance on the ground of over-valuation, he or they may, within the period of three calender months after such valuation, or when the said Chief: Justice may appoint or direct, appeal to him against such valuation, and that it shall be lawful for him, if he deem it advisable or neces- sary to have any three persons taken from the existing let of special jurors to assist him in ascertaining the question of value which may arise on\n\nDistricts may be\n\nIX—And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and n any such appeal. may be lawful for the said Governor, with the advice of the said Executive Council, to exempt such districts or portions of the said Island from the operation of this act, or from the payment of the said rates, as to him and them may seem advisable.\n\nX—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that un asessment made under the authority of the Ordinance shall be impeached or affected by reason of any mistake in the name of any person liable to assessment, or of any thing chargeable with assessment, provided the directions of this Ordinance be in substance and effect complied with.\n\nclause.\n\nTriplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c. &c., is pleased to direct that the sunexed Circular to the address of Her Majesty's Consuls in China he published for general information.\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nCIRCULAR No.\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nI have to acquaint you, that I have received the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty, conveyed through the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, sanctioning and confirming Ordinance No. 6 of 1844, intituled, An Ordinance to authorize the execation of the Process of the Supreme Court of Hongkong in certain Parts within the Dominions of the Emperor of China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. F. DAVIS.\n\nTrue Copy:\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE,\n\nTo Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at\n\nTisle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nClovernor to p\n\nIsland.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nANNO OCTAVO, VICTORIE REGINE. No. 2 of 1845.\n\nBy His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquie, Go- vernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong jad its Dependencies, lur Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Sperin tendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the idvice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to raise an assessed Rate on Janda, houses, and premises, within the Colony of Hongkong, for the upholding of the requisite Police Force therein.\" WHEREAS it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Colony of Hongkong should defray the Expenses attendant on the upholding and maintaining the Police force thereof.\n\n--Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of point haters of the Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that lands. house it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, with the mies within the advice of the Executive Council, from time to time to appoint two ar more persons for the purpose of estimating the annual vaide of the lands, houses, and premises within the said Island, or within any particular district thereof, which shall be in the tenure or occupation of any person or persons; and the said valuator or valuators shall, when thereunto required, make a retum in writing and on oath of such valuation to the said Governor and Coureff; and also at the time of having valued each property respectively, he proprietor thereal, a written Notification of their having made such or they shall leave or cause to be left with some inmate or the valuation, sod of the Amount thereof.\n\nIl—And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes of this Ordinance, the said Governor and Council may cause a new valuation to be made annually.\n\nILL--And\n\nValuation may be made anually.\n\nAssessment to he Trade on the d\n\nJyment, andromedy for nonpayment.\n\nbe\n\n|\n\nInterpretation\n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained, that this Ordinaner shall come into operation and take effect, from and after the first day of Julf next ensuing.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 93d day of May, 1845. ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,\n\nClerk of Councila.\n\nJ. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.\n\nour present rulers every thing will be done with the utmost economy: but that does not affect the principle, against which we conter.d.\n\nThe right of the mercantile commu- pity to a voice in the Legislative Council has frequently been urged, not, we think, with much force of reason; for until the revenue of the colony is sufficient to pay its expenses, we do not ace that the in- habitants can claim representation as a right, and upon any other grounds it\n\nMessrs Fiebig and lavac's Concert took place according to announcement on Thurs day evening last, and the attendance was in very respect calculated so answer the ex pectoris of the originators, who well de Berve encouragement for their attempt to the ennuyés of Victoria. afford an evening's rational entertainment to deservedly applauded for his brilliant ex\n\nM. Rarac was eeution of the very difficulty picces allotted to him, sad met with an unanimous encore in the Caroival of Venice.\" His notes are remarkably clear and expressive, and by a himself of a few mannerisms, he might with little attention to his style, in order to divest study become a first rote performer on this most difficult of instruments. M. Fiebig was not so felicitous; his well known skill and tirely unworthy of his efforts. The \"Bella\" execution, were expended on a theme on- he dimittel. le proved himself to possess\n\na correct judgment and highly cultivated\n\ntaste, by the simple yet appropriate manner in which he accompanied M. Ravac, instead of displaying in mastery over the instrument by profuse ornament, at the expense of the melody itself, a fault too common among musicisms. The programme was a striking example of the lied taste which is unfortu Dately I too prevalent in the days with thrown aside for the modern Italian school, regard to music. The great masters are new The Messiah must give place to the Stabal Mater, and Iton Giovanni to Don Pasquale. Verily, Rossint, Donizetti, Belliei, Pacini, Auber, &o, ae but peor substitutes for Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Fiebig and Barac should favour the inhabi tots of Victoria with another Concert, or Gluck, Cimarosa, or Parsiella. If Messrs\n\neven a series of Concerts, and we think they have ample encouragement for so doing, what\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1245. Is another part of to-day's paper will be found an important Ordinance by the Governor in Council for assessing the inhabitants with the expenses of the Police establishment. The advantages\n\nwhich the community derive from a well organized system of police are so self-evident, that a reason- able rate for its support is perhaps one of would be worse than useless. the few direct taxes that in civilized the case is different with municipal of his great countryman the composer of countries are submitted to without affairs. Here, it is proposed that the Fidelio, or M. Ravac delighting his auditors de tot anticipate whole charge of upholding the police or Vietti; and, if the prevailing taste is so that even those who, like ourselves, should be defrayed by the inhabitants, strongly expressed in favour of modera with the touching compositions of Corelli maiorain that it is a mistake\" policy who thereby, we conceive, establish a music, let us have it good at least, something to overburden the youthful energies of just claim to avail themselves of the con- by Spohr, Cherubini, Mendelssolu, er the colony with taxation, will find much stitutional right of British subjects to be Beyerbeer, for instance. to complain of in being called upon consulted both as to the levying and dis- to contribute their quota for uphollingposal of the fund. In London, though\n\nmormer; and WH\n\na treat it would be for a true lover of nute to hear M. Fisbig displaying his taste nad But exception on some of the majestic sinfonias\n\nPEKING GAZETTE.\n\nhridegroom was\n\nthat\n\nthe force requisite for the protection, nearly one-fourth of the expenses of the health, and comfort of the community. police establishment is paid out of the Con-rial Princess with one of the Mangal chieft THE COURT—The marriage of an Imps- amble of the Ordinance, we conocive to watch over the interests of the rate But though we thus concur in the pre-solidated Fund, there are commissioners has given rise to not a little trouble. The that its enacting clauses are objectionable peyers; and in Edinburgh and (ilasgow, riage celebrated without delay, and he mast defining the power and jurisdiction of the assessment on the inhabitants, they at- to the customary rule, directed that astronu- on two grounds, First, not clearly where the whole amount is raised by an\n\nan early day should be fixed for the core. police, a term of wide signification, and Dually elect representatives,\n\nmony. The Emperor, however, according which in the three United Kingdoms to the sale power of determining the per Board, to ascertain when the heavens would\n\nwho have made to include very different classes of centage, as well as its appropriation. be propitions for the celebration of the nup mical observations should be made by the functions. The Ordinance does not in- These Commissioners have, properly, tials. Unfortunately the members of the for us whether this preventive branch judicial functions; but except that the Board ware not mautious in reading the of justice is to be rendered so efficient in appointment of Superintendent is lodged agus of the stars, and after a great many Hongkong as to supersede the necessity in other hands, they are onnipotent calculations, drawing of horoscopes, and con- for the individual tax which the inhabi as regards the extent and remunera tants have hitherto been compelled totion of the force, as well as in all that persofthe day, they fixed on the 23d April at submit to in maintaining private watch relates to lighting, cleansing, removal\n\nthree o'clock in the morning as the most tion is the more pointedly directed by arrangements of the fire brigade. And at that hour. This is said to be the earliest men--a circumstance to which our atten- of nuisances and obstructions, and the able for that ceremony. The Royal pair joined in drinking from the nuptial cup the intimation from the Chief Magistrate we which appeared in the Cuts MALL only Geomy, these matters are nowhere the celestial empire,\n\nbelieve that in efficiency and hoar at which a marriage has taken place in better managed out of London, if indeed The King of Korea has again asked the the metropolis is an exception. tants who might consider them worth $10\n\nEmperor to sanction is marriage with one a-month. It seems necessary to under-there aced be no fear about the sua patent for that pa pose. The Emperor Were such a plan adopted in Hongkong, of the damsels of the Court, and to grant but stand whether we are to have a police ciency of the supplies, and we should look have hitherto been carried by a body of so generally effective as to supersede the confidently to a gradually improved sys Mandarins deputed by the Emperor for has acceded to his requeat. Such documents\n\na fortnight ago, tendering the services of\n\na night constahle to any of the inhabi-\n\nsultatious with the most celebrate! philosu-\n\nThis will add\n\nit further enacted and ordained, that for the purpose valiation and provi. of levying the said rate, a per Centage at such an amount in the sic:t for periods of hundred as muy annually be determined on by the Governor with the payment, notice of advice of the Executive Council, not exceeding such a sum as sball assessment, period of be equal to the expenses of the Palice establishment, shall be as- necessity for private watchmen, or if, betem from the suggestions of a body of that purpose, but on the present occasion a sessed and paid in respect of every such valuation by the occapier sides this heavy tax, we are to be called judicious and interested commissioners, single civilian only has been despatched or owner of cach parcel of ground, house, or building, within such upon to contribute to the support of a Protection of life and property, sanatory with it to the Prince. time and times as the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, shall direct, or as is hereinafter provided. In the absence of auch direction and in default of the same being so paid, it shall be Jawful for any person or persons oppainted to collect the suid tax to apply to the Chief Magistrate of Police of the Island, who shall, on satisfactory proof of the same having been duly demanded and being due and\n\nJunsatisfied,\n\ngrant his Warrant to levy the same by distress of any goods on or in the lands, houses, or premises so rated; and that any such\n\nrate, while unpaid, shall be a lien on the property so assessed, or charged therewith, Provided always that when and so often as any assessment shall be made on any such valuation, the particulars and nature of such assessment shall be published in one or more public newspapers of the said Colony.\n\nforee, which, from the intimation alluded regulations, and whatever tends to the another Queen to the numerous Ilarem to, it may be inferred the authorities do comfort and convenience of the public, of bis Royal Highness. not consider to be entirely efficient. are matters of imperative necessity, Tau Lord Mayor of Puking reported, that The other objection we have to the acknowledged by every friend to public beavy showers of snow had fallen in the measure is that the inhabitants are not safety and good order; and the adminis-, during the beginning of March; and allowed a voice in fixing the rate, or tration of the law for securing these ends be looked for, he suggests that a day of public as a good wheat harvest might accordingly io determining the modo in which it is to be applied no other limit being pro- those of the community who are to enjoy Emperor has received his suggestion favour\n\ncan never be placed in better hands than thanksgiving should be appointed. The posed than what may seem to the Co-the benefits, and who are caliel upon to ally. vernor, with the advice of the Executive contribute the means of securing then, Council, sufficient for upholding or main- Without forgetting or under-vaining the taining any extent of force that may he salutary efforts of our rulers to provide an appointed. We have no doubt that with organized protective force, experience\n\nSome Mandarins, of high rank, arrived\n\nfrom Kwang-tung and Yan-an, whose baggage consisted of no less than one thou- ordinary quantity, they were interrogated sand packages. This being rather an\n\nBA-\n\nas to the contents, and the reply that they contained letters and despatelies for the tribunals, no being satisfactory, they were ordered to he opened and inspected. Ten were found to contain documents, but the contents of the remaining 990 have not been made public.\n\nP\n\nOn releasing the Petit Jary from their long and fatiguing labours the fan. Recorde complimented them on the zeal and jade ment which they had displayed, and his Honour stated, that he coincided in every verdict they had given.\n\nlfonso of Lorda, February 17. THOMSON LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nSITTING OF THE SCPI Colar, 2 June, 1945,\n\ndesired to name a son, he named 105 dollars,\n\n63\n\nA difter-\n\nstating the Admiral's desire to pay any c FOREIGN Goops with a Britist Chance- munendon for the services of the vossal\n\nT—During the past year numerous in- which Matheson might think G and stonees have occurred of goods buying bren (From the Hongkong Register] This was a writ of error against a judg\n\nA Special Jury was empanneled for thre meat of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland trial of an action raised as the instance of the manensient, but expressed his willingness to\n\nreason. Mr Matheann refused any ve brought to this country for home use or ex- The facts of the case are those John\n\nportation to foreign puits, with labek attach- Grant, a person born in Scotland, but who Crown against the Editor of the Friend of acccptacy couneration on the part of the ed, giving, or purporting to give thean, a had left that cuantry sad become domiciled: Ching, for the publication of the following\n\ncrew might think proper. When desired British character in a foreign market s in Demerara, died in that colony, in the\n\nto name a sum, be said, the Admiral may this, if allowed, would be highly detrimental Article in his 'isue of the 13th July last, Treasurer Tang-ting-ching, the late Gover-year 1887. He had acquired considerate, which was alleged to contain a libel against think very different from us and being to the British manufacturer, the goods have nor of Canton, and who will probably property while in Demerara, and had trans- Sir Thomas Cochrane:-\n\nin every instance been detained by the Reve- reesive the first van Governorship, osmitted saare portion of it to Scotland, at It will be in the all-rtion of many of our The letter M Me Matheson stated that the me officers, as being impuited contrary to recommended his inferiur officers, whe no- the time of his death, a banking house there Loaders, that Her Majesty's ship Wolf, got on a schooner had been detained 18 hours in conve the provisions of the act in that regard; the terially assisted bin in clearing large trace held property of his to the amount of\n\nbank somewhere below Woosneg, and has for the quence of the service rendered to the Wolf only relief given having been that the goods of land in Kan-sub, to the notite of govera- £18,000. Probate of his will was taken timely aid of the Schooner Fetes, Capt. Caer, sier Goddard in addressing the Jury for Mr have been allowed to be returned to the purt ment, as worthy of promotion.\n\nont in Scotland, by tho present appellant, as\n\nwould have been obliged to acrifice he cons and Carr, ill be felt eansiderable difficulty of shipment, the labels or other mode of in shot before she curld here'got n The Wolf took appearing before them in such circumstances.fringement having been firstromovel. These bis executor, and payment of the money due\n\nthe bank at high water, mud and not possibly have Mr Cur bad been accused of publishing a labels have usually contained the Royal arms having boea brained, in was transmitted to It is with touch regret we learn, from a\n\nbocu fiased again, without grandly reducing the dead hel, \"toulously, winkedly, and malicious of Enghel, will the name, in English, of Demerara. The law officers of the Crown weight on board. Then fast descried by the Fern, y\" Mr Carr, he believed, knew very little the importer in London, or other place in lang memorial of Lea, Governor-Genersi of\n\nclaimed from the executor the son of £1800 ahr, the Way had a sign.d of distress lying, ani Che-eang and Fo-keen, that the rise arup as legacy duty duo from him in respect of there can be no doubt that, hack it came in to be high and in these seas Sir Thomas, except on a person holding a the United Kingdom, ss the case may be, the in Pormasa hoe failed, also that the Granary the property of the testator existing in Scot- whilst she was lying in a mitical position, she\n\nname and description of the contents bring is now exhausted, and that the price of grain Lad. The case went before the Court of\n\nwand ham gore bo pres. The Pinot Pan niongailia, however, in this case did not act as a judge, also given in the English language, evidently is daily rising in Fo-keen. Leu has ardered Exchequer in Scotland, where Ford Gillies and took out all ver artament, 15 send 41,42 th. The ly Judge of Admiralty here is the intending to envey the impression in a extensive purchases to be made in Che-keang delivered a judgment declaring that the\n\nshot, and it was net wat relieved of this weight clut | Lord Chief Justice. Neither does he accuse foreign market that the goods were of British and other places, and wishes that the public legary duty as payable in the manner de ser altercaties fabu to the her guns overhard, either in his publie or his private character, time since of a parcel of esses containing se again loated; without this since she had no bin ofhay rbing eriminal, or of an offence mamifacture. An instance occurred a short granaries should be opened.\n\nmanded. The prosent writ of error was then brought. The ease bad been argued vage, and before any Adiralty socte sum\n\nor go to pisees on the ink. This is a clear case of which implied guilt. He never acted him paper for letter-writing being brought for of coruption. He only accuses him that he CANTON—Rumour states that the light two years ago, and now came on again for awarded the Foren for for aid would be siderable.\n\nexportation, etch sheet of paper having thos was not so bieral as he ought to be, A\n\nword Barle\" primed in the usual manner at ning struck the palace of Lieutenant-Gver. argument by one counsel on a side.\n\nAt the time the affair occurred, tar Admisal Sir Me Kelly, on the part of the appellant\n\ncriminal libel has been filed against Mr Carr, the left hand corner, and the packages them- nor [wang, and damaged, bis snutf-box. Themas Duebrang was at Chusni, when it arced. In consegnace of the way the accusation selves containing the paper the Brilish aras This, it is said, has made so strong an impres¦ (Mr Anderson was with him,) fosisted that between him are the Cipam of the Vares, that the has been brought, he was pot to great ex- einblazoned thereon. They were, of course, sion upon the grandee, that he has since been the legacy duty was not payable here. The question: of compensation atould be lett open ancil duty was demanded under 36 Geo. III, c. wrapt in deep thought and revery.\n\nSir 1 homas Cochrane avtored to this enlony. Altor penser, as the frown pays on costs; and if immediately detained, and application WAY he seeds, as I aux sure he will, he will made for permission to retard them to the 152, sec. 2, which enacted, that all legacies Thonan return, the cwners generaly waived\n\nabove the amount of £20, given by any will\n\nall claims fre salvage, marely requesting the Rear rill here to pay all his own expenses. Be port of shipment, but the intention in this (From the Singapore Free Press, 1st May.) or testamentary instrumcat, shoald pay le-\n\nAdmiral to remouense the Captain and eve for their sides the case has been deferred from time instance being so evident, the goods wer The Criminal Sessions were finished on gacy duty. Fe submitted that thang those elite similar te their own, Sir Thomas Cachane on long ago. Fir Thomas might have put ed, which was accordingly done,\n\ntrouble, never doubling then retunded by a spirit to time, whereas it might have been brought ordered to be seized and the parties prosecut Saturday Jast, the 28th ult. having lasted words were of the most extensive and gene rash hudumaly reward de vore of Fist himself into the witnesa box, and so might ence is made where the name and inscription four weeks, 18 persons were discharged on ral kind, the aut did not apply out of Great Majesty's slig. In doing thy they committed a Mr Waller, and thee we should have had an on the label is in the French or other foreign Saturday, no witnesses coming forward Britain. The aut could not extend even to\n\ncapital cere, to who justice and magnanimity opportunity of seeing what was right and language, although the British armus may be against them. No blame attaches to the our colonies, without some word expressly ey had entrusted the liquidatio of the cases what was wrong, or at least we should have Police in this instance, as the parties had including them, and there were no anche Captain and are of the Kareemid not fi\n\nengraved thereon, it being considered that words here. That being the case, the gene print much ganeanu facdage, and taking advantage\n\nhad an opportunity to cross-examine them, the act is not thereby infringed in const- been regularly bound over to appear nord\n\nquence. Timca. give evidence. In some cases there is leral rule of law applied that the personal pro- of the antideles is displast, he offered to award and of proving that Mr Matheson was not informed of the facts. Mr Bradshaw, the doubt that bribery has been resorted to inperty followed the fair of the domicile of its all $10, in the proportion of $4 for the quain\n\nfirst officer of the Fire, was on beard when I\n\nTHE HOPELESS SESSION. order to keep back evidenco. In van oase, a owner, and consequently as the domicile of $20 Ckiy Oficer; $16 Gunnar; $1 each for the Crew- charge of murder, the widow of the murder the testator here was Demerara, the low of take advantage of us Iter &iral's meannes, ant dewee was tatran in this court before a Com\n\nWe need actualy gette tha: Catón Carr would not the Wulf hoisted sigands of distress: his evi-\n\nWhat change has come over the public ed person, though she had appeared before that place unst govern the administration of\n\nwithin these few years Where be all the in is instance Her Majesty's ship has got off missioner. Mr Carr did not ferret out the the Grand Jury, was not to be found when his assets. Prubate but necessarily been fie fad the Fizen been the party cunt talon out in Scotland, because the Bankers\n\neager conjectures regarding the grent mea cireunastanees; \"hey were brought to him by the case came on for trial.\n\nwan in expardy unit the readers a Captain Carr, who complained of the waut Parliament aas supposed to lie pregnant? sares with which to coming session of who were the debtors had not honestly paid aquistanes, we would have had the matter certleil 1\n\nof liberality. F. M's Ships are generally People do not even take the treble to fore had been paid, but the claim here was what was due, and the probate duty there a very different mumer. Sie Thores mental op-\n\nvalued at £1000 per gan-the Wolf has 18 So which at times appear scleri -wor for legacy duty, which was clearly not pay\n\nguess what may be coming. Suficient for guns, nod may, therefore he vained at able As a very strong instance of the mis\n\nLeco fally opened to the importance of the service,\n\nThe day is the evil thereof. They will see and if such a question were left to his award, wo har 18,000, and for saving her 100 dollars are\n\nthe debates when they begin. Public emio- chief that would arise if the doctrine now\n\nIf Sir Thomas close to take ou nat the slightest doubt that the which awardedi. contended for by the Crowe could be sup\n\nsufficient for the 'em, would hure aweled bits himself the office of fixing the reward, be it is as languil is the opening of St A Chinese was executed on Monday week ported, it was only necessary to mention this\n\nchongauls for the War. We regret exeedingly to\n\nought to have exercised the strictest care to Stephen's as it has long been at the opening for murder. He taule a long speech when case, Suppose an Englishman resident They injure the dignity of the series not a litte: Carr, hearing that Sir Thomas was about to\n\nnatice such a crtions is the me now mantined. make himself acquainted with the facts. Mr of the patent theaires, No new pieces are the scaffold, protesting is innocence, abroad, or a foreigner traded with a person\n\nronounced as in preparation. Somo leading danouncing the witnesses against biu for in England, and at the death of the former a\n\nand alcough no thinking man would jrdys unferour-\n\nactors have cutired, and no onw ones ara commener an action against him, made every advertised. Nobody asks wht is to succeel perjury and threatening to beat them bill of exchange accnpted by the person io\n\nably of those whose merits Eater zee: so often tested, enquiry, in order that if he had done wrong. Lol Stanley in the Tybalt line, or Mr in conacquence of the lile minded actions of their afer his death. He acquitted the Judge this conmry was ranning, no parment of peat Chief, we are bound to acolodge, that to\n\nbe might rearess it by making an ample adstone in the heasy tragedy. There are and fury of all blame, as they had only acted that bill of exclange could be made without\n\napology but the more he did enqore, the to be rehearsals on Monday at Sir Robert the thoughtless and ipsmant, such tr.les uvey an according to the evidence, and be declared a deduction from the legacy duty. No one unfavourable, though file impression of the nasal stronger be found the facts. To costine Peri's (in full dress) and the Dake of Well- that in order to remove all cars from the cook pretend that a rale so mischievous to chare. Si Theme Cochrane, if we recoller Jibel it most the show that the party is Judge's mind, he, the prisoner, would bang commerce could exist, and the Hanse must, right, has been a candidate for parliamentary hưn charged with something that is criminal.ington's but the maies of the pinses in himself and he accordingly placed his head in therefore, act on the Authorities already des\n\npar: once, at least, he stood for a seaport, Mr Bradshaw's evidence is to this effect has invited his friends to be early in their\n\npreparation are not asked. the balter. He was very collected, and took cided, which had settled that the law of the\n\nthe pret buffetini inhalants of which are slip The Wolf was in great distress, firing gutus, attendances but the Opposition Fader a polite leave of those near him by bowing place where the testator died nust goverato distinguish himself in the nature of his country dwares; should the gallant Adunai ever again sek\n\nand baving her ensign with the Uniou down, ems to dust whether it is worth the to them, and at last, shaking hands with the the adutinistration of his personal property.\n\nThe Fire stood in and sent her boat to the while of his friends to we trust the affair we matrate will be prestained off to offer assistance. The Fixes had a 'Comeli whether it is worth tas while ot come, and Mr exceptioner, was launched off.\n\nThe Solicitor-General (with whom was bit the hastings, as we ate afrail would shin large pantity of specie on board. She re- bis to stay away. The Three Mays convinted of the rauder Me Crompton) did not deny the existence of in the eyes of any consergy intarestol in the\n\nThe tradesmen evince ceived 16 guns and 500 shut, and he consime animation in farbisting up the Houses, of Captain RBIsos of the Bluck twt, were some general rule as to the law of domicile, mesutile -hipping of Geet Britain.\" executed on Saturday last, and acknowledged but cuntended that it had nothing to do with\n\ndered the Voit would have been in extreme The following were the Jurymen on the\n\nand the grooms in exercising the cream- their guilt.\n\na case like the present. The principle of case,Thos. Jones, Esq., Duacan Flether, danger bl a gale come out. law that raust govern this case was, that Es, Angus Fletcher, Bay. F. T. Bush, Esq. aliona tendency to prevent others from giving pervade th actors and spectatus. Never coloured horses of the state-carriage; int TheJulge here asked, \"had not this public with these exceptions, apathy and langu where the property was balaistered the J. Leffler, Esq. and George Findlay, Esq. TRULY SEAMAN-LIKE CONDUCT. Captain legacy duty must be paid. If there had beeu The attorney-fineral in opening the case chassistance?—Mr Goddard said he thought before it the public appear to expect so Captain Caldwell, fate of the ship Durchester, of a specifs appropriation of the property in stated that this was an information on the ! \"xpressly the reverse, as it showedsuch per- little from a session will it be possible to Boston, tas pebliched the following amount: Sotland, this rule would not have applied, part of the Queen, to defend the character\n\nsous their age would be taken up by the press disappoint that little? Our faith in the Mr Bradshaw's videuce was then read. disappointing powers of Parliament is great. Captain Brition, of the Rochester, fell ja | but there was no appropriation The money of Sir Thomas Cochrane, who had awarded with the Dorchester at sea, a pertent Greek, recoveral there formed part of the general a sum of 100 dollars for services rendered and at great hazard rescued her officers, crew, assets, and was therefore liable to the lagney by the Fire to the off, as the fall salvage\n\nto an anchor near her. She had 144,000 severely trial-Sperlotur. and passengers from an untimely fate. duty. He contended that all the cases which claimed that Mr Car, well knowing the Caphan Caldwell says, \"The Rochester was bad been dated on this subject did not premises, took the occasion to vilify the stroring a course which would bare carried touch the subject of duncile, but related Commander-in-Chief as having acted aritra her about three miles north of us. The mo❘ wholly to that of the appropriation artit that when services were rendered to H. M. Barisfied with the award—He thinks the ons example of official economy. A crea-\n\nor non- rily, haughtily, and unjustly, and to state\n\nLouis Philippe's Ministers have get a tort- ment the wreck was seen, the course of the appropriation of the property, The Rochestor was altered for one directly for us. gentleman farther contended, that where a Ships, no adequate reward would be paid, remuneration illiberal, and injurious to other tion of Peers was intended, and the names of At that time,\" said Captain Britton to one party acted in the discharge of dutios of To this charge Mr Care at Girst pleaded vessels requiring assistance—Thorew help the Pencs were almost authoratively an afterwards, I had no idea that there could administration to a deceased person, the Not Guilty, but to-day he has added as a to take the guns, &c., on board—Witness nounced. Thone persons, of course, would be a living being on board of her; but I legacy daty is payable in respect of the money farther plea, that all he had stated was true, did so, and was powell in consequence—The be bound to Ministers for the coming session; have made it au invariable rate through life, he received and dealt with in that charseter, and published for the benefit of the pallie acevant in the Friend of China was not enig but what a waste of the coin of Court fa whenever I see a wreck, to get as near her The Lord Chancellor put the following Hy was aware that whenever there was angered The Fizen was detained 24 hours- vour! Ministers take second thought, and A. Matheson, Esq., being called as a vit postpone their creation until after the dis- as possible, and ascertain all I can about her, questions to the Judges:A B., a British Fattempt to check such objectionable publica- and make sure that there is nobody aliva on subject, born in England, resided in a Bri- tions, there was raised an outery that it was\n\nnews and sworn, deposed, that the Fizm be-\n\ncussion on their whole policy in the Cham- board before I leave her. We supposed, hetish colony, made his will, and died domiciled for the purpose of curbing the fibres and the chip of Jardine, Matheson, & .. hers. This is the true economy: every sup\n\nawarded nothing to the Crew continued, it was some timbership which there. At the time of his death debts were Press. The Government bero had no wish\n\nporner will wat himself down for a peerage, Secretary of Sir Thomas Cochrane called and each one prize will attract many gamblers had been drifting about here for months;awing to him in England; his executor in to do so.--an ollicer discharging the high and wished him to do so—the Viren bad for it. As if to show practically that the but resolving that I would adhere to my rule, England collected these debts, and out of duty of Admiral, and in this case acting as a I altered my course, although we all thought the money he collected paid legacies to cars\n\nJudge of the Admiralty, is complained of it useless at the time. Thus, by following tain legatees in England are such legacies a partial statement of the frots is brought the service rendered by hue was very made one sample Peer—M. Jaubert, an Op. this noble rule, Captain Britton was the able to the payment of the legacy daty? forward; for if the whole facts had been slight, and the crew were not employed at positionist. Spectator.\n\nAll—Captati Care was not satisfied with the mexas, in the hauds of God, of saving the He had fransed the question in this general stated. Sir Thomans Cochrane would have\n\nAdmiral's award, but did not ask witness's lives of 45 human beings, and in the circle of form, beranse the statute equally affected suffered no damage. A persoa in such vir-\n\nadvice as the course he ought to punue their friends and acquaintance, of making the England and Scotland,\n\ncumstances ought not to be so negligent as hearts of hundreds sing for joy. Captain The Judges requested short time to to pablish partial statements. The Admiral he is the assistance he gave was very im- portaut—Mr Waller did not make his state- Britton received me on board \"his ship with consider their answer. They retired for is charged with gross partiality and verup-\n\nment a upoo bis own knowledge, but na a welcome and a shake of the hand which this purpose, and at the end of about half an tion as a judge. You\" (the Jury) will not\n\nwhat he noderstood--Witness thinks that ac went to the heart, and spoke at once the sea- hour returned, when\n\nfail to perceive the motive on the face of the man and the gentleman. So long as memory Lord Chief Justice Tindal read their article.\n\ncording to Captain Carr's statement of the ser Will you ever believe chat Sir\n\nvices reutered, 100 Dollars was ootanfficient, retains her seat, I shall not forget his kind- answer, to the effect that, though the words Thomas was influenced by such motives, and ness. Taking me into his cabin, Consider,' of the statute could not apply everywhere, that this was published for the beaclit of the\n\nCross-examined by the Attorney-General said he, everything here at your service, the principle which ran through all the le public, and not to gratify some private feeling saw nothing on the part of Sir Thomas or Here are my clothes, use as many of them asided case was, that the domicile of the de- against him? It may produce the most\n\nMr Waller to lead him to believe they wished you need. And such was his treatment of ceased party gave the law which regulated prejudicial effoot for if this article is ciroz\n\nto retreat from their offer to give a proper us votil we arrived at New York, and then, the distribution of the personal property; lated among the mercantile wavy here, should remuneration. When asked to manie a sunt, witness said high Government officers were said he, Here is my purse at your service this ride was not affected by the situs of the another of Her Majesty's Ships got inte\n\nften stingy, and he believed Sir Thomas was for what moung you need? flow different personal property itself, or by the place tu similar circumstances, it would deter them the result, and how diferent must be the fee which the administrator received that pras from residering their services. I have au particular trouble. ings of Captain Britton from what they porty, and that, consequently, the law appli- thing to say against the serving rendered by\n\nThe Attorney-General said that Sie Thomas was of necessity discharging an office of high wonid have been, if he bad passed by and re-cable to this case was the law of the colony the Vire taking out guts, shat, &n. ported, Lat. 50 N., long. 20 W, saw a ship, where the deceased was domiciled at the This, I admit, it was a clear caso of salvage, Ministerial duty, se at that time there was no Totally dismasted, sea, making a complete time of his death, and was not the law of Sir Thomas bad to wish to deny this. Te Court of Admiralty here, breach over her: weather equally, and im England, consequently that the legacy daty said to his Secretary, Mr Waller, I know The Judge, in susuming up the case, said ing on night; could ascertain nothing further was not payable here.\n\nnothing of this case you will call on Methe bel was divided into two parts first a that the Lord had sent at thers to marry her, abour ber. Such are too often the reports, The Lord Chancellor expressed his fall Matheson and learn what be claims.\" Mrtement of facts, and secondly a commen! Betty, without much hesitation, replied,The but I hope we shall see no more of them. coneurrence with this opinion, and went Waller did call, and Mr Mathieson very tary on these facts. The first was passed Lord's will be done.\" Edinburgh Evening Courant.\n\ninto a very exact examination of the cases liberally refused to receive anything. Mr over. It was for the Jury to judge if there\n\nThe Premier\n\nThe Fixes was ordered by the Wolf to conte but on the present vesion they will be Tarls of silver on hoard. Thinks it was in\n\nsequence of the relief afforded by her that\n\nthe Wolf got off. Two vessels bave sincr bero wrecked there. The crew were all dis-\n\nHOW TO MAKE A PEERAGE GO VURTHEST,\n\nnot then returned to Hongkong Me Waller competition is open to all, Ministers have\n\nAN AMRICAN CONE AND 19 Swann, A Colonel of the Chised Sanes Army having rofused to obey the esmuunds of his superior cfficer, with sentenced by the courbeartial in↔ be deprised ní his sword for one month.\" On his weapon being demanded of her, he aroes, and in the mud gale and solema amer declared, that he didn't own one: that the sword be had been accustomed to wear Giln't being to him; but he had no dobi Mr Baker, the jeweller, f whow be hired it B waining days, would int it to the Court for the re quired mouth on the most reasonable terras 1\n\n'rovidence Guzeite\n\nFace ResigNA CON,-Deacon Mavis of Lyne Crevicu, Farge alludder and exemplary man, was exceedingly cocentre in some of his noticus. His courtship is in sus, was as follows:-aving The any pointed his horse, with only a nap-ssin fer a sad, be rede in front of the hause wherea Betty Lec lived, and, without dismounting, reguesial\n\nJetty to come to linn; on her eing, he told her\n\nyu this subject, which, he said, completely. Waller natted what compensation would be was a necessity first to publish these facts; AN EYE TO THE FUTURE—At a meeting, von justified the opinions of the learned Judges enough for the crew of the Vixen. Mr secondly was it necessary to publish this red by the friends of Clay, held in Woodstock, All sorts of people are plunging into the He begged to add, that the reasons why the Matheson said about 105 dollars, to which cotourstory. Had Mr Carr rested with a Vend, e ele oratore grew arazingly exontent, frightful whirlpool of railway speculation.Judges had been summoned to give the Mr Waller answered, say in round numbers statement of facts, it is probable you exchiring, ever heard of a woulan's warning Bankers and merchants, barristers and baber-House their resistance in this case was, tint 100 dollars. Mr Care puts an imaginary would not have been troubled with this paper sun after Jana K. Polk P\" and den pude a dashers, bankers' clerks and doctors of divi- as the law was to be stated definitively for case to injure Sir Thomas. Ho says, bail secution. Sir Thomas was not likely to have sig diffene pause, if inviting an awwer. nity, Members of Parliament and keepers of the British islands and for all our colonies, the Vixeu been the party that was in jeopac brought an autiou, and he was sure his friend did exclaims a fair decorat in the cred, win gambling-houses, old oren and young lads, the Lords had deemed it proper that the de dy,\" &. The last paragraph could only be the Attorney-General would not have taken hd boy married about six months proves, Bat married women who desire to have a good cision abould have all the weight which the pennet by some person who had a personal up such a case. But this was not the sting have en tha! intends to.\" speculation on their own account, and spin-concurrent opinions of the Judges and of spleen against the admiral. If any of you of the libel. It is for you to say whether Sir sters who think that an addition to their their Lordships could give it. He moved had been called on to act as arbiter, and ia: Thomas is charged with corruption, and if soị\n\nMas Lova, Harmony House, Concord, near fortune might give them an opportunity of that the judgment should be given for the consequence of your award had been accused it is a huel. To order that words may con- Kusing Pains,” is the adureas of a school stress in sharing it with another-all, all are rushing plaintiff in error.\n\nNew South Wales. of corruption, you would feel what damages stitute a libel, they must charge a man with on in the same course-dying after the wheel\n\nLord Brougham and Lord Campbell save ought to be given in the present case. The something criminal: but in writing whatever of fortune, which for the present is laden at rally expressed their concurrence with the affidavit of Me Walle, which will be read to, tends to bring a man into contempt is a libel. every spoke with the shares of some railway motion of the noble and leverned. Lord. you, states, that he wrote to Mr Malevon The Jury, after a short consultation, res company—Morning Post.\n\nby the direction of Sir Thomas, a letter torneil à verdict of not guilty.\"\n\nJudgment for the plaintiff is error.\n\nFon—Never tell a mun he's a frol. In the Grat place he won't believe you; in the next beŋl be sure i think you one jou buying 10,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 237971, "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": "CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2]", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2]", "content_text": "76\n\nlive of the projected. Raya is drawn do for not, and giving the next Lots Mo 56763 so much additional loud. In\n\n$\n\n@bbo per\n\nammum; and it is\n\nMy opinion lot 8.63 could not afford\n\npay £bbo with a view to our the His expelleney, the Governor to form a more complete and correct opinion on the subject, that I wild suggest your obtaining from the Police Rate Collectors & punitive state-ment descriptive of the various buildings there is lite, and the annual rental\n\non\n\nvissors a\n\nobtained by the proprietors from them. But, after all, the only way for Satisfactory Settlement of the Rent to be arrived at could, in my humble opinion, be by appointment of a Mixed Commissioning to assess (subject to the approval of Her Majesty's Government) the Land and fix the rates,\n\nChirde\n\n145\n\nalways provided that lots No 16, 12, 13, 10, 5, and 11, be not assessed at the amounts stated in the Inclosure. According to my table\n\nno one would\n\npay more than at the rate of 1860 pence per 100 square feet, whilst the rate of some was (on the leased ground) as high as 361 pence for the same area of land.\n\nI know it may be urged that the lots lately sold would have to pay less than the rates which are shown in my return. this is true for the time, if these lots had to pay merely the annual ground rent, but it must be remembered that they paid a high premium $38,450, and further, that the filling up and building the sea-wall costs the proprietors, as per Contract actually made, $16,100 more, making a total\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238781, "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": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nFLAS & AR\n\nLATE NAVS\n\n4 st Sp.\n\nHongkong (Mar. 25)\n\nMacau\n\nWhang\n\n25 Concis\n\nFROM TO CAPTAIN\n\nARRIVED,\n\nSAYLKU CAHLO\n\nMar, 22\n\nMartice\n\n10p¡ Welsit Formnes\n\n¡Mantl bgi Sarria 35 Tubal Cais B. 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Siugpo\n\nBan.sch. 149Kess\n\nVingpa\n\nHam, k, 216 Christiansen Nigo Brit. bk.! 472 Amirew\n\nBeit. stri 444 Watte\n\nHaro. 288 Joyan Jam,bk. 199 Bradshaw Brit. g. 265 Crocket ET M.S\n\n30 Queen Margarnt Belo, bk, 524 Spmano\n\n36 Madra\n\n30 Berwickshire\n\nso Tiger\n\n30 Courser\n\n27 Yocana\n\n27 Safelito\n\n¡Brat. str. 1250 Down\n\n118!!\n\nBelt. g. 142 Wohnenn\n\nBril. bk. 225 Day\n\nSiam\n\nMar. 15 Suuddeles Mar. 16 General De: 31Sundries Caleutia N160pium S.Francisco Zel Baftast Calestra an. 29Cotton Shanghuse Mer, sisilk Caletta\n\nM\n\nNingpo Ma 19 Rico Barabay,&\n\nShangae Nr. 24undries\n\nBombay\n\nIsitmssen and Co\n\nJohn Burd and Co jim. Eustan and Co John Burd and Co A. Head and Co Jardine, E. sai Co Wm. Pusau and Co\n\nxder\n\nJardine, M. and C5\n\nJardins, M. and Co\n\nSECT\n\nErition\n\nMariner's Hope, brig Hencius, sligi Mix, brig\n\nPrinces, ship\n\nRoyal Jaly, barque Sex Witeb, barque Star of the Hast, ship Terror, becqno Unicorn, steamer Water Witch. barqua\n\nPortuguese Clara, beig Laba barga Emigreto, ship Ensaio Make, barg, Sophis, arque Syenu, barne Tremeiga. barque\n\nFranch Joaquim, atı\n\nAmps Buckan, ship Benjamin Blorgan, ship Black Warrior, ship Golden West, silip\n\nP. & 0.8. N. Co.ussar, shrp Order\n\nWilliams, A. and Oo\n\nGibb, J. and Co\n\nBonnay\n\n24 Cotton\n\nDe Cation\n\n3. 20 Rice\n\nM16 Bice\n\nCotton Rive\n\nTail and Co\n\nSp. g. Pempreco Sual\n\nSp. ch. 89Govorda ¡Manila\n\n360 Mackozaic Caleutia\n\n41\n\n25 ('earl\n\nApar\n\nDarie\n\n15\n\nb\n\n4. Gscreta\n\n¡¡, Guita\n\nBrandan raul Co\n\n¡Msaila\n\nSAILED.\n\nFun\n\nDat%\n\nNAMA\n\nFLAG &\n\nCAPTAIN\n\nFor\n\nCARGO\n\nCONSIGNEES\n\n10\n\nSchaefer and C's\n\nHongkong Mar. 254 Jacoba Coruchia\n\n25 Banxhoo\n\n25 Marra\n\nJJ\n\nH\n\narty Hayes\n\n26 Kuterne\n\n20, Faust\n\n26 Amistad\n\n2 netinu\n\n27ly M. Wood\n\n27 Mor\n\nDut. bk.\n\n492 Rosenboom Be hk. $35, Vincent Rria. arh. 139 Dokon Brisk 284 Walliamson Dot. bk. 403 Kuipers\n\nlau.sc 143 Subberg\n\nbg. 205 Domingues\n\nDut. bk. a Lewis\n\nBrit. 3. 655 Callesk Brit. g. 179\n\n27 Waldemar Dan. k. 261chmidt\n\nCanton Packet m bk. Berden\n\nDu bk 607 Weber\n\n271 rouw Johanna hk. 520 urriaanse\n\n26 Argo\n\n28 St. Helena\n\n28-Juno\n\n29 Aar\n\nzy rota\n\n30 City of Sydney\n\nWasimpo tel. 7\n\nMar. 22Chia Chin\n\n231.4 Houriah Jari. Confucius Feb. 22Santa Lucia\n\nSwator Aməy\n\nHELL\n\n40ces Queen\n\nJ\n\nShangli\n\n7azy! Carim\n\nHope\n\namict\n\nDutch Testarkenburg\n\nDat k 441 Klant Bril. Nr. 210 Welsh\n\nBrit. g. 203 Taloy\n\nBrit. bg. Idenersu\n\ne:100 McCaus\n\nBrit. k. 310 Cairns\n\nBM. bk, 536 Uklejama\n\nBeit. b. 175 Peny\n\np. 335 Arrigoitia\n\nsi. sh. 500 Coniers\n\nBrit. E\n\nBrit. al 10 Dewar\n\nBrit. bl. 42% Young 15. Marquard Brit. eh. 209(Calling\n\n15 Singapore Bets 74May 12Aug. Melino ¡Bro. 5k. 306Luebko\n\nLinde Jucaries Edel Coari Sundries 3. Stations\n\nSundries\n\nPart Philip Sundries Adelaide\n\nاهان را این بردار\n\nSundries Sundries\n\nMaula Sand:ins Amay Sundries Calcutta Sundries Stangliae Suudries\n\nShangha\n\njoxotk\n\nSundries\n\nBallant\n\nBandries\n\nSundries\n\nAinoy\n\niSundries\n\nEast Coast\n\n¡Sundries\n\nAdolside\n\nFat Cowet\n\nWalparden\n\nSundries\n\nThas\n\nAustralla\n\nNew York\n\nSundries\n\nHan org\n\nSingapore\n\nFuntries\n\nSundries\n\nJurdina, M. and On\n\nHardin, M. and Co 'G. Daddell\n\nSheaffer and Co\n\nWm. Pasta Gd Co\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co\n\nF. Edger\n\nP. & 0, S. N C\n\nJohn Bord and So\n\n¡Dryer and Co\n\nOrder\n\n¡Y. J. Murrow\n\nOrlan\n\nik S. Walker ¡Y, J. Murrow\n\nt. Walker\n\nA. Berenbari\n\nJardinc, M. and Co.\n\nNye Brothers and Co\n\nP. F. Cama au Co\n\nDreyer and Co\n\nnlries Order\n\nSonides. F. Syme and Co\n\nSundries\n\nManila\n\nSa\n\nSingapore\n\nSundriss\n\nSantries\n\nSingapore\n\nandries\n\nMontal\n\nTaga\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nSusp\n\nAn\n\nDuto of Arrival\n\nTONS MARTENS\n\nFeb. 57Ball\n\nFea\n\nP. O. Sync and Co\n\nTait and Co\n\nF. D. Syme and Co\n\nandersion and Co\n\nSanderthau and Co Mait and Ca Wm. Pusiau and Co\n\nJamestown, ship\n\nKit Carson, elig\n\nLucknow, ship\n\nSarah Warren, barque\n\nSirovcu, chip\n\nBray Hound, ship\n\nStarr King, ship\n\nTatar, ehin\n\nTuakina, ship\n\nArgonaut, ship\n\nBayard, barque\n\nBarrida Brothers, ship\n\nLuniest, ship\n\nHound, ship\n\nJames Marshall, brig\n\nLemisiana, kargus\n\nMaria, arque Metro, Larque Mic scener\n\nPenguin, weloener\n\nSes Nymph, berquo\n\nFiorid, ship\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS. -Contiennent.\n\n[No. 14-APRIL 1, 1855.\n\nShanghae Feb. 10 280gers\n\nDate ut\n\nAT\n\nAriva MARELAS\n\nCONSIGNEXY\n\nUJESTINATION\n\nIntended Dumpat-ly\n\nJA. 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Weed Co\n\nway sund\n\nRepairing Bonjay\n\nApril 15\n\nTarer, beg\n\nTubal Cain, ig\n\nWilliams, Anthon and Co\n\nPant, schooner\n\nAfghan, slip\n\nWhampoa Mar. 20 670debank\n\nLondon\n\nArturo, que\n\nFab,\n\noClarke\n\nCarlines, ship\n\nMar.\n\n370 Ferensor\n\nCELIST:L, ELERIEur\n\nMar.\n\n750 Curling\n\nD'Almeida Family, hg.\n\nNov.\n\n250\n\nEaglet, seamer\n\nMai.\n\n145 Caldwell\n\nMainas, stramer\n\nCage. Mangarel, batą.\n\nBritish\n\nAlireal, ship\n\nAfro the Great,\n\nAlligator, lig\n\nAnglia, barque\n\nA. P. Sharp, barke\n\nle\n\nMock River Jacket, bq.!\n\nCarible ship\n\nCrishan, banque\n\nDuke of Portland, ship\n\nEamon, rezoaner\n\nEmma, achooner\n\nFanny, ban\n\nForm, camer\n\nFriedrick, belg Jamiitan, slip Hazard, schocier Julinder, Jacque\n\nLuorink, big\n\no Iurie\n\nLy, thou\n\nBart of Maulwicke, by\n\nHornet, sooner\n\nLouisa Baillie, sup\n\nMalebr\n\nNina schooner\n\nPearl, stip\n\nSarai. Armitage, ship\n\nTravancare, ship\n\nVigilant, arque\n\nMazeppa, schooner\n\nFlongkong sb. 26 790 Browning\n\nReh. 13, 846 Mefntyr\n\nFeb. 26 sindi\n\nMar 989.Sharp\n\nMar. 12' 265 Sich\n\nMar. 20, $74 Winchester\n\nFeb. 1272 Tuscolt\n\n21 533 Sumor\n\nMar. 30 149ring\n\nMar. 19 120 upper\n\nMor. 5 Prasmith\n\nMar. 11 750regear\n\nJan. 16 990 Neville\n\nMar. 15 433[Fare\n\nMar. 20 184eary Jan. 24530 Bolto Mar 30 289 Crocket Mar 29 3-har's [Mar. 131 180Makelier Mar. 30/1250 lowe\n\nSaj 533 Spence ar 30 148\n\nMar. 25190leggett\n\nMar, 26247)ncher\n\nFalk, 27 168 Nordqvist\n\nMar.\n\n464 Legoe\n\nMar. 22 115 Rayer\n\nMar. 23 605 Macker.zie\n\nMar. 160-te\n\nMar. 9 582 Towa Tea\n\nS Station Mar.\n\n5953\n\n163 Button\n\n142 Marios\n\nTan Berd at Co Vacs Stephenson\n\nGrind, Fivlagston and Co\n\nY. J. Murr\n\nArmstrong and Lawrence Uriur\n\nDent and Co\n\nY. J. Murrow\n\nTurner and Co Jardins, Mathe\n\nP.&O. 5. N. Co\n\nJarl, Mathos and Co\n\nwitanie, Anthen and\n\nFlescher and Co\n\nRaseuli and Co\n\nardine, Mathagon and Co\n\nP. & S. N. Co\n\nosvenor and de Siemsson and Co\n\nOrder\n\norlowitz and Cə\n\nder\n\nNathaly and Co\n\nJohn Burd at\n\nBrandao antil Ca\n\ndarling, tiles and Co\n\nTurner and Co\n\nJ. C. Confor\n\nMarine, Mathew, and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nJamine, Matheson and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nOrder\n\nZephyr, schooner\n\nAmin, staler\n\n\"\n\nDas.\n\nFeb.\n\n\"\n\n346\n\nEited up\n\nisitangha\n\npore and Cal, and.\n\nLes Imm\n\nFreighbor Char\n\nCelibri, big\n\nLima, bargre Mathilde, brig\n\nNicoline, whip Quaries Ross, banyoo Qusmine Lac\n\nEnterprise, schooner\n\nPodveta, quo Crnar, barne Hularich Gustav, brig Handilai, sek\n\nFARME\n\nLevaut, xhip General laro, ship En ship\n\nL'erviun\n\nJose C. Ugarte, ship Petion, barque Carinen, barye\n\nLinin, skip\n\nMicano, banque\n\nUgaris y Santiago,\n\nCriani, dig\n\nCatalin, ship\n\nRasita, scrooner\n\nAutenia Terry, hip\n\nJ. Terry, ship\n\nAANIGRA\n\nGelender, baryas\n\nSpesiali\n\nCosta, tig\n\nDenia, echuuler\n\nScratina, sup\n\nby.\n\nV. Kinavia, bug\n\nNarciss. brig\n\nReculito, souber\n\nYlesno, trig\n\nNeptus, rig\n\nSalve, brig\n\nDurdo, brig\n\nMar\n\nKar.\n\n1 609 Wagner\n\n1780mvei\n\n507 Mubar\n\n472fheon\n\n292day\n\npar: 221 70uillardsk\n\nEnst Coast Mar.\n\n600; Weber\n\nSupt. 8 401 Thamns\n\n14\n\nMar.\n\nAmoy ¡Mar\n\nMac.\n\nד'\n\nWm. Pastu aid to\n\nJLunes Stephenson\n\nSchoofter and 6\n\nSchaefer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nHungkung\n\nNpo & 'kong Perly New York\n\nAustralia\n\nSai: Francisco\n\n1.d.\n\nSydney & Melbmd. Shanghe\n\nLord\n\nAdol&P.Phillipmd.\n\nEast Coast\n\nardino, Malleson and Co Batavia\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n8 Starkenburg Order\n\n234 Lewis\n\nFeb. 21 324 kút\n\nSwating Mac\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n50Jurriaanse Order\n\nSnimith Oxier\n\nFvb-chan Pah. 425 Bonderkiak'Order\n\nShangban Feb. 30 411 Verachoor Deal, Beals and Co\n\n15\n\nFeb. 28 582 Boar\n\nHongkong Mar. 22 410 Sir Ben\n\nMar. 29 180 Krase\n\n31\n\n36ar. 13 33olgensen\n\nBaal Coast Mar.\n\nShanghae Web. 10 339 Thiessen\n\nMar. Mar\n\nW sau and Co\n\nTuhchac ¡Bvalow\n\nInd Early\n\nJohn Burd sei c\n\nJardine, acheson and Co κέλτικες\n\nCowes\n\nEarly\n\nWm. I'usiau and Co\n\nWm, Ruslan and Co\n\nikeres not Co\n\nCarlowitz and Co\n\n300 Allebar\n\n264 Salmidt\n\nCharler\n\nHongkong Mar. 25 200 Kier\n\nMar\n\nJohn Burd and Co\n\n18 Christiansen John Burd and Co\n\nMar 28 202 Broken\n\nFeb. 9; 162 Wallenen Whampoa Fah. 22 230|lie Fol\n\n400 thieveking Mar. M137 Uulivenda East Coast Peh 440 Jessen\n\nMac Pcb\n\nSwator Mar\n\nMac Sanghan Mar\n\nHer and Co\n\nWin. Pusa and fa Siemasza and Co Win. l'estes and Co Wm. Pastau and Co Augustino leard and Co 148 Suhit erg Win. Pustan and Co 450ngsiboch der 238 verge Drier\n\nal Ca Lindsay at Co\n\n160 Kreutzfeldtems 110 Reiner\n\nHongkong Mar. 1 283 Couper\n\nMacao M\n\nMax.\n\nHongkong Nos. 14 589anama\n\nArmstrong and Lawrance\n\nSan Francisco\n\nHamburg\n\nส\n\nUnder seinare\n\n450 Gill\n\nAsatrug and Lawrence\n\nAustralia\n\njlund.\n\n8 244: Defervari 35oj Baker\n\nVardine, Matheson and De jamay W. M. Rubinst and Cɔ\n\nNov. 13 250 Barry\n\n21\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co Under\n\nEast Coast\n\nFeb. 16' 199!Arnie\n\nItepairing\n\nMar.\n\nWhampoa Mar.\n\nMar. 10 29Mazeres\n\nPast Const Mar\n\nSwarow\n\nDec\n\nFul-chan Mar.\n\nAugustine Heal and Co\n\nRobinct and Co 21Savason. M. Cobinet a Co\n\n600 Wilso\n\nOrder 201,Juder word, Augustin? Heard and Co\n\nShanghae Pen $2200 Giganter Russell and Co\n\nJau 1004 Cortina\n\nHongkong Feb. 17340) Hongkong dar. 25 140 Sarria\n\nStr. 225kil Mar. 28 415adiz Mar. 126arcia\n\nMaceo\n\nMar 19 150luma Mar. 13srors\n\n11 27 46empere\n\nWampon Ma Sel-Suveven\n\nW. M. Roisina 20:4 Co\n\nUnder\n\nJ. V. Torge\n\nOrder\n\nHongkong\n\nBangkok\n\nEarly\n\n!L. J. Gulierenz\n\nvall, St and Co\n\nRail\n\nR. Garreta\n\nKantla\n\nGarreta\n\nYiocos\n\norder\n\nManila\n\nTait and Co\n\nVider\n\nJ. V. Jorge\n\nMar 15 131 Summers Kinder Amoy Mar 7\n\nMar.\n\nBest Coast Mar.\n\n240 Welsh\n\n¡P. D. Syme and Co\n\nMar\n\n465 Vineent\n\nMar\n\n274jitall\n\nSwarow\n\nJan,\n\n29 Fice\n\nMar\n\n149 Mooney\n\nOrder\n\nマジョル\n\n952 Raver\n\nOrder\n\nWaton and Co\n\nShanglue\n\nder\n\naddine, Math and Co\n\nUnder\n\nOnder\n\nShangbas\n\nRussell and Co\n\nAugustine Flourd and Ca\n\nadine, Matlicon and Co Wetnore and\n\nAustralia\n\nExcu\n\nJarlie, Matheson and Co Dant and Ca\n\nSwith. Keanely and Co\n\nFreight or Char\n\n10100, Livingsted and Ch\n\nEarly\n\nEast Cuasi Fol\n\n148 Prowes\n\nReis and Co\n\n226, alerte\n\nOrder\n\nShanghe ar\n\nit. & 0. 8. X. Ch\n\nShaw, Bland and Co\n\nAustralia\n\nEarly\n\nLizzie Jarvis, ship\n\nWhan pos Mar. 11\n\nIng Crosby\n\n550 Set, www\n\nde Burcowa\n\nSyviuey\n\nChinese\n\nPretighter Char\n\nlenkin, Faraon and Co\n\nLondon\n\nsealed\n\nBaty\n\nCoz facing, steamer\n\nWan, Pustuu and Co\n\nS. E. Inerows\n\ntient, Beale and Co\n\nTotdea\n\nal\n\nBause arque\n\nLouisa, harqe\n\nCity of London, bq.\n\nForerunner, selcounter Dealong, barque Sarah Lucy, ebiy\n\nFortas, brig\n\nAt Key, Behconer\n\nEllou Oliver, barque\n\nGazelle, seboouer\n\nWhampica, barguo\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nAfrica, are\n\nAntipodes, arquc\n\nJane. Mishall, slip\n\nKolt-on, up\n\nSex, ship\n\nWild Darrell, cl\n\nAgra, ship\n\nBlenheim, ship\n\nDuck, sclismer\n\nEllen, barque\n\nErin, steamer\n\nFormass, ship\n\nHistle, Ach.\n\nJane Maria, orig\n\nLady kingson, ab.\n\nLord of the lea. ship:\n\nMori, plep\n\nJan.\n\n450 Day\n\nChinniew Jan. 28orst\n\nAmey Mar 5 121 Wilson\n\nTait and Go\n\n083 Henderson Fisicher and Co\n\n11 Fax\n\nFeb. 17 876 Gale Ningpo Feb. 335 Curtis Ful-chau Mar. 615 Woot\n\nFeb. 24, 420 Turboil Yor.\n\n98% Young\n\nFeb. 11 846 Pant\n\nFeb. 16 D Seal\n\nWonging Mar. 190 Farlane\n\nShanghac Feb. 23 714 Bulgo\n\nFeb. 24 300 Walker\n\nEeb. 22 809iSanks\n\nMar\n\n$59 Jamieson\n\nJan. 25 40 Rollason\n\nFor 11 50Cces\n\nFair. 25 226 Bovey\n\nFch. 81200 Wilson\n\nMar. 13 sataxi Peb.\n\npremier\n\nLindras and Co.\n\nDent, Beale and C\n\nAnn, ship\n\nfar\n\nFe.\n\nMarine. Matheson and Co Lendon\n\nella Co\n\nSwedish Chieftain, burque\n\nKramn Augusto, brig\n\nChilias Frolic, hin\n\nOudenbury Schlosser, barque\n\nNew Grenadian\n\nWhatupo Mar 1 298 gera\n\nWhempos Mar. 20 250 Hasselhoff Dreyer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nShaughse Mar. 430 Gough\n\nEdited, Printed, sud Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the longlowy Register Office: Dage Ste\n\nVictoria, Hongkuag. Tuesday, April 1. 1889.\n\n188\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVol. XXIX. Na. 23.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nATHEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & ..\n\nWo Cuntat, Chica, did, on the 11th day of March,\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have established at Hongkong, under the same\n\nstyle, a branch of our business. MR. LUDWIG WIESE is admitted a Partuer in our\n\n1866, at the Office of the United States Cosmulate in tlanton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real¦ Firm. and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all cuncorn ed to make payment to us of all uns de te, and to present to us any claims against the arid Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & 670.\n\nCanton, 18th March, 1556.\n\nJAMES PURDON & O»,\n\nNOTICE\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees JARDINE, Esq., C. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nSIEMSSEN & Ca,\n\nCanton, 31st March, 1855.\n\nNOTICE MRJ MACKRILL SMITH is authorised to Sign the\n\nKING & Co.\n\nMane of our Firms in China per peenrastin,\n\nCanton, 13th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nKey. Hon. W. T. Maxes, Fag., R.S. WALKER, E. Ma\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & U. Steam Navigation Com pany, (ex officio)\n\nPreueurer, MANIAC, Esq.\n\nBaristent Surgeon-RARD, JAOX.\n\nConsulting Surgeon W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\n75 cents per day.\n\ndoilar\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Warda,...\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,..\n\n2 dullars\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, renewable one day previour to the amount depozited baving been expended,\n\nPublic Wards,\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$20\n\n$30\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be respon sible for the expense of Patients sont by them to the Hospital.\n\nMB-A Hospital Bills to be reneipted by the Erasurer only.\n\nTHE\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nERPULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION\n\nLytworn\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON.\n\nTHE WILLAMETTE, Captain W. Conss.\n\nFrum Honyhang to Canton,\n\nwary MONDAY & THURSDAY, at è s'elock s.M. From Canton a laughong,\n\nevery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, at 10 o'clock a.m. For further particulars, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hongkony, MAXIMILIAN FISCHER, Canton. Hongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nREGULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION batwest\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTÓN.\n\nLE SIN CHARLES FORBES,\n\nTHE\n\nFrom Mongkong in Ornton,\n\nOVORY FUSSDAY and FRIDAY, at Pelock ..\n\nfrom Canton w Hongkong,\n\nevery WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 8 o'clock ..\n\nFo further particulers, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hangbong, K.ROTTUNJKE & Co., Canë\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHE interest and responsibility of Mr. J. F. B. TRAUTMANN Firm ceased by his retire- iment therefrom on His March fast, and our Business will be sonducted nonauforward under the maponsibility of the remaining Partuen Mx. G. C. SCHWADE and M. FREDNIK BOWER\n\nShanghu, 10th May, 1850.\n\nM\n\nG. C. SCHWABE & Co.\n\nTHOMAS 1 WALKER.\n\nArchitect and Surveyor,\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nNOTICE\n\nE undersigned have established themselves as Mer\n\nchures üşü Ayenis in this place, je Copartnership, Wider the style and Firm of FRAMJEE BOMANJEÉ CAMA & Gill,\n\nBOMANJEE FRAMJEE CAMA. FRAMJKE EDULINE.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1836.\n\nNOTICE\n\nJAMES CROSSLEY saved to be a partner in\n\nMore on its dugast lost, on which date his\n\nJuverest and responsibility termuntert,\n\nG. C. SCHWARE & Co. Shanglue, 27th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Business of the late MR. JOZE VICENTE\n\nJORGE will from this riste de encried on by the undemned under the name of JUZE JUROE & Co. All outstanding accounts of the Estate will be received aud settled by the new firm.\n\nR. N. WEISMANN, in this day admitted a Pattuor\n\nin our Pure in Chius.\n\nREISS and Cu.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1885.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTR. LUGH BOLD GIBB sa admitted a Partner\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\nMin our Firma ou let Jetz. 1855.\n\nHongkong, 27th July, 1855.\n\nHOUSES.\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET.\n\nITE imodisto passession, as SHANGHAE, The DWELLING Ilouse and BUSINESS PRE- MISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining LAN in the roar of the Godowna, situated in a most con bral position, and fronting the River.\n\nApply to\n\nDIRON, GRAY & Co. Shaughse, 16th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. HOSE Two HOUSES, with excellent Crowns, LAND- Wawel, as present in the op- tion of Messrs. LVAL, SL & Co. and símated on part of Marine Lot No. 10.\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nUST received by the undersigned, ---- 100 Barrels Hall FLOUR.\n\n1,000 51th-bags Chili\n\n6,000\n\nRAISINS.\n\nAles, on hand,-\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nUNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ESTARIISAB 18 LONDON AND Calcutta, 1834. CONFIRMED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARIJAMENT\n\n-\n\n6 William VI. Chap. 54. Invested Capital, B HUNDRED & FIFTY THOUSAND Pounds Sterling, of which Fry Lacs of Rupers are held by the Tian Branch,\n\nLondon Offics, No. 1, King William Street.\n\nChairman,\n\nSIR RENAY WILLO, KLS.\n\nINDIAN BRANCH, Directors,\n\nCHARLES R. PRINGLE, FL ALEXANDER WALLAGA, DE,\n\nWILLIAM B. SHOUL, E\n\nGEORGE BARZON Esq.,\n\nE. MACDONALD STEPHENACY, Esq.\n\nPhysician,\n\nAWAN WEEB, Bag, M.D.\n\nAgents and Sereiaris, M. BRADDON & Co\n\nMadras Agents,\n\nMessi BAINURADOK & Co.\n\nBombay Agents, Mears. LECSIR & Co.\n\n1. The marked success which has attended the opera tions of this society, justits the Directors in calling the ottention of the Public to the peruliar advantages held oul by this Luutitution to sil clag-en desirous of effecting\n\nBUTANCE Apor lives.\n\n2. The Tabies of Premium have been framed with the greadust cars. Toone applicable to India Eves have been Especially prepared from the experience of Indian mortal ity, and from the records of the Bast Indian Govern sent, and are an poderate as is deemed oonsistent with perfosi security.\n\n3. Proposals are received for Insuranets for the whale term of Life, either on a participating scale or ou & TUR parte puting scale at a lower rate of premium. Also for short perivda varying from one to seven years on very modcrate terms,\n\n4. An Annual division is made of One-fifth of the ascertained profits of the five preceding years, the other Pensfifth being set upart to enter into the average of of acreeding years.\n\n5. Of the gura annually divisible, heventy-five per cent\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNo. 1,329\n\nRELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY. THE undersigned having been appointel Agonie Š\n\nPOLICIES, payable in loNDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, KANGOON, PENAS, and SINGAPORK.\n\nCIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 26th April, 1856\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE 1 Established in 1849.,\n\nTHE findersigned are prepared to accept RISKS (covered by protecting POLICIES at bors and the varigan LoNON INUAR COMPANIES, by the PEN. INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Can con und Bangkung, u Amoy, Shungiae, the Straits, Ceylon, the Prendencies of Iulia, Sues, and England.\n\nThe interest in the protecting Pocies is aseigned to be P. and 0. 5. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Paytast in the event of 1,000, For RATA OF PERICH and other information, apply fo\n\nROBERT & WADAs, Bmyksng.\n\nMATHILIAN FIS, C\n\nK. WABLES, Shangkur.\n\nH. T. Mansa, Singapore.\n\nA. P. LOVELL, Calcura.\n\nHORT FRANK, Madras, or\n\nJONN RI, Banbay.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nLondon, Bih January, 1851.\n\nALLIANER FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nTHE Undersigned having hotel uzat\n\nCure for the above COMPANY, are prepared to aucept ASSURANORS at Hongkong, as under\n\n1st-On Buildinga ot Brick or Stune, covered with Tiler, States, Metal, or other combustible Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,-Kute of Pranium, per vend per Annua\n\nad-on ench Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at the Rate of 1 per cent per Atore.\n\nAuces for 5 Months, and for 3 Mouths, of the Awal date will be churyou.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £13,000 only vn og Risk. And of the 26 Class-To the extent of £8,500. A Building and its Contents taken together form oue Risk. Thus the above Smas may be udurwritten either on a Building alone, or the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contenta.\n\nNo Arazce is to be considered a force until the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the As- eured will be natitled to participate in the Fronts alter Five successive payments.\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please send\n\nis apportiosed to polley holders on the participating in full particulers of the Rish to be taken; any Deviation scale, we have paid six annual premiuus, and thans from which is one of the Company, wi profie can be applied either in reduction of subsequent visate the Policy. 40,000 Frach-baked NAVY BISCUIT, made of Chiti premiums, or usa Bouse to the original amount of the Flock, and guaranteed to keep weli.\n\nHongkong, 7th May, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nESING\n\npolicy.\n\n3. The Annual redustion has averaged considerably | above 40 per cent, and in no one year as Ellen below\n\nthat sonnt\n\n7. The following table will shew the result of the last\n\nDORT WINE in Botle, SHEKEY in Bottle and Wood, divisita of profits as declared on the 9th May, 1855, at\n\naud BEER in Bottle.\n\ntan rate of 40 per cent, on the original manual premium:—\n\nReduced Original!\n\nAnnual Reduction. Annual Prynism\n\nApply\n\nALEX. WILSON. El Polar Godowns, 15th april, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nApply to\n\nBRST AN COAL\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nAge.\n\nDate of Sam As\n\nPolicy.\n\nsurof.\n\nPresi\n\n30\n\nOu cr\n\n10,000\n\n120\n\nCold Ro It-\n\n30\n\nbefore\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\n40\n\nthe 9th\n\n10.020\n\n590\n\nC\n\nMay,\n\n10.000\n\n150)\n\n10,000\n\n740 1,000\n\nREST Labuan STEAM COAL. PRICE, &350 per Ton.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 185tì.\n\nTRENCH CORKS.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE ¦and Gezper SHERRIES.\n\nCLARETS of Superior quailty. Chaters. Maxg 2, Moviny, St. Cslepke, St. Julien, and Lesviite.\n\nApply in HongKong and CANTON to\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co. flongkong, 7ih September, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. CUPERIOR MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter?\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON, Menar. Jannis, Mayurson & Co.\n\nGallorans. East Point, 31st October, 1853.\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nNOTICK\n\nLONDON & ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE, undersigned has received authority by the last bail to make all LOSSES ON POLICIES issued JOZE JORGE.\n\nhere by tbo above filice, payable in THREE MONTHS ZIDURO ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA. after oties, in place of six Months Macao, 3d April, 1956,\n\nROB. 3. WALKER, Agrante\n\nM\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR JAMES McCORMICK is authorised to sigu vut\n\nFm per procuration.\n\nALVORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 12th Jannary, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR. THOMAS D. BOYU is authorized to sign our Mr Ficto\n\nP. D. SYME & C\n\nAmoy, 12th May. 1855.\n\nMR\n\nNOTICE.\n\nR. GRAHAM ANDERSON foinet me as a Partner on the 1st of January lušt. The buginese will be cried an in the base of D. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\nD. W. MACKENZIE.\n\nCanton, 5th Muralt, 1860.\n\nM. JAMES BROWN, Notary Public, MESURS, GASKELL & BROWN, Solicitora, Notaries Public, de\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria.\n\nHongkong. 6th Jan, 1855\n\nheretofore.\n\nNOTICE. LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720. E undersigned, Agouts at Hongkong for the above Corporation, Are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Huilding or Murthandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co.. dynie\n\nIlangkung, 12th Aprit, 1855.\n\n------\n\nLONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT\n\nINSURANCE OFFICE. and after this way, ir. MAXIMIZA FISCHER of and after this waves det sks\n\nof this Office.\n\nBOBERT S. WALKER,\n\nHongkong, 3 March 1854.\n\nAgent.\n\nof\n\n25%-0\n\n459 9?-> 298-0 296-0 851-0 444-C\n\n26-18\n\n112 0 618-0\n\na. Following in an Extract of the rates of Precium\n\nAnnual Premium for an Assurance on Rs 1,000.\n\n8858 1 Feer.\n\n98% 3 Fears.\n\nCIVIL\n\n128823\n\n*R\n\npete Profs.\n\n22\n\nના\n\nMr.\n\nEnglish\n\nJitter\n\n£ 18 %\n\nAge. 1 Year 3 Years5 Fears 7 Faith with life with-\n\n32588+\n\n38899\n\n45\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agema in Chron.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBREAD AND BISCUIT BAKERY, SINO, Bread and Biscuit Baker, and General Store Leper, bega to intimate, that he has consented arogiments to establish a Branch of his House at CANTON, in New French Hong, sud will be happy to supply Ladies and Gentlemen of the latter plac with that great Gesideralno-z superior article of Bread He Daltora Linsel that, from his long experience in sale, siness, and trom the facilities he posts of procuring, Et all times at finest brand of American Flour, viz., Gallego, he will be able to give a better article to int | furuishod by any rival establish uc\n\nBar wo keep constantly on hand, an assort ment of the best WINES, LIQUORS, BEER, sud PORTER in Quars and Pinda, OHMAN'S STORES, PERFUMERY, and STATIONERY, K., &c.\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1956.\n\nSAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY.\n\n\"NDER the Superlateniques of an Experiched Ba\n\nGILEER Orlere for all kinds of MACHINERY exented with despatch. Erxam ENGINES & BOILERS repaired. SHAFTS of the best Englen Tron from 5 to Orders to be aduresed Mussre. 9 inches diameter. 3. A. BARRETTO & Co., Maurier.\n\nA Cuniors LOT ATPAL-Dr. Wallis, while re siding near the Mississippi, married his landlady, an intercating young woman, aged twenty-sighs; after which he sled in Washington, a short distance from Columbia, where he enjoyed all the happiness that a worried man could desire.\n\n38\n\nBut his happiness was to be of short duration. Une morning a middle-aged ma waited upon him, and after some questions upon ja.\n\nPrijes.\n\n27\n\n28\n\n17\n\n33\n\n34\n\n40\n\n**\n\n55\n\n48\n\n13\n\n64\n\nJ5\n\n-------\n\n45\n\nIf that\n\ndifferent matters, he axited him he was married? The doctor replied \"yes\" \"And to a lady of colour 9. On return of Aesuere to Eatope for a permanent residing foredly in a town on the Mississippi\"\n\n\"Yea. Well that is my slave, and, although she is residence, their Premiums are immediately reduced to\n\nworth 2.000 dollars, I will only ask 300 for her, the English rate, hath on the participating and ou\n\nsum he not paid within an hour, I will advertise her as participating scales. If the Policy be according to the\n\nTUNAWAY. During the tour, the husband asked his participating scale, the reduction arising from profine ja allowed on the English race, thus admitting of a con-\n\nwife if she were a slave, and the property of the man tinuance of the Asserance in Europe on most moderate who had just left the buse?\" Yes,\" replied the wife, while teurs rulled down her cheeks; \"I am a slave, thus\n\nLerms.\n\n10. Military Officers holding Civil appointments are property of that man, who is my father.\" The busland allowed to subscribe at the Civil rates of Premium.\n\nkissed har, wiped away her tears, forgare the deception the bad practiced, to which love had instigated her, and then paid the required sun which made her his für life.\n\n11. Premiuma are payable citberannually. hall yearly, or quarterly, or monthly, and a guare of 28 days in allow- ed for such payment.\n\n12. Melical referees se renerated by the Society.\n\n---\n\nA SHORT PARLIAMENT.-The shortest parliament an\n\n13. At she period of last annual valuation, the Aseta record was that of 1390, which had but one session of\n\nof this Society were ascertained to be upwards of £550,000. a single day, and during that short space contrived to The amount of Potieres in force about £2,003,000 and upset one king and set up another.\n\nthe annual income arising frora przesiums thereon 200,099, exclusive of Interest ou the invested Capital.\n\nTables of ales, forma and instructions for cffecting Assuraneva, can be obtained un application to the Secre torics, or to\n\nROBERT S. WALKER,\n\nAceni.\n\nHangkong, 20th March, 1866.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHe undersigned, having heen appointed Agents for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, aro zady to save Policies in behalf of that Orbice, payahie in SINDACH, Penang, RANGOON, CALCUTTA, BONDAY, LORDON, and in CHINA.\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCanton, 231 Jannury, 1856.\n\nMYSTICAL POLYGAMY.-The King of the Ashantees is allowed by law 3333 wives-at being the precise mystical number on which, it is said, the prosperity of the native depends.\n\nTRE\" AULING Passion.\"-On his death-bed a dia. tinguished humorist requested that no one might be Javited to his funeral, \"because,\" gasperl out the dying man, it is a civility I can never repay.\"\"\n\ndefire that officers of the Lavy should not wear bearda An admiralty circular may :-\"It is their furdships'\n\nof moustaches on board Her Majesty's ships.\n\nIn consequence of the probability of peace, an order\n\nhar beco already sed prohibiting nsval otcets from wearing moustaches while on full pay.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241297, "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": 322, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "20\n\nNo. 5 FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.—Continued.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED,\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS—Continued.\n\nDate of Tave\n\nCORSION BA\n\nSame\n\nArrival\n\n27 Frick\n\nHongkong Jan. 28\n\nSneon Draper\n\nAm. ship\n\n200\n\nAshly\n\n26 Luni\n\n81. Zephyr\n\n31 May\n\nSiilelena\n\nJan. 29\n\nTuss\n\nBrit. ship\n\n24 Middleton\n\nShanglice\n\nJan. 25\n\nBellast Da.\n\nBrit. ship\n\nSimons\n\n81 Sir Jus. Brooke\n\nBrit. ship\n\n8795k: amer\n\nFeb. 1 Carondon\n\n1 Bansive\n\nBrit. xh.\n\n#50 MoGregor\n\nSingapore Dec. 37\n\nGeneral\n\nSingapore\n\nSun. 21\n\nTroops\n\nSanghus\n\nJan. 27\n\nBala River\n\nMina.\n\n207 Bambay,&Jur.\n\nOman\n\n1 Jacob Cornelia\n\nDut, ship\n\n492 Rosenboom\n\nBombay\n\nH31S. Porkowess\n\nCanton\n\nSAILED.\n\n1 Chempion\n\n3+\n\n2 Harraventa\n\nBril. b.\n\n445 Thurs\n\nBrit. at.\n\n1000 Aba\n\nAm. h.\n\n500 Gray\n\nFHA\n\nDAIS\n\nNAXE\n\n| FLLO &\n\nKiu\n\nBonghong Jan. 26\n\nThobe Danbar\n\nBrit. al.\n\n70 Tucker\n\nA Separa\n\n#\n\nFitohormal Ca\n\nP. & D. S. N. Co\n\nOrder\n\nSoler and Co\n\n225yal, Suli and Co\n\n688 Fieber und On\n\nApril 21\n\n120 Tarner sad Co\n\nOrlen\n\nMarinera Hope, Lrg\n\nAu Nile, brig\n\nShanghae\n\nAmericaa\n\nSegnoant, ship\n\nB. R. Milaro, ship\n\nDurrington, ship\n\nChanning, ship'\n\nCompetitor, ship\n\nNorwester, sisip\n\nArrival\n\nDate Tur\n\nCOXSTOMER\n\n535 King and Ca\n\n090Isaac M. Bolf & Co\n\nNov. 125Moner!, O. & Co\n\niBee. 1174jRussell and Co\n\nDuc.\n\n1500. Huar nd Co\n\n740Campton. II. & Co\n\nBall, Nye and Co\n\nDec 10 128 Heard and Co\n\nCormances of Seas ship\n\nDeo. 24782 wall and Co\n\n118 Order 289Dent, Deals and Co\n\nDurch\n\nAlbrecht Beiling, q.\n\nNov. G. C. D. You\n\nTwist, b\n\n700 Schafer and Co\n\n464 Selacier and do\n\n4788chiler and Co\n\n244. D. Sys and Ga|\n\nSmidlow, ship\n\nWhite Swallow, skip\n\nDanish\n\nDanmark, barque\n\nGloriosa, brig\n\nOuto, barga\n\nVirgine. brig\n\nSept. 182 Cracapton, IL & Co\n\nSept. 1012001. Kinard and o\n\n270 W. Pasta and Co\n\n10. uste abi Qə\n\n230iems and Co\n\n21Johe Burd and s\n\nSALO\n\nFLAU&\n\nAr\n\nDATE\n\nNAME\n\nTURB CAPTAIN FRCM\n\nSURO CARGO\n\nCONSTUNTES\n\nAmoy Brininte\n\nFuhelusu\n\nJan. 24 Teze\n\nrit. g. 20 Jonca\n\nJun. Gener\n\nBrit. 283 Thanpean\n\nSinggu\n\nBrit, ul. 148 Dring !Swaluw\n\nJan. 26kenyal\n\nA. Hoard and Ca\n\nComajou mad Clu\n\nBankno.M. sad Ca\n\nDent and Co\n\nJolie, M. and Co\n\nHardin, 51. and Craner brig\n\nBila, barque\n\nEllen Oliver, barjue\n\nEtama, schooner\n\nEraignent, bowma\n\nNov. Jardine, M.and Candily\n\nAanina, eh.\n\nForerunner, lawonor\n\nOne.\n\nHine Gem, brig\n\nJly\n\nNov.\n\n¡Feb.\n\nJan.\n\nDay.\n\n49Rusell and Co\n\nNor.\n\nJuly 2685 King and Co\n\n165. Fardon & Co\n\nNov, 18180 King acul Co-\n\n140 aprak\n\nEagle, shin\n\n251 Dont, and Co\n\nBuggle Wing, ship\n\n595 Under\n\nGoblen Wert, sip\n\n38u0nder\n\nHenry Harlock, ship\n\nNov. 1\n\n204Aater and Ch\n\nMails, &c.\n\nJau. 17 General\n\nNov. 3 General\n\nHoratio, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\nNymph, Larque\n\nlec.\n\nPet, arque\n\nAng.\n\n400 filmy and Co\n\n375'Urder\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nAri.\n\n680 Russell and Co\n\nclita, schooner\n\nJan.\n\n140 Russell and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n434, Russell and Co\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh.jdet.\n\n134. Heard and Co\n\nSisters, brig\n\nHone\n\n158 is an! Ca\n\nUnele Tom, schooner\n\nept.\n\n1801ail, Still and\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nPA 15\n\nOriaz\n\nCAPESIN\n\nFGa\n\nCANDO\n\nCorrenbes\n\nI'vrluyLave\n\nArora, buoner\n\nMay\n\nPapushon, steuer\n\nJune\n\nLive. 326 and Co\n\n26 Aroat\n\n.bk. 27oct Lam a ale\n\nSingapore iShangrae\n\nHathwa Sundries\n\n27 Remi\n\nBr, str. 229)and\n\nShanghac\n\nSundries\n\nBria ok. 3748{lva\n\n29 Recapont\n\nBrit. str. 336 Crockett\n\nSingapore Sundrice\n\nShanghas\n\nSundries Jardine, M. and Co\n\nSandrian Wm. Pustau and Co\n\nKing end\n\nos n Cz der Sandries Jarine, M, sud Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJan. 14 266 Siemen and Co\n\nCarlow, schooner\n\nSupt\n\nFlorida, big\n\nΚαν.\n\nHado, abip\n\nแบบ\n\n$49 Queboil and Co\n\nUse Lyal. Still and Co\n\n597W.M.Bobinet & fo\n\nSev Jan.\n\n250 Uverweg ad Co\n\n133 W. Pustau and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nFapocanz buraz\n\nau\n\nAdmiral Laman, ship\n\nDes\n\nJaunius), pokaduer\n\nies.\n\n+\n\n20 Lahura\n\nBeit, str. 400jBrowes\n\nIserl, rig\n\nAky.\n\n24 Alapco\n\nBrit, bit. 677 Mason\n\nLindsay and Co\n\nLima, barque\n\nNov.\n\nBonabag, 20. Muila, fc\n\nSleeglina Sundrier\n\nShanghon Sundries\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.--Continued.\n\njatin Long, barco\n\nJune\n\nMary Ralp\n\nThe\n\n404 Biousson and Co\n\nW. Pastan and s\n\nWm. Pusta al Co\n\nFustina, burqve\n\nAng.\n\n337 in Salt\n\nMercarius, arque\n\n1808chur and O\n\nthiader, atque\n\nSenator, b\n\n250W. Put and Tə\n\nPlclades,\n\nJuly\n\nPrussian\n\nAinarika, brig\n\nOcc.\n\n21 Tutmeet and Co\n\nVernel, hig\n\nDea.\n\n21€ Dreyer and Ca\n\nSiamese\n\nDec.\n\n225|Steraan and Co\n\nSCIPS\n\nFhanbury\n\nBouits, brig\n\nNov.\n\n311 John B\n\nBangkok Mark, ship\n\nGodisler, Jarque\n\nAng\n\nEBS Order\n\naly\n\nKing and Co\n\nand Co\n\nSue ship\n\nfang, 9 Stoking sna Co\n\nLaco.\n\n200, Dreyer al Ba\n\nApril\n\n176 Urder\n\nAng. 10385 Kasseli and Co\n\n118 Jardins, and to\n\nNor.\n\nClarita, brig\n\nCora, ship\n\nAvg.\n\nDea.\n\n400 Order\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Hone, que\n\nSian, barque\n\nAug.\n\n430 Order\n\nJuly\n\n32: Order\n\nSpanis\n\n29.\n\nJan. 2 198 W31. Robinet & Co\n\nBan Lorenze, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nJuly 11\n\n220 F. D. Syme and Co\n\n16F. D. Syme and C\n\nTESSEL\n\nAT\n\nFLAG\n\nFubchan British\n\nAcarn\n\nBictor\n\nHhong Scop\n\nAgnes Garland, atque\n\nNor Mady, sing\n\n255,0. L, and Co\n\nCalcutta\n\nAng.\n\n1500. Nathaluoy & Cu\n\nkong Flag Ship\n\n84\n\nMelanie, barqu\n\njau.\n\n18. Heard and\n\nCams\n\n14: Jenkins\n\nNov.\n\n510)Dem and Ca\n\nPantaloon, brig\n\nNev.\n\nSoCamajos and Co\n\nfixcogier\n\nPowai, si\n\nfact.\n\n687ade, M. and Ca\n\n| Mercales\n\nDet. 24] 628A. Heard and Co\n\nH&ret\n\nAng. 20 Gas Gito, L. and Co\n\nMiss\n\nSe Dec.\n\n550 Rassell and Co\n\n31 Bollu\n\n2 Virginie\n\n20 Boulay\n\nB: pr. 600 Curling Bets. bg\n\n107 Makissiek ian.\n\n168 Appon\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nLondoR Smudries Lindsay and Co\n\nTORT Sundries\n\nP. &Ì & N. Co\n\nSmies\n\nAt Hongkong\n\n• British\n\nDate ut! anini\n\nTONS! CONSIUNEES\n\nAlfred the Great, ship\n\nCot. 24 312 Fames Steplanon\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nAulandsle, ship\n\nAeasy, ship\n\nAustralia, ship\n\nAvaca, bargur\n\nJaner, schooner\n\nBanekae, haque\n\nBreshera, Utg\n\nCaldera, ship\n\nCadiz, wamer\n\nCity of Carlisle, ship\n\nClarendon, ship\n\nDeva, ship\n\nPaglub, steamer\n\nBarl Grey, hangne\n\nEena, brig\n\nErin, steamer\n\nEurquie, stip\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nFalco, ship\n\nFous, ship\n\nGlencoe, sp\n\nGood Success, thiş\n\nHoro, abip\n\nJubu Matible, ship\n\nKensington, ship\n\nLady Hayes, barque\n\nLanrick, brig\n\nLord Bagian, ship\n\nLouis, Barque\n\nMaryhull, schooner\n\nMaria Hay, hip\n\nNeure brig\n\nNimrod, ship\n\nPanhua, brig\n\nPerseverance, barque\n\nPrincos Royal, ship\n\nPady Daveon. thip\n\nBamarang, barque\n\nJan. 17 187Gibb, L, and Cu\n\nDec. 7yall, Sail and Co\n\nJan. 1673 Fletcher aud Co\n\nSept. 560 John Bard and Ca\n\nSept. 30 SuRusch and Co\n\nJa, 155ohn Burd and Co\n\nFeb. 14Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 16 2400-der\n\nJan. 820;Under\n\nFeb. 1006P. & O. S. N. C\n\nJau. 15 936 Jardins, M. and Co\n\nFeb. 850 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nJan, 181039 Ruseli and Co\n\nDos. 8 165lemsson and Co\n\nDec. 17 67 Jardine, M.\n\nJan. 26 207 Vaunaice and Co\n\nJua. 850. & G. S. N. C\n\nDec 28 728 Order\n\nNov. 3835 Lyull, Still and Cu\n\nSept. 26 430 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJun. 14 400Order\n\nJau 1784 N. Murray and Co\n\nNay. 5 500Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1| 401| Lindsay and Cə\n\nJou 2 500 Turner and Co\n\nJan. 1a 800Order\n\nGet. 18 318iten. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 282 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17581anline, M. & Co\n\nJan. 11 374Dent and Co\n\nlocs, si 19els. E. Burrows\n\nJan. 31 924 Jardin, M. and Co\n\nDec. 1l 200Order\n\nJan 23 33 Dent and Co\n\nddell\n\n0 14 148o.\n\nHongkong Hamburg\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbis, schoonet\n\nMewor, saip\n\nPerucian\n\nAmireas, brig\n\nAnbitvet, ship\n\nCarmon, barque\n\nCallao, barqué\n\nSantiago, barque\n\nUgarte y Sauiing,\n\nSiamese\n\nNoortol, barque\n\nSan Juan, barque\n\nSiamese Crowa, chip\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpanish\n\nPetua, schooner\n\nBremen\n\nC. Melchers, barque\n\nSoloo, barque\n\nChitian\n\nAlianza, Lurquo\n\nGreyhound. Phip\n\nSaray, enhuoner\n\nNew Granndian\n\n| Anuic. barque\n\nMacao\n\nBritian\n\nRoehampton, ship\n\n1 Date of Town\n\nArrival\n\nDec. 31 W. Postan and Co\n\nNev, 16 aga John Burd and Co\n\nJan. 15 540, Sierunson and Co\n\nHalt and Co\n\nNov. 15 Nov. 12 540 W. M. Robinet& Co\n\nDec. 23 356 J. J. das Henesis\n\nJan. 23248 Wm l'ostau and Co\n\nDec. 193 J. J. des Becicios\n\nSept. 13, 200 Order\n\nNov. 39; 4500ndar\n\nDec. 15 800 Order\n\nAug. 28 250 Order\n\nChico, belg\n\nBuno Ayres, brig\n\nChristiau, brig\n\nFaust, schooner\n\nPavian\n\nRosalia, arque\n\nNov. 37 230 Lyall, Still and Co\n\nNow Era, ship\n\nJan. 24 47NR S. Waller\n\nQel 2 186: John Bard and Co\n\nQueensbury, kip\n\nJan. 23 210Order\n\nNov. 250W. Fustan and Co\n\nD. 22 325 W. Lubinet & Co\n\nJuly 13 907Edward and Balley\n\nPortuguese\n\nEnando Macaense, hire.\n\nMay 251 207 Jose d'Almeida\n\n394. J. das Beridos\n\nMaria Carlota, banque.Tan.\n\nSanyma, barque\n\nTona 21|| 170|§. J. dun Renadioe\n\nSept Tremely, barens\n\n375bindsay and Ca\n\n670 Dont and Co\n\nFraich\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship\n\nOct.\n\nAmerican\n\nHoher Sall, All\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Busiwam, by.\n\nFlyaway, skip\n\nKingsher, ship\n\nMandarin, shin\n\nHamburg\n\nAbardus, barque\n\n250W.M. Robinel & Co\n\n1375|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n126da. Heard and Ce\n\nMay 10 200 Russell and Co\n\nAug. 318&farstine, M. and Co\n\n778A. Jies and Co\n\nRussell and Co\n\nوندی کی\n\n400 Siemsson and Co\n\nSprintma\n\nSanta Leda. Larque\n\nOldeanzung Schlosser, bargue\n\nSept. 3 77W. Pustan and C\n\n550 W. Pustau und Ca\n\nBRITISH SRIPS DE WAR IN CHINA.\n\nCanton Sloop Barratte\n\nHeng P. W. ST.\n\nCloromeda\n\nNankin\n\nNiger\n\nRacehorse\n\nSampeon!\n\nSybille\n\nCanton Sloop\n\nGanton P. W., Str.\n\nCanton Ser. Str.\n\nkong Hospital\n\nCanchor. Str.\n\nH.kong Store Ship\n\nLingue Pigate\n\nCanton Ser Str.\n\nglas Brigato\n\nBubcha Song\n\nAmey P. W. Str.\n\nHogue Priate\n\nט\n\nCOMMANDRA\n\n12 A. W. A. Hood\n\nT. A Furtescue\n\n12 Ticut, Beamish\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n& Douglas 1.W.DO'Callaghan\n\n12\n\nForny fl\n\nJH. T. ER, Master\n\n60 Hon. Keith Stowel\n\n13 Hon. A. A. Cochrane\n\n40 Sir S. W. E. Nicolson\n\n14 3. R. Barnard\n\n& G. & Fund\n\n40 Wire. Hon, C. Ellied\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCOMMANDERS\n\nW. T. Bate\n\nG. T. Colville\n\nCa BIGLAND\n\nGolden Racer, ship\n\ni\n\nSamuel Russol, ahip\n\nMay\n\nSarah II. Snow, by.\n\nにし、\n\n420 King and Co\n\nAng. ace! A.A. de Mello & Co\n\nVancouver, ship\n\nJuus\n\n$18 Kussell and Co\n\n$20John Bard and Co\n\n¡SAILED FROM\n\nWedentara, banque\n\nLouisiana, arque\n\nDutch\n\nApril22\n\nNingpo Britian\n\nCornacle, ship\n\n348,W.M. Rebisen&Car, shooner\n\nSolon, banque\n\nArtoon\n\n28 Prigate.\n\nNov.\n\nAerity\n\nH. Kajone\n\n4 Ser. Str.\n\nMar.\n\n632 Dent, Baale and On | Buscaṛd\n\nCWERAD\n\nGun Boat\n\nOct. 25\n\nOct. Oct.\n\n180 kindsay and Co\n\nCamilla\n\n13 Scop\n\nGOJE Bord and Co\n\nCesiser\n\nC. Fellowes\n\nElt\n\nBarcas, brig\n\nLort\n\nDroggrabank, ship\n\nDet.\n\n695 ebaeffer med Do\n\n257. Puslan and Co\n\nWilmingtou, ohuones\n\nFeb.\n\n$6 R and Co\n\nForester\n\nA. J. Lunes\n\nFury\n\nEverdina Elizabeth,bq.\n\nJan.\n\n600 Schaeffer and Co\n\nHaughty\n\nSt. Helena, bug\n\nDee.\n\n1896chauder and Co\n\nLightver\n\nJuflexible\n\nJan. 24 103 James Stephenson\n\nTouis, ship\n\n52:Order\n\nArg\n\n497 J. Bowmen and Co\n\nOposzan\n\nFrow Jolierna, bij.\n\nDet.\n\n530 Beneffer and Co\n\nNo. 28 1247 Darley, W, and 0%\n\nOsprey\n\nHenburg\n\nDec.\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nPlayer\n\nLaum & Louie, by\n\nRase, rig\n\nJau,\n\n248 Dryer and Co\n\nKaleigh\n\nJair 1\n\n1768. Burrowa\n\nNov. 28, 372 Lindsay and Co\n\nBandei\n\nJuly\n\nNar.\n\n7.8 Deb and Co\n\nStarling\n\nJA, J. Villers\n\nSept.\n\n175 Burner and Co\n\nJaas\n\n280 Joan Band and Go\n\nen\n\n100 Holiday, Wis: GÜC\n\n120 121\n\nSept. 15 286 Turner and Co\n\nDec 28 900 Dent and Co\n\nDec. 93 78) Onder\n\nDec. 26 560 Dent and Ca\n\nBir Jamar Broshe, str.\n\nJan 91 73 lecher and Co\n\nSpeedy, ship\n\nSpirit of the North, eh.\n\nNov, 11 67, L. and Co\n\nSollane, barque\n\nTruro, ship\n\nUnicoro, simmer\n\nVizzinie skip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWegsoia, stip\n\nOct. 1 588ebatfer and C\n\nJan. 2469rder\n\nAug. 16 786 Taos. Hunt and Co\n\nJaur 18 830yal, Su, and Co\n\nNov. 143ardine, M. & Co\n\n¡Dee. 24 549 Illiday, Wise&Co\n\nWater Witch, harque\n\nJan. 15) 958). Laprak WP.. Nii\n\nWiki Wave, selvoner\n\nJan. 24. 200/Jardine, M. & Co\n\njosemary -\n\nZepliyi, chonne\n\nFrench\n\nEtaile, Ba\n\nInitia, barque\n\nMansur, Lip\n\nMount Riant, ship\n\nSaceos. ship\n\nJan. 3, 118 Dent and Co\n\nJa 21 389korder\n\nJan. 10j 545;Deas and Co\n\nDec. 26 617ent and Ca\n\n¡Nov. 2) 414jOrder\n\nWillemins, brig\n\n1'/\n\nGimeneze, ship\n\nمشهدال\n\n224 Schacter anti Co\n\net. 15 600 Order\n\nA MEDICAR\n\nShanghae\n\nBritish\n\nAlbert Bowd, ship\n\nAliquis, sp\n\nAlchymies, ship\n\nArrow ship\n\nAngrata, alip\n\nBailarat, li\n\nChallenger, Earque\n\nMara Nativaladept 28 010 M. Rolanes & Co\n\nChieftain, arc\n\nEast Coast\n\nArn, stomer\n\nVille de Dieppe, barqueFan. 2014)yali, St and Co\n\nproste, abip\n\nAmercom\n\nAutonita. schooner\n\nAntelope, steder\n\nBarham, arque\n\nCarben, schooner\n\nChampion, ship\n\nDee. 1134rder\n\nJan. 24 200 iussell and Co\n\nOct 28 248 W. Pustau and Co\n\nDen 26 200. Girly\n\nFeb.\n\n360 Order\n\nC. W. Bradley, Jr., bc, Oct. 9 218A. Heard and Co\n\nDom Quixoto, ekip\n\nDement, ship\n\nFaruka, ship\n\nFrancis P. age, ship\n\nGarland, schooter\n\nHolen Mar, barque\n\nJames Maishail, brig\n\nJ. Godfrey, barque\n\nHate Hooper, shig\n\n2438 King and Co\n\nBan. 18 4003. fleard and Co\n\nNov. 5100, Heard and Co\n\nNov. 12115Jardine, 1. & Co\n\nJan. 15 118s. E. Burrows\n\nDec. 26 saalonder\n\nAnek tan, argue\n\nPorly, ship\n\n16% Robers S. Walker\n\n115andine, M. and\n\nConfums Ship\n\nCrystal Palace, eng\n\nElisse, barqu\n\nBizabeth, brig\n\nFazil Curria, barque\n\nForrtev.sip\n\nCots, ship\n\n537 Curlewine and Co\n\n140Jardins, M. & C\n\nDe 12 25 Birley, W. and Ca\n\nJane 15, 566 per and Co\n\nJan.\n\n207 Viliam P. and Cu\n\n8spt, in 20 Jarding, B. and Co\n\nMay 30 802 Tait and Co\n\nJ.F.C.Hamilton 12 Sicop\n\nC. T. Tudītie\n\nEL V Tamilcar\n\nSer. Str. Sept. 25\n\nFout Sept. 25\n\nKiun Boat Sept. 25\n\nGF.A.Shadwel 21 Scr. St.\n\nST. Corbett\n\nP. W. Str. Oct. 23.\n\n2. A. Campbell Bat\n\n54. 3. m.ield. S.\n\nKeith Stewart. Go Bast\n\nHou. R.Keppel 50 Trigate\n\nNov. 'Willmau\n\nBoat Sep, 25 ina Boot Oct. 25\n\nFOREJON SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA\n\ndid\n\nAT\n\nFisc.\n\nCOMMANDERS.\n\n805. 839W.1. Warley &Co\n\nCatinat\n\nSur Are\n\nVirginin\n\nLevent\n\nPortsmouth\n\nJau 16 BJ, Kouper\n\nAug.\n\nGuzole, schooner\n\nQuetonio, bargco\n\nGeralWindham, slap\n\nDo Guinare, ship\n\nHeltespant, 6tomer\n\nIndia, barque\n\nBeta Hip\n\nW.M. Rubinel&Ross\n\nKate Carnie, Ali\n\nKelso, ship\n\nLaviermuir, ekip\n\n11 382 Giinue, B. and Co\n\nGsa Lyall, Stink and Co\n\nJuny 2002 graves and Co\n\n336 Jardine, M, and Co\n\nJau Sept. 15 53 Den, Brule & Co\n\nI. 21 020, Birley, W. and Co\n\nDee. 27560 Galien Co\n\nJou. 75%y Lindsay and Co\n\nSept. 26 952 as, Bowman Co\n\nLuly A. Dort barque\n\nNov. 8 870s. Koney and Cul\n\nLady Mary Wood, str.\n\nLammermuir, ship\n\nLouisa Baltic, ship\n\nMary Wieuheit, sp\n\nDee. 563 P. & 4. S. N. OS\n\nJan Bourns and Co\n\nAng. 24, 494 Gilman, B and\n\n1205 Jarine, M. Co\n\n780 and Ca\n\nSan Jacinto\n\nlungkung. Su. Houghong Fr. Frig.\n\nDangkong U. S. SL\n\nShangbae 17. S. Sh.\n\nR.-A. Gner in 50 Capt. Plas 18 St\n\nJC Fote\n\n(bars, Amtree. A\n\n{ Capt. Beli\n\ntea\n\nHongkong U. S. Str.\n\nFort Brig\n\n20 Cam. Tayfres\n\n21 (0) Daterin\n\nMuiden\n\nSulpicc\n\ndc.\n\nAlaxants\n\nPorthorea Prameel\n\n8. Rer Sp. Bg.\n\nHangkong Peru. Str.\n\n4 Briar.g\n\n14 Doran\n\nRECEIVING SHIPS.\n\nBritish\n\nJeliz\n\nChin Chin, arque\n\n310,Camajeu and\n\nBanons, schooner\n\nJa\n\n121 Dens zod Co\n\nJan. 21 56sell and Cu\n\nGaver achooner\n\nApril\n\nHart, schooner\n\nFly\n\n4 Y. J. Marrow\n\nHelen, brig\n\nJan\n\n130 Turtar and Co\n\nJuns\n\nMalac, urque\n\nAng\n\n869 lewitz and Co\n\nBlaze pjs, schooner\n\nu.\n\nBear, arhooner\n\nJuly\n\nTriopho, schooner\n\n200 D. Laprik\n\nFrench\n\nAnais, ship\n\nNov.\n\n632 Lyait, Stilt and Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJac.\n\n304W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nJaly\n\n1068 A. Huurd neu Co\n\nProgressive Age, rig\n\nNov.\n\n296 A. card and Co\n\nKugleader, shi\n\nMay\n\n1:56 A, Koard and Co\n\nSadie Peaza, ship\n\nSep\n\n875 Bonac Cad Os\n\nWitch, barone\n\nCe\n\n| 4100rder\n\nJan.\n\n100 Scbacter and Co\n\nferiests Marie, gee..\n\n581 Sebaffer and Co\n\nJuly\n\nJane\n\n700, F-W. Lawresno\n\ntopur\n\niwan\n\nNov.\n\nJameson\n\nC. S. Lungrana\n\n►\n\nWicusy\n\nSailtea\n\n126 Siemsson anal Co\n\nGerard\n\nDent & Co.\n\nFune\n\n218 John Bund and Co\n\nJord Ambers Anany\n\nBrown\n\nDent & C\n\nJav.\n\n202 Turner and Co\n\nPatlirler\n\n14M\n\nJa\n\n025 W. Pieter and Co\n\nHarleggin\n\nClutches Fitgibbon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Út\n\nTera\n\nParti\n\nDent & Co.\n\nDec.\n\nBremen\n\nBertha, arque\n\nSept\n\n40W, Pastau anil Os\n\nsir E. Aberamby, sb.Man.\n\nya Tamer od Os\n\nMahanolic Tubeca worl\n\nWuter Witch\n\nFalix, barne\n\nClitian\n\nJaz,\n\nJame\n\nKod Lyal, ul auá Ca\n\nVenilia, ship\n\nThen\n\nGaming, M. and Co\n\nHinly\n\nDent & Co.\n\nAnn Woleh\n\nWeorang\n\naircott\n\nA\n\n1. Icare & Co.\n\nVudex, schooner\n\nMa\n\nFully Jane\n\nKing\n\nFulkste\n\nBaylis\n\n478say and Co\n\nNimrod\n\nCobb\n\ni. S. Sons & Co.\n\nSea Horaé\n\nKeppel\n\nP. F. Curas & Ca\n\nHenderson Lindsay Co\n\nMan. 10 13. E Barrows\n\nNev. 18 456Y. J. Murrow\n\nDec. 1488Js. Stephenson\n\nMary Whitidge, chip\n\nNov. 27 07 Russell and Co\n\nMeteor, ship\n\nMins, schooner\n\nMiu, steamer\n\nMosaur ship\n\nNorth Wind, ahip\n\nN. B. Palmer, ship\n\nJan. 20088ja. Heard and Co\n\nMar 300rder\n\nJan. 14; 130 Russell and Co\n\nJuno 28 50Thorens Hunt &Co\n\nOct, 21041as Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1100 Rossc aud Co\n\nQueen of Be Res, ship! Dec. 170350 all and Co\n\nBachand\n\nRescate, ship\n\nSimon Dumper, kali.\n\nSpotaran, ship\n\nStar King,\n\np\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYeang America, slip\n\nDutch\n\nAlmonde, Tarque\n\nAnna Justina, ahty\n\nAhna Elizabeth, iq.\n\nChristina, bargne\n\nAug. 25 5303. E. Burrows\n\nSupt. 251 SUGRasseti and Ca\n\nJan. 26 20. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 2u1 826Order\n\nDoa, 11176 Order\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\n8pt 202000). Iesed and Co\n\nDat. 19 600w. Postau and Co\n\nJas. 13 550 Schaeffer a d Co\n\nJan. 161iemisen und Co\n\nNov. 26 648 Schander and Co\n\nGeneral de Stucs, by.\n\nJan. 2 79Order\n\nHollar Astrow, haupe\n\nSept. 79, Schacter and Co\n\nJaenh Cats, banque\n\nOct. 22 800Saborifer and Co\n\nJacoba Coracia, hq.\n\nKlazina, barque\n\nOosterling, legra\n\nFeb. 140Britaefer and Co\n\nJan. 17 Schactor and Co\n\nDec. 15 53 Var der Haven\n\nP. von Baren, barque\n\nFan, 14; 250W. Pastau and Co\n\nProvenz, barque\n\nBegins, barqa\n\nDazisk\n\nHercules, brig\n\nHelena, barque\n\nJan 18 19 Schaster and Co\n\nJan. 173 W. Fustan and Co\n\nMay 1 2siemsson and Co\n\nUan. 91 e Win.Plan and Co\n\nDutch\n\nDiana, submer\n\nPogosophyr, bq.\n\nVienesha, ship\n\nDanish\n\nBaldar, schooner\n\nLoots\n\ne, schooner\n\nHumbury\n\nElizabeth Ross, brig.\n\nDet\n\nLisa, barque\n\nMcibido, ig\n\nSiusness\n\nParagon, ship\n\nFrolic, actuoner\n\nSwatow British\n\nChina, ship\n\nFazel Carram, barque\n\nJune\n\nNama, schooner\n\nAug.\n\nAmoy\n\nBradish\n\nAbbotsford, barque\n\nAun Kay, rehvoner\n\nAs F. W. Lawrenceklo\n\n4. Puatau and Co\n\nW. Pustau anu Ca\n\n708|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n!April\n\n80gOrder\n\n250 Order\n\n1, Lapraik\n\n! \n\nNov.\n\nApra\n\nAutoinette, barque\n\nSept.\n\n430E. D. Syme and Co 121 Tait and s\n\nBlack River Facket, be\n\nApril 19 25:Order\n\nConfucius, ship\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nCaluchow, ellip\n\nNov.\n\nDec.\n\nSept\n\n21Sebaftor and Co\n\n51allay, Wine &Ca!\n\nNapoleon II, sip\n\nNia, schooner\n\nNie, ship\n\nNightingale, ship\n\nPaculise, varque\n\nFabr.gra, barque\n\nPeba, banque\n\nPiuto, alcamer\n\nIve.\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Bard and Lo\n\nDee.\n\n70s fling. 1. und Lu\n\nDec. 16 Juzeline. M, and Ce\n\nVESSEL.\n\nAr\n\nCAPTALS.\n\nJuly 320, Wet more and to\n\nNov. 28 705 Captam\n\nJan 11 1890. C. Schmuva\n\nJune 41st, 3a and Co\n\nPrinces Koyal, chipet.\n\nPruth. sip\n\nRemi, stoster\n\nRutin, brig\n\nLal Still\n\nJan. 12 A8Limisty and Co\n\nJAS\n\nJail.\n\nSual Lucy, sequely 10\n\nSauel Stosur, bg.\n\nSept. 11 Salvetin ship\n\nSir James, bargue\n\nWhampoa, lurque\n\nWild Flower, slip\n\nFrench\n\nCanton, saip\n\n322 N. Dogs and Ca\n\nOWALKE\n\nHart Willia. Longkong MDerant ||F. & C. 8. N. Co.\n\nJofon Adria\n\nGama Family\n\nCooray\n\nJa Wa. Posh and Co\n\n45 Water and Co\n\n42rpent, Banky and Ce\n\n647 Lindsay awi Osi\n\n179 Dent and Co\n\nSept. 10 375mler\n\nDea.\n\nDec. 638 Dent and Co\n\nKopanál\n\nAnteyeca\n\nHongkong\n\nSwailow\n\nD. S. Sens & Cu\n\nP. H. Cha & Co.\n\nEusseit & Co.\n\nJuri, M. & Co.\n\nJardine, M. & Ca „Jardine, M. & Linke\n\nDem, Beale & Co.\n\nJarding, M. & Coi\n\nTERMS OF SUKSCRIPTION to the HONOKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT:-For One Year, 829, Six Mouths, $19. Three Manthe, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER-For One Year, $15; Six Montuz, $9; Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- GISTER AND PRIOD CURRENT slone-Por One Year, $8; all payable in advance, TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT in the HONGKONG REGISTER —Advertisements, not exceeding i lines,\n\neach insociic. $1, each additional line 20 cearts; van halt of these charges for Repetitica AGENTS for the DONGKONG REGISTER S OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT, -J. G. ANTIO, Paq, Lomion; Mesars. JARDIN, SKIN & Co., Calcutta; Marrs. Emisoras à. Co. Bourbag; W. S. Danska, Esq., Singapors; Mesary, TAXON, Researy & Co., Batavia; J. P. PE, Esq. San Francisco.\n\n76 Jawline, M. and Colltel, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACILAN, at the Hongkong Register Offer: Gage Street,\n\nVictoria, Hongkang. Tuesday, February 3, 1857.\n\n76,P. D. Syme and Ca\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVOL. XXX. No. 6.\n\nENTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1867.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHERRAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co. MR. ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our\n\nWHERE the Futva the 11th day of March.\n\n1866, at the fine of the UvITAL STATES' CONSULATK in Canton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real and personal, in frust for the benefit of their Ureditore, to the undersigned: We bestby giva potica to all voneer el to make payment to ma of all sums due to, and lo present to us any claims against the said Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & Co. JAMES FURDON & Co. Canton, 18th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\n-\n\nPum.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTH\n\nHE undoraigned has this day established himself at\n\nMac, as 3 Berchant, and General Agent\n\nà. 1. §. na CASTRO,\n\nMac, 1st January, 1857,\n\nNOTICE\n\nInstant\n\nAssignment of the property, real and personal, of. A. A. Du MELIO JE, in authorized to sign the Firm of WETMORE & Co., of Chatou, Too- name of our Piru per procuration frost the chow, and Shanghuse, Chiux, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the\n\nA A, D MELLO & Co. beatit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton, 1 horeby give Notice to all concerned to make payment to me of sii sume due to, kand\n\nclaims against, the said Firm. to prescut to m\n\nCantan, 7th August, 1856.\n\nOLIVER IL PERRY.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBeamen's Hospital. Trustees. Jostra farming, faq., C. D. WILLIS, Esq. Hon. W. T. Mesca, Esq., R.S. WALLER, E Superintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Coa pany. (ex oficio.j\n\nTrauren-d. Maantaa, Esq.\n\nBriuent burgeon-Renard G. JACK. Consulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.]).\n\n*\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION, Paltic Warda,****\n\n75 cents per day, fazermediate Wards...\n\ndollar .. 1 Private Recal\n\ndollars Pasicuts are also admitted on deposita, atthe following rates, renewable one day previous to the amountdeposited having been expended.\"\n\nPublic Wards, ..\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$ 20 $30\n\nThe Captains or Consignces of Veale uetbe respon. sible for the express of Palents sent by them luke\n\nHas itzi.\n\nAll Hospital Billa to be receipted by the Treasurer vuly.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE.\n\n[HE Partnership heretofore existing at this Port To the undersigned Busier the style of WILLIAMS, ANTION & CO. expiter the day by lapse of time sud mutual consent, the outstanding ass cants will te verde by either Partner, sad a stricy Agency and Commission business will be conducted by Et us Partners at the Port of Singapore antier the stylo of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & CA\n\nJagkong, 1st September, 1836.\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nB. ANTHON, J G. HASKELL\n\nM. THOMAS WALKER, Architect and Surveyor, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong. NOTICE\n\nOTICE 16 hereby given that our busiest in Shang- lae, will be cuudneted in future under us Sty víúlublAN & Evil Cautun sad uv-chow.\n\nGILNAN, BOWMAN & Co. Shungbae, 26th August, köbó,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE undercly and have perished & their buss Store Keepers, Ship\n\nMacas, 3d January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nINSURANCE S.\n\nNOTICH.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1790, THE ́undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Carporation, are prepared to great PULICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, ou any Buthling or on Merchandize to the star,\n\nDENT & Co., Agents Hongkong, 12th April, 1955.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY\n\nOF LONDON,\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nNOTIC\n\nNo. 1,365\n\nTHE undersigned have taken out az AUCTIONEER'S 1 LICENSE, and heg to uder their sarvkes to thu Public.in that Capacity,\n\nTROL HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 24th September, 181J.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION. THE Rev. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies 1 for the Admission into in jimsig of the chüdren of such FORRION Xstrants at the Mec Porta, who may\n\nPHE Undersigned having been appointed Aczstain be desirous of securing for them the Conforte of s\n\nFor Terms and Particulats apply at\n\nNo. Gough Street, Vicronka, Hongreso.\n\nNOTICE,\n\nTHE LIBRARY THE MORRISON EDUCATION\n\nSOCIETY,\n\ntheatre CAIXA for the above COMPANY, are prepared to HOME, sad the Advantage of a LIBERAL EDUCA\n\nrept ASSURANCES Hengcag, as ander\n\n1st. On Buildings of Brick ne Stone, covered with Tiles, Blaces, Metal, or other Incombustible Material, together with their Contenta, when such Buildings ors isolated from all othera,-Rate of Premium, i per cont per Aman.\n\nd. On sanh Buildings and their Contents, when not lealated, cut the Mats of 1 per cent per Axaum, the Su ieslated, as the Mots of per cent per Annum Annut liate will be charged.\n\nOf the 1st Asrances, for the prescut, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one Risk. And of the 24 Glass.→To the extent of £9,000. A Building and its Contents taken together form one Risk. Thus the above Sums may be underwritten either on a Building zione, or the Coutents alone; or, fart ou the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. EDMOND\n\nNEWMAN Sow in our Firm ceased on 31st Decem ber last. Our Piria now consists of WITAM WALKIN SHAW, WILLIAM Hursos, Joan SCARTO, and ROBERT Ранкетка Іновий ко\n\nTURNER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 12th January, 1867.\n\nHOUSER\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned having erected a spacious GO\n\nspring prepared to recclys ou Storage, Quods of all deereiptions which may act interfere with Insurans against fire. The charge for Storage of Loeros will be 10 cents per Bale per oath, and for Rice, Sus and hor Dead weight 3 cents per picut for the brai, and 2 cents per piest for the second and subazqnent months. The Rater for older Goods will be those current in Hongkong.\n\nLYALI, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 8th December, 1550.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force until the Premium be paid,\n\nAmongst other advantager of the Company, the Ax Aared will be entitled to participate in the Ï'rolite after Fivo sucucasive payments.\n\nHoney, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock .x.. to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books, Paris, not bombers of the Society, may jotain the savantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Truziles,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary,\n\nÀ DESORIPTION OF EXGLINE PAL-On the Englich\n\nface are combined decision and nerve, with the fair\n\nThe fair Saxon\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please sund in full particulare of the Blak to be taken; nay Deviation | complexion, blue eyes, and open and florid expret, from which without the consent of the Company, will; Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine vitiate che l'olicy.\n\nperception, and portie construction. Dian, with open front and honest meaning, domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, ve inquisitor, or assassin is mede, but he is moulded for law, lawful trade, civility, marriage, the pucture of child- zen, for calleges, churchsea, chariiles, and rolouies. They nre rather manly then warlike. When the war over,\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China. Hongkong, 1st January, 1875- ERLIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY,\n\nundersigned Eaving\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nBIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. FOR SALE.\n\nIlongkong, 26th April, 1950. BEST English STAR CUAL\n\nApply to\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. Hongkong, 7th April, 1350.\n\n(Established in 1845.) FOR SALE.\n\nTHE Underzigned are prepared to accept RISES HAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PA (covered by protecting POLICIES at Lotos and the various lour Insurance CoPANIES,) by the PEN- INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Cus tos and dongkong, wo Amoy, Shanghue, tie Straits, Ceylon, the Presidencies of India, Suez, and Estund. The interest in the protecting Policies is assigned the P. and G. S. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Playmont in this event of Loss. For LATE PREW.CM and cherinformation, apply to\n\nRKS. WALKER, Hongkong. MAXIMILIAN P1son, Canton.\n\nand bluL SHERRIES\n\nLYALL, STILL & Ù». \n\nA fow Cones FRENCH CORKS.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 12th July, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nN Invoice of COPPER, and YELLOW METAL\n\nSHEATHING, and COPPER BOLTS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORDAGE,\n\nApply to\n\n1YALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALP INVIOSE TWO HOUSES, with excellent GODOWNS, LANDING WHARF, &c. Ettached, at present in\n\n& Co, id iuxt\n\nflore, ed un part of Marine Lot No. 10,\n\nFor particulare apply to\n\n, at fiongkong, which will be carried on the pre- uises Intely occupied by Mr. W. Scort, ruder the to- agement af ár. . . Exuicers, who is authorised 20\n\nigor the saingkong Branch,\n\nTua HUNTE Co. Whampoa, 25th August, 1854\n\nNOTICE\n\nInterest and Resperabity of Mn, ABRAHAM BOWMAN in our Firm, oth hire si at konchow, Lo Sith June susi.\n\n11.MAN & Co.\n\nCanton, Shib August, 1850,\n\nNOTICE\n\nAFR. REGINALD PADDAY was admitted a Part\n\nHAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 24 Sep, 1556.\n\nMR. was admitted\n\nW\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have this day established at Hongkong under\n\nthe scan style a branch of our Canon\n\nVAUCHER FRERES, Hongkong, 20th November, 1856.\n\nNOTICE\n\nBains herewere carried on under the Fire of Kwa & Japan, will, fron mud alive this date, ve Conducted by Mr. Mos Moses and Ale LEL J. ANKARA, under the designation of JobsH & Ly waerein Mr. Zum JUDA alcutta is the Senior Purtatt.\n\nEZRA & JUDAH.\n\nHongkong, It\n\n1867.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. WuJA, DE Firma of GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Ca, of China, and T. A. 118 Co., of Loudon, terminated on the auth Jure 1865.\n\nngay, 26th December, 1850.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWILLIAM PROBST in this day admitted a\n\nM Partner in our Ficus in libing, which Mr. Jenave\n\nER is authorised to sign per procuration, while Alt. WH. HOLLMAN size the firm of February that has dis\n\nW. PUSTAU & Co.\n\neuntinued to net for u\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 2857. NOTICE\n\nM\n\n2. W. F. BEVAN, having an Interest in the business of this Office, wil siga my name from this lare per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN, \"longkeng Register\" Office, 1st January, 1867.\n\nTHOMAS L. WALKER Estate and ifcus Agent, Queen's Rouch\n\nHongkong, 18th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\n\"MALTA,\"\n\nYork & Canberland HAMS. P CHEESE.\n\nBreakfast BACON, Bach CHOPS, &c., &c.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW.\n\nHongkong, 20th September, 1856.\n\nE. WAXDOS, Rhengåre,\n\nH. T, Marshall, Singapore.\n\nA. P. Love Cricutta.\n\nThe dog ind lays been appointed Aunts for the ransk falls from the affectionate ant to westic tantes, POLICIES, payable in LONDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, which makes them women in kindness. This union of HANGGON, PERANG, SINGAPORE, and in CHINA.\n\nqualities is fabled in their national legend of “Beauty and the Beast,\" yr, long before, in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite. \"The two sexes are co-prezent in the English wind. I apply to Britannia, queen of seas and colonies, the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine: \"ake la as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.\" The English delight in the un- taganden which comhlars in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness. Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood, and, like an inco- eent schoolboy that goes to bed, says, \"Kiss me Hardy,\" und turns to sleep. Lord Collingwood, his comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic. Admiral Rudney's figure approached to delicacy med effeminary, and he declared himself very sensible to fen, which he surmounted only by considerations of honour and public duty. Clarradan says, the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some com tiers altempted to put effrouts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a wark for the most terrible determination. And Sir James Perry said, the other day, of Sir Joha Franklin, that, \"If he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger, yet of that tenderness, that he would not brush away a Mon- quito,\" Even for tusir highway men the same virtues is elclmued, and Robin Hued tomes described to us an altissimus prædimum, the gentlest thief. But they know where their war.dogs le Crowell, Blake, Maribo- rough, Chatham, Nelson, and Wellington are not to be trified with, and the brutal strength which lies of the hottem of society, the animal ferocity of the quays and Cockpits, the builies of the costernongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials, and Spitalfields, they know how to wake up. They have a vigorous health, and inst well into middle and old age. The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome, & clear skin, a peschi bloom com- plexion, and good teeth, are found all over the island, They are a plentiful and maritious diet. The operative cannot rabist on waberevesICA. Beef mutton, #best- bread, and malt liquors, are universal among the first- claus laboureTA. Good feeding is a chief point of na- tional price among the raiger, sad, in their carlemmer, they represent the Preschman as a poor starved body, It in curiose that 'Tacitus found the English beer already i use ang the Germans: they make from barley or whest s drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.\" Lord Chief Justice Purlesque, in Henry VI.'s time, sayu * The Inhabitants of England drink no water, valens at certain fizuen, on a religions score, and by way of pen. acer.\" The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it\n\nROBERT FRANCu, Mudras, ot Joas ROBIE. Bumbay.\n\nLondon, Sih January, 1854. NOTICE. THE umlonsigued, having been appointed Agenta for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, we ready to issue alicice En behalf of that Oleo, payable in BINGAPORE, CRAN, PANGDON, CALCUTTA, BOY, UN, din Cara\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Ca. Canton, 930 January, 1856. \"COMMITTEE OF MAKÍTIME INSURANCE, OF PARIS.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nL\n\nHE Undersigned, having been appointed Acerra for the Marine Insurance Offices of Paris, are aathor ized to examine and approva Clarins for General azú Particu Averages on ikka musured by them.\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co. Hongkong, 27th December, 1816.\n\nCOMITE DES ASSUREURS MARITIMES DE PARIS. ES Somsignés ayant été nommé Agents des Reunions FOR SALE.\n\nArreurs particuliers et des Compagnies d'Asure- YUPERIOR PORT AND SHERRY WINE, in Cunts runces Maritimes, de Paris sent authorisa, pour eumi\n\nof 1, 2, & 3, Dozen each; niso CHAMPAGNE in 3 ner et constater des réclames d'avarica partientiéres et\n\ncommunes sur des risques assurés par eux, dozen Cuses. BEER in Casca of 3 & 4 dosen each, at East Point Godenas.\n\nHongkong, le 27 Dec. 1956.\n\nNOTICE. THE undersignal having been appointed Aoser to\n\nOrricks in Rotterňom, a 1st of which may be seen in his one, requesra application to made to kim da ense of any particular or general Averages un rlake in eured by them.\n\nALEX, WILSON,\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE Tax HOUSES known as Bagwiese.\n\nFor further particulara, apply to\n\n10\n\nRongkong, 27th December, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nm board the Screw Steamer \"Lubus,\"\n\nat Whamp\n\nTWO TUBULAR BOILERS, each foot 2 inches\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nThe majority of UDARWINTERS SIG INTUSANDS\n\nHongkong, lal January, 1857.\n\nA. W. P. KUP.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nPOSTOFFICE NOTICE.\n\nwould seen, never reach cold water in England. Wood, the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jeruit, dues not deny him heer. He says, \"his bed was under s thateng, and the way to it up a ladder; his faze was coarse? his They have more drink, of a penny a pawn, or gallon,\"\n\nThey constitutional nurgy than any other people.\n\nthink, with bat manly excercises are the\n\nfomation of that elevation of sind which gives one\n\nnature ascendant over another; ar with the Arabs, that the disys spent in the chase are not counted is the length of life. They hot, run, shoot, ride, row, and sait from pinle to pole. Toey eat, and drick, and live jolly in the open ale, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and day-English Traits.\n\nPORGIA PREACHtaq.--The Furkaru, niter noticing the Freemasons' friend, and making some creellent re- marks, in which I quite cuntur, regarding “popular\n\nin length, and feet 4 inthase of a work Engin, a HE Acting Post-Master regrets sa way that owing to prenehno leping of Church, an epigram pointed\n\nthe departure of the carriers from Hong- tong, there can be no delivery for the present of Leiteir &c., hat how the Peat-Office window. Hours of stren- dance being as heretofore frora 7 oʻtlock, a.a. to li PAN,\n\nPosten, Hongkong,\n\n12th January, 18s.\n\nsufficiently apacions to Engtuan of from One Hundred and fronty to One Hundred and Thirty Hons Pow. Bach Boiler ha 3 Furnaces; length of Tubes, 4 ft. 9 by 24 in. diameter. The whole is in first-rate order, having been only Six-en Monthe in the Vessel, and not having been used morg than Six Weeks during the whole of that time\n\nONE HIGH-PRESSURE DONKEY ENGINE, wish\n\nSAN MIGUEL KRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY. CYLINDER capable of worklog up to Ten Forsy Power, fitted with Pamp of 7 fucher diameter, and YNDER the Superintendance of an Experienusi Ex- Buroke of Piston Rod fi inches, for pumping out Water GINEER. Orders for all kinds of MACHINERY Ballart, throwing with cas 20 Tons per hour. Also executest with despatch. Speak ENGINES & BOILERS Cast Iron Baskets with Cod Waaris, for Londing or repaired. SHAFTS of the bees English Iron from 5 to Dinolwaging Cargo.\n\n9 inches diameter. Orders to be addressed to Moser B. A. BARRETTO & Co., Media,\n\nONE PERPENDICULAR CYLINDRICAL TUBU. LAR BOILER for Huginu. standing & fost 9 inches high, diameter & fest 7 inches.\n\nThe whale in first-rate working order.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 25th Cetuler, 1855.\n\nWING to the existing condition of affairs at Chator, D. KENNY han ravnoved to Hongkong; and may be consulted his Rive, cormir of Graham and Gage Streets.\n\nlingkong, 10th December, 1856.\n\naway's article on\n\nwith a good joke of the witty South, the Editor aught to have a return in kind, I offer the following an illustration of the disgusting length to which preachers who strive after effect, can go. The anecdote is taken from severe criticism, writing in England, of the Rev. J, C. M. Bellew's volunie of Sermon preached at St. Philip's, Regent Street. Allading to Mr. Spurgeon, the \"gated dissenting prenslier,\" the critic of the Saturday Review says:—\n\nThat shining light of the Non-conformist world lately discoursed of the last days and death of Williaur Palmer, and be described the devil na trembling between hope aul fear--now reading that Pairer would confers and balk him, and presently confident that he would remain ohdurate. The preaches wout an ine on himself to per souity Satan; and, rubbing his hands in a flow of ex- citement and delight, he shoutot, a the game in the prison cell was closing, \"here he comes! here he comes! here he comes --Bengal Hurlar.", "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": 243953, "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": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "page_number": 289, "title": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 36\n\nIt is difficult to adhere to the many changes in the offices after the supporters of the late Mr. Morgan were detailed in the sequence of these appointments.\n\n1: per hard - Mr. White states Biographical notes 27th February last in reply to the query from the Colonial Office. Do you think, either possible or probable that the Treasurer would grow less and fall into arrears of this financial period, if he had discharged his duties strictly? (Answer) It stands to reason, especially as regards local offices \"kept\".\n\nCould certain hindrances such as result moves following probable & through it might be possible that intricate...\n\n## 37\n\n286 \n\n\"Complication: not apparent on the surface of the accounts might occur. It might not, however, be possible that such should occur without being speedily discovered and brought to notice?\".\n\nWith this opinion of Mr. White's, I concur, but would like to remark that under the circumstances furnished, the Port Works and Buildings accounts for the given periods were not forwarded for audit. It is self-evident that their accounts could not be audited which had not been forwarded to him from the Treasury. How Mr. Bin had... on his testimony of the August...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244348, "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": 89, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE, \n\n**Mr. GEORGE STRACHAN, ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR,** \n\n地出屋式 \n\nGage Street, Victoria, 1st May, 1858. \n\n月戊問士治額如地士未十午便荡街請貴八年可即到燉三行結光\n\n**JUST LANDED AND FOR SALE.** \n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12 | Patent WATER CLOSETS |\n| - | Also, Patent Electro-Plated Nickel Silver FORKS, and SPOONS. |\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18-May 4, 1858)\n\ndon't hamper selves with many goods for we fear he wanting. A small county town acquitted by the committee appointed to investigate...\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18.-MAY 4, 1858)\n\nthey give is.\" Be prepared for an outbreak in the successful carrying out the scheme will seem to be on the point of being frustrated. Mr. Bott has been using thin verdict will be flat Mr. Butt Tips, in the of Sitara and Coora Ameer of Scinde, and a King of load contemporary was taken to task by one of large stockholders on Hon... and comfortably quartered, the present. Few people believe the rumors of home has its hospital and its charities of ever great conduct, and we hope Dr. Bridges will... with the privileges of the foe of us, were that if he were to do a Court of Appeal from Hwang's aerial cognizance. He is supposed to heart; each party vies with its neighbor to advance also be acquitted were a committee appointed to investigate his connection as standing...\n\nvery near, and it seems even against Chinese common sense, that a person specially deputed is an event of the greatest importance; there are fairs to raise the small fund required, in which every one, gentle and simple, for miles around are interested. Here, where many cur...\n\na few days, we are sorry to say there is not a hospital.\n\ncurrent for the Opium monopolist. There, unfortunately for Dr. Bridges, there is no committee appointed, and so the clamor goes on unrefuted and slander of this kind never dies. We fortunate...\n\nto settle the affairs of foreigners, the news of the fall of Canton being now by those who accredited him, should not on learning the absence of the plenipotentiaries at the math, which news of money for a good purpose could be raised immediately are not the guardians of Dr. Bridges's good name must have reached him from Shanghae-in such a case, he would stride into Canton in all pomp and openness who would feel the least interest in the subject black as his gown for anything we or the public may be, and as simple barrister his name may be, and say Here I am, ready to arrange matters, after he had paid his subscription. We trust...\n\nwhere are your plenipotentiaries? A diplomatic may not continue, but that some of our principle the British Government representing British catch like that would not be...\n\nmissed by a Chinese man will try and do something, by giving both justice to the Chinese, we could less to a more diplomatist. A ranguotic telegraph is being laid their time and money to help forward to perfection tender care of it. He stands in the position down from the Magazine Hill to the Allied Wharf, so good a work as the establishment of a general of Caser's wife, he should not only be-not guilty. If he should not even be suspected. We publish the following minutes of a meeting are happy to believe, but that he is suspected we that Dr. Bridges bite Mr. Butt is not guilty we held on Thursday 29th ultimo for the purpose of establishing a General Hospital.\" We are impressed on the Chinese mind, and we more urgent business. Having inspected the opium monopolist were invited to attend, but were prevented by understand openly stated by Chun-tai-kwong, the buildings which it is intended to appropriate to clever men, all powerful with the governor or the government; that he can take, unmake, or \"That Dr. Bridges is a very adapted for the purpose. Of the skill of the superintending Physicist, Dr. Kenny, we need not and propitiated. All this may be true. say nothing as it would be presumption in us no and the Acting Colonial Secretary may still be a medical men to comment on the abilities of worthy, honest, hard-working government servant, gentleman so well and known esteemed. If the establishment of a general civil hospital alluded to in a previous article does not come to pass, the press...\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1858.\n\nTHOS. HUNT & Co.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nRHOD...\n\nULES FOR STANSBURY'S MEASURING\n\nPRICE-25 Cents each, on Pasteboard,\n\nApply to\n\nMr. M. Hoza,\n\nat the \"Hongkong Register\" Office.\n\nthe late mailings out intelligence of the appointment of Dr. Harland as Colonial Surgeon, and as the salary is stated to be £800 per annum,\n\nwe for Dr. Harlan! will be prohibited from undertaking private practice. If we are right in this supposition the government have got a good man cheaply, and the community lost a very able professional attendant.\n\nThe duties of the office have latterly become very heavy, and are likely to become still more so, and it is much to be doubted that one person can discharge them satisfactorily, even devoting his whole time to the work. We learn further, the instructions have been sent out that a new civil hospital is to be built and that nothing more is to be done in the affair of the Bowring Praya.\n\nHongkong, 4th May, 1858.\n\nSTOLEN.\n\nGOLD LEVER WATCH, with enamelled dial,\n\nand GOLD CHAIN-Maker's Name, Bund and Laut, 41 Cornhill. Number of Watch. The Watch, with a lanyard and set of Studs were, at is supposed, attracted from the case between this and Canton about January. A handsome Reward will be paid for the recovery of the same.\n\nHongkong, 3d May, 1858.\n\nApply at this Office,\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 4TH MAY, 1858.\n\nParties sending Advertisements to the \"Hongkong Register\" or \"Register's Advertise,\" phrase address to the \"Printer and Publisher of the respective Papers, which will secure early attention to their Communications.\n\nsent Galertising has our best wishes:—Fr. Angelo Fr. Reina, and Fr. Long Mesore Kup Present—Revds. Fr. Jerome Mangier, Fr. MacMahon Block, Kenes, Hassoon, Isam. Werden, F. Sustaining...\n\nthat some means will be adopted for the purpose If a new civil hospital is to be erected we hope of incorporating the seamen's hospital with it. The resident surgeon of the seamen's hospital at the following showing the details of the loss that a barrister should get what he asks; he is The meeting was opened by the Revd. Fr. Jerome certainly cannot look upon it as an improper thing might become the resident surgeon of the civil hospital, and this would relieve the Colonial Surgeon from a heavy duty, while it enabled him to...\n\nGENTLEMEN—I am extremely happy to see you all at this meeting for discussing the expediency, and the means between the seller and buyer, the attorney and client. I am convinced that cure, ponder of the hospitals, or two private hospitals have been called upon to remark on this subject, the effect will be derived from the amalgamation of all the civil...\n\nview and to which, I am couleur you will general and client. The only ground on which we feel that owing to the departure of the medical bent, and plentifully alone, have actuated you in business may who opened them, but it was well known they wish I was able to express any gratitude in language equivalent to my sincere interest for this our of your kind coming this night my welcome guest and I sincerely it has on the Chinese. We pointed out the dianess which will not be un great, I hope, by the weight fl Colonial Secretary, and were we have the evil and civil hospitals. We fear the want of efficiency, to give a no harsher name, still continues. It is so did of your valuable advice and suggestions I should not call for any primary assistance...\n\nrealized. Dr. Bridges is in the Chinese eyes a man 41 years, Master of the receiving ship Mahamoudie and for many years in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nOne complaint is, and in the first place I beg leave to submit a few of my that when the monopolist engages his services as that the site is an unhealthy one that point own propositions to your consideration.\n\nF. DE SENSA Jr.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Macao, on the 7th April, the Wife of Mr. Joaquin...\n\nAt Macau, on the 1st May, Mr. Isnacracto D. VIRKIRA KIBKRO.\n\nAt Victoria, Hongkong, on the 1st May, Mr. I. P. COLL...\n\nTO THE BRITISH COMMUNITY AT HONGKONG\n\nThe undersigned begs to inform the community that the Office of the British Consulate, this day has been transferred from WANPAO to HOKAN.\n\nCHAе. A. WINCHESTER, H.B.M.'s Acting Consul\n\nBritish Consulate for Canton,\n\nAnnexe of Houa, 29th April, 1858.\n\na ground floor in any situation is not well adapted for the purpose of a hospital--still less when high a land is...\n\nIt is intention to establish a General Hospital, in unsel that there is, there can be, no back-stairs of corruption to resort to how; perhaps he may expect this: Gardens and S. Francis Hospital and which show however, the monopolist finds himself compelled my father intention to have it well furnished with all it in surrounded by growing trees, and is alut in necessary materials for a proper Hospital, and to be on all sides by hills except where it faces the provided with experienced Doctors: will us in art, but is informed that...\n\ncounsel to attend for him before the Magistrate's harbor. Be this true or false, there is another change which is a tangible one, and the one on which we base our most complaints. The charge is. changed by a sufficient staff of Hospital servants to attend to the patients.\n\nThe gentlemen I intend to appoint are Dr. Vande... and Dr. Kenny the former Gentlemen lately arrived in this Colony, is a bachelor of questionable own count. creasing their diseases or acquiring new ones. fool the set of several languages which Mandarin Bridges; and with great dignity oỀ references oedh as to professional accomplishments, and enough to English people, but to the Chinese the All this is staple and straightforward We have personal experience of this being true at a fluently, and which will be exceedingly useful in least in our instance and a respectable merchant and ship owner made the same complaints to us sometime ago with a request that we would The latter Gentleman, whose abilities she too well three characters—first, as one of the law-makers, commission where he may meet with patients of all place great power is associated. chant and ship owner made the same complaints to Dolor expose it. Thinking it improbable that either known and ustalised, to any better certium, then, as one of the granters, and finally, as tue That is the so in the present case when we have one man in the trustees or the resident surgeon would sane- apply to them as the hurt and most effective...\n\nFellow of the naval College of Surgeons of England-41 tion such a thing we recommended the party to\" and is proposed to be consulting Doctor to the legal adviser and supporter of the monopolist in course to adopt to put a termination to a rival propositions, I think it well to apprise you of a few...\n\nhis monopoly we see however by report of a meeting held will fin exercises there without distinction of creed on view of their extent. te great sunl, certain- Mr. Isang Batt is, we understand, a very...\n\nA manual number of Inquests have been during the past few days held before the Coroner—one of them however of particular interest: A Chinese was killed by the falling in during the heavy rain of the 20 of an out-building in the course of erection on a Marine lot. 4 Swede was drowned in the harbor while bathing on Sunday the 25th alto. A man, discharged from...\n\nIt is evident that whether this proceeds from patients noting in a way so prejudicial to their carelessness or health, it should be stopped, whether...\n\nRunt of means to prevent the trustees of the seamen's hospital close to carry out or amalgamate it with the civil hospital.\n\nthe appropriate in relieving Papers, who will be received into the Hospital at once; and in the case of time to try point is, that he appears as the paid advocate, at truly desite will also be admitted. stion. In the Civil Hospital a Chinese died from he hoped a properly constructed hospital will be of the airs as the lipizi; to supply this defect, ara perhaps a little stronger in his case.\n\nThe list is no doubt their best course, for it is to that being missionary, I cannot by any means devote ages in the cause. This is the case as nearly as Lufe teal it incurent upon me to remark herehe the same time he holds the position of one of the effects of a gun shot wound received when escaperected on an eligible site in a central spot, of Grand Prus sery kindly tendered his duable aerof Coranous not doubting the honor of its ing from the Western Coal sheds, he having been which there are many that it will be well! vises and M. Braga, roster of the Medal members is yet so jealous of its privileges that it myself entirely the management and perintended. we can understand it of Dr. Bridges, if it be not there committing robbery. A verdier of wilful secured and watched, so that no such abuses can murder has been taught against some parties win!\n\nThe House made a particular attack on a conveying fel...\n\nHail,) deo will take an interest in it. to this market. Iu dar obituary there is the two hospitals would also enable the directors to means as way enable me to cry on these desigua...\n\nThe combination of the means of the to your very own hands to save and suggest such a imputation, and in this the curatituencies In couches, Gentlemen, I consign das proposals will not enfer a member to underlie the shade of...\n\nmamme of Cayman Cole of the Courser, lately wrecked on the Pratas.\n\nWe may have point out two of face—à mom- carry out one or two very necessary improvements. fortable set of sick rooms available for the young men of the colony, whether belonging to govern...\n\nwhich it has \n\nHuid Prẻ be the derrotary, \n\nTas news from Canton both public and private are of the most conflicting nature. One be treated for serious diseases with more care and attention than they can obtain in their wet houses set up at Fur Shan, and that it is assembling in the houses of their employers, where their press might be dangerous in cases of infectious another equally positive says No such a thing diseases to the atlier intrares-A portion of the near Fat Shan and The spital to be act mort for the treatment Foldiers place is perfectly quiet. There me the Sade Famous sad counter rumors on the subject of aner only of a temporary character. The fantalony he unlie? pan to atroci the patients.\n\nof the insane, whether the disease be permanent urine of laces of the amal strength (40,000 to 50,000). On this point we see mu besimation...\n\nthere are \n\n3. Kenny proposed Mr Grand the store, Hore we have the close corporation--the are at the details of the object for the formation of as to it or its members underlying grave charge. That a Committee be selected from this meeting to Legislative Council, showing to great impatience ment or the mercantile class, in which they might, that Mosses in Black, it is population. Eat beand this is a popular Reed. Macinon ha aproated a Comunitar, Pr...\n\nalz. Grand Pré proposed and it was unanimously carried that they are perhaps joined by the respectable almost probably they do not believe the large and fucome to be President and Fr. de la Croix added this Mition British and Foreign, and native above all, \n\nPison of the Hospit Mr. Gal P proposed, and it was carried that the Rev. Fr. Jerome, lesit e Founder new is a \n\nwas unanimously wine exactly to think, and as every thing un- secuted, that the Sisters of Charity in the the very worst.\n\nRev. Fr. McMahon proposed Mr. Grand Pré perhaps prepared to tanke up their and to think supposed to be worse than it really is, \n\nposition was also monin shy carried, \n\nW sak, in conclusion, er general readers Proposed by Fr. Jerome and Seeded by air. Sade peruse with care the accompanying article Privalaute or thanks he given to the Gentlemen from the Daily News on Mr. Butt's care. We nek win sa kindly accepted to set at.\n\nProposed by Mr. Kup and seled by Mfr. A. rent whether or not it would not more.\n\nvote is thanks be given to the Secretary its list it end save ten sold ar opes and fair market, dew, to his able conduet in the Ensin Sifeira, that are of tanks to given to Revd. the Gets of the case as to granting a mest udinis liberati in su recuti apcepting the ties id Secretary as to the withdrawal of the first groot, and difconsort with their honor, and open: c'eating, if all Proped by Mr. Block unt seeded by Mr. Issand oppressive monopoly un scaled tenders, when Nothing farther being left for discussion, thermitely as to the regranting it on the same ternis Esalse to theer on Thursday gezi, the 7th May, ka the...\n\nto the same pers, were mady known. And we \n\nin speaking confidently; there is no such army.\n\ns to need fustare polating cut.\n\nthe \n\nWe hear there is much acquisition in villages around, no doubt a great deal of big talk,\n\nalso be isolated buildings for a small pox There hospital and a lock hospital.\n\nIf in ndition a sanatoriure copii, na way long ago proposed in this paper, he erected on the top of Victa Penk, we might consider ourselves well way from Canton to Macau and Hongkong. As we predicted, the Cantooreze pre rising from their fortified to withstand any amount of tiny defent with mere insolence than ere; stones; discne. laze been thrown at offices and soldiers not to mener-getting-the heads of society are so e...\n\nWe fear, however, public spirit is lost an speak of the murderous assault on the policeman paged to making money as fast as they can that Stewart, and it is considered very unsafe to enter they may get back to their own country, that they the western part of the city. In the face of this have us time to care for the rany poor aferra the Europeans are living in Honais in the park nates tied to the island for a very long day, if not houses without even a corporal's guard to pro- for ever. sect them. Goods still go up, and although there is some nceusinese felt by the principal Chinese traders who have returned, yet the only advice...\n\n| \n\nto the meeting and Committee. \n\nThis \n\nhomes of Mr. Buck, to draw Rules and Regiations for the the Hospital.\n\nA. GRAND PRE\n\nNerred \n\nActing Colonist Secretary to give the public. which pays him, sogte expérnation of the very doubtiul position in which he at present stands :—— (beily Never.)\n\nsource of the success of such a scheint, would be. 1. for Youghal and W. T. Bridgee. Eaqrektious peaard by the Committee of the Charnam Mr. \n\nWe do not think outy, one great cases of leave Butt, Esq., Barrister and wanting, but something more than money is. C. L., Harrister and Member of the close car-r's me, it may be informed that the dir. mester has wanting-personal superintendence und an interes portion—the Legislative Council of flugkong, tren aited of the charge of breach of pra ilege, \n\nFrom: what has been allow vú to trucepire respecting the \n\nTo \n\nna weit is a portion of the Naval Brigade. The troops the officers of that regiment: -- \n\nwere left on board the transports Lancashire Witch und Tax Benged Hathara, of the 20th March, says with Mooresfort. at Whampoa and the French Contingent remained on board their own ships, except a ousall party in conjeful occupation \n\nreference to two aditional Native Regiments for th \n\nice in China- \n\nPoutres hundred sepoy belonging to the 65th and #2th Regiments N. 1. are now wigh at island, 30 they have not already arrived ut ur in the visity of Barrack port. As we all know they are destined for service in Cuma, provided they can be clarked on the rearts all which possage us ofen signed these, but not being ralunteers for the screire, they canne! in the whole e Looked upon as very willing soldiers vayer for forel ware,\" nnd we sind be able to state the exact numifer that my he proceeding to China, only on the authority \n\n3. the 181, (reclved a communication from Ule Bariul Bizin und Baron Gros, stating that the reply the Contaistioner had been received that is was most antislactory, and inviting the aavel and milhors and-chief to a saference board the Aulaccuse, to consider what further steps aliulit be taken, in consequence of Keb's determination to resist the very nurse decade of the two Governments, \n\n4. Tur conference was held un the 21st it, when it was determined that the pienipotentiaries should \n\nDe knocking at the dors tie Iluase of Coumene\n\nthese prvi of the \n\nthe inverse of Tabs, it would be overwhelmed with adelage India. basic enough co ungrosa tile whole the ovidence selitted to the committee crabile us, \n\ntime of tho bare. And the tuulia eniture, who A Morril, vus of the four Ameere of Upper Selnic, we setertido a boradigazy faith in the nipotence frihe med of turving acquired the interstance of the of Las in judicial proceedings would besiege these members with; dengnes by the presuction of a legal document. The pretura, which if u come the intimation of die James dim Government appelated a commision of the their argir, it would be perfectly air for them to lost heas 4 Prestige de large judicially. The secept. It was nice aged at a Nahub of Arcot bu Cammons in tris pay of an artisan cum te tor conclusion that the charge was eight members of the Host \n\nTim Court of Directors therungen proposed that 1 Sudan bill be any degree resembling that of Lourd Faimers blogne should be deprived of the laude which he held us, is allowed to be low every bilan in-and der the surged decourt. The Presideur of the Bont of their now is leglus--an every wealthy Balno will have attel, for the Cana being, was of opinion that this contence has paid ur uz merabers in the loss of \n\nto lenient, and at bis sggesden Ali Moore was de This is anger gainer which the people of Bogland rised of the ends thus fraudulently bined, and also of have to murd, now that it to props to vrat illa governs \n\nof the pilots reports from the Sashes. Meanwhile, dan letter to the Eugerial High Couimper, started his crban\" laude, beaving him in pranes munt of falla exclusively on the Minsters of the tr \n\nwe dure suy, preparations are being mude for the restoring his Excelteney that, in consequence of his mom.compliance with the debody submitted for fas on of all his remaining and very valuable eruditary! \n\nWe publish the following despatch from the ception of those men to be taken to fight the battles of \n\nconsideration, the lurther settlement of the question the Goverment in a country distant and different from To win a reversal of this judgment, the Amger Putna to \n\nbeen transferred to the anal and military suites, that where as hrave and faithful soldiers their services Sugated. We pas Uver the minor personages in the dis- Government Gazette of last Saturday from the \n\nof State for Foreign affairs, which we ece fur toere required at would be most valuable, that me should sly address better to his silency stating the above faci, and that it, at the end of a further uded the Coffeys, and the alle lady who travelled \n\ntern of forty-eight hours, the eny saguld be perefully from London to Paris, and from Paris to Vienna, for the \n\nquived preparations are compite, nid the sea sust atenie purpose of sizing the deposed prace by paying \n\ncoussy be subject to temporary dependion before surdered into our hands, life and property would be es with it. Gar Lusiness is with the servant of the \n\nthey are sent away. Whether they are all to vents respected; but that, if the teras were out roepted, the English public, the bon, member for Youghal. \n\ntheir rus ad munition or not, we are not aware; city would be attacked. \n\nAll our efforts to avert the evils of war from the hot after the last false alarm, we think it would be \n\nกษ \n\nterested nu eympathising agency by which he was - Secretat, s:t the attention of persons who have Some days may be expected to elapse before the re- \n\ncommend \n\nbeen married in Macau or who propose being married rkare:- \n\nNo. 20. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nAch is established by Mr. Burt's corn statements. Hiviers were engagal for the Amar acu after that raine's rival in England Mr. Brat sits that he could \n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages sofem nie heered the passagement of the application furtius in the der's beauf le staves that he al-nize an Chana, otherwise that ja acendance with nys urged upon the Amer, Aut his lends art advisers, the provisions of the Act 12 and 13 Victores, Cap the bringing of his ca bure Parliament, as the m0268, His Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, relies are to pure. Ha actually used for propers, like \n\nproductive of which he theme obviated to promote the L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief er's van. He coniterie the Pirator: the Superintendent of Frade in China &c., &c. has Kulit Company, and agon Mr. Turen faith, the Presisereived a Despatch front The Bight Hande bat the Bora of Control, la licit their nou wees on Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a Copy child of hie ciet. The result of these applicnída was a of which is hereby published for „euerai inforna- jetine on the Board of Directors in answer to the Amcera \n\nBy Order, \n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. Xo. 7 \n\n| \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chmese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Cidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\nBritish Naval Brigade on the right.\n\nCentre bridge, composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's provano instalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers.\n\nPreucia bridge on the inft\n\nColonel Holloway's brigade in reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery,\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain still to cancuston, and the mail leaving; I must therefore defer instheer det üle to the next rpportunity. † in line of contianova elutus of brigade audil further...\n\nI bwe, &c.\n\nC. T. VAN STinerszre, M jur General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now heng oerapied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of Stue for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n} \n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages...\n\nHis Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China &c., &c. has received a Despatch from The Right Honorable Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...\n\nBy Order,\n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. No. 7\n\n| \n| --- \n| --- \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chinese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Clidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\n| Unit | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Naval Brigade | Right |\n| Centre bridge | Composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's battalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers |\n| Preucia bridge | Left |\n| Colonel Holloway's brigade | Reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery |\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain...\n\nC. T. VAN STRAUBENZEE, Major General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now being occupied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of State for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n}", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248675, "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": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 278, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "A 605\n\n274\n\nHong Rays\n\nA.B. Hudson Esqr\n\nto disinterfere-\n\nIn this case!\n\n7.S.18. Jon.\n\nto which Mr.\n\nLatouche paid a good deal of personal attention\n\nsome difficulty was felt in supporting the Coroner formerly:\n\nAfter the fullest consideration it was judged right on the whole to do so. Perusal of W. studio does not suggest any new reasons for reconsideration.\n\nIt does not appear states No L's desirability to communicate when, de\n\n24 June 157\n\n42\n\nor only the naked decision.\n\nEntered\n\nMINUTE\n\nphung\n\nMaterivale Lenk\n\nDom Jan 13\n\nThe case seems at first somewhat hard but I think the decision in the latter DM. Gilman of 24 June was right. Knowing\n\n157\n\nao hu\n\nto the general difficulty of carrying any sanitary measure, the constantly Inveterate, Her Majesty\n\ncausing the Harry Harry Stal Case Panitary Adliviance. The correspondence is to operation of the volumen.\n\nHudson's Agauch attached ·5292. the tope Japen to collection stilis Filly the Jaits of the ul. the death of the letter to ase & the rentous thick Anduced les Lebrecher Lose CERY\n\nfri, Aff. Sii,\n\n12\n\n1859\n\nLam directed Gylecretary bin 5.1 Lytton & acknowledge the receipt of your letter date () Ultimo relative to the Confiscation of certain house property belonging to you in Hong Kong by the Government of the Mony under the ordinance of 1858 for Buildings\n\n \nThuisanc Jam desired 8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253739, "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": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "page_number": 367, "title": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "content_text": "## The Attorney General's Office, Hong Kong, May 24, 1862.\n\nI had recently the honor of a conversation with your Excellency, in which you expressed to me your expectation that there would be some difficulty in properly filling up the offices of Police Magistrate created by Ordinance No. 6 of 1862.\n\nWell knowing the duties of the office, I believe that my son, Mr. John Jackson Smale, of Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, is as fully qualified for the appointment as any man who would accept it.\n\nMy son's education was at the Highgate Grammar School and in Germany, concluding with...\n\nTo His Excellency \nSir Hercules G. R. Robinson, \nGovernor.\n\nPage 363 \n\nReceived \nTransmitting Mr. Smale's application for an appointment as a Police Magistrate.\n\n| Ref | Date | From | To | Remarks |\n|----|------------|---------------|------------|----------------------------------|\n| | 26 May 1862| | | |\n| 1 | | Mr. Englehead | It. Robinson| |\n| | Inclosure | | | |\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nCustleman \n2. bin Duke of \n2 Mantracy \n\nSen & Roger. \nI believe M. F. Fatescue les mentioned \nCustleman \n\n67 \nIn 1862 \n\n1 Inclosure. \n.110 \n\n### \n ધ (Page number marker, likely mis-OCR'd or irrelevant text)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264820, "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": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "content_text": "## OCO and Estimate\n\nand Estimate and, could not have been estimated for till the arrival of the Master, these are given in detail. as for necessary to pay for them by measured completed work as possible, it will be necessary.\n\nThe Contractor for the Mint Buildings incurred a loss of some $4000 on the 10th April last from a fire which broke out in his temporary workshops. Hope was held out to him at the time that if the Buildings were satisfactorily completed within the time specified he would receive some allowance from the Government. It is proposed that a sum of $2000 be allowed him.\n\n| Description | Quantity | Rate | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 30 p Caizahar | | | |\n| 40ft-lin Backsteps | | | 196 |\n| | | | 702 |\n| | | | 76 |\n| | | | 2454.19 |\n| | | | 3.5 |\n| | | | 14 |\n| | | | 6484 |\n| | | | 13186 |\n| $1.50 | | | |\n| 72 ft lin Granite pail to Ballustrade... c 50° | | | 66 ft lin |\n| Do Plinth dr | 36 | | 502 |\n| 311⁄2 ft lin Granite Winders Fills | | | |\n| 4. Stone Corbels 2′′x 12′′ x 12′′ | | | |\n| 30 Cuboft Granite Pressemers rough dressed | 40.0° | | 11725 Cubeft of Brickwork set in Mortar including stucco |\n| 65 ft bin. Batlustrade pail | | | 1500 duplift Ned File paving |\n| 12 | | | 130 |\n| C/40% | | | 8 |\n| | | | 175875 |\n| | | | 261/20 |\n| | | | 296.20 |\n| | | | 1250 |\n| | | | 168 |\n| 18% Squares Proof tiled with Battons * Per line of $16 | 622 ft Ein Earthen raw e et pouts | | |\n| 144 Squares China fir flooring + Joists | | $121. | |\n| 48 Cubeft Hard wood Girders | | | a b l |\n| 1500 Suplift framing to Fliers Verandah & | 10% | | Inner Staircase all hardwood |\n| 9 Junch Casements Hardwood frames & Vinitions without dussings | | | 156 |\n| | | | 747 |\n| | | | 180 |\n| | | | 36 |\n| \"Jashes Hardwood frames & Vinitions | | 2.50 | 10 |\n| #12 41 Hardwood Couvre Venlitators | | | |\n| Forward | | | 3697.87 |\n| | | | 2454.19 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279945, "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": "CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "Sie 7. Sandford\n\nIn 1856 au\n\n\"Ordinance for Buildings and Nuisance\n\nI is still in force. It provides (winter slip)\n\nWas passed & is still in\n\nfor proper thickness of walls + foundations, floor of houses - that all works fully under the renewal spoken\n\nqui\n\nfir & your better)\n\nare\n\nThe cause an\n\nthe surveyor's inspection of the Surveyor several that\n\nevery\n\nhouse should have a\n\nto fitte.\n\ncooking place therein\n\nWithout knowing what the difficulty is in which the Commanding Royal Engineer alluded, & what is the prohibition, it seems rather a\n\nArony\n\nto require that Military\n\nthat Military Building should be\n\nExempted from the Ordinance\n\nWe have no information\n\nas to the proposed\n\nL\n\nI Proceed as suggested I do not but I first ask the W. offer to head or, for the purpose & being transmitted to the Governor, the report of the Command. Royal Engineer referred to in\n\nthe letter\n\nfrom it, we\n\nMilitary\n\nquote\n\n8twist, or such extract\n\nupon\n\nthe\n\nquestion of Exempting\n\nBuilding's from Building thin ames\n\nI agree with Mr. Holland.\n\nbirth the was official analysis\n\nthe practical difficulties around Experienced\n\nI as can communicate to the Governor\n\n13/1\n\n2. bute funcommon ther thie pejected ashain amós\n\nJus. 15/1\n\n1/bib\n\nThulle\n\nAntered\n\nHankan\n\n2.0.259.\n\nWhtate\n\nWar Dept.\n\nMato 19/1,\n\nJ. Wymon 251,\n\nThe Hanford\n\n22\n\nJy\n\n1423\n\nFeb 6-\n\n18-11\n\nZeb:869\n\nz\n\n340\n\n25 Jan 1869.\n\nSam dintra of\n\nEarl Granith Zahnath\n\nThe minute of your\n\nletter\n\nof the & minute Expressing\n\nInterCardwells lezze That the Lordiths or ill affect\n\nthe hot attrahere, The Expediency of intestuing\n\ninto a Building\n\nWhich is said\n\nOrdinanc\n\nthe\n\nUnchette common of the\n\nCol Anthontir\n\nclause\n\nExempting from its", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294111, "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": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 26, 1874.\n\n## LATEST FROM CANTON\n\nSeptember 26th. I hear of loss of life already among the natives. The Japanese have made an honourable withdrawal of their troops. They only desire now that the Chinese Government should deplore that they have given cause that led the Japanese to send their soldiers here, and then they would take away their troops. I don't think the Chinese will agree to this declaration, as it is nothing less than an acknowledgment of the illegality of the Japanese proceedings. They know they can fight now and don't care what turn the negotiations may take.\n\nThe French civil engineers had stopped a few days ago to superintend the erection of a fort at Amping. It is to cost a good sum of taels, something touching $100,000, besides...\n\nIt must be remembered that the force of the storm was such as to tear up trees by the roots; and telegraph poles would not be very much more. Our belief is, that at the departure of the last mail from Shanghai, everything was in exactly the same state of uncertainty as before. Two Chinese passengers around The Felony gun-boat, Capt. Wright, were drowned that there was a prospect of a mutually satisfactory arrangement being arrived at.\n\nThe foreign newspapers did not confirm this, and there is no doubt whatever of all lives lost but Mr Heather, the gunner, on board. We got the tag of rigorous preparations on the Yangtze river.\n\nThe United States Janillary rigour is exhibited man, out of the typhoon here. It did some damage to trees and houses.\n\nWe are of opinion that the rumour mentioned above has arisen, either from witnessing the energy on both sides; or by the invariable tendency of rumour to gather in as it goes. As to the government forbidding telegrams to be forwarded, it is absurd. If they wished to stop communications, they surely know how to effect it within a few hours, not by such a foolish order. There is such a gathering of rumours touching peace or war. We must wait until the next steamer arrives from Shanghai or Nagasaki, and advise our friends to be undisturbed by any more rumours.\n\n## JAPAN\n\nThe desolation the town now reached its depth. The crash of falling houses, the screaming of the victims, people running to and fro in the utmost consternation; but can get no particulars yet. The roar of the wind and of the rain, all this was something awful to hear or see. Suddenly an ominous glare appeared in the heavens. Fires had broken out in different parts of the town, and the flames, whipped on by the gales, rushed in horizontal streams over the largest masses, devouring the buildings that stood even at great distances in their direction. The loud reverberation of these fires striking from the flying clouds on the sky was repeated by the waters which invaded the doomed town in every direction. On this occasion the loss of life was fearful. People had only to shun their death by water, tree, or the shock of falling buildings.\n\nLast month, a hail-storm passed over Nikko, Yonezawa, and the neighbouring country, and several people were hurt by the bad stones. An old man, between 20 and 30 years of age, said he had never seen such large ones; some of them measured 7 inches in circumference. Several persons who put up native umbrellas against the storm had them broken to pieces. At last daylight dawned on this terrible scene.\n\nIt seemed a dream, an enormous negation, awful to relate, but there it was; in this dire destructive Macao was not to be recognised; the waves sprang like infuriated lions on the ruined buildings and it seemed uncertain if the very ground had not gone down. By this time the barometer was already rising, but as soon as the first light appeared in the heavens, His Excellency, the Governor, the noble and brave Viscount S. Januario, went out with his staff and a body of troops to bring help where needed. The robbers who began to assail and plunder the ruined houses were energetically put down. It is a most remarkable occurrence that to this moment a very insignificant looting has taken place.\n\nThe Governor, with Mr Cunha of the public works department, after tremendous heroic efforts extinguished the fires. Mr Canha was severely wounded in the head on this occasion. While this was going on, a body of soldiers with Mr R. Sampaio, a naval officer, A.D.C. to the Governor, and Mr Menier were saving life on the sea.\n\nAs tea is one of the principal, and also one of the most valuable, exports of Japan, care should be taken to prevent fraud in its preparation for market.\n\nTOKOHINA\n\nWe received the following interesting telegram on Saturday (the 5th), but too late for publication in last issue— \"Satsuma men have offered to equip, send to the war (against China), and support, eighteen thousand (18,000) troops, at their own expense.\"—Gazette.\n\nXIGATA\n\nDuring the typhoon at Niigata on last night, eleven persons were killed.—Gazette.\n\nJinrikishas have come into general use, made here.—Ibid.\n\nDuring cannon practice, at Tsukuda jims, Tokei, on the 29th ulto, one of the guns burst, the fragments flying in all directions. The farmers near the river banks who have the numerous pear gardens which abound for miles along each side will be great losers, their trees have been stripped of both leaves and fruit. The value of pears exported from here last year was $60,000.—Ibid.\n\nOne man stripped himself and swam off to save some persons who were drowning. It is believed that the originators of this fraud have been discovered. For the credit of the country it is fortunate they did not succeed in passing off this ink-dyed material.\n\nMr Broitdem of the English navy, who was on the Prais, saved also two children in the same way. The greatest energy and bravery shown by the Portuguese soldiers on this occasion when the fury of the waves made it a very difficult matter and a dangerous one to save life from the wreck.\n\nOn account of the unsettled weather this year, the production of the silk-worms at Yamagata ken and Akita-ken has been very poor; but at Miyagi-ken, and farther south, it has been good. The Fukushima Kencho granted a license allowing the people engaged in the trade to use patent papers for the depositing silkworms eggs; but some fellows infringed the patent and manufactured a lot of papers in hue a colour exactly resembling the genuine ones. The Kencho heard of this, the license was recalled, and the trade is therefore in considerable confusion.—(Fukushima.)\n\nWith the view of adding to its forces the Tokugawa clan...\n\n## LIST OF VESSELS IN HARBOUR\n\nSeptember 2, 1874.\n\n| Vessel | Nationality | From | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Queizen Maru | Jap. Str. | Nemoro | Left today for Utaranai |\n| Orako-Kan | Jap. Str. | Itump | |\n| Komi-Maru | Jap. Str. | Awomori | Left a day for dromer |\n| Tauta-Maru | Jap. Brig | Yedo | |\n| Tauso-Maru | Jap. Brigantine | Akita | |\n| Sackar Maru | Jap. Str. | Awomori | |\n| Torf-Moru | Jap. Schooner | Midzuis | |\n| Wiyo-Mary | Jap. Str. | Yedo | |\n| Han, Geim. Barque | | Vladivostock | Bound for Shanghai |\n| Hosho-Kan | Jap. Str. | Iturop | |\n| Iron Duke | H.M.S. | Vladivostock | |\n| Hingtong | H.M.S. | Vladivostock | |\n| Frolic | H.S. | Vladivostock | |\n\nIt is impossible to give in detail every single act of bravery that was done on this occasion. The cold was intense, the wind was terrible, and the rain struck in such a way to hurt. Towards three o'clock the fire was subdued and the sea had returned to its wonted bed, but alas! Macao was no more. What was to be seen a few hours ago, it is a remarkable thing that among the general ruins the grand building lately constructed by Viscount S. Januario remained nearly untouched as the solitary witness of a former prosperity which seems to be now gone for ever. The gunboat Teja escaped marvellously nearly unhurt, owing, to a great extent, to the ability of its commander Fernando da Costa Cabral. The man-of-war Principe Dom Carlos was carried 12 miles inland and is now stranded in a rice field. The one commanded by the brave Captain Marinho escaped by a miracle. The gunboat Camoes was carried inland to a great distance and is believed to be a hopeless wreck. Captain Guiades, its commander, one of our best naval officers, was struck on the chest by a falling rust and was severely hurt, but his life was saved.\n\n## THE WAR IN FORMOSA\n\nWe hear by the last mail from Shanghai that the Chinese officials there put faith in the report that an understanding had been arrived at in Peking regarding the Formosan difficulty. It is also said that they are relaxing the haste of their preparations for war. The Danish ironclad they have purchased is said to be the Hot Krake, one of the monitor class, built in 1861, and known to have seen some active service during the Schleswig-Holstein business.\n\nThe murderer of Mr. Haber has been found guilty, and sentenced to death. His sentence has been referred to Tokio for ratification, as is usual in all capital cases, before being carried into execution.\n\nThe new fort was washed over by the typhoon, and the new guns were washed to a great distance. The guard of this fort was securely bound when on his trial, and bad to kneel down in court, showing some levity in his manner, but he died miserably. The commander of the fort stated, were made of Lea-ling-de, and the worst going on during the typhoon.\n\n## CHINA. SHANGHAI\n\nDuring his absence, Mr M. Langhorne will not act as agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, as Mr Holm filled the post of Agent to the Pacific Mail.\n\nThe P.M.S.S. Co.'s steamer Oregonios, with the American mail, arrived on the evening of the 19th, having experienced strong north-west winds from Nagasaki. She leaves again with the American mail. She takes with her the thirty Chinese students for America who were to have gone forward by the previous steamer.\n\nWe have enquired regarding the reported settlement of the Formosan difficulty, by Okubo, in a quarter likely to have the earliest information on the matter, and are informed that nothing has been heard.\n\nWe hear that private telegrams received on Wednesday from Japan, conveyed warlike indications.\n\nThe clipper ship Brake of Abercorn left full port on the 17th, for London, with a cargo of tea. As she moved away from her berth, B.M.S. Thistle dipped her ensign and cheered, a compliment which was acknowledged by the departing ship.\n\nThe Peking Gazette of 3rd September contains a memorial from the Governor-General of Fukien and Chekiang, submitting certain civil appointments for sanction, on the ground of existing urgency of providing for the defence of Foochow and Amoy, and also of Lubking in Formosa.\n\nWhether that issue shall be Peace or War, remains a sealed mystery.\n\nAt the Mixed Court, on the 18th, before Chen and Mr Stronach, a Chinaman known to foreigners by the name of Taze-foo-sung was charged...\n\nFive hundred soldiers from the Camp at the South Gate passed through the Settlement about 9 or 10 am on the 15th, on their way to Woosung and Paoshan. It is stated that 100 picked men have been formed into a patrol corps, to watch the coast of the Woosung peninsula.\n\nThe French barque Union is still fast on the Block-house Spit, and as the high tides are on the wane, the chances of her getting off are becoming very slender.\n\n## CHEFOO\n\nThe only thing of any interest going on here is the enquiry into the Fawcet murder case. I send you a few notes of the preliminary examination, which has resulted in a committal of the accused for trial on the charge of murder.\n\nThe Band of the Japanese ironclad Rio Jie-kow, numbering 37 performers, all Japanese, delighted the visitors and residents at Chefoo by playing in the garden of the Beach Hotel on Monday afternoon, the 7th inst. They played \"Wacht am Rhein,\" the \"Marseillaise,\" \"God Save the Queen,\" quadrilles, marches, and at the end of each piece, a round of enthusiastic applause was given to them from the occupants of various summer-houses, and gardens, which performance was well merited.\n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG\n\n25th September 1874.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI regret to inform you that we have been visited by the most destructive typhoon ever experienced in this Colony.\n\n2. I enclose a newspaper Account of the...\n\n## SHIPPING REPORTS\n\nThe Crics reports: strong N.E. winds from Yokohama, left today for Yedo.\n\nThe Hopewell reports the last three days strong N.E. wind but did not experience the typhoon. Lost 2 boats and store by washing overboard.\n\nThe Formosa reports bound to Foochow. Experienced a typhoon on 22nd Sept in 18 N. and 121 E., commencing at N. and veering through W. to S.\n\nThe Chos y reports: moderate variable winds with big confused sea from 22nd to 23rd, with light variable winds during the 24 hours, with light Southerly breeze.\n\nThe Bug reports: the last few days experienced a nasty cross confused sea, with light & variable winds but encountered no typhoon.\n\nThe Japanes Embassy left for Peking on the 8th instant, after a rather eventful, but not uninteresting stay, of six days.\n\nThe North American reports on the 22nd inst, at 12 p.m., 65 miles S.S.E. from Hongkong experienced heavy typhoon from N.W. veering to S.W. then South, Barometer 29.20.\n\n## CANTON, 22nd Sept. 10 p.m. 1874.\n\nWe have the gale here now. Fresh from N.E., and Barometer still Falling.\n\nWe counted no fewer than twenty-five house-boats lying about, tottering in the breeze at the various piers on the 19th.\n\nPrinted and published by Nor. DICKINSON, at the China Mail Office, No. 2 Wadham street, Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294477, "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": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "page_number": 445, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "# STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES\non the 1st January, and 1st July, 1874, \nand estimated on 1st January, 1875.\n\nin Enclosure N.3 in \nGovernor \nNo. 222 of 24 November 1874.\n\nSir Arthur Kennedy's Despatch\n\n## Memorandum of Probable Expenditure on Public Works from 1 January to 31 December 1874, and of Probable unexpended Balance on the 1 January 1875, Estimate for Services.\n\n| Works and Buildings | Estimate | Probable Unexpended Balance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Harbour Master's office | 7,000 | 1,600 |\n| Harbour Master's office | 3,000 | 600 |\n| Civil Hospital Excavations and Preparation of Site | 24,000 | 14,000 |\n| Protestant Cemetery | 5,000 | 750 |\n| Repairs to Buildings | 10,000 | ... |\n| Harbour Office | 4,000 | ... |\n| Maintenance of Public Gardens and Plantations | ... | 22 |\n| Additions to Almshouse | ... | 23 |\n| Extension of Government Offices | ... | 24 |\n| Erection of Harbour Master's Temporary Office at the Gap | ... | 18 |\n| Alterations and Additions to Harbour Master's Office | ... | 23 |\n| Hong Kong | ... | 28 |\n| Hown | ... | 36 |\n| Hoem úgins | ... | 30 |\n| Repairs to Civil Hospital | ... | 36 |\n| Syngpain Market | ... | 37 |\n| Hanchai Market | ... | ... |\n| Sunday Services of Italian Grove | ... | 8 |\n| Fanticonous Works | ... | 31 |\n| Road Works & Bridges | ... | 12 |\n| Drains in Velova | ... | ... |\n| Fund to Finish | ... | 13 |\n| Improvements at Verdun | ... | 16 |\n| Houd's and Steel's Contingencies | ... | 18 |\n| Irving Fivela Taifungatımı | ... | ... |\n| Fide Cramunta un Save | ... | ... |\n| Repairs to Stonda and of Vistnina | ... | 20 |\n| Repairs to Burgess | ... | ... |\n| Alpand to | ... | ... |\n| Jorundr | 2,000 | 2,000 |\n| Jola!--B | 400 | 400 |\n| ... | 4,000 | ... |\n| ... | 0,000 | ... |\n| ... | 1,175 | A. 600 |\n| ... | 666 | 4,800 |\n| ... | 660 | 3,000 |\n| ... | ... | 2,000 |\n| ... | b. 845 | 20 |\n| ... | 375 | 3220 |\n| ... | 10,000 | ... |\n| ... | ... | $ 100 |\n| ... | 1,260 | L. ... |\n| ... | 380 | ... |\n| ... | 120,276 | 10,600 |\n| ... | ... | 4,350 |\n| ... | 1,200 | ... |\n| ... | 3,000 | 117,27510 |\n| ... | ... | 3,000 |\n| ... | 625 | 6,000 |\n| ... | 5,000 | 11,000 |\n| ... | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| ... | 2,400 | 2,400 |\n| ... | 10,201 | 10,000 |\n| ... | 2,000 | ... |\n| ... | 300 | ¿ noc |\n| ... | 4,000 | 72.0 |\n| ... | 2,000 | ... |\n| ... | 7,500 | 2,200 |\n| ... | 6,000 | ... |\n| ... | 3,000 | ... |\n| ... | 2,000 | ... |\n\n## Recapitulation\n\n| | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Works and Buildings | 120,975 10 |\n| Roads Streets and Bridges | 44,420 |\n| Grand Total | 164,695 10 |\n| Surveyor General's Office, Hong Kong | 177,275 10 |\n| 12 October 1874 | |\n\nGolat - $ \nWb. 426 \nhh bho \n\nImbrice \nSnerryer General.\n\n625 \n64,620 \n161,695 \n10 \n3,000 \n625", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303997, "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": 589, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "## \nbe found himself able to bring back the prisoners to the old gaol from Stonecutters Island, though the former had been considered too small.\n\nI gathered that a prison had actually been built at this island; if the buildings ought to be available now, Stonecutters Island is selected for the new prison; we shall have what the Secretary of State objected to, viz. two prisons and prison establishments in the colony; for all the local authorities seem to agree that it will be necessary to maintain some sort of prison in Victoria. Perhaps, however, a mere lockup will be found sufficient.\n\nIn Keswick's arguments against spending money on the jail seem to have a good deal of weight.\n\nM. Kringfield.\n\nC9.d. 15/July\n\nYou dealt with prison as I did in June last, so I have this in to you - The Treasury is vastly richer for Licensing fees.\n\n$150,940 £ BIG5:700 \nXX 43 200 No, trov 200 73. \nKA 304,000 584 \nYeh: there was a gaol building at Stonecutters Island, & I much wonderstand why there is no reference to it. I think it was destroyed in the typhoon of 1874. \nLee Angker, beshazette & we dryer Bun Accending to Mr. Pues' estimates, the cost of creating a new institution at Stonecutters Island would be considerably less than that of extending the present gaol in either of the directions indicated in the despatch of 5 June 77.\n\nAs for as exploring the new gaol scheme, but it seems to be then forr in dearly the best. Granted that the gaol is to be at Stonecutters Island, there must be some kind of lock-up on the present site.\n\nBefore the question is decided, it would be well to ascertain the grounds for giving up the former.\n\nThe Acting Colonel had at Stonecutters Island, Secretary in 539, his teesh (on to 58% of the ground erlume) adroute the removal to that site and alluded to the previous move in that direction as \"an unfortunate scheme which, however, with drainage, is not likely to occur again.\"\n\nWait for the revised estimates before again working to the fore.\n\nEls 16.7 \nYes. Stonecutters Island probably has merits.", "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": 310825, "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": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 405, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "8. The Contractor shall remove daily in covered buckets of approved pattern marked G.S.C. and numbered consecutively, all the night soil and urine from all the public latrines now existing in Victoria, and from such as may be erected during the term of his Contract, also from all the Civil Public Buildings, temporary as well as permanent, within the City of Victoria, and he shall also remove the manure from all stables belonging to the Civil Public Buildings, and all refuse and night soil from the markets. Provided always that in regard to the night soil from Public Latrines, kept by private persons, the said Contractor shall not have to his own use such night soil, but shall receive from each Licensee three cents for each picul conveyed from the Latrine to Lap-sap-wan.\n\n9. The Contractor shall, within such hours as may be directed, empty and thoroughly clean and cleanse out every day all the existing public dust bins, or such additional dust bins as may be constructed during the term of his Contract, or such carts as may be stationed and used as public dust bins, carefully removing their contents to the dust boats stationed along the Praya. He shall station one coolie permanently at each dust bin to see that no dust or refuse of any kind is deposited outside the dust bin, and...\n\nPage 19\n\n396\n\n所有糞尿一概用桶裝該承充人每日要將本港內各公廁及國家文官公署與各公家屋宇內之糞尿用蓋的桶裝載清楚。凡公廁及公家屋宇內所有馬房內之糞樣亦須由該承充人一體辦理。至公署公家屋宇內之糞尿無論何時一概歸該承充人運出。桶身要寫出G.S.C.並須順序編號。凡街市內污水糞遺物等亦視同一律。凡該等公廁係屬民間所設者則為其挑出之糞尿不歸該承充人所有，但須將糞尿由厠坑運至攙揉灣，每擔一百斤為額，其每擔工錢可向該管之人討取三仙。\n\n該承充人須要於每日所限之時候將港內現設之公攔埵池或將來在承充期內所建造各攔埵池內之物用車等件一概清空仔細將清出之攙埵等物運往海邊安設之攥艇內。每一個攔埵池該承充人必須長立工人一名看守，毋使攝撞或坭土倒在池外。\n\nPage 20\n\n \n\n is not needed as the page information is kept. The corrected text is formatted into paragraphs and follows the original content closely, with corrections made for spelling, spacing, and some reordering for clarity while adhering to the original sentence structure. The Chinese text direction has been maintained as is, assuming it follows the modern left-to-right reading habit where applicable, and no translation has been performed. File references, if any, have been formatted correctly without spaces inside parentheses.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322423, "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": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 295, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "Enclosure\n\n285\n\nReport of the Special Correspondent in Tonquin\n\nof the \"China Mail\" of Hongkong.\n\n(1.)\n\nTHE PENDING MILITARY OPERATIONS IN TONQUIN.\n\n(From our Special Correspondent).\n\n[Per S. S. Actir.]\n\nHaiphong, June 30th.\n\nIn my last letter, which was forwarded to you per S. S. Namrian, I promised to give, in my next, some description of Haiphong, thinking it might be of some interest to those among your readers who were unacquainted with the place.\n\nThe river Cua-cam, which forms the port of Haiphong, communicates direct with the Song-koi, the main artery of Tonquin, and is in fact the only channel by which sea-going vessels can obtain access to that important water-way. In addition to this river, a creek called the Song Tam Bao, 100 feet in width, intersects the town at right angles with the main stream. With but few exceptions, all the European residences and offices are situated on the south-east or right bank of the creek, and southern side of the river, in the angle between the two. Not much system seems to have been observed in laying out the place. It looks as if it had grown entirely at its own discretion. The roadways are in quite an embryo condition, the chief thoroughfare being a street which runs parallel with the creek, and which is, for the greater part of its length, occupied by native houses constructed of wood and bamboos.\n\nThere are, however, scattered about the neighbourhood of the river banks, some very neat and substantial foreign buildings, amongst which the French Consulate, the Barracks, and Mr. Constantine's establishment are conspicuous. A little further back from the river, there are a number of pretty cottage residences and bungalows, but I understand that there are no houses at present to let in the place, all available buildings being taken up at once for the use of the troops.\n\nThe hotel is a cool and pleasant summer residence, but not of sufficient size to accommodate many visitors, if required, which is seldom the case. The cuisine, of course à la Française, provided by the enterprising proprietor, is excellent, and there is a delightful lounge in the garden at the back of the house under a matted roof, open at the sides, and overgrown with creeping plants of various kinds.\n\nA very short walk takes one directly from the busiest part of the town into the fields around, in which are cultivated rice and vegetables, and which are thickly interspersed with villages surrounded by groves of areca palms, from which are obtained the inevitable betel-nuts. The water buffalo is used in the fields for ploughing, but there is also a small and handsome kind of cattle raised in the country. These cattle are being bought up in the surrounding districts for commissariat use, and recently several of the native agents employed in obtaining a supply of bullocks have been detained by the petty mandarins in the neighbourhood, and are in considerable danger of losing their heads.\n\n(2)\n\nThe market of Haiphong is of considerable size, and an ample supply of fowls and other poultry, fish, eggs, vegetables, and fruit is always to be obtained there at most reasonable prices. The eggs and fowls are vastly superior to those sold in Hongkong, and the bananas are the finest I have seen in the East. Mutton is unobtainable here, save what is brought occasionally by the steamers from Hongkong, as sheep do not thrive at all well; their place is supplied by goats, of which there are plenty in the neighbourhood.\n\nThe Tonquinese appear to be a docile and tractable race of people, who only desire to be let alone and to be safe from the rapacious and cruel grasp of the mandarins, who grind out of them all they are possessed of and finish up, on the smallest provocation, with taking their lives. The tyranny exercised by the Annamite officials over the Tonquinese is described as being far harder and as being carried on to a much greater extent than that shown by the mandarins of China, and there is no doubt that the rule of the French will be welcomed in the country as soon as they are in a position to offer the natives complete security against the persecutions of their Annamite rulers.\n\nOne of these petty mandarins has until recently been established at Haiphong, flying his country's flag from his Yamén in the centre of the town. A few days since, he got notice from the French Resident to leave the place, and this he did on the 28th. The natives here became alarmed at his going away, not knowing the cause, and it was reported amongst them that his departure would be followed by an attack on Haiphong during the following night. However, the night passed safely without any alarm.\n\nIn physique, the Tonquinose are decidedly inferior to the average Chinese, and the women of the labouring class, although well-formed and upright in carriage, soon become decrepit in appearance owing to the amount of hard work which they perform, most of the field and coolie labour falling to their share. Some of the girls belonging to the well-to-do classes are rather good-looking, but nearly all are disfigured by the teeth and gums being blackened by betel-nut chewing, which would appear to be an almost universal habit amongst the natives.\n\nThere are a great number of beggars to be met with, both male and female; halt, blind, cripples, and sufferers from all the ills that flesh is heir to seem to crowd into Haiphong from the villages around to obtain the means of subsistence.\n\nThere are no available statistics obtainable which give any reliable estimate of the population of Haiphong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330912, "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": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "page_number": 375, "title": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "content_text": "Enclosure 1.\n\n27th May, 1886.\n\nTHE BABY SCARE. The disquieting rumour afloat yesterday has been in some measure dispelled, although there is still a stupid feeling of uneasiness abroad and but few of the scholars have returned to the schools. The rumour was not altogether a sudden outburst. On the day before yesterday there were ugly stories going about a big immolation, which had grown bigger and bigger until they assumed alarming proportions yesterday afternoon. The cause of the putting abroad of such an altogether incredible report it is very difficult to ascertain. There can be no doubt, however, that the excited condition of the minds of the native population arising from the dearth of water was the cause of the alarming rapidity with which the absurd news spread. For weeks the poor people have been grumbling for want of water, being unable to give the extortionate price that was demanded. That this was at the bottom of the matter there is little doubt, for the most wide-spread rumour was that the great sacrifice of the innocents was to be made by the contractor of the Taitam water scheme, who not being able, so the story ran, to complete his scheme within the time stipulated by Government was, according to an old Chinese usage, to propitiate the adverse fates by consecrating his work with the blood of a large number of children. There can be no doubt, however, that the disquieted state of the people's mind found its active expression from other causes which some are more difficult to ascertain. Some think that the Tez-fahead centre's followers had spread the rumour as an act of revenge for the banishment of their chief, and perhaps they may have added a good deal of fuel to the fire. Others lay the blame at the door of the Triad and such like secret societies, and from the fact that the only attempt at open disturbance was made in a centre honeycombed by these societies it cannot be doubted that they had worked up the excitement. But with the natives the most widely diffused belief is that the little spark that led to the combustion was the actual observation of some policemen taking a half dozen young rogues in charge to reprimand them for some offence—a thing which occurs every other day, but which in the fevered state of the people's mind led to the idea that these youngsters were captured by the police for the purpose of handing them over to the contractor of the Taitam water works. This statement, however, is denied by the police.\n\nThe rapidity with which the news spread in the schools was astonishing. In the morning it had only reached the Central School, but ere noon it had spread to the most western point and mothers were to be seen dragging their children away to prevent them from falling into the clutches of the awful Moloch into which the Government of the Colony had been raised in their eyes.\n\nDr Eitel, who had been apprised of the excitement by a school-master, visited the schools in the afternoon and found them nearly deserted. Outside the buildings he found a crowd gathered discussing in an animated manner the dreadful design of the barbarous English Government. On every occasion he went into the centre of the crowd and told them it was all nonsense; and most of the people apparently believed him, for the crowds generally dispersed. One of the crowds contained about 200 or 300 men, and as he approached it he heard cries of 'ta' (kill). He did not know who was meant and made enquiries, finding out that he was the person they wished to take their vengeance on. This crowd, however, also dispersed, but as he went along the lane the people from their houses reflected the cry of 'ta.' A Sikh constable, who was near, chased some of the stragglers. Dr Eitel, thinking he might do more harm than good, counselled him to leave them alone, and again reassured them that their fears were groundless.\n\nAt another part of the city, Queen's Road West, a mob had gathered, and seemed at one time likely to cause some trouble to the authorities. Earlier in the day an attack had been made on an Indian Constable, who was endeavouring to collect fines from two convicted prisoners, and he had to take refuge in a shop and was rather badly wounded in the head by stones thrown by a crowd of coolies. Later on, another Indian Constable had had occasion while parading his beat to take the numbers of certain houses; and what should the stupid people think but that he was bent on carrying off the children in these houses. Accordingly a crowd began to collect and the shopkeepers in the neighbourhood becoming alarmed shut up their shops. News was sent to the Police Office and two strong detachments of police were sent off to the spot. On arriving, however, the Police found they had nothing to do, for the crowd at once quietly dispersed.\n\nEast and West apparently the rumour had travelled with equal speed, and the next demonstration was at Sau-ki-wan. Here it assumed far more alarming proportions than at any other point. News was brought that two launches were coming to carry off their children and great consternation prevailed. From the junks in the harbour volleys were fired as an intimation that the men were determined to defend their children to the last, and then there was a big exodus to the neighbouring mainland. In the evening things had assumed such an alarming appearance that a proclamation had to be sent out; finally the police managed to pacify the mob, and all is now comparatively quiet.\n\nIn Yau-ma-ti also there was great commotion, the children there being sent to Kowloon city, for protection. In fact over every point where the British power extends this extraordinary report seems to have spread, and what is worse to have been believed. It is the mothers, it is said, who are raising all the commotion and who have got into hysterics about their children.\n\nAn example was made of two of the spreaders of the false news at the Police Court this morning. Wan Assi and Chan Afo, fishmongers, were charged with inciting to riot. The evidence against them was given by a lukong, who said that at 1 p.m. he was in the Hang Fa Lau eating house where 40 or 50 men were having tea. The two accused were sitting at a table by themselves. They said to the people in the house, 'The Government is going to arrest 108 boys and 108 girls to sacrifice to the water works and the tramway.' The lukong told the first accused to say no such nonsense. He then retorted that he saw it with his own eyes. Thirty were arrested on Tuesday and five this morning. The lukong then asked the second defendant if he had seen it, and he said he had been told of the matter. The first defendant was fined $5 with the option of one month's hard labour and six hours in the stocks, the second defendant $10 with the option of two weeks' hard labour and three hours in the stocks. Mr Mitchell-Innes said it was painful to think that after the English Government had been doing good to the place for 40 years they should be believed to be more barbarous than any nation on earth. The oldest man in Hongkong could not remember anything of this sort having been done. He did not know what their object was in spreading the false news, but he warned them to be careful in future.\n\nPage 371", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332103, "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": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "J\n\nthat perhaps a loan might have been raised for that purpose, and I was in hopes that H. E. the Administrator would have taken a favourable view of such a proposal; and more particularly as I was led to believe that my hon. friend on my right (the Colonial Treasurer) has prepared with his usual care and precision a scheme for borrowing a very much larger sum even than what I proposed at the meeting in question. As regards the all-important point of sanitation, I think it is extremely disappointing to note that there has been almost, I may say, no allusion made to it whatever. The only point that I could see with reference to it in the Address is the hope held out that a draft Public Health Bill may be introduced during the present Session. I contend that such an important matter as this ought to have received the chief attention of the Government of this Colony. Things are, no doubt, in a most disgraceful state, and I think there are very few people in this colony—perhaps I might even include certain of the officials—who are aware of the real state of things which now exists. In order to prove my statement to a certain extent, I will, with your permission, read to you an extract from an official report which was sent in to the Government as late as June, 1885, or about 18 months ago, having reference to the state of the Market. It is a very lengthy report, and it is one of the most comprehensive I have ever seen issued by an official in this colony.\n\nThe occupation of houses specially set apart for the sale of human food as dwellings is in itself a very grave sanitary defect. It becomes a great deal more than that when the houses are not only over-crowded but also quite unfit for human habitation. That those market houses are uninhabitable is beyond question.\n\nThe best of them are composed of two rooms, more or less filled with goods, and without conveniences of any kind. There is one room which is only 11 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 6 feet high, and the greater portion of which is below ground, without any window, and the only opening to it being a doorway 6 feet by 2 feet leading into a live fish store. This hole gives sleeping accommodation summer and winter to seven men.\n\nI have visited that hole myself, and I can confirm what has been said of it in every particular. I have also visited in the Market several other holes in a far worse state than this, in which I have seen men actually suffering from loathsome diseases, here in the midst of the food supply of this colony. The report goes on to say ----\n\nThe very fact that those houses are uninhabitable seems sufficient to ensure that the Government will no longer allow them to be occupied as dwellings, more especially as the Board has already, in the case of a private individual, taken steps under section 3 of Ordinance 7 of 1883, with regard to uninhabitable dwellings. This being the case, it seems needless to dilate on the somewhat disgusting details of hundreds of men sleeping nightly in contact with and surrounded by the food of the majority of the inhabitants of the city.\n\nWith regard to these dwellings, it seems needless to dwell on the disgusting details of hundreds of men sleeping nightly in contact with our food supply. I have discovered that in that Market there are 1,200 men and upwards sleeping nightly. I will ask you to follow me in the succeeding remarks of this report:-\n\nThere is only one pail closet and it has four compartments. It is closed during the day and open at night. It is practically a square box without light or ventilation. Even at noon, a lamp is required to see what the place is like. The Central Market Authorities do not supply the closet with a light. Two hydrants stand on the east and west sides of the closet, a vegetable stall on the north, the door of the closet, and a fish stall on the south, and a bedroom above. The fittings of the closet are old and very defective.\n\nThe only urinal provided is a wooden bucket in the closet, and of course, this is only available at night. The door of the closet and the inlets to the drains in the various stalls are regularly but clandestinely used as urinals.\n\nNow, sir, I blush with shame to have to hold out to public criticism British officials who have had that statement before them for eighteen months, and yet have taken no steps whatever in the matter, with 8,000 Europeans in this colony all drawing their food supply from this source. I say that one and all, I make no distinction of persons, are deserving of the severest censure that this state of things should have been allowed to continue. The improvements which were suggested were as follows ---\n\n1. The prohibition of the occupation of the stalls as dwellings.\n\n2. The repairing, &c., of the main and branch drains.\n\n3. The thorough cleansing and white-washing of the whole of the buildings both inside and outside.\n\n4. The improvement of the closet and urinal.\n\n5. More constant and complete supervision.\n\nNow, as I have stated, that report is 18 months old, and not one step has been taken with reference to it; and I have no hesitation in saying that it is a disgraceful state of affairs. I have no doubt I shall be met by the cuckoo cry of the Government that we have no funds, but as to that, I say that a profit of $30,000 or $40,000 a year is drawn from that Market, and thousands of dollars are squandered annually for useless ornamentation, although there is a crying evil like this in our midst and no steps are taken to remedy it.\n\nAs regards the various Ordinances which have been referred to in the Address, I think it will be time enough to consider the utility of them when they come before the Council for discussion. I think, with reference to the proposed light on the Gap Rock, that it is a very disappointing thing that this report has not already been forwarded to the Secretary of State. The report is of a simple nature, prepared by the Harbour Master, the Commodore, and my hon. friend opposite (the Surveyor-General), and I think it should certainly have been sent in. It is, however, satisfactory to note that H. E. the Administrator has not lost sight of this important matter.\n\nAs regards the carrying out of the extension of the Praya, I see that the blame for the delay of this scheme is chiefly laid on the Naval and Military Authorities. It is a very curious thing, but a short time ago I had a conversation with a high military authority here, and he laid the blame to a certain extent on the Civil Government. In fact, I was led to believe the Government had cooled down to a considerable extent upon this important matter. This extension of the Praya would give the Military six acres of ground, and they were prepared to pay two-thirds of the cost of the undertaking. Of course, it is possible that since that statement was made, certain alterations may have taken place; but I must say this, that I believe if the Government took this matter in hand in earnest, the Admiral, who, I believe, will soon return from the North, could be induced to consult with the General and the members of this Council, and this desirable scheme could very easily be carried out.\n\nAs regards the all-important matter of the fortifications of the colony, it is to me a most surprising thing that in his Excellency's Address no allusion is made to it whatever. This colony has been called upon to pay a very large sum towards these fortifications, and yet in an important address like this, there is not a single word of explanation as to what progress has been made, or how they at present stand. Of course, seeing that no allusion whatever has been made to it, I can only assume that things are not in a satisfactory state, because I am certain that if H. E. the Administrator could have said anything favourable with regard to them, he would be pretty certain to have done so.\n\nMy hon. friend, the senior unofficial member, in speaking of the lazaretto and the Island, Stonecutters', made some remarks I pointed out at a former meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, in which I expressed a doubt as to whether my hon. friend opposite (the Surveyor-General) would complete the work in the time he stated, and I have very great pleasure this evening in acknowledging that in thinking this work would not be completed within the stated time, I was entirely wrong. The work was completed. I was over there after the contract was finished, and I saw the work myself. I congratulate my hon. friend upon the excellent manner in which it has been completed.\n\nI may say that to me the whole Address is disappointing. It seems, I think, to have emanated from a man who says \"Well, I am soon leaving the service, and I am not going to take any more responsibility upon myself than circumstances actually compel me to.\" There is very little indication of any progressive legislation, and to me, as a newly joined member of this Council, it is very disappointing.\n\nThe SURVEYOR-GENERAL—It may be fitting, perhaps, that I should reply to some of the remarks which have fallen from the hon. member who has just addressed the Council, especially with reference to matters with which I have been connected. The hon. member called, if I may say so, very naturally and properly called for further information as to how it came to pass that the estimate for the construction of the proposed Praya between the Murray Pier and the Bio Buildings, which originally figured, as stated in his Excellency's Address, at £15,000, should have extended to £71,000, an increase of £26,000. The explanation of this increase is told in a few words. The estimate of £45,000 has reference to an early scheme I had the honour of submitting, as far back as 1874, to Sir Arthur Kennedy, which comprised the construction of a sea wall and embankment running at a uniform level throughout. Subsequently, the Admiralty objected to\n\nPage 84\n\nthe\n\nsury", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337901, "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": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "page_number": 296, "title": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "content_text": "# THE ESTIMATES\n## MEETING OF FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon to consider the Estimates for 1889 and the Supplementary Estimates for 1887. The Colonial Secretary (**Hon. F. Stewart**) presided, and there were also present—**Hon. E. L. O'Malley**, Attorney-General; **Hon. H. E. Wodehouse**, Acting Colonial Treasurer; **Hon. W. M. Deane**, Captain Superintendent of Police; **Hon. P. Ryrie**, **Hon. Wong Shing**, **Hon. J. Bell-Irving**, **Hon. B. Layton**, and **Mr. A. Seth**, Clerk of Councils.\n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES FOR 1887\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**—I suppose the Committee will deal with the Supplementary Estimates for 1887 first. The sums provided in 1887 amounted to $2,005,030, and the sums expended during 1887 to $2,023,002.06. This gives an excess of expenditure of $17,568.06. The amount to be voted, however, is $194,468. The reason for the difference is that we cannot make use of any of the balances that have accrued to the Treasury from certain specific works. Turning to the establishments, we find an increase of $2,495 for the Governor, due to the difference in exchange in salaries drawn in England at 4s. 2d. The amounts for the Treasury come to $1,096.54, of which all the items except the last two, drawing instruments, law books, and certain contingencies, which could not be foreseen, have already been voted by the Legislative Council. Then in the Surveyor-General's Department, there is an increase of $2,959.36. All the items came before the Finance Committee and were approved by the Legislative Council. In the Postmaster-General's Department, the first item has already been approved by the Finance Committee. The item of $300 for arrears of Post Office Agent at Hankow is due to some difficulty about the office. The Postmaster did not seem to be doing his work to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, and the result was that the salary was not paid until the Postmaster-General was satisfied that everything was right. There is $629 for contingencies for new postage stamps, &c., which could not be ascertained when the estimates were sent in. In the Harbour Department, the excess is $2,408.84. This is all for items which had to be paid in consequence of the establishment of the Superintendency of Imports and Exports in connection with the registration of opium. For the Observatory, there is one item of $300 for a telegraph line and another of $702 for instruments, books, &c., which could only be ascertained when they were received. The excess in the Judicial was due to the salary of the Chief Justice and the Attorney-General being paid in England. The excess in the Ecclesiastical was due to the same cause. In the Medical Department, there is an item already approved by the Legislative Council, $325, for repairs to the Health Officer's steam launch. In the Gaol, there is a small increase according to agreement in the salary of the Assistant Warder and an increase of $556 caused by difference in exchange in the salary of the Superintendent paid in England. In the Fire Brigade, there are some salaries not yet provided for.\n\nWe now pass on to the services exclusive of establishments. There is an item for rent to a temporary Inspector of Nuisances, which has already been provided for. In the Civil Hospital, there is an increase of $2,906 for provisions, medicine, instruments, washing, &c. These have not yet been before the Council, and the amounts could not be ascertained in full till the end of the year. The reason for the increase is owing to the increase in the number of patients. There is a small increase in the Lunatic Asylum and Smallpox Hospital, which could not have been foreseen. Then there is the Police Magistrate's Department. There is an item of $165 for post-mortem examinations owing to the increased numbers of cases. There was also a sum of $10,810 for passages, arms, bedding, &c., which could not have been foreseen. The items for works and buildings have all been before Council and have been approved except the last item. Then we come to Roads, Streets, and Bridges, $4,000, which has been approved by the Council, and $1,500 for land and houses purchased, also by Council. In the Miscellaneous Services, the first four items have been approved by Council. The others could not be foreseen. There is $2,120 for expenses of Law Revision Commission, $1,044 for temporary Land Surveyor, $497 for Report on proposed steam tramways, $5,317 for scavenging the city and villages, and $3,072 for loss of exchange in family remittances.\n\n**Hon. J. BELL-IRVING**—What is this item—Report on proposed steam tramway, $497?\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**—It was obtained when the question of reclamation was being considered and especially in connection with Causeway Bay. The question arose of how best to join the two portions of the town, and a report was asked to be made by some person at home as to how it would be best to secure steam tramway communication between the two parts of the town. It may be of use some day, although it is not at present, and it was thought well to have information on the subject.\n\n**Hon. B. LAYTON** asked how the item for expenses of the Law Revision Committee was made up.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** said there was $120 a month for the Secretary and $30 for a clerk.\n\n**Hon. B. LAYTON** asked if the results of the Commission had ever been published?\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** said a great number of the Ordinances passed last session were sent up by the Law Revision Commission, and he believed the Attorney-General had a large number in his hands at present which had been sent in by the Commission.\n\n**Hon. B. LAYTON**—Are the labours of the Commission still going on?\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**—Yes.\n\n**Hon. P. RYRIE**—Who is the Secretary?\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**—Mr. Leach, and I may add that his knowledge of the law has been of immense assistance to the Commission.\n\n**Hon. W. M. DEANE** suggested that the item \"loss in exchange on family remittances\" should be stated as \"equalisation of exchange.\"\n\n**Hon. B. LAYTON**—It is a loss to the colony.\n\n**Hon. W. M. DEANE**—It is not a loss in exchange. The item occurs because the salaries have to be paid at the rate of 4s. 2d. as agreed.\n\n**Hon. B. LAYTON**—Well, that is a loss to the colony, and has to be made up because Government servants are paid at an arbitrary rate.\n\nPassing on to extraordinary expenditure, the **CHAIRMAN** said with regard to the Tytam Water Works, the sum voted was $150,000 and the expenditure $230,811.\n\n**Hon. B. LAYTON** asked if any account would be given of this expenditure.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**—Yes; I thought the Surveyor-General would have been present; otherwise, I should have come prepared with it.\n\n**Hon. B. LAYTON**—It seems to me we ought to have some papers on the table giving particulars of this big expenditure.\n\n**Hon. J. BELL-IRVING**—I suppose the additional expense means that they have been going on faster with the work.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**—That is so.\n\n**Hon. B. LAYTON**—I think we ought to get a statement of what has actually been spent up to date.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**—If you wish it, it can be done—a report on the expenditure of the Tytam Water Works from the commencement up to date.\n\n**Hon. B. LAYTON**—I think we ought to have it. I know the amount expended is over what was estimated.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**—It was first estimated at so much, and then it was found necessary to increase the estimate. Then it was resolved to heighten the dam, and that entailed further expense.\n\n**Hon. B. LAYTON**—It is a big work, and we ought to have some idea of what it cost.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**—I have no doubt that from various reports of the Surveyor-General, the details could be obtained, but you want, I take it, a report in a succinct form, showing the outlay at a glance, and I shall see that it be laid on the table.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350251, "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": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 559, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "# VICTORIA GAOL, HONGKONG\n\n9. If the foregoing proposals are carried out, we are of opinion that the accommodation provided will in every respect be superior to that at present existing; but we have to point out that it has been found impracticable to provide within the premises quarters for the First Clerk to the Magistrates, it being inadvisable to increase the height of the new Magistracy beyond that shown on the accompanying tracings, on account of such increase interfering with the quarters of the Captain Superintendent of Police and those of the Police Inspectors.\n\n10. We attach tabular statements showing the present accommodation and that proposed, and return of the daily average number of prisoners incarcerated during the last four years. From these, it will be seen that the accommodation now proposed is in excess of the average requirements during the last four years.\n\nWard F.\n\n11. We have to point out that these proposed alterations, if adopted, will have to be carried out by degrees, and if, as is anticipated, the partial adoption of the Separate System reduces the number of prisoners, some reduction in the accommodation now proposed may be found practicable before the whole of these alterations are completed.\n\n12. The estimated cost, as furnished by the Director of Public Works, of carrying out the foregoing alterations and additions is as follows:-\n- Converting existing associated cells into single ones\n- Additions to wards B1, BII, BI, DI, DII, DIII, and out-buildings\n- Alterations to Drill Shed\n- Erection of new Block\n- Erection of new Magistracy, Police Stores, and Stables\n\n## Tabular Statement showing Existing and Proposed Cellular Accommodation\n\n| Ward | EXISTING | PROPOSED | ADDITIONS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Separate | Associated | Separate | Associated | Separate | Associated |\n| B1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 16 |\n| BI | 15 | 9 | | | | |\n| CI | | | | | | |\n| Tailors | | | 20 | | 20 | |\n| D | | 11 | | | | |\n| EI | 22 | 9 | | | | |\n| An | | | 10 | | 10 | |\n| AII | | | 15 | | 15 | |\n| BII | 5 | 13 | | | | |\n| CII | 12 | | | | | |\n| DII | #1 | 0 | | | | |\n| EII | 24 | 37 | | | | |\n| AIII | 10 | | *** | 6,000 | | |\n| AIII | 15 | 11 | | | | |\n| BIII | | | 70,000 | | 70,000 | |\n| CIII | 51 | 3 | 10 | | 10 | |\n| DIII | | | Printers | ..., 28,000 | | |\n| EIII | 47 | 13 | | | | |\n| New Block | | | | | 8 | |\n| Female Prison | | | | | 9 | **,, 45,000 |\n| New Hospital | | | | | ... | 18,000 |\n| | | | | | | $250,000 |\n\nProposed Accommodation, Separate Cells, say 495 \nDo., Associated Cells, say 117 \nTotal.......... 612 \n\nNew Quarters for Superintendent and Turnkeys, now Hospital and Subway, 45,000 \nNew Female Prison, ....... \nPurchase of Inland Lots Nos. 1,281, 1,282, 1,283, and 1,284, Contingencies \nTotal,........... \n\n| Year | Criminal Class, Short Sentence 14 days and under | Breaches of Opium Ordinance | Gamblers | Debtors | Remand | Men- dicante | Europeans | Juveniles all in Separate Cells | Women | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1888 | 403 | 22 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 29 | 圭 | 39 | 9 | 535 |\n| 1889 | 426 | 17 | 25 | IS | 9 | 20 | 42 | 13 | 572 | |\n| 1890 | 137 | 35 | 8 | 10 | 15 | & | 31 | ४ | 672 | |\n| 1891 | 8 | 26 | 43 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 26 | 16 | 509 | |\n| Totals | 1,599 | 103 | 67 | 88 | 33 | 76 | 10 | 137 | | 2,188 |\n| Daily Average | 400 | 26 | 2+ | 21 | $ | 19 | | | | 517 |\n\n13. The following plans, signed by the Director of Public Works and dated the 8th November 1892, accompany this report, viz. :-\n- Nos. 1, 2, 3, showing details of Gaol buildings, additions, and alterations shown red.\n- No. 4. Proposed Magistracy.\n- No. 5. Block plan showing existing buildings in neutral tint, proposed new buildings in red.\n- No. 6. General Sections and Block Elevations.\n- Two sketch tracings showing plan and Block Elevation of proposed buildings on Inland Lots Nos. 1,281, 1,282, 1,283, and 1,284\n- Return showing the average daily number of prisoners confined in the Victoria Gaol, Hongkong, during the years 1888–1891\n- Three Photographs showing general view of the Gaol from the roof of Government House and views taken from the East and West ends of Chancery Lane.\n\nWe have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servants, \nC. P. CHATER \nFRANCIS A. COOPER, (Chairman) \nA. GORDON \n\nThe Honourable \nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355006, "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": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 740, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "735\n\n2. The burning of the houses would probably destroy the germs for a little depth, say a foot, and the soil deeper down, though possibly contaminated, would not be so dry as to become dust readily and cause the germs to blow about. The best way of treating the earth from Tai-ping-shan would be to cart it to some distance, say Kennedytown, and dump it there some way from dwellings. I don't know of any efficient mode of disinfecting soil in quantity but the process of burning would disinfect the walls and the superficial soil, and the subsequent exposure of the new surface before it is built upon would be the means of killing any germs should they have penetrated to the depth of four feet which is improbable.\n\nCertainly the present soil should be taken away and to a distance from dwellings. No doubt some risk would be run by the people moving it, but very slight in my opinion.\n\nI certainly cannot imagine that any course but the complete destruction of the infected area would be of any advantage, and to reconstruct it without destroying it would involve first its being pulled about so much as to double the labour and to allow a most dangerous spot to exist. The houses are structurally bad, the materials are old, the lanes are too narrow and the whole area is over-peopled, the drains are imperfect and, finally, most of the soil and the materials are full of plague germs. There are no doubt other places nearly as bad, but none quite so bad and none so much poisoned.\n\nI am sure that half measures are to be condemned and that the only way to make things safe is -1st burn the combustible parts, 2nd pull down the walls, 3rd dig up the soil. You then have a clean area that can be properly laid out and drained and, with well contrived houses, will hold a good number of people.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Signed) H. E. R. JAMES.\n\nEVIDENCE GIVEN TO THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSING THE CHINESE\n\nat their meeting of 13th July, 1894.\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon (Dr. AYRES, C.M.G.) examined.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-With regard to the treatment of the walled-in portion of Tai-ping-shan, Dr. AYRES, now under consideration, what is your opinion?\n\nA.-Those places are now being disinfected with chloride of lime and acid.\n\nI quite approve of the course recommended by the Permanent Committee.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN. Then I understand we may take it that your opinion on this is the opinion expressed in the report of the Permanent Committee, that the houses be demolished?\n\nA. Yes, destroyed, as far as possible, by fire. I say that the sub-soil is strongly infected, and cannot be thoroughly dealt with as long as the buildings stand over it. If it were not so, you would not see rats coming up out of the sewers and holes in the ground, full of bacteria, not communicated to them from human patients but from the sewage which is soaking through the soil, and from the gases down below, a sure proof that the sub-soil is in a dangerous state. Rats do not catch the disease from any infection above, but from below.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Would you advise the destruction of the wood-work, and leave the brick-work?\n\nA.-Destroy the wood-work, certainly; the bricks would after fire be just as valuable as when new, or would even be improved perhaps, and could be used over again; but they would have to be removed for the sake of getting at the ground properly. Drop all the beams and other wood-work from the upper floors to the ground floor and burn them, and take the tiles off the roof and throw down the beams and rafters too.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Do you advise the entire demolition of the houses, or would you leave the walls standing?\n\nA.-Entire demolition. The whole of the surface soil will have to be dug up and disinfected. That may be troublesome; probably in course of digging we shall have to go on disinfecting the soil carefully before disturbing it, and very possibly even then some of the diggers may have trouble.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-That is the point the Governor was anxious to get at. In Mauritius an epidemic was once started from the digging-up of an infected area.\n\nA.-Yes, but it must be done, and we must do the best we can.\n\nDr. HARTIGAN.-What was the disease?\n\nA.-Bilious Remittent.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-And should the soil be dug up and taken away, or disinfected and left?\n\nA.-If it is mixed with lime enough or anything of that kind it could be turned over and disinfected and left there. Of course, all the filthy parts will have to be taken away but the cleaner parts of the soil should be disinfected on the spot.\n\nPrincipal Medical Officer (Surgeon-Colonel PRESTON) examined.\n\nI am in favour of the complete demolition of every house in that portion of the City. I have been through it several times and seen a great deal inside it, and I think the whole place should be destroyed by fire.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Why?\n\nA.-Because every house is polluted.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Are there not some that could be left?\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-There are very few buildings worthy of consideration, and they are on the very outside of the District. The lanes and alleys are too terrible for anything. (Described in detail buildings on a steep slope where the basement in many parts consisted of excavations in the hillside). In many of the darker back parts there were two inches' depth of fecal matter although the front might appear very fair. Some of the places are as dark as pitch, and you cannot see anything except with the aid of a lamp.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Then it is faulty construction of houses as much as anything else that influences you?\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON.-Every house has become a focus of disease apart from faults of construction. Every house I have been into is unfit for human habitation. I think there is nothing for it but the entire destruction of the whole lot by fire.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-And as to the digging up of the soil?\n\nA.-Well, I hardly know; if there is a large conflagration that would disinfect the soil a great deal, but to cart it away bodily or to disinfect it completely would be a very big job, and I doubt if it could be done.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Then, do you mean that the question lies between cementing it over on the surface of the soil?\n\nA.-I think it must be disinfected thoroughly, if possible.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-The streets already are covered with lime-as far as that goes they are being disinfected.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-But you are not prepared to decide about taking up the soil and carting it away?\n\nA.-No. It is probably impregnated with germs throughout, or bacteria or bacilli, and I think it should be thoroughly disinfected with powerful disinfectants. Otherwise, it would be unsafe to disturb the soil at all.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-Of course, it would be absolutely necessary to disturb the earth in re-building the streets.\n\nSurgeon Colonel PRESTON.-Yes, but that must be allowed as little as possible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355951, "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": 228, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "222 \n\nmeasures at those places and this was done very promptly and thoroughly. Further British Missionaries were instructed to keep as quiet and show themselves as little as possible.\n\nOn 3rd June the Viceroy wrote to H.M's Consul to enquire whether his Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong would consent to such Chinese subjects as were suffering from the plague in Hong Kong being brought up to a Canton Plague Hospital in suitable boats towed by steamers. The reason being the dislike of Chinese to die and be buried in foreign soil. To this his Excellency the Governor agreed, after some hesitation and Hong Kong has been relieved in this way of between 200-300 cases. The following is the Report of the Consular Surgeon on the Native Hospital at Canton to which these patients were sent.\n\n\"This hospital consists of a series of large and lofty buildings erected on piles driven into the river. The structure is of bamboo with a sloping thatched roof which at its highest point is some 40 or 50 feet from the ground. The whole building is extremely light and airy, there being a big current of air right through and the temperature is several degrees lower than anywhere else. The rooms for the patients, 400 in all, 200 for Hong Kong and 200 for Canton, are of two sizes, viz. about 12 ft x 9 for two patients and about 9 x 7 for one patient. Some of these are provided with beds and others not; but the intention is to provide all with beds as soon as possible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356508, "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": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "content_text": "trouble. I take it both the Government and the Sanitary Board wish not to put anyone in gaol for breach of sanitary laws but by any means in their power to induce the observance of sanitary laws. They would take no delight in the death of the sinner, and if we have a way of inducing the Chinese to do the very thing required we should adopt it. But as regards coolie and common lodging houses, there night inspection might be carried out. In these houses they let out their accommodation by the bed and the keepers might want to make a few cents more or less for the night. But so far as Chinese domestic houses are concerned, I strongly object to the provision that they can be visited at any time either by day or night.\n\nThe **ATTORNEY-GENERAL**-I will point out to the hon. member that if he looks at the next section notice is required to be given, but if you give notice under section 10 you obviate the very object of the visit. In sub-section 3 of Section 10 of the Public Health Ordinance you will see mention is made of overcrowding between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. That is the time you want to go and catch them, and if you gave notice then they could overcrowd as much as they liked for another month, or until they received notice of another inspection. If you want to put down overcrowding you must have surprise visits, subject as the section provides to such directions as the Sanitary Board may impose. The Board, of which my hon. friend is a member, would impose such conditions as would prevent hardship. As the law stands they might come and inspect my house, but if the inspector came once he probably would not want to come again (laughter), because he would find it clean. This is one of those cases where you must give large powers, and if cases of hardship are brought to the notice of the Government, no doubt sufficient pressure would be brought to bear to prevent their recurrence.\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY**-The officer has to be specially authorised by the Board and that authorisation would not be given unless under proper conditions.\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY**-During the plague there were many surprise visits made, and I have been told by leading Chinese that they were generally conducted in such a way as caused no annoyance. They specially mentioned that Inspector Germain and Sergeant McIver had performed their duties in this connection with great tact and might be entrusted with this duty without causing any discontent. Those visits revealed the fact that the places most overcrowded were not the houses of the poor coolies, but those very congested buildings which the rack-renter had divided into as many cubicles as he could in order to get as much rent as possible. I quite agree with the Attorney-General that this class of houses should be visited, on the understanding that discretion will be observed in carrying out the inspection.\n\nHon. J. J. KUSSWICK-I have much pleasure in seconding the amendment. I have heard the remarks of the Acting Colonial Secretary and I am not in a position to state of my personal knowledge that what he has said about the absence of annoyance in connection with inspections made during the plague is not correct, but at the time the inspections were going on I heard there was much ill-feeling in consequence of the visits. I have no personal knowledge of the matter, but it was a matter of notoriety at the time. It is a very great power to place in the hands of any officer, and even the Sanitary Board is capable of making mistakes. It is dangerous to place in the hands of any officer the power to invade the privacy of a house.\n\nA division was then taken, when all the unofficial members voted in favour of the amendment and the official members against. The amendment was therefore lost, and the section as it stood was passed.\n\n## Section 11\nSection 11, giving general power to inspect, was passed without discussion.\n\n## Section 12 - Height of building\nThe **ATTORNEY-GENERAL**-This is a new section. It regulates the height of buildings, and of course with a view to sanitation, that there should be sufficient ventilation in the streets. You will see that we have put in, in order to meet any cases where great hardship might be worked, a provision that in any special case in which in the opinion of the Board a departure from these rules may be permitted without detriment to public health, the Board may authorise such departure; so that should it be necessary to put up some very high building, a factory or something of that kind, a departure from the rules may be sanctioned. In that case it would be for the Board to sanction it. In the absence of such sanction the requirements of this section apply. I move that the section stand part of the Bill.\n\nThe **DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS** seconded.\n\nHon. E. R. BELILIOS-Sir, I beg to propose that section 12 be deleted from the Bill. Hon. members of Council who have travelled in the United States will remember that during their peregrinations they have come across buildings twelve and thirteen storeys high, in several cases overtopping the highest church steeples. These houses have been constructed regardless of the width of streets and roads. Hon. members who have visited Verona and Venice will remember the high houses and the narrow lanes, yet, sir, these cities are not lacking in health. In Hongkong, where land is valuable, where the number of building sites is limited, where houses are built on a slope, almost every house having a glimpse of the harbour-in Hongkong, which is expected to be the great emporium of China, with Kowloon as the terminus of a grand trunk railway to Peking, to restrict us in building high houses is a mistake and a folly, and I think, sir, it will retard and prevent the progress of the colony.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER seconded.\n\nThe **DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS**-I should like to make a few remarks with regard to what has just fallen from the hon. member on my left (Hon. E. R. Belilios), who has referred to the high buildings of the United States. There are also high buildings in London, and the serious effect they have had on the public health, especially in the case of workmen's dwellings, has induced the London County Council to bring in a bill prohibiting their future construction. If we have the big trade and this colony becomes the important place the hon. member anticipates, the more incumbent upon us is it now that we should take no steps that would lead us to regret what had been done and necessitate our passing in the future a law like this when the expense entailed by its operation would be very great as compared with what it will be at the present time.\n\nA division was then taken, when the unofficial members voted in favour of the amendment and the official members against it. The amendment was consequently lost.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER-I now beg to propose another amendment and I would ask your Excellency's kind attention to it, Sir, if this clause as it now stands is passed I am of opinion there will be an uproar in the colony the like of which has never been known before. Probably hon. members have not gone into the question so thoroughly as I have done. I dare say my hon. friend opposite, the Director of Public Works, will understand me better than most of the hon. members present. We have, sir, in this part of the town, the most expensive part of the town, about fourteen private lanes running from Queen's Road to the Praya. They are all owned by private people. According to the definition of the word \"street\" these lanes now come within the scope of the clause. Should there be a fire in any of these lanes, and the buildings now standing be burnt down and new ones have to be erected, this Ordinance would be in force. What would be the consequence? A house now of three stories would have to be lowered to 25 feet. I am of opinion, sir, that to limit a house there to 25 feet in height would diminish the value of the property by one half. With a limit in height of 25 feet, what do you get, sir? You get a ground floor, a shop of 18 feet, and 7 feet of an attic above. In my opinion a more absurd thing has not yet been proposed by the Permanent Committee. You will either get a godown on land worth about $15 to $20 a foot, or a shop with an attic. In the draft sent to us before the one we got this morning the Government had put down 35 feet as the minimum. It is now put at 25 feet. I contend that the lowest height that could be fixed for buildings in those lanes is about 46 feet. The houses in these lanes-hundreds of them are 46 feet in height, representing probably four to five million dollars will, if this is carried, be placed in a very different position. It would mean simply halving their values. I would therefore ask your Excellency not to allow this clause to go through, as the others have done by the official majority, and I would urge on your Excellency to ask hon. members to be very careful in considering the consequences. It is the most serious clause in the whole Bill. I am agreeable to most of the suggestions as to the other heights with the exception of the first. These lanes, about fourteen in number, are 15 feet in width, and they have all most valuable property on them. I would therefore suggest that where the width of a lane is 15 feet...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360210, "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": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 406, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "# QUEEN'S COLLEGE\n\n## Report for 1895\n\nEnglish History, Grammar, Geography, Mathematics, &c. were entirely conducted, questions and answers, oral and written, in the Latin language; only a slight idea could be formed of the difficulty experienced by Japanese and Chinese in examinations conducted in English; for after all, there is a certain amount of kinship between English and Latin in thought, roots, construction, and expressions, absolutely wanting between English and Japanese or Chinese.\n\nI also found from conversation with Professor MASON, at a health resort in Japan last summer, that the attainments of our boys after four or five years compare very favourably with those of Japanese after a nine years' course; great proficiency in English Conversation, Grammar, Composition, &c. is the exception, not the rule, dependent on the natural abilities of the boys, not on the system of education.\n\n### Statistics for 1895\n\n| Month | Number of Scholars | Number of Attendances | Number of School Days | Average Daily Attendance | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| January | 577 | 6,794 | 13 | 522.61 | |\n| February | 745 | 6,970 | 10 | 697.00 | |\n| March | 773 | 18,077 | 26 | 695.27 | |\n| April | 785 | 9,755 | 14 | 696.78 | |\n| May | 404 | | | | |\n| June | 788 | 17,798 | 25 | 711.92 | |\n| July | 717 | 16,423 | 24 | 681.29 | |\n| August | 715 | 14,949 | 23 | 649.95 | |\n| September | 646 | 3,095 | 5 | 619.00 | |\n| October | 780 | 12,526 | 19 | 659.26 | |\n| November | 729 | 16,774 | 25 | 630.96 | `o` is likely a scanning error for `0` or a placeholder, but has been left as is due to lack of context. |\n| December | 676 | 15,739 | 26 | 605.34 | |\n| | 630 | 12,916 | 23 | 561.86 | |\n| Total | | 150,816 | 233 | 647.28 | 1,024 |\n\n6. The Second Master, Mr. MAY, returned from leave in April, and Mr. BARLOW in August. Mr. JONES went on leave in July. The office of Seventh Assistant Master was abolished, the Governing Body recommending a graduated scale of higher salaries for the Chinese Staff. Of the four Chinese Assistants, who, as mentioned in my last Report, taught classes in the Upper School in 1894 with such excellent results, two have left for higher salary; Mr. WAN going to a new university recently opened at Tientsin, and Mr. LEUNG obtaining transfer to the Public Works Department. The great bulk of our Chinese Staff now consists of junior men, and it is to be recorded to their great credit that they have uniformly strenuously striven to sustain the standards of the classes entrusted to their charge.\n\n7. The results of the Oxford Local Examinations are this year very disappointing, being far behind the most satisfactory ones of the two preceding years. It is not, however, possible to maintain an even standard of excellence for any length of time, especially in view of the difficulties resulting from irregular attendance, detailed above. There are, however, two redeeming features, which deserve to be noted. Out of the eight boys from this college who received certificates, two obtained distinction. U HANG-KAM, already A.A. in 1894, aspired to distinction in Mathematics and was successful, ranking 12 out of 23 Seniors so honoured in all England. C. ELLIS was similarly 3 out of 12 in the list, distinguished in History in the Preliminary Examination.\n\n8. It is much to be wished that some plan could be devised for reducing the distracting noises by which our work is continually interrupted. I refer especially to the nuisance arising from processions, which, I believe, are required to hush their music in the neighbourhood of the Supreme Court and other Public Buildings, but which seem to reserve their energies for our benefit. Just recently, a new cause of annoyance has arisen: the dressing of rough-hewn stones in Staunton Street. I have often suggested the blocking-up of the loop-holes in the boundary wall of the same street, as these apertures reveal an irresistible vista for cock-shy to the gamins of that district; during the examination, a small urchin threw quite a big stone into the Hall. A more serious subject for complaint is the immoral reputation of the immediate neighbourhood of this college; it being a matter of common knowledge that brothels and secret gambling dens abound, which prove a source of ruin to several of our scholars.\n\n9. The usual Tables of Statistics are attached.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\n**GEO. H. BATESON WRIGHT, D.D. Oxon,**\nHead Master.\n\n### Financial Details\n\nTotal Number of ATTENDANCES during 1895: 150,816\nNumber of School DAYS during 1895: 233\nAverage DAILY ATTENDANCE during 1895: 647.28\nTotal Number of SCHOLARS at this School during 1895: 1,024\n\n**AVERAGE EXPENSES of each Scholar at QUEEN'S COLLEGE during 1895**\n\nExpenditure:\n- Cash Book: $29,901.24\n- Crown Agents: $3,416.76\n- Arrears 1894: $4,125.81\n- Cash Book, Exchange Compensation: $2,640.99\n- Do., Adjustment of Exchange: $1,651.54\nTotal: $41,736.34\n\nDeduct:\n- School Fees Refund: $12,667.00\n- Salary of Master on loan to Kowloon: $616.00\n- ...: $1.00 (illegible or missing description, represented as `...`)\nTotal Expense of the College: $28,552.34\n\nAverage Expense of each Scholar per No. on Roll: $27.88\nAverage Expense of each Scholar per Average Daily Attendance: $44.11\n\n**GEO. H. BATESON WRIGHT, D.D. Oxon,**\nHead Master.\n\nNB—The figures against Crown Agents are an estimate only and will doubtless require to be corrected when correct details reach the Treasury.\n\nHonourable J. H. STEWART Lockhart,\nColonial Secretary,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370676, "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": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "page_number": 277, "title": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 36\n\nThe Government, however, cannot have much difficulty in coming to a decision without the advice of that body. The building of houses on archways over the entrance of lanes is entirely opposed to sanitary principles. The objection is of course greater in proportion to the height of the houses in the lane and the height of the obstruction, but any obstruction whatever is objectionable as it necessarily interferes with the free circulation of air and more or less excludes the direct rays of the sun. It would be an anachronism for any civilised Government of the present day to sanction such structures or to sanction their continuance when the lapse of vested interests permits of their removal. The Director of Public Works seemed to be influenced in his opinion by what he considered the hardship to the owner of the house built over the ground in question. If there is any real hardship in the matter it would be better to meet it by monetary or other compensation than by permitting the continuance of the obstruction. Where for any reason the renewal of a Crown lease is refused, liberal consideration should be given to the interests of the parties affected thereby, for when a person holds land on lease from the Crown it is always assumed that a renewal will be obtainable on the expiry of the lease, though possibly at a higher rental, to be fixed in accordance with the value of the surrounding property. The idea of dispossession without compensation seldom or never presents itself to a Crown leaseholder. If, therefore, there is any hardship in the Lau Kwai Fong case, let the owner be properly compensated, but the Government would commit a grave error if it sanctioned the continuance of an obstruction at the entrance to a lane. Granting of an annual lease would be a very inadvisable expedient, as it would lay up difficulties for the future and prevent improvements in the lane.\n\n## REPORTERS AT EXECUTIONS\n\nThe question of the admission of representatives of the Press to executions has been engaging the attention of the Institute of Journalists and it was decided some time ago to appeal to the Home Secretary to lay down a uniform rule on the subject. At present the practice varies in different gaols; in some reporters are not admitted at all, in others one only is admitted, and in others a number are admitted. The duty of attending executions is a disagreeable one of which the reporters are no doubt glad to be relieved, but on grounds of public policy it seems expedient that they should be allowed to be present. The reason for the change from public to private executions was to do away with the demoralising influences attendant upon the drawing together of a big crowd to witness the death of a fellow creature; but it was not intended, we believe, that a veil of strict secrecy should be drawn over what actually took place in connection with the event. Sensational and morbid descriptions are of course undesirable and from that point of view there may be something to be said in favour of the exclusion of the Press, but on the other hand the presence of spectators not belonging to the official circle is one of the best guarantees for decency and the avoidance of the painful accidents that sometimes result from carelessness in the arrangements. The Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, on being applied to for orders of admission for the Press in connection with the execution that took place on the 12th January, replied that he had decided not to admit reporters. Whether this decision was arrived at on his own authority, or after reference to the Government, we do not know, but if the former it seems desirable that some rule should be laid down on the subject and that the practice should not be allowed to vary with the individual views of the officials who may successively be in charge of the Gaol. On the occasion of previous executions in the Gaol, orders of admission have always been given to representatives of the Press, and that seems the wiser course.\n\n## SUPREME COURT\n\n### 12th January\n\n#### IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION\n\n**T. HOWARD AND M. J. D. STEPHENS V. SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON, G.C.M.G., AS GOVERNOR**\n\nThe plaintiffs' claim was for a writ of mandamus.\n\nMr. J. J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Messrs. Deacon and Hastings), appeared for the plaintiffs, who are Thomas Howard and Matthew John Denman Stephens. The Attorney-General, Hon. W. M. Goodman (instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, Crown Solicitor), appeared for the defendant.\n\nMr. Francis said the claim was for a writ of mandamus and the proceedings were taken under the provisions of section 85 of the code. A petition had been filed by the plaintiffs and an answer filed by the defendants, and the Chief Justice in chambers had settled the issues arising between the parties on those pleadings and had directed that the first two of those issues, which involved the settlement of important questions of law, should be disposed of first. At the suggestion of the plaintiffs and with the consent of the learned Attorney-General, it was arranged that the matter should be tried before the Full Court.\n\n### 13th January\n\n#### IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION\n\n**BEFORE SIR JOHN CARRINGTON (CHIEF JUSTICE) AND MR. WISE (PUISNE JUDGE)**\n\nMr. Francis - I did not, else I should have looked before. It was not until I was finally preparing my argument that I noticed it. The Chief Justice (after conferring with the Puisne Judge) - We both agree that the refusal or neglect to perform the duty - assuming the duty exists - is implied in the form of the question, but if the plaintiffs wish it we see no objection to stating it more expressly. Therefore, we will insert the words \"And assuming that the defendant has refused or neglected to perform such duty, is the duty one of which the Court, having regard, &c.\"\n\nThe Attorney-General - I can only say that I strongly object to this sudden alteration at the last moment.\n\nThe Chief Justice - Mr. Attorney, we have ruled on the point. When we have ruled on a point we cannot hear you further.\n\nThe Attorney-General - You have not heard me at any length. I certainly must protest against this point--\n\nThe Chief Justice - It is not correct when the Court has ruled that counsel should get up and protest against the ruling.\n\nThe Attorney-General - Would it not be sufficient to say \"assuming that the Governor should refuse or neglect\"?\n\nMr. Francis - I submit it is beyond the jurisdiction of the Court to try that question.\n\nThe Chief Justice - I do not think there is any real difference. The assumption is purely hypothetical and will not affect the merits of the case.\n\nThe issues, as settled by the Chief Justice, were as follows: - (1) Assuming that the property or business of the plaintiffs has been depreciated or injuriously affected by reason of the works authorized by the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889, does the said Ordinance throw any duty on the defendant to inquire into and assess the amount of such depreciation or injurious affecting?\n\nMr. Francis said primarily the Ordinance was passed for the benefit of the colony, but the reports of the meetings of the Legislative Council and the public meetings would show that the Ordinance was really passed for the benefit of the Marine lot-holders and that the Government had to spend nothing on the works. The public of the colony had to spend nothing except in respect of lots of land on the old Praya which were actually owned by the Government. The whole cost of reclaiming the buildable land, of constructing the sea walls and drains - the whole work from beginning to end - was paid out of the pockets of the Marine lot-holders who signed an agreement, and not out of any other pocket whatsoever. Plaintiffs asked for a mandamus, which would make the Governor investigate their case and make an award. The result of the award was of course beyond the control of the Court.\n\nThe Chief Justice - You contend that the Court can enforce the Governor to make an award?\n\nMr. Francis - We have the most implicit belief that if the matter were properly inquired into there would be no difficulty whatever in granting compensation, and it would be found we were fighting for something substantial.\n\n### THE NAM SHANG FIRM V. HIP WAT LAM, TRADING AS THE YAU CHEONG FIRM\n\nPlaintiffs, who are timber merchants carrying on business at 141, Taikoktsui, Kowloon, claimed $3,979.72, being the balance due for goods sold and delivered to the defendant, who is a contractor and carried on business until recently at 19, High Street, Hongkong.\n\nMr. Pollock (instructed by Mr. Gedge, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes, and Master) appeared for the plaintiffs. The defendant did not appear, nor was he represented by counsel.\n\nMr. Pollock said the plaintiffs from time to time supplied goods and materials to the defendant, who made occasional payments, and balances were struck. There was now owing to the plaintiffs the sum of $3,979.72. At the time of the issue of the writ the defendant had got into pecuniary difficulties and absconded from the colony. A writ of foreign attachment was obtained against him and the present proceedings were taken under that writ. Counsel proposed to proceed with the examination of the garnishees and to ask his Lordship what property, movable or immovable, was subject to attachment under the writ, and to then ask for leave to issue execution.\n\nMr. M. W. Slade (who was instructed by Messrs. Deacon and Hastings) said he appeared for two of the garnishees, Father Torres and Mr. W. Danby, who had no property liable to attachment in their hands.\n\nMr. Pollock objected to his friend appearing. The plaintiff had certain admissions that certain money and materials belonging to the defendant were on the premises of the garnishees. If the garnishee intended to set up some title in the money and materials they should have put in a claim to the property.\n\nHis Lordship thought the best course would be for the plaintiffs to prove their original claim first, and the question of the garnishees could be dealt with if the claim was established.\n\nMr. A. Brown, Assistant Bailiff, spoke to serving copies of the writ of foreign attachment on the garnishees, who are the Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Limited, Messrs. Palmer and Turner, Reverend Father Torres, and Mr. W. Danby.\n\nJudgment was given for the plaintiff for the amount and costs.\n\nThe Court then granted counsel power to examine garnishees.\n\nMr. Clement Palmer was examined. The Court determined that any sums due under the contract with Humphreys Estate and Finance Co. were subject to attachment, and gave leave to issue execution in respect thereof, the writ as regards the other garnishees to remain subsisting.\n\n## 37\n\nMr. Francis said he was afraid his arguments would extend to some considerable length. He proposed first of all to indicate very shortly his contentions on both points. First, as to the construction of the Ordinance, he submitted that the rule laid down in \"Maxwell on Statutes,\" page 49, must be applied. He and his learned friend greatly differed as to the interpretation to be put upon the words of section 7 and therefore the duty of placing an interpretation upon them was unfortunately in this case imposed upon their Lordships. It was contended on the part of the defendant that that sub-section of the Ordinance, read in conjunction with the whole of the Ordinance, imposed no duty on His Excellency the Governor in respect of claims arising out of the process of the Praya Reclamation Works, and that as there was no duty imposed upon him by law, therefore this Court had no power or no jurisdiction to make any order against him requiring him to give effect to his obligation as imposed by that section. The contention on behalf of the plaintiffs was that the Ordinance clearly empowered the Governor to give compensation to all persons injuriously affected by the works. Plaintiffs contended that if that was so, the duty was necessarily imposed on him in every fit and proper case of exercising that power. If he was empowered to give compensation, it was an indisputable requirement of justice that he should hear both sides, giving each an opportunity of hearing what was urged against the other, or in other words, before he could use his award?\n\nThe Puisne Judge - I may be wrong, but I always thought that the Ordinance was framed for the benefit of the colony and not for the benefit of the Marine lot-holders.\n\nMr. Francis submitted that the Court could order an investigation, although in the end the award might be that plaintiffs had suffered no injury at all.\n\nThe Chief Justice - It seems to me that the plaintiffs are fighting for a shadow.\n\nMr. Francis - We have the most implicit belief that if the matter were properly inquired into there would be no difficulty whatever in granting compensation, and it would be found we were fighting for something substantial.\n\n## HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD\n\nA meeting of the Sanitary Board was held on 13th January at the offices. Hon. F. H. May (Captain Superintendent of Police) presided and there were also present Hon. R. D. Ormsby (Director of Public Works), Dr. Clark (Medical Officer of Health), Mr. N. J. Ede, and Mr. H. McCallum (Secretary).\n\n### MINUTES\n\nThe minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.\n\n### MORTALITY RETURNS\n\nFor the week ended 1 January the death rate was 18.7 per thousand per annum, as against 15.8 for the corresponding period of last year. For the week ended 8th January the rate was 18.3, as against 20.9 for the corresponding week of last year.\n\n### THE OBSTRUCTION OF PRIVATE LANE\n\nAn application having been made for the renewal of a lease of property in Lan Kwai Fong Lane, the Medical Officer of Health wrote objecting to the application being granted as the property obstructed the entrance to the lane. The Director of Public Works was in favour of the renewal, as there was enough light and air in the lane and very little obstruction.\n\nA discussion ensued.\n\nThe Medical Officer of Health - I am afraid the Director of Public Works is not aware that for the past eighteen months this Board has been strenuously fighting for the passage through the Legislative Council of a by-law prohibiting the obstruction of private streets and lanes. That by-law has quite recently been passed. The opposition to the by-law came not naturally, perhaps, from property owners and their representatives, and the sole argument against the by-law was, I believe, that the property owners would, in future, be deprived of the rentals which they might derive from such buildings built at the entrance to these streets and lanes. The arguments of the Board, on the other hand, in favour of the by-law, were that the buildings obstructed light and air and were detrimental to the health of the people living in such streets. In this particular case, it is not a property owner but the Government who will derive the benefit of the rents from the obstruction to the lane, and if the Board were to recommend that this application be granted, it will certainly have the appearance of stultifying its action during the past eight months, for it would certainly lend weight to the assumption that although the Board object to property owners deriving rents from obstruction to streets and lanes, there is no objection to the Government themselves doing so. That can hardly be deemed a wise policy for this Board to fawn upon with regard to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374773, "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": 102, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "100\n\n...\n\n9. briano did tw what nood net nenagem*16 16:30\n\nSTEMA S125*A* ) adˆow comicb o. boug8*2\n\neda\n\nVIN\n\nJE DA TARTOO I. tegal add dott. yo da be yints bood\n\nfeinofob onto big #10LBEIN V168nopen ede to skup add\n\n-Ledin be. Addio dire cauzoq eta to Safé diurutke vod\n\nbitinoga riadnes où sanotutu\n\norb www #4. JA\n\n„DLA, nâ exarla Iaf.:ofob ento bis 004, Gas\n\n2008,[53 $600 03\n\n- in wḍ ou exey cometch to how misaiko to moldefqKC O\n\nDEVOTE GOLI ME $1 Venidno ove bei.\n\nanto\n\n...\n\n1\n\n.I\n\nCom fx00 e-li to nainiyo b ́ s a % JI\n\nGNOMEGA Voloskabte og omon og ellieaoge od blo Kupo Letha to deen : ́ ́d to engabloul are of ad tuerentRANS to 2.69 erd of a. moitacup firta eft moT?\n\n.hu dosto ed of\n\ntbw Kalsnudin trenera oft bobur ab Ja 3 cup og of wine wam abref bita ngutoflvd 1900\n\n.JnorIivon Daviones bro teelə 800 -gwennkarada 4 dan birozmones of behineh vlanib:0004: to ofgioking a na bobnfondo ed bipore exult ore not Java\n\n40 0590\n\n1 bedrobe taid of teftri. Sado to motalvih\n\nthe existing joint scheme, viz :- that the gross cost\n\nof all buildings, inclusive of new sites, should be divided in the proportion of 2/3 to the War Department,\n\nand 1/3 to the Colonial Government, and that this should\n\nbe applicable to all works costing £100 or more in each\n\ninstance other than what are strictly speaking defence\n\nworks, with regard to which a satisfactory arrangement\n\nexists.\n\nThe Conference recognised that it would be very\n\ndifficult for the War Office to produce at present a\n\nscheme of contemplated works which would be likely to be\n\nfinal. But it was agreed that one should be prepared and\n\nput to the colony as early as possible. It would be\n\nunderstood to be not an absolutely comprehensive list,\n\nbut merely as designed to give the Colony some idea of\n\nits additional liabilities in the immediate future under\n\nthe new arrangement.\n\n2. In the agreement relating to the joint scheme\n\nit was clearly intended that any actual cost of buying\n\nland from private persons should be divided between the\n\ntwo Governments, but nothing was said as to the method of\n\ntreating Colonial land, if required, or the Crown rents\n\non property let by the Colonial Government.\n\nIt was agreed by the Conference that the loss\n\nto the Colonial Government, actual or prospective, of\n\nCrown rents or premia on the sale of leases caused by the\n\nlands being taken for military purposes ought in fairness\n\nto the Colony to be treated as part of the gross cost of\n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 376663, "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": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 5.\n\n**The Daily Press.**\n\nHONGKONG, May 31st, 1900.\n\nThe lengthy report of Dr. **FRANCIS W. CLARK**, Medical Officer of Health, for the year 1899, is a storehouse of accurate, valuable, and by no means uninteresting information. It is in every way worthy of thoughtful perusal by all intelligent adult members of the community. After carefully reading through the pages of this document and its appendices, we marvel at Dr. CLARK's tireless industry and more clearly than ever, we realise how necessary it is that he should be provided with a properly qualified and capable assistant. The duties and calls upon the Sanitary Board, particularly upon its executive head, the Medical Officer of Health, are yearly becoming more numerous, more onerous, more exacting; and it is a matter of the most imperative importance that these multifarious duties be efficiently carried on, that these pressing calls be instantly attended to, without the paralysing fear of interruption, either through break-down or absence-on-leave. Mr. OSBORNE's motion on this score, on Friday last, at the meeting of the Board, was eminently cogent: we hope to see the Board's wishes assented to by the Government.\n\nAt the present moment, the Sanitary Board has no jurisdiction over the New Territory, although that will come in due fulness of time; its sway is only exercised over the 32 square miles of land comprised in Hongkong and the Kowloon peninsula up to the bamboo fence that used to mark the old frontier line on the mainland. It is proposed, however, at an early date, to bring all the mainland between the first range of hills and the shore, from Lyemun Pass on the East, to Laichikok behind Stonecutters' on the West, within the provisions of the local Public Health Ordinances. This will add some 15 square miles to the areas already within the Board's sphere of authority, and will, pari passu, increase Dr. CLARK's arduous duties. A less energetic man might reasonably be discouraged.\n\nThe city of Victoria extends along the sea-front for a distance of 4½ miles, and climbs up the hill-sides, to a height of 800 feet above mean high-water mark. The total city area covered with buildings, is well over a square mile; and, although this actual area grows but slowly, the number of houses within its limits, and what perhaps constitutes a far more significant menace to our well-being as a body—the alarmingly big number of alterations to existing buildings, in the way of additional floors, are going up by leaps and bounds. It is this dangerous mode of progression, a mode, by the way, that is occidental rather than oriental, that will give the reader pause.\n\nA Chinese city with the same population as we have, would cover much more ground. Ten years ago, four and five storied buildings were unknown in the colony, and even places of three stories were uncommon. All this is now being rapidly changed. The place is literally adding to its stature daily. A cursory glance over the city reveals the fact that property-owners on all sides are feverishly putting story on story, or if they can afford it, are razing old buildings and hurriedly running up much loftier ones in their stead: they are eager to participate in the flowing tide of rents: and who can blame them?\n\nThe busiest and wealthiest part of London, the City proper, is practically given up, during the night, to policemen and office caretakers. Not so the business quarters of Victoria. Our actual thoroughfares may be empty of ricksha and chair, and of grunting coolies staggering along under burdens; but the buildings, on either hand, are fully as crammed as in the day time. The night here brings no relief to the day. It is to this serious subject of surface crowding, this aerial rather than lateral extension, to which Dr. CLARK so often rightly recurs.\n\nBack-to-back houses are now a nightmare of the hideous past. The Insanitary Properties Ordinance, of 1899, definitely and finally swept them away to the limbo of hygienic horrors. The same Ordinance also deals, less thoroughly than we would wish, with the erection of cubicles and mezzanine floors; as well as with the relative height of buildings on land hereafter acquired from the Crown to the width of the roadway which they adjoin: but, as Dr. CLARK pertinently and forcibly remarks, almost all Crown-land comprised within the city-bounds, excepting the resumed and levelled lots to the East of the Tung-wa Hospital, in Taipingshan, have long ago passed into the hands of private owners; and we would further state, not for the short leases of 75 years now in vogue, but in the very great majority of cases, for terms of 999 years.\n\nAeration by means of wide thoroughfares is nowhere more vitally needful than within the tropics. In our own instance, this plea is intensified when we reflect that in the summer season, when ventilation is more essential than at any other period, the cooling breezes come from the south-east, as regards Victoria, pass high over our heads, and only drop to the level at which we are in the city, by the time they have crossed the harbour. It is partly for this reason that the peninsula opposite, although often registering higher absolute temperatures, is much fresher than Victoria. As old residents well know, the lower portion of the city, on many windless days in the hot season, is nothing more nor less than a huge stagnant pool of fœtid air. This but emphasises the absolute need for broad streets and buildings of reasonable altitude. The obstruction by verandahs, and the constant misuse of them and of flying balconies as general... \n\nC.O. 213371 \n\nPad2 \n\nfree 5 00", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381387, "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": 99, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "Mr. H. P. Tooker, Acting Assistant Director of Public Works, was also on the spot directing the removal of the ruins. Inspectors Kemp, Baker, and McNab were to be seen energetically helping in the work of rescue, which was carried on by relays of European, Indian, and Chinese firemen and police.\n\nAs late as 10 a.m. yesterday morning, people buried beneath the ruins could be plainly heard calling for help, but the great mass of fallen material made it impossible either to locate the cries immediately or to release the sufferers when located.\n\nA twelve-year-old lad had a miraculous escape. He was buried under the before-mentioned arch formed by the woodwork, and when rescued on Wednesday night at about 12 o'clock, he was found to be without a scratch, but, as might be expected, nearly paralysed with fright. The sight of some of the wounded was most pitiable. One old man had his forehead stove in, his face a mass of blood; others seemed to be simply crushed, without apparent wounds, but unable to move a limb. One corpse removed had both legs burnt off, the right arm burnt to a cinder, the face all burnt, and a big hole in the back of his head. All of the bodies removed yesterday forenoon were more or less burnt.\n\nThis is the second accident of this kind in the same street. The first happened some seventeen years ago, when a partially-erected building at the corner, almost adjacent to the scene of the present disaster, collapsed. On that occasion, however, the building was unoccupied, and the casualties were but trifling.\n\nThe numerous boxes containing clothing and personal belongings of the tenants of the collapsed houses, taken from the debris, seem to bear out the statement as to the great number of people who were in the buildings at the time of the disaster.\n\nAt 3:45 p.m., the searchers found a little girl, underneath the debris quite unharmed. This made a total of forty-one dead, injured, and unharmed recovered so far, beside the two men who forced their way from beneath the ruins unaided.\n\nThe following is a detailed list of victims:-\n\nKilled: 12 males, 2 females, 2 children, and one charred corpse (sex unrecognisable), a total of 17.\n\nInjured: 9 males and 1 female seriously, 11 males and 2 females slightly, total 23.\n\nEscaped without hurt: 3 males and one female, total 4.\n\nIt being too dangerous to continue clearing away the remains of the houses for fear of the walls of the two adjoining houses giving away, coolies were engaged all yesterday afternoon in putting up braces between the two buildings.\n\nLast night, we learnt that Mr. H. P. Tooker, who remained at the scene of the disaster throughout the entire day assisting in the directing of the rescue operations, met with a rather nasty mishap between five and six o'clock in the afternoon, a falling brick striking him on the head and inflicting a severe scalp wound. But for the fact that Mr. Tooker was wearing his sun-hat at the moment, the accident might have had more serious consequences. The wound was dressed, and Mr. Tooker taken to the Government Civil Hospital.\n\n10 P.M.\n\nThe search for bodies buried underneath the debris was started again at 8 o'clock under the directions of Inspector Kemp and Sergeants Kerr and Smith. Two bodies were excavated, making a total of nineteen dead so far. At the time of going to press, three more bodies were located and were being dug out.\n\nGreat difficulty is experienced by the police in obtaining coolies to help in excavating the victims of the collapse, one and all refusing, for some reason or other, to engage in the ghastly work. Only a few Chinese firemen were at work last night.\n\nPage 97", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381499, "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": 211, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.\n\nPublic Health.\n\nought, in the interests of the public health, to be destroyed then it shall, if the Medical Officer of Health or other officer of the Board duly authorized to act on his behalf, concurs, be destroyed in such manner and in such place and with such precautions as the said Board may from time to time direct.\n\nAdditional Bye-laws to be enforced only during the prevalence of an epidemic, endemic or contagious disease in the Colony or in any district thereof.\n\n6. During the prevalence in the Colony, or in any district thereof, of bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox or such other epidemic, endemic or contagious disease as may be from time to time notified in the Gazette, all receptacles, whether public or private, for excremental matter shall be kept thoroughly disinfected by the owner thereof to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health or other duly authorized officer of the Board, by causing to be thrown into every such receptacle after use a sufficient quantity of any such disinfectant as may be approved by the said Board. All doors and channels as well as all partitions, seats and other structures of every Latrine shall be frequently washed and cleansed with water to which some such disinfectant has been added.\n\n7. During the prevalence in the Colony, or in any district thereof, of any of the aforesaid diseases, any building or part of any building certified in writing by the Medical Officer of Health or by any legally qualified and registered medical practitioner, to be unfit for human habitation, even although the same may have been cleansed and disinfected, as provided in No. 3 of these Bye-laws may be closed by order of the Board during the prevalence of any of such diseases or for such less period as the Medical Officer of Health or such legally qualified and registered medical practitioner may certify to be necessary, and the occupants of the same may be removed, after twenty-four hours' notice has been given to the householder or Occupier to vacate the premises, by the service of a notice, duly signed by The Secretary of the Board, or by the posting of such notice upon any portion of the premises.\n\nIn no case shall such premises be re-occupied except under a certificate of the Board signed by the Secretary that such premises are fit for human habitation.\n\nThe Board may, when necessary, erect matsheds, or hire buildings or charter vessels and use them for the accommodation of the persons so removed.\n\n8. Any officer of the Board may, during the prevalence in the Colony or in any district thereof of any of the aforesaid diseases, and within such limits as may from time to time be defined by the Board, make a house to house visitation for the purpose of inspecting the sanitary condition of any premises so visited and of all and every part thereof, and of ascertaining whether there is any person in or upon the said premises attacked or affected by any of the said diseases or the body of any person who has died therefrom. If the premises so visited or any part thereof shall be found in a dirty or insanitary condition in the opinion of any such officer, he shall report the same to the Medical Officer of Health or to any such other officer as may be appointed for that purpose by the Board, with the approval of the Governor, who shall inspect such premises and if he considers them or any part thereof to be in a dirty or insanitary condition he may forthwith take steps to have all furniture and goods removed therefrom and to have the said premises thoroughly cleansed and disinfected by persons acting under his instructions; and whenever, in his opinion, it is necessary for the thorough cleansing and disinfection of such premises to do any or all of the following acts, namely, to take down, remove from the premises or destroy any mezzanine floor, cockloft, partition, screen or other similar structure or fitting, or any portion thereof, or when in his opinion any mezzanine floor, cockloft, partition, screen, or other similar structure or fitting prevents the free access of light and air to the said premises, he shall forthwith have the same taken down, and if he considers the removal from the premises or the destruction thereof, or both, necessary in the interests of the public health, he shall forthwith cause the same to be removed from the premises or destroyed or both. Such destruction shall be carried out with such precautions and in such manner and in such place as the Board may from time to time direct.\n\nFor the purposes of this Bye-law any officer of the Board may enter any premises without notice between the hours of 5 a.m. and 6 p.m.\n\nDOMESTIC CLEANLINESS AND VENTILATION.\n\n1. The occupier of any domestic building shall at all times cause such building to be kept in a cleanly and wholesome condition and see that the drains, traps, gratings, fall-pipes and other sanitary fittings and appliances are kept free from obstruction and in an efficient state of repair; and he shall keep the windows and ventilating openings at all times free from obstruction unless prevented by inclement weather or by the illness of any person occupying such building.\n\n2. Every occupier or householder of a domestic building shall cause all excremental matter to be removed daily from such building, to one of the public conservancy boats, by a duly registered night-soil carrier.\n\n3. Every occupier or householder of a domestic building shall cause all domestic waste, refuse or other objectionable matter other than excremental matter to be removed daily from such building and taken to a public dust-cart or dust-bin.\n\n4. The Board shall, if satisfied that any domestic building in the Colony is in a dirty condition, give notice to the householder to have such building, in respect of which the notice is given, thoroughly cleansed and limewashed within a period of one week from the date of receipt of such notice, and such householder shall cleanse and lime-wash such premises in accordance with such notice. In any case where no householder exists or can be found, the owner of such building shall be served with a notice to the above effect, and upon such service being duly effected, such owner shall cleanse and lime-wash such premises in accordance with such notice.\n\n5. Any house, or part of a house, which is occupied by members of more than one family shall, unless specially exempted by the Board, be cleansed and lime-washed throughout, by the owner, to the satisfaction of the Board not less than twice in every year, namely, during the months of January and February and of July and August in the eastern division of the City and in the eastern division of Kowloon; during the months of March and April and of September and October in the central division of the City and in the western division of Kowloon; and during the months of May and June and of November and December in the ...\n\nPage 209\n\n... Blanes\n\nMa\n\n2408\n\n73\n\naction of\n\n1859\n\nnction 13\n\n(land 4 oz\n\nAngelours\n\n18541\n\nLin\n\nunder 15 of\n\nand 2, 3, and\n\n5 cundia 24 of 14).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388159, "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": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 335, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "# BIG \n\n319 \n327 \n\nincur grave and unwarranted risks. That your Petitioners' fears are well founded will be instantly seen on a perusal of Section 248 of the proposed Ordinance. That section, in defiance of all principles of justice and equity, and to an extent absolutely unwarranted by the necessity of the case, avowedly arrogates to the Governor the sole and exclusive right of determining what land ought to be \"resumed for a public purpose\"--a mode of procedure the extent and value of which it is found necessary to define under no less than four separate heads, thus showing the difficulties that are likely to arise in the enforcement of it, without any reference to, or safeguard for, the rights of the property owners concerned or the general Public of Hongkong. This is a section that cannot be too strongly condemned as it entirely overrides the well-known principle that vested interests must never be disturbed without due and proper compensation. In this connection, your Petitioners would refer to Part II of the Bill Section and the following Sections, and call attention to the entire absence of any safeguard not only to property owners but to the Public in general, as to the administration of Sanitary matters by the Sanitary Board, in view of the fact that the vast majority of that Board is composed of Official Members, and that the powers proposed to be delegated to the Sanitary Commissioner are autocratic in the extreme, far more so than is necessary, and also far more so than those of the corresponding officer (the Medical Officer of Health for the various Metropolitan and provincial districts) in England--vide Subsection 5 of the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890.\n\n9. That the local conditions obtaining in Hongkong are necessarily peculiar to that Colony, by reason not only of its geographical situation but also of its geological formation--it consisting for the most part of mountains with very few flat levels, and thus rendering the building as well as the location of houses and their sites a most difficult matter--and that bearing these facts in mind, as well as the matters mentioned in paragraph 8 hereof, it may well be said that the blame of erecting and occupying insanitary dwellings cannot be laid solely or indeed at all at the door of the present land-owners in the Colony, who after all are but the successors of men whose knowledge of sanitation, like that of those then occupying official positions in the Government of the Colony, has been shown by the course of events to have been meagre to a degree. Moreover, sanitary science has made vast strides during recent years, and what was held to be sufficiently sanitary years ago is nowadays often considered to be woefully deficient; similarly, what is thought to be perfectly sanitary today may possibly be regarded as quite insanitary by a future generation.\n\n10. The present land-owners purchased their land with the erections thereon, under the impression that they were making safe and profitable investments of their capital, and they had not the faintest notion of suspecting, nor could they have had any reason to suspect, that the houses they then bought were insanitary or would be declared insanitary in the near future, and they themselves rendered liable on re-erection or alteration to incur the compulsory sacrifice of land and space without adequate compensation. The truth of these statements is borne out by the well-known fact that, had matters been otherwise, the present land-owners would never have made such investments, and landed property in this Colony would never have been sought after by the many confiding investors therein.\n\n11. That whatever is required for the benefit of the public should be paid for by the public is a principle so well recognised as to need no argument for its support; consequently, the failure in the present Bill to provide adequate and reasonable compensation for compulsory loss and sacrifice borne by individuals for the benefit of the general public is the weakest feature of the Bill, and marks it as one of the most arbitrary and objectionable measures that have ever been introduced into any Legislative chamber, whether in England or in its Colonies. In this respect also, the Bill compares very unfavourably with similar enactments in England, as a few quotations of the provisions from the latter will amply show.\n\n|\"Section 121\" | \"The Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. Ch. 55). Destruction of Infected Bedding, &c.\"|\n| --- | --- |\n| | \"Any local authority may direct the destruction of any bedding, clothing, or other articles, which have been exposed to infection from any dangerous infectious disorder, and may give compensation for the same.\" |\n\n|\"Section 155\" | \"Power to Regulate Line of Buildings.\"|\n| --- | --- |\n| | \"When any house or building has been taken down......the urban authority may prescribe the line in which any house to be built or rebuilt in the same situation shall be erected and such house shall be erected in accordance therewith.\" |\n| | \"The Urban authority shall pay or tender compensation to the owner or other person for any loss or damage he may sustain, the amount of such compensation to be settled by Arbitration in manner provided by the Act.\" |\n\n|\"Section 308\" | \"Compensation in case of Damage by Local Authority.\"|\n| --- | --- |\n| | \"Where any person sustains any damage....full compensation shall be made to such person and any dispute shall be settled by arbitration before a Court of Summary Jurisdiction.\" |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390887, "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": 440, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "434\n\nHAMAS VAINUSUF\n\ninen 18:20 eds no abuy ang bus kun\n\nad alle liud can uend\n\nARISA. tuloding 000,00£\n\n. 13 = LOV ̧Á 25ð eyð ✪ gnolley DOJ¿QUI\n\nBALLOTTO'S Jaumgeg 81 73 J\n\n90 SLCBAGd old Band DuPĒA CL\n\nKAJ XX\n\n2.-11.5\n\n202: 4 LAJKOILUNG\n\n203 D4 DelVol 42 Jinaingeg DOUPCECD\n\n1,030 27£w budowlion sqmiley yedek\n\n90101 ai at noinW JAGJ S1 JKeBowertz broods wVÄ\n\n-.13 CDW J40J108i 1979 Jo03 kala:264 *** JI\n\nhtt\n\n206.1 19Q 600117g moʻLAJ\n\n*\n\nMga to svit uga wa KladAD\n\n• RAM 20\n\nvd horum NAJ GJ KA vakavak að...) 92 Jun 25a 1\n\nJan. 140 09 JA ZOLħi. .SU UV LINA Baw ungli kalid wa\n\n,Yeb nog bule Band Baaj,undan to placuatip and bodru915215\n\n.ban 20 ta\n\nLANOW Jusztin OPOR NDILW\n\n1\n\nbudrio karo Jaw 14. Sot,du up wind to MGJOKS hät\n\nMus envlieg word ouý “yl to cârg und -# 201 Bică ar *\n\n.30OLA:ą JI zû ketidakmak gevod a odu I\n\nEwollot 64\n\n*a kikos annavolle Biden 803\n\nof meters\n\nforibed.\n\n\"\n\nA\n\n.86jeng eno(lay 002,01 = dactyeb x manLLAS O X\n\nDOĀJUMUĢIOn gine vg JANJSA 0.5 A\n\nMOANA\n\nUI\n\n--104\n\n*\n\nadad ya Bing 50 2* zuk za a\n\nwowed nog -li da 000,01 dumɛpeq Bana\n\n#\n\nwhion & Water Rate, as a percentage or poundage, could be\n\nIt was desired to introduce a constant supply\n\nof water, and it appeared to be the only way of so doing,\n\nby which waste and extravagance could be effectively\n\nprevented. It has answered its purpose, but is inappli-\n\ncable to Hong Kong, if for no other reason, on account of\n\nthe impracticability of assessing the number of inmates,\n\nin the case of such a rapidly-fluctuating population, as\n\nthat of Hong Kong.\n\n25.\n\nIt seems clear that the present Ordinance No. 29,\n\nof 1902, contemplates the general use of meters; Clause\n\nthrough 13 states that water supplied to any tenement\n\nshall be measured by meter * * *. Further, any service,\n\nClause 21 (1), empowers the Governor in Council to fix the\n\nprice of water supplied by meter, at a price not exceeding\n\none dollar per 1,000 gallons. This rate, apparently,\n\nis for non-domestic supplies, a term not defined in the\n\npresent Ordinance.\n\n26.\n\nfollows:\n\nExcess consumption is defined, Paragraph 2, as\n\n\"EXCESS CONSUMPTION. In the case of a tenement\n\nwhich is not rated\",- (I presume that this refers to\n\nGovernment buildings, and the like)\n\n\"any quantity of water, ascertained by meter as having been\n\nused in such tenement\",\n\nOn this sentence more need not be said, as it\n\ndoes not affect the general public. The next sentence\n\nof the definition reads thus:\n\n\"In the case of a tenement which is rated\".-\n\n(presumably an ordinary domestic dwelling) any quantity\n\nof water ascertained by meter as having been used in such\n\ntenement in excess of a quarterly allowance, which, at 40\n\ncents per 1,000 gallons, would be equal to one-half per\n\ncent...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391289, "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": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "5\n\n246\n\nHsin Hsing is the only Yünnan woven cloth which can be depended upon for length, breadth, and evenness of texture.\n\nPonies and Mules.-I cannot doubt that if the Government of Burmah is inclined to take the matter up, Yünnan would in time become an important source of supply of mules and ponies; but it would be necessary to send competent and, I may add, patient officers into the breeding districts to explain the requirements of Burmah. Burmah gets the off-sweepings of Yunnan in the way of ponies-the halt, the maimed and the blind.\n\nAt present, for ponies, the best, but probably also the dearest, market is Yünnan-fu itself, where there is a much wider choice of animals than anywhere else.\n\nAt Hsia Kuan the number of ponies sold is small, but all over the part of Yunnan which I traversed, ponies and mules are bred in considerable numbers, and hardly any village is so poor as not to have a few ponies and donkeys.\n\nThe Chien Chang (south-west) corner of Szechuan is also an important pony-breeding ground, and I have seen a very few mules from the same district which would, I think, be large enough for batteries, prices asked being 60 to 80 taels (now 120 to 160 rupees).\n\nI also met several caravans of ponies (30 to 50 in each) en route from the Chien Chang to Burmah via the Kun Long Ferry; many were mares in foal, and for the rest their obvious destiny was to draw a ticca gharry in Mandalay. There is a steady movement of animals from these districts down to Yung Chang and Teng Yueh to supply transport for the Burmah and the salt trades. It is, however, very hard to get exact numbers, because animals are mostly privately sold, and not exposed on the open market, so as to avoid those official exactions which ruin the internal trade of China, and especially of Yunnan. One dealer, who was taking ponies to Mandalay from Hui Li, in the Chien Chang, told me that by dodging the cities and markets he managed to get across the province without paying taxes more than five times, or, in all, 4 rupees per beast, which represents about 12 per cent, ad valorem at his home.\n\nAt Hoching, five days north of Ta Li, there is a specially good class of mule engaged in the salt trade. He is hardly big enough for a battery, but he carries 215 lbs. over very severe mountain roads an average of 15 miles a-day, day in and day out.\n\nBut the main source at present of the Burmah pony supply is Chung Tien, ten days north of Ta Li, across the Yang-tsze, the inhabitants of which are Thibetans known as Ku Tsung men. I have not yet been able to visit their country, but it is stated to supply a large number of a strong, though not elegant, type of pony. They seem, however, not to thrive in a hot climate, and receive so little attention on their long journey down that they usually reach Teng Yueh in a very poor condition. Besides horse-dealers, a number of other Ku Tsung men come down to West Yunnan every year with beasts which they let out for hire for transport, and take back to their homes at the end of the spring.\n\nThe Fowl's Foot Mountain is near Ta Li.\n\nLeaving Pin Chuan by the North Gate, we followed the road down the valley towards the Yang-tzse for a mile, and then turning west across the stream which inadequately waters the plain, marched slightly west of north across downs and foot-hills which fringe the west side of the valley. The road is cut at intervals by several streams flowing from the mountains which shelter the east shore of the Ta Li Lake, eastward into the Pin Chuan Plain, and along these streams there is garden-like cultivation and picturesque villages. After three hours' march we crossed a road leading from Nui Kai to Wa Ch'i, a market on the east shore of the Ta Li Lake, whence a boat can be taken across to Ta Li Fu.\n\nPassing the market of Lien Tung, which is situated above the rich padi valley of Fu Tien Chuang, whose fields are mostly owned by the monks of the Chi Tsu Shan (Fowl's Foot Hill). On the grassy slopes near our camp, pheasants, quail, and partridges abounded.\n\nAll day long we had seen in front of us a huge hog-backed mountain rising up from the Pin Chuan Valley in a west direction across fifteen points of the compass, and terminating on the west in an isolated castle-like pinnacle, on the summit of which could be seen the white glitter of a temple.\n\nOn the next day we continued over-hill and down towards the great mountain, having on our left the range which hangs over the east shore of the Ta Li Lake, and after two and a-half hours' march we emerged from a forest into the beautiful valley of Sha Chi, which nestles along the south foot of the Fowl Mountain. The broad flank of the mountain is densely clad with forest, amid which may be discerned the roofs and pagodas of the lower temples, and a pellucid stream flows past the padi terraces of Sha Chi in an easterly direction towards the Yang-tzse. In the afternoon we ascended the hill to 7,800 feet through dense forest, and then, turning east along a good path, reached the beautiful temple of Shih Tan Ssu, entirely surrounded by virgin forest.\n\nThis is the residence of the Seng Cheng Ssu, or Controller of all the temples and monks on the hill. He administers corporal punishment, or in bad cases can expel the offending bonze from the precincts of the hill. The office is now filled by a pleasant old monk of about 60 years old, who has spent all his life on and near the hill, and, having lived through the Panthay rebellion, during which the temples were alternately and impartially pillaged by the followers of the Prophet and the followers of Confucius, has many tales of adventure to relate. At present he seems to be more interested in getting in his rents than in attaining Nirvana, and in the price of the drugs which his hill produces, than in the Buddha, the law, or the order.\n\nTwenty-nine temples are shown on a native map of the hill; they are all, with the exception of the summit shrine, situated on the south slope of the mountain, and buried in a magnificent growth of forest, but many are now abandoned and in ruins.\n\nFrom Shi Tak Ssu a good cornice road leads along the mountain slope in a west direction to Chin Lan Ssu (Golden Orchid Temple), which is at the foot of the west pinnacle. Besides this main road, there are wood-cutters' paths in all directions, and pleasant walks through the cool depths of the forest, where the stately silver pheasant and the elegant Amherst pheasant may be seen strutting in their native wilds.\n\nWhen the winter sun of Yünnan floods the whole hill with light, the view of forest and mountain is so superb that it is easy to believe that a spot so conspicuous, so accessible and so beautiful, must have attracted the religious devotion of men from the time when they were first moved by the conception of the spiritual or the sublime. Legend attributes the earliest temples to the Tang dynasty, and the Chi Kwang Ssu is even stated to have been founded by Han Ming Ti, who sent a Buddhist Embassy to India; A.D. 58. But, in point of fact, there is nothing in the buildings at present standing to take the dedication of the hill to Buddha further back than the Ming dynasty. The style of the architecture of these temples strongly resembles that of the Ming tombs near Peking, save that in some of them there are graceful bell-towers of wood built into the main structure on the right and left of the first court. There are also some good specimens of the ornate carved eaves, such as are to be seen in the British Legation at Peking, and these I take to date only from the early days of the present dynasty. From tablets and inscriptions still to be seen in the temples, it is clear that there was a powerful Buddhist movement in Yünnan in the reigns of Tien Chi and Wan Li of the Ming, 1573, 1621.\n\nMany of the wooden tablets are of great size, and of value as specimens of Ming calligraphy; it is said—and it is quite likely—that there were also valuable collections of altar furniture and pictures which were looted during the Panthay rebellion. In the Shih Tan Ssu, the residence of the Controller, are the usual Wan Sui, or 10,000 year tablets in honour of the reigning Emperor, and also tablets which are supposed to secure the prosperity of the high provincial officials, each of these dignitaries having a separate tablet with his titles and the characters \"lu wei\" (seat of official prosperity) inscribed thereon. Apart from this, the images in the temples are all purely Buddhist. The three precious Buddhas, representing the Buddha, the law, and the order, Kuan Yin in a side shrine, and the Ju Lai Fo, are the commonest of the idols. The usual Chinese heroes and demi-gods are conspicuous by their absence. Thibetan influence is very marked, and, indeed, the impulse of Buddhism probably came here from Thibet. The walls have been scribbled over with Thibetan script by pilgrims from the north. Thibetan charms dangle from the walls, and the main court of Shih Tan Ssu is adorned with Thibetan tiles.\n\nIn all the chief temples morning and evening services are celebrated, but there is little or no knowledge of the faith among the Bonzes. The total number of the holy men on the hill is about 300; the Shih Tan Ssu has about thirty and Hua Yen Ssu forty.\n\nThe rents of Shih Tan amount to 300 piculs of grain yearly, derived from lands in the neighbourhood. Hua Yen Ssu is also fairly well off, but on the whole the Bonzes have fallen on bad times and begging, or the subscriptions of visitors at the end...\n\n[2021 - 1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403039, "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": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 538, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n## Regulations for the Open Mart to be established by the Chinese Government outside the City of Chinan.\n\n1. **Boundaries**.-In order to prevent the mart which is to be established outside Chinan from encroaching on \"the interior,\" a definite district must be set apart for it. The place now decided on for an international place of business for Chinese and foreigners is situated in the western suburb, to the south of the Kiao-chou-Chinan Railway, from Shih-wu Tien (the Fifteen Pavilions) on the east to Pei-ta-huai-shu (the Big North Huai Tree) on the west, the southern boundary being the main road to Chang Ching, and the northern the railway. The extent from east to west is not quite 3 li, and from north to south about 2 li, the total area being over 4,000 mou. All the Treaty Powers will be allowed to appoint officials for this place to take charge of commercial affairs, and foreign merchants will be permitted at their will to travel to and fro, lease land, set up houses of business, and to live and trade with Chinese merchants on an equal footing. The city, its suburbs, and the neighbouring country outside the limits of the open mart will still be subject to the Regulations regarding land in the interior, and it will not be permissible for foreign merchants to lease houses and buildings and to set up houses of business there.\n\n2. **Lease of Land**.-The boundaries of the mart having been fixed, all the inclosed land, both crown and private, must first be surveyed and divided into lots, the price of which will be fixed according to the order of their superiority; and in order to prevent extortion and coercion between buyers and sellers, private house and property when required for use will be purchased by the Government and leased to Chinese or foreign merchants.\n\nA Notification will also be issued informing landlords and tenants that private purchase and sale of land is forbidden, and that tenants wishing to take a piece of land on lease must first, in accordance with the Regulations, proceed to the Office of Works and be registered, in order that they may be taken in order of priority and that disputes may not arise.\n\n(Detailed Regulations with regard to the renting of land will be separately drawn up.)\n\n3. **Government**.-When the mart is opened to trade, merchants will be drawn to the place in great numbers, and Chinese and foreigners will dwell there together; consequently, numerous international cases will certainly arise, for the control of which it will be necessary to appoint a special official. The Chi-Tung-Tai-Wu-Lin Taotai, being on the spot, has therefore been selected to be Superintendent (Chien-tu). The administrative business connected with a port may be divided into three clauses, viz.:--\n\n(1) The business of the Office of Works, which consists of the repair of the roads, the building of offices, and all other works of construction and repair;\n\n(2) The work of the police office, which specially manages the policing of the roads and the investigation of smuggling; and\n\n(3) That of a Court of Law which administers litigation between Chinese and foreigners.\n\nThe appointment of special officials to have separate charge of these matters will be the duty of the said Taotai. However, as there are multifarious matters connected with the administration of an open port, a further high official, well versed in international affairs, will be appointed to reside at the Court to assist in the investigation and settlement of the cases, and in addition the Superintendent of northern trade and the Governor of Shantung may appoint a foreign official to aid in the administration.\n\n4. The construction of roads, laying of drains, building of offices, erection of gaols, digging of wells, and planting of trees throughout the mart must be undertaken one by one. The first in importance is the solid and neat construction of the houses, and then the levelling the roads, but first of all it is intended to accurately measure and define the boundaries within the mart limits, and then funds will be provided for the carrying out of the other undertakings in the order of their importance.\n\n5. The port to be established outside the City of Chinan, being a land mart, differs from the other Treaty ports. The issue of Regulations for the establishment of a custom-house must, therefore, be postponed till the conditions of trade have been observed, when they will be from time to time drawn up. The funds for the establishment of road police, the erection of street lights, and for the cleansing of the roads will, at first, be supplied by the Chinese officials, and they will be empowered, as circumstances require and according to the Regulations in force at other ports, to levy proportional rates and taxes on houses and shops and on large and small carts, and both Chinese and foreign merchants will be required to pay such taxes.\n\n6. **Finances**.--On the opening of the mart to trade, many new public works will be undertaken. The expenditure of the mart may therefore be divided into two classes:--\n\n(1) The expenses connected with its establishment, such as the purchase of land and the carrying out of public works, the amount of which will be very considerable; and\n\n(2) The current expenses of each year, such as the salaries of officials and wages of employés, and other expenses on account of public business.\n\nFunds to defray this expenditure should be obtained by Memorial and used with economy.\n\n7. **Prohibitions**.-Within the limits of the mart it is forbidden to erect mat-sheds, to store gunpowder and dynamite, to recklessly discharge rifles and revolvers, to carry arms of any sort with the exception of those carried by officers and soldiers, and to commit all other acts which are prejudicial to the common welfare. Offenders will be dealt with according to the laws of their nationality. However, explosives for the use of public works are omitted from the above prohibition, but the permission of the local authorities must first be obtained, and such explosives must not be stored in the mart for any length of time.\n\n8. A great extension of correspondence may be expected after the opening of the mart. It will be the duty of the Government to set up a post-office, telegraphs, and telephones, and foreigners are excluded from undertaking these matters.\n\n9. **Subsidiary Marts**.-The opening Wei-hsien and Chou Ts'un as subsidiary marts has already been obtained by Memorial, and the Regulations with regard to them will be similar to those with regard to the mart outside Chinan.\n\nThe above nine clauses are only general Regulations, and all matters mentioned therein will require separate detailed Regulations in order to insure their proper performance. All questions arising out of the circumstances of the position of the mart and not touched on in the above Regulations will in due course be discussed and dealt with.\n\nYour Highness,\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Sir E. Satow to Prince Ching.**\n\nPeking, March 23, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Highness' note of the 7th instant, inclosing copy of the Regulations drawn up by the High Commissioner for Northern Ports and the Governor of Shantung for the trading mart to be opened by China herself outside the city of Chinan-fu in Shantung.\n\nI shall be glad to learn the date upon which it is proposed to open this mart, and as these Regulations are of a general nature, I need only state for the present that if any British subjects establish themselves in business at Chinan-fu they will, of course, continue to be under the jurisdiction of their own authorities, and that the rights which they enjoy under Treaty in other ports cannot be circumscribed by any local Regulations. The expectation is expressed in Rule 3 that, when the mart is opened to trade, merchants will be drawn to the place in great numbers, and Chinese and foreigners will dwell there together. I hope this expectation may be fulfilled, though the experience of past years shows that the proper sequence of events is to allow a commercial community to form first, and then to frame Regulations for its administration. The examples furnished by Hangchow, Soochow, and other ports opened in recent years should be sufficient to prove that the surveying of land, its division into lots, the price of which have been fixed beforehand, and the forbidding of the private purchase and sale of land, are not in themselves measures which attract either foreign or Chinese merchants to take up their residence in the areas specially delimitated for that purpose. International trade has developed best in...