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Murrow's premises,\n\n4th Bonham Strand.\n\n75, Fever Street.\n\nTaipingshan,\n\n17th Back Street North of Hollywood Street/Junction\n\n10!\n\nHolland and Head.\n\nDo Koluding Cuine Road above\n\nHolland Road.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235074, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12]", "page_number": 113, "title": "CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12]", "content_text": "3rd Section-\n\n1st Beat. Queen's Road from Bank to Chinram lating Webster's New and Hinrun Sane,\n\n2nd Do From Chinami Lane to Coves Beads, tating Chinami bacte Love and Libbé. Row\n\n3rd \" &c. Wellington Street and Stanley street, West of Br.Winger Streets, Cochrane street, and Lyndhunt Terrace.\n\n4. De Jage Street and hugh street lating Pat and Graband strats.\n\n4. Section Continued-\n\nJacen's Head\n\n1st Beat: Cross Roads along Qucous Band to West Market.\n\n2nd \" West Martiot to New Murrows Taking Circular Buildings.\n\n5th Section.\n\n1st Beat - along Buildinge. Hollywood Road to Circular Ben West Street, upper street und Central Buildings.\n\n12. Beat - From M./ Cangel's House \" The Co Blend \" from Gaol Gates, to Street.\n\n13 \" McRangel s. Co Back Road Inspingshum bt. Do\n\n56 Do Hollywood \" Elgin Street, Old Burley, Ashburton Terrace. Oo Buy Fiew Terrace. Arbuthnot Read, along Crime Read, he be turning\n\n4th Section\n\n1st Prime station.\n\n2nd Beat. From Centrance to achey's market along Bonham's strand to Acquis Huise Eating bye streets-\n\n3rd Beat. Acquis House along Bonhommis Strandté the innations of Imens Arend tationg by Streets.\n\n4. Co Upper and Lower Lavear Ruwa, Back street Snipingshan.\n\n5th De Cross Troad along Queen's Blood to Weat market entrance.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12]", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12]", "content_text": "2nd Section, Continued)\n\n5th Beat: From Cathedral along Hollywood Road to Cathedral; then along Arbuthnot Road to Central Jail; then to Cleancly. Part of Stanley Street and the Wellington Street, much of Pottinger Street, and D'Aguilar Street.\n\n3rd Section\n\nExtending from Bank to Cross Roads, West Boundary: Aberdeen Street.\n\n3rd Section; Continued).\n\n9th Beat - Chief Magistrate's Residence. Police Reserve at Indian Station.\n\n4th District of Lower Bazaar including Queen's Head Beat:\n\n12. Beat, from Entrance to Askey's Market along Strand to Bequi's House.\n\n1. Beat - From Bank to Chimani's Lane taking Webster's Row & Chimani's Lane to Cross Roads; then bathing Chimani's back lane & Gibb's Row.\n\n3. Beat: parts of Wellington and Stanley Streets - West of Pottinger Street.\n\n4. Beat: Lyndhurst Terrace and Hague Street, taking Peel Street and Graham Street.\n\n6. Beat: Hollywood Road from Junction West of Morrison's Hill.\n\n7th Beat: from Belgin Street, Old Bailey - Aberdeen Terrace.\n\n8. Beat: Engine Road from Caine Road to junction with Indian Station.\n\n9. Beat: from Aquis House along Bonham Strand West to junction with Cross Roads along Jervois Street to Hillier Street, taking Hillier Street, Mercer Street, and Burd Street.\n\nHillier Street along Jervois Street to Morrison Street, (making cleverly Street, and Acqui's Alley: Cross Heads along Queen's Road West, to steps ascending to Clinic Temple. Stops to East end of Circular Buildings. East end of Circular Buildings to Mercer Street. Murrow's previous clothing factory).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238497, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "page_number": 319, "title": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "content_text": "The Appendix, although voluminous, has not yet returned to the Colonial Secretary's Office, but shall be transmitted on receipt.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nwith the highest respect,\n\nYour most Obedient, Humble Servant,\n\nJohn Bowring\n\nNo. 50.\n\nSuboth/50\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\n311\n\nWith reference to Government Notification No. 23, of 25th February last, His Excellency The Governor is pleased to direct, that the authority for the Constitution of the Bowring Praya Commission, together with the Report now delivered in by the Members of that Commission, be published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th April, 1856.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nWHEREAS for the furtherance of the works projected by my Government in and about the formation of the Bowring Praya, certain preliminary enquiries are necessary, and whereas such enquiries will be most conveniently and expeditiously prosecuted by means of a Commission: Now therefore know ye, that I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-admiral of the same, do hereby, under my hand and the Seal of the said Colony, appoint you, Thomas Chisholm Anstey, Esquire, Her Majesty's Attorney-General for the said Colony,-William Cowper, Esquire, Captain of Her Majesty's Royal Engineers, and Acting Surveyor-General for the said Colony, and Julius Charles Power, Esquire, or any two of you, to be a Commission for instituting and prosecuting all needful or proper enquiries in that behalf, and to take evidence (but not upon Oath) in the premises. And to report to me all evidence so taken by you, and also your opinions thereon. And I do hereby require you to commence your said enquiries forthwith, and to proceed therein continuously, and to make your Report to me as aforesaid with all reasonable despatch. And I do further require you, in executing this your Commission, to address yourselves particularly to the questions specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed; And I do hereby empower you, during the course, and for the purposes of your said Commission, to demand and obtain access at all times to all and all manner of Papers, Records, and Documents relating to the subject matter of the said Commission, and in the custody or under the control of the several Public Departments within this Colony. And from time to time to call before you and examine all persons superintending or employed in or under any of the said Departments. And I do hereby charge all persons in the Public Service to be aiding and assisting unto you herein.\n\nGiven under my Hand and under the Seal of the Colony of Hongkong, at Victoria in the said Colony, this Twenty-fifth day of February, A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Six.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nTHE SCHEDULE IN THE ABOVE COMMISSION REFERRED TO.\n\nI. Whether the Government of this Island ought or ought not to undertake the entire construction of the said Praya, or of any and what part thereof?\n\nII. After what rate or rates ought the present holders of Marine Lots to be admitted into the possession and occupation of the ground lying between their proper boundaries and the Praya, where the construction shall have been undertaken by the Government?\n\nIII. In the event of some of the holders of Marine Lots being willing, and others of them being unwilling, to undertake the construction at their own expense, ought or ought not the Government to undertake the construction of so much of the said Praya as shall lie to the front of the lots of the unwilling holders, and to allow the willing holders to undertake or proceed with their proportion of the work in respect of their own lots?\n\nIV. Ought or ought not the Bonham Strand portion of the said Praya to be commenced together with the other portions thereof, or when else?\n\nV. What provision ought to be made for the shipping and landing of goods, and the embarking and disembarking of passengers at and along the said Praya when completed?\n\n...\n\nLand Brand.\n\nSend this and also No. 13 to the A. Court with reference to their previous letter of 20th March and ask for a report.\n\nREPORT\n\nOF THE\n\nBOWRING PRAYA COMMISSION.\n\nMay it please Your Excellency,-We, the Commissioners appointed by Your Excellency's Commission under Seal of the 25th day of February, A.D. 1856, for instituting and prosecuting certain preliminary enquiries in furtherance of the works projected by Your Excellency's Government in and about the formation of the Bowring Praya, particularly addressing ourselves to the Five Questions specified in the Schedule to the said Commission annexed,—\n\nHave considered the matters referred to us, and have agreed to the following Report:\n\nThe Five Questions above specified appear to us to have embraced every substantial matter of enquiry; and it will be seen from the Minutes of Evidence contained in Appendix I, that the witnesses whom we called in and examined also entertained that opinion. There is but little to be found, either in their evidence, or in the body of documentary evidence compiled in Appendix II, which does not range itself under one or other of those Five heads of Enquiry. In reporting our opinions, together with the evidence taken, as required by our Commission, we shall therefore follow the order of arrangement suggested by those questions, taking care of course to specify, in their appropriate places, all such matters as came incidentally under notice in the course of the enquiry, and did not necessarily arise out of either of those Five Points.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238499, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "content_text": "24\n\n1855.\n\nMemorandum of Is It is also the first year in which a surplus, sufficing to the undertaking and completion of the great work, has been declared in the Colonial Treasury. The more pressing among the other works contemplated by Sir Henry Pottinger, and enumerated by Mr M. Martin as improbabilities or impossibilities, have by succeeding Governors been, one by one, accomplished. If the Praya be now commenced, the project cannot be said to have slumbered in the interval, pending (No. 14.)\n\nNeither can it with truth be said that anything ever occurred to disabuse the public mind of the belief which Hongkong Blue Books from 1846 was certainly there in 1843 and 1844, as to the intentions of Government. Vague and ambiguous assertions to the effect that the Government always led the Marine-Lot-holders to believe that they were at liberty to reclaim seaward for themselves, have been freely ventured—but these, wholly unsupported by even the attempt at proof, by degrees narrowed themselves, first to the period of the first formation of the Colony,—and, when that was proved to have been impossible, then to the period of the first issue of Crown Grants, and so from period to period, until at length they have dwindled down to two dubious cases, which are said to have occurred during the Governorship of Sir George Bonham,—one in the Year 1854, the other at a date not stated to us. It is only with specific instances like these that it is possible to grapple; and the particulars of these two instances will be found not undeserving of a brief passing notice, independently of the fact that they are the only cases adduced before us to prove anything like an official \"encouragement\" having been ever given to any purprestures on the part of Marine Lot-holders, past or present. \nEvidence of Andrew Shortrede, Esq., p. pend. 1.\nEvidence of the Honble Mr Edger, in Append. I.\nAntrobus, Esq., and Y. J. Murrow, Esq., in Append. I.\nMr Antrobus's evidence, in Append. I.\nIbid.\nEvidence of R. C. Autrobus, Esq., in Append. I.\n\nA gentleman who has confessed a purpresture committed by himself in 1854, and who had more than once asserted, with some emphasis, the existence of a \"general understanding that lands reclaimed would not be interfered with by Government, nor the parties' rights of access to the Sea prejudiced by the Act,\" was at length asked to state the circumstances which had produced that impression, so far as he and his firm were concerned.\n\nHis answer is a curious illustration of the proneness of these gentlemen to deceive themselves. It appears that the present Surveyor-General, Mr Cleverly, and the late Governor, Sir George Bonham, gave him, in 1854, a verbal assurance that he would not be prosecuted or called to account for his encroachment, \"They gave me,” he adds, \"no further assurances.\" This mere indemnity against punishment, if it be even that, he at once interpreted into a renunciation or waiver of a Crown right! Another witness, also a Marine-Lot-holder, was perfectly satisfied, he said, that he had received very recently an encouragement from the Governor himself to encroach upon the sea-shore in front of his lot, and reclaim it. On being requested to condescend to particulars, he stated that the Governor in question was Sir George Bonham,—that Sir George Bonham had told him, in answer to his questions, that he had no power to authorize his intended purpresture, or to make him any \"title\" to the land when he should have reclaimed it,—that all that he (the Governor) could say was, that, unless his (the tenant's) neighbors complained, Government would not prosecute him for the encroachment, and that, in his (the Governor's) \"private opinion,\" the tenant would be \"all right;\"—but that the tenant must understand, that what he might do would be done at his own risk, and that he (the tenant) must hold himself responsible for the consequences. It is difficult to appreciate the amount of “encouragement\" contained in these words of Sir George Bonham.\n\nOne useful suggestion may be gathered from this mass of incoherent asseveration and unsupported pretension, and it is, that the representatives of Her Majesty in this island cannot be too careful to avoid even the appearance of concession of Crown rights, lest perchance it be turned against the Crown at some distant day, into evidence of acquiescence in favor of a larger or more general one. In this point of view alone we would strongly advise Your Excellency, in the matter of the application of Messrs Lindsay & Co., referred to us for our opinion, not to take it into consideration until the plan of the Praya has been finally approved and made public, and the work commenced. \nLetter of Messrs Lindsay & Co., applying for Sea-frontage, and Mr Duddell's counter memorial, both of which were referred to the Commission by His Excellency, in Append. II, (No. 17.)\nEvidence of Mr Murrow and Mr Duddell, in Append. I.\n\nIn considering whether any indulgence ought to be shewn to the Marine-Lot-holders, beyond the not unreasonable one of overlooking the encroachments already committed, and of allowing as well those offenders as the holders in general to become purchasers, without competition, of the reclaimed lands fronting their respective Lots, it is surely a very important fact that, with the exception of Mr Murrow and Mr Duddell, who approved of the Government Notification of the 10th November last, Mr Pustau, who attended the Meetings of Marine-Lot-holders, but took no part either way \"in the proceedings which ended in the too liberal proposals of Government contained in that Notification being rejected by a very large majority of the Marine-Lot-holders, the Hon Mr Edger, who did not attend the meetings, but appears to have approved of their result, and R C. Antrobus, Esq., of the firm of Messrs Lindsay & Co. (the only one completely identified with the majority of that class of Crown tenants, and their Notification of the 10th November, 1855, in Append. I, (No. 15.) not one has either presented himself to be examined, nor acceded to our invitations to that effect. One gentleman, indeed, who, with Mr Antrobus, distinguished himself as one of the most active promoters of those meetings, and who represented his firm there (that of Messrs Dent & Co.), at first consented to come and be examined on a day specially named to suit his convenience; but he neither appeared, nor excused his non-appearance. On this subject we beg to refer to our Minutes, and will merely add, that the general unwillingness of the Marine-Lot-holders, who profess to apprehend loss or injury to themselves by reason of the formation of the Praya, to afford any evidence in illustration of their asserted claims to equitable consideration, ought of itself to deprive the claimants of all expectation that their supposed claims will receive any consideration at all.\nEvidence of Mr Pustau, in Append. I.\nEvidence of the Honble Mr Edger, in Append. I.\nMinutes of the 8th, 9th, and 10th March, 1856, in Append. I.\n\nIt cannot be supposed that their mere allegations are to be taken as proofs. We have been thus far minute in tracing the real history of the Marine-Lot question, because it is the only key to the solution of the Second Question referred to us. Those Marine-Lot-holders who have hitherto reclaimed portions of the Crown's domain without title from the Crown, and have converted the lands so reclaimed into their own tenement and farm,\" an offence in itself for which they are even now liable to punishment, cannot, as it seems to us, stand in a better position than those Marine-Lot-holders whom the Crown may think fit to admit into occupancy and enjoyment of those portions of the Crown's domain, which will, by or at the expense of the Crown, be reclaimed hereafter. In either case a full rent ought to be received—and we think that the rate payable upon ordinary Crown lands, sold in Lots for building purposes, affords a very moderate criterion whereby to determine the amount.\nEvidence of Mr Murrow, in Append. I.\n\nIt is, we think, a mischievous suggestion that some deduction should be made in favor of those who have reclaimed but not built houses to let, nor derived profit in the shape of toll or otherwise, or of those who, being hereafter admitted into occupation of lands to be reclaimed by the Crown, shall content themselves in like manner with the mere enlargement of their borders, not seeking therein their own pecuniary advantage. It would be a difficult distinction to establish in the proof;—and, were it ever so well established, still there remains the objection, well put by another witness, that it is not the inclination of the tenant to use his holding in this or that manner, but that of the use and occupation in whatever manner, that imposes the liability to rent. We may add that, in either case, the detriment to the public is the same. The land is equally withdrawn from public use. The Crown is but the Trustee for the Public.\nEvidence of Mr Duddell, in Append. I; and compare Evidence of Mr Murrow and the Honble Mr Edger, in Append. I.\n\nAnother distinction, which has been rather hinted at than suggested, would deserve to be called puerile, but that the consequences to which any recognition of it must lead, are of frightful moment. It would seem that there are those who distinguish \"China houses\" from \"European houses,\" and apply a different rule to the one and to the other. It is admitted that the holder of the property, however unwilling to build, has the right to, change his mind, and build and let to tenants; and one witness goes so far as to say that such a case may be considered a reason for an enhancement of his rent. But as to \"China Houses,\" there appears to be no doubt. The witnesses say that these have already, in proportion as they have been erected upon the reclaimed lands, injured the rentals of the houses in the Queen's Road, and tended to convert it into a back street. They ought therefore to be heavily assessed; not so the European houses so erected. Their cost is great, and the risk enormous; they have a strong tendency to disappear into cavities formed by the wash of the sea,—and, whilst they last, they are used as Offices and Stores, and not for Chinamen's dwellings.\nMr Shortrede.\nIbid.\nEvidence of Andrew Shortrede, Esq., Append. I.\n\nIt appears to us that the mere enunciation of this theory suffices to shew its folly and injustice. Nor can we in any way accede to the opposite opinion, advanced by one respectable witness, that in assessing these rents, a distinction should be made in favor of Chinese Crown Tenants.\n\nAn absolute equality of rights and duties, without regard to colour, to creed, or to condition, is the only sound basis of all government. In this remote part of the British Empire, inhabited by a handful of Europeans and 70,000 Asiatics, it would be above all impolitic to do anything which might seem to call that truth in question;—and we must strongly protest against every such attempt, in whatever interest it may have been ventured.\n\nUpon a general review of all the considerations to which we have adverted, we think that the Government will not be justified in allowing any distinction whatever between lands reclaimed by intruders, and lands reclaimed by the Crown, in assessing the amount of rental. In either case the rate of rent should be one, uniform and equal.\nLetter of Mr Rienecker of the 5th January, 1856, in Append. II, (No. 16.)\n\nIf Mr Rienecker's computation of £3031, as the sum total of rent to be received from the frontage of the existing eighteen Marine Lots, be approved by Your Excellency, the rate of Assessment by which it is to be levied will be one of 15s. to every 100 superficial feet. But whether that or a more moderate revenue be anticipated from the lands in question, the rate by which it is to be assessed ought to press equally upon all who have to bear it.\n\nWe conclude our observations upon this branch of the subject matter of reference, by reminding Your Excellency that it is perfectly optional with the Government, either to sell to such as will bid for them any reclaimed lands in which the holder of the Marine Lot in the rear may decline to take, or to proceed under the resumption clause of his lease, and oust him from the Lot itself. In the latter case, it rests with the Surveyor-General alone to decide the question of his compensation;—and on that point again we have to remark a very extraordinary error which appears to exist as to the duty of Government, and which is stated—erroneously perhaps by one witness, who labors under the delusion, to have been produced, so far as he was concerned, by a conversation with the late Acting Attorney General.\nEvidence of Y. J. Murrow, Esq., in Appendix I.\nEvidence of Andrew Shortrede, Esq., in Appendix I.\n\nA witness, whose opinions deserve all attention, considers that the co-operation of the willing Marine Lot-holders with the Crown as representing the unwilling, will tend to the more easy, cheap, and expeditious execution of the proposed work. He also thinks that Your Excellency's Government has not the means at present to bear so large an outlay, and that it will therefore be an improvement upon the plan proposed in the First Question, if the modification suggested by the Third be adopted. In that case, he thinks, the Government might advantageously agree with the Lot-holders, on executing their portions of the Praya to the satisfaction of the Surveyor-General, either to repay them their outlay, or to remit their rent of the lands reclaimed by them, for a period proportioned to the amount of expenditure incurred. On the other hand, we have been assured by a Marine Lot-holder who takes an active part against the Government plan in any shape, that he believes that the Marine Lot-holders never will co-operate with the Government in the execution of a work to which they are, upon principle, most hostile. Every other witness who has been examined dissents from Mr Shortrede's view, and agrees with Mr Antrobus in the opinion that the decision of this question is, in fact, involved in that of the First Question; the reasons by which they are to be determined being in fact the same, if not in degree, at least in principle. We confess that such is also our opinion.\nEvidence of R. C. Antrobus, Esq., in Append. I.\nEvidence of Mr Duddell, in Append. I.\n\nThe Bonham Strand portion is regarded by those witnesses, who are familiar with the locality and the peculiarities which belong to it, as the portion least open to animadversion, and as one which ought, if the arrangements of the Government permit, to be begun and accomplished with all possible despatch. Concurring thoroughly in that opinion, we would direct Your Excellency's especial notice to the evidence of a gentleman by whom the Praya has been considered in a sanitary point of view, and to that of another gentleman by whom it has been similarly regarded in its relation to a proper system of Police, and which have left no doubt in our minds that, if any Section of the work ought to be begun or finished before the residue, that Section is precisely that which Your Excellency describes as the Bonham Strand portion of the Praya.\nEvidence of Messrs Antrobus, Murrow, Pustau, and Duddell, in Appendix I.\nEvidence of Mr J. Shortrede, Ibid.\n1856, in Append. II, (No. 18 & 16.)\nEvidence of Mr Duddell in Appendix I.\n\nSome diminution appears to have been long going on in the depth of water at the several wharves and landing-places. The recess or wash of the sea is a probable cause, and to this the large accumulations of earth and rubbish brought down by the drains and sewers, particularly in the rainy season, are certainly to be added. What was the line of low-water mark at the formation of the colony, is said to be that of the present high-water mark. It is an evil more likely to increase than diminish; and, far from agreeing in the strictures contained in the Colonial Treasurer's Plan and Letter of the 5th January 1856, as to the too great extent of the plan of the Surveyor-General (Mr Cleverly), we think that it may be well worth His Excellency's consideration whether some further extension of the plan may not be advisable to be adopted. One intelligent witness indeed is of opinion that the Praya ought to be carried so far into the sea as \"to enable large steamers and ships to lie alongside, and passengers and goods to pass to and fro without being obliged to employ boats.\" The point deserves all consideration. But whether the Praya can be carried to that depth seaward is a question of ways and means, which Your Excellency alone can determine.\nPlan and Letter of the Surveyor-General of the 28th December, 1855; and also Letter of Mr Rienecker of the 5th January 1856.\n\nThe arrangements for enabling the public to enjoy their rights of access to the sea, for the purpose of shipping and landing, embarking and disembarking, are described as having been from the early days of the colony altogether inadequate. There can be no doubt that they are now palpably and disgracefully so. All persons, except the owners of private wharves, suffer enormous inconvenience and damage from this state of things. It is probable, too, as related by one witness, that the unfortunate Chinamen, ignorant of their rights and our duties, are the principal sufferers, and that the facility thus afforded of \"squeezing\" their traders, by extortions in the name of \"toll thorough,\" is a temptation which some Marine Lot-holders have not had the virtue to resist.\nEvidence of Mr Murrow, Mr Duddell, and Mr Antrobus, in Append. I.\nEvidence of Andrew Shortrede, in Appendix I.\n\nPrivate wharves are of course private property, and the owners do what they will with their own. It is stated that they are, generally speaking, now anxious to accommodate the public with the use of their wharves, whether for goods or passengers; but, if this be true, it is a truth hard to be reconciled with their own theory, that the loss of privacy, consequent upon the formation of a Praya, can be either a \"nuisance\", or an \"annoyance\", or an \"injury\" to those gentlemen in their business. One and the same contradiction pervades their entire case. At one moment they are represented as persons who have been forced to encroach on the sea in order to get landing-places for the community; and as having reclaimed ground, constructed sea-walls, and built wharves for the common use of the public, not merely for their own. At another moment we are told, on the same authority, that they do not want any Praya at all, that they do not want any land to be reclaimed,—and that they object to be made to occupy and pay rent for it. It is quite clear that the sooner these contrarieties are smoothed, and an intelligible and broad rule of law laid down whereby to adjust the hitherto violated common law rights of the Crown and the public with the personal interests of the leading Merchants, the better alike for the few and for the many. We think that the claim to erect and maintain private wharves is a privilege, and as a privilege that it ought to be jealously regarded. The enjoyment of it must not be suffered to operate to the common annoyance of the subjects, or to the prejudice of the Crown. The fullest access to and from the Praya, seaward and landward, is a matter of public right. We think that the suggestions appearing in our minutes of evidence on this head are useful—but we forbear to express any opinion as to their sufficiency, a matter which may be thought doubtful. Neither are we prepared on our own part to add to the recommendations which have been laid before us, some which have occurred to ourselves, but which, so long as the port is unprovided with a system of police, we think impracticable. Otherwise we might have offered a few words upon the expediency of providing drainage and other conveniences of the kind at moderate but adequate rates of remuneration to the Government, and of establishing by stringent regulation the order of embarkation and disembarkation at the public wharves. But as we heartily concur in thinking that the whole and sole supervision of the work whilst in progress, and the conservation of it when finished, ought to be vested in the Surveyor-General, with full powers to carry his instructions into effect, we also think that these details of his general duty may be safely confided to the security which his official responsibility affords. We also think that, until the Praya is completed, as little as possible should be conceded to any Marine Lot-holder in addition to his existing sea-frontage, in order that the existing accommodations at the command of the public, for landing and shipping of goods and passengers, miserable as those accommodations are, may not be further diminished.\nSee the application of Messrs Lindsay & Co., in their letter of referred to the Commission by His Excellency.\n\nIn concluding our Report, we hope to be allowed to mention a fact which has occasioned all of us the greatest satisfaction in the discharge of the onerous and important duties with which we have been charged. We have been enabled to conduct our Enquiry in public, so far at least as regards the taking of evidence. It is impossible to overrate the great addition which the publicity of the examination gives to the authority of the evidence. But this is not the only advantage. We close our Enquiry in all certitude of being free from the reproach of partiality and injustice, as we are unquestionably free from the kindred one of concealment.\nSee the Notification of the 5th March 1856, published in the Friend of China of that date, in China Mail of 6th March 1856, and the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 8th March 1856.\n\nAll which we humbly certify to Your Excellency.\n\nCouncil Room, Government Offices, 24th March, 1856,\n\nTo HIS EXCELLENCY\n\nSIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D.,\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nT. CHISHOLM ANSTEY, A.G.\nWILLIAM COWPER, Captain-Commanding Royal Engineer,\nJ. C. POWER.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238934, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 343, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "40.\n\nwhich is not already enjoyed at the \n\nBonham Strand as now constructed. \n\nWhen the Praya, as assumed by the 5th and last Question, is completed, \n\nI think that five public wharves will afford sufficient accommodation to the public for landing shipping of goods, \n\nand for the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers, - one at Gibb, Livingston's wharf, Gilman's Bazaar, \n\n- one near the Oriental Bank, - one at Pedder's Wharf, - and one at the least necessary of the five, between our premises and the next Lot going Eastward. Every facility should be given to persons to have private wharves, so as not to interfere with public wharves. Some regulation might be made, as to the extent and dimensions of private wharves, to ensure that end.\n\n71.\n\n341\n\nIn addition to these answers to the questions now put to me, I will only state my opinion that, at the outset, the construction of a Praya would have been a good measure to adopt. But I do not consider that at the present time it is a measure to undertake, because it is not in accordance with the understanding which has always existed with respect to the holding of Marine Lots. It was that the holders should always have free access to the sea from their property. I think that a Praya can be formed without sinfainting that access to some extent, and doing injury to the property. The value of the property would be so much the less if a roadway were to intervene. I cannot say whether the access across the roadway I have doubts of that.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238940, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 349, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "18.2.\n\nTo complete the work without the co-operation of the rich merchants, it would stick halfway. Government, under the arrangement which I now propose, might either defray the outlay of these reclaiming tenants by way of preliminary to the assessment of their rents, or it might, if unable to bear that outlay, forgive their rents for a certain number of years as a fair equivalent.\n\nI see no reason why the Bonham Strand portion mentioned in the Fourth Question ought to be treated otherwise than as a general work. The general rule should be assumed.\n\n5th part of the \"When the completion of the Praya, by the 5th and last Question, shall take place, the existing number of public wharves should be much increased. This should be done with reference not only to the actual state of the trade but also to what it is likely to be. I cannot undertake to say how many additional public wharves should be provided. The means of access to the wharves should also be much increased. If this is done, I think any person ought to be allowed to construct his private wharf as he pleases. Otherwise, you may find the public wharf monopolised by one person having a number of large boats; and I do not see how you are to prevent that.\n\nA man with a private wharf can have his own boat moored securely there, whereas at a public wharf, what with the crowding at the moorings and what with the inefficiency and extortions of the police, you will have a never-failing scene of loss and damage to goods. The security of goods...\n\nPage 347\n\n83.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240872, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 315, "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "DIC \n\nA 10 09 \n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE OVERLAND FRIEND OF CHINA, MAY, 1856.\n\nTHE BOWRING PRAYA, On the 5th altiso n Onvernment notification ap peared arong our advertisements, to the effect that the Bowring Prayn Commission would sit daily with open doors. No counter noties uppeased by which we were to learn when the labours of that Cntamission ended; and when some three weeks afterwards one Marine Let haider who hurd ben absent from the Colony over the whole time made enquiry of one of the Commissioners regarding the sittings, he was then told the Commission was at an end and that the report was in progress for early rendering A Supplemental scale of yesterday gives to the world the result of the Commission's labears; and appears that a Schedule was at sached to the Coutaission containing the following\n\nfive grescens\n\n1. Wther the Gaverement of this Tsland ought or eight set to actase the emire son traction of the saul Fraga, or of say and what part threat?\n\nIL. After what rate or rates ought the preson; hokters of Mine Lot to be admittal to the possession slower.mtion at the grean lying between their aur Boulades and the Praya, where the Fanstruction shall have been undertaken by the Government?\n\n. In the event of of the holders of Marine Lote heng wiling, and others of them being siding, to wader. take the chastraction at their van orm, ought or waght Fote Govermest to undertake the conception of one of the san! raya as able to the front of the lots of the bywing headers, and to allow the willing filers to under- sake of novel wil their peepozion of the work in respect of their own lots?\n\nIV. Ongla or ought not the Burian Strand portion of tho sait aya tu be coingraced lagerber with the catres portions thereof, or which i\n\nV. What provision stylt su hade for the shipping and lolis of goste, and the parking and disembarking of pengers at ul uleog the saki Prapa when escapicted?\n\nTo the first of these questions, the Commission repbei-stɔvement ought to undertake the work, and in an ather way could it be accom plished.\n\nTo the second-that the rate on and reclaimed should be lifteen shillings per 100 square feet-ur very nearly two peace per boot, being about three hal pence por foot more than the peel of Marine Tot lands at last year's salos.-\n\nLease wall wakich Lenscholilors generally are desirous of heilding-with a roadway along the vad wall, to he kept cred by chains of rus to public thoroughitre, and panel only on cases of public marguney--would not such a construction as tuis Le ali that is requisite for the public weal?\n\nQuestion 2Would it not be better to leave the Police control of this roadway and wath to the Lease holders themselves!\n\nQuestion --Would it not be fair to charge Louseholders first class intand Let upseter te for the and redeemed-in addition to the rental at which they are at present assisted?\n\nQuestion 1-Whald i ust be advisable to com route the rent, either ever the whole jot, run the part redeemed ouiy, for a fixed suto down?\n\nwas naturally ta be anticipated upon the question as to the conditions of tencre of landle reclaimed or to her fir the sea. In one raspect nuly they appeared to is unrella, igrating too fast antal proer the Crown alune basi tite to all such bende, bether arely reclaimed ar ve\n\net,, ., &c.\n\nI can only of course spenk na w gronad already reclaimed, but on that point f deny that I either now igre, er did so in toy evidence to the Com- mission, the fact that at present the Crown lone Ares site to all such hurts.\" \n\nMy esidence will be found to state, that I cou- sidered Coverament not eath led to ady rest upon grounds how reclaimed, but that if any rate was to be fired, it should be such as ao sioun to a mere nominal real.\n\nSurely this admits most faily the Creven's de le the land, for except the Crowa hels the title, how etix any rate of Rent and surely the fact should be patent to the nest ordinary understand-\n\nAn Qurtina 6-Wand it not exhibit better sense is Excellency the Governor, and less\n\nunity, if he refrained from boring those w interests as is paid to protect, and whose confeting, that such evidence is based on the consider1-\n\nhe is supposed to have at heart, with what the? so wat went 2-Bowa PRAYA. F of C. April 3.\n\nTo the Editor of the Friend of China,\n\n\"HONGKONG, -- April, 1856. DER $1-- would suggest to the Bowring Penya Commission un aditional question to le raggested by yun-wis, \"Would not the expert cace of the Greek Luna dubbings be xafficleur to warrant a speculation for doing a fand to be deno minated the Bowing Praga Consels ?\"--it would pay well.--Sophistically thine,\n\nA DREAMER IN SHADOW LAND, of C. Apral 96,\n\ntion of what ander the circumstances in which the land was reclaimed, equitably due to Govern meat upon it.\n\nAnd now, Sir, as it is not my chieet to review: the Report, either as to its gemein matter, of the spirit which perrades it, but only to point out and Tefate those parts wherein it ia wafair and incorrect in relation to my own evidence, I will conclude with a gentle admonition to the President of the Bearing Prays Commission, that before grap pling\" in future, he wish do well to look to the metal of his grappling irous, for anless tant metal ba found true and withou: ww, the gripe which it is fempted to is, will never prove bei delusive and unavailing-ara, Sir, your shelient servaus,\n\nFfC. April 25. R. C. ANTRORUS.\n\nthe Edit of the \" Fyfend of China,\"\n\nFoxoxoso 28th April, 1856.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"Friend of thing” ** Hosunun 23rd April, 1856.\n\nSHowever unwilling I am to do so, I re- grot to say, that one portion of the Pawing Praya-The Fe rels Proverb Qui s'excuse a'a. Commission, as laid before the public in the Government Gazette, forces ne as to make use of some public channel of connoication, that\n\nTo the third- they thonght Government vaierepresentation may not be allowed an unob structed coarse, and that perversion of the spirit of had better undertake the whole work-\n\nTo the fourth-That the Benham Strand por evidence gives may not remain unchallenged.\n\nThe Commissioner \"close their caquiry in al tion of the Praya should be commenced at once.\n\nAnd the fifth-the Commission gave at indo ceritade of being free from the reproach of par- aste answer. The wharfage it could not be deniality and injustice, na they are inquestionably ed was vested in the Leaseholders. The Commis- free from the kindred one of concealment \"\n\nFrom their correctness, which must be placed sion would take away dru privilegs if they could but as the law was against them, they would rather under the former category, as recording is the Re- For the substance of certain evidence. I must diz- Sublim zao. You will fad in the second and third The evidence of the six valutary deponents be fore the Commission, ces Messis Ambus, Duddell, paragraphs of page 4 of the Report, a reference ta Edger, Marrow, Postau and Sherede, apres to ceratin evidence which 1 gave before the Commis- have been supplied to the Governor in an Apion. The report hore states,\n\nhe report but these depositions, per lis described as the testimony of intelligent witnes Bes-of respectable witnesses-of highly respectable witnesses-and of witnesses deserving of all attention\n\nhave cot bear furnished to the public.\n\nad recommend !\n\nIt is only with specific instances like thesĘ \" (viz: two which they are pleased to call dubians cases that it is possible to grapple,\" &c, Ázu,\n\nby\n\nA gentleman who has confesund & purpresture committed selfin 18ht, and who had mafn thien oson percent,\n\n•with stoe Burhasis, the con of a general understand. Ting, that is wlained would to be interfered with by vorment, not the parties' right of access to the ses prs- juiced by the set,' was at length and to state the circu s which had prodowy that impression, so far as he an his fler ware ennesined a cover is curious ilustration of the proneness of these gentlemen is dorciva there It appears that the present Serveyor Chemeral, Dr Cheverly, and the late overner Sir George Bonn, gave him, in 1654, a verbal curarance, tad ten would not he prosecuted, ot called count for his encroachment. They gave me, he do father asses. This come in femity against pakich nant-fil be even thathe at unde interpreted into a renunciation or sesiver of a crown gh\n\nYou will observe, Siz, the Haport does not pre- suma to place as a quotation the words \"a verbal assurance that he would not be prosecuted or cal led to account for his encroachment,\" but it does\n\nThe reply to question the second is an elabor are disquisition-remarkabte, principally, far two things--ne its extreine one sidedness, another its taunciates of the most radical praciples. The object of the Comunission was to show that, At no time, from the days of Elias downwards, was official sanction ever given to the redemption In showing this,and it of fund from the sea. is shown as clavery as could possibly be expected from writers determined to tow only what would suit their purpos- the pressing requests by Filic? to the Merchants to come here and settle-to do as they pleased only to build godowns to store the tou for which he would get a remission of a penny upon duty-the proprsed allotment of the ground bought by them, royalties and all, in fte Emple-the premise that ju rehasers of Main so insert the next sentence, viz; they gave me,\" 1 should have the perption even of lots on the in- he adds, au further assurances. I call on the land side of the mad-all this was stadiously over. Commissiours to prodace, if they can, from my 3. Co., Laues Fletcher & Co., Mac Vient Bura & fact of prosecution with reference to the point tooked Theletters written by the frus of Cermell evidence, any use of the word, or allusion to the Co.,Tamer Co., Fox Rawson & Co. and Capt. barkins, protesting most strongly agmine: the ferece can with reason or fairness he no constru od as to justify them in thas expressing for me the mation of a Psya, as first propceed in the lane of\n\nassurances given to me. ur first Govainor, have all disappeared Bom\n\n\"cun say drielly, ther my firm aku myself chord 50 the records of Government; the very suggestion\n\nSu gesend anderstanding; and that no fut an they wad\n\ncad by converadio with Sit were condemnail, is over yout\n\nBasta and Me Cheverly, de Sarveyer Genezai,\n\nof irving chains across the road way mea\n\nca\" may be forcibly applied to the concluding Pangraph oftheRepoil of the Bowring Bags Cemission,\" whichhambly cerudies\" His Ex cellenes, that they are free from tee reproach of The necessity for partiality\" and injustice 1\"\n\noch o declaration had scarcely suggested bed to the minds of the Comunissioners but for some mois. givings of conscience, which are not in be wooder edat, for while we will not suppose that any me o- her of the Commission would wittingly set his name to a document containing that which he be levet to be it direct oppositinu to fact, we an heeitaringly assert, that the Report itself is a per- version of means towards a given end.\n\nThis may appse a harsh and unpleasant asser- tion, but (s a writer in the N. D. Herald apily quoted some short time sinca)\n\n†\n\nSurly, Mritor, all this borbast might ad- Fantageously have been omittel. It is well lowo, both to Sir John Burring, rad Me Chisholm An- tey. that if each cinetrine was once brought to bent justly, it would be resisted by all proper means: and the the resuks would be neb, as neither of them would wish to face. The delusion\" which one witness\" labored under this hend, in con- sequence of a conversation with the late Acting Attorney General,\" maxy, if tried, prove a enggerer to the full blowo cigary.\n\nWith regard to the Records of the Last Office in the early days of the Colony, on which so such weight place, it may soned somewhat strange that Mr Julius C. Power on one occasion, whico be contrived to speak unchecked for a few capravitis) stated, that these records were very imperfect, and Thai co doubt could be entertained that sang tings were not entered therein which ougla to have been\n\nEV.