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407879, "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": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 343, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "338\n\n17\n\nda anque bisa ed: abro\" to AL-\n\nhousie J namevo? epanı.2 mi to Laso Bin\n\nnnabionou mj shno!\n\nsprced sca\n\nbagelj sot f Chelata meiterbare u\n\nat no teen - tai je 194\n\nGo with 12 e tanim rm o IIiw\n\nattelen axelder La RỊ\n\nA-ha ne adid spolnijo srit\n\n#\n\n传\n\nzen fine vamos 1. srofdinog ni bagely\n\n_ysw[Left erit ntivoldoen\n\ncor Home to „trowitine of human mi\n\nd Lara automjaco „metys of drets proo\n\nTurvakonda and rebrur erenin” diw now dona\n\nað Maria Meadi tow add bne eoit\n\npangit odd To smidenttidəqa bra aralq dèix cons\n\nnoisivyaqua aid nebo bra\n\n$ 19.\n\nnder Jeun tu andamiden bra anulq bellajef\n\nredba gus to Du gøvlixfterld to anoidoes evitne pa\n\nSavon tid tot boðdi miua ed ud at6 8 38 210 t\n\n-teil-ni-zsəniyn að vd gossil\n\nand shall as soon as possible hereafter be secured by a specific and legal first mortgage in favour of the Corporation upon all lands, materials, rolling stock, buildings, property, and premises of every description purchased or to be purchased for the Railway and on the Railway itself as and when constructed and on the revenue of all descriptions derivable therefrom.\n\nThe provisions of this Article in respect of the mortgage are to be construed and treated as equivalent in purport and effect to a mortgage customarily executed and delivered in England to a Trustee for the purpose of securing Loans and Bond Issues upon railway properties in foreign countries.\n\nArticle 4.\n\nIt is hereby agreed that in six months after this agreement is officially ratified, the Corporation shall provide the amount necessary to proceed with the detailed survey of the Railway, whether this amount comes from the sale or hypothecation of the Bonds, or from advances made, provided that Bonds for the required amount shall have been executed and delivered to the Corporation. If after expiration of eight months from the date of the ratification hereof, the work of construction shall not have been begun on the Railway, this agreement is to become null and void, but if failure to commence construction be due to any cause beyond the power of the Corporation to prevent, a reasonable extension of this time shall be arranged between the Viceroy and the Corporation.\n\nOf the proceeds realised from the sale of the Bonds\n\n¿ eloiMA\n\nlosu stwijaksum yd berpea ed [Dxra rusod art\n\nLesklý gd qosape ni utai betodne Wom\n\nafter", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409358, "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": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 424, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "Page 1\n\n# Sanitary Board.\n\nEnclosure 4.\n\nC.O.\n\n23273420\n\nIn 1897 I was appointed President of the\n\n1 JUL 07\n\n1\n\nIn 1899 I went home on leave and during my\n\nabsence in 1900 a popular agitation was raised against the\n\nGovernment on account of the continued prevalence of plague and\n\nof the fact that several Europeans had been attacked that year\n\nby this disease.\n\n2\n\nIt was stated \"that the Sanitary Department\n\nwas inadequately staffed, the system of drainage was unsuitable,\n\nthat if plague, malaria and kindred diseases were to be stamped\n\nout money must be spent, the Government must not help sacrificing\n\nits revenue and the wealthy landlords their incomes\".\n\nA great bid was made that year for the\n\nestablishment of a Municipal Council for the City of Victoria.\n\nThe result was that two Commissioners were\n\nappointed, I was recalled from leave and in the Winter of 1901-\n\n1902, on the recommendation of Professor Simpson, a general\n\ncleansing of the City was effected by the Sanitary Staff.\n\nThe Staff was increased by the addition of\n\ntwo Assistant Medical Officers of Health and five Senior Sanitary\n\nInspectors were obtained from England.\n\nA new Public Health and Buildings Ordinance\n\n(No. 1\n\nPage 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411390, "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": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 567, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n### No. 1.\n\n#### SECTION 5.\n\nTZ533\n\n(No. 30.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received March 9.)\n\nPeking, January 19, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch which I have received from Mr. Fraser, His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, forwarding a summary of an essay on the effects of the influx of foreign capital on China, which has appeared in several issues of the \"Kung-lun Pao,\" the semi-official organ.\n\nThe essay is interesting as a specimen of a particular line of Chinese thought.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n(No. 5.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nHankow, January 11, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward text, with a condensed translation, of an essay on the effects of the influx of foreign capital on China which has appeared in the \"Kung-lun Pao,\" the semi-official organ, of the 27th and 28th December, 1906, and the 1st, 2nd, 9th, and 10th January, 1907.\n\nThe pseudonym of \"the recluse who cultivates stupidity\" indicates a Mr. Hu Meng-yen, of Hsien-ming district, who has a local reputation for ability and learning. The reference probably is to the famous Hsiao-ying Shih's lines, \"I hope by cultivating my stupidity to protect myself, and dispel dangers yet unborn.\"\n\nThe essay, with its show of historical knowledge, its reform proposals, and its anti-foreign bias, represents, there is little doubt, the attitude of most of the local officials and gentry.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) E. H. FRASER.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n#### Summary of an Essay on the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Influx of Foreign Capital on China.\n\n(Condensed Translation.)\n\nREFORMERS all demand promotion of education, extension of trade, improvement of army, opening of mines, building of railways, increase of steam-ships, purchase and manufacture of men-of-war, rifles, and cannon, cultivation of arts and manufactures; only there are no funds available for these needs. Foreign capital as a last resource has arisen, and foreign capitalists take the opportunity to offer means for all these reforms, making agreements, either by Governments or traders, to get hold of our resources. The influence of their bloated power on our people's subsistence is the greatest topic of the day.\n\nChina, for her wide area and teeming numbers, her fine mines and abundant natural wealth, has long been known as the first State in the world; but the war of 1894 left her weak and poor. In 1895, 1896, and 1898 she made large foreign loans, to which was added the Boxer indemnity, but such temporary loans do not represent the acme of influx of foreign capital. These transactions, however, opened the way for foreign Syndicates to engage vast sums in industries in the interior, to open ports, establish Companies, station gun-boats, add Consuls, build rows of big foreign buildings—which do seriously affect our people's livelihood and our Government's future productive power. The writer therefore begs to attempt to estimate the balance of profit and loss, and to sketch the way to meet this movement.\n\n561 \nC. O.\n[March 9.]\n[7667]\n02 \n(MEGE 10 APR 07) \n[2418 -5]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412655, "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": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 415, "title": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## TABLE respecting Arrival and Departure of Train, &c.\n\n| Station | Kilometres from Chen-t'ou | Arrive | Depart |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Cheng-chia-tung | 6.9 | | |\n| | 8 | | |\n| | 11.9 | | |\n| | 18.6 | | |\n| Chia-p'an-shih | 31 | 4.15 | 4.20 |\n| | 36.2 | 4.31 | |\n| | | 4.43 | 4.46 |\n| | 68.7 | | |\n| Yen-hui | 61.9 | 5.10 | 5.28 |\n| Luan-chiu | 79.9 | 6.50 | 6.54 |\n| | 86.4 | 7.13 | 7.26 |\n| | | 7.41 | 7.56 |\n| | 91 | 8.12 | 8.18 |\n| | | 8.34 | 8.35 |\n| Cha-hsi-yi | 98.3 | | |\n| | 115 | | |\n| Pei-yang-shu | 121 | | |\n| Yen-chuang | 128 | | |\n| Tsai-yü | 135 | | |\n| Pio-tiou | 141 | | |\n| | 151 | | |\n| | 169 | | |\n| | 177 | | |\n| | 186 | | |\n| | 194 | | |\n| | 203 | | |\n| Shou-yang Hsien | | 8.54 | 09.8 |\n| Ko-chuang | | 9.45 | |\n| San-hu | | | |\n| Cha-hai-yi | | | |\n| Ching-chuang | | | |\n| Liu-chia-chuang | | | |\n| Tuan-ting | | | |\n| Tung-chao-chuang | | | |\n\n## Notes\n\nA good stone building for station. An engine-house. Go across plain, starting north-west. Passed truck train. Enter hills, gradual ascent. Loess country.\n\nLater pass a small tunnel. Later cross girder bridge supported by one stone pier. River on right. Below a small coal-trolley line to the mines, which crosses the Wei-shui Ho by a wooden bridge on seven piers.\n\nJust before reaching it, cross two girder bridges without pier supports. Here passed coal train of seven tracks. River on right; soon leave. Now pass through many cuttings, some of rock, some of loess, standing without support or banked with mud. Mud-walled city 200 yards to right, across river. Then through a tunnel and across river by a girder bridge. It is crossed by two or three fords about here, but at present very low. Country wilder; through rock cuttings.\n\nPassed passenger train. Now more loess terraces among hills. Cross river by girder bridge on four piers and five arches just before Niang-tzu-kuan.\n\nJust before station, a piece of now wall, 50 yards long with some old mud mounds, marks line of Great Wall separating provinces. The Ku-kuan (pass) is 74 miles (25 li) to the south. Leaving station, cross stone bridge with one pier and four arches.\n\nNow dry stone river bed on right. Less loess; wild country. More cuttings. Later four tunnels and a bridge over river bed.\n\nCountry with some loess terraces; hills. Two tunnels. Water tower being built. Pass three small and one big tunnel.\n\nA tunnel and a girder bridge. Up valley between hills. River bed or on right. Several houses for bridgos over tributaries. Village called Sa-chiang-kon. It is the station for Ping-ting. Chou 6 miles (20 li) to south-west.\n\nA train leaves Shou-yang Hsien about 2:80 p.m., and reaches Tung-chao-chuang about 5:2 p.m. Water tower being built. Station under construction.\n\nVillage called Chiu-chia. Stone bridge over tributary. Some loess terraces. An engine-house under construction. Station 1 mile to south-east of city.\n\n## Notes\n\nSidings 100 yards to 150 yards long. Water towers with stone basements. Engines small and marked \"Anciens Établissements Cail, Denain, France, 1906.” Chinese drivers and stokers. Our train consisted of one composite, first and second class (first class with four seats and arm-rests; second class, two compartments each; could hold eight passengers, but it would only hold six soldiers). Seats of both classes of leather. Light luggage racks and oil lamps. Lavatories attached. Corridor passages.\n\nThere were three third-class corridor carriages, each could hold forty-six Chinese, rather tightly packed on wooden benches. Also three closed and two open vans. Each van carries 20 tons.\n\nFares (Chen-t'ou to Shou-yang Hsien). First class, 10 dol. 40 c.; second class, 5 dol. 20 c.; third class, 2 dol. 60 c. Hong Kong dollars are taken, Mexican dollars are only accepted as 90 cents. No charge for my baggage. As nobody in charge of luggage van, one's boy has to travel in it. No restaurant arrangements.\n\nRailway Stations all of stone, large buildings at Ch'en-t'ou, other stations quite small. Platforms about 6 inches to 9 inches above line.\n\nRails: One, made 33 feet long (probably 10 metres), fastened at each end to fish-plates by two bolts, and to each sleeper by one bolt. Line ballasted with stone. On the whole, it runs smoothly, except from Cha-hsi-yi to Shou-yang Hsien, where it shakes a good deal.\n\nTelegraph alongside line and two strands of wire.\n\nLine very winding, running up among loess hills. As little or no rain had fallen, I found loess terraces very bare, but in valleys near rivers, it was greener.\n\nThe line is guarded on Chih-li side by a few of the Lien Chun of Chen-ting-fu, armed with batons. They look to be of all ages and effete.\n\nTime-Table: There is as yet no regular time-table; they gave me a copy of the temporary one, in which the stations were only marked by the first letter of each word. The stations are, of course, all written according to the French transliteration, and it is necessary to see the character, or get the Chinese to pronounce them, before being able to transliterate them. Names of stations written up in large letters on either side of each station.\n\nLine at Shou-yang Hsien guarded by some Shan-hsi cavalry (\"Ma-san-tui\") of the provincial troops (\"Hsün-fang-tui\") armed with tower muskets. The railway embankment has been completed to Tai-yuan-fu. It runs close to the road from Cheng-ts'un (6 miles south-east of T'ai-yuan-fu), and about 200 yards to the west of it, crossing road about a mile from city. Embankment near Cheng-ts'un 8 feet to 10 feet high and 5 yards wide at top. Culverts faced with stone, but not yet bridged. Terminus will be 100 yards to south-east of New South Gate (eastern of the two south gates), and the station is under construction. It is expected the line will be open about the 20th September, 1907. The delay was caused by the Han-yang Ironworks not being able to supply rails, which are now coming from Europe.\n\n**(Signed) G. PEREIRA, Military Attaché.**\n\nTai-yüan-fu, July 27, 1907.\n\nP.51.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414494, "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": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 405, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 4.\n\n## REPORT OF CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE\n\nA Typhoon of extraordinary velocity struck the Colony on the night of the 27th of July. Coming as it did so soon after the heavy rains of the previous week, which culminated in a severe thunderstorm on the 24th, the damage done on land was very great, and most of the houses in the Colony suffered some damage. At \"Kingsclere\" Hotel, a chimney was blown down, which, falling through the roof, caused considerable damage, and the débris buried a European for some hours. I have received a letter from Messrs. Showan, Tomes & Co. thanking the Police for their \"splendid work in rescuing him\". The party was in charge of Chief Inspector Baker. A similar mishap in King's Buildings caused a collapse, which was doubtless made more serious by the presence of some heavy iron safes on the upper floors. Fortunately, no loss of life occurred. A number of old houses collapsed at Yaumati and Shaukiwan, resulting in 66 deaths. Several Mission houses in Cheung Chau were blown down. Trees suffered severely everywhere: telephones and telegraphs also. With the exception of the loss of the S.S. \"Ying King\", which foundered in Castle Peak Bay, the damage done afloat was not so serious as might have been expected. Several ships went ashore, including H.M.S. \"Whiting\", or dragged their moorings. Seven launches were sunk and seven went ashore. A water boat and several lighters were sunk. Three of the Police launches were damaged. They sheltered at the Naval Yard Camber with the kind permission of Commander Penfold, R.N. Many junks were reported sunk or missing. The total number of drowned and missing being 532, of whom 5 are Europeans and one a Japanese. The Secretary of the H.K. & K. Godown Company has written to tender thanks for the services rendered by Inspector Langley and the Water Police.\n\nThe crew of the H.M.S. \"Astroa's\" cutter gallantly rescued six Chinese and were assisted ashore by two Officers of the Middlesex Regiment and a Civilian. The Police in the Eastern District did good work under Inspector Fenton. Sergeants Clarke and Devney and P.C. Ogg received some injuries, and P.C. Pepperell, in charge of a launch, is suffering from Bronchitis in consequence of the inclement weather. Sergeant Boole, in charge of No. 1 Launch, fell overboard in the Naval Yard Camber owing to the launch heeling over from the impact of another launch, and was pulled up by Seaman 465 Lam Kun Hoi, just in time to avoid being crushed by a launch; this seaman deserves recognition for his prompt action. The Police had the misfortune to lose their Club matshed, which was completely wrecked.\n\n## Enclosure 5.\n\n### Botanic Gardens\n\n* Old Gardens.—A large proportion of the big trees damaged, several destroyed. A large quantity of shrubs blown out of the ground.\n* New Gardens.—Five large trees, including a palm tree, blown down.\n* Blake Garden.—Six banyan trees blown down, of which 5 can be raised; one blown into a neighbouring street and killed. Most of the young trees, planted during the last three years, destroyed.\n* Peak Garden.—Trees and fence damaged.\n* West End Park.—A few trees down.\n* Government House Grounds.—The large Poinciana at West of house killed; the two large banians in front of the house wrecked. Several other trees blown down or otherwise damaged. Garden shrubs much damaged.\n* Mountain Lodge Grounds.—...\n* Colonial Cemetery.—A large quantity (more than 200) of the biggest trees, especially pine trees, broken off and killed.\n* Loan Plant Compound.—...\n\n## REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT, BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT\n\nSir, I have the honour to make the following preliminary report on the damage done by the typhoon of 27th-28th instant to Government property under my charge.\n\n### Buildings\n\n* Superintendent's quarters and quarters at So Kun Po Nursery slightly damaged.\n* Matsheds at West End Park, Kang Hau, Nga lu Tau, Kun Tong, and Colonial Cemetery blown down.\n* Plant houses in Gardens: roofs off Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4. End of one hot house blown in, roof of others damaged.\n* Plant houses at Cemetery much damaged.\n* Albany Nursery and So Kun Po Nursery.—Gate and part of wall blown down. Stock much damaged.\n\n### Glenealy\n\n* Several large pine trees and tree ferns killed, the large Champac tree much damaged.\n\n### Bank opposite the Main Entrance of Government House\n\n* Large proportion of the big pine trees killed, some tree ferns and smaller trees blown away.\n\n### Street Trees\n\n| Location | Damage |\n| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| Various Roads | About 10 large banyan trees blown down, of which 4 can be re-erected. About 40 trees of other kinds killed. |\n| Caine Road | Impassable at daylight on the 28th, but a path was cleared for traffic by mid-day. |\n| Albany Road | Impassable at daylight on the 28th, but a path was cleared for traffic by mid-day. |\n| Albert Road | Impassable at daylight on the 28th, but a path was cleared for traffic by mid-day. |\n| Garden Road | Impassable at daylight on the 28th, but a path was cleared for traffic by mid-day. |\n| Kowloon | Trees planted during the last few years are decimated. |\n\nThe removal of branches and litter is now in hand and making good progress. The Sanitary Department has received instructions to deal with the streets below Bonham Road, Caine Road, Upper Albert Road, and Kennedy Road. These roads and the higher ones are being cleared by this department and will probably be finished by this evening. Reports on damage to trees in outlying Government plantations are not yet to hand.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n30th July, 1908.\n\nThe Honourable, The Colonial Secretary.\n\nS. T. DUNN, \nSuperintendent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419156, "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": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "254\n\nQ&£\n\no# .0.4 X ause?\n\n曩\n\nLazanso sia da hanoiteta noad ever I\n\n¿A ‚edsad ¿I bra SI .ok,nulape2 ♪ .ok no dneðank «do*I add po guldrow,Jos122 Tegnlágot at nsw I .281 sdt no .e.a 08.1 tuoda oonantne erit de an dem dalın rahemal muriy,difyła mild yɗ aðend ver aaw (la ti om boxra bns (ertotinu nà arw of .anal gatн xox of ngod bar I dand daw am bedes nedt al .yaw Lanen erð niðrist\n\nInadani itəl and no .ns 05 od à mort youh no modiw blot I\n\n.okt mit y no es halt et sida naad jon har art hise a deed ES\n\nbart I as\n\n、ve eď himorie dat vlw wond Jon bib I min blot I od bine I .akað rot en droger hipov od bisa at .dred yo no noed bris,Juerza noguldtof mob 7new nerd all .boczoiq ort na ob taum I Justent .d36£ erit no .M.2 .Ô TẢ QU YAW w no beunitnoa I\n\nNO HAW I .M.A ¿L.3 Zuoda JA .*sed ES .ok no yjub no new dild of dog had bns (Frigir erit vd daad yr ynkerovi,hau? yhommeX makvollut dulum zabaret, was I mariw,douck notri edt of sonartAS\n\nAH .fiothru ni saw all abiegɛ OS Juods to eonsqalb a je 4\n\nI .**t*[s\" midi horowana bna,miri badulaa I .am of qu eneo\n\nBM\n\nBIJ A notzoerih srma sốt mà bexlaw er bns anole bexlaw\n\n+\n\nort bazka ad anneq wet e soixiæ 1981A „Jsiņi” vei mo\n\n•\n\n1\n\n鲨\n\n78e7 Buit ni\n\nno Jesday no ori bult of side need con bar er farið ɑaw di worl ES .ok no geed bad I nońw,drażant ‚d‡Vi sad to guiaron add -Let ad taum I bisa el! .tend ver no rand bad I bize I .oxis Ised ,asil anim bad meldetanod natkni owe hism I .oa sɗ don blvoa #l\n\ndziw hadisw of ghub tão gałoy staw yerit es teed vr no ert nosa bra boqgode ed axed? „bsof (Larnohor1⁄4 of que crend are of en Hoy Froger of art dnaw How% off & sc.otf at dam :en beden ob of wow dużw I ;biza redt 9H .mid or tart svasi h[now I bisa of evær of blan si .naw di dariw miri bosina I .en tot gatildecoa enob toven har I mirt blot I .NAMOW S exaw I t sa mhĩ ritw ob n half an Jadd hum (2i ob ton hivoda si hna,aroled gaint a donE of and,stiw a noivad aid troda xíad od son anw I hisɛ CH\n\nnedd all ‚min ritiw ob os em andaa good barf ori Jarle droda Xlat\n\nI\n\nbounitroD\n\ncontinued to walk in rear of me, urging me all the while. When we got to just over the bridge over the tram line, he asked me\n\nto go up the path to the R.A. Mess buildings, saying that it was\n\nalso my beat. He went up the path at the side of the tram line\n\nabout 20 steps. I walked along on Macdonnell Road, and he,\n\n880-\n\n-ing that I did not follow him, came down again and walked\n\nahead of me, into the Public Garden gate off Garden Road, to\n\nthe Nursery, where he made signs with his hand and motioned\n\nwith his head for me to come in there. I shook my head and\n\nwalked on down towards Kennedy Road, He went through the garden\n\nand came out at the gate near the Kennedy Road. I had almost\n\nreached Kennedy Road. He came up to me and asked me what I\n\nintended to do. I said it would not do in the daytime. He then\n\nsuggested the night time, and I said the night time would be\n\nbetter. I did that to get rid of him. He then asked me at what\n\ntime I would be for duty, and I told him 10 o'clock, No. 4\n\nSection, No. 12 and 13 beats, the same as he had seen me on\n\nthe previous night. Then he left, going down by the tram\n\nstation. When I came off duty at 10 o'clock, I reported the\n\nmatter to the Deputy Superintendent. He referred me to the\n\nC. D. I. I saw the latter at about 12.15 p.m., and he arranged\n\nwith me what to do. I saw the C.D.I. when going on duty at 10\n\np.m. and carried out his instructions. I went on No. 4 Section,\n\nNo. 12 and 13 beats. I was in Hollywood Road, working my beats\n\nby the left, and met Jemadar Gulab near Peel Street, as I was\n\ngoing towards Graham Street. He stopped and so did I. He did\n\nnot ask me allright about my beats, but at once said: What\n\nabout it now. I put him off by saying that it was too soon,\n\nbetter make it 12 o'clock. He said: Best go to Ezra Lane. I\n\nsaid it is too well lighted, and plenty of people go in and\n\nout there. He then said: Where then ? I said: Come to me at\n\n11.45, and I will arrange a place. He then went away westward,\n\nand I went eastward on my beat. At about 11.30 p.m. I met\n\nP.S. Terrett and P.S. Murison in Lyndhurst Terrace near Tun Wo\n\nLane,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419382, "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": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "18\n\nboa) 835,400,11$ ja ebiustu eðøæljak Šnoberq sNT .(oegbind ovijoetab to moijodkIidarlor orið vol wwe on aebulont out to edestal end yovo 610,200,8$ to aesoxe ne at elft SIT jojomijeð „'uso, Joal Tavo ÞÃ6,86I, 14 bus VOCE\n\nned swathaeqxo Isnoktibo doidy uk nuwe odd era gatwolfot\n\nIsool add to noivos utl3 to 901 0021oo zi bayroni moed\n\n000,2 000,2\n\n247,845\n\n000,BI\n\n000.0% 000.00\n\nEOS.IVI\n\nJeanzevoD\n\nTii scd qest abeertfoelt to quaNOTUI\n\nnobant IontrieT get odie\n\n#\n\nstic sex of yall drenimie¶ auJXÜ\n\n6JJR Won 10% gatone (ofta wen of lonergas) [0MM Lemta gatstvo .orer at a bal wout Jueque to ved\n\nto beatual visioqued to Jaon Joubell\n\nLantheuroT tot agutulind Jnettonie\n\n.nottajä belufcat Jou zmajh ko Indof\n\n.yd-a mi bebulonil drag Jaom erid sot sow ad IT\n\n477\n\n*\n\nD\n\nOriginal Estimate of June 1907\n\n$8,000,052.\n\nDeep Sea Wharf (subsequently decided to purchase)\n\n615,000\n\nLand for Station Site\n\n19\n\n346,746\n\nEarthwork at Signal Hill due to new Station Site\n\n40,000\n\nExtra permanent way\n\n體 Fencing\n\n12,000\n\n+\n\n8,1\n\n186\n\nStation buildings. Omitted in original Estimate\n\n55,000\n\nWork Shops and plant\n\n120,000\n\nRolling Stock (Loco, C & W)\n\n397,540\n\nProlongation of Sea Wall\n\n110,000\n\nSalary of Indian Expert in 1910 (since added)\n\nLowering big slope (Since decided on by Mr.Barry)\n\nEstimate of March 1909\n\nExcess.\n\n10,000\n\n35,000\n\n$9,753,112\n\n$11,004,118\n\n$1,251,006\n\nni ed of seqqs zudemije etj as odstroosnÏ\n\nLe oggo bluode anivaa s urody uweile aaooxe me dirłw,Ilajeb erid to notüquoze cu fiiw moca qudd -Burov euty brus Vrsy codoled od (kevewod with dougrel and not vd) elenmed ashowtitkal at betostie agatven ogrel odd nd gatwo Iłow\n\n.Veallc¤ brie\n\nThis excess is entirely due to the Tunnel as follows!\n\nPresent Estimates Tunnels\n\n$3,499,924\n\nOriginal\n\n2,203,415\n\nExcess\n\n296,409\n\nGeneral excess whole Rail Saving excluding tunnels\n\n-1,251,006\n\n45.403\n\n-: addT", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419924, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 470, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "6\n\nEngineering and Shipbuilding.-This section of the Colony's Industry was carried on under adverse circumstances. The great trade depression from which the local Shipping suffered severely made its influence felt in this industry and the amount of new construction turned out by the local Companies was not very encouraging.\n\nIn regard to War Vessels, the active operation of the floating Docks at Tsingtau and at Olongapo in the Philippine Islands, installed by the German and United States Governments respectively, was responsible for the continuance of a very large falling off in the docking and repairing of Foreign War Vessels, the tonnages dealt with by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock for 1906, 1907 and 1908 being 64,318, 3,692 and 3,652 respectively, with apparently no prospect of future improvement. The tonnage of British War Vessels docked was on a level with those prevailing during the year immediately preceding.\n\nWork in the nature of large repairs to Steamers was scarce during the earlier half of the year.\n\nThe Typhoon in July, however, contributed to a large extent towards the improvement experienced in this direction during the latter half.\n\nDuring the year a large Dock built by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire at Quarry Bay was opened. It is 787 feet long, 88 feet wide at the top of the entrance and 81' 8\" at the sill. There are 35 feet over the sill at ordinary high water. In addition to the Dock there are three slipways, one of them about 350 feet long and 80 feet broad, capable of lifting vessels up to 3,000 tons weight. The other two are about 900 feet long by 60 feet broad and are capable of accommodating vessels up to 2,000 tons. There are also Machine Shops, Boiler Shops, a Forge and Smithy, a Foundry, Galvanizing Shop, Saw Mill and a Wood-working Department. The Building Yard is laid out for four big berths capable of taking on vessels up to 600 feet in length, and the machinery is adapted to dealing with this sort of work. The power is supplied by Gas Engines and is transmitted throughout the Yard electrically.\n\nFISHERIES.\n\nA considerable proportion of the boat-population of Hongkong supports itself by deep-sea fishing, in which pursuit a large number of junks are engaged. The villages of Aberdeen, Stanley, Shaukiwan, and many others in the New Territories are largely dependent upon this industry for their prosperity. Fresh water fish is imported from Canton and the West River. There are oyster beds of considerable value in Deep Bay.\n\nFORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE.\n\nForestry work has consisted (1) in the formation of 400 acres of pine plantations in continuation of the Harbour Belt now extending some seven miles from Lai-chi-kok towards Lyemun (2) the continuation of afforesting the catchment areas of Tytam, Pok-fulam and Kowloon Reservoirs, (3) the replanting of felled areas at Aberdeen and Mount Kellett (4) the extension of the avenues of shade trees in Kowloon (5) the care of existing plantations.\n\nThe year was marked by exceptionally good crops of fruits, vegetables and rice in the New Territories; especially may be mentioned the abundance and excellence of the output of Pineapples, Plums, Pears, and Peanuts.\n\nThe chief economic works other than the above have been the successful establishment of the rare and valuable Naumu or Coffin Wood-tree in our nurseries from seeds obtained from Szechuen, and the collection of information and materials relating to the trade of the Colony in vegetable products.\n\nWith a view to placing the botanical resources of the Botanical and Forestry Department as far as possible at the service of the mercantile community of Hongkong the Superintendent has been instructed to collect all possible information upon the vegetable products of the neighbourhood or for which Hongkong is an emporium. This information is to refer chiefly to the raw or partly manufactured products exported from China and include the locality of their production, quantity available, country to which exported, price at port of export and in the markets to which they eventually go. Considerable progress has been made during the year with this scheme and information with regard to a few of our more important vegetable products, such as China-root and Galangal was collected.\n\nA considerable amount of scientific work upon the flora of the Colony and neighbouring parts of China has been done in England and other countries with materials supplied by the Forestry Department.\n\n7\n\nLAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE OF LAND.\n\n403\n\nThe net amount received from Sales of Crown Land and Pier Rights after deducting expenses of the Sales was $69,358, a decrease of $92,101 on the previous year and $218,481 less than the average amount received for each of the past five years. Of this amount $14,665 was received in respect of sales of Pier Rights and the right of extending existing Piers, $7,078 was received in respect of Sales of Crown Land in the New Territories and the balance from Sales of New Lots of Crown Land and Grants of Extension of existing Lots in the Island of Hongkong and Old Kowloon.\n\nThe chief items were for an extension to a Soy Factory at West Point (Inland Lot No. 1300) and for a renewal of the Lease of the Dairy Farm Company's premises in Wyndham Street for a period of 75 years, the existing lease of which is about to expire.\n\nThe considerable decrease in Revenue from Sales of Crown Land may be partly attributed to the fact that in the City of Victoria there is little available building land left and partly to the fact that at the present time there is no great demand for new houses in the City and in Old Kowloon, a considerable number of Chinese shops and dwelling houses being now unlet. The general depression in the land market, which commenced a few years ago, still continues and capitalists who invested in land and buildings at the high prices ruling some ten years ago have suffered very considerable losses; in many cases properties have been sold by mortgagees at far less than the amount of their securities while many other mortgages are holding on awaiting a more favourable opportunity for realizing their securities. There is, however, a very fair demand in the City for property at reduced prices. There appears to be no lack of money in the Colony and a considerable number of transactions in land have taken place during the past year.\n\nThere have been a large number of sales of small lots of Crown Land for native dwellings and industries in the New Territories, and the demand for these is likely to further increase, as the native population now realize the reasonable terms upon which Crown Land can be obtained and the security of tenure afforded by holding under a long lease direct from the Crown.\n\nThree areas of over 40 acres of land at Tai Po in the Island of Lan Tao for use as Salt Pans were put up for auction on an 18 years' lease at the upset annual rental of $15 per acre per annum and after considerable competition one Lot of over 21 acres realized as much as $170 per acre per annum, which shows that Salt Pans in a good locality are apparently very remunerative undertakings. During the year a second area of one square mile in the New Territories was leased to Sir Paul Chater for 75 years for mining purposes.\n\nIII-LEGISLATION.\n\nTwenty-two Ordinances were passed during 1908, of which nine were Amendment Ordinances. A Fire Insurance Companies Ordinance (No. 3) was passed to authorize the removal of Fire Insurance Companies from the Register of Companies in certain cases. Ordinances were also passed to enable Foreign Corporations to acquire and hold land in the Colony (No. 7); to provide for the grant of brewery licences (No. 8); to empower a Magistrate to hold a Small Debts Court in the New Territories (No. 22); to provide for the registration of Chemists and Druggists and to regulate the sale of poisons (No. 12); to regulate theatres and other places of public resort (more especially in regard to precautions against fire) (No. 18); and to transfer the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund and its management to the Government of Hongkong (No. 15).\n\nIV.-EDUCATION.\n\nThere are 73 Government and Grant Schools, the most important of which is Queen's College. Of these, 23 are Upper Grade Schools with a staff competent to give instruction in all subjects of the 7th Standard, and above. These latter schools have an average attendance of 3,992, and the medium of instruction in all of them, with the exception of one girls' school, is English. The 50 remaining Schools are all Lower Grade. They comprise 1 school for British Indians where English and Urdu are taught; 5 Government and 1 Grant Anglo-Chinese Schools; and 43 Grant Vernacular Schools. The average attendance at all these Lower Grade Schools is 2,186. The total average daily attendance, at both Grades of School, is 6,178.\n\nThe revenue derived from school fees is $54,792 (of which $31,073 is from Queen's College) and is rapidly increasing; this is mainly to be accounted for by the increasing numbers of Chinese desirous of an English education.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420294, "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": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "200\n\n2.\n\n131\n\n.MOITUZISTHOO YHATILIK SHT\n\nang 000,083 ja booja koljudžudnoú ef) nesi ut A3SI MOT¶\n\n.000,00% od beaisi asu ji zɛey jaid ni bao MARTEEN\n\n.aścow ovlanetcb to $600 and to evisufoxe saw alif\n\nsulav at yluigen Ilot tallob mit 8881 bazm Osai neowJod\n\ndyti prov o exod 000,0àu to meltudi¬taoü yatireja ert bts\n\nacy nollustusmoo el3 9001 ai\n\n-doa bari atlit 8081 mi fre\n\n.eunoveЯ odt of ega$120709\n\nLeunraved to ₹88.21 10 981, ra2$\n\n.emoved to kis zo gre,203) guled,beidwob yiisof\n\nburrolto Jnemurievod Istueqai erit aind of gallood\n\n*iri ja asoun¶ ode not goldudin3100 edt all of usey Jarid\n\nbrint on yletazaqon guitudijnoo ɣnolo? erfa • @UISVOЯ to\n\n**To doa77ad weg to Jaoo erit to an 20 J800 efɑdv orið bre •\n\n. (Juenseria ttard to Jaoo #i) în evlatoxe) axxow sonǝteb\n\nVIOV BBW Tetto and Jædd bonesłano #87 Ji ejsdsb [lpt taj‡A\n\nbedqeços aou ji bus yroloû eft oð mwosgatnavba\n\nerið fødd brwot saw ‡‡ vierevod nnel bas 8001 neewte8\n\n.quefod ad uoqu (Ilvæeń guev IIst #drow ovianstob to $900\n\n03 molJlobe ni kensey gwedd doowded blaq inuoss Isutos efT\n\n-awolloÌ BB a3w\n\n.000,00€\n\n8081\n\n.000.0\n\nTGBI\n\n.000.00\n\n808I\n\nQQUI\n\n.000,381\n\n0001\n\nto M18.1 ve boodɛ 0001 až moltudiajnoŭ Indoj ONT\n\nIn iroqni erij yd bebloeb saw ji zaaỵ jadi ni\n\nI ens\n\nThe brim, benedigaeta ed jamm Baortsleb end jailt inOLLITOVOU\n\n1-Counjenou 103 000,003 to yao100 ait of taco a evlovat oimuva\n\nJuonBar13 10↑ taomriovoð leiroqui effé od 888,231a to Dus (aot\n\nerið að eldadideb, 000,343 to mur redtrut a ‚ãožjibha ai\n\n.asolvuta dooriad 10% Doniuper saw, yaołob\n\n、awug To Todaun a revo baergo dywodj nevo 18*2 saeft\n\n20784/00\n\nomparison ith other ofonies.\n\nwould have increased the total Contribution payable by the\n\nColony to considerably more than 20% of its Revenue. Mr.\n\nChamberlain, (337 of 24.10.1900), proposed, alike in the\n\ninterests of the Imperial Government and of the Colony, that the Contribution should be fixed at 20% of the Revenue,\n\nexcluding Land sales, \"in full return for the annual coat\n\nof the Imperial garrison, including all capotal expenditure\n\nfor Military lands and buildings\".\n\nThis proposal was accepted and became law in Ordinance\n\n1 of 1901, and took effect in the Estimates for 1902.\n\nIn addition to the 20% all Military buildings are\n\nexempted from rates,\n\n•\n\nUnder this arrangement the Contribution has steadily\n\nincreased in amount, (pari passu with the Revenue), and\n\natands in the Estimates of the current year (1808) at\n\n$1,186,578.\n\nFrom this brief historical\n\nsummary it is evident that\n\nthe present modification or the previous system, inaugurated\n\nin 1901, was made with the full acquiescence of the Colony. That, however, would not form a valid argument against revision if it could be shewn that contrary to anticipation the system had proved unduly onerous. More increase in direct proportion to increase in Revenue does not prove this, for that increase was anticipated.\n\n(a)\n\nSelf-governing.\n\nThe Military Contribution affecte, of course, et only\n\nthose Colonies which borrow their Defensive Forces from the\n\nImperial Government. The Self-governing Colonies, with the exception of South Africa, supply their own defence, and most of them contribute steadily increasing sums towards the cost of the Navy.\n\nThese contributions were in 1907-08 as shewn:-\n\nDINOV\n\nIndia\n\n5-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420296, "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": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "183\n\ned dont ul yam ji\n\n004,500\n\nbibi\n\n.000,00S aldadau .000.0 Eutelsat #OK .000.0\n\nLBJNE\n\n.000,&\n\nfattas Iimtuot#54\n\naquand ils to Jaco srijke out ayaq,moltibbe ni aliul\n\n.JAGMEISVOÜ Leineqml elit mort be#OTIOɗ\n\nof baraqang Jom al doinw qaclod deltinƐ yllody a dads bisa ,49ometet bral ajt to Jaoo extine orit eletrobau eqir Jou at\n\n«J TOMITEVO3-11.& 10t\n\n(5) dro ziedt salbiyong sedmzodoetori % aeliofod mwoxd\n\ndef:rw? actsrotoetoi bas melaolod awor◊ and 10 prom\n\n.200705 Awe niers retjai and to owd 0 800 10 2ɛno edt må lunchey orld to Bi▲ at Jasni e sevig Juemmevoð Latiaqmi sdt susal de oðjam era Justw Jon seob revewod dɔldw euanved ME [IIW ho besuber yllejbang satud ees, quovo mi at bite\n\n•Laeqqamib emit\n\nstoji 14 oval! andørodontoti bas aotnoloð sæerid 10 st\n\nmisdirol .8.e.arewos misnot to enors ditw awoutunej-03 tead (Cuoc arrel. (japoƆ bioð erit (altezii wzedjuod bas to end nutw mux arukinori osonw,.oje abang! bes BobTZA .soner brs YILAN19D erodt to redke Atiw now to caso ul\n\nno qlentèue Enaqub of evad blucy anotɑnoawoy suedd wiewol on .NJ Jafudu yvak et deve biwwa yon、aeozoi awo kłods QoS VIIKamirq fauodë qiedniem of avad perið aeotot egnai Tot onla esa (Batzomo yarij aseza jest odj to Iontmos sit verij Kodjoɗk •**** Mi quele megoud e jeniaşə Gunelab złedt ovo let ai ndalu sew Junieze beweni vijmalaltia 3′18 Deuneven TioNJ Jeonju edt al qaq yerit sons weil edi\n\n.bro?te d80\n\nof notes oath rebw xejjem ett ut Juanitnog al fl asino1.0 naerið sunevoi leds to gotdrogong Jatiw niajnəJES Thoneice dañj no beqs,eonetob awo stond oblvery outw\n\nbrus\n\nwod\n\nhote\n\nhow that proportion compares with the percentage paid by\n\nColonies which borrow their defensive forces from the\n\nImperial Government.\n\nIt is extremely difficult to arrive at any reliable\n\nfigures, by which such a comparison can be instituted. In the\n\nfirst place the sum shewn as Military Expenditure in the\n\npublished Financial Statements, represents only a portion\n\nof the total cost of the Forces. Medical services, trane-\n\nport, defence, and barrack buildings are included under the\n\nheads of Expenditure, while accounting and clerical work,\n\nand many other services are rendered by civil departments.\n\nIn the second place it is not easy to distinguish in many\n\ncases between the Military and the Police services. Armed\n\nConstabulary form part of the defensive force, yet perform\n\nsome civil duties. Adding one third of ordinary Civil\n\nExpenditure to cover the former (which is probably too low\n\nan estimate) and excluding Police except where shewn de-\n\nfinitely as Constabulary, and even then debiting only half\n\ntheir cost to Military Expenditure, a very rough approxima-\n\ntion of the proportion which Military Expenditure bears to\n\nGeneral Revenue may be arrived at. So far as it has been\n\npossible to make this calculation from available data, it will be found in Table 14\n\nIn\n\nSince this Memorandum was written application has been made to the different Colonies and Protectorates for the figures necessary to complete this table, and copies of their replies are attached. From these it will be seen that with the exception of Northern Nigeria, (the figures from which place are, I think, based on calculations made by myself when there), the data regarding indirect expenses of defence are so vague,(where given at all), that they are useless for purposes of precise calculation. Northern Nigeria gives full figures, and may be taken as a fair type. accurate calculation can probably only be made at the Colonial Office where full data are available. I am on the whole inclined to think that my rough approximations above are probably fairly correct. They are based on my exper-\n\nlence in a Protectorate providing its own defence.\n\nAn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420409, "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": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 299, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nHon. Col. Sec.\n\nEndorsed. II.\n\n30867\n\n296\n\nS. I. L. 407\n\nFS DECO\n\nImmo pug\n\nThis lot was purchased by Mr. Li Ping on the 16th September 1907. The whole of the site was covered by water and the purchaser was required under the conditions of sale to reclaim the whole area of the lot and surrounding roads and spend a sum of $3,000 in buildings on the lot within 2 years of date of sale.\n\nOn the 11th April, 1908 Messrs. Denison, Ram & Gibbs wrote in stating that on making soundings they found that the sea wall in front of the lot would require to be over 50 feet high, there being from 18 to 20 feet of soft mud at the bottom, also that the estimated cost of the sea wall was over $20,000 and that the lot when reclaimed would not be worth half this sum.\n\nThey requested that the time for complying with the reclaiming and building covenant might be extended until such time as the Proposed Praya Wall across the Bay may be constructed without payment of taxes.\n\nI had soundings taken and found their statements to be correct.\n\nI see no prospect of any big scheme of reclamation being carried out in the vicinity for some years and recommend that Mr. Li Ping be given another site of equal area in the position shown coloured red on the plan attached on the following terms viz.\n\n(a)\n\n(b)\n\nTerm of lease 76 years commencing from date of acceptance of terms, renewable for one further term of 75 years at a reassessed rental.\n\nThe lessee to reclaim the whole area of the lot including the portion hatched green on the plan for...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420949, "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": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "## 4\n\n### 251\n\nnamely, (1) Additional work ordered by the Government of Hong Kong and work undertaken since the estimate of June 8th 1907 (Kowloon-Canton Railway Tunnel).\n\n(2) Under-estimation of the cost of Beacon Hill Tunnel.\n\nWith regard to (1), the works which were not included in the estimate of June 1907 are briefly as follows:-\n\n| Works |\n| --- |\n| Blackheads Deep Sea Wharf |\n| Land for Station Site |\n| Earthwork at Signal Hill due to New Station Site |\n| Additional Permanent Way and Fencing |\n| Station Buildings |\n| Workshops and Plant |\n| Rolling Stock |\n| Prolongation of Sea Wall |\n| Towering Big Slope of Cutting No. 1 |\n| Salary of Indian Expert in 1910 |\n\nThese works, according to our computation, will, it is estimated, cost $1,749,472.\n\nWith regard to (2), a large proportion of the excess which has been made on the tunnel is due to the necessity for lining it throughout. It was hoped that it would be possible to... \n\n## 2 \n## 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422738, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# 48\n\nJune sun among these bare sands was terrible. Twenty minutes later we reached a couple of buildings, known as Hsiyuanchang, one of which is a poor inn.\n\nHere we halted some little time to recover from the effects of the terrible heat we had so lately experienced.\n\nIn the later afternoon we reached the broad gully of the Khara kundigol, down which flows a good supply of water. Trying to cross the stream at a point other than a ford, we lost the rest of the day extricating a camel from the soft mud into which it sank. We slept at a collection of huts, a liquorice camp, close to the spot known as Errh mien sze wan. The inhabitants here pay a land tax of 10 taels (30s.) for 100 li (33 miles) to the Talat Prince. They also pay an animal tax of so much per head, but skilfully contrive to hide the greater number of goats when the tax collector calls.\n\nJune 17.-The proper ford is close to the liquorice camp, and here the crossing is firm and easy.\n\nAn hour and a quarter later we passed the Chinese village of Errh tao schui chuansze \"twin water spring.\" Here there were a few big trees, a welcome change to the terrible monotony of the Ordos landscape. Half-an-hour later we reached the Mongol and Chinese village of Hoyarobo \"twin obo.\" The houses looked solid and well cared for and proved two things, firstly, that Chinese and Mongols are able to live together in close proximity, and secondly, that the Mongols can, if they choose, renounce their nomad existence and live in a cleanly orderly way. There are several farms about here and a good water supply, but the land looks sandy and terribly unproductive. An hour later we found ourselves descending gently into the valley of the Hoangho, and into the area which comes under that stream's beneficent influence. Cultivation began and the land was covered with wheat, Indian corn, and the poppy, while a few irrigation canals showed that the natives had begun to take an active interest in their own welfare. We now left the territory of the Prince of Talat and entered that of the Hsikung Prince, the bulk of whose land lies to the north of the river.\n\nAt Chow Chünföun, a well-built prosperous village lying among a few fine trees, we turned north-east for some 4 miles to reach the ferry at Tukou, \"the crossing.\" Here there are a couple of houses close to the bank, but no resources. The next nearest ferry down the stream is Liulinsze, some 7 miles east of Chow chün föun. The ferry of Tukou is some 12 miles from last night's camp. There are a couple of big flat boats available for the crossing, and for the use of one of these into which were crowded all the animals and men, not without some difficulty and a good deal of danger, we paid 30 cents (6d.). The river is here a quarter of a mile wide and very swift; both banks are very low.\n\n## Yellow River Strip\n\nUnder this heading is included all the land lying between the Kingdom of Alashan and Kweihuacheng north of the Yellow River, and bounded on the north by the wall of mountains, which forms the south edge of the Mongolian plateau. These mountains form distinct short ranges, to each of which a separate name has been given. They present a bleak and desolate appearance as they are, wherever I have seen them, devoid of trees and with little vegetation; they are of uniform height, and while they have several portions projecting like capes into the plain it may be said that they have no peaks.\n\nThis strip of land is some 230 miles long, while in width it varies as much as does the Kansu strip, between the Alashan range and the river. In the west it is as much as 50 miles wide, while in the east between the mountains and the point where the Yellow River bends sharply southwards it is under 10 miles. At some places between these two and where the mountains approach the river the width is as little as 2 miles.\n\nThe soil of the whole strip is entirely fertile, and can be irrigated by means of the river. In the west this has been done to some extent, but in the east the inhabitants have not had the energy to make use of this aid to the cultivation of their fields. After rain a certain amount of the water makes its way down from the mountains by water-courses, which for the greater part of the year present nothing but a stony, desolate appearance. In the east portion a great number of wells have been sunk in the middle of the fields, and it may be said that every farm has at least one on its land. Small ditches surround each field, and into these the water is assiduously pumped. The chief crops are wheat, kaoliang, millet, and vegetables, and east of Bautu, at any rate, opium. There are tens of thousands of acres of land devoted to the poppy alone. The population is chiefly Chinese, who have, as elsewhere, pushed the Mongol owners northwards. In the west portion, however, a fair number of Mongols are left, and the Swedish missionaries, who have established themselves there, are trying to teach the Mongols the art of farming. But even where the Chinese have penetrated there are still some Mongols; this is, of course, chiefly in the towns.\n\nThe strip is well timbered, and may be termed a succession of small prosperous villages connected by stretches of fields or grazing lands, but these latter are annually diminishing in size.\n\nThe strip is divided into the kingdom of the Orots, the western, central, and eastern Princes (Hsikung, Djunkung, Tungkung, of the Orots), and the portion which already forms part of the Province of Shansi, and is governed from Kweihuacheng. The largest town in the strip is Bautu; the second largest Salatsi, lying 30 miles east of this. These three Orot Princes are counted among the forty-eight Princes of Mongolia, and have nothing to do with the Ordos Princes, though the Hsikung owns a small portion of land on the Ordos side of the Yellow River.\n\n## Yellow River Ferry to Bautu and Kweihuacheng\n\nJune 17-On crossing the river I had wanted to pay a rapid visit to the Swedish Mission at Patszebulong, but, hearing that it lay 43 miles to the west, it was decided that it was impossible, and so we maintained a north course, and a few minutes later stopped at one of the five villages which gave the name Wutatsun to the district, and none of which bear any other distinctive name. We shortly afterwards turned into a well-defined cart-road, and continued north-east for the rest of the day by an excellent road. The country has the appearance of being level, but in reality slopes gently up to the mountains.\n\nTwo hours and a-half from the river all cultivation, houses, and trees ceased, and the road ran across grass-land, one end of which was dotted with Chinese coffins awaiting repatriation, the other being covered with mobs of ponies. Half-an-hour later the village of Mache lay in a belt of trees to our left. Here the Chinese official resides to whom the Chinese settlers pay the taxes. We slept the night at a moderate inn at Hanchowyausze.\n\nJune 18. We reached Bautu in the course of the morning, entering by the west gate, and previously traversing the small suburb of Hobou with the pretty temple of Lungwangmias hidden among the trees. The walls of the town are considerably silted up with sand and are in a state of decay. There is an air of prosperity about the town, and the streets were full of merchants. There are many good shops, especially for the sale of articles made of wood. The town lies 5 miles due north of the river. A yamên to the left and close to the west gate deals with \"land settlement and development questions\"; the principal yamên lies in the main street near the east gate. The town is in the domain of the Tumed Prince, but is administered by a Chinese official who has 360 police, all Chinese, at his disposal. They are armed with old-fashioned German Mausers. A great number of Mongols visit the town, taking away cheap pottery, saucepans, and other utensils in exchange for wool and skins. We took refuge from the crowd, which was unpleasantly inquisitive, in the large hong of a corn and wheat merchant.\n\nSince 1900, or, rather, since the settlement after the events of that year, a settlement which displaced a great many officials, none of these dare do anything to displease a foreigner, even if the latter be travelling without a passport.\n\nThe following story from Dengkou (told me the 7th June) is possibly connected with the one I heard at Bautu. Last year, the official said, an Indian arrived en route for Kashgar; he was accompanied by one Chinese servant. He demanded animals and, not obtaining them, went into the principal houses and beat the residents till horses were supplied. He took away six ponies, which have never been returned. He had no passport.\n\nLeaving Bautu by the east gate we pushed on to Shariching, 13 miles to the east. The road is exceptionally good, and there is plenty of traffic along it. At this time of the year many mules were carrying plums from Taiyuanfu in Shansi to Bautu. The most pathetic sight along the road were the Mongol pilgrims returning from Wutaishan. These fanatics carry their piety so far that they leave at the monasteries all the long train of camels and their loads with which they left home. They are then content to return home on foot, absolute beggars and in rags. Occasionally one may be seen leading along a donkey with one bundle on it, the only goods that remain of once great wealth. There were dozens of them in this pitiful state, including old and infirm, coming along the Bautu road. Another feature of the road are the wayside shrines, which manage to extract a great amount of cash from Mongol and Chinese passers by.\n\nShariching is a prosperous small town, with at least one good inn, which does a ... \n\n# 49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422749, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "150 \n\n70 \n\nand so the inhabitants, not only of Northern Mongolia, but also of the whole territories of the Princes, i.e., right down to the Chinese line, would look to Russia as the predominant power.\n\nThe above report had been sketched out previous to crossing the Altaishan: I have therefore considered it best to let it stand, and merely to add this supplementary but important information regarding a new colony, which has been founded by the Chinese Government in pursuance of their policy of the development of their distant dependencies by Chinese. The settlement of Altaishan, Sharasumé, or Cheng-hwa-ssu, lies on the southern slopes of the Altai range, some 190 miles west of Kobdo, 60 north of Buluntogoi, 6 days east of Zaisan post (in Russian territory), 19 north north-west of Manas and Guchen respectively, and 15 north-east of Chuguchak. Two years ago no buildings existed here, except that of a ruined Lama temple (Shara sumé, i.e., Yellow Temple). A number of Hassacks and Turkis inhabited the district with their nomad tents and herds. Hither came a Manchu officer dispatched by the Central Government, took up his abode in the ruined temple, housed his staff and soldiers in tents, and began the work of the construction of a settlement. This work has been going on steadily since, so that now the yamên is a respectable building, there are numerous low houses for the staff and soldiers (all of mud and wood) and a small town has been built, though it only consists, as yet, of two streets at right angles. Merchants have been begged to come, some eight or ten have responded, these being branches of Peking and Tien-tsin shops, and a fair number of Turkis have also arrived. The merchants have their shops and ground free; the former they find ready for occupation, for the building goes on ceaselessly, and the number of empty houses is considerable. The garrison numbers 1,000 men, 600 Mongols, and 400 Chinese, who are also carpenters, bricklayers, tailors, &c. Six German guns arrived in September. The colony is eventually to be established on the plain 30 miles to the south, and is only here provisionally. The present site was selected because of the few buildings already in existence. It is three-quarters of a mile from the Kilingho river, and is situated on rising ground among low hills, which lie in their turn among the mountains. A small canal brings water from the stream winding round and among the hillocks.\n\nA study of this colony shows that the Chinese Government are in earnest as regards their policy.\n\nIn connection with this, extracts from my diary under a later section will interest.\n\nUrga.\n\nThe first signs that the traveller approaching Urga from Sair Ussu is nearing his goal may be seen in the change of scenery two days to the south. Here the plains and gently rolling downs which have characterized the Gobi become transformed into narrow valleys and low hills over which the track climbs by numerous little passes, usually very abrupt. Most of the valleys have pools of water or marshy ground in them, and the pasturage is exceedingly good. On this a large nomad population lives. Possibly the proximity of the sacred town of Urga has something to do with the increase in the number of yourts. On reaching a cairn on the summit of a small pass some half-way between the third and fourth post-stations from Urga the Bogdo Ula become visible. It is with some pleasure that one sights its wooded heights, for it must not be supposed that the change in scenery has brought with it any change as regards trees, and the valleys and hills are just as devoid of these as ever the Gobi was. One is also led to hope that there will be an end of this treeless state, but herein one is disappointed, for although there is an enormous amount of timber on the mountains north of Urga there is not a single tree visible from the city in or around Urga except on the Bogdo Ula. Having sighted the ridge the track bends slightly to the north-west to get round its flank, and for the last 12 miles runs due east. The sacred town itself is visible from a point 8 miles to the west, where the road crosses a small spur of the range to descend into the Tola valley. At this point there are two obos, unusually fanatically decorated with prayer flags and bones. From here onwards Urga is constantly in sight, and the path runs first over ground gently sloping down to the river, then along the river itself, finally crossing the stream and a number of backwaters and creeks, and reaching the town over a plain 1 mile broad.\n\nThe Tola flows down the valley from east to west under shelter of the Bogdo Ula. The day we first forded it (for there is no bridge) it was split up into numerous channels, which embraced several stretches of good pastureland to which cattle had managed to reach. The main stream at that time was about 200 yards wide and 2 feet deep with a swift current.\n\n71\n\nThe ford is somewhat peculiar. About 100 yards across a course upstream to the north-east has to be taken; sheep and goats are towed across, and have to swim for their lives; they reach the opposite shore in a most exhausted and lamentable plight. Except where the stream passes immediately under the shadow of the Bogdo Ula the banks are flat. The second time we crossed the river—nine days later—circumstances had entirely changed. Very severe rains had fallen in the meantime, and for most of these days the river had been unfordable. As there is no boat or ferry on the river communication with the south was temporarily suspended. The day before we attempted to cross it had been entirely clear until evening, when such violent rain ensued for two hours that it seemed that the hope of crossing in the morning would have to be abandoned. However, the river, which before the previous day's rain had been reported to be in no better state, took a turn for the better during the night in spite of the rain, and we found a native resident on the banks who was willing to risk a crossing. As in all the creeks and backwaters the water had been up to the ponies' chests it was rather anxious work, the stream being considerably broader than usual, and as the water was swirling down at a great pace. The heavily-laden camels had great difficulty in keeping their footing—fortunately the bed is stony and not mud or sand—and my small cart was entirely submerged. The crossing was an anxious piece of work which we were glad to see finished.\n\nUrga or Kuren or Da Khure, the God Lama's encampment, can only be described as a vast camp. The oldest portion is that which lies on rising ground above the river bed. This portion, however, has overflowed to the east into the broad bed, dry except in the rainy season, of a mountain stream which unites with the Tola. This lower portion is known as Gandan. At the eastern extremity of this district is the Amban's residence and, 300 yards to the north-east of this, the barracks. A mile further to the east, past ground little built on, brings the traveller to the Russian Consulate, post-office, &c.; after another couple of hundred yards the Russo-Chinese Bank is reached, and a mile further on the most easterly point of all, the original Chinese trade borough, \"Maima-chin,\" where is the Chinese telegraph station. A good road, but stony, connects all these places, passing over numerous well-kept wooden bridges spanning the numerous mountain torrent beds.\n\nThe need of these bridges was very apparent during our stay in Urga, as each bed was transformed into a raging torrent, some only for a short space of time, others for several days. The heavy rain, unfortunately, had little effect in improving the state of the narrow lanes and paths which serve as streets in Urga, the filth of which it is quite impossible to describe. The only attempt at sanitation seems to be in Maimachin, where the streets are better kept.\n\nThe chief centre of trade seems now to be Gandan, where the market-place is, and round which are the Russian and Chinese shops—for the day is passed when the Chinese were confined to Maimachin to trade. The only Chinese inn to be found, a miserable place, was also in Gandan, and the market-place is daily the centre of bustling activity. One end of it is reserved for the pony market, and another holds the booths where nothing but Mongol boots are sold. These are of Russian leather, and are made locally. The ladies who sell Mongol hats have reserved another corner for themselves, while everywhere booths are scattered about at which such cheap things are displayed as may tempt the Mongols' fancy. These things are chiefly those that glitter, bright metal match boxes, cheap gaudy rings, &c. Even when the usually dry torrent bed had become a raging stream, a number of booths still managed to retain their position. All the Chinese shops seem to sell everything from cheap snuff boxes, good silk and cloth, Chinese shoes, and blue enamel ware, to really good skins, such as sable and fox. The prices for everything are as varied as the number of goods sold. Everything depends on who the purchaser is, how great his need, and also how trade is going, and whether the article is in demand or not. If not, then some of the stock must be got rid of at no matter what price. Sometimes the merchant can get ten times the usual price for any article. A young lama comes in to buy a snuff bottle on behalf of a big lama, who wants to make a present at once. The bottle must be bought at no matter what price. So up this mounts till it cannot recognize itself. The merchants are chiefly men from Shansi or Peking. Some I was told few I met had been established at Urga for more than twenty-five years. that no Chinese who is a bad character can settle in the town.\n\nThis means that some one has to guarantee every new arrival. Formerly, merchants could make several thousands of taels a-year, but those good days are gone, and trade is now very bad. Sometimes shops have to be closed, and the firms recross the Gobi. The land belongs to the Mongols, and if anyone wants to buy land on which to erect a shop, he has to apply to the Mongol Amban. Most new comers, however, rent them.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422772, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# 116\n\nindependent of all control and did what they liked. Their own telegrams sometimes took days to reach Peking. In view of the delays which occur in the telegraphic system between Kashgar and Peking and which can hardly be due to the pressure of work but more probably to the inefficiency of the staff and their dilatory habits of working, would it not be well to make a serious complaint to Peking? There is only one wire and it often gets out of order and the same delay occurs in getting it mended. The Russian Consulate have their own wire to Bakhti and the frontier.\n\nI lunched at the Consulate. There seemed plenty of work to do as Chinese officials kept calling all the afternoon on business. A Chinese merchant told me in the afternoon that there was not enough business for a Chinese Government Bank here. (There is, however, 100 times more business here than at Uliassutai.) The merchant said that the Governor lent money himself, which helps to explain why there is no State Bank. The money difficulty seems a serious one in Chuguchak, for the Russian Hassacks (and it must be remembered that the trade is principally in the hands of these) refuse to take Chinese silver, however good, except at a great loss to the Chinese (as much as 60 cents for 1 tael). One tael of Chinese silver is therefore the equivalent of as much as 4s. 6d. instead of 3s.\n\nThere is one Chinese coin in circulation, the silver half-tael. It has only just been introduced and is not popular. The result of this seems to be that the road is paved for the introduction of the extensive Russian coinage in use in Urga. Russian bank-notes are already in circulation and are popular.\n\nHe is an amiable old man of 65. October 2.—I called on the Prefect of the town, long past work. He is an opium-smoker. He is a native of Hunan, and talks the dialect broadly. He has been here twenty years. I thanked him for the presents which had been made me, and explained why I could not accept them. In the afternoon, he returned my call and pressed me to dine with him; as he would take no excuses and in view of the fact that I had returned the presents which had been made me, I reluctantly consented to do so. The arrival of the reply telegram from Peking earlier than I had expected enabled me to leave Chuguchak before the banquet took place.\n\nThe Prefect told me that few foreigners visited Chuguchak. Last year, an Indian came and stayed two months in an inn doing nothing. He gave himself out as a Mahommedan missionary and subsequently left for Kashgar. A German Catholic missionary also came last year.\n\nThe Prefect said there was no Chinese school at present, but that he was going to open one soon. The Russians have a school of their own. He said that the Hassacks gave plenty of trouble. Russian subjects were sent to Bakhti for punishment, but he was not at all sure that the sentence given was carried out.\n\nOn leaving the Prefect's yamên, I looked into the guard-house at one of the gates of the city. It is a squalid building and very dirty inside. Here, an officer and three soldiers live; all are opium-smokers and old men. There are three such guard-houses in the north city. An officer gets 8 taels and a man 3 t. 60 c. a month.\n\nThe only **bad** things found are a scarlet black-edged uniform jacket and an old-fashioned gun. Every man is said to have a gun, but only one, a mouldy dilapidated one, could be produced at the guard-house. On a stand outside were hooks and old-fashioned lances and scythes. Food is deducted from each man's pay.\n\nDuring the afternoon, the telegraph clerk called and tried to appease my anger about the delay in dispatching my telegram. He told me there was only one Russian shop here, the rest being Russian-Hassack or Andijani shops.\n\nChuguchak, or Tacheng, or Tarbagatai, or Beyar, as it is still more frequently called locally, consists of two walled towns lying half a mile apart. They are connected by a long street, with a few other streets running off it, and this forms the trading portion of the settlement. North of this and east of the furthest town is the quarter where the Russian Consulate and bank, and the houses of the Russian merchants are situated.\n\nHsincheng, the most southerly of the two walled cities, is a town of the usual Chinese pattern, with a strong mud wall 25 feet high and 15 feet broad, with an additional 6 feet of battlement, pierced with shooting holes. The town is square, with a side of 500 yards. There is a gate on each side, that on the north being permanently closed to prevent the passage of evil influences. There are small towers on the walls above the gates and a small building at each corner, and also between the gate tower and each corner. There is a Chinese temple where the north gate should be, and behind it, in a strong recess, which should be the outer gate, is a small building containing rifles. The only access to this is from the top of the wall. A shallow dry moat, some 10 feet deep and 20 feet broad, surrounds the town. There are guard-houses of the pattern described at each gate-way. The interior of the city contains the Governor's yamên and a few other buildings, but a large portion of the area is covered with ruins of small houses which no one will remove and where no one will build because of evil spirits. There is abundance of water in and around the town, and the streets are lined with magnificent trees.\n\nThe city has a desolate appearance compared to that of the trading quarter outside. Here, there is also abundance of water and trees, among which are a great number of shops. The streets are full of life; carts, oxen, riders, Hassacks, Mongols, and Chinese are constantly moving about, and there is a general appearance of activity. Behind the houses, everyone grows his own vegetables and also a little tobacco and Indian corn.\n\nThe north city resembles the former except that it is smaller. It is also surrounded by a shallow dry moat. In it live the Prefect and a Colonel, and it is here that the telegraph office is to be found. There is as entire an absence of life as in the southern city.\n\n# 117\n\nOctober 3.—The Chentai (General) from Ili is expected here tomorrow to inspect the soldiers, registers, &c., and will stay a week. I called on the Colonel in the morning in his yamên in the northern city. He is a most friendly elderly man, with thirty years' service in Chinese Turkestan. He has only charge of 100 soldiers, all these living in the northern city—in his yamên indeed. During the day, they act as watchmen in the town. If he wants more men, he can get them from Lanchow, and he told me he had written to have some who were old and opium smokers replaced. It is he who has found coal in the mountains, 20 miles to the north-east. He showed me some and was as pleased with it as if it was entirely a new discovery of his own that coal could be used for burning. It is soft and bad, but he said there was abundance of it. He said a few soldiers would act as escort for me on the road. I deprecated this and said that I had found the roads as safe as any in England. He said, however, that it was the custom.\n\nAt noon, the Governor sent his carriage to the inn to fetch me to the yamên to dine. I refused to be bullied into doing what I had already refused to do, so sent my servant to explain matters and also to get some of the Chinese half-tael coins for use on the journey. They can, it seems, be only obtained in any quantity from the yamên; the Russian Bank refuses to keep them. The Governor gave the coins himself and was not above giving ten too short and including twenty which were so bad that no one wished to accept them. In addition to which, he did not give fair exchange for the Russian paper money.\n\nIn the afternoon, I continued my inspection of the defences of Chuguchak and, driving over the plain towards the north-west, crossed two small streams by good bridges and reached a fort a mile away. This was a miniature city, the length of the side of the wall being 200 yards. It was surrounded by a shallow dry moat and entered by one gate (single) facing south-west. The mud walls are 15 feet high, and on the inside is a narrow walk round, 8 feet above the ground, the rest of the wall being pierced with firing holes.\n\nInside the fort is a kind of yamên, and on either side of the court-yard approaching this are the soldiers' quarters. These consist of low mud buildings containing several rooms, so dark that it was impossible to see inside them. They resembled pictures of prison cells in the Middle Ages. The soldiers number 100. The officer of the yamên is a Major, whose pay is 50 taels a month; a soldier's is 3 taels 60 cents; a sergeant's 8 taels 60 cents. There were some half-dozen loafers about who resembled coolies but who were in reality soldiers. I asked where the others were and heard that they were at work for themselves, collecting firewood for sale or in the fields earning a little more than their pay. I asked if they wore uniform and was told yes, on parade in the morning, but never during the rest of the day. Parade consists of roll call, nothing more. Their rifles were locked up in yamên. Asked whether they ever had any rifle practice, they replied two months in the year, one in spring, one in autumn, when they (most, not all) went out after roll call. They showed me the target, a board 5 feet high and 2 wide, stuffed at the back with straw; on it were three round red spots. Each man fired three rounds. They had only one board, and it looked a very old one; it was almost free from holes. All the people left in the yard, except the sergeant, were opium sots. I asked them what they would do if an enemy came, and one man bravely answered that it was their duty to die at their post, that they would shut the gate of the fort and man the walls. They certainly would not go and help the city, which presumably must defend itself. I asked if there was any artillery and heard that the Governor has had four big guns (German, he thought) sent from Urumtsi; they were locked up in Governor's yamên. No hospital;\n\n`[2155 6-1]`\n\n2 H \n\nOn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422774, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 177, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "120 \n\nland from being settled and cultivated, because, being good land, he wants to keep it for Hunanese, his own folk.\n\nFor \n\nLeaving in a south-south-westerly direction, we reached the mountains after some 6 miles and kept south-west under their lee down hills and up again by a difficult cart road, the mule between the shafts being obliged to slide down the hills and back at the same time like grim death. At mile 6, at a small stream, we came across a large Hassack camp of thirty tents called Chanaga. These nomads pay 25 taels and 5 taels, rich and poor tent respectively, a year to the Government of Chuguchak. Five and a-half more miles over hill and dale brought us into the elbow of the mountains to the picket of Yamatu. We here turned south-west through the Djaiir range. Half the ascent of the pass, the road is stony and until it nears the top, the pass is not more than 100 yards wide and at times only 20 yards. A small stream flows down. At first rugged and inaccessible, the hill becomes more gentle as we ascend and becomes almost covered with rough pasturage.\n\nWe passed two camps on the way up, each consisting of only two Hassack tents. Reaching the top of the steep part of the pass at mile 6, we kept over an easy slope between gentle hills to mile 7; here we reached the summit and began to descend rapidly, the hills maintaining their pasturage-covered appearance and the road its excellence. We reached the picket Kweitonin at mile 10.5 after a total day of 23 miles. The rest-house was worse than usual; it even struck the Chinese as bad. There are only three soldiers kept here. The man at the inn receives 8 taels and 40 cents per month for looking after the telegraph line. We are among nice neighbours to-night, for the inn-keeper told us a gruesome story of how one of the picket was murdered last year by a Hassack from whom he wanted to buy a pony. The murder was followed two days later by a raid of seven or eight Hassacks who carried off eight oxen belonging to the owner, who complained to Ili. The Chinese authorities there are so scared of the Hassacks that they refused to believe him; they were, however, forced to believe in the murder, and the man was caught and put in prison at Ili.\n\nOctober 8. Continuing down the pass by a good easy road, we halted after 13 miles at the picket of Mianerrhkou. 12 miles later, we were abreast of the picket of Shihlacha. It was not visible from the main road, but the carters said it was a quarter of a mile to the west in the fold of the hills. Keeping along the main road, we reached at mile 24.3 the station of Hansantai, which is out of the mountains and practically on the plain. From Shihlacha onwards, we were in the Government of Shibu.\n\nWe \n\n# \n\nThe Russian Consul-General was in camp at Hansantai en route for Urumtsi. October 9. Keeping down the smooth gravel slopes of the foothills in a south-south-easterly direction, we reached the plain after 9 miles. The main range is almost hidden from view by these gravel slopes. From now on, travelling became difficult because of the sandy nature of the track and the salt which exuded everywhere from the ground, and which rendered the road so crisp that the mules could only get forward with great difficulty. We kept over a dead plain plentifully sprinkled with low tamarisks and other scrub. At mile 14, we reached the picket of Hsiao tsou bo.\n\nBefore we resumed the march, the Consular party arrived with their travelling escort, but they went to another farm, where they halted for the day. One of the Cossacks came over to our farm and asked impertinent questions as to where we had come from, etc. While in camp, three carts arrived from Ili, carrying specie to Chuguchak for the Government. The men in charge, like true Chinese, made no secret of what they were carrying, so that the whole inn yard knew, besides which the small flag betrayed that they were on Government service; thus, if ever carts are raided en route, it will be the fault of the Chinese themselves.\n\nJuns en route get no pay from the Government; only the soldiers do, who also perform picket work. They can live in the inn or where they please.\n\nContinuing to the south-south-east over the plain, we reached a belt of trees at mile 8, tamarisks, birches, willows, and kept among them till mile 10; they were a welcome change as regards the view, but as they harboured myriads of mosquitoes, who harassed us for the rest of the day, they were not so agreeable. Turning more fully south, we reached at mile 13 the old station of Churpaidsze, and at mile 16, two or three inns under some fine trees, the new station of the same name.\n\nThe name \"cart-shelter\" is really too modest a one for quite a fair inn with clean mud rooms. Our inn was kept by a Kashgari, who resented being termed \"Hassack,\" and said angrily that there were none of those folk here.\n\nOctober 10. This Kashgari pays 8 taels a-year to the Government of Shibu. They get their land free when they come to settle.\n\nWe left in a southerly direction, and at once crossed a cutting 15 feet deep and 30 feet wide by a good bridge. There was water in the cutting, but not deep, as cattle were standing in it, nor did there seem to be any flow. It lay east and west. During the morning, we crossed other shallower cuttings completely dry. Keeping through low jungle, we reached Totai at mile 14, where the innkeeper is a Lanchow man; he only pays 3 taels a-year as tax. At mile 2, we passed a farm, and crossed some pools of water later by a small bridge. Here we found a heavily-laden cart, which had tried to cross not by the bridge, so badly bogged that the carters did not think they would be able to proceed till the morrow. Soon after this, the road turned south-west and ran over desert ground. At mile 12, we reached Old Shihu, a collection of ruins lying among trees, and from now on, occasional ruins, groups of trees, or farms were passed. The country, too, is swampy in places, and twice the road is obliged to cross these by low wretched bridges. We reached New Shihu at mile 20, and put up at an excellent inn; the rooms, it is true, were bare as usual, but they were light and airy.\n\nThe Borokhoro range, towards which we have been marching since we emerged from the Djaiir Shan, have been persistently veiled in mist.\n\nsun.\n\nOctober 11. The trading portion of Shihu or Kurkaraussu consists of one long street closed by light wooden gates. The Turki and Chinese shops are side by side. The street is covered for the most part with pengs, which entirely protect it from the sun. South of this quarter lies the usual kind of walled town, a striking contrast by its lifelessness to the bustling life of the trading quarter. The walls are some quarter of a mile square, 30 feet high. The town is surrounded by a dry moat, crossed by good wooden bridges at the four gates, which are of the usual Chinese double pattern. The east and west gates are kept permanently closed; the others have heavy wooden doors faced with iron. Inside the walls are scattered buildings and temples, but there is a good deal of vacant space. Here all the Chinese authorities and the soldiers live.\n\nThe Chinese shops in the trading quarter sell the usual commodities. There are great quantities of fox-skins at 3 taels a-piece, as against 5 in Urga; leopard-skins at 15 taels a-piece; deer-skins, goat- and sheep-skins. Black foxes were unobtainable, and are said to be so rare that the price would be at least 20 taels (4 in Urga). Trade is said to be exceedingly poor. Melons are extremely cheap - 10 cents a large one, 2 for a small one. Vegetables are plentiful and cheap. Only the Turki shops sell Russian stuffs. Excellent wood comes into the town from the mountains for building purposes, and there is an abundance of brushwood for firing.\n\nThe day began badly by my thermometer being stolen from outside my room. The inn man detained all carts in the yard, and a great fuss was made searching them. Some confusion resulted, during which a small police official arrived with the Governor's card and compliments. He was very angry about the theft, and made the confusion worse. He eventually reported the matter to the Governor, who sent me a new Chinese thermometer, which I had to refuse. I felt, however, compelled to reconsider my decision not to call on the chief authority of the town.\n\nI begged the police official to hire fresh carts for our party for the rest of the journey to Ili. The price for these varies enormously, according to the number there may be in the town, and the carters, before naming a price, go the round of the inns to see how many carts there are and whether they can raise the price or not.\n\nEach \n\nI visited the soldiers in the afternoon. There are 100 of these, Hunan braves of the old type. Their uniform is a blue jacket with red edgings and facings. They are infantry. They sleep six to a small house, each having a neat mud bed place, with some felt and a rug. Their quarters seemed clean, comfortable, airy, and warm. Each man gets 3 t. 60 c. a-month, but has to find everything himself; a corporal gets between 4 and 5 taels. They are commanded by a colonel. The barracks are under the East Wall, in the north-east corner of the city. I only saw two or three men; the rest were said to be out on their own business. Those I spoke to said they were all Hunanese, and came direct from Hunan. They gave their ages as about 35, but looked older. There was a target in the yard 6 by 5 feet, which they said was taken out to the country twice a-year, spring and autumn, for a little practice. One man said they had a big gun in the yamén, which was fired at sunset, and this we heard a little later in the day.\n\nThe police officer said there were also 100 cavalry outside the town and 30 inside. I think he meant that the 100 are divided among the stages along the road and do escort work. He said the Hassacks were getting very troublesome. Quite recently, a band raided Hansantai and carried off a number of Government horses belonging to the picket there.\n\nOctober 12. I called on the Governor, a Manchu named Kwei Yü, aged 47;\n\n121 \n\n... \n## Page 121 \n\n... \n2 I [2185 6-1] \n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422776, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# 177 \n## 124 \n\nOctober 20.-This place was built by a general as a picket 30 years ago and then abandoned. The present keeper does not pay taxes. He says that water is brought from a distance of 10 miles in troughs but I did not verify this.\n\nThe day was vile, snow falling heavily all the morning. We ascended steadily all day and travelling was terrible. We halted after 20 miles at Santai (3rd tai) on the shores of Sairam Noor, a wonderfully picturesque lake in its present cold setting of snow-clad mountains. The natives say it takes two days to go round the lake.\n\nWe had now reached a height of 5,900 feet above sea level, the ground was deep with snow and the cold intense. Some fir forests on the mountain slopes provide plenty of firewood.\n\nOctober 21.-Snow fell steadily all day, and being driven by a southerly wind penetrated to every corner of the carts. Keeping along the lake for some little distance, we parted company for a short time to descend to it again at mile 10, at the picket of Kosekou at the foot of the short steep pass of Talki. Here we had to halt for an hour, to allow some carts in the narrow gorge leading up to the Talki pass from the south to emerge. The distance from the picket to the top of the pass cannot be more than a quarter of a mile, but we took 1 1/4 hours to climb it. The track, which is really steep, zigzags up the hill, and even at ordinary times must be a hard pull for the Chinese carts; with heavy snow on the ground the ascent is slippery and still more difficult. To add to our troubles we fell into a snow-drift some 3 feet deep, and all the flounderings of the mules availed nothing. They had to be unharnessed and the cart dug out; there were two other carts going over and three coming down; as we were all in the same plight, we formed a mutual aid society. Immediately on reaching the top of the pass we descended into the Talki gorge, so famous for its beauty. Descending steadily the whole time the road winds down the coils of the dragon-like gorge, which is scarcely more than 30 yards wide. The steep sides are covered with firs. The mountains retain their height as the traveller descends, and they become more gigantic and splendid at each turn of the road. The roadway, which is artificial, judging by the stones and staves which mark its course, is excellent, except that in winter the snow entirely conceals the edge. Even in summer the traveller is in danger of being hurled into the rock-strewn stream below, but in winter the danger is vastly greater. Strong wooden bridges, in an excellent state of repair, cross the stream at times, their position being indicated by posts. The snow was, however, very difficult, and drifts several feet deep threatened to stop us.\n\nWe struggled through to Errhtai (second tai), some 32 miles down the gorge. The inn and the few other buildings were almost concealed by the snow drifts, and the yard so blocked up that entry was almost impossible. The inn was one of the most wretched I had ever seen.\n\nOctober 22.-The day was superb; what little of the sky that could be seen from the gorge was a deep blue, and the whole ravine sparkled in the sunlight. The cold had been so great during the night that our breath froze on the outer rug of the bed. The mules looked miserable for their sheds were open buildings. We continued our mutual aid society and left—a long line of ten carts—for some of the carts of the Hassacks had to be used to relieve the heavily-laden carts of the bigger loads. The day was, however, wasted as regards travelling, for we had only ploughed our way through deep snow (checked every 20 yards or so by a 5-foot deep drift, which had to be spaded away) for half a mile, when we were stopped by a drift which even, after three-quarters of an hour's work, was too big to allow us to pass. Although it was nearly as difficult to turn, for on either side of the track were deep dangerous drifts into which the mules floundered, we had to risk being hurled down the precipice, and returned to the inn for the rest of the day. The picket of fifteen men were sent forward to open the road; these were joined by the carters. There are said to be fifty soldiers looking after the road, and, as this is their only duty, I had no compunction in sending them out. We must pass to-morrow for we have run short of provisions.\n\nA long line of camels passed up from the south in the evening, and it was reported that the big snow only lay for another 2 miles. In the late afternoon two workers reported that the road was passable.\n\nOctober 23.--We could not leave till late, for the reason that the Hassacks had sat up all night gambling and slept late. When they had to pay their bill, one of them had no money, having lost it all to his colleagues. They were all quarrelsome, and complaining of the food, the prices, and the fodder. There was thus all the makings of a row, and we had to let the brutes move about at their own pace, for fear of their knives.\n\nThese Hassacks come here in the winter and summer to make money by their carts in the heavy snow and rains when the ordinary heavy travelling carts have to pass light, and, indeed, unload altogether. The big Hassack carts are more easy for the road. They charge 33 taels a-piece, and only carry two boxes each. They could really charge what they liked, for one has got to get through somehow. Every one pays a little to the pioneer cart to go first; if he decides to go back they must all go, and if to go forward they must all follow suit.\n\nWhen we did start we got along all right as far as where we were stuck yesterday. Their idea was just but the soldiers' idea of an open road entirely differed from ours, to clear a narrow track for foot-passengers; this was quite useless for carts, so we stuck again, and after many efforts to get through the Hassacks voted for return to camp. We got the best of them, but more by threats of personal violence than by any other kind of persuasion. It was simply a question of the first cart getting through, and the rest could follow. We therefore concentrated our attentions and energies on the first cart (and carter!). The soldiers were said to be working on ahead (their only implements were wooden spades, and they were resting a good deal, being weedy opium sots), but we gradually forced our way through to them. They were working on the last bad bit, an upward incline of some 40 yards, and had to cut through drifts 8 feet high. Even when the path was cut it was terrible work for the mules, for they were practically pulling the whole time belly deep in the snow. It took seven horses to pull the first cart through, but, once done, all was over, for the snow beyond never lay more than 2 feet deep, in addition to which we met hundreds of camels coming up, and these are capital animals for treading down a track.\n\nPassing a couple of habitations down the gorge we reached Totai at mile 8. From Totai there are only soldiers here and no inn, so we had to continue the march. Later we got a view of the plain to the south and over across this to the mountains beyond.\n\nDescending very abruptly after leaving Totai we were out on the plain 12 miles later. We had spent so many hours battling with the snows that night had already fallen as we emerged from the Talki gorges. Keeping over the plain 9 miles we reached Lusakou, one of the hsien cities which form the Government district of Ilifu. Of two inns here one was full; we could obtain no supplies at the other, and the shops were all closed and refused to sell us anything; we therefore had to go to bed supperless.\n\nOctober 24.-We only got through the mountains in time, for heavy snow fell on them all day. We got rid of our Hassack carts here, and resumed our heavy baggage. Two of our ponies died in the night from exposure in the mountains; they had been ailing all yesterday.\n\nThe chief officer of the town and also the colonel sent cards early in the morning with the usual inquiries. Two soldiers of different types called. The one was the representative of the old school. He told me there were 100 soldiers here, 50 cavalry and 50 infantry, but I doubt there being more than the old type, and they only do escort and such work. Besides which 100 on the register by no means indicates the real strength. The other man was more interesting, for he was of the Luchün. He was a sergeant, and told me that seven men were stationed here; 700 had come last year from Hupei, trained by the Hupei military school. Of these 700, 240 had been sent to Ili, the rest being retained at Urumtsi. His pay was 25 taels a-month, that of a soldier 5 t. 20 c. He was dressed in a neat tight-fitting black uniform, and carried a sword. His high boots were of leather, and his cap of foreign type, black, with plenty of gold braid. He was excellently disciplined, very respectful, and stood at attention the whole time we were talking.\n\nKeeping towards the south-east over rough uninteresting ground we reached at mile 9 the line of trees which marks Suidun and entered the town at mile 14 4. The busy trading quarter of Suidun lies to the south of the small walled portion of the town. The inns do a tremendous business, but accommodation is wretched. It is entered by wooden gates and protected by a low mud wall.\n\nIn this town reside the Chentai (General) and the Chibfu. I called on the latter on the 24th October. He is an amiable old gentleman of 66 years, thirty-four of which he has served in Sinkiang. He speaks no foreign language. He confirmed what I had already heard that the Russians keep a guard of a sergeant and ten men at Suidun, in the interests of trade. He seemed to think it quite natural. I subsequently called on the Chentai's secretary, the Chentai being, as I knew, still absent on his Chuguchak trip. The secretary, a military official, is a man of 58, friendly and amiable, but does not speak any foreign language. He has visited Russia frequently, and has a great number of Russian officer friends—he showed me dozens of photographs. His son, a man of 27, takes photographs like a professional, and even enlarges them himself.\n\n## 125 \n\n(2155 6-1) \n2 K", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422777, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## October 25\nI was told that the Russian Consulate guard at the other Ili consisted of fifty men and one officer. Up to last year, there had been 250, but 200 had been recalled. Even during the Russo-Japanese war, the number remained unaltered. The Chentai has 300 men of the old pattern; they live in Suidun. There are a few shops in Suidun (within the town walls), but the area is mostly covered with yamêns and official buildings. It is in the commercial quarter that most people live. The streets are narrow and filthy, though this may have been partly due to the melted snow. The population is chiefly Turki.\n\n## October 25\nI spent the whole day in Hsincheng (\"New Town,\" New Kuldja, or Ilifu), driving thither in a Russian four-wheeled carriage. These vehicles have almost ousted the lumbering Chinese carts. Hsincheng lies some 5 miles to the south, and it took fifty minutes to drive there. The road is good for most part of the way and runs among trees and over rough uncultivated, uninhabited country. We met a fair amount of traffic, chiefly riders or these Russian carts. The latter act as omnibuses and charge 10 cents per head. They will hold as many as eight people.\n\nHsincheng is the residence of the Tartar General and the headquarters of the Government of the Ili district. As regards wealth of trees and abundance of water, the city is far superior to Peking, while the streets are broader and more evenly laid out. The town is surrounded by walls and entered by gates of the usual pattern. All the shops are inside the walls, and there was plenty of life in the streets. The Chinese shopkeepers told me trade was very good. The town is policed by a body of men eighty strong. They are dressed as the Peking police - neat black uniform, foreign military cap, and either big leather boots or the Chinese velvet boot; they carry batons. I was told they all live in a yamên to the north of the city - a kind of barracks; their pay 6 taels a-month. They looked a respectable and well-disciplined set of men. The Tartar General is trying to double the strength.\n\nI visited the telegraph office - a telegram to Peking costs 54 cents a word. Ten clerks live in this establishment; they are allowed to be married men; their wives live there, too. None speak English or Russian, and they said they had no Russian business. All the clerks seemed very stupid. They said it was impossible to send a telegram to England, but later on, they offered to accept one; it would go via Shanghae, and the cost would be 5 dol. 60 c. per word. I subsequently sent my telegram from Old Kuldja by the Russian wire, at the rate of 65 copecks per word.\n\nThe pay of these clerks is 12 taels a-month, all the expenses of the establishment being borne by the Government, including food and lighting.\n\nThere is no Government bank in the town, but the large Chinese shops will do bank work as regards transmitting money to Peking or Tien-tsin. There is no Chinese post-office; all correspondence has to go through the Russian post-office, and so to Peking via Siberia. It seems a great pity that there is no branch of the Imperial Chinese Post Office here; they would assuredly have plenty of work, and the cost of installing it along the Imperial highway would be met by the revenue derived from the large towns along it not already furnished with branches.\n\nThe official **Peking Gazette** reaches the telegraph office through the other telegraph offices, and the news contained in it trickles through a month late unless the matter is urgent.\n\nI subsequently visited the Chiangchün (Tartar General). He is a friendly old man of 66, though he looks a good deal older. Chang Gun is a Manchu with many years' service for the State. Sixteen years ago, he was Amban at Lhassa for one year; subsequently became Chiangchun here and, being succeeded by two others, returned to the same post a year ago. He is energetic and progressive and said to be honest; he is popular with the Chinese merchants, who all speak of him as 'extremely good.' This certainly proves that he is honest. He speaks no foreign language. We conversed chiefly about foreign railways.\n\nOn my way back to Suidun, I left Hsincheng by the west gate to visit the barracks of the Luchun. These are situated about half a mile from the town among trees and scrub; the building was formerly a temple and is surrounded by a high mud wall of the usual town wall type. The enclosure is some 200 yards square and entered by one gate (single entrance) facing the south. Inside the enclosure is the residence of the Major, and on either side of the courtyard and leading up to this are the soldiers' quarters. Several of the men were outside at work on the horizontal bars and other athletic arrangements. I visited the Major. He told me he had 270 men (one of the soldiers outside had told me 340, and I had already been informed 210 from several sources; this latter number is probably the correct one). They had been here a year. They belonged to Yuan Shih Kai's army and spoke proudly of the fact. The Major said that if it had not been the 1st October, a Chinese holiday, he would have paraded his men. I saw some forty of the men; all looked clean, bright, and healthy; there were no opium faces among them, a very different set of men to any of the so-called soldiers I had seen in the dependencies. The number was to be increased if possible by local recruiting. Punishment for desertion is swift and summary; one man recently ran away, was recaptured, and beheaded.\n\nOutside the gateway was leaning an old-fashioned Austrian rifle for one cartridge; it was fitted with a bayonet. The soldiers said they had new ones, magazine for five cartridges. They have no artillery, but the Major said there were some old-fashioned cannon in the yamên (probably only for saluting purposes).\n\nThe only other soldiers in Ili are all the inhabitants of Hsincheng (Sibo Solong) who receive pay from the Government as such but are only so-called soldiers; they are the old banner organisation and need not enter into any account.\n\nThe Russian Consul told me a few days later that the Chiangchun is very frightened of his troops (the Luchun), that he finds it difficult to provide their pay, that they mutiny if they do not receive this when due, and that one or two executions have already taken place.\n\n## October 26\nA merchant tells me that there are no Russian shops or traders in Suidun or Hsincheng; all are in Ningpuanhsien (Old Kuldja).\n\nWe left during the morning for Old Kuldja and, after traversing Hsincheng, turned eastward up the Ili Valley. The road rose very slightly to Tieliangsze at mile 14 from Hsincheng. This is the half-way stopping place for all traffic but it only consists of some eight Turki mud houses, four on either side of the road, rising phoenix-like from a larger collection of ruins. The population sell tea and cakes to passers-by and are in the happy position of paying no taxes. In the hills close by, the coal, excellent smokeless, which is used throughout the district, is mined. I was told that it did not belong to the Government but that anybody who liked could send and take it away. It is sold at an amazingly low price in the towns.\n\nDescending from the low hills, we were abreast at mile 17 of another of the 9 hsien cities which compose the Government of Ili, Baiandai, behind a long mud wall. No trees mark its position, and it is difficult to sight it among its dreary surroundings. Half-way between Baiandai and Ningyuanhsien, we passed Chuncheng, another hsien city, a small deserted town said to be haunted by the spirits of the Chinese massacred in the last rebellion thirty years ago. Reaching the outskirts of Ningyuen, another hsien city (Old Kuldja), we saw in the neat houses with glass windows signs of the existence of Russians. On reaching the gate of the city at mile 22, we did not enter but, turning to the left, skirted the walls, passed the Russo-Chinese Bank and the Russian post and telegraph office, and found our way through a labyrinth of dirty squalid streets to a poor inn. It had taken us six hours to perform the journey in a Russian carriage for the road is very indifferent. From Balandai onwards, the country was entirely covered with the ruins of the disastrous days of thirty years ago, which not even trees and rough grass could conceal. It was possible to have a coal fire in the inn although there was no chimney, the coal being absolutely smokeless.\n\n## October 27\nI called on the Taotai at 10 o'clock; he is an old man and it was too early for him; he is a Manchu called Ching. To-day is the Mahommedan New Year's Day, a three days' holiday; the streets were full of merry-makers and children dressed in the gayest of colours, were driving about in carts and carriages; everyone was exchanging greetings in the market place. Beggars, strolling minstrels, and singers were going their rounds from house to house, with a successful persistency which should encourage our Christmas waits. The most deserted-looking spot was the Taotai's yamên, forlorn, grass-grown, and empty, in striking contrast to the merry streets.\n\nI subsequently called at the Russian Consulate, which is situated in the labyrinth of tall trees, among which the various buildings for guard and interpreters are scattered in a confusing manner. The Consulate lies to the north of the town and away from the busy streets of the trading borough. The Bureau was closed in view of the Mahommedan holiday, and later I found the bank also closed. The Consul, Federoff, is a quiet, elderly, well-preserved man, with a quiet manner. The Chinese officials like him, and say he is a good man. He has only just come back from leave; he had retired, but having lost her only son at Vierny, where he lies buried, Madame Federoff has insisted on spending the rest of her life here. The Consul's health is bad, and this will tend to non-activity on his part.\n\nThe Russian post and telegraph office was open in spite of the holidays. No one speaks any European language there except Russian, nor indeed is Chinese spoken; fortunately, a Russian-speaking Chinese customer was able to act as interpreter.\n\nPage 178 \nPage 126 \nPage 127 \nPage 180 \nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424635, "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": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## (b) \nAs regards land it is a book transaction as far as the Colony is concerned and if the Wharf and Godown Company pay the rent the Salisbury Road becomes a remunerative asset. The position is bettered in that regard.\n\n(e) \nAs regards the disposal of the lots supposing we are committed to their resumption. The Honourable The Director of Public Works has gone into the matter and has pointed out that a return of seven and a half per cent on the outlay may be expected on leasing when the lots begin to let. I need only point out that if Scheme No.1 is to be adopted the lots to the west of Nathan Road will suffer from the same disabilities.\n\nAs regards leasing them out for the first ten years during which they will not be required for Railway purposes, they would have to lie until till such a time as an offer came forward under the proposal for Schemes 3 and 4. However, it is not easy to reconcile with the price that the owners claim for them, so that we can reasonably hope that the time will not be long.\n\nThe actual Revenue to be derived is about $55,000 and this is indeed a profitable investment which should not be lightly put aside. Suppose that we occupied the land by putting a Railway Station on it, it would have to be shown that the petition of site would be responsible for a return of twice that amount, for $55,000 would represent the loss on working expenses and however sanguine a view may be taken of the profit-earning capacity of the line, $110,000 is a very big addition to gross receipts to ask for. In this connection, it is well to point out as a caution to over-capitalizing that when the transfer to Tsim Sha Tsui was advocated, it was proposed to make use of the saving of Dollars two hundred and seventy thousand which represented the difference of the permanent and temporary station buildings towards the acquisition of the lots. That such a reappropriation cannot be considered as a saving is evident, because", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426363, "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": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "(Message Form 5/17.)\n\nTELEGRAPH\n\nLIMITED REGISTERED AT STATIONERS HALL\n\nREMARKS.\n\n142\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.\n\nLONDON STATIONS:\n\nAEF STATION: 11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C.\n\nBRANCH STATIONS:\n\n5, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C.\n\n24703\n\n4, ELECTRA HOUSE, MOORGATE.\n\nMARKET BUILDINGS, 29, Mincing Lane - 26, Mark Lane, E.C.\n\n41 & 42, PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W.\n\nForeign Auction Hall, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.\n\nTHE BALTIC, ST. MARY AXE.\n\n37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C.\n\n449, STRAND, W.C.\n\nNo.\n\n6, DENMAN STREET, PICCADILLY, W.\n\nBOROUGH HIGH STREET, S.E.\n\nThe following TELEGRAM Received at...\n\n19\n\nFrom Foreign No.\n\nNo. of Words\n\nTec: Launcel\n\nmy tel Zary\n\nth\n\nhave advised\n\n_riá “ Eastern.”\n\nDated__L_Time_\n\nm.\n\namangements can be made\n\nChi\n\nChinese Mint on\n\nno loss\n\nto the\n\nmilitary contribution\n\nwill entail\n\nwhether or not;\n\nC\n\nBin\n\nForlan next E\n\nSept 10 the\n\narrangements have been made\n\nshall close\n\nfrom the\n\nLA\n\ninformed that\n\nwill be made i\n\npronsin \"Este for werch tear subect & you abframe\n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern\n\nDoubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. See Rule Book.\n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy\n\nWisterion & Sons Ltd., Printers, London Wall, London\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428610, "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": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 535, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "C.O.\n\nC. 0.\n\nc. c. 532\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[8720]\n\n(No. 64.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nRECEIVED 21 APR 10\n\n[March 14.]\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nSir E. Goschen to Sir Edward Grey,-(Received March 14.)\n\nBerlin, March 10, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that the estimates for the protectorate of Kiaochow were discussed yesterday in the Budget Committee of the Reichstag.\n\nThe debate was, on the whole, favourable to the Government, and Admiral Tirpitz was able in most cases to dispose of the criticisms directed against the administration of the protectorate. Stated shortly, these criticisms were that the expenses of the protectorate, which amounted this year to 150,000,000 marks, were out of proportion to the results achieved; that sufficient attention was not paid to the wishes of the merchants engaged in business there, and that in fact their rights were more restricted and their interests less regarded than those of merchants of German nationality trading in the settlements of Shanghae and Canton; finally, that the often reiterated wish of the Kiaochow Chamber of Commerce to be given more independence of action had been totally disregarded.\n\nIt was further alleged that there were far too many officials in the protectorate, that the public buildings were in excess of what was required, and moreover built in a far too costly style, that the administration was run on extravagant lines, and that economy was urgently required in every department so as to reduce the amounts yearly contributed by the home Government to cover the expenses of the protectorate. On the other hand, the machinery for the administration of justice was compared favourably with that of other German colonies, and satisfaction was expressed at the establishment of a mortgage bank and a new high school. In this connection it was suggested that it would be well if those engaged in commerce and industry in the protectorate were themselves to do more to promote education by helping to establish schools in the hinterland of the colony, and it was pointed out that while the mission schools were doing good work they would be able to do much more if they were properly supported. The chief part of the criticisms came from the National Liberals and the Socialists, the latter declaring that the best thing, in view of the great expenses and small results, would be to give up the protectorate altogether. The Conservatives, on the other hand, gave unstinted praise to the administration, and said that though it was quite clear that from a military point of view the protectorate was valueless, it was nevertheless of the greatest value as a point from which to exercise influence on the future development of China. England, America, and Japan were all straining every nerve in that direction, and Germany ought to be thankful to the Minister of Marine and the officials under him for having administered Kiaochow in such a manner as to make it a model of German culture and civilisation.\n\nAdmiral Tirpitz denied that any extravagance existed in the administration of the protectorate. The expenditure of the year was not 150,000,000 but 130,000,000. The greatest economy had been observed, and the sums contributed by the home Government were year by year steadily decreasing, and the committee might be sure that autonomy in local affairs would be given at the earliest moment possible. He then made a short statement with regard to the economic development of the protectorate, pointing out that the import trade had considerably increased during the last quarter, that the big steam-ship companies were paying more and more attention to it, and that a considerable quantity of railway material had already been landed there for the new Tien-tsin-Pukow line. That, in fact, without Tsingtau Germany would not have been able to push her way into the Chinese railway business so quickly and so successfully as she had done. For this reason they had built the magnificent harbour, now admitted to be one of the best in the world. It was more important to get a start of some years in the matter of influencing the future economic development of China than to economise a few thousand marks. He added that the opinion of foreigners respecting the work done by Germany in the protectorate was most favourable, and that it had been said that Kiaochow bid fair to become the Shanghae of the north. After going into detail as to the public works constructed, and now under construction, in the protectorate, he said that the Government were doing all in their power to promote...\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nRECEIVED 21 APR 10\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[8306]\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[March 16.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to the Portuguese Chargé d'Affaires.\n\nForeign Office, March 16, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 7th instant, in which you draw my attention to further acts of aggression on the part of the Chinese in the disputed districts of Macao, and to inform you that a copy of your communication will be sent to His Majesty's Minister at Peking via Siberia on the 19th instant.\n\nIn the meantime a telegram has been addressed to him enquiring when the Chinese Minister to France is expected to arrive in Peking.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\n[2675 q-1]\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430596, "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": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "content_text": "142\n\ntatoqqa viovliosquet (win moltosa fort\n\n.2\n\nEls his motzonut hina olic Ja bouoltotu od o atuona I loode\n\n(Caufa anno La to naštovklah odt deiw mottuommon mi prac & Br\n\ndown to DAZUDCS at mi bag inono\" 1:raa oricooGE?”\n\narawilan artcooqnoz ofit to Tocuso kultnca net atmona falnoqu\n\n.Bantulqno Calonge dorm to ooalq o è ni Jos I ́nda\n\nto rotean moltate no noo afyme (ažnoga of\n\n.&\n\nak smot nila at Hood s pod dose I'mre anottoea arttoogaer odt\n\nbas Lavbyra de 10? ~ mtovolt Claria ban oferor \"** obhorfan\n\n.możżony Slam of* to anime I 3 to out*3\\ob\n\nord of doomoo ad of bo!****o* od tab yiore al ondo fala and.\n\natos“txo bas git.tot arodna noteaza \"o noutofino falooga bisa\n\nto anasavet sitteen ovito qoon oils of #a of ftada mortement\n\nnd [Cada atoantxo for . th of love mi nome Browi£99 out of?\n\nnotesta ~o apoyafarro Isiɔoqn blan oft vnd botnote oltua vitalot,\n\nOZUŽBA 70′′oraw to: cotelhha no bim moldetecía o .019d0ad\n\nna to novo oriz x end atutakse bins effé až obar ed [facit\n\nxinto.it sbæ 90 où moisible no bins moissmajia ofdwhiowySIU\n\nod win to? \"thha “o hua moltanssin doula nano fora a' bus nort\n\nbut at etudean rotsara to Booquiqrım Latɔnqa bi¬n ode vd oban\n\n„nole rd boltisico od IIarle baa Zai\n\n.r\n\nvid mos ta gistcino al baill wan 0 1:0 EA\n\nof berbiano» ed Ifxla molsooo gniricoot Jde of tovo hobnall on\n\nzoq oa ortdi bua nol÷907 mirloom, tudo to yhoturo ofe at od\n\nmoltooɑ \"atvioons\n\nJariona bontalo od (futa ? of rhodou\n\nvitalimin od Italu world doar #Q!! Como bae dajo \"ot gooto {ƒ\n\n→ng to bobrol \"odttir amonov ne bir aosatawan f'e no bont erfo\n\n•\n\ndeba tolto od dužaus [ada nottoon dost\n\n.bobnoł\n\nto sottoput blao nde nost porada od or Buat old to agidat\n\nItala God for oft bus amotten 201 [la od ovundɔrndri\n\nGranama\" oltter? edo goowted #soner nga force d bonubot caolas\n\nbban eft de notar (enɔl out to rua ode od zanawilas ow? add to\n\nnokdommį,\n\n(with such exceptions as the Traffic Managers of both Railways\n\nmay make from time to time by mutual agreement or each may\n\nmake) shall be booked for the daily through treins only from\n\nany station on one Railway to any station on the other mailway\n\nexcept such small stations as may be excluded by the said raf-\n\nTic Managers by mutual agreement.\n\n10.\n\nCoaching and goods Traffic of all kindo\n\nby the local trains shall be transshipped at the said Junction\n\nand no coaching or goods traffic by the local trains shall be\n\nbooked through by either section.\n\n11.\n\nThe two sections shall exchange monthly\n\nbalances sheets showing particulars of tickets sold and goods\n\nbooked as provided for in the preceding clause and the said\n\naccounts shall be settled on the\n\nof every\n\nsubsequent month.\n\n12.\n\nThe locomotives of one section shall be\n\nallowed to run on the line of the other section for the pur-\n\n-pose of connecting a stock within the limits of the inter-\n\n-changing function but not otherwise.\n\n13.\n\nTelegrams on the joint business of the two\n\nRailway shall be exchanged free.\n\n14.\n\nFach section shell separately and individual-\n\n-ly be responsible for dareges or adcidents caused on its own\n\nsodtion.\n\n15.\n\nThe British Section shall pay to the\n\nChinese Section monthly rent for all buildings and station\n\nplants used by them at the said junction.\n\n16.\n\nThis agreemont shall not be valid until\n\nafter the same is ratified by the Director-General.\n\nebnisfia to often aboon bas gatɗogo0\n\n0", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432194, "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": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "page_number": 402, "title": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "content_text": "# 396\n\n## Vodollsort: Bil \n\nAflood mriol, doineberk ri Juli prolt to quodob ...d ent Jo,pileWquiset pin ular Cid to tak me daktar 17: Jhool! toine and Pas aranoididag muod non ej niex SAJ OG bengdu fondnu is 103004 Jado ni zariybi... coll gelar di Innal sofa end kms Save-www ni letosecons nood aan nudesetih sind ni naidunta Tounkar is nu in vnolol \n\n## accommodation of the said Nethersole and Alice Memorial Maternity Hospitals by Chinese patients makes it imperative to erect new and separate buildings for the housing of the existing students and for the reception of new pupils.\n\n4. That a sum of twelve thousand dollars is being collected by the promoters of the Training Institute for native nurses and midwives for the erection of the necessary buildings, of which amount fully one-half has already been promised, and there is every prospect of obtaining the rest of the subscriptions within a reasonable time.\n\n5. That plans have been prepared by Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs, authorised architects, to carry out the aforesaid scheme; but as there is no suitable site in the neighbourhood of the said Hospitals which could be acquired for the erection of the new quarters, your petitioners venture to approach Your Excellency for a free grant of a certain piece of Crown Land situate at the back of the Ho Miu Ling Hospital (I.L. No. 1709) containing a total area of 6,000 square feet or thereabouts and which is more particularly delineated on one of the plans thereon coloured red.\n\n6. That the new buildings when completed will afford ample accommodation for 24 women-students and living quarters for the Matron in charge of the Institution.\n\n7. That at your petitioners' request a return has been drawn up by the Medical Superintendent of the said Hospitals showing the number of women-students that are going through a three years' course of training and who are being housed either in the Nethersole or the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital; the number of applicants for admittance but who on account of the want of rooms, has not yet been admitted; and the number of nurses and midwives who have received a full training in the Institute and have obtained Government Certificates granted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433545, "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": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "## Unofficial Member's Speech\n\nI rise to address certain **policies in this Colony**. These policies are, I understand, cashed by the relatives of deceased Chinese, and no probate duty is paid. That is a matter I think which deserves looking into, and steps should be taken by the Government so that they are not defrauded of any revenue in that direction. It is a small thing, still I am gratified to learn that your Excellency has decided to discontinue felling trees. I was one of those most strongly opposed to the policy inaugurated by Sir Matthew Nathan and Sir Henry May, which resulted in vast tracts of land being denuded annually. The only excuse for it was that we made a trumpery revenue out of the transaction. It was pointed out by those who supported this policy that you could not plant new trees until you had pulled down the old ones, but that did not seem a particularly sound form of argument.\n\nWith regard to the public buildings, I made a note at the time of your Excellency's speech, and the remarks I made in connection with the Post Office were not fully reported in Hansard. Your Excellency spoke of the advisability of making a thoroughly good building while you were about it, or what you called a building for the future. The consequence is that part of the Post Office is at present empty, and it is suggested to rent that part. The unofficial members entirely endorse the policy of building for the future, but they do not endorse the policy that the Government should compete with private owners by taking in tenants when there are vacant buildings elsewhere.\n\nTurning to the question of expenditure, there is a small increase in the cost of the local audit, and from what we understand, it is desirable that the change be made, as it will have a good effect. The vote of $2,000 to the Medical Congress is not a large sum, and we fully endorse the vote. We feel confident that medical meetings held here must result in the great improvement of the general health of the Far East.\n\nComing now to the question of the University, your Excellency has asked us to agree to vote a sum of $9,000 for a professor's chair. That meets with our entire approval, and we would suggest that at the earliest moment, it is desirable that the Government should appoint a regius professorship at a cost which we estimate at £1,200, or a little more. Any time your Excellency asks us to vote this amount, I am quite sure the unofficial members will gladly support it.\n\nThe Police is, of course, a matter which constantly attracts our attention, and is frequently at times very severely criticised. We, of course, entirely approve of the slight increase in the Force which your Excellency asked for. I do not propose to say more. I have run a big police force myself and know the difficulties in dealing with such affairs in Asiatic countries, and perhaps the hon. member opposite will not take it hardly if I ask that the police exercise proper control over chair coolies and ricksha coolies. Correspondence has passed between us on the subject during the last few days, and I trust that the steps now being taken may result in better regulation of that part of the traffic.\n\nI now come to the Lunatic Asylum, and I am glad to hear your Excellency has that matter under consideration. It was a question which I intended to bring up at this meeting. We cannot but consider that considerable improvement might be made in that direction. As a temporary housing for lunatics, the building is apparently all that could be desired. Some of the unofficial members, before making criticisms on the asylum, thought it would be advisable to again visit the place, and we did so, the P.C.M.O. being good enough to show us over it. As far as the Chinese are concerned, they are kept here for a short time, and their accommodation and housing is the best possible. The only suggestion we have to make in that direction is that they should be sent at more frequent intervals to Canton so as to reduce their stay in Hong Kong.\n\nWith regard to the European section, in our opinion, it is entirely inadequate for the purpose. It is so constructed that there is practically no means for any of the unfortunate women inhabitants to have any exercise at all except in a sitting room. The men have a small yard which is shut in by high walls, and they see practically nothing. The women have a view of the harbour from the verandah, but none of the inmates have any work to do, and there is no means of getting work. We consider that this is a matter that should be changed, as if Europeans be put into that building, it is indeed a case of \"all hope abandon ye who enter here.\" There is no possibility of anyone with a weak mind recovering after entering a place like that. We are glad to know that your Excellency has the matter under consideration, and trust to be informed of what steps you propose to take. There are two solutions to the question. One is that the site, which is a valuable one, be disposed of, and a building erected higher up the hill or on the mainland with more ample grounds where the inmates, if they pleased to do so, might engage in agricultural pursuits. The alternative would be to treat the Europeans as the Chinese are, that is to say, return them to their native land at the expense of the Hong Kong Government, and have arrangements made with asylums in Europe, America, and elsewhere, where they could be treated in larger establishments with others of their own nationality.\n\nYour Excellency spoke at considerable length on the question of education, and as far as that goes, we have nothing but praise to offer. All the steps taken by Government for improving the educational facilities of the Colony are extremely satisfactory, especially the improvement made by preventing overcrowding in the lower classes, these classes being increased with a view to earning increased capitation grants. The formation of a board of control to overlook all Chinese primary schools and bring them to a uniform standard cannot but be considered of very great good.\n\nWe have heard a good deal lately of compulsory education. Personally, I think it is impossible to bring about such a scheme in Hong Kong, and I do not think it is necessary, because all Chinese, even of the lower classes, have an idea that the best they can do is to give their children education falling within their reach. That an Educational Board may in time be required is quite possible, and we will welcome any suggestion from your Excellency on that point, as we feel sure it will be of great assistance to the Head of the Education Department. As it is, we spend not more than about 24 per cent. of our total revenue on education. Therefore, we are perfectly prepared to support your Excellency in respect of any reasonable increase in this direction which you may think it desirable to recommend.\n\nI now come to the question of Public Works. The first point referred to by your Excellency was the typhoon refuge. I am informed, and from inquiries made, have reason to believe that my information is correct, that the work of dumping stone into the trench, although it has not altogether come to a standstill, is certainly not carried on as rapidly as it should be. The original estimate for the work was $1,900,000, and the present estimate of cost is $2,300,000. I think I am right in saying we were informed that the work would be completed in five years. At the end of this year, three years will have passed, and less than a million will have been spent. From what I have learned outside, and I think my information can be verified, the contractor, who had every... \n\nPage 122", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433546, "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": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "possible facility given him by the Government for obtaining soil from the shore, is not carrying on the work as rapidly as possible. As a matter of fact, I have reason to believe there is a large quantity of rock now available which he could buy to-morrow if he wished at a very reasonable price, but he refrains from doing so, because he believes that by waiting he will get it very much cheaper. This is clearly a case where pressure ought to be put on the man to see that he carries on the work properly.\n\nI am glad to see that at last, after so many years' delay, the Post Office and the Law Courts will disappear from the Connaught Road. I have spoken so often on the subject that I do not propose to say much more, except to express regret that after an expenditure of $2,000,000 on what ought to be the finest buildings in the Colony, we have such a miserable return for our money. Looking at the Post Office at close quarters, the building is very attractive, but viewed from a distance, it is disappointing. If anybody is disposed to dispute my statement, I would ask him to take a launch, go out into the middle of the harbour, and compare its appearance with Queen's Buildings.\n\nAs for the Law Courts, I really do not know what to say about them, and who is responsible for the design, I do not know. It was credited to a leading architect at Home, but I cannot conceive that he could have invented such a thing as that. All the buildings round about are tall buildings, built on high basements, but this unfortunate building of solid granite is sunk right down, apparently by its own weight, until it stands knee-deep in mud and is finished off at the top with a dome, a risible common dome probably supposed to look like St Peter's of Rome. The whole effect is most deplorable, and I can only express the hope that the \"finest site in the Colony\" will be built over, so that, at least from the harbour, the view of the Law Courts will be concealed.\n\nNow we come to the question of the Magistracy. On page 85 of this year's report, there is an entry of $38,000 to be spent on this building. On the same page of last year's budget, there was a vote of $20,000, none of which was spent, but I would call attention to the fact that in these budgets, there is no estimate as to the total cost of the building, and although asked to vote $38,000 this year, we are still quite in the dark as to what this building is going to cost.\n\nThe question of extending new roads and light railways in the New Territory meets with the approval of unofficial members, and we are glad your Excellency has devoted so much attention and spent considerable sums of money in this direction. We are sure it will be a great boon to people living in the New Territory. There is one item to which I would draw attention, namely the excellent carriage road as far as Taipo, and suggest that it be continued to the frontier.\n\nWith regard to the appearance of Royal Square, to which I have just alluded, I am glad to know that the question of putting a satisfactory railing round the open space has been decided upon, and I would like to suggest, as I have done in the past, that a low railing should be put in front of the four royal statues. These are used as playgrounds by sampan children. The statues are made of polished granite, and we all know how rapidly the stone will soil. That was suggested at the time the pillars were put up, and I would still urge that a railing be put in front to prevent people soiling the statues.\n\nThere is great necessity for a new pier at Statue Square. This, however, if constructed, as it must be before very long, in view of the enormous increase of launch traffic in the Colony, will be a very expensive business, probably costing something like a couple of lakhs. In any case, whatever is put up, I trust it will not be such a horrible and unsightly structure as Blake Pier.\n\nAt the present moment, we are committed to about 4 millions for the Tytam Reservoir, for the Typhoon Refuge, and the Magistracy, and in the present state of the revenue, it is not advisable to incur any other big expense at the moment, but a pier is badly required at Kowloon. For many years, the police pier has been in use, but at present, it is in a state of disrepair, and people going to Kowloon have been quite unable to make use of it with private launches.\n\nI understand that the question of the site of a passenger station for the railway, and consequently the position of the passenger pier, is still under consideration, and I trust that the question will be settled at the earliest possible date. If it is decided that the station and passenger pier are to be placed on the east side of the peninsula, then I would suggest that a small pier, not of great cost, should be erected at the south end of the peninsula in line with the south end of Nathan Road. That is a matter of some urgency, as at the present moment, Kowloon residents are put to very great inconvenience.\n\nThe Tytam Tuk work is estimated to cost next year $107,000. Referring to this, I would merely repeat what I said before, that I consider it very advisable that the construction of this big public work should be pressed on, and I do not consider $107,000 sufficient to be expended in one year. I will refer more particularly to the general working of the Public Works Department later on.\n\nThere is one point to which I would ask your Excellency to give your attention, although it does not really fall within the four corners of the Budget, that is, the question of linking up the railway between Canton and Hankow. At present, our railway is of little use, but if we got through to Hankow, it will bring us in direct communication with Europe, and this must of necessity increase the earnings of our railway. I trust that as soon as possible after matters have quietened down in China, your Excellency will be good enough to give it consideration.\n\nI think I have now dealt with practically all the main points to which your Excellency referred in your speech, but there are one or two others I would like to mention. As we know, one of the leading clubs here is laying out golf links at Fanling, and I should like to put on record my views on the subject. Now is the time when Government should peg out a claim of land round the golf links of considerable area to be converted into a park, and should not allow building sites within that area to be let. I speak with some knowledge because a good many years ago, I had to consider the advisability of providing a park for the future in one of the communities in which I was then resident. I had the satisfaction, when last I visited the place, of seeing a fine park with tennis grounds, golf links, and all possible conveniences.\n\nAnother point which has been referred to in the Press is the dredging of the harbour. This matter I discussed seriously with Sir Cyprian Bridge when he was Commander-in-Chief out here, but I see there is not the slightest necessity for the Government incurring expense in this direction at present.\n\nAnother important matter which has been before the Chamber of Commerce, which I have the honour to represent, is the question of wireless telegraphy. That, as your Excellency is aware, has formed a topic of correspondence between us for many months past. The Committee of the Chamber of Commerce consider that the very lowest station we should have here is one of 1,500 miles radius, that is...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438659, "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": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 458, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nEnclosure 13.\n\nand xo Isqioning and de, con blwoo se dalo dos? owe od gaivo amm\n\n.B96Kiawd and rovo nedod bar et dund Jeazajni\n\n• Lim pugen heulay ci død Ilimbong er ni babyfoni dan al moodë\n\noufus wil - Ioda nuilovoLaul Cu 1001 Levon Leftogd suf\n\n.clun. 006I 8Q LC mapa Iool! .1. ya pesmidae 16,da\n\nJOON JA JOJ obetuwa rin cavicv semooi on -:laver Cid ag\n\nDA ai euiw episowo o bea námet piroog ni ensioil ma\n\nci semnooit en od nr 1ooon ouler edi-:Leto brotum OGLAN\n\nSir,\n\n400,1% of JOY, IN 1991 † - ouiny and\n\nlid oed de 11 anie. [Iut esu od uc BIG DINT\n\n9. .000,0% mi nolo winy w'tovil\n\nolup hari\n\n• Q'I\n\n-:load at flavt to a\n\ndade ent • 20, A od dno,kā zv vi að vidre\n\nX\n\n.enle nithed no Ojea creya Vande\n\n(nevi, „ajoivan, or git (as (vit cautio fame a mi wasi, A) .006ă\n\n208,Ik o₫ 120,IR MUTT JB * LIAV\n\noon Iq el ‚000, là ni rolaulav e'weersoll ADALA\n\n100,08 60 0.48 d di\n\nte sulav o. 10 90%.id 30 T:\n\none to dane pond to. in NCR of doir,106, & ei ota İnwi S.J\n\nVOL.28 OJ 107,83 to nokusu!>v ɛ'egall,11\n\nel 100,18 si 9jalične a'geenoid onT\n\n4\n\nABIO pildpi saold dana boreda ruidosqani wo}\n\n.conneoid\n\nX\n\nTot hol mindeo enoriu „„ying and shetra thig ytov a X of ors VII soldung aan Arevaf Halte ent apext to *Y* bezte. Mied ero-\n\n.lis en anoniou zv On\n\nLagistracy,\n\n447\n\nHongkong, 30th December, 1910.\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 17th September last, I have the honour by direction of the Licensing Board to inform you that the Board has had under reconsideration the question of the renewal, after the 30th day of November, 1915, of the licences of the Imperial Hotel (formerly called the Cosmopolitan Hotel), 65, Des Voeux Road Central, The New Travellers Hotel, 70, Queen's Road Central, The Globe Hotel, 184, Queen's Road Central, and the Rose, Shamrock and Thistle Hotel, 304 & 306 Queen's Road Central, and at a meeting held on the 21st instant unanimously decided to withdraw the notice of the 8th October last given to the Licensees of these houses of the non-renewal of their licences in 1915.\n\n2.\n\nThe Board find that in the four houses above mentioned a bona fide Hotel business in addition to a Publican's business is being carried on.\n\n3.\n\nThe Board considers that as at present conducted the New Travellers and Imperial Hotels are good second-rate Hotels, and that the Rose, Shamrock and Thistle is a fair third-rate Hotel. The Globe Hotel may be also classed as a third-rate hotel but the buildings are old and the cubicles which serve as sleeping rooms are not of a good type.\n\nThe Board considers that these 4 Hotels apply supply accommodation for a respectable class in the Community, and they are prepared to renew the Licences, if the establishments continue to be conducted to their satisfaction, on such conditions for the regulation of the houses as the Board may consider desirable.\n\nThe question of compensation for the non-renewal\n\n.A (.58)\n\n* H1GB\n\n.2000boot . A .0\n\nAICI.OLYS\n\n-newal", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438964, "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": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "page_number": 277, "title": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "content_text": "Page 4\n\nBUNĂ 762 4 June 1881\n\n... XI, Ioodoo ni man pword of betteÏN TAJ BOT I\n\n1\n\n1903\n\nnoided? ait ni nodrup add ni bevil of .nerblino und beixTEM na ni Jugɛ I Xhind I, 2001 Matoucan wel 10 19 swa vid ainub 3 Joete of noisei.neq 101 (Godosus) 00 .4 mɔok no noia :oilqqa .D JEQJ TOLMINUD ONS KİTUD ni evil oð vlient bua otir ya qul banoj an 3 doere od uoinsiuisų sod ng by you I aroî end land cavisoer I edion elev miet end no sedunia 9.7 .ock on yag of Fra banedan 1 e 03 Ji Jnoa .1.0.0 and Äning I .Jroda entor end la bw . .V\n\nbet: \"wo% od* 0.2.0 eit of Ji Jina SIO Blid nd IV .vona Jon bib I soiurariol and no alau ini ever event .\"noitoajdo dood en now HODIO) 118,182 of novo teynų Bad Dobem I ánidd I reuzboot ni au ma ?\n\n...\n\nfrom the Station. The other man was close by. The building occupied by the Sergeant became a school and he had to move to where the man lived at the end of the lane. The three I.F.C.s went to the matshed at the back of the station, 80 yards distant. It was built by a Chinese and rented to them at $2 a month. It was during my time that one of the three men went and lived in the farthest away house, owing to their wives quarrelling. There was a matshed partly blown away. I lived in the station until the theatres finished in June, and I then got a contractor to erect a matshed on the hill for $30. I had two children. I knew Sergeant Angus had permission\n\nthat\n\nand the A. D. O. came almost every week. First Mr. Tratman and then Mr. Orme. I told Mr. Tratman that I was going to repair the matshed and put my wife and family there in the hot weather. He said it was a good idea. I believe Sergeant Angus left the written permission with me. It was in the top drawer of the desk. I took it that the permission extended to me. I do not know what became of the form with the permission. I think it remained in the drawer for a year, but eventually it disappeared. I presumed that I had permission to live in the matshed at night. I did not ask for special permission for myself to be absent from the quarters in the station.\n\nI remember Sir F. Lugard coming to Cheung Chau on the Dragon Boat festival last year. It was the 5th day of 5th month, in June. I showed H. E. the charge room and arms; the Post Office, Harbour Office and boatmen's quarters. I told him the I. P. C.s used to live in the Station, but now outside. He asked me where and I told him. He looked at my quarters. Mr. Clementi and Mr. Fletcher were with H. E. Mr. Clementi mentioned to H. E. that I lived in\n\nthe matshed on the top of the hill. I am sure I spoke to H. E. about the matshed and he asked if it was comfortable. I told him the matshed assisted me greatly. We then stood near the school house and I pointed out the matshed occupied by the two Indian Constables. H. E. then asked if there were any other Government buildings and I said there were none. We went towards the temple and as we passed\n\nPage 5\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439283, "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": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "192\n\nloty mu\n\nI\n\n10:\n\n*** MOD6 b\n\nG. BİL\n\n1:\n\nJod\n\n4\n\nJO DA\n\nM\n\n.5q069 LA\n\n:\n\nJouw pla doup clo\n\nJid\n\nors on evoll.\n\ni we f noieukone w\n\n{\n\nĮ\n\nit balak. To aÂwne uslat ebu un dos et ima\n\nproident\n\n:\n\n*AMU AJ\n\n:-\n\neni\n\nCVS NJİLLA 9. .bebr.cost ex a bum nove uloine i zvou s\n\no el bin end donis að hundoi oli dedoud live in bus\n\n* du Bib 6. and Locman pon si mie B LOUD BYOD\n\ni ma isalon og stenosing ¿and blus mA I RUDİN İQBLU\n\nQUNUD LÄÄN JI) & SAUNG Yio. gnisu 19ts lies en dan 10 7001:\n\ning oil ee‘O CULTUQJİ DA NI Jand E. Lanoo I Jug (VmJN? DÀ Dewoll\n\nu juu ni di asaj to Toute vang : beyliquib eeeei¶ .”. ST: min œil ofİvan Juusovos eʼajnih tout sellob of .@poluiçek\n\nJA TO.WO\n\ncod pan 1 hoidvolkujan (ww\n\n#1 10 94\n\n18-де\n\nprisoner appeared to be still asleep. He admits that he was not careful to see his head or face, and cannot say that he did see either.\n\nThere is an order in the printed prison rules that officers on their patrols are to be particularly careful to see the heads or faces of the prisoners. I think it is pretty certain that what he did see on that visit was not the sleeping prisoner nor the prisoner at all but the cunningly arranged simulacrum above referred to. Not being able to see the prisoner's head he ought to have entered the cell at once, when the whole affair would have been at once apparent and the escape from the Gaol could probably have been prevented even though the prisoner was by that time clear of his cell. P. W. Piesse declares that when he looked in the cell at 4.10 the bucket lid was still in its old position against the outer wall. I think Sher Singh's statement that it was on the floor is more likely to be the true version, but if the lid was still there it is probable that the prisoner was disturbed when he had made all his final arrangements and was on the point of crawling out.\n\nIn that case he would have been crouching in the corner of the cell, hidden from outside view, and if Piesse had entered the cell he would have caught him. As regards Sher Singh I consider he showed want of judgment in not at once reporting the position of the bucket lid as a suspicious circumstance, but that does not much affect the case as P. W. Piesse admits that he noticed it and knew it himself all the time. Beyond that I do not think that any negligence has been established against him.\n\nI believe that Warder Thorne did make a thorough and conscientious search of the prisoner's cell and clothing as he states. I have not been able to ascertain how the prisoner obtained the piece of bucket lid. I am still prosecuting enquiries but I am afraid it is likely to remain a mystery. I think he could not possibly have picked it up himself, as he only left his cell one hour a day for exercise in the yard which is quite near. The Chief Warder's theory is that it was passed to him by a prisoner from another cell. We suspect a certain cleaner to be at the bottom of it but have no proof yet.\n\nThe wall of the cell is about 24 feet thick but is part of the very old portion of the Gaol buildings, and is", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439294, "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": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "203\n\n198\n\nMom, song tu su lit.\n\n15\n\n: ni wivio ed to adudodi. Po (900,929 TOLKUU T 93; 2\n\nOMLJOM Sık\n\n1 1 90 20\n\ned-dos\n\nwon selog liget 61.3 -12\n\n* mums ad ime noiduainetan to aliat b tengo Ila 11.3 BOTİ İLA\n\nVILA au 20 aging extorija MAMİNİA YA MILĀNA, BAG VG WIDE N\n\n..\n\nC\n\n***\n\n+\n\nAgen slac bien om od antis. In vicis # DONJA 00 ¿ïouil da uv lian\n\nBJCNUZTU 410 26.\n\nnd go da pel quit ni me to zezerul ext\n\napɔig modin 490 tou o oʻq. 19.00 mod de un\n\n# Low ng \"jales s'ynoquod on CU BIİRQUI\n\nof god og entupet\n\nto noki8vy on. ni\n\n1970 9.0\n\nsrimper vr\n\nmike.. end\n\n18: MAI F..\n\nto moinico and\n\n36 20 İrem euk on EVİNİN AY\n\nJe...LOV de quaquot 97 INNE JCO PT-19 U\n\nAdios Touch. Boc OSNOVO SLJ\n\n87.\n\n756 pmoltescla noua two yn o ou niwan #18 to yaleh yunquo0 0.0\n\n(coid Ja sa İlɛnɛ yaVİLƏR ONU\n\n10 IS 3\n\nu Lispe noi. # to 3800 2d crie.er to unoitaudis pour 300\n\n• Shaquo0 0.3 yd \\owflak m\n\n,2log dqan plad bi-a sc madhini sunt dia da\n\n\"OT: bedu.noo aerie Lies na bus æsions\n\n-ik and to re mul end yu cœuic lis ta zorani od lime eL164\n\nV/200 B es (aupmol) en 10 810Jovijeni to Ladzor down od v selog squeries pica sud nisda a: no dowId BILO EXERmxx at yolys\n\nUC PTOJUDK5ni to ne drow nowe Miura que 29k · a wideo Bježe \"\n\nma u goino IIs quimpia yorogong vylial mid nogu recTV ula to Jusquï ni wilmi mud of nosits iim a viliasii ol. motnoj ¿Gila y aquod ex 1. eopoly Z „Lẻ D. ToJo you Ma JIE SİNDR\n\ndiag nowe w .... yunagong je li © e no. Misu 1. „coivr90 N\n\n10. The Company shall obtain and issue to all the Company's employees on the Railway property copies of the Rules and Regulations in force for the time being and to accept all responsibility for the proper adhesion to such Rules and Regulations by the Company's employees.\n\n11. The Company shall be responsible and liable in respect of any acts of any of the Company's contractors or employees.\n\n12. The Company shall be granted permission to provide test boxes for the Company's wires at the frontier at Lo Wu and at such intermediate points as the Company may find necessary.\n\n13. The Company shall pay to the Governor an annual sum of Ten dollars Hongkong Currency in advance per mile during the currency of this agreement.\n\n14. The Company shall, subject to arrangement with the Manager of the Railway, be granted permission to construct and maintain depots at the Railway Stations or at other places upon the Railway property as may be convenient to the Railway for the storage of materials required in connection with the construction or maintenance of the Company's telegraph poles and wires - all such depots shall be of a substantial and sightly nature and be so maintained. The Company shall pay to the Governor the sum of 1 cent per square foot per annum by way of Rent for any areas occupied by such depots or stores and such Rental shall not in any case be less than $1.00 per annum.\n\n15. No liability shall attach in any way whatsoever to the Railway in respect of any damage or injury to the Company's buildings, telegraph poles, brackets or cables, or to the wires connected therewith in consequence of any landslip, accident to any train, engine, truck, bridge or any structure, or through any other cause whatever. The Company shall make good at the Company's own expense any such damage or injury and shall make such temporary provision at the Company's own expense for the restoration of the Company's telegraph service as the Manager of the Railway shall approve.\n\n16.\n\nAll permits, approvals and consents given by the Manager of the Railway shall be in writing.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439725, "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": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "page_number": 217, "title": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "content_text": "211\n\n9. GJ (9,8elu., 30:19, 9Tew Told and cere on. 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Loida:JJA end lies of youb\n\nBid unit Butow bet no autoed en did tout en bor idooy Batic move you\n\n).\n\n10 Jul Aug (1o. oficiosɛ and Jenisja bedagilim vibeduporno added in OT\n\n270P\n\nJnslollikmi to umiriyuwa n'te efl .1. eb13301 al\n\n1880.\n\n(ají N-İNBA belliisup owd duit de phanto TENACITOMİNG,oomade inus Jirioque of Bito\" to Melo e omi oría en ‚eloch) 1, a đujka\"\n\nconstruction of the Law Courts and a qualified European Overseer to supervise the Post Office, these being the two principal works under his charge, and in addition he had some Chinese foremen. Mr. Little, who had arrived in the Colony on the 6th May, 1904, resigned his appointment on account of private affairs on the 23rd February, 1907, and steps were taken to obtain a successor from England. Mr. Little however applied for re-appointment which was granted and he arrived back in the Colony on the 22nd September, 1907. He ultimately resigned his appointment on the 31st October, 1909, in order to start private practice in the Colony. Mr. Wright, who arrived in the Colony on the 15th July, 1903, continued with Mr. Fisher until the 7th October, 1908, when, in consequence of the constant complaints made by Mr. Fisher regarding him, I transferred him to the Buildings Ordinance Office in which a vacancy arose. I may add that I have found Mr. Wright a most efficient, conscientious and qualified officer and that he carries on the duties of the B.O. Office, of which he is now in charge,\n\nin a most satisfactory manner.\n\nI would point out that Mr. Fisher was absent on leave for 6 months during March to September, 1908, and that, during his absence, his two assistants (Messrs. Wright and Little) were able to carry on all the works under his charge in an efficient manner.\n\nI would further point out that, about the middle of 1907, Mr. Fisher voluntarily undertook to design and supervise, on behalf of the College of Medicine, a School of Anatomy. This was entirely outside his official duties.\n\nOn the 20th February, 1909, Mr. Fisher applied for additional assistance and I submitted his letter to Government with particulars of the works he had in hand. I stated that I thought that he and his Assistant (Mr. Little) should be able to overtake the work then in hand and I pointed out that he had voluntarily undertaken the design of the School of Anatomy, which he might have declined if he found his official duties so onerous as he represented. His application was refused by Government.\n\nOn the 14th April, 1909, Mr. Fisher addressed a", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442715, "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": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "content_text": "## B 277\n\n2\n\n**PHOTOGRAPHY IN NATURAL COLOURS**\n\nThe Polychromide System\n\nEffort to produce photographs in the actual colour of nature have attracted earnest attention during recent years, and the works of the Lumières and others were valuable stepping-stones on the road to progress. It has been proved that, by the use of the colour-screen, negatives can be produced giving the sensations of the three primary colours, and these can be combined to leave a fairly harmonious picture; but it has been well stated that the results obtained by superposed pigmented bichromated gelatine (successively yellow, red, and blue), printed from colour-selection negatives at very uncertain and often far from satisfactory.\n\nOne of the chief features which distinguish the new polychromide process, patented by Mr. Acon Hamburger, of the Dover Street Studios, from many others is the use of a mechanism which enables the three plates to be taken simultaneously at a single exposure. In order to overcome certain difficulties inherent in this principle, Hamburger employs both reflection and refraction, and he has succeeded in so balancing the intensities of each that the perfect colour-stone rendering is obtained. A scale of shades of the standard colours has been prepared, in which the yellow inclines slightly to orange, the red to crimson, and the blue to green; that is to say, in lieu of being true primaries, the tints are in each case somewhere merged the one into the other. These shades are standardized, so that by means of the special developer used in the camera and the sensitized printing paper, with the above standard tints, any photographer should be able to attain accurate results. Two plates not on three are employed, each is sensitized to photograph one colour only.\n\nThe plate and the film are put together into one slide, with the emulsions in contact, the film thus serving the purpose of screening the plate. A print is made from the blue negative upon a rapid gelatine paper, which is turned into the yellow image. Prints in gelatine containing double salts are prepared from the other two negatives and transferred to a temporary support of glass. They are then superposed on the original yellow print by stripping. Though so far Mr. Hamburger has worked only by the aid of artificial flashlight, using a special compound to impart the requisite active properties, he does not anticipate obstacles in adapting the process to ordinary daylight. The camera takes the three pictures through a single lens and a single shutter, and it is found possible to have the register of the pictures perfectly accurate. The success of this process appears to depend upon the skill with which the spectrum has been split up, so that there is either no gap nor overlap, and therefore no colour is either lost or doubled. Specimens of the results yielded by the new process include not only serious portraits, in which the delicate flesh tints, the hair, and the minute details on the costume of the sitters are reproduced in complete harmony and in true colours, but also copies of paintings by the Old Masters in which the values due to low tone and false tints are successfully overcome.\n\n## NEWS OF THE WORLD\n\n[Telegrams from London]\n\n**The King of Greece**\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens wires that an eye-witness of the scene said that the King was standing at the corner of Aghistas Street, which is near the Police Headquarters, when an assassin rushed out of a hiding place and drew a big revolver from close quarters at His Majesty.\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, drew his revolver, whereupon the assassin turned round and fired twice upon the Colonel.\n\nTwo Cretan gendarmes then dashed up and arrested the assassin, who offered no resistance.\n\nColonel Frangoulis ran to the King, thinking His Majesty had not been hit, but found that he had fastened to the ground and was only half conscious.\n\nColonel Frangoulis raised the King in his arms, but His Majesty did not utter a word.\n\nSome notes and cartridges were found on the assassin.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says the man refuses to speak except to say, \"I will speak in the presence of the King.\"\n\n**King George V**\n\nThe King, accompanied by Queen Alexandra, visited Queen Mary at Marlborough House.\n\nThe outrage has aroused worldwide condolences and universal expressions of horror.\n\nA dispatch from Salonika to \"The Times\" regarding the assassination of the King of Greece says the King was in the habit of walking out every afternoon with a single servant, refusing requests made by his advisers to permit the presence of guards.\n\nYesterday, he was talking happily of the war and the successes of the Greek army as a long delayed triumph to his reign and said: \"Tomorrow I pay a final visit to the Dreadnought Goeben. It is with happiness and contentment that a German battleship should honour the Greek King at Salonika.\" These proved to be His Majesty's last words, for at that moment the assassin...\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, seized the hands of the assassin, which was poised for a second shot. Covering his Royal master with his body, Colonel Frangoulis grabbed the assailant by the throat and held him fast till soldiers came to his aid.\n\nThe English public are profoundly affected by the tragedy, which is an additional bereavement in Queen Alexandra's family. There were many references to the tragedy by public men at meetings held yesterday, and last night, wide pages of the papers were devoted to tributes.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says that all Greece is grief-stricken. The Prince George and others gently broke the news to the Queen, who fainted several times.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens also reports that it appears that the assassin is weak-minded, and a victim of alcohol. He is a native of Greece. He was twice dismissed from a school where he was employed as an attendant and he petitioned the King, who referred the matter to the proper quarter, which rejected the petition.\n\n## British Affairs\n\nIn introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons, Col. Seely, Minister of War, dwelt on the extraordinary apprehension regarding aviation. He pointed out that the officers' never allowed performances to be published, and consequently remarkable achievements went unnoticed.\n\nHe affirmed that they did not possess any Zeppelins because they were not required.\n\nIt was decided to have some transportable dirigibles, and they would also possess 14 aeroplanes by May. Publicity were obviously marked for an expeditionary remount, and they could not reinforce the Egyptian garrison or the Indian troops. They had obtained a type of aeroplane superior to that of any nation. The difficulty was in regard to the engine, as he was offering a prize in this connection with the promise of a large purchase.\n\nThe Minister, Mr. H. Samuel (Postmaster General) and Sir Rufus Isaacs (Attorney General) obtained judgment with costs against the French newspaper \"La Muflin\" for libel in connection with statements published relating to the Marconi affair. The newspaper admitted the statements to be false and apologized.\n\nCounsel for the defence unreservedly accepted the denials of the Ministers that they were in any way concerned with dealings in Marconi shares.\n\nDelous Wattoit, Unionist Free Trader, has been returned to Parliament for the Kendal Division. The polling was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Col. Weston (U.) | 3,241 |\n| Mr. Somervell (C) | 1,680 |\n| | 581 |\n\nUnionist Majority\n\nMr. Bone, in addressing the members of the Manchester Unionist Association, said that Kendal, in electing Colonel Weston, who refused to support the policy announced by the Party leaders, really voted no confidence in the late Government. If the party refused to act unitedly and would act following the leader, it was his duty to give place to another; and he would perform that duty if circumstances arose.\n\nThe result of the Houghton-le-Spring by-election was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Wing (L) | 930 |\n| Mr. Richardson (C) | 4,807 |\n| Mr. Modles (L) | 4,185 |\n\nThe motion by Mr. Harold Smith for a reduction of the Home Office vote was defeated by 224 votes to 100.\n\nThe two Irish prisoners who had been sentenced for five days in Cold Bath Fields prison and to whom shamrocks were sent down on St. Patrick's Day have been rescued.\n\nFrom Port Said, it is reported that the steamer \"Melen\" has shipped £50,000 in gold for Singapore.\n\n## Affairs in China\n\nThere is much published in the Russian press regarding impending war between Russia and China. This is partly based on reported Chinese preparations for an advance on Urga, in defiance of Russia.\n\nIt is announced from St. Petersburg that M. Mueller, the Consul General at Tabriz, is proceeding to Urga as Consul-General, the consulate there being upgraded to a Consulate-General.\n\n## ENDER ENTIRELY NEW SIGN ON KHEN\n\n**EXCELLENT COLON**\n\nModerate Rates\n\nM. HAYNES, Manager\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\n- No. 2, Queen's Road Central\n\nA FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL.\n\nEvery order European Massage attended.\n\nSituated in a central position. Large Airy Rooms. Luxuriously furnished. Electric Light and hot water throughout.\n\nSanitary arrangements of the latest pattern.\n\nCUISINE UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION\n\nLadies' Afternoon Tea Rooms. Special terms for families made on application to the Manager.\n\nCharges Moderate\n\nF. RICHMANN, Proprietor\n\nTelephone No. 197, Telegraphic Address: \"Cowworm,\" Hongkong\n\n## CANNAVOLT\n\n**CENTRAL**\n\nTOKYO-HOTEL\n\nChen Hwang & Co. Limited.\n\nGENERAL IMPORT & EXPORT.\n\nANTON'S LARGE WHOLESALE & RETAIL STORE.\n\n| Furniture, Draperies, Groceries, Hats, and Shoes. Makers of Jewellery, Linquers, Crockery, Watches, and Trimmings. Wines and Spirits. Foreign Clothes for gentlemen made to measure by our own tailors. |\n| --- |\n\nENORMOUS SUCCESS\n\nTHE CHINA DAILY OUTLOOK, MONDAY, MARCH 24th, 1913\n\nThe news published in Bangkok that a party of military police have occupied the place where the salt will be examined has been paid for. Salt bought from the Government...\n\n## VICTORIA THEATRE\n\n**LOCAL AND GENERAL**\n\nEXCHANGE 111-1/2c Calcutta.\n\nThe Burma-China Frontier\n\nITTAJ\n\nThe manufacturer of salt shall sell it full to the Government at an appointed time.\n\nThe Thunderbolt Man, Wonderful Imitator and International Jester, was delivered in London on the 20th March.\n\nALEXANDER GALINSKY\n\nSATURDAY, 22nd,\n\nDebate at the Pantomime Arsie\n\nMISS ARKAS\n\nLarge assortment of Chinese Silks, Brocades, Shawls, and Foreign Goods of every description.\n\nAll goods sold at reasonable prices. The Cheapest and best place in Canton to buy Chinese and Foreign Goods.\n\nSUP PAT POO STREET, CANTON, Tel. No. 140.\n\nCanton, January 1, 1912.\n\nMAN and Italian\n\nThe Charming Serio Dancer,\n\nFREDA ARDEA LOON,\n\nTHE MAGNIFICENT NEW FILM\n\nFIRST-CLASS PRESERVES\n\nGINGER AND GOOSE MANUFACTURERS,\n\nFACTORY AT YAUMATI\n\nStation: No. 38, DES VIEUX ROAD WEST.\n\nTelephone No. 177.\n\nWhy are the leading Manufacturers of this class of Goods? Our Fruit and Gingers are all tough and of the first quality. Our Syrup is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n\"The Bohemian Girl\"\n\nSINGER\n\nSEWING MACHINES\n\nPianosare kept in stock. Our Symps is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular CORSTE particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n978 TELEPHONE: HONGRONG\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nUNSURPASSED FOR\n\nLocation\n\nService\n\nCuisine\n\nand Home Comforts\n\nTHE JOYAT FAMILY HOTEL OF THE COLONY\n\n-10, Lee Theatre Road\n\nHOTEL BAI TIMORE.\n\n1. No. 2, WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nREASONABLE RATES.\n\nNo. 658, Telegraphic Address \"BALTMAX\" Hongkong.\n\nReuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that the \"Novoe Vremya\" says that as a result of a circular from the Chinese Government regarding the possibility of conflict with Russia arising out of the projected...\n\n## VISITORS AT HOTELS\n\nKisa Rewind live Mongolian pagan, business My A. D. Ander\n\nMr & Mrs N Fulsdan, the Chinatown of Harbin, has almost ceased.\n\nThe majority Chinese workmen have quitted their affairs and from other centres there are similar reports. Frontier trade is at a standstill, and China has prohibited the exportation of all alimentary products.\n\nOther events are expected in a very brief period of time.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey informed Mr. Harwood Bunder that the negotiations for the Chinese Loan were still in private.\n\n| Mr F. Arou | Mr T. Aoki | De Botilos |\n| Mr Birsand | child Lisa Crosse | |\n| Mrs Orexier | Straw. Donaldson | Ewing |\n| Mr Finchote | Miss Graham | |\n| Mr Geo. Oribia | | |\n| Mr and Mrs F. E. | Melfough | |\n| Hi, i | | |\n| Mad | | |\n| Major. J. Masti | Dr Muller | |\n| Mr M. F. Murray | Nakashima | |\n| Mr Overy | Miss M. Panti | |\n| Cast M Pos | Mustu | |\n| Mrs E. Karay | | |\n| Mr G. R. Rabb | | |\n| Miss F. Sunders | Capt. & Mrs Schenk | |\n| Dr Silene | | |\n| and Mrs Kemp | Me H. S. Burze | M&Ms Lauritsen |\n| Stranet fokildren | i Captiasalinity | Choses A. H. |\n| Mis A. Loigh | | |\n| wherton | | |\n\n**PECTO SEPPUSE**\n\n4. 17, Currie's\n\nLONG HING & CO.\n\nDEVELOPING MACHINES\n\nQueen's Road Central.\n\nLEE ON & CO.\n\nMANUFACTURERS of the Best Hand-made Silk and Green Cloth Embroidery of the Latest French Pattern. Canton Down-work, Wholesale and Retail.\n\nPRINTING\n\n7, Queen's Road Central, HONGKONG UNDERTAKEN\n\n**OPEN AIR SKATING RINK**\n\n**BELLE VIEW HOTEL.** (Telephone No. 907)\n\nSESSIONS 10 am, 1 12 noon, 2 to 5 pm, 7 to 10 pm.\n\nADMISSION 25 cents.\n\nADMISSION 50 cents.\n\nON LOCK\n\nYUEN\n\nCafe and Restaurant\n\nA la Carte at all hours\n\n7 pm to 1 p.m.\n\n27, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\n(Next Door to WROXWALL)\n\nW. GALLAGHER\n\nManager.\n\nDr. M. H. CHAUN\n\nYEN YEE & CO.\n\nHAIR DRESSING SALOON.\n\nHair Clipper, Razors, Scissor Sharpening and Repairing, Singeing Shaving, Massage, etc., a specialty.\n\nToilet Requisites Cigare and Cigarettes.\n\n**DENTAL SURGEON**\n\n32. Queen's Road Central (1st Floor)\n\nBoone 2 and 5.\n\nFrom the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.\n\nTelephone 125,\n\nNo. 28, Corner of D'Aguilar Street\n\nElectrical Engineers and Fitters\n\nand that the terms now under consideration by the Chinese Government have the unanimous approval of the Six Power Bankers, that Britain would continue exclusively to support the group negotiating the Loan.\n\nThe Balkans\n\nReuter's correspondent at Constantinople says that an official dispatch claims the success of the Turks at Chatalja after a desperate infantry battle.\n\nIt concludes: \"Our forces are engaging the enemy along the whole front.\"\n\nThe I. K. & S. Bank\n\nThe chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, presiding at the all-Party meeting in London, referring to opium, said he believed some equitable arrangement would be reached whereby an outlet would be found for the present stocks. It hardly seems just that purchasers of opium from the Government of India should...\n\n| Mr K. Mintumi | |\n| Mr H. H. Taylor | My Water |\n| M. F. W. White | |\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Allen\n\nMr May\n\nMr Agnew\n\nMr Reuskansen\n\nDe Brigga family\n\nMr and Mrs Mudie\n\nMr Nai Prusit\n\nand Mr J Oeso\n\nand Mrs Creer\n\nM: W. Men\n\nM: Gais\n\nMr A. Hersi\n\nMy Higginbotham\n\nMr J. Houlka\n\nDr Berage\n\nMy Selenide\n\nMr H. J. Sharp\n\nMr Shastin\n\nMr and Mrs Tobias| Tobias\n\nM. G. R. Tyre\n\nMr and Mrs Ho. Meg Watkins\n\nward\n\nDr Kurt\n\nMr Lorria\n\nMr Woodenek\n\nMr and Mrs Wikle\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Frank\n\nMr W. Pringle, Jun\n\nAilen\n\nMr A.F. Remedios\n\nMr A.G. Reaumut\n\nMr A. Ringe\n\n**PHOTO SUPPLIES**\n\nYour Road Contra\n\nA.\n\nTACK & Co.\n\n26. Des Vieux Road\n\nELECTRIC FITTINGS COMPANY.\n\nNo. 188, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nDeveloping Workmanship Guaranteed.\n\nand Printing\n\nUndertaken\n\nWO HING & CO..\n\nNo. 174. Queen's Road Central\n\nFR or\n\nas Riaze ng Ayrou\n\n**HOLLE HOTEL**\n\nMANUFACTURERS OF\n\nHigh Class Shawls, Handkerchiefs, Shawls, and fine Embroideries, Silk and Crepe Shawls and: \n\nMr G. Bolden\n\nMeWL Bobbik\n\nInces of Avery\n\nDancriptiste.\n\nCuphant\n\nMe Braga\n\nMi and Ms Arthur:\n\nMr F. Braga\n\nMiss F. Braza\n\nThe terms of the final agreement of the Mix Power Loan were now being satisfactorily arranged with China, and the conclusion of the Loan only awaited a decision between China and the Governments concerned regarding the appointment of foreigners to advisory posts.\n\nMiss M. Benga\n\nMva J. Conwford\n\nHarper\n\nMY J. Fayin\n\nRogerar\n\nMin Adwig\n\nMr A Selenit\n\nMr G. 1. Sew!!\n\nMiss Ethi Seith\n\nMy R. Stephenson\n\nMiss 6. Hour\n\nMre demeys\n\nMrs Tall\n\nMr F. J. Traadpild\n\nMr Mrs Rt.\n\nMr J, Veracr\n\nArt W\n\nHereel confidence in China's future and said in interious popularise. Jesper\n\ntion w great patural resources were & \n\nuthent guarantee of its prosperity\n\n**SING KEE & CO.**\n\nNSOP CHANDLERS, COMPRADORES AND STAYCLONES\n\nNo. 34. Connaught Road, Hongkong.\n\nKeep on hand every Description of Ship's Provisions, at lowest prices.\n\n**'MOHI' PEARL**\n\nTel), 632\n\nExcellent amongst all Pearls. Colour and shape up-to-date. Necklet, Earing, Brooches, Drops, etc.\n\nTRIAL SOLICITED\n\nMOHIDEEN & CO.,\n\n38, funny's Loan Central, foxokono.\n\n**Dr. YOUNG BROTHERS**\n\nAMERICAN DENTISTS\n\nPrice: the Best Quality Gaur\n\nNO, SEA, QOHEN'S ROAD CENTRAL\n\nEnteed AB Saris of Cout of the \n\nBEST QUALITY FOR SALE\n\nHONGKONG\n\nThe Carpau mail of the 19th Feb. says the frontier of Burma in British territory is, of course...\n\nThe date for the above transaction will be fixed by Ministerial order.\n\n7. The manufacturer shall first #1...\n\nAn interesting lecture will take place to-night at the Y.M.C.A. on \"Croatian Life and Scenery\" illustrated with a number of lantern slides.\n\nThe Sanitary Board meets...\n\nCorrespondence relative to affairs in various villages should be submitted at once.\n\nOn Good Friday and Easter Sunday, special services were held in the churches of the Colony, and sermons emphasizing the occasion to the Christian world were dwelt upon by the clergy in charge with much devotion and feeling.\n\n**A Transparent Lie**\n\nAsiatic Daily says \"It has been previously reported that the Kaomingtang demanded the formation of a party Cabinet as a reward for their supporting Yuan Shi-kai as President. According to reliable sources in addition to this claim, this Club Tang has further exacted the non-payment of one million dollars for expenses.\" Such palpable lies are self-condemning. It is but a cheap way of preying on the public sympathy. Fabrication of myths as a political weapon is not likely to endure long.\n\n9. According to circumstances, the Government may organize a patrol force for the purpose of regulating the manufacturers, protecting the salt furnaces and storage, and watching the dealing and manufacturing of salt.\n\n10. The Government may, according to the local conditions, grant rules by retail.\n\nDetailed regulations regarding the above Companies and retail rules shall be separately fixed.\n\n11. As salt affects the sanitary condition of the people, the Government may deal severely with the dealers of it, and any mixture shall be found in the salt.\n\n12. The writ officials may investigate the reservoirs of well water, the places of manufacturing, storing, and the buildings, banks, etc. If necessary, for the sake of supervision, extra men may be put upon the said items.\n\n13. The sale of salt whilst in transportation...\n\nThe Victoria Theatre is nightly drawing good houses, with Miss Freda Ardea and her dancing and Alexander Galinsky, for quick change artist being very popular. Miss Ark, the new Pantomime artiste, has a style peculiarly her own, which should prove a draw. The pictures are good, \"The Sphinx\" being especially so.\n\nIt is notified in the \"Government Gazette\" that the registration of the following trade marks has been renewed under the provisions of the Trade Marks Ordinance, 1909.\n\nThe new public improvements, for which it was proposed to make a loan, have been temporarily abandoned. No money is available for new equipment for the fire department, and consequently, the firemen in one district have to run with engines so dilapidated that the men fear the apparatus will fall to pieces.\n\nThe police department is pressed for funds, and impounded on leave of Mr. Justice Gow-Thomas; the health department has been pared down; the street department is cut to the marrow.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve the following appointments:\n\nMr. Joseph Hansford Kemp, Crown Prosecutor, to be Puisne Judge.\n\nMr. Pauling and approved by the Government.\n\nThe Government shall deal directly with the Company, without regard to the person or persons to whom the rights and privileges belong.\n\n8. With regard to the railways constructed by the Company, should it be necessary for military purposes...\n\n## DO THINGS BLUR?\n\nDo they sometimes appear distorted?\n\nIs your sight blurred?\n\nIt is probably caused by astigmatism. Call at your earliest opportunity and have your eyes examined on we with thoroughly scientific lines.\n\nA rough test for astigmatism is as follows:-- Place the paper about three feet away and look with one eye at the above fan. The lines should appear of equal blackness, if they do not CONSULT\n\n**MANILA OFFICES,**\n\n78 ESCOLTA.\n\nTO-DAY.\n\n**LARK & CO.** SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS\n\nYORK BLOCKS, CHATER ROAD\n\nHONGKONG\n\n**THE SINCERE CO., LTD.,**\n\n215-221, Des Voeux Road Central, 109-111, Connaught Road Central,\n\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS\n\n& \n\nHONGKONG and SOUTH CHINA,\n\nDEPARTMENTS FOR\n\nHousehold Goods, Furniture, Wearling Apparel\n\nGroceries, Wines and Spirits, Requisites, Jewellery,\n\nand Spirits, etc., etc.\n\nThe Pioneer One Price Store.\n\nGeorge Albert Would-ck.\n\nFirst Clerk\n\nThe License will be for 10 years to singolien or to reserve the right...\n\nReferred to Committee.\n\nIX.\n\nDespite all retrenchment, books shall be kept in the way prescribed by the Government, and shall be subject to...\n\nChicago is in the lightest touch since the days of the big Fire, 1871. The Metropolis of the World is bankrupt...\n\n## ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL\n\nThe Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospital:\n\n£1\n\nHo Kam Toog\n\nJ. M. Wung\n\n**National Council**\n\n(Continued from Page 1)\n\nThe revised regulation of the Railway Company of China (First reading).\n\n1. The Railway Company of China shall be organised in accordance with the Presidential Order of the 9th day of the 9th month of the First year of the Chinese Republic. With the exception of the railways, which have been or are to be built, or the construction of which has been signed, by the Government under the direct management of the Ministry of Communications and the railways concessions of which have been given to other Companies to be built.\n\n2. In addition to the common legal rights and privileges of other companies, the Company shall have the following privileges:\n\n(a) To propose and settle the lines referred to in the said article.\n\n(b) To take the concession of the lines referred to in the first article and to agree with Chinese or Foreign lot holders or Boat shares.\n\n(c) To utilize and manage the railway referred to in the first article, (1) manage the affairs connected with the alanya referred to in the first article.\n\n(e) To secure special funds and to buy in belonging to individuals, benefited by the construction of the line referred to in the first article.\n\n2. May any other company or the Government be willing to transfer the right of concession, which does not belong to the lines referred to in the first article, the Company has authority to accept it.\n\nThe Lines, other than those referred to in the first article, must be constructed by other companies under the regulations of the Government. They should not interfere with the privileges of the Company.\n\n4. The dates for commencing and completing the construction of the various lines by the Company shall be registered by the Government, unless the...\n\nShould it be unable to construct the railway according to the date, the Government may devise means for its construction.\n\n5. In all the lines which are to be built by the Company, the Government shall afford every protection and facility in the work.\n\nII. All railways constructed shall eventually become the property of the Government. With regard to the period of construction and management, and the selling of the control by the Government, the Company shall also be subject to the customary conditions applied to other companies. As to the laws and orders in connection with the affairs of the Company, unless otherwise provided by the Bill.\n\n7. All the Chinese or Foreign shares or loans, contracted by the Company, shall be subject to the laws of the Government; hence they shall enjoy the due protection of the Government. With loans which need to be guaranteed by the Government, the contract should be submitted for approval, and the regulations regarding foreign shares shall also be submitted...\n\nThe Regulations of the Company for the Transportation of Salt (first reading).\n\nThose who desire to form a Salt Company...\n\n**GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS,**\n\n**TIENTSIN-PUKOW LINE**\n\nThe Public are respectfully informed that the Through Train Service between Tientsin and Pukow will be commenced from the 4th December 1912.\n\n| TIENTSIN TO PUKOW | | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | dep. 12.50 p.m.... | Wednesday and Saturday |\n| Pukow | arr. 2.55 | Thursday and Sunday |\n\n| PUKOW TO TIENTSIN | | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Pukow... | 8.20 a.m. ... | Monday and Friday |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | arr. 10.33 | Tuesday and Saturday |\n\nFrom 1st December, all Trains from Tientsin will start from the Settlement Station.\n\nThe daily Trains between TSEN (Settlement) and Taku, between Tsinanfu and Msinanfu, and between Hwangyow and Pukow, and on the Branch Lines between Yaonow and Tsinanfow, and between Linsin and THAOCHUANG, will run as usual.\n\nThrough Trains are provided with Comfortable Sleeping Berths for the 1st Class Passengers, at a Charge of $5.00 per Berth.\n\nFurther particulars may be had on application to this Office.\n\nHEAD OFFICE,\n\nTientsin, 25th November, 1912.\n\nBY ORDER,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442960, "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": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "content_text": "## THE EASTERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.\n### LONDON STATIONS:\n\n**CHIEF STATION:** 11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C. \n**BRANCH STATIONS** \n| Location | Address |\n| --- | --- |\n| | 8, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. |\n| | MARKET BUILDINGS, 29, Mincing Lane---26, Mark Lane, E.C. |\n| | 37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. |\n| | 449, STRAND, W.C. |\n| | 1&12 PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W. |\n| | Foreign & Colonial Hall, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. |\n| | THE BALTIC, ST. MARY AXE. |\n| | 6, DENMAN STREET, PICCADILLY, W. |\n\n30 APRIL 1913\n\nThe following TELEGRAM Received from **Foreign**\n\n| No. of Words | Chargeable Words | Date | Time | London Time |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 93 | 10 | 19 | 6144624 | 30 RECD 30 A |\n\nText: \nobligait being continuried coral bio \nDany Austern.\" Sa Te ten vogel IN.\n\n**REPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern** \nDoubtful words should be **OFFICIALLY repeated**. See Rule Book.\n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy.\n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443421, "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": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "page_number": 459, "title": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "content_text": "## PETITIONER'S STATEMENT IN DEFENCE.\n\n450\n\nI was on Tuesday, 22nd April, between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. inspecting and delivering licensed premises rent receipts in the district. On my rounds, I visited Tsui Loong Lane, which is off Queen's Road East, entrance at No. 51, Queen's Road East, regarding dumping of refuse into the lane from the upper floors of houses 47-55, Queen's Road East, which was complained of by Mr. Chapman, Government Assessor, in the latter part of last year. Dust bin notices have been served on these houses on all floors and were complied with last year. As the offence was still being committed from the upper floors, I looked up to see if there were any signs of refuse adhering to the balconies of these houses, to try and locate the persons who were offending. I noticed a new wooden partition extending the whole length of the balcony with a heavy sunblind supported by the eaves of the gutters at 51, Queen's Road East, third floor. As this is a contravention of section 175 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance; also, these houses not being provided with a yard, the lane to the rear is allowed to count as open space, and the rear portion of the house must not in any way be obstructed. I went up to this floor, knocked at the door, and asked permission of a Portuguese woman to inspect the premises, or kitchen and rear balcony. This was granted. I went through the flat to the kitchen and balcony and pointed out to her that the partition obstructing the light and air of the premises would have to be removed. I also found a Chinese bed in the kitchen, which is contrary to section 140 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance if the kitchen is used for cooking purposes. She informed me that it was not always used, as she had her food cooked at a restaurant close by, but admitted...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 444799, "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": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "page_number": 311, "title": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "content_text": "# 306 \n## Admiralty \n1913 ✓ nov. \n### HONG KONG \n14/138323 \nC.O \n38323 \nRECR \n\nAraf & NOV 13 \n### Jurisdiction of Dr. \nICat's how question of. has arisen \n\n#### Last previous Paper. \nmatters of building \nAnse 13 Nor 9 Copy Tw $45.14 \n14 Nov \nJoaned 7 Jet 14. Az \n179414 \n\n#### Next subsequent Paper. \n\nAllre \n• sandlatio \nexecuted by admiralty within Naval Establishments. \nAcks for views of 2 of 2. \n\nGriffin Collinis \nSau k \nprovisions \nConstruction \nleelonging \nim \nof Condre \n1 of 1903 \nexcemfuts \nfrom \nof the \nGrote relating \nto \nAbre \nof buildings \nale \nbuildings \nto \nthe Crown \n.. \nwhom any \nband varsta d \nbehalf of the Naval \nof \nrelate \nto \nH.M. Sensine. \nConstruction \nSuc. 162 \nd \nCame \nerections in \ngn. \nfall within \ndefinition of \"building\" \nwd, attraa \nLear \nbrad \nbattan \nany freason \nDefits of \nMilitary \niro \nkac 6. \ntimeratione \nGraar bio \nD. P. W. \nto \nlez \nbut \nside of \ncofany \nto \nO.A. Ç. \n\nRENOV \nc 14 \nCons \nLF \n(68,151). Wt.29,807-58. 41,000, 11/12. A.JEW(85,240). \n,,25,237-8. 10,000 10/13. \n\nAr \nI sinf dams \n18.1.1 und \nAre 10. \n10/11/13 \n10/1/13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445549, "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": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "## Enclosure 3 in No. 1\n\nI saw no trace of poppy, and it is my opinion that no crop has been successfully grown in any of these districts this year.\n\n### Opium Smoking\n\nThe campaign against opium smoking has been carried out with great vigour. Since the summer of 1912, the local government councils in the villages and market towns, and the district officials in the district cities, have made house-to-house investigations, have destroyed any stocks of opium or smoking implements found, and have dealt with the offending parties. The search is allowed on all sides to have been a thorough one; rewards have been offered to informers and boxes for anonymous denunciations have been placed before all public buildings; people with opium faces have been the mark of special attention.\n\nSmokers in the villages have, in the first instance, been placed under observation; those who have undergone this period of surveillance to the satisfaction of the local government council have been passed as reformed characters; the others have been sent into the district cities and there handed over to the magistrate.\n\nIn all opium cases, the magistrate acts under the superintendence of the local representative of the General Opium Suppression Bureau. (This bureau went out of existence during the course of the enquiry under report; since then, the local officials deal with opium matters in the ordinary course of official routine.)\n\nOffenders found in the cities or sent in from the villages were placed in reformatories, fined, imprisoned, or shot, according as the magistrate and the opium bureau official decides. Any stocks or implements found were destroyed in public. It has been said that while the poor have been proceeded against with all severity, the rich have been left unmolested. There appears to me to be no foundation for this statement, beyond the fact that men of substance have probably received less summary, though no less determined, treatment than the poorer offenders. In the districts visited by me, twelve capital sentences have been carried out, as follows: - Three at Ch'ang-ning Hsien, one at Kwei-yang Chou, one at Ch'en Chou, one at Li Tien Chen, four at Kwei-yang Hsien, one at Ling Hsien, one at P'ing-chiang Hsien.\n\nI am of opinion that offenders, apart from those who offered forcible resistance, were not shot out of hand. They seem to have been given a chance to reform. Poor culprits were, in the first instance, placed in reformatories and the well-to-do fined; a relapse meant imprisonment or a heavier fine; and, finally, the incorrigible were shot.\n\nThese measures have, to all appearance, resulted in the practical eradication of the opium habit in the districts through which I have passed. Opium is no longer procurable, and not a few cases are reported of former habitual smokers having died in consequence of their being thus deprived of the drug.\n\nThere no longer exists any import or export of opium. Smuggling would appear to have been successfully put down. All trade in the commodity is paralysed.\n\n**LOUIS KING.** \nChangsha. May 14, 1913.\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n### Memorandum on Mr. J. L. Smith's Journey of Opium Investigation in the Province of Shantung\n\nMR. SMITH, accompanied by delegates of the Central and Provincial Governments, has completed a journey of twenty-eight days in Shantung, where he has covered about 580 miles in the districts south of the Yellow River, including two areas in the south-west of the province where poppy was reported to have been sown in considerable quantities during the present season.\n\nHe estimates that, prior to the anti-opium campaign, 50 per cent. of the land under cultivation in the prefecture of Tsao-chou was devoted to poppy. There has been a marked decrease in production during the last few years, but a certain amount was sown during the autumn of 1912, and evidence of its recent destruction was received from the villagers and from independent witnesses both native and foreign. During February and March, forty-eight special deputies were sent through the district by the Governor, and they uprooted all crops which were growing in the open fields, whilst a certain quantity had failed to come up at all in consequence of the spring droughts. The last crops which remained were within the walled enclosures of the big farm-houses, and there was doubtless a hope of retaining these plots for the purpose of obtaining seed for next year. The majority, even of these carefully screened crops, however, were destroyed on the approach of the investigating party. As a result, no poppy was seen in the south-western area.\n\nIn the districts around Tai-an-fu, similar conditions were found. Here the poppy had been sown, though in smaller quantities than in the south-west. In several instances, there was evidence that seed-beds in the walled gardens had been retained until the very last moment, and in one instance, Mr. Smith actually watched the uprooting of a garden plot of which information had reached him. It was impossible to conduct a searching enquiry into every case of secret cultivation in a country which is dotted with fortified farms, but it was clear that officials and farmers alike were anxious that no crops should be discovered by the party in the area for which they were responsible. It would appear, indeed, that for all practical purposes, the country is now cleared of cultivation.\n\n### Movements of Native Opium\n\nThe transport of opium in the province is prohibited, and smuggling can only be conducted with great risk. It is probable that stocks still remain in the hands of dealers, but all trade in the drug is conducted with great secrecy and under severe penalties, and no direct evidence of opium traffic was anywhere available.\n\nThe import of the native drug is attended with similar difficulties. Police supervision is strict, especially on the railway, and every effort has been made to suppress smuggling. The isolated villages on the borders of the province are so largely removed from official control that it is impossible to obtain definite or reliable information as to conditions there. In the opinion of the Chinese with whom Mr. Smith was able to get into touch, however, the opium which changes hands even in these districts is now inconsiderable in amount.\n\n### Smoking\n\nThe consumption of opium in the districts visited shows a marked decline. The missionaries all estimate that the decrease has been well above 50 per cent., whilst in Tsao-hsien, one of them placed it as high as 90 per cent. There are no public opium dens and few secret ones; present prices are beyond the means of the people, and rich smokers have their own stocks, which are consumed in secret and of which no authentic information is available. Smoking was reported to have been openly practised in the magistrate's yamên at Tsao-hsien during the present spring, but it is now stopped, and neither Mr. Smith nor his servants saw any evidence of smoking, or were able to purchase opium, though it is clear that a certain amount is still consumed. The officials themselves admit the existence of a few smokers, mainly among the old and the sick. Prices range from 3 to 6 dollars an ounce, and the fact that quotations were procurable at almost every centre appears to indicate that it can still be purchased by those who are known to the dealers. There are few, if any, cases in which opium eating has replaced the smoking of the drug.\n\nThe party travelled by cart, wheelbarrow, or chair, according to the nature of the country. Mr. Smith usually rode, detaching himself from the escort and the Chinese deputies, and following small tracks whenever possible, in order to keep in closer touch with the people. The routes followed by the investigating party are shown on the enclosed map, as are two recent journeys by British missionaries. One of these gentlemen had seen poppy crops growing in the open fields during his outward journey, but they had all vanished on his return a few weeks later; the other had seen no opium at all. Both British and foreign missionaries corroborated the native evidence that crops had been planted in many districts this season, but that they had been destroyed, often after the party had already started on the tour of inspection and in many cases only a few days before their arrival. The officials have been energetic in carrying out the work of destruction, and their work has been made lighter by the drought. The yamên underlings, who have constantly accepted bribes from the opium farmers and who connived at the retention of the seed plants until the last moment, insisted on the uprooting of every plant when once the party was known to have started.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447900, "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": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "116\n\nnoidoutmo. oud to moisineque and be aror eid.\n\nTeenie Jarðvinna sio tu silul.m good [liw Todarákoto suit to\n\nLoinigo ju mi no monero sins ni noitouiller om bra beyolque vot\n\n.eluisaoų berebienoo ad\n\n.ELOVING AND abral mro15\n\nJansevorų i elvituoq to moija up old oð mÆNKI NJË”\n\nto noijaniacre on show I downth: yovint end to noivasinagto suð ni yllboidust, Jend neurol bar,sull'io en mi szerzony ni stor d Moog/ng,adol to syavius gaia, no bujule car Vinde slow and\n\nof capiliv to uniq ne due row pinser, To Jo Law aniq endel .nulizio miw Iseh od owo #tecoupƐ and alcune bosingto low sc vở nɛ Leyyo yllurenez 2101 B12\n\nŠIGĖL KOLON JOULUB 03 Hildan oven I .Jne torilo trda old bas\n\nof Tinte si savezoni Toddwt s dqruze \\tibiyar rotnat; of brel .ornial to noijalousint reqor A Ĵo Juomeone 100 and to diabe iiiy mohiw voille sad ni noita.toli tu ca am a si arend Juenorq JA ģijainnou nožmanoîni ait .siisjeb ni gillit tot luleau ed 300 boueaif 80 yali **06 Bibly prequiq „By@vium 881ɑvonj to 10.Jojoj bajjit ou of stiuper noiuw sizzuų s to seseiq lo Tedawa VEM DILO STOPelant) elu:iler on Juonorq de si eredu sous mo Bi İzoremant To nuiđalogiwitt sind liðaÜ quisnik er seiq bajjit ad Jumah u. Dely no tlinder en betely.oo,na nexurebou +108 H.: DelDH và Olive her fel o aqna gnidai xã. Tondayot\n\nMs I si si todo. V to Wil and to quuu aivoe aytol end neve iw oyer-\n\n.eldsilanru ben oderuoanni boarrotni\n\nand druid guiltet Latereg a vi send dand suwa na I\n\nI sind die noidos. nuo mi „wnia Viev si moreno Bind nì xhor rel, en: ni ch baiel sind no drow yevius Jaid two Jnioq now 20 vili en od gliro asitlusitlib yuzu kinezonų esitos iznet ni uyaleb Judilou Ocle exo 8Tent.yıdisco ons to euden beigeT ENORCOT eBand 70% .nmiw yered bia natier,got ou sub áтow Toobtuo .notjaɛwo wild to Juo si tow biqur taut uworvdo ai ji enola -1ovo vilkumar,,bandarebou I‚si find? Juenenq eni\n\nyond. 1'ied exit emos où lliw Ji tud ATOW Dİ BWBOïæ end „midst –\n\n4\n\ncan hope to embark on the triangulation of the Island which is essential as a basis for an accurate survey.\n\n4.\n\nOverseer Staff.\n\nI have already dealt generally with the Overseer my Staff in making remarks on the Engineering Staff. I am not prepared to say definitely that it is inadequate but compared with staff provided for Military works of a similar nature it certainly appears to be so.\n\nThe Director of Public Works states that he can reduce the Staff by 1 Overseer. Considering Mr. Chatham's large experience of work in the Colony his opinion is probably of greater value than mine. It must however be remembered that the foremen employed are natives (Chinese and others) who may play into the hands of Contractors unless very carefully supervised. Chinese Contractors are well known to be extremely clever in scamping work. For this reason alone the policy of cutting down European Staff is not sound and likely to lead to bad results and possibly to\n\nactual failures.\n\n5.\n\nMaintenance of Buildings and Roads.\n\nI have carefully considered the question of expenditure on maintenance of buildings and roads.\n\nFrom information contained in the estimates for 1909, page 15, I gather that the amounts voted are generally insufficient and that supplementary estimates have to be submitted yearly. The number of public buildings and roads are constantly increasing, the older a building the greater is the sum required to keep it in repair, hence it is obvious that the estimates for maintenance should show an annual increase unless large numbers of old buildings are pulled down and reconstructed.\n\nThe custom with Military works maintenance is to base the estimates on the average of the expenditure for the previous 3 years. In the case of the Public Works estimates, practically the same figures are repeated yearly and the experience of previous years as regards actual expenditure does not", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447902, "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": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "113\n\nJoe,NE OJ Brumov I .noitarobianos otni ylivi nexos su od meqqa dtiv bet you ed Jiyim benoiurem evour za mojɛya nova sume taut\n\nPoti rat owcilnegre betazijua adi of DIAGGI DJI\n\n.@jOJUSVÁB\n\ned od 18 beauontoziü gnibulore gaibiind caseyibliud ne aynikliwu ered: lo yes. Howe (65) Juoda :000,dâk 101 beniadniRAI -igach fivi ð aeoiììù ureiur evo? and Genui. Jnem.T. Voù es bue grillad Jud Min vrey co pNI BIONDO,Ħjwí si nositi esk bao løð- .avi asure ou aj zlogul Jon peob vinities Jawala end 8,018Va mo TAJ:01, 32 yu exot Joum sacivxeo quidning Loiboiney proribro edi I aptiviluu of BrinÇ97 neİy noitoe.1oo ni som qre cu 10 LOISTOG Jremuriaved to nolibeye eyiova na an Indianoli livit end badvaqari\n\n.emzinogre duivaí to myİB\n\nLuo ni teenija ovipourà,782007 11-\n\nt\n\nborene\n\nnood bil do Li nyakbīlud no me, sud tut stor to a pitjorg tin əm exoled extol siluri to tajostil vivavinck no ya neziniJu198\n\nQonijonų bevuï40 bbit .5%, ilaqıs Tamwhat guts to? Levoyq3 VIAJE KUTIJA Tiu 23 yớ bunionoze si lord1:00 Lutonau a dent mode SUJ NİNJIW GTwine.re el qual of Jaou visit ob yllumn, I oniw\n\n3O&. *HJii. . -200\n\nBAOT of buyer ddi' picuoioituu fon man I Jugor I .siin roy 0063 Juown of two Bow bonyonya I jou linsen mi erudi neqre sud seioitins of troque Jou 8000 polo) ei í obout cað to mois¿mo0 and drið g3B OF gldawory ai di bejuaw si goruw 11 .ninger navo to some biva svig viiniruenų „2łodo quoctavo end qu moisiviaqua to doul of sub Ila neiw Ineb oma reentero sis to eato mid ni yixalomisnoq {{todİrtet \"ə\" and bus noolwod „ibuloni yuit and sbistuo absor and\n\nto o modni. and i be hoidonumov ni adɛow o ad on in yo... ararið -siam ni quonose to noise up edi „nonsAT OM:8 WIJ Toɑ ariqazje Loï yoneisiîte hun somgilletni uno no noiniqo za ni zbieqab conced- Jouw Vidusre jaunberot to slungao su ivals our linje erw to\n\nwill be required, and be allowed reasonable facilities for the careful supervision of the repairs carried out. In this Colony violent raine and the ravages of white ants necessarily involve a great deal of work in connection with keeping reads and build- -ings in good order, while typhoons such as those of 1906 and 1908 practically double the work of the maintenance staff for several\n\nmonths.\n\n6.\n\nSummary\n\nHaving dealt in detail with the various points referred to me I may summarise my conclusions as follows:-\n\nI. The Engineering Staff is fully occupied and cannot be reduced unless the work to be done according to the estimates is\n\nreduced.\n\nII. The Survey Staff is dealing efficiently with the work in hand and is gradually overtaking arrears. A triangulation of the Island is essential but cannot yet be undertaken by the existing\n\nstaff.\n\nIII.\n\nIV.\n\nThe Overseer Staff is barely adequate.\n\nThe annual expenditure on maintenance of Buildings and\n\nRoads cannot be reduced.\n\nHongkong, 12th. March, 1909.\n\n(Sd.) H. N. Dumbleton,\n\nLieut.-Colonel,\n\nRoyal Engineers.\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448274, "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": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "400\n\nMay 24th -\n\n1914\n\n9 July\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nAppostel. 6 Aug!\n\nNoxt subsequent Paper.\n\n232568\n\nHONG KONG\n\n97974\n\nFree Quarters for\n\n2797:\n\nREC 31 JUL (4)\n\nREC\n\nEuropean Officers of Railway.\n\nSubmit's proposals for grant & exection of Requests tel? reply.\n\nhidden\n\nIt enction of the buildings\n\nfor parts\n\nCam\n\nb\n\njustifiat\n\n\"pair\" on the principle of newmary\n\nWeichemen\n\nJun\n\nat\n\nstrict\n\nother\n\nfai\n\nLan\n\nproximity to work, which\n\nhave elsewhen bid down (1882\n\nfusent not to be found)\n\nwiterfested.\n\nLanka, .--.\n\n4 bald MA\n\nfor H. Kury\n\n(88,196) W$.57,086—13. 45,000, 12/18, A&E W. At once\n\nJ\n\npare 3\n\n.3'\n\nto h\n\nBut I think t\n\nfrothy strony.\n\nundrenched\n\nFor desp. 9 Jul 24th\n\nprocreated proposal approve Gr.5.6.14\n\nStud-3 pu\n\nkom\n\n6/8/14\n\n578/14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449521, "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": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "FIVE\n\nIu Tau to Kowloon City; from Mau Tau Wai to Kowloon Tong; and from Tai Shek Koo to Tai Pat Cheong. Another subject to which I wish to refer is wireless. I think we have already spent some $20,000 on this. The estimate on page 95 is for $80,000, and on page 102 $20,000 for stock. I understand the bulk of this apparatus is already in the Colony, and I have been informed informally—I hope the Director of Public Works will correct me if I am wrong—that before the next seven or eight months this valuable station will be in working order. As your Excellency knows, in my capacity as a member of this Council, as Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and representative of shipping companies, I have for several years urged on the Imperial Government the construction of a high-power wireless station in the interests of shipping in this Colony without any effect at all. We were put off with all sorts of excuses that further inquiries and further experiments had to be made. What is the result? We know that Germany has for many years been preparing for a European war, the main object of which was to obtain the British Empire and British trade. She has erected high-power stations in all parts of the world on alien territory as well as on her own territory, stations which enable her to speak across the Atlantic and the Pacific. Now that war has broken out, we find Germany with high-power stations enabling her to communicate all round the world, and we have not got anything worth speaking of. The only station we have here is a comparatively low-power station on the Tamar, and even in Singapore, which is the centre of the long line of high-power stations from London to New Zealand, at the outbreak of hostilities the only station they had was put up in a hurry with apparatus taken from one of the ships. I state, Sir, without fear of contradiction, that it is absolutely a scandal that we as the greatest oversea Power in the world are caught napping. We have no proper...\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY—The hon. member is travelling outside the subject of these estimates.\n\nHon. Mr. HEWETT—I trust you do not for a moment suppose, Sir, that I reflect in any way upon the Hongkong Government. I know you have done everything possible. The fault lies with the War Department in London.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY—The point is that this is an Imperial question.\n\nHon. Mr. HEWETT—I have very little more to say, Sir. As far as I can make out by roughly adding up the figures, I find there is an increase under new appointments in the Public Works Department which amounts to about $20,000, and in the Post Office amounting to about $22,000. I wish to direct attention to this constant increase in the personnel of the Government staff. It has been going on all the time. I have had on many occasions to refer to it.\n\nOf course, I know your Excellency and the heads of departments are anxious not to increase in that direction, still the increase goes on, and they come in under the pension scheme and are a charge on the Widows and Orphans' Fund. As I said in the early part of my remarks, the financial position of the Colony is such that we ought to conserve our resources in every possible way. With reference to the charge on the public debt, I remember many years ago, when this question was discussed, how various individual ratepayers stated that they considered all these big public works should be paid for on long loan. Fortunately, your predecessors—Sir Henry Blake particularly was one, and I believe your Excellency also holds the same view—were of opinion that so far as possible all public works, public buildings, and even public works which might possibly be remunerative, should be paid as far as possible out of current revenue or by short loan. That policy has fortunately been followed; otherwise, had we not done so, the present condition of the Colony would have been far more unsatisfactory than it is. We would have been weighted down with a heavy permanent debt which we could ill afford to meet.\n\nThere is one other question which we do not discuss in connection with the Estimates—the Military Contribution—and I would like to make a remark about it. When dealing with this question it is always brought forward by special resolution, and that was done by me when the estimates for last year were under consideration. Since then we have had a paper laid before us by the Secretary of State, but the unofficial members have not under existing conditions brought forward any resolution, because we considered the time was not opportune, but it must not be supposed that we are satisfied with the present state of affairs, and we trust later on to have an opportunity of again discussing the subject. I hope hon. members do not think I have been unduly long in discussing the Estimates, but I have done my best to carry out the wishes of my colleagues on the various points we had under consideration. I now beg to state that when we come to the vote I shall move the reduction of the Harbour Department vote by $10,000. I will also move a further resolution for the adjournment of this debate, which, I understand, is necessary before I have the right to reply to your Excellency. I do not say I shall want to reply, but I should like to have the opportunity of doing so if necessary.\n\nHon. Mr. POLLOCK—Sir, the very full remarks made by the hon. member opposite will render it necessary for me to occupy the time of this Council for a few minutes only. As my hon. friend has pointed out, apart from the revenue derived from opium, we should, as it appears to me, be in a rather parlous financial condition in this Colony, and, Sir, it is in bearing that fact in view that I venture to make a suggestion to this Government in connection with the opium question. I am sure, Sir, that everybody must deplore the fact that there...\n\ncertain percentage of\n\n18\n\n200", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452119, "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": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 477, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "## HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK\n\n**USED TELEGRAMS:**\n\"HALLOWEEN; LIVERPOOL.\n\nTELEPHONE 4141 BANK \n(THE WINKS) \nROSE-ORDER PHRASE & COMBINATION \nWESTERN UNION. \nPREMIER. \nAKO BID EDITION \nWHITE LAW'S ARTIFICIAL WORDS. \nLIZIER\n\nAlex Ross & Co. \n30 & 470 Chicago Buildings. \n13. Whitechapel. \nLiverpool. \n22nd October 1904\n\nThe City Editor \nthe \"Times\" London.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nIn reply to your letter of 27th ult., our firm is established in Hongkong and China. We buy goods for our Branches there in Germany and elsewhere under normal conditions.\n\nThe contract covering the goods referred to in the communication was placed by us before the outbreak of war, and the letter in question was a proposal by the supplier to carry the transaction through by evading the regulations of our country. We simply replied that we must abide by the laws of our country during wartime, and expressing regret that any creditable concern in a neutral country such as the Swiss Credit Bank, Zurich, should aid our enemies in the manner indicated. Further, we sent a copy of the \"Times\" of 23rd ult. containing your comment and portion of Goldschmidt's letter, to the Swiss Bank. Should the Colonial Office require any further information we shall be glad to supply it. We shall be glad to receive M. Goldschmidt's letter back when finished with.\n\nYours faithfully,\nAlex Ross & Co.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458400, "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": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "DELOITTE, PLENDER, GRIFFITHS & CO\n\nBin William PLENDER. PERCIVAL D. GRIFFITHS. EDWARD DAVIL.\n\nLIONEL MALTRY,\n\nH. I. CHEVALLIER. A.E. CUTFORTH.\n\nCARDIFF,\n\nPETROGRAD & MOSCOW.\n\nMEXICO CITY,\n\nMONTREAL & VANCOUVER,\n\nAND AT\n\nNEW YORK, CHICAGO, HAVANA\n\nBUENOS AIRES, RIO JANEIRO & TUCUMAN,\n\nTELEGRAMS DELOITTE\n\nJOHANNESBURG, BULAWAYO, CAPE TOWN,\n\nSALISBURY & DURBAN,\n\nEnc.\n\nC.O 489 47999\n\n19 18 007 15\n\n5. London Wall Buildings.\n\nLondon, E.C.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:-DELOITTE (AVE) LONDON. TELEPHONE No. 3000 LONDON WALL (3 LINES)\n\n13th October, 1915.\n\nSir Arthur T. Thring, K.C.B.,\n\nOffice of the Parliamentary Counsel,\n\nWhitehall,\n\nS.W.\n\nDear Thring,\n\nBRITISH ESTABLISHMENT OF DRESDNER BANK.\n\nMessrs. Lim, Meyerink & Co., Hongkong.\n\nI attach copy letter of today's date received from the Management of the Dresdner Bank, and shall be glad if you will be so good as to issue a licence for the purpose indicated.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nW. PLENDER", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459056, "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": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 617, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "AGENCIES.\n\n(HOME)\n\nABERDEEN.\n\nMr Aban á. Bwith, 4, 1ovanha Turzaco.\n\nABERKOATH.\n\nCaptain WLAM BOTON, GA, Glorer Stębal\n\nAYE.\n\nJOHN M. Goodwin, Ex., M, North Quay\n\nBARROW IN FURNESS.\n\nMALTER P. BELL EM.. Mesure. Little & Co., Why Brokers.\n\nBELFAST WR, E. Near\n\nWilson & Reid,\n\n*9, 11.12. Ponsen Quay.\n\nBLACKPOOL\n\nCAL. J. P. Raze, E, Windane Place.\n\nFleetwood\n\nBRISTOL\n\nT. CROITWILL, Eng., Moura, H. Whitwill and 200, The GFAR.\n\nBRIXHAM\n\nCaptain K. Bwanzaan, é, House Close Turkkoč.\n\nCARDIFF.\n\nMen Coat Bros & Co. Bata Dona Dept. d. 0. Cody, Croft Firma, Westbourne Rom. i'earth.\n\nCARNARVON\n\nCaptain H. Tuomas, Bhawillen. Landwron\n\nSalientan\n\nCORK.\n\nMARTA, Wyke & Mor IN, Boal. Ma.\n\nCOMER\n\nCapt. A. G. Known. “Yembe,\" HID F\n\nDUNDEE.\n\nCaptain F. MILL, B, Comment Broct Mr Jams Nidală & Co. is High Hirset\n\nJAM 8. BLITORIA, E., J. Commercial Street.\n\nZDINLUKUH.\n\nJames Malem, Bag, 1. Towar Place, Leith.\n\nYALMOUTH\n\nMy A. Meam. Williams & Co\n\nThe Quay.\n\nFLEETWOOD.\n\nCaptain J. P. Bazz, 4, Windsor Plaza.\n\nGLA KUOW.\n\nMr.D WRIGHT Butru, zih, St. Vincent Kt,\n\nGRANORMOUTH.\n\nTi Eay., 4, Bonth Pain Blom.\n\nGILENOCK\n\nCaptain B, C. Tants, Hashem Master\n\nGRINERY,\n\nGap. F. G. WArra, 10, Carrington Terracel\n\nHarrington Hippk: Ķibal Őriimalis\n\nHOLYHEAD.\n\nAD BOBERTA, 1 sq. 18, divanley Üreseent.\n\nJERNICH.\n\nCap. G. Bows, Megan Lewasch\n\nand Pemberton, Custom Home Buildings.\n\nJERSEY.\n\nMenen. Wennga & LAPMOTTAK, 10, 11, Org\n\nsed. Explazado.\n\nLANCASTER (Prat ori, Captain T C Fugen, Harbour Master ›\n\nLEITH\n\nJANEN MCCALLUM, E, 1. Tower Placo.\n\nJANE Boss For A Dick Photo\n\nEL MATRESSS RA, Salloni Homie\n\nLondon Burke,\n\nMr. H. Brek, W. Bonthead Road, East Ham\n\nCaptale T. P F, Mesa\n\nLamport and\n\nHolt. Hayal Albert Pročk. Lent. H. Bra, R.K.R., 0, Panchurch Street E.C\n\nCamun ↑ X. WILLIAMS\n\nIn Mark Lane, EC\n\nH. 5. F. Pirman, tal, Enriett Road. Limehower, E.\n\nCaptain A 2004, 283, IPawibary Bond, X.\n\nDaptain 6. 14. Rasoja, 1.2.3, Jamage\n\n4. Mishania Howe, 24. Michael v Ader.\n\nCombi, T. G.\n\nCap. P. R. Voglia, samo of Messey, Bider\n\nDempster & 106, 4, 8. MARY Axo.\n\nLYDNEY RAMBOTTI SILONTELİ\n\nCap. X. Lewin, Harbour Master\n\nNEWPORT (KOM\n\nMALTILL BRAND, Esq., Mes D\n\nBed&Co.\n\nNEW RONDUSH (ANGLINGALI\n\nCapito H. Evans, Bran Darwydd.\n\nFORTH \"KIELIS\n\nCaptain\n\nArt, Fallmmaker, 7 Tyne Street.\n\nMot Jehr LILY E Nox La. Thì Ra Quy,\n\nMr. C CARSELL Costor House. Longhope\n\nPENARTH.\n\nCaptain C. Covil, Craft Hon. 1. Westbourne Roud.\n\nPENZANCE.\n\nw\n\nMewn W. D. MATHEWE & Bom, Lloyd e Aceny Oles\n\nPRESTON\n\nCaptain P. H. Estton, Harbour Master\n\nQUEENSTOWN\n\nMuar Joux Dawich & Co., Bals Brokers\n\nSOUTHAMPTON.\n\nCart | SMITH, Holzaplein Companion Co., Lt, South Camla, Tran Abay.\n\nCaptain C. ELEY. The big Federation, 24. Care wil\n\nSOUTHERN ON SEA.\n\nCaptain J. FINCRETE. Hazalsuere, Ri, Alexandra Bond.\n\nSTROMNES A\n\nCuptman Jax. Calder, Springbank\n\nHWANBIA.\n\n--\n\nJENAMArk, Eng, wo Kessy. Slapaan Bron\n\nTAYFORT HADDOUK\n\nCapt Jax. CAMPELL, Harbour Master.\n\nWEYMOUTH-\n\nCaptalu V. Hause, Aplačan Marino Buperintendent. 0,WAL\n\nWHITEHAVEN... DAVIDEO. Eng. Ship Bonkar. \"Elatangian\n\nFOREIGN.\n\n-\n\nARO. PINTAND, Hes. H\n\nSchroder &\n\nADELAIDE (ŠINTE ÄTITRALIA.\n\nThe SOUTH BALIAN BEKVE regon CA, Elpenn. Strację »\n\nADES\n\nCaptain J. Banten, Mesure, Comaujme.\n\nDishaw & Bros.\n\nChoo TAY BAZZIOA).\n\nCaptain J. C. WILLIAMS, ÁRONT, Ellerman . L24.\n\nALICANTE.\n\n-Mer Happitapo i Ša\n\nALMERIA\n\nFRUBA SPENCER. F\n\n+ BERMUDA.\n\nCapt. J. W. Man met, Harbósir Master, Hamlison\n\nBEYKOLT (8NJA.\n\nNr. A. 3. DYLOBO,\n\n-Demo. J. V, Xpllanickypt al. Wang\n\nBOMBAY,\n\nCapt F.. Hamutantke, Marino Burveyor Empat Menage Fin Gon & 3 loqu\n\n20 O\n\nBRINJIWI, Itali\n\n*. G. Coto, Kaq, GM&A, M.3.0.\n\n*Captain H. S. TAY,\n\nBRITISH HONDURAS\n\nBoltelters --Hemera Femark Panas, Katjes.\n\nBRUNSWICK (ORIAL\n\n*† 1 1. Hysacram. Bagi\n\nBURMAN,\n\nCaptain B. Ganuner, Taulmeta\n\nBUENOS AYREN\n\nOmplain J. Wamanız, Mosori, Wankite & Co. Keconepice, Bella,\n\nHUNBURY (ATSTRALÍA),\n\n2. H. Aamson, E., Bhip Chandler\n\nBUSSELTON (W. ACRYMIZIA), Capledo J & Ivan. Explanade Hotel\n\nwww.cam.com\n\nCALOUTTA.\n\nOpalo H. Exalót, Andatle Ble \"Navtention Company\n\nCH, E. TROTT. Autatio Stren Kavigation Co. Ld.\n\nCALLAO\n\nCaptain B. T., Lex. Contemetar. P.O. Box Ba,\n\nCHRISTIANSAND (BWEDEX), BALY B, Bag,\n\nBOLDTIÊM.\n\nMr. CH. GALLI, Pit Barrier\n\nDUNKERQUE\n\nW. Moosa, Hoga (\n\nDURA\n\n_ship Chand-\n\nCaptain F. Bakan, Mosl\n\nELSING\n\nMenu & $. Da Heling, and EQUAL\n\nHavera. Apaano & Enj\n\nFINLA\n\nHEMMAN EXPA\n\nMES. TATTON & CO A\n\nGAIN EST\n\nMILANOJENN CMOS\n\nMer Je\n\nGEFIERW KALAS. KAKERETA, Belleitor-K F. WISTER.\n\nGOATZACCALCOS Mr. GLL, 2.3\n\nHALIFAX,\n\nHAVANA\n\nMI, Lê Huy Pr. HFLAINEDÉ Mower. OG B\n\nHODAME\n\nMT. J. W. KAŻY, MON\n\nTRONG CÔN\n\nHan, Kay\n\nCaptain H. Golde, 4, o\n\nJATTA, PALM\n\nHear A. H. SCANDA\n\nKOPE\n\nMr. OTTO Lex. Mpari. I\n\nCaptain A. mart, dwon\n\n---\n\nZAN PALMA\n\nMr. B. W. Gilman, kej\n\nMAGALLANE\n\nCaptain C. WILLARD, DI\n\nPUNTA KOR\n\nCast W B. RMZAMAN, Steved\n\nL\n\nMANILA (P.L\n\ndos keima.\n\n•\n\nMAURITIUại\n\nCaptain Melhorarn, Pa\n\nHELIOCENE (VITA Marine. The VicroMAN SIKY OTHER\n\nUTRaotike 06, 1\n\nLimite.\n\nH. A. Underwood, Beer Captaly Davin AYLARAK, Mar\n\nMONTREAL.\n\nCape A. Keir, Port W Mr. Rick44, Berman'i *MOVEMEIN CHERMA\n\nCaptain H. GARNET\n\nExpecta\n\nNEWCASTLE, N.8.T\n\nNEW ORLEANS.\n\nCaptain W. Jana, Min\n\n819, Cobution Surves\n\nNICOLAIEFT.\n\nMeer.. ANTONIO & Bow, BLE\n\nNORFOLK, Vimeriza, U CERİN HAWAMATER Saloon. Fitosms, La BAL. Law Bulkuling, 1-1-\n\nGromby reals.\n\nNORTH CHINA\n\nCaptain H. Wow, cage of T Laginearing & Stuning Co., Ltd\n\nOPORTO\n\nMeum. Bruckner & MasalaA,\n\nPENSACOLA (FUORID\n\nKOTS. CART & CO. Nr. G. W, OLIVEs, Lloyd's ap\n\nWINDAU, PEVAL, RIGA, LIFT\n\n\"FETROGH-1, Bosnia. How P. BomнHOLDT & 2\n\nPORTLAND OREGON,\n\nCaptain L. VETARY, 60. Tanda\n\nPORT AUGUHTA 18. AU\n\nCaptain P. WAZINDOR, DID. Sposa. To\n\nCarperallon, c\n\nInland Telegraphic Address, PENINSULAR, LED, LONDON.\"\n\nCable Address, \"PENINSULAR, LONDON.\"\n\nTELEPHONE HOS. 1111 CITY\n\n8000 AVE. (10 LINES)\n\nRETURN TICKETS\n\nrts east of Suez at a Fare-and-a-half,\n\nThie for two years from date of depar-\n\nture to arrival on return.\n\nNATION RETURN TICKETS\n\nany route including P. & O.)\n\nAND\n\nAND-THE-WORLD TICKETS.\n\nRates on application.\n\nTED PARCEL RATES.\n\nare conveyed by the Company to all\n\nat which its Steamers call; also to\n\nAs the Company by their Passage Ticket exempt themselves from all manner of liability, no matter from what cause arising, in respect of Passengers' BAGGAGE, attention is specially drawn to the faciltles afforded for its INSURANCE.\n\n(Vide the enclosed notice.)\n\n615\n\nNO BERTH ACTUALLY SECURED UNTIL A DEPOSIT HAS BEEN PAID. Cheques, &c., should be made payable to the Company, and be crossed \"Willams, Deacon's Bank, Limited.\"\n\nPassages are only booked on the terms and conditions stated in the Passage Tleket.\n\nPENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, 122, LEADENHALL STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nPLEASE\n\nIN\n\nTO\n\nYOUR REPLY.\n\nGuiana\n\n23rd June 1915\n\nPASSAGE DEPARTMENT.\n\n(The reply to be addressed to the Managing Directors),\n\nReference 27956/1915\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nSir.\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.\n\nWe beg to acknowledge the receipt of your\n\nal to India and China Coast Ports at letter of the 22nd instant enclosing one addressed\n\nmoderate rates.\n\nBeulara on application.\n\nTimage ond all information, apply at the\n\nP. & 0. Company's\n\n92, LEADEHRALL STREET, E.G., DR ..THUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.\n\nLONDON.\n\n70, Poskes Book (Third Edition).\n\ntoms, Choth, Leather,\n\n(Postage id)\n\n!\n\nto Mr S.A. Neville, a passenger by the s.s.\n\n\"NAGOYA\", and which letter we shall have pleasure\n\n•\n\nin sending on board for delivery on the arrival\n\nof that steamer in London on or about the 25th\n\nJuly.\n\nWe are,\n\nsir,\n\nNP\n\n+\n\nYour obedient servants\n\nзалат\n\nFor the Managing Directors", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463601, "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": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 693, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# Estimates for 1917\n\nWe are glad to note that the Government intends to resume the Ferry Piers on the Victoria and Yaumati-Samshaipo runs, and we trust that steps will be taken to secure an adequate and regular ferry service to the public by throwing the ferry service open to public competition.\n\nOn the subject of Education, we desire to state that we consider that the teaching of the English language to Chinese boys in the schools of this Colony is not as good as it ought to be.\n\nPassing on now to the subject of Public Works, we have naturally some comments to make and questions to ask in connection with this important Department, on which we are spending 20 per cent of our Revenue. When the Praya East Reclamation is likely to be begun, we would suggest that the drains and sewer pipes might be led further out along the foreshore. Another point which seems to require watching, from the Public Health point of view, is the rummaging about by poor Chinese in the stuff deposited in dust-boats on the Praya and in dustbins in the streets.\n\nOn the one hand, we desire to express our gratification that the Revenue of the Colony has proved of an expansive nature and has thus enabled us to have a fairly full programme of Public Works. On the other hand, we cannot, in view of the precarious nature of some of our sources of Revenue, afford to launch out with too great freedom, especially in view of possible unforeseen expenditure which may have to be met in connection with the War and other matters.\n\nIn the footnote (2) on page 8 of the Estimates, we notice an estimated expenditure of $13,000 for 1916, and hope that that sum represents the last payment to be made to the contractor and shall be glad to know if this is so. As regards the suggested increase in the Staff of the Exports and Imports Department, we agree that such an increase is urgently required for the purpose of obviating delay, and we would urge that it would be a great convenience to the mercantile community if a Branch Office could be established in a central position, such as the `Post Office Building`.\n\nIn connection with the searching of passengers at the wharves for arms and opium, we desire to state that complaints have reached us, and we trust that means may be found to remedy such abuses, which are a hindrance to the river-traffic of this Colony. We would also suggest that it is a great inconvenience for travellers to be obliged to go up to the `Central Police Station`, which is somewhat out of the way, for their passes, and the `Port Office Building` appears to be most conveniently situated for this purpose.\n\nWith regard to item 7 on page 97, \"improvements to roads and bridges outside the City,\" we desire to express the opinion that this item, which stands at the same figure as in former years, is not sufficient in amount. While we approve of the motor road being extended beyond Deep Water Bay on its way to make a circuit round the Island, we consider that it is of far more pressing and urgent importance that the present roads out to Deep Water Bay, namely, the `Pokfulam Road`, and the `Jubilee (or Victoria) Road`, which are now so much used by motors, should be improved both as regards blind corners and state of the bridges. We think, also, that the roadway between the paper-works at Aberdeen and the road to Deep Water Bay should be widened and improved.\n\nComing now to Buildings (on page 99), we are glad to note that the quarters for Subordinate Officers at Happy Valley are to be completed in 1917, and that the Extension to the `Central Police Station` is to be more vigorously proceeded with. As regards the next item of $35,000 for accommodation for the Imports and Exports Office, we should be glad to know what is the estimated total cost of the work, and we would ask a similar question with regard to item 3 for $15,000, \"2nd block of Quarters for Subordinate Officers on Mount Parish\"; and, in connection with quarters for Subordinate Officers generally, we should like to know whether the completion of all the quarters figuring in the present Estimates will conclude the Government's present scheme for the housing of Subordinate Officers or whether further quarters are likely to be required in the near future, and, if so, to what extent.\n\nWe approve of the re-casting of the system of accounts of the `Kowloon-Canton Railway`, and we hope that it may be possible to reduce somewhat the working expenses of this costly undertaking. We would also most strongly urge upon the Government the desirability of vigorously pressing upon the Chinese Authorities the necessity for fulfilling their agreement to link up this Railway with the Railway which is now being built from Canton to Hankow.\n\nAnother point upon which we would ask your Excellency to take action is in connection with the site for the erection of the new building for the `Hongkong Branch of the European Young Men's Christian Association`. It is advisable that a central site, which is easily accessible by ricksha from the landing-stages, should be acquired, and we would, therefore, ask you to approach the `Secretary of State for the Colonies` upon the subject of a grant of a site in a Central situation being made to the Association upon easy terms.\n\nUnder the heading of `Supreme Court`, on page 44 of the Estimates, we notice that a 1st grade Translator has been replaced by a 2nd grade Translator, and we would urge upon the Government the desirability of steps being taken for the improvement of the translation branch of the Service, because in the Supreme Court, sometimes the whole decision turns upon the correct translation of a single word. In a big case, where there is plenty of money involved, probably both sides would be able to overcome the difficulty by calling experts as witnesses, but in smaller cases, such a procedure would prove both expensive and dilatory, and we would suggest that it should be made possible for the Judge, if neither party wished to go to the expense of calling experts, to invoke the assistance of some Chinese cadet in the Government Civil Service in this Colony.\n\nWith regard to item 3 (b) on page 99, of $37,500, for the improvement of that section of the Deep Water Bay to Tytam Tuk section of road which goes from Hoa... Deep Water Bay to Repulse Bay, we should like to know what will be, roughly, the cost of making the remainder of that section fit for motor traffic, and, roughly, what would be the cost of a motor road from Tytam Tuk down to Shaukiwan.\n\nUnder the heading of Water Works, on page 101, we are glad to see that the additional Service Reservoir at West Point and the Tytam Tuk scheme (2nd section) are to be both of them completed in 1917.\n\nUnder the heading of Kowloon, on the same page, we should like to know whether the sums of $30,000 and $18,000, under items 29 and 30, represent the estimated total expenditures on those works, and, if not, what are such totals. We should, also, like to know what are the General Works on roads in Kowloon, costing $22,000, which are itemised.\n\nIn connection with Kowloon, we suggest that the `Hunghom Railway Station` ought to be improved by the erection of a shelter from the weather and by the planting of shrubs and shade-trees round the edges. We would also suggest that some public seats should be provided.\n\nIn connection with the small saving on page 67 of the Estimates, under the heading of \"Contribution towards Support of Lunatics Abroad,\" we would ask why the Government has reverted to the old practice of sending Chinese lunatics to the Chinese Authorities at Canton, instead of to the `John Kerr Hospital` at Canton, and we must express the desirability of the alteration.\n\nIn conclusion, we would venture to express the hope that the residents of this Colony will continue to give liberal financial assistance for the prosecution of the War and that the local War Loan, which has recently been offered for subscription, may prove to be a very great success. We would suggest for consideration that the Sinking Fund might be invested in 8 per cent Exchequer Bonds, so as to yet further aid the Government in War Funds.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466615, "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": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 197, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "DELOITTE, PLENDER, GRIFFITHS & CO?\n\nBin William Plandia.\n\nFangIVAL D.GRIFFITHS. EDWARD DAVIS.\n\nLIONEL MALTAY.\n\nM.L. CHEVALIER.\n\nA.E. CUTFORTH.\n\nThe\n\nAND AT\n\nCAROLPP.\n\nNew York, Chicago, HAVANA\n\nPETROGRAD & Moscow.\n\nMexico CITY,\n\nMONTREAL Vancouver,\n\nBuenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro & TucUMAN.\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Bulawayo, Cape Town,\n\nSALISBURY & Durban.\n\nDELON\n\n23661\n\nRECE?\n\nREGE 20 MAY 16 5. London Wall Buildings.\n\nLondon\n\nEC\n\n196\n\nTELEPHONE DELOITTE (AVE) LONDON. Trummons No. 3000 London Wall (3 lines)\n\n20664/1916.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nWhitehall, S.W.\n\n19th May, 1916.\n\nSir,\n\nBRITISH ESTABLISHMENT OF DIRECTION DER DISCONTO GESELLSCHAFT.\n\nMessrs. Jebsen & Jessen, Hamburg. Messrs. Jebsen & Co., Hongkong.\n\nStaut.\n\nI am much obliged for your letter of the 16th inst.\n\nIn regard to your suggestion that the guarantee of the Bank of England would provide a better security than the guarantee of the London Agency of the Direction der Disconto Gesellschaft, I venture to suggest that it would be impracticable for us to procure a guarantee from the Bank of England. The Management of the Disconto-Gesellschaft point out that a guarantee given by them as the duly authorised attorneys of the Disconto-Gesellschaft in London, could not be repudiated by their Head Office in Berlin, even if the latter desired to repudiate it after the war, which in the opinion of the London Management is extremely unlikely. I agree with this view.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466888, "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": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 470, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Ity ascertain Whether the Calcutta hauche has a surplus, that if so agree J & and if the fost A India we consider that the course Adeplint purposed by his he pleader Pho be adopted. Both them to communient\n\nELOITTE PLENDER, GRIFFITHS & CO\n\nBin Willian Plenden. PaneIVAL D.GRIPPITHE Eoward Dayın LIONEL MALTRY. H. I. CHEVALIER. A.E.CUTPORTN. 19148. with India 5 al.\n\nThe Akong AND AT CAMBIFF, Petrograda Moscow. New York, CHICAGO, HAYANA & Mexico CITY, Montreal & Vancouver. Buon Anka, Ridon Janetão a TuqUMAN, JOHANNgung, Bulawayo, Cape Town, BALISTURY a Dunaan. Eno.\n\nTELEGRAMA. C ¿ 469 35387 D DELOITEC. REG 26 JULIA 5. London Wall Buildings. London, EC. TELEGRAM DELOITTE(AVE) LONDON. TRUPINE No. 3000 LONDON WALL (3 LIKE)\n\n25th July, 1916. liquidation is likely to be in a position to be completed shropy. (35719 minuted separate)\n\nHOB 1H 245/7/146 06.20/714 10. See now in 35 35710 Hol,.8.1 at once. H.D.R. 218716\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W.\n\nBRITISH ESTABLISHMENTS OF GERMAN & AUSTRIAN BANKS. DEUTSCHE ASIATISCHE BANK.\n\nWeasury. 1..Thesty I return the File received on the 22nd instant with reference to the transfer of a balance from the Calcutta to the Hongkong Branch of the above Bank. The India Office, in their letter of the 3th November 1915 (R. S.7207/15), gave authority for the Liquidator of the Calcutta Branch of the Bank to discharge the indebtedness of that Branch to the Disconto-Gesellschaft, London, the amount being then 26,394. 6. 9.\n\nThe indebtedness of the Caloutta Branch of the Deutsche Asiatische Bank to the London Branch of the Disconto-Gesellschaft at date is ... and the indebtedness of the Hongkong Branch of the Deutsche Asiatische Bank to the London establishment of the Disconto-Gesellschaft is 2533.12. 9 720,251. 1. 9\n\nThe Liquidator of the Calcutta Branch of the Deutsche Asiatische Bank should remit to London what is now owing, namely, 583. 12. 9. Any balance found to be owing by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467142, "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": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 723, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH-CABLE SYSTEM\n\nTHE LARGEST TELEGRAPH AND CABLE SYSTEM IN EXISTENCE.\n\nWESTERN UNION\n\nNo.\n\n722\n\nANGLO-AMERICAN WESTERN UNION DIRECT UNITED STATES\n\n8 DUPLEXED ATLANTIC CABLE NO.\n\nOVER 25,500 OFFICES AND 1,500,000 MILES OF WIRE.\n\nDirect Wires from Cable Stations to all the principal commercial centres Great Britain, United States and Canada, and Direct connection with Cent América, West Indies, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Fanning, Fiji, Norfolk Islands, and Direct and Exclusive Connection with Mexico.\n\nRECEIVING OFFICES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM :—\n\nLONDON:\n\n48%, Gresham House, Old Broad St., E.C.... 704 117\n\n1, Old Broad Street, E.C.\n\n63, Old Broad Street, E.C.\n\nM, Royal Exchange, E.C.\n\n29, 40, Mark Lane, E.C.\n\n1070, 1384 Avenue, à782\n\n20. Mark Lane, E.C.\n\nBest India Avenue, E.C.\n\nThe Baltic, St. Mary Axe, E.C.\n\n34, Throgmorton Street, E.C.\n\n1. Drapers' Gardens, E.C.\n\n10, Holborn Viaduct. E.C.\n\nTelephone No.\n\n9701 Wall 3318\n\n1050 Avenue 8753, 614 976 Avenue, 0974 Central\n\n1366 Wall 1830 Central\n\n119 City 3717\n\n1156 Gerrard 3.588\n\nDonington House, Norfolk Street, W.C.\n\n34, 85, Southampton St., Strand, W.C.\n\n2, Charing Cross, S.W.\n\n5. Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, S.W.\n\n34, Victoria Street, S.W.\n\n46. Tooley Street, S.E.\n\n71\n\n3073 Regent\n\n3716 Victoria\n\n994 Hop\n\nLIVERPOOL: De Exchange Buildings\n\nCotton Exchange.\n\nBRISTOL: Canada House, Baldwin Street\n\nBRADFORD: 10, Forster Square\n\nDUNDEE: 1, Panmure Street\n\nEDINBURGH: 50, Frederick Street\n\nGLASGOW: 29, Waterloo Street\n\nLEITH: Exchange Buildings\n\nMANCHESTER: 30, Brown Street\n\nNEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE: 1, Bido\n\nWEST HARTLEPOOL: Exchange Buildings, Mainsforth Torrans\n\nTelephone\n\nSRTA CH\n\n(P\n\n1983\n\nCABLEGRAM\n\nService Instructions.\n\nTime Received.\n\nReeling Of\n\n7.42\n\nVia Western Union.\n\nor\n\nHanded in at\n\nolt Under\n\nNo. of Words.\n\n33\n\nTELEPHONE\n\nInquiry respecting this Message can be attended to without the production of this paper.\n\nTo which sanders rehter's are concerned stop thus\n\nTT1 Br\n\n1351 Cu\n\n400\n\n[Elamu\n\nExchan\n\n600 La\n\n1455\n\n138 Ge\n\n189 w Harti\n\nGeneral Offices WESTERN UNION HOUSE, 22, GREAT WINCHESTER STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nTELEPHONE No.: 800 LONDON WALL (Private Branch Exchange).\n\nPRINCIPAL CONTINENTAL OFFICES AND AGENCIES:-\n\nANTWERP: 4. Avenue de Keyser.\n\nAMSTERDAM: 4. Weesperzijde.\n\n49, Canal des Recollets.\n\n67, Calle Caspe.\n\nBARCELONA: 96. Paseo de Gracia\n\nBERGEN: Post Box, 160.\n\nCHRISTIANIA: 4. Prinsenagade.\n\nCOPENHAGEN: 4, Jernbanegade.\n\nHAMBURG: 4, Grosse Allee.\n\nHAVRE: 118, Boulevard Strasbourg.\n\nMADRID: Calle Valenzuela 10.\n\nNAPLES: Via Marina Nuova, 14/18.\n\nPARIS: 1, Rue Auber, 37, Rue Caumartin.\n\nROME: 49/50, Piazza di Spagna.\n\nSTOCKHOLM: Drottninggatan 9.\n\nVIENNA: IV. Stumpergasse, 48.\n\nZURICH: Pelikanstrasse, 22.\n\nThe public are recommended to hand in their Telegrams at the Company's Stations, where free receipt is given for the amounts charged.\n\nTelegrams for this Company's Cables are also received at all Post Office Telegraph Stations; but to insure transmission by the Western Union Telegraph-Cable System, the forms upon which Telegrams are used should be marked \"Via Western Union,\" \"Via Anglo\" or \"Via Direct.” This indication is signalled free of charge.\n\nCable addresses are registered free of charge.\n\nAll important Telegrams should be repeated, for which an additional quarter rate is charged.\n\ncode gardner, manager\n\nPlease hand your Reply direct to this Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468020, "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": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "content_text": "322\n\na'gall to Jaentreqel grireenişıå edt beredne I eredt bentrar bem dabute hetaluointem e ta ‚mobrol ‚@zeffo5 .S-[EBI YOGY I\n\n.ril of liquq belɔière ne as stony 5 bersa I nahyo10,veertigall rotell been dzvozof .1.5 „tum“ „K TadioW „T BỞI 2018 GIỜ Tubes inetales bằng a on begins waw a 381 To moldasigra to odab hegagen umm I ogoliquq yn Yo rosy .dal odð rað?A\n\n·\n\nJqooze „araanigom Jnatsirza odð na yam omna odd ni sirow noqar .bisq don (autoes to ‚aam I Indó\n\nfivio to moitutiteni adź de trabuðu e essnoad I\n\n.1981 ni swanky n\n\nseid nogu Jemteivus mu se bhuangan now I\n\n•\n\n•:8drom zatvollst\n\nagawes of moisma♬to tot bete i dvo aniyai bna yavruƐ\n\nnodanihbeƐ bra boortoll da været midagiral bra mori al enketh Todemetoda bne øyemes won gniyed\n\n.#rowak kad mi ban sqiq oraVO NOŽE\n\n„ubros wen galblive staving duo gaiyel node surrið oðaving to drow wit zaidometÜ\n\n«ndrow agenisth To evimulant „essoqwuq gnihllud tot sedates .azowas bun sakarb dguorod adë te ringar bna sormimiCÌ Đại (Juo beitimo Jon), oẻ aźned gnilites to midnya o ngiso?\n\nmained oitqen dứ kw bed neukroqre bas\n\nne at gribood a zatvizű\n\nwo[ad Jae? 005 Frode How\n\nesthari wali,LH KI « to moldnere add bne,level besorg odt\n\n•yiqquß devorad add to? same most rade zuiquuq 10% Jointaiɑ add tot ammuder madew yidźnom odð. Svo galis i morfiets),mediyal[re” „andoi „nobyosî midt be baburlonk yIdzvor\n\nme tot affOW miceJTÁ\n\n.nodgallieW bas\n\ntot satis S to yottub\n\nede,možgailist teen de ano - nobyazo of xiqque besseroni\n\n+\n\n‚ebishool da zadło\n\nIndol edð yď beɛnaq toɑ saw tanto? adī tasko afï .znivasi zette deinei I zodoeqani brood JnanaTO VOD\n\nį\n\nhas been developed satisfactorily.\n\nI was frequently engaged upon measurements and general inspection work, purely as an assistant, at the following buildings:-\n\nIsolation Hospital (Temporary).\n\nNew Cemetery and Buildings.\n\nPublic Bath Houses (swimming), at Croydon and S. Norwood.\n\nDemolition of old Central Croydon Railway Station and the erection of the following big buildings:-\n\nTown Hall Court and library, &c., Police Station and subway to Court.\n\nI was also engaged on the classification of competition designs for a Lunatic Asylum and was frequently engaged in making Cartoons to illustrate proposed public works and improvements for the Council Chamber.\n\nI hold a testimonial from my then chief endorsing the above in general terms.\n\n(Sd.) A. H. Hollingsworth,\n\n2.5.17.\n\nP.8. I resigned from Croydon in order to take up my appointment in the Public Works Department of this Colony December 11, 1896.\n\nI became an Assoc. Member Inst. C. Engineers 6.4.1897.\n\n(Sd.) A. H. E.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477431, "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": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nI would suggest that the site for the Hospital and Asylum on the Praya East reclamation be kept slightly raised above the level of the surrounding buildings. This position, with a view over the harbour on one side and the Wong-nei-chong valley on the other, would be a good alternative, though personally I consider Kennedy Town the better of the two.\n\nI saw a man there suffering in that manner, and he was placed in a ward with a lot of lunatics. I cannot imagine anything more likely to send anyone off his head than to find himself in such company. Surely, sir, it cannot be right that such cases should be herded with those who are permanently insane.\n\nI would have liked to see a small sum allocated for the purpose of providing some better means of displaying the names of the streets in the Colony, particularly on the upper levels and in the outlying districts. I have seen quite an artistic method of dealing with the subject carried out in combination with the lamp-posts. No one will dispute the fact that the lamp-posts in the Colony are far from being things of beauty, and yet there is no reason why they should not be artistic. As, however, the Government finds that it must increase the accommodation of the existing Asylum, I would ask them to provide a separate house for cases suffering from the effect of alcohol.\n\nOn one of my visits as a Justice of the Peace, I saw the need for this. And, with the name of the street worked into the design so that it faces one as one passes to and fro, an effect can be obtained which is both pleasing and useful. I offer the suggestion to the Government in connection with the vote of $12,000, which is partly for providing additional lamps.\n\nThere is a sum of $5,500 allowed in the estimates for a crematorium. We should like to see the plan laid on the table so that we may be sure of what we are going to get for our money, whether sufficient accommodation is provided, or whether we shall have to spend more money in the near future.\n\nAs regards the Praya East reclamation, I would like the Government to see whether some scheme cannot be devised so that, when the ground is built upon, a uniform design for houses on the front be agreed upon. I think that if a committee of architects were formed and a uniform type of design were drawn up, we should then have a fine front to display to the harbour instead of the ramshackle appearance which obtains on the Praya to the westward.\n\nThere is one other matter which I wish to say a few words about, viz., the Housing problem. It was not to be expected that one would find anything in the budget more directly relative to the subject than the provision of new roads opening-up new areas for building purposes. Because, up to date, no concrete proposals have been put forward, and I have no doubt that the Government is waiting for private enterprise to give them a lead.\n\nThe provision of new roads needed urgently is the first step in the right direction, but don't let the Government stop at that and think their work is finished - that is the starting point. The next step is the leasing of suitable sites at a reasonable cost. By suitable, I mean sites that are easily developed; not the kind where a quarter of one's capital is sunk in retaining walls and foundations. Fairly level ground, easy of access, is what is wanted.\n\nI will ask the Government to do all they can to help owners and architects over the disposing of surplus spoil where there is considerable cutting to be done in the formation of a site. If this spoil has to be carried down and put into junks, it greatly increases the cost of making a site and forms one of the reasons why building is so expensive. Finally, I would suggest the Government lend the money for the erection of houses at a low rate of interest. At Home and in various other places in the Empire, the Government is, and has been for years, lending money for housing schemes.\n\nWith regard to the question of a wholesale poultry market, I also find myself in agreement with the honourable member representing the Justices of the Peace. I was a member of the Sub-Committee of the Sanitary Board mentioned by him, and I know how real and insanitary the nuisance complained of is.\n\nI am sure that if the officials who have authority to deal with and dispose of this matter were to spend a couple of hours in Ko Shing or Li Shing Street while sorting of poultry is in progress, they would have the nuisance stopped in very quick time.\n\nAfter all, the amount necessary for building the market is not so very large an outlay that the Colony cannot bear it, especially when it will bring in a not inconsiderable revenue. I therefore urge that the work be proceeded with at once.\n\nIn New Zealand, there is an Act of Parliament called the Government Advances to Workers Act, by which a man can borrow money from the Government to make a home for himself. In England, vast sums of money have been lent for this same purpose by the Public Works Loan Commissioners, which body gets its funds from the National Debt Commissioners, and there are other instances too numerous to mention here. Therefore, I see no reason why this Government should not do something similar.\n\nIt seems to me that if the employers of labour and others who are otherwise progressive were to meet together and form some sort of Co-operative Building Society on the lines of those existing in nearly all the big cities in England, some workable scheme might be evolved; but to command success, any scheme must have the Government's sympathy and co-operation - not only must you provide suitable sites at a reasonable price, but you must drain the nullahs, lay the main drains, give us water and light and easy means of access.\n\nI would ask you, sir, not to dismiss this matter from your thoughts without grave consideration. The subject is one which is attracting world-wide attention. Every newspaper one takes up has reference to it. Madras has just started a housing scheme, and Singapore will probably be the next. Therefore, I would ask you to consider whether it would not be advisable to appoint a Commission to go into the question. If this is done, I feel sure that useful results will follow.\n\nThere is one thing that this war has taught us, and that is to think more largely than before. Schemes that would have taken our breath away before the war have been carried out successfully and with great difficulty. Where there is a will, there is a way, and I see no reason why, as far as public works matters are concerned, we should not strike out the word impossible from our vocabulary.\n\nHON. MR. S. H. DODWELL - The ground has been so well covered by other unofficial members that there is only one point I wish to raise, but that I think is an important one. It has reference to the controlled ships' accounts which were lightly touched on by the hon. senior unofficial member of the Council. I presume that the fact that these controlled ships' accounts do not appear separately does not mean that the local Government is appropriating the proceeds. I take it the accounts will not only be kept separate but that the proceeds will in due course be handed over to the Home Government.\n\nHON. MR. CHAN KAI MING - Sir, the views and suggestions of my Chinese colleague have my cordial support. As an old resident, I well remember the free Government vernacular schools mentioned by him. There are still living several prominent members of the Chinese community who received the rudiments of their education at such institutions. It would be interesting to speculate what the honourable member of this Council for whom I am now acting would have become, had he not had the chance of a free vernacular and English education in his young days.\n\nThe probability is that Hongkong would have lost one of its most public-spirited and useful citizens. There may, at this moment, be many youngsters among the poor who, if given the same opportunity, might one day rise to positions of honour similar to those attained by our friend, and render important services to the Colony. A system of education which neglects the up-bringing of the children of the poor must be wrong, and the sooner it is remedied the better it will be for the good name of this otherwise progressive Colony.\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS - I think most of the points raised by the Unofficial members in connection with Public Works are covered by a general statement regarding the shortage of the staff in the Department. Out of a total of 20 engineers, we have 13 at the present moment.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 479499, "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": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "page_number": 476, "title": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "content_text": "## SCA\n\n453\n\n**JNUMITAVOÐ of ZebraTtue of yołooƐ vianolab** [DINIO SHT \n\nnoit votter to stab eds moit BIRO OWS midola „dads to setÌ \n\n*897 il mots won od tri adrow niidu¤ to reJOSTIC SAJ zď \n\nACCI,I,I to 4.1 ofta gelb Tiedt ja el 1781 52 \n\nDAJ SINGU Vianocesji dotund sat tusza o♪ Jemirravoð erf \n\nJuode gainletaco nely \n\nedt no bei bezvol00 8913 \n\n-15 WĘD \n\n.jeet stalpa $34,00 \n\n### Conditions\n\n(a) ... \n(F) ... \n(dr sɗ at Beze weir side tot semi to IT ONT .(o) To mattqo sit stie,(a) al benot'nan 93eh vi mor? gatið- at 10 104mm2 kits gf baxit ad of tugu mwo13 A je levast .84esy 27 20 mrt 13U TU? 116 129 gold bad ytesje” \n\n### Further Conditions\n\n(b) Zu staz and Jo wote stitna edo not kluq så of tasЯ awozo .(8) 9ắt mor? 9AND T109 CJ Jпet Hově JAWANI 193 919# 194 00.0JR4 alud (2831 Jul baniqi to „4,♬ saj to zahnetius to stab bezolutien sist bij mort wasɔy ow Lait 19tal Jon s&NO YAS JOT han INI O 13.9 883 20 Joeqası at ‡asЯ amuzð .(e) al \n\n### IDL:STTUS \n\n2c stab add moт? 98000 03 aecr \n\nJen ment oaoqing Is.ito ys tot been ad of ton 2018 Won MÍT .(1) -nat si domu:0 er vi beroubuco (couba-gabbrood to yau 9 „Atonwußenbeculzovoð 91s to Ingenco edi Juoddie geloo2 yrs- Juswm of auze add beau on d of julesan ali to jasya saj nI JHSMIISVoð of gitano¿sibnosTU \n\n### More Conditions\n\n(a) ni Cra... 1 GP Motoño exs yd bojovrjenos s of affor animistại sɗð af gtinbari ‡moy\"Iq öf .728889200 szala „yde tool sið Javal of Takze at two boltıno gated notjavenxs you to \n\n### Translation of Conditions\n\n(a) area or in the event of material being deposited on the area for a like purpose.\n\n(1). A sum of not less than $150,000 to be expended on buildings on the aforesaid area coloured red within 36 months from the date of the letter referred to in (a).\n\n(j). In no case may the height of any building erected on the aforesaid area coloured red exceed 40 feet.\n\n(k). The design of the exterior elevations of all buildings and the planning and disposition of any building of an objectionable class, such as servants' quarters, lavatories and the like, proposed to be erected on the aforesaid area coloured red, to be subject to the special approval of the Director of Public Works.\n\n(l). A right-of-way to the area will be granted in a position to be approved by the Director of Public Works.\n\n(m). The exact boundaries of the area to be determined before the issue of the Crown Lease. In the event of any excess or deficiency in area being found to exist as compared with the area stated in (b), Crown Rent will be adjusted to the nearest even dollar at the rate of $200.00 per acre per annum.\n\n(n). The Church Missionary Society must notify the Superintendent of Botanical and Forestry Department in the event of their requiring the removal of any trees from the area. Such trees will be removed by the Superintendent of Botanical and Forestry Department.\n\n(o). Provided that the Church Missionary Society expends a sum of $120,000.00 upon the erection of buildings devoted solely to educational purposes, a grant, not exceeding $60,000.00, under Article 50 of the Grant Code, 1914, shall be made by Government.\n\n(p). Subject to the execution of a mortgage of the entire property in favour of the Government as mortgagee, the Government will ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483721, "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": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "ASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY,\n\nDIRECT CABLE ROUTES FOR TELEGRAMS\n\nNEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, S\n\nPORTUGAL, GREECE, TURKEY, EGYPT, ALL PARTS OF AFRICA, ..\n\nIN GREAT BRITAIN.\n\nLONDON STATIONS :\n\nEinotre Поди.\n\nFun Pavement, H.Q.. 111, Cannon Street, E.C►\n\nLondonball Street, C.,\n\nMarket Buildings,\n\nKinefor LIFE\n\n20\n\n, .Ų. J\n\n* Sify &t. 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See Rule Book.\n\n* inquiry respecting this 'lelegram can be attended to without production of this Copy\n\nSee back of form for list of Company's Stations in London and Telephone Numbers\n\nLETTES\n\nircle\n\ninser Lirele\n\nExamplos, PW 3.45 pm,\n\nHL -8.65 ant.\n\nTIMES OF OPENING AND CLOSING.\n\nCENTRAL CABLE INN,\n\nVIT.\n\nClerk's Name.\n\nTime Received.\n\nCie Samṛ\n\n$1.\n\nALWITS OPEX.\n\n+\n\nClosed Sundays.\n\n120mm, 1\n\nהיקר !\n\nALWAYS GEEN.\n\n13 1 S\n\nTr\n\nOpen, to\n\n5\n\n■\n\n8. o 8 pm.\n\n+\n\nBa. to 1.2.\n\nTamm Fa.m. 10 7 14\n\nH\n\n7 am to 10 pm.\n\n!\n\nto 7pm.\n\n7,11 From.\n\n.. 8.30 ».m. to 430) | 3. 4\n\n7am to 11 n..\n\nJ 1.1. is 6 pm. ALWATÉ OPEN.\n\nw $ p.m.\n\nt:& path.\n\nInf.\n\nSa.m, 14 5 pm.\n\n17 a.m. to 11 p.\n\nto $10.\n\n2.\n\nSunday 9 to 17 4.1.\n\nCES OF THE COMPANY: ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT, LONDON, E.C. 2.\n\nbegrepitie Address | EASTERN AVE, LONDON.\n\nTelephone: 1127 LONDON WALL.\n\npriced to a REGISTERED ABBREVIATED ADDRESS, where teletamis mulle\n\nwhose name is als great, she wough “OARE\" (93) » some nivalent expression must be\n\n•1a-)· render.\n\nCat and grektur ausuracy is encored by the Pallc banding in the Teleg: direct in the Chopany's Stations as neve\n\n• gives grain for the amount charged.\n\nfor this Company's cables are slaw rectired all Postal 1elegraph Offices at should be mailed \"VIA' EASTERN,\" new chererd for.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES RUĢISTERED FREE OF COST.\n\ngraph Pel, and Rules, fo, can be vistaimed at the Brad Obces of the Cougang or as any of the bow-nam Stati\n\n***\n\nTime handed in\n\n3 ters\n\nk above), and\n\nt\n\nG.CHUBB\n\n14. MAY 20 increments of £25\n\nхирвор\n\nTWO TRBEAMTNG PHONOGRAM ANA\n\nPHYLLOBER METH\n\nFIFTEEN\n\nEFFICIENCY\n\nBARS,\n\nCADETS\n\n£5-0\n\nSUGGESTED\n\nMucher thi\n\nERGOD\n\nLAADI NI BIL\n\nALE\n\nfor this there\n\nout of\n\nTHE YOUNGER\n\nARE\n\nPOCKET\n\nLoss of LIMITLESS\n\nBALLA TOON\n\nconsider that\n\nABTING, PAY\n\nALCOHOLI ZE\n\nUNDER\n\nSUNGAI CHTOVI CABOR\n\nPAY\n\nORIGINAL\n\nSCHEME\n\nWITH\n\nEL GHT\n\nbis d\n\nmcrements of\n\nUNBEAMING.\n\nTHEIR will be TOUCHPI ECT\n\nIMMEDIATE\n\nLIMITLESS\n\nI presume that\n\nPLUMBOSTE B\n\nin the THOUGH'S\n\nCoby\n\nnew scate of\n\n180FETH\" || PAY IS\n\nDRAWN\n\nFROM\n\nTHAT\n\nEXCESSIVE lese Ikaw LANGUA GEO\n\nAam JABZI EL\n\nNO\n\n£\n\nWHERE\n\nALREADY\n\nshould to\n\nREFUND SEČUTANA\n\nI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488390, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Public Works, Extraordinary\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN explained the first item as being for the extension of the nullah in Shamshuipo which had to be undertaken owing to the rapid development of the district. The other amount was also required because of the unexpected building development necessitating the extension of Government sewers.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Document Presses\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $130 in aid of the vote Colonial Secretary's Office, Special Expenditure, Document Presses.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Compensation for Development Promoters\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $7,500 on account of Miscellaneous Services, in aid of expenses incurred by the Promoters of the South of the Island Development Scheme.\n\nThat has been very carefully considered, and it is felt that it would be equitable to pay this sum to cover certain expenses. I do not think it will cover all the expenditure to which they have been put.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - Has this sum been agreed to?\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - Yes, it has been agreed to by the Government, and the representative of the promoters.\n\nThe vote was approved.\n\n## Expenditure on Exhumations\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $2,000 in aid of the vote Sanitary Department, Special Expenditure, Exhumation at Kai Lung Wan Cemetery.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN said exhumations would proceed early next year at Chai Wan and it was now becoming feasible to complete the exhumation at Kai Lung Wan. It was proposed in future Estimates to provide one sum for all exhumations.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Temporary School at Morrison Gap Road\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - Hon. members will remember the big scheme for the development of the south side of the island. After years of negotiations the scheme has fallen through, and the Government found it necessary to terminate the whole business, but on the application of the promoters it was felt that there was some reason for their being led to expect that this scheme would go through. They had, therefore, incurred certain unavoidable expenditure. They were asked for particulars, but we could not get definite particulars of much of the expenditure. After negotiations with the agents of the promoters locally it was agreed to pay a sum of $7,500.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $30,000 on account of Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Buildings, Proposed erection of a temporary school near Gap Road.\n\nHON. MR. BIRD - It was a private enterprise, was it not, sir?\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - It was private enterprise but the Government had supported it and it would have been of great public advantage. It would have gone through probably but for the war.\n\nThe war intervened and prevented them from raising the capital, if they ever could have raised the capital. On the other hand, the Government were somewhat in the wrong in not having stated a time for the definite conclusion of the work. The time dated from a hypothetical passing of an ordinance.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - The building in which the Praya East school had been housed for some years had become unsafe, and the scholars had to be removed to temporary accommodation in the Indian School. It is now proposed to erect temporary buildings in Morrison Gap Road which will last until a site for permanent buildings is available.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - Will these buildings be of use for anything else later on?\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - I do not know that they will last longer than they will be required. They will be wanted for six years.\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS - I am afraid they will not be of much use by the time the Government has finished with them.\n\n## Incidental Expenses\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $1,600 in aid of the vote Public Works, Establishment, Incidental Expenses.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN gave details and explained that the amount was in excess of the sum of $2,000 provided in the Estimates. As regards the second item - passages, we have given up the old arrangement by which, if the Police did not take their leave, they were given a bonus. That was under consideration for a long time. Various members of the Council objected to the system and it has been given up. The men now go on leave in greater numbers - with their families - and the result is a large extra sum has been incurred for passages.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Cost of Chinese Police Uniforms\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $60,000 in aid of the following votes Police and Fire Brigade - Police, Other Charges: Clothing and Accoutrements, $30,000; Passages Bonuses in lieu of passages, $30,000; total $60,000.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - These are very large sums. The first item, $30,000, Clothing Accoutrements of the Police, is involved by the change in style of uniforms of the Chinese Police. A thousand pairs of black Blucher light boots are required for the Chinese Police at a cost of £574. The old Chinese shoes cost 85 cents a pair as previously. Each man gets two pairs of boots, costing 12s. 7d. each, and two new suits of winter clothing (blue); one helmet and puggaree; and one hat and cap. Each man gets a normal issue, which is costing very much more, owing to two causes - increased prices and difference of exchange. Further, the cost of uniformed police lent to other departments is now borne on the Police Estimates.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - It seems a fairly big price.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - The price surprised me, but it is a fairly big building.\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS agreed.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - Will these figures be annually recurrent?\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - Uniforms will not have renewals now. The passages, I think, will always be a large item. We have not yet reached a figure which we guarantee to be, more or less, the annual figure.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - How many Chinese Police are there?\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - The number is getting larger. It is round about 600.\n\nHON. MR. HOLYOAK - Before changes involving large sums of money are made, the Council ought to know something more about the cost.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN - I was surprised to hear of the expenditure that had taken place.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - I think the Finance Committee should have been consulted, first.\n\nThe vote was approved.\n\n## Purchase of Hakka Dictionaries\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $750 in aid of the vote Miscellaneous Services, Other Miscellaneous Services,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488393, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n...which we have a good chance of carrying out in the year. The result is that there are always a certain number of items not proceeded with. I am afraid we take that practice into consideration, when we frame a budget.\n\nThe motion was then put and carried, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\n...that a water frontage might be presented which would be a credit to the Colony for many years to come,\n\n## Praya East Reclamation Ordinance\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS - The clauses in this Ordinance, which were framed by Mr. Chatham, are more or less the same as are contained in the Ordinance under which the previous big reclamation was carried out. Whilst it may or may not be desirable to have such a clause...\n\nOn the motion of the COLONIAL SECRETARY, seconded by the COLONIAL TREASURER, the Bill was referred to the Finance Committee for consideration.\n\n## Inscribed Stock Ordinance\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to amend the General Loan and Inscribed Stock Ordinance, 1913.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded. The motion was agreed to.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL then moved that the Council go into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the motion was agreed to.\n\nThe Bill passed through Committee without amendment and, on the Council resuming, the Bill, on the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, seconded by the COLONIAL SECRETARY, was read a third time and passed.\n\n## Praya East Reclamation Ordinance (continued)\n\nHON. MR. BIRD - I regret, sir, that no attempt has been made to secure any sort of uniformity of design for the buildings on the sea front. I realise that there are many obvious difficulties to be faced, but I believe they are not insurmountable. The chance we have got is one of a lifetime...\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - I agree with my honourable friend, Mr. Bird, that a clause, such as he suggests, is very desirable, if it could be obtained. I suggest it should be added now.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR - It seems to me that it should pass the wit of man to devise any clause to provide that any buildings would be erected to a particular pattern.\n\nHON. MR. BIRD - I meant more as regards the height of buildings in one block, so that all buildings in one block might be kept the same height.\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS - The tendency recently has been for everybody to build as high as the Government will let them.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR - If the hon. member (Mr. Bird) feels able to propose, in Committee, any clause to give effect to what he has said, no doubt the Council will be glad to hear it.\n\nThe second reading of the Bill was then carried.\n\nThe Bill passed through Committee without amendment and, on resuming, the third reading was approved, on the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, seconded by the COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\n## Bills of Exchange Ordinance\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to amend further the Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the second reading was carried.\n\nThe Bill was committed to Committee for consideration clause by clause, and, when the Council resumed, the third reading was approved, on the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, seconded by the COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nThe Bill passed accordingly.\n\n## Indemnity Ordinance\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to restrict the taking of legal proceedings in respect of certain acts and matters done during the war and to provide in certain cases remedies in substitution therefor, should be postponed to the next meeting of the Council.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the motion was agreed to.\n\n## The Deportation Ordinance\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to amend the Deportation Ordinance, 1917.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the second reading was carried.\n\nThe Bill passed through the Committee stage without amendment and, when the Council resumed, the third reading was approved, on the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, seconded by the COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nThe Bill passed accordingly.\n\n## The Tobacco Ordinance\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to amend the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the second reading was carried.\n\nThe Bill passed through the Committee without amendment and, when the Council resumed, the third reading was approved, on the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, seconded by the COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nThe Bill passed accordingly.\n\n## The Stamp Amendment Ordinance\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to amend the Stamp Ordinance, 1921.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the second reading was approved.\n\nThe Council in Committee considered the bill clause by clause and, the Council resuming, the third reading was approved, on the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, seconded by the COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nThe Bill passed accordingly.\n\n## The Estate Duty Ordinance\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to amend the Estate Duty Ordinance, 1915.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the second reading was approved.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488675, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 416, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Page 408\n\nWheels and axles are at present being considered by the contractors, and it is anticipated that orders for them will be placed this month, the whole to be delivered in four months' time. Meanwhile, the Decauville wagons will be worked by manual power. The contract time of six years hardly seems too long for the scope of the work, although a great deal of the area will be brought into use before that time.\n\nAs regards Coronation Road, the sum of $12,000 will finish the work, and it is anticipated that it will be finished by March next. With regard to the diaphone fog signalling installation at Waglan, only a small amount of building work is being done. The chief expenditure is in plant; therefore, no contract has been invited for the building. It is being done under the annual contract for small works and will be ready when the machinery arrives about the end of the year.\n\nAs to the refuse dump at Cheung Sha Wan, instead of the total amount of $40,000, only $5,000, the amount which it is proposed to spend this year, is given.\n\nWith regard to the houses on Severn Road and the tennis courts there, this work was begun in November, 1919. The total expenditure to date is $138,867, of which the tennis courts cost approximately $17,800. As to the question \"Why separate tennis courts?\" it was considered that houses of this character should have a tennis court; moreover, we had to get filling for the road, and this undoubtedly had an influence in arriving at a decision.\n\nThere is a penalty clause of $50 a week, but it is not proposed to inflict the penalty as the delay in completing is not due to the fault of the contractor, but to non-arrival of stores from England. Moreover, it has only been a short delay. One house will probably be completed two months ahead of time, and two houses about a month behind time. The total cost is something under $60,000, which I think members will agree is very reasonable for the character and quality of the houses erected there, and compares very favourably with other work of similar character.\n\nIt has been said that it is inadvisable to spread money over so many items, but the number of contracts in the Gazette of the last few months shows how much work is unavoidable. It is not a case of a stupendous programme which has no chance of being finished in its entirety. Of course, several jobs will continue into another year at least, but a great deal of the work in the programme will be completed.\n\nAs to the necessity of building houses for Government servants, I might mention that a man arrived a couple of days ago, and there was no accommodation for him; he is living at the Hong Kong Hotel at daily rates. We have been told that the Public Works Department sets up a high standard in regard to this accommodation. I do not think the buildings are any better than they should be, and there are no \"frills.\"\n\nAs to the report on the tramway to Wanchai Gap, this related to levels and formation drawings, but did not refer to the equipment, which would very likely be two or three times the estimate for the rails. With regard to the Un Long scheme referred to by the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak, that has been receiving a great deal of consideration. Mr. Carpenter, the Assistant Director of Public Works, has been to several public meetings of the people interested, but it is a big scheme and will take some time to bring into operation. It provides for bunding in a great deal of land and making it available for cultivation. One of the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489346, "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": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 494, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## 10\n\nTwo-and-a-half years later, in April 1920, in a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the present doyen of the Diplomatic Corps insists on the fulfilment of the above-mentioned promise, but up to quite a recent date, at any rate, no reply had been received.\n\n\"The lot-holders have met on several occasions, and are unanimous in claiming that the rights and privileges they have had since they bought their properties and started their trading, and which they enjoyed under the old régime, must be recognised by the new order.\" Were this not to be it would mean that the Treaty of Versailles had abrogated old rights and privileges, without which the present prosperous settlement would never have come into existence and will certainly not last.\n\n\"The lot-holders have in January and in July of this year addressed letters to the senior consul for transmission to the Legation in which the position of foreign interests in the concessions is clearly defined and insisting upon the promulgation of a constitution for the concession in which foreign interests are adequately protected. So far as is known, no heed whatsoever has been paid by the Chinese Government to this legitimate claim. Apparently it is making use of the circumstance that China never signed the Versailles Treaty indefinitely to postpone an arrangement.\n\nWhile thus not lifting a finger to redeem the promise of the Waichiaopu of the 5th October, 1917, the Government have, by Presidential Mandates Nos. 24 and 25 of the 19th December, 1919, made a deliberate attempt to legalise Chinese taxation of all foreign interests in the concession. The rates authorised by the mandate refer to transfer of properties and to new buildings and are respectively 30 and 28 times higher than those charged by the German Administration, but the crowning effrontery lies in the fact that the taxes collected were to be remitted to the Ministry of Finance in Peking.\n\nThe concession has now been under Chinese administration for three-and-a-half years, during which the framework of the previous municipal council administration, which the Chinese made some show of basing the new order on, has slowly crumbled.\n\nRespect for law and order has suffered very considerably. Burglaries and thefts are matters of common daily occurrence, while thieves apprehended on foreign premises have often to be dealt with on the spot, as the purely Chinese methods of the police offer no guarantee of an adequate punishment.\n\nRoads are in permanent need of repairs, on which, however, only such money as can be obtained from the Tuchun's Yamen in Wuchang is spent. Public buildings and plants previously erected from moneys derived from taxation of ratepayers are neglected. The annual contribution of the concession towards the upkeep of the International Hospital has been unpaid for three years.\n\nArmed forces of Chinese soldiery march through the streets, and the Bund is used as a practice ground. Street and wharf coolies have become assertive, and the house servants are not failing to take advantage of the laxity of the police. \"Tales of squeeze and graft in the various sections of the municipal administration are rampant, and whether true or not are detrimental to the dignity of the administration and to the co-operation of the same with the foreign population.\n\n\"If this was only a transient stage, the municipal interregnum might be regarded as a deplorable interlude only, but, worst of all, despite the undertaking of the Waichiaopu, despite all the representations of the Diplomatic Corps, despite the sympathy and assistance of the local Consular Body, despite the united efforts of the foreign property holders whose vital interests are threatened, the prospects of the establishment of a properly-constituted municipality are to-day as remote as ever and undeniably not only foreign economic interests but also foreign prestige is suffering by the apparent inability of the Powers to make the Chinese Government abandon its well-known attitude of passive resistance in this highly important matter affecting a considerable portion of the foreign economic and trade interests in Hankow.\n\nThe only effective protest that lot-holders have so far been able to register is the withholding of all taxes, but the moment there is any guarantee that the money will be spent rightly, and for the purpose for which it is collected, there will be no hesitation in paying back dues as well as current taxes.\n\n\"I have not so far spoken of the question of the endangering of the safety of the concessions generally through the taking over of the ex-German and Russian concessions, though this is a very vital matter indeed.\n\n## 11\n\nThe moment there is trouble brewing there is not only an influx of Chinese to these strips of land under foreign management, but what is more dangerous, there is a steady flow of treasure and household goods, &c., to an incredible extent and value, so that the concessions offer a very lucrative field for loot. A few years ago the foreigners had a long unbroken river front of their own, and the middle concessions had only to guard their rear: to-day the British, French and Japanese are surrounded by Chinese, and already the wall right along the rear of the Russian concession, a great safety in times of stress, is being demolished.\"\n\nIn the course of the discussion, a resident in Tsinanfu said: \"The state of Tsinanfu is unique, for it is a treaty port opened by the Chinese upon their own initiative. It is not even like the places in Manchuria which were opened after treaty. There was an area outside the West Gate, and the Chinese said that if any foreigner liked to come and live and trade there, in that area, he would be allowed to do so. He stays there at the mercy of the Chinese, but the experience of fifteen or sixteen years is that living in that way the foreigner is not so badly off.\n\nI appreciate the fact that the problem in Tsinanfu is a different one from that of Tien-tsin and Hankow. There you had an established state of things where people had bought land thinking that a certain state of things that had given the land a certain valuation was going to persist, if those conditions were taken away the land which they have purchased and the premises they have erected are likely to go down in value. The only thing that one learns from the administration in Tsinanfu is that the Chinese official, if he is given a fair chance, is really not so bad after all. I think they are on their mettle, and are trying to put up something good enough for decent foreigners to live on. They have macadamised roads, quite good electric light; no water supply at present, but that will come. The electric light and the roads are perfectly good, the sanitation is not equal to that of this beautiful city of Shanghai, but it is not so bad. In the matter of taxation it is extraordinarily lenient. The foreigner takes up the land at 2 dollars per mow per annum land tax, and does not pay a cent more. I think it would be very advantageous of us to approach this whole subject in an attitude of friendship and a spirit of co-operation. If a big scheme like that of Mr. Mounsey's could be introduced it would be a great advantage as it is, the position of both Hankow and Tien-tsin is rather absurd, and differs largely from the position in Shanghai. If Mr. Mounsey's scheme or something of the sort were put into force, then I am not sure that the things which seem so like a disaster at present would not turn out a blessing in disguise.\"\n\n## CHINA COMPANIES.\n\nIt was unanimously agreed:\n\nThat this conference considers it desirable that enquiry be made into the advisability of legislation being enacted whereby the word 'British' or other word or words of similar import be appended to the names of all China companies, present or future, following the word 'Limited', and that the Secretary to the Association be instructed to institute these enquiries at as early a date as possible.\n\nThe above resolution was the one finally passed. In its original form, as proposed by Mr. A. L. Anderson, it ran as follows:\n\nThat this conference considers it desirable that legislation be enacted whereby the word 'British' or other word or words of similar import be appended to the names of all China companies present or future, following on the word 'limited'.\n\nIn proposing this resolution, Mr. Anderson said, in part: \"The resolution which I wish to bring before you is not constructed with the idea that all Britons are angels without wings and that all bad characters are the subjects of other nations. It is looking towards the fact that British prestige should only suffer from such acts of ill-faith as are committed by members of the British Empire that Britons should not suffer from the acts of other nationals.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489890, "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": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 381, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## Mining Operations\n\nThe coal is at present being worked in three ways: (a) From pits, (b) inclines, and (c) open working. Of these the last will be dealt with separately.\n\nThere are at present four pits and four inclines in operation, the names of the pits being Chienchinchai (or “C” pit), Oyama, Toge, and Laobutai (or \"L\" pit). Of these the deepest is the Oyama pit, which strikes the seam at a depth of 1,160 feet and has a depth of 1,234 feet. The Toge pit is 930 feet in depth, while the other two are each about 320 feet deep.\n\nThe names of the four slopes now in use are Yangpai (worked in conjunction with the Toge pit), Wantawu (worked in conjunction with the \"L\" pit), Lungpukan, and Heintun. A new shaft, to be known as the Lungpu pit, is now being sunk at the extreme eastern end of the concession, and has already reached a depth of 400 feet. The total depth of this shaft, which it is expected will be completed in about two years, will be approximately 2,500 feet.\n\n## Method of Working\n\nAt the outset the coal was worked by the pillar and stall system, but about 1912 the sand-flushing system, by which a very much larger percentage of the coal can be extracted, was introduced. The results obtained were highly satisfactory, and the system is now in use throughout the mine, the plant connected therewith being of the most up-to-date type. Sand is procurable in plenty from the bed of the River Hun, whence it is transported by electric railway to the pits, into which it is flushed by high water pressure. By these means about 80 per cent. of the coal can be extracted, and considerable saving of expense is effected in labour and the cost of mine timbers.\n\nThe coal is blasted at the working face, the powder used being dynamite with 50 per cent. of non-explosive matter mixed with it. The mines are comparatively free from fire-damp, and explosions are of rare occurrence, though there have been disastrous fires at the mines, e.g., in 1918, when there was a big explosion in the Oyama pit involving the loss of a large number of lives.\n\nThe underground haulage is mainly mechanical and where mechanical means are not available coolies are used. There are no pit ponies.\n\n## Open Workings\n\nThere are two open-cut mines in operation at Fushun and these form one of the principal features of the colliery. As stated above, the seam now being worked comes to the surface at the foot of the hills forming the valley of the Hun River, and in April 1914 operations were commenced with a view to mining the coal at the western end of the concession from the surface on a scale hitherto attempted. The work has progressed satisfactorily and some four years ago another open-cut mine was commenced nearer the hills and on the other side of the existing railway line. These two open workings are eventually to be joined, and the work of mining the coal from the surface will be continued in an easterly and northerly direction right under the existing town. It will therefore be necessary to move the present station and to build a new town, which will be situated at a spot much nearer to the river. The scheme has in fact already been taken in hand, as no new buildings of any kind are being erected in the present town. It is anticipated that the two open cuts will be linked up in from two to three years' time.\n\nCoal from the open workings can naturally be obtained with a much smaller outlay than in the case of pits, and this is especially the case at present, when the workings are comparatively shallow. All that requires to be done at present is to clear away the upper layer of soil and stone until the coal is reached, though as the seam dips from south to north a layer of shale which overlies the coal and increases in thickness with the depth of the seam has also to be removed. And it is here that the principal obstacle to the further development of the open workings will be met with, as the problem of the disposal of the shale presents considerable difficulty. Hitherto the shale has been piled up round the lip of the workings, but this has not proved altogether satisfactory as, owing to the existence of a comparatively high percentage of oil in the shale, spontaneous combustion occurs when it is exposed to the heat of the sun, while the fumes from the burning shale make the town anything but a pleasant place in which to live when the wind is in a certain quarter. To avoid this difficulty water has been thrown on the shale; but there is a limit to the extent to which this can be done, and the problem of the removal of the shale is now engaging the serious attention of the authorities. How serious the problem is will be realised when it is stated that the management of the colliery are planning to work the coal by means of this system to a depth of 1,000 feet. The shale, however, is said to contain about 8 gallons of heavy oil to the ton, and there is a possibility that plant may be installed with a view to the extraction of the oil as a by-product.\n\nBut, however this may be, it is certain that in the course of a few years, provided the open-cut system is further developed, large hauling plants will be required. At present the depth reached is only from 100 to 120 feet and comparatively little plant is required as coolie labour is abundant and cheap.\n\nThe present daily output of the open workings is about 1,000 tons.\n\n## Plant\n\nThe winding, pumping, ventilating, and hauling plant in use at the various pits and inclines is of various makes—British, German, and American predominating.\n\nThere are two power plants from which current is supplied to all the pits and workings. The first was installed when the colliery was first taken over by the railway company, and is equipped with two Parsons turbo-generators of 1,000 kilowatts each, while one Curtis turbo-generator of 5,000 kilowatts was added later. There are ten Babcock and Wilcox water-tube boilers. This plant is situated near the Oyama pit, to which it supplies power as well as to the other workings in that part of the concession.\n\nThe second power plant, the Mond gas plant, was first installed in 1914, and originally had a gasifying capacity of 240 tons of coal per day. Since then the plant has been doubled in size, and there are now thirty-six producers, the generating plant consisting of two sets of 1,500- and three sets of 3,000-kilowatt turbo-generators. Refuse coal is used for the plant, and the proportion of nitrogen in the coal being comparatively high, fair results have been obtained. The quantity of coal required, however, to produce 1 kilowatt of power is somewhat excessive, being as much as 7 lb.\n\n| By-products | Use |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sulphate of ammonia | Principally exported to foreign countries |\n| Tar | Used by the railway company for preparing railway sleepers and other purposes |\n\nOf the by-products, the sulphate of ammonia is principally exported to foreign countries, while the tar is used by the railway company for preparing railway sleepers and other purposes. During the war large quantities of sulphate of ammonia were sent to the Dutch East Indies for use in the sugar plantations, and owing to the high prices prevailing considerable profits were made out of this branch of the mining business. There are two sets of sulphuric acid producers with a daily capacity of 50 tons.\n\nA third power plant is now in course of erection near the river.\n\n## Coke\n\nThere are thirty coking ovens at the mines, but they are not at present in use. The railway company's principal need for coke is in connection with the blast furnaces at the Anshan Iron Works, but it is found more profitable to manufacture the coke on the spot, and the coal for this purpose is therefore first conveyed to Anshan. The coal from the eastern end of the concession is the most suitable for the manufacture of coke, and it is for this reason that the South Manchuria Railway Company have acquired the rights over the Talien Mine, which adjoins the Fushun concession, and which produces coal suitable for the production of coke. It is proposed to mine the coal on the Talien concession from the new pit mentioned above, as being in course of construction at the extreme end of the Fushun area.\n\n## Nature of Coal\n\nFushun coal is of fairly uniform quality, though, as stated above, that found at the eastern end is better suited for coking. In colour it is a lustrous black; it burns readily, is rich in volatile matter, and has a heating power of about 7,000 calories, is very suitable for consumption in locomotive and marine engines and also for gas making. The quantity of sulphur found in the coal is small, as is also the proportion of ash.\n\nPage 380", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491333, "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": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "MAIN SHOP AND CENTRAL DEPOT.\n\nEXTERIOR VIEW TOWN DEPOT.\n\n10\n\nTHE\n\nDAIRY FARM\n\n\"TRESA* \n\nMAIRY PRODUCE\n\n=\n\ninnumerable, into one of the big scientific dairy farming successes in the East, an institution supplying not only the dairy food requirements of Hong Kong and South China, but, thanks to the extensive shipping facilities of the port, distributing its products to almost every part of the globe.\n\nAt no point, owing to the irregular \"lie of the land,\" can the eye take in the extent of the Farm. Until aeroplanes visit Hong Kong, we must content ourselves by saying that the best view of the farm is obtained from the sea. The visitor rounding the south-west corner of Hong Kong by steamer is impressed by the white buildings dotted like mushrooms on the green slopes of the hill. Closer acquaintance reveals the boldness of the conception which thus charms the eye from a distance. The animals have been housed wherever it was possible to level a site, and that which gives the verdant appearance to the farm is not the extensive pastures one would naturally associate with a dairy farm, but patches of guinea grass planted by hand on the steep hillsides, and carefully tended as a necessary variation to the imported diet of the live stock. The farm occupies the best site, in spite of all its drawbacks, that the Island affords. Its south-westerly exposure enables it to enjoy whatever cool breezes there are during the semi-tropical summer, and sloping seaward is admirably drained and is entirely free from such contaminating influences as are invariably met with in the neighbourhood of populous cities. Stout hearts and unlimited confidence have triumphed over many difficulties. Phoenix-like, the Dairy Farm has risen from the ashes of early misfortunes to stand to-day a magnificent monument to perseverance, and an institution worthy of the great and progressive Colony from which it takes its name and which it serves so well.\n\nA WATER-FALL AT POKFULUM.\n\n11\n\n322", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491374, "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": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "page_number": 367, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "363\n\nsub-manager, and from the testimonials sent out we have every reason to believe that he is very well up in all dairy and farming matters. He is expected to arrive here early next year. Your directors trust that the division of profits will meet with your approval and are sorry that the dividend has had to be reduced owing to defalcations. The policy of writing down our cattle and buildings and adding the reserve is a sound one and it must not be overlooked that our reserve is all in buildings, cattle and stock.\"\n\nIt is\n\nWe are now getting to comparatively recent times. The ninth annual meeting was held on November 25th, 1905. Dr. Noble, who presided, was able to disclose a more prosperous state of affairs. He said: with much pleasure we are able to meet you again after another good year. During the period under review we have added largely, and yet economically, to our herd of cattle. We have made our purchases in America, Australia and Scotland, our endeavour being to raise the standard of our herd by introducing only well-bred, good milk-producing animals, The actual value of the herd has now become so large that we recommend you to transfer from the year's profits, to a cattle reserve fund, the sum of $25,000. This fund we intend to keep in a liquid form, so that it can, at short notice, be applied to the purchase of stock should that, for any reason, become necessary. You will, I know, be disappointed to hear that the frozen food business has not been so profitable as we anticipated. The public, I am sorry to say, have not given us the support which we hoped and expected to receive, and which one would suppose they would have given if they had considered their own interests especially as we appeared in the field when it seemed as though the people of Hong Kong were to be completely at the mercy of the meat guilds and prices were continually rising without any good or adequate reason. Our appearance immediately checked this rise in price and later was the cause of lower prices being demanded by the Chinese. You perhaps do not realise that there is really not the difference between our rates and those ruling for Chinese meat as would at first sight appear. You can at least depend on getting full weight, besides which, it is now well recognised by those best able to judge, that one pound of our meat is equal, if not superior, in nourishment to one and a quarter pounds of the local article, this being the proportion at which the military authorities serve the garrison rations. Those of you who are particular about your meat supply should come here yourselves and make your own selections, and this we hope you will do. If your wants are not fully and well satisfied, complain about it in writing, and we will endeavour to make such changes as will enable you to get exactly what you require, but please bear in mind that if you and your friends do not in the future support us more heartily, Hong Kong will lose what we consider to be a very important branch of the Company's business, i.e. Frozen Food.\"\n\nOne shareholder, Mr. J. H. Underwood, complained of the large amounts written off and asked for a larger distribution. \"It seems to me it is nothing to give shareholders a smaller dividend \"he remarked.\n\n\"\n\nThe Chairman :-\"There you are wrong.\"\n\nMr. Underwood:-\"You pay a smaller dividend than in 1903. I think we should have had an even better dividend than that.\"\n\nThe Chairman:-\"You must remember that we have capitalised. That year it only required $12,500. This year we give $30,000 and we have not asked you for a penny. If you were an old shareholder in the Company, I think you would congratulate yourself on the dividend that we give.\"\n\nIn the course of other remarks later in the discussion, the chairman mentioned that he had been in the Company for many years and had seen a great many ups and downs in it. Had it not been for two members of the staff then in that room, he could tell them that they would not have had a farm at all.\n\nThe meeting of Saturday, October 6th, 1917, was a momentous one in the history of the Company, for not only did it close the most satisfactory year's working in the annals of the Company, but it inaugurated big expansions which had long been in contemplation. The Chairman of Directors, Mr. J. Scott Harston, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts said \"The statement of accounts submitted to you is one which, in view of the abnormal circumstances created by the War, your directors believe you will consider to be most satisfactory, and also one which reflects great credit upon the Company's manager, secretary and staff. I may mention that the turnover of the Company during the year under review constitutes a new record in the Company's annals-being 60% more than last year's turnover a result which I am in a position to assure you has only been attained by the constant vigilance exercised by the management in taking advantage of every opportunity offering for expansion and development. In the foregoing relation, I would add that the Company's large turnover is due to the fact of its possessing numerous subsidiary branches of its main business as a dairy farm, and, further, that it is solely because\n\n92\n\n36\n\n93\n\n89", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492129, "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": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "36\n\nMarch 95th, 1929.)\n\nHONGKONG TRADE,\n\nEFFECT OF STRIKE SETTLEMENT.\n\nThe fortnightly price current market report, published by the Hong-kong General Chamber of Commerce, states:\n\nCotton Piece Goods and Fancy Cotton Goods.-The termination of strikes brought about a welcome resumption of routine business and clearances have been on a liberal scale. Local rates for Greys and Whites are hopelessly below Manchester parities but some sales of Fancies are reported on satisfactory terms. Manchester reports a considerable enquiry for India and that prices are advancing.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nSHANGHAI TRADE.\n\nMessrs. Ilbert & Co.'s, piece goods market report, says:-\n\nOnce again we have to report a disappointingly poor week's trading and, were it not for the fact that clearances continue to be moderately good, there would be little or no sign of vitality in the market.\n\nValues are a shade easier all round with no demand to support them. The only explanation that can be given of the present stagnation is the general state of uneasiness and lack of confidence prevailing throughout the interior, to which there can be no real termination as long as the military-politicians are free to work their wills against the good of the country.\n\nYarn. A quiet fortnight has elapsed as dealers are waiting for conditions and prices to become more stabilised. Latterly values ruled easier owing to a few forced sales. There is some hope that trade with Southern Ports may revive shortly now that agitation at Amoy and the general strike at Hongkong are over. Our most important outlets, however, such as Hankow and Szechwan, are doing practically no trade at all although the latter was reported as buying fair quantities of local cotton yarn up to a day or so ago.\n\nQuotations are:-No. 10s. $158 to $192. No. 12s. $173 to $200. No. 16s. $195 to $225. No. 20s. $200 to 225. Arrivals nil. Shipment's nil. Sales 1,000 bales. Unsold, 4,500 bales. Bargains 9,000 bales.\n\nWoollens. No fresh business of importance has been booked, the low exchange putting prices further out. Clearances are better but considerable stocks will have to be carried to next season.\n\nBIG HARBOUR FOR FENGTIEN.\n\n327\n\nEXCHANGE VALUE OF THE TICAL.\n\nEFFECT ON RICE AND TEAK INDUSTRIES.\n\nThe Report on the Commercial Situation in Siam at the close of the third quarter 1921, by Mr. J. Crosby, C.I.E., O.B.E., H.B.M. Acting Consul-General contains the following note on the Exchange outlook:-\n\nExporters have been inclined to regard with misgiving the continuance of the present high exchange value of the Tical, which is militating especially against the teak industry, and which was at one time thought to be endangering the rice trade also.\n\nAfter the removal of the embargo on the export of rice at the close of January, 1921, the anticipated revival was not immediately forthcoming, and it was felt that Siam rice was being handicapped by its high price in its competition with the product of adjacent countries.\n\nBut the diversion of the greater portion of the Burma crop for the needs of India subsequently effected a welcome change in the situation. A brisk demand sprang up for Siam rice and the exchange difficulty for the moment ceased to be a pressing one.\n\nSo long as this state of affairs lasts, that is to say, so long as the country can go on selling its surplus production of rice at remunerative Tical prices, there would seem to be no reason for lowering the value of the local unit of currency.\n\nIt is learnt from an authoritative source that the construction of a harbour in Fengtien Province, which has been under consideration for many years past, has been resolved upon and that work will be commenced before long.\n\nThe cost of the work is estimated at $10,000,000, to be defrayed by both the Fengtien Province and the Ministry of Communications. The work will be spread over the next seven years.\n\nContractors from Japan, Great Britain, the United States and Netherlands will be invited to make their tenders in April of the present year.\n\nFlour Market Report.-Stock: About 2,000,000 sacks. Quotations:-American Patent $3.80 per sack; American Straight $3.10 per sack; American Cut-off, $3.15 per sack; Shanghai Flour, $3.25 per sack; Australian No. 1 $3.20 per sack.\n\nThe plan for the harbour is on an extremely large scale, comprising more nearly to its statutory figure of 1s. 8d. In the meantime, business, with India in especial is suffering heavily owing to the low sterling value of the rupee.\n\nRaw Cottons. No fresh business has been recorded. Values are nominally unaltered as follow:-Indian descriptions at $23 to $29. Chinese descriptions at $28 to $35 per picul.\n\nMetals. Market remains quiet. Small business has been done in M.S. Bars at $5.25 to $5.40. There has also been some business in Nails. There has been a fair quantity of metals over-carried, it should not take long to get these parcels cleared, as soon as these goods are returned.\n\nSundries.-In anticipation of heavy arrivals, the market is inclined to be weakish although stock holders have not shown any eagerness to sell under the quotations.\n\nIt is rumoured that a large quantity of glass destined for Hongkong has been over-carried to Shanghai on account of the strike at this port.\n\nTHE LUCK OF THE GAMBLE.\n\nTeak exporters are badly hit by the ruling high exchange value of the Tical. The large lessees of teak forests are either rupee or sterling companies and (the rupee having fallen rapidly during 1920) they have all suffered from the raising of the Siamese currency unit to its present figure.\n\nTo take one instance alone: royalty and duty on logs are collected in local currency and, expressed in terms of sterling, have been increased automatically by more than 41 per cent. as a consequence of the rise in exchange.\n\nReceipt from local sales of logs offset this increase only to a very small extent.\n\nThe Compagnie de Commerce & de Navigation d'Extrême Orient, in their report dated Saigon, March 14th, state:-\n\nOur market continues very dull. Some business has been closed with Europe, but there are no transactions to report with the Far Eastern market.\n\nSAIGON RICE MARKET.\n\nThe end of the strike at Hongkong has resulted on this side in a sudden rise of the prices.