\n\nIt is somewhat curious also to notice in the wording of the report the animus which prevails anungst there impartial men. Where the evidence given is very favorable to the Government project, the givor is an inteliigent witness!\" i moderniely propitious his opinione deserve attention! If slightly apposed to the intusure, he izbora under a do lusio!\" denidedly adreree, he is purile!! hut whers the evidence rans really counter to their cause, it is a tee signslised as a man of in comertul asscueration and unsupported pretentim ! ! Unfortunately, however, for the campilers of the report, ugly nanies will not pass cures for argu- nents, and invectiva ia un proef. Already, one of the Gentiero examined has protested against the miscbracı actions to which he tina beer subjected,\n\nothers are prepared to do is some.\n\nWhy is not the appendix published? Do the Govern Tent really suppose, that those interested will quietly permit such a decent as the repart la go forth w the world, at a correct statement, made as unprejudiced men. who by their refer there to at appendiz, shakenge contradiction of log on which their assertions are based? No Sr. 1 como tarness that appende must ac ronde se public as the report itself, and then tha public will have an opportunity of adging how far the two agree together, They will fad, as wa have before eated, that the evidence is passed over when adverse, and brought prominently forward when favorable to the cause which has been re- rievably damaged by such a contre; and not only this, but mayhap uthers of real impurtance and deixal benefit, for we assurt on the very best grounds, that many of this community would now declin to appear before any future commission, compused of s or any of the members of the one lately cle solved, or to ca-opera-e with those who have for. fered that confidence which nu intial treatme of the subject committed to them would have coal- manded. This is not vegue assertion, as the fuma will show.\n\nThere is nother paint, which are we close, 13 may be well to notios, viz, the sigma that Marine La Bolders have been in the habit of Squeezing\" The Chinese by exacting atoll through\" for landing at their Private Wherves. This, however, we nurst adini fonded on the evidence of bet ope Holder of a Marine Lot, and peramps he way be the maly one who is aware of such exactions! Of this he must be the best judge, but that each pre- Lices have been in vague, or can turn any sigu ment in favor of a Prayn, scheenly needs refutation. Had Government baik proper wharves at the pains where such mecrable excresences as \"1\"\n\n\"Facta are things that winna ding\" \n\nand duorna be disputed.\" Let us glance pt sous of the leading points of the Repor, found. § no 65 vepablished \"Appendix ! Having considered the nailers referred to them, the Commissioners agree that the fire questions connined in the Schedule, have subraced every substantial matter of enquiry,\" and that the Witnesses called in end examined also pertain \"od that opinion,\" as there is little to he and in their evidence, which does not range iseli under some of those hau's of enqairy! No truly m it would have required no emilac, and much determisation, to obtain a Lending on any point which was adverse to the ubject of the Commission, (ie, lo support at a bazards the views of Sir John Bowring) Fer no seoner did evidence divergodere Whar\" were to be found, there never would 10 dangerous grond, then it was strangled by the have been any necessity for asking, or reagiving favore from Marine Lo: Holders. There is ample acrvous fins of the President, who doubling it\n\nspace now. and more than ample space to form relevancy, forthwith ignored its existence.\n\nPublic Warves, for double the wants of the Com- munity, who have not sex frontages. What are their quirements? Much fuse is made by the China Mail and others about the inconvenience to the public dwelling to the south of the Queen's Road! Le any one who knows the place run bis eye along the list of residente, and their occupations, and then see how my to the south of the queen's Read, w up the fill, que largo Wharing sc. connection. What the China Mail require '$ What goods dil fe latte wa inconvenience was an su'jected to ? None! And some reply will serve for nike tenths of those who habit the Iniant Lots do the lil; and such aust ever to the case, for Coolle hire alone would very soon absorb any benefit scecking from reduced rentals on In. land Lots were they used us storage ground,\n\nMoreover, when thune to be examined were first informed that any evidence they might give was whody uecuanected with the question of whe thers Praya ought or ought not to be made, end would not be considered as involving any opinion\n\nin question; and I deny that any portion of my ion that head, it is scarcely to be expected that\n\nsure intended to meet, not only an obiections of Gure we that was choar in jecam lava, there was no\n\nthose days, but the main objection of Leaseholders of the proscut, is carefly passed ever, when there is ocasion quote from the report prepared by Me Surveyor General Gordon.\n\nAnd as Non-genservative principles-70,000 Atates now in this Colony-65,000 of whan, at least, baking to the great anwashed\" with no more interest in it thau is requisite to gel meal of the frem day to day-this swarm of vagabonds, we are sold, ure entitled to an absolute equality of rights and duties in other word thay have as much right to perigrinate in front of our private dwelinge on the sou frunt as we bare, who pay four times more luar rent than the as14- ers of inland lots for the privilege of enjoying a brenzes andistrrbed, and for ather advantages 8 We havo you in juanne holding must give.\n\none power, and we will do as we please with you is the one all pervading spirit of the re part before as.\n\nBe it subat assertion and por formance are riva distinct things; and however ah stinate Sir John Bowring, he is not oranipotent- and this perhaps he will bad when-in the House Commons if needs be-the question is brought be\n\nore the horse Government by the constituents of those interested-Concitaents, Sir John Bowring and Mr Chisivalm Anstey must know, possessing as much power as any single section of the rope- sentatives of Great Britain.\n\nThe five questions in the Schedule, the Commis- sioners tell us in the report, embrace every thing With all due deference to their superior wisdom we will now suggest to them them five other ques¦ tinns and though they may doubt it, they may rest assured that on the antisfactory solution of there questions the matter has yet to depend.----\n\nQuestion 1-Would not a sea wall, to be called appropriately \"THE ALBERT WALL\"the supporting battress of ta Queen's Rond, w be boil along the sna front of all the lots already granted on Crown\n\nMy the terms of the Most Land Sale in 1844, merc istinctly rest to have sea, aot to fredage--the depth from these to the way wohl wary agosling to a torqueat letter Front Captain in solids at all, la kotiated moly the ncessities of die serafiants\n\nejection to an duing so, at that no difficulty or inconve nichou was likely to rise in us leam baring done it. They gave me the sarther as conges\n\nThe latter short stulence. I gave most willingly as an answer to a remark from the Frezident af Commission, that as both the gentamen alluded to were now absuut from the Colony, if they made no further assurances, perhaps I would not object to Sidy 841\n\nleave it then to the public to decide,-looking at my evidence abore quoted, and remerabering the\n\nThe views of liora interested in that part of the ques. tinn ahould meat with a patient heating, withough missioners are not failed to “specify in their appropriate places, all such coasters Rese incidentally under ones, in the course of the enquiry\" altas they fid not necesary arse \"out of either of the Five Points\" in plain English wherever the evidence favora che av ernmeal scheme, it is brought prominently far ward, and where it is adverse it to kept carefully behind the stenes, us its appropriate place! With all respect for those Getlenies who gave evidence before the Prays Commission, we connel admit, or consider them as the exponents of greetal opinion. The in question is not hus-bot che ther the Prays should be munt; and had Sir John Bowring desired to nike on impartial enquiry into the opinions of thres interested, he would have found himselt willingly, and openly rael with candid views, But not so in the present instance; for how could Goverment suppose dias these whinisepproved of the formation of a Preya, would one larward to how-how it should be constructed!! Yet, in the face of this beardity, the Comadesionere\" merely \"Indemolly against punishment are strong add, that the general unwillingness of the Marine worls, bat carry little weight in the present \"La Holders\" afford any evidenon in Bustra Any one of louger residence lure than in of their asaeried claims to equitable consi the President of the Commission, to whom chiefyderation ought of self to deprive the claimants I attribute time drawing up of the Report and theofull expecbition (bat their supposed claims will\n\nruceive any consideration at all!!! disagrocable necessay entailed on nf now pob-\n\nassertion I am said to have raure than ones made with some emphesis\" which induced the questions to which my evidence forms the reply, whether the Report as written is not a distortion of the sub cance of toy remarks, and rather the expression of interested advocates than of impartial Coremis signers?\n\nstances.\n\nlely addressing you, woll knows that the infliction\n\nShade of Nicholas A Right Royal Proclama\n\nof punishment for reclaiming tand, or fat antion is from those who hold that the Crown is crouchiment that word be preferiet, was never\n\nThat at once interpreted the assurances of Sir G, Benham and Mr Cleverly into a renuncia. tion or waiver of a Crown righ,\" is not the case, and is not the plain meaning of my evilence, but an arbitrary inference on the part of the Commis sioners, as unjustifiable by them, as the interpin. tacou attributed to me would have been absurd on ny part.\n\nbut the Trustoo for the Publie and quite su\n\nfor a moment contempland by Government; while ficient, we admit, to extinguisa in the el san- onthe aber hand, direct indemnity against guine Marine Lat order, any expectation of panist ment\" was never requested by the person equitable consideration, were sheir hopes founded on the tender sarees of the Praya Commission, intending to reclai\n\nBut they are not nervous men, these Marine Lot holders; the fine See air which they have so long enjoyed gabruksted, haz brace) then up, and even now, with the above awel denunciation sounding in their ears, they have not abandored oil hopes of justice at the hands of their Public Trustee \"! No, not even in the matter of compensation for being tarnell out of House and Home, will they for one tout acknowledge than it sexts with the Surveyor General alone to decide the question,\" altho' the locum inaeus asserts that it is 8o, and our entry!) Judge bas niready delivered his Ferdien!\n\nTo one point more in the Report I must alude, abric at variance with facts and my evidence At the deading of the reply to the second question of the Sebetale, it will be found stated,-\n\n\"Sotan difference of sows mongst the Marine Lenders\n\nNo Sir! The object in view in the project of a Praya is quite evident cnaugh, and there is no use trying hike an Ostrich to hide its head when tho whole body is exposed to view. It was proposed long since by Sir Henry Poninger before the Co. Leny was fairig seed, und before Lot Holders had bean induced to expend vast as in completion of their netangements, and the construction of their premises, It died a natural death from want of Funds, and so remained in pure until fortuiten cirentistances placed in the power of the present Goverans the menus resuscituring the plon ar\n\nThis we firmly believe was calling it his con! done without weighing or considering the cane- quences, the interests of those concerned. There was Bonham Strand\" and theis must be a Bowring Praya, Opposition arose, and fat moment there was taking between public Instico and private vanity. The latter prevailed. and evne hrward stroyed as the former \"ol in sheep's clothing\". But the argument is felt to he bullow and the position untenable. An intrench. ment toust be formed to retire to when attacked. Parliamentary recollection furnishes on idea! Commission,-a Commission of course) but form. ed only of these known adherents who can be well depended on. No difference of opinion or shade of opposition must exist amongst it's Merbere, and then the Public cu sutely be admitted to hear their doom 1 The Men are found, and the Com- mission formed, and the Political Sogers have cooked a dish of such piquancy, tant even those was furnished the materials cansel recognise their awn ingrediena.\n\nA\n\nWe crave pardon for prolixity, but we eat draw Alution to the fact, that of the six gentlemen ex amined, there was only one who being present at the November Malings in acquiesced in the resolutions then passed by an overwhelming\n\n311", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240873, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 316, "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "Majority and what is the fate of ins evidence?\n\n1st represented as having \"confirmed a purp-es- fure \"under\" a Verbal assurance Baz die would But be FROSECUTED\" for his encroachments.\" We are assure by thow, who have seen the appen dix, that no such evidence the found therein, or any one word enpulite of being fairly construei Into a declaration that the mere indemnity agrins JUNISHMENT\" was interpreted into a reaction of Crown rights! The campission would hav done well to listen to the copeluing portion of the evidence of that Witness whose opinioas deserve all attention,\" when he says for all ess encouragement being given, I think if on inle to speak of the legal responsibility neur Art\"\n\nThe President the Commission, however, can- act divest himself of his gama fat ano modent; and not only, but ne his seasily pronounced his opinion aifany Marine Lo folder should fechos to take the ground flted in in front of his Lot, Gaverament rony oust him from the Lore IT ELF!\n\nLet this be borne ja rind, for should ang eir cumalance deprive as of the presence of our ante and respected Cliet Justice, surely his suegrant 1ust be fauad some where else than amongst those whose Verdists are delivered before the Jury is exponnelled. And mark the grounds.--1 opanks the Lease.\n\nUnder 5000 fest-\n\nscawan\n\nSUPPLEMENT.\n\nBut we hure yet to explain, and it should have been stated in the first place, that the lines on the sea you are driven to a imaginary depth We believe, however, theeo tiuas pretty nearly represcat the extent to which Sir John Bowring wishes leare holders to carry their fets and make a Roadway of thirty feet in width. To nary out there lots to the extent required the whole of the hosters are willing enough: bet to the for mation of a Rund way for public per shey have no in sination, put, the Honorable! the Aitorney Gen- eral's opinion notwithstanding-it is not in the ardinery mainer of the Crown to insist on such n Real being spevat.\n\nThat such a Road is not wanted for mere pas- senger traffic wilt be auparest to wit on an in- spection of the wood eat-there being ample space on the Queen's Rood for the passage of all fa po- polarna we hang at present. That sven a Rond in not wants for wasrfage purposes, inspectors of the wood eut will also be satis lad: -and we razy well ask, if ont for hare, den for what perpes la the Priya winted? In M. Sa mayor General Gordon's suggestion for 2 primate Praya, prepared an a scheme propounded by Sir Henry Pottinger befors Las for int were drafted, it is there sail that in case of an invasion by foreign forces the runway would be convenient for transporting cantan speedily and this, really, is the only use conver ible as a necessity.\n\nExcept and always reserved unto fer a Majesty. Ber Heirs, Suecreare and Amigos, fall As for any aid la Police arrangements, it is our \" parver to resume and lake pession of all or any opinion thai, whatever any be in store for us in part of the said pisce or pircel of ground hereby the future, as regards a more efficient force the demised, if required for the improvement of the formation of a Praya will never be other tasa au anit Colony of Hongkong or for any other Publicaid to intending burglars; and the consequence *parpuse whatsnovor, three Calendar Manito will be that when the Bank and Merchants Bird nation heig giera to the occupant thereof of us they coneet lood Pressure and valuable merchan. being so required, a full and fuir compensation *for sizeh end land and buildings thereon being pald to the said und an, his heirs, executors cal vigation to be fairly and imputing\n\n \n \n \n\nTo the flattor of the \"Hosszene Revuras.\"\n\n-\n\nHasan, 254 47, 153 Sen-Referring to the letter in the fast iseac of the China Mail on the subject of the unfair deductions drawn from the bulence taken by the Boxing Trays Chearsalon in huis published report, beg leave to second my testimony in care buration of the laws of the waiter of that letter, so to sixte in my videre given to that Commission netther warra fins justifies n\n\nvery rouse, what an a\n\npoint thing whatever is said. but it sorte respects on here pats upon it,\n\n3(\n\nmare Mtorney General at Hunghong, for the sume reason, by the same person, Cash, by the way. has gone to the Catentivels in a nimbolte frame of mind. He rears he is sacrifont - a regular mantyy vie | tim of all kinds of machinations, to get rid of Adan; aud though he admits that the berth is a govi out, great pay and little to do, he weys ke ought to have something far better, must higher pay, nothing es all to do in deply to do is He vores he is honestly\n\nTollectie my nating givethe fableving extret for worth for were respectable figure; that Palmers the report, which from the anginui neto apunate to be based ¦ton knows it, or if he doesn't that he is the only wae ratire on ny evidence. Another witness, also a zizristiarn of the jacts whe is ignorant on that deadz jat kokler, was perbally satisfies? ↑ « maid (int lie host rennired and trai heltt lake care the world shall be wiser befors very recently an excouragement from the Governor imagifit is much older. li surmind that the ut us time\n\ncrari apon the sea shore in front of his lot and reclaim it Cu being estar to crudescend to prurlavhars, red particularly sugary temper of Chisholm is rather that the Governor in queson was Sar G. Bonham chat Bir soared by the analytic proces a certain little biti 1. Botham ad id in answer to a questions, thus he of his, relation in something forensic in the com had no pawer to sulfanze his intended purprentare, or to wate him any tile to the ined when he should have reclamissionership line, has been subjected to : and that, as and it-that all be (the Gosure) wonkl say wha, that unless he has got all he is likely to get, he don't see the his the tenant's) neighbours compainel, Dovernment would we of exhibiting manh thankfulness for passoura to mot prosende son for the entrenchment, and that in his than, as his countryman, thi pheographer of the | Gavertur's) primate spizion the tumant would be “at right,\"\n\nwould be done at his own risk, and than as the tenant wrest held himself responsible for the consequences,\" \"The tales or my own, and mark the portion of the paragrafential y vakmo. The tales or my own, and mark the portion of the paragrafential y vakmo. First, as to being requied to closed to particulara. it may be remembered that at the pelic meling bell to ecrandér tin Government notilleation of 10th November last, I strongly advod the pelicy of meeting the icon of His Excellency the Governor, bring my arents en the same intervw with Sir G. Bestum. Is giving my evidence before the Commission, this interview was brough toy bentlection, sud I prouistet re give the whole parti calars of it without any attempt at centralmer, rolering Grły grosa-questioning unnecesway -- Berninly the report wash it appar that but plendouragement to reclaim, and that on the tall bring esete, (corlewing partient) I had overly been praiser innvaruty fron panishment, (if it be even that it me sellers siching to me about punishment anerosement,\" ble for the congeecaces. Now I will declare that Eiz George\n\nor responsibility for the aequcxers, and feonsider the wond\n\nciasto.\n\nbut that the tenant trust anderstand that what he oughts, defines gratule. Ainsley hay dore this the Bust lably, am in Chian, but Aur Monor; and is reported to have left for publication in this country a record of experiences optriciy confirmatory of his ginnt Tower kill wud kropping block theory an The Fizon, Afghanistan, and the Oriente ahontas ation of the same category --Correspondent of Li- verpacť Albion.\n\ndize noticed by such a mulus ay be seen condescension que inapplicatie to my detector before the\n\nthe Bonham Strand ocw, and would he soon on the Bowring Puya, too, if once completed, they wit think high sine to make arrangements to:\n\nmade by the Surveyor of fer vnd Myasty establishing alsowhers. Nor let this ideo be whis\n\nIf, in these words, the Allorney General can find right in disposase the lanse holder whose cand is not required, but who derlines to PUKERASE More, or it on the latter clause he can watabiish the fact that the fairness and impartiality of the Surveyor General emaot be challenged by thu Lease holder, we shall willingly accord to hire the Conjora's Medal, and hail biar es the 4 Wizard of the East,\"\n\nAnd now, Sir, nilow us to apologise for the pro Jongation of this Letter, for when we beg a place in your columns, -Your obedient Servants.\n\n— F. of U. Apríl ið,\n\nCAVENT & Co.\n\nStates with the pertinence of that passage in Ca. reat Ca's letter running--\n\nThere is ample space now, and ware than ample space lo teen fallic Warien, for double the wants of the Com regnity who have ut se foutages Wat aro thuir repirnama! Minch\n\nmain by the China Mail and others about tiam inumavenience to the publin dwel ing to the sauth of the Queen's Road! Leteny one who knows the pture an Es eye along the fist of residents, and \"their accopations, and then re how many to the \"of the tusen's Road, and up the Hill, nynire large Whar fage accordation. What did the China Mare require « What goods did he land -and what inconvenience was he \"subjected? None! As the same reply will serve loy whe tenths of those who inhabit the tata es on the \"Bill; aut such mast niet he the case, at Cooke tice aline would very soon abs any hone hit serving from redacod rentals on Inland Lots were they used as stung ground, \" --and impressed with the idea that readers at a disuence can never understand the Bowring Praya question from letter press alone, we have prepared, and publish below, a small woed cut of the distracted district.\"Spaces marked Nu. I t on this wond cut exhibit the tots affected by the proposed measure and the dotted lines delineate the general contour of the shore, up to which approximately, leases are already practed hy the Crowa The parts in black are Government holdings, available for Junding placas if goven- ment wilt make them.The fretted lots enclosed in No. 1 represent streets ia Chilmon's, Chinam's and Endicott's Baznars, the whole sen front at which is as open to the public for wharfage as it can well! he. The surch, as slightly altered from the plan accompanying the Hongkong Almansek for 1848, ¦ is drawn to a scale of 400 funt to the inch, and gives a sea ling of 2,700 fest, of which 600 are Loveramant avaliables -400 private bazaare with public wharves, and the remaindet,-private pro- perty the comparative figures being us 17 to 10, or say of private property, and 3 of public landį ings. Surely these faci-that wie ding\" should be sufficient for the most seeptical if stiti dis posed to cavil ni Carat of Cs assertion that i there is ample space for pubite Wharver for #donble the wants of the Comininity who have not sea frontages withou: disturbing rosted rights. For the farther information of readors et dis\n\ntance wo way state that area No. I of the wood eur\n\nis\n\nis part of land sold last year an eoedition that ai Feaya should run in front of it-Port of No, the same; the space between 2 and 3 is Padder's Wharf--between 4 and 5 is the Oriental Bank Who:f-between 5 and 6 the Central Market, and betweco 8 and 9 the privata Bazar and Wharf of Messrs Gibb, Lavingston & Co.-—the deep line of the angle n 9 representing the entrance from the Queen's Road to Benbam Strand. The Leasehol ders opposing the Bowring Praya schome are, in No 2, Mears Lindsay & Co and Dent & Co-in No. 4. Messrs Jardine Mathearn & Co., Turaer &Co, Bowra & Co., Legraik and Storgie, To No. 6, the Onental Bank Corporation and Mesars Jardine, Mathesan & On. In No. 6, the Agents\n\nfor Thomas Ripiey. In No. 8, Mosers William Scott, James White and Julin Bird & Co.-and in\n\nNo. 9, Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co. On the In-\n\nland side of the Road, the storekeepers, to a jana,\n\nas we are informed, express themselves in opposi tips to the Praya; and it only remains to be said of the mercantile offices in streets in rear of the Queen's Road-eit. in those of Messrs Williams, Anthon & Cu, Dreyer & Co., J. Dos Remedios, James Staphenson, Angier & Co, 8. E. Barrows and C. Boyd, that only two are in the habit of storing Croods on the basements of their premises; the su perficialGlown area so used boing, we are sure,\n\n• The round member given are quite approximato we repost; but the spacas used na landing plairs by the pub- ho are ukeratuted if any thing,\n\n......\n\nled down. A quarter of a century henes and, in these days of annexation and progress to whom mey belang ibe the island of Lenia? With a French or an American, or, it may be, s Russian settlement herend less chance of being borns down by the \"trong talkce\" of a Bowring Praya Comms sion, how long is likely offered advantages would remain accepted\n\ni\n\nIt was clearly manifeat ra me that the presiding member af\n\nment had been in the habit of resumứng lợin without giving inty other compensation than the Surveyör Generļa spínatè ment. On the print i was closely quistioned by the \"Cone- ssina, and although I acklaced two cases where she ca ant, retting the compensatum cffered, obtained third he asked, the report is not only silent on the portion of spy es dence, but itcally asserts thos it reale with the Sarvey General\" alone to code the question of ommpensation.\" \"la one of the casey I addured, I alleged that in February 1954,\n\nandaard, Lendale, Matize for No 79 e 10 del bars; us Isoil a year after fae 15 as the sale on anualed by the receipt of notice of resumption, the esi price 180 dollara, bring named as compensación. Ón veference to de lerse secret it stipulated that I was to have a alirampantion at a rate to be Sirly and impartially made by the Surveyor, de 19 anitced the hardship of the ee to the Acting Alertsy General who replied that the compensation must be far and equitable, which the offer whe not, and that I count ant be crapeited to access, it, Tur report the public, I was thos, with many others of the simple and cezading publis, deluded into a vers extraordinary error. If such be the case I don't think that any one wil\n\nbuilding in din Clony whendir cars be taken fora him by a Government whose legal adviser not only propounds bad. vocates soch a munstrous doctrine,\n\nslo L'aring wishet in have it related that Govern\n\nWe have said the Lenses were drafted after the Gordon Prays was suggested: and this face is worthy of particular note, for had Sir Henry Putinger ve amourent éontemplated coercion ino a Prays shows, how casy would it have ben to have inserted words giving authority to the action! Yet, hard as are the terms of the fenses, not parage-not a word—can be con-in be deleted into the day of exerting aus substantia strued towards an abrogation of the term on which Marine Lots were first bought. viz holding from the Ses to the road. If, owing to washings from the hitis, and other causes, the as recedes, the terms of the original sale bare still to be acted on by the Crown-he taste of the interests of the to whose use the kod is demised—and, the surne suivit that the Crown promises fall and fair compensation for ell it takes away-such fairt compensation must be given for the lard it adds. Such Mr Chisholm Anstey with and to be the de- should it be found necessary still further to resist cision of higher legal authorities than himself. the formation of a BowRING PRASA F. of C.Aprii\n\n30.\n\nSEA\n\nW\n\n起\n\n*Not two pence per foot--nar the fourth of it,\n\nin conclusion, I have to state may regret that this effoient manner of obtaining the views of the\n\nsaking gri- Buna tratores commission should be so for abused as to render it calikely that such thony with infulare procurable. The non attendance of a rouch respected anal leading member of the enciminals, eu inne comptinet of by the Fraya Coromin, may doubtices be travel infe sight rather than discotusy-1 am, Sir, Your client Servant.\n\nof 17, May 3.\n\nY. J. MURROW.\n\nAUDI ALTERAM PARTEM is a motto for which wo bava much regard, and we readily give insertion to the letter front Lex, with the extract, in italics, to which it refers. The emoluments of the office of Attorney Greeral here are certainly not mere\n\nFRIENDS of the Caprain Coonew some time in the service of ike P. & 0 Company here, and displaced from his common and under sirzamances reflecting little erafit un ruo Agent of that day in China, will learn with pleasure that he is now in the service of the Honourable East India Company; and mor has it will shortly have the appoints ment of Master Attonduit at Matlah. The\n\nfollowing extract from the Caletta Finglish-\n\nnot a 7th ult., is interesting --\n\nOx the ah ulana Sept Comew commanding the E. Company's servaying vessel Gruppler which has been employed in buoying off the Mur all, took charge of the bark. Murmyan Crown China, which vesel\" tad entered that rive by mistake. The Marion was brought up eately to Calcntia, Cap. Priest the Commander of the Maraina was dangerously l, when the Grappler fe in with her which probably caused the mistake. Capt. Commend the crew of the Grappler are criting > ly entaled to me renumeration for thuir ser vices, as the Marmion wes in a dangerous patitisa and would probably have been lost without exis. cane of 13. April 19.\n\n(Continued from supplement poge 31, column 4.) ment, wiz, that on all papers hence passing aror the Isthmus of Panainn, a separate chargo of two pence was a be collected in advance\n\nOn the 2nd of Fairmary came nirections to pay a penny in advance mill sepers hence i England: these sent via Marseilles, with a three peny collection at hone, remaining unlistar- Newspaper Proprietors and forwarding Agents ed. The hard bearing of this amurcement oa\n\nis most manifest. Had the order appeared a month before instead of a month after the beginning of the year we could then have charged such additional pernigs to the Bills for subscription -as it is we must put up with the lows-au inconsiderable one in the ag gregate.\n\nUpon what enamon sense principle this ar-\n\ntha a Barrister of Mr Chisholm Anstoy's stand-rangement has been made we are at a bus 19\n\ning might have expected for doing a \"boom\" in\n\nhis Augran stable.\n\ndiscover. It, simply, with vie w lo econ. omise the labnar el taxing clerks at home, then, in two ways, will the pathe be made to pay a Jor the false idea-firel, in the more costly pay. ment in Colonin: Post Offices for the extra fa- lour given to the collectors, and second-in the reduction in the number of papers regular-\n\nknow that many people take no other means for notifying friends at home of their being able male Newspapers:-the charm of the thing in e a pen tion by addressing covers on lying the little tronbie al na exponse. Alas! we shoult speak in the past tea+d, — the spel is broken the demand for the penny in advance has checked the kindly patention the longing friend loves his expected treat- the postal revente ja so much the less-and the not wanted newspaper is eat to the Ash: box. With so many arguments for the alteration of thia demon for peuries in advance, we tre assured that the tenuro ofile existence will he very brief,\n\nTo the Editor of the Friend of China\"\n\nHONGKONG, 16th April, 1856. Fiz,--Possibly some ingenious philosopher will one day discover a rural storecacope, which wits trasmitted.ts for instance-We all enable us to comprehend at one view the real cha- racter of every illustrious stranghouers cer litte colony with it presenco. At present we can only see one side at a time; and as an object is described by various parties from different points of view, the want of resemblance, and, what is worse, the want of harmony in the several portraits. ie perplexing in the extreme. Witness our last new breone comes upon pa like a comet, in un atmosphere of glory-Gur quit nunos rajoice in the advent of another piller of the state-a real, thorough, radicel, independent. reforming patriotic member of the House of Commons, and we hear of nothing save hire and his career for more than the statue number of nine days. The Mail gives hint an oration from the tow Magazine, you re-produce a sketch by the Parliamentary por trait painter, both highly credible to the artists and honorable to the subject of their labours;-but, intermediately, the Register obtains a nearer view, and resolves the appearance of our corces in the shape of a broom- now broom-which sweeps about is a very eccentric orbit, and hita hard with the shank besides. It was wrong in the Register not to begin by describing the glorious appe manes of the thing at a dislunce.—not to hunt up its splendid antecedents, like his neighbours, before producing his daguerreotype iikennes of ithus be found its stiff sharp bristles rush so romorso leasty across the grain atong our good old China am, with a view, as he shabbily avers, to profits: with a cover open at the sides, at a enarge of\n\nTwo other notifications still comain to be noricet-one of the 22nd vitine, to the effect that the French Post Office will account for ali poarages on papers from Hongkong to the United Kingdoin, a knowledge of which face to this community is not very importan lastly a \"trausuiseios of books\" afisation, in the Gazette of the 55 tastant, by which it is usdained that pa kata may be forwarded hence to Malta and Gibraltar, via Bgypt,and to Ber muda and the British West tudies (Barbadoses, Trauidad and Tork's Baland excepted) not ex- ceeding Two feet in lenghth breadth or widin,\n\nout of the repairs, that bis injured toelings at once tight pence per bulí a pound to Malis and\n\n: \n\ngove vent to their anguish. It will comiert tho, Gibraltar, and one sholing and two pence par Register to know that others have entertained half pound in the Wen ludies such rates p- suspicions respecting the peculiar \"Quixotism\" of plying to the first pound only, after which: the tis new broom, and no doubt he will read with charge has to be incrensed for every fraction action the other side of the questions etted of a pound as a pound-letters found in suc by the well known London Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion, in the subjoined extract, which I packets being charged postage with an addi- \n\nition of back packet postage as a penalty. suppose your fairness to both sides will allow you to insert.-I enclose the name of my Solicitor, sud am, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nLE X\n\nHow the-ow-Post happens to be Pam's own print is unintelligible to all, and their name is legion, who reject the Urquhartive story about a former edi- tor having called for P.'s mad as a traitor, and then being muzalisha St. Petersburg esksut skip, just as in the present ease of Ansley, who is\n\nSuch are some of the changes that have caught our eye: there may be others, and if there are out, we may, after the late rate of two notifications a mouth, soon expect them. But this, really, is too serions a matter og tyne unfled with, and something must be done t check the nuisance of indeercet legislation.\" by auteur Post Masters General,--F. of C. April, 19.\n\n312\n\nINDEX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241824, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "247\n\n2\n\nNo. 25.\n\nNo. 85. FEBRUARY 14, 1857.] The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette. [No. 85.—FEBRUARY 14, 1857.\n\nNo. 26.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency The Governor directs the publication of the following Letters from the Superintendent of Police, in explanation of certain statements recently made against that Officer.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\n3\n\nIn pursuance of Ordinances No. 2 of 1845, and No 3 of 1851, it has been determined by His Excellency The Governor, with the Advice of the Executive Council of Hongkong, that a Rate of Ten per Cent be paid for the Year commencing from the 1st January 1857, on the Valuation of Property liable to Police Assessment. The amount of the first Quarter will be payable from that date.\n\nBy Order,\n\nNo. 9.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th February, 1857.\n\nPOLICE DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 6th February, 1857.\n\nSIR—In compliance with your letter of this date referring to a statement appearing in the China Mail newspaper of this morning, respecting the treatment of the prisoners seized at the Esing Bakery: I have the honour to state, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, that upon the apprehension of the whole of the prisoners on the 15th January, and pending enquiry which resulted in the committal of ten of the number for trial at the Supreme Court, the prisoners, with the exception of several kept apart for the purposes of the investigation, were placed in a room on the ground floor of the New Police Station, Cross Roads, this appearing to me a suitable place, and the only one at my disposal,—the then crowded state of the Jail, and the Cells at the Central Police Station, being always required for ordinary business, rendering it necessary to provide other accommodation for these particular prisoners.\n\nAfter the committal for trial of ten prisoners on the 19th January, the remainder, forty-two in number, were remanded as being persons dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony, under Ordinance No. 2 of 1857; and inasmuch as the same difficulty continued of placing them within Jail, (until the 26th January, when certain prisoners were deported), they have been since that date until the 3d February, confined in the room at the Cross Roads Station. This room is a dry lofty room, fifteen feet square, and is ventilated by a chimney and an opening near the top of the room, which opening, secured by iron bars, measures six feet long, by one feet high, the door of the room opens on to the Queen's Road, and as I am informed and credibly believe, this door was frequently open,\n\nOn two occasions I visited the prisoners, who certainly presented no appearance of illness. I found the air close, but not more so than I have found in many places no larger, occupied by as many, or more, Chinese emigrants or coolies. None of the prisoners are ill, and present no other than the usual appearance of prisoners; and this is the most conclusive evidence that the accommodation was not so bad, and has had no such injurious effect, as stated in the newspaper report.\n\nOn the 3d of February, Dr Lorrain called at my office upon other business, and then mentioned that he had that morning visited the Cross Road Station, in company with the Editor of the China Mail; and that, in his opinion, if the prisoners confined there were not removed speedily, they would be seized with fever. Giving weight to a medical opinion, I directed the prisoners to be at once removed to the Jail, and I should have removed them at any time had I supposed that the place of imprisonment was unsuitable and injurious to the prisoners' health; for undoubtedly I had no intention to indict cruelty upon the prisoners, and all my arrangements respecting them were made, having only a regard for their safe custody and the public convenience.\n\nWith respect to the food for the prisoners, I have to state, that the usual rations, ample and good, were provided at Government expense at the commencement of the imprisonment, and that upon the prisoners friends asking if they might give them provisions, I gave permission. Most certain it is that the prisoners had their daily food in the usual way; and that if the prisoners' friends had not preferred supplying it, that it would have been provided at the expense of Government, I have seen the cook-shop keeper, who upon the order of the prisoners' friends supplied the provisions of the prisoners.—I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,\n\nThe Honourable W. T. MERCER, Esquire,\n\nNo. 11.\n\nColonial Secretary, &c., &c.\n\nCHARLES MAY, Superintendent of Police.\n\nPOLICE DEPARTMENT, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 13th February, 1857.\n\nSIR—I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 180 of this date, informing me that it is the intention of His Excellency the Governor to publish in the Government Gazette my former report on the subject of the treatment of certain Prisoners apprehended at the Esing shop and Bakery, and referring to a second Article on this subject in one of the Local Newspapers.\n\nI would desire to add to my former Report, in reference to certain points specified in this second Article, that I have recollection that on the morning of the 3d February instant, Assistant Superintendent GrandPré requested me to sign an order for the transmission of the Prisoners referred to, from the Room at the Cross Roads Station to the Jail, mentioning that the air at the former place was close. I directed Mr Grand Pré not to remove them until the case at the Supreme Court was decided, which I believed would be that day, as upon that decision would probably depend whether the prisoners would be farther detained or liberated.\n\nThe following morning Dr Lorrain called at the Station, and upon his representation I gave a warrant for the reception of the Prisoners within Jail, when De Lorrain mentioned the subject, I casually remarked, \"some of them deserve punishment for they did not exhibit much feeling towards us;\" to this Dr Lorrain replied, \"that may be, but let them be punished properly, do not treat them with cruelty.\" I said \"most certainly, my remark did not apply to justify their being improperly confined.\" And upon this point, I beg to disclaim the inference attempted to be drawn that I desired to palliate the alleged improper treatment of the Prisoners, because of the heinous nature of the crime in the commission of which they were supposed to be implicated.\n\nI do not recollect that up to the time of Dr Lorrain's forcibly representing the matter, (when I instantly acted upon his information) that I received from any person any intimation conveying more than that the air in the Prisoners' Room was close, of which fact I was aware from my personal observation. No complaint was ever made to me by any of the Prisoners' friends, either with respect to food, or to the place of confinement. On the subject of the food I have nothing to add, the Prisoners had a sufficient supply.\n\nI do not believe that it was the desire of any person connected with the Police, to use any harshness towards the Prisoners; and with respect to myself, I positively and conscientiously assert that I had no intention to inflict cruelty, or am I cognizant of any cruelty having been inflicted upon them; and I can therefore bear that accusation as well as that more usually urged against me, of exhibiting too much lenity and kindness towards the Chinese.\n\nWith respect to the Prisoners confined on the 24th and 25th of January ultimo, within the yards of the Jail, I wish to state briefly the circumstances of the cases.\n\nAt 10 P.M., and about midnight of the 23d January, Mr Caldwell apprehended 146 Prisoners, charged upon private information. These Prisoners were placed for security within the Mill-yard. On the morning of the 24th they had a good ration of rice and vegetables; and on the 25th they had another ration, this last at about 1 P.M. The whole number (excepting two) having given security were released two hours subsequently. The ration of the 25th should have been supplied earlier, but the Cook Shop keeper stated that from the number of prisoners, he was unable to get it ready at the usual time. The Constable in charge of the prisoners several times went to the cook-shop to hasten the supply.\n\nOn the 24th of January, 204 prisoners were apprehended on Bonham Strand. These prisoners were placed within the yard of the Debtors' Jail, and I remained until after dark releasing all who could give security, finally leaving only 45 of the number, who being unable to give security, remained in confinement all night. At 1 P.M., the 25th January (Sunday) I went again to the Jail, at which time the prisoners received their ration, and took security for 91 of the remaining,\n\nIn conclusion, I beg respectfully to remark, that, at a time when from secret information it was nightly feared that an armed attack would be made upon the City; when, as you are aware, the superior officers of Police were occupied with pressing and arduous duties; and lastly, when from the peculiar circumstances of the times, the ordinary prison accommodation was overcrowded with offenders, it need not be a matter of surprise, or form a subject of accusation against public officers, that every arrangement was not carried out with the usual regularity.—I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,\n\nThe Honourable W. T. MERCER, Esquire,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nCHARLES MAY, Superintendent of Police.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th February, 1857.\n\nNo. 27.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nWILLIAM THOMAS BRIDGES, D.C.L., having been appointed by His Excellency The Governor Acting Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, has been this day sworn in as a Provisional Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony.\n\nThe Honourable W. T. BRIDGES, D.C.L., has taken his seat in both Councils accordingly.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th February, 1857.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIE REGINE. No. 3 of 1857.\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting-Colonial Secretary.\n\nBy His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance for extending to this Colony certain Acts of Parliament.