\n\nSo far it has been stated that the supply of rice will be sufficient after discharging the numerous steamers lying in Hongkong harbour, and the position of the rice market here tends to become more and more normal.\n\nThe total amount of rice exported from January 1st up to February 28th is 168,002 tons against 151,438 in 1921.\n\nWe quote to-day-White Saigon rice. No. 2 sifted. Japan quality, Hongkong $8.40 per picul f.o.b. Saigon for March-April shipment.\n\nThe Chinese Merchants Bank, Ltd. whose head office is in Alexandra Buildings, Chater Road, opened a branch office in Shanghai on March 22nd.\n\nTREATMENT OF MALARIA,\n\nTHE USE OF CINCHONA F. TO BE INTRODUCED.\n\nAccording to a practical experiment carried out at Kuala Lumpur by Dr. Fletcher, he is satisfied that Java cinchona febrifuge is quite as good as Quinine and costs only a quarter the price of the latter.\n\nDr. Malcolm Watson's opinion is that, while cinchona febrifuge is quite as good as quinine for all ordinary fever cases and precautionary doses against fever, yet, in acute cases, where the patient is dangerously ill, quinine is preferred.\n\nThere is a story of a visitor who, studying the nameboards, remarked: \"Hill on The Hawk. Well, two days ago I shot a hawk on a hill, so here goes.\"\n\nDrawing $5 and less than a dollar's worth of small change for his investment of $5 he was not so very much impressed with novices' luck.\n\nBut a better one is told of Kiangwan last Saturday and a well-known marine engineer vouches for the veracity of it.\n\nA party of sailors, having scraped up $10 between them, could not decide which pony to follow.\n\nSuddenly one said \"Lumme. Nelson, of course! Nelson ain't never lost!\" On went the money and the drawing close upon $800.\n\nThe loyal bluejackets had the satisfaction of drawing close upon $800.\n\nNothing has come to hand about Baycroft except that a lady, who had two of the seven tickets taken on the $1,100 winner, immediately on noting the dividend rushed up to a broker friend and gasped: \"Oh, do tell me what is the latest exchange rate.\"\n\nDrs. Fletcher and Quaife's experience shows that even in acute cases one is as good as the other.\n\nWhen the present supply of quinine for free distribution is exhausted, the Government will order a supply of cinchona febrifuge from Bandoeng.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493954, "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": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 345, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "24\n\nFrench-perhaps we may even establish entirely French institutions of learning. The famous German university of Shanghai, which has been changed since the war into a Franco-Chinese institution, seems clearly marked out to become an important centre of French culture in China. In China, as well as in Paris, we shall seek to make our efforts felt in the intellectual domain. We have no idea of establishing anything like French domination in China. What we desire is to safeguard our moral interests. This, in my estimation, is the best way to achieve that economic alliance between France and China which it will be necessary for us to form with the Chinese Republic if we are to maintain the position in the Far East which we occupied there before the war.\n\nM. Painlevé was asked whether he would co-operate in his work with the missionaries in China. \"We do not underestimate the services rendered by them to the cause of France,\" he replied, \"and we shall work in harmony with them, though we think that instruction by French laymen teachers is at present absolutely necessary.\"\n\nGermany. Before the war, the Germans had realised the importance of the education of Chinese, and were operating about a dozen schools in the Shanghai, Hankow, and Kwangtung districts, chief of which was the German engineering and medical school at Shanghai, which provided for about 570 students, and the German-Chinese high school at Tsingtao, which provided for about 520 students. An ambitious and interesting outline for a German school system for China is given in \"A Memorial for the Advancement of German Interests in China,\" issued by the German Association of Shanghai, April 1918 (reprinted in \"Democracy and the Eastern Question\" by T. F. Millard, pp. 432-440). This scheme involves an initial expense of 2,514,000 dollars ($250,000), and an annual expense of 1,769,250 dollars ($170,000). It would provide 9 middle schools in treaty ports, 35 mission middle schools, 5 technical schools, subsidies to 440 schools, and the maintenance of 300 students in Germany each year. This memorial gives the following useful figures with regard to foreign educational establishments actually existing in China in 1913.\n\n \n PROTESTANT MISSIONS\n \n \n \n \n Lower Schools\n Schools\n Scholars\n \n \n \n 1,445\n 32,303\n \n \n Middle and High Schools\n 241\n 4,862\n \n \n English\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,992\n 44,354\n \n \n German\n 164\n 7,552\n \n \n American\n 286\n 15,028\n \n \n \n 15\n 523\n \n \n CATHOLIC MISSIONS\n \n \n \n \n Lower\n 6,877 schools\n 126,305 scholars\n \n \n Middle and High\n 157 schools\n 6,545 scholars\n \n\nFurther, it is observed, \"The strength of English and American schools has thus far consisted more in the number than in the quality of the culture given. Moreover, these schools have wasted much valuable energy by drawing without distinction from all classes of society. We would confine ourselves to those circles which are destined to play a leading part, namely, to the upper strata of the intellectual and commercial classes, and to take into our field of endeavour only those provinces on which depend the future economic development of the country, and which produce the strongest men both in intelligence and character,\" viz., Chihli, Shantung, Shansi, Hunan, Hupeh, Szechuan, Kiangsu, Chekiang, Yunnan, and Kwangtung.\n\nThe war has killed these ambitious schemes, and the German schools in China were all closed. But a newspaper report (\"Daily Mail\" of the 27th November, 1920) announces the arrival in Berlin of twelve Chinese students, \"a new German school has already opened in Shanghai.\"\n\n25\n\nJapan. As Japan provides the nearest and cheapest way of access to occidental knowledge, it is not surprising that a large number of Chinese students, about 3,000 according to the \"Japan Year Book,\" 1920-21, are to be found in that country. Owing to the contemptuous way in which they have been treated, most of these return to China with a strong anti-Japanese bias. But the Japanese authorities are making efforts to improve these conditions. Two societies exist in Japan, supported by the Government, by the big firms, and by eminent private persons, for propagating Japanese influence in China. Of these, the Dojinkwai has established hospitals in three or four centres in China; and the Dobunkwai runs a school in Shanghai (\"Dobun-Shoin\") for Chinese and Japanese pupils. A careful educational system for Chinese is provided by the Government of the Kwangtung Leased Territory, and by the South Manchurian Railway. We know that the Japanese Government are considering the remission of the Boxer indemnity; and it is no doubt upon the availability of some such fund that ambitious Japanese educationalists are reckoning. It is reported from Japanese sources in Dairen that it is understood that the raising of the South Manchuria medical college at Mukden, and the engineering college at Port Arthur, each to the rank of a university, is only a question of time (see enclosures to Tokyo despatch No. 505 of the 3rd November, 1920).\n\nGreat Britain. The British missionary activities in China are second in importance only to the American, but, as Sir J. Jordan points out in his despatch No. 348 of the 23rd July, 1918, they are constantly hampered by \"the eternal want of pence.\" The war and the high exchange have affected them most adversely. As a result, many of the missionary educational establishments are in low water, as, for instance, the admirable Anglo-Chinese college at Tien-tsin, which, if it cannot raise large funds to place itself on a broader and more advanced basis, must accept an offer made by the American Methodist Mission to combine with them and carry on a joint school (Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 40 of the 23rd January, 1920). Similarly, the British side of the Shantung Christian University (with its important school of medicine) is suffering from lack of funds; and there is a danger that the American side of this joint enterprise will absorb the whole institution (Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 52 of the 30th January, 1920).\n\nOf non-missionary educational enterprises, the Hong Kong University is by far the most important. This is the only British educational institution in the Far East which confers degrees. The formation of the university was formally advocated by the Governor of Hong Kong in December 1907. Mr. H. N. Mody (afterwards Sir H. N. Mody) offered to erect the necessary buildings at a cost of 150,000 dollars (£15,000), and to contribute 30,000 dollars (£3,000) towards an endowment fund. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire also contributed £40,000 towards the fund, which before the end of 1909 had reached 1,279,164 dollars (£127,000). The university was opened on the 11th March, 1912. It cannot be called an unqualified success. It has only some 200-300 students. Of this number, one-half are from Hong Kong and British Malaya. The remainder are Chinese Government scholars; and the number of self-supporting students from China is so insignificant as to be negligible. The principal deterrents are (1) the disfavour shown by the Northern Chinese towards a South China university, (2) the high standard of English required for matriculation, (3) the comparatively expensive nature of the education, e.g., the annual cost for a student at Hong Kong is about 800 dollars (£80), or about 50% less than the Chinese Government allowance to a scholar at a foreign university abroad. Recent accounts state that the Hong Kong University, which hitherto had at any rate paid its way, showed a deficit of 715,000 dollars (£71,000) in 1919. A Government Commission urged immediate financial assistance and expressed an opinion that the university must widen its scope if it is to take its proper part in the development now in progress in China. In particular, there is felt to be a need for improvement in the medical and engineering departments. Sir Robert Ho Tung has recently made a gift of 100,000 dollars (£10,000) to the university for the endowment of workshops under the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nIn Great Britain itself, there are (according to newspapers) about 270 Chinese students.\n\nIt may not be out of place to note the Japanese system of ryugakusei (Japanese students abroad). The Japanese Government sends to each university and higher educational centre in Japan asking the principals to select their most promising students. About a hundred of these are then chosen and are given travelling fellowships. The allowance is generally 2,400 yen (£240) for Europe and the United States of America, and 1,800 yen (£180) for China. Besides the Government students, there were about 2,100 private ryugakusei in 1918. The majority go to the United States of America. (See Appendix.)\n\n[6823]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494427, "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": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 819, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "R. W. P.\n\n32 UGH WAHI\n\nA middling estate divorced scholar is\n\nBao groli mozi havladas son\n\nG.V. Hughes\n\n812\n\nFrank Hughes,\n\nManager Harry Wicking and Co.\n\nPrince's Buildings\n\nHong Kong.\n\nH. A. Cartwright,\n\nEditor, Hong Kong Daily Press.\n\nW. L. Consland,\n\nManager Mesura. Alex. Ross & Co.,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nD.O. Russell,\n\nPrincipal, V. R. Loxley & Co.,\n\nHong Kong\n\nHamilton Maxwell\n\nJ. H. Bell,\n\nManager\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Co. Hong Kong.\n\nW. Murdy\n\nH. Griffin\n\nT.P.M. Beyan\n\nF. Boyd\n\nGeorge Day\n\nS. Crawfurd\n\nE. L. Scholes\n\nB. de H. Moore\n\nH.G. Baxter,\n\nc/o Chartered Bank of\n\nIndia, Australia and China,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nR. Maney\n\nLaney.\n\n'Chartered Bank of India,\n\nAustralia and China,\n\nHong Kong\n\nC. Cayth Leaak,\n\nPrincipal,\n\nLeigh and Grange\n\nN.E. Ellin\n\nHong Kong.\n\nC.G. Alabaster,\n\nBarrister at Law\n\nPrince's Buildings,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nR. Stook, Hong Kong Club.\n\nG.R. Roynson\n\nG. De Vaux\n\nHong Kong Club.\n\nG. Howard,\n\n10 Eselguse St.,\n\nHong Kong\n\nB. F. Jubb\n\nC.S. Van de Feen\n\nL. R. Smith\n\nA. Brearley,\n\nc/o Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nG.M. Cox,\n\n/ Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nD. Reid\n\nA. B. Enell,\n\nc/o Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,\n\nHong Kong\n\nT.N. MacReynolds.\n\nRonald S. May\n\nK. Prosser\n\nJ. Wood\n\nL.K. Blacking", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495360, "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": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "4+ \n\n8 \n\nThe disease is comparatively easy to diagnose as other forms of peripheral neuritis are not common here, but it is probable that many cases vaguely named \"rheumatism,\" and paralyses of different kinds, are instances of beri-beri, so also are many of the cases which are said to be locomotor ataxia. For some reason the \"wet\" variety is uncommon.\n\nFrom time to time circulars have been issued by the Sanitary department to all large employers of coolie labour in which the danger of using polished rice as a food is explained and the appropriate advice given as to the proper selection of their food. It is so difficult to alter the customs of the ages that it is not easy for anyone to buy unpolished rice in the open market; it has to be sought for specially. A few years ago we got out a new preparation derived from yeast, known as \"marmite\" which is supposed to contain some of the vitamines and to be useful in the treatment of beri-beri. Dr. McKenny reports that \"it is liked by the majority of patients and is rapidly effective\" in removing sensory symptoms. He thinks it is useful also for improving the condition of the muscles in the earlier stages of the disease.\n\nPlague.--From 1915-1921 inclusively the number of cases of plague in each of these years may be considered a moderate one for an area in which it exists in an endemic form. But the disease was more prevalent this year, and 1,181 cases were certified. Plague is to be regarded as a disease of rats primarily and as one of nature's methods for restricting their indefinite multiplication. The three species of the rat family which are found in the colony are Rattus norvegicus, Rattus rattus and Mus musculus, and the comparative percentages of these are 41, 32 and 27 but the comparative figures for the R. norvegicus and R. rattus are 557 and 143, respectively, in Kowloon, and 60 and 40 in Victoria. In the last nine years the brown rat was found to be infected with the plague organism for just about twice the number of months that the black rat was found infected; and on the average, the brown rat has been recorded as infected for seven months of this period. Of the entire number of rats which were reported as infected during this period, 15 per cent were black rats and 85 were brown rats. The fleas known to be present are the Xenopsylla cheopis and the Ctenocephalus felis and canis but a systematic search has not been made so far.\n\nPreventive measures. To prevent rats from gaining access to dwellings the Sanitary Department requires the ground surfaces of all dwellings to be covered by concrete, and every drain or opening for ventilation is protected by iron gratings. Ceilings and hollow walls are not allowed in new buildings, and in some instances in which they existed they were removed by order; in the native parts of the town all dead rats are collected and examined to ascertain whether they are infected or not. There are hundreds of bins containing a disinfectant, which are distributed throughout the city and suburbs for containing every rat either found dead or trapped. The information required as to the particular house or tenement from which the rats have been collected is obtained and a special inspection of the premises is made when evidence of infection is found in the specimen. The next step taken is to fill up the rat holes with broken glass and cement, whatever may be found amiss with the drains and gratings is remedied, rat poison is provided for the occupiers to use; in the event of several infected rats being found in one locality a special survey is made from house to house and special attention is given to the cleaning up of the district; poison, traps, and birdlime are resorted to, the value of cats as destroyers of rats inculcated, and there is no dearth of dogs of every variety. Direct action is taken against fleas by the use of a kerosine emulsion for cleansing all native dwellings once every three months; the streets and lanes are cleaned up and all refuse removed from the houses daily; each house is provided with a covered metal dust bin to contain the rubbish and to prevent rats from feeding on it; any house or building in which infection has been found to exist is thoroughly washed with kerosine emulsion and all articles of clothing &c., are disinfected by steam.\n\nRats probably enter the colony by means of the shipping, especially in junks. At present it seems that to disinfect all junks periodically and kill the rats and fleas would require a large organisation for the purpose as some four or five thousand junks would have to be dealt with.\n\nA point of interest in the diagnosis of the disease has been noted by Dr. C. W. McKenny who states that he has seen about twelve cases which were proved to be infected with plague in which there was a small area of skin, dark in colour and necrosed, situated generally on the buttocks or the back, although not necessarily restricted to these parts. The material obtained from such areas by means of an incision was found to contain the organisms of plague in large numbers. This necrosed patch may be the only sign of plague but buboes may be present as well. The condition is said to be a rare one and all of the patients who were affected in this manner, died.\n\nDysentery. For the most part cases of this disease belong to the amoebic variety; practically in every case in which the clinical signs of dysentery occur the entamoeba histolytica is found, and treatment by ipecacuanha or emetin is generally successful. Although dysentery is not as common in this colony as it is in parts of India and Africa it is still a disease which is often encountered. Amongst Europeans it is more common in children than in adults, and all of the cases which I have seen in children have been due to the amoeba and all were cured by emetin. Emetin seems to be more efficient even in the treatment of amoebic dysentery in children than it is in adults. As compared with this variety of dysentery the number of cases in which the bacillary form was the cause has been small, but this refers more particularly to the European population.\n\nThe number of patients treated for dysentery in the Tung Wah Hospital during the last five years (1918-1922 inclusively) was 1,376; and the number treated in two of the government hospitals during the same period was 301. The percentage of patients who\n\n27\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495412, "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": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "— 90 —\n\nAppendix G\n\n \n No dust bin\n 1,990\n \n \n Illegal cubicles\n 1,752\n \n \n Defective gratings\n 1,538\n \n \n Defective ground surfaces\n 1,189\n \n \n Defective wastepipes, drains, and eaves gutters, etc.\n 1,078\n \n \n Choked wastepipes, drains, eaves gutters, etc.\n 1,037\n \n \n Missing gratings\n 792\n \n \n Rat burrows...\n 750\n \n \n Defective cement rendering\n 620\n \n \n Illegal height of cubicles\n 263\n \n \n Obstructions of windows, doors and ventilating openings\n 209\n \n \n Dirty condition of premises...\n 202\n \n \n Obstructions of verandahs\n 195\n \n \n Accumulation of refuse, rubbish, etc.\n 133\n \n \n No receptacles to latrines\n 10%\n \n \n No urinal accommodation\n 10%\n \n \n Illegal wooden partitions in kitchens, verandahs, etc.\n 64\n \n \n Breeding of mosquitoes...\n 35\n \n \n Illegal bunk...\n IL\n \n \n Use of basement for habitation, or workshop, etc. Accumulation of watergrowth\n 24\n \n \n Accumulation of stagnant water...\n 26\n \n \n Use of verandahs for sleeping purposes, etc. Discharge of sullage water, excretal matter, etc. Illegal showcases...\n ---\n \n \n Burn! District\n }\n \n\n— 21 —\n\nAppendix D.\n\nHEALTH DISTRICTS.\n\n \n \n Buildings\n \n Applications for S.B. Notice\n Applications for B.A. Notice\n Ground surface covered\n Ground surface repaired\n Rat runs filled in\n Obstructions removed from open space\n Obstructions removed to light and ventilation\n Water closets installed in private Buildings\n Houses demolished and No. of floors (Domestic Buildings)\n \n \n \n 1\n Shamkiwan\n 78\n 328\n 157\n 977\n 208\n 5\n 18\n 21\n 2\n \n \n\n...\n\n \n Exposing of fruit and vegetables for sale without licences\n \n \n \n Use of rooms without opening for sleeping purposes\n \n \n \n No glazed area to windows...\n \n \n \n Keeping of cattle without licence...\n \n \n \n Use of kitchens for sleeping purposes, etc.\n \n \n \n Dirty barrels for storing drinking water\n \n \n \n Enclosures of cocklofts...\n \n \n \n Bakehouses without licences...\n \n \n \n Illegal urinals...\n \n \n \n Cooking in yard\n \n \n \n Offensive Trade (Rag storing, soup boiling, etc.)\n +I1\n \n \n No cover to water tank and well\n \n \n \n Common lodging houses without licence\n \n \n \n Selling fresh pork\n ...\n \n \n Black smoke sing from chimney\n \n \n \n Use of matsbeds for habitation\n H+\n \n \n Emission of gas, vapour and dust from vermilion Factory...\n \n \n \n Licensed cattle sheds being used to house other animals\n \n \n \n Insufficient water supply to cisterns of water closets...\n \n \n \n Animals kept in such a state as to be a nuisance\n \n \n \n Damping refuse\n \n \n \n TOTAL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495707, "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": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 373, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "366\n\nHeight of buildings in rural districts.\n\nConcrete-blocks and hollow walls.\n\nThickness of short walls.\n\nThickness of wall in Shanghai as compared with Hongkong.\n\nMaterials for walls in rural districts.\n\nWorkmen to occupy house in course of construction.\n\nSupply of skilled labour.\n\nEffect of guilds on labour.\n\nTribunal for labour disputes.\n\n14\n\n* 74. We also recommend that the present restriction on the height of buildings in rural districts to 35 feet be removed, subject to the Building Authority retaining the right to object to the design or external appearance of the building (see letter (8) in Enclosure I, and evidence of Mr. Jackman and Mr. White in Enclosures 8 (5) and (3) respectively).\n\n* 75. In letter (3) in Enclosure 1, it is suggested that concrete-blocks with a hollow space in them can be fitted together with much less labour than ordinary bricks, and the cheapness, dryness and coolness of hollow external walls are emphasized in letter (22) in the same enclosure. Upon this question of hollow walls, Mr. Jackman and Mr. White were of the opinion that there was no objection to such hollow walls if they were properly sealed with cement-concrete. We recommend that the matter be carefully gone into by the Public Works Department.\n\n* 76. In letter (8) in Enclosure 1, the suggestion is made that walls of short length and built in cement mortar may safely be of less thickness than is at present required by law. Mr. Jackman and Mr. White concurred in this view, which we support.\n\n77. Mr. Lam Woo in his evidence (Enclosure 8 (2)) pointed out that in Shanghai a less thickness of wall is required than in Hongkong, but the Acting Director of Public Works seemed to think that severer conditions of wind and weather exist in Hongkong than in Shanghai, and consequently the greater thickness was desirable here. We concur in the latter view.\n\n78. It is suggested in letter (24) in Enclosure 1, that for one-storey and two-storey houses in rural districts a mixture of cement, lime and decomposed granite might be allowed for walls; and Mr. White agreed, but added that, in such a case, proper supervision would be required during construction.\n\n79. The question of allowing workmen to occupy the ground-floor of Chinese tenement-houses when the building is erected up to the second-floor, so as to speed up the building operation and save some rents, is dealt with in para. 24 (3).\n\n80. The question of securing an adequate supply of skilled labour for the building trade is important, because it affects not only the building development of the Colony, but also the cost of buildings. In paras. 24 and 25 we have made recommendations with the view of obtaining a sufficient supply of such labourers by providing them with sufficient and cheap housing accommodation.\n\n81. One of the most serious obstacles to the supply of labour appears to be the large entrance-fees demanded of new members by some of the local guilds, thus debarring newcomers from the country (see letter (10) in Enclosure 1). We may add that it is stated in letter (40) that labour obtained from the guilds is considerably dearer than that from outside sources. The influence of guilds on the building development of the Colony is also referred to in letters (24) and (41).\n\n* 82. We strongly urge the Government, in the interests of all branches of trade in this Colony, to pass a law for the reference to a strong and independent tribunal, with one representative of the employers and one representative of the workmen as assessors, of all disputes in this Colony relating to wages to be paid to workmen, hours of employment, and holidays. Such a law is clearly desirable in the interests of workmen, no less than in those of employers, for it is of the utmost importance to the former to know that they have a definite tribunal to which they can appeal with the full certainty of their grievances being gone into without delay and without any cessation of wages such as is involved in a strike. In the course of his Report for the year 1922, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs remarks (at page 13): \"The general strike was largely a matter of the intimidation of willing workers\",\n\n15\n\nMr. Hallifax advocates as a remedy the establishment of an Employers Federation; but while we agree that the formation of such a federation may be desirable, we think that an arbitration tribunal as recommended by us should be established, and that a Judge of the Supreme Court should be given power to enforce the decisions of the tribunal.\n\n* 83. It would seem desirable to establish a trade school to teach boys carpentry, masonry, and other branches of the building trade. The industrial school which, we understand, Sir Robert Ho Tung and several Chinese gentlemen are contemplating should prove an ideal institution for the purpose.\n\n* 84. In letters (10) and (24) in Enclosure 1, it is suggested that the Government should grant permission to contractors to obtain stone, sand and earth from places as near as possible to the building works. We commend this suggestion to the consideration of the Government.\n\n* 85. We recommend that local architects furnish their contractors with sufficiently detailed drawings of the work to be done, at as early a stage of the building work as possible, by which much time will be saved, and structural alterations will be obviated. In this connection, we would call attention to letters (9) and (40) in Enclosure I, and to the evidence of Mr. L. G. Bird and Mr. Lam Woo in Enclosures 8 (6) and 8 (2) respectively.\n\n* 86. Architects could also help contractors by advising them as to what amount of materials is required, and when they should be ordered and delivered (see letter (9) in Enclosure 1).\n\nTraining boys in carpentry, etc.\n\nPermission to obtain stone, sand and earth.\n\nDetailed drawings to be furnished to contractors early.\n\nAdvice to contractors.\n\n* 87. It is also our opinion that, if contractors are paid more promptly, the cost of building contracts will appreciably be reduced (see letter (9) para. 10, in Enclosure 1). A fair allowance should also be made to contractors for materials on the ground (Ibid. See, too, letter (30)).\n\n* 88. In letter (9) in Enclosure 1, it is stated that unnecessarily heavy security is required from contractors by persons building houses, with the result that contractors have to provide for this item in preparing their tenders. Mr. Lam Woo also complained that securities are required from contractors when permits are issued to them for erecting scaffoldings, mat-sheds, etc.; and as this would tie up a great deal of money, which a small contractor can ill afford to have so employed, the cost of building is indirectly increased by reason of the fact that such contractors have to protect themselves by making their tenders higher. Mr. White informed us in his evidence that the system of security was introduced in order to exercise a better control over the contractors; but, in view of the existing high cost of building, we advise that, instead of requiring the contractors to put up securities in such cases, a prosecution should be instituted against any contractor who commits an offence.\n\n89. In letters (10), (24), (30), (35) and (40) in Enclosure 1, the greater employment of labour-saving machines or devices is advocated as being the means of minimising the cost of buildings. The appliances, etc., mentioned in these letters are:\n\nPneumatic Rock-Drills.\n\nMechanical Stone-Crushers.\n\nRock-Cutting Machines.\n\nConcrete Mixers.\n\nElectrically-driven Portable Wood-Workers.\n\nFloor-Planing and Sanding Machines.\n\nSteam Pile-Drivers.\n\n* There is no doubt that a wider use of such appliances will have the desired result in the case of big undertakings, and that the use of the first three in quarries would save much time and labour. In letter (30) it is stated that gravel-crusher effects a saving of at least 30%.\n\nSecurities required from contractors.\n\nLabour-saving appliances.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495708, "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": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "16\n\n-\n\n17\n\n367\n\nLight railways and motor-lorries.\n\nMore lighters and tugs recommended.\n\nJunks discharging materials at night.\n\nEmployment of middlemen.\n\nReletting of whole contract.\n\nStorage of materials landed from junks.\n\nMore wharves for landing materials.\n\nBig supply depôts.\n\nSite for supply depôts.\n\nCement bricks.\n\n*90. In letter (22) the use of light railways for conveying materials is suggested. In letters (22) and (41) the suggestion is made that motor-lorries should be substituted for push-carts as much as possible. We endorse this suggestion, which was supported by Mr. Jackman and Mr. White, and we hope that a company may be formed for the hiring out of motor-lorries.\n\n*91. We agree with the suggestion in letter (24) that more lighters are required, and we recommend the provision of a suitable service of tugs.\n\n*92. There is a suggestion (letter (35) in Enclosure 1) that time would be saved if junks were allowed to discharge their cargoes of building materials at night; and we suggest that the point be referred to the Captain Superintendent of Police and the Harbour Master for consideration as to whether the desired permission might be allowed under supervision.\n\n*93. In our circular letter of the 9th April, 1923, addressed to architects, contractors and others, we asked whether the number of middlemen can be reduced. The general opinion is that it is impracticable to do away with middlemen in the building of houses; and we accept this view after careful enquiries. At the same time we are strongly of opinion that the reletting of a whole contract should be forbidden by-law, as the practice tends to increase the cost of buildings—see letter (24) in Enclosure 1, and the evidence of Mr. Jackman, Mr. White and Mr. Lam Woo in Enclosures 8(5), (3) and (2) respectively.\n\n*94. We are of opinion that land for the storage of building materials from junks should, wherever available, be granted by the Government as near to the scene of operations as possible—see letters (10), (19), (24), (29), (35) and (40) in Enclosure 1, the evidence of Mr. Jackman, Mr. White and Mr. Lam Woo, and also Enclosure 4.\n\n*95. We also consider that there should be more wharves on the Praya for the landing of materials—see letters (14), (35) and (39). Mr. Jackman informed us that the matter was being enquired into by the Government (Enclosure 8(5)).\n\nSub-Head (2)—Cost of House-Building: (b) Materials.\n\n*96. We commend to the favourable consideration of contractors, with a view to saving expense in building, the following suggestion for big supply depôts, which is made in a leading article in the South China Morning Post of the 11th April, 1923:—\n\n\"Instead of innumerable contractors with their own work-yards, plant and storage, we could have one or more contractors' supply firms, stocking timber, cement, steel, bricks and stone, and providing motor truck delivery of finished products as far as possible. The contractor is then left with no overhead cost, except his office and desk, and no function except to supply the labour.\n\nA big supply yard would have frame saws, and granite cutters, and might enter upon mass production of bricks with imported clay. Here is room for a considerable saving of expense.\n\nWe agree with another suggestion in the same article that the Government should be generous in its terms for granting a site for the above purpose, subject to proper guarantees being given by the lessees.\n\n*97. The use of cement-bricks is advocated in letter (24) in Enclosure 1, and we consider that such cement-bricks should be extensively tried, more especially as we understand that they do not cost more than ordinary red-bricks. We are informed that these bricks have passed satisfactory tests, and are to be used for the houses of the Kowloon Tong Company.\n\n*98. Suggestions that the Government should encourage the manufacture of bricks, tiles and lime in the New Territories, and that investigation of suitable clays for brick-making be made by the Government, are made in letters (10), (23), (24), (27), (30), (31), (32), (35), (39), (41) and (49) in Enclosure 1. We support these suggestions.\n\n*99. In letter (30) it is stated that if a lime-kiln is built at Tsun Wan, lime can be produced by piece work at about 30% below market price.\n\n*100. We agree with the writer of letter (23) in Enclosure 1, that the Government should encourage the growing of bamboos and fir-trees in the New Territories, as these two articles are extensively used for scaffolding.\n\nManufacture of bricks, tiles and lime.\n\nLime-kiln suggested at Tsun Wan.\n\nGrowing of bamboo and fir-trees.\n\nReinforced concrete.\n\n*101. Cast reinforced concrete for doors and window-frames is suggested in letter (24) in Enclosure 1, and Mr. Lam Woo supports the suggestion. Steel frames for windows are recommended in letters (10) and (36) in Enclosure 1, and also by the Committee on Labour-Saving Devices (Enclosure 4).\n\nThat Committee also recommended—\n\n(1) Decollite laid on concrete for flooring, as being cheaper than timber, especially in offices, lavatories and verandahs;\n\n(2) Terrazzo as a substitute for tiling; and\n\n(3) Beaver woods for ceilings, as being an excellent substitute for China Fir or Teak.\n\n*102. In letter (24) in Enclosure 1, it is suggested, and the suggestion was confirmed by Mr. Lam Woo, that rain-water pipes in cast-cement are cheaper than cast-iron pipes.\n\nSub-Head (3)—Measures for Decreasing Rental.\n\n*103. In addition to our recommendations in paras. 33 to 35 for the restriction of rents by conditions of sale, where land is sold by the Government cheap and without auction, we are clearly of the opinion that the Rents Ordinance should be continued until such time as the supply of houses meets the demand, and until the state of affairs in the neighbouring Provinces of China is sufficiently settled to put an end to the periodical large influxes of Chinese refugees from China to Hongkong.\n\nContinuation of Rents Ordinance recommended.\n\nLegislation to check demolition.\n\n*104. We also consider that the Government should forbid by legislation the demolition and reconstruction of houses which are stated by the Building Authority to be in either good or fair condition, because we consider it both inequitable and unjust to the tenants for the Government to allow their eviction from premises which are in good or fair condition, and because also of the following reasons:—\n\n(1) Such eviction of tenants throws an extra demand on such premises as may be vacant, with the result that the tenant in many cases is forced to pay a larger rent for his accommodation; and\n\n(2) Such reconstruction must tend, by competition for skilled labour and building materials, to increase the cost of erecting new buildings upon land which has not been previously built upon.\n\n*105. Instances of the threatened eviction of tenants from premises which are reported by the Building Authority to be in either good or fair condition appear from the items marked with a red cross, in Enclosure 5. In this connection we also invite attention to letters (5) and (27) in Enclosure 1.\n\nConcrete cases of ejectment from houses in good or fair condition.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495709, "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": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 375, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "3.. \n\nOld bokses \n\nnot affected. \n\nHousing of employees. \n\nReservations. \n\nOpinions of Commission- \n\ners on Re servations. \n\nLessons for \n\nBeservations. \n\n18 \n\n106. The proposal in paragraph 105, if adopted, would in no way delay the demolition and reconstruction of houses which are so old or dilapidated as to require reconstruction. \n\n107. The housing of employees, already dealt with under Branch I, paragraph 27, will also tend to diminish rents, not merely by providing more houses but also by diminishing the number of people who are at present obliged to compete for houses to live in. \n\n108. There is now only one aspect of the problem left to be dealt with by us. It is the question of how best to protect the various classes of the community from being, as they have been in the past, forced out of certain parts of the Colony, in which they have for years been residing, by economic pressure from outside. \n\n109. It is the opinion of the Chairman and Mr. Bailey that the only means of attaining the desired result is the creation of reservations for all sections of the community; and the views and recommendations contained in the following paragraphs relative to the subject are their views and recommendations. Mr. Kotewall, recognising that the question is not one of racial discrimination, and that, like the British residents, the Chinese and Portuguese permanent residents of the middle and working classes have suffered severely from the economic pressure caused by periodic influxes from the neighbouring Provinces, agrees to the principle of Reservations for British residents and for those Chinese permanent residents and residents of other races, who desire such Reservations. \n\nMr. Kotewall, however, considers that the area comprising the Kowloon foothills together with the hills behind as marked green in Enclosure 7, which is recommended in para. 121 for a European reservation, is far too large for the purpose. In para 118 the Government is already asked to reserve for the same purpose \"the whole of the foothills surrounding and forming part of King's Park on the West, North and East side, and also the hilly area immediately adjoining such foothills;\" and it is believed that fully 100 houses, with garden space around them, could be erected on this amphitheatre. Even if the eastern side of the area were required for Military Officers' quarters (vide para. 120), the remaining portion thereof would still seem to be sufficient to accommodate nearly all the British residents who have recently been or will soon be dislodged from their houses. Those who cannot be accommodated in this area could then go to the Kowloon foothills. But the area of the latter which is recommended to be reserved for the purpose is, to Mr. Kotewall's mind, unnecessarily large—larger, it appears from the map, than the whole of the developed portion of the Kowloon Peninsula which has taken about 80 years to reach its present size and prosperity. The total British population of the Colony, according to the Census taken in April, 1921, is about 8,000, the majority of whom are already fairly well housed in different parts of the Colony; and judging by the rate at which that population has grown during the last two decades, it seems unlikely that in the next two decades or so it would increase greatly out of proportion to the past rate, or to such a number as would actually need the enormous area proposed to be reserved for them. Apart from other considerations, it is economically unsound to detach a vast area of good building land from a locality which is rapidly developing, and to set it aside in order to meet the needs of a section of the community who requires Mr. Kotewall only a very small portion of it for a long time to come. \n\nis therefore of the opinion that only such an area in that locality as will adequately meet the present needs of the British residents, should be reserved for them, with a reasonable margin of land allowed for recreation grounds and for future expansion. \n\n110. The question of the setting aside of reservations for different sections of the community has received the most anxious consideration of the Commissioners; and they are of opinion, after carefully studying the very special circumstances prevailing in this Colony, including its proximity to the teeming populations of the adjacent disturbed provinces, who in times of disorder in China flock down to Hongkong in tens of thousands, that it is the bounden duty of the Government to make reservations, by means of demarcations of areas and special conditions of sale, in such areas for (a) British residents, and (b) permanent residents of other races respectively. (See also paragraphs 123 and 124). \n\n111. As regards the British residents in the Kowloon Peninsula, the need for measures being urgently taken by the Government is manifest. The Southern portion of the Peninsula, which up to about 10 years ago was happily free from the attentions of the land speculator, has lately been passing through a severe land boom which, unfortunately for the general body of tenants, who in the long run are the sufferers, still continues. The result of this boom has been that the properties in what is the centre of the district mainly inhabited by Europeans, have in the course of the last two years soared from about 2 dollars to over 7 dollars a square foot on sale prices; and at Yaumati to an even greater height. \n\n112. This boom price of land in Kowloon forms a sharp contrast to the Hill Districts on the Island of Hongkong where land is being put up to auction by the Government at 12 cents a square foot, and where it is the custom for the applicant for the land not to be bid against, a custom which we recommend the Government to convert into a fixed and immutable fact by selling land in future in the Hill District to the first applicant without any auction whatever, because he has in most cases been to some trouble and expense in selecting the site). \n\n113. The recent huge sale prices of land at Tsimshatsui where British residents have been accustomed to live for years past, and at Yaumati where Chinese residents of the middle and working classes make their homes, must be regarded as a positive disaster to the tenants; and this situation calls for immediate and drastic action on the part of the Government, in order to protect permanent residents who, surely, have the right in a British Colony to expect decent housing accommodation at a rent which bears some reasonable proportion to their incomes, and to be protected from the economic and other consequences caused by the influx into the Colony of tens of thousands of Chinese from the mainland. \n\n114. The question of the necessity of making European reservations has been pressed upon the Government by leading articles in all the four British newspapers in this Colony, and also in the speech of the Vice-Chairman at the last Annual General Meeting of the Kowloon Residents' Association (see Enclosure 6 containing printed extracts from those articles and that speech); and it has been shown that the question is not a racial question. It is primarily an economic question, but it is also one involving the health and reasonable comfort of Europeans living in a climate which is hot and trying in the summer. \n\n115. European Reservations are also advocated in letters (38), (40) and (42) in Enclosure 1. \n\nA side argument in favour of European Reservations is that, in times of strike or other internal commotions, an aggregation of British residents in one district renders it easier for them to take common action for the defence of the whole community against disorders. \n\n116. We feel that such reservations are more especially necessary in Kowloon on economic grounds, having regard to the fact that the British residents in the Peninsula are, generally speaking, less wealthy and consequently less able to pay a high rent than those who live in the Hill District. \n\n117. The position of affairs as regards housing accommodation for British residents at Kowloon is one of great gravity, because wealthy Chinese have bought up, during the last few months, at high prices, several rows of buildings, situate in the District between Nathan Road on the West and Chatham \n\nPage 368\n\n...\n\n...\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497573, "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": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# \n## V.-PUBLIC WORKS\n\n### BUILDINGS\n\nDuring the year under review the following works made fair progress:- The Senior Officers' Quarters on the Homestead Site at the Peak, and at Leighton Hill, the former under Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood, and the latter under Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs; and the new Offices for the Public Works Department. Good progress was made with the following works:- In Hongkong, foundations of the new Fire Brigade Station, opposite the Central Market; Maternity Block and alterations to the Sisters' Quarters, Victoria Hospital; site formation for the new Queen's College Building; and the Miniature Rifle Range at The Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Headquarters. In Kowloon, new Police Stations at Yaumati and Mongkoktsui; and the underground Seismograph Room at the Royal Observatory. The undermentioned works were completed:- In Hongkong, additions and reconstruction of the Kitchen and Garage Blocks at Government House; Outpatients Department, Government Civil Hospital; Quarters for Scavenging Coolies, Belchers Street; Temporary School for Chinese Boys, Morrison Gap Road; Married Quarters for Police, Caine Road; Gardeners' Quarters, Colonial Cemetery; accommodation for Chinese Linesmen at Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station; and various Public Conveniences. In Kowloon, Extension to the Fire Brigade Station; new Class Rooms at the Kowloon British School; and various Public Conveniences. In the New Territories, the Land Bailiffs' Quarters, Ping Shan, and the Clerks Quarters, Taipo. Other smaller works of minor importance were also accomplished. The reconstruction of certain sheds at Laichikok for purposes of a prison was nearing completion.\n\n### COMMUNICATIONS\n\nThe 2nd and 3rd miles of the road from Taitam Gap to Shek O and Cape D'Aguilar; the extension of the road contouring the hillside in Wongneichong and Tai Hang Valleys; and the diversion of the road leading from Pokfulam Road to Victoria Road were completed. Broadwood Road was extended to connect with the new Motor Road contouring Wongneichong Valley. Substantial progress was made with the undermentioned works- Improving and widening road through Quarry Bay Village; a low level road (25 feet wide) from Island Bay to Big Wave Bay and another of equal width to effect a junction with it, and link up the 3rd mile with Shek O Gap; and the 1st Section of the Road contouring the hillside above Conduit Road. Fair progress was made with the extension of the 20-foot road from Magazine Gap to Peak Tram Station, Chamberlain Road.\n\n## \n-24 -\nNo University Hostel at present exists for women students- whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921: but by the courtesy of the school authorities, arrangements have been made for their lodging in connection with St. Stephen's Girls' College.\n\nUniversity fees for tuition and board amount to $550 per annum, enabling a student who lives carefully to meet the whole of his expenses with a sum of $1,000 per annum, as compared with a minimum sum of $2,500 per annum, besides travelling expenses, in the case of a Chinese student going abroad for his education.\n\nNumerous scholarships are available, including the King Edward VII Scholarships founded by His Majesty's Government, the President's Scholarships founded by His Excellency the President of China, together with Scholarships (some of which are in the nature of bursaries) given by the Hongkong Government, the Chinese Government, the Metropolitan District of Peking, the Provincial Governments of Canton, Chibli, Yunnan and Hupeh, the Governments of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, the Government of Kedah and the Siamese Government. Students are also drawn from the Philippines, French Indo-China and Australasia.\n\nDuring 1922 honorary degrees were conferred upon His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Sir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G., and the late Mr. E. H. Sharp, c.m.g., a member of the Governor's Executive Council. A benefaction of $500,000 was received from the Rockefeller Foundation for the foundation of full-time Chairs in Medicine and Surgery. The complete scheme includes a grant of a further sum of $250,000 for a full-time Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and provides for the creation of complete medical units for the teaching of the three subjects in the Government Civil Hospital. The University is to make provision out of its own funds for assistants to the professors of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology and it is desired to erect a Hostel for medical students in proximity to the hospital. Eight scholarships of $200 each were founded by the China Medical Board for medical students who shall have carried out their pre-medical studies at the Canton Christian College, the University undertaking to remit fees to the extent of $100 a year. A sum of $10,000 was presented to the University Union by the Hon. Sir C. Paul Chater, Kt., c.m.g., for the foundation of a Library in memory of the late Dr. Jordan, formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Acting Vice-Chancellor in the University. A sum of $5,000 was collected for the extension and partial refurnishing of the Athletic Ground. An appeal was issued in the course of the year asking for a sum of from four million to five million dollars for the general purposes of the University.\n\nThe total cost of the land, buildings and equipment of the University may be placed at approximately $1,750,000 and their replacement value at not less than $2,500,000, while the invested endowments exceed $3,000,000.\n\n- 25 -\n## Page 249\n## Page 24 \n\n## Page 25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497947, "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": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "content_text": "# 104 \n## 26 \n\nDuring 1923 an Honorary Degree was conferred upon the Hon. Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., who has held the post of Honorary Treasurer since the foundation of the University.\n\nA donation of $300,000 was received from the Hongkong Government in final liquidation of the balance of $1,000,000 which the Government promised in 1920 to contribute to the University Endowment Fund. A benefaction of $250,000 was also received from Sir Paul Chater to be known as \"The Chater Endowment Fund\", the income to be applied to the general funds of the University.\n\nThe total cost of the land, buildings and equipment of the University may be placed at approximately $1,750,000 and their replacement value at not less than $2,500,000, while the invested endowments exceed $3,000,000.\n\n## 27 \n### PUBLIC WORKS\n\n#### BUILDINGS\n\nDuring the year under review good progress was made on the following works:- In Hongkong, - Foundations and steel framework of the New Fire Brigade Station opposite the Central Market; site formation of the new Sai Ying Pun School; site formation of the new Queen's College Building; site preparation and retaining walls for the new garage on Stubbs Road. In Kowloon --- Medical Officers' Quarters and site formation of the Kowloon Hospital site; new market at Mong Kok Tsui. In the New Territories :- New Police Station at Shatin Police Block House at Castle Peak. The undermentioned works were completed :- In Hongkong:- Senior Officers' Quarters on the Homestead site at the Peak (except semi-detached houses) under Messrs. Little, Adams & Wood; Quarters at Leighton Hill, under Messrs. Dennison, Ram & Gibbs; Maternity Block and alterations to the Sisters' Quarters, Victoria Hospital; additional offices for the P.W.D; Miniature Rifle Range at the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Headquarters. In Kowloon :- Police Stations at Yaumati and Mong Kok Tsui; additional storey to Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station. In the New Territories :- Quarters for Indian Married Police at Au Tau and Lok Ma Chow; additions to Land Court Building, Tai Po. Many other smaller works of minor importance were also accomplished.\n\n#### COMMUNICATIONS\n\nThe road and path from Wanchai Gap to Middle Gap; road contouring hillside above Conduit Road (1st Section); the low level road (25 feet wide) from Island Bay to Big Wave Bay; road from Wongneichong Gap to Repulse Bay Road (mile at Repulse Bay Road end); were completed. The road connecting Broadwood Road with Wongneichong Gap Road was nearing completion.\n\nSubstantial progress was made with the undermentioned works- Road from Taitam Gap to Shek-O (2nd Section Shek-O Gap to Shek-O Village); extension of the 20 foot road from Magazine Gap to Peak Tram Station, Chamberlain Road; road contouring Wongneichong and Tai Hang Valley (2nd Section).\n\nFair progress was made with the widening of the road through Quarry Bay Village, and road from Causeway Bay to North Point.\n\nMention may also be made of improvements being carried out to Kennedy, Bonham, Conduit, Pokfulam and Victoria Roads.\n\nIn Kowloon, the extension of Coronation Road northwards through the hill (formerly K.F.L. II) was completed.\n\nGood progress was made with diverting the roadway near the site of the new Kowloon Hospital, the extension of Waterloo Road, Tokwawan Road (section between Kowloon City Road and K.M.L. 90).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498137, "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": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "content_text": "之淨赢又必太多且機車原價即鐵路原有資本之一部分今此資本之一部分消滅於無形又無新資產為之彌補此不啻誤算資本為營業贏餘僅就一機車而論其數微若以所有機車運車橋梁軌枕房屋等等合併計算則每年誤算資本爲贏餘之數必至巨萬今如開始營業十年或二十年中每年不顧修理與捐費而誤將資本移作净利則表面上營業似甚發達當事者或膺\n\nconsumed. The locomotive on the other hand may have a life of twenty-five years, which fact means that it takes twenty-five years, instead of a single trip as in the case of coal, to consume a locomotive. Different as the length of time may be, nevertheless consumption has taken place in one case just as it has in the other. Therefore, one twenty-fifth of the cost of the locomotive should also be included in the operating expenses for each year, so that the earnings of that year may bear their proper liabilities, and that when the locomotive is retired the accounts will show a reserve equal to the cost of a new locomotive. Failure to make such a charge will result in an understatement of the cost of transportation and a corresponding over-statement of the net operating revenue. If we limit our attention to one locomotive for one year, it will mean that one-twenty-fifth of the amount originally invested as capital in that locomotive has vanished during the year, but for which no new asset has been made, and that the vanished capital is mistaken as net earnings of the year. The error arising from failure to record in the accounts one-twenty-fifth of the capital cost of a single locomotive is slight; but if the same policy is followed for all locomotives and all cars, bridges, sleepers, buildings, etc., it is evident that a very considerable amount of cash can be wrongly taken out of a railway as net earnings which really is a part of the capital of that railway. Thus a railway may be declaring a big net profit during the first ten or twenty years out of capital by neglecting both current costs of repairs and deferred costs of depreciation. And it may be mistaken or even rewarded as doing splendid business, while at the end of that period, when renewals and replacements come in a lump, it may suddenly break down or at least get into serious embarrassment. It is to prevent, or at least to show such a state of affairs when it exists that depreciation reserves are recommended.\n\n上賞數年後一旦路產壞修理改建動需巨則不致破產將大受恐慌此皆不適當之會計所致現統一會計亟宜防患未然此本會議決適用折支出之原因也惟折舊一項不獨於車輛爲然除地產外舉凡鐵路產業皆有耗損之虞皆宜列折舊一項此次所定營業用分類則例中折舊一項僅以車輛為限似属疏漏惟念理想中所謂完善之法往往不適於實用定法太嚴或\n\n## Page 290", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500511, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# THE CANTON GAZETTE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.\n\n## The Sincere Co., Ltd.\n\n**Universal Providers.**\n\n## BRITISH LABOUR AND CHINA.\n\n**Congratulations On Revolt.**\n\n1994.\n\nRussian Oil Export To Persia\n\nThe Sincere Co., Ltd. advertisements continue with details about their goods and services.\n\nOur Own Manufacturer!— AERATED WATERS, PERFUME, SOAPS, WARE, METAL WORK, RATTAN WARE, FURNITURE & SOAP.\n\nOUR ROOT-GARDEN: Chinese & Foreign Plays are shown DAY & NIGHT. Admission Adult 35 Cents, Child 15 Cents.\n\n## THE ORIENTAL HOTEL AND RESTAURANT\n\nTHE BUND FACING THE PEARL RIVER With the Whole View of Canton City From the Roof Garden. Modern Accommodation and Comfortable Equipments. Hot and Cold Baths. Serve best Foreign and Chinese Meals. We prepare party dinners.\n\nThe Sun Roof Garden. Various Photographs. Interesting Banks of Calcutta & Foreign plays and a marvelous show run Day and Night. Admittance 35 Cents. Extra charge to see Stereoscopic Pictures and Special Exhibits.\n\n## THE SUN CINEMA.\n\n**PROGRAMME FOR September 5th to 8th, 1915**\n\nARIDOW PRESENTS NEVA GERDEN IN \"The Santa Fe Trail\" The 3rd and 4th Episodes in 4 parts.\n\n...deleg might cent of the year the Boys' Brigade was a remarkable demonstration of their kindred spirit, in support of the \"Peace-Aims\" exported from international solidarity, urged ordered troops to shoot 60 or 70 persons, were 28-67. (use at all prices). 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ELi Chui-sam's Military Reforma kuwa duly wonuldered the question...\n\nisland of Y. \n\n9.\n\nflor Bomber 3.\n\n- \n\nDen wanted cont...\n\neinar the place of Nameals a different distries of Kwangiunto give them ho letu dally, on by Mr. de Saca aktor.\n\nhand propagandiera returand lo...\n\nng the reading of addilloant repi Verywhere in de matry, they arrival of the...\n\nmutative to the North, and the were warmly waipond by the Thunday t...\n\npestoot from the British Dansul yan pronunta win \"azo entborinullally...\n\nred by Mr Bhin ohing. 1 Kuping the enti loparisiott Wrike-...\n\nspalaking of propagandleta tu Eines the boysoki, anamarckleg up and down and great the interfat was alas Jrult wită.\n\nA He w...\n\nHongkong Tundid Band. They mouth and...\n\nTo create a stronger feron tay tha of reorganisation of The Govern: Parka rosently, and reported clisk the Nationalitat Gaverament for the ent and separation the military Kerwinlang oldies at Tamani, purpees of wa atarken Tang Podmlustration from this afvlt.\n\nThe plan for the ra organiration But after the armakod. That made him no mormona yaying alw attention military ure vam memily-...\n\nN klang ago, be enlisted me al military operation meertas untulari, an In A wong. 253 motoops in Kalin and Chun Kaneelslorgano kata e me under J 25 En nevem kan krem at a standa...\n\nCaning And That Yộp Kau has ankindjak w...\n\njened dial of manpoviem. Tupin I. K Ek it beje ribed that there the control of Underhizatı...\n\nBriflab...\n\n[The They dolls—in mana TO LE verr diena 9.000 soldiers. El moprimer that the financem off...\n\nenglanti anga ma thu Amarjoka Truly calisted from Kuangai. Thay Kagi mak...\n\nArm Cary & Bo wish to learn tanganga for a mun will be trained at 85fm-king-...\n\nkher mate foregeten, iki vam pat before the reargaulantia can be revoirs and open knojapan ta SONI Effretine.\n\nbeple nekod se o the purser. 8. Cha Pri-jeh's Army...\n\nThe foreignere ich May dilut...\n\nKaylking about para. Tip...\n\nwith J Fer...\n\nd...\n\ngon Cuck...\n\nwith tury...\n\nngals. Tung Porn-yan Bacemen Unsary...\n\nWhen new pornked Kronachen | Hared to Könychusn.\n\nQoqlar tak pekmo kaya beli se lued by his in parient sigurnet...\n\nthat the Hulkanalist (ɔe rameal After the fixezimit order that Kwan gas inquesting them to Hand sama planning to utisak the mouth we can pa urn to be allowed to quarter répromitetiver på kold, a maficcars...\n\nJar...\n\nThese bejnais da chenum 1ḥale|...\n\nTee from Sharome to the Canon...\n\nby...\n\nStrike Committee Appeals To Military Council.\n\nTwinks Camiller...\n\n=...\n\nMp...\n\nErgutat from the...\n\nson thị tham Out. Loke at work in Chian Bha...\n\nbermudying in the four or they had no game they were probably from where...\n\nthellar kad hang...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500682, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nThe Senior Unofficial Member spoke on the present day, to show how the fair treatment of the Chinese has resulted in the immensely greater proofs of prosperity which are now before us today and which are the result of the cordial cooperation that has for so long existed and still exists between the British and Chinese in this Colony. (Applause.)\n\n## THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS\n\nIn reply to the speech of the Hon. the Senior Unofficial Member, it is much to be regretted that the work of strengthening main roads has had to be postponed and in some cases the maintenance votes have had to be reduced. It will be readily understood that such postponement and reductions in regard to the upkeep of Main Roads cannot be permitted for any length of time without serious deterioration and the ultimate heavy expenditure that will be required to bring them back to the present standard.\n\nProvision has been made for the continuation of work on all items of the Shing Mun Valley Scheme (part 1) estimated to cost $3,500,000 and everything will be done to expedite this scheme, until the completion of which it will not be possible to do without the restriction of the water supply both at Hongkong and Kowloon during periods in which there is an unequally distributed rainfall.\n\n### FILTER BEDS\n\nThe Contract for the Bowen Road Fast Gravity Filtration Plant has been let to Messrs. Patterson Engineering Co. The contract price including shipment and erection is £8,700. Reinforced concrete work and foundations will be extra. Drawings have not yet been received so that the cost for this work is not known. The contract is to be completed in 9 months. The capacity of the plant is three million gallons per day as compared with the output of the existing Bowen Road filter beds of ... million.\n\nThe Eastern filter beds are nearing completion. The total number of these beds is 11, all of which have been constructed. Five are at present in use as filter beds giving an approximate output of ... million gallons; 2 are being used as balance tanks and the remaining 4 are not utilised as filter beds until the 5 million gallon Service Reservoir now in progress is completed. All the beds cannot be yet in use.\n\n### PRAYA ROAD EAST\n\nMention has been made of the disturbed conditions of the Praya Road at Wanchai. Unfortunately, the raising of all drains and sewers necessitated by the Praya East Reclamation has caused heaving of the roads in this District, which has been complicated by the necessary removal of water mains, gas pipes, cables, etc., which had to be dealt with at the same time. As far as possible, this unavoidable inconvenience to the public will be reduced to the minimum. The large open sewer running parallel with the old Praya wall is responsible for many of the complaints received, but this matter has now been referred to the Port Development Department, and it is hoped the contractor responsible will be able to keep this drain in a more sanitary condition in future.\n\n### MOTOR LORRIES AND CARS\n\nThe increase referred to on page 79 showing an excess of estimated expenditure of $44,311 for 1926 under the head of Other Charges over that of 1925 is chiefly accounted for by the four items:\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Incidental expenses quarries | $7,600 |\n| Upkeep of motor lorries and cars | $14,000 |\n| Upkeep of quarry plants | $11,500 |\n| Electric lights and fans | $5,000 |\n\nThe two increased items for Incidental Expenses for Quarries and upkeep of Quarry Plant amounting to $19,000 were inserted to meet expenditure at the New Quarry at Tai Kok Tsui, which was required for supplying materials for the strengthening of the Kowloon Roads, but since the strengthening of these roads has been postponed, the Quarry will not now be required, and there will be a saving of this amount.\n\nWith regard to the item for Upkeep of Motor Lorries and Cars, the increase is provided to meet the upkeep of additional Lorries, etc., which are now more than double the number on hand at the commencement of this year. The remaining increase of $5,000 is to meet the upkeep of the increased number of fans and lights principally in New Buildings, such as the Fire Station, Saiyingpun School, Sisters' Quarters, etc., which are nearing completion.\n\n## TAIPO ROAD\n\nWith regard to the dangerous bridges on the Taipo Road referred to, an item was tentatively proposed to be included in the estimates for 1926 for this work, but, owing to retrenchment, it had to be postponed. The necessity of improving these bridges is considered most essential, together with the widening and improving of the approaches to them. The widening of all of the bridges between Castle Peak and Taipo Market has been taken in hand and should be completed by the early part of next year.\n\nProvision has been made under Item P.W.E. 14 for converting an open iron-shed at Wanchai Depot into a temporary workshop for carrying out repairs to lorries and cars, and a mechanical engineer has arrived and will be put in charge of this workshop. It is hoped that in the near future, this Department will have a large general workshop with a fully qualified mechanical engineer in charge, but at present, only small repairs can be undertaken at the Wanchai Workshop.\n\n## REVISED EXPENDITURE FOR 1925\n\nThe estimated revised expenditure for 1925 was not inserted in the Draft Estimates for 1926 because of the difficulty of arriving at the amount with any degree of accuracy in consequence of: (a) Labour troubles; (b) The necessity for economy; (c) Ascertaining what claims would have to be faced from contractors if contracts were to be interfered with. An approximate estimate has now been made of the amounts that will be expended during 1925 on such works as appear in the 1926 estimates, and these figures will be included in the final print of the estimates for 1926. These figures could not be made available in time for Hon. Members' reference when considering the Draft Estimates for 1926.\n\n## THE COLONIAL SECRETARY\n\nBefore I proceed to reply in any way to the comments on the estimates made by the Unofficial Members of Council, I would like to thank them, and especially the Senior Chinese member, for the personal references to myself in connection with Budget debates and estimates. I think this is the twelfth debate on the Budget of this Colony with which I have been associated, and I had the honour of introducing the estimates for the years 1914, 1919, and 1923. The progress and development of the revenue of the Colony, and the Colony's general prosperity during the nearly fourteen years since I came here, has, of course, been extraordinarily gratifying to me and to the whole community. I have watched the progress of this Colony with the very greatest possible interest, and although there is what I am sure we all feel to be a purely temporary slackening of that development, I am satisfied that if I am able to return to this Colony, even within a comparatively short time, I shall find all the big works under contemplation, in full swing again, and an ample revenue to make provision for them. (Applause.)\n\n### STREET NAMES\n\nIn reply to the Hon. Mr. Bird's remarks, I would state: With regard to Street Name Plates, this work had to be postponed. The design of these name plates was decided upon in consultation with the Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird and approved by Government in April last, and 89 Street Name plates (50 in Kowloon and 39 in Hongkong) would have been completed during this year. The preliminary work was in hand when the Strike prevented further progress. Since then, owing to retrenchment, all works not considered essential, and such works as could be cancelled without involving claims, have been stopped.\n\n### JUNIOR CLERICAL SERVICE\n\nI will now turn to the remarks of the Senior Unofficial member, which have, so far, not been replied to. With regard to the transfer of the amounts for the Junior Clerical Service from the different departments to the end of the Estimates, this was done, as pointed out by Your Excellency when addressing the Council, as it meant a great convenience when clerks are moved from one department to another. It also gives the total cost of... \n\nPage 391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500849, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 561, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY\n\n### Particulars\n\n## PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY\n\n### Hongkong\n\n༣ - \n## Public Works, Extraordinary,—Continued.\n\n| Vote | Particulars | Estimate 1924 | Saving Now Required | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Brought forward, | 1,581,000 | 360,000 | |\n| | | 1,668,000 | | 447,000 |\n| | BUILDINGS | | | |\n| 1 | Officers' Quarters, | 200,000 | 400,000 | 200,000 |\n| 31 | Roads:-Continued. | | | |\n| 2 | Overseer's Quarters, Elliot Filter Beds,.. | 25,000 | 40,000 | 15,000 |\n| 3 | D'Aguilar-Erection of Quarters for Officers, .... | 25,000 | | 37,000 |\n| 4 | Cadet Quarters, Canton,.. | 12,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |\n| 5 | Quarters for Sanitary Inspector,Kennedy Town. | | 40,000 | 10,000 |\n| 6 | Fire Brigade Station, | | | |\n| 7 | Victoria Hospital-Maternity Block | 300,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 |\n| | COMMUNICATIONS,—Continued, | | | |\n| (d) | Road from Wongneichong Gap to Repulse Bay Rond, | | 100,000 | |\n| (e) | Road contouring hillside in Wongneichong and Tai Hang Valleys, Extension: 2nd section-Bowen Road to connect with Tai Hung proposed Road, | 156,000 | | 56,000 |\n| | and alterations and extensions to existing buildings, | 32,000 | | 32,000 |\n| (C) | Wanchai Road,-Widening to 42 feet, | 25,000 | | 25,000 |\n| | New Saiyingpun School, | 130,000 | 200,000 | |\n| 9 | New Queen's College,. | 100,000 | 130,000 | 200,000 |\n| (g.) | Road from Causeway Bay to North Point, ... | 30,000 | 10,000 | 40,000 |\n| | | 50,000 | | 50,000 |\n| 10 | Extension of Lairage, and Coolie Quarters, Kennedy Town,... | 5,000 | | 5,000 |\n| (b) | Shaukiwan Road, Improvements | | | |\n| 11 | Reinstatement of Kennedy Town Police Station, | 1,000 | | 1,000 |\n| (4) | Victoria Road Improvement, | 15,000 | | 15,000 |\n| | in Shoukiwan Village, | 25,000 | | 25,000 |\n| 12 | Saiyingpun Market, Reconstruction, | 1,000 | 10,000 | 9,000 |\n| 13 | Government Stores, Extension, | 15,000 | | 15,000 |\n| 14 | Cool Storage and Motor Garage, Wanchai Dep, | | | |\n| (J.) | Road from Western end of Robinson Road to Conduit Road, | 25,000 | | 25,000 |\n| (k) | Road and Path from Wanchai Gap to Middle Gap, | 8,000 | | 8,000 |\n| | | 10,000 | 18,000 | 8,000 |\n| (1) | Road contouring hillside above Conduit Road, 1st & 2nd Sections, | 13,000 | 40,000 | |\n| 15 | Garage, Stubbs Road,. | 26,000 | 10,000 | 15,000 |\n| | | 5,000 | | 5,000 |\n| 16 | New Infectious Diseases Hospital, | 30,000 | | 30,000 |\n| | r - (2) Road from Caine Road to Robinson Road, | 1,000 | | |\n| 17 | New Government Offices, Alterations,.. | 1,000 | 50,000 | 70,000 |\n| | | | | 20,000 |\n| 18 | Garage near P.W.D. Offices (4 cars). | 5,000 | 15,000 | 10,000 |\n| (») | Tai Hang Development, Road Construction, | 60,000 | 120,000 | 60,000 |\n| 19 | Inspector's Quarters, Cart Shed and Garage next to No. 1 Police Station, | | 50,000 | 50,000 |\n| (.) | West Bay Development, Road Construction, ... | 25,000 | | 25,000 |\n| 20 | Police Stations: | | | |\n| (P.) | Wongneichong Development, Road Construction, | 25,000 | | 25,000 |\n| (a) | Bay View, | $10,000 | | |\n| (b) | Peak, | $10,000 | 30,000 | |\n| | | | | 42,000 |\n| (e) | To replace No. 8,.... | $10,000 | | 12,000 |\n| (7.) | Queen's Road East,-Widening to 60 feet. | 20,000 | | 20,000 |\n| 21 | Schools :- | | | |\n| (c) | Kennedy Road,—Improvements,....... | 10,000 | | 10,000 |\n| (a) | At Quarry Bay................. | $23,000 | | |\n| (6) | At Leighton Hill, | $25,000 | 48,000 | 48,000 |\n| (s) | Road Improvements and Widenings in Bowen Road, ... | 20,000 | | 20,000 |\n| 22 | Central Police Station New Store and Caution, | 35,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 |\n| 23 | Magistracy new cells, | | | |\n| (4) | Main Roads in City.-Surfacing with asphaltum, | 60,000 | | 60,000 |\n| | | 14,000 | 8,000 | 6,000 |\n| 24 | Garage near Homestead Site at the Peak, | | | |\n| (.) | Stubbs Road, Surfacing for heavy traffic, | 20,000 | 120,000 | 100,000 |\n| | | 1,000 | 1,000 | |\n| 25 | Market at Quarry Bay, | 5,000 | 9,000 | 4,000 |\n| 26 | Pokfulum Police Station--New Quarters for Sergeant, | 1,000 | | 1,000 |\n| 27 | New Architectural Office,...... | 58,000 | 60,000 | 2,000 |\n| 28 | Government Civil Hospital, Structural Alteration to \"C\" Block,. | 10,000 | | 10,000 |\n| 29 | Government Civil Hospital, Extension to Sisters Quarters, | | | |\n| (r.) | Pokfulam Road, surfacing with sand carpeting between Nos. 4-8 Bridges is from No. 11 Bridge to Aberdeen Village.. | 30,000 | 50,000 | 20,000 |\n| (w) | Queen's Road West, Improvements. | 1,000 | 1,000 | |\n| (*) | Island Road,-surfacing for heavy traffic between Aberdeen und Stanley, | 100,000 | 100,000 | |\n| | | 50,000 | | 50,000 |\n| (.) | Caine Road, Widening and raising to new levels between Arbuthnot Road and Aberdeen Street, | | | |\n| 30 | Latrines and Urinals and Bath houses,....... | 25,000 | 85,000 | 60,000 |\n| | (*) General Works, | 20,000 | 1-4,000 | |\n| | | | 50,000 | 6,000 |\n| | | | 105,000 | 54,000 |\n| | COMMUNICATIONS. | | | |\n| 31 | Roads:- | | | |\n| | DRAINAGE. | | | |\n| (a.) | Improving and widening road through Quarry Bay Village, | 50,000 | | |\n| (b.) | Road from Taitam Gap to Big Wave Bay, | 100,000 | 50,000 | |\n| 32 | Training Nullahs :- | | | |\n| (a) | Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme, | 17,000 | 57,000 | 40,000 |\n| | | 8,000 | | |\n| (c) | Extending 20-foot road from Magazine Gap to Victoria Gap, | | | |\n| (b.) | General Works, | 20,000 | | 20,000 |\n| | | 8,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |\n| | | 20,000 | | 20,000 |\n| | Carried forward, | 2,346,000 | 409,000 | |\n| | | 2,700,000 | | 763,000 |\n\n| | Carried forward, | 2,346,000 | 409,000 | |\n| | | 2,700,000 | | 763,000 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500860, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 572, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY,-Continued.\n\n| ITEM | WORK | ESTIMATED UNEXPENDED BALANCE TO 31.12.25 | SUPPLEMENTARY VOTES ALREADY TAKEN | ESTIMATED SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE REQUIRED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Brought forward | 1,546,000 | 204,000 | 553,900 |\n| (2) | Improvements to existing main roads for motor traffic | | | |\n| (e) | Argyle Street, Extension to its junction with Waterloo Road | | | 20,000 |\n| (f) | New Road through King's Park and Cemeteries Area, Homantin: formation of 30 foot width and Bridge across Railway 60 feet wide | | | 10,000 |\n| (g) | Macadamizing and tar painting to new Main Roads | 25,000 | | |\n| | Cheung Chau School | 1,000 | | |\n| 75 | Extension to existing Market at Mong Kok Tsui. F.M. 24 | | 10,000 | |\n| 107 | Un Long School | 1,000 | | |\n| | Gardeners' Quarters, Sheung Shui | 10,000 | | |\n| 76 | Store for Government Materials near Railway.... Quarters for Clerical Staff ....... | 25,000 | | |\n| 109 | Taipo School... | 20,000 | | 200,000 |\n| 110 | Magnetic Huts | 9,000 | | |\n| 78 | Police Married Quarters, Hung Hlona | | | |\n| 79 | Public Latrines, Urinals and Bath houses | 15,000 | | |\n| 111 | Open Market, Kowloon City | 15,000 | | 10,000 |\n| 112 | Sanitary Inspector's Quarters, Kowloon City | 25,000 | | |\n| | COMMUNICATIONS. | | | |\n| 80 | Roads :- | | | |\n| 114 | Roads :-- | | | |\n| (a) | Main Roads, Kowloon | | | |\n| (f) | Extension of Roads in Kowloon Tong Development Area... | 10,000 | | |\n| | Fanling to Shataukok Road | 40,000 | FM. 67 | |\n| | (Road to Shun Wan.. | 10,000 | | |\n| (k) | Taipo Market to Kam Shan | 2,000 | | |\n| (l) | Widening two bridges at Au Tau and Kum Tsin | 10,000 | F.M. 63 | |\n| (o) | General Works | 48,500 | | |\n| | DRAINAGE. | | | |\n| 81 | General Works | 83,600 | 110,000 | |\n| 82 | Training Nullahs:- | | | |\n| (a) | Mongkoktsui Nullah East, extension through Railway Bridge. | | 26,000 | |\n| 115 | Training Nullahs- | | | |\n| (a) | One side wall and invert of nullah on Eastern side of the Kowloon Tong Development Scheme | 25,000 | | 21,500 |\n| (b) | Kowloon Tong Development Area, connection of stream North of this area of main nullahı | | | |\n| (b) | Matauchung training and diverting main stream course | 20,000 | | |\n| (c) | Homuntin District. Training streain course in New Cemeteries Area | 1,000 | F.M. 63 | |\n| (e) | General Works | 10,000 | | 25,700 |\n| 83 | Miscellaneous Drainage Works :— | | | 114,000 |\n| | MISCELLANEOUS. | | | |\n| 84 | Kowloon Bay West Reclamation 1st Section | 30,000 | | |\n| 92 | Forming and Levelling areas in Tai Shek Ku Valley, F.M. 8 | 4,000 | | |\n| 93 | Compensation and Resumptions | 10,000 | | 50,000 |\n| | Refuse Dump, -Cheung Sha Wan | | | |\n| 122 | Telephone cable between Kowloon, Tripo and Fanling. F.M. 19... | 2,500 | | 16,000 |\n| 123 | Miscellaneous Works. F.M. 22.. | 7,000 | | |\n| 124 | Compensation and Resumptions F.M. | | | 100,000 |\n| | WATER WORKS. | | | |\n| 67 | New Territories. | | | |\n| 125 | Extension of Kowloon Catchwater | | 10,000 | 41 & 67 |\n| 120 | Shek Lai Pui, Reservoir and Contingent Works | 30,000 | | |\n| | BUILDINGS. | | | |\n| 127 | Shing Mun Valley Scheme :— | | | |\n| 99 | Quarters for Government Officers, North of Kowloon Tong Area | 1,000 | | |\n| 100 | Erection of a Brick Bungalow at Taipo for | | | |\n| | Public Works Department in place of the existing one | 1,000 | | |\n| 102 | District Sanitary Office, Shamshuipo | 25,000 | | |\n| 103 | New Lunatic Asylum | | | |\n| (a) | Buildings | 20,000 | | |\n| (b) | Site | | | 100,000 |\n| | Tunnels and South Conduit | | | 100,000 |\n| (g) | Filtering plant and erection | | | 9,000 |\n| 128 | Kowloon Bywash Reservoir | 25,000 | | 6,000 |\n| 120 | Fanling Water Works Scheme | 15,000 | | Bik |\n| | Carried forward | 1,546,000 | 204,600 | 553,900 |\n\n## Total Public Works, Extraordinary\n$1,947,000 | $327,000 | $863,000 \n\n566", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500966, "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": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "Pearl Theatre \n\n(Opposite DUTCH FOLLY, THE BUND.) \n\nPROGRAMME FOR \n\nTuesday to Thursday Aug: 11 to 13 1925 At 1.30, 6.45 and 9.15 P.M. \n\nMARION DAVIES \n\n→ STE -- \n\n\"The Restless Sex\" \n\n7 KEELS \n\n--AND- \n\nEDNA MARIAN \n\n-IN- \n\n\"Her Daily Dozen\" \n\n(Comedy in 2 parts) \n\nThe Sun Roof Garden. \n\nCinematograph, Different kinds of Chinese & Foreign plays. Amusements are shown Day and Night. \n\nAdmittance 35 Cents. \n\nExtra charges for Tom, refreshments, Talossops Observation, \n\nExhibitions of Transtigaration. Special Vinoma \n\nRear Seats \n\nnt \n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1925. \n\nSoviet Mercantile Fleet \n\nThe \n\n\"Sovtorgflot\" \n\n\"MONGUGA\" $74 \"PAMIAT LENINA\" \n\nwill leave Canton for Swatow and Shanghai and Vladivostok on or about 18th August. \n\nFor further particulars apply to \n\nPetroleum Office of Trade Mission of U.S.S.R. in China at Canton \n\n(Agents of Soviet Mercantile Fleet \"Berfo glat\") \n\n2nd floor, Central Bank of China Buildings, The Bund. \n\n行銀央中 \n\nTHE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA \n\nEstablished by Government Mandate of 7th August, 1921 \n\nOfficial Government Depositary \n\nGENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED \n\nTelephone: Central 199, 444, 777. \n\nTelegraph Address: \"CENTRAL\" \n\nTSE VUNG SOONG \n\nChief Manager \n\n東 \n\nThe Bank of East Asia, Ltd. \n\n(CANTON BRANCH) \n\nSAPSAM HONG STREET, CANTON. \n\nHead Office-HONGKONG. \n\nCable Address---**FASTA BANK” \n\nSHAMKEN, \n\nTelephone No.-1876 West. \n\nAuthorized Capital $10,000,000.00: $5,000,000.00 \n\nPaid-up \n\nReserve Fund \n\nBRANCHES & AGENCIES throughout the World. \n\nEvery kind of banking facilities:- \n\nGranting loans on approved securities. \n\nSelling drafts and buying bills on Foreign agencies, \n\nTHE ORIENTAL HOTEL \n\nAND \n\nRESTAURANT \n\nTHE BUND \n\nFACING THE PEARL RIVER \n\nWith the Whole View of Canton City \n\nFrom the Roof Garden \n\nModern Accommodation and Comfortable Equipments \n\nHot and Cold Baths \n\nServe best Foreign and Chinese Meals \n\nWe prepare party dinners \n\nThe Sincere Co., Ltd. \n\nUniversal Providers. \n\nThe Bund, Canton \n\nNew Arrivals Of Tinned Goods And Silks \n\nOur Own Manufacturers:-- \n\nAERATED WATERS, PERFUME, GLASS WARE, METAL WARE, RATTAN WARE, FURNITURE, &C, SOAP, \n\nOUR ROOF-GARDEN:- \n\nCinema and a Variety of Chinese & Foreign Plays \n\nAdult 35 Cents, \n\nAre shown DAY & NIGHT.-- Admission \n\nSavings Department. Concessions to small depositors with current accounts interest \n\nTHE SUN CINEMA. \n\nPROGRAMME FOR \n\nAugust 12th to 0th, 1925 \n\nTRIANGLE PLAYS \n\nPRESENTS \n\nDOROTHY DALTON \n\n \n\nThe Far Eastern Trust and \n\nSavings Bank, Ltd. \n\n34, SECOND MALOO \n\nWEST BUND, CANTON. \n\nHONAM-SUB \n\nCABLE ADDRESS \"BANKTRUST\" \n\nBRANCH \n\nTA KEE TOW \n\nAll descriptions of Banking Business transacted, \n\nInterest allowed on Current and Savings Accounts and \n\nLoans granted on approved securities. \n\nIN \n\nFIXED DEPOSITS. \n\n\"The Dark Road” \n\nIN FIVE BIG REELS \n\n$1,80 \n\nVarious Comedies \n\n \n\n \n\nTHE \n\nChina Development \n\nCommercial \n\n& Savings Bank, Ltd. \n\nTelone (9-tra] 792 \n\nAditing, West Bugend B'. \n\nCroston \n\nTHE SUN Co., Ltd. \n\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS \n\nWEST BUND; & WAI OI STREET, OLD CITY. CANTON, \n\nfe in to join advantage to visit our Wholesale and Retail Departments. All kinds of China silk piece goods, boots and shoes, hats, outfitting, etc. \n\nPROFESSIONAL QUALITY \n\n7 out of 10 cases of \n\nHEADACHE \n\ncan be cured from eyestrain. If you were a victim of this trouble, you should have your eyes examined soon. \n\nDO IT AT THE SUN CO. \n\nDr. K. K. Yang, who takes charge of our Optical Department, \n\nhas specialized on Ophthalmology and Optometry. \n\nJET \n\nSuits for our third floor, well-stocked for \n\nDR. KÜNK, \n\nA modern Banking and up-to-date... All manner of interest rates allowed for all kinds of deposits. \n\nLoans granted on approved securities \n\nBANK OF CANTON LIMITED, \n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG, \n\nINTEREST ON FIXED OR WITH \n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS \n\nFor 12 Months 5% per annum, \n\nFor 6 Months 4 per annum, \n\nFor 3 Months & per annum on the daily credit \n\nbalance of over $100.00, \n\nOn demand \n\n2% per annum \n\nChief Manager \n\nLABOR AND PEASANT MOVEMENT. \n\nTHE CANTON \n\nGAZETTE \n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925. \n\nCommerce Leaders On Trade Permits. \n\n(Continued from Page 1) \n\nPeanut Oil Shipments \n\nDiplomatic Commission's Report On Shanghai \n\nShootings \n\nNo Enthusiasm For Judicial Inquiry--Chinese Rights Recovery \n\nMovement. \n\nPeasants Movement. With The Strikers. \n\n„Outing to the best product of elibe th Workers infinging the vari joik being insul? cirat far the preda Government Devises Means To \n\nMeeting Of Peasants Union OffThe \n\nSow bad but all good to be the people, to saul rely Aid The Workers On Strike. 1st Division Of Pun Yu District. \n\ntransporth a sie abject to ajan skipun ka the hum A present the movement for the inspection, and this shows that the Taingear wind beachwang Bia the (YBOX QUE YEASANT CORRESPONDENT) \n\nand Nationalist Revolution \n\nthe authorities \n\not oflented buke massage, shipping bus bort tilf After the establishment of the Nations emancipation has \n\nuniformily is the internal affairs, tied up, and regular supplies of oil only the faulted brake from Shock Of French Minister's Split. Diplomatie turpe have ap \n\nPeasants Union of the 1st division \n\nprogressive, Rod towardɛ the actio Mr. Long Ton Hing said the Geotou lava imen impossible Paris sud Teky, is generally) \n\nfelt tore that thpt of the parently reanvered from the sbank Pon Yo! Fongebuan) f \n\nof the rains wochers on ekrike, Commit-ones Buty land taken up tuns causing a ries in the murkor \n\nConniving to Shanghai should be of the Fench Minister'e rezigna District great soccer das fillorect \n\nthe Governmel has led its be the maler with His strikers, adde \n\nThe Cute Balta Unkel liebed bioause it participeter, in att pablico give them advice and estistuuon, the Butte Cermitte died rent Mr. \n\nSo for very little Tadication for I was told to day that the vacancy thas create on the Uɔra- activities. This is the third soul goes the Atrike a garrist into Lai Torg Fo to the Come Shaughst kan spesially pirates; meeting for skation of Commit fot, the Gavermout has red Department to deal conjully wished a forge consignawel of pear on glee by the Legatione contain would most probanly as Members. Everyone attended the} \n\ndevire no efforte to \n\nen forit. so said that this in simply full from Tsingtao, for shipment turning its esetents, but the Chinese led in the course of a few days. \n\nIt is nateraled that the moment are thornghiy convinced that it) After the recting with interess. \n\nmaintaining the livelihood of the matter the part of the Pickete Caston to meri leoni nada. misssacre of the bite Persillut. Me-trikers, and \n\nA gram bas bra rectly contains wittesuls cond-matia of the Walebicoupe agres to limit the ital diturions to the Shangbai 1 taken further sed it can be iti u the met Lum Pub-abus, the prepa krew steps to plan for this organizing held by the rite it from Shanghai stating that the Shanghai. In the encantas, affair and disttangle it entirely well that in neder to gata fedemtion of a fre Labor Employment Boday. \n\nwas shipped to Caxton per 8.8 therefore, the excuse of the Legather fauce, the L-gations will \n\nHua Tan1 \" Yang\" to tins that pubility would be a fester inte formal negations. they should be crited. \n\nTwo Problems, \n\ndesirable në the prcent time would \n\nThere does aut seam to be ruah \n\narrive within a few days. It is an \n\nipated that the price of oil on the \n\nt seem to be tenable, for the bope that this will secar for some \n\nreport on the progress sẽ chlá i \n\nwill drup \n\nBurns:iudings of the Commiration canuettes how ver, for pessimistio views \n\nUnion during the past half year. \n\nhe said Agency, and will be \n\nJone of them saying to-day, \"Every \n\nof esucer ions to the Chinese side of thing is right up is the st.\" \n\nthe \n\nasket \n\nMr. Wis Chung Tong said that \n\ndisending the question Specia! Porrults, there are two lar] (2) Reading a report from the viraduced to work at the taaleries porte: & niste which require dia. cedially the oil spot w salt. contain anything like the number \n\nare the rais sung the Diplomate, Provincial Prasanta Bulou giving of the Qovernment, Organized curiou pervious to other points;- \n\nbio of gel permits, hai 1.vfile care silaged in Chines circles. The Judicial Inquiry particulare of the Sbike and Pelili | Bodies or private onneeros. \n\nnal conditions, \n\nSOLUTIONS: \n\n(1) A 1 I'm perleliete Sad Erbed sny tinta to \n\noverthrew our revisionary \n\nmeet, we take it that this preval. ni \n\nwamacre is no opportunity for \n\nnational revelation to come lo touch with the Imperialists, \n\nReports are to be made by a \n\n(1) I The Hous of Special Permits \n\nFly \n\nwiched to know what slegs are to be \n\nthe factorior together with the \n\nHere shali-hed? of names of Camic workers, and & \n\nStill the authorities are \n\ny \n\nI have tried to obtain official \n\ntaker in case of an IGLESINE colnetant, even to discus3 be repropilen on the Shanghai suggestion \n\n(3) be in revani juchfying And detention of gcle after the they say that it is tharugbly of judicial inquiry me a prelunicary moso to Diplomatic nogatíations. at tinn of Sucis! Permits, and understand abrand bath \n\nthe question skoold content and in spirit. One fois! be British Legation refuse to cros heronghi sussidered and prep tuld me to-day that the Commission rant on this or any other anggen ensures adopted in safeguard the cted an the eyes and curs of the tine and other Legation are not nthusiastic, the g-coral opinion Diplomatic Corps and that their findings were intended merely being that the bat way out of the \n\nMr. Chow Tie bong said that \n\nbeats for the Tegations in their present imposan is to concentrate on wh the Chinese the task of commiting the Chinata \n\n\"It's setrue tovernment to a conferences \n\nfuture. \n\native-vuot \n\nto be cent mostly to the shove the fame of puniat Purists, but mentioned raployment Agency. | there permite abon'd be perfine₫ 1 giving paritenters of the retire-goode which necessarily seqnies \n\nIt should be sorate and appointments of workers.aponia! permission. The workers who are now set of pheduled as to what sort of good#] () As the Torpaciaklata do do! | employtcut will shen he introduced are specially emitted and what] like na to have any protest in Recording to their order of registra-sort of goods can be transported thought glat per missing is zorgulations \n\nfreely. There are send goods. thesarily quired for \n\ngads and native tate, ned that \"ggest that the report evatuise \n\ned to ma sa. Who will you appiat parahase of which in weessary le \n\nwholesale condemnation,\" he said. \n\nWhen asked the nature of the judgest Who in to suggest a meet demands, but which are for special permission should only he list of goods to he boycotsed \n\nobtained when its cecessarily peers autarquently extended judicisi inquiry? Whose respost- the Commission, this official replied bility is F It was felt that the regaired for the gonde. \n\nwwa entirety outside the Mr. Lee The Ting said that he \n\nthat they wers iustimated to tey to \n\nmatter \n\nGnd basia of onderstanding with nommatenae of the Diplomatin Corps quite agreed with the option the Chinese delegates. This agro Chinese \"Obstacles\" Mr. Le Long Yo \n\nthat the qualienment, bait it been sirived at, wond \n\n(2) The atrikers are not striving for their own privilegra but striving \n\nfor national freedom \n\nChild 15 Cents, \n\nHOTEL \"ASIA.\" \n\nWEST BUND, CANTON. \n\n亞洲大酒店 \n\n廣州市西 \n\nDOW \n\n49 \n\nBeveral questions were propound- \n\nBuoi pinion is that, as long \n\nthe Shanghai Comantasion' \n\net e they axercise their finsreini \n\ntun, to work at these fmolorice influence to purabase tools such as \n\nwhich will be only allowed to tak Chang Teo-lin, He Yao-nan, ou the workere from the Emply Chen Chiong-ming, Tavg Punjab ment Agency first before they are and other anti-revolutionarists to allowed to employ outridle workers. \n\nMr. Chiu Riang Yo said that опросе аль \n\nBerides the above Agency, Lonsidera at the isang of each Workers Reception House will alan Special \"ermits and he put into be retablished to norept the workers forer, for it is within the power of \n\nunemployed. Their \n\ndaily the authorities to dreide whether of adapting proper meastires to if have been used by the Diplomatie) \n\ngoard the future stoukk he Carpa to gain a complete ander (4) Strike is the only wesJOG \n\nexpenses will ho fixed ecording to Special permission is to be given o \n\nby naslona to try to persuade the that we have to fight against the \n\ntheir profusion while \n\nthe But, bat en har part we should considered, but that a list of the standing with the Chinese Cover report serasina a pstery, it would echinit the case to Daperiliis, therefore if our strike responelbility of using the fandsgather to publie epioion sequods abcold be made unt first 1nment. He wisked to emphasize that: \n\nthe much discussed document could blese to complication anj that: is successful the Government is also so reset those ux penina will be whotter suob Squaint Permita should \n\nnot be made public for the reasor judicial inquiry, they being fully ancetesful but if is fails the Gov shouldered by both the Government be enforced or nut- \n\nHodded at preclamation should be issued for that it containert confidential vinced that the report contatos an indiętoget of Shanghai. In information which was intended for theen streamatseen the ChiansO thero 6:0 gonta wbich requiro \n\nMr. Chiu Kiang Ya said that re the sole use of the Diplomata in Jonger exist. \n\nA Worker Training Rehoal will special permistion and these are (a) Wo pensaate living i \n\nhe instituted within the aboy goods belarging to the nations with tentatives should be nominated their negotiations with the Chines glowy villeges provive ile dame Reption Hopen lo benel the whieh perange of Huseietconnee Jay this Chimeran Deperiment in Govornicent. \n\nthe vare Delicate Position \n\nMerever it has always bron dea cacemic and political oppressional workers \n\ntid comparatively stan has been difend, and it is \n\n[vidared in Peking that the Chinese from the Io perinata as the people valushie Parsing in the the art nucess to spunify in detail ni \n\nLater meeting of the maider themselves the judger on of all claeren presise. Therefore agro-ding to their usual profession. these grode. \n\nDiplomatie Corps 1983 held the Shanghai affair. They always morning. No statement refer to the British as the culprits efter was Kiven out, A British and will not approach the problem report Legation officiel saying that the to the alightest spirit of vara pre- \n\nposition we so delicate that nothing mias \n\ntriñera. \n\nwe must also do cur bit to help tho The neurre in this soholi will b \n\nfor grjually inorvused in faturs \n\nELECTION. Mr. Wong Hung Ploihe aake of promoting the estu \n\nwas cleabed as the Priest, and \n\nof trokers, \n\nvold \n\nLeonjunction with \n\n：： Khambers of Commerça \n\nPestigate and to decide what sui \n\nwill Jequire Spei \n\nin \n\nE \n\nthut \n\nMr Chow Chin Sheen Fald that of goods In considers the enfora meal of the Permissing, \n\n» Special Permite quite thorough investigation a Impossible breaust of the \n\nMr. Puo Kam Hong said that event of Specis! Perrite sheold \n\nVice President. Mesers Yi Ram Cheaper Fire-wood For difficulty and tesuits in derling \n\nMr. Ta Yang was elected as the \n\nHot, So Ku and Chong Xu more \n\n堤 \n\ncheted sa members of the milte and Massrs Lon Sek And Wong Yon, Tow Pa elected as judge \n\nL'o- Mus wore \n\nDESTRUCTION OF PEASANTS UNION AT HAI LU FONG. \n\nLEADING HOTEL IN SOUTH CHINA \n\nFirst Class Accommodation, Hot and Cold Water Service Throughout, Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators. Perfect Sanitary Arrangements. Spien- did Dining Room, Meals a la Carte, Excel'ent Cuisine. Public Bar. First Class Billiard Room. \n\nRoof Gardue \n\nBanquets, \n\nSplendid Views of Canton City and Pearl River Hairdressing Saloon. Moderate Rates. \n\nUNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF \n\nTHE SUN CO, LTJ, CANTON. \n\nHIGH-GRADE \n\nJob Printing \n\nEXECUTED WITH \n\nPROMPTITUDE \n\nAND \n\nACCURACY \n\nAT LOW COST \n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE \n\nPRINTERS & PUBLISHERS \n\nCanton. \n\nwith such permits and on secourt: \n\nof the time for shipping the goods being a shot. \n\nskuld be made. \n\nFald \n\nuld say: \"Now that the first port is unfavourabls, you want 'armiker liquiry.\" \n\nKuomintang Leadership. \n\ncould be issued in the Press. Thie attigial \n\nthat your \n\nThe underlying fant of the pre- permitted reappondent might b ho temporarily auspended and that \n\nthat the Carpa End madent situation is that the Shang- the Cinmei Dë Depurament bebeen idle in three lost for weeke, affair been completely in istenes on Scoing that firemund is a daily \n\nMr. Le Tie Ping euid that, in requ zied to form in juration but that the usture of the diecur near sha inged by \n\n{with Commercial circles, theBious must remain sceret peril aceh recovery of perige rights. The cessity for the people, the Gay \n\nbie opiblor, the eve of Special \n\ntime on it was opportune to make slagan. \"Abolish Unequal Treating\" lab ur glass Me, an \"Association of ennen? gave special orders to the \n\nby the l'ems for the \n\nany aument to the waiting warld.sted to ba mnapilize} parpore of deltae simics at tho Esat, West \n\nFrons efter gaatters Fundor Rusintang, bat sowadays oven Meericua in miting the importation of foreign investigation for the parate of \n\nluvestigating into the question. jstand thas the Waichinupa has at the most gamervative Chinese, wha and Forth Rivera veling that they should preveu gods that the products of our \n\nyot acerpted tire Legational thru months ago would have con The Chairman, having laid the exhortion of the easiled prut clius | country \n\nongiortation \n\nflow battled befa any ditens wild mees are reacting themselves the side of the rights rayhty sins take pluca ch other matters, made This is the argument Low bez movement.--Peking Correspondent \n\ncarried on by theu Juiling, the of the N. C. Dally News \n\nfor \n\nA telegram from the Peasants fees on all junts carrying fir foreign eruntries are not fer, and hove proprenis before the membe- iw point beat the Shanghai case-moedach rail as th Faik \n\nUnica of Hai Fung, \n\nrends: \"A \n\nveer 500 \n\nhan:1 Roldiers \n\nthat be thinks that free transporta- \n\nfor the \n\nFangwood Ea Cartan, sed should give \n\nwas Amendment tebel them every proficios Instead. \n\nThese orders hayo bee heya ton of goods from one place to ing commented by Lo Yet \n\nYoung by the various defrate armice, and another in an ew couster should passed by the musetingi- Tange Chok Moy, Yoce Viu Chong in the past few days the varius a permitted, but the distinction Pass Resolution \n\nChore, are fireword junka at 660 different was kind of grods should be stated. Seng Bad Chung being assisted by Cheng Bon Nemecticus have been able to arrive at \n\nIn added thek tice su and other uti-resolutiousrists and Canton in perfect safety without! \n\nthe nemaity of paying the prate Capitalists and nailed to one group. They are being careled by the re- \n\nb- General Trb. Their le sia \n\nle to rain the pensant of Flai anri \n\ntion fera en-erate? \n\nKeon the extention of Pea mach \n\nprein Permits may perhaps \n\npexible with regard to trade with \n\n“That be spesixi permits will be \n\nquired the goods which are Dok; the gods of the romy vations. The The va i us Chemibres \n\n& reign compris, but it is absolute for Commerce for \n\nng there junk by the lunal hundits | ly impossible d'or interne! trade, \n\nLu Fang. The Prasanta Uniors bse not \n\nof Hai Lu Fang and Chin Tongeving \n\nنا \n\nbeen a heavy \n\nbefor \n\ntho protection of the \n\nwere destroyed by the rehols, and armies: hesos the great deep in the the Preddent of the Executive price of fireword on the inseket. \n\nJu edditio: 47 the Committed Mr. Sit Aam Yito wai \n\nkidnapped. \n\nAs the \n\nthey \n\nbruke inty \n\nMr. \n\nChoy Tel \n\nCommittee of that division and \n\n+x-Presilent of the Executive Traine, amely:- \n\nCheck on \"Enemy\" Goods. \n\nAmmittor \n\nHow British Oppress the \n\nChinese Seamen in \n\nHongkong. \n\ncurtain \n\nChinese TOS\", \n\nif \n\nstrikera in \n\nCanton wre facing starvation and that they อวน!! strike Bod return to Canton they would meet the same fate. \n\nThe seamos replied that they \n\nconjointly with the Authorities, to avsetigate to what ark of godle named Chan bau, who had been wall strika even though they \n\narrasted and detained by Hongkong Government for seizetize) \n\nMr. Pan Kam Blong said that | og enemy auflon gunde.\" \n\nWork \n\nthered to ₫ nth. \n\nthe particular reason of iasing The suggestion of Mr. sheve such profel Permits to do Kok Sbing to winate the Proud was recently expelled from \n\nbaye veranen of financial commction; \n\nChinese \n\nseamen \n\nAgain Ho Baiskwong threstened \n\n•hem by saying that if they do ant \n\nbe \n\nĮsomply with his order, they would \n\nhe \n\nsubject to arresŠ. The seamen \n\na that they would prefer to be \n\nlime large shipments of fireworks! the house of also arrived from the North River with certain foreige patiune. ad Bid-st of the four Chamb-tot Hongkong is connection with \n\nverzner only applies Commerce as representatives to see strike, has come up in Cantos and the Beation by the Ynot-Han Railway that the Low, \n\nto genie \n\nof the Britial and the cho Commissioner of Commerce related how the British Imperialists imprisoned than to continue thir \n\nwith fe added that and \n\nin employ. consult \n\ntim oppresg Japanese patious. \n\nHearing this, its halfcaste the Commerce Department should ainut the procedure, was passed Hongkong. \n\nby \n\nand Messrs the meeting, be reqeated to prepare a list of \n\nWhoo the bitsking\" re-ompradora, He Sawong, beame ordered #greatly enraged and gnode of these nations with signs Chow Tin Hong of the Cneral turned to Hangkang from Tinstein the Bettiah palice to \n\norented great disturbanes and \n\nthe first! tulsbery. loners of division received the same treat ment. This band of rebels compos ed of over 2000 had arrived at Lui Wo Cheng cu the 6th inetant, \n\ndare not disarm that Turing Those few days the Generals of Chen Oblog-ming were trying to Sorada \n\nHN and and rent their \n\nMonday Ear cara \n\nTuesday six cars \n\nWednesday four cars \n\nThursday night on \n\n(including night train) \n\nFriday eleven CATA \n\n(including night traio) \n\nSaturday four ears \n\nto \n\nfor identification and mark out Chamber of Commeros, Liang-toug \n\nSunday four cars \n\nEach of the above cara contained \n\nabout ten thousad catties of fire-goods \n\nof Commerce \n\nAriest and \n\nThe seamen were sentenced to \n\nthe which are far que daily to the City Chamber, Ya Hu-om the 7th alt, the British, realis ake them to the Harbour Master quirements and of which purchase of the Union of Merebant, anding that the Chinees we mew on for trial. is necessary, and then for the trova Trung Shau-dek of the Cooperative board the said vessel u uld join the \n\nware wriks, ordered the reveal to be two weeks' imprisonment if they portation of snch goods Special Chamber \n\nbat taninateri « representatives to monerd at Leesamman. for frure still insisted to strike. The seamen Permite will be innuit, \n\nThen they were permasted refused and so wera imprisoned. not belonging to ourg with Mr. Liang Tan-hing,shere. \n\nWhen the term of imprisonment prices of which have enemy natius should not require representatives of the Commerce sot to join the strike by one of the \n\nDepartment, \n\nGate | Louis of British Imperialism. Com-woe sarved, they were expelled from overtbrow the therefore greatly dropped day by such permite. \n\npradoro Ito Sui-kwang who threakon Hongkong and come up to Cantou Mr. Ire Long Yu said that he missioner Soneg. Our day, as there is already so over. Government, \n\nstriker, adding that is weekend. The meeting ended at 5.30 p.m. the has miroudly studied the question of \n\nspies to Hai Lu Fong to raise up wood, the \n\nap \n\nNationalist \n\nto \n\nGovernment must take note of this, stock \n\nand \n\n200", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500970, "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": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "1 Powell L \n\nTelephone C. 457 \n\nUNDER NEW MANAGEMENT \n\nLADIES' \n\nLtd \n\nCHILDREN'S DEPTS. \n\nwe \n\nA \n\nTo make room for our New Goods, \n\nholding are SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE in these Departments \n\nColossal reductions regardless \n\nof cost. \n\nBe sure you pay us \n\na visit during this week, August 22nd to August 29th. \n\nAN ENDOWMENT INSURANCE POLICY \n\nwill enable your family to redeem the mortgage \n\non your house if you die, and \n\nwill enable you to pay it yourself if you live. INSURE WITH \n\nCHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD. \n\nAll Clauses of Life Insurance Business Transacted. \n\nLife Assurance Department. \n\n1. C. 1121. \n\nBt, George's Building. \n\nATTRACTIVE HANDBAGS \n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS \n\nIN \n\nBATICK LEATHER \n\nSILK & SUEDE Also for Afternoon Wear and Many Dainty Novelties \n\nfor \n\nEvening Wear \n\nSMART NEW \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING \n\n“PHOMENE” \n\nFIRE APPLIANCES. \n\n\"BRITISH THEREFORE BEST** \n\nTwo Gallon Type. Extinguishers as shown above are absolutely necessary in districts where water facilities are limited. Avoid risks and install \"Phomene.\" \n\nAsk for Particulars. Sole Agents \n\nMUSTARD & CO. 16-17 Connaught Road Central Phone 1126. \n\nACKNOWLEDGEMENT. \n\nPOST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926. \n\nPage 9 \n\nSHANGHAI ARMS SEIZURE. \n\nEX-ARMY OFFICER \n\nCHARGED. \n\nFRENCHMAN, GERMAN, AMERKAN AND CHINESE INVOLVED. \n\n(Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nShanghai, August 26. \n\nWEST RIVER PIRACY. \n\nSTANDARD OIL AGENT CAPTURED. \n\nTHE S.S. KWANG HUNG SEIZED AT KAU KONG. \n\nCANTON CHANGES. \n\nEFFECTS OF LIAO CHUNG-KAI'S DEATH. \n\n(From Correspondent.) \n\nCanton. August 23. It appears that the assassination of Liao Chang-kai, the late Bolshevik leader in Canton, is causing some serious changes in the political situation here. \n\nLu \n\n(An Occasional Correspondent.) \n\nWuchow, August 21. When the strike came into effect cutting off communication between \n\nIn connection with the French \n\nSongkong and Wuchow, the \n\nYau \n\naddition to the resignation of Wu \n\nder to recall him. Alternative \n\npolice seizure of arms and ammunition \n\nCompany of Hongkong Techen \n\nthe Police Commissioner, y, it can dismiss him directly. \n\ntion, estimated in value at $46,000 \n\nWuchow transferred several \n\nand the detention of Mei Kwang- \n\nThere are a number of cases in \n\nthere have been arrested Colonel \n\ntheir agents dying the Chinese \n\na Cantonese military consan \n\nwhich a diplomatic agent has \n\nJames Christie, a British \n\nany danger to the Canton-Wuchow \n\nservice. \n\nder, and several other military \n\nher recalled at the request of \n\nver, retired. Relegation \n\nCameral Daily \n\nadduhs have been maintain \n\nand police officers, as reported \n\nthe State in which he resides \n\nhavies \n\n15sch, alina Charles A. \n\ned. The weng Hung left Canton today, the case has also \n\ncatad for a breach of this rule. In \n\nNeed, an 1804, the Spanish Minister to \n\nperson & Frothman \n\nwatert ss usual, for Wuchow, striving of the City Executive Committee. \n\nAmerleen named on Tuesday morning August 18, the resignation of C. C. Wa, Chief \n\nthe United States, attempted to \n\nChrist formerly in the castonte \n\nser- Kan Keg at 9 are the same \n\nvenho tendered his resignation \n\nres- bribe a newspaper to publish \n\nan article in favour of Spain. with \n\nported to be the secretary of \n\nber of pirate ware travelling as its \n\nto accord protection to the de- \n\nroference to a dispute in \n\nGeneral Wong Tse-hua in whose \n\npassengers. When they opened fire \n\ncease high oficial press between \n\ntwe exuntries, aslan were discovered \n\n340,000 \n\nsimultaneously in various parts of; \n\nen the United Sutes anked for \n\nincluding a quantity of counter- \n\nthe ship, several steam launches \n\ntang party said to he suspected \n\nhis recall. For years later, the \n\ntatt tns which the police assert \n\ncame out from the river banks \n\n2 United States were again \n\nquesting the recall of a Minister \n\nas \n\nthe purchase money. The \n\nsarmmanded the steamer. In \n\nAmerican, French and British \n\nWix.] showong 1our \n\nThis time of Mr. Jackson, \n\nThe Courts when the eases \n\nBritish Ambasador, the charge \n\nbeing that in certain toaste given \n\nat pablle dinners he had charged. \n\nBREACH OF TRUST. \n\nAnother member of the Kucmin- \n\nby the authorities is \n\nCheckman \n\nJai, an aviator, formerly District Magistrate of Taungabau and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yur-ken. I \n\nis understood \n\nwith \"Talsehood and duplicity.\" \n\nSAPORE MAN GETS HEAVY \n\nand he well-to-do. \n\nAfter deliberation, the Ambasea- \n\nthe American administration \n\ndor was recalled, but the British Government duly placed on \n\nvocord that \"His Majesty's Guy- ernment has not marked with \n\nMrs. Lorne Murphy, of the \n\nany expression of displeasure \n\nStation Hot Kowloon, who has \n\nSENTENCE. \n\n· Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nSingapore. August 25. \n\nMr. Compton Cooper, ex-ciskier \n\nTa pirates nas ap apathat \n\nan order has been issued for \n\nsengers and by examining the \n\nthe arrest of Jai, who bas now \n\nhazds of the passengers made \n\ndis- tiretion between the working \n\nappeared, as the revolver used \n\nby the assasain in shooting Liau \n\nAs found with coarse hands were \n\nChunu-kai is Rileyed to being \n\nreleased, \n\nWounded Editor Dies, \n\ntuned. Those with lady dngers\" \n\nwere do- \n\nChan Chau-lam, who was with \n\nashore and the best was \n\nscrunchly \n\nLizo Coung-si and received for \n\ncleaned out. The Captcha was \n\nious wounds ciro, passed away \n\nThe Captain is a Bri \n\nalso taken. \n\njust returned by the imprese \n\nof does not appear to have \n\ncon- of Messra Job Liste And Co. \n\nWand has bees \n\nwary offlsiently for three days in a very critical \n\ntish ahjust noted \"Chen Kam,\" \n\nbital, where he had ocen lying \n\nThis tnorning at the Kung Yee \n\nCanada, destres to convey her \n\nmitted any international offence \n\nconvicted of a breach of trust \n\nin sincere thanks to Mr. H. P. White \n\nagainst the United \n\nthe navigation of this condition. \n\nStates,\" the sum of $4,000 \n\na yetenosil to meble steamer for the past several \n\nditor of the China News in Hong \n\ndueting Mr. Wiarson, Cant. Turnball \n\nAgain in 1871 the United States \n\nthree months hard labour in add \n\nChan was formerly \n\nand all officers of the Douglas \n\nrequests the recall of the \n\ntiva is a tire of $500 with the \n\nPears. All told about fisty \n\nDoug and after his paper was \n\nSteamatip Chowany and friends \n\nRussian Minister, fox inturail- \n\nernative of six mutha' ingrison, \n\nsengers were held captive. The \n\ni pressed he came back to Canton \n\nwe attended the fanem of her \n\nterence in its internal affairs, \n\nart in default as payment... \n\nsteamer was then allowed to \n\nand became an editor of the Min \n\nlato hachawdd und sent wreaths, \n\nand whilst most people will \n\nremen- \n\nber the comparatively recent \n\nWachon on the night of August 20th, \n\njast twants-war hours tale. $120,000 \n\nRansom Asked. Among those taken captive \n\nin her recent sad bereavement. \n\ncase of Dr. Danba, who was recalled by Austria from the \n\nThe Borning Post \n\nWEDNESDAY, Aveer 26, 1025. \n\nComrade Karakhan, \n\nground that he proposed to \n\nhis, government plane ic engineeri \n\nstrikes in American steelworks, \n\nwitich \n\nmanufacturing \n\nWern \n\nmunitions of war. A case of mutual dismissal of Ministara by \n\nFOOD SUPPLIES. \n\nPORE, MUTTON AND BEEF PLENTIFUL. \n\nReduced Demand. \n\nNeo Jia Pag. He was also an in- \n\nfacial ember of the Central Executive Committee \n\nof \n\nthe Kuomintang. \n\nof \n\nwei now chairman of the Brein- \n\nSiner the death of Mr. Liao \n\na number of prominent ciftens \n\nof Cheng-kai, the Soviel Representa- \n\ntire in Canton, who is now High \n\ntravelling as a third class passanger \n\nAdvisor in the Nationalist Govern- \n\nto avoid recognition, as he le well \n\nknow on the Wert River. Mr. Chap- \n\nof a man to succeed Liao in the \n\nLong in the Wochow agent of the \n\ntasks which the deceased and M. \n\nSuch har ter the improvement \n\nlard Oil Company and has \n\nBorngin had been jointly perform- \n\nWe have recently become so \n\nby Great Thilair and Spain in the \n\nfood stastion during the large \n\nancial de cesto. \n\naccustomed to the spectacle of \n\noccurred in 1848. Aravclution \n\npast for days, that restrictions \n\nofmediately recoguised and was \n\nsentative bax found Wang Ching- \n\nHe was ing. So far the Russian repre- \n\nSpain the Soviet Government \n\nviolating reverent in \n\nwas the slaughter if native rattle \n\nbave infurewd as spon payenere \n\ninternational law and exploiting! \n\ni wn to have the spinpality of \n\nzou been removed and the supply \n\n$120,000 he would be immediately \n\ntive Committee of the Nationalist \n\nthe huden diplomatic system \n\nthe British Forestry in a class \n\ntopping the denialet. His assistant and wife \n\nGovernment, the called parson. \n\nits-uture, TARE Tho rucent \n\nPalmerston. I was also \n\nConsumption is being that of \n\nwere wish him. The wife \n\nRussian known that Mr. Bulwer, the Bri- \n\nnormal times, owing probably to the \n\nreleased but the assistant was held. \n\nkecs Conference in the Eden-- \n\nrevolations of the \n\nwas When Wang atleaded the Wer- \n\nCorrespondent to the North \n\n(ish Mtalster at Madrid, het \n\nof people in the Mr. Chap- \n\ntour has been 1 for a \n\nChina Daily News, concerning the same tows as Lord Pabner \n\nCloux, bat uriously cough, this \n\nnumber of weeks non after a long \n\nterany a large number of Wham- \n\ncioual Association Buliding \n\nya- the Soviet's Ambassador to \n\nfan, although he had carefully \n\nis neve instint in beef \n\nBras D \n\nstay in Canton was \n\nreforming \n\nrape Codete escorted him. \n\nKong Paking, end his activities in \n\ntrained from expressing those \n\nany other mest. \n\nWarhow far trestuent. \n\nYing-fan promotiog Bolshevism in China, \n\nviews or from acting upon then \n\nKwangcharwad is now maintain. \n\nzasunod Other taken prisoner inclufofee of Conumissar of finance of \n\nnecasion very little surprise in \n\nany way during the revolting \n\na regalar supply of pigs and \n\non. Chiu Lau-tong, the Principal \n\nthe Provinia Government and \n\nMinister of Finance of the Nation. \n\nundoubtedly have to he a reckon \n\nexpert dismissed him, and return \n\nof more than 200, \n\nmer School of the Christian and \n\nis slat Government corrarently, \n\nand Palmeraton, reply, which \n\nexceets that for any one day \n\nlonary Alliance at Warhow \n\narissed the Spanish Minister in \n\nsince the commencement of the \n\nten Chinese preachers of this \n\nmia- ing these breaches of the \n\nusers onder. The distaiesal of \n\nLode. There are at Jones \n\n1,000sion Mr. Wong Ueno \n\nsut Mr. Lel \n\nAlavies the deceased Lino. \n\nof civilised nations, it is well to have \n\nou veront in what parti- \n\nSackville, the British Ambassa- \n\npigs in stock and this is being \n\nKip-chi. cats Comrade Karakhat has \n\ndor to Washington, in 1888 \n\nseems added a daily. \n\nThe abject of the attach \n\nan this. \n\ning with Russia one day, respect \n\nAUE.UUT \n\nagain offended, assuming what to \n\nbave been rather a straining \n\nNative cattle supplies exceed \n\nthe vessel serns to have been to \n\nobtain seama winest incontestable \n\nat the international right given \n\ndement and the dealers may now \n\na large shipment of money that \n\nwas During and market without restraint \n\nsupposed to re aboard for one f \n\nthat the documents published in \n\nto an offended State. \n\nHad \n\nTHE SANITARY BOARD). \n\nNEW BY-LAWS ADOPTEL. \n\n-- \n\nthe \n\nM. N. Smith presided over a \n\nthe North China Daily News are \n\nthe American presidential elee \n\nSanghat is applying sheep as \n\nare the lees; hanks, Silver \n\nicin and peeting of the Sanitary Bourd \n\nhet authentic. In their handling \n\nof \n\nthe situation in China the Bol- \n\nwas formerly British subject, \n\namount of local mutton is to be \n\ndomand in Wachow later and \n\nsince the embargo on wall cap \n\nfront. T. Groney, Dr. I. W. Tae. Dr. \n\nthe greatest skill and efficiency. \n\nThey have utilised every little \n\nhow he was to give his \n\nvoted but poultry eat eves \n\nshow a tendency whether Mr. Cleveland, if 23- \n\nA \n\nto increase. Vagetables and \n\na bank notes and anali coin have \n\ngood example of this is the atti- \n\nelectal, would support a policy \n\nage he obtained at little more \n\nbeen arriving daily from Canton. \n\ntude conveyed by their Embassy \n\nof friendliness to England. Lord \n\nto oimal rises and generally at \n\nPaking. The Foreign Powers \n\nSackville replied to vague and \n\nspeaking, the situation is extremely \n\nare represented in China by \n\nneral terms that any satiating \n\nand is cally becoming \n\nthe other more se- \n\nfavouring Ministers only, and not by \n\nfull pecly Ambassadors. The explanation \n\ncountry would inse popularity\" \n\nof this is the disturbed conditiou \n\nthat he boliavad Mr. Cleveland \n\nIt is a fact that a large hand \n\nat plates have been operating in the \n\nteretaty), Mr. D. Tavies \n\nand Mr. G. Kennedy kiten also \n\npresent. \n\nreserving \n\nThe dret by laws governing fond \n\nestablish pools and seruted water \n\nmanufactorios CAIDS months. The leader of this \n\nremarking that there was \n\nup for consideration, the chairman \n\nKau Kong weinig for everal \n\nSPORTS COATS \n\nof China, which robs the country \n\nwas desirous of maintain \n\nEnture is lisaged in an editorial \n\nCanton and Muceo. She is called \n\nBoar went into exilee. \n\nIN \n\nLIGHT-WEIGHT \n\nTWEEDS \n\nand WOOLLENS \n\nHAVE ARRIVED; \n\nALSO \n\nCREPE RUBBER SOLED \n\nGOLF BROGUES. \n\nLADIES' GOLF CLUBS. We have a large selection by leading makers. Prices $6 & $7. \n\nLANE, CRAWFORD'S \n\nPEDDER STREET, \n\nLADIES \n\nSALON \n\nhe \n\nIx reported to ese to be a women \n\nsession regarding them who frequently vita fongkong hocght it would he better if the \n\nof its full internation statusing friendly relations with Groat \n\nin the Gentini Chin Port. \n\nThey theyhinese is affectionate terms \n\nwas im-paper pins ont that the opinion \n\nThe Pirate Queen. She ensure \n\nwas no diariasier they might: When the Soviet turned its \n\nBritain, although it attention to Cbica, however, it \n\npossible to predict his course \n\nis held by Chinese that they can \n\ntainly seria now to be at leent \n\nthe \n\nDr. Petrse paid at the 'sat meet- \n\nrealised \n\nSHANGHAI INCIDENT, \n\nhe then ca bloc \n\nIf \n\nshould be made and these rensals \n\n[ead now been digrala bed. \n\nthat for Bulshevis beforehand.\" \n\nThis correspon- \n\ngo on strike jug! when they \n\nplease! \"qseen of the Wajk\" \n\naround Kaighe xare reasons why \n\nthe by-law \n\npurposes Peking would be the \n\ndie becoming known to the \n\nand when they come back \n\nreceive Kong. most important capital in the United States Government, \n\nFord their old jobs again and be paid \n\nworld. Accordingly the Sovint \n\nSackville was discussed by them, \n\nin full for the time when no work \n\nappointed as Chinese Ambassa- \n\nIt seems imposible to justify \n\nwas, done, a of which, the vaper \n\ndor (and not Mister) one of the \n\naction of the United States \n\nadds, ia pact and purest of the \n\nIts most capable agents. \n\nin this stance, since diplomatic \n\npresent Chisens belief that they \n\nA resnit of this, since usage and common sense allkej \n\ncan do what they wian with \n\nfor Ambassarlor takes precedence \n\nof sume that twn States wish to \n\ncizners, shoot them and all the \n\nMinister, Comrade Karakhan \n\nremain in friendliness with one \n\nrest of it, but retaliation in the \n\nwas placed at the outect in an \n\nanother until the contrary is \n\npart of the foreigners becomes a \n\nexceedingly favourable position, \n\nproved. These cases Ulustrate heinous crime. Whilst that state \n\nTo neutralise the advantage thus \n\nthe strictness with which a \n\nStatement correctly \n\nAs \n\nMER \n\nCalerpreted \n\nthe \n\nITALIAN MINISTER'S CONFERENCE. \n\nShanghal, Angust 20. On the 21st the Italian Minister called upon Shay Jai un stating that the Diplomatic Corps was asiti \n\nOn Dr. Macgown intimating that he wishna to discuss the by- laws nevemag the quality of water used in making aurated waters and le the matter of cleaning belts before they wwe died a second time, the chairman moved thus the Board go into committee, which was immediately done. \n\nOn the Board resuming, the by- \n\nlaws, siended, wern adopted. \n\nat the present time prueervan its Chinese viewpoint before the desirous of a speedy settlement af cleverly and legitimately obtain integrity from the activities of strike, is questionable whether the Shanghai incident and esposed el by the Bolsheviks, \n\nthe foreign diplomate agents accre that opinion is generally helt arst to negotiate the restoration of Ministers of the Powers reited to it. Since Gains wishes longkong to-day. In fack, the Mixed Court, leaving the other presented at Peking retained thei \n\nto be ensidered a member of pride ourselves on the fact that Heme to be discussed systematical Diplomatic Corps, which at the Farily of Nations, and is the strikers who have returnedy. Shum Jaalus priznised to take ority of 95005 per cent has been through the agency of the senior therefore bound by international have been taught a lesson they will the prosal into consideration-produced by the Hoope electrolyti Minister (who is at present the law to respect the usages of cot men farget \n\nIt is true that Tsui Wan Yat Po. Traian Minister) on all qacations \n\ncame back affecting the relations of the civilized States, its obvious when more of them: \n\nPowers with China. The duties ourze would be to investigate they had the audacity to ask for of diplomatic agent may be immediately these documents their full pay. but in no se, 20 de5ned as the prosecution of bia which inplicate the Soviet Am-far as our knowledge gou as country's interests diplomatical-assador en extensively, and, this conceded. \n\nly with the foreign government and the charges true, its only \n\nOn course is to dismiss him unma \n\ndiately. privileged \n\nAbinina chaited to have a \n\nje pessors, and is stated to differ \n\nvery materially from the ordinary \n\nPEKING UNIVERSITY. \n\n90 per cent aluminion sheet It is Parók shorter. Ik zemina notarnish \n\nOn the Aber haul! IN FAVOUR OF COMMUNISM. god uery were given the order! \n\nof the boot. Thanks to tas fra \n\natkiude zdoyted by the Govern \n\nThe \n\njed in air a long time, and is hee such greatly increased resistance lne szida anit other chemicals that Paklog, Angue: 8. \n\njis endines & week'a imuaersion in Minister of Education droolric acid with only slight ment and the community general Chang Szchas, stated at the Gabi effect, although the ordinary shest Ar. the retioned stikers have niet meeting that the Peking Uni-metal is hsscived completely in been completely disillusioned, and veralty was in favour of voor bath The chic parity there is a strict rule of inter- The important point of what thewe very much doubt whether they; uism and desired to sevOr connec-contained in the commercial TEKS national law, forbiding him to employer is going to do to safe-1 will be as anxious to ge ont agala' tion with the Ministry of Edutainhure is epper, the iron and silicon interfere in the hiternal politics guard houself from strikes in the uz they were ou this occasion, tion-Fun Wan Yat Po. \n\nhaing is very stall amousk \n\nio which he is accredited. account of the position which he enjoys in consequence \n\nof these duties, The Strike and After. \n\nOVER-NIGHT CABLES. \n\nANGLO-FRENCH CONVERSATIONS. \n\n\"PARTICULARLY CORDIAL ATMOSPHERE.\" \n\nFrance Asks Equal Treatment With Italy. \n\nParis, August 35. While expressing satisfaction at the \"parifcaleriy cordial etmospbare\" in the conversations between Mr. Churchill and M. Calllaux, the new siapers continue to urge the necessly of speciai | consideration for Prince. \n\nL'Ecko de Paris's London outrespondent anys that M Caillaux | insisted that Mr. Churchill give auge vgual treatment with Ealy. The correspondant hopes the impression will not gain ground that Britain it using the question of debts gain Italy's good graces. \n\nLe Petit Journal, referring to the heavy eenditions\" which the United States imposed on Balzium and the suggestion of the Limited Status impose harsher term on France, says that the foreign press and public appear to forget that all this wi crente a sale of economie inossibilĥouter. \n\nLondon, August 25. \n\nM. Caillaux spent the morning at the French Embassy with his experte. M. Caillax taler visited fancices in the city, meeting Mr. Churchill at the Teasury Tata is the afternoon.- \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925. \n\nTHE \n\nCLEAR OUT \n\nBOLSHEVISTS. \n\nGREAT MASS MEETING URGES HOME GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION. \n\nPROMPT AND DECISIVE MEASURES URGED. \n\n\"THE CANGER MUST BE RUTHLESSLY CUT OUT.\" \n\nOpposition Speaker Heckled, \n\nA \n\nThe haii \n\nA peene of great enthusiasth we witnessed at the Theatre Royal last evening when a great mass meeting of Hongkong residents aicpted, practically uniously, a roselation urging the Home Gov- srument to deliver an affam to the Canton authorities. was crowded, fally one thousand people being present. The addresses made in support of the resolation were frequently ami fourty ap planded, but one speaker who ventured to votes appcaition, met with good deal of beckling. The proceedings, which lastet for chise \n\nBritish National Antham. upon two hours, were brought to a conclusion with the singing withe \n\nThe meeting has provided over the Governments at Hors \n\nHis \n\nthe spot. who know and realise; the exbrerse govily of the eitis- Etia (Applause). \n\nThe telegram we send to-night,. therefiae, whatever may be sɛid! jlo speechee, about! avolii any. \n\nthing like viient language in the Text and confine itself to isspres. give statements of farts and such [deinands as ure reasonably set Forth and yousible of viiment. is with this object, in view that the suggested telegram, which has tor sutne time appeared in the Press, that eigin receive matitve: gonsideration by you ali, hat been most carofully druited, and 2 trustj ithet ne material alteration to it I will be called for \n\nWaking up at Lask To epits of all that has been telegraphed, until a few days ako It compelled to helieve that the Government at Home still consi- dar that the liongkozy aus South China troubles are all part of the \"China onesting,\" whton propej after the \"Shanghet weilent\" or are bound up with that Sheldonti \n\nWhile M. aflux was busy at the French Embassy Mr. Church by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyank, Fixuellency the fovernor in eirag and the Young Chine Nationalist was similarly engaged with his experts at the Treasury ludying the whe was supported on the plat upon this letter had authorised me Movement, and can be settled by French viewpoint. Owing to last atinute changes in the plans om by Sir Hoary Pollock, Hou to quote that portion of his letter cuees or socle special envy, hut Fon-csestations in Poking, confer- Ceilex week the Treasury at wes to sen Mr. Chrehjli.--Rezston i My, IT, W. Bird, Hon. Mr. G. G. \n\nwhich refers intimately to thisise recent shipping proclamations Alabaster, K., Mr. A. Macgowan pronunciation at the Canton Club: or the Canton authorities son at: (Swab), Mr. W. & Bailey, Mr. \n\nagree with Sie Jane Jamieson's Inst to be waking it up. Heat J. Owen Hughes, fr. W. A. Towies lection to the thily Pres art-hear). and others. \n\nfele, and should like you to an- \n\nOBITUARY. \n\nMAJOR GENERAL REGINALD C. W. E. MITFORD. \n\nThe death is announced of Mejut General Regina Beverley Mitford.--Mouder. \n\nDoes His Majesty's Government; The Chairman, before proceed-derstand that consider that still utterly disbelieve the reapon ing with the business for which his present Juncture Sir Jamesponsible statenate made in the the meeting bed bean culled, said: Jamieson has done everything any stream of eables of the gravest 1 desire to straighten out an incl- body in that position could do ature by the Governor of this dent connecteit with our original and I should greatly regret any Colony, and all the responsible! meeting. You will remuetaber that dea that there is a lack of entles already on the spot refer \n\nThe trouble red to, or do they seriously profess! KC that they are cuable any longer \n\nfiere \n\nof because \n\npared to shanden, the lights of in protect, or at any rate are pre-j British subjects secured to taem \n\nRoen at Waterloo Manor, Hants, February 20 \n\nthat neither General Mitford was the youngest son of the late 31. Join Words that original public noting operation bereen va barrister at law and the grandson of the historien of Greece. Based ot only a resolviton of \n\nanything, confidence in Sir Juanes Jamieson, do was educated at Rugby and was appointed en eusten in the India His Baleaty's Consul General inhing that other of us ca Army in 1855. He served in the Indian Mutiny during which he was Cantan, but we paid has a high the only people who can set severely wercdel and was mentioned in despatches, receiving the tribute. After that he was grill. His Majesty's Government G. G. O. He was recommended for the Victoria Cross by Lord Clyde and in the public Press. da October 29, 1358 Ia i Nogi West Frontier Expeditions, fericism was undebtedly largely and later in the Afghan War, be gained distinction and eventually due, if not entirely, to a sun- retired in 1826. He was a craui travetter and had toured the Orient-derstanding, wad I feel that it is Ladies and gentlemen, on the Authorities \n\nThe Chairman, proceeding, said: Ameries and civilised Karope and had pablished a number of books due to His Majesty's Consul 27th dealing with the countries visited and in the subject of the fran Geners in Canton that that itaing \n\nJuly Just Al \n\nMutiny. \n\nthis Theatre. \n\nRose Edouin, Actress. \n\nLandor, August 25. \n\nThu \n\n(Applause). \n\nThe Chairman's Speech. \n\nbeld ip \n\nmset- \n\nsolemn trsaties and will they supiusly automir, to the Javest hi-j Rofent challenges to Great Britain| of the present Canton Boisberlat \n\nI know well the difuuhtes they so hayo jo face in wont of unanimity: tion should be definitely cleared up crowded that very us ourd not and help from other \"Powers,\" an ad this meeting (Applanon). I may get in-smugst other thinge-His well as fire great industrial pro say that before leaking this state-Majesty's Government was urged bleins they have to deal willi et The death is announced of the cetogezarian actress Rose Fdouin muut I submitted it, because it is a strongly worded and gravely Home, but, unless this Canton who toured with the first English company in India and the Far Eartperry the Government to the considered rosetation that situation is tackled seriously and managed by her husband, Mr. Lewis---Rastor, \n\nINDIAN COTTON DUTIES. \n\nJAPAN CHARGED WITH DUMPING, \n\nGovernor, and I bave He consent İshould immediately inform the at once, not only will Brilish juler- ot only to make the stavovases but i de forte Governmet in Canton asts here and in South China be bis vermismos also to quote some that unlove it withdraws Rs sup-fcrippled for years to comes bus the remarks in a letter concerning th port of the attack upon British in Bolshevik pofamous propaganda A Newspaper Article. terupts, it will de regnaded un he will spread like fire, Soget through \n\nStratz \"The Consul General in a recent ny entered into a alete of busidity the \n\nSuttlements, 01 address, at the Clah, referred with the British Gayetä tuke , 20 \n\nthrough human and into Indu,! Receiving a depatation of Bombay mill-owners, the Viceroy hung Dalla Frege of the 1h inst. for reasons which it is impossible it be a tremendous conflagration. The leading artfela in the long- Almost a monta has passed and with the visa that not only will declared that the cotton ezelse dry cannot be abolished remediately under the handing of Sir James to understand, that vitally impur-for the nation to fight, but the for financini reascun, but the Government is pledged to abolition when Jamieson, which you have doubt tant telegram, which elemanly restrial problems at Hew and! finemial considerations perut. \n\nDincasing the suggested and-damping menseres apalast Japanid that it was based on 20 in throughout South China withersport trade will be increase the \n\nless read. \n\nThe Consul General cited existing conditions here sederployment through lack of the Vicorns admitted that he was prewed by the deputation's ecrrect appreciation of the situa- jone word of exaggeration, but fact, that must be faced statements regarding Japanese labour conditions, but the milers. He esglained that the Canparently been completely ignoret \n\nantrously. Streng words, but had not substantiated the charge of damping by definite facts andton Governani forwarded certain by His Majesty's Government.theless, and I wish we could ngures. He undertook to have the question examined if evidenre were decade following the shooting \n\nThere has been a sittle confusion route the people of England to \n\nafray et June 23rd fast, and these about these talegrams. \n\nunderstand and realise them. The cult densands, which were forwarded to Edential reply\" refered to lu me \n\n(ADDINERO). Lorden and Paris, were as follows: letter to the \"Press\", I should Cancer Must Be Rezoved. \n\nOsco and for all let it again he I. High Conmiasteners of the here explain, was a confidential; \n\nratione involved, to apologise, zaswer to one of the many tele clearly stated that no conference 2. Adaquate punishment of e arus sent Home by the Clumber in Peding, or any amber of them, General and the of Commerce, There has been no special comdesioner or envy. \n\nproduced.—Rextar. \n\nTHE LEAGUE'S OPIUM COMMITTEE. \n\nJAPAN TO RATIFY CONVENTIONS, \n\n------ \n\nGeneva. August 25. In the course of the proceedings in the Leagus d Nations Opium Committee, Docker Tsurum announced that Japan world ratify the Opfum Conventions elaborated at the rorent inferuational conferences. -Router. \n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND, \n\nA GENEROUS TOKEN OF APPRECIATION. \n\nAuckland, August 28. The American avai otticary and men hava donated $1,000 tu the) Institute for the Blind, in recogullion of the hospitality of the citizens of Auckland-Reuter. \n\nConsul \n\nSealer Naval Officer, \n\nanswer whatever to the telegram houver distingutahed and how \n\nthe 27th of July. \n\n3. No further troope or sum-of-feom the public neting held on ever much he may help the North- \n\nwar to come to Cantor. \n\n4. Withdrawal of wavahipa from \n\nen ureblem, can possibly settle \n\nTo-night, with conditions Infinite the prevent aluustion in Canton. Canton or delte, excett two worse than they were then and which is not a Chinees problem nespatch fosats for the use of with further declarations of the attack upon Hongkong and \n\nat all, but a Bolshevik ore and thaij the Consulate. \n\nhostility against Great Britain by British Interest in South Ce 5. Compensation for killed and the Canto authorities, we are Russian in its origin und that: \n\nwounded. \n\nmat in even greater unbere. they are using their Chinese dupes to further their conspiracy against \n\n6. Rerdition of balá Concessions endorse the options which have \n\nWhere is a cancer \n\nTo the Franxiang Govern-poured ions from every rep Great Britain. merk \n\nsible bady Government, Unofcial \n\nIn our midst which threatens the London and Paris replied to the inembers of both Counctie, Cham- effect that those derauds could be of Cmurarer backed by er must be ruthlessly cut out and then \n\nChinese 29 much as ourselves--it, not be considered. The new Car-large interest hore, Chuna Asrouls-sooner the better. (Applause). ten Government that assomed to and private telegram- \n\nLadies and gentlemon, with the cffice on July 1st, repeated these jhat is Majesty's Government hope that our legram to the demands and stated that no resto-cannot piesd ignorance upon the Prime Minister may assist him tel Seven negro soldiers of the thighth Infantry Regiment wersation of coral relations and eltuation. killed whan a howitzer burst during pracilce. Reuters American they had been discussed. \n\nsvaditions coule be aspected before Service. \n\nGUN ACCIDENT. \n\nNEGRO SOLDIERS KILLED, \n\nRockford. H., Aufust 25. \n\nCHINESE TARIFF CONFERENCE. \n\nwww.co \n\nBRITAIN WILL ATTEND. \n\nLondon, August 25. The British Government has now accepted the invitation of the Chinese Cuvornmunt attend the tariff conference on the 23rd October-Rauter. \n\nMOTOR ACCIDENT, \n\nDUTCH SOCIALIST KILLED. \n\nBrussels, August 25. M. Nan Kol, the Daich evetallet, ex-Scoater and colonial expert, has been killed in a motor zevident.-Reuter \n\nFRANCE AND SPAIN IN MONOCCO. \n\nOFFENSIVE TO BEGIN IN TEN DAYS. \n\nFOR BATHING PARTIES, \n\nPICNICS, etc. \n\nJAS. BUCHANAN & CO.S BLACK & WHITE WHISKY \n\nin FLASKS & FLASKS. \n\nFitted with glass stoppers, no corkscrew required. \n\nPRICE OF FLASKS \n\n55 \n\n+1 \n\n$2.10 $1.10 \n\nDONNELLY & WHYTE \n\nTel Contral 635. \n\nSole Agenta. \n\n2. Queen's Buildings. \n\nRid Your Home of Flies with \n\nFLYOSAN \n\nUPER-INSECTICIDE, \n\nAlso ills Roaches, Mosquitoes, Mathe, Azta, Redbugs, Lice. Fleas and other Insects. NON-POISONOUS \n\nto every other form of Animal Life. \n\nFOR SALE AT \n\nTHE CHINA DISPENSARY. \n\n32, Quang's Road t \n\nEast of Central Market, \n\nPhone 594 \n\nAre you still doing the \n\nwashing? \n\nIf so why not \n\nhave a gas wash boiler \n\nIt saves time \n\nmoney and \n\nclothes. \n\nFor sale or \n\nhire from \n\nHONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., \n\n9 \n\nLTD. \n\nreside for the purpose of all steamship communication be carrying on the moreaufile tween Canton and Hongkong, bath pursuits, without molesta- direct and via Maeso, and also for loo or restraint, ut Chaton, the boycet in Cantor and other Amoy. Foochuw, Ningpc aud porta la South China as well a Article V of the Treaty of British subjecte ships and goods. Shanghai \n\nStrategy, Amoy and Foochons, of \n\nNanking which British They have also openly declared Merchants are permitted, er her intention of destroying by ail porta where Dhey mazy every means in their power, Hong- reside \"to carry on their kong, ts trade and prosperity. Tuercantile transa \n\nWith whatever sevsons they classes entering and elearing to inse.\" \n\nand from Hongkong wos 70,330 Article X of the Trozty of vesadis totalling 5,000,000 tons. Nanking authorising yoout From Jet January to 30th June belonging to British Mer-fast the average daily number of chard to be conveyed by yesek entering and caring Chinese Murchants to any Hongkong has been 60 vessels province or City in the averaging 99,600 to Since the Interior of China. \n\nerists started the average daily \n\nrealise the true position in Hong- The Gravity of the Slination, What \n\nkong and South Chica and so lend I confess I find in Gillealt do to prompt and decision action then has the craul General to \n\nIspunit without voicing L indigna- either in cogurt with other disease with the Canton over we all foui at the procrastina Powers or if need be, by Great) ner with H viwy to ending the \n\n[tion, hit 1 recoguise they Bus Britain stone, I beg to formally present situation. le he to discuss \n\ncitration is an gave that I desire amove thas the following telegram his own punishment or the ren- dition of the British Concession to avoid saying oue word which he sent from this meeting to Hir may be regarded, at Home, za Majests'e Prime Minister in Lor- Home Government faces theseterical or which may give or don \n\nmements to prempe and direct ac- It will be secunded by Mr. W. S1) Article XI of the Treaty of number of vessels entering and decauda? The mere fact of dig-tion, in Cantea, ecession to dia- Bailey, and after that has been feussing then: would be an AU- \n\nnission that the incident of June out our advice or undervalue done I shall be glad to bear ther unis meeting. No one who has reukors hefure putting the tale 123rd was greated by Shameer, been away from Hongkong and gram to the meeting. (Applause). \n\nwhich we kauss deinitaly to be South Ching, even for the last six \n\nThe Resciation. \n\n10. \n\nTientsin which also opened clearing Hongkong has been 1 Swatow and okker Southern russels totalling 36,579 tens only. Porta for Foreign trade and but these figures include \"P. & 0.\" stated that “il is agreed that \"Blue Funnel\" \"President\" and Brith aubjects are pertait. \"Empress vessels which are nat ted to carry an irade with affected by the buycolt. whomenever thay please, and proceed to and fro wt pleasure with their ve vels and merchandise.\" Chatton a Gateway. 1 \n\nThe obwrvance of these provi- \n\nOur Canton trade comprising some 12 large Passenger vessels has been entirely stopped. Since the lat Jaly the average daily number of skipa including river zieamars, held up through the boy- cost has been 5 of which 15 rre \n\nmentus, could possibly conceive | This Colony as a vital part of Dally Prem Knew Wothing \n\nhow dangerous the Bolshevik the British Empire, Haring aires ly now absolutely nothing about the on British Oterests, and I wishram unanunealy passed at \n\nThe Daily Prese states that they treat is. with its epelat attack vately appanded through le measures that are being taken to that a few of my own personal frea: Mass Meeting held on July bring the present deadlock to a friends who, until a very few years 1271b and passed on by the Gover- end and that as far as they are ago, huid the same responsible nor at its request. to Hils Murjesty's sware the Hongkong Goverment positions out here as those who Government, now appeals to His jare equally in the dark. The Con-to-day have drafted many of the Majesty's Prime 31ster to take sions of the Treaties is imperative \n\nsul General folvement as that important telegrams to which steps to have the following pro-fox the commoerusal prosperity of Britian, Paris, august 25. Reports from Madrid state that Guteral Prano do Rivers has Peking and \n\nropies of all his despatelos in hat already referred, were here visions of the Treaties of Nunking this Colony, seeing that Camson is the Foreign Office now to study the situation for 1942 and Tientsin 1858 betas ceu the principal gateway for British aaronneest that the offensive against the Riffs will begin in en dags have been forwarded to Bosghongshomssives, and they would quicke Great Britain and China carried trade into South Chine. tine-Renter, \n\nand the Hongkong Government realise how woefully and dia-out, amely: therefore know ail ifat the Congal astrously, the \"Cantou situation\" General has written. As the Con and the peril of Hongkong and aul General pointed out, there is South Chins are being misunder ne possible basis for discussion stood in London to-day and give 1 here, and the next move rexe with; leredence and ear to those, upos \n\nEVACUATION OF THE RUBK. \n\nDuested biên Aorus 25 \n\nThe French evacuation bas been completed. Router. \n\nTo-day there are 16 of which 22 are British. \n\nThe present Canton Authorities The recent proclamation by the Article II of the Treaty of teño are independent of the Cen Ganten Authorities with regard to Neaking watch provides tral Government at Paking and coastal Navigation later that that British subjecta, with have been in othee for less than Vessels of any Nationsity, reccot their families and establish months are directly and solely British and Japanese. may enter ments, chali be allowed to responsible for the cutting off of (Coutinaod on pige 10.) \n\nPage 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502812, "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": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 504, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "Page 10\n\n--\n\n.noitiaoq ads bontalque svad I zsddel avoiver yna bns bellatatubaw vlanelsqod won si soitto wit\n\npagetoni við ødsm lliw yjiatevinU sát to nolaneqrə\n\nadt Jadt bba yam I .oldativeni tiada soitto add to\n\nTot ɑwod fenola8000 saam of Jagwo rollsonarD-soi▼ Lanoidgaube ddiw dovot ni zatqsed to saoqing writ\n\n.stedivenle bas ante ni zbeen bus anoijutitani\n\nJasgw at bed roads on won at polisomer-solV ST quot evзul mobles não ad Jadt Frow sviðsrtainimba\n\nJug of noiteosy gael eat guiwb neve ton .gnol vidanozget a no eoitto lazines sát to gaidow act .beriuper at 000,81% to mua Lavans as saitool havon Ils Juḍ,008,13 yɗ betaesarger ridgvor od Tom mint anox znok ni eď bluow bevlovni adnaayaq Isaoitibha sdt .#zsilob\n\nR*\n\n.einadeb drugi deom mo stafutiquoet of Juods to yaituo Istigao a sevľoval yðivosť esanich eft To 000,06% to stutibusque Isumma na yo 000,081,18 sevlovni alsuoqorq qidarelodba beouber edt .000,89 OA, 83 TO 006,45% to srutibasqre Launna Latðini na\n\nSAT .000,003 тo 000,001ą to Jaoo laurine Lant】 a hors odt rol bexluper visthibeamt sonetaisam lamoijibba To 000,SI§ VIIsunna Jaoo [Ilw moitmoubã to tosseloтî\n\nIndiqes a evlovni #gnibliud won pisarsden ødt .005,13\n\n180% fatit sat gnituɑ .000,2&£# to 000,☎8Ɛ,18 16 mua\n\n000,063 to 000,003* to zua a anoidaraqo yatbilud edt to\n\nbas eit gatzub bariuper tawone adf .beriuper ad bluew\n\n.300,STA 10 000,OST# ed biyow snoidsrego suedi to z80% 090.258 samibllud sat to goedqu sút roi rat tot đất bao wal sat to antiosed súd to dramavorquì sát .003,S3 TO blow rettel sint ni betaegque Bustil edt no inentisqel\n\n.008,13. xo 000,81# to stutibasque Lanolðibba na naam\n\nThe Biological Department involves an additional annual expenditure of $20,000 or £2,000, and the improvements are estimated to cost an additional $16,000 or £1,600. Thus to meet its most urgent needs the University requires a capital to be spent on buildings of $1,345,000 or £134,500; it also requires an additional income of Hong Kong $144,000 or £14,400, say roughly £15,000.\n\n16. The debts owed to the University by the various Governments of China - these debts have been accumulating for years and are still growing - have been already brought to the notice of the Boxer Indemnity Advisory Committee by His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. I attach a letter signed by Mr. S. P. Waterlow in which the view is taken that it seems not unlikely that the Committee will take a favourable view of Sir R. Stubbs' suggestion that these debts should be regarded as a first charge on the Boxer Indemnity Funds. These debts amounted on the 31st April last to Hong Kong dollars $106,780.29 or roughly £10,700.\n\n17. The amount required to settle this debt would bring the capital amount asked for in this letter up to roughly Hong Kong $1,451,780.29 or £145,100. In other words, the claim which we are venturing to press in this letter is for £150,000 capital and an addition to the University's income of £15,000.\n\nI am, dear Lord Willington,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(sd.) C. Clementi.\n\nCHANCELLOR.\n\nUniversity of Hong Kong.\n\n486\n\nPage 10\n\n--\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503164, "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": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "238\n\n4\n\n\"ONE MAN SHOW!\"\n\nJuly 20.\n\nLengthy questioning, which developed into discussion and argument, coupled with outspoken criticism by a shareholder who advised \"shutting down,\" were the main features of the 3rd annual meeting of the Hongkong and Kowloon Taxi-cab Co., Ltd., held today.\n\nMr. J. W. Kew went into the accounts at considerable length, punctuating his questions with sarcasm and comment. Another shareholder, Mr. F. S. Harrison, also joined in. Mr. A. H. Rowe, managing director, gave most of the replies while Mr. H. Birkett (chairman) also answered Mr. Kew.\n\nBesides those mentioned, there were present Messrs. Sum Pak-ming, T. N. Chau (directors) and H. M. Kew, A. Nissim, C. A. Fulcher (shareholders).\n\nLast Year's Features.\n\nThe outstanding items in the report for the year ended April 30, 1926, are:-\n\n11 lakhs depreciation written off in 26 months.\n\n$40,000 profit last year instead of $46,000 loss, as result of farming out the fleet of taxis.\n\nConcessions obtained from the International and French settlements, Shanghai: 50 taxis will be sent up from Hongkong.\n\n...\n\nMr. Birkett observed that $15,000 for salaries and wages was not a big item for twelve months. Mr. Kew - \"No, when you say it slowly.\"\n\nIn Deep Water?\n\nMr. Kew said, \"The best course, take it from me, is to wind up before further trouble. This is a one man show, run for the benefit of Mr. Rowe.\"\n\nOn being accosted by a constable at Reclamation Street on Saturday night, a Chinese dropped a sack he was carrying and escaped. The sack contained eight revolvers and 800 rounds of ammunition.\n\n[No. 2995. July 22, 1926.\n\nCOMING HERE.\n\nJuly 19.\n\nThe Hongkong office of the Asiatic Petroleum Company have received information that the Marchese de Pinedo is shortly commencing a new flight from Pisa, Italy.\n\nIt will be remembered that Pinedo passed through Hongkong last October during his flight from Rome to Australia and Japan and back to Italy.\n\nFor his new flight Pinedo intends to use a seaplane and his route will cover 60,000 miles, as follows: From Pisa across Spain to Lisbon, thence by way of the Azores to Newfoundland and New York; from New York he will fly to Seattle and down the coast to San Diego and thence across country to New Orleans. From New Orleans he will pass through the West Indies to British Guiana, and strike inland across Brazil to Rio de Janeiro and on to Buenos Aires, and across the Andes to Valparaiso.\n\nHis route afterward will be as follows: Easter Island, Mangareva, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji Islands to New Caledonia, New Zealand and Australia. Afterwards he will touch at various points in the Dutch East Indies, Manila and North China, flying inland to Hankow and still inland to Saigon in French Indo-China. The remainder of his route covers Rangoon, Calcutta, Ceylon, Chagos Islands, Seychelles, Mauritius to Beira, then round the coast of South Africa as far as Boma to the Belgian Congo; he will then strike inland to Tanganyika, and flying through Uganda and up the Nile to Cairo, along the coast to Tripoli and back across the Mediterranean to Pisa.\n\nThe Marchese de Pinedo expects to arrive in Hongkong early in November on the return part of his flight.\n\nAt the request of the Marchese, the \"Shell\" organisation are making all the necessary fuel arrangements for the entire flight. \"Shell\" aviation spirit is again chosen on account of the excellent result obtained during his last flight when 34,000 miles were covered without the slightest mishap.\n\nMOTOR MISHAP.\n\nJuly 19.\n\nMr. R. M. Johnson, of 17 Humphrey's Buildings, Kowloon, reports that while driving a motor car along Castle Peak Road on Saturday in the direction of Tsim Sha Tsui, a woman ran from the hillside and was caught by the fender, sustaining minor injuries. She refused to go to Hospital and was compensated.\n\nMr. M. Manuk returned to the Colony from Australia on Thursday by \"... Taiping\"\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nWELL DONE.\n\nJuly 19.\n\nThe bazaar which was recently held at the University in aid of the New Building Fund of St. Stephen's College resulted in a net profit of over $5,400. On this result, the students and all who helped in the organising are to be congratulated, and especially the Old Boy whom they invited to be Chairman - Mr. Chiu Ying-po.\n\nA room in the new school will be named after the 1926 Students in accordance with the privileges granted to subscribers to the New Building Fund.\n\nThe Committee wishes to thank the following patrons and Companies who kindly contributed to the bazaar:-\n\nPatrons: Mr. Sir Shou Son-chow, S.S.G.C. Association, Messrs. Kan Wang Yip, Phaton by Lea Fong.\n\nDonors - Dairy Farm Co., British American Tobacco Company, Lane, Bishop of Victoria, Sir Henry Crawford, Ltd., Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co., Asiatic Petroleum Company, Lever Bros., W. L. Pattenden, P. Lander, Mok Kon-sang, T. N. Chau, Li Hoi-tung, American Milk Produce Corporation, Anderson Music Co., Commercial Press Ltd., Pathe Phone Cinema, Ah Ying & Co., Fairlea School, Ng Yuen Long-hin, Au Shiu Kee, Au Lim-cheun, Au Shou-chu, So Shau-Hing, Hongkong University, Sun nam, Chan Foon-tin, Chan Mung-hung, La Chor-chi, Chak Yu-tong, Chak Kwong-kai, Ng Ilon-ting, Lai-ting, Poon lang-po, Wong Tai Hing, Pohoomull Brothers, Hongkong Lace Co., Ah Men King kwong, Hui Ng-shuet, St. Stephen's Hall (H.K.U.), A. S. Watson and Co., Tabaqueria & Donnelly Hotels, Ltd., Prof. Remond, the Rev. Brewer Whyte, H.-C. Moyle, the Rev. A. D. Stewart, Philipina, Chan Cheuk-tan, Dunlop Rubber Co., Wang Hing, G. Kan Tung-po, Tang Shiu-kio, San Shing-sam, Ho Falconer, Der A Wing, Luen Sing, Sai-wing, Li Shiu-kee, Yu Sai-ming, Mackintosh and Co., Bible Society, San Cho-kwan, Ho Wang-sang, Prof. Cheung Woo, Kwong Tai Cheung, Mrs. Martin, E. G. Stewart, Cherry and Co., Chung Yan-po, Kwong-tin, Tay Kin-lim, Mrs. Stewart, H. L. Yang, Chiu Wong Chung-hau, Cheung Sum-woo, Chan Tay Han-wa, Kwong Kwui Co., My Edward Dispensary, China Dispensary.\n\nDOWN SOUTH.\n\nPresent-day conditions in New South Wales under the Labour Government are portrayed by a letter which Mrs. Maud Woods has received from her sister, dated June 23:-\n\n\"I have my money in industrial shares, steam, coal and breweries, etc., but I'm in for a bad time with reduced dividends - which are inevitable, owing to this Labour Government making gods of the workman. It is a new set of State insurance laws, operating on July 1, and is killing every ... but the working ... is 31. For instance, a gardener, for whom one paid 18s. per annum insurance against accident in the past, has now to be paid £5; a man employed in a brewery, formerly 13s. 6d. per annum, now 78s. 9d.; bakers, similar trades, and so on, and milk carters from 40s. to 140s.; a miner from £10 to £50; and there are hundreds and hundreds, close to a thousand, all taxable. If I can get a paper (I have to keep the one I have) will send it to you. It is really unbelievable.\n\n\"The Insurance Companies will reap a harvest and I don't own one share in them. Just imagine, say, in Farmer & Co., something like 1,000 hands employed, having to pay 48s. 9d. instead of 10s. per head, and I see in the list that domestic servants have to be insured at 52s. 6d. a head, instead of 5s. Every trade, musicians included, are in the list. A boy who delivers newspapers costs his employer 70s. instead of 12s. a year. I could go on for the next hour and never finish.\n\n\"Wharf labourers, who are paid by the Steamship Companies (I have a lot of shares in those) are increased from £8 to £40 annually. So the poor shareholders in all those Companies will suffer. Clerical workers are let down the lightest, so the shares in offices and banks will not be affected.\n\n\"My broker told me about the disastrous time that's ahead!\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503177, "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": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "30\n\nCAFE DISPUTE.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nMIXED COURT.\n\nShanghai, July 21. As regards the Mixed Court rendition, the \"Sin Wan Pao\" states that the Ministry of Justice considers it improper to allow assessors to continue to sit in criminal cases,\n\n[No. 2998. July 22, 1926.\n\nTHE BOYCOTT,\n\nJuly 21. According to a report to hand, the Canton authorities are forbidding the alleged circulation of rumours by strikers.\n\nEvidence was given at the Central Magistracy yesterday in the case in which Mr. I. G. G. Taylor, who came from Shanghai, and Mr. J. L. Durand, a partner in the Cafe Parisien, were charged in connection with incidents at the Cafe on the 14th-15th instant.\n\nMr. Taylor spoke to Mrs. Taylor, Mr. Taylor not being there at the time. Mr. Durand blamed Mr. Taylor for the absence of the band. Mrs. Taylor said that her husband could not be in two places at once, upstairs and at the door.\n\nSuch rumours are stated to concern the present conference and the provision allowing local authorities to decide all criminal actions and execute all such decisions is regarded as repugnant to recent ordinances promulgated by the Central Government, and prejudicial to the movement for the unification of the law.\n\nThe \"Sin Wan Pao\" adds that the Ministry, in conjunction with the Wai-chiaopu, intends to submit a resolution to the Cabinet for the revision of the agreement.--Reuter.\n\nMr. Durand told Mrs. Taylor to leave the restaurant, saying \"I don't want you here. Get out!\" Mrs. Taylor said she wanted written notice. Mr. Durand insisted that she leave, and pushed her. She refused to go and he called her a fool. She slapped his face, whereupon he kicked her in the legs and ran upstairs.\n\nMrs. Taylor went to fetch her husband, who went upstairs after Mr. Durand. Witness called a Chinese policeman, who said he could not do anything until a whistle was blown.\n\nMr. Taylor is charged with disorderly conduct and Mr. Durand appears to answer five charges including assault, abusive language, and disorderly conduct.\n\nMr. Hugh Jones appeared for Mr. Durand and Mr. Taylor conducted his own case.\n\nWitnesses who had been subpoenaed in support of Mr. Taylor's case were business men and an adjournment would cause considerable loss of valuable time.\n\nMr. Hugh Jones applied for a remand but Mr. Taylor objected.\n\nMrs. Landau, of Madame Flint's Beauty Parlour, said she heard the disturbance in the cafe. Both Mr. Taylor and Mr. Durand were excited.\n\nMr. Taylor slapped Mr. Durand's face and Mr. Durand kicked, but witness did not see exactly what happened.\n\nWitness went up to the office with Mr. Durand, who had not had time to open his typewriter when Mr. Taylor came in and said: \"Did you call my wife a ...?\"\n\nMr. Taylor lifted a chair and threw it at Mr. Durand, who ran, with Mr. Taylor after him.\n\nMr. R. E. Lindsell, the Magistrate, agreed to hear witnesses on subpoena whose evidence concerned chiefly the events of the afternoon.\n\nMr. Taylor will be called later to give evidence of the evening events leading up to an alleged assault on Mr. Durand.\n\nThe dispute between the parties commenced in connection with the lateness of arrival of the band for a musical tiffin at the cafe on the 14th.\n\nThe band did not put in an appearance until 2 p.m. According to the opening of Mr. Taylor, both Mr. Durand and Madame Flint, the other partner in the cafe venture, were very excited and Mr. Durand called him (witness) a fool and used threats about taking witness by the throat and throwing him out of the cafe.\n\nMr. Alexander Schultz, assistant manager of the Russo-Asiatic Bank, who was in the cafe at 1.15, said he overheard Mr. Taylor and Mr. Durand in argument.\n\nMr. Durand told Mr. Taylor that his services were unsatisfactory and blamed him for the absence of the band.\n\nMr. Taylor was trying to explain, but Mr. Durand was very angry and said \"I feel like breaking your neck.\"\n\nMr. C. E. dos Remedios, clerk in the Russo-Asiatic Bank, corroborated Mr. Schultz.\n\nEvening Incidents.\n\nThe incidents on which the charges are based took place in the evening and arose out of the conduct of two sailors in the cafe.\n\nMr. Charles Henry Cotton, assistant manager of the cafe, said that Mr. Durand came into the cafe and...\n\nThe case was adjourned until tomorrow at 2.15 p.m.\n\nPhoto by A. Poorg.\n\nCOLONY'S HEALTH.\n\nJuly 21, Last week the following notifiable diseases were reported to the Medical Officer of Health:\n\nDiphtheria: 2 from Kowloon, total 2 cases, all Chinese.\n\nEnteric fever: 1 from city, 2 from Kowloon, total 3 cases (2 Chinese, 1 Portuguese), 1 death.\n\nParatyphoid fever: 1 Chinese case from city.\n\nCerebro-spinal fever: 1 fatal case (Portuguese) from city district.\n\nRabies: 1 dog from city.\n\nInfluenza (not notifiable): 1 death.\n\nWas ...\n\nAs indicated in the \"China Mail\" on several occasions last week, the Strike Executive has not been permitted to send delegates to the conference, with a watching brief.\n\nIt has now been confirmed that only the official delegations are present at the conference.\n\nAfter publication hours yesterday, a message was received from Reuter. In yesterday's issue, we gave the facts of this communique, now confirmed by the following:-\n\nThe conference at Canton resumed its sittings on July 19 (Monday) in the Canton Foreign Office, when the British delegation replied to the statement made by the Chinese delegation on the origin of the anti-British boycott.\n\nOn Monday, there was a \"clean\" return of health, no case being notified to the authorities.\n\nDamage at the Peak Tramway lower station. In the centre (foreground) is the nullah.\n\nOn the right is the Helena May Institute and a tram car can be seen on the left.\n\nThe next sitting of the conference has been fixed for July 21 (today).\n\nC.S.P. HELD UP.\n\nJuly 21. The danger to traffic and pedestrians by the rolling of barrels along pavements and roads was stressed at the Central Magistracy this morning when representatives of Messrs. Kwong Sang Hong, the perfumers, were charged with obstruction.\n\nIt was stated by Divisional Inspector Blackman that the Captain Superintendent of Police was held up with his car at Praya East yesterday by a number of coolies rolling barrels on the road.\n\nTo a question from the Magistrate (Mr. R. E. Lindsell), the defendant explained that it was easier to roll the barrels than to carry them, as it required two men to each barrel.\n\nRemarking that the coolies should be mindful of pedestrians and moving traffic, His Worship imposed a fine of $5.\n\n(No. 2998.—July 22, 1926.\n\nVALLEY ASSAULT.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nHIGH PRICES.\n\n251\n\n31\n\nGraham's Road, The Albany, Hollywood Road, Lyndhurst Terrace, Wellington Street from Pottinger Street to Queen's Road Central, Pottinger Street.\n\nJuly 21. Suggestions that there had been ill-feeling between the parties were made by Mr. A. J. O'Donoghue and Mr. W. B. Hind who appeared for the defence of Hajee Mohamed Ismail, 13 Sharp Street, and A. H. Harteam, 11 Da Street, at the Central Magistracy yesterday.\n\nThe charge was one of assault against two Chinese ladies.\n\nOriginally, the property consisted of four lots but as the third failed to elicit a bid in its entirety, it was put up in six sections, all of which were disposed of.\n\nLot 1, consisting of the remaining portion of Inland Lot No. 1285, including Staunton Street, was sold to Mr. Ma Chi-long for $20,000, an increase of nearly $6,000 on the upset price.\n\nLot 2, consisting of Section C of Inland Lot No. 1968 together with No. 3 Tai On Terrace, was also purchased by Mr. Ma Chi-long for $13,000, an increase of $8,000.\n\nLot 3 (a) consisting of Section F of Inland Lot No. 370 together with the buildings thereon now known as Nos. 2 and 3 Circular Pathway and Nos. 9 and 10 Tai On Lane was sold to The Hongkong and Kowloon Land and Loan Company for $8,900.\n\nLot 3 (b) consisting of Section G of Inland Lot No. 370 together with buildings thereon now known as No. 5 Circular Pathway was sold for $9,800.\n\nLot 3 (c) consisting of Subsection No. 2 of Section A of Inland Lot No. 9A together with the buildings thereon now known as No. 10 Circular Pathway and No. 2 Tsui On Lane was sold for $13,300, an increase of $8,300.\n\nLot 4 consisting of Subsection No. 1 of Section A of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1463 together with the buildings thereon now known as No. 174 Kowloon City Road, was bought by the Chuen On Fire Insurance Company Ltd., with one bid of $100 above the opening price of $1,000.\n\nNo. 7 Tsui On Lane was sold to the same company for $7,800, an increase of $2,800.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police has now given permission for motor cars to use certain prohibited areas in order to relieve congestion.\n\nThe following are the areas temporarily opened for motor traffic:\n\nTaiwong Street.\n\nIce House Street south of Queen's Road Central (both ways).\n\nIn regard to Ice House Street, a recent notification stated that this road \"south of Queen's Road Central is open to motor traffic upwards, that is to say from Queen's Road Central, but motor traffic downwards, on such portion of Ice House Street, is prohibited.\"\n\nThe temporary concession now allowed will enable motor cars to use Ice House Street above Queen's Road Central (the hill portion).\n\nIn effect, a motor car can now proceed from the Queen's Road junction of Ice House Street right down to the old Fire Station near the junction of Wellington Street and Queen's Road, and vice versa.\n\nIsmail said he was cycling fairly fast down the path from Wong Nei Chong Road and merely reached out his arm to move one of the girls to a side in order to avoid a collision.\n\nHe was the leading cyclist, but complainants were wrong in saying there were three of them.\n\nWitness said that Gomes, the third cyclist, was some distance behind and did not turn up at the bicycle shop.\n\nWhen witness went to look for him, he met a brother of one of the complainants who told him that another cyclist had been arrested.\n\nGomes also gave evidence, and said he cycled some distance behind the other two.\n\nHe did not see or hear anything unusual on the path.\n\nHe wrote the name \"F. Kelly\" in the cycle hire books, as it was his nickname.\n\nHe also wrote his correct name and address and told the dealer that he would pay for the damage done to the cycle when he was pulled off by the brother of one of the complainants.\n\nHe dissociated himself from Harteam's action so that he should not be held responsible for the damage to witness's cycle.\n\nAfter hearing the evidence of the second defendant, which was similar to that of Ismail, and submissions for the defence, Mr. Lindsell accepted the evidence of the complainants as substantially true and convicted both defendants.\n\nThey were each fined $25, or fourteen days' imprisonment in default, and bound over to be of good behaviour for six months.\n\nAt 4 p.m. on July 22, nominations of candidates for the Legislative Council election close at the Magistracy.\n\nThe election is to be held on Monday, to select a non-official Justice of the Peace to represent the J.P.'s for three months, during the absence of Sir Henry Pollock.\n\nPhoto by A. Fang.\n\nMOTOR ROUTES.\n\nJuly 21. With the closing of Pedder Street between Queen's Road and Des Voeux Road for motor traffic temporarily owing to the heavy damage caused by the flood and obstructions at...\n\nJust like the Japan earthquake disaster,\" remarked a visitor at the scene above, on Monday.\n\nThis is Pedder Street, facing Queen's Road (with the A.P.C. in background) and shows the violent upheaval which moved large slabs of asphalt road material.\n\nTRAFFIC AGAIN.\n\nJuly 21. Yesterday Hongkong Hotel 'buses were out again, making the journey to Repulse Bay and back.\n\nOnly residents were carried on this motor service.\n\nThe Aberdeen Kai Fong 'buses were also in commission.\n\nThe route followed (out of town) is along Queen's Road West, up by No. 7 police station, along Pokfulam Road (past the University and No. 3 pumping station), and so on; and return by the same way.\n\nRepulse Bay residents reach the Hongkong Hotel by way of Queen's Road, from the west of the city.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504734, "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": "CO129-495N - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-495N - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12", "content_text": "Cleans and Disinfects in One Operation. REMEMBER\n\nNO SOAP, NO STRONG CAUSTICS.\n\nNO DANGEROUS DISINFECTANTS\n\nARZ WANTED THE \"CARBOLACENE\n\nREGULARLY\n\nWALKER\n\nREGO CARBOLACENE\n\nFRAGRANT\n\nCLEANSER DISINFECTANT\n\nAn Active Disinfectant and Cleanser for use in Hotels, Institutions and in the Home,\n\nUsed by the British & Foreign Governments.\n\nSole Makers for -\n\nW. & F. WALKER, LTD., Liverpool, England.\n\nSole Agents- ANDERSON & ASHED.\n\nQue's Buildings.\n\nINSURE\n\nFOUR\n\nMOTOR\n\nCAR\n\nWITH\n\nGILMANS.\n\nTHE\n\n\"OCEAN COMPREHENSIVE POLICY\n\nhousehold.\n\n[24\n\nA Welcome Visitor\n\nat any\n\ntime in\n\nevery\n\nEvery\n\nBug, Flea, Beetle, Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with\n\nKEATING'S\n\nMARTIN'S\n\nAPIOL & STEEL Sure and certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should keep a box in the house.\n\nChemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Proprietors MARTIN, Chisholm, Southampton Row.\n\nUNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.\n\nAT THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nFROM\n\nADURYS ED Petrovitch, 32, Nathan Rd. Shanghai\n\nfragoon Sheinm\n\nTokyo Shouzhai Shanghai\n\nKisty Simpson\n\nBorghie Cassic\n\nBang\n\n-hal\n\nJAR\n\nMercery...\n\nAndrew Tr\n\nJonicbole\n\nL\n\nAbig Amay Totolas Chicago, Ulincin\n\nAT THE EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nADDRESSED\n\nHeatley Rinorez Yardley Celly\n\nFrom\n\nLender\n\nDaina\n\nSu Franciaco\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nstedssful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nNOVEMBER\n\n5FR.\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\n\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\n\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\n\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\n\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\n\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\n\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\n\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\n\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\ntrientales, upon the Sensor for the Depertinent, and japon Colonel Blachere, military erminander of the region, stat ing that he had been instapeter to par-\n\nClub de Racrei ad XI. r. 8.0.\n\nAlhalic Association,\n\nis referising reels to the cost of the case saputorial on position is loux searching stab and corridors that too kung land. Endell, wuite apart from must is spent in searching steamers for the wase; supp's question, the cablu, the inutividani in question call-id. P. Fuertes, A. Losang. J. M. da ours and list grugs I would emorye box of the vatani sets very strict iuits the Prefect of die Pens | Siha, and A. J. Brown, than relive service is absolutely to the practicability of hoana babita neentary in a port of this slae and in\n\nnon. There art, moreover, engout re portiure, closely insted his in to a\n\nSoge #gatus, maxing the islami dependan foreign contry. Search has to on made for its water apon the maidand. There for exciele and antialle articles and fore, akhough. I fear that we shall never for prohibited imports. We have also be able to dispense with rider auine certain interjunal obligations in these the flan, het web doubties will utiere, cod shine ang sourched on operate as encouragement to add matter of routine. It is quive itaposiole tonal population to settle in Kaulugu questions raised by y Honourable duty to exannine all j Friend. The fact thar, 4,30 pounds of water storage on the sand itself, and which be made an ratensive four of the Accumpeau.\n\nThie match will be payed on the Re-1 chaec a villa on the Côte Vermeille Forreio's groun, Kiug's Park, Lo-earrow, the Peince of Wales.\n\nkick-not at 245 pudar.\n\nA pram of noble boating, speaking\n\nThe Secret team wall be:--L. M.\n\ncat, Hankey, Light Weish. Sergt Steyer, Seval Bruno. Beveridge and Mefatyre.\n\nHOCKEY.\n\nTODAY'S GAMES.\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\n} \n\n$100.\n\nthe Calous and with the remarks of hon, I supply bien. 21 furnishing all the etubers on that subject. One more data secessary for foenutatley our leture should like\n\nto thank\n\ngfficul collenges for their veys flattering rewound he premature to take a tal desi poliny in this respect. Until then it marks on the way the budget was intro- dowed and for the very restrained tona of their reasonable criticism and, espe einily, for their generous appreciation of the services of the virions Government departmente.\n\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\n\nEducation.\n\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply. Ever since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\n\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\n\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\n\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\n\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\n\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\n\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\n\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\n\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\n\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\n\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\n\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\n\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\n\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\n\nCONFERENCE.\n\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\n\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\n\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse. According to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\n\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\n\nBRITISH POLICY.\n\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\n\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\n\nFLIGHTS.\n\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\n\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\n\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present State laws enter having their aspirations seamed up A norcher of distinguished mebers of prohibition were apparently carried in the vertsnational dependenes\n\nPARIS, Noriber 4th.\n\nto\n\nTile\n\nRetar, November th A series of darmonstration Aights by a An experienced į De Havilland Hevents three-engines air- un on layder patiated that even if a thead which will operate on the new six her bare cameź the right to tive hy working unionista quatribaled one penny cute from Egypt to India were carried fiving rails fuas of execation for five per lay only th0,000 per week weidi bejut yesterday. By the end of new years, aviiside for the miners. This wou week The first of five machines ordered\n\nTHE PLOT AGAINST SPAIN,\n\nTRAISE FOR FRENCH POLICE,\n\nNO BRITISHERS INVOLVED.\n\nLeros, November 3rd. A furiber essage from Perpignan, exklatance from other unions they muallack in the trapies, nad a noticeable that alloguer Sparish and Italian mostly the former have begu - be prepared to accept the ambition of the fextare is the special arra gements Gade rested onion in connertion with coal dispute as suggested 15 the Prades for the comfest of poesengers. Not only\n\nthe Spanish plat. Con Congress as representing those is the cnbir waliloted at a greater exure British, e was at Erst stated,\n\nElection earle 264 Sone of those arrested suggested\n\nthe Paris bar bare signed an appeat to California ad Mouting wile Favela\n\noverwhelmingly voted for a resolation only, & legitinute in a very laudable the United States against the expertos encumeing de present federal law and\n\ncbject of aspiration.\n\nPossibly the T.L.C. and a great, any of Sacco and Vanzetti, They point out deadede e apendress of\n\nother persons as well wit be surprised Cantul Sterns Constirution regards to less that the national independence thek even the Americas judges are int ernhibition Missouri al Colorado ap\n\nof the Chinese people bus from the very sure of their gul, and even guilty.pear to have led down measures in first been one fine principal objeers of\n\n2 the morifiration of the State law.\n\nBibel policy, and that the so called LATER. \"uceque beates of 1801-models of Belated election retains indieste a re- moderation and good will-wore bamed dacties of six and 13 respectively in the carefully to interfece as ele as possible Republican ajrity in the Redste aval with China's covereign rights and to ca House of Representatives. alay sents courage bei ndicals and people to tread are still in the ballot and i the Deaerata be one wh that could pensione less hu capture a few core the western Repub-indeperasuste. Buevey, is the ba Bean urgents, ied by the Wiannokin coutrageglible Int, to be verbied by any grow of which the late Sepstor La Lane who takes the trouble to glady who Folette was leader, will undoubtedly be history of our relations with China. in a strong strategic position, by holding Unfortunately, it gestas to hyve been the balance busween the Demorats autorgattan not by Chinese statesmen and the orthodox Repu>Ticana\n\ndelunatists alone that sovereignty\" Latest Figures.\n\nCalot be confereed by a magician's wand, or ever by u Washington Conier New York. November 4 ence is our state to be enjoyed, but a\n\navailable show fandtion to the expreised. Mercins, Dai the next Serace be composed of deed, mamed it only to the Wise and #7 Detrocrats, one of the Parser Labore | Benevolent Water! Turky, 48 Repathesne, whereof eight are\n\ninsurgents, ad bence thorns To the i The French podion are being honored dech of the Amulsation Six sela\n\nweek for each wirer sad on strike.\n\nthe\n\nunions Disforöuation was expressed to tent than usoni, bor a special sir scoopi belp the wires to preing an unpreât is provided which Altera sir for din adio struggle. Ja London in 15 generally catatan: Marwughout the lateries.\n\nbelieved that the Conference will be con-\n\nCredit for Polica.\n\n| \n\nPn. November d\n\n| wills credit. Für fromvating lous of the is the Honee are duabital bat hitherto most entermined punish evolutionary the Replicas bure a more tears than\n\nand for their teed until\n\nsiderably tolesced by the failure of the EARL. BEATTY'S RESIGNATION 618 For hutched on French territory the Doucurals,\n\nforlorn hopes of the miners leaders,\n\nnuts, regarding the crcburgo ou servign i\n\nPOSTPONED,\n\nBrgey, November 4th.\n\nthe itapliunted non more salely within\n\nthe Le The conspiracy is attributed\n\nin a Cnts ex-Dopyty named Macia.\n\ncost and the compulsory lexy and by the East Beauty who has been Fiza Sawhoy however, caped. The arrested men plain weaking at to-day's craterence. 1\n\nLoud of the Advising and Chief of concertedly attempted 10 sayape when im\n\nInfantry was dented in to mount guard.\n\nis arassidered highly probauls that Winore Nasal Staf siree November, 151, has tied in Phun trap dalyahaw of Our dirilisation has produced so any\n\nFoxerulivo will senk authority to connivade | expreazeri kis desire to be allowed to le Similar Senegade Tailleurs wHIS TO disorders, from weleer to courtoiss which these its \"ery existence that, a settlement on the bush forms that can sign office on complaing a period of\n\nnidecod, baffed, wise to see the uhtalked in districts with the safe - civilization for the Bandos, we hostin\n\ngeintioned at\", Parpagena to control thep imprisona) there, who were revolt\n\nSOUTH AFRICA-INDIAN\n\nCHINA AND THE TREATICS.\n\nNAKIPO THE MOST OF GENEVA,\n\nThe Geneve\n\nthe Forrespondent of Hugging Fest states that Belgiumie ap- per to the Hugue Court against China's quilatere donandiation of the nuequal Customs Fronty daỡng bon 139 wil m no way jafurice Pekang's decision tu maka ben action cortive from Velour 27th at prevent the denunciation of the Spanish and fortuguese treaties later in the year and other une jou treaties as saur as the six wonths' denunciation\n\nto me by Wang King Ky, the Chinese Minister In Bruznets.\n\nEurocan cRITER'S AGENCI\n\nTHE NEW BETTING TAX-\n\nBOYCOTT BY BOOKMAKERS.\n\nPICKET SYSTEM THREAT.\n\nLONDON, November 3rd. There was practically no business in Weating so day, and consequently it was impossible to turn any starting prices. According to Wang, Chien wil: javuke\n\nis is understood that this was due to\n\na boycost of Belgia gucds it themsets the fat that buckmbuers are unable toetuse lo sgiate Customs at and agree ang themselves haw Die betting reciprocat inri fronties along the lines\n\nA geais ated in the reynolic asing on the greani of the unsuitability of Tattoreult's Ming as the Windsor Rave Perise aries. This net was unle Glen shrug our shoulden, out of sheer self-guarding provision lec national privriples. the maximan ing which an officer will the food. Defence\n\nThis, adiy, is for antlement angested in rescined on the Board of the Ad- If we parties in shrugging everything out of dar attention, we shall en bis the Trades Brion Congress. The miraty except a sprint elryumstances. withous abonlines to ghrag, but some granding of auch authorisation by The bay however commented, so the request things, such as (for me) Clška, must be iamisted in the riot of staying we\n\nPolagate tonference woul se an inport of the l'inst Lord, a defer bia vesigns. that we call the world.\n\nant intve towards prese. GENERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK.\n\nDEATH AGAIN REPORTED.\n\nLatest Developments.\n\ntion.\n\nNATIONAL FINANCE, SPRCIAL COMMUNTRE'S FINDINGS.\n\nCose\n\nof treaties already noncladed\" with Gor many and Autria. The British treaties anies be denom.sed legally for eight years, bat Wang believes that credm.\n\nThe\n\nthar\n\nThe incidence of existing tesañon with special aminion conferees at the luneseen. The bet the police piloted him to safety with of the world.\"]\n\nCOAL STOPPAGE AND LIFE ASSURANCE.\n\nACTION BY THE PRUDENTIAL.\n\nPROBLEM.\n\ntax Redd be applied. The altitude of PROSPECTS OF GETELEMENT.\n\n[başkaskers vulndning from oftering prices was gonerally condemned, and ibe Lenox, Novemùre Srd.\n\nopinion was freely expingsed that their We need have no fear of those difi-ion is making the strangest posible tamee wilt serant of abregation before enities or evenally befog antiled to GY, November 4th.\n\nFor the Satroad jau the satisfaction of the one to the other.\n\nterafiarto, Considerable innvortance attacles to\n\nGeneral Herzog, speaking at lun-\n\nMeaza hile. A is evident that Chinese the Miners Delegais Conferemer in holly\n\nWe Want the Wato.\" Seen in Lendos go-üny giver By the Br\n\najataşıman one seaking the most of their SHANODAL, Necember 4th. dou -day and strong hops, restrained Marshal San Chusn Farer's form head-only by the manory of pue disappoiti\n\nBrors, Novezier 4th. uish fudian Buion in the Indian de\n\nL352. ajestien og the Leagur Council. They will quarters have received a faspatch from mente, entertained hot at Set the British system of National furco has Margas of Bouding persided.\n\nAn exhuastive examination of the gates of the Imperial Coulrease. The There is a grong disposition as the vas ienova js a publicity centre, vuiting\n\nmoment, aming the booktankers in Putter į the azue unday Article is of the Core Marahel stafing that the Superin way all be clenged for a puzon effort, tendent of the Aurican Mission les The main out for decision is the date the chainauship of Lord Colwyn The\n\nDuw been coaj leted by a committes urner The function was notable, as being calle Ring to stay away pliogether from ant. mai dertzog's first appearance at i now Windsay Jomorrow. Using the stone | According to dis article of the Coven- pital at Changsha resta essure to the gates will free their exentive finance Caiutee was t Amican Copen at Nanking on October ariesiona and power in to proused in\n\noc by Mr. Philip South African function, while his queeri steps of the staed as a rostrum sproval at the Assemby may from the to Snowder, who was then Chancellby of was noteworthy we the test subiely aggrieved bookmakers halangued the time use the reconeidéention to mera- S to the affect thay General Ching sonich of a sectieraons along the lives the exliegues to February 1994 and its indication feren anyone inside the red and from bets by drifted to burs of the League of treaties which have Fai Shek had died from wounds.\n\nangusted by the Frado Union Congress, terms of incedenes were to rotate and Conference of the faanly froling strong | polities with violens petsons on Mr. Win become inapplicable, and the considere. There is no question of the Conference report on the National Debt and the the conferens,\n\nFurthermore, General sing Churchill. One man who shouted ties of antineliopal conditions where BRITISH PROPERTY DESTROYED\n\nwing specifig patce temps.\n\n\"We Esans to be decried is whether the excreference to their egg on brade, indus\n\nHerring was the sole representative of the Fe want the Tote \"jut a roug's sime dispostimages wight endanger the peace IN HUNAN.\n\nshat Le Sudorised in by for a try, oplosment, and National credis.arquis of Reading, in a speech, wanbly no hum done. AP.C. BUILDING BURNED DOWN.tries, and whether such autherias. It is undergo that the cum titles med Gotural Herizon\n\nfun. if garsed, shall be conditional\n\nBookmakers' Organise Bogenot. dindings are embodied in too reports entirely wrihout restriction.\n\nGeneral Hortzog's Speech, LATRA. which will shortly be handed to the A division of opinion is hely but the Choreitor of the bandoquer,\n\nGeneral Fartzog, regtrias, canplssied It is now resised that the action of deleges are bed with the knowledge The newapapers state that the majority\n\nthol vryne of clase contact in ravoving the hackmakes at Windsor, which thew that any attempt to renew the demand report deals with the gezocal ducis (endersienbuch, presie and hicker the whole carration of holding in a for calling out the safety me or for system in a way that is in nerd witheria) Cuntrance, lure the delegaces to organisal boyants, and acom of there\n\nvandstill throughout the county, was The Prudential Assurance Company ings. That was why he ngareciated the widge\n\nnorances that, \"Bubject to certain easy and secusly accepted pripsiplex, and Sark rentact giving the uneasy or threatened that his would be costumed conditions, policy holdiers au have the thet veldrags Gatsibutions of trade commends unly minor alterations and\n\nnoisy will not alone exabin the dis-djustments the existing methods GẼ deurs and anderstanding. He added to the end of the dat soon wates the arrears of preuvame the base accuupa-\n\nBIAA South Afries and die were try- froth to be cenzused with any hopes of textian 14 minted that the fluding ing to come into closer contact. They is exported at Tattersall's at Winter to-\n\nBax is favouerbiy altered. No okiakerated during unemployment resulting success. Yesterday nearly ons roure by the majority will not, in the existing had had considerable diferences in the grow, while it 24 uuderstool one on their industrial branch policies, from the coal dispune deducted from the dus went back to work, the biggest freinstances, reveamend the inposi-past, but he was convinced that with, single day heat for some tion, and there ton of a capital lovy, but will declare better fual understanding they would publie not to eate thongs Heel of the payments already mute, or suffer, picket system will be organised to induce fustend of heving, forfeit horsfé THE ILL-FATED \"KIANGYUNG.ed with 256,000 a week ago, and 16.000 taxation. is success, however, must de\n\nnow in the pits over 2,000 corpur- that it is a practicat ethed of seducing he appared to mel oue Juncher's re-me en helt or will be held as a reduction in the capital amount of anouth o The miners employed\n\naaghout the entry, appending for read largely or its general acceptance General Hering was boudly cheered today,\n\nfor the etion of the Windsor Before the dispute numbered 1,and evő by the Nation, mat as a potiosi creed when he made the remark noted at\n\nIn a fasacial expedia.\n\nbeginning. He concluded la hoping that\n\nOBITUARY.\n\ndiving the sermainder of their library ARMISTICE DAY IN LONDON.\n\nthey would contine u the happy spiri in which M. Baldwin and the Dominion} Gelegentes had been getting oa at the Con- ferenze, Whers they looked one another face to face and had not been afraid in connection with the anniversay in say what they wanted in\n\nsay Aristine Play next Thursday, which, as\n\n(Applause.) Ja former years will be celebrated roughout 12 fixpire y religious ser. Mr. A. J. Cock has nude the state- vices and the observance of two minots!\n\nSHANOR November 4th. A message received her From Changsh states that the Asiatic Petroɔlepa Com- pany's property at Packing has been brut dewn Also that Messrs. Butter- feld And Swim's property at Changra\n\nve been deatroyed,\" and that soms Wesleyan mizzinecies at Linyang have\n\nem faced to deadpate\n\nAll the awna mentioned chore are in the occupation of Southero troops.\n\nCOMPENSATIOS DEMANDED\n\nw! bo Funile,\n\nABOHAN RECTER'S AGENCY. piy boatsion is AvoidaÄ\n\nJDON, November 3rd.\n\nMarshal Son Chaan Prag is the re ripient of telegrama Tozs the Chis Merchants' Secor Navigation Compeny asking comprenantion for She loss of their\n\n6 appears that the Unions decided vessel, the Kinoguey, which went, done will: 12 hops af Kinking After only to permend and not to ingor Longon coinde n momiantion, she was in levy, because the non-payment of s comptiary by would eutui penalties energing, explored).\n\nLATAR.\n\nHron, November 4th. the last erremony in Whitehall, Louien, Avrangements are now coupleted for\n\nThe angry was coemendered in the stripe of the dis-affiliation of the Ly Suo's troops and the steamship you. Taions not felting the instruction.\n\nas officials requear him to inquire into the actual uning of the futafity. There was a crew of 118 men on road of whichment that the Mind Executive bussenes Accerpanied by the Prince of only were resoned and the company never diesed the question of district Wales, the Duke pants arch starked for the torped of settlements, which thes the remaining se who are believed Josongor honis. and proper wapensation made to the vie is families. They also requnal, in the telegram, th your other of their hips, comorandzerest by Mitula troops,\n\nreipt:S],\n\nhe\n\ngubamunpre\n\ninsur the re-emering employment the policy- holders will. azider the scheme, have his Reggars reduced to four weeks, and wil only have to meet the regular weekly payments; the outstanding balance will BISHOP OF ST, DAYIDE.\n\nbe covered by a suitable deduction to be (made when à clain ansee In the rase The death is announced of the Bishop of a with profit policy this deduction will of St. David's, the Right Rev. John made, noi frain the sum assured, but Usen\n\nGum the bons thereon, and no the huit The Right Rev. John Owen, M.A., bad of the insurances isped by the Pradentind bear Bistry of St. huvida ei.co 1867. me of this description, the vane of the He was born in 1854. And was thus 72 coomon cannot, it is oicially stated, years of age. He was an Oxford scholar. be over-estimated. The deduction can He was ordained Desuon in 1879, Priest, be vanilovi by a silabic payment at 16; Walsh Professor and Classica Loe any time before a claim arises. turer at St. David's College. Lampeter, It pointed on that most of those 1679 Warder and Headmaster of affected by the coal drupate will ron Llandovery College, 1985 $8; Dean of St. work under a heavy burden of kahffity, 4pl, 185 68; racial of St David'sant that lets of the Pedential will College, Lamuser; Cason of 6. Asaph, rethze that the way has been made\n\neasy for them to maintain their policies. i loze.\n\nTHE ATTACK ON MUSSOLINI.\n\nWAS WRONG MAN LYNCHED: York and other wen meutered the Royal Family; the King will\n\nPants, November ul. lng a wreath at the Cenotaph and wil be\n\nA vemarkable statement is mache in present daring the brief service that will\n\na tieuna telagenas to the Paria Widi that be endented there. Surrounding the the boy Zumboni was not the real asi Menotaph will be representative detachant of Msanii but that he was yached\n\ntents of the Eighting services, Mercantile when he was frightened by the aid of 1999-97; when he was mised to th Slatine, and ex-Servicemen,\n\nthe shot and trier to Ben.\n\nBishopvie. I\n\nNearly 800,00 Miners at Work,\n\noxnoy, November 3rd.\n\nA total of 290,67 ders am working, I to-day.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5FR, 1926\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, 1926\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD).\nPage 3\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nsuccessful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\nHOCKEY.\nTODAY'S GAMES.\nPage 4\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\nEducation.\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply.\nEver since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\nCRICKET.\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. 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Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse.\nAccording to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\nBRITISH POLICY.\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\nFLIGHTS.\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495N - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506809, "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": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "page_number": 121, "title": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "content_text": "# PORCED TO LEAVE.\n\n## Missions Damaged And Looted.\n\n## THE EVACUATION.\n\nInterviewed by a Press representative, the Rev. Father A. Luis said the trouble first started at 10 o'clock on Friday morning when a rabble, comprised of students, soldiers, and even police, attacked the Dominican College and remained in possession all day. They gave the Fathers and Sisters to understand they had come to take the place over, and as their actions became more threatening as the day wore on and fearing molestation, they made preparations for departure.\n\nIn the meantime, efforts had been made to obtain some form of police protection, and the request was met half-way by sending some police guards to protect the College buildings. Their presence, however, had little effect, for the crowd assembled in the building in force, shouting and threatening.\n\nAt six o'clock the same evening, the convent of Sainte Enfant was similarly entered by a mob. In this case, the crowd was very violent, breaking all the windows, smashing all the property, and generally looting the whole place.\n\n## Escape Prevented.\n\n## MISSION LOOTING.\n\nSpeaking of the incidents at Amoy when the `Haiching` arrived there on Tuesday, the Father said, \"Some of the Chinese students and soldiers came down on the boat with us from Foochow, and when we reached Amoy, they began to make all kinds of threats of what they would do.\n\nThe five American fathers who came down to Hongkong yesterday had only been in the Foochow district a fortnight and were staying there preparatory to going to their stations further up country. One was able to give an S.C.M. Post representative the full story of the happenings at the Dominican Sisters Orphanage and said those even more exciting than those at Foochow.\n\nThey were very quiet on the days preceding last Friday, and there was no indication whatever of the trouble which subsequently developed. On Friday, however, a mob of students, soldiers, and other Chinese went to the mission where a large number of children were being cared for, one of the students demanding an investigation of conditions there.\n\nTwo Chinese doctors were among the students informed the sisters that they were to conduct an investigation. After this investigation had been completed, the doctors left, but about four o'clock in the afternoon, the big crowd outside the mission house broke down the doors and windows and made a forcible entry.\n\n## Serious Trouble At Amoy.\n\n## STUDENTS' DEMANDS.\n\n\"The sisters stayed as long as they possibly could,\" added the Father, \"but they were eventually forced to leave owing to the looting of the huge mob inside. They made their way over to Nan Tai Island and there sought refuge with a Catholic lady.\n\n\"The mob was violently anti-Christian, and while there was no actual shooting or violence, I believe many of the students, soldiers, and others in the crowd were armed. There were expressions of murder, but the main object seemed to be to get all the missionaries out of the place.\n\nSome of the children had been brought down from the mission, and the students' first demand was that these should be taken off. When the gangway had been lowered, they took up their position on it and would not let anyone either board the ship or leave it. I think the incidents at Amoy were even more exciting than those at Foochow.\n\nThe British, French, and American Consuls were all on the wharf, but they were prevented from boarding the vessel. The students adopted a very menacing attitude, and it was some time before anything was done. They merely stuck to the gangway and refused to let anyone come on board or leave until they had got the children off.\n\nAt one time, there was talk of sending a wireless message for a gunboat, but as events turned out, this was not necessary. Eventually, the students left the ship, taking with them the mission children.\n\n## Mob Bent on Looting.\n\nOwing to the trouble at Amoy, it was thought advisable that the `Haiching` should come straight down to Hongkong and not touch at Swatow. I understood that the master was instructed to miss Swatow by the Consul and the agents. I do not know whether the vessel was delayed at Amoy at all, as I have no idea how long she was supposed to stay there.\n\n## Not Even a Coat.\n\nThe French Sisters in charge attempted to make their escape by going through a door at the rear, but were forcibly prevented from doing so. Eventually, they were allowed to join the Fathers and board the `Hai Ching`. Both the French and British Consuls requested protection from the Civil Governor, but their appeals were unavailing. The trouble continued at various foreign establishments until the `Hai Ching` sailed.\n\nA telegram was sent to Amoy notifying the Sisters that it was the intention to create trouble at the Convent there and requesting them to evacuate when the `Hai Ching` arrived. On getting into port, the whole place was agog with excitement, and the demonstrators behaved in a very menacing manner.\n\nAfter the mission had been ransacked, the mob went to the Vicar's house, and I believe there was more looting there. Where looting did occur, everything of value was taken, and much damage was done to property. The situation remained critical on Saturday and Sunday, and Father O'Donald went to live with the Consul as he wanted to remain in Foochow as long as possible.\n\n## Regarding the evacuation of Foochow, many of us left without our belongings. We had only been a fortnight, and some of our stuff had not been unpacked. Hundreds of dollars worth of personal belongings had to be left behind. One of the Fathers had to leave without even a coat. Father O'Donald now remains in Foochow, as he was anxious to stay behind and see if anything could be done to safeguard the mission properties and also to see if any of the many things left behind could be saved.\n\nAsked if he had heard of any missionary being maltreated, the Father said there was a story current in Foochow that a Protestant lady missionary had had her clothes torn off by the mob, but he could not vouch for the truth of the story. Apart from this, he had heard of no case of violence.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506968, "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": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "content_text": "- 5 -\n\ngive any answer in that respect, and that instructions from the British Ambassador.\n\nA vol...la ask \n\nIn the morning of the 4th, the marines and the Volunteers in the British Concession were all withdrawn and only post policemen were left there. At the same time the Foreign Ministry was notified of the withdrawal as requested, and was called upon to send troops to afford protection.\n\nIn the afternoon a fight arose between the Police and the Chinese, and the British Consul General had all his Police withdrawn. Also at 5 p.m., 2 Companies were sent into the British Concession by the City Garrison Headquarters. At the same time, Chan Man (R), Chief Secretary of the Provisional Kuomintang Government, was deputed to take up quarters at the headquarters of the British Police to supervise the military and the Police and maintain good order. The General Labour Union also sent a number of pickets to render assistance. All sand bags and electrified wires in the Concession were removed, and all British post-constables were substituted by Chinese soldiers and policemen. At 6 p.m. a joint meeting was held in two big European buildings to discuss the case, and it lasted for 2 hours. At 7 p.m. more than 500 representatives from various associations gathered at the New Market and waited for the announcement by Government of their decision. They also demanded that the Government should put forward the following 8 Conditions:-\n\n| # | Condition |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | To make a serious protest to the British Consul-General |\n| (2) | To require the British Government to make good the loss suffered by the Chinese |\n| (3) | To require the British Government to hand over at once the criminals who originated the trouble, to the Chinese Government for punishment according to law. |\n| (4) | To require the British Government to withdraw at once all British gun-boats at Hong Kong and to remove all sand |\n\n110", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507517, "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": "CO129-500-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 30-6-1927 - 8-11-1927", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-500-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 30-6-1927 - 8-11-1927", "content_text": "# THE WAR\n\n## Feng Yu-hsiang at Hsuchowfu\n\n### TROOP MOVEMENTS\n\nNanking, July 26.\n\nAccording to latest reports, the Northerners have been driven from Hsuchow by General Feng Yu-hsiang.-Naval Wireless.\n\n### TROOP MOVEMENTS\n\n#### The Concession at Chinkiang Occupied\n\n##### NORTHERN ADVANCE\n\nChinkiang, July 26. According to reports received here, the Northern troops have pushed on as far as Tsing Kiang Pu, and with the exception of the Commissioner's house, troops have taken up their quarters in Customs' property.\n\nGeneral Ho Ying-ching, en route from Nanking to Shanghai, has passed through, and a report has been received to the effect that General Wang Peh-sing will reach here to-day.\n\nMen of the 58th regiment, controlled directly by General Ho Ying-ching, are in occupation of the concession, and the ninth transport has now arrived in harbour.\n\nLater.\n\nThere is a big concentration of troops here, who have occupied all buildings at both the concession and the Consulate. Efforts are being made to communicate with the responsible authorities.-Naval Wireless.\n\nShanghai, July 27.\n\nGeneral Feng Yu-hsiang has telegraphed to Nanking that two brigades of his army are marching on Hsuchow to help the Nanking Army in the war with Shantung. An important delegation from Feng Yu-hsiang arrived at Nanking yesterday to confer on the military party on the Shantung military campaign.-Wah Kiu Yat Po.\n\n## CANTON'S WAR\n\n### Chiang Kai-shek Appoints Eight Field Marshals\n\n#### YUNNANESE FOR KIANGSI\n\nCanton, July 27. General Fan Shek-sang, who was recently sent up to the North River with part of his Yunnanese army, returned to Canton yesterday afternoon to report to General Li Chai-sum the completion of the North River defence.\n\nGeneral Sze-cheng-hsum (commands Chuen in Chungking vicinity) is Field Marshal of the Sixth Force, General Chau Shi-cheng, (commands the armies in Kwaichow province, who now threatens to attack Hunan from the west) commands the Seventh force, and General Li Chai-sum, who commands the Liangkwang armies, is therefore the Field Marshal of the Eighth Force.\n\nIt is understood, however, that the precedence of these Field-Marshals is not arranged according to strength or reputation but by territories.-A Correspondent.\n\n### YUNNAN FIGHTING\n\n#### Control\n\nGeneral Fan's troops, who recently arrived from Kwangsi and have been sent up to the North river to join the anti-Red expedition, are now being concentrated in Shiukwan and vicinity.\n\nAccording to military circles, General Hu is not yet in full control; instead of sending them into Hunan as was planned, General Fan's army will be assigned to the Kiangsi expedition. The reason for this is that most of the \"Reds\" in Kiangsi are Yunnanese troops under General Chu Pei-teh and may be won over.\n\n#### Field Marshals\n\nThe anti-Red expedition against Hunan and Kiangsi is taking form, as General Li Chai-sum, the South China military leader, has been appointed by Nanking as Field-marshal of the Eighth Nationalist Expeditionary force, and is entrusted with the task of attacking the Reds from the South.\n\nRecently Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, to facilitate the direction of the Nationalist expeditionary forces in different parts of the country, appointed eight Field Marshals.\n\nGeneral Ho Ying-ching is Field Marshal of the First Expeditionary Force, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek (with Pei Chung-hsi acting) commands the Second Force, General Li Chung-yan (who commands the Nationalist Kwangsi contingent) is Field Marshal of the Third Force, General Feng Yu-hsiang commands the Fourth, General Lui Hsiang (who commands a large Szechuenese army in Chengtu) is Field-marshal of the Fifth Force, General Lui...\n\n## MARCH ON THE CAPITAL\n\nParis, July 26.\n\nA message from Yunnanfu states that General Hu Jo-yu is continuing his march on Yunnanfu.\n\nThe rival forces have given an assurance to the French Consul that there will not be any fighting in the city. All steps necessary have been taken to assure the safety of the French residents and Annamite coolies-Reuter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 30-6-1927 - 8-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513580, "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": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1st, 1928.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\n\"THE PEAK FLATS.\"\n\nSITUATED within Two Minutes' walk from the Peak Station and overlooking the Southern Side of the Island Ready for Occupation.\n\nFive-Roomed FLATS and Six-Roomed FLATS with all Modern Conveniences, Drying Rooms and Out-houses, Two Lifts.\n\nApply to-\n\nCREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT,\n\n4TH FLOOR,\n\nFRENCH BANK BUILDING.\n\nTO LET.\n\nFURNISHED, Four-Room FLATS, at 16, MACDONNELL ROAD, with Modern Conveniences.\n\nFor Particulars, Apply: XAVIER BROS., 2, QUEEN'S ROAD. TEL. C. 3216 OR C. 2722.\n\nFLAT TO LET.\n\nFLAT in CARNARVON BUILDINGS, KOWLOON. 5 Roomed HOUSE in MINDEN AVENUE, KOWLOON.\n\nApply to:-\n\nHUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.,\n\nAlexandra Buildings.\n\nTO LET. Furnished, Five-room FLAT, MAY ROAD LEVEL, For One Year, From 1ST DECEMBER 1928.-P.O. Box B-48.\n\nHY Continue to suffer when POO ON HERBS are within your reach-Pimples, Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, Cough, Constipation, Diabetes, Dropsy, Rheumatism, and many other Diseases. No Drugs, Purely Chinese Herbs.\n\nPOO ON HERBS CO., 66, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, 1ST FLOOR. TEL. C. 5009.\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nFOSTER TURNER. On September 29th, 1928, at Victoria Hospital, Hong Kong, to Mr. and Mrs. F. W. FOSTER-TURNER, a son.\n\nPLATT.-On September 28th, 1928, at Shameen, Canton, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. PLATT, a son.\n\nWATSON'S LAVENDER WATER.\n\nThe most refreshing of all perfumes in the hot weather. Distilled from real ENGLISH LAVENDER. In Elegant Green Flasks: $4.00, $2.25, $1.25.\n\nWATSON'S LAVENDER TALCUM POWDER.\n\nIN MAGNUM TINS. MADE FROM PURE Italian Talc clean, effective and controllable. Associated with English Lavender of exquisite fragrance.\n\n$1.00 Per Tin.\n\nA. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.\n\nHong Kong Dispensary. PHONE C. 16.\n\nHong Kong Office: 11, Ice House Street. London Office: 21, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. 4.\n\nBRITAIN AND ELECTRIC POWER.\n\nA large proportion of America's electricity is generated by water power. It is produced in steam-driven power stations. In Germany, where intensive electrical development is also in process, out of a total production of three and a half million kilowatts, only half a million was from water power, one million was from inferior brown coal (lignite) and two millions from black coal.\n\nWhen the question of electric power was first explored in Great Britain, it was thought that our small, sluggish rivers could be harnessed, especially for the supply to rural areas. But a fuller examination of the subject has vindicated the American system of big generating stations with a monopoly of supply over certain areas.\n\nMr. HERBERT HOOVER, speaking on this subject of big power stations during the time that he held the post of Secretary of Commerce, said: \"The economical generation and distribution of power require local territorial monopoly. Competing systems in power distribution in the same area mean an economic duplication of capital and represent a tremendous waste in equipment, and in the end, such duplication is a charge upon the community.\"\n\nMany of the products of modern science are by no means unmixed blessings, but the supply of this source of light and power in the factory and the homes saves heavy and distasteful labour. It does not create \"black areas,\" injure health or deface scenery. Electricity may claim to be a true civilizer and benefactor of humanity.\n\nThe total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending September 15th, amounted to 68,561 tons, and the sales during the period to 80,598 tons.\n\nUpon his return from short leave, Capt. A. J. L. Whyte, R.E., has been re-appointed A.D.C. to H.E. the Officer Administering the Government with effect from September 22nd.\n\nThe United States industrialists found that electricity was superior to the direct steam drive. The work of electrification was started, and the older machinery was ruthlessly scrapped.\n\nA recent British wireless message announced that a start in the long-overdue \"electrification of England\" has been made, and contracts were placed for 132,000-volt transmission lines over an area of nearly 9,000 square miles, which includes the whole of London.\n\nEngland has lagged sadly behind other countries in this matter of electric power on a big scale, and the present economic situation of the country can be traced largely to neglect in this direction.\n\nThe figures speak for themselves. America's industrial development is one of the most amazing phenomena of history, and it has been in no small measure due to this application of the new source of power.\n\nNorway, with her abundant source of water power, heads the nations in a table of annual consumption per head of population.\n\nThe figures follow:-\n\nNorway: 1,600 units.\n\nCanada: 910\n\nUnited States: 528\n\nGermany: 230\n\nGreat Britain: 155\n\nItaly: 129\n\nLondon's electricity consumption, per capita, is one-fifth that of Chicago and half that of Berlin.\n\nParis and Milan, to mention only two other big cities, are also ahead of the British capital.\n\nThe tragedy of the Scott Antarctic Expedition is recalled by the announcement of the death at Rothesay, at the age of eighty, of Mrs. Bowers, whose son, Lieut. Bowers, was one of Captain Scott's companions in the fatal dash to the South Pole of 1910-12.\n\nA new form of furniture has become popular in France, and it is being widely bought for office and home use. The novelty lies in the use of nickel tubes for the framework of chairs, tables, and cupboards.\n\nA regular post office was established in Stockholm more than 650 years ago, according to the researches just published by the well-known Swedish historian, Dr. L. M. Baath.\n\nProfessor F. W. Buckler, speaking at the International Congress of Orientalists at Oxford recently, said that a garment which appears to have escaped attention is the khilat, or discarded robe of certain ancient Eastern kings.\n\nThe Antarctic expedition which Comdr. Byrd is to head this year sounds more like an assault than an exploration.\n\nCigar and cigarette-end collecting is still a flourishing trade in Paris, and one of its most expert practitioners has been telling a Paris newspaper something of his method of procedure.\n\nThe noise nuisance is beginning to be studied in France, as befits a country where the individual must obey, and not command.\n\nNew laws will forbid the inordinate use of hooters; newspaper vendors will not be allowed to cry their wares; costers and dealers in lottery tickets must henceforth let the things they sell speak for themselves.\n\nPage 100\n\nPage 101", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519076, "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": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\n\n## ART MARBLE WORK\n\nWe undertake every description of DECORATIVE MARBLE WORK including PAVEMENTS, COLUMNS, WALL LININGS, STAIRCASES, PEDESTALS, BALUSTRADES, ALTARS, STATUES, FONTS & STOUPS, VASES, REREDOS, SHOP FRONTS, FACIAS, CHIMNEY PIECES, HEARTHS & KERBS, FLOORING, LAVATORY DIVISIONS, TOPS & BATH CASES.\n\nC. E. WARREN CO., LTD. \nEstb. 1800. \nChina Bldg. \nTel. C.260. \nAgents for RAOUL BIGAZZI, FLORENCE, ITALY.\n\n## OBITUARY\n\n### A British Patriot Passes Away. EARL OF MEATH.\n\nLondon, Oct. 11. The death took place to-day of the Earl of Meath at the age of 88 years.\n\nThe Earl was famous as the founder of that movement for thinking imperially which resulted in May 24th, the birthday of Queen Victoria, being observed as Empire Day. The suggestion that the day should be devoted to this purpose he first made to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain when the latter was Colonial Secretary, in 1893 he suggested that the anniversary of Queen Victoria be made a universal school holiday.\n\nLord Meath was also identified with many religious and social movements, including the Scouts and the Church Army. He had been ill for some time and he passed away at 2.25 this afternoon.\n\n### Former Diplomat.\n\nThe veteran Earl of Meath was born on July 31st, 1841, and succeeded to the title, of which he was the 12th holder, in 1887. He was educated at Eton and on the Continent and then served in the Foreign Office for five years.\n\nAfterwards, he was attached to the Legation at Frankfort in 1866, to the Embassy at Berlin from 1867 to 1870, and at Paris from 1870 to 1873. He was married in 1868 to Lady Mary Jane Maitland (who died in 1918), and his marriage assured him of the co-operation and sympathy of one whose whole heart, like his own, was devoted to the welfare of others.\n\nAs Lord Brabazon, he became the founder and first Hon. Secretary of the Hospital Saturday Fund, in 1875, and whilst engaged in this work his health broke down by addressing seventy meetings in the course of a few weeks, including an audience of 40,000 in Hyde Park, this being, at the time, the largest non-political meeting ever held there. He was also the originator of the Hospital Sunday movement in Dublin.\n\n## TO-DAY'S NEWS\n\n### A Summary for the Busy Man.\n\n#### PRINCIPAL EVENTS\n\nThe Government is amending the Ordinance for the Protection of Page 3.\n\nAt to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board, Mr. M. K. Lo will ask the following questions:\n\n| Question | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| i. | Whether he has received any official information from the Government in regard to the proposed Advisory Health Board, and if so, whether he will make a statement to this Board? |\n| ii. | Whether it is the intention of the Government to abridge by legislation the executive powers and functions of the Sanitary Board, as set forth in Part II, of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, No. 1 of 1903? |\n| iii. | Whether it is intended by the Government that the proposed Advisory Board is to function independently of the Sanitary Board, and in any case whether it will tender advice only upon subjects which are not within the scope of that Ordinance? |\n| iv. | In view of the fact that this matter gravely affects the question of public health of the Colony and therefore vitally concerns this Board, will he make the necessary representations to the Government that this Board be given due opportunity for expressing its views on any proposed legislative changes affecting the public health of the Colony? |\n\nDr. Fawcett. Mr. M. K. Lo has given notice to move: \"That this Board desires to put on record an expression of its appreciation of the valuable services rendered, and the ability, energy and zeal displayed, by Dr. H. A. Fawcett whilst acting as Medical Officer of Health.\"\n\n### Man of Many Interests.\n\nHow busy a life the late Earl of Meath spent may be gathered from the fact that he was the first chairman of the Young Men's Friendly Society, 1879; founder (1882) and first Chairman of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association; first President of the British College of Physical Education; founder and first President of the Lads' Drill Association; ex-President of the Christian Union for Social Service; first President of the British Institute for Social Service; founder and first President of the Duty and Discipline Movement: and Senator of the Parliament of Southern Ireland.\n\nDuring the sit of Rumania many years ago, he acted as her cicerone, having been for many years previously the friend and correspondent of \"Carmen Sylva.\"\n\nThe passing of the veteran Earl of Meath at the ripe age of 88 years, removes yet another of those patriotic figures who have done so much to cement the bonds of the British Empire.\n\n### Cigarette Statistics.\n\nAmerica, the land of statistics, has sent us some interesting figures, says the London Daily Telegraph. Enough cigarettes were smoked in the United States to provide every man, woman, and child with 856. Twenty-five years ago the Earl of Meath originated the Empire Day Movement. It was a thought that had been in his mind for many years before.\n\n## OTHER NEWS\n\n### WEDDING BELLS.\n\nMr. R. W. Ritchie and Miss Nancy Riley.\n\n#### CATHEDRAL CEREMONY.\n\nA very pretty wedding was solemnised at St. John's Cathedral on Saturday when Miss Nancy Riley, the elder daughter of Mr. Robert Riley, of Blackpool, Lancashire, and Ceylon, became the bride of Mr. Richard W. Ritchie, son of Mr. Richard C. Ritchie, of St. Albans, Herts. The Very Rev. Dean Swann officiated.\n\nThe bride, who was given away by Mr. Bernard Thorpe, looked charming in a gown of ivory ring muslin velvet with a veil of embroidery tulle and a coronet of orange blossoms. Her shoes and stockings were of white satin, while she carried a bouquet of white roses.\n\nMiss Patsy L. Kerr, attended as bridesmaid, and was attired in Princess Mary blue taffeta trimmed with silver lace with silver shoes and blue hat. Her bouquet was also of white roses.\n\nThe duties of best man were discharged by ...\n\n### The Volunteers.\n\nAn episode in his life was his election to be an Alderman of the London County Council. His Parliament and secured the introduction of important reforms in popular education. He later elected to be the first Chairman of the Parks Committee, but when the hour for his re-election came he was told he was \"not Progressive enough\" and he had to go.\n\n### HEALTH BOARD.\n\n#### Sanitary Board Wants Information.\n\nM.O.H.'S SERVICES.\n\n### Page Numbers\n\nPage 3 \nPage 6 \nPage 7 \nPage 8 \nPage 9 \nPage 10 \nPage 11 \nPage 12 \nPage 13 \nPage 14 \nPage 15\n\n### The Far East.\n\nA combination of forces, including the Kuominchun, are arrayed against Nanking. It is reported that war has been declared.\n\n### Overseas.\n\nLord Meath, founder of Empire Day, is dead. \nThe condition of the Princess Royal still gives cause for anxiety. \nTenders have been invited for the construction of two huge American liners. Four more are projected. \nIt is denied that Britain and America have agreed to pool their navies. \nDuring the course of a hectic programme in New York, the British Premier declared that he was beginning to long to return to Lossiemouth. \nThe Labour party secured a big victory in the Australian general election. \nR 101, the largest airship built, was safely moored at Cardington, preparatory to her trial flights. \nThe capture of Kabul by Nadir Khan's forces is confirmed. \nThe railwaymen's reduction in wages is to continue for a further period of six months.\n\n### Sports.\n\nTilden represented Britain in a match against France. \nMiss Gourlay won the golf final at ... \nThe Electric R.C. beat the Shanghai bowlers by 30 shots to 10. \nTaikoo won the second division championship and was made ... \n\n### CYCLIST INJURED.\n\n\"MINISTER'S TRANSFER.\n\nMr. N. M. Henderson Transferred From Paris.\n\n### ALL ANXIETY NOT YET REMOVED.\n\nKowloon J. R. Johnstone broke the local 440 yards record at the V.R.C. night fete.\n\n### HOME FOOTBALL RESULTS.\n\nDuncan and Mitchell beat Compaton and Cotton in a 36 holes foursome for a purse of £250.\n\nThe annual gymkhana and presentation of prizes was held at Kowloon Golf Club.\n\nThe S.C.A.A. members' sports meeting opened yesterday.\n\nWeek-end baseball matches are reported on ...\n\nH.M. the King has approved the appointment of Mr. Nevile Meyrick Henderson, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Belgrade.\n\nThe Princess Royal is gradually improving according to an official bulletin issued this evening...\n\nThe Far East.\n\nA Chinese detective sergeant attached to the Shamshuipo Police has added another smart capture to an already long list of creditable performances.\n\nA further week's remand was given in a kidnapping case owing to the complainant's failure to return from the country.\n\nThe Kuominchun malcontents strongly denounce Chiang Kai-shek's regime.\n\nFuller details of General Lui's coup in Wuchow are given on ...\n\nJapan's delegation to the Disarmament Conference has been appointed.\n\nThe gold embargo may be lifted in Japan early next year.\n\n### Charity\n\n1 Cor. 13:8. \n\"Charity never faileth.\" \nMONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1929. \nNo. 7,041.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519599, "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": "CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929", "content_text": "# PRINCE HENRY IN HONG KONG\n\n## ROYAL WEATHER AND A ROYAL WELCOME\n## BUSY ROUND OF FORMAL AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENTS\n\nBy a strange chance the arrival in Hong Kong on April 25 of H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester coincided with two events of very great interest throughout the British Empire. Thursday happened to be the birthday of the Duke's sister, H.R.H. Princess Mary, and also an anniversary which is very solemnly observed throughout Australasia—Anzac Day. The heavy grey and black clouds hovering over Hong Kong early in the morning had passed away by the time the great P. & O. liner **Morea** entered harbour at ten o'clock, and sunshine and blue skies greeted the Duke of Gloucester as he landed at Queen's Pier an hour later.\n\n### THE PRINCE STEPS ASHORE\n### SCENE ON QUEEN'S PIER\n\nThe official landing of Prince Henry was timed for 11 a.m., but an hour earlier crowds were lining the streets and balconies giving on to Statue Square, and the Star Ferry Wharf was thick with spectators, some of whom had even climbed to the roof. Queen's Pier was decorated with flags, palms, and a red carpet which was upon the steps. On the pier were gathered members of the Executive and Legislative Councils, the Consular Body, representatives of the Churches and of His Majesty's Services.\n\nDrawn up in front of the pier was the Guard of Honour provided by the Somerset Light Infantry, under command of Capt. Strachey. The H.K. Volunteer Defence Force were in Connaught Road between Queen's Pier and the Star Ferry Wharf under the command of Major R. A. Wolfe Murray, and alongside them were some fifty members of the British Legion led by Mr. J. W. James and members of the Ex-Active Service Men's Association under Mr. T. T. Laurensen.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.), accompanied by members of his staff, went out on the launch **Britannia** to the **Morea**, which was anchored in mid-harbour, to greet His Royal Highness, returning at 10.50 to Queen's Pier.\n\nThe approach of the launch **Lila** carrying the Prince with his staff was heralded by the playing of the National Anthem from the quarter deck of H.M.S. **Suffolk**, and as His Royal Highness stepped out of the launch to be greeted by H.E. the Governor, a Royal salute was fired by the same warship and given by the Guard of Honour.\n\nHaving shaken hands with His Excellency, the Royal Visitor was then presented to the following gentlemen who formed the reception party on the Pier—Vice-Admiral A. K. Waistell, C.-in-C., China Station, Major-General J. W. Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., the Colonial Secretary (the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G.), the Attorney-General (the Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C., C.B.E.), the Secretary for Chinese Affairs (the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North), the Colonial Treasurer (the Hon. Mr. McI. Messer, O.B.E.), the Director of Public Works (the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, C.B.E.), the Harbour Master (Commander G. F. Hole, R.N.), the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services (the Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington), the Acting C.S.P. (the Hon. Mr. T. H. King), the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., the Hon. Sir Shou Son Chow, the Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Beith, the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, the Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E., Mr. D. W. Tratman, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., the Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes, the Right Rev. the Bishop of Victoria (Bishop C. C. Duppuy), his Lordship Bishop Valtorta, Pay-Captain Ayre, R.N., C.B.E., His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan, K.C., C.M.G.), His Honour the Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood), Flag Lieut. D. P. Evans, R.N., Flag Captain J. Wolfe-Murray, D.S.O., R.N., Major C. B. Mullins, R.M., Surg. Comdr. H. R. Briggs, R.N., Pay-Comdr. C. S. Johnson, R.N., D.S.O., Comdr. G. G. Muirhead Gould, R.N., D.S.C., Comdr. H. G. D. Acland, R.N., D.S.O., Engineer Captain T. E. Aitkenhead, R.N., Captain the Hon. W. S. Leveson S. Arbuthnot, D.S.O., Captain E. Gower, R.N., D.S.O., Captain G. G. Robinson, R.N., V.C., O.B.E., Captain J. D. Campbell, R.N., M.V.O., O.B.E., Wing Commander A. H. S. Steele Perkins, O.B.E., Commander A. B. Lockhart, R.N., D.S.C., Captain A. Maitland Dougal, R.N., Commodore R. A. S. Hill, R.N., and his A.D.C., Pay. Lt.-Comdr. D. N. Passmore, Engineer Commander F. H. Hall, R.N., Surgeon Captain W. W. Keir, R.N., C.M.O., C.M.G., M.B., Ch.B., Lt.-Commander D. N. Bridge, R.N., Engineer Captain W. H. Michell, R.N., Colonel J. McD. Haskard, C.M.G., D.S.O., Lt. Col. T. A. F. Robinson, Colonel R. B. Skinner, O.B.E., Col. T. E. Fielding, D.S.O., M.B., Colonel F. S. Exham, D.S.O., Colonel R. A. B. Young, O.B.E., Major F. R. Roche-Kelly, Lt. Col. C. H. Little, D.S.O., Lt. Col. J. L. Comyn, C.M.G., D.S.O., Lt. Col. H. B. Vernon, M.C. (A.D.C. to Lieut.-General Cameron), Colonel Christian, Major Hanna, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Mr. Li Yau Tsuen, C.B.E., Mr. Ho Kom Tong, O.B.E., Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, J.P., Mr. T. N. Chau, J.P., Mr. Fung Ping Shan, J.P., Messrs. Kwok Siu Lau, Tang Chi Ngong, Mok Kon Sang, Yu Fung Sun, O.B.E., Li Yik Mui, M. K. Lo, Ho Sing Chau, Chan Tin Son, Wong Kam Fuk, Tong Yat Chuen, Lo Cheung Shiu, Wong Iu Tung, To Sz Tsun, Li Po Kwai.\n\nThe Duke of Gloucester then inspected the Guard of Honour, the National Anthem being played by the band of the Somerset Light Infantry, as he stepped off the Pier, and entered a motor-car for his drive round the streets.\n\nThe Royal Visitor is a slender young man with a small moustache, and the charming manner which distinguishes all the Royal Princes. He was wearing on this occasion a white uniform with the blue ribbon of the Garter.\n\n### A GLIMPSE OF VICTORIA\n### WEST POINT EN FETE\n\nThe short drive taken by the Prince and his party round the city, between the official landing and his reception in the City Hall, was by way of Connaught Road and Queen's Road to the City Hall, so via Hill Road and the Praya to West Point. The whole route was decorated with flags both British and Chinese, and numbers of people watched from the pavements and balconies overlooking the road. At the junction of Hill Road and Queen's Road West, where the big Chinese Restaurants are situated, a huge triumphal arch which over-topped the buildings was erected. It stretched right across the road in three arches and was built up in three tiers, the second showing one of those scenes of the Chinese Heavens which are often seen on ceremonial occasions in the Chinese quarter. The whole arch was made of coloured and pictured matting and was decorated with a message of welcome in large letters, flowers, and flags. Two smaller arches had been erected in Queen's Road West, and several more of these miniature temples were hung overhead from one side of the street to the other.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519601, "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": "CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929", "content_text": "## The teams were as follows:- \nNo. 2 Chukka :- \nRed.-H.R.H., Lord Airlie, Comyn, \nand Thomas. White.-Dangerfield, Bremner, \nCampbell, and Stanton. \n\nNo. 4 Chukka :- \nRed.-H.R.H., Lord Airlie, \nThomas, and Sugden. White.-Dangerfield, Abbott, Has-\nkard, and Bakewell. \n\nNo. 6 Chukka :— \nRed.-H.R.H., Lord Airlie, Clarke \nand Thomas. \nWhite.-Bakewell, Selton, Camp-\nbell, and Herbage. \n\nNo. 7 Chukka :— \nRed.-H.R.H., Lord Airlie, Carr, \nand Thomas. White.-Comyn, Perfect, Abbott, \nand Wolfe-Murray. \n\nIn the evening a dinner party was given at Government House in honour of His Royal Highness by H. E. the Governor.\n\nThe Prince is staying at Government House as the guest of His Excellency.\n\nThe following guests were entertained by His Excellency at dinner at Government House on Thursday evening:- H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, Mrs. Southorn, Hon. Mr. Creasy, Mrs. Tratman, Captain Whyte, Mr. Dyer, Very Rev. Dean Swann, Mr. Thomas, Mrs. Dyer, Hon. Comdr. Hole, Mrs. Skinner, Hon. Mr. Southorn, Mrs. Creasy, Hon. Dr. Wellington, Captain Has-\nkard.\n\n## Japanese Fireworks\nAll points of vantage in the city, on the Praya Reclamation in Wan-\nchai and in the open spaces in Kowloon were thronged with people at night, when the Japanese community entertained His Royal Highness, the Duke of Gloucester with a fireworks display.\n\nThe fireworks started at 10 p.m. and the display was kept up for an hour. Altogether about fifty rockets were fired and the colour combinations produced pretty effects. Red, blue, green and white lights were the predominant shades.\n\nThe rockets were discharged from the Volunteer Parade Ground at intervals of about three minutes and a strong westerly wind carried most of the lights past the city to the Western district, where the Chinese scrambled for the remains of the rockets as they came to earth. Each light is suspended on a paper parachute which is weighted down with a good number of cash and it is this last which is naturally the main cause of the scramble for the parachutes.\n\n## GUESTS AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE\nThe following were guests at Government House:- \n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Sir Robert Ho Tung |\n| Lady Ho Tung |\n| The Earl of Airlie |\n| Mrs. J. R. Wood |\n| His Honour Mr. Justice Wood |\n| Lady Marcia Miles |\n| Hon. Mr. Hynes |\n| Mrs. Ferguson |\n| Colonel Skinner |\n| Colonel Bird |\n| Major Miles |\n| Captain Kerr |\n| Mr. Scott |\n| Captain Sillitoe |\n| Captain Perfect |\n| Mr. Ferguson |\n| Mr. Tratman |\n| Mrs. Swann |\n| Hon. Dr. Tso |\n| Mrs. Tso |\n| Commodore Hill |\n| Mrs. Wellington |\n| Mr. Arbuthnot |\n\n## AT FANLING\n### INFORMAL FOURSOMES PLAYED\nThe Duke of Gloucester enjoyed a quiet foursome at Fanling on April 26, partnered by the Hon. Mr. Major-General Sandilands and Mr. E. Elles partnered Mr. H. L. Smith against Rear-Admiral Meade and Capt. the Hon. W. S. Leveson-Gower, while the Earl of Airlie and Mr. R. H. B. Hancock played against Mr. Lloyd Thomas and Mr. A. Cameron. The foursomes were quite friendly and informal, and no scores were taken.\n\nIncluding His Royal Highness and H.E. the Governor, the majority of the party wore khaki shorts, drill jackets, and khaki topees.\n\nOn arrival at Fanling, the Royal party were welcomed by Mr. L. S. Greenhill, Captain of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, and members of the Committee.\n\nLieut. Col. E. D. Matthews, secretary of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, who had gone out overnight to make arrangements, was in charge at Fanling, where the distinguished visitors were entertained to tiffin.\n\n## Interest In Kowloon\nWhen H.R.H. passed at 9:30 a.m. on Friday morning along Nathan Road on his way out to the Fanling Golf Course very few people were about. However, Sir Cecil Clementi had given notice that he would be passing about that time and thousands lined Nathan Road waiting patiently for his arrival.\n\n## \"TO MEET PRINCE HENRY\"\n### GARDEN PARTY AT H.K. CRICKET CLUB GROUND\n### PAVILION BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED\n\"His Excellency the Governor requests the pleasure of your company at a Reception on the Ground of the H.K. Cricket Club on April 26, at 4:30 p.m., to meet His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester, K.G., G.C.V.O.\"\n\nTwo thousand members of the colony of Hong Kong were thrilled to receive a large card headed with the Royal crest in gold which invited them to meet Prince Henry. And the joy spread further, for frock and hat shops were invaded in order that the ladies of Hong Kong might do honour to the Prince.\n\nMeanwhile the Committee of the Cricket Club had also been busy, and their lovely ground was transformed by banks of flowers, the pavilion hung with bunting, and flag-decked marquees erected in a large semi-circle round the outskirts facing towards the pavilion. In the marquees tea and refreshments were served to the guests, while in front of the pavilion, behind a row of magnificent pot plants, was the \"high table\" and a series of striped umbrellas, at which His Excellency the Governor sat with the Guest of Honour and the Government House party.\n\nThe Prince was received inside the pavilion by Mr. R. Hancock (President) and members of the Committee of the Club, and appeared on the steps with Sir Cecil Clementi at about 4:50 p.m. His appearance was heralded by the band of the K.O.S.B., who were grouped in the middle of the ground, playing \"God Save the King.\"\n\nHis Royal Highness was introduced by H.E. the Governor to the Government House party and then went forward to shake hands with a number of Indian officers who were lined up to meet him, before sitting down to tea.\n\nDuring the tea interval the Pipe Band and the Regimental Band of the K.O.S.B. played alternately. The Pipers marching up and down as they played, with their kilts and ribbons swinging, added considerably to the gay and picturesque effect.\n\nThe following were Sir Cecil Clementi's guests at tiffin on Thursday at Government House :- \n| Name |\n| --- |\n| H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester |\n| Mrs. Waistell |\n| The Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Victoria |\n| General Sir Hugh Elles |\n| Captain Whyte |\n| Mr. N. S. Brown |\n| Capt. Wolfe-Murray |\n| Mr. Hornell |\n| Hon. Sir Shou Son Chow |\n| The Earl of Airlie |\n| Mrs. Shenton |\n| His Honour Sir H. Gollan |\n| Hon. Mr. Shenton |\n| Mr. Braga |\n| Mr. Alabaster |\n| Captain Kerr |\n| Captain Sillitoe |\n| Mr. Scott |\n| Colonel Comyn |\n| Mr. Thomas |\n| Hon. Sir Henry Pollock |\n| Hon. Mr. Mesny |\n| Mr. Murakami |\n| Mrs. Strachey |\n| General Sandilands |\n| Lady Pollock |\n| E. Admiral Waistell |\n| Lady Chow |\n| Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp |\n| Mrs. Kotewall |\n| Admiral Meade |\n| Hon. Mr. North |\n| Mr. Li Yau Tsuen |\n| Captain Strachey |\n| Captain Perfect |\n\nAs the crowds of women and children broke through the barrier and rushed onto the pier waving and cheering to the Duke who smilingly replied by raising his hat and waving in return, the scene, with the gay frocks of the ladies, the green grey buildings and big trees, may have reminded H.R.H. of the beautiful grounds of Buckingham Palace.\n\nOur representative was told that His Royal Highness was immensely pleased with his trip around the New Territories, and deeply interested in all that he saw.\n\n46 \n14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520610, "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": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "242 \n\n# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nI speak even more for myself as an individual than as a member of the Government—does not like the gaol any more than Sir Henry and the unofficial members, and if we had the money to build a new one, I would be ready to propose starting to build it to-morrow. On the other hand, it is just as well for the Government and this Council to face the facts of the position. We on the Government side think that the first big work in the matter of buildings to be undertaken is a new Government Civil Hospital, and as members are aware we propose to start it as soon as we can. If we are not able to take up both of these works together, the Council has to consider first that we are not yet quite in a position to begin the hospital; secondly, we shall be very lucky if we see the hospital finished in three to four years; thirdly, we have also to make preparations for the gaol, and when that has been started you have to allow three to four years for the building of the gaol.\n\nI stand by my figure that we shall be lucky if we see the gaol ready for occupation ten years from to-day. Nobody dislikes the delay more than myself. That being so, the Government thinks it is a sensible plan to give the present Superintendent of Prisons a suitable place in which to carry out the printing work of the Government. I have it from the Superintendent that in 1927 he reckoned the Government saved $25,000 a year by doing printing work in the gaol, and if we extend the accommodation for him, I think we shall be able to save a great deal more than that, with the probability of saving more than the cost of this building long before the time comes to give up the building and go into new premises. Moreover, part of the expenditure is for machinery which would not be wasted even if we had to move.\n\nSo much for the principle of the thing. Coming to the details, even supposing the unofficial members are not prepared to accept the Government's view of the matter, I have it from the Acting Superintendent of Prisons that these two machines, a linotype composing machine, $14,200 and a Rota Print machine $6,550, are required for the current work of printing in the gaol regardless of whether we get a new building or not, and that he will find room for them even if he does not get the new building.\n\nI would ask honourable members not to hamper the printing work of the gaol by refusing these two items. With regard to the sum of $17,820 for staff, I would like to remind hon. members that part of the staff consists of transfers from the Warders staff and only three of the men represent actual additions to the staff for the printing branch.\n\n**HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK**.-Then the marginal note is wrong. It says they are new posts.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY**.-They are new posts because they have new names, but they are not additional posts.\n\n**HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK**.-How many of these are new?\n\n160", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520701, "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": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "242 \n\n# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nI speak even more for myself as an individual than as a member of the Government—does not like the gaol any more than Sir Henry and the unofficial members, and if we had the money to build a new one, I would be ready to propose starting to build it to-morrow. On the other hand, it is just as well for the Government and this Council to face the facts of the position. We on the Government side think that the first big work in the matter of buildings to be undertaken is a new Government Civil Hospital, and as members are aware we propose to start it as soon as we can. If we are not able to take up both of these works together, the Council has to consider first that we are not yet quite in a position to begin the hospital; secondly, we shall be very lucky if we see the hospital finished in three to four years; thirdly, we have also to make preparations for the gaol, and when that has been started you have to allow three to four years for the building of the gaol.\n\nI stand by my figure that we shall be lucky if we see the gaol ready for occupation ten years from to-day. Nobody dislikes the delay more than myself. That being so, the Government thinks it is a sensible plan to give the present Superintendent of Prisons a suitable place in which to carry out the printing work of the Government. I have it from the Superintendent that in 1927 he reckoned the Government saved $25,000 a year by doing printing work in the gaol, and if we extend the accommodation for him, I think we shall be able to save a great deal more than that, with the probability of saving more than the cost of this building long before the time comes to give up the building and go into new premises. Moreover, part of the expenditure is for machinery which would not be wasted even if we had to move.\n\nSo much for the principle of the thing. Coming to the details, even supposing the unofficial members are not prepared to accept the Government's view of the matter, I have it from the Acting Superintendent of Prisons that these two machines, a linotype composing machine, $14,200 and a Rota Print machine $6,550, are required for the current work of printing in the gaol regardless of whether we get a new building or not, and that he will find room for them even if he does not get the new building.\n\nI would ask honourable members not to hamper the printing work of the gaol by refusing these two items. With regard to the sum of $17,820 for staff, I would like to remind hon. members that part of the staff consists of transfers from the Warders staff and only three of the men represent actual additions to the staff for the printing branch.\n\n**HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.**--Then the marginal note is wrong. It says they are new posts.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.**--They are new posts because they have new names, but they are not additional posts.\n\n**HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.**--How many of these are new?\n\n250", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520835, "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": "CO129-519-6 Development of railways proposed by Chinese Government 7-9-1929 - 17-1-1930", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-519-6 Development of railways proposed by Chinese Government 7-9-1929 - 17-1-1930", "content_text": "## 1. Rehabilitation\n\nTo deal with rehabilitation first, it may be stated that the engines and rolling stock of the railway have been brought into a suitable state of repair, the stations and buildings are in a satisfactory condition, while the track, with the exception of sleeper renewals, and bridges are in good shape. The only question as regards rehabilitation is the provision of sleepers and, for the purpose of putting the road bed into a condition suitable for higher speeds to be attained with safety by trains, eight thousand new sleepers are required. Taking the cost of a sleeper at $4.50 (Canton currency) including labour, a sum of three hundred and sixty thousand dollars must be raised for resleepering. The railway has done what it could with its limited resources to tackle this problem, but it is too big and of too great urgency to be carried through unaided.\n\n## 2. Provision of Additional Facilities\n\n(a) As regards the provision of additional facilities to attract passengers to the railway, something has already been done by providing a higher standard of comfort in the seating of the second class cars, as well as improved lighting and electric fans in the third class coaches. However, this is not enough. The cars in use are of common style, and as comfort is a most important factor in attracting business it will be necessary to have some passenger cars equipped with the most modern conveniences, or Parlour cars must be added. Observation and Drawing Room cars are considered necessary. It is considered that four such cars should be provided to begin with. Their cost will...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-6 Development of railways proposed by Chinese Government 7-9-1929 - 17-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521264, "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": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "content_text": "177\n\nfacilities to attract passengers, and (3) development of road\n\nfeeders to bring additional business to the line.\n\n1.\n\nRehabilitation.\n\nTo deal with rehabilitation first, it may be stated that\n\nthe engines and rolling stock of the railway have been brought\n\ninto a suitable state of repair, the stations and buildings\n\nare in a satisfactory condition, while the track, with the\n\nexception of sleeper renewals, and bridges are in good shape. The only question as regards rehabilitation is the provision\n\nof sleepers and, for the purpose of putting the road bed into\n\ncondition suitable for higher speeds to be attained with\n\nsafety by trains, eight thousand new sleepers are required.\n\nTaking the cost of a sleeper at $4.50 (Canton currency) including\n\nlabour, a sum of three hundred and sixty thousand dollars must\n\nbe raised for resleepering. The railway has done what it\n\ncould with its limited resources to tackle this problem, but\n\nit is too big and of too great urgency to be carried through\n\nunaided.\n\nProvision of Additional Facilities.\n\na) As regards the provision of additional facilities to\n\nattract passengers to the railway, something has already been\n\ndone by providing a higher standard of comfort in the seating\n\nof the second class cars, as well as improved lighting and\n\nelectric fans in the third class coaches. However, this is\n\nnot enough. The cars in use are of common style, and as\n\ncomfort is a most important factor in attracting business it\n\nwill be necessary to have some passenger cars equipped with\n\nthe most modern conveniences. Observation and Drawing Room\n\nor Parlour cars must be added. It is considered that four\n\nsuch cars should be provided to begin with. Their cost will\n\n5.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528250, "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": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "content_text": "## TEXTILE MACHINERY\n\n166. There are in China already about 120 cotton mills equipped with modern machinery, chiefly of British manufacture. Owing to war difficulties Japan and the United States obtained a larger proportion of the work for a while, but Great Britain is reasserting her dominant position and in 1929 accounted for 63 per cent. of the imports. It is estimated that a further 75,000 spindles were delivered in 1930. Continued activity in mill extensions is anticipated following the new tariff. It is stated that a certain carelessness has recently characterised replacement parts supplied by our makers. The greatest care in this sort of business is essential as we must take every care of our high prestige.\n\nIn many cases, as in Japan, the complete process from spinning to finishing is carried out in one establishment but the example of our Calico Printers' Association, who have erected a first-class finishing works at Shanghai on British lines, is likely to be imitated elsewhere. There are already four finishing works of smaller size. Much of the bulky work for this section of the trade is likely to be of local manufacture, but there will remain good openings for import.\n\nThe closely allied knitting and sewing machine business, is at present largely in American hands, but in small knitting machines for cottage industry, locally made machines are gaining ground. Close study of exact requirements of this trade should result in Great Britain securing a better share, but given the right article energetic demonstration and selling will be needed to get it accepted by conservative users.\n\n## ENGINEERING WORKS\n\n167. From large dockyards and arsenals down to small Chinese workshops there is considerable activity in engineering industry. The dockyards are steady buyers of machinery and stores of which Great Britain supplies a good proportion. At Hongkong in addition to the Government Yard, there are two large private yards with very complete equipments for ship building and ship repairs. They are also able to carry out large constructional work. The Whampoa Dockyard at Kowloon is a very fine yard, with well arranged and substantially built premises, and completely equipped workshops, docks and slipways. Its foundries turn out excellent castings, both for its own use and for others; its forges and machine shops are able to undertake high quality work. Similar conditions prevail at the Taikoo Dock of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire at Hongkong and at the four large dockyards of Shanghai, the Shanghai Dock & Engineering Company, the New Engineering & Shipbuilding Works (which are British), the Kiangnang Dock & Engineering Works (which belong to the Chinese Government, but has a British Manager), and the Société Franco-Chinoise (which is partly French-owned partly Chinese). With their excellent management, good equipment and cheap labour, these yards are able to take on important work very competitively.\n\n168. The rates of wages vary from place to place. As an instance, may be given the rate at Kiangnang where coolies get fifty cents a day, skilled men one dollar and fifty cents a day and foremen one hundred and fifty dollars a month.* Owing to the expert nature of their work and their knowledge of the value of machinery, these yards are among Britain's best customers. But we must support them by an energetic sales policy of our own.\n\nChina has some 20 arsenals, some of which are very fully equipped, and all of which are from time to time, buyers of machinery and materials. The two arsenals at Mukden have very complete workshops. The large arsenal has a big power plant of British make, but the bulk of its equipment is Danish. The small arsenal has numerous tools of rather a miscellaneous character, mostly second hand. Both of them are considering seriously the problem of taking on industrial work. The large arsenal has had several Czech engineers engaged for a considerable time to report on the possibility of doing this.\n\nIt is suggested that assembly and part-construction of railway rolling stock would be a suitable activity. The small arsenal has already started in this direction by using its foundry for turning out domestic radiators, and its other departments are busy getting ready to make a special type of motor lorry suited to Manchurian requirements.\n\n169. Another big section of engineering activity is to be found in the railway workshops. These vary in importance according to the activity of the lines they serve, but in the bulk form a very large market for engineering plant and materials.\n\nThe South Manchurian Railway workshops at Dairen are exceptionally well equipped. Many of the older tools are British, but the new ones are chiefly American or Japanese, with only a few specialties of British make. The equipment is so complete that in addition to repairs they can make vehicles and even locomotives. For general repair work they can tackle 30 locomotives, 40 passenger vehicles and 100 wagons at a time. They employ about 3,000 men, half of whom are Chinese. The educational, housing, and welfare arrangements are very ample and the whole place, including all offices and factory buildings, is a model one.\n\nThe Chinese Eastern Railway at Mukden also have an excellent lay out designed for rapid overhaul of their considerable rolling stock. Unfortunately they have very little British machinery here owing, so their chief engineer stated, to our very poor propaganda compared to the United States educational advertising.\n\n* See note to paragraph 189.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528252, "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": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "content_text": "# 86\n\nIn the north, bean mills are important, as it is considered that increased treatment of beans in Manchuria will help to stabilise this market. There are two large mills and five smaller ones working with mechanically-operated plants, and about 50 small native mills working with hand-operated machinery. Only the large Harbin mill has British machinery.\n\nThere are also oil press factories in the ports. Shanghai, for instance, has 50, mostly small.\n\nAnother considerable industry deals with the treatment of eggs. There are modern egg product plants with refrigeration plant and full mechanical equipment at Nanking, Shanghai, Hankow, and Tientsin. These usually prepare powder and flaked products as well. In the interior are numerous native factories preparing dried albumen and flaked products only. The output of this industry has been severely curtailed by civil unrest.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\n\n175. To complete the list of machinery-using industries, there must be mentioned the very important cigarette making industry largely in the hands of the British-American Tobacco Company, but with some competition from Chinese and Japanese interests. Also the chemical industry which is not yet of any importance, sugar refining, printing and publishing, tanneries, breweries and distilleries.\n\n### (f) Domestic Uses\n\n#### (i) BUILDING CONSTRUCTION\n\n176. The adoption of modern building methods in the Treaty Ports and leased territory, provides a considerable market for steel products of all kinds. The fine buildings to be seen in construction in foreign settlements are causing the Chinese to follow the example, and, in view of the great interest taken in estate development, this fashion will continue to grow. The better the quality of the buildings the better will be the materials put into them. At present owing to the absence of good architects in many parts of China, specifications are very loose and as a result very cheap materials are often included. There is no doubt that a stiffening up of specifications would make the sale of British steel easier. But even then, competition with Belgium will be very hard.\n\nFor this reason everything possible should be done to encourage the education of young Chinese in the best methods of architecture, and generally to spread knowledge of methods of big building construction on modern lines.\n\nMuch has been done to improve matters in Shanghai, but in other parts of China there is a great deal of unsatisfactory work.\n\n# 87\n\n#### (ii) BUILDING EQUIPMENT\n\n177. It is surprising how great a market for miscellaneous metal manufactures is to be found in modern buildings. The basements of large buildings are often full of plant for air conditioning, for heating, for refrigeration, and even for lighting. Lifts are quite a large item in any big business town, and complete electrical fittings with conduits, switches, lamps and fans have also to be added. There is also a demand for sanitary fixtures and domestic hardware. Unfortunately our trade in electrical equipment suffers very severe competition, and we are being beaten to some extent, by the United States and to a considerable extent by Japan. The former is helped by strong Japanese alliances, and the latter by low prices of lamps and fans. These are stated, however, to be as much inferior to British articles as they are low in price.\n\nHardware, door furniture, stoves, clocks, and all the numerous items of fully equipped offices or dwellings, swell the list, as also do metal articles for personal use. It is to be regretted that our share of these numerous items is lamentably small. Our trade is too often dealt with in an apathetic way by general merchants. Unless we can organise a more energetic method of advertising and chasing business, we shall be hopelessly outclassed.\n\n## SUMMARY\n\n178. This survey of the metal and machinery market in China has been set down to show how wide is the field for industrial development, and how varied the openings for importers who are prepared to exploit them. The rate of development with an end of civil war and a rehabilitation of the currency may well be phenomenal. The first need will be improvement of roads and railways which will bring about a readier movement of the products of agriculture and so greatly increase the surplus earnings of the people. This will enable the increased use of agricultural machinery and irrigation plant, so multiplying the benefit. Following this will come the tendency to work up the agricultural and mineral wealth of the country, to which end a rapid increase of available electric power will contribute. In all this development machinery will take a large part and there can be little doubt of great trade openings for suitable plant. But such a system of development, starting with insufficient capital, presents the immediate difficulty of having to install the means of wealth production first and wait for the reward from the operation thereof. The demand for long credits is the result of this necessity. A further difficulty is that though China is anxious for native control of her own industries, it is not easy to get Chinese capital from those who have it, as they can often lend it at 3 per cent. per month to their less fortunate compatriots. The cure for this must lie with the Government. They themselves are showing every willingness\n\n277", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529125, "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": "CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931", "content_text": "# In Sound! \n\nBrilliant in its Air Spectacle, Tender in its Romance, Mellow in its comedy, the most Appealing Love Story of the century. \n\n## AT THE \n\n### MAJESTIC \n\nMISSIONARIES CAPTURED. ANOTHER BANDIT COUP. PRIEST ESCAPES OVER WALL. LADY RELEASED. \n\nHankow. Oct. 25. \n\nA Catholic Father who escaped from Loshan, in South Honan, ten minutes before the entry of bandits, reports that the Rev. K. N. Tvedt, and Miss Evenson, of the Lutheran United Mission, failed to escape and, it is presumed, were captured.—Reuter. \n\n### In Bandits' Hands. \n\nPeking. Oct. 25. The U.S. Consul in Hankow received a letter on October 24 from Luahan, signed by Father Tvedt and Miss Evenson, dated October 8, stating that they were in the hands of brigands belonging to the First Red Army, who were holding them \"because of financial difficulties.\" The Reds demanded $100,000 ransom. \n\nThe Rev. Tvedt says that he is a Norwegian subject, though in an American organisation. \n\nIt is understood that two American Catholics are registered as being at Loshan—Thomas M. Megan and Joseph V. Henkels. No definite news of them has been received, but it is known that Megan was here on October 15. \n\nOne Catholic priest climbed over the city wall just as the bandits were entering the town. He is believed to be one of these two.—Reuter. \n\n### Lady Captive Released. \n\nHankow, Oct. 26. The American Consulate has received a telegram stating that Miss Evenson has been released and has arrived at Sinjang. The Rev. Mr. Tvedt is still held captive.—Reuter. \n\n### Missionary Freed. \n\nPeking, Oct. 25. The Italian Legation announces that it has received information that Father Brugnetti, Italian Catholic Mission at Nanyangfu, in south-west Honan, has been liberated. \n\nFather Brugnetti was captured by brigands some time ago. The Legation made representations to the Chinese Government on the matter.—Reuter \n\n## POLICE PENSIONS. \n\n### New Ordinance to Be Introduced. REMOVING ANOMALY. \n\n**SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930.**\n\n## REBELS NOT YET SUBDUED. \n\n### Attempt to Gather New Armies. TROUBLESOME TRIO. \n\nPeking, Oct. 25. Feng Yu-hsiang left Taiyuanfu on October 21 for south Shansi. It is believed at Taiyuanfu that he intends to collect armies and march to Sianfu. \n\nIt is also believed that Feng Yu-hsiang, Yen Hsi-shan and Wang Ching-wei are still working together and have decided to attempt to hold Shansi, Shensi, and Kansu against all comers. \n\nWang Ching-wei is at present living at a hotel in Taiyuanfu, and contemplates setting up his home there. \n\nThe discipline among the returned Shansi soldiers is bad. Recently 30 tried to force their way into a German's house, and were got rid of with difficulties. They said that they wanted accommodation. The soldiers are protesting against living in barracks outside the city, and desire billets in houses in the city.—Reuter \n\n### Marshals to Meet. \n\nNanking, Oct. 25. The Central News Agency learns that Chiang Kai-shek and Chang Hsueh-liang will meet shortly to discuss outstanding political questions, after which they will issue a joint circular telegram outlining their programme. The venue of the meeting is most likely to be Tsingtao.—Reuter. \n\n## RIOTS IN JAPAN. \n\n### Tokyo Strikers Clash With Police. FORTY CASUALTIES. \n\nTokyo, Oct. 25. Riotous scenes were witnessed late last night in Kameido, a suburb of Tokyo, during a clash between the police and factory workers of the Toyo Muslin Co., who have been on strike for the past five weeks. \n\nWhile the Police were attempting to suppress groups of strikers who were parading the streets, singing Labour songs, other strikers in the upper storeys of neighbouring buildings started throwing stones on the Police below. \n\nThe ensuing fight necessitated the temporary suspension of traffic, as the strikers started stoning passing trams, six of which were damaged. \n\nThe disturbance was finally quelled after the arrest of 150 strikers. About a dozen Police and 30 strikers were injured in the melee.—Reuter. \n\n## \"REDS\" RAID TOWN IN HAINAN. \n\n### Driven Off by Garrison With Heavy Loss. LACK OF TROOPS. \n\nHainan, Oct. 22. \n\n## CHINESE REDS RIOT IN MANILA. \n\n### Prominent Nationalists Mobbed and Stabbed. SIX MEN WOUNDED. \n\nManila, Oct. 25. \n\nThe Chinese Communists last night attacked, mobbed, and stabbed prominent members of the Chinese Nationalist organisation in Manila. \n\nSix were wounded and taken to hospital. Two of them were in critical condition. \n\nThe victims include Mr. Gan Bu-hong, the proprietor of the largest Chinese cigarette factory here as well as a school principal. \n\nBoth Mr. Ong Chuan-seng, leaders of the Kuomintang. \n\nThe first outbreak was believed to be a tong war, but later the victims asserted that the motives for the attack were purely political, having followed repeated threats. \n\nPolice patrols are heavy and the constabulary may assist in quelling the trouble since Chinatown is in an uproar.—Reuter. \n\n## CORRESPONDENCE. \n\n### The Boxer Indemnity. \n\n(To the Editor, S. C. M. Post.) \n\nSir, The suggestion as put forward in your leader dated the 11th inst. referring to the employment of the entire or part of the grant to the Hongkong University from the Boxer Indemnity Fund for health purposes is certainly a rational and timely proposal. \n\nIt will be recalled that the Willingdon Delegation, following the investigation of conditions in China, recommended the allocation of 17% of the Fund for \"education in medicine and public health and grants to hospitals.\" Viewed from various angles, and laying aside, pro tem, the question of the University's merit to secure such a windfall, your suggestion, if carried out, would perhaps \"satisfy all demands.\" \n\nAlthough details are not published pending the Chinese and British approval of the Governments' agreement which Dr. C. T. Wang and Sir Miles Lampson have recently concluded for the satisfactory disposal of the Fund, yet it may safely be conjectured that the plan suggested by the Willingdon Delegation will not be closely followed as it is an open secret that the bulk of the money has already been definitely decided upon railway development enterprise. In other words, the hope of the allocation of the 17% of the Fund for health purposes is extremely remote. \n\nLocated in a part of the world where health conditions are deplorable, surely there is no better way for the University of using the grant than to employ it for scientific researches and the improvement of public health. For instance, at one of the Sanitary Board meetings a few months ago, the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services was in favour of the Government making arrangements with the authorities of Sheklung Leper Settlement to take charge of lepers from Hongkong as a result of the total absence of a leper hospital in the Colony. As pointed out in my previous letter, the carrying out of the scheme would mean the increase of the already teeming leper population of the greater part of the island, and only a few garrison troops are stationed in the west half of Hainan. So in the eastern part of the island no open outbreak of Communism is taking place, although guerilla warfare is carried on, as evidenced by the wounded men being brought to Hoihow hospitals, day by day. West of Hoihow troops are stationed in Kin Kong, Fuk-san and Lami-kow but in numbers they are not nearly as strong as the Communist gang which rules the forest near Fuk-San. On Oct. 18 this band of Reds attacked Kin Kong, which is district city and the largest town in Chen-mai district. By surprise attack they gained the east suburbs of the town but the troops got some machine guns into position and it is reported that the Reds were driven off with heavy loss. The Reds were said to number all the way from 600 to 1,000 but they had only two machine guns to defend by 300 troops. \n\nSomething has, therefore, to be done to solve this and similar problems satisfactorily for the \"mutual benefit\" of both China and the British Colony. In view of the existing needs, the employment of the money for purposes as suggested by you is, and as many will doubtless agree, a legitimate proposal. \n\nJ. A. LEE. \n\n## DELIBERATE LIES IN COURT. \n\n### Witness Fined for Perjury in Assault Case. DEFENDANT DISCHARGED. \n\nThe acquittal of the accused and the fining of one of the witnesses of the prosecution for perjury was the final result of the case in which Herbert Percival, stoker of H.M.S. Herald, was alleged before Mr. Lindsell on Saturday to have assaulted a barber of Wanchai. \n\nThe defendant was alleged to have obtained a packet of cigarettes from the complainant's stall and when asked for payment struck the seller. \n\nFurther evidence was given by Chan Fook, a barber in the complainant's employ. After corroborative evidence was given, the witness was questioned by the Magistrate as to a cut on the defendant's cheek. \n\nHis Worship: Defendant's cheek was cut open; can you explain that? \n\nWitness: I don't know. \n\nYou offer no explanation for that at all? Was there any trouble with anyone of the naval men except the one you saw take the cigarettes?—No. \n\nYou do not explain how his cheek was cut open? I don't know. \n\nAny one strike him?—I did not see any one strike him. \n\nWas he knocked down?—Possibly; he may have been. Did you see him knocked down? No. \n\nYou must have seen it, you were there. He may have fallen on the ground. \n\nHis Worship pointed out to the witness that it had been proved beyond doubt that the defendant had had his cheek cut. The witness replied, \"I saw defendant knock against a glass show case as he struck the complainant.\" \n\nHis Worship reprimanded the witness and pointed out to him that a few minutes before he had told the Court that he had no idea what had happened to the defendant's cheek. \"Why do you lie like that?\" sternly asked his Worship. \"A minute ago you said you didn't know; you did not see it. Now speak the truth! Did you see him cut his cheek or not?\" \n\nWitness: I did not see him.\" \n\nHis Worship: First you said you did not, then you said you did and now you say you did not again. Which is true?—I did not see. \n\nNow that was just an absolute lie that the showcase was broken? \n\nIt was broken. \n\nDetective Sergeant Clark informed his Worship that a show case had been broken, but if the defendant had fallen into it as alleged by the witness he would have had his face severely cut. \n\nHis Worship: How do you say that showcase came to be broken? \n\nWitness: A piece of the stool flew against the glass. \n\nHe (defendant) did not fall against it as you said a minute ago? No. \n\nThen you told a deliberate lie just now when you said he banged against it. You told three different stories. I fine you $10; first one thing and then another. You keep contradicting yourself. Fined $10 or seven days. \n\n### Defendant Discharged. \n\nThe Gazette contains the draft of an Ordinance to amend the Police Ordinance 1900. \n\nThis provides that Section 17 of the Police Ordinance, 1900, be repealed and the following section substituted therefor: \n\n17-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the granting of pensions to members of the Force, in respect of service in the Force, and to determine in special cases where the regulations may be inapplicable or to require modification, the amount (if any) of the pension, the terms on which it shall be granted and the manner in which it shall be paid. (2) Pensions granted under this Ordinance shall be paid out of the general revenue. \n\nThe Objects and Reasons state:-Under section 17 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, the Governor in Council not only regulates the general conditions on which and the manner in which pensions are to be granted to members of the Force, but determines the question of granting a pension and the amount thereof in each particular case. There does not seem to be any sufficient reason why members of the Police Force should be thus singled out from other pensionable public servants, or why the Governor in Council should have to deal with each case of retirement especially where the pension is a mere matter of calculation. \n\n## HIS LAST FLING. \n\n### Suicide's Open Letter to the World. \n\nShanghai, Oct. 25. Chow Hu-wen (27), a dentist, after spending five nights entertaining sing-song girls at the Shang Shien Hotel, addressed a lengthy letter to the world in general, advising young men not to degrade themselves by following his example, and then swallowed poison. He was found dead yesterday afternoon and the inquest revealed that he rented a room on the third floor of the hotel on Friday night and then spent until Sunday night and then spent until Friday morning surrounded by sing-song girls and wine bottles.—Our Own Correspondent. \n\nKobe, Oct. 26. In glorious weather, Emperor Hirohito reviewed the Japanese navy, consisting of 165 war vessels, aggregating 700,000 tons, every one of which was constructed wholly in Japan. Seventy-two navy planes took part in an air parade.—Reuter. \n\nThe North-Eastern authorities propose to erect a bronze statue of Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang in memory of his donation of $2,500,000 to the University.—Our Own Correspondent. \n\n## BIG NAVAL REVIEW. \n\n### Japanese Emperor Views 165 War Vessels. ALL MADE IN JAPAN. \n\nNathan Road. Phone 57222", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530341, "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": "CO129-533-5 Lt. Col. R.F. Drury- C.B.E.- pension 3-2-1931 - 14-12-1931", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-533-5 Lt. Col. R.F. Drury- C.B.E.- pension 3-2-1931 - 14-12-1931", "content_text": "# Connaught Hotel, Grosvenor Square, W. I.\n21st March 1919.\n\nLieut.-Colonel R. F. Drury, late of the Royal Air Force, worked under me in various capacities in connection with the land and buildings of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during the years 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1919, and I can recommend him as being an extremely loyal and hard working subordinate.\n\nHe was at the head of a big department involving heavy responsibilities. He worked untiringly, showed great energy and determination in the face of every kind of difficulty and has any amount of initiative and resource.\n\n**W. S. Brancker** \nMajor-General.\n\nPage 30 \nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-5 Lt. Col. R.F. Drury- C.B.E.- pension 3-2-1931 - 14-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531086, "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": "CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932", "content_text": "August 28, 1931]\n\nA False Record.\n\nMr. Jenkin: This is of very great moment. I want it quite clear from the Attorney General, if he will state it, that this document, which was sworn to by Mr. X. L. Smith, is a false record in so far as it purports to say that the applicant gave that third\n\nMr. Alabaster: I hate using epithets. They look very well in the newspapers.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Don't, don't! Replying to the Chief Justice, Mr. Jenkin said: On the affidavits sworn by this man, and on the statement in Mr. Smith's affidavit, it is clear that in more than one way the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs has tried to make this man admit that he was Nguyen Ai Quoc. It is obvious that in the dossier there was information concerning a man who had the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc. If this statement went before the Governor-in-Council in the form which it was sworn to by Mr. Smith, it being information they had got from the dossier, it would poison the mind of the Executive and is of vital importance.\n\nOrder Bad from the Start. The Attorney General replied that whichever way they looked at it the first order was bad from the start. It might need a declaration from the Court that it was but it did not require to be set aside, because as a valid document it never had any legal existence.\n\nThe point as to whether Mr. N. L. Smith, who was present in Court, should be called to give evidence as to whether a meeting of the Executive Council was held on Saturday, August 15, was raised.\n\nAfter a brief consultation between counsel, Mr. Alabaster said he had satisfied himself that the second order was made on the previous Thursday in anticipation of it being desirable or necessary to proceed on it.\n\nThis closed the arguments and their Lordships reserved judgment.\n\nSHOT BY REVENUE OFFICER.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nRENTWOOD JUNIOR SCHOOL, SOUTHPORT. - Girls 6-15 Years. Very Successful Preparation for Public Schools. Entire Charge taken of Children from abroad.\n\nLL HALLOWS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, DITCHINGHAM, Norfolk. Preparation for Oxford and Cambridge, Joint Board Examinations. Graduate Staff. Trained Nurse. Playing Field, Good Gymnasium. Apply: SISTER-IN-CHARGE.\n\nWAVERTREE, HORLEY, SUR-REY. Bracing Air. Thorough P.N.E.U Education together with Preparation for all Public Schools. Entrance or Scholarship Examinations. Usual Games. Apply: HEADMASTER.\n\nOLENT HOUSE, Cowes, I.W. - Boarding School for Girls and Little Boys on Sea Front. Ideal Climate. Entire Charge. All Examinations Highly Recommended. Terms Moderate. Apply: PRINCIPALS.\n\nWELLINGTON SCHOOL, Kent. - One of the oldest Private Schools for Boys with Moderate Fees. Five Houses, including a Junior House. Modern, Classical, Science and Engineering sides. Preparation for Universities, Professions, Business, and life abroad. Excellent Situation, 25 Acres of Grounds. Well-planned Buildings throughout. Ages: 7 to 18. Perfect Arrangements for Swimming, Riding, Gymnastics and O.T.C. Special inclusive fees for entire charge of boys whose parents are resident abroad. Fully illustrated Prospectus post free on application. Apply: SECRETARY, WELLINGTON SCHOOL, SOMERSET, ENGLAND.\n\nSEQUEL TO ATTEMPT TO RESIST ARREST. SHOTS FIRED TO FRIGHTEN ASSAILANTS.\n\nMr. W. Schofield, sitting Coroner on Tuesday, conducted an inquiry into the death of one Li Ying, who was shot in Connaught Road West, by a Chinese Revenue Officer on August 14 in the early morning.\n\nIt will be recalled that in making an arrest at that time a Chinese Revenue Officer fired several shots, but those who were assisting the person who was alleged to be resisting arrest, managed to run away. At the time, therefore, it was not known that anyone had been shot.\n\nHis Worship told the jury at the outset that it was for them to determine whether the shooting was intentional or not and, if it was intentional, whether the use of fire-arms was necessary, or if unintentional, whether it was due to proper care by the officer, and might have been avoided.\n\nThe first witness called was the police armourer, Sergeant J. E. Scott, who said that he examined Smith and Weston's revolver of 38 calibre with six chambers. He found two misfired bullets and four expended cartridges. There was a bullet stuck half-way in the barrel. The reason why two bullets misfired, said witness, was because the powder must have been very damp.\n\nAt this stage the inquiry was adjourned until Wednesday, September 3.\n\nAt the end of Sergeant Scott's evidence the Court adjourned to inspect the scene of the shooting.\n\nR.O. \"Knocked About.\" On the inquiry being resumed, Revenue Officer Ward, giving evidence, stated that at 9 o'clock on the morning of August 15, he saw the Chinese Revenue Officer 58. He noticed the man had several bruises and explained that he had been knocked about a bit.\n\nWitness found a big blue mark on the man's arm and red marks on his stomach, chest and back. At the time he did not take much notice as he did not know that anything else had happened.\n\nRevenue Officer G. Merryman stated in evidence that he saw R.O. 58 on the morning of the 14th before the man went to the Police Court. He had a man under arrest and both had their clothes torn and it appeared as if they had engaged in a scuffle.\n\nThe Chinese R.O. reported that in arresting the prisoner, he had been obliged to fire three shots from his revolver in order to frighten away his assailants, who numbered four.\n\nIn answer to the Coroner, witness said that the Chinese Revenue Officer appeared to be rather excited. He had said that he was upset about having to fire the shots. Witness asked him if anyone had been shot and was told that no one had been shot.\n\nMONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES. DOUGLAS GIFFORD GETS SIX MONTHS' HARD.\n\nBefore Mr. E. W. Hamilton at Kowloon Magistracy on Monday, Douglas Gifford pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining money by false pretences. Defendant was sentenced to terms totalling six months' hard labour.\n\nInspector Fallon, who prosecuted, said that the defendant had two previous convictions. His brother and sister were in Hong Kong but they would have nothing to do with him.\n\nThe charges were (1) obtaining a sum of $3 from a woman named Kwan-fun, at Nga Tau village, by pretending that he was a policeman and saying that if the woman did not pay him this sum she would have to pull down certain pig-sties; (2) obtaining a sum of $5 from Kong Chun at Shek Ku Ling village by similar means, pretending that he was a Sanitary Department officer; (3) obtaining a sum of $2 from Cheng King, of Tai Yat Hang village, in a similar manner, by pretending that he was a Sanitary Department officer; and (4) obtaining a sum of $1 from Leung Tai-chai, of ... village, in the same way.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531650, "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": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CHINA AUCTION\n\nSPORTY GOODS.\n\nThe Undamaged buy is anounced the spanning at imalo stare\n\nROOMS\n\nIndustrial and Commercial Bank Bakang.\n\nsild, Queen's Road, Centrul at No Bk House Streler and Bissnésand Housekee\n\nCiljnennt be Heeers Powell & G\n\nDijaga and Burcjaluka in 10t| Beperti al tepk, sporta pieds. Perf Pontracting sise undertaker\n\nInspection of Store verdalle in. Hod.\n\nTAUPOLE & SONE\n\nBlackan, 28d detokes, 1981.\n\nOm Furniture for disposal\n\nMy private paAN AL BELONGA peshk\n\nFOR SALE OR HIRE.\n\nPOPPY DAY FUND, KOWLOON MARINE\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLint. Col. Robertson, Hong Kong Club, will be glad to receive any article which may be give\n\nauctioned as Armisting Day for\n\nthe bench of Karl Halge Fund,\n\nLOT NO. 73\n\nChioare Boden, 72,768 vs. ft. Apply\n\n19, & RADERY 4 00, LTD.\n\nPOPULAR\n\nand earsally hases th! EFFERVESCENT SALTS\n\nameponse to this approud may be\n\nmade\n\nPrescribed\n\nconstipation.\n\nIle in anaouraged to appeal headache, indigestion liver and\n\nsenim thin your owing to the vary įkalney disorders, Motach com MEN KOLLA KITla sent last year.\n\n(PÍNIALA, STE, Blo\n\nNOTICE\n\nItse kemby notifed that Sporlal Current Papénit a/c Pana Boska,\n\n27 in the game of Tang Yai Kan and X, 514 In the same of Tank But Sing\n\nwith\n\nYokohama Specie Bank, LLC., Hong! Konur, have been reported lost ar stolen and the sang nay kepeby declared to be canceled.\n\nNOTICE\n\nIL SKOTT & CO.\n\n―\n\nJ\n\nWe have this day authorsand Mr.\n\nPeter Ball Helga Melbyn to sigu Fr Pin Рег Procure, Mr George Bravet Wetten kavag handed in Kin power of attorney.\n\nIL SKOTT A CO. Fongkong, 19th Getaber, 1981\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe Pearl of the \"Kingship at\n\nChilier and the Golden Jubilea!\n\nThey are justly calabratori and MEN LIQDAN LAD I LINDLADÍ,\n\nThey can\n\nbe procured\n\nin Hongkong—\n\nSincere & Co., Berlin & Co., The Pharmacy,\n\nand\n\nKing's Dispensary and in Kowloon-\n\nThe World Drug Co.\n\nTAAI HING\n\nGentlemen's Tailors &\n\nMilitary Uniform\n\nisa\n\nLatest Style Hata\n\nFar Spa. Cheap.\n\nstablishment of the App Satisfaction Guaranteed. of Prayer\" will take place at the Catholic Cathedral an Sander, the 126, Pottinger Street, Central\n\n18th Ovember, 1881.\n\nMORNING SERVICE 8 mm.\n\nEVENING SERVICE L24 pm.\n\nA Triduum will be bold also a\n\nthe above place at 530 pm, on the | three (2) days preceding the celebration.\n\nG\n\nPARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, De 3604) day of October, 1831, at 3. athena of the Tablic Werka Department, by Order at His Excellency the Governor att nae Let of Crew Land 1 Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colay of Hong Kong for a term M 75 JOLER Cencing fron E\n\nJuly, 1898, with the option of\n\nTeroval of a Crawa Best to be\n\nJced by Far Surveyor of Ris\n\nHONGKONG\n\nMUSIC CO.\n\n26. Wyndham Street.\n\nTal 2290.\n\nDealers in Munke,\n\nMusical Merchandise and\n\nAccessories Alag\n\nExpert in Repairing all types of\n\nMusical Instrumenta\n\nand\n\nPiano Tuning.\n\nMajnatý thu King, furi Reasonable Charges.\n\nther term of 24 years less the\n\nlast three days thereof.\n\nPARTICULARS OF THE LOT.\n\nTO LET.\n\n8, Conduit Red\n\nDWELLING HOUSES.\n\nrose\n\ngro Lad\n\nnaturalebed. Garden.\n\nKo 22 Confult Road.\n\n|Hour.\n\nGodown at Daddell Street.\n\nOffer Rossa 16. Queen's Loud. Central.\n\nLINNTRAD & HAVIS,\n\nALEXANDRA HITILDINGE\n\nTO LET-IN THE PEAK.\n\nNA Z MIŠINTAIN VEW\n\nApply to\n\nPERCY SHITH SETH\n\nAPT PVING\n\nNOTICE.\n\nClassified Advertisements\n\nwill not be accepted for insertion after 6 p.m.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLAMMERT'S\n\nAUCTIONS\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nThe Undersignad katy pocultad Instruction tolly Public Auction\n\n'TL'ESDAY,\n\nThe 17th Detaker, 1983. COMMERCİNE at 18.30 a.m.\n\nat The Star Furniture StormX.\n\nSo, 22, Wing Lack Building, Hankow Road, Kawhon.\n\nA Quantity of Valuable Beaned\n\nFurniture and Garipu.\n\nOn View from Monday, the 26th October, 1951, Catalogue will be issued. Terms: --Cash on Delivery,\n\nLAMMERT BROS.\n\nAuctionem.\n\nOUR BREAD\n\nFRENCH BREAD\n\nCOFFEE ROLLS SANDWICH FREAP\n\n=\n\nDELIVERED DAILY\n\nIn Kawloon f November JL, JOSE, Platou place widers in adorner\n\nMARCEL\n\nCONFECTIONER\n\nM-NATHAN ROAD TO\n\nMASSAGE.\n\nMOL & MAS, Y. MORL Bolder of Japaanse Government Caricate\n\nCares Sprained Ankle and Wrist app. \"South China Morung Prat” 4. Wyndham Streit. -Ial Koer), Telephone 2801.\n\nNEW\n\nVictor\n\nRecords\n\nUSED CARS HUGHES & HOUGH\n\nWATCH\n\nThis Cobe wary day for\n\nLIMITED.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nUndersigned have receive instruction to sell by Pahle\n\na dual basin in GUARANTEED I>ED CARS\n\nToday Special PALATIN, BEVEN 1926-1927-70r Account of the Caprerasli. modal, da mechanical order\n\nMONDAY, . #875.\n\n་\n\nThis cat fi guaranteed agafant j ali mochandaal defecta for a period | of thirty days.\n\nPhase to-day for a trial run, HONGKONG INED CARS, LTTI, Phone: 28481 (Qiles) H£750 (Show Room).\n\nRARE CHINBR\n\n|COʻNINE CHAFTSMEN AT\n\nDISPLA? OF CHINESE PIREWORKS\n\n· QUAIRĪT” CHINESE CUSTŪRIS\n\nALL TO BE SEEN AT THE\n\n\"CHINA\"\n\nEXHIBITION,\n\nCITY HALL\n\nsch, min 4 7th November, 1981\n\nCHEME PUNCIEH\n\nDEXTERHE-ORIENT\n\nMortimer Uk & Rinate Agenta “PEAR BANSIONS,”\n\nHerend à Five-rammad ndictments.\n\nkatarken & Sandstad had MÜKƏ modern conjuction with garage\n\nSAMRAŞ BUILDINGS\"\n\nthe 28th October, 1991,\n\nat their Halen Rome, No. F. Queen's Rond. Central (French Bank Beliding BaseTMENİ | HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising of --\n\nSideboard, Dining Table and Chales, Dressing Tubền, Ten Chest, ¡Croekary, Eléctile Pra, Chasale- H. BILA Ware Wall Plates, Gleaner, Kitchen Utensils, Daner Barem,... mka.\n\n*\n\nTexten Carpeta\n\n:\n\n· Cabinet Gramophone, Goud Caller tom of Recordi, mostly Red Seal. High Class Carpenter'a Tuola, I Laths. Several Pots of Rhododen\n\nCrysalidocarpus\n\nrom\n\nAnd\n\n*(Mauritius Palm).\n\nיי\n\nNote.\n\nNow on View.\n\nThe above are high claw\n\n'pute and in good conditiam mod\n\nbe sold without reserve. Loved from Kowinna Ten for The sentence of bayern.\n\nTerm-Cash on Dativars\n\nBUGRES & ROUGH, LTD.\n\nMake Canones. ilangkanje, zied Oetoboř, 1961\n\nTHE\n\n│\"SOUTH CHINA\n\ni\n\nMORNING POST\"\n\nis always on sale at\n\nSELFRIDGE'S\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLondon, W. 1.\n\nThe fol - sharp poitibeyken in the Ewe Carton Mẫu have\n\n· bass lost at manda The Team For Denda are in deʊ pay. The Pakka ke warned not in accept these calientern\n\nPo skarva Scrip. No. 14876-848242/341 kc, în x/n Yan Ching Chun\n\n14981-276485:20 Az.\n\n200\n\n100\n\n100\n\n100\n\nfor\n\nOCTOBER.\n\nTSANG FOOK. PIANO CO.,\n\n8, Des Voeux Road, Central,\n\n(Entrance lee Honge Street)\n\nTelephone 21648.\n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS\n\nAT\n\nAll other Advertisements 4 p.m.\n\nGray's Yellow Lantern Shops Alexanden Bldg. Tel. 21854\n\n140:33–440691/900\n\n17726–898257/454\n\n17727–222457/50% 40-\n\n17728-878381/456\n\nChau Chik Nia\n\n-do\n\n---\n\nTHE SOY KUT BANK.\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\n-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\n\"& BAD ONE.\n\nUNITED\n\nMATSO\n\n- EDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nFor a good fit\n\nto go\n\nA-MAN, HING\n\n1\n\nCHEON.\n\n(LATE AA-MEN HING CHEANG.\n\nECU\n\nTAILORS. DIAPERS\n\n& OUTFFITERS\n\nto Military Officers\n\nfor many years.\n\n34. Qarena Rood Central.\n\nT! 23334\n\nWHITE ANTS\n\nand cockroaches will be banished from every place where care is taken to use\n\nFLUIDE EXPRESS.\n\nSale Agents: Compagnis Ostore. Proman Bukhang. Das Vanch Boyd, Canteni,\n\nTH. SI5\n\nANCHORS\n\nBUTTER\n\nFOR OVER\n\nHALF A CENTURY\n\nthe \"ANCHOR \"symbol has been the Sterling\n\nnurk of baller,\n\nIt is your guarantee i\n\nFINEST QUALITY.\n\nAsk For It By The Kaize\n\nsold by-\n\nThe South China old Storage Co., Ltd.\n\n221 Da Vomux Rand Centr\n\nThe Cafeteria. Peninsula Hotel, Kowloos. Rahim Store. Shameen Distritor.\n\nARGE SIZ\n\nExtra moisture.. Easier shaving\n\nWilleme Sharing Creem is the diman at 90 years' experienes in making Father for sukuning the hoord and com\n\nalling the skin.\n\nTrabanels 10% intera meistars them way ather Fedkar we know of Thara why your ride aldas sa swiftly and smoothly, and your beard comes all\n\nsa dasa and clean, Willana la millal ve tõeline poravnavalenty!\n\nAdnak at Williams Aque Velva niður shaving, well knep your side smooth and soft all day long-leak as Wi inther Inmuna 195. Try this. habeat playlag domination. For sale everywhat\n\nDodge & Seymour (China) Ltd.\n\nHagk my Shangbai-Harbin\n\nWilliams\n\nSHAVING CREAM — AGUA VELVA\n\nCLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS\n\n25 WORDS $1.50 for 3 DAYS PREPAID\n\nFOR EVERY ADDITIONAL DAY\n\n50\n\nIF NOT PREPAID A BOOKING FEE OF\n\n50 IS CHARGED.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE=EN\" CENTRE LATHE, Amarinan makA VI, DE, Melor X 1.2, complete with whiske for KIR GRUN Going Thong. Desar\n\n= (1 Bed\n\nPORNALE – MANOMAG CAR, 200 ronning vier, Jeromeni til 2002 1945. Can banen 12 Kathan Garags, Köni Ja amat Team dua Na\n\nFOR SALE. 1990 SUNBEAM boleč tyrke, overkant valve quim, perfect Peking crter, prien 1975, or senrent Konfor selling, wwIAL mon at WIH BIT NO. 26, \"g С. И Pet\"\n\nFOR MALE-ZA-TRAR ICARETER CAMERA Pie 15\" x 24\" PONTEARE and plate. Terra) F714 \"Campur Sheller swabbe uztenaten, ailment new.\n\nReplies in the following Box Nombora uze lying at this\n\nC\n\nNo Te TH 10) Pe Koh, KAI BAT PUT A L\n\nHid KT 840 149 R44 8 20\n\nbakııı Replies to the following Box Numbers were called for and/or forwarded ta nádvertisers, yesterday:—\n\nYALE\n\nE\n\nwww\n\nZuma pa andrium should neeskijaky MěTETİRMİZM, THES necovariis far pukilentiam, hatt ta medwore that replies received by the person Cực shom they are intended.\n\nTHE MAXI-KAUNE RUPEI ELL\n\nTe\n\nHax No. 1,\n\n#K. FI. PAL\"\n\nS\n\nH\n\nWe will forwačil teplies to the stated nádro L Live Advertiser desires\n\nIf the wants) kalvnctioors are quickly met and they de met derden any further repila tevazásd, we shall be glad to be\n\ncomplir In that cløbct\n\nyou\n\nPosted replies to advertisements will be accepted, if they ar not sufficiently stamped. Correct postage in Three Cent..\n\nLOST.\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nWANTED.-TNI\n\nSAFE The Evek med chillin, Kanisan po Write Box No. 14, “S. C. K.\n\nTHE AMERICAN CONSILATS GENERAL WHL FENOL Bulatan for a STENOGRAPHER, Thorval knowledge of Englik, Contamme, atomography vasential. Applien išoma, jelang začećanom sisi vžgečlanew, will on received by maat volt.\n\nED\n\nWANTED TO BUY.\n\nWANTED TO MITOM \"BOB\" časa in puod condition Write Box Nu C. H Fool\"\n\n$106_ Wrike Bust Ha, 241, \"4 (LM).\n\n| FOR BAR\"LL TEARETEK theo\n\nmonth Goal polgan, Aly\n\nKe\n\nTỉnh Bình Hà Lan Hà T\n\nP\n\nPOST\n\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 23.\n\n1931.\n\nNow On Sale\n\nThe New\n\nVICTOR DANCE\n\nRECORDS\n\nFor October\n\nS. Meutrie & Co., Ltd\n\nChater Road.\n\nFOR SALE BY AGE BOILER & STEAM PIPE COVERING.\n\n| KOPRIGERATOR, far tally man\n\nswing chang. Chiar fearing Colony,\n\nFriss Box Na Bail, \"8. C. M. Be“\n\nFOR SALE—AVEIEN 7. H. 1928\n\n5. C, PAL\"\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBUSY BEES WORKING PARTY. TATEGEMAN JONG DRIVE = The Halana May Salatuta, Thersing, Orsakar 29, at 12pm, land, at St. Dunstan and Local Chart\n\nTelephoto 27900,\n\nPREMISES WANTED.\n\nWa malu a speciality of thủa cines of work and\n\nskall it led te quote for carvering with zapantas Magmada Plate Covering or 4-bestos Rope Lagging.\n\nTHE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO., Zanna Bunding, Chater Road, Bing Kong\n\nTUITION GIVEN.\n\nPREMISTS TO LET.\n\nTO LET, XBET CRESCENT, WANTED,\n\nValready\n\nwell 1993 and graduate Tasekáč, PUPILS IN EMPT garden and a Putnamien Erba v J Brandaza, se turn an Tich NovembR PIL. Apply to 7. 3. Dvening Chan\n\nWetta Box No. 24L, PE (C. S. Park.\"\n\nvary\n\nTO LET.—ndary Street, Keminen, uns. VOLGAN'S SCHOOL AT DVMa- i PEAN HOG.DE WIN all makers on sewing and eating. Everse gosZAR Tegen de dinge Apply to soul. Apply Salam, 4D, Hankow\n\nCaBxtreme-Oriani, Kand, Kowloon,\n\n14 REWAN 10 will be plea. La sajose benzine hack by Sirs. Thompson, BA WANTED TO PURCHASE (1) WANTED. – Furdsked me thľuzakk\n\n|et FLAI, Dreamber til, at a HT Carharra Bend, Jewison, pet IPAR- Jak hal 14 de may end keel. Wene Bax 200, 100, Frmer zal jubing, sin desc.\n\nKÓW Zapad 12 Belober evening, 380T GUN. Nast in excellent lery them Kongkang apierem sad camion Swami Fill Bulk. We what marka en meeka Bave band Bead NA. 12, 13. C. H. ETM for Uhren Jokes, very taske nhl Bay Wanted TO BUY-PEIZEZEN'S Do My Lata may kasas\n\n\"ODE TUN, EDTA, Son-ha\n\nFOUND.\n\nWANTED TO M'T—A km, m\n\nPOUND at kepulag Bay sa Sunday, FURNITURE AN CAMIONAC MARKET Corting the beer by Jellery Nabina, M, Nalikan\n\nHi Mera Homes | Kent, Kriens\n\nbattle, etc.\n\nIN\"\n\nPOSITIONS WANTED.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nc\n\n| WANTED TO RENT A ROOM IN | muita að Ölben mit used by pesant\n\nCentral position. Partan\n\nCM. Pool\"\n\nHULSE TO LEGING 7_ Almai Villa, Kaylyn, Apple so The Ya Ring C., Sukan Senad Wei Handen.\n\nWANTED KNOWN.\n\nTO 19 turvasan PLATS, VIFATE CHRISTMAS E NEW ama ng Kerian, s YEAR GREETING CARDS rated with skate, whites And MoRAKTILIN pg ddha bet kad sad thestamble at Ye Olde Pompetir, 192,\n\nPREMISES TO LET.\n\nwith a sad\n\nVORAN PALAU\n\n--་་\n\nDANIG JIMI HAC \"LUTCART MACHINA, OFFICE to 127—in Almunten for jy dan lage sormonta\n\nACCESSORIES for at kad at\n\nKONG HGTOR ACE Or ch Indent, Bank of Canden Pallding mad Kuntoon_Ersach, CE, Naharkand, (a falen). Sekoub,\n\nTO LET N« 5 Torme Bulldogs, Kimberley Hans. Komison. Apply walker, Vabantal. Apply Motorradtory HONG Spezia Dominican Peseradik.\n\nTO LET-New In-roomed PLATE, DIJEL\n\nWith ikeaa \"bačkissem, že Hankas\n\nTad, Kowloon, mext to Kawled TO LET SUTES OF OFFICES\n\n1200 D6 Du del index, SL. Googa's FOR FALL-IN\n\nHotel ARMSTRONG\n\nAvaliable sheet (lecember. „SIDDELEY, in perdues audition, Madery convenience. Ale thereelding. Any Love, Englan ENGLISH LADY Wing We rotsen (trial by Appartment Owner buying Tromel fata de Haan\" and \"ing | Masshawa, Chebleven Kalk Kaling. La Europa In the Spitz, would act or 'two kit. Fiat +ra\" Wre Paklong Ram Apply Tang Tack Co,.\n\nTelephone COMPANION, A TANK CHANGE of BeINK MA, “8. C230 BMG\" skilizan la apekaner the past prize\n\n| APARTMENTS WANTED. Wrike Box No RTU HAUL M. PE FOR SALE-STUDEBAKER LIGHT\n\n11. Khanghai body, in kood run TDUNG CHINESE, with good kaoria Phát h c N Wedge në Kresh and French, in years at 1700 songs, Wek Bor SA, experlones Panting, Actomia, 20. \"XCITE Booking correspondenče, type — writing. Filling. Cennt, weke 2031 POR BALKON DEJE UKOONakitud TION,\" whe\n\nwtelligenes BULL TERRIER PUPR Box merka\n\nMake For No M2, 1C M. PULS *S, C. X. Post\"\n\nTOK ALETAKAN KYIGHT. EUROPEAN DRAFTSMAN WAK, all vul. fumator, 1925. good mation\n\nexperience, werki LOCAL.power! 1 PE SITUATION. Would be willing sofer. Write Box No. 271, “I £32 berapi masnih zammencing malary. Root Pl redcmera Walta Den Ka M4, \"g.\n\n|UPRIGHT_PLANE FOR SALE IN\n\ngood m Pele kada Plazas\n\nWANTED.—-—--German, long yan ye. ¡waste Box No. 650, \"$ C. X. PartTM marice In Import Export, Knowledge (mu\n\nand Dark language, who Tok anÉN-LAW THEY AUSTIN Wiltą Ben NA, MT, M. C. BL 1942\" |tyre. Can be tried nay time, 3:180, for wear sar Base, . King's Park TOUNG CHINGUR der POS). Budings, Kowloon, TION, Can Trentak secgnty, Il p quared Picker write Box No HE, FOR SALE - AUSTIN – SEVEN, IN PA, CIC. PAL,\n\npospollent ryoung order. Fully Insured.\n\nEwelingben.\n\nENGLISHMAN with vinculite sia (Blackden, especting ability, trade med venneren, bl apes for ENGAGEMENT, Easter\n\nPast\"\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nPhysi\n\n•\n\nNATAL, MILITARY & AR PORCE LDIRECTORY NO 1 Detiker 1990 ON BALEA Yeodde Fromerie, DJ\n\n• Price 20 centL\n\nCOLOURED PICTURES « Bong-| keng Customa, mekkle for framing\n\n|TO LET – Fame roomed LOLSF. K\n\nSo High & Burgh, Gil, SaLK 'SE | WANTIL:--Bachelys British, re- '34 pm not. Appy HB, QA Pat\" Calon Baling, Tid Plast\n\nAula konan BOARD, Hesekne\n\nKawinen. Bersabar Eat. Mata PHOTO ALEUMS, et term, in Box 774, 19, C. M. Fast Name printed in Cold, Price Kil\n\nApply E. 6. M. Past”\n\nTO LET Now Pirkoromai Mocones, la 7, Shounen Hil| Hanč, Deep Water Bay Garage vilachri\n\ntem canin\n\nC. K\n\nThe command. Magsilent. APARTMENTS TO LET, STRONG GLER CYLINDERS VIEW. MAJATA FORMS NOROMA. TWITT de from town Apply Time Tark, ('0, 1 Queen's\n\n“entru Telesham 2500).\n\n--\n\n-\n\nApply\n\nBANSARD.\n\nAPARTMENT TO LET-Lady RONGKONG — Main PAYING GUEST,, der bergi 187 page 18 pm man kabla ** | TO EXT -*weished HOLME MAGINATION, with verandak, over 2. 32 Panel Phafukum Modern Saltatlan, bar | Jooking the mik, of water-frank mar kathon maand gauge serommodation, buty, karlegt. All modern con FORTH of ATTORNET, FULL Vicjant from middle of Nevesker fer | Tanners, and perllong Tond, Waw TESTAMENT A LEAKE (ema tweder mania, Wola Ban No. Mh. | Box No: 951, 8. C. 1, PAL\"\n\nTamty-des_serta sack. Apply MR. CNL\n\n'C. M. \"Pa\"\n\n30\n\nLET.-glow, Niew\n\nMAP\n\n10 1:37. —Pak levels, friskal de bussed, Light und GAME 192- THE TORT\" TYPECON roomed HOUSE, teng being, for, Roods.\" Tebrate Matheson, Jarga besalitilly kihegrovhed, also matala Emanche from March 1998. Hoone (vodka, välialul view of Socket lag the Ông and Houreiracy. G. E. 1. Refrigerator and poke furry, power. Ton voimal, olors, Thigh\n\nI H\n\nme bé ens if required. Write Bax No. Content Track Cond. Weste bat deritani, Pris 1, mate va ME, \"COM \"PAL **\n\n1294, 49, \" C. M. PAL\"\n\nMurrayers – A. TO LES, - From 1st November, 1981, TO LET. THe well furnished single\n\n-\n\n(thrior suite kaba Oli Di sana Seried at Morray Barrachi, ŝino. Apply\n\nWHEN A Madem\n\nF\n\nJAR SALE. ACH AUSTIN VE 2 Al2ON, in ræclient condition and newly re unkolaterad... Engine in frie CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND + class cuming poder add owner driv\n\nTARY AMAK for Wy of 17 Buonchos. Zrice $1,360, Wrier Bas Kowloon de Witte Box No. 445. Xu, 29, *5. © E. Pool\" \"S. C. H. Pe\"\n\nTADIBA Beautifully marDed WANTED. -- Olce Assistant SHOST- SQUIRREL COAT made sporially HAND TYPIST par with side bas (pobrsary iku yaar) from mich erlenen preferred. Fromspent weer klik. Full Jenaik, rond median siar. Ema and Kwal synaserta... for puitable Marasin 1990. Apply keen STL mmallake. Apply in ama bamburicing Prima. KER.\n\nan Thi Na Mi, C. I. Ban\n\nCONTENTS OF EUROPEAN FLAT WANTED. COVERS member 16 years she, zumal-key code\n\nBerbak, French an German tar 5. top hoor, 200 Nathan Kol girl sped 12, 15 mm G Esply, panna, sata bid 1947 PULA, MIK HE Phông khhay requced, preciom ex- Owane Jeneing Cahay, Fries 31,800. patroon na štro E tank way for quick sale. May be ved at kys Imparat Chemien! Trămatzes CENZORY BAG ont. Kap, Ti), 38867 se wenz\n\nRix No.4K CLE. Put\n\nPerleri\n\nhen.\n\nTHE ADVERTIERE winken to Bent FOR BALDO\n\nHome Oxford\" TOUZËR applicants wie segħek, BOL NO WARISAN MAR 1. P25\"The pazitim ka ng Fatirely Pow been led\n\nAny trial, Avely Major Kewiecie, Peak Hotel WANTED. —Yome Ladiaa gentlemen for CANVASSING WORK FOR FALK-BUCK MUSER 19 Comanianega kaas, maar 1920 Blade) în perfort, work,\n\nTenis Cable persons for meg, mg malitian Tapurtian, a vi Apply Room 2 Tanne Beldig, đá by sporting Rate Bec Na 100,\n\n- - - -\n\nNo. 184 WASHER Kit, 4 prong BEDROOMS, WHk all man da CNIOR TO THE COMPANIES DR-\n\nDrop HOUSE ¦ vemences, in sand, paly, FIA, DINANCIA OF RANGKONG, Ska with all madera convenience pand\n\nKawa Peking copy Apply “8, 47, 24. PHE pings Apply to Credit Father Date, bet fint & and 7 JUN\n\nFranck\n\nPURIDGE MARKERA 118 maak. Being TL NI. PLAGE\n\nTO LET WLOON, from Novom: FAZILLS, # ceste sach. TO HE LET-BAD Vega Rand, Ponty, andőt, with indar MITCHELL'S\n\nIngia kame, quiet GUN, PREM\n\nCentral, Ground Tror, divided * REPNITTING.\n\nwapa na tegu 266. ADDIT|Mitzelni. Dean & Co. Lei\n\nGAL DAL\n\n-\n\nTO LET.--GROUND FLOOR, Na, dy Cammy Buildings, (s. 194) MathAS | WANTED—Billeh bachelor to jata\n\n3\n\n2\n\nYEAR\n\nGUARANTEE\n\nand\n\nYEAR\n\n5\n\nEASY PAYMENT.\n\nGENERAL ELECTRIC ALL STEEL REFRIGERATOR\n\nWrite or call for fuel particniner,\n\nOn How\n\nBanging life Co., Lim Wan. G. Jack & On, LME\n\nANDERSEN MEYER & OU, LID Fur Agents.\n\nThe General Electric Co. of China Ltd.\n\nDr. ROUSSEL\n\nHemostyl Syrup.\n\nTHE CLASSIC TREATMENT FOR ALL CASES OF ANAEMIAS, EXHAUSTIONS, WEAKNESS, ETC.\n\nFlomonisk u send a woman lawan meube HOLAR BELUM salad at mek tan vchan the surma) NE 15 100 Satijne poros a best ingentem sad ie sheeptors by sa A man dathomed by an immediate\n\nChiainable from all Dispensaries.\n\nStock and free samples at:\n\nThe Franco-Eastern Trading Co.