\n\n[14th February, 1857.]\n\nBe it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say\n\nI. The Enactments of the Imperial Parliament specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed are hereby, Extension of Enactments, and from the day of the passing hereof, extended to this Colony and its Dependencies, and to the Supreme Court of the same; with such Exceptions as are specified in the said Schedule.\n\nII. Rights acquired, Liabilities incurred, and Acts done, at or before the passing of this Ordinance, Rights acquired, &c., shall not be affected by the said Enactments, or any of them.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 14th Day of February, 1857.\n\nL. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,\n\nDate of &c.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 25.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 64.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 94.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 97.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 113.\n\n19 & 20 Vict. c. 120.\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nTHE SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.\n\nTitle or Subject-matter of Act.\n\nAn Act to amend the Law relating to ) Drafts on Bankers.\n\nAn Act to repeal Certain Statutes which are not in use.\n\nAn Act for the uniform Administration of Intestates' Estates.\n\nAn Act to amend the Laws of England and Ireland affecting Trade and Commerce.\n\nAn Act to provide for taking Evidence in Her Majesty's Dominions in relation to Civil and Commercial matters pending before Foreign Tribunals.\n\nAn Act to facilitate Leases and Sales of settled Estates.\n\nnot to be affected.\n\nHow much of the Act is extended by this Ordinance.\n\nThe whole of the Act.\n\nThe whole of the Act\n\nThe whole of the Act (except in so far as it may be deemed to affect the customs or usages of Chinese people, touching the distribution of the personal estate of Chinese persons dying intestate.)\n\nThe whole of the Act.\n\nSo much of the Act as is not now in force within this Colony and its Dependencies, with the exception of the Proviso contained at the end of Section Six.\n\nCustomary hold Estates, and also except Sections Thirty, Thirty-one, Forty-two, Forty-three, Forty-four, Forty-five, and Forty-six.\n\nThe whole of the Act except so much thereof as relates to Copyhold and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242095, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 521, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "## \n24. might be, ao they represented themselves emigrants waiting passage to California or Australia, or the said much dreaded emissaries, it was necessary to ascertain the truth beyond a doubt, this led to numerous apprehensions (particularly on the days mentioned). On the 14 January, at about 3 PM, 204 suspicious looking persons or strangers were apprehended at Bonham Strand, which is the sea frontage of about a hundred Chinese traders' shops and stores and the general landing place for Chinese merchandise, being the place of rendezvous for the idlers and vagabonds. The 204 prisoners were marched to the debtors' yard, where facility was given for their showing themselves to be respectable characters and all but 15 were liberated.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242128, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "## Plan of Land Sold at West Point, Victoria, Hong Kong, Shewing Sites reserved for Batteries.\n\nCopied to accompany a letter from The Com. Roy's Rupices to the acting Colonial Secretary dated 30th July 1857.\n\nCompiled from the several Sale Plans in the Land Office,\n(Signed) J. L. WALKER,\nActing Surveyor General.\n18 June 1857.\n\nwork he would have desired for West Point. I would double its extent and ornament. The line of his firm in will show to the Excellency that the Cathy rooms in Mr. Mustrer's Plan.\n\nAn explanation the eve longs. & are, of I expensision, but I have to... Lugare Lifel formm plugal Engineer Signed on Chomas. This Copy! Mr. J. Budges, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n| 72 | 72a. -EXTREME LIMIT |\n| --- | --- |\n| | Extreme limit of Strand Road |\n| | Reser estreed for Governm Public Road |\n| | Battery Presan reserved Site for a Battery Bungalow. |\n\n24 92 Proposed Roge \nBonham Join Bon of of Roa 456\n\nScale so feet to Inch. \nNew Strand Road to be formed by the Tenants.\n\n| Land | |\n| --- | --- |\n| 95 | New line of Queens Rodd |\n| 97 | |\n| да | 106 |\n| 703 | 94 |\n| # | |\n\nNew Strand Road to be made by the Tenants. \nPlace Battery IN Naw Police Stationky EST to Aberdeen Road P Fut Extension.\n\n512 \n455 \n434 \n453 \n1452 \n431 \n450 \n449 \n448 447 \n493 \n492 \n491 \n490 \n489 \n513 \n289 \n\n13 \n14 t <% mark", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242281, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 167, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "34 \n\nor three days. Witness admits this.\n\nLeang-ake hoon's Depositions put in and read, he being absent from the Colony: \"On the 9th of last month (February) I was brought to this felony by some persons under the promise of their giving me employment, food and wages. The 9th was the day of my arrival here. There were ten others besides myself. We landed at Bonham Strand, and were then all taken to West Point, to a house there, where we were found yesterday by the police. At the latter end of last month three of the eleven ran away - we had no money. I have been paid nothing. 'The headman' of Tinghoi, I believe, paid the passage, as he engaged the boat to bring me. While in the boat we got two meals a day - I did not work. I was brought here from Tinghoi, my passage and maintenance paid; while at the house at West Point I had rice twice a day.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244632, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 373, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "370% \n\nThe \"Wong Akee\" became, because of his assumed power, the acknowledged head of the Tumen men in Hong Kong, but especially of the class of fishermen, and for many years Wong Akee has had the control of the fish market of the Central Market, paying only the nominal sum of ten dollars monthly to the market lessee for the whole fish market. Wong Ahee has under his interest the public funds of the Tumen people in this Colony, derived chiefly from the rental of a house on Marine Lot 16 bought many years back when the property was of little value, he owns property at the Westend of Bonham Strand (in connection with which I have further to state below) and is considered to be a wealthy man, having a pawnbroking establishment, and owning a share in a lorcha or partly owning several lorches or other small craft. He engaged duly in emigration to California and purchased two English Ships, the \"Totomae\" was one of this...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244635, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 376, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "The chief was charged at the Police Court with piracy. Jooman was the complainant, and she was bought off.\n\nDuring 1856, a rebel chief named \"Ny Sing Yuen\" was charged and committed for trial for going with his followers on board a boat lying alongside Bonham Strand and forcibly carrying off some of the cargo of the \"Wong Sailing & Leve Antiam\" shopkeepers of Victoria, who put themselves forward as owners.\n\nIt is now stated that the boat plundered was in reality a piratical boat deserted by her crew and then became public property. The alleged owners got some aid and captured the plunderers. Wong, being connected in business with the two alleged owners, instructed them what to do. The boat was subsequently seized again as a piratical vessel, and the complainant, a Portuguese, did not produce sufficient evidence, and the case fell to the ground.\n\nI have before stated that...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244636, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 377, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## \nWong Akee owns a house at the west end of Bonham Strand. On the 18th instant, a boat was seized by the Police found anchored opposite to this shop in the act of landing sugar into it. The informant, a Police Constable, formerly one of the crew of Lorcha `M.29`, which Lorcha was captured by pirates in April last and remained in their hands more than 3 months, ultimately being taken by the Police immediately after sailing into Victoria's Harbor.\n\nEight pirates were found on board and are committed for trial at the next Criminal Sessions. The said boat found landing sugar into Wong Akee's shop is positively identified as one of the pirate boats which captured Lorcha `M.29`. Wong Akee was arrested on the charge of confederation with pirates on Friday morning, although he was necessitated to state that he was actually in conference with Mr. Brandspers on Thursday night, and was permitted to defend himself.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244638, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 379, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "An information was laid before me by a respectable shopkeeper of Victoria that on the 10th Instant a boat in which he had sugar, blue dye, and seed, had been captured by pirates, two of the crew and two women on board being killed by the pirates. That on the 11th Instant after having given information of the piracy to the Police, he proceeded to search the various hongs and at Wong thee's shop, Bonham Strand, found a portion of the sugar and blue dye, that he immediately proceeded to Wong Akee at the Central Market and demanded the sugar and that Wong thee complied with his demand, stating that he could not produce the person (named Mong bee) who had given him the sugar. This sugar is by other evidence undoubtedly identified as part of the property pirated. Upon this information I issued a search warrant and a warrant of apprehension.\n\nIt will be perceived \n\n## Page 376 \n \n\n(It appears the original text had a page number marker \"376\" and possibly a header or section break indicated by \"225\" which might be a page number as well, the exact formatting is not clear from the given text) \n\n# Reconstructed version without page numbers in the main text\nAn information was laid before me by a respectable shopkeeper of Victoria that on the 10th Instant a boat in which he had sugar, blue dye, and seed, had been captured by pirates, two of the crew and two women on board being killed by the pirates. That on the 11th Instant after having given information of the piracy to the Police, he proceeded to search the various hongs and at Wong thee's shop, Bonham Strand, found a portion of the sugar and blue dye, that he immediately proceeded to Wong Akee at the Central Market and demanded the sugar and that Wong thee complied with his demand, stating that he could not produce the person (named Mong bee) who had given him the sugar. This sugar is by other evidence undoubtedly identified as part of the property pirated. Upon this information I issued a search warrant and a warrant of apprehension.\n\nIt will be perceived\n## Page 225", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244735, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 477, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "(45)\n\n474\n\n(44)\n\nshall, in the course of the investigation, endeavour to bring before the Commission persons who will testify to the facts I mention.\n\nAdjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow.\n\n## FOURTEENTH DAY\n\nThursday, 24th June, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent, All the Members, except the Honourable Mr Cleverly, whose place in the chair was taken by the Honourable Mr Davies.\n\n### ANGUS FLETCHER\n\n—Called and examined.\n\nI formerly had a partner named Innes, who has been dead many years. I believe Mr Caldwell was once in Mr Innes's employ. I do not know of my own knowledge why Mr Caldwell was discharged. I am one of the oldest residents in China, and have known about Mr Caldwell, otherwise than as employed by Mr Innes, for some time. I did not know anything of him beyond that he was a little thoughtless; this was nearly twenty years ago. I do not recollect having ever heard any accusation brought against him.\n\nI do not know under what circumstances Mr Caldwell left my late partner; he left before I joined him. I believe he was Clerk or Book-keeper with him. I never heard a word from Mr Innes, nor from any one else, as to the circumstances under which Mr Caldwell left Mr Innes's employ.\n\n[The Attorney General having been informed that neither to himself nor to any of the public could printed copies of the evidence be furnished, but that he was at liberty to inspect them in the room, and that copies of his own evidence would be furnished, requested that a minute might be made that he had not had any of the fasciculi since the third, and had therefore had no opportunity, and now should have none, of correcting in his own copy, and suggesting to the Commission for correction in theirs, such of the errors in the evidence as taken as he was able to correct, as well as of offering suggestions for examination of witnesses.]\n\n### CHARLES MAY\n\n—Recalled.\n\nGrand-Pré in conversation; and, I was then told, that the European Constable who had charge of Ma-chow Wong had immediately before made known that certain large bribes had been offered him by Ma-chow Wong. One of the bribes was offered to induce the Constable to allow the prisoner interview with Mr Caldwell. I did not consider the prisoners secure at the Police Station as I thought necessary, and him up to the Gaol.\n\nI did not know that the papers which had been sent to Government Office had not been returned to the Police until I heard of their destruction at Government Office, therefore the papers given up could only have been those belonging to the Kwong Yik Loong [Ma-chow Wong's] shop. I recollect that Mr Grand-Pré said that Mr Caldwell had, by, I think, a note which he had in his hand, applied for the papers of Ma-chow Wong, and I am not quite so certain, but I think Mr Grand-Pré said something about Dr Bridges having authorised their being given up.\n\nI am certain that some property remained in the hands of the police, and I have no doubt this property was given up by Mr Grand Pré, who therefore can give evidence upon it. I have asked both Inspectors, but they can give me no information upon this. I do not know whether I was at that time Acting Assistant Magistrate, or Acting Superintendent of Police. I endeavoured to find out who gave up the property at the Police Station, and the Inspectors have told me that they did not, and that therefore it must have been Mr Grand-Pré.\n\nI am certain that those papers given up were the Kwong Yik Loong papers, because the others have been destroyed. It now strikes me that I have heard that some of the papers, which were deposited at the Supreme Court, were given up, upon this head Mr Masson can give evidence.\n\nI think I can produce a witness who saw the first wife of Ma-chow Wong go into Mr Caldwell's house within the last two months. I did hear that Ma-chow Wong's wife had found a refuge in Mr Caldwell's house. I heard it from more than one; amongst others, from Tong Aku the Interpreter.\n\nAbout the notoriety of the pirate Po-pak Shing, Assow, that Police Court Interpreter, who told me more than twelve months ago that this man was a notorious pirate, can give evidence. As to the connection between Po-pak Shing and Ma-chow Wong, and the buying off of the witnesses, I hand in the name of a witness who can give evidence.\n\nI saw Mr Caldwell go into the Chief Magistrate's room with the bail, on the occasion of Ma-chow Wong's being bailed by order of the Chief Justice; this is the extent of my knowledge. I do not recollect how many bail there were, and do not know if the Chief Magistrate desired Mr Caldwell to be present on the occasion. I heard that the Chief Magistrate had had a communication with Mr Caldwell on the subject, but did not know what it was. On the night of Ma-chow Wong's apprehension on my warrant, I gave special orders as to his custody, and that he should be under the special care of a European Constable, to the exclusion of the usual Chinese Constables who watch the cells. At half-past ten o'clock at night or later, I went incidentally to the charge room, and saw Mr Caldwell and Mr...\n\nMr Caldwell himself told me that the boat of which he had command was manned by Chinese, he did not say by Europeans and Indians, I know from what he told me.\n\nCross-examined.—A man deposed at the Supreme Court that Ma-chow Wong had offered him $1,000, to abstain from giving evidence so far as it referred to the identification of the prisoners, the Captain of the boat I think. He had command at different times of two boats, one of which was decked, and I should think a schooner, because he told me of his having been nearly drowned in the cabin.\n\nI taxed my memory as far as I possibly could with regard to the memoranda, and I cannot recollect more minutely than I stated. The memorandum number 8 in Mr Caldwell's report does not agree with number 8 in my evidence; there was only one paper, as I have stated with regard to No. 9. There might have been one Johnson, but there was a Graham. I remember about Graham, because he was subsequently imprisoned for felony. He was Sheriff's Officer and robbed a boat. Now I recollect, there were two letters from the Kowloong Commandant, one to Ma-chow Wong, and one to his partner.\n\nI have not the slightest doubt that I told the Honourable the Attorney General what my impression was prior to my knowledge that the books and papers had been destroyed, that the books and papers of Ma-chow Wong which were at the Police Station had been given up. I remember the sailing of the Phoebe Dunbar with the deported persons. I was the Acting Sheriff at the time, and sent in a list to Government of all persons who were then in Gaol under warrants of Justices of the Peace or Stipendiary Magistrates, coming under Ordinance 2 of 1857, viz., persons dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony. I have no copy of the list, and know that it is in the records of the Gaol.\n\nThere were other names on the list, put on by order of the Government, quite certain that I must have told other persons, but I cannot recollect whom. At the time of the taking of the memoranda, and up to the time of my knowledge of the destruction of the papers, I had not any idea that the memoranda would be a subject of import. The memoranda were written in a style in which I would write a draft for a letter; they were scribbled. It was singular that the memoranda were not destroyed. I am sure that Roberts told me that he had found about 36 guns on board the supposed Alma. I am not sure whether he said that Mr Caldwell told him that the lorcha belonged to him then, or had belonged to him.\n\nI do not recollect Mr Caldwell searching with me for the security papers in the gold dust affair. I have not the slightest recollection of his doing so. I had the general management of the deportation, being Acting Sheriff at the time. The list of persons to be deported was made out by me or by persons under my orders. I believe the list to comprise all prisoners of the classes before mentioned. I had no knowledge of any one fact relating to one prisoner more than to another.\n\nI made the seizure on Bonham Strand; those who could not find security, and were included in the list, were very likely beggars, but I can't say that they were. I do not think that Mr Caldwell was present when I searched for the security papers, after the petition had been presented. I think it was Roberts who apprehended the men.\n\nPage 474", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244741, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 483, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "(57) \n\n480 \n\n(50) \n\nI don't think that the Hon. the Attorney General is right in connecting the murder alluded to in the watch case with the Stanley murder referred to, and I think it is another one. I request that the Commission will ascertain whether those papers were produced at the Police Court against Beaver. It will be in the recollection of the Commission that Dr Bridges stated yesterday that he had applied for a party of Police to go to the opposite shore, but had only found an inspector and a boat in readiness. The Honourable the Attorney General did read the letter of the 13th May, and spoke to me concerning the mention made of Ma-chow Wong's books in the same. I produce a note from Dr Bridges, showing that this is in accordance with his request:\n\n\"24th February, 1858. Please have a Police-boat with an Inspector—Jarman I should prefer—ready for me at Burd's steps at six o'clock to-morrow morning. I want to cross to the other side.\"\n\nA question was put to me on one of my former examinations if I had seen any entry in the books of Ma-chow Wong that money, the produce of plunder, had been paid to Mr Caldwell, and to that I answered \"No.\" I anticipated another question and intended, in fact, referring to it myself, but it escaped my recollection; as I have stated before, there was a page of entries in one of Ma-chow Wong's books, making altogether a total of about 600 taels paid to or for Mr Caldwell, and that in this same book were many of the entries which I also stated as to the purchase of munitions of war and expenditure of large amounts of cash for provisions. I have a firm belief that the money as regards Ma-chow Wong appertained to and was connected with piracy. I cannot give the Commission any information regarding the riot at the Police Court in reference to the supposed pardon of the traitor. I was not at the Police Court at the time and have made no inquiry concerning it. I have since my examination the other day ascertained that some few persons who were apprehended by Mr Caldwell or by Police under his directions were not treated in the usual way by being placed on the Police Charge Sheet and going before the Magistrate, but committed to Gaol on Mr Caldwell's warrant as Justice of the Peace.\n\n## \n\nhis evidence of yesterday.\n\nWILLIAM HENRY MITCHELL.—Called and examined. I remember receiving some information from Mr Hudson regarding the robbery of some tin from the firm of Sic-qua in Canton. One of the firm, an elderly man, brought a letter from Mr Hudson stating that a large quantity of tin, $20,000 or $30,000 worth, had been stolen by pirates on its way from Singapore to Canton, and it was expected the tin would be brought to either Macao or Hongkong, or both places, and requesting me to put the whole matter without reserve into the hands of Mr Caldwell and to supply Mr Caldwell with any funds he might require for the payment of any Chinese agents for the discovery of the tin, or watching its arrival, or whatever might be necessary. As well as I can recollect this was in June 1855. Mr Hudson's letter stated that the tin had not then arrived in the colony but was daily expected, and that it would be for the interests of the parties concerned that Mr Caldwell should watch very closely for its arrival. I have not got the letter now, but I have an idea that Mr Hudson said Messrs Gilman & Co. had bought or intended to buy the tin when they learned it was stolen by pirates. I saw Mr Caldwell and placed the matter in his hands altogether and placed funds at his disposal for any necessary expenses. I paid Mr Caldwell $100 upon Mr Hudson's letter, and Mr Caldwell undertook the matter. Some time after, a week or a fortnight, Mr Caldwell told me that a considerable portion of the tin had arrived. I cannot say whether he said how much, and that it was stored in a hong which he named, but which name I forget; it was the hong next, or next but one, to Akwai's, in the Lower Bazaar. I was particular in asking Mr Caldwell if he had seen the tin. He told me he had, and that I could see it if I liked; that the pigs of tin were stored within this hong, immediately within the entrance, covered with mat bags.\n\nUpon hearing read the statements made by the Hon. Attorney General regarding the Police force and Mr Caldwell's connection with it during the time he was out of the Government service, I have stated in my foregoing evidence that subsequently to Mr Caldwell's leaving the service, he frequently appeared at the Police Court either for or against persons accused of piracy. I know that Mr Caldwell was also frequently in communication with the Government on the subject of pirates, and that the Eaglet took part in acts against piratical fleets. One-half the time, during the time Mr Caldwell was out of the service, I was away from the Police Department, and Mr Grand-Pre, being Acting Superintendent, I have mentioned two instances in which Mr Grand-Pre's mode of acting may in my opinion be made the subject of inquiry by the Commission. During the time I was away from the Police Department, I was in no way consulted on Police affairs, so can give but little information other than that which came before me at the Police Court. I know that Mr Grand-Pre is on very friendly terms with Mr Caldwell, but he is certainly not of a strong character on Police matters, and I am quite certain would be under the direct influence of Mr Caldwell. I know after I resumed my duties as Superintendent of Police that Assistant Superintendent Cluff acted upon information connected with piracy obtained from Mr Caldwell.\n\nHe stated that there were men upon whom he could perfectly depend. He stated that there were two entrances to this hong—one off Bonham Strand and another off Jervois Street—and that he had watches there night and day. He informed me at the same time that he was perfectly satisfied of the security of this property because he had placed the watch of the tin in the hands of his men Ma-chow Wong. I think Mr Caldwell must have defined the amount of tin that was in the colony, for I think I suggested to him the propriety of securing that much, but Mr Caldwell appeared to be under the impression that by waiting a little time, the rest of the tin would arrive, and I deferred to his judgment. Some time afterwards Mr Caldwell told me, minglingly with great concern and expressing himself sorry for the result, that all the tin had been carried off again out of the colony. I recollect now that Mr Caldwell stated the portion of the tin was in one hong, and minor portions in others, and that he had a vigilant watch upon each in which it was stored. Mr Caldwell afterwards refunded the $100 untouched.\n\nCross-examined. I do not recollect that any young man deposed to having heard screams issuing from the house where the murder was committed, but it is possible; the police records will show. After I learned from Mr Caldwell that the whole of the tin was gone, I expressed my surprise that more vigilance had not been used. I recollect at the time feeling sore about the affair and thinking that Mr Caldwell had not taken proper precaution in entrusting the matter to such hands. I fancied that he was, in vulgar phrase, sold by Ma-chow Wong. I did not form the impression that he was confederating with Ma-chow Wong in carrying off this tin. I have not the slightest recollection of Mr Caldwell speaking to me of the indiscretion of the owner and requesting the remaining part of the tin might be seized at once; and I do not recollect the tin being seized. I have some recollection of Mr Caldwell appearing before me as the person who apprehended Beaver and attending at the prosecution against him by some boatmen of Aberdeen for piracy. I think I remember going into the Gaol with the witnesses; they could not identify Beaver who was discharged. My impression is that this was in 1856, the time of Boggs's trial. He was brought up by Roberts on another charge for piracy. Roberts had no evidence whatever against him, and he was again discharged after several remands.\n\nThe tin was coming from Singapore to Canton by a Junk, I think, when captured by pirates. When the tin appeared in the colony, an old man, the owner of it, came down from Canton. I do not know whether he went round to the different hongs inquiring for tin for sale. I recollect at the time distinctly that Mr Caldwell charged that old man's indiscretion, the fact of the tin having been removed from the colony. Mr Caldwell informed me that the tin had been carried off. No seizure was subsequently made of this tin that I heard of; no part was discovered on board a ship to my knowledge—neither in one of the hongs where it had been deposited. It never came to my knowledge that Mr Bridges, then Acting Attorney General, did authorise the detention of the vessel. I may mention that the discovery of tin, if any, on board ship was made to a certain extent by myself. Gilman & Co. had just then become owners of a property known as the Tuilleries. I happened to be in the Old Findly hong at the water side one day, walking through it, when I saw some coolies carrying pigs of tin to a Chow-boat at the Jetty. I looked at the mark on the tin and it had all the same mark as that of the stolen tin, and I followed shortly after the other.\n\nAt the time of the tin transaction, Mr Caldwell was Assistant Superintendent of Police. I employed him as Mr Hudson's friend. The $100 was paid to him, as well as I recollect, to make a small purchase of the tin and to pay a deposit on it, or for the necessary expenses for its discovery. It was assuredly not as remuneration for Mr Caldwell's own services. I cannot say whether the old man pressed Mr Caldwell to secure as much as possible of the tin. Mr Caldwell told me that what was in the colony was absolutely secured. I recollect the old man coming to me afterwards and expressing very great dissatisfaction; I do not recollect that he used the expression, \"Oh! that Sam-kwei; oh! that Sam-kwei.\" I recollect that Mr Hudson told me the old man said so when he went back to Canton. The impression left on Mr Hudson's mind was one highly unfavourable to Mr Caldwell, as to want of honesty.\n\nRegarding the Stanley murder, the case came before me; the man was apprehended by Mr Caldwell, who went with a party of police at midnight and surrounded the house where this man was supposed to be and brought in three men who were supposed to be guilty of the murder of a whole family. One of the three escaped from The Central Police Station, and there were only two placed at the bar. I investigated the case and remanded the men for a week; there was not at first a tittle of evidence against them, and I had doubts of the propriety of remanding them; but as it was a charge of murdering a whole family, I thought it better to be particular and remanded the case from week to week for a considerable period. I finally discharged them as there was no evidence whatever to prolong their detention. The only witness in the case on the part of the Crown was Mr Caldwell himself, who laid the information. He did not state in what manner he obtained the information. I think I heard somebody or other say that it was from information got from Ma-chow Wong in Gaol.\n\nMessrs Gilman & Co. never recovered any of the tin. After remanding the man who was charged with the murder at Stanley, I at length asked the advice of the Attorney General, who advised me to discharge the man forthwith. I felt myself placed in an awkward position in acting contrary to the advice of the Attorney General; but I did venture to do so and remand the man either once or twice afterwards, but finally discharged him as, from first to last, there was not one tittle of evidence to support the charge. I should like to say that a more absolutely worthless case, as far as evidence is concerned, I do not know about an investigation never came before me, which took place within the Gaol, in which the Acting Colonial Secretary took part.\n\nI have no recollection of any documents or Chinese papers being produced against Beaver when he was before me.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244748, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 490, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "487 \n\n(70) \n\nI examined the paper myself, and it appeared to me to be something about pirate boats and provisions. Ma-chow Wong's name was in it, I think, but Mr Caldwell's was not. It was written in English in a very bad handwriting; it seemed a sort of memorandum. I recollect showing it to the Chief Magistrate who committed Boggs for trial. On the night of Boggs's apprehension, he told me that I must take great care of that paper, as he could convict somebody on it; the next morning he told me he meant Mr Caldwell. I read the paper; I know Mr Caldwell's handwriting, and feel quite certain that it was not in Mr Caldwell's handwriting.\n\nI am sure Ma-chow Wong was not present when I delivered the gold dust; I should have known him a mile off, as he used to wear black spectacles. I received the information of Ma-chow Wong's innocence on the first case from several Chinese; they told me that it was not his shop which had anything to do with the matter, and his coming forward to the Police Station so boldly, showed that he could have had no connection with it. I did not inform Mr May of my intention not to arrest him, nor did I countermand the order to the Police for his apprehension.\n\nI saw no more of the gold dust after I delivered it to Mr Caldwell, and he gave me back the 7 taels. I did not see the persons who were securities for the delivery of the gold dust, nor do I know anything about the security. I know that there were security papers returned by Mr Caldwell to the Police Station. They were delivered to Mr May the next day. I do not know where they were kept, and have never seen them since; I am not quite certain that these papers were returned, but think that some red papers were handed in. Mr Caldwell made enquiry for them and I searched with a Chinese clerk for them. I think it was Mr May who desired me to make the search; Mr May thought searched with me.\n\n## NINETEENTH MEETING\n\nThursday, 8th July, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon, Present,-All the Members, except the Hon Mr Davies\n\nJAMES JARMAN, Inspector of Police, examined.\n\n-Called and \n\nI personally apprehended Ma-chow Wong under warrant on the charge upon which he was subsequently tried. I went to his shop in the Central Market, and seized some books and papers both from the hong and from the shop. The principal part of the books and papers were put in an iron safe, which was locked, and the key remained in my possession. The remainder were put in two or three baskets; they were then carried to the Central Police Station under my inspection. They remained in my custody in the station: those which were not in the iron safe were put in a wooden chest, of which I had the key; and when required for the purposes of the Police Magistrates they were taken up to the Magistracy, and brought down again at the end of each day's proceedings, still remaining in my custody. I remember during the progress of the investigation their being examined at the Police Station by Mr Stace, accompanied by a Chinaman. Mr Caldwell was present during, I believe, the whole of the investigation; he was there the major part of the time, if not the whole. While the books and papers were being examined, I was sitting at the table on which they were placed. I considered it a part of my duty to see that no papers were taken away, and that all that were examined were returned to my custody, and I did so. I don't recollect any of the papers being sent to the Supreme Court; I believe there were some, but am not certain. Mr Grand-Pré had charge of another set besides those I had.\n\nAfter the investigation at the Police Court was concluded, the books and papers not required at the Supreme Court were returned to my custody as before at the Central Police Station, and after the conviction of the prisoner I was ordered to send them to the Magistracy. The articles taken from the Kwong Yik Loong shop which I delivered up were in baskets covered over with oil paper, and it being a rainy day, they were tied down and sealed up. They were sent from the Police Court to the Government Offices, and my receipts specifying the number of baskets containing books and papers were sent with them. From the time I seized them until I sent them up to the Magistracy for transmission to Government Offices, they remained in safe custody in my hands, and I do not think it possible that any of them could have been abstracted.\n\nI never heard whether Mr May approved or disapproved of the delivery up of the gold dust. I delivered up the property at the Station, and the books at the Supreme Court, solely by virtue of the order of the Acting Colonial Secretary on the petition. I think it was to Mr May personally, not in the office of the Superintendent of Police, that the security papers were delivered.\n\nI saw these papers afterwards on the table in the Police Office, but had not charge of them. I think they were given to Mr May as Sheriff, as the case came through the Court.\n\nAdjourned to 12 o'clock on Wednesday.\n\nThe property was given over to Inspector Roberts. Grand Pré was also there at the time.\n\n(71)\n\nI have seen Ma-chow Wong at Mr Caldwell's house on three or four or more occasions. I have seen him on various occasions. I think I recollect, on one occasion when Mr Caldwell was very sick, that he went upstairs to Mr Caldwell's room. I have never seen anything in their demeanour towards each other which would warrant me in saying they were intimate as friends. I remember Mr May and Tong Akü making an examination of Ma-chow Wong papers. I was present and had charge of the papers at that time. I am quite satisfied that all the books and papers examined by them were returned to my custody—it is quite impossible that any of them could have been abstracted. Mr May gave me orders regarding taking charge of the books and papers, as I had seized them.\n\nCross-examined, I remember some years ago a case of an alleged robbery of some tin belonging to a merchant at Singapore. I was, on the 24th June 1855, concerned in the endeavor to trace this tin. I remember going with Mr Caldwell to search for this tin on board the ship Chinchew. I understood that the information which led to our going on board came through Mr Caldwell. There were a few blocks of tin found on board the ship; we took possession of it and brought it ashore. After coming from the ship, we went to a house where it was said to have been bought from, but found none there. Two persons were charged before Mr Hillier, I think, with having unlawful possession of the tin. I believe the parties were not committed for trial on the charge. I don't recollect whether they were or not. I remember, before going on board the ship, accompanying Mr Caldwell to search a hong in Bonham Strand. The tin found there was, I think, taken possession of, but was not, I think, the same tin as that which was missing.\n\nRe-examined, I apprehended Ma-chow Wong on the 16th July between 9 and 10 o'clock. I arrested him on two occasions on the 16th and 18th; this one on the 16th was before the issue of a warrant. When I apprehended him it was a short distance from the Old Central Police Station. I told him that I had made him a prisoner and took him to the Central Police Station. I told him also that the charge against him was confederating with pirates. The words he made use of were \"What for you takee my man have go up stairs Mr Grand Pré's house last night.\" Nothing further passed till we arrived at the Station, when I told Mr Grand Pré, who said that Ma-chow Wong had not been at the Police Station the previous night. I told Mr May that if he did not look after the case strictly, most likely it would fall through. I did not attend the Police Court on the first examination of Ma-chow Wong when he was held to bail by the Chief Magistrate. I believe from what people have told me, that Ma-chow Wong interested himself in cases of piracy.\n\nI was present during part of the trial of Eli Boggs. I do not remember hearing a document read by him, nor seeing him hand in a document. I was not present at the conclusion when he made his defence. I remember seeing a square piece of calico, which was a rebel pass, and which had been taken from Boggs. I think it was Roberts who showed me this pass. I do not recollect seeing a paper. I have not since seen the paper alluded to; it ought to be produced by the Inspector who was on duty at the time. According to practice, a paper read and handed in at Court would be kept in Court, and in ordinary cases of conviction would be handed over to the Gaoler, if not given in evidence at the Magistracy; if given in evidence at the Supreme Court, and if it be property of the prisoner, it would be given over to the Gaoler again. I have some slight knowledge of seeing the tin box at the Police Station.\n\nThere was some money and boxes of clothing belonging to the Kwong Yik Loong shop remaining in the custody of the Police, after the books and papers were sent up to Government Office. Mr Grand-Pré had charge of this property. Mr Grand-Pré ordered it to be given up. He gave up the dollars and the clothing to a man who was clerk at the Kwong Yik Loong shop, and who was tried with Ma-chow Wong. Mr Grand-Pré personally delivered up the dollars. I did not see him deliver up the clothing. There were one or two Chinese with this clerk. Before the property was delivered up, Mr Caldwell came to the charge-room window with a petition, and asked me if Mr May was in his office, and said that the man—pointing to this clerk—was come after the property, or something to that effect; at all events the property was given up. I think Mr Caldwell went to Mr Grand-Pré or Mr May. Mr Grand-Pré came out of his office afterwards. I think that as soon as he had had the conversation with Mr May or Mr Grand-Pré, Mr Caldwell went away. I should like to correct my statement, that Mr Grand-Pré had all the money. I found $10 myself, which I delivered up to Mr Grand-Pré, on the occasion of the money being given up. I found the $10 in one of the boxes, and showed them to Mr May at the time, and kept charge of them until the property was given up.\n\nELI BOGGS,--Called and examined.\n\nAt the period of my apprehension I remember a paper being found on me. The paper, as near as I can recollect, was written for Ma-chow Wong, and sent out to a lorcha to a young man named Beaver who had charge of the lorcha. It stated he was part owner of a lorcha. Some one on board was about to take the lorcha away, and he wished the lorcha to be brought back. It said nothing further. I had several papers, when I was arrested. This paper was in English. I remember something about a paper, which I requested might be taken particular care of, as it would be of use to me. I saw that paper at the Supreme Court on my trial. It was put into my hands by Mr May. I believe I read the contents of it in Court. I handed it to ... \n\nI have heard the Chinese say, that Ma-chow Wong was believed by them to be in possession of great power; they said that he was always connected with pirates, and they were afraid to have anything to do with him. I recollect on one or two occasions, that some of the Lukongs said, that Ma-chow Wong was friendly with Mr Caldwell. I have seen Ma-chow Wong...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244753, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 495, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## 492\n\n(80)\n\nMr. Lapraik. The arrest was by Mr. Caldwell. Lün Cheong, I was Gaoler at the time of Eli Boggs' trial, and attended the prisoner, said that during Ma-chow Wong's investigation at the Magistrate's Office, Ma-chow Wong's family was living with him. One day he went home and said to Ma-chow Wong's wife that very likely Ma-chow Wong's case would be committed to the Supreme Court, and that Ma-chow Wong's wife was not pleased; he also said that some of the men had petitioned on behalf of Ma-chow Wong, and had gone round the town to get shops' signatures; that he himself being a native of Sunon refused to go to get signatures. Because of this he says Ma-chow Wong's wife had an ill-feeling towards him; he said he believed that Ma-chow Wong's wife herself complained to Mr. Caldwell, and for that reason he believes that he was prosecuted.\n\nI took down the depositions in Court as Gaoler on the occasion of his trial. To the Supreme Court, a tin box containing articles belonging to him was brought. I received the tin box from the Police, but do not recollect from which officer. It was placed on the table at the Court. I do not remember what was in it, nor do I remember anything being taken out. I was present when Eli Boggs made his defence. I think he had some papers in his hand. I don't remember whether he read from them. I am not certain whether the box was handed over to the Police: after the trial, if it had been taken back to the Gaol, it would have been deposited in the Store-room. I have never seen it since. I do not remember seeing or hearing at the trial any paper containing Mr. Caldwell's name read. I heard Mr. Caldwell's name mentioned by Boggs in his defence.\n\nCross-examined,—I recollect the examination in the Gaol Yard of the men who were sent to Hainan. There was a great number of men apprehended in Bonham Strand, some of whom were put in the Debtor's Gaol, and some in the Mill Yard. I remember a large number of these men being examined in the Debtor's Gaol Yard.\n\nI have heard from Kwei Ch'oi, a Chinese female, that she was sent for by Mrs. Caldwell. Mrs. Caldwell said, \"people are saying that you gave me a gold bangle. Did you give it me or not.\" Kwei Ch'oi replied that she had not given her one. I have not heard of any other person being sent for.\n\nCross-examined,—I went to Kwei Ch'oi's house on the occasion I speak of. I visit her now and then. I think this was about a fortnight ago, but I heard the report from several other women before. I did not go to her house for the purpose of questioning her about this. I asked her whether she had put a gold chain into a loaf of bread, and sent it as a present to Mrs. Caldwell. She said \"No.\" I asked about the gold chain because I had heard of it. I haven't heard about the intimidation of witnesses who were to appear before this Commission, but judge from my own arrest. I told Mr. May when asked that I was afraid to come before the Commission to say anything against Mr. Caldwell; if I should, no doubt I would get into trouble. I also heard that a man conversing with another said, \"I hear that Assow is going to give evidence against Mr. Caldwell; if he should, he will not get clear off himself.\" This man was the Chinese Sergeant of Police, Lo Ahing. I think it was about the beginning of last month that I was arrested.\n\nI do not remember the Attorney General being present. I remember Mr. May and Mr. Caldwell. The prisoners deported to Hainan were mustered by Mr. May—the list drawn up—and Mr. May and Mr. Cluff were present. I do not recollect the Attorney General or Mr. Caldwell being present. Mr. Caldwell came to me the day after and inquired about two men who had been sent away, who ought not to have been sent. Mr. Caldwell had nothing that I am aware of to do with the deportation of these men; it was conducted by Mr. May, who was then Acting Sheriff and Superintendent of Police. Mr. Caldwell mentioned the names of two men, but I do not remember the names. After I told him that they were gone, he appeared to be angry, and my reply to the best of my recollection was that I could not help myself, and that I was acting under the orders of my superior Mr. May.\n\nI made out a rough draft of the list of prisoners to be deported, and these were finally arranged by Mr. May. This occasion, on the morning of their embarkation, is to my knowledge the only one on which the prisoners were mustered.\n\nLEONARDO D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Called and examined.\n\nRe-examined,—I have never as Gaoler had reason to remark or complain upon the great number of commitments or liberations on warrants signed by Mr. Caldwell under the deportation ordinance. There was only one occasion on which we were very much overcrowded with prisoners. I think that about that time a great many prisoners were received from several justices. I think there were no more upon Mr. Caldwell's warrant than upon others. Mr. Caldwell has never, during my service as Gaoler, interfered in any way with the Gaol, the prisoners, or the officers. There was a difficulty in mustering the men for deportation, the names which some of them gave being different from those on the list, and I think that Mr. May called Mr. Cluff to interpret. I did not see Mr. Anstey present.\n\n[The proceedings of the several meetings of the Executive Council at which reference was made to the case of Ma-chow Wong were read to the Commission by permission of His Excellency the Governor, from which it appeared that Mr. Morgan was examined previously to Mr. May, and that the Council finally decided on rejecting the prayer of the Petition for the release of Ma-chow Wong, upon a perusal of the translation by Mr. Wade of the papers found on Beaver; Mr. Wade stating that he had not had time in any way to examine the papers referred to in Mr. May's memoranda.]\n\n## ROBERT EDWARD MACKENZIE, Called and examined.\n\nI am Clerk of Councils and Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office. I did not officiate as Clerk of Councils when the enquiry concerning Ma-chow Wong was being made by the Executive Council. My brother, who is now sick, officiated.\n\n## CHARLES MAY, Recalled at his own request.\n\n(81)\n\nI recollect the man Feaver being brought before me charged with piracy. Mr. Caldwell was the first witness and stated that from documentary evidence, which he would produce on a future day, he would show the prisoner's confederation was with pirates. I have referred to the depositions in the case, and I have no hesitation in stating my conviction that the case was grossly mismanaged, and that Beaver ought to have taken his position at the bar of the Supreme Court, and as far as I was concerned as sitting Magistrate, would have been committed had the documents been produced before me. The Acting Colonial Secretary in his evidence states that one of his reasons—I think he says his chief reason for referring Ma-chow Wong papers and books to Mr. Wade for re-examination, was to ascertain whether credibility was to be attached to Mr. Caldwell's translation, or to any memoranda, inasmuch as that was a thing apart from Ma-chow Wong's case. The destruction of the papers and books placed the settlement of that question beyond possibility.\n\n## WOHANG, Broker, Called and examined.\n\nI remember a Pawnbroker of the Foo Tai shop, in which I had a share, being convicted of receiving a stolen watch. I remember after he was convicted a petition being presented to the Governor for his pardon. His sentence was remitted from 14 to 2 years. A partner of the pawn-shop came to me and said that if I would pay a few hundreds of dollars to Shaplok, the man would be let off. He wanted me to write a paper to the effect that I would pay this money to Shaplok. Mr. Lane was in my shop at the time and advised me not to sign. I have never paid any money. It was before the trial at the Supreme Court that this man came. I do not know if anyone paid any money. The man came again, and I said \"it is no use saying anything about it, I will have nothing to do with it.\"\n\nThere has been no communication within the last month and a half from Mrs. Caldwell to me, or anyone belonging to my house, regarding this matter. I have heard of the present inquiry from Wong Ashing. I do not know who prepared the two petitions. After signature, one was brought up here and handed to one of the Chinese in the office, who gave it to Dr. Bridges, who directed it to be taken to Mr. Caldwell. It was accordingly taken to Mr. Caldwell, who told me to leave it with him. I do not know whether Mr. Caldwell supported it. When my partner asked me why I did not pay the money to Shaplok, I went to Mr. Caldwell and asked whether I had a right to pay the money to Shaplok. He answered, \"No, I did not authorize it.\" When my partner spoke about the payment to be made to Shaplok, he did not mention either Mr. Caldwell's or Mrs. Caldwell's name. I have not seen Shaplok for about a year.\n\nShaplok is acquainted with a good many people in the colony, but whether she is related to Mrs. Caldwell or not I cannot say. After the prisoner was in Gaol under sentence, the other pawnshop man came to me and told me that the money should be given to Shaplok, and that she would ask someone to take the case in hand; my partner did not say whom she would engage, and did not mention Mr. or Mrs. Caldwell's name. I did not suppose that Mr. Caldwell was concerned in it. I went to Mr. Caldwell because he was Protector of Chinese, and I took the petition there. It was after the case was decided at the Supreme Court.\n\n## JOHN ROBERTS, Recalled.\n\nI remember being instructed by Mr. May to take possession of a lorcha off Wanchi, which was supposed to be the Alma. I did seize her and found that she was not the Alma. I found about 36 cannon on board; there were certainly not less. I suppose she could carry about 2,000 piculs cargo. Some of the guns were mounted, and some were dismounted, lying forward. From what I was told on board, I went to Mr. Caldwell's office and saw Mr. Caldwell. There was with him at the time a man whom I did not know, but whom I have since known as Ma-chow Wong. Mr. Caldwell told me he had sold the lorcha and then commenced talking with the Chinaman, and told me she was not the Alma. I inquired about the guns. I don't recollect if he said to whom he had sold her, but it was evident from the manner in which he spoke and referred my inquiries concerning the guns to the Chinaman, that the latter was the owner or agent of the lorcha. I inquired about the guns, and Mr. Caldwell spoke to the Chinaman, and said they were guns of two junks which were either repairing or had been lost on the coast. I told him that it was not the Alma, and I would report it to Mr. May. After I left the office, this Chinaman came out and asked me if it would be necessary for the men to go to the Police Court, and I told him no. I then reported it to Mr. May and had the Police withdrawn.\n\nCross-examined.—Mr. Caldwell asked if there was a large vessel alongside, and I said that there was a lighter alongside, into which I thought they were going to hoist the guns. There are always a number of vessels at Wanchi.\n\nAdjourned till to-morrow at 12 o'clock.\n\n## TWENTY FIRST DAY\n\nSaturday, 10th July, at 12 o'clock Noon. Present. All the Members except the Hon. Mr. Davies.\n\n## JOHN BROWN COMPTON, Called and examined.\n\nI have resided in China since January 1834. I knew Mr. Caldwell when he first came to Canton, about July or August...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244761, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 503, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "500 \n\n(96) \n\nabout Shaplok the same afternoon that Wohang came to Mrs Caldwell would answer her, that is all I can say. She never came as a friend to the house. I did not communicate with the Government or Police about it.\n\nIt is impossible for me to say whether Ch'o On would or would not pay $400 to Shaplok without thinking she had someone to back her. He has been fifteen years in Government service, and I should think that he would not be so stupid as to pay any money at all.\n\nI am quite ignorant of the circumstances relative to the capture or attempt at breach of the blockade of the Canton River of the boat to which the pass was granted mentioned by the Attorney General, in page 73.\n\nI have given many of such passes, so it is impossible for me to tell about this particular one.\n\nI did not consider it necessary to cross-examine Mr May upon his statement regarding my telling him about my wife receiving presents, because I considered the inference drawn from the words spoken by me was so absurd that I did not think it necessary.\n\nI did not know Po-pak-shing as a notorious pirate at the time I went on board his boat; I never heard of his name until that time.\n\nI most solemnly declare that I only know that the Sinon Wo ground lot is in the Lower Bazaar because it is marine lot 33. I suppose that Sinon Wo is the lessee's name. I do not think that Ma-chow Wong is the owner. I know he used to have the management. When this Sunon man (referred to in page 59) came and asked me about the increased rental of the lot, I knew that Ma-chow Wong had been connected with the Sinon Wo. I am sure that the land, so far as I have heard, did not belong to Ma-chow Wong. From what I have heard, Ma-chow Wong was the head of some committee of management; there were others.\n\nMr May's statement of the misunderstandings between us is correct. We have had no others. I do not consider Ma-chow Wong's conviction chiefly owing to the exertions of Mr May, but to the public mind and that of the jury being prejudiced against him by the local papers. Mr May did not, to my knowledge, apply for my reinstatement in Government employ. I did consider, and I am now more fully confident, that Mr May had a vindictive feeling towards me at the time of conducting the case of Ma-chow Wong connected with it. I do most decidedly deny the existence of any connection in any sense whatever, whether by blood, age, or adoption, between myself and Ma-chow Wong. I have particular reasons for not wishing to give my grounds for such belief on this occasion. As I have already stated in my evidence today, these reasons may form the subject of future complaints by me.\n\nWong is an inferior man, not an equal, and I consider this fact certain that nothing would give Mr May more pleasure than to see the situation of Registrar General become vacant for him by my dismissal, thereby making a villainous attempt to injure my reputation.\n\nThe very fact that the woman Awoon (who was not the wife of Ma-chow Wong, being some years younger than him) makes Inglis's statement of less value, because it is entirely according to Chinese usage or custom for a young woman to adopt a man older than herself as her son.\n\nAdjourned till Friday, the 16th, at 12 o'clock.\n\nTWENTY FOURth Day,\nFriday, 16th July, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,-All the Members.\n\nHon. H. T. DAVIES,-Recalled at his own request to explain a part of his previous evidence.\n\nMr Caldwell is no doubt correct in stating that he did not procure the sureties for Ma-chow Wong; but when I said that I should require them, and that I would take their recognizances as soon as their validity had been ascertained, Mr Caldwell said \"they are here now,\" and pointed out some men. I asked him whether he guaranteed their validity, and upon his saying that he did, I took them at once.\n\nD. R. CALDWELL,-Cross-examination continued.\n\nI deny that any intercourse whatever has been kept up between any member of my family and Shaplok. She has been many times to my house to see me on business of different kinds, and as a matter of course, she has also seen Mrs Caldwell and spoken to her. I wish to state that when I married Mrs Caldwell, when she was converted, I threw off all Chinese connections. Shaplok came to me only on business matters officially. I suppose if she spoke to Mrs Caldwell...\n\nAfter the time of his apprehension and trial, I found Ma-chow Wong to be an honest man, and I believe that he always was an honest man up to his apprehension.\n\nWith regard to the case mentioned by Mr May in page 39, in which Ma-chow Wong is charged with resisting the Police, I refer the Commission to my letter to the Clerk of Councils dated 5th October, 1857. With regard to Mr May's statement in page 39, that a wealthy Chinaman came to him in secrecy and terror to complain of the manner in which petitions for Ma-chow Wong's pardon were got up; the rich Chinaman I believe to be Tam Achoy, and at my letter of 5th October last, I show why I think he had hostile feelings towards Ma-chow Wong. This I referred to at the time of Mr May's statement. The Commissioners must be mistaken in thinking that I said I would prove the petition in question related to another matter altogether.\n\nPang Wa-ping paid to the paymaster of the Rattler about $200 salvage for rescuing his boat, for which the Paymaster gave a receipt, I witnessing it. I saw Chinese documents belonging to Beaver after his apprehension at the Police Station. It was a kind of certificate from Chu Akwei, the Chief, but who styled himself a Rebel, showing that...\n\n(97)\n\n...had been in his employ, and mention was made there that Ma-chow Wong was closely connected with the Shanghae Rebels. I know that he went to Shanghae. I only know that Wong Kee was a man from Kongnam (Keanguan), I believe, to carry out the Rebel movements. I wish to state that the Wong Kee mentioned there was never intended for Ma-chow Wong. Both the characters were entirely different from his name; the Wong was different and the Kee also, and the fact of his being a Leangnan man made it the less likely. Ma-chow Wong was a Sun-on man.\n\nI do not know the man who accompanied Pang Wa-ping. I could make inquiry concerning him, but I am quite certain that Mr Wade may have gone by the sound, not knowing perhaps the characters of Ma-chow Wong's name.\n\nThis was a red paper folded, I think four times, similar to the paper on which petitions are written, but without the blue back to it. On casting my eyes over the document, this name Wong Kee made no impression on me at all, whereas had it been in the characters of Ma-chow Wong's name, I should certainly have been attracted to them. This was the only paper produced as found on Beaver which I saw.\n\nWith regard to the search of Assow's house, the anonymous letter was my only information that a musical box was stolen. I also knew that a man was in custody for stealing a barometer, which was referred to in the letter. Mrs Caldwell did not detain the messenger, and I took no steps to ascertain its author before acting upon it, as it was impossible to do so. I merely asked who brought it, and I was told it was a boy. I do not now know the author. I considered that, as a Justice of the Peace, and particularly...\n\nThe Master of the Masonic Lodge is elected. My predecessors have been gentlemen of unblemished character.\n\nWhile the lorcha Kee-loong-poo-on was in my name, I, as Registrar General, had authority to search the house. I employed her with European masters-Johnson and Ban-croft were the two-I let her out on charter.\n\nLai Szekai still collects the rents for Mrs Caldwell's sister under a lease which he has of the houses.\n\nI accompanied Mr Grand-Pré in searching the boats in one of which Po-pak-shing was; he was there on the spot, and was cognizant of the particulars himself. I was merely there to assist. I did not in any way direct Mr Grand-Pré; I acted as an Interpreter and explained all the matters to him, and examined the Registers and papers of the boats.\n\nI cannot say whether it was in answer to a question from myself, then sitting on the bench, that Mr Grand-Pré gave the answer which convinced the Magistrate as to the men's innocence. I found the Register and papers in order. I think the boat had a Chinese pass from the head of the Marine department at Canton.\n\nI was present with Mr Anstey, Mr Cluff, Mr May, Mr Brachan, and several others at the Debtor's Gaol-yard on the afternoon of the day on which Mr May apprehended the men on Bonham Strand. I was also up at the tread-mill yard on another occasion with Mr Cluff the morning I apprehended some 160 men, and on both these occasions, knowing the rapidity with which all information flies from the Police Court and the Police Station by the emissaries of the Interpreters and the Lokangs, I considered that I was only faithfully performing my public duty in hastening to the house to search for the article. I did not mean to say that I thought it not prudent to search Assow's house. I meant that I thought it useless, as the information would have got there before me.\n\nI know nothing about what Boggs says of the payment of mail by the pirates to Ma-chow Wong. I do not think it likely that pirates could have done so, because on occasions their fleets were attacked by our men. On my information received from Ma-chow Wong, I refer the Commission to mention made about in my letter of 5th October, 1857. I never heard that Ma-chow Wong was connected with the pirates.\n\nI don't recollect whether I wished Assow to interpret at Ma-chow Wong's trial. I have given him a certificate as Chinese and Malay Interpreter. I don't think I have given him one since Ma-chow Wong's trial. I consider honesty as necessary for an Interpreter. I considered him dishonest before his trial.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245465, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 544, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "The next sum is one £5,000, which was agreed to by the Council for the reasons given by the Colonial Secretary, and supported by the Honorable McLyall. It is an expenditure that can no longer be delayed. Government is pledged to perform its engagements to the Public without delay, and that portion of the Bowen Road and the Lower Bazaar and Bonham Strand Market must be at once carried out.\n\nIn giving further consideration to the Praya Ordinance, this special provision can always be borne in mind. The Jack Hospital Receipts and Expenditure must also appear as all money passing through the hands of the Doctor (by Ordinance No 12 of 1857) must be regularly brought into the Accounts of Revenue and Expenditure.\n\nThese are the only alterations I can sanction, and the Ordinance as amended, I will now read to you.\n\nThe Ordinance having been read and agreed to, His Stonor...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247678, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 352, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "TIL\n\n348\n\n( 44 )\n\nyour to bring before the Commission persons who will Grand-Pré in conversation; and, was then told, that the testify to the facts I mention.\n\nAdjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow.\n\nFOURTEENTH DAY.\n\nThursday, 24th June, at 12 o'clock, Noon.\n\nEuropean Constable who had charge of Ma-chow Wong had immediately before made known that certain large bribes had been offered him by Ma-chow Wong. One of the bribes was offered to induce the Constable to allow the prisoners an interview with Mr Caldwell. I did not consider the prisoner so secure at the Police Station as I thought necessary, and sent him up to the Gaol.\n\nI did not know that the papers which had been sent to Government Office had not been returned to the Police until I heard of their destruction at Government Office, thereafter the papers given up could only have been those belonging to the Kwong Yik Loong [Ma-chow Wong's] shop. I recollect that Mr Grand-Pré said that Mr Caldwell had, by, I think, a note which he had in his hand, applied for the papers of Ma-chow Wong, and I am not quite so certain, but I think Mr Grand-Pré said something about Dr Bridges having authorised their being given up. I am certain that some property remained in the hands of the police, and I have no doubt this property was given up by Mr Grand-Pré, who therefore can give evidence upon it. I have asked both Inspectors, but they can give me no information upon this. I do not know whether I was at that time Acting Assistant Magistrate, or Acting Superintendent of Police, I have endeavoured to find out who gave up the property at the Police Station, and the Inspectors have told me that they did not, and that therefore it must have been Mr Grand-Pré.\n\nPresent,-All the Members, except the Honourable Mr Cleverly, whose place in the chair was taken by the Honourable Mr Davies.\n\nANGUS FLETCHER,-Called and examined.\n\nI formerly had a partner named Innes, who has been dead many years. I believe Mr Caldwell was once in Mr Innes's employ. I do not know of my own knowledge why Mr Caldwell was discharged. I am one of the oldest residents in China, and have known about Mr Caldwell, otherwise than as employed by Mr Innes, for some time, I did not know anything of him beyond that he was a little thoughtless; this was nearly twenty years ago. I do not recollect having ever heard any accusation brought against him.\n\nI do not know under what circumstances Mr Caldwell left my late partner; he left before I joined him. I believe he was Clerk or Book-keeper with him. I never heard a word from Mr Innes, nor from any one else, as to the circumstances under which Mr Caldwell left Mr Innes's employ.\n\n[The Attorney General having been informed that neither to himself nor to any of the public could printed copies of the evidence be furnished, but that he was at liberty to inspect them in the room, and that copies of his own evidence would be furnished, requested that a minute might be made that he had not had any of the fasciculi since the third, and had therefore had no opportunity, and now should have none, of correcting in his own copy, and suggesting to the Commission for correction in theirs such of the errors in the evidence as taken as he was able to correct, as well as of offering suggestions for examination of witnesses]\n\nCHARLES MAY,-Recalled.\n\nI saw Mr Caldwell go into the Chief Magistrate's room with the bail, on the occasion of Ma-chow Wong's being bailed by order of the Chief Justice; this is the extent of my knowledge. I do not recollect how many bail there were, and do not know if the Chief Magistrate desired Mr Caldwell to be present on the occasion. I heard that the Chief Magistrate had had a communication with Mr Caldwell.\n\nAbout the notoriety of the pirate Po-pak Shing, Assow, the Police Court Interpreter, who told me more than twelve months ago that this man was a notorious pirate, can give evidence. As to the connection between Po-pak Shing and Ma-chow Wong, and the buying off of the witnesses, I hand in the name of a witness who can give evidence.\n\nThere was no written order given by me for the delivery of the gold dust to Mr Caldwell, I do not recollect whether I was Superintendent of Police, or Acting Sheriff; I rather think it was as Acting Sheriff. Achak, a clerk in the Registration Office, can say who were the securities in the gold dust affair. I do not know whether the petition referred to in the gold dust affair is in existence, and do not remember whether I gave it back, or whether it was filed.\n\nMr Caldwell himself told me that the boat of which he had command was manned by Chinese, he did not say by Europeans and Indians. I know from what he told me that Ma-chow Wong had offered him $1,000, to abstain from giving evidence so far as it referred to the identification of one of the prisoners, the Captain of the boat I think.\n\nCross-examined.-A man deposed at the Supreme Court that he had command at different times of two boats, one of which was decked, and I should think a schooner, because he told me of his having been nearly drowned in the cabin. The threat of personal violence was deposed to in the Supreme Court. I was not Mr Dixson's informant as to Mr Stace and Mr Caldwell having got permission to take away the books and papers, excepted as I now state. I told Mr Dixson that Mr Caldwell and Mr Stace had examined the books and papers at the Police Station, and that my impression was that Mr Caldwell had received the books and papers from the Police Station.\n\nI taxed my memory as far as I possible could with regard to the memoranda, and I cannot recollect more minutely than I stated. The memorandum number 8 in Mr Caldwell's report does not agree with number 8 in my evidence; there was only one paper, as I have stated with regard to No. 9. There might have been one Johnson, but there was no written order given by me for the delivery of the gold dust to Mr Caldwell.\n\nI did not tell Mr Dixson, what he states in papers.\n\nI remember about Graham, because he was a Graham. He was subsequently imprisoned for felony. He was Sheriff's Officer and robbed a boat. Now I recollect, there were two letters from the Kowloong Commandant,-one to Ma-chow Wong, and one to his partner. I have an impression in my mind that there were very many more important matters not referring to Mr Caldwell, only shewing the bad character of Ma-chow Wong, in my memo.-I placed the memo. in the Chief Magistrate's hands, and read it to the Acting Attorney General. I had given it up before the Attorney General returned, but I told him of it since his return.\n\nOn Saturday the Prisoner was apprehended, on Monday the Attorney General was in the Police Court for the last time, and then only one-sixth of the memoranda had been extracted. I have not the slightest doubt that I told the Honourable the Attorney General what my impression was prior to my knowledge that the books and papers had been destroyed, -that the books and papers of Ma-chow Wong which were at the Police Station had been given up. I remember the sailing of the Phoebe Dunbar with the deported persons. I was Acting Sheriff at the time, and sent in a list to Government of all persons who were then in Gaol under warrants of Justices of the Peace or Stipendiary Magistrates, coming under Ordinance 2 of 1857, viz., persons dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony. I have no copy of the list, and know that it is in the records of the Gaol, There were other names on the list, put on by order of the Government, and these persons were those who had been summarily convicted, and it was by the Colonial Secretary's order-I believe a verbal one, that these were included in the lot.\n\nAt the time of the taking of the memoranda, and up to the time of my knowledge of the attempt to obtain a pardon of Ma-chow Wong, inasmuch as the memoranda did not refer to the cases for which the prisoner was tried, I had not any idea that the memoranda would be a subject of import. The memoranda were written in a style in which I would write a draft for a letter; they were scribbled. It was singular that the memoranda were not destroyed. I am sure that Roberts told me that he had found about 36 guns on board the supposed Alma. I am not sure whether he said that Mr Caldwell told him that the lorcha belonged to him then, or had belonged to him.\n\nI do not recollect Mr Caldwell searching with me for the security papers in the gold dust affair. I have not the slightest recollection of his doing so.\n\nI believed the list to comprise all prisoners of the classes before mentioned. I had no knowledge of any one fact relating to one prisoner more than to another.\n\nI, myself, had the general management of the deportation, being Acting Sheriff at the time. The list of persons to be deported was made out by me or by persons under my orders.\n\nThe list was made out, and an order given by the Governor for their deportation. Mr Caldwell did not make out the list, nor did he take the men off to the Phoebe Dunbar. I think I reported to the Government that the persons named in the list came within the meaning of Ordinance 2 of 1857, and the Government approved the list. I don't think that I had any letter of instructions from the Governor as to the making out the list.\n\nI made the seizure on Bonham Strand; those who could not find security, and were included in the list, were very likely beggars, but I can't say that they were. I do not think that Mr Caldwell was present when I searched for the security papers, after the petition had been presented. I think it was Roberts who apprehended Beaver.\n\n( 45 )", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247684, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "£28\n\n354\n\n( 56 )\n\nIn reference to the papers found on Beaver, I beg to request that the Commission will ascertain whether those papers were produced at the Police Court against Beaver. It will be in the recollection of the Commission that Dr Bridges stated yesterday, that he had applied for a party of Police to go to the opposite shore, but had only found an inspector and boat in readiness. I produce a note from Dr Bridges, showing that this is in accordance with his request,-\n\n\"24th February, 1858.\n\n\"Please have a Police-boat with an Inspector-Jarman I should prefer -ready for me at Burd's steps at six o'clock to-morrow morning. I want to cross to the other side.\"\n\nA question was put to me on one of my former examinations, if I had seen any entry in the books of Ma-chow Wong, that money, the produce of plunder, had been paid to Mr Caldwell, and to that I answered \"No.\" I anticipated another question, and intended, in fact, referring to it myself, but it escaped my recollection; as I have stated before, there was a page of entries in one of Ma-chow Wong's books, making altogether a total of about 600 taels paid to or for Mr Caldwell, and that in this same book were many of the entries which I also stated as to the purchase of munitions of war, and expenditure of large amounts of cash for provisions. I have a firm belief, that the money as regards Ma-chow Wong appertained to and was connected with piracy.\n\nI know after I resumed my duties as Superintendent of Police, that Assistant Superintendent Cluff acted upon information connected with piracy obtained from Mr Caldwell,\n\nI don't think that the Hon. the Attorney General is right in connecting the murder alluded to in the watch case with the Stanley murder referred to, and I think it is another one.\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General did read the letter of the 13th May, and spoke to me concerning the mention made of Ma-chow Wong's books in the same, as mentioned in his evidence of yesterday.\n\nWILLIAM HENRY MITCHELL-Called and examined.\n\nI remember receiving some information from Mr Hudson, regarding the robbery of some tin from the firm of Sic-\n\nOne of the firm, an elderly man, brought a letter from Mr Hudson, stating that a large quantity of tin $20,000 or $30,000 worth, had been stolen by pirates on its way from Singapore, and it was expected the tin would be brought either to Macao or Hongkong, or both places, and requesting me to put the whole matter without reserve into the hands of Mr Caldwell, and to supply Mr Caldwell with any funds he might require for the payment of any Chinese agents for the discovery of the tin, or watching its arrival, or whatever might be necessary. As well as I can recollect this was in June, 1855. Mr Hudson's letter stated that the tin had not then arrived in the colony, but was daily expected, and that it would be for the interests of the parties concerned, that Mr Caldwell should watch very closely for its arrival. I have not got the letter now, but I have an idea that Mr Hudson said Messrs Gilman & Co. had bought or intended to buy the tin, when they learned it was stolen by pirates.\n\nI saw Mr Caldwell and placed the matter in his hands altogether, Upon hearing read the statements made by the Hon. and placed funds at his disposal for any necessary expenses. I paid Mr Caldwell $100 upon Mr Hudson's letter, and Mr Caldwell undertook the matter.\n\nAfter, a week or a fortnight, Mr Caldwell told me that a considerable portion of the tin had arrived. He told me whether he said how much, and that it was stored in a hong which he named, but which name I forget; it was the hong next, or next but one, to Akwai's in the Lower Bazaar. I was particular in asking Mr Caldwell, if he had seen the tin. He told me he had, and that I could see it if I liked; that the pigs of tin were stored within this hong, immediately within the entrance, covered with mat bags.\n\nWhen Mr Caldwell told me that he had satisfied himself of the arrival of the tin, he told me he had set a watch upon it, and that that watch consisted of men upon whom he could perfectly depend. He stated that there were two entrances to this hong,-one off Bonham Strand and another off Jervois Street, and that he had watches there night and day. He told me this.\n\n( 57 )\n\nCross-examined.-I do not recollect that any young man deposed to having heard screams issuing from the house where the murder was committed, but it is possible; the police records will show.\n\nAfter I learned from Mr Caldwell that the whole of the tin was gone, I expressed my surprise that more vigilance had not been used. I recollect at the time feeling sore about the affair, and thinking that Mr Caldwell had not taken proper precaution in entrusting the matter to such hands. I fancied that he was, in vulgar phrase, sold by Ma-chow Wong. I did not form the impression that he was confederating with Ma-chow Wong in carrying off this tin.\n\nI have not the slightest recollection of Mr Caldwell speaking to me of the indiscretion of the owner, and requesting the remaining part of the tin might be seized at once; and I do not recollect the tin being seized.\n\nI have some recollection of Mr Caldwell appearing before me as the person who apprehended Beaver, and attending at the prosecution against him by some boatmen of Aberdeen for piracy. I think I remember going into the Gaol with the witnesses; they could not identify Beaver who was discharged. My impression is, that this was in 1856, the time of Boggs's trial. He was brought up by Roberts on another charge for piracy. Roberts had no evidence whatever against him, and he was again discharged after several remands. One charge followed shortly after the other.\n\nI was informed at the same time that he was perfectly satisfied of the security of this property, because he had placed the watch of the tin in the hands of this man Ma-chow Wong. I think Mr Caldwell must have defined the amount of tin that was in the colony, for I think I suggested to him the propriety of securing that much, but Mr Caldwell appeared to be under the impression that by waiting a little time, the rest of the tin would arrive, and I deferred to his judgement.\n\nSome time afterwards Mr Caldwell told me, Seemingly with great concern and expressing himself sorry with the result, that all the tin had been carried off again out of the colony. I recollect now that Mr Caldwell stated the main portion of the tin was in one hong, and minor portions of it in others and that he had a vigilant watch upon each hong in which it was stored.\n\nMr Caldwell afterwards refunded me the $100 untouched. The tin was coming from Singapore to Canton by a Junk, I think, when captured by pirates. After the tin appeared in the colony, an old man, the owner of it, came down from Canton. I do not know whether he went round to the different hongs inquiring for tin for sale.\n\nI do recollect at the time distinctly that Mr Caldwell charged upon that old man's indiscretion, the fact of the tin having been removed from the colony. Mr Caldwell informed me that the tin had been carried off. No seizure was subsequently made of this tin that I heard of; no part was discovered on board a ship to my knowledge-neither in one of the hongs where it had been deposited.\n\nIt never came to my knowledge that Mr Bridges, then Acting Attorney General, had authorised the detention of the vessel. I may mention that the discovery of tin, if any, on board ship was made to a certain extent by myself. Gilman & Co. had just then become owners of a property, known as the Tuilleries. I happened to be in the Old Findly hong at the water side one day, walking through it, when I saw some coolies carrying pigs of tin to a row-boat at the Jetty. I looked at the mark on the tin and found it had all the same mark as that of the stolen tin, and I told Mr Caldwell of this.\n\nAs well as I can recollect the ship was just on the eve of sailing for Shanghae, also, to the best of my recollection, it was on the next day or the day after that Mr Caldwell came and told me of the burst up of the whole affair.\n\nI know nothing more of the ship business than I have now stated. I think I sent one of the pigs by Mr Caldwell to Mr Hudson. The pig was purchased, but I do not know by whom; it was identified.\n\nNext day or next but one, Mr Caldwell announced to me that the whole thing had burst up, that the tin had been carried away from the colony, and the ship had sailed.\n\nI have some vague recollection of a man having escaped from Ma-chow Wong's house, of his subsequent seizure along with Ma-chow Wong; but whether he was discharged I cannot recollect.\n\nRegarding the Stanley murder, the case came before me, the man was apprehended by Mr Caldwell, who went with a party of police at midnight, and surrounded the house where this man was supposed to be, and brought in three men, who were supposed to be guilty of the murder of a whole family. One of the three escaped from the Central Police Station, and there were only two placed at the bar.\n\nI investigated the case and remanded the men for a week; there was not at first a tittle of evidence against them, and I had doubts of the propriety of remanding them; but as it was a charge of murdering a whole family, I thought it better to be particular, and remanded the case from week to week for a considerable period. I finally discharged them, as there was no evidence whatever to prolong their detention.\n\nThe only witness in the case on the part of the Crown was Mr Caldwell himself, who laid the information. He did not state in what manner he obtained the information. I think I heard somebody or other say that it was from information got from Ma-chow Wong in Gaol. I cannot tell who.\n\nAt the time of the tin transaction, Mr Caldwell was Assistant Superintendent of Police. I employed him as Mr Hudson's friend. The $100 was paid to him as well as I recollect, to make a small purchase of the tin, and to pay a deposit on it, or for the necessary expenses for its discovery. It was assuredly not as remuneration for Mr Caldwell's own services.\n\nI cannot say whether the old man pressed Mr Caldwell to secure as much as possible of the tin. Mr Caldwell told me that what was in the colony was absolutely secured. I recollect the old man coming to me afterwards, and expressing very great dissatisfaction; I do not recollect that he used the expression. \"Oh! that Sam-kwei; oh! that Sam-kwei,\" I recollect that Mr Hudson told me the old man said so when he went back to Canton.\n\nThe impression left on Mr Hudson's mind, was one highly unfavourable to Mr Caldwell, as to want of honesty. Messrs Gilman & Co. never recovered any of the tin.\n\nAfter remanding the man who was charged with the murder at Stanley, I at length asked the advice of the Attorney General, who advised me to discharge the man forthwith. I felt myself placed in an awkward position in acting contrary to the advice of the Attorney General; but I did venture to do so, and remanded the man, either once or twice afterwards, but finally discharge him, as, from first to last, there was not one tittle of evidence to support the charge.\n\nI should like to say that a more absolutely worthless case, as far as evidence is concerned, never came before me.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247691, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 365, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "( 70 )\n\n( 71 )\n\n361\n\nCourt or the Gaol. I read the paper myself, and it appeared to me to be something about pirate boats and provisions. Ma-chow Wong's name was in it I think, but Mr Caldwell's was not. It was written in English in a very bad handwriting; it seemed a sort of memorandum. I recollect shewing it to the Chief Magistrate who committed Boggs for trial. On the night of Boggs's apprehension, he told me that I must take great care of that paper, as he could convict somebody on it; the next morning he told me he meant Mr Caldwell. I read the paper; I know Mr Caldwell's handwriting, and feel quite certain that it was not in Mr Caldwell's handwriting.\n\nI am sure Ma-chow Wong was not present when I delivered the gold dust; I should have known him a mile off, as he used to wear black spectacles. I received the information of Ma-chow Wong's innocence in the first case from several Chinese; they told me that it was not his shop which had anything to do with the matter, and his coming forward to the Police Station so boldly, shewed that he could have had no connection with it. I did not inform Mr May of my intention not to arrest him, nor did I countermand the order to the Police for his apprehension. I saw no more of the gold dust after I delivered it to Mr Caldwell, and he gave me back the 7 taels. I did not see the persons who were securities for the delivery of the gold dust, nor do I know anything about the security. I know that there were security papers returned by Mr Caldwell to the Police Station. They were delivered to Mr May the next day. I do not know where they were kept, and have never seen them since; I am not quite certain that these papers were returned, but think that some red papers were handed in. Mr Caldwell made enquiry for them, and I searched with a Chinese clerk for them. I think it was Mr May who desired me to make the search; Mr May I think searched with me.\n\nNINETEENTH MEETING.\n\nThursday, 8th July, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,-All the Members, except the Hon Mr Davies.\n\nJAMES JARMAN, Inspector of Police,-Called and examined.\n\nI personally apprehended Ma-chow Wong under warrant on the charge upon which he was subsequently tried. I went to his shop in the Central Market, and seized some books and papers both from the hong and from the shop. The principal part of the books and papers were put in an iron safe, which was locked, and the key remained in my possession. The remainder were put in two or three baskets; they were then carried to the Central Police Station under my inspection. They remained in my custody in the station: those which were not in the iron safe were put in a wooden chest, of which I had the key; and when required for the purposes of the Police Magistrates they were taken up to the Magistracy, and brought down again at the end of each day's proceedings, still remaining in my custody. I remember during the progress of the investigation their being examined at the Police Station by Mr Stace, accompanied by a Chinaman. Mr Caldwell was present during, I believe, the whole of the investigation; he was there the major part of the time, if not the whole. While the books and papers were being examined, I was sitting at the table on which they were placed. I considered it a part of my duty to see that no papers were taken away, and that all that were examined were returned to my custody, and I did so. I don't recollect any of the papers being sent to the Supreme Court; I believe there were some, but am not certain. Mr Grand-Pré had charge of another set besides those I had. After the investigation at the Police Court was concluded, the books and papers not required at the Supreme Court were returned to my custody as before at the Central Police Station, and after the conviction of the prisoner I was ordered to send them to the Magistracy.\n\nI never heard whether Mr May approved or disapproved of the delivery up of the gold dust. The articles taken from the Kwong Yik Loong shop which I delivered up were bundles and bedding; there was $32 also. I delivered up the property at the Station, and the books at the Supreme Court, solely by virtue of the order of the Acting Colonial Secretary on the petition. I think it was to Mr May personally, not in the office of the Superintendent of Police, that the security papers were delivered.\n\nI saw these papers afterwards on the table in the Police Office, but had not charge of them. I think they were given to Mr May as Sheriff, as the case came through the Court.\n\nAdjourned to 12 o'clock on Wednesday.\n\n{There being no quorum on Wednesday, the Chairman adjourned till the following day at Noon.]\n\nThey were sent from the Police Court to the Government offices, and my receipts specifying the number of baskets containing books and papers were sent with them. From the time I seized them until I sent them up to the Magistracy for transmission to Government Offices, they remained in safe custody in my hands, and I do not think it possible that any of them could have been abstracted. I cannot, to my recollection, say that I have found myself embarrassed in my action against pirates by Ma-chow Wong. I was present during part of the trial of Eli Boggs. I do not remember hearing a document read by him, nor seeing him hand in a document. I was not present at the conclusion when he made his defence. I was not present when Eli Boggs was searched upon his apprehension, but I remember seeing a square piece of calico, which was a rebel pass, and which had been taken from Boggs. I think it was Roberts who shewed me this pass.\n\nI do not recollect seeing a paper. I have not since his trial seen the paper alluded to; it ought to be produced to the Gaoler by the Inspector who was on duty at the time. According to practice, a paper read and handed in at Court would be kept in Court, and in ordinary cases of conviction would be handed over to the Gaoler, if not given in evidence at the Magistracy; if given in evidence at the Supreme Court, and if it be property of the prisoner, it would be given over to the Gaoler again. I have some slight knowledge of seeing the tin box at the Police Station.\n\nThe property was given over to Inspector Roberts. Mr Grand-Pré was also there at the time.