\n\n· Lo srpnu did 15 Francs.\n\nBank of China Building\n\nPhone 21657,\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\nEEK-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\nAMY!\n\nPRIVATE\n\nCODE\n\nUNITED ANGHTS\n\nKiedy kenden. Apar le Cies of the TO ALL SHIPPING.\n\nFrench Comfort Taskálags, ma\n\nLocate merk Write Bax No. 163,| CONNE\n\n10. LET EUROPRAN STYLED TO HOUSE 12, Jememe: Kand, Kozlova po DET TA VEZ Shin! They had to flacan 201 Village Hongkong = 46, 59A SINGLE ROOM\n\ntempa rompt, and zwangą dwuki\n\nwalk private bath attached, terma Kesi mudrante, aptor Wa Pa\n\nAndy 4, Glemas. Tel.\n\nwith Mere\n\nSong 11, Thy đầa Mead, TEL 2009\n\n-----------\n\n20140\n\n| TO LET.—MVE BOOMED HOUSE. AIRLIĖ MOTEL. – 31-25,\n\nKomal Korbank. Apply Excelle\n\nTHE MOMENT Aram, Kerrison, Ariāl\n\nHola Tal Duermber\n\nPleven Bulan & Fraser ČR, LIL\n\nAlexanden Baldžiaga.\n\nTO T\n\nprom marina_indst Star Parry And maket Teen2ity, fuggished and un- furnished. Exempina PLATE with ad Thighly ad Modern Becommodation and Bank\n\nBent very\n\nLibert\n\nCOMPANIES.\n\nNathan\n\nAllustrated Direction in\n\nellek and Chinese, for the Adjamaent of RONG-\n\nBONG STANDARD LIFE\n\nJACKETS are now ready\n\nRegule Three minutna from fema Tel Biz?\n\nTUITION GIVEN\n\nvinden, a far af tre nanny, funtibod GERMAN ERSONA relem by Pulier Batel German Grademan Trauer, with\n\nkod mng be purchase? ni\n\nthe slice of the\n\nkang ana tak jackrarna, kitakes, inngstanding supercaron at teaching SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, Makaste chappen Addemi Į Į & K. Wyndham Street, Hongkong Haiphong Road, Kowloon. Tel FEM. La Box N, MA, “E COOL PA.\"\n\nP\n\nBAD ONE.\n\nEDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nThere is nothing to equa\n\nBURGESS' LION OINTMENT'İ\n\nBankalarang ke manat Hala, Alarm, Wha\n\nLg, Öân, Hànt, Bella, Spain, Bentay\n\nست\n\n299 A Now be for Lense\n\nTRA\n\nPVM A PURE\n\nMAKSAT-A, 1 Mama 4 Di Lad | foldć Matiballà đaj 2 Là van Tweli, da\n\n+\n\nE. BURGESS, 59, GRAY'S INN ROAD, LONDON, W.D.1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533576, "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": "CO129-539-12 Loans for public works- military finances 26-2-1932 - 7-3-1933", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-539-12 Loans for public works- military finances 26-2-1932 - 7-3-1933", "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n195\n\nGovernment by private architects in the past and these are compared with similar buildings by the Architectural Office, they are divided under two heads-Police Stations and Government Quarters and show the following results:-\n\n \n \n Built by Architectural Office.\n Built by Private Architects.\n \n \n Police Stations (average cost per foot cube)\n 41 cents\n 53 cents\n \n \n Government quarters (average cost per foot cube)\n 36.2 cents\n 48 cents\n \n\n\"From the foregoing it will be seen that executive charges by the Architectural Office are a fraction only of those by private architects and that the actual cost of building has been substantially less.\n\n\"Other aspects of the case have also to be considered- convenience to Government, stores from home, presentation of reports, minor alterations and additions, quality of work, etc.\n\n\"The Public Works Department has, at various times, been criticised from the point of view of cost of staff as compared with value of work executed, and it can readily be seen that to take away just those works where the expenditure is large and executive charges a small percentage, is to place the Department in a position where this criticism can most easily be made.”\n\nIn any case there are a thousand and one duties proper to the Public Works Department which it is not suggested should be so handed over-buildings and works of essential importance but of no spectacular value-and the staff must be maintained to cope with them. The occasional transfer of a big undertaking would make comparatively little difference to the regular staff it is necessary to maintain, and could hardly result in any economy unless in the case of very exceptional works.\n\nThe Government experience of outside Public Works on the few occasions where we have contracted out has always enhanced the reputation of our own officers, and I am glad of this opportunity to champion their cause. (Applause).\n\nTheir work may not be showy-they are forced to consider utility first-and its first cost may at times be high. But we have keen and efficient overseeing of all detail, and the reduction of upkeep amply restores the balance in the ultimate cost.\n\nI am glad of this opportunity to say a word on behalf of our Public Works Department whose work throughout is, I believe, acknowledged to be at least as good as any to be found in the Colony. (Applause).\n\n55", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-12 Loans for public works- military finances 26-2-1932 - 7-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 534001, "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": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "content_text": "21\n\n6\n\nCHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES.\n\n(Tables XXII to XXV).\n\n35. There are nine \"Chinese Public Dispensaries\" situated in the populous centres on both sides of the Harbour, and two Maternity Hospitals (the Tsan Yuk in the West, and the Wanchai Hospital in the East) which are an important part of the Dispensaries Organisation. There is an annual Government grant of $2,000, and the Dispensaries and Hospitals are built on land granted by the Government: further, the Government finds one Medical Officer in charge of Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries, and three Assistant Medical Officers (Ladies) to supervise the medical work. Otherwise, all the eleven institutions are financed by the Chinese Community and are managed by Chinese Committees with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs as Chairman of the General Committee.\n\n36. An enormous and ever-increasing number of sick, too poor to pay for doctor's fees or buy proper medicine, are successfully reached. In the three big hospitals, the patient can choose between Western and Chinese methods of treatment, but here in the Dispensaries, he is treated only by Western methods and with the best drugs procurable bought from the Government Central Medical Stores. Lady doctors treat the gynaecological cases once a week in eight of the Dispensaries.\n\n37. The reconstructed and enlarged Dispensary on Yaumati waterfront, which caters largely for the floating population, was nearing completion at the end of the year, and an entirely new Dispensary at Kowloon City, on a central site granted by Government, is in process of construction. Dispensaries at Shaukiwan, Aberdeen, and Wanchai are also in excellent buildings of their kind. The Central Dispensary has been enlarged. Instruments for small minor operations and tooth forceps are being added to each Dispensary, and each will in time have its own microscope, especially for differentiating the Malarias which form a big percentage of the cases treated.\n\n38. Each Dispensary acts as a focus for Propaganda-breaking down prejudices against \"Foreign\" Medicines and Methods of Treatment.\n\n39. The Dispensaries undertake the removal also of corpses to mortuaries, and they supply coffins.\n\n40. Sick, too serious for outpatient treatment, are removed by the Dispensaries to hospital.\n\n41. For summary of work done in the Dispensaries, see Table XXII.\n\n7\n\nTSAN YUK MATERNITY HOSPITAL.\n\n(Table XXVI).\n\n42. This Hospital is a part of the organisation financed and managed by the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee. Its proximity to the University has made it a convenient centre for the training of Medical Students in residence, and an arrangement has been made under which the Committee recognises this fact and welcomes the voluntary assistance of the University Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Dr. R. E. Tottenham) who is in effect in direct or supervising charge of all the patients in the Hospital. The arrangement is to mutual advantage: but it may be that the extra cost to the Committee of medicines and supplies, due to the use of the Institution as a training school, will need consideration in the near future. Dr. S. K. Lam is the Chinese Public Dispensary Doctor in residence.\n\n43. There are sixty beds—forty-seven Maternity and thirteen Gynaecology.\n\n \n \n 1931\n 1930\n \n \n Admissions\n 1,823\n 1,326\n \n \n Deliveries\n 1,248\n 1,251\n \n \n Still-births\n 46\n 69\n \n \n Maternal Deaths\n 3\n 2\n \n\n44. The clinical work in the outpatient department is carried on by the staff of the Assistant Visiting Medical Officer, Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries.\n\n45. In addition to ordinary gynaecological cases, there are special clinics for Ante-natal, Infant Welfare, and Venereal Disease.\n\nWANCHAI MATERNITY HOSPITAL.\n\n46. During 1931, this hospital, as the result of the initiative and energy of Messrs. Wong Kwong-tin and Li Jow-san, has been remodelled and enlarged. Consequently, patients, not being able to enter there, went elsewhere, and statistics fell off. The reconstructed Hospital was opened towards the end of the year, and the extra accommodation and improved equipment will be of great benefit to a crowded neighbourhood. Dr. Ho Ko-tsun is in charge.\n\n47. There are twenty-two beds. Eighty-three cases were admitted in the year and delivered. No deaths occurred during 1931.\n\n22", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535581, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n195\n\nGovernment by private architects in the past and these are compared with similar buildings by the Architectural Office, they are divided under two heads-Police Stations and Government Quarters and show the following results:-\n\n \n \n Built by Architectural Office.\n Built by Private Architects.\n \n \n Police Stations (average cost per foot cube)\n 41 cents\n 53 cents\n \n \n Government quarters (average cost per foot cube)\n 362 cents\n 48 cents\n \n\n\"From the foregoing it will be seen that executive charges by the Architectural Office are a fraction only of those by private architects and that the actual cost of building has been substantially less.\n\n\"Other aspects of the case have also to be considered- convenience to Government, stores from home, presentation of reports, minor alterations and additions, quality of work, etc.\n\n\"The Public Works Department has, at various times, been criticised from the point of view of cost of staff as compared with value of work executed, and it can readily be seen that to take away just those works where the expenditure is large and executive charges a small percentage, is to place the Department in a position where this criticism can most easily be made.\"\n\nIn any case there are a thousand and one duties proper to the Public Works Department which it is not suggested should be so handed over-buildings and works of essential importance but of no spectacular value-and the staff must be maintained to cope with them. The occasional transfer of a big undertaking would make comparatively little difference to the regular staff it is necessary to maintain, and could hardly result in any economy unless in the case of very exceptional works.\n\nThe Government experience of outside Public Works on the few occasions where we have contracted out has always enhanced the reputation of our own officers, and I am glad of this opportunity to champion their cause. (Applause).\n\nTheir work may not be showy--they are forced to consider utility first-and its first cost may at times be high. But we have keen and efficient overseeing of all detail, and the reduction of upkeep amply restores the balance in the ultimate cost.\n\nI am glad of this opportunity to say a word on behalf of our Public Works Department whose work throughout is, I believe, acknowledged to be at least as good as any to be found in the Colony. (Applause).\n\n199", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535615, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "229\n\n(8)\n\nDEBATE ON THE BUDGET.\n\n(Continued from Page 18.)\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING\n\n\"Comparison of Executive Charges and Cost of Building by (a) Architectural Office and (b) Private Architects, may almost be taken as token figures—an earnest of our sympathy which must be strong to find the sums promised in these times. The sums are as much as we can afford, and have comparatively little connexion with the requirements of the scheme, as these requirements have recently been altered, as hon. members are aware, and may with permission be as low as 50; it must also be remembered that the work executed during this period, however, is about half of which has been a time of retrenchment, consists mainly of comparatively small works where, the percentage cost by this office but not by private architects is greater than in the case of really large works.\n\nExecutive Charges by the Architectural Office for the two large works about to be commenced—the new Gaol and the new Government Civil Hospital—would be little more than one third of those by private architects. The charge of 9% applied in the calculation of cost by private architects is based upon the scale of charges authorized by the Royal Institute of British Architects and includes the preparation of bills of quantities and other items.\n\nAn Experiment.\n\nThe creation of a new section in the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff is quite a separate matter and is an experiment designed to meet an untenable position with minimum of expense. You cannot man forty-one posts with a staff of forty-nine if one fifth of their number are always on leave. It so happens that during the current year the number of Cadet officers on leave has been much below the true proportion and it has been possible to mitigate the difficulties of the clerical position by placing Cadet officers in the two clerical posts at the Magistracies. It is only at the Magistracies that Cadet officers have been employed in clerical duties. But next year the disproportion of Cadet leaves is in the other direction and we shall have great difficulty in manning the Cadet posts if we are not to detain certain Cadet officers in the Colony beyond their proper term.\n\nSpecialisation.\n\n\"Actual cost of building as distinct from executive charges the buildings considered cover the majority of those executed for Government by private architects in the past and these are compared with similar buildings by the Architectural Office, they are divided under two heads Police Stations and Government Quarters and show the following results:\n\n \n Built by Architectural Office.\n Built by Private Architects.\n \n \n Police Stations (average cost per foot cube\n 41 cents, 53 cents.\n \n \n Government quarters (do)\n 86½ cents, 48 cents.\n \n\nI note in passing that the Hon. Mr. Shenton refers to an offer of $60,000 spread over three years. I am not aware what this refers to. The amount provided in the Estimates is $300,000 spread over five years.\n\nWe are not meanwhile delaying in providing accommodation at Kai Tak. A new commercial aviation Hangar is under consideration, and the facts and figures you have heard to-day from the Hon. Mr. Shenton are being carefully weighed so that the new hangar when it is provided shall as far as possible be sufficient for all needs. But the uncertainties of every phase of the subject of aviation make the question an exceedingly difficult one.\n\nKowloon Post Office. Balancing Costs.\n\nTurning to the Kowloon Post Office, I fear I have small satisfaction for hon. members if they were hoping that the plans and preliminaries were ready for an early start of the work. It is only recently that the scattered requirements of Kowloon were crystallised into the idea of a large building which would house a number of departments and to some extent relieve Kowloon residents of the trouble of crossing to Hongkong for Government work. Much has to be done before it is even possible to begin on the design, and no more can now be said than that the requirements of the various departments are being examined. One thing only is clear—that it would be uneconomic to design a Post Office only which might well have to be pulled down in the near future.\n\n\"From the foregoing it will be seen that executive charges by the Architectural Office are a fraction only of those by private architects, and that the actual cost of building has been substantially less.\n\n\"Other aspects of the case have also to be considered—convenience to Government, stores from Home, presentation of reports, minor alterations and additions, quality of work, etc.\n\n\"The Public Works Department has, at various times, been criticised from the point of view of cost of staff as compared with value of work executed and it can readily be seen that to take away just those works where the expenditure is large and executive charges a small percentage is to place the Department in a position where this criticism can most easily be made.\"\n\nShipping Taxes.\n\nTribute to P.W.D.\n\nIn any case there are a thousand and one duties proper to the Public Works Department which it is not suggested should be so handed over—buildings and works of essential importance but of no spectacular value—and the staff must be maintained to cope with them. The occasional transfer of a big undertaking would make comparatively little difference to the regular staff at all, it is necessary to consider the effect of demanding specialisation in appointments. Unless we can be content with the wider kind of generalisation. that deals with a knowledge of the Chinese, a watertight compartment will be called for strengthened to allow for absences on sickness or on leave; no transfers between departments will be possible and the expense of the personnel will be increased. It is a difficult choice, but the method Government has chosen during all these years of appointing a selected cadet to be Director of Education cannot be called unsuccessful. It is further a practice which finds justification in the views of the Retrenchment Commission.\n\nContracting Out.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell has referred to the question of harbour plus. Our Estimates will show that the expenditure on the harbour is greater than the consistently revenue, and perhaps the Shipping interests are rather liable to forget such items as Water Police, the hydrographic survey, dredging charges, Praya walls and the upkeep of Harbour Department buildings.\n\nAny shortage could hardly result in any economy unless in the case of very exceptional works. The Government is not prepared to disturb to the further disadvantage of the general taxpayer the existing distribution of taxation.\n\nThe question of introducing a compounded fee has been carefully considered, but it is the Government's opinion that the fairest method of taxation is that based on the use made of the port. On this basis Hongkong is a cheap port as compared with other ports offering the same facilities.\n\nIt should be noted that river steamers pay according to the number of entries per month. They are therefore no exception to the rule of payment according to use made of the port.\n\nI am in this matter only repeating some of the conclusions reached in a detailed correspondence of a few months ago. The bearings of the question were then fully considered, and in the view of the Government no sufficient reason has yet been shewn for varying the decisions then taken.\n\nKowloon Hospital.\n\nOur experience of outside Public Works on the few occasions where we have contracted out has always enhanced the reputation of our own officers, and I am glad of this opportunity to champion their cause. Their work may not be showy—they are forced to consider utility first and its first cost may at times be high. But we have keen and efficient overseeing of all detail, and the reduction of upkeep amply restores the balance in the ultimate cost. I am glad of this opportunity to say a word on behalf of our Public Works Department whose work throughout is, I believe, acknowledged to be at least as good as any to be found in the Colony.\n\nThere is one final consideration in this connexion. The idea may be that contracting out would secure more rapid progress in any one designing our more important schemes. Progress however is rather a matter of the work that can be done in a limited area, but still more of the money provided. The Government purse is not unlimited, and the first calls are the many works that are little noticed but are essentially necessary, and no more funds in any year could be provided to an outside contractor than to the Public Works Department.\n\nThe Outpatients Department at the Kowloon Hospital is a suggestion with which the Government has every sympathy. It is too late for the Budget before you, but I am authorised by His Excellency to state that the question will be reviewed as soon as may be in 1933 and that if the finances allow a vote will be asked for to make a beginning with the work.\n\nI take the opportunity here, in connexion with several questions concerning the Medical Department, to say generally that the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services is engaged with the Law Officers in formulating his views for the reorganisation of the Medical and Sanitary work of the Colony. The task is an arduous one, but when complete will make it possible to view the whole suggestion in the simplest possible way as a comprehensive whole.\n\nAviation.\n\nThe question of Aviation in Hongkong has been prominent in the debate. In such a new and untried subject I suggest that very close thought is required at the outset to find the fundamental principles that should guide us locally. Aviation is not a local concern even a Training School and a Flying Club can exist only as parts of a wider whole. No large aviation enterprise has ever started and few if any exist without a subsidy, of the kind that can only be provided by a National Government which is too big for a Colony like Hongkong to consider, and there are many considerations other than the subsidy—which make it necessary to rest any aviation scheme which is to be given a hope of success on National assistance. We can be sympathetic and ready to do our bit, but we cannot stand on our own feet alone; and it is with this in mind that entries to foster aviation have been made in the Estimates.\n\nKowloon Cemetery.\n\nThe Cemetery in the centre of Kowloon must undoubtedly go in the course of time: but as it still provides room for 5,000 burials a year, other accommodation must be found before it can be given up. Arrangements for (Continued on Page 18.)\n\nPage 230\n\n(9)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 538007, "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": "CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934", "content_text": "# S. O. \n\n(M.F. 237.\n\n(2) \n\nA plea for relief from assessment tax was presented by Che Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall and the Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, but the Colonial Treasurer pointed out that separate assessment for each floor would involve a trebling of the staff and would be impracticable.\n\nOther interesting points in the course of the debate were: a tentative promise by the Government to build a motor road to Saiwan if the Chinese Bathing Clubs are shifted there. The raising of a new loan in the near future. Explanations of the delay in building the Central British school and adding a second harbour pipe line. Prospect of abolition of free allowance of water. Plans for extension of facilities for vocational education. Government undertaking that if any profit is made on the City Hall and Government House development scheme, it will be spent in ameliorating the slum condition in the city. The resumption of a hotbed of malaria at Aberdeen and still greater efforts to stamp out the disease at Shing Mun.\n\n## SLUM CLEARANCE WORK \n\nThe Hon. Sir Henry Pollock said:—Your Excellency, It is my privilege as Senior Unofficial Member, to address this Council regarding the Budget for 1934, on behalf of the whole body of the Unofficial members, with the exception of the Honourable Mr. J.P. Braga, who was unfortunately prevented by illness from attending our meeting, and the Honourable Mr. Paul Lauder, who was absent from the Colony.\n\nIt comes as no surprise to those who have watched the depressing and progressively downward course of trade in this Colony, which has naturally been accompanied by a big shrinkage in some of our important heads of revenue, to learn that the Government is once again producing a \"colourless budget\". Perhaps the only thing upon which the Colony can whole-heartedly congratulate itself, in connexion with the Estimates for 1934, is that no increase of taxation is considered necessary, as might well have been the case if the course of exchange between our local dollar and sterling had been less favourable to us. At the same time we have the sum of $500,000 re the Naval Arsenal and Kellett Island still unpaid.\n\nAnd now, for convenience sake, I will endeavour, in reply to the speech of the Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, to deal with the various subjects dealt with by him in the same order as he has done.\n\n### Liquor, Tobacco and Opium\n\nWith regard to the considerable drop in the import duties on liquor and tobacco for the first half of 1933 as compared with the Estimates for that period, we should like, as drinks and smokes are perhaps the last things which people ordinarily forego, a searching inquiry to be made as to whether we might not, in these hard times, possibly obtain larger local consumption and revenue by reducing the duties on liquor and tobacco.\n\nWhilst fully recognising the good intentions of those who think that they can succeed in prohibiting the smoking of opium, we regret that, with our long experience of this Colony, we consider that such an aim is a hopeless one.\n\n### Central British School\n\nIt is satisfactory to note that the Government is seriously considering the erection of a new Post Office at Kowloon Point, and we hope that its erection will not remain merely a pious hope for many years to come as has happened in the case of the new Gaol, the new Government Civil Hospital, the new Central British School and other projects which have hung fire for so long in the past after having been approved of in principle.\n\nIn regard to the new Central British School, this seems a convenient point to interpose some words of criticism. On September 22, 1932, in the debate on the Budget for 1933 (see Hongkong Hansard for 1932, at page 154) the then Acting Colonial Secretary, the Honourable Mr. E. R. Hallifax, said: \"The Government has selected the Government Civil Hospital, the Central British School and the Kowloon Hospital as the objects on which attention should most immediately be concentrated.\"\n\nThe results of that concentration as regards the site for the new Central British School have been particularly disappointing. In view of the fact that the site, which had been originally selected for the School, had been (notwithstanding repeated tests from the Kowloon Residents' Association) at the time when the then Acting Colonial Secretary made the above remarks, already appropriated as a site for the new Mental Hospital, one would have thought that the very least that the Government should have done would have been to let out the contract for the site formation of the new substituted site for the new Central British School as soon as possible after the 22nd September, 1932, and thus remove as speedily as possible the disgrace of British children in this Colony continuing for one moment longer than was necessary to be taught in the higgledy-piggledy and far too small congeries of buildings which form the present Central British School.\n\nBut what are the facts as to the site formation of the new school site? They are almost unbelievable. I have recently learned, as the result of inquiries, that the contract for the site formation of the new site for the new School was only signed on May 30 this year, and that the contract stipulates 15 months for the completion of such site formation. So much for Government concentration.\n\n### Air Services\n\nIn regard to Air Services, we would echo the hope, expressed by the Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, that very shortly agreements, on a mutually", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543284, "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": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "## THE GOVERNMENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL\n\n387. This was originally a Police Station but was adapted as a hospital and has accommodation for 26 beds in six wards. The hospital is situated very close to the extreme western end of the Island and next door to the Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital. It is admirably situated for its purpose, being more or less isolated yet convenient for access by ambulance, by bus, or by launch.\n\n388. During the year, the hospital was under the charge of Dr. G. V. A. Griffith, who supervised the work there in addition to his other duties.\n\n389. During the year, there were 281 admissions and 135 deaths. The following table shows the nature of the diseases and the cause of death.\n\n| Diseases | Admission | Death | Death Rate |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Cerebro-spinal meningitis | 61 | 26 | 42.6 per cent |\n| Cholera | 200 | 103 | 51.5 |\n| Smallpox | 6 | 2 | 33.3 |\n| Leprosy | 3 | 1 | 33.3 |\n\nDuring the cholera outbreak, the hospital, which is normally without any resident medical officer, had one full-time and one part-time Chinese Medical Officers resident.\n\n## THE CHINESE HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES\n\n390. The Chinese Hospitals and Chinese Dispensaries are institutions established by the Chinese for the benefit of the poor of Chinese nationality. Intended to be additional to, not in substitution of, the Government Hospitals, they serve a very useful purpose not only in the matter of medical relief but in that of health education.\n\n391. An enormous and ever-increasing number of sick, too poor to pay a doctor's fee or to buy proper medicine, and unwilling or unable for one reason or another to attend at a Government Hospital, are successfully reached.\n\n392. There are three general hospitals, one smallpox hospital, two maternity hospitals, and nine public dispensaries. They are maintained by subscriptions from the public, by donations from the Chinese General Charities Fund, and by direct grants from Government. They are controlled by Chinese Committees who work in close cooperation with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n393. In the three big hospitals, the patient can choose between Western and Chinese methods of treatment, but in the Maternity Hospitals and Dispensaries, Western Medicine only is practised. Government Lady Doctors hold gynaecological clinics in each of the dispensaries once or twice a week.\n\n394. Both Hospitals and Dispensaries are subject to inspection by the Government Medical Department. There are four officers of the Department whose duty it is to visit the various institutions and to give advice and assistance. These officers work in close touch with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n## THE CHINESE HOSPITALS\n\n395. The Tung Wah Hospital, situated in the centre of the most thickly populated areas in Victoria, was first occupied in 1873. The Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital was established in 1902. The Kwong Wah Hospital was built in Kowloon in 1911 as an extension of the Tung Wah. The Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, another branch of the Tung Wah, situated in an open space in the east of Victoria, was opened in November, 1929. The Government gave the sites and with grants of money assisted in the erection of the buildings.\n\n396. In administrative control of the four hospitals is the Tung Wah Committee, a body of Chinese gentlemen elected each year by the subscribers.\n\n397. Originally intended for the accommodation and treatment of those Chinese whose fears and prejudices against Western medicine prevented their applying for relief at the Government Hospitals, these institutions at a later period introduced and encouraged scientific methods. As prejudice disappeared and confidence grew, the demand for Western medicine increased until now the number being treated by this method equals that which still pins its faith to the plasters and decoctions of the herbalists.\n\n398. The activities of the Chinese Hospitals include:\n\n(a) The care of the sick and treatment by Western methods or Chinese methods according to the wish of the patients.\n\n(b) Maternity benefits and infant welfare by Western methods only.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544943, "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": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## C 12\n\n6. Five hundred and ninety-five women, girls, and children were admitted without warrant. Thirty-seven were lost children, eighty-one were accompanied by parents or guardians, and eighty were maidservants or \"mui-tsai\" who had left their employers.\n\n7. On leaving the Kuk, 220 persons were restored to husbands or other relatives, thirty-two were sent to charitable institutions in China, nineteen were given in adoption, four married, 276 were released after enquiries, five were released under bond, and twenty-two were sent to a School, Convent, or Refuge in the Colony. The number of inmates remaining in the Kuk on December 31st was sixty-six.\n\n8. Fifty-one cases of sickness were sent to the Tung Wah Hospital for treatment, and of these, four died.\n\n9. The Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E., continued to serve in his capacity as Visiting Justice throughout the year. Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, O.B.E., was appointed a Visiting Justice in March to fill the place of Mr. M. T. Johnson, who resigned on leaving the Colony.\n\n10. The continued personal interest shown by Mrs. R. H. Kotewall and Mrs. S. W. Tso is much appreciated and is of genuine help to the Institution.\n\n14th March, 1934.\n\n**A. E. WOOD, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Chairman**\n\n## C 13\n\n### Annexe B\n\n#### THE CHINESE HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES\n\n1. The Chinese Hospitals and Chinese Dispensaries are institutions established by the Chinese for the benefit of the poor of Chinese race. Intended to supplement the Government Hospitals, they serve a very useful purpose not only in the matter of medical relief but also in that of health education.\n\n2. An enormous and ever-increasing number of sick, too poor to pay a doctor's fee or to buy proper medicine, and unwilling or unable for one reason or another to attend at a Government Hospital, are successfully reached.\n\n3. There are three general hospitals, one smallpox hospital, two maternity hospitals, and nine public dispensaries. They are maintained by subscriptions from the public, by donations from the Chinese General Charities Fund, and by direct grants from Government. They are controlled by Chinese Committees who work in close cooperation with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n4. In the three big hospitals, the patient can choose between Western and Chinese methods of treatment, but in the Maternity Hospitals and Dispensaries, Western Medicine only is practised. Government Lady Doctors hold gynaecological clinics in each of the Dispensaries once or twice a week.\n\n5. Both Hospitals and Dispensaries are subject to inspection by the Government Medical Department. There are five officers of the Department whose duty it is to visit the various institutions and to give advice and assistance. These officers work in close touch with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n#### THE CHINESE HOSPITALS\n\n6. The Tung Wah Hospital, situated in the centre of the most thickly populated area in Victoria, was first occupied in 1873. The Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital was established in 1902. The Kwong Wah Hospital in Kowloon was built by public subscription in 1911 to meet the needs of the Kowloon peninsula. The Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, a branch of the Tung Wah, situated in an open space in the east of Victoria, was opened in November, 1929. The Government gave the sites and, with grants of money, assisted in the erection of the buildings.\n\n7. In administrative control of the four hospitals is the Tung Wah Committee, a body of Chinese gentlemen elected annually.\n\n323", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545957, "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": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "content_text": "(\n\nC. S. 0.\n\nM.F. 237.\n\n>\n\nThe Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell said:-I regret to find that no provision has been made in respect of a subsidy to commercial aviation, and I would like to support the remarks made by my Honourable friends, Sir William Shenton and Mr. C. G. S. Mackie on this subject. It appear from this omission that there is no immediate prospect of Hongkong being linked up with any of the main airways of the world. This is not a pleasant prospect, because commercial aviation is going ahead at such a great pace that it will not be long before most of the great commercial centres of the world are so linked up.\n\nThe reason for this is that the service would not pay at first and, therefore, no private company could undertake to provide a service without a substantial subsidy from the Government. In time, however, I am quite sure that the service would pay its way. The general public would very soon become air-minded when they saw the tremendous saving in time both as regards passengers and mail was appreciated.\n\nI believe that the Government have done their best under difficult circumstances, but I trust that the absence of the provision for a possible subsidy does not mean that they are in any way relaxing their efforts.\n\nThe essence of all this is that the knowledge that sometimes an air liner leaves, say, once a week from the aerodrome at Kai Tak - on which, incidentally, the Colony has spent a great deal of money and people knew that, barring accidents, their letters would be delivered in London within eight days - would make a great difference.\n\nIt is quite true that the I.G.P. besides administering a very large force of men doing different duties may, and does, have to take the responsibility of a decision under unusual and difficult circumstances which may involve human life, and I maintain that with that grave responsibility resting on him his post is entitled to as large a salary as any Government post other than the very highest.\n\nI would ask the Government, therefore, to consider their decision on this point.\n\nThe stories offer, but the abundant evidence of material progress at every turn that contributes to the comfort and well-being of the inhabitants. The service rendered by the public utility companies in efficient mass transportation by land and water, the public lighting on the Island and at Kowloon all contribute to secure better amenities and appreciable public improvements that present themselves as the collective efforts of private enterprise in collaboration with the various Government Departments.\n\nThe constant betterment of the roads can be pointed to with pride since they are as nearly perfect as climatic conditions will permit in Hongkong. The orderliness of our teeming population, the excellent regulation of the harbour traffic, the dignity and unpretentious simplicity of design of public buildings and their maintenance, the discipline and fine physique of our guardians of the peace and, lastly, the admirable cleanliness of our roads and sanitary services bespeak an excellence of co-ordination in the public and private services that reflect the greatest credit on the Colony.\n\nFor this credit, I wish to subscribe my humble quota to the unofficial appreciation voiced by the Senior Unofficial Member of Your Excellency's administration of the government of the Colony during a period fraught with difficulties and perplexity.\n\nAIR SERVICES.\n\nHon. Mr. Bell Stresses Their Importance.\n\nTHE I.G.P'S. SALARY.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell said:-I regret to find that no provision has been made in respect of a subsidy to commercial aviation...\n\n[...]\n\nI.G.P.'s Salary.\n\nThe Police Force consists of a number of men of different nationalities functioning on land on the Island and at Kowloon, and on sea within the waters of the Colony. In addition, the Water Police are provided with launches some of which are armed with 3-pounder guns and machine guns, carry searchlights etc., and have to deal with acts of piracy within the waters of the Colony.\n\nBig Responsibility.\n\nIt is obvious that the Head of such a force must have great responsibility. Riots have taken place in this Colony when the I.G.P. has had to take the great responsibility of decision - and a very quick decision under difficult and unusual circumstances to order the forces under him to fire.\n\nThe post of I.G.P. carries with it, at present, the position of Head of the Fire Brigade, an important post.\n\nI know that there are a great many difficulties, but surely they cannot be insuperable.\n\nPoor Street Lighting.\n\nAnd now, gentlemen, I ask you to imagine that for a few moments the mantle of the Hon. Member for Kowloon has fallen upon me. That very useful body of citizens, the Kowloon Residents Association, have been bringing to the attention of the Government the pressing necessity of better lighting in Kowloon, citing more particularly Nathan Road, one of the main thoroughfares.\n\nThey brought this to the attention of the Government seven years ago, but still the lighting of that important thoroughfare leaves a great deal to be desired.\n\nNow, according to the Ministry of Transport \"Bad lighting is worse than no lighting.\" That conclusion is reached in their findings and recommendations on fatal road accidents in England during the first six months of 1933.\n\nI take it, gentlemen, that you will accept that finding and will not wish me to take up your time labouring the point.\n\nI regret to see that the salary of the Head of our Police Force and Fire Brigade is in future to be reduced.\n\nIf the salaries of all Government officials were to be reduced proportionately - as has happened in practically every mercantile firm in the Colony - then no exception could be taken.\n\nThis, however, seems to be a solitary instance and one naturally enquires for the reason.\n\nThe Government has, for a number of years, been building up a trained cadre of police officers and I understand that this process is nearing completion and that when the present I.G.P. retires, the custom of appointing a No. 1 Cadet to the post will cease.\n\nThe Salaries Commission recommended that when the change was effected, the proposed reduction should be made.\n\nThe recommendation is given in Clause 112 of the Report by the Salaries Commission.\n\nIt is unfortunate, however, that no reason is given for the recommendation.\n\nWith all due respect to the very able gentlemen who composed that Commission, I cannot find myself in agreement with them.\n\nAmazing Progress.\n\nI am tempted here to digress for a moment to expatiate on the expansion of Hongkong, Kowloon, and the New Territories, and on the progress made.\n\nI feel that full marks must be given to the Town Planning Committee which was occupied by market gardeners.\n\nI find wide streets and fine houses where formerly the roads passed through low-lying gardens from which the pungent smell of Perfume de Chine arose on the evening air.\n\nThat is unforgettable.\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91\n\n97", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549814, "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": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "content_text": "260\n\n6\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nSub-head 66.-Kowloon Tsai Development, $20,000.-To continue site preparation suitable for Garden City or other approved development.\n\n33\n\n27\n\n67.-Kowloon Walled City, New Village Type Houses and Site Formation, $34,000. To continue the reprovisioning of villagers from Kowloon Walled City in a new area to the north east of Chuk Un.\n\n68.--Exhumation of Chinese Cemeteries, $1,000.-To provide for the removal of Chinese graves which may obstruct development.\n\n69.-Laying out new areas, Chinese Cemeteries, $2,000.-To provide new burial areas in existing cemeteries.\n\n70.-Formation of Access Road to New Cemeteries area North & East of Hammer Hill (1st Section), $15,000.-To permit the commencement of work on an access road to this new cemetery area.\n\n71.-Formation of Cemetery Area for one year's burials North and East of Hammer Hill, $12,000.-It is considered that the time is opportune to commence the closure of the Central Chinese Cemetery area in Kowloon. The sum asked for under this sub-head will permit one year's burial in part of the area which it is intended will ultimately replace the old Central Chinese Cemetery.\n\nWATER WORKS.\n\n72.-Back Lane Service Pipes, $7,000.-To provide for the extension of subsidiary service pipes in back lanes in newly developed properties to obviate the excessive cutting of roads which would be necessary for direct connection to principal mains. These subsidiary mains are eventually paid for by house owners when connections are requested.\n\n73.-Distribution Mains, $7,000.-To provide for water mains in newly developed areas.\n\nPORT WORKS.\n\n74.-Refuse Dump at Kun Tong, $20,000.-To provide for the handling and covering over with soil in a controlled dump of a large portion of the Colony's refuse.\n\n75.-Refuse Boat Pier at Kweilin Street, Shamshuipo, $2,000.-Payment of retention money.\n\nPUBLIC HEALTH & BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.\n\n76. Compensation and Resumptions, $8,000.--This vote covers expenditure incurred in the acquisition of buildings and land necessitated by Town Planning Improvement.\n\nANTI-MALARIAL WORKS.\n\n77.—Anti-malarial works including cost of resumption, $10,000.—This vote is for anti-malarial work in Kowloon. It provides for the training of stream courses, and draining of swamps to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes.\n\nNEW TERRITORIES.\n\nBUILDINGS.\n\nSub-head 78.-Market and Site Preparation at Tsun Wan, $17,000.-To permit the commencement of site preparation on which this market will ultimately be built.\n\n37\n\n79.-Block House and Well, Ta Ku Ling, $30,000.-To provide for the replacement by a proper building of the existing Ta Ku Ling Block House which was originally an old Chinese house. It is considered preferable to meet Police requirements by doing this rather than by making any big addition to Lin Ma Hang Police Station.\n\nGENERAL WORKS.\n\n80.-Roads, $5,000. To cover expenditure in connection with the development of Sha Tau Kok, Taipo Market and Un Long.\n\n81.—Drainage.\n\n82.-\n\n(a) Training Nullahs, $2,000.—To be expended in permanent nullah training.\n\n(b) Miscellaneous Drainage Works, $3,000.—To provide for miscellaneous drainage works made necessary by development at Sha Tan Kok, Taipo Market and Un Long.\n\n83.-Miscellaneous, $5,000.—This vote is available for all Departments and provides funds for small works which arise during the year but are considered too small for a separate vote.\n\n84.-Water Works, Miscellaneous, $3,000.—For general extension to Government mains and service supplies required by new development.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n85.--Barbed Wire Barricades at Sheung Shui, Au Tau, Ping Shan and Sai Kung Police Station, $3,850.-To replace the existing barbed wire fence by an apron fence entanglement.\n\n86.—Additional Cells and Stores at Taipo Police Station, $3,500.—Extra accommodation is required at this Station which is a collecting point for prisoners taken in the New Territories. The additional store is required for records and small stores.\n\n87.-Compensation and Resumptions, $2,000.-For minor resumptions which become necessary during the year in connection with road, street or other improvements.\n\nWATER WORKS.\n\n88.-Water Supply at Castle Peak, $7,000. To provide a water supply for this district which will serve expected development.\n\n261", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549859, "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": "CO129-555-3 Proposed transfer of lands near Kai Tak to the War Department 22-8-1935 - 16-1-1936", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-555-3 Proposed transfer of lands near Kai Tak to the War Department 22-8-1935 - 16-1-1936", "content_text": "9\n\n28/12\n\nWe should certainly refuse to commit H.K. to paying for these buildings whenever W.O. feel like vacating them. We should also press for payment of rent on Sham Shui Po area.\n\nW.D. have no claim to live rent free there, in view of the Defence Contribution Ordinance.\n\nA R Lowell\n\nAt once.\n\n29/7/36\n\n21.00.37-\n\n12 NOV 1935\n\nTo H. Kong. conf (2) 1/1 - 13 NOV 1935 (a).. 3)\n\n5 To Treasury. We (1), (2) to send. (3)\n\nM Gaunt\n\nR 297\n\nTo an later\n\nRI\n\nAnd (1) to 13734/33.\n\nBib.\n\n13 NOV 1935\n\nReply to B/6. & Main 2/1/26\n\nIn view of the financial situation in H.K., I think that some action is needed.\n\nIf reminder is justified.\n\nCy Carstairs\n\n2/6/36", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-3 Proposed transfer of lands near Kai Tak to the War Department 22-8-1935 - 16-1-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551099, "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": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "page_number": 220, "title": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "content_text": "## GENERAL WORKS\n\n### Sub-head 39.—Ma Tau Kok Slaughter House, $6,080.—To permit an extension for cattle lairage, meat hanging and the construction of a manure bin at this slaughterhouse.\n\n## GENERAL WORKS\n\n40.—Roads. $30,000.—The vote will meet expenditure incurred on road surfacing, kerbing, channelling and the construction of footpaths in new areas under development.\n\n41.—Drainage.—(a) Training Nullahs. $1,000.—This sum is required to meet the cost of training stream courses where this is necessary due to new development.\n\n(b) Miscellaneous, $30,000.—Required to meet the cost of providing sewers and storm water drains for houses in newly developed areas.\n\n42.—Miscellaneous, $5,000.—This vote is available for all Departments and provides funds for minor works which arise during the year but are considered too small for a separate vote.\n\n43. Water Works.—(a) Meters, $22,000.—To provide for the supply of meters throughout the year.\n\n(b) Miscellaneous, $6,000.—Provides for small extensions to subsidiary water mains and other miscellaneous minor works.\n\n44.—Port Works, $1,000.—Required for taking soundings, borings and preliminary investigations in connection with new and proposed harbour works, foreshore dumping, etc.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\n\n45.—Chinese Cemeteries, laying out new areas, $3,500.—To provide for new burial areas in existing cemeteries.\n\n46.—Chinese Cemeteries, Exhumation in Chinese Cemeteries, $1,000.—To provide for the removal of Chinese graves which may obstruct development.\n\n47.—Street Name Plates. $2,000.—To cover the expenditure required for the provision of new nameplates.\n\n48.—Mong Kok Police Station, Rewiring, $1,800.—To replace the existing wiring in this Police Station. This work is overdue.\n\n## WATER WORKS\n\n49.—Back Lane Service Pipes, $5,000—To provide for the extension of subsidiary service pipes in back lanes in newly developed properties to obviate the excessive cutting of roads which would be necessary for direct connection to principal mains. These subsidiary mains are eventually paid for by house owners when connections are requested.\n\n50.—Distribution Mains, $5,000.—To provide for water mains in newly developed areas.\n\n## BUILDINGS ORDINANCE\n\n51.—Compensation and Resumptions, $5,000.—For expenditure in the acquisition of buildings and land necessitated by Town Planning Improvement.\n\n## NEW KOWLOON\n\n## GENERAL WORKS\n\n### Sub-head 52.—Roads, $10,000. To meet expenditure for surfacing, kerbing and channelling roads made necessary by new development.\n\n53. Drainage (a) Training Nullahs, $8,000.—To provide for the training of stream courses in and adjoining areas under development.\n\n(b) Miscellaneous, $35,000.—Required for sewers and storm water drains in areas under development.\n\n54.—Miscellaneous, $2,000. This vote is available for all Departments and provides funds for minor works which arise during the year but are considered too small for a separate vote.\n\n55.—Water Works, $4,000.—Provides for small extensions to subsidiary water mains and other miscellaneous minor works.\n\n56.—Port Works, $500.—Expenditure necessary in connection with preliminary investigations for proposed harbour works, foreshore dumping, etc.\n\n## COMMUNICATIONS\n\n57.—Taipo Road, 3rd to 5th Mile Improvements, $10,000.—To cover expenditure on the opening out of bends on this section of the Taipo Road.\n\n58.—Customs Pass Road Widening, $60,000.—To widen and improve the lower section of existing road so that it will be able to carry motor traffic.\n\n59.—Aerodrome, Runway, $40,000.—To cover half the cost of the runway which is being constructed by the Works and Buildings section of the R.A.F. at Kai Tak. The other half of the cost is being found by the Air Ministry.\n\n60. Recreation Grounds, $25,000.—To provide for the development of a new recreation ground area to the West of the Polo Ground at Boundary Street.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\n\n61.—Chinese Cemeteries, Laying out new areas, $2,000.—To provide new burial areas in existing cemeteries.\n\n62.—Chinese Cemeteries, Exhumation in Chinese Cemeteries, $1,000.—To provide for the removal of Chinese graves which may obstruct development.\n\n63.—New Cemetery No. 7, $11,000.—To permit of the formation of a further section of this Cemetery. Expenditure will be principally on the formation of burial spaces, access paths and storm water channels. Work on this cemetery was commenced this year.\n\n64.—Street Name Plates, $1,000.—To cover the expenditure required for the provision of new nameplates.\n\n65.—Kowloon City Police Station, Rewiring, $3,100.—To replace the existing wiring in this Police Station. This work is overdue.\n\nPage 220 \nPage 221", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553563, "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": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, \n## 115\n\nenvisaged by the Gollan Report, and it requires no special aptitude for figures to realize how much sterling-paid Civil Servants are benefiting and how much this Colony (whose revenues are collected in dollars) is losing.\n\nIn short, sterling-paid Civil Servants are receiving not only a considerable increase in their sterling pay, which the authors of the Gollan Report did intend, but also an exchange bonus by converting that increased sterling pay into dollars at one and threepence, which the authors of that Report certainly did not intend; thus seriously crippling the Colony's programme of Public Works Extraordinary.\n\nThe big slump in exchange at the beginning of November, 1935, which has since become slightly accentuated, has made the recommendations of the Gollan Report as to increases of sterling salaries too favourable to sterling-paid Civil Servants, and we hope that, with the able assistance and experience of the Financial Secretary, a new scale of sterling salaries or some modification of the rate of exchange at which they are payable may shortly be evolved, which is not only fair to the sterling-paid Civil Servants but which also bears some relation to the financial ability of this Colony to afford the payment of such salaries—a point which is apt to be overlooked.\n\nThe Unofficial Members of Council do not propose to waste the time of this Council by moving any amendments to the figures in clause 2 of this Appropriation Bill, although, for the reasons above given in criticizing the Gollan Report, they must not be taken to agree with them.\n\nAnother point in regard to which it seems to us that some revision should be exercised is in regard to the privilege accorded to Government Servants of occupying quarters (which are paid for and maintained and repaired out of revenue) upon the basis of their paying 6 per cent. only of their salary as rent.\n\nThis seems to us a very low percentage of salary payable as rent as compared with the percentage of their salary which most civilians who are not Civil Servants have to pay in this Colony for rent.\n\nWe consider, moreover, that such a percentage should be on a sliding scale and not on a flat rate, and that it should be calculated in such a way as to produce some sort of fair economic return upon the capital cost and upon the cost of repairing the buildings occupied.\n\nWe suggest that a local Committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the subject from the above angle of the Colony obtaining a fair return on its money. The recent typhoon of the 2nd September serves to emphasize the big bill which the taxpayer has sometimes to meet for repairs to Government buildings. (Applause).\n\n## 179", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554018, "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": "CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937", "content_text": "# \n## \n\nQ \n\nApart from school education, the United Missions were anxious to initiate some scheme of welfare work. Considerable stress had been laid in the Report on the Copperbelt disturbances upon the importance of the provision of suitable literature, and the Missions hoped to help with this provision. Facilities for recreation and women's work were also needed.\n\nThe present situation in the Copperbelt was unsatisfactory, not only from the point of view of education, but generally. There were many elements of uncertainty; no Mission was fully informed as to the work which other Missions were going to undertake, and a difficult position consequently arose. There were 3,000 children of school age on the Copperbelt, but until recently, hardly any schools had been provided. The younger children loitered about the compounds and picked up bad habits, while the older boys put bad habits into practice. The Copperbelt disturbances had shown that these older children had become a real danger to society. (In passing, the Bishop mentioned that in any scheme for their welfare, it must be remembered that children in this area had an advantage over other children in that they were well fed and their physical condition good.)\n\nIt was proposed that school buildings should be established at each mine and that the Missions should provide six teachers for each school. These teachers would work under the direction of one of the ministers of religion who would be resident, one at each mine, and who would naturally be persons with native experience. The scheme also included the appointment of an educationist whose services would be utilized by all of these schools. At present, the Missions were the only bodies who could supply teachers in this area. The teachers would be very carefully selected, would be of good character, and appreciative of the importance of religious instruction and religious needs. The mining authorities were inclined to take the line that the building of schools was the business of the Government and showed little willingness to make any contribution themselves. But he had been led to understand that some of the mines might possibly contribute half the cost of the buildings. Little progress could be made until this question had been settled. And when schools were built, the question of fees would arise. In view of the many attractions outside the schools, the children might in any case not attend regularly, and if fees were insisted upon, the attendance might be still poorer.\n\nHe believed that the Government and the mining authorities were opposed to any kind of compulsion, but if the attendance of the children was irregular, it was doubtful whether the schools would be much use. He sometimes wondered whether pressure could be brought to bear on the children in the way resorted to by their parents, i.e., by reducing their allowance of food. The parents were generally anxious for the children to attend school. In the villages, the parents had very little control over their children, and in the Copperbelt area, still less.\n\nHe understood that the Nkana mine preferred to have schools inside the compound but wished them to be run by Government or by the mine management with Government help. The other two mines preferred schools outside the compound and would be willing for the Missions to run them, so long as they were not involved in inter-Mission disputes. There was a feeling in the mines that the Missions would be antagonistic towards each other, but he himself did not believe this. The present scheme of missionary co-operation would largely eliminate all danger of this.\n\nIt must be realized that, whatever scheme was finally agreed upon, the mine compound was a most undesirable environment for children or youths. When the present scheme had been prepared, he had been told that there was no possibility of the children being removed from the compound, but since then, it had been suggested that children over elementary school age should be sent away, probably back to their own villages, where they would be placed under the care of relatives.\n\nIn reply to a question, the Bishop said that a number of the mine workers came from Nyasaland. One of the difficulties in any scheme for removing the children was that transport facilities would have to be afforded by the Government. Directly the question of removing the children was faced, the views of the parents and the mining authorities had to be considered. The latter kept a close watch on the parents, and the parents would be opposed to the proposal. He added that he was in favour of a compulsory short-period contract.\n\nThe Bishop agreed that even if the proposal to send away children over elementary school age were to be put into effect, there would still be a great deal of work for the United Missions to do among the younger children and the adults. The men employed in the mines left their wives behind, but they took other wives in the Copperbelt, so there would always be children on the mines. He did not know if a great deal would be gained by endeavouring to remove the bulk of the children from the mines. A short service system, though helpful, would not perhaps be so satisfactory from the point of view of the mining authorities.\n\n## \n\nMR. MAYHEW asked what financial support would be needed for the upkeep of the staff.\n\nTHE BISHOP said that the Government undertook to give two-thirds of the wage of a teacher holding a Government certificate, and all teachers employed would hold such a certificate. It was admitted, he thought, that teachers in the mining areas would have to be paid more than those in the villages, owing to the higher cost of living. The Missions were prepared to differentiate. But when the Government first took the matter up, they had insisted that the Missions were not paying the teachers high enough salaries; that they could not expect to obtain or keep efficient teachers if they were paid so little; and that teachers must be paid on a scale which would compare favourably with the salaries which they might reasonably hope to obtain in other occupations open to them. The Government had accordingly suggested a scale on which wages would rise from 20s. to 40s. a month, and had offered, if this were accepted, to contribute two-thirds of the cost. This scale the Bishop regarded as a grave mistake, although he admitted that the Scottish Mission had been and were paying up to 40s. a month.\n\nReplying to further questions, the BISHOP said the native artisan in the mines was paid 17s. 6d. a month, plus food and housing, which was good pay for Northern Rhodesia. For the most part, the schools in European areas were Government schools. Where the Mission employed a teacher in the European settlement, a higher salary had to be paid. The training for teachers was long; there was a big wastage, and he did not think any Mission would find it easy to procure enough teachers, partly because the Missions were much hampered by what the Missions had suffered a few years ago when their grants and the number of teachers were reduced. Teachers were trained at various schools, each of the larger Missions having a training centre. The Government were now training teachers at Mazabuka, but none of them had had any Secondary education. In Northern Rhodesia, the demand for teachers seemed inexhaustible.\n\nAsked whether adequate teachers could be obtained at the salary offered, the Bishop admitted that this could be arranged only at some cost to the villages, which were already short of teachers. The mining authorities had agreed to give every facility for the buildings and would provide brick and corrugated iron. They had, however, no buildings which they could place at the disposal of the Missions.\n\nIn reply to a question from SIR JAMES CURRIE, the Bishop said there had been no proposals made for technical training, as the mining authorities considered it better for their workers to learn on the mines. The primary object of the present scheme was to give the children a general grounding and improve their intelligence. But the question of education was only more urgent in this area because of the congestion.\n\nMR. MAYHEW referred to the view of the Director of Native Education that, if an educationist were appointed to supervise these Mission Schools, he might find the work insufficient to occupy his whole time. He suggested that such an officer might act as a liaison officer between the Missions and the Government, advising the former generally on their educational work. THE BISHOP thought this a possible solution.\n\nThe Committee agreed that they could make no recommendation unless and until detailed proposals were received and referred to them by the Secretary of State.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN thanked the Bishop for the information that he had been good enough to give the Committee.\n\n## 6. Training of Women Teachers in the Dependencies\n\nMR. MAYHEW said that his Memorandum (`A.C.E.C. 11/37`) on this subject, which had been circulated, explained the arrangements which the Board of Education were willing to make so as to allow teachers from the dependencies to take at the end of a teacher training course the same examination as would be taken by candidates from the United Kingdom.\n\nHe considered it would be desirable if the Committee could obtain information regarding Training Colleges which would be suitable for receiving women from various regional areas in the Dependencies, particularly African women.\n\nDR. BURSTALL said she had had an opportunity of visiting certain Training Colleges. She had been very much impressed with those she had seen and had heard about the excellence of others. As far as her knowledge was concerned, she would be very glad to make suggestions in regard to Colleges. She remarked that local and climatic considerations arose to some extent in this connexion. Chichester, for example, had certain advantages in this respect over Colleges situated in the North of England.\n\nMR. MAYHEW thought it important that African women should be discouraged from coming to England without giving previous notice.\n\nPROFESSOR CLARKE suggested that the Training Colleges Association in this country should be approached, but preferably not as an Association, for information regarding suitable Colleges. An informal confidential talk could be arranged with the President. This suggestion was noted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556207, "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": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "content_text": "ENCLOSURE 2.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.\n\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937.\n\nHONGKONG'S WORST TYPHOON\n\nWIND REACHES 164 M.P.H.\n\nFIRE DISASTER DEATHS EXCEED 100\n\nTHIRTY-ONE PERSONS BELIEVED DEAD\n\nAN ENTIRE BLOCK INVOLVED\n\nFIERCE GUSTS DRIVE BIG SHIPS ASHORE\n\nWEST POINT BLAZE SEVERAL VESSELS BELIEVED TO\n\nThe heaviest loss of life throughout the period of the typhoon was that in the disastrous fire which broke out in nine four-storey buildings in West Point during the height of the storm. Thirty-one persons were afterwards reported missing, and of these seven have been definitely found dead. As the bodies were brought out of the blazing buildings they were piled on the Praya preparatory to being removed to the Public Mortuary, but huge waves swept them all into the sea, and only seven bodies were recovered yesterday.\n\nThe premises involved were 131-139 Connaught Road West. The Central Fire Station received the first call shortly before 4 a.m., and fire appliances were immediately rushed to the scene, under the supervision of Mr. J. C. Fitz-Henry, Acting Superintendent.\n\nThe outbreak started, it is believed, at No. 131, the ground floor of which was occupied by the Tak Sang, rice-dealer. On the arrival of the fire engines, the blaze had already spread to the adjoining two houses. The fire-fighters were rendered helpless by the strong winds, but eventually succeeded in bringing two hoses into action. Unfortunately, by this time, the other houses had also been ignited, while those where the outbreak started were burning through. The street was flooded and the handicap under which the members of the Fire Brigade had to work could be gauged by the fact that the water was at one time up to the waists of the men.\n\nAs the fire engines arrived, a woman with a baby on her back was seen to jump from the top-storey of one of the buildings. Both she and the child were killed instantaneously. The ground floors of the buildings in question were occupied mostly by rice-dealers, and there were also two garages.\n\nTribute to Police Interviewed, Mr. Fitz-Henry paid great tribute to the splendid work and assistance given by the Police under Sub-Inspector Nolloth. The tremendous force of the wind made the work of subduing the fire almost impossible. Water in the roadway was waist-high; and it was found impossible to send the jets of water more than a few feet into the air, as the wind immediately transferred them into spray. It was two hours before anything could be done, and another three hours before the fire could be controlled. The collapse of Jubilee Street at one time during the night threatened to prevent the fire engines and ambulances from coming out of the station. A gang of coolies, however, were soon on the job and cleared it away partly, so as not to interfere with the work of the Brigade.\n\nMANY COLLAPSES\n\nSeveral Killed on Island And in Kowloon\n\nTHE BE TOTAL LOSSES\n\nMANY KILLED IN FIRE\n\nHongkong is recovering again from another typhoon. The swift-moving cyclone which formed east of Manila a few days ago lashed the Colony from midnight Wednesday until after dawn yesterday. Irresistible gusts continuously swept the streets, smashed plate glass windows, tore heavy signboards adrift, ripped and overturned parked motor cars and shifted everything movable.\n\nThe Observatory states it was the fiercest typhoon yet experienced in Hongkong. At 125 miles per hour the wind instruments at the Observatory ceased attempting serious register. An unofficial recorder declares the force reached 164 miles per hour. The barometer dropped to the low record of 28.298.\n\nHuge waves surged over the Praya, reaching almost to Queen's Road. Mariners on the harbour spent a night of unrelieved labour and anxiety. Among the many ships in harbour were some laid up because of the war, or under repair at docks and without steam. A score of these broke loose from their doubled moorings and careered drunkenly about the harbour in a macabre dance. Among them was the Van Heutsz with 1,260 passengers on board. Most of them grounded comfortably. A few are in bad position. One, the coaster An Lee, after colliding with three warships crashed stern first on the Central Praya wall and remained there poised with forepart in the water.\n\nAt the height of the storm a tenement block of nine four-storeyed houses in the Western District went afire and 15 inmates perished.\n\nRain, totalling 5.5 inches, persisted until 10 a.m., while relieved residents ventured from barricaded dwellings to survey shambles debris everywhere, much damage to property, some 20 ships ashore, scores of smaller craft sunk, and thoroughfares, with drains choked, a foot deep in water.\n\nThe shore damage, as usual, is largely superficial, but in the aggregate very great. Several buildings were unroofed, old houses collapsed, garden walls were blown down, roads blocked by landslides, fallen telegraph poles and uprooted trees.\n\nNo estimate of total damage is possible. Casualties are estimated at more than 100.\n\nWIDESPREAD DAMAGE\n\nA spectacular effect of the gale was this huge lattice-work formed by the scaffolding on the Central Fire Station, blown down into the street by the strong gusts.\n\n--Staff Photographer.\n\nCASUALTY LIST\n\n \n An Lee,\n aground on Praya;\n back broken and complete wreck.\n \n \n Asama Maru,\n aground in Sai Wan Bay,\n no passengers; expected to be refloated shortly.\n \n \n Bonneville,\n hard on Stonecutters Island;\n little damaged.\n \n \n Dashing,\n high on rocks,\n Ching Hue Island.\n \n \n Eng Lee,\n hard aground,\n Kowloon Football Ground.\n \n \n H.M.S. Cornflower,\n aground\n Tonnochy Pier, Wanchai.\n \n \n Gertrude Maersk,\n aground Green Island\n but later towed to Kowloon Dock; damaged in collision.\n \n \n Feng Lee,\n high on rocks adjacent to\n Kowloon Dock.\n \n \n Hong Peng,\n ashore at\n Taikoo Sugar Refinery.\n \n \n Hsingking,\n aground at\n Capsing Island lighthouse.\n \n \n Hunan,\n ashore at\n Ping Chau.\n \n \n India,\n S.O.S. for assistance when drifting in harbour\n but later safely moored.\n \n \n Kalgan,\n drifted from\n Cust Rock west of Macao. After passing Pratas and moored at Kowloon Wharf with severe damage from collisions.\n \n \n Kausing,\n total wreck on\n Hue Island; all crew saved.\n \n \n Kwangchow,\n ashore on\n Lamma Island, probably a wreck.\n \n \n Luhsing,\n aground off\n Lower Laichikok Road.\n \n \n Mao Lee,\n sunk off\n Kellett Bank.\n \n \n Severn Leigh,\n S.O.S. for assistance\n \n \n \n Sheng Lee,\n hard aground off\n Chinese bankers' bathing shed, North Point.\n \n \n Shuntien,\n adrift in harbour\n but later moored.\n \n \n Shenandoah,\n sunk off\n China Light Company and Power Company's works.\n \n \n Talamba,\n aground in\n Lyeemoon Pass.\n \n \n Tymeric,\n aground at\n North Point.\n \n \n Tensing,\n aground at\n Stanley Bay.\n \n \n Van Heutsz,\n sunk off\n Green Island.\n \n\nTHREE DROWNED\n\nForeigner Loses Life When Launch Sinks\n\nSOLDIERS' FINE WORK\n\nThe captain, owner and two members of the crew of the Portuguese 180-ton motor-boat, Perola, drowned, when the vessel sank in Cheungshawan Bay about 3 a.m. yesterday.\n\nThe casualties were: Drowned: Manuel Rodrigues, Master, aged about 36; Li Lam, seaman, aged 56; Leung Khai-shui, Second Engineer, aged 31.\n\nMissing: Francisco Xavier Guerreiro, Owner and Chief Engineer, aged 39, of Woosung Street.\n\nSaved: Kam Hing, cabin boy, aged 21.\n\nThe last-named had a remarkable escape, for he clung to a piece of the wreck until he was rescued about four hours after the sinking.\n\nThe boat was built by the Kwong Fook Shing shipyard only last year. After making one trip to Macao, she returned to the Colony, sometime ago, and was lying off Cheungshawan Bay.\n\nThe bodies of the Captain and the two Chinese were recovered shortly before noon near the vicinity of the Ching disaster.\n\nThe three Chinese rescued were loud in their praises of the excellent work of the soldiers at Shamshuipo who made indefatigable efforts to save the boat's crew.\n\nMR. C. W. JEFFRIES, DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY\n\nWhen issuing his official report on the gale yesterday morning, Mr. C. W. Jeffries, Director of the Royal Observatory, declared that it was the most intense he had ever known.\n\nIt is doubtful if a storm of greater severity has ever visited the Colony.\n\nThe wind force was of such an intensity that the register of the Observatory's anemograph was incapable of recording the gusts. The barometer minimum of 28.298 was the previous lowest reading of 28.590 on August 18, 1923.\n\nShortly after dawn yesterday morning the instrument recordings showed that the wind did not drop below 140 m.p.h. Two gusts in the early morning topped the index paper and it is estimated they were approximately 164 miles an hour.\n\nOne record, at least, was proved, as .292 lower than the existing low record established on August 18, 1923.\n\nMr. V. Sorby, General Manager of the Hongkong Electric Company, stated yesterday that his anemograph recorded 160 miles per hour.\n\nBetween 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. in Hunghom, near Bailey's shipyard, three were killed and one injured in another collapse yesterday morning.\n\nCollapses on the Island occurred at 234 Queen's Road Central, 11 Nullah Lane, 1B, Western Street, 1A Centre Street and 47 Third Street. In all these accidents there was only one fatality, at the collapse at Third Street. One man was killed and four were injured.\n\nTIMELY EVACUATION\n\nCOURAGEOUS ACTION\n\nEuropean Saves Six Chinese From Shenandoah\n\nThe hulk of the Shenandoah, once a luxurious yacht, ran aground near the wharf of the China Light and Power Co., Ltd. in Kowloon Bay, with ten Chinese aboard.\n\nDozens of trees were uprooted by the gales during yesterday.\n\nWASHOUTS\n\nNathan Road Blocked In Many Places\n\nRESCUE HEROISM\n\nPolice and Civilians Do Good Work\n\nCHINESE SAVED\n\nSome splendid rescue work carried out by a party of Revenue Officers and Police sergeants along the Praya. Seven of them—C. P. O. Buller, Mr. W. Ward, Sub-Inspector Goddard, Sergt. Davis, Sergt. Scott, Sergt. Hayward and Mr. Ellis linked together by ropes ventured out in treacherous weather to rescue crews from ships, and to save little children who were stranded in huts along the Praya.\n\nDarkness added to the terror of the night and the tremendous difficulties confronting the rescue party. Nevertheless, they succeeded in saving some 70 lives, all of whom received treatment for various injuries, none of them very serious, in the Imports and Exports Department.\n\nUnhappily it was found impossible to obtain enough dry clothes and several of the unfortunate men had to spend the early hours up to dawn in blankets.\n\nOne of the most dramatic episodes occurred about 5.30 a.m. when one of the Taikoo tugs was sunk as it approached the An Lee which had been driven ashore on the Praya. The line of the rescue party rushed to the scene and took six of these men off.\n\nAt the De Luxe Garage in Nathan Road employees had a narrow escape when the roof collapsed.\n\nA man and a child were killed when a house collapsed at the corner of Ma Tau Wei and Po Wah Wan Road.\n\nAt 7.20 a.m. the No. 8 signal (gale expected from S.E.) was hoisted. When the barometer read 28.298 it was .292 lower than the existing low record established on August 18, 1923.\n\nOver 160 M.P.H\n\nRAILWAY\n\nThe Kowloon-Canton Railway suffered damage from the gale, although the extent of the damage is not yet able to be accurately estimated.\n\nTwo washouts on the line were reported between Shatin and Taipo, but the entire train service has been suspended indefinitely and the head office is awaiting fuller reports as to the extent of the damage.\n\nARMY OFFICER'S BRAVERY\n\nCaptain Rybot, of the H.K.S.B.R.A., was responsible for an act of extreme bravery.\n\nA Great Name and a Great Gin—GORDON'S DRY GIN\n\nDISTILLERY, LONDON, ENGLAND\n\nKelly & Walsh, Ltd., Chater Road, Hong Kong.\n\nTHE CITADEL $6-50\n\nDr. A. J. Cronin's new novel\n\nThe unoffending profession of medicine has in these days sustained attack by two novelists of distinction, Sinclair Lewis and Dr. Cronin. Mr. Lewis wrote from without; Dr. Cronin's assault is upon interior lines. In \"The Citadel\" there are presented three types of good doctor: the general practitioner possessed of competent knowledge and a big heart, the physician or surgeon possessed of special qualifications, also with a big heart, and the bacteriologist, who, being less subject to temptation, needs, perhaps, less cardiac capacity. Against these stand the pompous old humbugs of the villages and country towns and the ill-conditioned sharks of the great cities.\n\nAll this is doubtless very true. But it is true not only of the doctors but also of humanity. What is not true is that a district of London called \"Harley Street\" is shark-infested, so that an honest man practises there at his peril. Dr. Cronin would deny, certainly, that he had made any such suggestion; but it is in this sense that his indictment has been read by many.\n\nIt may be conceded that, within limits, Dr. Cronin has presented a lively tale full of more or less dramatic incident.\n\nHONGKONG FOOT\n\nRINGWORM\n\nBAYER\n\nTRADE MARK\n\nFUNGOL\n\nSPECIFIC FOR HONGKONG-FOOT RING-WORM AND OTHER MYCOTIC INFECTIONS OF THE SKIN\n\nBayer Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen, Germany.\n\nONLY FOR EXTERNAL USE.\n\n'FUNGOL'\n\nA scientifically prepared specific for the treatment of Fungus Skin Infections\n\nThe new 'Fungol' cure for Hongkong Foot, which is now obtainable from all pharmacies, quickly stops itching and prevents the infection from penetrating further into the tissues.\n\n'FUNGOL' is a colourless preparation which leaves no stain, greatly simplifying the treatment of Hongkong Foot, and, above all, destroys the causal agent preventing the further spread of the infection.\n\nREACHES MACAO\n\nHeavy Damage To Fishing Craft\n\nMacao, Sept. 2. A severe typhoon struck Macao in the early hours of the morning after causing great damage to fishing craft here and ashore also.\n\nJunks sheltering in the inner harbour were torn loose and wrecked on the shore in many places.—Our Own Correspondent.\n\nROBBERY DURING STORM\n\nDuring the height of the typhoon at 4.30 a.m. yesterday, three men entered the first floor of 1080 Canton Road and robbed Lo Shiu-yuen, described as a kept woman, of money and jewellery to the total value of $540. Some loss of life is feared.\n\nThere were three other inmates of the house at the time. One of the robbers was stated to have carried a revolver.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 365\n\nPage 365", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556209, "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": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937.\n\n31\n\n12\n\nYeast-Vite\n\nBATTLE FRONT AT LIUHO\n\nATTACK BY CHINESE\n\nmeans Vigour\n\nBY TAKING YEAST-VITE you can benefit TO-DAY! You can gain and enjoy the exhilarating, energetic sensation of healthful zest. You will feel in good spirits instead of being depressed.\n\nTiredness is banished, cold and chills speedily relieved, the blood enriched and the nerves made strong and steady by the powerful vitamin nutrition of this SAFE and CERTAIN cure for Depression and common ills.\n\nYEAST-VITE IS LIFE.\n\nThe speedy benefit you experience is simply the natural outcome of the pure medicinal Yeast, Vitamins, especially Vitamin \"B\", and other valuable tonic ingredients which are in every YEAST-VITE TABLET.\n\nYeast-Vite TONIC TABLETS\n\nA pure Medicinal Yeast which contains no drugs.\n\nObtainable everywhere.\n\nSale Agents: Gilman & Co., Ltd. Hong Kong.\n\nYEAST VITE TONIC TABLETS\n\ne Lightrung Pick-me-up\n\nNow & Wonderful PURE YEAST, The atmord of VITAMINS\n\nuntain Natnag Hampt\n\nYEAST-VITE To Aid War Wounded\n\nLABORATORNST WATFORD, EMBLAND\n\n3APBI\n\nThe Hongkong Chinese Women's Soldiers' Relief Association Invites Contributions of Money and Material\n\nHeadquarters: Office of Chinese Estate Co., Ltd., First Floor, China Building.\n\nTHE SHUI HING HING CO. GENERAL PROVIDERS 187-195 DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL\n\nSale STILL PROCEEDING REAL BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT\n\nGUERLAIN PERFUMERY IN FULL ASSORTMENT JUST RECEIVED ALL PRICES REDUCED SPECIALLY\n\nLIU SHALIMAR\n\nSETTLEMENT WAR ZONE REMAINS UNCHANGED\n\nCITY HOSTILITIES\n\nSerious Fighting Near Jukong Wharf\n\nALL LINES UNALTERED\n\nTIENTSIN FRONT\n\nJapanese Now Think Their Forces Sufficient\n\nTENSION RELIEVED\n\nPaoting, Sept. 1.\n\nJAPAN'S POLICY\n\nGovernment Asked To Clarify Its Attitude\n\nAPPEAL BY POLITICIANS\n\nLondon, Sept. 2. According to military intelligence received here to-day, 1,000 Japanese attached to artillery units left Tientsin to-day for Yangliuching, about 20 miles west of Tientsin.\n\nShanghai, Sept. 1. A message from Tokyo states that a full inquiry into the objectives of Japan's action in China, and clarification of the Government's purpose was recommended at a meeting of the Seiyukai (Conservative) Party by three of its leaders.\n\nEight leaders urged that the party make its aims in China more precisely known and establish a firmly-defined objective.\n\nAnother detachment of the Kwangtung Army arrived in Tientsin to-day and are being billeted in the Palitan barracks. Central News.\n\nNERVOUSNESS IN SOUTH AT FEAR OF AIR RAIDS\n\nMORE REINFORCEMENTS\n\nMain interest in the Shanghai war is centred on the fighting on the Woosung-Liuho front, where the Japanese officially claim the occupation of Lion Forest Forts on the coast about 10 miles beyond Woosung.\n\nThere was heavy fighting at Liuho and Woosung yesterday, when the Chinese launched a counter-attack against the Japanese at Lotien. Chinese reports say that a Japanese attempt to take Paoshan, north of the Woosung fort, was repulsed after a severe engagement in which hundreds of the invaders were killed.\n\nFive Japanese transports and a supply ship arrived at the Japanese wharves in the eastern district of the International Settlement on Wednesday night and landed men and material in darkness. The Japanese deny the landing of Manchukuoan troops.\n\nChinese leaders are confident of winning the war after a long and bitter struggle. Mr. T. V. Soong says that Japan is destined to find China a morass in which the Japanese armies will sink the further they drive inland. He predicts that all the $500,000,000 Liberty Bonds will be taken up within three months.\n\nBaulked by the Tientsin Consular Body in their attempt to take over the Chinese telegraph service in Tientsin, the Japanese military authorities have established their own cable service connecting Peiping and Manchukuo.\n\nThere is still much nervousness in Canton, Fukien and Kiangsi regarding possible Japanese air raids. The Canton Government has ordered all passage-towboats, launches and motor boats to avoid the bund and to anchor in the inner harbour near the foreign gunboats.\n\nThe Japanese and Chinese lines within the Settlement war zone remained unchanged yesterday despite occasional and severe exchange of fire in various sectors.\n\nTWO FOREIGNERS SHOT\n\nShanghai, Sept. 1 (9 p.m.). Crack Chinese troops are now pouring into Yuehpu, a small town about a mile and half north-west of Liuying Bridge, Road in Chapei.-Central News.\n\nDesperate Battle\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4 p.m.). Fighting Spreads\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Japanese troops were landed at the Jukong Wharf early yesterday morning, deploying out in a wide area. Fighting broke out immediately in the vicinity.\n\nAt 6 o'clock in the morning, a detachment of Japanese attacked Chinese entrenched at the Far Eastern Race Course, a mile west of the Jukong Wharf. The attack was intended to cover operations by a Japanese engineering corps to bridge the creeks at Kuanyinchai and Wang-chiachai nearby, but when the Chinese discovered their ruse, promptly shifted their positions and commenced a brisk fire in the new region, foiling all attempts to build the bridges.\n\nA party of Japanese advanced on Luchiachai, about half a mile north of the International Settlement boundary near the riverfront late in the morning. The Chinese troops stationed there withheld fire until the Japanese had moved unsuspectingly into a semicircle of Chinese troops, at which time the Chinese opened fire from all sides, killing a large number and forcing the remnants of the Japanese party to disperse.\n\nAt about the same time, another party of Japanese attacked the Chinese lines at Kuanyintang, about 1,000 yards south-west of the Jukong Wharf, but the Chinese held firm and forced the attackers to retire after a short skirmish.\n\nFollowing the landing of Japanese regulars who have taken over the Yangtsepoo area yesterday, the marines who have been holding Japanese positions in the area have been shifted to the Hongkew sector.-Central News.\n\nChinese Concentration\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 a.m.). A Japanese spokesman said the Japanese had silenced the Chinese shelling of Hongkew from Chapei.\n\nThe Japanese dropped nine shells within half an hour on Paoshan Road in Chapei district, where it is reported there is a Chinese concentration following the arrival of heavy reinforcements. United Press.\n\nPositions Unchanged\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). There was a severe exchange of fire in sectors around Shanghai, where the Chinese and Japanese lines are still unaltered.-Reuter.\n\nREINFORCEMENTS\n\nPaoshan and a mile south of Lion Forest Fort.\n\nFresh Japanese Landing In\n\nTientsin, Sept. 2. Japanese troop movements to North China have been virtually completed, the leaders believing them strong enough for any exigency.\n\nThe number of Japanese forces in North China is estimated at 120,000, and is possibly more.\n\nThe suspension of reinforcements has eased the tension in the concessions where Japanese conduct has caused frequent protests.\n\nThe British concession is strengthening the outer barricades despite Japanese assurances that troops will avoid the British concession.\n\nFIGHT TO THE END\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJapanese Establish Their Own Cable Line\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. \"Christian General\" Visits the Front\n\nLEADERS CONFIDENT\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). A visitor to the Chinese front line yesterday was Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the \"Christian General\" and vice-Chairman of the National Military Affairs Commission in Nanking.\n\nHe told interviewers that the Chinese would fight to the bitter end for the sake of world peace and China's own existence. He paid a tribute to the Chinese commanders, who he said were mindful only of their \"divine duties.\"\n\nA Bitter Struggle\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (3.37 p.m.). In an interview, Mr. T. V. Soong said that China is doomed to a long and bitter struggle, but he predicted that she will eventually be victorious.\n\nHe said peace will come when Japan realises that she is in a lane that has no turning. \"Even before the war, Japan's finances were tottering from the burdens of militarism. Her huge expenditures now merely accelerate the inevitable. She is destined to find China a morass in which the Japanese armies will sink the further they drive inland.\"-Reuter.\n\nPEIPING POSITION\n\nJapanese Putting Up New Gun Emplacements\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Reports from North China say that Peiping is daily becoming more impregnable with gun emplacements on permanent foundations replacing the earlier hasty defences.-United Press.\n\nKALGAN OCCUPIED\n\nJapanese Line Extends To Sea Front\n\nCANTON AIR RAID\n\nJapanese Plane Blown Up By Own Bomb\n\nCHINESE COMMENDED\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2.\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. A bitter land, sea and air battle is being waged at Paoshan, known as the world's smallest walled city, where the gallant Chinese garrison, although cut off from other Chinese lines in and around Shanghai, has withstood for 10 hours the troops where needed.-United Press.\n\nBig Push Imminent\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). The setting for Japan's prospective big push on all fronts in the Shanghai and Woosung and Woosung areas is being completed.\n\nYesterday's fighting, though severe, was regarded only as a curtain raiser.-Reuter.\n\nPaoshan Not Captured\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (10.29 a.m.). The Chinese admit the loss of Woosung village, but deny that the Japanese have captured Paoshan\n\nReuter.\n\nHeavy Japanese Casualties\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. The 2,000 Japanese troops who landed in the vicinity of Woosung Fort yesterday made a frantic attempt to take Paoshan, but were repulsed after a severe engagement. Several hundred Japanese are reported to have been killed and injured.\n\nHARI-KARI HEROES\n\nIt is also disclosed to-night that 2,000 Japanese landed last night around Woosung Village and the Woosung Fort area. Central News.\n\nPROPERTY DAMAGED\n\nOn Mills Suffer\n\nSettlement Landing\n\nShanghai, Sept. (4.11 a.m.).\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7.30 p.m.)\n\nChinese quarters regard the disembarkation of Japanese troops in the eastern district of the Settlement as a confession of poor success at attending the landing operations on the Liuho-Woosung coastline and assert that the presence of the Japanese troops is final confirmation that the Japanese are using the Settlement as a base of operations.\n\nBesides munitions and other war material the Japanese also landed in this section of the Settlement four and six-inch guns mounted on caterpillars.-Reuter.\n\nThree Japanese Divisions\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Three Japanese divisions, representing the crack troops of the Japanese Army, have arrived in Shanghai during the last few days, it was revealed to-day.-Central News.\n\nPush Towards Lotien\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 am.). A Japanese military spokesman said that the Chinese were attempting retaliation. However, the Japanese repulsed them.\n\nManchukuo Troops\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 a.m.). A Japanese spokesman said that Japanese troops were landing daily in Shanghai and its vicinity. He denied the presence of Manchukuans.\n\nBOMBERS IN ACTION\n\nSpectacular Japanese navy and air forces were fiercely attacking Paoshan, which the advance guard reached yesterday.-United Press.\n\nSevere Engagement\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). Heavy fighting is reported at Liuho and Woosung to-day when the Chinese launched a counter-attack against the Japanese at Lotien. They met with resistance from the air, land and sea.\n\nAt Nightfall\n\nUnloading in Darkness\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). During the night five Japanese transports and one supply ship arrived at the Japanese wharves in the eastern district of the International Settlement and unloaded men and material in darkness.-Reuter.\n\nPOOTUNG SHELLED\n\nChinese Artillery Duel With Warships\n\nShnghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). Warfare has laid Woosung in ruins. Among the buildings demolished are the Tung Chi University, run by Germans for Chinese students, and the American mortgaged Wing On Cotton mills, owned by British and Australian-born Chinese.\n\nThe bombing of the Tung Chi University was so intensive that even bomb proof dug-outs had to be evacuated.\n\nReuter.\n\nUNIVERSITY DAMAGE\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7.10 p.m.). Chinese official sources state that the Japanese bombing of Tungchi University at Woosung has caused damage to the extent of $10,000,000 Shanghai currency.\n\nPeiping despatches reported that American marines have been assigned to protect the Yenching University, 10 miles from Peiping, which is closely linked with Harvard.--United Press.\n\nTALES OF HEROISM\n\nJapanese Slaughtered By Big Sword Corps\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (10.29 a.m.) Both sides recount stirring tales of heroism in yesterday's fighting in the Shanghai area. The Chinese say many Japanese were slaughtered by parties of troops who make sorties in the night with their famous big swords-Reuter.\n\nSESSION POSTPONED\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7 p.m.). Amidst gorgeous, yet most ominous sunset skies, red splashed behind black clouds washing back from the Hongkong typhoon, four Japanese bombers gave Shanghai spectacular good-night when they carried out a reconnaissance on the Shanghai front, after which in rapid succession they power dived over the Markham Road railway yards, dropping 11 bombs, each of which flashed red amidst the smoke and debris, setting a long string of conflagrations which lit up the black night already aflame by a line of fires half a mile at Yangtszepoo.\n\nThe Shanghai fires eclipsed in brilliance, the flames illuminating Lotien, Liusong, Woosung, Paoshan and Lion Forest Forts.-United Press.\n\nShipping Precaution\n\nYesterday government ordered all the passage-boats, launches and large motor vessels to leave the Bund. They are now in the inner harbour. Thus they are all in close proximity to the foreign gunboats, and the Bund is not so likely to be bombed, which would be sure to cause great loss of life. Our Own Correspondent.\n\nRAID OVER KIANGSI\n\nJapanese Bomb Misses Telegraph Office\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. After finishing their work in Canton the Japanese planes made for Pingyuan in Kiangsi. They were after the telegraph office and one bomb was directed at it, but it missed entirely, striking a road and killing one peasant. Our Own Correspondent.\n\nATTACK ON FUKIEN\n\nOne Japanese Aeroplane Downed at Changchow\n\nFoochow, Sept. 1. One of the Japanese planes which took part in the air raid on Changchow on August 31 was shot down south of Lungyen, it was disclosed to-day. Central News.\n\nAircraft Carrier\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. At noon yesterday six Japanese bombers come from the big carrier that is lying off Nanao near the Fukien border of Kwangtung. When two bombs were dropped into the Magistracy office at Chaoling the back part of the Magistracy was blown in. Six guards were injured-Our Own Correspondent.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556212, "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": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\ntracted from the\n\nSouth China Morning Post\n\ndated 4th, Sept. 1937.\n\n34\n\n+\n\nTAIPO TIDAL WAVE TOLL\n\n200 BELIEVED DEAD\n\nDEAD\n\nRESIDENTS ISOLATED FOR TWO DAYS\n\nSHATAUKOK FISHING FLEET SUFFERS HEAVILY\n\nPOSITIONS OF SHIPS\n\nYesterday's assessment of the toll of death and damage caused by Thursday morning's typhoon, revealed that the New Territories was one of the biggest sufferers, with at least 200 dead as a result mainly of tidal wave which carried all before it for a quarter of a mile inland. Four miles of railway track was destroyed.\n\nInspection of the grounded ships that lie along the harbour's edge showed that several of them will be very difficult to move and may prove a total loss. No ships were got off yesterday, though attempts are planned to-day on the Asama Maru among others.\n\nMortuary figures are mounting as bodies are drifting in from the waters still strewn with wreckage. Though major catastrophes on the island were limited to the West Point fire, nearly every large building in the Colony suffered minor damage, and it will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair Government buildings alone.\n\nMost of the New Territories area has been isolated from the outside world since the typhoon.\n\nA tidal wave more than six feet high rose in Tolo Bay harbour shortly after 3 a.m on Thursday, swept down the entire length of the narrowing inlet, wiped out the fishing fleet of Shataukok, and devastated Taipo Old Market, after which it continued for a quarter of a mile inland,\n\nThe trail of death and destruction was surveyed yesterday by the District Officer North and police, who were on their feet from dawn till nightfall directing succour and the work of recovering lost bodies.\n\nAn old resident of Taipo who was spoken to on the telephone, communication having been restored earlier in the day, asked for the day's news \"of the outside world.\" When he was told Friday's news he protested that he could not connect events, having been shut off from Hongkong for two days,\n\n\"There is\n\nHundreds Killed\n\nwas\n\nA most pathetic scene\n\nwitnessed at Taipo Market late yesterday afternoon, when a reporter of the S. C. M. Post visited there and found that the vacant ground attached to the Taipo Post Office next to the Station of the China Light and Power Company, had been turned into a temporary mortuary with scores of bodies placed in coffins awaiting burial. Inspector A. W. Smith, who was assisted by a number of European and Chinese police officers attending to the dead and injured villagers, told the reporter that so far 110 bodies had been discovered at Taipo Market alone, and only 54 had been identified.\n\nMost of the bodies had been covered with mattresses or odd clothes. While the police officers and coolies were working under the debris, searching for further victims, many of the villagers were burying their relatives on the hills opposite the railway station, or at places nearby, without any ceremony or even the presence of a Chinese priest.\n\nAmong those killed were many women and children who were caught by the tidal wave, which Taipo residents described as occurring between 3.30 and 5 a.m. on Thursday. One very old resident said that the typhoon was certainly the worst since 1906, when on that occasion enormous destruction was done to New Territory property, but this time many more people were killed. Streets in Taipo Market and Taipo Old Market (better known as Taipo Hui) were many feet below water during the storm.\n\nScenes of Desolation\n\nThere were scenes of desolation all over Taipo and Taipo Hui, where residents had put out their belongings and clothes and shop-keepers their goods, mostly rice and other food-stuffs, under the sun to dry. Thousands of bags of rice were spoilt by water, and the total damage to property and cattle alone must be enormous.\n\n\"We have only just this minute\n\nstill without water\" he said.\n\nhad the light turned on, but we are\n\nTen two-storey houses opposite the\n\nhe said:\n\nDescribing the scene at Shataukok,\n\nTaipo Post Office were demolished\n\nevidence that a tidal wave between\n\nalong the walls, as though they had\n\nvery strong having big holes in every\n\nroof, and five and seven feet high struck the\n\nbeen bombarded.\n\ncoast early in the hours of Thursday\n\nExcept for a very few cement con-\n\nmorning. The wave hit Shataukok!\n\nand destroyed practically all fish-\n\ning boats, drowning about 30 people\n\nly all farm-houses and business pre-\n\ncrete houses it can be said that near-\n\nthere.\n\nmises in Taipo and Taipo Hui suf-\n\nfered some form of damage or other.\n\n\"The village houses stood up fairly well to the wind, but wherever the water struck the result was disastrous. The wave must have come off Tolo Harbour and flung itself onto Taipo Old Market, causing\n\nthat some 200 people must have been\n\nat Taipo Hui, where villagers said\n\nonto Taipo Old Market, causing\n\n90 deaths there, so far. It\n\nalong the streets, and went over the wall of the Market, wreckage of demolished dwellings, over the\n\nthrough the houses, and continued\n\ndespite the fact that police and\n\nfor a quarter of a mile inland, carrying the debris with it. The water\n\nsanitary coolies had worked the\n\nwhole day clearing the dead away\n\nas at this place was 20 feet higher than\n\nI have ever known.\n\n\"Altogether in this part of the New Territories I should say there are 150 deaths.\"\n\nquickly as identification permitted\n\ndead showed that the majority of\n\ntheir early burial. The bodies of the\n\nthem had drowned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556213, "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": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "content_text": "Houses Wrecked\n\nAt Taipo Hui it is conservatively estimated that 80 per cent of the houses were demolished partially or completely, and it may be one or two days before all the debris can be removed and a proper estimate be made of the exact number of villagers killed.\n\nAbout 300 yards from the Taipo Bridge, which was badly torn up, where repairs were still under progress yesterday afternoon, 30 sampans and fishing boats were washed ashore to a distance of 200 yards from the beach. A number of fishermen were there attending to their dead, and salvaging what was left of their meagre belongings.\n\nOne of them said that some 40 sampan people were killed when their craft were wrecked.\n\nLabourers worked on the damaged bridge throughout the day, and it is expected that it will be available for motor-traffic by this afternoon or tomorrow, according to a workman who was questioned.\n\nNEW INSTRUMENT\n\nAnemograph to Register Winds Up to 200 M.P.H.\n\nThe Royal Observatory was unable to register the maximum wind velocity during the height of the typhoon, due to the fact that its instrument does not take records higher than 125 miles per hour.\n\nWhilst this is more than sufficient for all normal purposes, it has long been realised that a better instrument is desirable.\n\nGovernment has now, however, undertaken to supply the Observatory with an instrument capable of registering gusts up to 200 m.p.h. This, it is understood, will be available next year.\n\nALMOST RAZED\n\nSMALL BOYS HAVE HARROWING TIME\n\nFOOD SHORTAGE\n\nA SHORE SURVEY\n\nSome Damage Done At Queen Mary Hospital\n\nThe Queen Mary Hospital stood up to the storm fairly well, but the seventh floor was littered with glass and portions of ceiling, presenting the appearance of having come through a bombardment.\n\nThe operating theatre was swept clean.\n\nPOST OFFICE FLOODED\n\nFlooded to a depth of over one foot during the typhoon of Wednesday night, the Post Office basement presented the appearance of an indoor swimming pool in the morning, and firemen were still working at draining the building yesterday.\n\nFortunately, there were only about 40 mail bags in the basement instead of the usual five or six hundred, so that only a few bags were wetted and these not extensively. The parcel mail had been raised beyond the reach of the water.\n\nRURAL ORPHANAGE\n\nThe Taipo Rural Orphanage for boys, managed by the Chinese Anglican Church Body in Hongkong, with Bishop Hall as Chairman, and another orphanage school for girls about 100 yards away, managed by the Church Missionary Society, were both affected, but the Rural Orphanage suffered very severely and its two buildings were partly demolished.\n\nSome 20 Chinese orphans and their two Chinese teachers had a narrow escape from death or serious injury when their school room and wooden dormitory, situated near the 13th milestone on Taipo Road, were wrecked by the typhoon.\n\nMINOR DESTRUCTION\n\nBut P.W.D. Bill Will Be Very Large in Aggregate\n\nInterviewed yesterday by a reporter of the S.C.M. Post, the teacher, a Mr. Li, said that when he realised that their house, which was recently erected at a cost of $800, was in imminent danger, he called all the boys together with a view to taking them to the girl's school, as the latter house was considered more substantial.\n\nAs the teachers and boys were waiting outside the dormitory for a chance to dash to the neighbouring building, the two Rural Orphanage houses collapsed. With the typhoon at its height, it was found impossible to get to the neighbouring building, and in fact, the teachers had a hard time getting the 20 small boys together.\n\nOne of the little fellows was blown off his feet, and in rescuing the child, Mr. Li suffered an injury to his wrist, which was bandaged yesterday.\n\nLater in the morning, Miss Vincent and Miss K. Langford went out in their swimming costumes from the girls' school to bring all the 20 boys to safety. Apart from receiving a bad shock, none of the children suffered injuries.\n\n\"But the most unfortunate thing is that the new school was opened on September 1, and the very same evening the two houses were smashed up by the typhoon,\" said the teacher.\n\nFood Shortage\n\nThe Chinese police quarters at Gough Hill Station were swept away by the wind during Wednesday night.\n\nRAILWAY DAMAGE\n\nCanton-Kowloon Track Quite Impassable\n\nFORTNIGHT FOR REPAIRS\n\nObviously hit by a great wave during the height of the typhoon in the early hours of Thursday morning, the track of the Kowloon-Canton Railway has been extensively damaged in numerous places over a length of seven miles between Shatin and Taipo Market.\n\nThere are big wash-outs at various spots, the most serious damage suffered being at the point where the railway skirts Tolo Harbour, where the rails are hanging over the embankment, practically into the harbour.\n\nAt several points, the embankments have been completely washed away.\n\nThe railway engineering staff is working day and night carrying out repairs, but Major R.D. Walker, the Manager, stated yesterday that the line cannot possibly be opened until September 13 at the earliest, and even this date is dependent on favourable weather.\n\nIn the course of the interview, the principal of the orphanage, Mrs. A. Blanchett, told the reporter that the orphanage was facing a serious shortage of rice as their telephone had been disconnected since the typhoon and there was no means of getting in touch with Kowloon City.\n\nThrough the reporter, Mrs. Blanchett sent a message to her missionary friends at the C.M.S. Heep Yunn Girls School for a big bag of rice to be immediately rushed to the orphanage.\n\nCASTLE PEAK\n\nFrom another source, it was learned that several casualties occurred along the Castle Peak Road.\n\nA Chinese was killed at the office of the Hong Kee Ming Company, Shing Mun; a boy was killed at Sai Lok Kok village and another at Tin Kau. Two deaths occurred at Sheungshui, where ten houses collapsed.\n\nThe body of a Chinese male was washed ashore, and a Chinese male and female were washed up at the 114-mile beach.\n\nMost of the matsheds on Castle Peak Road have been destroyed, only a few concrete and wooden structures remaining.\n\nA Dairy Farm coolie, Ho Man, aged 36, was injured when a door flew and struck him.\n\nMANY DEATHS\n\nTyphoon Toll In Hongkong And Kowloon Grows\n\nInternal injuries were received by Li Wing, aged 43, of the Wing Lee contractors' matshed at Ma Shu Wan, where a matshed collapsed.\n\nA woman, Lai Kwai-lin, aged 35, of No. 27 Yuchow Street, sustained severe burns when she accidentally touched a broken electric wire.\n\nMore than 50 dead bodies of men and women were removed to the Public Mortuary on Thursday by the police. These people met their deaths through house collapses, stepping on live electric wires, falling signboards, or drowning.\n\nAn unknown yacht that capsized in Cheungshawan caused injuries to Lai Yan, aged 52, an employee, who was in the yacht at the time.\n\nTHIEF ACTIVE\n\nMiss M.M. Tyrrell, of the Peninsula Hotel, reported that the door of her matshed at Repulse Bay was blown off during the gale, and property comprising a gramophone and some records were stolen.\n\nWhile walking along Hollywood Road, three men, Sung Wah, Chan Yuet-sing, and Sun Wai, were injured at different times through falling signboards.\n\nChan Chuen, aged 68, and Tong Ip, aged seven, a girl, were injured when a hut in which they were living at Kowloon Tong collapsed.\n\n2\n\n35", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560112, "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": "CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938", "content_text": "7. A magnificent piece of work was done in having accommodation available for 500 persons within 36 hours of instructions being received to go ahead\". Two thousand camp beds were ordered of which 200 were later taken over by the Peninsula Hotel for the dormitory accommodation arranged at that hotel. Blankets, linen and stores were lent by the Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Limited, and were placed in charge of Mrs. A. K. Taylor, as Matron, who had had previous experience in this work.\n\n8. Mr. B. A. Proulx was placed in charge at the Happy Valley Centre and worked continuously there until the Centre closed down on 10th September. He was of excellent service during the very trying period when the refugees were arriving from Shanghai and his previous knowledge of the building was of immense assistance in adapting the premises for their new use.\n\n9. Mr. F. W. Kendall was of great help also in supervising the installation of beds, etc. He has a flair for getting the utmost done in an emergency.\n\n10. As stated earlier, accommodation was available for 500 persons by the evening of 19th August. Subsequently it was clear that we could accommodate at Happy Valley about 780 persons with a further 300 if the stables, attached to the Stand were brought into use. There were of course obvious objections to this latter addition.\n\n11. Meanwhile, however, at the suggestion of Brigadier H. G. Seth-Smith, the new Central British School was prepared for the reception of further refugees by the Headmaster, Mr. D. M. Richards, Mrs. Richards and members of the School staff, Mr. Crozier, Mr. McLellan, Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Hill and Miss Curtin. Work was commenced on Saturday, 21st August, and some 40 refugees were transferred from Happy Valley to the new Central British School on Sunday, 22nd August. Mattresses, blankets and sheets were borrowed from the Military Authorities and for the first day or so until camp beds were sent over from Happy Valley the refugees slept on the floor. Catering was undertaken by the firm of Kay Lee.\n\n12. The main difficulty at the commencement of our work arose from the fact that we had no knowledge how many of the refugees would require accommodation to be provided for them.\n\n13. By the s.s. \"Rajputana\", which arrived in Hong Kong on the evening of 19th August, 679 women, 346 children and 4 men came to Hong Kong. Out of this total of 1,029 persons, only 273 sought accommodation at Happy Valley on the morning of 20th August—the remainder having found accommodation elsewhere with friends, in hotels and boarding houses or in the separate centres arranged by the big business houses with interests throughout China. In some cases also the refugees stayed only a few days in the Centre and, having found accommodation elsewhere, left.\n\n14. The \"Empress of Asia\" brought 1,368 refugees to the Colony and arrived on Saturday, 21st August, but, partly due to departures to private accommodation and partly due to the excellent arrangements made for the staffs of large business firms, the numbers in the Centres only increased by 296.\n\n15. It is easy to be wise after the event but such uncertainty prevailed on Sunday, 22nd August, that steps were taken to explore the possibilities of other buildings in the Colony for further centres. Inquiry was also made from Singapore whether accommodation was available there in the event of our being swamped here.\n\n16. As things turned out there was ample accommodation at Happy Valley for all who sought board and lodging from Government and the Centre at the new Central British School need never have been opened. Accommodation was made available by the Military Authorities for men at Hankow Barracks, Shamshuipo, as it was impossible to provide separate accommodation for men at Happy Valley.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560506, "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": "CO129-570-3 Sino-Japanese War- proposed refugee camp in demilitarised area of South China 1-6-1938 - 11-1-1939", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-570-3 Sino-Japanese War- proposed refugee camp in demilitarised area of South China 1-6-1938 - 11-1-1939", "content_text": "3\n\n-\n\n(5)\n\n(6)\n\n(7)\n\nbuildings to relieve the Tung Wah Hospitals of refugee destitutes: they are gravely overcrowded, to the detriment of patients.\n\nIf the war continues into next winter I may have to put up a big camp in the New Territories. During the summer months people in crowded tenements often sleep by choice in the streets and last month some 25,000 were counted on one night doing so. The Anglican Bishop is preparing a scheme which aims at providing cheap lodging for refugees who can subsist themselves but cannot afford high rents. He wants Government help: but I am not sure of the extent to which the Hong Kong taxpayer should be fleeced on account of this class.\n\n-\n\nGenerally speaking, as you may have guessed from the foregoing, the situation set up locally by refugeeism is somewhat obscure: for that reason I have ordered a one-man investigation by one of the junior cadet officers and I hope that his report will throw some light upon it.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n79", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-3 Sino-Japanese War- proposed refugee camp in demilitarised area of South China 1-6-1938 - 11-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563254, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Oral Answers \n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS \n\n[Mr. Simmonds.] contractual obligation, so that they should be in fact available when any emergency arises? \n\nMr. Lloyd: This is a subject with which my right hon. Friend will deal in the course of the Debate. \n\nMr. Mabane: Can my hon. Friend say how many of this total fall within the category of air raid wardens? \n\nMr. Lloyd: Not without notice. \n\nMr. R. Gibson: Do these figures include Scotland? \n\nMr. Lloyd: Yes, Sir. \n\nMr. Davidson: If the hon. Gentleman is considering the question of contract, will he also consider the question of payment? \n\n## 35. Mr. Simmonds asked the Home Secretary what practical steps have been taken to implement the recommendations of the committee upon evacuation presided over by the right hon. Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir J. Anderson)? \n\nMr. Lloyd: As stated in the memorandum which my right hon. Friend issued with the report, action has already been taken both in the light of the recommendations in the report and of the experience gained during the recent emergency to examine and prepare in detail evacuation schemes. Steps had been taken before the recent emergency to have ready schemes such as could be operated at once if there were no time for lengthy preparation. Information was given in the Press about such a scheme which had been prepared for London. It is, however fully recognised that with time for preparation much can be done to improve such schemes, and the detailed work necessary for this purpose is in progress. \n\nMr. Simmonds: Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the wide national support which has been given to this plan and that the nation is only too anxious to see other branches of air-raid precautions investigated in a similar manner? \n\nSir Percy Harris: Will the right hon. Gentleman explain to the House why this report was held up before publication for three months? \n\nMr. Lloyd: My right hon. Friend will deal with that rather complicated subject later. \n\nMr. R. C. Morrison: Can the hon. Gentleman say whether he will issue any information to local authorities in the near future, so that they may play their part in making the long and active preparations which will be necessary if this scheme is to be successful? \n\nMr. Lloyd: Yes, Sir, certainly. \n\n## 41. Mr. Gallacher asked the Home Secretary whether any steps were taken to enable unemployed persons to receive the various articles recommended in the air-raid precautions handbook as being necessary for the evacuation of children and for protecting homes in the event of aerial attack? \n\nMr. Lloyd: As regards evacuation, steps were taken to secure that school children were equipped with the articles which they might need, and arrangements were made for meeting the immediate necessities of all persons who would have become refugees. As regards the provision of various forms of protection for persons remaining in specially vulnerable areas, the subject cannot be adequately dealt with in reply to a question, but my right hon. Friend hopes to have an early opportunity of making a full statement. \n\nMr. Gallacher: Will the Minister take note of the fact that the allowances paid to those who are unemployed are quite inadequate to meet their ordinary needs, and that if there is any special arrangement made for protecting their homes, assistance must be given to them? \n\n## 43. Mr. Touche asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider letting the public know the regulations which would be enforced in time of war regarding such air-raid precautions as blanketing of windows, provision of sand, and the best means of dealing with incendiary and other bombs, so that persons responsible for large buildings may take the necessary preparatory steps to enable them to comply with such regulations should the emergency arise? \n\nMr. Lloyd: Every endeavour has been and is being made, both through the medium of the published memoranda and handbooks and otherwise, to give the widest publicity to the various precautionary measures which should be taken by the public against the danger from air raids. It should not, however, be assumed that all these measures would be the subject of mandatory regulations on the outbreak of war. Many of them would remain measures which members of the public and occupiers of premises would be expected to take in their own interests. \n\nMr. Macquisten: Would it not be as well to mobilise all the unemployed miners and make them build bomb-proof shelters in all the big towns? \n\nMr. Garro Jones: Does that answer mean that the dealing with incendiary bombs is left exclusively to the initiative of the public after merely receiving publicity information from the Home Office? \n\nMr. Lloyd: No, Sir, it does not mean that. It is proposed both that the fire brigades should be augmented and also in the case of certain similar brigade plants in some of the streets in the event of air raids, that simple fire extinction apparatus should be made available in certain streets, probably in connection with the air-raid wardens. \n\n## BOGUS CLUBS \n\n34. Mr. Touche asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the hardship caused to licensed victuallers by the continuance of the unfair competition of bogus clubs; and whether he can make any statement as to when legislation is likely to be introduced on this subject? \n\n**The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir Samuel Hoare)**: I am fully aware of the position, but my hon. Friend will realise that it is not possible for me to-day to make any statement as to the legislative programme for next Session. \n\n## PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES \n\n37. Sir J. Mellor asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the growing inequality of Parliamentary electorates, he will introduce legislation in order to effect a redistribution before the next General Election? \n\n32. Mr. Keeling asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that in 79 of the 498 single-Member constituencies in England and Wales the number of voters is over 25 per cent. above the average and that the disparity between large and small electorates is greater than it has been since the Reform Act, 1832; and whether he will consider the introduction of legislation to make a redistribution before the next General Election? \n\n**1 NOVEMBER 1938**\n\nSir S. Hoare: I am not in a position to add anything to the replies given to previous questions on this subject. \n\nSir J. Mellor: Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that the size of some electorates in single-Member constituencies is two, three and even four times the size of the average electorate? \n\nSir S. Hoare: Yes, Sir. \n\n## TWO-SHIFT SYSTEM \n\n38. Mr. Kelly asked the Home Secretary the number of firms operating the two-shift system, and also the conditions which have been laid down for transport as well as continued education? \n\nSir S. Hoare: About 1,100 two-shift authorisations are now in force under the Act of 1936. It is now the practice to insert a condition to the effect that if any young person employed in the shifts is desirous of attending a continuation school or class, reasonable facilities shall be afforded by the employer for such attendance, and where it appears that transport difficulties are liable to arise a condition is inserted that the Secretary of State may at any time require the employer to make such special arrangements for the conveyance of workers living at a distance as may be necessary to prevent hardship. \n\nMr. Kelly: Will the right hon. Gentleman consider publishing a list of those firms operating this two-shift system? \n\nSir S. Hoare: I scarcely think that it would be necessary to publish a list of these 1,100 firms, but if the hon. Member will communicate with me, I will see if there is any further information I can give him. \n\nMr. Rhys Davies: Is the right hon. Gentleman satisfied that the conditions which were laid down by the Factory Department are carried out by the employers?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564662, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "# Previous Ingenuity\n\nThose present at the meeting were: **His Excellency the Governor (Sir G. A. S. Northcote, K.C.M.G.)**. \nThe Acting Officer Commanding the troops (Brigadier A. B. Thom-on). \nThe Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, C.M.G.). \nThe Attorney General (Hon. C. G. Alabaster O.B.E., K.C.). \nThe Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North). \nThe Financial Secretary (Hon. Mr. S. Caine). \nHon. Commander G. F. Hole, R.N. (Retired), (Harbour Master). \nHon. Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, M.C., (Director of Medical Services). \nHon. Mr. T. H. King (Commissioner of Police). \nHon. Mr. A. B. Purves (Director of Public Works). \nHon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.T., K.C., LL.D. \nHon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell. \nHon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin, C.B.E. \nHon. Mr. Lo Man-kam. \nHon. Mr. Leo d'Almada e'Castro Jr. \nHon. Mr. T. E. Pearce. \nHon. Mr. A. L. Shields. \nHon. Mr. Li Tse-fong.\n\nAgainst Income Tax\n\n266 \ncharter money which for a big ship amounts to hundreds of dollars. In London, charter parties require a 6d stamp for each signed copy. \nThe Chinese Chamber of Commerce hold similar views which have been expressed by my Unofficial colleagues and enquiries made from merchants, Bankers, and people in many walks of life, make it clear that public opinion is almost entirely against Income Tax. \n\"Salaries here are admittedly higher than at Home--they have to be, but house rent is not deductible from income for tax purposes. \nIt would probably be surprising to find how many families with children to educate and provision for make to retire must economise in every way to get along. The imposition of an Income Tax would mean in many cases an adjustment of salaries in our favour of raising a War contribution by other means. \n\"The Committee of the Chamber of Commerce proposed other taxes to cover producing about $5,200,000 to local defence and a contribution to the Home Government. These taxes may not be free from criticism, but they deserve careful examination as they have the great advantage of costing practically nothing to collect. \nOne objection, I believe, to the alternative taxes proposed by the Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese Community is that they do not get at unlimited partnerships and salaried employees, including Government Servants, but if this cannot be accomplished, I believe a request for voluntary contributions would meet with an immediate response. \n\"I firmly believe there is no unwillingness to pay towards the cost of the War. \nImportant Objection \nNo Compromise \n\"The very able speech of the Hon. Mr. C. B. Burgess (Deputy Clerk of Councils) impressed me as one of no compromise. Nothing but the Income Tax will do, all arguments against it are torn to shreds. \nH.E. The Governor.--When I adjourned Council a week ago, the Hon. Mr. Shields, who had been speaking, made a request that he be allowed to continue his speech today. I was disposed to consider that request and as the standing orders might cover it, I therefore call upon Mr. Shields to continue his speech. \nHon. Mr. Shields: \n\"We British are credited with being experts in compromise and the middle course, but there is no confirmation of this in the Hon. Financial Secretary's speech. He set out to confound the opposition to his pet tax and may have done so entirely to his own satisfaction, but the people who must pay the fiddler, apparently still dislike the tune. \nThe Hon. Mr. Caine dealt with the vexed question of evasion. \n\"If Income Tax should prove to be 50% ineffective, would he propose to discontinue it after an expensive department had been set up to collect it? \n\"So many objections have been made to Income Tax that I need not say more than that the Hon. Financial Secretary seems to be ploughing a very lonely furrow. A perusal of all that has been said in this debate leaves one with the same impression as the proud Mother whose son had joined the Army. She turned out to see his Regiment on the march and was surprised to find that they were dismissed in cavalier fashion, the alternatives for providing a contribution to the Imperial Exchequer which had been put forward by representatives of many interests. \nThe Unofficial members who preceded him were against it, and the business community, bankers, investors, manufacturers, etc. should swallow the distasteful draught and believe it to be less harmful than any other nostrum which they prefer to try. \n\"In comparing taxation in Hong Kong with other places, one has only to examine the high cost of living here to find that one of the contributory factors is the high price of land. \nThe Financial Secretary ably handled the case for Government, but Government is the ground landlord and the high price it obtains for land has to be paid for ultimately by the tenants. Land sales have been an important item of Revenue. Rents, which are based on a return on the investment in land and buildings, are also the basis of assessment. \nIt was said that when land in the business centre was $60 and over per square foot, it was dearer than land in Lombard Street in the City of London. I admit the value of the dollar was higher than at present. I make this assertion, Sir, as I imagine it prompted your statement that Government did not intend to use the Official majority to put through a measure which the people believed to be detrimental to the welfare of the Colony in order to provide a gift from these people to the Home Government. \nRents of private dwellings are higher than in England, which is partly due to the cost of preparing sites, the charges for sewerage and water connections, permits for access over Crown Land, etc. \n\"The long list of Government charges for permits, stamp fees, etc., must be considered. Many things, for instance, are estimated to produce about $40,000 in the 1940-41 budget. A charter party signed in Hong Kong is taxed at 15 cents per $100 of the charter money, which for a big ship amounts to hundreds of dollars, with no return. \nAN EXPLANATION \nThe Financial Secretary. I rise not to make another speech but to ask Your Excellency's permission to make a personal explanation with regard to the speech I made at the last meeting of the Council. \nThere was a sentence in that speech which could conceivably have been interpreted as imputing improper motives to members of this Council. I said that if suggestions were made that Income Tax should not be introduced in this Colony \"because it would not be quite 100 per cent effective, I could not but suspect that they covered some other motives.\" \nIt was not in my mind to suggest that any Member of this Council had opposed Income Tax principally on that ground. In fact, I had in my mind, when saying those particular words, criticisms to that effect in the Press. \nI had stated at the beginning of my speech that I proposed to deal with Members' comments as well as remarks made by the Press, and I wish to make it clear that it was very far from my thoughts to suggest that any Member of this Council had any other motive but the best interests of this Colony. \n(Applause).\n\nAs you are aware, the General Committee of the Chamber of Commerce held a meeting and after discussion and consideration, they decided unanimously against Income Tax. \nThey recommended other alternatives which had also been carefully considered, and gave their opinion that the proposal to raise three million dollars for local defence and seven million dollars as a grant for war purposes was too high, as it would be detrimental to the welfare of the Colony if such a large sum was taken out of the Colony, giving, for instance, a man at Home paying £40 per annum for a house in the suburbs with taxes at three times the rate in Hong Kong, the equivalent of $960 per annum or $80 per month. \nWhat can he get in Hong Kong for that rent, inclusive of the present 17% rate? \nI have not been able to get an official copy of your remarks, Sir, but I believe I have correctly interpreted them in my own words. \nHon. Sir Henry Pollock.-On behalf of the Unofficial Members of this Council, I should like to thank the Financial Secretary for the statement he has just made. \n(Applause).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564663, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 246, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "# MR. T. E. PEARCE\n## Difficult Problem of Chinese Account Books\n### ACCOUNTANTS' VIEWS\n\nThe Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearce said: Before dealing with the proposal to introduce a Special War Budget, I have some general observations to make on the Ordinary Budget for 1940-41.\n\nI appreciate the fact these estimates were drawn up and completed before the outbreak of the present war, and I also appreciate the fact the Secretary of State has recommended that we should continue with our social services, but I do not interpret in these recommendations that we are to provide for expenditure on a lavish scale, to the tune of millions, for new and expensive schemes during the present abnormal state of affairs.\n\nIn the Financial Secretary's memorandum on the financial position and estimates, we read the following: \"In view of the uncertain outlook it has been decided to suspend completely all work on the Government House, and no funds for it are to be provided in 1940-41.\" I am no pessimist as far as the future of this Colony is concerned, but I do feel this same policy should have been adopted throughout this Budget, for I maintain and do sincerely suggest that the present is a time for caution and curtailment, and that not only the new Government House but other works, important though they may be, should have been held in abeyance until the atmosphere clears, and a more normal state of affairs prevails.\n\n### War Prosperity\n\nIt is clear Government has not altogether lost sight of the fact the recent prosperity of the Colony has been due to a number of fortuitous circumstances, due to the Sino-Japanese conflict, for in numerous items of increased Revenue, the explanations repeatedly given are, \"Increased population,\" \"Rise in Rentals and less vacant tenements,\" and such like. Apart from these indications, there is no gainsaying that much of this Colony's prosperity during the last 24 months has been due to the fact it has been a larger clearing house for China's trade than ever before, because of difficulties in other ports in China. I therefore hold a strong view, not fully shared by my colleagues, that this Budget, coming at a time when the situation is obscure, should have been framed to show a large surplus, which if realised, could have been held in a special reserve, and utilised at some more suitable time for the various projects referred to by the Senior Unofficial Member. It would, I am convinced, have been more business-like to have postponed these projects and given them consideration when prices of iron, steel and other imported requirements for building had returned to pre-war and reasonable levels.\n\n### Social Services\n\nThe rapid growth of the Medical Department with its formidable number of highly paid staff, and consequent increasing pensions list calls for some comment. I am appreciative of the work being done and not unmindful of the lack of Hospital facilities as shown in the comprehensive Report recently published. I hope I shall not be described as heartless, if I here express doubts as to whether the Colony can afford to pay this enormous Doctors' bill.\n\nThe question of providing bigger hospital accommodation will doubtless be tackled in due course. I hope when that time comes every care will be taken to see there is no extravagance or unnecessary expenditure incurred. In the meantime, I hope the Director will, when developing the numerous schemes he now has in hand, keep a watchful eye on expenditure.\n\nAs I have frequently referred to expenditure on Air Raid Precautions at meetings of the Finance Committee, I must here again express my scepticism as to whether the Colony is getting full value for its money. I cannot believe it was ever anticipated that such a big amount was to be expended, and I hope the expenditure on capital account for this new department will soon be completed.\n\n### Dirty Streets\n\nI regret that I must level a complaint against the Sanitary Department, on the question of the cleanliness of our streets. I believe there is some difference of opinion in regard to this matter, and also some difficulty in regard to the water supply required. I hope that a satisfactory solution of these differences will be arrived at, for I feel strongly, as do many others, that money will be well spent if our roads and streets are kept in clean condition.\n\nI must also comment on the Squatter Settlements in various overcrowded districts, particularly the way mat-shed buildings are allowed indiscriminately on the hillsides. I appreciate there are numerous difficulties in the way, but I maintain these settlements are no credit to whoever is responsible for their supervision.\n\n### Pensions\n\nAs one who has from time to time voiced criticism, I should be wanting in my duty if I did not make some reference to Pensions, for this is a subject that is constantly discussed in business circles with ever-increasing alarm and apprehension. The Colony is fully justified in its demands that this question be tackled forthwith, and a scheme evolved whereby it will definitely know its total commitments from year to year, and not have to rely upon an estimate in the Annual Budget. I cannot believe there is any service the Financial Secretary can render this Colony than for him to solve this stupendous problem satisfactorily.\n\n### Immediate Attention\n\nAlthough I am not altogether satisfied the pensions already being enjoyed cannot be put on a proper actuarial basis, the future could, I believe, be catered for by the institution of some sound Provident Scheme. I venture to suggest, Sir, this question of Pensions is already getting out of hand, and unless dealt with firmly, efficiently and immediately, will be too heavy a load for this Colony to bear. I hope it will not be long before Government can make some announcement that an expert is dealing with the whole question.\n\n### Income Tax\n\nComing now, Sir, to the question of the Special War Budget, and the proposal to introduce Income Tax to provide funds to meet that Budget, I gladly avail myself of the Honourable the Financial Secretary's invitation made in the opening sentences of his speech to make some rejoinder to his arguments and contentions. I am also grateful to you, Sir, for agreeing to a postponement of this adjourned Council Meeting until to-day. This courtesy is very much appreciated.\n\n### Nothing but Hindrance\n\nThe Honourable the Financial Secretary, naturally with bias in favour of the Tax, has ably dealt with its numerous aspects and has assailed the arguments made by Unofficial Members with spirit, but his arguments are not convincing. After close scrutiny of his speech, I can see no reason to alter my views. I am still of the opinion that the introduction of this particular form of taxation cannot be anything but a hindrance and deterrent to the business of this Colony. I hold it is of paramount importance that the cheap and easy facilities offered by this port must be maintained, and that its financial structure to deal with this trade is not hampered.\n\nI am in agreement with the Honourable Financial Secretary when he declines to accept the allegation that the Colony has been suffering during the last two years from trade depression in consequence of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. The view of my Unofficial colleagues and the commercial community generally is that the Colony has undoubtedly enjoyed a wave of prosperity. But at the same time there is no doubt that those conditions have been abnormal and must be entirely ignored when measuring the Colony's taxable capacity.\n\n### Difficulties of Collection\n\nI must take issue with the Honourable Financial Secretary's arguments regarding the expenditure which will be incurred and the difficulties which will be met in the collection of the Tax. I suggest, with all due deference, that to inaugurate a big and important department by \"drawing the staff required from other branches of the Government Service, whose activities will have to be reduced to some extent,\" is a proposition which is untenable.\n\nThe intricacies of Income Tax collection in Great Britain remains to this day a problem difficult of solution. The Financial Secretary will be aware that there are many experts finding an honest livelihood advising clients, who have no thoughts whatsoever of the evasion of Income Tax. I am not impressed with the argument that expert assistance will not be required.\n\nI maintain the situation out here in regard to this matter must be complicated, much more complicated than at Home, where despite many years during which the tax has been in operation, legal problems are a constant source of litigation.\n\n### Accountants' Views\n\nOne further word in regard to the matter of collection of the tax, and that is the question of Chinese accounts and accountancy. The Honourable the Senior Chinese Member, in his speech, dealt with this matter, pointing out difficulties that would certainly arise. I must frankly confess that I am disappointed at the manner in which the Financial Secretary lightly passes over these comments. In support of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564667, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "# 271\n\n1 \n\nWith the outbreaks of cholera, small-pox, and cerebro-spinal meningitis which have afflicted the Colony in the last few years—aggravated by the overcrowded condition of the town and the lowered standard of living following upon the refugee influx.\n\nTo combat these conditions, staff and material are, of course, essential and cost money.\n\nWould the Honourable Member advocate the reduction in the meagre staff of Health Officers responsible for preventing disease?\n\nIs it the view of the Honourable Member that there should be less accommodation for dangerous infectious illness, or for victims of the tuberculosis scourge?\n\nNow, if we take 1936 as a normal year in so far as concerns medical expenditure, since this period preceded the outbreak of hostilities, we find that the approved expenditure was $1,651,378.\n\n## Medical Budget\n\n1936 The mid-year population was 985,345. The per capita expenditure thus amounted to $1.67 per annum—a little over 2/1d. The Medical Budget for 1940/1941 now submitted to this Council for approval makes provision for the sum of $3,635,709 for the period of 15 months. This is the equivalent of $2,908,568 for a period of 12 months. On a conservative basis, the mid-year population for 1939 amounted to one and three-quarters millions. I use the word \"conservative\" advisedly, because expert statisticians have expressed the view that the population calculated at June, 1939, was within ten per centum of the two million mark.\n\nIf we assume that the population at mid-year 1940 will not vary to any appreciable extent from that for the current year, then the per capita expenditure for next year will be in the neighbourhood of $1.68 per annum—one cent less per head than in 1936.\n\nAs regards the increase in the staff of the Medical Department, in 1936 there were 56 doctors and 277 nurses. The figures in the 1940-41 budget show 79 doctors and 355 nurses. This increase may appear big at first sight. That is not the case; firstly, because the original cadre was inadequate four years ago; and, secondly, because, whereas the population has practically doubled in the intervening period, the increase in doctors is approximately three-quarters and in nurses considerably less than a third. This relatively small increase of staff has had to cope with over a thousand additional hospital beds as well as with new clinics and dispensaries.\n\nBearing in mind the mass of poverty-stricken and suffering persons in Hongkong, does the Honourable Member really advocate a smaller number of doctors and nurses?\n\n## Hongkong's Growth\n\nI am aware that it is believed in some quarters that the present population is likely to diminish very considerably once peaceful conditions obtain in China. There are, however, many present in Council today who, I think, would not deny the fact that Hongkong has grown, as it were, by leaps and bounds, and that many of those who have sought asylum from disturbed conditions in China at intervals during the past 20 years or so have, in fact, remained as permanent residents.\n\nI trust that enough has been said in this survey of the inadequate position to convince my Honourable friend Mr. Pearce that there is no real justification for his alarm at the increase in the very moderate Medical Budget. His alarm was not, I am most thankful to say, shared by the other unofficial members when they considered the provision in Select Committee.\n\nI do not think that it would be Your Excellency's wish that I should take up the time of this Council by commenting upon the phrase \"formidable highly-paid staff\" which occurred in my Honourable friend's speech. The question of salaries is one affecting the Service as a whole and it would be difficult to produce evidence that the staff of the Medical Department was, in fact, \"formidable\" in the face of its responsibilities or that the salaries were “high.”\n\n## Street Cleansing\n\nKnowing the Honourable Mr. Pearce's humanitarian outlook, I think that I should not be far wrong in assuming that he would be prepared to answer the questions which I have taken the liberty of putting to him with an emphatic negative. Yet it is these very services that account for so much of the expenditure of the Medical Department which it is our duty to develop for the well-being of the community for whom we are responsible.\n\nTurning to the Honourable Member's second point, namely that relating to street cleansing, I hasten to assure him that the Health Authorities share his views on the subject whole-heartedly. As the result of representations which were made by the Medical Department to Government and which received, at least in part, the support of the Urban Council, refuse-lorries have been purchased and put into commission and about 200 additional labourers have been taken on.\n\nLike Oliver, the Department would like to see more transport and more scavengers available for this necessary work. It has some hope that the Honourable Director of Public Works may find it possible to allow a certain amount of water to be used for washing down the streets and pavements in some of the more insanitary parts of the urban area.\n\nIn fairness to the Honourable Director of Public Works, it must be admitted that he is faced with a very heavy and responsible task to provide enough water for at least one and three-quarters million people.\n\nA part of the nuisances encountered in the streets are the result of the careless habits of large numbers of refugees who have come to Hongkong for safety from villages in the war areas where it is customary to deposit wastes of all kinds in the alleys and open spaces adjoining their houses.\n\n## More Latrines\n\nShortage of public latrines and, as yet, an inadequately organised system of collection and disposal of night-soil from houses lacking a carriage system are further reasons for the unsavoury condition of some of the streets and lanes. Provision has been made in the Colony's budget for the construction in 1940-41 of a proportion of the public latrines deemed to be necessary.\n\nIn addition, a subcommittee of the Urban Council appointed by direction of Your Excellency is now considering the possibility of introducing a more up-to-date system than exists at the moment of dealing with night-soil as advocated by the Health Authorities.\n\nHonourable Members can, I feel sure, rely upon the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Urban Council assisted by the Members of that Council to bring about the needed improvement in the cleanliness of the thoroughfares of Hongkong. At the same time, a reorganisation of the service responsible for supervising street cleanliness is in process of being carried out.\n\nOn the subject of squatters' settlements, Honourable Members of this Council may be sure that the matter has been given the very closest attention by Government for some time past.\n\nMany of these squatters are refugees. Many others were, hitherto, good law-abiding citizens until high rents and depressed wages made it difficult for them to live in ordinary tenement buildings.\n\n## Providing for Squatters\n\nThat danger attends the existence of these squatters both to themselves and to the general public from the lack of sanitary conveniences, water supplies, and from outbreaks of fire, is well appreciated by Government. The present policy is to try to persuade those who are refugees without means of support to return to their own country. Such persons are given a free passage and an ex gratia grant by Government to this end. Squatters who are Hongkong-born citizens or who are unwilling to be repatriated are being provided for in two ways:\n\nFirst, women and children among them are given the opportunity of accepting food, shelter, medical care, and welfare services in the Government camps up to the extent of the accommodation available.\n\nSecond, plans are in preparation for establishing one camp on the Island, a second on the outskirts of New Kowloon, and two on the frontier between Lokmachau and Takuling, to which squatters unwilling to return to China can be sent. They will be provided with a water supply and simple medical and sanitary services, but they will have to provide their own hut accommodation in proper alignment, adequate attention being paid to fire-breaks, ventilation, drainage, etc.