\n\nCross-examined,—I remember some years ago a case of an alleged robbery of some tin belonging to a merchant at Singapore. I was, on the 24th June 1855, concerned in the endeavour to trace this tin. I remember going with Mr Caldwell to search for this tin on board the ship Chinchew. I understood that the information which led to our going on board came through Mr Caldwell. There were a few blocks of tin found on board the ship; we took possession of it and brought it ashore. After coming from the ship, we went to a house where it was said to have been bought from, but found none there. Two persons were charged before Mr Hillier, I think, with having unlawful possession of the tin. I believe the parties were not committed for trial on the charge. I don't recollect whether they were or not. I remember, before going on board the ship, accompanying Mr Caldwell to search a hong in Bonham Strand. The tin found there was, I think, taken possession of, but was not I think, the same tin as that which was missing.\n\nRe-examined, I apprehended Ma-chow Wong on the 16th July between 9 and 10 o'clock. I arrested him on two occasions on the 16 and 18th; this one on the 16th was before the issue of a warrant. When I apprehended him it was a short distance from the Old Central Police Station, I told him that I had made him a prisoner and took him to the Central Police Station. I told him also that the charge against him was confederating with pirates. The words he made use of were \"What for you takee my now, I have go up stairs Mr Grand Pré's house last night.\" Nothing further passed till we arrived at the Station, when I told Mr Grand Pré, who said that Ma-chow Wong had not been at the Police Station the previous night. I told Mr May that if he did not look after the case strictly, most likely it would fall through. I did not attend the Police Court on the first examination of Ma-chow Wong when he was held to bail by the Chief Magistrate. I believe from what people have told me, that Ma-chow Wong interested himself in cases of piracy.\n\nI have heard the Chinese say, that Ma-chow Wong was believed by them to be in possession of great power; they said that he was always connected with pirates, and they were afraid to have anything to do with him. I recollect on one or two occasions, that some of the Lukongs said that Ma-chow Wong was friendly with Mr Caldwell. I have seen Ma-chow Wong at Mr Caldwell's house on three or four or more occasions. I have seen him on various occasions. I have never seen anything in their demeanour towards each other which would warrant me in saying they were intimate as friends. I remember Mr May and Tong Akú making an examination of the Ma-chow Wong papers. I was present and had charge of the papers at that time. I am quite satisfied that all the books and papers examined by them were returned to my custody—it is quite impossible that any of them could have been abstracted.\n\nMr May gave me orders regarding taking charge of the books and papers, as I had seized them. There was some money and boxes of clothing belonging to the Kwong Yik Loong shop remaining in the custody of the Police, after the books and papers were sent up to Government Office. Mr Grand-Pré had charge of this property. Mr Grand-Pré ordered it to be given up. He gave up the dollars and the clothing to a man who was clerk at the Kwong Yik Loong shop, and who was tried with Ma-chow Wong. Mr Grand-Pré personally delivered up the dollars. I did not see him deliver up the clothing. There were one or two Chinese with this clerk. Before the property was delivered up, Mr Caldwell came to the charge-room window with a petition, and asked me if Mr May was in his office, and said that the man—pointing to this clerk—was come after the property, or something to that effect: at all events the property was given up. I think Mr Caldwell went to Mr Grand-Pré or Mr May. Mr Grand-Pré came out of his office afterwards. I think that as soon as he had had the conversation with Mr May or Mr Grand-Pré, Mr Caldwell went away. I should like to correct my statement, that Mr Grand-Pré had all the money. I had $10 myself, which I delivered up to Mr Grand-Pré, on the occasion of the money being giving up. I found the $10 in one of the boxes, and shewed them to Mr May at the time, and kept charge of them until the property was given up. I do not know what ultimately came of the blocks of tin found on board the ship. I was away a day or two about that time after pirates, and did not attend the Police Court when the case was going on. Mr Grand-Pré had in his possession a gun taken from Eli Boggs no other article that I know of. I do not know what has become of the gun; he may have it still for all that I know.\n\nELI BOGGS,-Called and examined.\n\nAt the period of my apprehension I remember a paper being found on me. The paper, as near as I can recollect, was written for Ma-chow Wong, and sent out to a lorcha to a young man named Beaver who had charge of the lorcha. It stated he was part owner of a lorcha. Some one on board was about to take the lorcha away, and he wished the lorcha to be brought back. It said nothing further. I had several papers, when I was arrested, This paper was in English. I remember something about a paper, which I requested might be taken particular care of, as it would be of use to me. I saw that paper at the Supreme Court on my trial. It was put into my hands by Mr May, I believe I read the contents of it in Court. I handed it to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247696, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "208\n\n366\n\n(80)\n\nMr Caldwell. Lûn Cheong, the prisoner, said that during Ma-chow Wong's investigation at the Magistrate's Office, Ma-chow Wong's family was living with him. One day he went home and said to Ma-chow Wong's wife, that very likely Ma-chow Wong's case would be committed to the Supreme Court, and that Ma-chow Wong's wife was not pleased; he also said that some of the Sunon men had petitioned on behalf of Ma-chow Wong, and had gone round the town to get shops' signatures; that he himself, being a native of Sunon, refused to go to get signatures. Because of this, he says Ma-chow Wong's wife had an ill-feeling towards him; he said he believed that Ma-chow Wong's wife herself complained to Mr Caldwell, and for that reason, he believes that he was prosecuted.\n\nI was Gaoler at the time of Eli Boggs' trial, and attended in Court as Gaoler on the occasion of his trial. I took down to the Supreme Court a tin box containing articles belonging to him. I received the tin box from the Police, but do not recollect from which officer. It was placed on the table at the Court. I do not remember what was in it, nor do I remember anything being taken out. I was present when Boggs made his defence. I think he had some papers in his hand. I don't remember whether he read from them. I am not certain whether the box was handed over to the Police after the trial. If it had been taken back to the Gaol, it would have been deposited in the Store-room. I have never seen it since. I do not remember seeing or hearing at the trial any paper containing Mr Caldwell's name read. I heard Mr Caldwell's name mentioned by Boggs in his defence.\n\nI have heard from Kwei Ch'oi, a Chinese female, that she was sent for by Mrs Caldwell. Mrs Caldwell said, \"people are saying that you gave me a gold bangle. Did you give it me or not.\" Kwei Ch'oi replied that she had not given her one. I have not heard of any other person being sent for.\n\nCross-examined,-I went to Kwei Ch'oi's house on the occasion I speak of. I visit her now and then. I think this was about a fortnight ago, but I heard the report from several other women before. I did not go to her house for the purpose of questioning her about this. I asked her whether she had put a gold chain into a loaf of bread and sent it as a present to Mr Caldwell. She said \"No.\" I asked about the gold chain because I had heard of it. I haven't heard about the intimidation of witnesses who were to appear before this commission, but judge from my own arrest. I told Mr May when asked that I was afraid to come before the Commission to say anything against Mr Caldwell; if I should, no doubt I would get into trouble. I also heard that a man conversing with another said, \"I hear that Assow is going to give evidence against Mr Caldwell; he appeared to be angry, and my reply to the best of my knowledge was, 'well; if he should, he will not get clear off himself.'\" This man was the Chinese Sergeant of Police, Lo Ahing. I think it was about the beginning of last month that I was arrested.\n\nCross-examined, I recollect the examination in the Gaol Yard of the men who were sent to Hainan. There was a great number of men apprehended in Bonham Strand, some of whom were put in the Debtor's Gaol, and some in the Mill Yard. I remember a large number of these men being examined in the Debtor's Gaol Yard. I do not remember the Attorney General being present. I remember Mr May and Mr Caldwell. The prisoners deported to Hainan were mustered by Mr May—the list drawn up—and Mr May and Mr Cluff were present. I do not recollect the Attorney General or Mr Caldwell being present. Mr Caldwell came to me the day after and inquired about two men who had been sent away, who ought not to have been sent. Mr Caldwell had nothing that I am aware of to do with the deportation of these men; it was conducted by Mr May, who was then Acting Sheriff and Superintendent of Police. Mr Caldwell mentioned the names of two men, but I do not remember the names. After I told him that they were mustered under the orders of my superior Mr May, my recollection was that I could not help myself, and that I made out a rough draft of the list of prisoners to be deported, and these were finally arranged by Mr May. This occasion, on the morning of their embarkation, is to my knowledge the only one on which the prisoners were examined.\n\nLEONARDO D'ALMADA E CASTRO,-Called and examined.\n\nI am Clerk of Councils and Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office. I did not officiate as Clerk of Councils when the enquiry concerning Ma-chow Wong was being made by the Executive Council. My brother, who is now sick, officiated.\n\n[The proceedings of the several meetings of the Executive Council at which reference was made to the case of Ma-chow Wong were read to the Commission by permission of His Excellency the Governor, from which it appeared that Mr Mongan was examined previously to Mr May and that the Council finally decided on rejecting the petition for the release of Ma-chow Wong, upon a perusal of the translation by Mr Wade of the papers found on Beaver; Mr Wade stating that he had not had time in any way to examine the papers referred to in Mr May's memoranda.]\n\nROBERT EDWARD MACKENZIE,-Called and examined.\n\nRe-examined, I have never as Gaoler had reason to remark or complain upon the great number of commitments or liberation on warrants signed by Mr Caldwell under the deportation ordinance. There was only one occasion on which we were very much overcrowded with prisoners. I think that about that time a great many prisoners were received from several justices. I think there were no more upon Mr Caldwell's warrant than upon others.\n\nMr Caldwell has never, during my service as Gaoler, interfered in any way with the Gaol, the prisoners, or the officers. There was a difficulty in mustering the men for deportation, the names which some of them gave being different from those on the list, and I think Mr May called Mr Cluff to interpret. I did not see Mr Anstey present.\n\nCHARLES MAY,-Recalled at his own request.\n\nI recollect the man Beaver being brought before me charged with piracy. Mr Caldwell was the first witness and stated that from documentary evidence, which he would produce on a future day, he would show the prisoner's confederation with pirates.\n\n(81)\n\nI was asked for the promissory note. If the man was to be released, it was to be $800; if he was to be imprisoned, it was to be $400. I do not know if $400 were paid; my share has not been paid. My partner came to me for it, but I would not pay; I don't know whether he has paid or not. I told this story to the Attorney General without mentioning names. I mentioned Shaplok's name and the name of the partner who spoke to me. I only mentioned Shaplok's name to Mr Lane. It was not because I was afraid that I did not mention Mr Caldwell's name. The pawnshopman has told me that the $400 have been paid. He asked for $50 to be paid to Shaplok as a cumshaw. I heard that the $400 had been paid to Shaplok; the $50 was also paid to Shaplok.\n\nI do not remember a petition being sent into the Governor for the pardon of Ma-chow Wong, nor do I remember speaking to Tam Achoey about it. I recollect going to Mr May by request of Tam Achoey. I cannot recollect what I said to Mr May. Upon hearing Mr May's evidence read over, I now recollect having said to him what he states I said about the Ma-chow Wong petition.\n\nJOHN ROBERTS,-Recalled.\n\nI remember being instructed by Mr May to take possession of a lorcha off Wanchi, which was supposed to be the Alma. I did seize her and found that she was not the Alma. I found about 36 cannon on board; there were certainly not less. I suppose she could carry about 2,000 piculs of rice. Some of the guns were mounted, and some were dismounted, lying forward. From what I was told on board, I went to Mr Caldwell's office and saw Mr Caldwell. There was with him at the time a man whom I did not know, but whom I have since known as Ma-chow Wong. Mr Caldwell told me he had sold the lorcha and then commenced talking with the Chinaman, and told me she was not the Alma. I inquired about the guns. I don't recollect if he said to whom he had sold her, but it was evident from the manner in which he spoke and referred my inquiries concerning the guns to the Chinaman, that the latter was the owner or agent of the lorcha. I inquired about the guns, and Mr Caldwell spoke to the Chinaman, and said they were guns of two junks which were either repairing or had been lost on the coast.\n\nCross-examined-Mr Caldwell asked if there was a large vessel alongside, and I said that there was a lighter alongside, into which I thought they were going to hoist the guns. There are always a number of vessels at Wanchi.\n\nAdjourned till to-morrow at 12 o'clock.\n\nTWENTY FIRST DAY.\n\nSaturday, 10th July, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,-All the Members except the Hon. Mr Davies.\n\nJOHN BROWN COMPTON,-Called and examined.\n\nI have resided in China since January 1834. I knew Mr Caldwell when he first came to Canton, about July or ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247704, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 378, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "374\n\n(96)\n\nsame afternoon that Wohang came to me, and found that to Mrs Caldwell, Mrs Caldwell would answer her, this is she was in Canton, I did not communicate with the Government or Police about it. All I can say. She never came as a friend to the house.\n\nI am quite ignorant of the circumstances relative to the capture for attempt at breach of the blockade of the Canton River, of the boat to which the pass was granted mentioned by the Attorney General, in page 73. I have given many of such passes that it is impossible for me to tell about this particular one.\n\nI did not consider it necessary to cross-examine Mr May upon his statement regarding my telling him about my wife receiving presents, because I considered the inference drawn from the words spoken by me was so absurd that I did not think it necessary.\n\nI did not know Po-pak-shing as a notorious pirate at the time I went on board his boat. I most solemnly declare I never heard of his name up till that time.\n\nI only know that the Sinon Wo ground lot is in the Lower Bazaar, because it is marine lot 33. I suppose that Sinon Wo is the lessee's name. I know Ma-chow Wong is the owner. I know he used to have the management. When this Sunon man (referred to in page 59) came and asked me about the increased rental of the lot, I knew that Ma-chow Wong had been connected with the Sinon Wo. I am sure that the land, so far as I have heard, did not belong to Ma-chow Wong. From what I have heard, Ma-chow Wong was only head of some committee of management; there were others connected with it.\n\nMr May's statement of the misunderstandings between us is correct. We have had no others. I do not consider Ma-chow Wong's conviction chiefly owing to the exertions of Mr May, but to the public mind and that of the jury being prejudiced against him by the local papers. Mr May did not, to my knowledge, apply for my reinstatement in Government employ.\n\nI did consider, and I am now more fully confident, that Mr May had a vindictive feeling towards me at the time of the conducting of the case of Ma-chow Wong, but I have particular reasons for not wishing to give my grounds for such belief on this occasion. As I have already stated in my evidence of to-day, these reasons may form the subject of future complaints by me; but of this fact I am certain, that nothing would give Mr May more pleasure than to see the situation of Registrar General become vacant for him by my dismissal.\n\nAdjourned till Friday, the 16th, at 12 o'clock.\n\nTWENTY FOURTH Day,\n\nFriday, 16th July, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,-All the Members.\n\nHon. H. T. DAVIES,-Recalled at his own request to explain a part of his previous evidence.\n\nMr Caldwell is no doubt correct in stating that he did the sureties for Ma-chow Wong; but when I procured said that I should require them, and that I would take their recognizances as soon as their validity had been ascertained, Mr Caldwell said \"they are here now,” and pointed out some men. I asked him whether he guaranteed their validity, and upon his saying that he did, I took them at once.\n\nD. R. CALDWELL,-Cross-examination continued.\n\nI deny that any intercourse whatever has been kept up between any member of my family and Shaplok. She has been many times to my house to see me on business of different kinds, and as a matter of course she has also seen Mrs Caldwell and spoken to her. I wish to state, that, when I married Mrs Caldwell when she was converted, I threw off all Chinese connections. Shaplok came to me only on business matters officially.\n\nI do most decidedly deny the existence of any family connection in any sense whatever, whether by blood, usage, or adoption, between myself and Ma-chow Wong. Ma-chow Wong is an inferior man, not an equal, and I consider this attempt to connect me with Ma-chow Wong nothing better than a villainous attempt to injure my reputation.\n\nAfter the time of his apprehension and trial, I believed Ma-chow Wong to be an honest man, and I believe now that he always was an honest man up to his apprehension.\n\nPang Wa-ping paid to the paymaster of the Rattler about $200 salvage for rescuing his boat, for which the Paymaster gave a receipt, I witnessing it.\n\nI saw a Chinese document belonging to Beaver after his apprehension at the Police Station. It was a kind of certificate from Chai Awei the pirate Chief, but who styled himself a Rebel, made showing that Beaver had been in his employ, and mention was there made of a man Wong Kee with another as having come from Kongnam (Keangnan), I believe, to carry out the Rebel movements.\n\n(97)\n\nI do not know the man who accompanied Pang Wo-ping. I could make inquiry concerning him, but I am quite certain that they were both there, and that I saw the basket with the lid to it.\n\nWith regard to the search of Assow's house, the anonymous letter was my only information that a musical box was stolen. I also knew that a man was in custody for stealing a barometer, which was referred to in the letter.\n\nI searched the house opposite Pat-mui's. Assow had interpreted here, and at my request, before I searched the house.\n\nLai Szekai still collects the rents for Mrs Caldwell's sister, under a lease which he has of the houses.\n\nI accompanied Mr Grand-Pré in searching the boats in one of which Po-pak-shing was seized; he was there on the spot, and was cognizant of the particulars himself. I was merely sent for to assist.\n\nI was present with Mr Anstey, Mr Cluff, Mr May, Mr Strachan, and several others at the Debtor's Gaol yard, on the afternoon of the day on which Mr May apprehended all the men on Bonham Strand.\n\nI never saw the men-either before deportation, when on their way to the ship, or when on board.\n\nI know nothing about what Boggs says of the payment of black-mail by the pirates to Ma-chow Wong.\n\nI have given Assow to interpret at Ma-chow Wong's trial. I don't think I have given him one since Ma-chow Wong's trial. I consider honesty as necessary for Interpreter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247707, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 381, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "(102)\n\nTHE QUEEN v. TARRANT.\n\nDEPOSITIONS.\n\nOne\n\nI was Attorney for Mah-chow Wong in the charge upon which he was convicted at the Criminal Sessions last year. I also attended at this Court at the several preliminary examinations. There were a great number of papers seized; they were in three separate batches: one brought from the Hong in Bonham Strand, one from prisoner's dwelling house, and one from the shop of a co-defendant. I understood they were all deposited at the Police Station. I applied to the investigating Magistrate for permission to inspect those books and papers on behalf of my client, but permission was refused by the Magistrate.\n\nPOLICE COURT, Saturday 7th August, 1858.\n\nG. COOPER TURNER, examined on oath states. I have notified the present proceedings against the defendant in my capacity as Crown Solicitor for a certain libel against the defendant, as stated in the summons to which he now appears. I put in evidence a letter from Mr Tarrant dated the 4th of August instant* (letter marked 4) in which he admits himself to be the writer of the matter alleged as libellous. The opinion of the Attorney General has been taken on the subject matter of the libel, and upon that opinion, as being libellous of the Government of Hongkong, I received the instructions of His Excellency the Governor, through the Colonial Secretary, to institute proceedings against Mr Tarrant. I am prepared to prove the charge against the Government, as contained in the alleged libel, to be absolutely false.\n\nI finally obtained access to the documents upon an order from the Chief Justice. [After the commitment, but before the trial.] I examined the papers through an interpreter named Ho-chun-seen, recommended to me by Dr Legge. I instructed my interpreter that the books were said to contain such and such entries; by such and such entries I mean entries tending to prove the complicity of my client with pirates. Tong-aku alleged the existence of such entries. On examination I found that though there were some discrepancies, yet, in substance, what Tong-Aku had stated was correct.\n\nStatement made by Mr Tarrant at this stage of the proceedings.\n\n\"I received a copy of the minutes taken by the Commission in the Caldwell Inquiry on the 6th instant, from Mr Leverly. I have perused the evidence given by Mr Mongan, at page 41 of that Pamphlet,† at the meeting of 33rd of June. Had I read Mr Mongan's evidence before writing the complained of article, I should not have expressed myself in such strong language.\n\n\"If Government will be satisfied with my printing Mr Mongan's evidence, together with this statement, I am perfectly prepared to do so. I hold this to be tantamount to withdrawing the obnoxious words complained of just now by the Crown Solicitor.\"\n\nFurther hearing adjourned to Wednesday next, at 11 A.M.\n\nSECOND HEARING.\n\nWednesday, 11th August, 1858.\n\nMR TARRANT APPEARS AT THE BAR.\n\nEDWARD KEATE STACE, examined on oath, states.\n\nPage 100 supra.\n\nMr Jarman was present during my examination of that portion of the books which were at the Police Station, and an officer of the Court was present when I examined the portion at the Court. The entries did not prove the complicity of Ma-chow Wong with pirates. They were of the ordinary character of trading entries. I must have been misunderstood if I was taken to have stated anything contrary to this in the earlier part of my examination. Mr Caldwell's name was never reported by my examiner as appearing in the books or other documents either under his proper name, or under his Chinese name of Sam-qui, or under any other denomination whatsoever.\n\nNeither was the name of Dr Bridges mentioned, nor that of any other government officer.\n\nNeither was anything reported to me out of the documents leading me to suppose any complicity on the part of those persons named, or any public officer, with pirates.\n\n† The pamphlet here referred to is reprinted within pages one and eight of these papers, and, in order to facilitate reference, the same numbering of the pages has been adhered to.\n\nI found them.\n\n(377)\n\n事", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247712, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "188\n\n382\n\n(151)\n\nBesides the case above referred to, he appeared before our late Chief Magistrate once or twice in matters touching extortion. From his numerous delinquencies, Mr Hillier had a thorough abhorrence of the man. He was also apprehended upon a charge of obstructing the police and conniving at the escape of a man charged with felony, (afterwards ascertained to be a notorious pirate;) but his early patron still presided over the fortunes of Wong, bailed him out, and, attending at the Police Court, re-established the purity of his reputation; and once more Akee returned to his lair at the market, \"a wiser if not a better man.\"\n\nWhenever a case of piracy broke down at the Police Court, Akee's shadow was seen in the background, though his agents alone appeared bodily in court.\n\nAn outline of the case not tried at the late sessions of the Supreme Court cannot be other than useful intelligence to the public. In July last, a respectable trader chartered a junk to bring a cargo of sugar, blue dye, and sesame seed to the colony. On the 6th July, the day after sailing, the vessel was attacked and captured near Linting by a fleet of pirates, and during the attack, the wife of the master, the wife of the master's son, and two of the junk's crew, were killed, and the master and some others of the crew wounded. The pirates threw the dead bodies overboard, sailed the boat to Linting, and the same night trans-shipped the cargo into their own vessel, liberating the captured boat at about 3 A.M. of the 7th July. The latter got under weigh at daybreak and sailed to Hongkong, and at 7 o'clock the same morning information was given to the charterer, who, after sending word of the piracy to the police, went in quest of the plundered cargo.\n\nAt 9 A.M. the same day he found 110 bags of the sugar, and 15 tubs of blue dye, at Ma-chow Wong's shop in Bonham Strand. The man in charge of the shop referred the owner to Ma-chow Wong, with whom accordingly he had an interview at the Central Market. Ma-chow Wong, after decrying any appeal to the police, promised to restore the sugar in his possession, and to use his best influence to aid in the recovery of the remainder, stating that the person who had given him the sugar had left the colony. Accordingly, the sugar and blue dye were given up, but only after a demur subsequent to the first arrangement, and on understanding that the receiver was to give Ma-chow Wong a bonus of $100. The books of the shop prove these strange facts, that before and after the delivery of the sugar, Ma-chow Wong had been in direct correspondence and dealings with the pirates, having paid to the latter the $100 received from the owner of the sugar, the day subsequent to its delivery, and consequently at that time with a full knowledge that the recipient was a pirate. Another peculiar feature of the matter is, that as early as 7 A.M. of 7th July, (the day after the piracy,) a man from Ma-chow Wong's shop had effected a sale of the sugar to another dealer—a friend to the firm; so that if there had been any delay in the search, the sugar would not have been found.\n\nThe charges against Tong Aku, the interpreter, trumped up in consequence of the assistance rendered by him against Ma-chow Wong, resulted in his entire acquittal; and his accuser in each instance was so plainly convicted of perjury, that the Magistrate deemed it his duty to sentence the one not already a convict to pay a fine of £10, or suffer two months' imprisonment. As the money was of course not forthcoming, the scoundrel is now at work on the roads among the chain gang.\n\nWe have only further now to add, that we believe it to be quite true that Ma-chow Wong, and his partner in iniquity Wong Atung, have for some reason been allowed to retain their queues, when others, and much lesser criminals, have been deprived of theirs. This, we presume, will now be rectified, for so far as we understand, there is not the slightest hope of pardon—and it were a lasting shame to Sir John Bowring and his Council did they extend it to such a miscreant.—China Mail, 17th September, 1857.\n\nNow had you any doubt as to who was the party implicated and pointed at?—Had you then the least doubt that that article referred to Caldwell's participation with Ma-chow Wong and pirates?\n\nMr Mongan.—I do not like to swear as to what my opinions were at that time; I am not certain about it.\n\nAttorney General.—Did it not appear to you very strange that Sir John Bowring—that a just and honorable Government—should have selected Caldwell for this investigation of the documents?\n\nMr. Mongan.—It did not strike me at the time, but it did some time afterwards.\n\nAttorney General.—When?\n\n(150)\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes.\n\nI think all papers taken out were put back when examination was made.\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes.\n\nAttorney General.—You have rooms upstairs as well as down,\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes.\n\nAttorney General.—Now I will read you your deposition. (to Court)—Your Lordship will take—You had read this article in the China Mail (reads).——that down—That's a new fact—Are you sure of that?\n\n\"An alarm, groundless we believe, seems to prevail among the public, and especially the Chinese port that through a mistaken leniency on the part of Sir John Bowring, the convict Ma-chow Wong may be again let loose on the community.\n\nGovernment must be too well aware of the antecedents of this \"highly respectable\" and \"very ill-used\" individual, to permit him even a chance of escape. The books of the firm found in his shop are of themselves, we are told, quite sufficient to justify his deportation under Ordinance No. 2 of 1857, for they prove a direct communication with the mandarins, and especially with a lieutenant of the notorious Chan-kwai-chih. They also shew the purchase of such immense quantities—thousands of dollars' worth of munitions of war, including gunpowder, shot, guns, muskets, shields, stinkpots, &c., as could by no possibility have been employed for any purpose but that of piracy. He is there shewn also to have been connected in some manner with the robbery of Silk from Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s godowns, and to have likewise taken an active share in recovering pirate-vessels seized by H. M. ships-of-war. He has, besides, engaged extensively in a slave trade carried on in the Straits; and is shewn to have advanced money to, and actually assisted in the escape of, pirates. He seems to have been the universal agent in all matters connected with the defence of criminals, and the sums of money disbursed in the shape of lawyer's fees are enormous; in fact, one would almost be inclined to consider him the authorized protector of Chinese miscreants of every kind. Some money transactions with foreigners are referred to in his books, and others we warrant, of which for the present we will say no more, than merely to state, that in the \"gold-dust robbery alone,\" a sum of about $1000 out of $40,000 was recovered, and ordered to be handed over to the poor unfortunates from whom it had been stolen, and that its distribution was somehow made through Ma-chow Wong. How much stuck to his fingers, we cannot say; but we are assured that only about one-half reached those for whom it was intended, and that even that sum was not fairly distributed.\n\nWe have no means now of ascertaining particulars of his numerous appearances in public, but besides his having to disgorge $20 which he had extorted from a poor Chinawoman just returned from California, and the particulars of which will be found in the China Mail of February 15 and 24, 1853, we know that in 1847 he and several others were tried at the Supreme Court for breaking into the store of Mr Hall, and stealing children's wearing apparel, stationery, &c. Some of the clothing was afterwards offered to Mrs Clifton for sale, and this led to the apprehension of a man, who stated that he received the articles from Ma-chow Wong. The house of the latter was searched and other portions of the stolen property found under his bed; nevertheless he escaped conviction—for even in those days he had a friend in the council. From that time until he became fat upon his ill-gotten gains, Ma-chow Wong was considered as the orbit round which the satellites of plunder revolved, and to him as the centre of attraction came the booty. He became the recognized head of the turbulent class of Chinese people, and a man of might and power for evil; and even held subordinate situations under government, such as that of Tepo of Shek-pai-wan, from which he was summarily ousted by Mr Hillier in 1853.\n\nAttorney General.—Well, was there not enough space in those offices to accommodate such documents for a few weeks, until Mr Wade's return?\n\nMr Mongan.—There may have been.\n\nAttorney General.—There may have been. Why quibble in this way? You know there was ample room.\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes, certainly there was room to have accommodated them 'till Mr Wade came back.\n\nCourt.—There was room.\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes, my Lord, I suppose there was.\n\nAttorney General.—Did it not occur to you, during examination of those books, as something strange that you should be directed only to assist Mr Caldwell?!\n\nMr Mongan.—I knew nothing about Ma-chow Wong at that time—It may have appeared singular. Very likely I thought it singular.\n\nAttorney General.—You, a gentleman of your attainments, to assist the man who was affected by the libel in the Mail...\n\nMr Mongan.—I dare say it did occur to me then, and I know it occurs to me now.\n\nAttorney General.—Very well, that is all I want to know. You see the letter begins \"Mr Caldwell has been directed to make the translation—you to assist\"—and then the Chief Magistrate to send. \"What seal was it on those packages?\n\nMr Mongan.—I am not sure what seal was on them—\n\nAttorney General.—They were sealed, you say—you must know what kind of a seal it was.\n\nMr Mongan.—I do not mean to be positive about it.\n\nAttorney General.—When you sent them to Mr Wade, do you not remember what stamp was on them?\n\nMr Mongan.—No.\n\nAttorney General.—But you do not remember any stamp?\n\nMr Mongan.—At no time do I remember what stamp was on the wax.\n\nAttorney General.—Have you not sworn that the suspicious documents would not take up more than half a cubic foot?\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes, I have sworn so—I mean that if all the suspicious documents had been collected together they would not measure more altogether than half a cubic foot.\n\nAttorney General.—You were examined twice by the Caldwell Commission.\n\nMr. Mongan.—Yes—once on the 23d of June.\n\nAttorney General.—And with exception of a slight discrepancy, the 30th of September for 29th of September, you swore, at the Police Court, to the truth of those depositions.\n\nMr Mongan.—I did.\n\nAttorney General.—Well, what made you alter that statement at the Police Court—why those corrections?\n\nMr Mongan.—I know that I received the books the day after the letter forwarding them—I thought so—I had not the letter before me.\n\nAttorney General.—The letter is dated the 28th—What made you think this?—What induced you to correct?\n\nMr Mongan.—On referring to my memorandum book I found that I received the papers on the 30th.\n\nAttorney General.—You read the article in the China Mail?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248611, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 214, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "(6)\n\nBay, and have their domestic offices properly at their rear, or so far at the side as not to be a nuisance and an obstruction.\n\nSo much for access to the Praya through the back door, instead of the front. And now for a fair consideration of the Praya itself, as conducing to the convenience or embellishment of Central Victoria.\n\nOne.\n\nThe undersigned affirms of this work, and calls upon His Excellency, with all respect, to cause the Surveyor General to report upon the following asseverations regarding it, for the guidance of the Secretary of State, that within the short distance of one-half mile, forming the entire frontage of Central Victoria, say from Pedder's Wharf to Circular Buildings, the proposed Praya must pass over every Culvert and main Sewer, both of the upper and the lower town, at their very outfall, and raised nowhere at a higher level than ten feet above that outfall, and its reeking odours at low tide, in a tropical latitude.\n\nThat during the whole working day, the said Praya must be the platform of a busy traffic in the frequent transit of foreign merchandise across it, to or from the European Godowns and numerous Ship-chandleries, and in the unceasing transit of native merchandise to and from the numerous Chinese Bazaars and the China town proper, known as Bonham Strand, and further, in the constant unlading of Provision Boats at the Central and Western Markets, abutting upon the Praya.\n\nThat several of these Chinese Bazaars, and lines of Chinese Hongs, abut, either gablewards or rearwards, upon the future Praya, and are already built out to the last available foot within the Praya line.\n\nThat immediately upon this inner line, are situated the Cesspools, the Public Privies and Urinals, of a densely populated Chinese Quarter, and that the same are thus placed, and are being completed at this moment under Government inspection, from the sheer impossibility of placing them anywhere else, with due regard to sanitary considerations.\n\nSuch constructions however on the Marine Parade, embellishing the City of Victoria, as viewed by Lord Stanley, are, to say the least, a novel supplement either abroad or at home.\n\nIf the foregoing averments be true, the undersigned can come to no other conclusion, than that the Bowring Praya along Central Victoria can never prove other than a crowded and bustling 50 feet gangway, fit for wharf purposes, and for no other purposes whatsoever.\n\nThe undersigned is quite willing to concede to this portion of the proposed work, viz., the centre, a high degree of usefulness under certain limitations, which he will explain by and by. What he challenges is, the opinion that it will conduce to the embellishment of the City of Victoria, or to the healthful recreation of its European inhabitants.\n\nThe undersigned has already protested against its extension Eastward or Westward, and now proceeds to exhibit the grounds of his objection.\n\nUnder the peculiar aspect which the sea-shore buildings took at the first projection of the City of Victoria, some sixteen years ago, fronting south instead of north, a line of Road, known as the Queen's Road, was formed on their south frontages.\n\nThis Road, constituting the highway and main thoroughfare of the Island, runs due east and west, the entire length of the City.\n\nNow it does so happen, unfortunately for the claims of the Bowring Praya, that if ever constructed at all, it must run parallel or nearly so with this complete and perfect road under the following extraordinary circumstances.\n\nThe undersigned affirms, that the new road cannot be, at any one point throughout its line, (reserving Bonham Strand,) more than 100 yards distant from the old one—throughout a great portion of the line not one-half that distance, while at several points of it, the two roads must come into actual contact!\n\nThe only difference between the two would thus be, that the new one would be on the sea-beach,—the old one 100 yards inshore from it.\n\nThe undersigned conceives that he has only to state the position of two highways running nearly parallel to, and within 100 yards of each other—both upon the same level or nearly so throughout—both starting from the same point and leading to the same terminus,—to establish an anomaly in road-engineering, which requires some special apology.\n\nThe undersigned expresses himself content with the old road for all useful purposes, and refuses to buy a new one 100 yards nearer the sea, at a cost of £33,452 per mile, especially when the Colonial chest has not funds to construct the first half mile of it, after the appropriations of 8th December last, and even under the exclusion of all other Public Works.\n\nThe undersigned requests that His Excellency will be pleased to cause the Surveyor General to report upon the foregoing averments, for the guidance of the Secretary of State; the Report (with a ground plan shewing the two Roads), to include the difference of level per mile throughout the line, and with a scale to measure the distance between the two lines at such points as may strike the reader.\n\nOn the foregoing grounds the undersigned protests against the extension of the Praya line, eastward or westward, beyond the points he now proceeds to submit.\n\nThe undersigned is of opinion, that a Causeway at the water-line, which shall connect Webster's Bazaar with Gilman's Bazaar, embracing the Central Market, and the numerous Chinese alleys which have so unfortunately grown up in the very heart of the Foreign Quarter, constituting a standing danger to it, is a work preeminently necessary, both for sanitary and Police purposes, and to secure access for the engines in cases of fire.\n\nFurther, that a Causeway extending from Gibb's Pier to Robert's Shipyard, and thus embracing the entire China town, is necessary on the same grounds, as well as for facilitating the traffic of that quarter.\n\nBoth these sections are at this moment in course of construction, and the undersigned, on the 8th day of December last, voted funds towards completing them.\n\nBut beyond these sections, on either side, the undersigned protests against any disturbance of the existing Water-ways, every separate Establishment having a Pier of its own, of solid masonry, on the proposed Praya level and scale of construction, thus leaving nothing to be desired on the score of sanitary consideration.\n\nHe protests upon the grounds that, to throw all these private Piers into one by a connecting Causeway, is not only unnecessary and a waste of the Public funds, but involves a breach of that privacy of each separate House, which was bought and bargained for in the original contract.\n\nShould it be supposed that such a Causeway would public convenience,\" the undersigned would ask, In what respect?\n\nThe only conceivable respect would be, that of providing more numerous Landing-places.\n\nTo this the undersigned rejoins, that within the space of 500 yards, forming the entire European Frontage of Central Victoria, there are already no less than three Government Wharves, three open Bazaar Wharves (thoroughfares for all classes) and four Private Wharves, open to all Europeans,—thus giving one Landing-place to every 50 yards.\n\nWith new Piers thrown out from the Government and Bazaar Wharves, nothing would remain to be desired.\n\nThat such a Causeway would not contribute to the convenience of the Marine Lot Holders, whose Lease-hold rights are at stake, is abundantly proved by the fact, that instead of asking for it as a boon, they, one and all, resist it as a trespass.\n\nC\n\nLastly. The undersigned would commend to the serious consideration of His Excellency and this Honourable Council, the critical state of the Colonial Finances.\n\nIt is happily true they are free and unembarrassed at this moment, but to keep them so, and to bear out the cautious advice of Lord Stanley, is the difficulty.\n\nThe Colonial Revenue is balanced by the expenditure to such a nicety, that the failure of any one principal source of Revenue must almost necessarily beget a deficit on the year's transactions, the very last year's expenditure having actually exceeded the income.\n\nThere are no less than 28 separate sources of Revenue on the Treasurer's Books, all of which are unsecured and fluctuating, save one, the Land-rental; so that\n\n(7)\n\n210", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258630, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "content_text": "Mern 3. Forms the Praya at the termination of Thea Lane next Lot 1/4, also with a double frontage.\n\nItem 41. Provides for the formation of the Praya Tower Bazaar in front of a Section of M. Lot N.3, it commences from the edge of the Section 6 to Bonham Strand Causeway and extends to the rear thereof to the Praya of lower Bazaar near the Water Police Boat Station, then continues being in conjunction with the Tenants of Mr. Lotos-formers 80 to 89 inclusive, she having partially built on their portion at different periods and by different contractors, has caused the whole order to be impossible for me to approve of it. The Tenants arranged to rebuild the whole line under one contract, this work having to be done according to their rates in common accord.\n\nItem 5. Mr. Borington's portion of the Praya has been formed at such a low level that it necessitates raising it by two feet over a length of 300 feet, the coping stones will be re-laid and the line finishes with a parapet.\n\nForward\n\nb21b\n\n1200\n\n$ 7416\n\n- \n164", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259767, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 417, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "47:\n\n413\n\n*(Copy)\n\nPolice Department\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nAugust, 3rd 1864.\n\nSpecial Report of Birney.\n\nCheong ah Tak - a Tradu.\n\nreports that\n\non the 8th July last he\n\ntook passage from Hainam on board a trading boat named Cum Shun Wah belonging to Wah See Hong, shop-keeper in Bonham Strand West, who accompanied\n\n[...]\n\nPolice Station and\n\ninformants to the\n\n[...] confirmed the report respecting the defend\n\nand Cargo:\n\nThe Honorable\n\n[...] befol\n\nhe stated that the boat han\n\nThe Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259772, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 422, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "26.\n\n27.\n\n418\n\nLieut. Walker R.N. to Senior Naval Officer Hongkong.\n\nThe pirates have recently become so bold as to chase native traders to the very mouth of the harbour, and that their vessels were so swift, and daring, that the Chinese Senior Naval officer had declared his utter inability to cope with them.\n\nI have, &c., (Signed.) M. S. Nolloth\n\nCaptain and Senior Naval Officer.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nR. M. Martin\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nHongkong, 4th August 1851\n\nI have the honor to make the following report of proceedings in search of pirates who had attacked, off Collinson, a large junk and valuable cargo belonging to a Shopkeeper of Bonham Strand, Victoria, after being seized,\n\nCaptain M. S. Nolloth\n\nH.M.S. Princess Charlotte,\n\nSenior Officer,\n\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261527, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "## Special Report of Piracy\n\nThe informant, a seaman on board the \"Seek-cheong-hing\", a large cargo boat owned by the proprietors of Hee-teng-hong, Bonham Strand, reports that on the 3rd instant, he left this place bound to Swatow with a crew consisting of 24 men, also 2 women and passengers, having a cargo of 28 chests of Manila goods on board.\n\nThe crew made their escape by jumping overboard and swimming ashore when pirates alongside suval nuwes shots at them, and boarded another boat, took her under hatches, and sailed his boat away to Oust Row, an island where they came to anchor. The \"Laur\" and 3 others arrived on the 4th instant. Informant and crew returned to Hongkong last evening. Informant is ready to identify the pirate boat and its crew.\n\n### Details of the Incident\n\n| Category | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Boat and Cargo | Seek-cheong-hing, 28 chests of Manila goods |\n| Crew and Passengers | 24 men, 2 women, passengers |\n\nTo the Captain Superintendent.\n\nPolice Department, \n20th January 1865 \n\nThe Honorable \nColonial Secretary \n\n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present in the original text, hence not included.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261528, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "## 6. Gangs Chinese Pirates.\n\nOn the 11th instant when near Kap-shui-mun, lying at anchor about 10 o'clock in the morning, 4 large junks were observed cruising. They bore about 40 men each and on nearing, and when within gunshot, the boats opened fire which was at the same time returned by the junk attacked. This succeeded in keeping them off for five hours, after which having several men killed and several others wounded, the boat in which informant was, surrendered to the pirates - who boarded sword in hand throwing ... a dozen or more were killed and several others wounded when informant with another who accompanied him, jumped overboard and escaped to the shore. They then with the aid of a small fishing boat made their way back to Hong Kong where they arrived this morning. Informant with his companion, also a seaman on board the captured vessel, can identify the four pirate boats and several of the pirates. This statement as far as relates to the boat and cargo is confirmed by several Chinese Merchants residing in Bonham Strand. The Value of Boat and Cargo $305,000.\n\n**Captain Superintendent.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261537, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "233 \n\nthe 9th instant. When sailing near Kowloon men sawage on the 18th instant he was attacked by a large Junk manned by a Piratical Boat containing about 30 men, who opened a fire of Muskets, wounding severely one of the Crew, a lascar, bearded, placed the men at the hatches, transferred several of the crew to the Pirate boat, which the hatches were opened, a merchant in Bonham Strand confirms this report.\n\n(signed) A. Lulin, Captain Superintendent.\n\n(True Copies) Colonial Secretary.\n\n...vessel liberated and allowed to sail away, which they did and arrived in Hong Kong this morning. More than 10 men were at the Pirate Boat. The owner of the cargo was Leong-ah-chuck, of the Pirates Teong... Leong-ah-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262043, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "## Surveyor General to submit report and plan?\n\nDrive Extract\n\n> 212\n\nW. A. Alexand \nActing Colonial Secretary \nfor construction of \nBonham Strand Sea Wall to at \n\nCopy of Endorsement by \nHercules Robinson \nSir, \naccepted Tender \non payment of contributions \nby Tenants. \n**(Signed) H. G. R. R.** \n8/8/65 \n813165.\n\n(True copy) \nWales \nActing Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262556, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "page_number": 158, "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "content_text": "155\n\nA morning of the said they when on passage Ainan. At Chin Lau it was about 8 o'clock he was attacked by 6 piratical boats, carrying about 30 men.\n\nOn approaching they all fired fire and open cannon - they then bore down bounded with armuus.\n\nCarys has been verified by ah. That of the Sunnan bring Shop in Bonham Strand is the cover of Opium.\n\n(Signed) Mom que.\nCaptain Superintendent\n\nThe informant and 7 of the crew got into a small fishing boat when they landed at Chin Lau- the other 7 of his crew were put into another small boat but the informant does not know what became of them. Value of the boat and Cargo about $4,577.\n\nThe informant can identify the 6 boats and several of the Pirates.\n\nThis Report relating to the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262564, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "content_text": "74.\n\nR163\n\nabout who should have the boot, when another lot of better disposed people in the same town compelled them to let Informant sail his boat after the first party had taken away 1 Cannon. Informant sailed away last arriving in Army Kong in the evening about 6 o'clock. Value of Cargo and property taken away $20,000. Can identify about 10 of the Pirates. Informant further reports that when going round for the purpose of informing Merchants who had Cargo on board about the Siracy, observed one of the Pirates walking on Bonham Strand, and whom he immediately gave report and is now in custody of the police.\n\n& is confirmed by the different Merchants who had Cargo on board at the time of plunder.\n\n(Signed) Mom Quin \nCaptain Superintendent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262725, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "page_number": 327, "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n\n### No. 13.-WORKS AND BUILDINGS\n\n* New Gaol on Stone Cutters' Island;— Proposed Cost, as per Supplementary Report and Estimate No. 5 of 1862\n* Probable expenditure up to 31st December, 1865\n* Proposed to be expended in 1866\n* Gas at Government House and improvements to Garden\n* Water supply from the Eastward\n* Trainway for Earthwork 1 mile in length\n* Miscellaneous Works\n* Repairs to Buildings\n* Maintenance of Public Gardens\n* Maintenance of Water Works\n* Expenses of Clock Tower\n* Planting Trees\n* Draining Wongneichoong Valley\n* Kowloon, Government Bungalow\n* Reclaiming Ground at Bowrington\n* New Survey of Victoria\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| | $309,648.00 |\n| | $45,000.00 |\n| | $35,000.00 |\n| Gas at Government House and improvements to Garden | $35,000.00 |\n| Water supply from the Eastward | |\n| Trainway for Earthwork 1 mile in length | $3,500.00 |\n| Miscellaneous Works | $12,000.00 |\n| Repairs to Buildings | $12,000.00 |\n| Maintenance of Public Gardens | $3,500.00 |\n| Maintenance of Water Works | $7,000.00 |\n| Expenses of Clock Tower | $2,000.00 |\n| Planting Trees | $2,000.00 |\n| Draining Wongneichoong Valley | $600.00 |\n| Kowloon, Government Bungalow | $10,000.00 |\n| Reclaiming Ground at Bowrington | |\n| New Survey of Victoria | $103,100.00 |\n| **TOTAL** | |\n\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n\n### No. 14.—ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Repairs to Praya Wall, Victoria | $2,000.00 |\n| Do. to Roads out of Victoria | $8,000.00 |\n| Do. to Streets in Victoria | $1,000.00 |\n| Widening and improving Quarry Bay Road | $2,500.00 |\n| Alterations and Repairs of Culverts and Drains in Victoria and Suburbs | $5,000.00 |\n| Surface Drains | $3,000.00 |\n| Repairs to do. | $500.00 |\n| Do. and Alterations to Bridges out of Victoria | $1,000.00 |\n| Formation of Drains and Streets in Sowkewan | $2,000.00 |\n| Road and Street Contingencies | $2,000.00 |\n| Miscellaneous Services, Hongkong, $500, Stone Cutters' Island, $500, Kowloon, $500 | $1,500.00 |\n| Roads and Streets in Victoria and Suburbs | $5,000.00 |\n| Landing Steps at Kowloon, Report and Estimate 33 of 1884 | $5,000.00 |\n| Extension of Praya Bonham Strand, Supplementary Report and Estimate 22 of 1865 | $15,011.70 |\n| Probable Expenditure in 1865 | $5,011.70 |\n| | $10,000.00 |\n| Roads in Kowloon | $6,000.00 |\n| Completion of Praya between Harbour Master's Office and Cantonments | $10,000.00 |\n| **TOTAL** | $59,500.00 |\n\n### No. 15.-MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Portrait of H. M. the Queen for Government House | $720.00 |\n| Commission to Crown Agents (£360 at probable average of exchange) | $1,100.00 |\n| Allowance to Volunteers | $936.00 |\n| Do. to Adjutant of Volunteers | $960.00 |\n| Ammunition for Volunteers | $500.00 |\n| Other Miscellaneous Services | $1,750.00 |\n| | $5,986.00 |\n| **TOTAL** | |\n\n### No. 16.-INTEREST\nNil.\n\n### No. 17.-LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED\n\n### No. 18.-MILITARY CONTRIBUTION\n\n* Contribution to Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, (£20,000 at probable average of exchange)\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| | $92,000.00 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262760, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "page_number": 362, "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "content_text": "359 \n\nto state what they would do the work for, and I have little hesitation in estimating that with the use of a Tramway which could be taken up or laid down as required, the cost may be reduced by one half where the haul is over 1000 feet. It should also be borne in mind that during many months it is impossible to cart earthwork either with baskets or wheelbarrows, whereas with wagons on rails, the work to the Praya and the extension at Bonham Strand could not in any way be impeded.\n\nI forward this Estimate now with the hope that His Excellency will be pleased. I include the estimate in the Estimate of 1864 with a view to reclaiming in the first instance the area at Possession Point which was at one time set apart for \"Reclamation Garden.\"\n\nI have, &c., \n(signed) W. Wilson, \nActing Surveyor General\n\nThe difficulty in getting the Kowloon tenants to execute the earthwork required in reclaiming their lots shows it is the better way for my Department to execute the work and charge the Tenants the same as is now being done in such regard.\n\nINDEX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 263638, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865", "content_text": "## request Bond\n\nthat this may be retained in the custody of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury with other Bonds from Colonial Offices.\n\nDann & IR\n\nS\n\n47 \n11398.90 \n6568.\n\nFor? inf$ 20. /304-2 Aug /15/ \n26 \nSu.\n\nyenq trong trong\n\nCO \nJULY 28 1865 \n337 \nTreasury Chambers.\n\nto \n27 July 1865- \n2014 \n\nIn reply to your letter of Rolls Estate, \nI am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary Cardwell, that they will not object to the expenditure provided for in the estimate for the extension of the Praya at Bonham Strand, Hong Kong, amounting \n\nin I Ropes Bart.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265499, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4]", "page_number": 418, "title": "CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4]", "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n\n## WORKS AND BUILDINGS,—Continued.\n\n### SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n\n#### WORKS AND BUILDINGS,-Continued.\n\n414\n\nBrought forward,.. $115,982.48\n\nC. f.\n\n#### NEW GAOL ON STONE CUTTERS ISLAND:--\n\nProposed cost, as per Sup. Rep. & Est. No. 5 of 1862, .$ 99,648.00\nExpended to 31st December, 1864, .$ 19,885.45\nEstimated Expenditure for 1865, .§ 25,000.00\n\n#### MISCELLANEOUS WORKS:---\n\nEstimated Expenditure for 1865, $ 30,554.35\nActual do. do., .$ 2,500.00\nAmount to be voted,.. .$ 5,088.09\nActual do. do., $ 2,538.00\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Brought forward,.. | $144,543.24 |\n| Amount to be voted, | $147,081.93 |\n\n#### POST OFFICE:-\n\nProposed cost, as per Sup. Rep. & Est. No. 28 of 1864, .$ 20,841.26\nExpended up to 31st December, 1864, .$ 3,405.00\nEstimated Expenditure for 1865, .$ 10,841.00\nActual do. do., .$ 16,413.67\nAmount to be voted,.. $ 5,572.67\n\n#### CARRIAGE ROAD TO SOWKEWAN\n\nProposed cost, as per Rep. & Est. No. 12 of 1864, .$ 2,500.00\nExpended to 31st December, 1864, .$ 1,750.00\nDo. in 1865, $ 590.00\nAmount to be voted,.. $ 590.00\n\n#### Two SCHOOL HOUSES IN VICTORIA:-\n\nProposed cost, as per Rep. & Est. No. 4 of 1864,. .$ 9,708.11\nExpended to 31st December, 1864, $ 4,990.50\nDo. in 1865, .$ 4,700.00\nAmount to be voted,.. $ 4,700.00\n\n#### ERECTION OF GAS LAMPS --\n\nProposed cost, as per Sup. Rep. & Est. No. 32 of 1864, .$ 13,000.00\n\n#### PRAYA EXTENSION ON BONHAM STRAND:-\n\n#### PRAYA AND LANDING PIERS AT KOWLOON :——\n\nProposed cost, as per Rep. & Est. No. 33 of 1864, Estimated Expenditure for 1865, .$ 11,440.00\nActual do., .$ 5,000.00\nExpended to 31st December, 1864, .$ 5,172.00\nDo. in 1865,.. .$ 172.00\n\n#### COMPLETION OF PUBLIC GARDEN ---\n\nProposed cost, as per Sup. Rep. & Est. No. 26 of 1864, $ 15,643.98\nEstimated Expenditure for 1865, .$ 14,887.20\nActual do. do., $ 756.00\nAmount to be voted,....... .$ 14,131.20\n\n#### MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES :--\n\nProposed cost, as per Rep. & Est. No. 22 of 1865,. .$15,011.70\nExpended in 1865,.. .$ 5,881.20\nExpended to 31st December, 1864, .$ 2,000.00\nDo. in 1865,.. .$ 2,824.37\n\n#### MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC GARDEN:-\n\nEstimated Expenditure for 1865,. Expended under Rep. & Est. No. 6 of 1865, .$ 2,000.00\nDo. do. $ 2,000.00\n\n#### REPAIRS TO BUILDINGS:\n\nEstimated Expenditure for 1865, No. 25 do., .$ 721.16\nExpended under Rep, & Est. No. 5 of 1865,.. $ 721.10\nEstimated Expenditure for 1865, No. 23 and 26 of 1865, .$ 7,000,00\nDo. do. .$ 6,968.47\nAmount to be voted,.. .$ 6,994,50\n\n#### LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED.\n\nCompensation for Chinese claims on Kowloon, under Article 6 of Convention of Peking, $ 4,274.48\nCompensation for Land, in the neighbourhood of the Mint, resumed by the Crown, $ 2,132.84\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| | 600.00 |\n| | 1,472.84 |\n| | 4,268.98 |\n\n144,543.24\n\nCarried forward,..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265590, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Minute by the Acting Governor\n\nBut the above is written on the understanding that the ground in question is no more than Section D of Lot 84, and that the tenant of the chop is not unduly interfered with. Mr. W. does not show that there is one shop and one for the premises, but there is receiving, for which we are, I think, $40 a month. Further particulars are required.\n\n(Signed) I.S.M.\n17/8/63\n\n## Minute by the Acting Surveyor General\n\nThe plan is the Extension of Sect. D of M. Lot 83 to which R.R. refers, and is on the other side of Bonham Strand. It was reclaimed by Government and has never been built upon; no rent has been received for it.\n\n(Signed) W.W.\nA.S.G.\n17/8/63\n\n## Minute by the Acting Governor\n\nI perceive that not only an opinion of the Crown Solicitor for 83 is required. What amount of compensation should we have to give to the owner of the Privy? and what is the value (in probable premium and fixed annual rental) of the ground proposed to be let?\n\nPage 60\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269218, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2]", "page_number": 401, "title": "CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2]", "content_text": "OFFICE OF SURVEYOR GENERAL\n\nESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE NECESSARY TO BE INCURRED FOR\n\nin Victoria-\n\nPLAN OR DESCRIPTION.\n\n(Art. of Instns, No. 38.)\n\nREPORT AND ESTIMATE No. // OF 1867.\n\nSurface Drawings -\n\nDATED\n\n8. January 1867.\n\nPARTICULARS.\n\nMATERIALS TO BE PURCHASED.\n\nMATERIALS TO BE ISSUED FROM Store.\n\nPORTION OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED BY CONTRACT.\n\nTOTAL,\n\nNew side channels are generally laid in the streets. Drain with Curb As soon as the adjoining Buildings are commenced, having Chamfered During the present year propose laying surface drains laid Complete on the new Praya between Bonham Strand West Praya Bonhamstrand and Messr. Sibbs' Wharf - also behind the new sea-wall now completed in front of the Praya in the Neighbourhood of Spring Gardens, Dr. Bonham's Gardens, Graham Road round Inland Lot-332., \"On Robinson Road 500 ft lin @357 below Inland Lot-645, and in Various other places where Circumstances make the formation of the same necessary.\n\nThe usual size for surface Drains is 1' 6\" or 1'9\" in width with 1'6\" in height.\n\n \n \n \n $\n C.\n \n \n 430 ft lin say wellaneous\n \n 1000\n \n ft @\n 357\n \n \n \n \n 490\n \n \n \n \n \n 175\n \n \n \n Catchwater Drains\n \n 1757-\n \n \n \n for pavings. 1000 Corliss\n @\n 201\n \n \n \n \n \n 200\n \n \n \n Casualties....\n \n 15\n \n \n \n TOTAL,..\n \n $2000\n \n \n\nThis Report and Estimate provides also, Catchwater Drains which are opened out as required.\n\nThe sum voted for this service during the present Year is $ 2,000\n\nApproved,\n\n(Signed) PR. Muck onn\n\nGovernor.\n\nSurveyor General.\n\nT 399", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269220, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2]", "page_number": 403, "title": "CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2]", "content_text": "OFFICE OF SURVEYOR GENERAL\n\n(Art. of Ingons, No. 38.)\n\nESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE NECESSARY TO BE INCURRED For Repairs to Praya.\n\nWall in Victoria.\n\nREPORT AND ESTIMATE No. // OF 1867,\n\nDATED 17 January 1867.\n\n \n PLAN OR DESCRIPTION.\n LABOUR.\n MATERIALS TO BE PURCHASED.\n MATERIALS TO BE ISSUED FROM STORES.\n PORTION OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED BY CONTRACT.\n TOTAL.\n \n \n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n\nDuring the past year Praya Wall has been constructed from Bonham strand west to Moss Street fall at end of wharf; and also in front of the Plaza from Farm Middle Free to the government wharf. Both these portions of work are very substantially constructed and employed in Repairs likely to last without repair for many years.\n\nThe Praya wall west of Western Market has not yet been completed, it is however in course of construction, a length of 310 feet at the end of Middle Bazaar Street will be built by the Government.\n\nGreat inconvenience has been experienced especially during the last few months from the sea having washed through the interstices in the old sea wall many times, and thus undermined the adjoining ground causing large holes which cannot be seen until a horse puts its foot through them. By backing new sea walls with Concrete this difficulty will doubtless be overcome in future.\n\nThe repair of Piers, Wharves, and Landing Places also comes under this Report and Estimate. The new wall at end of Michelle Street will be constructed by Contract; all repairs must be made by daily labor or measured work.\n\nThe total is the same as last year $2,000.\n\nApproved,\n\nJoshua R. G. MacDonnell\n\nGovernor.\n\n \n Casualties,...\n $980\n \n \n ...\n $493\n \n \n C.\n $370\n \n \n ...\n $401\n \n \n TOTAL,......\n ...\n \n\nSurveyor General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269702, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "content_text": "No. 57.\n\nIn 597\n\n321\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,\n\nThe following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the 16th Instant at Noon, are published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th April, 1867.\n\nParticulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Tuesday, the 16th day of April 1867 by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of a certain Lot of Crown Land in the Colony of Hongkong for a term of 999 Years.\n\nPARTICULARS OF THE LOT.\n\n \n No. OF SALE\n REGIS-TRY Lor. No.\n LOCALITY.\n BOUNDARY MEASUREMENT.\n CONTENTS IN SQUARE FEET.\n ANNUAL RENTAL\n N.\n $.\n E.\n W.\n Whether Crown Lease to be subject to any one of the Special Covenants of Schedule B.\n \n \n 1\n \n Bonham Strand.\n 180 188 150 1271\n 26,483\n $460.90\n \n \n \n \n Covenants 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Schedule B.\n \n\nCONDITIONS OF SALE\n\n1. The highest bidder above an upset price of $66,200 shall be the Purchaser and if any dispute arise the Lot shall be put up again at a former bidding.\n\n2. No person shall at any bidding advance less than $100.\n\n9. Immediately after the fall of the hammer the Purchaser shall sign the Memorandum of Agreement hereinafter contained for completing the purchase according to these conditions, and shall within three days of the day of Sale pay into the Colonial Treasury the amount of Premium at which the Lot shall have been knocked down.\n\n4. The Purchaser of the Lot shall be entitled to and shall execute on demand a Lease from the Crown of the Piece or Parcel of ground comprised in such Lot for 999 years, to be computed from the 24th day of June 1867 at such Annual Rental payable half yearly on the 24th day of December and the 24th day of June in every year as is specified in the particulars of such Lot hereinbefore contained, and such Crown Lease shall be subject to and contain all the Exceptions, Reservations, Covenants, Clauses and Conditions usually inserted in the Crown Leases of Inland Lots in the Colony of Hongkong and contained in the Printed Form of Crown Lease mentioned in Schedule A annexed hereto and also such Special Covenants an abstract whereof is annexed hereto in Schedule B as have reference to this particular Lot.\n\n5. The Purchaser of the Lot if a Body Corporate shall execute the Lease under its common Seal, or in such manner and form as the Law Officer of the Crown may advise.\n\n6. The Purchaser of the Lot shall pay to the Surveyor General a Fee of $5 upon the execution of the Crown Lease thereof.\n\n7. Should the Purchaser neglect or fail to comply with any or either of these conditions his Premium shall immediately upon such neglect or failure become forfeited to Her Majesty who shall be at full liberty either to enforce the sale or to re-sell the Property at such time and place and in such manner as to Her Majesty shall seem fit, and in case of a re-sale the increase if any of the Premium or Purchase Money shall be retained by Her Majesty and the deficiency if any and all costs and expenses shall be made good by the Defaulter and be recoverable as liquidated damages.\n\n8. Possession of the Lot sold shall be given to the Purchaser and deemed to have been taken by him on the 24th day of June, 1867.\n\n9. The Breach of any or either of the Special Covenants an abstract whereof is contained in Schedule B shall be attended with a like right of re-entry on the part of Her Majesty as is vested in Her in respect of the Breach of the ordinary Covenants.\n\nSCHEDULE A.\n\nThe Printed Form of Crown Lease referred to in Section of the foregoing Conditions of Sale can be inspected on application at the Surveyor General's Office previously to the Sale.\n\nSCHEDULE B.\n\nAbstract of Special Covenants referred to in the foregoing Conditions of Sale.\n\n1. The Purchaser of the Lot shall permit and suffer Her Majesty's Surveyor General and all workmen employed by him at all times after the giving of a notice in that behalf to enter upon the said Lot for the performance of the works hereinafter mentioned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271703, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "content_text": "# OFFICE OF SURVEYOR GENERAL\n## ESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE NECESSARY TO BE INCURRED in Victoria\n### PLAN OR DESCRIPTION, REPORT AND ESTIMATE No. 10 OF 1868\n#### DATED December 1867\n\n| PARTICULARS | MATERIALS TO BE PURCHASED | MATERIALS TO BE ISSUED FROM STORES | PORTION OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED BY CONTRACT | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Robinson Road 1500 feet | 360 | 750 | | |\n| Bonham Strand West 600 feet | 280 | 392 | | |\n| | | | | |\n\nAs Surface Drains or Side Channels are gradually being laid throughout the city, the custom being to lay them as soon as adjoining lots are built upon, it is not anticipated that many buildings will be erected during the ensuing year owing to the depressed state of Trade and of Building property in particular. There are however several places in which it is desirable to lay proper drains. The improvements about completion of the surface drainage are requisite, while on Bonham Strand West (lately the old Praya) their want is much felt. In Middle Street at the back of the Gas Works, the Road is constantly flooded during wet weather owing to the excavations which have lately been going on. On Battery Hill, where there has been lately an extensive Land slip, the formation of Drains is necessary on completion of the retaining wall, now being erected by the Tenant.\n\nThe sum voted for the service by the Council is $2000, the same as last year.\n\nApproved,\n**(Signed)** R. G. Mac Donnet\nGovernor.\n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Casualties | 242 |\n| **TOTAL** | **$2000** |\n\nMutiny\nSurveyor General.\n\nPage 260\n012241/68", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271769, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "page_number": 329, "title": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "content_text": "## Harbour Masters Department. Quarters for Inspectors etc:\n\n### BONHAM STRAND\n\n#### SOUTH ELEVATION\n\n#### EAST ELEVATION\n\nBeatmen's Quarters.\n\nBigatmen's Chartena Public Prob Lally\n\n#### GROUND FLOOR PLAN\n\n| Area | Description |\n|-------------|----------------------|\n| | Cook House |\n| NORTH | Fotonated |\n| EAST | wim Chuan Thr Bates 18′0′′ tony our diarister |\n\nI beli Briven.\n\n| Room | Description |\n|--------------|----------------------|\n| | Kitchen |\n| | Single Men's Quarters|\n| | Passage |\n| | Officer's Living Room|\n| | Bed Room |\n| | Verandah |\n\n#### 1ST FLOOR PLAN\n\n| Room | Description |\n|--------------|----------------------|\n| | Beth Moon |\n| | Bath Room |\n\n#### SECTION ON LINE A.B.\n\n| Room | Description |\n|--------------|----------------------|\n| | Married Men's Quarters|\n| | Kitchen |\n| | Bath Room |\n| | Passage |\n| | Bed Room |\n| | Sitting Room |\n\n#### 2ND FLOOR PLAN\n\nScale Her Man Harl \n\nBuzi Kami.. Foundak", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273721, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Enclosure. No 4\n\n**Governor**\n\nSir Richard Graves Macdonnell: Despatch. No. 469 of 24th March, 1868\n\n**Plan to accompany Report and Estimate No. 23 of 10th March 1868**\n\n## Enclosure in Desp. No. 469 of 24th March 1868.\n\n### SURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE FOR Sea Wall Bonham Strand\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Government share of ... | $26,000 |\n\nVictoria, 10 March 1868.\n\n## Supplementary REPORT AND ESTIMATE No. 23 of 1868.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273723, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 532, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Harbour of Victoria Proposed Extension of Praya\n### BONHAM STRAND SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT AND ESTIMATE No 223 OF 1868\n\nH.W.S.T. \nH.W.O.T. \nL.W.Q.T. \nL.W.S.T. \nSlope \n\n### SECTION No 1 \n### SECTION No 2 \n### SECTION No 3 \n### SECTION No 4 \n### SECTION No 5 \n### SECTION No 6 \n\nFoundation Spring it dicat Will on me Pet 2. Pulakh Chg wek, runned inde ister.\n\n### Foundations \n### No 7 \n\n| Section | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| H.W.S.T. | |\n| H.W.O.T. | |\n| L.W.Q.T. | |\n| L.W.S.T. | |\n| Slope | |\n\n### SECTION No 8 \nState 50 Ups to enj \nSection OSL Line A. Z. \nPlan of Cuging $0. \nPart Elevation of Wal. \nScale 4 Feet to one Inch \n\n| Page | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| 228 | |\n| 223 | |\n| 225 | |\n| J | 23 |\n| C | OR A 23 V C |\n| | 19 R 86 65. 3.4 |\n| | Soundings in Feet below Mean Low Level as Spanning Tiries also |\n\n### Harbor Master's Office\n\n| Measurement | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| A | R AR 37 25 37 32 |\n\nPage 223", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273726, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 535, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Forward\n\n| Description | Quantity | Cost |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Rebuilding Steps M Lot 37 A West side only | 85 ft lin | 100 |\n| Sea Wall Bonham Strand West... Rebuilding Steps at end of Bonham Strand West. Labor and Material | | 528 |\n| Resetting 200 ft lin: Parapet between Bonham Strand and Queen Street | | 200 |\n| 100 ft lin Sea Wall at end of Queen Street. Resetting Steps Toee Mee Alley West side only. Labor Material | | 1700 |\n| Rebuilding Steps Soi Noe Lane, both sides Labor Material | | 400 |\n| 70 ft lin Sea Wall, East of Eastin Street. Resetting Steps Eustin St one side only, Labor Material | | 30 |\n| 440 ft lin Sea Wall between Eastän St and Centre St | | 2000 |\n| Dr. Steps Mt. Lot 81. both sides Labor and Materials | | 100 |\n| Do Steps of Pier M. Lot 97 one side only Labor Material | | 400 |\n| Dr Steps M Lot 187 both sides Labor & Material | | 1400 |\n| 20 ft Lin Sea Wall, M. Lot 187 | | 100 |\n| Repairing Sea Wall M. Lot 198 Laber and Material | | 2200 |\n| Do Ne Lot 199 | | 200 |\n| | | 700 |\n| | | 200 |\n| | | 400 |\n| | | 2000 |\n| | | 20 |\n| **Total** | | **20660** |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274614, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "content_text": "# 243\n\nsống trong \n\nJ 537. \n\n7 July 1868.\n\n**Gverna** \nDuplicate \n\n## Materials required from England for the \"Surveyor General's Department\" to be sent out by the Crown Agents for the Colonies.\n\n| Materials | Approximate Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| 250 Baruls Portland Cement | £2255.3. |\n\nFor Richard Graves Macdonnell, \nHis Grace \nThe Duke of Buckingham chande \n\n## Sea Wall, Bonham Strand - Requisition for Portland cement for -\n\nM. l \nIntimit the Apports \nmordagh. \nglisse! The 17 \nм \nSechtslementary Sep: F′Est: ef′ 23 of 1868.\n\n**Approved.** \nRG Macdonnell \nGovernor \nHong Kong \n29th June 1868, \nMition \nSuweyor General.\n\n(2 Enclosures)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 275290, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9]", "page_number": 510, "title": "CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9]", "content_text": "## PIRACY. SPECIAL REPORT No. 21.\n\n129. 506. December 2, 1867.\n\nReceived at 5 o'clock on the 2nd day of December 1867.\n\nA junk was pirated near Bias Bay - also known as Hai Shan Kiang. The pirates took a quantity of clothing and $500.\n\nThe informant was released and told to obtain a ransom of $200 for the release of the junk. The pirates live at Cok Tsoy.\n\nFour men were identified and the informant can recognize them.\n\nThe informant was sent to Kowloon forthwith.\n\n(Signed) W. Dr. Deane, Acting Superintendent.\n\n### Details of the Junk\n\n| Category | Information |\n| --- | --- |\n| Name and Residence of Informer | Macao |\n| Name and Residence of Master | Mong Yeung, Tseung Cheung 光 (Yang Tseung Cheung) |\n| Name of Security and Residence | Jung Cha Meng Kwei |\n| Trades with | Fat Shop, Bonham Strand |\n| Name of Junk | \"Sak Nov\" |\n| From what Port | Chung Chow |\n| Bound to | Hong Kong |\n| Capacity | 800 piculs |\n| Cargo | Oranges |\n| Date of Attack | December 18, 1867 |\n| Place of Attack | Near Bias Bay |\n| Casualties | None |\n\n### Particulars\n\nAt 7 P.M. on the 18th, four fishing boats attacked the above junk and carried off property to the value of $500. The boats sailed towards Aberdeen and Stanley.\n\nPage 510\nPage 511", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 275874, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12]", "page_number": 446, "title": "CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12]", "content_text": "# OFFICE OF SURVEYOR GENERAL\n**(Art. of Instructions, No. 38)**\n\n## REPORT AND ESTIMATE No. 9 OF 1869\n\n### ESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE NECESSARY TO BE INCURRED FOR Surface Drains in Victoria\n\n#### PLAN OR DESCRIPTION\n\n| MATERIALS TO BE PURCHASED | PARTICULARS | LABOUR | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | It is proposed during the year 1869 to lay Granite Surface Drains complete new from Messrs Gilli's Wharf, under the Harbour Master's Office | | |\n| 1160 ft lin @ $3 | between the Harbour Master's Office and Messrs Gibb's Wharf | | |\n| 960 ft lin @ $3.4 | Bonham Strand East | | |\n| 1600 ft lin @ $6 | between Robinson Road | | |\n| 2000 | Sundry places | | |\n| 1000 ft lin @ $5 | required in various places along Robinson Road | | |\n\n#### MATERIALS TO BE PURCHASED\n\n$2000\n\n#### MATERIALS TO BE ISSUED FROM STORES\n\n$336\n\n#### PORTION OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED BY CONTRACT\n\n$750 + $500 = $1250\n\n#### TOTAL\n$4021.60\n\n### Casualties\n...\n\nApproved,\n**Richard Graves MacDonnell**\nGovernor,\n\n**Mectio**\nSurveyor General.\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277085, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "basin for the same $3000.\n\nNo 22 1868 for completion of \n\nalterations to Robinson Road \n\n$1000.\n\nNo23 1868. for Government-\n\nShare of rebuilding \n\nAlma Wall, \n\nBonham Strand $20,000.\n\nNo24, 1868 for repairs \n\nPraya and/or Wall West of Redman Wharf $25,000\n\nFor the information of the Secretary of State that My Lords will not object to the Condition \n\nthen Estimates on \n\nthat provision is made by the Council for the expense thereof \n\nthen.\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nPage 382", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277087, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 387, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "No. 20 of 1868 for erection of Fountain \n\nin Public Garden \n\nAnd Constructing basin \n\nfor the same \n\n$3000- \n\nNo. 28 of 1868 for \n\nCompletion of alterations \n\nto Robinson's Road \n\n$1000 - \n\nNo. 23 of 1868 for \n\nWest of Peddar's Wharf \n\n$25000- \n\nI have to \n\nConvey to you my \n\nLegislative \n\nEstimates on Condition that provision \n\nis made by the Legislative Council for the expenditure which they involve. \n\nGovernment share \n\nof \n\nRebuilding Sea Wall, \n\nBonham Strand \n\n$26000 - \n\nNo. 24 of 1868 for Expenses on Praya and Li-a-Gale", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278295, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "content_text": "304\n\nAgents unrestrained\n\nAmare & No. 91-\n\n21 Je\n\n869\n\nMy Lord,\n\nREC\n\nJULI\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong.\n\n27th April, 1859.\n\nI have the honour to transmit\n\nYour Lordship\n\na Requisition from\n\nthe Surveyor General to\n\nthe Custodian of Portland Cement for the Sea Wall in course of Construction at Bonham Strand, and to request\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nEarl Granville K.G.,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,\n\n...\n\nPage 304\n\nNote that I have made the following corrections and changes:\n- Corrected \"Trong trong\" to nothing as it seems to be a OCR error with no meaning.\n- Corrected \"unstrenated\" to \"unrestrained\".\n- Corrected \"Amare\" to \"Amare\" (no change, as it's unclear what it should be).\n- Corrected \"Je\" to \"Je\" (no change, but it might be \"June\").\n- Corrected \"مگر\" to nothing as it seems to be a OCR error with no meaning, possibly a leftover from a different language or text.\n- Corrected \"lovemment\" to \"Government\".\n- Corrected \"Lodchil\" and \"Latchil\" to \"Lordship\".\n- Corrected \"keveral\" to \"General\".\n- Corrected \"2:50 Custo\" to \"the Custodian\".\n- Standardized formatting and added paragraph breaks.\n- Removed or corrected other OCR errors.\n- Added \"...\" to indicate a missing word or text.\n- Kept \"Page 304\" as it is, assuming it's a page numbering line. \n\nHowever, the output is given in HTML format as per the final instruction.\n\nHere is the revised output in HTML as requested:\n\n304\n\nAgents unrestrained\n\nAmare & No. 91-\n\n21 Je\n\n869\n\nMy Lord,\n\nREC\n\nJULI\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong.\n\n27th April, 1859.\n\nI have the honour to transmit\n\nYour Lordship\n\na Requisition from\n\nthe Surveyor General to\n\nthe Custodian of Portland Cement for the Sea Wall in course of Construction at Bonham Strand, and to request\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nEarl Granville K.G.,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,\n\n...\n\nPage 304", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278298, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "page_number": 311, "title": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "content_text": "Downing Street,\n\n21 June 1869\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State to authorize you to comply with the enclosed Requisition from the Surveyor General of Hongkong for 250 cubic yards of Portland Cement for the sea wall in course of construction at Bonham Strand, estimated at an approximate cost of £225.\n\nThe Governor requests that it may be conveyed to Hongkong by sailing-ship as early as possible.\n\nI am,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nThe Crown Agents for the Colonies,\n\n5a, Spring Gardens.\n\nFRS.\n\n307", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278299, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "content_text": "Hongkong\n\nNo.\n\nرو\n\n695- Hongkong\n\n6881.\n\n308\n\nInterca\n\nDowning Street,\n\n21 June 1869.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honor to inform you that the Crown Agents have been instructed to comply with the Requisition enclosed in your Despatch No.695 of the 27th of April for 250 casks of Portland Cement for the sea wall in course of construction at Benham Strand, estimated at an approximate cost of £225. £225.\n\nThe Officer Administering\n\nthe Government of\n\nHongkong\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble Servant,\n\nF.R.S.\n\nFor Park Granville.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279288, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "16\n\nSUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG, 1868.\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS.\n\nSAVINGS.\n\nSUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES--HONGKONG, 1868.\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS.\n\nEXCESS.\n\n319\n\n17\n\n \n C.\n \n C.\n \n \n Reservoir at Pokfolum,...\nR. & E. No. 1 of 1867,.\n \n 38,612.01\n \n \n H.-P. Engine,\nNo. 4 of 1868,..\n \n 2,073.94\n \n \n Inspector and Boatmen's Quarter of Harbor Master Dpt., R. & E. No. 18 s. & No. 33 s. of 1868,\n \n 5,027.50\n \n \n Erection of Fountain in Public Gardens, R. & E. No. 20 & No. 40 s. of 1868,\n \n 2,204.31\n \n \n Maintenance of Public Gardens,\nNo. 6 of 1868 and No. 4 of 1869,\n \n 42.00\n \n \n Maintenance of Water Works,\nNo. 7 of 1868 and No. 32 s. of 1868,...\n \n 665.80\n \n \n Alteration and Addition to Fever and Lock Hospitals, R. & E. No. 28 of 1867 & No. 25 s, of 1868,\nR. & E. No. 31 of 1867 & No. 39 s. of 1868, Repairs to Government House,\n \n 3,132.60\n11,800.14\n \n \n Completion of Sanitarium on Elgin Hill, Kowloon,...\n \n 9,500.00\n \n \n Alterations in Post Office for Stamp Office,\nNo. 32 of 1867,\n \n 269.78\n \n \n New Civil Hospital,\n \n £5,000.00\n \n \n Alterations and Additions to Police Stations,.. \nNo. 3 & No. 30 s. & No. 30 s. of 1868,\n \n 6,980.80\n \n \n Reclamation of Lots resumed at Kowloon,..\n \n 8,000.00\n \n \n Repairs to Buildings,\nNo. 5 & No. 31 s. of 1868 & No.3 of 1869,\n \n 4,663.17\n \n \n Sea Wall, Bonham Strand,.\n \n 11,800.00\n \n \n Planting Trees,\nNo. 8 & No. 26 s. of 1868,\n \n 184.15\n \n \n New School House at Stanley,\n \n 769.21\n \n \n Miscellaneous Works,\n \n 3,000.00\n \n \n Addition to Turnkeys' Quarters, Victoria Gaol,\n \n 5,000.00\n \n \n Overseer's Bungalow at Pokfolum, .............. ...R. & E. No. 19 s. of 1863,\n \n 3,000.00\n \n \n Reclaiming Ground at Bowrington,\n \n 10,000.00\n \n \n Mountain Lodge,\nNo. 21 s. of 1868,.\n \n 8,932.13\n \n \n Re-erection of 4 Shops, Western Market,\nNo. 27 s. of 1868,.\n \n 3,000.00\n \n \n Alterations to Post Office,...\nNo 29 s. of 1868,.\n \n 550.28\n \n \n Raising Boundary Wall of Gaol,.\nNo. 37 s. of 1868,.\n \n 1,334.87\n \n \n \n \n 109,294.43\n \n \n \n \n 51,009.06\n \n\n77", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279289, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "18\n\nSUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG, 1868.\n\nROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES.\n\nSAVINGS.\n\nC\n\nSUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG, 1868.\n\nROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES.\n\nEXCESS.\n\n320\n\n19\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\nRoads and Street Contingencies, R. & E No. 11 of 1868, 0.51\n\nPraya and Landing Pier at Kowloon, R. & E. No. 33 of 1864, 4,683.80\n\nRepairs to Roads out of Victoria, No. 19 of 1868, 10.23\n\nSurface Drains, No. 10 & No. 34 s. of 1868, 13.34\n\nDo. to Surface Drains, No. 15 of 1868, 38.83\n\nSea Wall, Bonham Strand, No. 28 s. of 1868, 8,882.60\n\nDo. to Bridges, No. 16 of 1868, 672.01\n\nAltering Levels and Repairing Robinson Road, No. 9 & No. 22 s. of 1868, 999.68\n\nMiscellaneous Services, 116.20\n\nRepairs to Streets in Victoria, No. 13 & No. 33 s. of 1868, 367.11\n\nPaving Streets and Improvements to same in Taipinshan, R. & E. No. 2 of 1867, 25,000.00\n\nDo. to Drains in do., 131.96\n\nDo. to Praya Wall, No. 14 & No. 35 s. of 1868, 10,006.25\n\n20,844.74\n\n$\n\n25,844.74\n\nSite for New Civil Hospital, LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED.\n\nSAVINGS.\n\n* This Sea Wall had been shown in the Estimates amongst Works and Buildings, but as the Praya had always hitherto been classified as a Road, it was difficult to change its denomination in the accounts, more especially as Repairs to the Praya Wall are in the same Estimates shown as Roads, Streets and Bridges.\n\nLAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED.\n\nC.\n\n32,500.00\n\n$\n\n32,500.00\n\nPurchase of Farm Lot No. 32 at Pokfulam, Compensation for Land resumed at do.,\n\nEXCESS.\n\n$\n\n1,250.00\n\nC.\n\n250.00\n\nGardiner Ration Colonial Secretary. 1,500.00", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279354, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 390, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "## Memorandum of Probable Expenditure \n\nIn 1869789 \n\non \n\nPublic \n\nWorks from 1st January to 31st December 1869 and of Probable Unexpended Balance on the 1st January 1870.385 \n\nR Y E \n\nServices \n\n14 \n\nExpenditure from 1st January to 31 July 1869 Probable Expenditure From 1st August to 31 Dec 1869 \nWorks & Buildings \n$ 18of 628 Quarters for Inspector of Harbor Master's Dept.\n$ 28$ 36\nAlterations & additions to Central Schoola \nErection of Verandah to Police Station N°5.3. 49\nRepairs to Buildings $ 23$ 24\n$ 26$ 28\n$ 67\nFittings to Lecture Hall & Central Schools \nErection of Police Station at the Gap \nAdditional Quarters for the Gaol Staff - Reservoir at Pokfulam \nLatrines &c at Fever and Lock Hospital.20. 68Erection of Fountain at Public Gardens \n269 Reclaiming Ground at Borrington.\n4$ 20.$ 27.\n$ 22Maintenance of Public Gardens \nMaintenances of Water Works \nPlanting Trees \nGas Fittings to Police Officers' Quarters \nGas Fittings &c to Inspectors of Police Master's Dept.__\nPurchase of Hard Wood for Public Works \nPlanting Trees 520 68 Bonham Strand,\n23.$ 28£ 27\n69Warrant 12:121 of 17 July 1869 \nErection of 4 Hydrants \nRepairing Site for Chinese Hospital.\nPayment on acct of Post Office at Yokohama - Miscellaneous Works \nXX*\n4.0002.246301.30434\n12.03682879242722\n1.006.0857.957 91\nyou 3335/2 9.04036\n1.160 071.65898/ 499 95\n400 244006.736 32 83422\n10.800620 763.278\n10.00030.000959\n1.770991.44902\n163 785000X.\n6503.000.3050\n1.509791575 270\nTotal |105,180|27 68.76676\nPT. Q.\n\nPage 390\n\nPage 391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282055, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES--HONGKONG, 1869.\n\n## WORKS AND BUILDINGS.\n\n### ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES,\n\n173\n\n| Project | Estimated Expenditure for 1869 | Actual Expenditure | Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reservoir at Pokefoolum, R. & E. No. 1 of 1867 | $50,000.00 | $81,853.47 | $31,853.47 |\n| Repairs to Roads out of Victoria, R. & E. Nos. 11 and 13 of 1869 | $8,000.00 | $3,837.90 | -$4,162.10 (or Excess $837.00 as per original text, likely an error) |\n| Latrines, &c., at Fever and Lock Hospitals, R. & E. No. 28 of 1867 | | $546.61 | |\n| Quarters for Inspector and Boatmen in Harbor Master's Department, No. 18 of 1868 | | $4,000.00 | |\n| Erection of Fountain at Public Garden | | | |\n| Repairs to Drains in Victoria, R. & E. Nos. 13 and 25 of 1869 | $3,000.00 | $3,475.72 | $475.72 |\n| Sea Wall, &c., Bonham Strand, No. 23 of 1868 | | $1,863.29 | |\n| Alterations and Additions to Central School, No. 28 of 1868 | | $2,246.50 | |\n| Verandah to Police Station No. 5, No. 30 of 1868 | | $1,304.34 | |\n| Telegraph Round the Island for Police Purposes, No. 18 of 1869 | | $6,886.27 | |\n| Laying on Gas to Superintendent's and Inspectors Quarters, Central Station, No. 19 of 1869 | | $400.24 | |\n| Gas Fittings to Inspector's Quarters, Harbor Master's Department, No. 20 of 1869 | | $400.00 | |\n| Fittings to Lecture Hall and Laboratory, Central School, No. 23 of 1869 | | $936.41 | |\n| Erection of Police Station at the Gap, No. 24 of 1869 | | $4,882.50 | |\n| Additional Quarters for Gaol Staff, No. 26 of 1869 | | $4,003.96 | |\n| Preparing Site for Chinese Hospital, No. 27 of 1869 | | $1,000.00 | |\n| Erection of 4 New Hydrants, No. 28 of 1869 | | $584.70 | |\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.