\n\n## Low Standard of Living\n\nIf I may be allowed the privilege, Sir, and the Honourable Members of Council would bear with me for a few moments longer, I should like to say a few words on the question of Income Tax which occupied a more prominent position in the speech of the Honourable Member.\n\nIf we review the very low standard of living in the Colony, the increase in food prices, the widespread malnutrition, the high rents, the tragic overcrowding, the high infant mortality, and death-rates, we must all agree that the poorer sections of the community cannot have any further burden placed upon them.\n\nMoney has to be raised, however, for Defence purposes, both in relation to the special needs of Hongkong and the war against aggression in Europe in which this Colony is so intimately concerned.\n\nPage 250 \nPage 251", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568878, "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": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "content_text": "Those present at the meeting were: His Excellency the Governor (Sir G. A. S. Northcote, K.C.M.G.).\n\nThe Acting Officer Commanding the troops (Brigadier A. B. Thomson).\n\nThe Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, C.M.G.).\n\nThe Attorney General (Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., K.C.),\n\nThe Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North).\n\nThe Financial Secretary (Hon. Mr. S. Caine).\n\nHon. Commander G. F. Hole, R.N. (Retired), (Harbour Master).\n\nHon. Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, M.C., (Director of Medical Services).\n\nHon. Mr. T. H. King (Commissioner of Police).\n\nHon. Mr. A. B. Purves (Director of Public Works).\n\nHon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.T., K.C., LL.D.\n\nHon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell.\n\nHon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin, C.B.E.\n\nHon. Mr. Lo Man-kam.\n\nHon. Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro Jr.\n\nHon. Mr. T. E. Pearce.\n\nHon. Mr. A. L. Shields.\n\nHon. Mr. Li Tse-fong.\n\nMr. C. B. Burgess (Deputy Clerk of Councils).\n\nTo\n\nH.E. The Governor: When I adjourned Council a week ago, the Hon. Mr. Shields, who had been speaking, made a request that he be allowed to continue his speech today. I was disposed to consider that request and as the standing orders cover it, I therefore call upon Mr. Shields to continue his speech.\n\nHon. Mr. Shields: Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields: Your Excellency, I am glad to have the opportunity, owing to the adjournment of the debate on the War Budget, of considering the speech made by the Hon. Financial Secretary in support of the Income Tax measure proposed by Government, in which he dealt with the storm of disapproval from all sections of the community as voiced by the Unofficial members of Council, who preceded him.\n\nThe Financial Secretary handled the case for Government but dismissed in cavalier fashion the alternatives for providing a contribution to the Imperial Exchequer which had been put forward by representatives of many interests. The goodwill and co-operation of the people in a matter of this kind are important, if not essential to the carrying out of Your Excellency's laudable desire that Hongkong should do its bit towards financing the war.\n\nI make this assertion, Sir, as I imagine it prompted your statement that Government did not intend to use the Official majority to put through a measure which the people believed to be detrimental to the welfare of the Colony in order to provide a gift from these people to the Home Government.\n\nI have not been able to get an official copy of your remarks, Sir, but I believe I have correctly interpreted them in my own words.\n\nAs you are aware, the General Committee of the Chamber of Commerce held a meeting and after discussion and consideration, they decided unanimously against Income Tax.\n\nThey recommended other alternatives which had also been carefully considered, and gave their opinion that the proposal to raise three million dollars for local defence and seven million dollars as a grant for war purposes was too high, as it would be detrimental to the welfare of the Colony if such a large sum was taken out of the Colony, giving no return.\n\nThe Chinese Chamber of Commerce hold similar views which have been expressed by my Unofficial colleagues and enquiries made from merchants, bankers, and people in many walks of life, make it clear that public opinion is almost entirely against Income Tax.\n\nIndications are not lacking that the Unofficial members of this Council are solidly against Income Tax, but I believe they will be as solidly in favour of raising a War contribution by other means.\n\nThe Committee of the Chamber of Commerce proposed other taxes to produce about $5,200,000 to cover local defence and a contribution to the Home Government. These taxes may not be free from criticism, but they deserve careful examination as they have the great advantage of costing practically nothing to collect.\n\nGovernment may suggest other alternatives which will satisfy the community and for these reasons, Sir, I would urge that the terms of reference of the Taxation Committee now sitting be broadened to include the examination of alternatives.\n\nThe very able speech of the Hon. Financial Secretary impressed me as one of no compromise. Nothing but Income Tax will do; all arguments against it are torn to shreds; the business community, bankers, investors, manufacturers, etc., should swallow the distasteful draught and believe it to be less harmful than any other nostrum which they might prefer to try.\n\nWe British are credited with being experts in compromise and the middle course, but there is no confirmation of this in the Hon. Financial Secretary's speech. He set out to confound the opposition to his pet tax and may have done so entirely to his own satisfaction, but the people who must pay the fiddler apparently still dislike the tune.\n\nIn comparing taxation in Hongkong with other places, one has only to examine the high cost of living here to find that one of the contributory factors is the high price of land. Government is the ground landlord and the high price it obtains for land has to be paid for ultimately by the tenants.\n\nLand sales have been an important item of Revenue. Rents which are based on a return on the investment in land and buildings are also the basis of assessment. It was said that when land in the business centre was $60 and over per square foot, it was dearer than land in Lombard Street in the City of London. I admit the value of the dollar was higher than at present.\n\nRents of private dwellings are higher than in England, which is partly due to the cost of preparing sites, the charges for sewerage and water connections, permits for access over Crown Land, etc.\n\nA man at Home paying £40 per annum for a house in the suburbs with taxes at three times the rate in Hongkong (say 50%), pays the equivalent of $960 or $80 per month. What can he get in Hongkong for that rent inclusive of the present 17% rate?\n\nThe long list of Government charges for permits, stamp fees, etc., must be considered. Many things, from permission to work a steamer on Sunday to permission to park a car in Duddell Street, have to be obtained by permit at a price. Great ingenuity on the part of successive Colonial Treasurers has been displayed in finding these methods of increasing Revenue.\n\nOfficial signatures, for instance, are estimated to produce $40,000 in the 1940-41 budget. A charter party signed in Hongkong is taxed at 15 cents per $100 of the charter money, which for a big ship amounts to hundreds of dollars. In London, charter parties require a 6d stamp for each signed copy.\n\nSalaries here are admittedly higher than at Home - they have to be - but house rent is not deductible from income for tax purposes. It would probably be surprising to find how many families with children to educate and provision to make for retirement must economise in every way to get along.\n\nThe imposition of an Income Tax would mean in many cases an adjustment of salaries falling on the employer, who would also pay tax on his business profits and still have to compete with merchants in other ports for the trade of China.\n\nOne objection, I believe, to the alternative taxes proposed by the Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese Community is that they do not get at unlimited partnerships and salaried employees, including Government Servants, but if this cannot be accomplished, I believe a request for voluntary contributions would meet with an immediate response from many who would contribute according to their means.\n\nI firmly believe there is no unwillingness to pay towards the cost of the War.\n\nAn important objection to Income Tax is that Home Government will have to refund such a large proportion of the total collection that the net contribution to the United Kingdom may be greatly reduced, and to get that, everyone will suffer a big disturbance in paying and reclaiming, and the net result may not be worth it.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Caine dealt with the vexed question of evasion.\n\nIf Income Tax should prove to be 50% ineffective, would he propose to discontinue it after an expensive department had been set up to collect it?\n\nSo many objections have been made to Income Tax that I need not say more than that the Hon. Financial Secretary seems to be ploughing a very lonely furrow. A perusal of all that has been said in this debate leaves one with the same impression as the proud Mother whose son had joined the Army. She turned out to see his Regiment on the march and was surprised to find that they were all out of step with her Peter.\" (Applause).\n\nAN EXPLANATION\n\nThe Financial Secretary.—I rise not to make another speech but to ask Your Excellency's permission to make a personal explanation with regard to the speech I made at the last meeting of the Council.\n\nThere was a sentence in that speech which could conceivably have been interpreted as imputing improper motives to members of Council. I said that if suggestions were made that Income Tax should not be introduced in this Colony because it would not be quite 100 per cent effective, I could not but suspect that they covered some other motives.\n\nIt was not in my mind that any Member of this Council had opposed Income Tax principally on that ground. In fact, I had in my mind when saying those particular words, criticisms to that effect in the Press. I had stated at the beginning of my speech that I proposed to deal with Members' comments as well as remarks made by the Press, and I wish to make it clear that it was very far from my thoughts to suggest that any Member of this Council had any other motive but the best interests of this Colony. (Applause).\n\nHon. Sir Henry Pollock.—On behalf of the Unofficial Members of this Council, I should like to thank the Hon. Financial Secretary for the statement he has just made.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568879, "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": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "content_text": "# MR. T. E. PEARCE\n\nDifficult Problem of Chinese\n\nAccount Books\n\nACCOUNTANTS' VIEWS\n\nThe Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearce said: Before dealing with the proposal to introduce a Special War Budget, I have some general observations to make on the Ordinary Budget for 1940-41.\n\nI appreciate the fact these estimates were drawn up and completed before the outbreak of the present war, and I also appreciate the fact the Secretary of State has recommended that we should continue with our social services, but I do not interpret in these recommendations that we are to provide for expenditure on a lavish scale, to the tune of millions, for new and expensive schemes during the present abnormal state of affairs.\n\nIn the Financial Secretary's memorandum on the financial position and estimates, we read the following:\n\n\"In view of the uncertain outlook it has been decided to suspend completely all work on the Government House, and no funds for it are to be provided in 1940-41.\"\n\nI am no pessimist as far as the future of this Colony is concerned, but I do feel this same policy should have been adopted throughout this Budget, for I maintain and do sincerely suggest that the present is a time for caution and curtailment, and that not only the new Government House but other works, important though they may be, should have been held in abeyance until the atmosphere clears, and a more normal state of affairs prevails.\n\nWar Prosperity.\n\nIt is clear Government has not altogether lost sight of the fact the recent prosperity of the Colony has been due to a number of fortuitous circumstances, due to the Sino-Japanese conflict, for in numerous items of increased Revenue, the explanations repeatedly given are, \"Increased population,\" \"Rise in Rentals and less vacant tenements,\" and such like.\n\nApart from these indications, there is no gainsaying that much of this Colony's prosperity during the last 24 months has been due to the fact it has been a larger clearing house for China's trade than ever before, because of difficulties in other ports in China. I therefore hold a strong view, not fully shared by my colleagues, that this Budget, coming at a time when the situation is obscure, should have been framed to show a large surplus, which if realised, could have been held in a special reserve, and utilised at some more suitable time for the various projects referred to by the Senior Unofficial Member. It would, I am convinced, have been more business-like to have postponed these projects and given them consideration when prices of iron, steel and other imported requirements for building had returned to pre-war and reasonable levels.\n\nSocial Services\n\nThe rapid growth of the Medical Department with its formidable number of highly paid staff, and consequent increasing pensions list calls for some comment. I am appreciative of the work being done and not unmindful of the lack of Hospital facilities as shown in the comprehensive Report recently published. I hope I shall not be described as heartless, if I here express doubts as to whether the Colony can afford to pay this enormous Doctors' bill.\n\nThe question of providing bigger hospital accommodation will no doubt be tackled in due course. I hope when that time comes every care will be taken to see there is no extravagance or unnecessary expenditure incurred.\n\nIn the meantime, I hope the Director will, when developing the numerous schemes he now has in hand, keep a watchful eye on expenditure.\n\nAs I have frequently referred to expenditure on Air Raid Precautions at meetings of the Finance Committee, I must here again express my scepticism as to whether the Colony is getting full value for its money. I cannot believe it was ever anticipated that such a big amount was to be expended, and hope the expenditure on capital account for this new department will soon be completed.\n\nDirty Streets\n\nI regret that I must level a complaint against the Sanitary Department, on the question of the cleanliness of our streets. I believe there is some difference of opinion in regard to this matter, and also some difficulty in regard to the water supply required. I hope that a satisfactory solution of these differences will be arrived at, for I feel strongly, as do many others, that money will be well spent if our roads and streets are kept in clear condition.\n\nI must also comment on the Squatter Settlements in various overcrowded districts, particularly the way matshed buildings are allowed indiscriminately on the hillsides. I appreciate there are numerous difficulties in the way, but I maintain these settlements are no credit to whoever is responsible for their supervision.\n\nAs one who has from time to time voiced criticism, I should be wanting, in my duty if I did not make some reference to Pensions, for this is a subject that is constantly discussed in business circles with ever increasing alarm and apprehension.\n\nThe Colony is fully justified in its demands that this question be tackled forthwith, and a scheme evolved whereby it will definitely know its total commitments from year to year, and not have to rely upon an estimate in the Annual Budget. I cannot believe there is any better service the Financial Secretary can render this Colony than for him to solve this stupendous problem satisfactorily.\n\nImmediate Attention\n\nAlthough I am not altogether satisfied the pensions already being enjoyed cannot be put on a proper actuarial basis, the future could, I believe, be catered for by the institution of some sound Provident Scheme.\n\nI venture to suggest, Sir, this question of Pensions is already getting out of hand, and unless dealt with firmly, efficiently and immediately, will be too heavy a load for this Colony to bear.\n\nI hope it will not be long before Government can make some announcement that an expert is dealing with the whole question.\n\nComing now, Sir, to the question of the Special War Budget, and the proposal to introduce Income Tax to provide funds to meet that Budget, I gladly avail myself of the Honourable the Financial Secretary's invitation made in the opening sentences of his speech to make some rejoinder to his arguments and contentions. I am also grateful to you, Sir, for agreeing to a postponement of this adjourned Council Meeting until to-day. This courtesy is very much appreciated.\n\nNothing but Hindrance\n\nThe Honourable the Financial Secretary, naturally favouring the Tax with bias, has ably dealt with its numerous aspects and has assailed the arguments made by Unofficial Members with spirit, but his arguments are not convincing. After close scrutiny of his speech, I can see no reason to alter my views. I am still of the opinion that the introduction of this particular form of taxation cannot be anything but a hindrance and deterrent to the business of this Colony. I hold it is of paramount importance that the cheap and easy facilities offered by this port must be maintained, and that its financial structure to deal with this trade is not hampered.\n\nI am in agreement with the Honourable Financial Secretary when he declines to accept the allegation that the Colony has been suffering during the last two years from trade depression in consequence of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. The view of my Unofficial colleagues and the commercial community generally is that the Colony has undoubtedly enjoyed a wave of prosperity. But at the same time there is no doubt that those conditions have been abnormal and must be entirely ignored when measuring the Colony's taxable capacity.\n\nDifficulties of Collection\n\nI must take issue with the Honourable Financial Secretary's arguments regarding the expenditure which will be incurred and the difficulties which will be met in the collection of the Tax. I suggest, with all due deference, that to inaugurate a big and important department by \"drawing the staff required from other branches of the Government Service, whose activities will have to be reduced to some extent,\" is a proposition which is untenable.\n\nThe intricacies of Income Tax collection in Great Britain remains to this day a problem difficult of solution. The Financial Secretary will be aware that there are many experts finding an honest livelihood advising clients, who have no thoughts whatsoever of the evasion of Income Tax. I am not impressed with the argument that expert assistance will not be required.\n\nI maintain the situation out here in regard to this matter must be complicated, much more complicated than at Home, where despite many years during which the tax has been in operation, legal problems are a constant source of litigation.\n\nAccountants' Views\n\nOne further word in regard to the matter of collection of the tax, and that is the question of Chinese accounts and accountancy. The Honourable the Senior Chinese Member, in his speech, dealt with this matter, pointing out difficulties that would certainly arise. I must frankly confess that I am disappointed at the manner in which the Financial Secretary lightly passes over these comments. In support of my hon-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568883, "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": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "content_text": "59\n\nwith the outbreaks of cholera, small-pox and cerebro-spinal meningitis which have afflicted the Colony in the past few years—aggravated by the very overcrowded condition of the town and the lowered standard of living following upon the refugee influx.\n\nTo combat these conditions, staff and material are, of course, essential and cost money. Would the Honourable Member advocate the reduction in the meagre staff of Health Officers responsible for preventing disease? Is it the view of the Honourable Member that there should be less accommodation for dangerous infectious illness, or for victims of the tuberculosis scourge?\n\nNow, if we take 1936 as a normal year in so far as concerns medical expenditure, since this period preceded the outbreak of hostilities, we find that the approved expenditure was $1,651,378. The mid-year population in 1936 was 985,345. The per capita expenditure thus amounted to $1.67 per annum—a little over 2/1d.\n\nThe Medical Budget for 1940/1941 now submitted to this Council for approval makes provision for the sum of $3,635,709 for the period of 15 months. This is the equivalent of $2,908,568 for a period of 12 months. On a conservative basis, the mid-year population for 1939 amounted to one and three-quarters millions. I use the word \"conservative\" advisedly, because expert statisticians have expressed the view that the population calculated at June, 1939, was within ten per centum of the two million mark.\n\nIf we assume that the population at mid-year 1940 will not vary to any appreciable extent from that for the current year, then the per capita expenditure for next year will be in the neighbourhood of $1.68 per annum—one cent less per head than in 1936.\n\nAs regards the increase in the staff of the Medical Department, in 1936 there were 56 doctors and 277 nurses. The figures in the 1940-41 budget show 79 doctors and 355 nurses. This increase may appear big at first sight. That is not the case; firstly, because the original cadre was inadequate four years ago; and, secondly, because, whereas the population has practically doubled in the intervening period, the increase in doctors is approximately %th and in nurses considerably less than a third.\n\nBearing in mind the mass of poverty-stricken and suffering persons in Hongkong, does the Honourable Member really advocate a smaller number of doctors and nurses?\n\nI am aware that it is believed in some quarters that the present population is likely to diminish very considerably once peaceful conditions obtain in China. There are, however, many present today who, I think, would not deny the fact that Hongkong has grown, as it were, by leaps and bounds, and that many of those who have sought asylum from disturbed conditions in China at intervals during the past 20 years or so have, in fact, remained as permanent residents.\n\nI trust that enough has been said in this inadequate survey of the position to convince my Honourable friend Mr. Pearce that there is no real justification for his alarm at the very moderate increase in the Medical Budget. His alarm was not, I am most thankful to say, shared by the other unofficial members when they considered the provision in Select Committee.\n\nI do not think that it would be Your Excellency's wish that I should take up the time of this Council by commenting upon the phrase \"formidable highly-paid staff\" which occurred in my Honourable friend's speech. The question of salaries is one affecting the Service as a whole and it would be difficult to produce evidence that the staff of the Medical Department was, in fact, \"formidable\" in the face of its responsibilities or that the salaries were \"high.\"\n\nKnowing the Honourable Mr. Pearce's humanitarian outlook, I think that I should not be far wrong in assuming that he would be prepared to answer the questions which I have taken the liberty of putting to him with an emphatic negative. Yet it is these very services that account for so much of the expenditure of the Medical Department which it is our duty to develop for the well-being of the community for whom we are responsible.\n\nTurning to the Honourable Member's second point, namely that relating to street cleansing, I hasten to assure him that the Health Authorities share his views on the subject whole-heartedly. As the result of representations which were made by the Medical Department to Government and which received, at least in part, the support of the Urban Council, more refuse lorries have been purchased and put into commission and about 200 additional labourers have been taken on.\n\nLike Oliver, the Department would like to see more transport and more scavengers available for this necessary work. It has some hope that the Honourable Director of Public Works may find it possible to allow a certain amount of water to be used for washing down the streets and pavements in some of the more insanitary parts of the urban area.\n\nIn fairness to the Honourable Director of Public Works, it must be admitted that he is faced with a very heavy and responsible task to provide enough water for at least one and three-quarters million people.\n\nA part of the nuisances encountered in the streets are the result of the careless habits of large numbers of refugees who have come to Hongkong for safety from villages in the war areas where it is customary to deposit wastes of all kinds in the alleys and open spaces adjoining their houses.\n\nMore Latrines: Shortage of public latrines and, as yet, an inadequately organised system of collection and disposal of night-soil from houses lacking a water-carriage system are further reasons for the unsavoury condition of some of the streets and lanes. Provision has been made in the Colony's budget for the construction in 1940-41 of a proportion of the public latrines deemed to be necessary.\n\nIn addition, a subcommittee of the Urban Council appointed by direction of Your Excellency is now considering the possibility of introducing a more up-to-date system than exists at the moment of dealing with night-soil advocated by the Health Authorities.\n\nHonourable Members can, I feel sure, rely upon the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Urban Council assisted by the Members of that Council to bring about the much-needed improvement in the cleanliness of the thoroughfares of Hongkong. At the same time, a reorganisation of the service responsible for supervising street cleanliness is in process of being carried out.\n\nOn the subject of squatters' settlements, Honourable Members of this Council may be sure that the matter has been given the very closest attention by Government for some time past.\n\nMany of these squatters are refugees. Many others were, hitherto, good law-abiding citizens until high rents and depressed wages made it difficult for them to live in ordinary tenement buildings.\n\nProviding for Squatters: That danger attends the existence of these squatters both to themselves and to the general public from the lack of sanitary conveniences, water supplies, and from outbreaks of fire, is well appreciated by Government. The present policy is to try to persuade those who are refugees without means of support to return to their own country. Such persons are given a free passage and an ex gratia grant by Government to this end. Squatters who are Hongkong-born citizens or who are unwilling to be repatriated are being provided for in two ways:\n\nFirst, women and children among them are given the opportunity of accepting food, shelter, medical care, and welfare services in the Government camps up to the extent of the accommodation available.\n\nSecond, plans are in preparation for establishing one camp on the Island, a second on the outskirts of New Kowloon, and two on the frontier between Lokmachau and Takuling, to which squatters unwilling to return to China can be sent. They will be provided with a water supply and simple medical and sanitary services, but they will have to provide their own hut accommodation in proper alignment, adequate attention being paid to fire-breaks, ventilation, drainage, etc.\n\nLow Standard of Living: If Your Excellency would allow me the privilege and you, Sir, and the Honourable Members of Council would bear with me for a few moments longer, I should like to say a few words on the question of Income Tax which occupied the more prominent position in the speech of the Honourable Member.\n\nIf we review the very low standard of living in the Colony, the increase in food prices, the widespread malnutrition, the high rents, the tragic overcrowding, the high infant mortality and death-rates, we must all agree that the poorer sections of the community cannot have any further burden placed upon them.\n\nMoney has to be raised, however, for Defence purposes, both in relation to the special needs of Hongkong and the war against aggression in Europe in which this Colony is so intimately concerned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575376, "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": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "## \n\nAbout \n17 \ngetting hold of an overcoat of sorts. Actually, there was nothing wrong with the overcoat, but rather with the man, it was far too big for it. It was little more than a long tunic, and how Gerry got into it Heaven knows, but one refused nothing, not 'even a bent and rusty nail, should anyone be so stupid as to give you.\n\nThings were got going, the place more or less cleaned up, buildings patched as far as possible, language classes started, a choir, and games to a lesser extent because of the lack of equipment. One could learn every language under the sun, except Japanese, the Volunteers being full of different nationalities.\n\nQuite suddenly orders came that we were to join the main body of Volunteers who had been captured in the eastern sector of the island; large barracks at Shanshuipe, Kowloon, were the orders of the day. Feelings were mixed, certainly; these three weeks had been very uncomfortable, but one was getting used to it and also expected it, but the food had been quite good (compared as we were to find out later), and this made up for a lot. On the other hand, the flies were a problem, and the thought of what they might bring in the hot weather was distinctly worrying. Anyhow, there was no choice, and it didn't matter what one felt.\n\nWe arrived after an uneventful journey and were hanged in anywhere for the first night until units were sorted out the next day.\n\n### Conditions in Shanshuipe\n\nI shall go back a little to try and tell of the conditions in Shanshuipe where we served. I rather gather that the march through Kowloon, for those in Eastern Command, was not too pleasant as can be imagined. When they arrived at Shanshuipe, it was found that literally everything removable had been removed. Buildings had been stripped of windows, doors, and in many cases window-frames, all electric light fittings, parts of the roofing had been torn away in order to remove the wiring; in fact, the buildings were little more than empty shells, our Chinese friends having made hay before \"the rising sun\".\n\nFood had been shocking, just plain badly cooked rice twice a day, though I think the Japanese brought in vegetables to the camp two days during that time, but the quantity was insufficient, and what they did bring was little better than pig-food. Those three weeks most certainly must have been hell, but some of the more fortunate, who had a little money, were able to get tinned food, for quite exorbitant prices, over the wire fence, but the Japanese sentries did not allow this to go on for very long, about ten days. However, friends not interned were allowed to bring food parcels, but I am afraid the lucky ones were very much in the minority. Soon after we arrived, food conditions improved slightly, but they could hardly be called good. Gradual improvements would be made, then these improvements would drop off again, but generally speaking, by the time I left the camp, food was tolerable, though not exactly the best.\n\nOnce again, everyone got down to fixing up the buildings in which they were going to live, and to do this, certain others were pulled down and the materials utilised. Those who were enterprising and good with their hands made themselves really quite comfortable, and providing a typhoon does not hit Hong Kong, I think the conditions under which they are existing might be far, far worse. Life, of course, was monotonous, though I did not find it so, as I thought of nothing but escaping, and preparations took a lot of time.\n\nIn spite of the monotony, there was plenty to do in keeping the camp clean, and all the ordinary fatigues that go with army life. Besides these, there were clothes to wash and mend, or should...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575548, "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": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "# 189\n\nAfter the occupation of the island was completed, atrocities to foreign women ceased, but Chinese still suffered. I witnessed several Chinese women being beaten with bamboo poles on the morning of the 27th January. I also saw four Chinese men badly beaten and afterwards thrown into the harbour. There was no reason for this, they appeared to be quite orderly.\n\nHundreds of wounded and dead lay on the hillsides for days and the Japanese refused to allow us to send in men to collect wounded and bury the dead. If we had been allowed to collect all our wounded, our casualties would not have been so high. Many were left to die who could have been saved if they had been brought in. At Stanley, when part of the Colonial Staff were interned, they had to bury seven soldiers, (whose bodies were found in the garden of the house allotted to them,) found with their hands tied behind their backs. This was told to me by Mr. W.J. Carrie, Chairman of the Urban Council, who was in charge of the burials. Many of the bodies found were far too decomposed to be able to identify them and their means of identification had been lost or stolen.\n\nLooters caused an enormous amount of trouble, many had arms which they had picked up in the streets, either discarded by police reserves, or stolen from dead and wounded soldiers. Fifth Columnists also were rife, every branch of essential services was riddled with them.\n\nAfter the occupation, the Japanese took over all food supplies, which they shipped out to Japan. It was a common sight to see convoys leaving every day. Radio supplies and photography materials, together with medical instruments and equipment were also taken out of the Colony. I saw truck loads being driven away from various buildings and banks where they were stored.\n\nThe Iron gates from houses on the Peak were also demolished and taken away. Bronze statues in Statue Square and the big bronze lions from the outside of the Hongkong bank were also being taken away.\n\nAll cars, trucks and damaged buses were taken to two dumping grounds, one was the Race Course, the other the Cricket Club. Damaged cars were stripped of essential parts and those undamaged were being driven until they could not be used any longer.\n\nDuring the bombing itself, the city suffered only a little damage. The North Point area where the Power Company is housed and the Shell Oil Company, suffered a great deal of damage, as did the Causeway Bay area, where food stuffs were stored at the Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage Company, and also a great deal of damage was done to the East Point Godowns where large stocks of food were stored. The Peak also suffered very heavily and few houses remain undamaged. With the exception of The Canossa Hospital, the French Hospital, and the Military Hospital, the remainder of the hospitals were very little damaged. The Queen Mary Hospital was not touched. The three mentioned above were heavily damaged due to the fact that we had placed guns in the gardens of the hospitals, thereby making the hospitals themselves targets.\n\nAll hospitals with the exception of the Military Hospital and St. Albert's Emergency Hospital, were taken over by the Japanese. Staffs were interned and patients turned out with the exception of very badly wounded cases, these were transferred to the Military hospital. Many of the men who were turned out were made to walk long distances, when they were not in a fit condition to do so.\n\nAll Colonial Staff still working were given military rank, at the request of the Japanese Military Command. This they stated, was to determine the kind of treatment they would receive.\n\nTheir rules to internees were so fantastic that a complaint was registered by the Colonial Secretary. It then appeared that they had no knowledge of the League Convention relating to treatment of prisoners of war. We supplied them with numerous copies.\n\nPage 190 \nPage 191", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575553, "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": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 195, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "## 194\n\nGodowns at West Point have been under intense fire for days. There are large stocks of food which cannot be got out. Intention seems to be to destroy food supplies.\n\n### 15th December, 1941\n\nI don't know which would be the best bet, whether to go home and sleep or not. I have not seen my flat since the early part of the war, but have managed to maintain contact with my servant, who states no damage has been done but bombs have been dropped down the road. After yesterday I am beginning to feel shaken. I got the blast across my head and my voice is going. This morning was bad, we were shelled constantly downtown, as well as bombed and we have had several direct hits on the Gloucester building. Severe damage to rooms on 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 8th floors. Hongkong Bank also registered several direct hits, but due to excellent construction no damage has been done. There is very little activity at night, apart from shelling, which appears to be on the other side of the island. C.\n\nIn between bombings telephoned and told me Brenda Morgan had been killed. Tried to get new office fixed up. Windows to be sandbagged and painted black and paper stripped. All inside glass partitions to be removed.\n\nI think it is sheer madness to move all police into Gloucester, which is full of women and children and refugees. It is bound to be a target as soon as it is known, and it won't be long. Signallers are busy every night from high buildings, and we never seem to be able to catch them.\n\n### 16th December, 1941\n\nTea lounge and arcade shops, 1st and 2nd floors are being got ready to house police. All glass in the arcade has been broken and window spaces have been sandbagged. C.P. is not a proper man for wartime conditions. Most charming peace-time C.P. but cannot make snap decisions and takes too long to consider stupid little details that don't matter. Not popular with his men because of this failing. Also a very ardent Oxford Grouper.\n\nVery heavy shelling all day at North Point. Power station seems to be objective. Large fire at Shell tanks. Reports of landings of large bodies of troops at North Point, Aberdeen, and Stanley. No action seems to have been taken and nothing had been done about the landings on the water front; why we are not firing on them is a mystery to me.\n\n### 17th December 1941\n\nLarge fires still burning at N.P. Confirmed A.P.C. tanks are on fire. Heavy shelling all day and troops reported all over Wanchai and Tai Hang. Big battle raging at Magazine Gap and Tai Hang. Ah Sze reports firing all over the valley, but so far no damage has been done to house. Situation supposed to be in hand but am sceptical of these reports. Lights and power failed tonight. Power station heavily shelled all day and pall of smoke all over the city. Landings continue under smoke screen. On alert and large party on duty all night. Instructions to shoot on sight anybody on streets who fails to answer challenge.\n\nLarge bodies of looters and 5th Cols active.\n\n### 18th December, 1941\n\nFurther heavy raids and more machine gunning on the streets. Now that the power has gone, the air raid sirens have gone out of order, and no warning can be given; the only warning is when the planes appear and that is often too late for cover.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575563, "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": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "# 17th Jan. 1942.\n\n14. \n204\n\nPaid a visit to Gloucester today. Many of the Chinese boys recognised me and came to talk to me. Told me there are 70 of them still employed, they are not being paid any wages but are being supplied with food. They are not very happy. Men are busy repairing the damage which was done by bombs. Hotel now under new management.\n\nFilth and dirt still abounds everywhere and nothing is being done to clear it up.\n\nDead bodies are being picked up all over the hills but are too decomposed to be able to recognise them. Parcel of discs brought in by D.M.S. but the smell is so bad we have had to send them back to be disinfected.\n\nHad a talk to C.J. this morning. States he has been to Stanley with a Jap. official and they have asked that we be given the gaol's accommodation, but we have been refused as the Japs say it will cause repercussions at home.\n\n## 18th Jan. 1942.\n\nHad long discussions with Fujita and Wano regarding proposed feeding and housing of internees and Chinese. Fujita told me that it was their plan to force the Chinese back to their native villages. Shortly the whole colony would be run by the Navy Dept. The military and some of the gendarmerie will be leaving. Large numbers of military have already left. This is obvious as many of the buildings where they were housed have now been evacuated. Transports have been seen in the harbour for the last few days. There are also a large number of Jap. merchant ships lying at wharves and towards Green Island, awaiting convoy.\n\nThere are still certain sections of the city without light and few people are on the streets after dark. Smaller streets between the main roads have built double bamboo barricades which are closed and locked at night to prevent armed robbers of which there seems to be quite a large number. Shots are heard quite frequently at night. And today I saw a man being beaten by the Jap. Gendarmes. Supposed to be a looter. He had every appearance of being dead when I last saw him.\n\nVery heavy explosion today at 1.30 pm. sounded almost like a bomb or a big shell. There is still an unexploded bomb lying in the road outside Princes building.\n\n## 19th Jan. 1942.\n\nToday for the first time since 10th Dec. I was allowed to return to my flat. Had no difficulty in getting there and were not stopped by sentries. The locks on every door had been smashed, and I was not surprised to find my own door standing wide open. I have never seen anything like the completeness of the looting in my flat. Everything had gone, including my cooker and Frig. There was not a torn piece of paper or a broken glass left. It was like walking into a new flat for rent. Whilst I was there a Naval officer came in and asked me who I was. I said \"this is my flat\" to which he replied in excellent English, \"It was your flat, it isn't any longer\". From the flat went up to Rosary Hill and the soldiers told me the explosion yesterday was the result of a Jap. Cruiser going down in Deep Water Bay. Took me up the hill and showed me three funnels which were showing out of the water.\n\nOver dinner again got into conversation through E. with some Jap. officers. One said \"we know we shall lose in the long run but if anything happens in H.K. there will be nobody left to talk about it. We shall see to that\".\n\n## 20th Jan. 1942.\n\nRumours are about the town regarding internees being sent to Stanley. They have been told by the Japs. that they will be leaving in a few days but nothing seems to have been settled as to which buildings are to be used. There is still a lot of argument going on. Several hundred people have been brought over from Kowloon from places of interment on that side and have been taken direct to Stanley.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575832, "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": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "# SPECIAL REPORT\n\nNOTES ON CONDITIONS IN HONG KONG AFTER THE SURRENDER\n\nTaken from material gathered by the Postal Censorship, Calcutta.\n\nThe material available falls into three categories:-\n\n(1) First-hand narration of experiences. (2) Second-hand information, source given. (3) No source given.\n\n183\n\nOne writer in class (1) is LIEUT. H. L. HEATH, R.A., who was too ill to attempt to escape, but sent out a letter by J.O. M. WEDLERBURN. Writing on 2.2.42 he says: \"We are being very well treated except from the food point of view which is bloody. We get two bowls of rice a day but just lately we have managed to get a slight supplement of beans, to make a mug of beans per day, and sometimes we manage to get a goat which nearly resembles mutton. Contacts outside the wire manage to sell us a few things like sugar and tins of milk so on the whole we could do a lot worse. In any case don't worry because it is definitely on the up and up.\"\n\nThe second writer in this class is CORALIE HAIST, Shek Taan, Tsing Yuen, about 200 miles from Hong Kong. She escaped from Hong Kong, and in a letter dated 5.2.42 confirms the account of the food. She says food was extremely scarce so that many were reduced to eating fertilisers made from the bulks and remains of pea-nuts after the oil was rushed out. She adds that drinking water was so scarce that a pint cost H.K.$6.00. She also says that foreigners were confined in prison buildings.\n\nDr. GORDON KING, apparently a member of the staff of H.K. University, who escaped on 10.2.42 writes an informative letter from Kukong, Kwantung on 9.3.42. He was living in the University compound which was occupied by the Japanese on Dec. 27th. They got permission from the Japanese to move a big store of food from King's College to the University and this 'gave supplies a considerable boost.' The Japanese took over four staff houses, and evicted the European professors who lived in them. \"Then began the worst time of all when we had to knuckle under and do whatever the Japs told us. Some of the officers were not bad in their way.\"\n\nHis letter covers the following main points:\n\nLOOTING. \"The looting was terrible...in unprotected houses everything was taken by the rabble...the worst looting was done by the undisciplined Chinese mobs....there were armed robberies all over the place....occasionally the Japs would catch the looters...tie them up at their sentry posts to be shot later.\"\n\nFOOD. \"Slowly things began to get more organised. Water and light were restored, but the shops and banks remain closed. All you could purchase was looted stuff on the streets of which there was abundance. Food was at an awful price, but you could get things like coffee, tinned food and bread at $1.59 a lb.\"\n\nINTERNMENT CONDITIONS. The foreigners began to be interned by Jan. 8th. (Note. Presumably this refers to civilians.) They were marched off in groups of fifty to the Chinese hotels in Central district and interned there, as many as ten to a cubicle with a double bed, washstand and a chest of drawers. Many were sleeping in the corridors, including some of the most select people in the Colony. The University staff was at first given special treatment and allowed to stay in the compound on the word of Mr. Sloss the Vice-Chancellor that no one would leave it without special permission, which the writer says...\n\nIYOA/3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577899, "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": "CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945", "content_text": "Extract from a letter from Colonel T.R. Rowell, Civil Affairs Administration, Central Executive Branch, Post Office Building Hong Kong, addressed to Mr. C.W.M. Cox, Colonial Office, dated 21st January, 1946.\n\nTo recapitulate briefly my two previous communications, we found on arrival that there were some 800 children in school, that school buildings, particularly Government, were in a very bad state; that seven of the big schools, including Central British, had been occupied by the Services and that there was a great shortage of school furniture and text-books. I am enclosing with this copies of previous letters so that I need not go further.\n\nWe have gradually been building up the school attendance and have been using Government teachers in all types of schools. At the same time we have been registering private schools, and at the present date there are about 22,000 children receiving education of one kind or another. We could double this number in a month if we had the buildings and the furniture. With regard to the latter, desks or tables and chairs are being made locally at the rate of about 1,000 a month.\n\nIn the case of buildings I have conducted a pitched battle with the Services and have now succeeded in obtaining possession of Yaumati Government School, Heep Yunn Vernacular Grant School and St. Joseph's English Grant School. I have also been promised the Diocesan Boys' School (in use as a hospital for Japanese Prisoners of War) at the end of this month and am now fighting for the release of Central British School by September.\n\nLa Salle College has been made into a 600-bed hospital and it appears likely to remain as such for an indefinite period. Coupled with the loss of King's College, Queen's College, Gap Road School and Belilios Girl's School, the future of Government secondary education in English depends upon the acquisition of buildings and it is proposed to establish such a Government School in the Diocesan Boys' School building.\n\nThe Girls' Secondary School (Government) has been housed temporarily in the Northcote Training College building and has at present about 500 students. These will move into the Ellis Kadoorie School as soon as repairs to that building have been carried out. This is scheduled for the 1st of February when the Northcote Training College will open in its own premises. Mr. C.H. Cheng, who was the Senior Chinese lecturer, will act as Principal for the time being with a staff mainly composed of Chinese lecturers who were on the staff in 1941.\n\nWith regard to courses at the Training College, there will be two first year Vernacular schools and a small first year English class. There will be no second year until May. Those students who, in December 1941, were at the end of the first term of their second year are now teaching in the various Government and Grant schools and, subject to a satisfactory report from the Heads of these schools and observation of their teaching, they will, after an intensive course of six weeks at the Northcote Training College, be given their teaching certificates without further examination. I am sure that such a procedure will not in any way lower the standard previously set up by the Northcote Training College, since it had been my practice to weed out all those who were obviously unsuited to the teaching profession either on the ground of temperament or ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579342, "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": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. District. 8.12.41. Guards Office. Time.\n\n6. 8.12. 41 21 10.00 11.00\n\n1 3 Europeans, 29 Russians, 1 Indian Inspector, Chinese Interpreter, about 55 Indian Special Guards, about 900 Indian and Chinese Government watchmen and in addition 7 Russian and 47 Chinese Anti-sabotage guards, set free by the cessation of guarding of shipping in the harbour. These details were employed during the war as follows:-\n\n \n Europeans\n Russians\n Indian Special Guards.\n Indians and Chinese Watchmen.\n \n \n Administration and supervision. Duty at Government House, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, Government Treasury at Windsor House and South China Morning Post offices, Japanese Consulate, Police Headquarters before and after transfer to Gloucester Building and reinforcements to Eastern and Shaukiwan divisions.\n \n \n \n Employed under the Russians and also guarding Central Magistracy.\n Guard duty at \"Protected Places\" Food Control and Military godowns Banks, large and important business premises and Government buildings and offices.\n Fifty Indian watchmen originally to be allocated under the Internal Security Scheme to the Naval Dockyard as reinforcements to the Dockyard Police but not actually required were employed with the 47 Anti-Sabotage guards and about 20 Police Reservists for duty daily at the various Food distributing centres in Central, Western and Eastern divisions.\n \n\nSpecial Branch officers sealed the Japanese Consulate General and completed internment of Consular Officials and staff under Police Guard at No.7 Conduit Road.\n\nChief Inspector Smith after handing over charge of the P.T.S. to Sub Inspector Baker took up duty with the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon. His chief duty was to assist in sending and receiving telephone messages. He states he experienced very great difficulty in getting on to required numbers as both incoming and outgoing lines were extremely overloaded.\n\n2nd Assistant Superintendent of Police, Kowloon took up post at Yaumati as No.3 Sub Area Commander. He completed arrangements for Police in his Sub area to go to dispersal points.\n\nIn spite of two Police foot and one mobile patrol constantly out on duty in the district big crowds, many persons with no hope of obtaining the required permission, gathered outside the Y.M.C.A. office used for issue of cross harbour passes and required special action in the way of dispersal and control throughout the day. This action had to be repeated on the 9th.\n\nSenior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, took post at A.R.P. Battle Headquarters, Kowloon Godowns, henceforth described as Kowloon Police Headquarters.\n\nSquads sent out to control crowds in rice shops in Hollywood Road, Des Voeux Road, Bonham Strand East and Queen's Road Central.\n\n \n 1\n 50.\n Special Branch.\n 10.00\n 51.\n \n \n Kowloon A.R.P. Battle H.Q.\n 52.\n Yaumati.\n 10.00\n 53.\n \n \n Tsim Sha Tsui.\n 54.\n Kowloon Police H.Q.\n 10.15\n 55.\n \n \n Emergency Unit, Hong Kong.\n \n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579346, "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": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date: District. Time. 9.12.41\n\nEmergency Unit, Kowloon.\n\n10. Tsim Sha Tsui.\n\n11. Kowloon Police H.Q.\n\n12. Shaukiwan. a.m.\n\n13. Shaukiwan.\n\n14. Yaumati.\n\n15. Water Police.\n\n16. Water Police.\n\n17. Central. a.m.\n\n18. Kowloon City.\n\n19. Tsun Wan.\n\n20. K.13, Shing Mun Reservoir.\n\n10.00\n\n10.30\n\n10.30\n\n9.12.41\n\n25\n\nfollowing days until the evacuation of Kowloon took place, to cope with crowds at rice shops. Agitators were at work trying to encourage the crowd to loot rice shops in Yaumati. To deal with this, men were placed on duty outside the shops, and in addition, mobile picquets visited as frequently as possible. (Mong Kok actually had some trouble with crowds at rice shops on the first day of the war, 8th.).\n\nUnit was called out to several districts in Kowloon to deal with rice riots during the day.\n\nPicquets had to be sent to the Star Ferry to maintain order amongst the big crowd trying to cross over to Hong Kong in spite of not possessing the necessary pass.\n\nMr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, finally managed to arrange with Major Manners of the Kowloon Godowns for him to supply labour for the erection of the Star Ferry barricades. The Public Works Department were able to put up the barriers at the Yaumati Vehicular Ferry. Work began and continued the following day.\n\nA bomb dropped in Ah Kun Nam Village, inflicting a number of casualties and damaging buildings.\n\nDynamite from stores on both sides of Kowloon Bay was collected to avoid improper use.\n\nTrouble broke out at K.9, The King's Park Service Reservoir Vital Post, amongst Police Reservists there. It was finally settled, but as the men appeared nervy, they were relieved the following day.\n\nTwo Harbour launches were engaged continually day and night guarding the north and south entrances of the Yaumati Typhoon shelter, stopping native craft from leaving. All steam launches were made to proceed over to the Hong Kong praya. Native craft fitted with engines were made to place the latter out of commission. Officers in charge of Police launches were given lists of private launches to be requisitioned if met, and if not already on duty with the Military or Naval Authorities.\n\nNo.3 Launch proceeded to Lan Tau and distinguished the Adamaster Rock Light.\n\nOn this day, and also on the 10th and 11th, several calls were made on police to provide assistance at the Food depots and A.R.P. shelters, as well as the rice shops. A bomb concealed in a parcel exploded in a factory in Lo Lung Mei Village, killing one and wounding one civilian. Officer in charge Tsun Wan contacted a patrol of Royal Scots in ambush in the station compound and was informed that the patrol was the most forward one of the defence. The station was then under rifle fire. The Officer in charge reported to Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, who told him to evacuate.\n\nHe did so after warning K.13, Shing Mun Reservoir Vital Post, and personally seeing to the evacuation of K.13A, Shing Mun Conduit, and K.15, the Texas Oil Company, the latter under fire. Police reported to Sham Shui Po and remained there for duty.\n\nOfficer in charge Tsun Wan telephoned the Vital Post, instructing personnel to evacuate. An Indian Police Constable took the message to the Officer in charge, L.S.E.35 Karpovitch, out on duty at the main dam, who returned and rang up Mr. Book, No.3 Sub Area Commander, for confirmation of the order. The latter confirmed it at 11.00 hours, and evacuation was then carried out. Personnel from the Vital Post reported at Sham Shui Po.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579366, "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": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. District. Time.\n\n15. Hong Kong. 16. Green Island. 17. Green Island.\n\n10.00, to 13.00 10.00 12.30 14.12.4/ 45\n\nSchool, Ventris Road. The Special Constabulary were later almost entirely dispensed with as inefficient and Police took over the supervision and clearing of the tunnels themselves.\n\nThe first Japanese Mission with demand to surrender was received. Mr. Wright Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, L. S. A. 142 Kinloch and L. S.A. 74 Sullivan were present when the launch arrived at Queen's Pier.\n\nMount Davis Battery was observed from Green Island opening fire on native craft in the vicinity of Stone Cutters Island, Lai Chi Kok and Cheung Chau. Firing continued for half an hour and a large number of craft were sunk. (These craft remained in or tried to enter a prohibited area in spite of previous warning received.)\n\nThe house of Mr. Bailey, the Green Island Magazine's Custodian, received two direct hits from bombs. Custodian and his wife and L. S. A. 154 Harris sheltering under the staircase received no injuries though the house was wrecked. L. S. A. 154 Harris returned to the depot and station. None of the buildings had received any damage.\n\nPolice and the Magazine's Custodian were evacuated on board H. M. S. \"Thrasher\" and landed at Aberdeen.\n\n22.00 Heavy revolver firing was heard coming from somewhere in Central district. A mobile Police patrol was sent out and carried out a patrol in Central and Western districts but found everything quiet. A big fire in Belchers Street was still burning.\n\nA message was received from the Naval Authorities stating that a Glider was suspected to have landed on Victoria Peak. After notifying local Military Authorities Police from Gough Hill turned out but were fired on twice by the farmer. Finally, the Officer in Charge with two soldiers searched the vicinity without result. A similar report was made to No. 7 Station by Capt. Valentice, Hong Kong V.D.C. Patrols were sent to Pokfulam Road, the University and Victoria Road without result.\n\n18. Green Island. 14.00\n\n19. Central.\n\n20. Gough Hill and Western. 22.30\n\n14.12.41.\n\n1. Water Police. 2. Police H. Q. 3. Western. 4. Shaukiwan. 05.30 to 11.00\n\nInspector Whant, Divisional Inspector, Water Police, L. S. A. 188 Summers, L. S. A. 101 White, L. S. A. 66 Willerton and L.S.A.175 Jack with the Shaukiwan Interpreter cleared some 200 Junks and sampans from Sai Wan Bay where they were masking the fire of pill boxes. The craft proceeded to an anchorage at the back of Junk Bay. Police party proceeded by land and then used a rowing boat. At the request of G.S.O.I Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, had previously arranged a day or two before for a party from Shaukiwan to drag the craft on to the mud flats but Col. Newnham reported that this was not sufficient as the craft still floated at high tide.\n\nActing Chief Detective Inspector Baker was found dead in No.3 Conduit Road with gunshot wound in the head in circumstances suggesting suicide. The bombing and shelling of Mount Davis and Belchers Fort continued unabated. The general evacuation of the densely populated area was put into operation but was not very satisfactory due to non-cooperation by the Chinese civilians themselves.\n\nThe district came under constant shell fire.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579369, "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": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date: 16.12.41\n\nDistrict Time 08.00\n\n1. Emergency Unit 2 2.\n\n2. Hong Kong. 3.\n\n3. Hong Kong. Western. 4.\n\n4. Eastern & Shaukiwan. 5.\n\n5. Police H.Q & Central. 6.\n\n6. Police H. Q. & Central. 7.\n\n7. Central. 8.\n\n8. Gough Hill. 9\n\n9. Aberdeen. 33. 16. 12. 4 48 i\n\nCalled to Hong Kong Football Club on a false report that looting was taking place. On the way back the Police Club was visited and found deserted so the property was removed to Central.\n\nMany air raids took place during the day. Shelling of district intensified becoming so severe that even the supplying of food to Police Dispersal Points and Vital Posts became difficult and dangerous. Five Fifth Columnists were arrested by Military at Jubilee Fort and were handed over to the Special Branch after investigation by the Criminal Investigation Department, Western. The area between Hill Road and Belcher's Street received particularly severe damage and big fires were started. The Fire Brigade could not cope with the conflagration, and blasting operations by the Royal Engineers to create fire breaks had to be carried out.\n\nThe shelling of Eastern and Shaukiwan districts increased in intensity and continuity. The pill boxes and defences along King's Road and the water front received concentrated fire. No.2 Station was shelled. The Sikh Gudhwara was hit with casualties. One Sikh Police Constable at least and one Mohammedan Police Constable's wife were killed. Shelling was also directed at Stubbs Road. The number of civilian casualties in the district was fairly high. In Shaukiwan district the shelling along King's Road, particularly between the Tsang Fook Piano Factory and the Ritz, was very severe and the road was badly torn up by mortar shells. Some bombing of Taikoo Docks and Sai Wan Ho commenced. The shelling continued all night.\n\nNew cooks were supplied from the Food Control Office to replace those absconded. The Chinese Police in the meanwhile had made no attempt to prepare their meals. Orders were received during the day to transfer Police Food Control to the Gloucester Building. The On Luk Yuen Cafe kitchen was taken over for the supply of Chinese meals. The feeding of European Police was undertaken by the Gloucester Building Staff but adequate arrangements for them was not made by the Hotel.\n\nPartial evacuation of Police to the Gloucester and Pedder Buildings took place. Police Headquarters officers were established in the former while both buildings were used for the billeting of personnel. Half the Emergency Unit moved down.\n\nAt the request of the Military Authorities Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, arranged for Indian troops to be posted at Central which was put into use as Battalion Headquarters.\n\nOwing to heavy shelling which began during the night and continuing incessantly the Weihaiwei Police left their post at the Peak Wireless Station Vital Post and reported to Station. They were very shaky so Mr. Wright Nooth, directed them to do duty from the Station. The Wireless Staff had already evacuated. The Peak Tramway was badly damaged by shelling or bombing and the Tramway employees refused to continue work. Police Reserve on this Vital Post, H. 20, deserted.\n\nThe supply of rice ran short in the village. The Officer in Charge arranged daily supply of 36 bags to be made available in shops at Aberdeen and Ap Lei Chau.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579372, "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": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. \n\n• \n\nDistrict. \n\nTime. \n\n36. \n\n18. 12. 41\n\n51\n\nFifteen persons were killed. During the day, as a result of several raids, known casualties amounted to 38 at Aplichau and 17 at Aberdeen.\n\nA patrol was carried out in Central district in search of an alleged Fifth Columnist reported by telephone from the King's cafe to be operating in the district. The author of the call could not be traced at the Cafe. Nothing was found.\n\nNight. Heavy shelling of King's Road continued during the night.\n\n18.19 Emergency Unit\n\n21.00 Hong Kong.\n\n10\n\n19.\n\nShaukiwan.\n\n18.12.41.\n\n1. Hong Kong.\n\n08.30 His Excellency the Governor made a tour of inspection with the Commissioner of Police and Mr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, visiting stations, dispersal points, food queues and A. R. P. tunnels. His Excellency visited the Hong Kong Electric and inspected the damage. It was noticed that the whole of King's Road had been blown to bits with no pill boxes left standing. Dead, dying and wounded were lying all over the streets. Shaukiwan dispensary was crowded with injured. His Excellency congratulated P. S. A. 19 Hill who was doing very good work with the help of a useless Chinese doctor who attended spasmodically. Visits were paid to the Salesian Institute Hospital and to the local Military Headquarters at the Taikoo School. Air raids continued. The first one was in the vicinity of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank.\n\n2. Hong Kong.\n\n09.00\n\n3. Western.\n\n4. Shaukiwan.\n\n5. Shaukiwan.\n\n6. Emergency Unit Reserve.\n\n7. Aberdeen.\n\n10.00,\n\n8. Eastern.\n\nto 16.00\n\nD.\n\nThe district remained under heavy shell fire. Kennedy Town Market was struck by bombs and shells. Two shells landed in Clarence Terrace causing many casualties. Three Chinese were arrested as suspected Fifth Columnists at Jubilee Fort and were handed over to the C.I. Police Headquarters. Police made many arrests in connection with the looting that was going on in the godown area and these were effectively dealt with. The district was very heavily bombarded. Police from a Dispersal Point 177 Main Street evacuated to Quarry Bay at about 16.00 hours. During the evening the bombardment became even more intensified, particularly in the vicinity of the Station, and pickets could only proceed a few yards at a time and had frequently to take shelter.\n\nKing's Road between the Taikoo Sugar Refinery and the Tsang Fook Piano Company had by this time suffered very severe damage from shelling which continued throughout the day. The roadway was badly broken up and several big buildings completely wrecked, including the Ritz, the Cathay Hotel, the Paint & Lacquer Works and Tsat Tsui Mui Police Quarters. Civilians suffered severe casualties and a number of dead were lying in the roadway.\n\nOwing to heavy shelling of the Shek Tong Tsui area, the Unit transferred to St. John's Hall, Bonham Road. Further complaints were made of shops hoarding rice. Central depots were set up by the Officer in Charge at Aberdeen and Aplichau under Police and Village Guard supervision. The arrangement worked satisfactorily.\n\nWanchai water front was again subjected to severe bombardment from Kowloon. Pill boxes from Tonnochy Road to Arsenal Street were systematically wrecked. Sixteen direct hits were made on No.2 Station. The station was narrowly missed by bombs but the majority fell near Lockhart Road Market.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580215, "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": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "119\n\n1. It is generally agreed that immediate steps will have to be taken for reconstituting some, at any rate, of the pre-war activities of the University, notably the courses for teachers and for doctors (in practice this means, as I see it, reconstituting the University on pre-war lines, but with initially limited functions, since the teachers and doctors to be admitted will obviously not be content with the prospect of obtaining less than Degrees). But it is strongly argued by Mr. Sloss that this practical task, to which the Committee was originally to be limited, cannot be effectively tackled without creating vested interests in the way of new buildings, employment of staff, etc. which will prejudice the answer to the big question of long-term post-war policy, namely whether there is to be a University of Hong Kong at all and, if so, with what purpose and on what scale. Therefore we decided the other day that these larger questions must be tackled concurrently, and indeed that they must be adopted before any immediate action is taken that would be likely to commit the future.\n\n20\n\nThis issue of long range policy involves three questions:\n\n(a) Should a great effort be made to reconstitute Hong Kong University in such a way as to fulfil its original purpose of being a British University for China as well as serving the limited local needs?\n\n(b) If not, should the existing higher educational institutions of Hong Kong on the one hand and Malaya on the other be merged in a single British University of the Far East, and, if so, should it be located in Hong Kong or in Malaya or have constituent colleges in each?\n\n(c) If the answer to (a) and (b) is \"No\" should Hong Kong University be reconstituted at all or should it be replaced by two or three self-contained post-secondary institutions sufficient to meet the local need for doctors, teachers, etc.?\n\n3. Before the first of these questions (that at (a)) can be answered, there would be necessary (i) a report from the projected Advisory Committee (ii) consideration in the Colonial Office (iii) consideration in the Foreign Office (iv) consideration in the Treasury and possibly (v) a Cabinet decision. All this is bound to take time (particularly as the Advisory Committee members are scattered and some of them busy people); perhaps four months if there is no prolonged delay at any stage. If the answer to the question in (a) is \"No\", (b) will have to be settled and at present I feel considerable doubt\n\n46\n\n(see para. below) whether a decision can be given on (b) without (i) enlargement of the proposed Advisory Committee to include Malaya representatives (ii) reference to the Inter-University Council (iii) a visit by a competent body to the areas involved in the Far East and the canvassing of local opinion on the spot. Even without allowing for any such visit, it is likely to be six months before questions (a) and (b) above can be cleared out of the way. Obviously short range rehabilitation of University activities, and therefore of the University itself (though no doubt functioning with limited scope), cannot wait until then. Therefore we must regard the short range advisory duties of the Committee as not so much concurrent with their\n\n/long", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580541, "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": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "content_text": "245\n\nOpposition was nevertheless strong in K.M.T. Left Wing Circles, and the Chinese in the Philippines are particularly active in fostering anti-British Imperialism agitation. Chinese politicians had to take all this into account in their public speeches. There was a lot of manoeuvring for political influence, but Kuo seemed to be confident that a liberal British attitude, if firmly expressed, would meet with an understanding and liberal attitude. That was the feeling of Chang K'ai-shek and of all intellectual leaders. Opposition was confined to ultra-nationalists and partisan politicians and could be overruled if we played our hand well.\n\nRegarding Hong Kong University, its development on a scale which would prove really helpful to China, as well as to British prestige, could be a fine \"bridge\" and a great offset to political disappointments. It could be \"played up\" and could drown a lot of discord. But even here, approaches should be carefully made. Hu Shih is set on making a success of the re-establishment of the Universities of Central China and Kuo tells me that he and other old Professors now in Government Service are being assured of a welcome by Hu Shih if political changes force them to leave. The Chinese Ministry of Education and the Professors would all welcome a high-grade University of Hong Kong, where Kuo says roundly only the Faculty of Medicine was up to the highest standard. But here again, approach is tricky. Dr. Chu Chia-hua, the Minister of Education (a German-educated, incisive man, brainy and a good administrator) would probably favour co-operation. But he belongs to a different wing of the K.M.T. politically and if co-operation was initially and too warmly sponsored by Yang Shih-chieh, and Fan Li-wu, who are notably pro-British, Dr. Chu (who is primarily an Elder Statesman of the K.M.T. and a Party Leader) might, from political perversity, and egged on by the Filipinos, come out in opposition.\n\n7\n\nNevertheless, Mr. Sloss tells us that he was much encouraged by Chu Chia-hua and my own recollection of him is that of a really big man outstanding among his colleagues for directness and force of character, tinged however by Prussian rigidity and Political Warfare.\n\nKuo volunteered the hope that Hong Kong would develop a Chair for the study of Economics and International problems in the Far East in the U.N.O. spirit, for which he said there was great need (a similar suggestion was made in one of our Reports).\n\nTo sum up, I am tending to the opinion that although we should be well advised to go ahead as soon as possible in repairing existing buildings, equipment and collecting staff and students in Hong Kong to bring the University up to local pre-war level (and I gather this would take two years), no really ambitious plans on the scale advocated by some of the HKUAC members should be publicly ventilated until we find out whether they are likely to be encouraged or opposed in China. If the Foreign Office shies off, why not depute Sloss, plus a colleague, to explore the ground, with the blessing of the Foreign Office and the Embassy in China to whom the kudos could go if the exploration were successful, or would affect indifference, if the amelioration at the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580544, "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": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "page_number": 235, "title": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "content_text": "Opposition was nevertheless strong in K.M.T. Left Wing Circles, and the Chinese in the Philippines are particularly active in fostering anti-British Imperialism agitation. Chinese politicians had to take all this into account in their public speeches. There was a lot of manoeuvring for political influence, but Kuo seemed to be confident that a liberal British attitude, if firmly expressed, would meet with an understanding and liberal attitude. That was the feeling of Chiang Kai-shek and of all intellectual leaders. Opposition was confined to ultra-nationalists and partisan politicians and could be overruled if we played our hand well.\n\nRegarding Hong Kong University, its development on a scale which would prove really helpful to China, as well as to British prestige, could be a fine \"Bridge\" and a great offset to political disappointments. It could be \"played up\" and could drown a lot of discord. But even here, approaches should be carefully made. Hu Shih is set on making a success of the re-establishment of the Universities of Central China and Kuo tells me that he and other old Professors now in Government Service are being assured of a welcome by Hu Shih if political changes force them to leave. The Chinese Ministry of Education and the Professors would all welcome a high-grade University of Hong Kong, where Kuo says roundly only the School of Medicine was up to the highest standard. But here again the approach is tricky. Dr. Chu Chia-Lua, the Minister of Education (a German-educated, incisive man, brainy and a good administrator) would probably favour co-operation. But he belongs to a different wing of the K.M.T. politically and if co-operation was initially and too warmly sponsored by Yang Shih-chieh and Han Li-wu, who are notably pro-British, Dr. Chu (who is primarily an astute Statesman of the K.M.T. and a Party Leader) might from political perversity, and egged on by the Filipinos, come out in opposition.\n\nNevertheless, Mr. Sloss tells us that he was much encouraged by Chu Chia-Lua and my own recollection of him is that of a really big man outstanding among his colleagues for directness and force of character, tinged however by Prussian rigidity and Political warfare.\n\nKuo volunteered the hope that Hong Kong would develop a Chair for the study of Economics and International problems in the Far East in the U.N.O. spirit, for which he said there was great need (a similar suggestion was made in one of our Reports).\n\nTo sum up, I am tending to the opinion that although we should be well advised to go ahead as soon as possible in repairing existing buildings, equipment and collecting staff and students in Hong Kong to bring the University up to local pre-war level (and I gather this would take two years), no really ambitious plans on the scale advocated by some of the HKUAC members should be publicly ventilated until we find out whether they are likely to be encouraged or opposed in China. If the Foreign Office shies off, why not depute Sloss, plus a colleague, to explore the ground, with the blessing of the Foreign Office and the Embassy in China to whom the finishing touches and the kudos could go if the exploration were successful. They could affect indifference, if the exploration were unsuccessful.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580959, "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": "CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "114 \n\nOpposition was nevertheless strong in K.M.T. Left Wing Circles, and the Chinese in the Philippines are particularly active in festering anti-British Imperialism agitation; Chinese politicians had to take all this into account in their public speeches. There was a lot of manoeuvering for political influence, but Kuo seemed to be confident that a liberal British attitude, if firmly expressed, would meet with an understanding and liberal attitude. That was the feeling of Chiang Kai-shek and of all intellectual leaders. Opposition was confined to ultra-nationalists and partisan politicians and could be over-ruled if we played our hand well.\n\nRegarding Hong Kong University, its development on a scale which would prove really helpful to China, as well as to British prestige, could be a fine \"Bridge\" and a great offset to political disappointments. It could be \"played up\" and could drown a lot of discord. But even here, approaches should be carefully made. Hu Shih is set on making a success of the re-establishment of the Universities of Central China and Kuo tells me that he and other old Professors now in Government Service are being assured of a welcome by Hu Shih if political changes force them to leave. The Chinese Ministry of Education and the Professors would all welcome a high-grade University of Hong Kong, where Kuo says roundly - only the School of Medicine was up to the highest standard. But here again the approach is tricky. Dr. Chu Chia-Lua, the Minister of Education (a German-educated, incisive man, brainy and a good administrator) would probably favour co-operation. But he belongs to a different wing of the K.M.T. politically and if co-operation was initially and too warmly sponsored by Yang Shih-chieh and Han Li-u, who are notably pro-British, Dr. Chu (who is primarily an Elder Statesman of the K.M.T. and a Party Leader) might from political perversity, and egged on by the Filipinos, come out in opposition.\n\nNevertheless, Mr. Sloss tells us that he was much encouraged by Chu Chia-Lua and my own recollection of him is that of a really big man outstanding among his colleagues for directness and force of character, tinged however by Prussian rigidity and Political Warfare.\n\nKuo volunteered the hope that Hong Kong would develop a Chair for the study of Economics and International problems in the Far East in the U.N.O. spirit, for which he said there was great need (a similar suggestion was made in one of our Reports).\n\nTo sum up, I am tending to the opinion that although we should be well advised to go ahead as soon as possible in repairing existing buildings, equipment and collecting staff and students in Hong Kong to bring the University up to local pre-war level (and I gather this would take two years), no really ambitious plans on the scale advocated by some of the HKUAC members should be publicly ventilated until we find out whether they are likely to be encouraged or opposed in China. Why not depute Sloss, plus a colleague, to explore the ground, with the blessing of the Foreign Office and the Embassy in China - to whom the finishing touches could go if the exploration were successful. They could affect indifference, if the exploration were unsuccessful.\n\n/Personally", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581220, "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": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946", "content_text": "# Difficulties to be Surmounted for an Early Reopening of the University\n\n## Buildings\n15. On the short term reference, the Committee recognise the necessity of speed in restarting such of the activities of the University as have immediate importance in the re-occupied Colony. The University Buildings are seriously damaged; the Laboratories are without apparatus and furniture. Floor boarding, ceiling, and roof timbers have been carried away. However, there appears to be no doubt that with the vigorous co-operation of the Civil Administration, a sufficient number of classrooms, lecture rooms, and living quarters for students could be made serviceable within six months, provided building materials arrive in the Colony and the University is given a high preference in their allocation. The libraries are undamaged and intact.\n\n## Laboratories\n16. The re-equipping of laboratories at first threatened very long delay, but negotiations have shown that apparatus and appliances for elementary teaching in the basic sciences may be made available in England for dispatch in time to reach Hong Kong at some time in September. Until a long-term policy has been approved, that is, until it is known what kind of University is to be established and what its scope, re-equipment must be limited to the minimum requirements for elementary Chemistry, Physics, Botany, and Zoology. There is little hope of securing in Hong Kong before the early months of 1947 the necessary equipment for the Departments of Physiology, Anatomy, Bio-chemistry, and Pathology.\n\n## Staff\n17. The gravest difficulty, however, arises in the recruitment of staff. Seventeen senior teachers of the University have retired or have died. A great number of the Chinese members of the Staff worked in China during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and they wish to continue there. Limiting the survey to senior staff only, the University has a Registrar, a Librarian, a Professor and Lecturer in English, a Professor of Economics, a Lecturer in Physics, a Professor of Physiology, a Professor of Gynaecology, a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering. Ten out of twenty-seven senior posts are filled; and even if all were filled, pre-war experience shows that several Departments would still be dangerously understaffed even to keep the University going on the unsatisfactory pre-war scale. Recruitment of University teachers for posts in the United Kingdom has probably never been so difficult as it is at present. The difficulty of recruitment to Colonial posts will be very much greater. Further, it is impossible to hope to get good men to take the risk of accepting appointments to a place so far from the centre as Hong Kong unless they can be assured of work that will interest them.\n\nThe Committee's recommendations on University development are awaited. Until the Committee has made its recommendations on University development and those recommendations have been accepted by the Secretary of State, it is impossible to promise work of sound academic quality. This applies least, perhaps, in Medicine, where the local desire for an institution able to award a degree or a diploma accepted by the General Medical Council as qualification for registration in the United Kingdom might be sufficient guarantee that the institution would be of comparable status with a Medical School in the United Kingdom.\n\n18.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581884, "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": "CO129-594-8 A G H Sment- report on medical activities and problems 16-12-1945 - 18-2-1946", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-594-8 A G H Sment- report on medical activities and problems 16-12-1945 - 18-2-1946", "content_text": "## 24\n\nCertain selected groups of the population, mainly Government employees, are included in a survey. There are also school children and specially vulnerable groups, such as parturient women and labourers. The survey is not a big one, but its results should afford useful information, although the findings will be prejudiced somewhat by rapidly changing conditions. The idea is to use these results as a basis for investigating wage earnings in the light of purchasing value and increasing wages or reducing prices to secure better living conditions. The main deficiencies found so far relate to vitamin B, but evidence of other deficiencies is not uncommon.\n\nHelminthic infections have already been referred to. They seem almost universal amongst children. Hookworm infection is said not to be very prevalent, but an investigation amongst certain groups of the population might disclose a higher prevalence than is suspected. Scabies is a considerable problem, as it is in other Colonies. Various eye diseases occur, but apparently trachoma is not more than ordinarily prevalent, although more might have been expected under conditions of overcrowding and after poor feeding with lowered resistance. Reference is made in an earlier section (1) to the desirability of an orthopaedic specialist visiting Hong Kong, having in view the wide occurrence of physical disability and orthopaedic defects in the Colony.\n\nFortunately, at the present time, epidemic disease is absent. Cholera and bowel diseases generally occur during the hot weather, but epidemic smallpox occurs in the winter. Typhoid fevers are not specially prevalent during this season, but there are probably many carriers amongst the community. While diphtheria is occurring at the present, it has not become the problem that has shown up in many countries following enemy occupation.\n\nThis section only concerns the prevalence of disease; a later section will deal with the position in regard to measures of control.\n\n## 4. MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS\n\nGovernment and other Medical Institutions in Hong Kong are referred to on pages 37 to 58 of the Wellington Review. There is also the Report of the Hospitals Committee appointed just before the war, which it will be useful to restudy in the light of events occurring since its publication. The Committee recommended the apportionment of five beds per thousand of the population for general purposes as a target to be aimed at. Colonel Fehily estimates that he now has available, nearly available, an all-in total of 3,785 beds for all purposes for a population figure estimated by the Hospitals Committee at 1,250,000. The position, however, is complicated by the fact that two floors of the Queen Mary Hospital are loaned to the R.N. Authorities, leaving only 250 beds, out of a total of 550, available for Civil Administration, and that a certain proportion of this total accommodation is in buildings that require conditioning before being put into use.\n\nThe contrast between the condition of the accommodation used by the Naval Authorities and the Civil Administration at the Queen Mary Hospital is marked. The former have all the staff and material that they want. Most of their equipment and furniture was conveyed, as a complete hospital unit, from their headquarters at Brisbane. Civil Affairs Administration have had literally nothing except what they took over, and have had to improvise all along. They have done this exceedingly well, and the position is surely, if slowly, assuming a brighter complexion. Complete restoration, however, must await the arrival of the United Kingdom units.\n\nHospital and other Medical institutional development will follow the lines of the Committee's recommendations in so far as these were approved by the Secretary of State. The first essential to medical planning is that there should be a more or less fixed figure of population upon which to base medical accommodation and requirements.\n\nChild Welfare Centres, dispensaries, and special clinics, many of which I have visited, are all being rapidly re-established and are bringing much relief to a care-starved people. The popularity of these institutions is evident, and it is quite apparent that the bulk of the population have learnt to appreciate Western medicine and trust those who administer it. Daily, on going round, I have been impressed by the quality of the work that has been accomplished by the respective Heads of the Medical Department, and by the wise and careful planning that is apparent on every hand.\n\n## 7 \n\n42878-1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-8 A G H Sment- report on medical activities and problems 16-12-1945 - 18-2-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 583347, "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": "CO129-597-2 Estimates 1949 1-3-1948 - 14-7-1949", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-597-2 Estimates 1949 1-3-1948 - 14-7-1949", "content_text": "## REVENUE\n11\n\n(1) More vehicles. Increased demand. Increased production.\n\n(4) Increased valuations and more properties assessed. \n(5) Title changed from Assessed taxes (Rates), New Territories, North.\n\n(6) Previously shown in part separately under Assessed taxes (Rates), New Territories, South. \n(7) Now shown under Assessed taxes (Rates) New Territories.\n\n(8) Full programme of race meetings. \n(9) Greater attendances.\n\n(10) Full assessment for 1948/49. \n(11) Previously underestimated.\n\n(12) Previously overestimated. \n(13) Reduced consumption.\n\n(14) New duties. \n(15) Increased fees.\n\n(16) New item. \n(17) More registrations.\n\n(18) Fewer licences. \n(19) More licences.\n\n(20) Variable. \n(21) More building.\n\n(22) Discontinued. \n(23) Included under Miscellaneous.\n\n(24) Services extended. \n(25) More cases.\n\n(26) Activities of department curtailed. \n(27) More emigration.\n\n(28) More pupils. \n(29) More surveys.\n\n(30) Includes arrears. \n(31) Previously shown under Distraint Commission, Official Administrator's Commission, and Official Receiver's Commission.\n\n(32) Now shown under Commission. \n(33) More ships.\n\n(34) Title changed from Use of Government W/T stations, repairs, etc.\n\n(35) Proceeds credited to loan funds. \n(36) Salaries increased.\n\n(37) More supplies available commercially. \n(38) More industries.\n\n(39) More publications. \n(40) More boxes.\n\n(41) More stamps. \n(42) More traffic.\n\n(43) Less traffic. Road competition. \n(44) Includes revenue previously shown under Incidental revenue, foreign and home lines.\n\n(45) More land rented. \n(46) Revenue transferred in part to Goods service, others, foreign and home lines.\n\n(47) More officials accommodated in Government quarters. \n(48) More funds available.\n\n(49) More land sales. \n(50) Now shown under Buildings and furniture.\n\n(51) 1947/48 estimates included arrears. \n(52) Loan repaid.\n\n(53) Big sales in 1947/48. \n(54) Less imports anticipated.\n\n43", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-597-2 Estimates 1949 1-3-1948 - 14-7-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 583656, "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": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "content_text": "# \n79\n\nbudget by means of a very moderate increase in taxation was likely to constitute more effective action against inflationary tendencies than the procedure of meeting expenditure from Loan funds, even when the Loan was raised locally. He made the point that by meeting capital expenditure from current income we were really investing our surplus balances in capital assets, and that the works provided for in the current estimates did not constitute an integrated programme of the kind normally met from Loan funds. He agreed that a number of rehabilitation items were provided for, which would have been charged to Loan funds had sufficient balances been available, and that if there was any question of financing some really big scheme such as a water conservation project it was fairly clear that this could not be done from current income. He undertook on behalf of Government that the question of the financing of future capital expenditure would be taken up with you, and that the views expressed by unofficial members would be brought to your notice.\n\n43.\n\nIn the subsequent debate on the motion for the approval of the report of the Select Committee, Mr. Landale announced that, as it might result in delay in the execution of the Public Works' programme, he had decided not to move the amendment which he had originally proposed, but he expressed the hope that the question of increasing the Colony's borrowing powers would be energetically pursued and that your consent would be readily obtained.\n\n44.\n\nIn order to complete the works, on which a start has been made under the present year's programme, it will be necessary to provide a sum of at least $14,000,000 for Public Works Extraordinary in the 1950-51 estimates, and practically the whole of this can be classed as rehabilitation expenditure, as it is in respect of buildings and essential services which it has been necessary to replace as a result of the Japanese occupation. In addition to this several Government schools destroyed during the war have not yet been replaced, and it will be necessary to put this work in hand as soon as new sites are definitely decided upon. A number of the less important streets, which are in a deplorable condition as a result of lack of maintenance over a period of years, have still to be resurfaced, and the rehabilitation of the water supply is by no means complete.\n\n45.\n\nIt is probable too that a decision will soon be reached in regard to the Tai Lam Chung water conservation scheme, and this will involve expenditure of at least $64,000,000 spread over a period of seven to twelve years. The existing ferry service no longer meets the requirements of the greatly increased population, and a scheme for its improvement is under consideration. New piers will be constructed by the Ferry Company, but in order to provide for the present volume of vehicular traffic it will be necessary to set them well back from the present roadway, and this will involve a moderate amount of reclamation. Other major reclamation schemes involving an expenditure of over $30,000,000 must soon be undertaken in order to provide more building sites, but these schemes will in the long run prove very profitable.\n\n46.\n\nIt is therefore abundantly clear that, if the Colony is to continue to progress, this Government will within the next few years be required to embark on capital", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587285, "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": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "content_text": "7. Head 2, Assessed Taxes (Rates), yielded $6,826,649, which was $1,076,649 higher than the estimate, owing to the increased values of property.\n\n8. Head 3, Internal Revenue. Actual receipts totalled $12,127,253 or $5,127,253 more than anticipated; the major increases being in respect of Estate Duty, $1,533,404, mainly in consequence of the higher property values, and Stamp Duties, $1,514,237, largely as a result of the extra duty imposed on the enhanced prices at which land and property are sold.\n\nThe new Meals & Liquor Tax accounted for approximately $783,000. Owing to the higher charges and bigger attendances at Cinema and other performances, the Entertainment Tax yield reached the high figure of $3,171,652.\n\n9. Head 4, Licences etc., accounted for $3,851,674, which is over $2,000,000 above the estimate. Many of the licence fees were increased during the period with resulting excesses on various sub-heads. Higher property valuations account for the greater part of the excess of $244,208 under Liquor Licences, and the special fee on the registration of the many new foreign vehicles imported brought in no less than $953,071 which was more than $850,000 above the estimate. The exceptional number of Court cases involving infringement of various measures designed to control prices and smuggling etc., resulted in Fines totalling $736,720 as compared with the estimate of $200,000.\n\n10. Head 5, Fees of Court etc. The total revenue from this source was $4,948,179 or $1,192,321 below the estimate. The Estimates included $1,283,300 from the trading activities of the Supplies, Trade & Industry Department, but owing to the difficulty which that Department is experiencing in assessing the sums due to H.M. Government in respect of sales of stores taken over from the British Military Administration, it proved impracticable to transfer any remaining profits to revenue during 1946/47. The actual amounts which will eventually accrue to civil funds should be considerable. There is also a decrease of over $1,000,000 in respect of fees charged by the Custodian of Property. The estimate allowed for charges on supplies to Government Departments, but the question as to whether the fees are payable by Government to the Custodian of Property has not yet been settled. There were varying increases, as compared with the Estimates, under most other sub-heads.\n\n11. Head 6, Water Revenue. The receipts totalled $2,538,684 or $61,316 less than estimated.\n\n12. Head 7, Post Office, Collections amounted to over $5,250,000 as compared with the estimate of $3,000,000. This increase was almost entirely in respect of Postage and was due to certain increases in the postal charges and to business expansion. Air mail rates, in particular, were raised.\n\n13. Head 8, Kowloon-Canton Railway, brought in $4,414,899, an excess of $1,011,999, largely accounted for by the big influx of population; nearly $2,500,000 (some $1,500,000 over the estimate) having accrued from the Passenger Service on the foreign part of the line.\n\n14. Head 9, Revenue from Land Rents, Properties etc. $2,437,521 was collected; the excess being $728,021. Market Fees were underestimated and account for $224,000 of the increase. Rents etc. for Government buildings yielded some $103,000 more than estimated. The charges payable by Government officials accommodated in local hotels are credited to this sub-head and account for most of the increase.\n\n15. Head 10, Miscellaneous Receipts. $5,362,163 accrued under this head, giving an excess of $3,891,163. The principal excesses were from Royalties paid by the two Bus companies which rapidly re-established and extended their services.\n\n16. Head 11, Land Sales. Revenue amounted to $180,368, which was some $19,600 less than the estimate. Government was not in a position to offer much Crown Land for sale so soon after the resumption of British Administration.\n\nEXPENDITURE\n\n17. The actual expenditure totals are compared with the Estimates in the following summary:\n\n \n \n Estimates $\n Actual $\n \n \n Recurrent Expenditure\n 90,077,129\n 84,185,534\n \n \n Special Expenditure\n 61,650,447\n 1,435,536\n \n \n Public Works Extraordinary\n 16,127,000\n 1,321\n \n \n TOTALS\n 167,854,576\n 85,622,391\n \n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587375, "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": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "content_text": "7. Head 2, Assessed Taxes (Rates), yielded $6,826,649, which was $1,076,649 higher than the estimate, owing to the increased values of property.\n\n8. Head 3, Internal Revenue. Actual receipts totalled $12,127,253 or $5,127,253 more than anticipated; the major increases being in respect of Estate Duty, $1,533,404, mainly in consequence of the higher property values, and Stamp Duties, $1,514,237, largely as a result of the extra duty imposed on the enhanced prices at which land and property are sold. The new Meals & Liquor Tax accounted for approximately $783,000. Owing to the higher charges and bigger attendances at Cinema and other performances, the Entertainment Tax yield reached the high figure of $3,171,652.\n\n9. Head 4, Licences etc., accounted for $3,851,674, which is over $2,000,000 above the estimate. Many of the licence fees were increased during the period with resulting excesses on various sub-heads. Higher property valuations account for the greater part of the excess of $244,208 under Liquor Licences, and the special fee on the registration of the many new foreign vehicles imported brought in no less than $953,071 which was more than $850,000 above the estimate. The exceptional number of Court cases involving infringement of various measures designed to control prices and smuggling etc., resulted in Fines totalling $736,720 as compared with the estimate of $200,000.\n\n10. Head 5, Fees of Court etc. The total revenue from this source was $4,948,179 or $1,192,321 below the estimate. The Estimates included $1,283,300 from the trading activities of the Supplies, Trade & Industry Department, but owing to the difficulty which that Department is experiencing in assessing the sums due to H.M. Government in respect of sales of stores taken over from the British Military Administration, it proved impracticable to transfer any remaining profits to revenue during 1946/47. The actual amounts which will eventually accrue to civil funds should be considerable. There is also a decrease of over $1,000,000 in respect of fees charged by the Custodian of Property. The estimate allowed for charges on supplies to Government Departments, but the question as to whether the fees are payable by Government to the Custodian of Property has not yet been settled. There were varying increases, as compared with the Estimates, under most other sub-heads.\n\n11. Head 6, Water Revenue. The receipts totalled $2,538,684 or $61,316 less than estimated.\n\n12. Head 7, Post Office, Collections amounted to over $5,250,000 as compared with the estimate of $3,000,000. This increase was almost entirely in respect of Postage and was due to certain increases in the postal charges and to business expansion. Air mail rates, in particular, were raised.\n\n13. Head 8, Kowloon-Canton Railway, brought in $4,414,899, an excess of $1,011,999, largely accounted for by the big influx of population; nearly $2,500,000 (some $1,500,000 over the estimate) having accrued from the Passenger Service on the foreign part of the line.\n\n14. Head 9, Revenue from Land Rents, Properties etc. $2,437,521 was collected; the excess being $728,021. Market Fees were underestimated and account for $224,000 of the increase. Rents etc. for Government buildings yielded some $103,000 more than estimated. The charges payable by Government officials accommodated in local hotels are credited to this sub-head and account for most of the increase.\n\n15. Head 10, Miscellaneous Receipts. $5,362,163 accrued under this head, giving an excess of $3,891,163. The principal excesses were from Royalties paid by the two Bus companies which rapidly re-established and extended their services.\n\n16. Head 11, Land Sales. Revenue amounted to $180,368, which was some $19,600 less than the estimate. Government was not in a position to offer much Crown Land for sale so soon after the resumption of British Administration.\n\nEXPENDITURE\n\n17. The actual expenditure totals are compared with the Estimates in the following summary:\n\n \n \n Estimates\n Actual\n \n \n Recurrent Expenditure\n $90,077,129\n $84,185,534\n \n \n Special Expenditure\n $61,650,447\n $1,435,536\n \n \n Public Works Extraordinary\n $16,127,000\n $1,321\n \n \n TOTALS\n $167,854,576\n $85,622,391\n \n\n- 3 -", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589824, "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": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948", "content_text": "Soong Pledges Step to Protect Foreign Lives\n\nPromises Military Action After Anti-British Riots In Canton and Shanghai\n\nBy the Associated Press\n\nHONGKONG, Jan. 17.-Chinese Premier T.V. Soong said today his government would take prompt military action to protect foreign lives in China but that the outbreaks of the last two days had grown to the extent that the Chinese Foreign Office is taking up the matter with Britain through diplomatic channels.\n\nMr. Soong's statement followed the second serious riot in two days against British diplomatic buildings in China as an estimated mob of 10,000, shouting \"Down with Britain,\" attempted to storm the heavily-guarded British Consulate at Shanghai. They were driven back by police with clubs.\n\nAgitators repeatedly urged the throng to break in, and a truck was used as a battering ram in a vain bid to smash down the gates. Posters carried by the mob demanded: \"British, get out of Kowloon.\" The riots are a sequel to Hongkong police eviction of Chinese from shacks in Kowloon, \"walled city\" adjoining Hongkong.\n\nCanton Refugees Arrive\n\nMeanwhile, British refugees from Canton, six of whom were injured in violent anti-British riots and incendiarism yesterday, were brought by plane to Hongkong today. The British Consul-General at Canton, Ronald Hall, was pursued by the rioters, but was saved by the intercession of a Chinese journalist.\n\nC. V. Curtis, a British businessman, said he was lucky to escape alive from Canton. \"I was knocked about and received a number of injuries,\" he told an interviewer. Chinese used fists, stones, and sticks to attack Britons, he added.\n\nIn his statement, Premier Soong asserted that Communists were responsible for the agitation. British Embassy officials at Nanking are reported highly skeptical of this. This source stated that the embassy still awaits an official version of the incidents from the Chinese Foreign Ministry.\n\nN.Y. HERALD TRIBUNE\n\nPARIS EDITION. 68\n\n#2 114 1948\n\nMR Wallace.\n\n4/535.\n\nMr. Radford -537", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589844, "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": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948", "content_text": "'Protect British' order in China \n\nFAMILIES FLYING \n\nOUT TODAY \n\n· \n\nHONGKONG, Saturday. \n\nAn airliner of Hongkong Airways took off from here early today for Canton to evacuate 20 British women and children following the anti-British riots in the South China city yesterday.\n\nThe plane was expected to return from Canton, which is only 90 miles away up the Pearl River, within two hours.\n\nEvery available airliner is being mustered to fly out British women and children to escape the threat of a growing wave of wild anti-British rioting.\n\nAlready the British Consulate in Canton has been completely destroyed by a mob of several thousand Chinese, and demonstrations have begun in other parts of China.\n\nLast night, following a protest by the British Ambassador, Sir Ralph Stevenson, the Chinese Government ordered all local officials, on pain of severe punishment, to protect British consulates, lives, and property.\n\nIn view of the growing anti-British feeling in other big Chinese cities, apart from Canton, Sir Ralph asked for increased guards at the British Embassy in Nanking.\n\nA big demonstration had been held by Chinese outside the Embassy earlier.\n\nThe Chinese Government statement, ordering the ruthless suppression of anti-British riots, also expressed \"deep regret for the unfortunate incident at Canton.\"\n\n[1]\n\nMr. John Williams, a British missionary, and his wife, formerly Linda Morse, are still unaccounted for following the sacking of the Canton Consulate.\n\nThe Vice-Consul, Mr. K. Blackwell, was slightly hurt.\n\nAngry mobs \n\nLast night, while angry Chinese mobs roam the streets shouting anti-British slogans, all British families in Canton—they include between 50 and 100 women and children—were accommodated for safety in homes attached to other foreign consulates.\n\nThe trouble arose following distorted accounts of the eviction of Chinese squatters from condemned insanitary huts in Kowloon, British-occupied portion of the Chinese mainland opposite Hongkong Island.\n\nTwo of the Chinese were gaoled for resisting the police during the eviction, and this led to a Chinese Government protest to the British Ambassador.\n\nAgitators dragged up old disputes about the occupation of Kowloon.\n\nChanting mobs gathered outside the Canton Consulate, and police escorted Mr. Ronald Hall, the Consul-General, and his staff from the building.\n\nMartial law \n\nMr. J. L. Murray, the Press Attaché, his wife, and Barbara Rolfe, the Consul's secretary, ran the gauntlet of the mob to the home of the U.S. Naval Attaché, narrowly escaping injury.\n\nThen, led by uniformed members of the Nationalist San Min Chui Youth Corps, the mob stormed the Consulate, smashed all the furniture and set it alight, then held back the fire brigade while flames engulfed the whole building.\n\nAdjoining offices, owned by Butterfield and Swire, the British shipping firm, were also burned out, and other buildings were damaged.\n\nThree hours later Chinese troops arrived and dispersed the mob, and the Shameen quarter, where the riots occurred, has been put under martial law.—B.U.P. and Reuter.\n\nDaily Mail \n\n17 JAN 1948", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 592675, "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": "CO129-614-1 Commission of Inquiry into fire at West Point- report 26-5-1949 - 22-12-1949", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-614-1 Commission of Inquiry into fire at West Point- report 26-5-1949 - 22-12-1949", "content_text": "## CHAPTER IX \n### FIRE EXTINCTION.\n\n#### Adequacy or Inadequacy of the Equipment of the Fire Brigade;\n\n90. There has been considerable criticism to the effect that the Fire Brigade was inadequately equipped to deal with the Wing On Fire. The criticism is, in our opinion, to some extent justified, as we point out below, but would be better directed to the failure of measures to prevent the storage of 30 tons of cinematograph film in godown No. 5. It is possible that with the addition of many more appliances, the fire in godown No. 2 could have been brought under control earlier than it was by sheer weight of water, but the fire was of an altogether unforeseeable nature, and we do not think that the equipment and the strength of the Fire Brigade should be based on a possible recurrence. Rather, we have suggested in the previous chapter that preventive measures and their enforcement should be augmented.\n\n91. Mr. Brand, in his evidence before the Commission, made the statement that the equipment and personnel of the Hong Kong Fire Brigade were \"comparable to that of any other Fire Brigade in the world\". The Chief Officer, in his evidence, somewhat qualified this bold statement, but we were unable to adduce any evidence which would serve to show that the fire-fighting equipment of Hong Kong was inferior to that in many cities of the same size. Of course, conditions in Hong Kong render it more subject to fire hazard than the majority of cities with a comparable population. On the other hand, it is known that the Colony has a good record of absence of fires, and the rates of insurance here are lower than in any other oriental city. That the rates are about 40% higher than in the United Kingdom can in no way be taken to reflect on the efficiency of the Fire Brigade, but is due to the higher costs of management here. The absence of big fires, though partially attributable no doubt to the conspicuous absence of wood-built buildings, must in no small degree be credited to the success with which the Fire Brigade extinguishes and controls outbreaks.\n\n92. We were informed by the Chief Officer that he has a programme of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-614-1 Commission of Inquiry into fire at West Point- report 26-5-1949 - 22-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594538, "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": "CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947", "content_text": "## 5- Appendix C.\n\n(iv) Refuse chutes.\n\nDisposal of refuse by means of chutes appears to be the best method; as the carrying of dust bins through the public stairs is not satisfactory as there is liable to be garbage left in the staircases.\n\n(v) Access to kitchens and lavatories.\n\nAccess to kitchens and lavatories is best through open balconies at the rear of the building; smell and smoke will have an outlet to the external air. Electricity, gas or coal for cooking are beyond the means of the poorer classes as normal cooking is done on a chatty under a hood.\n\n(vi) Tenements with brick partitions.\n\nThe normal tenement is a big open room with wooden partitions or screens to form cubicles, a flat is normally shared by two or more families. Fixed brick partitions would give better comfort and privacy, a point which the Hong Kong Buildings Ordinance does not insist upon.\n\n(vii) Roofs.\n\nFlat roofs can be utilised as small gardens or terraces.\n\n(viii) Balconies and scavenging lanes.\n\nProjecting balconies are improvements over the ordinary verandahs with piers, the 10 feet scavenging lane as required by the new Ordinance in force is another decided improvement.\n\n(ix) Open space for 40 feet lots.\n\nThe building regulations allow 1/4 open space for lots under 40 ft. deep for old lots, and 1/3 for lots above 40 ft. In rebuilding programmes of old tenement houses, perhaps some concession or consideration will be given to property owners by amendments to s. s. 1 and 7 of Section 82 of the Building Ordinance.\n\n(1) \"Forty Feet\" to be substituted by, say \"Forty-five feet\" (s.s.1)\n\n(2) Concession to cover buildings having verandahs or balconies.\n\n(x) Plan B and C.\n\nPlan B and C show a suggested type of tenement designed to remedy, as far as possible, the faults found in present standard types.\n\n(Signed)\n\nI. N. Chan.\n\n39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594580, "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": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "content_text": "## 6. Housing for Staffs\n\nThe destruction of so great a proportion of European houses has made the housing of staff a matter of great difficulty. Houses have been repaired and whenever possible old large houses have been divided: a proceeding both forced on us and desirable in the certainty that the cost of house-keeping is permanently at least doubled. The Vice-Chancellor's house is reduced to bare walls and a partial roof. It was too big for present conditions and it has been decided to rebuild it as four flats, two for senior and two for junior men. All existing accommodation is earmarked for occupation and therefore it is necessary to build a new house for the Vice-Chancellor at a cost of about £8,000 and a block of eight flats for men still to be appointed to new posts (expatriate officers for the teaching of Architecture, Medicine, Surgery, Gynaecology, Economics, History and Psychology) at a cost of about £40,000. A grant of about £48,000 will be sought for this project.\n\nThe projects so far proposed are those that immediately should be taken in hand. Two or three years hence it is reasonably certain that an extension of Science buildings will be necessary, to give accommodation for advanced work especially in Chemistry and Marine Zoology. Library accommodation already is inadequate except for Chinese books which are housed separately in an endowed Library, and with the developments in prospect the existing library will have to be rebuilt, as the present building is not only small but is extremely badly planned for its purpose.\n\n29th April, 1948.\n\n## Previous Section\n\nresponsibility for the training of High School teachers will fall on the University as the Government is committed to implementing the new Colonial policy (White Paper 197) which requires Colonial Governments to open all the higher services to natives of the Colony. We shall immediately have to double the number of candidates for the Diploma in Teaching. Further, we are pressed to undertake, as a special responsibility of a British Colony at the main southern gate of China, the training of efficient teachers of English for China. It is proposed to give to graduates of Chinese Universities a two-year course, the first mainly in English speech, writing, reading, and social history; the second in principles of teaching, phonetics, and especially in the methods that were used so successfully in language teaching in England during the war. It is admitted that this aspect of the Institute's work is not directly a concern of the Colonial University Grants Committee. The University would therefore appeal only for a contribution to the purely Colonial side of the project, the necessity of providing buildings and equipment to train teachers for the Government and Aided Schools of Hong Kong. The University has not yet been able to get a sketch design and estimate, but it is improbable that a sum exceeding £20,000 towards the cost of the building and equipment would be asked of the Grants Committee.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594609, "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": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "content_text": "## 44\n\nThe responsibility for the training of High School teachers will fall on the University as the Government is committed to implementing the new Colonial policy (White Paper 197), which requires Colonial Governments to open all the higher services to natives of the Colony. We shall immediately have to double the number of candidates for the Diploma in Teaching. Further, we are pressed to undertake, as a special responsibility of a British Colony at the main southern gate of China, the training of efficient teachers of English for China. It is proposed to give to graduates of Chinese Universities a two-year course, the first mainly in English speech, writing, reading, and social history; the second in principles of teaching, phonetics, and especially in the methods that were used so successfully in language teaching in England during the war. It is admitted that this aspect of the Institute's work is not directly a concern of the Colonial University Grants Committee. The University would therefore appeal only for a contribution to the purely Colonial side of the project, the necessity of providing buildings and equipment to train teachers for the Government and Aided Schools of Hong Kong. The University has not yet been able to get a sketch design and estimate, but it is improbable that a sum exceeding £20,000 towards the cost of the building and equipment would be asked of the Grants Committee.\n\n## 6. Housing for Staff\n\nThe destruction of so great a proportion of European houses has made the housing of staff a matter of great difficulty. Houses have been repaired and, whenever possible, old large houses have been divided: a proceeding both forced on us and desirable in the certainty that the cost of housekeeping is permanently at least doubled. The Vice-Chancellor's house is reduced to bare walls and a partial roof. It was too big for present conditions, and it has been decided to rebuild it as four flats, two for senior and two for junior men. All existing accommodation is earmarked for occupation, and therefore it is necessary to build a new house for the Vice-Chancellor at a cost of about £8,000 and a block of eight flats for men still to be appointed to new posts (expatriate officers for the teaching of Architecture, Medicine, Surgery, Gynaecology, Economics, History, and Psychology) at a cost of about £40,000. A grant of about £48,000 will be sought for this project.\n\nThe projects so far proposed are those that should immediately be taken in hand. Two or three years hence, it is reasonably certain that an extension of Science buildings will be necessary to give accommodation for advanced work, especially in Chemistry and Marine Zoology. Library accommodation already is inadequate, except for Chinese books, which are housed separately in an endowed Library, and with the developments in prospect, the existing library will have to be rebuilt, as the present building is not only small but is extremely badly planned for its purpose.\n\n29th April, 1948.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594620, "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": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "content_text": "# \n\nresponsibility for the training of High School teachers will fall on the University as the Government is committed to implementing the new Colonial policy (White Paper 197) which requires Colonial Governments to open all the higher services to natives of the Colony. We shall immediately have to double the number of candidates for the Diploma in Teaching. Further, we are pressed to undertake, as a special responsibility of a British Colony at the main southern gate of China, the training of efficient teachers of English for China. It is proposed to give to graduates of Chinese Universities a two years course, the first mainly in English speech, writing, reading, and social history; the second in principles of teaching, phonetics, and especially in the methods that were used so successfully in language teaching in England during the war. It is admitted that this aspect of the Institute's work is not directly a concern of the Colonial University Grants Committee. The University would therefore appeal only for a contribution to the purely Colonial side of the project, the necessity of providing buildings and equipment to train teachers for the Government and Aided Schools of Hong Kong. The University has not yet been able to get a sketch design and estimate, but it is improbable that a sum exceeding £20,000 towards the cost of the building and equipment would be asked of the Grants Committee.\n\n## 6. Housing for Staffs\n\nThe destruction of so great a proportion of European houses has made the housing of staff a matter of great difficulty. Houses have been repaired and whenever possible old large houses have been divided: a proceeding both forced on us and desirable in the certainty that the cost of house-keeping is permanently at least doubled. The Vice-Chancellor's house is reduced to bare walls and a partial roof. It was too big for present conditions and it has been decided to rebuild it as four flats, two for senior and two for junior men. All existing accommodation is earmarked for occupation and therefore it is necessary to build a new house for the Vice-Chancellor at a cost of about £8,000 and a block of eight flats for men still to be appointed to new posts (expatriate officers for the teaching of Architecture, Medicine, Surgery, Gynaecology, Economics, History, and Psychology) at a cost of about £40,000. A grant of about £48,000 will be sought for this project.\n\nThe projects so far proposed are those that immediately should be taken in hand. Two or three years hence it is reasonably certain that an extension of Science buildings will be necessary, to give accommodation for advanced work especially in Chemistry and Marine Zoology. Library accommodation already is inadequate except for Chinese books which are housed separately in an endowed Library, and with the developments in prospect the existing library will have to be rebuilt, as the present building is not only small but is extremely badly planned for its purpose.\n\n29th April, 1948.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594632, "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": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "content_text": "## 67\n\nThe responsibility for the training of High School teachers will fall on the University as the Government is committed to implementing the new Colonial policy (White Paper 197), which requires Colonial Governments to open all the higher services to natives of the Colony. We shall immediately have to double the number of candidates for the Diploma in Teaching. Further, we are pressed to undertake, as a special responsibility of a British Colony at the main southern gate of China, the training of efficient teachers of English for China. It is proposed to give to graduates of Chinese Universities a two-year course, the first mainly in English speech, writing, reading, and social history; the second in principles of teaching, phonetics, and especially in the methods that were used so successfully in language teaching in England during the war. It is admitted that this aspect of the Institute's work is not directly a concern of the Colonial University Grants Committee. The University would therefore appeal only for a contribution to the purely Colonial side of the project, the necessity of providing buildings and equipment to train teachers for the Government and Aided Schools of Hong Kong. The University has not yet been able to get a sketch design and estimate, but it is improbable that a sum exceeding £20,000 towards the cost of the building and equipment would be asked of the Grants Committee.\n\n## 6.\n\n### Housing for Staff\n\nThe destruction of so great a proportion of European houses has made the housing of staff a matter of great difficulty. Houses have been repaired and, whenever possible, old large houses have been divided: a proceeding both forced on us and desirable in the certainty that the cost of housekeeping is permanently at least doubled. The Vice-Chancellor's house is reduced to bare walls and a partial roof.\n\nIt was too big for present conditions, and it has been decided to rebuild it as four flats, two for senior and two for junior men. All existing accommodation is earmarked for occupation, and therefore it is necessary to build a new house for the Vice-Chancellor at a cost of about £8,000 and a block of eight flats for men still to be appointed to new posts (expatriate officers for the teaching of Architecture, Medicine, Surgery, Gynaecology, Economics, History, and Psychology) at a cost of about £40,000. A grant of about £48,000 will be sought for this project.\n\nThe projects so far proposed are those that should immediately be taken in hand. Two or three years hence, it is reasonably certain that an extension of Science buildings will be necessary to give accommodation for advanced work, especially in Chemistry and Marine Zoology. Library accommodation already is inadequate, except for Chinese books, which are housed separately in an endowed Library, and with the developments in prospect, the existing library will have to be rebuilt, as the present building is not only small but is extremely badly planned for its purpose.\n\n29th April, 1948.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594639, "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": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "content_text": "## 74\n\nThe responsibility for the training of High School teachers will fall on the University as the Government is committed to implementing the new Colonial policy (White Paper 197), which requires Colonial Governments to open all the higher services to natives of the Colony. We shall immediately have to double the number of candidates for the Diploma in Teaching. Further, we are pressed to undertake, as a special responsibility of a British Colony at the main southern gate of China, the training of efficient teachers of English for China. It is proposed to give graduates of Chinese Universities a two-year course, the first mainly in English speech, writing, reading, and social history; the second in principles of teaching, phonetics, and especially in the methods that were used so successfully in language teaching in England during the war. It is admitted that this aspect of the Institute's work is not directly a concern of the Colonial University Grants Committee. The University would therefore appeal only for a contribution to the purely Colonial side of the project, the necessity of providing buildings and equipment to train teachers for the Government and Aided Schools of Hong Kong. The University has not yet been able to get a sketch design and estimate, but it is improbable that a sum exceeding £20,000 towards the cost of the building and equipment would be asked of the Grants Committee.\n\n## 6. Housing for Staffs\n\nThe destruction of so great a proportion of European houses has made the housing of staff a matter of great difficulty. Houses have been repaired, and whenever possible, old large houses have been divided: a proceeding both forced on us and desirable in the certainty that the cost of housekeeping is permanently at least doubled. The Vice-Chancellor's house is reduced to bare walls and a partial roof. It was too big for present conditions, and it has been decided to rebuild it as four flats, two for senior and two for junior men. All existing accommodation is earmarked for occupation, and therefore it is necessary to build a new house for the Vice-Chancellor at a cost of about £8,000 and a block of eight flats for men still to be appointed to new posts (expatriate officers for the teaching of Architecture, Medicine, Surgery, Gynaecology, Economics, History, and Psychology) at a cost of about £40,000. A grant of about £48,000 will be sought for this project.\n\nThe projects so far proposed are those that should be taken in hand immediately. Two or three years hence, it is reasonably certain that an extension of Science buildings will be necessary to give accommodation for advanced work, especially in Chemistry and Marine Zoology. Library accommodation is already inadequate, except for Chinese books, which are housed separately in an endowed Library, and with the developments in prospect, the existing library will have to be rebuilt, as the present building is not only small but is extremely badly planned for its purpose.\n\n29th April, 1948.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594646, "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": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948", "content_text": "# 81\n\n## End\n\nResponsibility for the training of High School teachers will fall on the University as the Government is committed to implementing the new Colonial policy (White Paper 197), which requires Colonial Governments to open all the higher services to natives of the Colony. We shall immediately have to double the number of candidates for the Diploma in Teaching. Further, we are pressed to undertake, as a special responsibility of a British Colony at the main southern gate of China, the training of efficient teachers of English for China. It is proposed to give graduates of Chinese Universities a two-year course: the first mainly in English speech, writing, reading, and social history; the second in principles of teaching, phonetics, and especially in the methods that were used so successfully in language teaching in England during the war. It is admitted that this aspect of the Institute's work is not directly a concern of the Colonial University Grants Committee. The University would therefore appeal only for a contribution to the purely Colonial side of the project, the necessity of providing buildings and equipment to train teachers for the Government and Aided Schools of Hong Kong. The University has not yet been able to get a sketch design and estimate, but it is improbable that a sum exceeding £20,000 towards the cost of the building and equipment would be asked of the Grants Committee.\n\n## 6. Housing for Staff\n\nThe destruction of so great a proportion of European houses has made the housing of staff a matter of great difficulty. Houses have been repaired, and whenever possible, old large houses have been divided: a proceeding both forced and desirable in the certainty that the cost of housekeeping is permanently at least doubled. The Vice-Chancellor's house is reduced to bare walls and a partial roof. It was too big for present conditions, and it has been decided to rebuild it as four flats, two for senior and two for junior men.\n\nAll existing accommodation is earmarked for occupation, and therefore it is necessary to build a new house for the Vice-Chancellor at a cost of about £8,000 and a block of eight flats for men still to be appointed to new posts (expatriate officers for the teaching of Architecture, Medicine, Surgery, Gynaecology, Economics, History, and Psychology) at a cost of about £40,000. A grant of about £48,000 will be sought for this project.\n\nThe projects so far proposed are those that should be taken in hand immediately. Two or three years hence, it is reasonably certain that an extension of Science buildings will be necessary to give accommodation for advanced work, especially in Chemistry and Marine Zoology. Library accommodation is already inadequate, except for Chinese books, which are housed separately in an endowed Library, and with the developments in prospect, the existing library will have to be rebuilt, as the present building is not only small but is extremely badly planned for its purpose.\n\n29th April, 1948.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-3 University of Hong Kong- grants and financial assistance 6-5-1948 - 10-6-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596283, "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": "CO129-623-2 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-12-1950 - 31-3-1951", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-623-2 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-12-1950 - 31-3-1951", "content_text": "97261/17/1/50\n\nColonial Office,\n\n17\n\nSanctuary Buildings,\n\nGreat Smith Street,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n4 January, 1951.\n\n2\n\nDear Taylor,\n\nMany thanks for your letter of the 16th December, enclosing a report of a meeting with the British Rubber Footwear Manufacturers' Association about the importation of rubber footwear into the United Kingdom from Hong Kong.\n\nWith regard to the points mentioned in paragraph 4 of the Report, our comments are as follows:-\n\n(a) The Hong Kong factory, which was recently closed down, was forced to do so for reasons particular to that concern. Provided the Hong Kong manufacturers are able to retain their market in the United Kingdom, there is no reason to suppose that other factories will have to close.\n\n(b) The diversion of Hong Kong exports to other parts of the Commonwealth is not a matter which can be decided by H.M.G. in the United Kingdom. India and the other countries of the Commonwealth can please themselves whether or not they import Hong Kong footwear, and there is no reason to suppose that the Hong Kong manufacturers are not aware of the possibilities of the Commonwealth market. India herself manufactures rubber footwear in a big way.\n\n(c) B.S.I. standards are already being employed in Hong Kong in a number of industries. They have not yet been applied to the rubber footwear industry, but there is some doubt about the allegation that the Hong Kong products are inferior to those of the United Kingdom. A pair of children's rubber\n\nH. Gordon Taylor, Esq.,\n\nBoard of Trade.\n\n/boots", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-2 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-12-1950 - 31-3-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596336, "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": "CO129-623-3 Supplementary Expenditure- general correspondence on the allocation of funds and an annual report for the... 1-3-1950 - 30-9-1950", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-623-3 Supplementary Expenditure- general correspondence on the allocation of funds and an annual report for the... 1-3-1950 - 30-9-1950", "content_text": "28\n\n57\n\n# APPENDIX\n\n## STATEMENT OF REVENUE IN THE YEAR 1948/49, UNDER HEADS AND\n\n## No. V.\n\n## SUB-HEADS AS COMPARED WITH THE ESTIMATES\n\nHeads and Sub-heads.\nEstimated.\nActual.\nOver the Estimate.\nUnder the Estimate.\n\nG.\n\nBrought Forward\n140,413,750\n176,785,812.60\n43,663,247.36\n\n9. REVENUE FROM LAND RENTS, PROPERTIES AND INVESTMENTS.\n\nBuildings and Furniture\n400,000\n1,202,791.55\n802,791.55\n\nGunpowder Storage\n20,000\n39,920.87\n19,920.87\n\nHire of Government Motor Vehicles\n300,000\n365,568.00\n65,568.00\n\nInterest\n250,000\n539,174.19\n289,174.19\n\nLands Not Leased (Permits for Encroachments, etc.)\n500,000\n704,638.15\n204,638.15\n\nLaundries\n6,000\n6,129.00\n129.00\n\nLeased Lands; (Crown Rent Exclusive of N.T.)\n670,000\n879,120.70\n209,120.70\n\nLeased Lands, (Crown Rent N.T.)\n300,000\n310,178.70\n10,178.70\n\nMarkets\n800,000\n1,027,698.04\n227,698.04\n\nPiers\n37,000\n127,186.26\n90,186.26\n\nPineapple Land Leases\n100\n105.10\n5.10\n\nStone Quarries\n30,000\n44,838.65\n14,838.65\n\nTotal\n\n10. MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS.\n\nOverpayments in previous years\n\n5,247,849.21\n1,934,249.21\n\nOther Miscellaneous Receipts\n3,313,100\n\nRadio and Telegraph Concession\n80,000\n250,000\n\nRepayment of Building Loans\n340,000\n936,348.20\n833,967.27\n\n856,348.20\n583,967.27\n\nRepayment of Loans\n6,000\n351,031.88\n11,031.88\n\n20,000.00\n14,000.00\n\nRoyalty payable by the China Motor Bus Co., Ltd.\n70,600.00\n70,600.00\n\nRoyalty payable by the H.K. Telephone Co., Ltd.\n375,000\n903,052.12\n528,052.12\n\n100,000\n174,126.76\n74,126.76\n\nC.\n\n7,291,184.76\n\nCarried Forward\n1,151,000\n3,289,126.23\n2,138,126.23\n\nCarried Forward\n143,726,850\n182,033,161.81\n45,597,496.57\n7,291,184.76\n\n## Explanatory Remarks.\n\nRevised charges and more fully furnished quarters available.\n\nMore explosives stored.\n\nArrears due from outside sources assessed and paid during 1948/49. Larger cash balances available for short term investment.\n\nMore permits issued. Fees revised.\n\nIncrease of rents on renewal and new leases.\n\nFurther leases issued.\n\nRents increased and higher prices paid for stalls. Additional Piers rented; partly offset by increased expenditure.\n\nMore building.\n\n29\n\nExceptional recoveries for petrol and stores supplied in previous years. Includes an unexpected big credit from the Crown Agents, being this Colony's share of their surplus income for 1947.\n\nIncludes balance of royalties due from previous years,\n\nImproved financial position of Diocesan Boys' School permitted of bigger loan repayments than anticipated.\n\nRepayments of loans to various schools sanctioned after the Estimates were compiled.\n\nIncreased travelling facilities and population,\n\nExpansion of services and increased demands.\n\n58", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-3 Supplementary Expenditure- general correspondence on the allocation of funds and an annual report for the... 1-3-1950 - 30-9-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596662, "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": "CO129-623-6 Education Department- annual report 1-5-1950 - 31-12-1950", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-623-6 Education Department- annual report 1-5-1950 - 31-12-1950", "content_text": "58 \n\nHONG KONG \n\n-5- \n\nfor speed or expansion. The practice of these modern skills opens up a new future to Solomon Island youth. \n\n(3) Another most pleasing characteristic of the education in these small residential schools is the acceptance of the principle that a child has the right to a free use of his leisure - something so sadly lacking in many places, as Professor Read and I remarked after our visit in 1947 to Central Africa. It was most comforting to discover that in both boys' and girls' schools, the mission authorities were allowing them to make their own play huts or hide-outs, to do their own cooking, to engage in their own leisure time activities, and fish and hunt and swim, provided that they observed generously planned bounds. I would not like to give any impression that there is a standard of education in the Islands, but there are interesting experiments from which standards can grow, which at the same time have much to teach more progressive territories. \n\nThe contrast between the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and Hong Kong is about as great as any that the Empire could afford. Here, in this compact little territory consisting of the island and the small leased section of mainland, is crowded a population of more than 2 million, of whom over half are floating and ever-changing. It is said that over 2 million a year actually come in and go out of Hong Kong, more than the population of the territory at any one time. This overcrowded and ever-changing population creates a singular number of problems, of which the problems of education are only a small section, but serious enough for all that. 125,000 children are in schools of one kind and another, but schools include a greater number of private schools than those which are either government or grant-aided. One out of every two of the child population probably gets some kind of education, and it is reasonable to believe that most of the children of bona-fide Hong Kong residents are in school. \n\n1. \n\nThe overwhelming impression of Hong Kong is one of exhilarating confidence and energy. The degree of rehabilitation already achieved is remarkable, and it is most encouraging to see new buildings in permanent materials shooting up both as houses, shops, schools, factories, and hospitals. Just one example shows the best of this achievement. A new Junior Middle Public School, that is a school in which the Government and the village elders contribute dollar for dollar, was put up for £12,000 in 12 weeks for some 500 children, and consisted of a really big and most useful hall, classrooms, common rooms, and offices. Those who plan can see their plans realised within reasonable time, and that in itself produces confidence and further plans. \n\n2. Hong Kong makes provision for the training of teachers in 2 training colleges. The Northcote Training College in the heart of Hong Kong is a building designed specially for the job, but on a site so restricted that expansion for out-door activities is virtually impossible. This College has an important role to play in building up a cadre of teachers able to bring to Hong Kong the most modern educational developments for a highly urbanised society. The Rural Training College in the New Territories has had an interesting and slightly chequered career as far as its buildings are concerned, but it is now happily, though I understand temporarily, housed in a rented Chinese private house with delightful gardens and a hard court, which lends itself admirably to out-door physical activities. Whereas the language of instruction in the Northcote Training College is English, in the Rural Training College it is in Cantonese. This is a co-educational College, and the students are cheerful, alert, and enterprising, judging from the little I saw of their work and achievements. The most outstanding feature of the organisation of the Rural College is the Cooperative. Each student contributed 10 dollars, and stock was bought - pigs, goats, ducks, hens, etc. - and within a year a dividend of 10 dollars had been paid, and the stock had multiplied out of all recognition. I understand that students, on completing their training, are instituting similar cooperative schemes in their village schools. \n\n3. Pressure on school accommodation is so great that many schools have to be used for double sessions. \n\nThis, of course, ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-6 Education Department- annual report 1-5-1950 - 31-12-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596665, "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": "CO129-623-6 Education Department- annual report 1-5-1950 - 31-12-1950", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-623-6 Education Department- annual report 1-5-1950 - 31-12-1950", "content_text": "61\n\n8\n\nwas that of 630,000 children in school and even so there is more than that number for whom to find places and over it all rests the shadow of the bandit war and its financial shadow for more than 300,000 dollars a day is being diverted from constructive community services, the price, as I was so often told, of one English school a day.\n\nAs the recognition of the value of education rises and as the demand for places in school increases so the number of expatriate staff for one reason or another has declined, so everyone is working beyond his or her capacity and against difficulties and frustrations that command my deepest sympathy.\n\n1.\n\nMalaya has developed a form of training teachers which I hesitate to dignify by the name training for it involves little more than weekend classes for men and women already working as unqualified teachers. The only permanent full-time residential teacher-training is provided in the Sultan Idris Training College for Malay men, where about 400 are in training at a time, and at the Malacca Malay Women's Training College where new buildings will enable some 150 women to be in training at once. At the moment the approach to the training of women at Malacca is more progressive and modern in outlook than that of the men in Tanjong Malim. However the appointment of staff experienced in modern English method and practice and the appointment of Malay staff who must have English as a language, will help to meet the needs of the time.\n\n2. There is a tremendous demand for oral and written English from all races in all parts. It is obviously the language both of unity and of progress.\n\n3. Some of the best education in the country is being given in the preparatory departments of some of the Government English schools for boys. There are two or three very well qualified and extremely able women: \"Supervisors of Primary Schools\". The only tragedy is that this first-class education is by force of circumstances available to comparatively few and mainly to boys at that.\n\n4. It is difficult to reconcile the demand for education on the one hand with the limitations of numerous schools on the other. I cannot very happily endure the sight of anything from 1,200 to 2,000 girls packed into mission schools. It was too reminiscent of conveyor belts in factories. What is needed is a progressive educational outlook among some of the expatriate mission staffs so that as much freedom and educational experiment as possible is permitted to penetrate into these big institutions.\n\n5. One of the best schools that I visited in Malaya without any shadow of doubt was St. George's Girls School Penang, and the quality that makes me comment on it has nothing to do with the buildings, which are hopeless. Here is a school with a fine tradition, with its old girls living in all parts of the Federation, with its numbers nearing the thousand mark, with a delightful group of post-certificate girls preparing for the University, crammed into highly unsuitable buildings which are so small that it takes the Headmistress 4 morning assemblies to meet all her girls during the week. I am glad to say however that the claims of this school, I understand, have top priority.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-6 Education Department- annual report 1-5-1950 - 31-12-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599988, "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": "CO129-628-4 Recreation grounds- grants of land to clubs 1-8-1950 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-628-4 Recreation grounds- grants of land to clubs 1-8-1950 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "9526/50\n\nDC: ER\n\nSAVINGRAM\n\nTo the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nFrom the Governor, Hong Kong.\n\nDate 1951.\n\n1061\n\nNo..\n\nRECHER\n\n25 SEP 1951 COLONIAL OFF\n\n5\n\n9\n\n(3)\n\nMy Savingram No. 880 of 15th August, 1950 and your Savingram No. 928 of 12th September, 1950.\n\nRecreation Grounds.\n\nIn the case of private treaty grants of land for 10 or 21 years to certain clubs specified in Chapters II and IV of the Report of the Advisory Committee on Recreation Grounds, I propose that the following conditions be applied:-\n\n(1) Crown rent at a flat rate of $100 per acre;\n\n(2) An appropriate building covenant where this is necessary;\n\n(3) No premium;\n\n(4) No buildings other than a club house and a sports stadium to be allowed on any ground;\n\n(5) User to be restricted to the purposes defined in the present constitution of each Club;\n\n(6) Prohibition against sale, assignment, mortgage, charge, and sub-letting;\n\n(7) Prohibition against the use of the ground by other Clubs, other than by visiting teams playing against the Home Club, or for representative matches or other sporting events without the prior consent of the Governor or his designate.\n\n(8) Reasonable facilities to be given to schools approved by the Director of Education to use the ground when not required by the Club, provided that such use does not interfere with the proper care and maintenance of the ground;\n\n(9) The grantees not to be entitled to any compensation in respect of buildings on the termination of the lease;\n\n(10) Termination of the lease without compensation in the event of any breach of the conditions or in the event of the Governor in Council being satisfied that the Club is improperly run.\n\nAn additional condition will be applied in the cases of the grounds granted to the South China Association and the Hong Kong Football Club, to the effect that they shall make their grounds available to other football Clubs and for representative matches and for big sporting and other events on conditions to be stipulated by the Governor or his designate.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-628-4 Recreation grounds- grants of land to clubs 1-8-1950 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]