\n\n| Project | Estimated Expenditure for 1869 | Actual Expenditure | Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Erection of Telegraph Station at the Peak, No. 29 of 1869 | | $2,902.73 | |\n| Repairs to Buildings, R. & E. Nos. 3 and 30 of 1869 | $15,000.00 | $18,610.07 | $3,610.07 |\n| Planting Trees, R. & E. Nos. 6, 22 and 31 | | $17,007.69 | |\n| Reception of H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh | | $18,111.21 | |\n| Furniture for Government House, excess | | $1,500.00 | |\n| Grant for the Erection of a Swimming Bath | $1,500.00 | $2,502.57 | $1,002.57 |\n| Native District Watchmen | | $2,314.20 | |\n| Gratuities and other Miscellaneous Payments, excess | | $517.41 | |\n| Purchase of Hardwood for use of Public Works, R. & E. No. 21 of 1869 | | $34,540.51 | |\n| Miscellaneous Works | $3,500.00 | $4,598.63 | $1,098.63 |\n| | | $73,413.47 | |\n\nPage 173\nPage 27", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282075, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n\n### WORKS AND BUILDINGS\n| Item | Cost ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Reservoir at Pokfulum | 75,000.00 |\n| Sea Wall, Bonham Strand | 14,500.00 |\n| Additional Quarters for Gaol Staff | 8,500.00 |\n| Compound at Bowrington | 3,000.00 |\n| Showkewan Police Station, Proposed Cost | 20,000.00 |\n| Central Police Station, To be Expended in 1870, Proposed Cost | 10,000.00 |\n| To be Expended in 1870 | 5,000.00 |\n| Erection of Police Station at the Gap | 1,000.00 |\n| Powder Magazine at Stone Cutter's Island | 1,500.00 |\n| Preparing Site, Chinese Hospital | 2,000.00 |\n| Planting Trees | 2,000.00 |\n| Improving Additional Land to Public Gardens | 17,000.00 |\n| Repairs to Supreme Court | 12,500.00 |\n| Do. to Buildings | 3,500.00 |\n| Completion of Erection, and Maintenance of Telegraph | 8,000.00 |\n| Maintenance of Public Gardens | 3,000.00 |\n| Do. of Water Works | 4,000.00 |\n| Miscellaneous Works | 3,000.00 |\n| **TOTAL** | **163,500.00** |\n\n### ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES\n| Item | Cost ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Surface Drains in Victoria | 2,000.00 |\n| Roads and Streets Contingencies | 8,000.00 |\n| Repairs to Roads out of Victoria | 6,000.00 |\n| Do. to Streets in Victoria | 4,000.00 |\n| Do. to Surface Drains | 1,000.00 |\n| Do. to old and Completion of new Drains in Victoria | 3,000.00 |\n| Do. to Bridges | 1,000.00 |\n| Do. to Praya | 8,000.00 |\n| Miscellaneous Services | 2,000.00 |\n| **TOTAL** | **25,000.00** |\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES\n| Item | Cost ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Lighting Street Lamps | 20,800.00 |\n| Expenses of the Clock Tower | 600.00 |\n| Commission to Crown Agents | 1,200.00 |\n| Portrait of H. R. H. the Princess of Wales | 700.00 |\n| Grant to the Native District Watchmen | 1,200.00 |\n| Allowance to the City Hall for Salary of Librarian and Curator of the Museum | 1,600.00 |\n| Other Miscellaneous Services | 2,100.00 |\n| **TOTAL** | **28,200.00** |\n\n### LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED\n| Item | Cost ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Purchase of Duddell's Lots | 40,000.00 |\n\n### MILITARY CONTRIBUTION\n| Item | Cost ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Contribution to Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, (£20,000 at 4/3) | 94,117.65 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282157, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 284, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n### WORKS AND BUILDINGS.\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Reservoir at Pokfulam | $75,000.00 |\n| Sea Wall, Bonham Strand | $14,500.00 |\n| Lighting Street Lamps | $3,182.00 |\n| Post Office at Yokohama | $20,800.00 |\n| Expenses of the Clock Tower | $600.00 |\n| Additional Quarters for Gaol Staff | $8,500.00 |\n| Commission to Crown Agents | $1,200.00 |\n| Compound at Rownton | $8,000.00 |\n| Portrait of H. R. H. the Princess of Wales | $700.00 |\n| Showkewan Police Station, Proposed Cost | $20,000.00 |\n| To be Expended in 1870 | $5,000.00 |\n| Allowance to the City Hall for Salary of Librarian and Curator of the Museum | $1,200.00 |\n| Central Police Station, Proposed Cost | $10,000.00 |\n| To be Expended in 1870 | $5,000.00 |\n| Grant to the City Hall | $5,000.00 |\n| Erection of Police Station at the Gap | $1,100.00 |\n| Reception of H. R. H. The Duke of Edinburgh | $3,300.00 |\n| Powder Magazine at Stone Cutter's Island | $1,500.00 |\n| Preparing Site, Chinese Hospital | $2,000.00 |\n| Allowance to Chinese Hospital | $200.00 |\n| Improving Additional Land to Public Gardens | $2,000.00 |\n| Grant to the Native District Watchmen | $1,600.00 |\n| Repairs to Supreme Court | $17,000.00 |\n| Other Miscellaneous Services | $2,100.00 |\n| Out Offices at Supreme Court, Proposed Cost | $4,300.00 |\n| To be Expended in 1870 | $2,500.00 |\n| Repairs at Central Market | $1,600.00 |\n| Repairs to Buildings | $12,500.00 |\n| Completion of Erection, and Maintenance of Telegraph | $3,500.00 |\n| Maintenance of Public Gardens | $3,000.00 |\n| Maintenance of Water Works | $3,000.00 |\n| Planting Trees | $4,000.00 |\n| Latrines at Fever and Lock Hospital | $100.00 |\n| Balance of R. & E. No. 28 of 1867 | $253.00 |\n| Alteration in Central School | $365.00 |\n| Fitting Lecture Hall, Central School | $3,000.00 |\n| Miscellaneous Works, R. & E. No. 28 of 1868 | ... |\n| R. & E. No. 28 of 1869 | ... |\n\nTOTAL | $171,660.00\n\n### MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Contribution to Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, (£20,000 at 4/3) | $94,117.05 |\n\n### ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES.\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Surface Drains in Victoria | $2,000.00 |\n| Roads and Streets Contingencies | $3,000.00 |\n| Repairs to Roads out of Victoria | $6,000.00 |\n| Repairs to Streets in Victoria | $4,000.00 |\n| Repairs to old and Completion of new Drains in Victoria | $8,000.00 |\n| Repairs to Bridges | $1,000.00 |\n| Repairs to Praya | $3,000.00 |\n| Miscellaneous Services | $1,000.00 |\n\nTOTAL | $25,000.00", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282180, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG, 1869.\n\n303\n\n## WORKS AND BUILDINGS\n\n### ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES\n\nC.\n\n| Item | Estimated Expenditure for 1869 | Actual Expenditure | Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reservoir at Pokefoolum, R. & E. No. 1 of 1867 | $50,000.00 | $81,853.47 | $31,853.47 |\n| Repairs to Roads out of Victoria, R. & E. Nos. 11 and 13 of 1869 | $3,000.00 | $3,837.00 | $837.00 |\n\nLatrines, &c., at Fever and Lock Hospitals, R. & E. No. 28 of 1867 \nQuarters for Inspector and Boatmen in Harbor Master's Department, No. 18 of 1868 \n$540.04 \n$4,000.00 \n\n| Item | Estimated Expenditure for 1869 | Actual Expenditure | Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Repairs to Drains in Victoria, R. & H. Nos. 18 and 25 of 1860 | $3,000.00 | $3,475.72 | $475.72 |\n| Erection of Fountain at Public Garden, No. 20 of 1868 | | $85.12 | |\n| Sea Wall, &c., Bonham Strand, No. 23 of 1868 | | $1,868.29 | |\n| Alterations and Additions to Central School, No. 28 of 1868 | | $2,246.50 | |\n| Verandah to Police Station No. 5, No. 36 of 1868 | | $1,304.34 | |\n| Telegraph round the Island for Police Purposes, No. 18 of 1869 | | $3,886.27 | |\n| Laying on Gas to Superintendent's and Inspectors' Quarters, Central Station, No. 19 of 1869 | | $400.21 | |\n| Gas Fittings to Inspector's Quarters, Harbor Master's Department, No. 20 of 1869 | | $400.00 | |\n| Fittings to Lecture Hall and Laboratory, Central School, No. 23 of 1869 | | $935.61 | |\n| Erection of Police Station at the Gap, No. 24 of 1869 | | $4,882.52 | |\n| Additional Quarters for Gaol Staff, No. 26 of 1869 | | $4,069.00 | |\n| Preparing Site for Chinese Hospital, No. 27 of 1869 | | $1,000.00 | |\n| Erection of 4 New Hydrants, No. 28 of 1869 | | $584.70 | |\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES\n\n| Item | Estimated Expenditure for 1869 | Actual Expenditure | Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Erection of Telegraph Station at the Peak, No. 29 of 1869 | | $2,902.78 | |\n| Repairs to Buildings, R. & E. Nos. 3 and 30 of 1869 | $15,000.00 | $18,010.07 | $3,010.07 |\n| Planting Trees, R. & E. Nos. 6, 22 and 31 of 1869 | $1,500.00 | $3,562.57 | $2,062.57 |\n| Purchase of Hardwood for use of Public Works, R. & E. No. 21 of 1869 | | $517.41 | |\n| Miscellaneous Works | $3,500.00 | $4,508.63 | $1,008.63 |\n| Reception of H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh | | $17,097.69 | |\n| Furniture for Government House, excess | | $13,111.21 | |\n| Grant for the Erection of a Swimming Bath | | $1,500.00 | |\n| Native District Watchmen | | $2,814.20 | |\n| Gratuities and other Miscellaneous Payments, excess | | $1,062.57 | |\n| | | $34,540.51 | |\n| | | $73,418.88 | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 284904, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "content_text": "38 \nElgin Street Main Hollywood Road Arbuthnot Road S. \nJonours Castle Road from the queue Strut \nA \nMes que Garrison by Lyndhurst Terrace Dr. \n0 \nWellington Street \nL \nStanley Street. \nA \nWyndham Street \nA \nOld Bailey Hut at K \nChancery Lane); \n\n39 \n344 \nPublic Garden Main. \nCentral Police Station & No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, No 8 \nSupplies. \nPost Office Supply \nThe conservation of the Main \nand inspection of the same, in case of Leakage to \nGogo & Gough Streets Dr. Isquare Street. \nA \nTaipingshan Street Dr. Upper & Lower Lascar Row Do Queen's Road Benham Strand \nJervois Street. \nCentre Street. \nCentral Market Glenely Pants. \nHospital Road \nWanchai Road \n\nsupervise repairs and keep them in proper \norder, \nas also all stop-cocks \nValow 1 19 \n4 \nDo \nBowrington \nA \nMatheson Street \nDe \nPannington bruit. \ncAlbany Street. \nPraya East & Jardine Bazaar 150 \nA \nDo \nWestern Market House Lo Government House) ____ Dr. \nGovernment Office Victoria Goal \nD \nDo \n1st by 37. Public Hydrants, to \nsuperintend and keep in a \nproper state \nand in case of repairs and to adjust \nthe water in the Main and \nto concentrate the supply when a fire \noccurs, \n30 ao \nto keep in proper state \nIthly Fire Cocks, to keep in \norder of repairs and in case \nof fire to adjust", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287250, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 345, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "19\n\nng trong.\n\n1947\n\nGoverna\n\nSúrnary 1872..\n\nBir Richard Graves mactormiell,\n\nlo\n\nThe Right Somnable\n\nthe Earl of Kimberley.\n\nChinese Arrital. Completion of aux Public\n\nopening of -\n\nFinancial position of _ explained\n\n-\n\nand details given. –\n\n(Ancireure)\n\n\"China Mail\"]\n\nTHE FORMAL OPENING OF THE CHINESE HOSPITAL\n\nPRELIMINARY CEREMONY. This interesting ceremony took place with great pomp to-day. It consisted of a ceremonial sacrifice being offered to the God of Shan Nung, one of the three mythical Emperors who are said to have attained the great age of ten thousand years. He is recognised as the discoverer of medicines, but he was not the favorite god with the medical fraternity. This deity was selected on this occasion owing to some objection having been offered by a minority of the committee to have any gods on the premises at all.\n\nAt an early hour, the committee, some seventy or eighty in number, assembled at the Kung Sho (Public Meeting Hall) adjoining the Hollywood Road Joss-house, all dressed in the mandarin costume, some even with peacock's feather attached to their buttons. A little before 8 o'clock, a procession, accompanied by a band of Chinese music and a staff of paraphernalia bearers, such as is usual on these occasions of festivities, and headed by a pair of large lanterns bearing an inscription \"The formal opening of the Tung Wa Hospital,\" paraded the streets of the Chinese section of the Town and stopped in front of the Kung Sho, where it was joined by the committee. The return trip of the procession started at the booming of three guns, and the whole body proceeded towards the Central Schools and turned into Gough Street; passing by the premises of Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co., the procession took the course to Bonham Strand and then up the road leading to the Hospital. Amongst those who took part in the ceremony were Leong Ou, compradore Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co., Chun Kum, compradore Messrs Arnhold, Karberg & Co., Ng Chook, compradore Jardine, Matheson & Co., Choy Achip, compradore Messrs Gilman and Schellhass & Co., Wong Sun, compradore Messrs Pustan & Co., Cheong Kai, compradore Hongkong Club, Fung Ming Shau, compradore Messrs A. G. Hogg & Co., Chun Ting Chi, late compradore Messrs Smith, Kennedy & Co., Kwok Acheong, Ho Asick, Lee Sing, Lee Tuk Cheong, Chun Kun and others. Leong On, being the Chairman of the Committee, took the most prominent part in the ceremony, being the bearer of three incense sticks, which he carried with him during the whole tour of the procession.\n\nThree guns announced the arrival of the procession at the Hospital, and now the grand ceremony commenced. The musicians were placed on one side at the Court Yard, and the Yeoman bearers of paraphernalia were arranged on two rows one on each side of the hall; further up were the committees divided also into two rows. These arrangements having been made and a sufficient space having been cleared, Leong On, as the performer of ceremonies, stepped forward immediately and placed the three Joss sticks he had in his hand in an incense pot. Having done this, he stood on one side, and in obedience to the commands of the director of ceremonies, Chuo Kum, he knelt down before a sandalwood frame, having the inscription of Shan Noong, and kotowed three times. He rose up and with great reverence approached the image and removed the piece of paper which screened the inscription; the frame was then handed to two assistant performers of ceremonies, who conveyed it forward and placed it into a glass case at the furthest end of the hall. The director of ceremonies called out \"retire,\" and Leong On retired further out to the Court Yard, and the officer ordered him to kneel down and kowtow. This form was repeated for the third time, and the Performer of Ceremonies stood up and knelt down again until he had made nine kow-tows. The prayer-reader Yim To Nam, of the Kin Nam Hong, then came forward. He made the same number of kow-tows and proceeded to read the prayer, which was very brief.\n\nIn front of the image was arranged on a long table quite a number of dishes of eatables, consisting of meats, roasted and stewed, fruits, confectionery, pastry nicely worked up to represent eight genii, an elephant, a unicorn, a peacock, &c., and at the further end of the table was a roast-pig, an uncooked sheep, as well as an uncooked pig; the latter was substituted for a calf, which was dispensed with, owing, we presume, to the want of space on the table. Above the image and hung up in the centre of the wall was a scroll bearing the word \"Longevity.\"\n\nAfter the prayer was read, the performer of ceremonies resumed his kneeling posture and proceeded to offer the sacrifice to the deity, taking a dish of each description of food, beginning with the dish on the left-hand side; it was conveyed to where he was kneeling by two attendants who handed it to two assistants, who, in turn, handed it to him with great reverence. He then held it up above his head and gave it afterwards to two attendants on his right, who replaced it in its original place. All the dishes having been offered in this manner, a bowl of rice was offered and then fruit and then tea. The deity was now supposed to have finished his repast; a bowl of congee or wine was next offered. All was finished, the band was ordered to play \"great music,\" and amidst the din of gongs and drums, some joss paper was burnt, accompanied by the salvoes of crackers and the booming of three guns, which announced the close of the ceremony. When all was over, the services of several actors were imported into the ceremony; they represented the eight genii offering congratulations to the Queen of Heaven on the anniversary of her birth.\n\nWhile the performance was going on, the concourse of spectators was very great, notwithstanding that all the district watchmen had been turned out to preserve order. Everyone was eager to press forward to witness the ceremony, and some were even so inconsiderate as to stand with their shoes on the new cushions of the chairs, which were said to have belonged once to the wealthy Poon Tinqua, whose property was attached by the Chinese Government for debts he owed in connection with the salt monopoly. The ceremony produced a profound impression, and everyone agreed that it was the grandest ever witnessed in Hongkong. A Parsee merchant showed great interest and was present throughout the performance.\n\n\"Daily Advertiser\"\n\nThe opening of the New Chinese Hospital at West Point, not far from the old E-tzee, took place yesterday with great pomp and ceremony, His Excellency the Governor honouring the proceedings by his presence. A long and gorgeous procession wended its way in the forenoon to the building which, besides being handsomely adorned architecturally in the Chinese fashion, was further made attractive by numerous lanterns, pictures, and hangings, bestowed in the manner the Chinese so well know how to employ, and producing a most striking effect.\n\nAccording to information furnished us, we understand that the building cost about $45,000. It is divided into 3 sections and 8 departments and is at present capable of accommodating from 80 to 100 patients. Three Doctors, with one exclusively for vaccination, are attached to the establishment, but it is hoped shortly to increase the number to five. The lower wards are divided off by half-wall wooden compartments and are intended for the poorer class of gratis patients. The upper story, which is better lighted and ventilated, is appropriated for those who can afford to pay towards their maintenance in hospital, and its wards are all that can be desired, having a good verandah, front and back, and being well ceiled and floored.\n\nAt about 1-30 the Hollywood Road along which it was known H.E. would pass was crowded by a dense throng of natives who completely lined either side; the crowd increasing as one went westward. Sikh and Indian police kept the route (most creditably be it observed) and the Captain Superintendent with some of his Inspectors stationed themselves at the outer door of the Hospital. Several officials and other residents in the Colony were also present to witness the inauguration. It was quite evident that the Chinese looked upon it as a great day; every prominent merchant and compradore in the Colony...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288433, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "page_number": 378, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "But the greatest part of the expenditure is under the headings Works & Building, + Roads Streets & Bridges: taking these 2 together, the original Estimates when charged with an expenditure of $150,000, the total actual Expenditure was $201,472; the new votes in the estimates amount to $71,492; $20,000 was apparently about $20,070 saved in some of the subvotes: of the $71,492 which now remain in connection (1) $12,589 was spent on a new roof to ... (2) $7,769 on Police Station at Connaught Bay (3) $3,712 Rebuilding a portion of Central Market- (4) $7,200 Sea wall, Bonham Strand (5) $1,749 office for Crown Solicitor (6) $5,381 - Repairs to Supreme Court Office - in addition to a vote in the original Estimates for $10,000 - (7) $1,019 Repair to a gaol for Small Pox hospital, (8) $14,462 Typhoon Repairs (under both heads) (9) $9,755 - Repairs to Praya, additional to a vote of $5,000 on original Estimates, (10) $11,453 - Repairs to Roads out of Victoria (11) $2,619 additional to original vote of $6,000 - Drain in Victoria - additional to original vote of $... \n\nMINUTE PAPER.\n\n366\n\nOf the whole of this expenditure we have not heard a word before, excepting in a despatch from you Whitfield which reported the Typhoon roughly estimated the damage at $100,000. Votes appear to have been taken in the Council for all these items at the time, but none of those votes was reported for the Secretary of State. It appears to have occurred to nobody how they were to be provided for. Now with the exception of the Typhoon Repairs, & the expense caused by the Small Pox Hospital, there do not appear among the items any others which were of that urgent necessity that the Secretary of State's sanction could not be waited for, yet we know nothing of the expenditure till a year afterwards. Nos (6) (9) (10) (11) in the above list appear to be mere cases of ordinary repairs, in which the original estimate was much exceeded; considering the notorious state of the Surveyor...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288439, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "372\n\nSUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG, 1871.\n\nSupplementary Sums required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong, for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1871.\n\n5\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL:—\n\n \n Salary of Assistant Surveyor General,\n \n $2,113.00\n 410. 4. 2\n \n \n Additional Salary to 4th Clerk and Storekeeper,\n \n 100.00\n 20.16. 8\n \n \n Allowance to Superintendent of Government Gardens, for Chair Coolies,\n \n 210.00\n 45. 0. 0\n \n \n Office Contingencies, additional sum,\n \n 100.00\n 20.16. 8\n \n \n \n AMOUNT SANCTIONED BY THE COUNCIL.\n $2,529.00\n 526.17. 6\n \n \n \n ACTUALLY EXPENDED.\n $2,223.88\n 463. 6. 9\n \n \n \n Actual excess on Departmental Expenses,\n \n \n \n\nEDUCATIONAL:--\n\n \n Contingencies,Refitting of the two Chinese Class Rooms in the Central School,\n \n 250.00\n 52. 1. 8\n \n \n \n Actual excess on Departmental Expenses,\n 187.01\n 38.19. 2\n \n\nMEDICAL:-~~-\n\n \n Allowance to Health Officer, for boat,\n \n 280.00\n \n \n \n Lock Hospital, Incidental Expenses, . .\n \n \n 58. 0. 8\n \n \n Rent of Quarters for Inspectors of Brothels, Small Pox Hospital, Salaries, Provisions, &c.,.\n \n 300.00\n 75. 0. 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 175.00\n 36. 9. 2\n \n \n Expenses for Military Patients, Diet for Patients in Civil Hospital,.\n \n $943.77\n \n \n \n \n \n 506.30\n \n \n \n Medicines,\n \n 798.60\n \n \n \n \n $2,238.00\n \n \n \n \n \n Actual Excess on Departmental Expenses,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7,982.55\n 1,652 12.3\n \n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS:---\n\n \n Sea Wall Bonham Strand, (R. & E. No. 23 of 1888),\n \n 2,000.00\n 416.13. 4\n \n \n Repairs to Supreme Court and Out Offices, (R. & E. Nos. 2, 3, 28, & 29 of 1871),\n \n 2,000.00\n 410.13, 4\n \n \n \n Amount voted in Colonial Estimates,\n $10,000.00\n \n \n \n \n Actual Expenditure for 187\n 15,881.10\n \n \n \n \n Excess,\n \n \n \n \n Rebuilding a portion of Central Market, (R. & E. No. 21 of 1871),\n \n 6,000.00\n 1,250.0.0\n \n \n \n \n 5,381.10\n 1,121, 1, 3\n \n \n Repairs to Stone Cutter's Island Gaol, for Small Pox Hospital, (R. & E. No. 22 of 1871),.\n \n 4,200.00\n 875. 0. 0\n \n \n \n \n 3,712.50\n 773. S. 9\n \n \n New Roof to Government House, (R. & E. No. 23 of 1871),\n \n 1,100.00\n 220. 3. 4\n \n \n \n \n 1,019.65\n 212, 8.6\n \n \n Office for Crown Solicitor, (R. & E. No. 24 of 1871),.\n \n 12,600.00\n 2,625, 0.0\n \n \n \n \n 12,581.79\n 2,621.4.14\n \n \n Police Station at Causeway Bay, (R. & E. No. 25 of 1871),\n \n 750.00\n 156. 5. 0\n \n \n \n \n 740.24\n 150, 1.10\n \n \n Typhoon Repairs, (R. & E. No. 34 of 1871),\n \n 8,400.00\n 1,700. o. 0\n \n \n \n \n 7,098.13\n 1,603.15.83\n \n \n \n *\n 14,500.00\n 3,020.36.8\n \n \n \n \n 5,633.04\n 1,178 11.0\n \n \n \n \n \n 8,078.4.4\n \n \n \n \n 38,775.45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 293754, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "page_number": 414, "title": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "content_text": "## Forward\n\n| Location | Damage Description | Cost |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Ice House Street | Landslip | 25731 |\n| West Road | Garden Paths Landslips | |\n| Elgin & Shelley Street | Side Channels torn out | |\n| Wyndham Street | Side Channels stopped up and general damages | 100 |\n| Bonham Strand | Mains Sewer crushed | 102 |\n| | Good Canal damages to Bridges | 10 |\n| Bonham Road | Side Channels destroyed | 200 |\n| | | 135 |\n| Intom Teck Road | Serious Landslips and portion of Tytam Bridge washed away | J37 |\n| | | 50 |\n| | | 50 |\n| Buttery Road | Landslip | 26 |\n| Victoria Prison Road | Beams washed away | 110 |\n| sitterson; hill Road | Landstips | 30 |\n| Sowkewan Road | Brain Crushed in | 19 |\n| | Landstips and General damages | 72 |\n| | | 35 |\n| | Ware carried | 14 |\n| | | 129 |\n| | Portion of N°4 Bridge undermined | 75 |\n| | Price of Sea Wallmar Suy Ising WV & Bridge destroyed | |\n| No 4 Bridge | | 10 |\n| | Bridge do (partially) | |\n| Telegraph | Posts swept away and Lines Cut | |\n| Various Streets | Incidentals Repairs | |\n| No 2, Dams Delfoolum Road | Choking debris | |\n| | Fasmry Wall swept away by the floods | 257 |\n| Mint Dam | Retaining Walls swept away by floods | 17 |\n| | Chasing away debris, Recks bo | 150 |\n| | In Pipus carried away by floods | 12 |\n| | timashed Masonry Watts swift away | 72:80 |\n| | | 300 |\n| | | 30 |\n| | | 50 |\n| | | 220 |\n| | | 90 |\n\n## Forward\n$4359.60", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 293968, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "page_number": 628, "title": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "content_text": "Ladder Street, Jullah Lane. Upper Station Street, Caine Road. \nArbuthnot Road. \nLavear Row. \nWest Street. \nBonham Strand. \nHigh Street. \nMarket Street. \nAnd many others. \n\n[signed] I. M. P. \n\n(True Copy) \nAlpecin Martin \nColonial Secretary \n\nSonghang \nKomphen 155 \n11367 \nYourner \nSir Arthur Kennedy \n\n## MINUTE. \n\nEllen Round 6th October \nMer. \nMr. Meade. \nI. T. Holland \n8 to 2 \nMr. Herbert. 8 Mer. Lowther. \nLord Carnarvon, \n622 \nIndexed \n101 \n9 October 181. \n232 \n559675 \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt \nof your despatch n° 158 of the 21st of August submitting for my approval \na number of votes included in the supplementary Estimates. \n\n2 \nI have not as received", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294249, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 219, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "## (6) \n## (7) \n217 \n\nThe foregoing table only gives the number of people who were found dead or dying under the ruins of houses, but it is feared, although no record can be obtained, that a very large number must have received bodily injuries, as it is known that as houses became unroofed and were threatened with annihilation, their inmates left them and went into the streets when the latter were quite dark and when building débris, roofing tiles, and other missiles were being hurled from every housetop with force almost beyond credence.\n\nTowards 2 A.M., the violence of the wind had driven before it such a large volume of water into the harbour through the Lyeemoon Pass, that at this hour, which under ordinary circumstances should have been that of low water, the sea had risen considerably above the datum of high water and was washing over the lower portions of the City. Before 3 A.M., the Gas Works were submerged, and the gas supply being cut off, the City was during these most anxious moments suddenly plunged into darkness. About this time, Mr. CREAGH, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, and some other gentlemen who had collected together a few volunteers to put out a fire, which had broken out in Jervois Street, report that the latter as well as the streets between it, Bonham Strand, and the Praya, were four feet under water, that the people were up to their waists in water, and that the waves were buffeting the fire engine so that it could not be used. This evidence is corroborated by the marks left on many buildings after the sea retired, among others, the Harbour Master's Office had five feet of water in its lower storey.\n\nThe entire sea frontage of the City has been very seriously damaged. The Praya wall for a length of a mile between the City Hall and Toong Kai Street has been broken up, and will have to be entirely rebuilt with new material. From Toong Kai Street as far as the Sailors' Home, a distance of one mile, the wall shows so many breaches, and is altogether so undermined that it is still a matter of doubt whether long sections of it may not require rebuilding in like manner. In many places from the Eastern Guard House to East Point, the sea wall has also given way and will require reconstruction on a more solid basis than has hitherto been adopted in Hongkong. But as the very important subject of the sea defence of the City is one of special report, now under preparation, it will be premature to dilate upon it in this memorandum.\n\nGovernment House, together with the Law Courts, the Lock Hospital, and the Government offices, have escaped with greater immunity than any other buildings. In the latter, a chimney stack was blown down and fell through the roof; with the exception of this, and a few doors and windows blown in, there has been no damage of any consequence to report.\n\n### Government Civil Hospital\nThis ricketty old structure has been left in so ruined a state as to be no longer habitable. During the earlier stages of the gale, the doors and windows fronting the North were blown in one after another, and the wind having found a vent into the upper storey soon upheaved the roof, carrying away portions of it to a distance of 200 yards. The brick verandahs on some of the wards fell in. For more than an hour, the terrified patients ran considerable risk of being killed, and Dr. CLAPHAM, the Resident Surgeon, informs me that owing to the intense darkness and the deafening roar of the wind, it was with the utmost difficulty that he succeeded in getting them together and sheltering them in one room of the lower storey, which had fortunately been but lately repaired, so that it was able to hold out till daylight.\n\n### Victoria Gaol\nVictoria Gaol has portions unroofed, some of the windows of the north-eastern frontage blown in, and glass broken. A survey was held under my direction after the typhoon, but no part of the Gaol was found so unsafe as to render possible the escape of prisoners. The principal damages to this building have been since made good.\n\n### Stone Cutters' Island Gaol\nThis huge and imposing pile, founded by SIR HERCULES ROBINSON and designed to accommodate a convict establishment of 600 persons, is now a heap of ruins. Many of the main walls are so cracked and so much out of plumb that they will have to be knocked down to prevent future accidents. The greater portions of the roof fell in, carrying away and crushing under it the long galleries which divided the lines of cells. The basement portion of the eastern wing, which was used as a Powder Magazine, was buried in débris, and the fall of the building entailed considerable risk of an explosion. The powder was, however, subsequently removed from under the ruins, and safely stored in the Hulk which is anchored off the island. The upper floors of Stone Cutters' Island Gaol were fortunately not tenanted.\n\n### Central Police Barracks and Police Stations\nOf all the Police buildings, the Police Officers' quarters have fared worst. These were unroofed and had some of the doors and windows in the North front blown in. The house was otherwise very severely shaken, some of the chimneys being blown down through the roof. The Central Police Barracks have also been partially unroofed, and much of the woodwork is destroyed. In the outlying villages, the Police Stations of Shau-ki-Wan and Stanley have suffered most; both have been very severely shaken, and I fear the latter will have to be almost entirely rebuilt. The Police Station at Yow-ma-tee was for a time four feet under water, and when the sea receded, it left a steam launch and other craft stranded on its basement floor.\n\nThe wharves, both public and private, built out at right angles to the Praya along the whole extent of the City, have been swept away or otherwise injured, with the exception of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Ship Company's new jetty and the Hongkong Pier, both timber structures. Of Government piers, but few have been left in such a condition as to be worth repairing, and it is deserving of attention that those apparently solid structures which were made of ashlar granite succumbed long before the timber jetties in their neighbourhood.\n\nAfter the sea retired, the Praya embankment, which previously formed one of the most capacious business thoroughfares of the City, was left in places like a sloping beach covered with the stones and concrete débris of the sea wall, together with wrecks and spars. All these heaped one upon another rendered the embankment almost impassable. In places where the sea wall was knocked down and the embankment behind it scoured away, some of the large mansions fronting the sea, and which are occupied by the principal merchants of the Colony, were already being undermined by the waves, and they would have inevitably fallen had the gale lasted a few hours longer.\n\nThe whole of Victoria is drained and sewered into the harbour, the drainage being led out at intervals along the Praya wall. The destruction of the wall, entailing the destruction of the sewer outlets, plugged for a time every channel of escape, and the sewage becoming dammed and stagnant, after twenty-four hours became putrid. The clog was rendered still more effective by the mass of sand which the waves washed onto the ruins, so that many of the sewers became tightly packed with débris, their walls blown in, or so shattered as to require rebuilding, imbedded in it. The natural result was a most pestilential smell, rendered still more deleterious by the deadly fœtor of decomposing human bodies which continued to be washed ashore for several days. Happily, however, in spite of the hot weather which followed, the Public Health has not suffered, and after forty-eight hours, when the panic had in a measure subsided, and workmen could gradually be got together, gangs were employed to clear away the débris and to restore things to their normal condition.\n\nIn the country, many isolated houses have been knocked down, and the paddy fields and meadows under cultivation, which skirt the foreshores of the island, have for the most part been inundated by the sea. The rice crops have been destroyed, and much misery has been entailed upon the poorest of the community.\n\n### The General Post Office\nThe General Post Office, though it does not show many external signs of injury, has been greatly strained, owing to the weakness of the roof timbers. These have been in many places hollowed out by white ants, which for a short time back have infested the roof. I fear that a new roof to a portion of the house will be necessary.\n\n### Markets\nThe six principal markets of Victoria have experienced the fate of other buildings; in some cases, having their roofs untiled, in others, as in the Central market, having portions of their outer walls damaged.\n\n### Public Schools\nThe insecure foundations of the Central School, made manifest by the earthquake of five months ago, have become still more so since the typhoon. Portions of the roof have come away from the walls, and these have got slightly out of the perpendicular. A part of the tiling over the western Class Room has been stripped off, and some damage done to doors and windows. As it is contemplated at no distant date to erect a new School with increased accommodation, it will not be necessary, in regard to the Central School, to go to greater expense than will suffice to maintain it safely for a year or two to come. Three out of the four other Public Schools of the City have escaped with trifling damages, but the fourth one, i.e., Syingpoon School, has lost the roof off its western front.\n\n### The Police Courts\nThe Police Courts have been partly unroofed, and the eastern verandahs laid in ruins.\n\n### Harbour Master's Office\nThe unsheltered site of this public office, which is only 50 feet away from the Praya wall, exposed it to two dangers, and it has come through the ordeal much better than could have been expected. While the gale was stripping off the roofing, the sea that had flooded down the Praya was battering against its walls. At one time, there were five feet of water in the basement, and the breakers were sending their spray over its roof. In spite of this, the damage is attended with surprisingly small loss, being limited to portions of the roof which are untiled and to doors and windows which are shattered and unhinged.\n\nI have the honour to append herewith an interesting report from the Superintendent of the Government Gardens, upon the damage done to the gardens and plantations of the Colony. When we call to mind the constant and laborious care which has been taken to induce upon this bare and ungenerous soil an artificial vegetation, and the successful and gratifying results which had so flattered these efforts, we cannot but be disheartened at the disastrous finale which has closed the efforts of so many years. A large proportion of the handsome and well-grown Banians and India rubber trees which lined the streets of the City and the roads leading out of it have been blown down, and so many have been injured that we may not enjoy their grateful shade for years to come.\n\n### Government Telegraph Lines and Clock Tower\nThe Government Telegraph lines throughout the island were destroyed, the wind in many instances snapping the telegraph poles close to the ground. The shore ends of the submarine cables were also broken, and communication severed. The Clock Tower was much shaken, and the dials of the town clock were blown in and shattered to pieces. The Harbour Officers' quarters have been very much shaken, and the tower over the building will have to be pulled down, as it is injured beyond repair.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294256, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 226, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "## (6)\n\nThe foregoing table only gives the number of people who were found dead or dying under the ruins of houses, but it is feared, although no record can be obtained, that a very large number have received bodily injuries, as it is known that as houses became unroofed and were threatened with annihilation, their inmates left them and went into the streets when the latter were quite dark when building débris, roofing tiles, and other missiles were being hurled from every housetop with force almost beyond credence.\n\nTowards 2 A.M., the violence of the wind had driven before it such a large volume of water in the harbour through the Lyeemoon Pass, that at this hour, which under ordinary circumstances should have been that of low water, the sea had risen considerably above the datum of high water and was washing over the lower portions of the City. Before 3 A.M., the Gas Works were submerged, and the gas supply being cut off, the City was during these most anxious moments suddenly plunged into darkness. About this time, Mr. CREAGH, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, and some other gentlemen who had collected together a few volunteers to put out a fire, which had broken out in Jervois Street, report that the latter as well as the streets between it, Bonham Strand, and the Praya, were four feet under water, that the people were up to their waists in water, and that the waves were buffeting the fire engine so that it could not be used. This evidence is corroborated by the marks left on many buildings after the sea retired; among others, the Harbour Master's Office had five feet of water in its lower storey.\n\nThe entire sea frontage of the City has been very seriously damaged. The Praya wall for a length of a mile between the City Hall and Toong Kai Street has been broken up, and will have to be entirely rebuilt with new material. From Toong Kai Street as far as the Sailors' Home, a distance of one mile, the wall shows so many breaches, and is altogether so undermined that it is still a matter of doubt whether long sections of it may not require rebuilding in like manner. In many places from the Eastern Guard House to East Point, the sea wall has also given way and will require reconstruction on a more solid basis than has hitherto been adopted in Hongkong. But as the very important subject of the sea defence of the City is one of special report, now under preparation, it will be premature to dilate upon it in this memorandum.\n\nAfter the sea retired, the Praya embankment, which previously formed one of the most capacious business thoroughfares of the City, was left in places like a sloping beach covered with the stones and concrete débris of the sea wall together with wrecks and spars. All these heaped one upon another rendered the embankment almost impassable. In places where the sea wall was knocked down and the embankment behind it scoured away, some of the large mansions fronting the sea, and which are occupied by the principal merchants of the Colony, were already being undermined by the waves and they would have inevitably fallen had the gale lasted a few hours longer.\n\nThe wharves, both public and private, built out at right angles to the Praya along the whole extent of the City, have been swept away or otherwise injured, with the exception of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Ship Company's new jetty and the Hongkong Pier, both timber structures. Of the Government piers, but few have been left in such a condition as to be worth repairing, and it is deserving of attention that those apparently solid structures which were made of ashlar granite succumbed long before the timber jetties in their neighbourhood.\n\n## (7)\n\n224\n\nIn regard to Government buildings, I have the honour to report that nearly all have suffered to some extent, and that estimates of the cost of their repairs are being prepared and will be duly submitted.\n\nGovernment House, together with the Law Courts, the Lock Hospital, and the Government offices, have escaped with greater immunity than any other buildings. In the latter, a chimney stack was blown down and fell through the roof; with the exception of this, and a few doors and windows blown in, there has been no damage of any consequence to report.\n\n**Government Civil Hospital**. - This ricketty old structure has been left in so ruined a state as to be no longer habitable. During the earlier stages of the gale, the doors and windows fronting the North were blown in one after another, and the wind having found a vent into the upper storey soon upheaved the roof, carrying away portions of it to a distance of 200 yards. The brick verandahs on the South side were forced out of the perpendicular until they toppled over, and a part of the ceilings of the wards fell in. For more than an hour, the terrified patients ran considerable risk of being killed, and Dr. CLAPHAM, the Resident Surgeon, informs me that owing to the intense darkness and the deafening roar of the wind, it was with the utmost difficulty that he succeeded in getting them together and sheltering them in one room of the lower storey, which had fortunately been but lately repaired, so that it was able to hold out till daylight.\n\n**Victoria Gaol** has portions unroofed, some of the windows of the north-eastern frontage blown in, and glass broken. A survey was held under my direction after the typhoon, but no part of the Gaol was found so unsafe as to render possible the escape of prisoners. The principal damages to this building have since been made good.\n\n**Stone Cutters' Island Gaol**. - This huge and imposing pile, founded by SIR HERCULES ROBINSON and designed to accommodate a convict establishment of 600 persons, is now a heap of ruins. Many of the main walls are so cracked and so much out of plumb that they will have to be knocked down to prevent future accidents. The greater portions of the roof fell in, carrying away and crushing under it the long galleries which divided the lines of cells. The basement portion of the eastern wing, which was used as a Powder Magazine, was buried in débris, and the fall of the building entailed no inconsiderable risk of an explosion. The powder was, however, subsequently removed from under the ruins and safely stored in the Hulk which is anchored off the island. The upper floors of Stone Cutters' Island Gaol were fortunately not tenanted.\n\n**Central Police Barracks and Police Stations**. - Of all the Police buildings, the Police Officers' Quarters have fared worst. These were unroofed and had some of the doors and windows in the North front blown in. The house was otherwise very severely shaken, some of the chimneys being blown down through the roof. The Central Police Barracks have also been partially unroofed, and much of the woodwork is destroyed. In the outlying villages, the Police Stations of Shau-ki-Wán and Stanley have suffered most; both have been very severely shaken, and I fear the latter will have to be almost entirely rebuilt. The Police Station at Yau-ma-tei was for a time four feet under water, and when the sea receded, it left a steam launch and other craft stranded on its basement floor.\n\nThe whole of Victoria is drained and sewered into the harbour, the drainage being led out at intervals along the Praya wall. The destruction of the wall, entailing the destruction of the sewer outlets, plugged for a time every channel of escape, and the sewage becoming dammed and stagnant, after twenty-four hours became putrid. The clog was rendered still more effective by the mass of sand which the waves washed on to the ruins, so that many of the sewers became tightly packed and imbedded in it. The natural result was a most pestilential smell, rendered still more deleterious by the deadly fœtor of decomposing human bodies which continued to be washed ashore for several days. Happily, however, in spite of the hot weather which followed, the Public Health has not suffered, as after forty-eight hours, when the panic had in a measure subsided, and workmen could gradually be got together, gangs were employed to clear away the débris and to restore things to their normal condition.\n\nIn the country, many isolated houses have been knocked down, and the paddy fields and meadows under cultivation, which skirt the foreshores of the island, have for the most part been inundated by the sea. The rice crops have been destroyed, and much misery has been entailed upon the poorest of the community.\n\nI have the honour to append herewith an interesting report from the Superintendent of the Government Gardens, upon the damage done to the gardens and plantations of the Colony. We cannot but be disheartened at the disastrous finale which has closed the efforts of so many years. A large proportion of the handsome and well-grown Banians and India rubber trees which lined the streets of the City and the roads leading out of it have been blown down, and so many have been injured that we may not enjoy their grateful shade for years to come.\n\nThe Government Telegraph lines throughout the island were destroyed, the wind in many instances snapping the telegraph poles close to the ground. The shore ends of the submarine cable were also broken, and communication severed.\n\nThe General Post Office, though it does not show many external signs of injury, has been greatly strained, owing to the weakness of the roof timbers. These have been in many places hollowed out by white ants, which for a short time back have infested the roof. I fear that a new roof to a portion of the house will be necessary.\n\n**Markets**. - The six principal markets of Victoria have experienced the fate of other buildings; in some cases, having their roofs untiled, in others, as in the Central market, having portions of their outer walls blown in, or so shattered as to require rebuilding.\n\n**Public Schools**. - The insecure foundations of the Central School, made manifest by the earthquake of five months ago, have become still more so since the typhoon. Portions of the roof have come away from the walls, and these have got slightly out of the perpendicular. The western Class Room has been stripped off, and some damage done to doors and windows. As it is contemplated at no distant date to erect a new School with increased accommodation, it will not be necessary, in regard to the Central School, to go to greater expense than will suffice to maintain it safely for a year or two to come. Three out of the four other Public Schools of the City have escaped with trifling damages, but the fourth one, i.e., Saiyingpoon School, has lost the roof off its western front.\n\nThe Police Courts have been partly unroofed, and the eastern verandahs laid in ruins.\n\n**Harbour Master's Office**. - The unsheltered site of this public office, which is only 50 feet away from the Praya wall, exposed it to two dangers, and it has come through the ordeal much better than could have been expected. At one time, there were five feet of water in the basement, and the breakers were sending their spray over its roof. In spite of this, the damage is surprisingly small, being limited to portions of the roof which are untiled and to doors and windows which are shattered and unhinged. The meteorological station was, however, entirely swept away, and not a trace of the instruments remains. The Harbour Officers' quarters have been very much shaken, and the tower over the building will have to be pulled down, as it is injured beyond repair.\n\nThe Clock Tower was much shaken, and the dials of the town clock were blown in and shattered to pieces.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294375, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 344, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n## HONGKONG, OCTOBER 15TH, 1874\n\nIt is to be regretted, although in some sense, it is possibly not surprising, that the **Governor** has adhered in the reply he has given to the memorial from the community, with reference to the conduct of the **Captain Superintendent** of Police, to that which he sent to the Hon. Mr. RowerT on the same subject. It is so rarely in Hongkong that an opportunity is seized of gracefully retiring from a false position, that it would have been something out of the common, had the memorial from the public been made the means, as it might justifiably have been made, of finally granting in deference to general opinion, the public enquiry which had been before refused. This would, however, have been a simple and straightforward course, and would have gone far to heal the wound inflicted by the cavalier despatches which have alone been vouchsafed, and which have certainly rankled very deeply in the public mind.\n\nThe despatch would call for little more notice than above were it not for the concluding paragraph which, evidently with an eye to what will be thought upon the matter, being referred home to the **Colonial Secretary**, states: \"His Excellency feels it incumbent upon him to state that at no time in the history of the Colony have the character and efficiency of the police stood higher.\" This is no doubt perfectly true, and a stronger argument in favour of instituting such an enquiry as has been demanded could not be imagined. It is just because a similar public agitation to that at present existing was made some years ago, that we have now a respectable Force. Forty of the men were got out from Home in consequence of the recommendations of the Commission, and other improvements which they suggested were effected. Four out of five—the fifth being the then Acting Attorney-General, and consequently bound ex-officio to support the existing Head of Police, as far as possible—were in favour of Mr. DEANE'S removal, but in the end he was allowed to retain his post. If the Commission worked so much good in other directions, might it not be worth while to ascertain whether the suggestions with reference to the Head of Police were not, after all, well founded. At all events, the last general agitation with regard to police matters was sufficiently fruitful of useful results to make the Government, one would think, not disposed to look upon representations in the memorial with disfavour, but it seems that all considerations of this kind must be put aside in order to attain the great object of enabling the **Captain Superintendent** to retain his post. The object is no doubt a very desirable one in its way, but the efficient command of the Police Force and the safety of the Colony are perhaps almost equally important.\n\nAt least we may hope they will so appear to the Secretary of State, to whom the whole affair will now, no doubt, be referred. Attempts to divert attention from the points strictly at issue will have little chance of success in a matter lying within so small a compass. It is not as though vague general complaints were made, which could be answered or apparently answered by equally vague or general statements. The plain questions put are, in substance, whether the **Captain Superintendent** was justified in keeping the whole of his reserve men in, while other Europeans were out and engaged in saving lives from shipwreck, when the need of such aid had been reported to him; and, secondly, whether he was justified in refusing to allow the fire bell to be rung when he was told that a fire had broken out in Bonham Strand; and, lastly, whether his omission to perform either of these duties showed him unfit for his post. The case has at least the merit of being a comparatively easy one to decide, and it is difficult to see how the Home Government can support the Governor in steadily refusing to institute an enquiry into so gross an abuse.\n\n14938\n74\n340", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294527, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 495, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "## No 235 \n7th December 1874.\n\n**Guaration** \nSir Arthur Kennedy, Rome, CMG.\n\nThe Right Venerable! \nThe End of Camarion. \nFire Brigade).\n\n**Pramount's Report on the** \nat a Fire December.\n\nworking... \nMM.. \nThe Pa... \nEndome... \n12.\n\n### Superintendent of Fire Brigade to Colonial Secretary.\n\nFire Brigade Department, \n(Wonghong), 10th December, 1874.\n\nI have the honor to report for the information of His Excellency the Governor that at 8 1/2 P.M. 9th Instant a fire broke out in the upper floor of the Tui Hing and bamboo ware shop No. 102 Bonham Strand. The house is fitted: \n\nTo The Honorable Gardiner Austin, Colonial Secretary, \n(Wongkong).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302715, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "Mess Choy Chan and ellok Jy Yeung to existing Colonial Secretary.\n\n{ \n230 \ndespatch.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant,\nSir,\n\n64, Bonham Strand West,\n10th October, 1878.\n\nWe have the honour to apply\nin accordance with Section 22 of Ordinance No 8 of 1858, for a written licence under the hand of His Excellency the Governor to be issued to us, for the purpose of holding a public meeting of the Chinese residents of this Colony at the Toong Hing Theatre on Sunday the 13th instant at noon, to consider and discuss the resolutions passed at the meeting presided over by the Honourable Charles May;\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n`foto fa...`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308825, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "162\n\nJ\n\nof $25.00 on the estimates in 1873, unfortunately I then found it did not appear in 1874.\n\nappear in 1875, but in 1876 a vote was taken, on the suggestion of the Surveyor-General, for double that sum, namely $50,000, for the improvement of the water supply. However, none of that money was expended, and nothing was done during 1876 to effect that object. I find the professional assistance required for the proposed Tytam works survey was supplied to Mr. Price, and on the 24th October he wrote that he proposed commencing the survey on the 21st proximo, and that it would now be a matter of impossibility to complete it within the financial year.\n\nWith reference to the reservoir and the improvement of the water supply in that way, I find a letter dated the 27th August, 1875, in which he says:-- \"During the rainy months of the year the great advantage of the conduit would be apparent in bringing into the town a supply practically unlimited.” As far as that is concerned, gentlemen, nothing gave me greater satisfaction on my arrival here than to carry out the intention of the Legislative Council and spend the $50,000 upon that work.\n\nIt was stated more than once that though the $50,000 had appeared upon the estimates, nevertheless, somehow or another, that and some other votes—votes for improving the water supply, for the sewage of the town, and for a gaol on a separate system—had not been expended. The consequence was that a despatch was written to me on the 28th May, 1879, by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, which, as it is very short, I will read to you:--\n\nI am not aware whether the $50,000 for water supply and $20,000 for sewerage in the Estimates for 1877 have been expended, or what has been done in reference to the $10,000 voted for the Gaol in the Estimates for 1878 and I shall be glad to be informed how much (if any) of these several sums is still in hand as part of the unexpended balance to credit of the Colony.\n\nMy answer was:--\n\nI beg leave to point out that sums voted in the Estimates, even if entirely unexpended, have never been treated by me as parts of the unexpended balance to the credit of Colony. They are simply, if unexpended, treated as unexpended votes. The unexpended balance is a reality, made up of the actual balance in hand from the preceding year and the difference between the excess of current revenue and current expenditure.\n\nAs regards the three votes in question, the following figures have been furnished to me in the returns from the Auditor-General's Office:--\n\nVotes in Estimates for 1877.—Improvement to Water Supply, $50,000. Actually spent, $47,000.27.\n\nSewerage, $20,000. Actually spent, $3,962.73.\n\nVote for 1878.—Gaol—separate system, $10,000. Actually spent, $5,965.60.\n\nFrom the above figures you will see that the large votes for water supply and sewerage works were not neglected, and that out of $70,000 voted in 1877 $67,061 were laid out within that year on those items.\n\nAs regards the vote of $10,000 taken in 1878 for making some separate cells in the existing gaol, more than half that vote was spent. Having, however, received your despatch No. 43 of the 5th of June, 1878, and concurring with you in the opinion that the erection of a new prison on a new site would be the best solution of the gaol extension question, I stopped the expenditure on the temporary conversion of the present building, after $5,965.60 had been laid out on constructing some separate cells.\n\nWhereupon the Secretary of State briefly said---\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 68 of the 27th May, submitting explanations which appear to me quite satisfactory respecting certain sums voted in the Estimate for 1877 and 1878, for gaol, water supply, and sewerage.\n\nNow the practical question arises, what has been the effect of that sum of $47,000 actually laid out in improving the water supply? The best answer to that is to read to you a minute which has just been put into my hands by the Acting Surveyor-General. He says--\n\nDuring the last dry season the quantity of water drawn from the Pokfulam Reservoir averaged 474,218 gallons per day. From the 12th to the 28th April the supply was increased to 990,484 gallons per day, and from the 26th April to the 20th May to 1,248,300 gallons per day. During the present month, owing to dryness of the season, the supply has been reduced to about 1,000,000 gallons per day, to which must be added the water drawn from No. 1 Dam, Pokfulam road, and the Glenealy nullah, which estimate approximately at 100,000 gallons per day during the wet season and at half that quantity during the dry season.\n\nIn addition to the above there is the Slaughter Dam, which supplies the western portion of the Stekenteng District and the Wong-noi-chung and Mint Dams; the former supplies the Bowrington, Wong-nei-chung, and Wanchai Districts, and the latter, yielding an average daily supply of about 68,000 gallons, is consumed by the Sugar Refinery, Rum Distillery, and the Ice Manufactory. The Military have a separate water supply of their own, as also the Naval Hospital at Wanchai.\n\nTherefore, assuming the total number of inhabitants at present residing in the central portion of the city and drawing their supply of water from the general service tanks at 90,000, exclusive of those supplied from Wong-noi-chung and Slaughter House Dams, would give an average quantity of about 11 gallons per head of inhabitants per day during the wet season, and a little over 5 gallons per day during the dry season, exclusive of the water drawn from private wells, springs, strains, and other sources, such as the supply purchased from the water boats by the Chinese merchants and others residing in the neighbourhood of Bonham-strand, Praya West.\n\nThis, I believe, is the first time that the Legislative Council has received information of this kind—authentic information from the Survey Department as to the effect of the outlay of this money on the improvement of the water supply.\n\nNow you have in your possession the actual facts. In connection with this subject I am bound to say we have to consider a question which my hon. friend on my right (Mr. Ryrie) has constantly pressed on my attention—that is a water supply for the purpose of extinguishing fire.\n\nI laid before the Council last year some despatches on the subject, and I shall lay on the table to-day some further despatches which will be briefly to this effect. You will see that the question of water supply for extinguishing fires was one brought to my notice by an influential deputation, and some suggestions were made as to utilising certain streams which run down the side of the hills for this purpose.\n\nI may mention that, in original scheme which Mr. Price drew up, and which was not only considered by the members of Council here, but also well considered—as it deserved to be—by the Colonial Office, there were some statements with respect to the rainfall in the Colony, and the state the Colony was sometimes in, which were practically to this effect, that sometimes for 210 days the Colony was in a state of drought. I have never yet experienced that, but whatever conclusion gentlemen in London, who read our rainfall statistics, may arrive at from the number of days when rain falls or does not fall, there is one thing they ought to bear in mind, and which I cannot find any reference to in any papers but one by Mr. Rawlinson, namely, that there is going on at all times in this Colony a certain condensation from the clouds upon the higher levels, and when for a considerable period no rain falls the streams trickling down the hills continue to run in consequence of the condensation that takes place, especially at night, and in large quantities, along the hills.\n\nI mention that fact because it is one of those points that may escape those who only look at the statistics of the actual rainfall. But what was said by Mr. Whittall—and my hon. friend Mr. Ryrie made the same remark—is a matter of great importance, and that is, are we to give to the whole of this community the number of gallons per head men, women, and children—that are given to the inhabitants of Liverpool or London?\n\nNow I find in one of the letters of the Surveyor-General that he frankly states that his scheme of water supply for Hongkong was framed by him for a European community, and subsequently he dwelt upon the fact that it would teach the Chinese very good habits. He states that it would be well for them to have their house sewers flushed with water, and he even goes the length of suggesting, in one of his reports, that the public latrines that the Chinese so much use required pure water in the greatest plenitude.\n\nI found when I came to deal with the question that that was not the opinion of the Chinese themselves, and in a letter of his, which you will find before you in the last issue of the Gazette, he complains that the Chinese—who will have to pay a good deal of the cost—should have been consulted. The idea of consulting them appeared to him to be extraordinary.\n\nHowever, I did consult them, and they expressed the opinion that with their system of latrines anything like trying to flush them with water would be a mistake, and that the drier they were kept the better.\n\nWith respect to the statement of the Surveyor-General that the house refuse is generally kept in buckets on the premises, he goes on to say that in all this lurks the germs of disease, that this urgently demands reform, and that this reform is to be found in effective house and street sewerage, capable of being flushed with an ample supply of water.\n\nHe goes on to describe where their house...\n\nPage 163", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308873, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "CBS\n\n(10)\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nThe following returns have been laid before the Legislative Council.\n\nSALES OF PROPERTY REGISTERED IN THE LAND OFFICE BETWEEN JANUARY 1880 AND MAY 1881.\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nI should like to have the returns of recent transactions in landed property in Hongkong (Daily Press, 11th May, 1881) checked and verified.\n\nLot 639.--22 houses, Second-street....\n\nLot 13 sec.--5 shops, Wellington-street,\n\nLot 207 sec.-10 shops, Lyndhurst-terrace,\n\nLot 47.----Houses and godowns, Queen's-road East,\n\n* Lot 401-11 houses, Bridges-street,\n\n402,--8 newly built houses, Bridges-street,\n\n* Lot 157.--42 houses, Bridges-street..............\n\n(11)\n\nPROPERTIES BOUGHT BY CHINESE, ---Continued,\n\nLot 37 sec.-4 shops, Praya West,\n\nLot 89 sec.-6 shops, Bonham-strand,\n\n$ 54,500\n\n45,000\n\n18,000\n\n20,000\n\n32,000\n\n57,000\n\n13,000\n\n16,000\n\n48,500\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY.\n\nLot 1 and 129 sec.—30 shops, Lyndhurst-terrace (sold at auction),\n\n74,000\n\n23rd May, 1881.\n\n* Lots 108 and 109.-3 houses, Lyndhurst-terrace and Hollywood-road, to Indian firms and Chinese for about,\n\n(From \"Daily Press,\" 11th May, 1881.)\n\nTRANSACTIONS IN LANDED PROPERTY IN HONGKONG.\n\nThe following list of recent transactions in property will be found useful to investors and interesting to the public. We hope to be able from time to time to publish a similar list.\n\nPROPERTIES Bought by CHINESE.\n\n* Lot 647.—2 European houses, Albany-road,\n\n* Lot 522.-1 European house, “Glengower,” Caine-road,\n\n* Lot 8.--Gibb's offices, godowns, &c,\n\n* Lot 769-21 houses, Queen's-road, East,\n\n* Lot 47-7 shops and godowns, Queen's-road East,\n\n* Lot 14.-38 shops, Queen's-road, Praya, and Pottinger-street,\n\n50,000\n\n275,000\n\n* Lots 10 and 12.-Houses and godowns known as Turner's Offices, Queen's-road and Praya,... 275,000\n\n* Lot 62.-40 shops in Queen's-road and Praya known as \"Scott's-lane,\"\n\n250,000\n\n* Lots 99 and 100.-2 houses, Praya Central, known as Lammort's and Vogel's,..\n\n168,400\n\n* Lot 65,--Blue Buildings, Queen's-road East and Praya East,\n\n110,000\n\n[This lot was sold for $100,000 and resold the next day with $10,000 profit].\n\n..$ 20,100\n\n3 Lots containing 16 shops, Praya, Winglok-street........\n\n12,000\n\n240,000\n\n7,000\n\n30,000\n\n* Lot 801 A.-12 shops, Battery-road West,\n\n23,000\n\nin Queen's-road, Bonham-strand, Praya West, Winglok-street, Jervois-street, &c.\n\n* Lot 52.-26 shops, Queen's-road, Praya, and Endicott-lane, .......\n\n95,000\n\n* Lot 202.-52 shops, Queen's-road, Praya, Winglok-street, and Jervois-street,...\n\n350,000\n\nLot 644-Ice House-lane, ...................................\n\n* Properties sold by Foreigners to Chinese.\n\nThere have also been a large number of small sales amongst the Chinese, especially for properties\n\nProperties at Queen's-road East are improving, and many changes have taken place within the last two months.\n\n180,000\n\n12,525\n\nThis block was resold separately for about,\n\n500,000\n\nPROPERTIES BOUGHT BY FOREIGNERS.\n\n* Lot 4.-23 shops, Bonham-strand and Praya,\n\n76,000\n\nAnd resold for,\n\n105,000\n\n\"Glenealy,\" Gibb's residence, Caine-road,\n\n$50,000\n\n* Lot 34.--11 shops, Praya, Winglok-street, and Jervois-street,\n\n\"Duart,\" Caine-road,...\n\n28,000\n\n103,500\n\nAnd resold the next day for,...\n\n* Lots 62 and 194-2 European houses, Hollywood-road,\n\n* Lot 54.-67 shops, known as Gilman's-bazaar,\n\nAnd resold separately for about,... -----\n\n\"Heard's\" old residence, Caine-road,\n\n14,500\n\n118,000\n\nLot 65.—2 houses, Arbuthnot-road,..\n\n12,500\n\n35,000\n\nAnd resold a few days after for,....\n\n16,000\n\n£50,000\n\n$320,000\n\nLot 98.----Houses and godowns, Queen's-road and Praya West.........................\n\n50,000\n\nLot 67-7 shops, Queen's-road and Bonham-strand,\n\n57,500\n\nFalconer's Buildings, 2 houses, Queens'-road Central and Stanley-street,\n\n93,000\n\nLot 764-4 shops, Queen's-road West,......\n\nLot 505.--14 shops, Wanchai-road,\n\n6,200\n\n16,000\n\nLot 54.3 houses, Queen's-road East,\n\n4,250\n\n* Lot 88,-14 shops, Queen's-road East,\n\n20,000\n\nLot 43 sec,----37 shops, Queen's-road East,......\n\n15,000\n\nLot 73.-13 shops and godowns, Queen's-road East,\n\n36,000\n\nLot 222.-8 houses and godowns, Queen's-road East,\n\n12,000\n\n* 517.-1 godown, Queen's-road East,\n\n7,000\n\nLot 590.- Beauregard,\" Caine-road,\n\n19,500\n\n* 650,-4 houses, Queen's-road East,\n\n10,150\n\nBreezy Point,\n\n8,000\n\nLot 103-11 houses, Gage-street,\n\n43,000\n\nLot 71 sec.--8 shops, Queen's-road West,\n\n34,500\n\nLots 447 and 448.--15 shops Queen's-road West and First-street,\n\n36,500\n\nLot 632.-12 shops, First-street,\n\n14,500\n\n* Lot 138.-Oriental Hotel Buildings,\n\n33,300\n\nLot 90.---25 Houses, Hollywood-road and Gough-street,..\n\n66,000\n\nLot 52.--8 houses, Wellington-street,\n\n29,000\n\nLot 157,\n\nThere have also been a few sales of godowns at Praya East.\n\nMINUTE BY ACTING SURVEYOR GENERAL,\n\nI herewith annex a corrected return of the recent Land Sales registered in the Land Office.\n\n45,000\n\nLot 68 sec.--14 shops, Queen's-street and Praya,\n\n75,000\n\nLot 37 sec.-14 shops, Queen's-street and Queen's-road,.....\n\n79,000\n\nE. BOWDLER,\n\nActing Surveyor General.\n\n* Properties sold by Foreigners to Chinese.\n\n30th May, 1881.\n\n213", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309355, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "徒各縣皆有惟我東莞縣拐案較多凡屬駐港商人言之無不切齒因議集衆捐資或儲官庫或貯店行以備遍懸賞格購線緝拿務期杜絕此風使拐睚無所施其伎倆且以本邑人而本邑之匪見較確可無枉縱之虞惟事關攻匪保其礙於官法非奉憲餘未敢擅行迫得聯名良家婦女到港初則鮠騙爲傭繼則逼勒爲裝或轉販外洋或分售各如童男則賣作螟蛉童女則鬻作娼婢總總奸謀殆難枚舉竊思此等匪綦嚴向蒙大憲壹次懲治拐匪稍知斂跡幾於弊絕風清邇來人心鬼蜮陽奉陰違行踪詭秘東往西遷甚至媒婆老媼俱爲拐帶窩家如誘\n\n具禀人東莞縣駐港客商處屛馮明珊施笙階謝達盛等禀爲拐風日嶽集資懸賞乞恩給以除非而安良善事切港地賣拐騙例禁\n\nSTATEMENT OF CHUN-SHIE.\n\nCHUN-SHE, wife of TSANG SAN-FAT, states:-Some time last September, my husband told me that he owed some money to LEUNG A-TSIT, who had asked us to give him our little girl LAM-KI instead. I talked the matter over with my husband and being pressed for the debt, we determined to part with the girl provided $2 extra was paid.\n\nSome few days afterwards the man LEUNG A-TSIT came to our house for the child; he paid the $2 to my husband and we then, of our own free will, gave up the little girl, and he took her away. I was very sorry about it and cried. The arrangement was that he was to keep her at his own house and by and bye find her a husband. There was nothing said about selling or not selling her, no paper was made out. I several times visited her at LEUNG A-TSIT'S house and found that she was in no way ill-treated. I fancied however that LEUNG A-TSIT did not much like my coming so often to his house to see the girl.\n\nOne day in May this year A-SIN (a man employed by LEUNG A-TSIT) happening to pass my house, I called him in to have a cup of tea and he then told me that his master was going to send the girl away somewhere. A-SIN did not say anything about LEUNG A-TSIT selling the child, nor did he mention what place she was likely to go to. I told my husband what A-SIN had said to me and I asked him to make enquiries, and to prevent her being sent away. My husband afterwards informed me that he had petitioned the Government on the subject.\n\nI last saw the girl about 2 months ago and I believe she is still at LEUNG A-TSIT's house.\n\nI should like my daughter to come back, for then I could betroth her when she is old enough, and I should then probably have money enough to pay LEUNG A-TSIT.\n\nSTATEMENT OF TSANG SAN-FAT.\n\nTSANG SAN-FAT, a Stone Cutter, living at Tai-kok-tsui, British Kowloon, states as follows:-I have a little girl, 6 years of age, named LAM-KI. Some 3 years ago I borrowed of a man named LEUNG A-TSIT of the Man-wo Barber's shop near SPRATT'S Dock, the sum of $5 which with interest, (10 cents per month for every dollar), now amounts to $23. Last year, September, 1877, LEUNG A-TSIT came to me and demanded payment. I told him, I had no money, moreover that I found it very difficult to provide for my family, and therefore I could not pay. He then said, very well, you can give me your daughter instead, and when she is grown up, I will find a husband for her. No terms were then come to, but we had some more conversation about it 10 days afterwards when it was agreed that LEUNG A-TSIT should have the girl for $25, viz.: the $23 already owing and $2, which was to be paid to my wife, CHUN-SHE as tea-money, it was further arranged that LEUNG A-TSIT was not to sell the girl but get her a husband when she was old enough to marry.\n\nOn the 5th October, 1877, LEUNG A-TSIT brought me the $2 when I and my wife handed him over our daughter and he took her away. No paper was drawn up or signed at any time. My wife occasionally visited the child at LEUNG A-TSIT's house and found her comfortable and well-looked after.\n\nOne day last May, 1878, a man named A-SIN, employed as a barber in LEUNG A-TSIT's shop passed by my house during my absence and told my wife that LEUNG A-TSIT was going to take the girl away, this was told to me on my return from work, and I then went to LEUNG A-TSIT and made enquiries. LEUNG A-TSIT informed me that he thought it would be best to send the girl away he did not say where in consequence of the disturbed state of Hongkong, owing to the war between England and Russia. I told the shopkeeper about it, but after making some enquiries they did not further interfere.\n\nI then petitioned the Registrar General who told me to lay my case before the Colonial Secretary, which I did. I have no evidence as to any intention on the part of LEUNG A-TSIT to sell the child except what was said by A-SIN. The girl has not been sent away yet. I do not much care about the child coming back as I am very poor, but my wife is very anxious that she should return for she does not like the thought of her being sent away.\n\nIf she comes back to us, I will do all I can to support her and to get her betrothed by and bye when I shall probably be able to pay back what I owe to LEUNG A-TSIT.\n\nMy wife is very busy attending to my old mother and working for the daily rice, so that it would be very difficult for her to come over and give evidence.\n\nHongkong, 1st July, 1878.\n\nMemorial of Chinese Merchants, &c., praying to be allowed to form an Association for suppressing kidnapping and traffic in human beings.\n\nTo HIS EXCELLENCY the Governor.\n\nThe humble petition of the undersigned residents and merchants of Hongkong, being natives of the Tung-kún District, viz. Lo Lai-ping, Shi Shang-kai, Fung Ming-shán, Tsé Tát-shing and others, of Bonham Strand, No. 3, in the matter of uniting to offer rewards on account of the daily increase of crimes of kidnapping, praying for the issue of a warrant with a view to make endeavours to stop these crimes and to pacify the well-behaved people,\n\nSheweth,\n\nThat there are strict regulations in Hongkong forbidding the sale of honest people through kidnapping or deceit, and that, thanks to His Excellency the Governor repeatedly taking repressive measures against kidnappers, the latter know well that they must be careful as to their movements, and consequently this great evil became well nigh extinguished,\n\nThat, however, quite lately the minds of some people have become perverted in deceit, pretending to obey the law and secretly disobeying it, pursuing a dangerous secret game and moving about between East and West, the worst being go-betweens and old women who have houses for the detention of kidnapped people and, as it may be, inveigle virtuous women or girls to come to Hongkong, at first deceiving them by the promise of finding them employment (as domestic servants) and then proceeding to compel them by force to become prostitutes or exporting them to a foreign port, or distribute them by sale over the different ports of China, boys being sold to become adopted children, girls being sold to be trained for prostitution, it being altogether impossible to explain in detail all their varied plans of wickedness,\n\nThat your Petitioners are of opinion, that such wicked people are to be found belonging to any of the (neighbouring) Districts, but in our District of Tung-kún such cases of kidnapping are comparatively more frequent, and all the merchants of Hongkong without exception are expressing their annoyance,\n\nThat therefore a meeting for the discussion of the matter has been held and it is proposed to raise subscriptions which may either be paid into the Colonial Treasury or entrusted to some house of business to facilitate general publication of offers of reward and the employment of special detectives with a view to eventually stamp out this crime of kidnapping and to make it impossible for the kidnappers to carry on their tricks,\n\nThat, moreover, we natives of Tung-kún can get comparatively more reliable information regarding Tung-kún kidnappers, leaving no room for miscarriage of justice,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310824, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 404, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "395\n\n留心辦理以免不處 名工人按照後列之地步及人數單分派在隔穢氣邊或鄰近地方 之中毋使雨水汛濫以至破壞街道該承充人必要吩咐所僱之二十*在雨水天時除打掃街道工人外承充人須要加添工人二十名以爲料理隔穢氣井之事以免沙坭樹葉樹枝或別樣攤等物硬塞鐵單\n\n地步及人數單開列如下：\n\n皇后大道東約三名 堅道 皇后大道西約二名 羅便臣道三名\n\n皇后大道中約三名 西廚衛城道 二名 亞埋畢道 二名 德拉街 一名\n\n雲咸街 一名 三名 麽魯並俾厘街一名 文咸大街 一名\n\n其行所用之鐵鈀由承充人備辦 工務司定式\n\n承充人每日至少要將街上所有橫砌截水明渠清挖一次 將一切沙石坭及樹葉與搡搡等物盡行挑去\n\n[16]\n\nsticks, or rubbish, and the roads from being destroyed by the overflow of surface drainage, the Contractor shall on rainy days station twenty coolies beside or near the sewer traps with instructions to keep the same clear, and it is to be distinctly understood that these twenty coolies shall be exclusive of those engaged in the street sweeping gangs, and they shall be stationed in the following order:-\n\n \n 3 Coolies in Queen's Road East.\n 2 Coolies in Bonham Strand.\n 1 Coolie in Albert Road.\n \n \n 3 Coolies in Queen's Road Central.\n 2 Coolies in Caine Road.\n 1 Coolie in D'Aguilar Street.\n \n \n 2 Coolies in Queen's Road West.\n 1 Coolie in Castle and Seymour Roads.\n 1 Coolie in Wyndham Street.\n \n \n 3 Coolies in Robinson Road.\n \n 1 Coolie in Mosque and Peel Streets.\n \n\n7. The Contractor shall at least once a day carefully clean out and free of all sand, dead leaves, stones and rubbish all the open catch water drains built across public roads, for this purpose, he shall provide the sweeping gangs with suitable iron scrapers of such form and shape as the Surveyor General may approve.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310831, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 411, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "LIST OF SEWER TRAPS \n\nto be periodically cleared and cleansed and kept free of obstructions by the Government Contractor in accordance with clauses 5 and 6 of the Government Scavenging Contract of 1876.\n\n[ 30 ] \n\n第 ++ 九八 \n\n[31] \n\n第十一號 第十六號 第十四十五號 號號號號十十號 號號 第第 九八七六五 士號號號 銑 \n\nSituation.\n\n1. On Bonham Road opposite Green Mount.\n\n2. Do.\n\n3. Do.\n\n4. Do.\n\n5. On Robinson Road South side behind Rose Villas.\n\n6. In the centre of East Street and High Street.\n\n7. Junction of New Eastern Street and Second Street.\n\n8. Corner of Queen's Road and East Street.\n\n9. Corner of upper Bonham Strand and Lascar Row.\n\n10. Do.\n\n11. Corner of Queen's Road and Bonham Strand,\n\n12. Junction of Bonham Strand and Bonham Strand West.\n\n13. Do.\n\n14. Junction of Bonham Strand and Wing Lok Street.\n\n15. Do.\n\n \n\n第五號 第一二三四號 在新東街高街中央 \n\n俱在文咸道在忌望對面 在羅便臣道南便在桂花庄之後 \n\n高南 便总 在皇后大道離文咸大街角 在文咸大街並文咸西約相續處 \n\n在東街及皇后大道角 在新康街及第二街交加之處 \n\n在文咸大街頭並麽羅街之角 城街街 隍 並重 永文文 樂咸 頂街 係相 鐵續 \n\n在皇后大道鹿角酒店前 在皇后大道鴨巴甸街脚 \n\n在衛城道西台對面 在堅道在城隍廟街頂係做的 \n\n: 402 \n\n二 i\n\nPage 30\n\n引 \n\naur \n\n[ 30 ]\n\nPage 31\n\n[31]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318966, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## \nAnd that I was preparing a minute in the subject of Opium taxation here and in our neighbourhood.\n\nI beg to submit that Memorandum.\n\nI have prepared a Minor in the illegal collection of tax in Opium in Singapore for the Chief Government, their nature and proposals under consideration, with observations on the Cheung Chau Corporation.\n\nAt 10g Praya Central, Cheung Chau, there is a Collective warehouse called \"Ching Chun\" where regular duty can be paid on opium intended to be imported into Cheung Chau.\n\nAlso, at Wing Lok Street, Cheung Chau, a Tax Called Hoi Jong can be paid; and at 120 Bonham Strand...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320568, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 532, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "## Number of the House\n1/22 P2. 17 38. 1 } 9 70 29 聾\n\n| Name of the Street or place | Numbe wells on the pre ice or Individual. | Date. | t previous Paper. | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Jay Loi Lane. | Hongkong No. 104889 (Subject.) DOMESTIC. | 882 | | |\n| First Street | 0. 10488 526 RECP \\REGENAU 12/ | | | |\n| Shing Hing Lane | ie, the Public Works | | 2 | |\n| Cheung Shing Lane. | | | | |\n| Jaipingshan Came Road and Corn Market Street | | | See-mee Alley | |\n| do | | | do | |\n| do | 6 | | Sai Woo Lave Queen's Road West | |\n| Corner of Market St. | | | Wai Yan Lane. Ladder Street | |\n| Sheung Hing Lane. | | | Centre Street | |\n| Queens Road West | 8 | | Bonham Strand | |\n| New East Street | | | Thord Street Seizingpoon High Street | P. and O. Company's premises |\n| Wai on Lee. | 86 | | Fuck On Lave Taipingshan | |\n| Third Street | | | Sai Wo Lane Battery Road | |\n| | | | Came Road | |\n| | | | Lecond Street | |\n| | | | Bonham Road | over No 2 tank under 12 tauk |\n| | | | Rutter Lane Jaipingshan | |\n\n## Note\nThe Sanitary Surveillance over the foregoing tion wells Ceased with the a of paragraphs 4 and 8 of the Instine :tions to Nuisance Inspectors. These Instructions were cancelled by the Governon Imprice.\n\n## Depot\nAn additional Clerk works at £350 &quarks to be sufficient for present purpo be wand of the Depist.\n\n## Remarks on the wan\nMr Teades.\n\n## (Minutes)\nThe terms on which dut. Howland awwas engaged are pien dreintes on for. Agents instructed 18. Coners: Ga 18. July 826 82 No.153 10008. Clee! 7 I would adopt the Anggesting Its afforint an extra Alert of the Works but I think he should the afforinted on the same terms as Mt. Howryd, abortion offerson from whose salary 13772 38.282-1&S 1750)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321212, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 589, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, NOVEMBER 30TH, 1880.\n\nSUPREME COURT,\n\n29th November.\n\nIN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE THE FULL COURT.\n\nKO LEONG YUEN AND OTHERS V. BAN HAP AND OTHERS.\n\nThe Attorney-General (Hon. E. L. O'Malley) and Mr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton and Wotton, appeared for the plaintiffs; Mr. Hayllar, Q.C., and the Hon. Ng Choy, instructed by Messrs. Sharp, Toller, and Johnson, appeared for Ban Hap and four other defendants; and Mr. McKean, instructed by Messrs. Stephens and Holmes, appeared for the remaining four defendants. Mr. Hayllar continued his opening speech for the defendants and referred to the minute book of the company as showing that the plaintiffs had taken their part in the management of the company and that nothing had been done behind their backs. Among other minutes read was the following, dated 2nd March, 1879—“As to the bidding for the opium licence in British Hongkong, it was known that the foreigner Pitman was a very good friend of the Governor. Now, having through him obtained the opium licence (or company), it is proposed to pay a bonus (or premium) to him. Now, we have agreed with Pitman and settled with him that the bonus or premium for the three years should be $15,000, which we intend to pay him in one lump sum. The various gentlemen are hereby informed of this so that they may decide and sign their names as proof.” This was signed by the directors. Having concluded his address, Mr. Hayllar proceeded to call evidence.\n\nMr. Tan King Sing said—I am one of the defendants and a merchant, living at No. 16, Bonham-strand West. I came from Saigon with Ban Hap's power of attorney. I was ordered to tender, and did so on the 17th January, 1879. Pitman wrote out the tender. Mr. Ban Hap was then in Saigon. I did not dream of an opposition when I tendered. Having got it I became one of the Man Wo Fung. I wired Ban Hap and he came. After he came the Man Wo Fung was got up. Ban Hap got it up. I took thirty shares. I represent four others. I am a Fokienese born at Singapore. I do not speak Cantonese, but communicate with my co-directors through interpreters. The directors were Ban Hop, Cheong Hong Lim by his attorney Chow Yu Moon, Mok Sa Yeong, Ng Mun Kwan, Tam Yak Shan, the plaintiffs Ko Leong Yuen and Lai Tai U, and Chow Yu Moon. He was the treasurer. Ban Hap was the chief president and looked over everything when he came. He kept the register. Choong Hong Lim's attorney looked after local consumption. The two plaintiffs examined the opium for exportation. We made at once a first call of $250. The second call of $250 was then made, but very late. The third call was made, of $100, at the end of the eleventh moon. The four plaintiffs have not paid $900. The whole directors had the management. It was not successful. The accounts have been made up. The losses for the first year were more than $150,000. The old farmers had boiled more than they consumed the last few months and flooded the markets. The opium passed through this harbour from Shanghai, prepared at Macao. The old farmers went to Macao when we got the licence. They boiled there and competed with us. We were promised by Pitman that the Government would stop the loss. It did not stop it, and caused the loss. The opposition at Macao was the San Yee, composed of the Chap Sing and Yau Wo. We were carrying on business against great opposition. We found out losses in the eighth or ninth moon. These were losses on exportation. Our opium was not in demand so much as San Yee's. The two plaintiffs came to us and said we must return the monopoly to the Government or not to pay the monthly fee. They were willing to have the $10,000 forfeited and they abandoned their directorship. This was the middle of October, 1879. Ban Hap himself was then at Amoy. On the 6th or 7th of the ninth moon (21st October) Ng Mun Kwan wired Ban Hap. He came a few days after. The first two plaintiffs came to him. There were several there. Tam Yuk Shan said we must return the monopoly. Ban Hap said—“We shall lose the $50,000.” He said, \"Never mind, we shall be losing more if we continue.\" Ban Hap said the licence was in his name and he would go on until the end of the term as best he could. The exhibit I is the register of shareholders in the Man Wo Fung. Tam Yuk Shan holds no shares in that name, but as Tse Yae Tong. Ko Leong Yuen has sold no shares; he is there as Sun Yoo Fong. When the plaintiffs met Ban Hap and saw that he did not yield, Tam Yuk Shan sold some of his shares. He sold eleven shares on 21st November. Ban Hap sent to enquire as to what he had heard about the Yan Wo and Chap Sing quarrelling. They were selling shares on the eighth day of the 10th moon and Ban Hap made enquiries. Shok Shong Chan was the negotiator. We had a meeting on the 5th February, 1880. Ban Hap called the meeting of those who wished for an amalgamation. Over twenty attended. It was held at No. 16, Bonham-strand West. The resolution was reduced into writing by the accountant Lau Ka Wan. I produce the minute book of the old company. All the shareholders present signed the draft agreement produced. There are twenty who signed. It was discussed and everyone had their say. It was all agreed and they signed it. After the meeting Ban Hap kept the agreement at the office. A few days after it was written Ko Leong Yuen and Lai Tai U went into the office where Ban Hap, I, and Ng Man Kwan were sitting, and asked for the document to copy. Ban Hap got up, opened his box, got it and gave it to Ko Leong Yuen. The latter handed it over to Lai Tai U and they both went away.\n\nThe agreement never came back. Wong Yeak Ho was sent for it by Ban Hap. It was taken away before the agreement of 9th March was drawn up, and we did not know how to set about drawing it up; we had to do it from memory. Dissent was expressed before the agreement of the 9th March. The two plaintiffs objected. They said this was wrong and that was wrong, but did not show any particular thing to be altered. Between 23rd February and 9th March there was further negotiation with the Yan Wo, by Shok Shing Chan. So far as I know there are no other shareholders unfavourable to the amalgamation but the plaintiffs. Since the amalgamation the company has prospered greatly and made profits. The profits for eight months are $32,000. Since the amalgamation the price of selling has been reduced from $70 to $50 from the last March. We made a yearly statement of accounts at the end of the first working year. They were distributed and sent by the accountant to the plaintiffs. I never heard of any objection to those accounts before the 23rd August. Tam Yuk Shan brought me the minute book with a minute in it regarding the Man Wo Fung and asked me to sign it. It is dated 7th June. He must have got it from the accountant. Since the 1st March, 1880, the two plaintiffs have come to the office. Ko Leong Yuen comes now nearly every day to see his friends and get information. No one has ever prevented the plaintiffs taking part in the management of the company. They do business with the Man Wo Fung. They buy opium for exportation. During the last few months of 1879 we borrowed money to pay the license fee. Altogether $65,000 was borrowed.\n\nThis closed the witness's examination-in-chief and the further hearing was adjourned until this morning.\n\nPage 585", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323106, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "page_number": 463, "title": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "content_text": "( 16 ) \n\nAppendix C.\n\nPRECIS OF CASES REPORTED TO HARBOUR DEPARTMENT,\n\nFROM AUGUST 1879 TO JUNE 1880.\n\n(17)\n\nAppendix D.\n\nCOLLECTION OF FOREIGN DUTIES WITHIN THE COLONY, THEIR NATURE\n\nAND AMOUNT.\n\nNo.\n\nDate.\n\n1879.\n\nC.S.O.2239\n\nPrecis of Contents.\n\n \n 189\n Aug. 14\n Junks Wing Yin and Fat On-Reporting the boarding of, by a Customs Cruiser in British waters. Harbour Master of opinion that Master of Junk's story is true.\n \n \n C.S.O.2076\n Nov. 13\n Forwarding Report from Inspector MACKIE of Stanley as to why he thinks a certain Cruiser seized a certain Junk in British waters. Not sufficient evidence.\n \n \n C.S.O.3217\n Dec. 13\n \n \n \n 3\n C.S.O.3238\n Dec. 15\n \n \n \n 1880.\n Jan. 5\n \n \n \n 77\n April 20\n Petition to recover the Kwong Li, Salt Junk, alleged to have been seized by a Chinese Cruiser in British waters. Place pointed out by Junk Master is in British waters.\n \n \n 78\n April 21\n Petition to reclaim the Hop Li, Salt Junk, seized by a Revenue Cruiser in British waters. Captured in Victoria Harbour.\n \n \n 102\n May 31\n Junk Kam Hip Fat.-Alleged seizure of 20 balls Opium, &c., by a Chinese Cruiser in British waters. Forwarding Minutes of evidence of M. M. Case No. 136, and a Report of Enquiry. The Master of Kam Hip Fat was charged with leaving the waters of the Colony between the hours of 6 P.M. and 6 A.M. without a Night Clearance, contrary to Section XIV of Ord. 6 of 1866. Case dismissed for want of evidence,\n \n \n C.S.O. 1261\n \n Licensed Fishing Junks, Nos. 804 and 67.-Reporting the boarding of, by the Chinese Cruiser in British waters. Place pointed out by Junk Master in waters of Colony.\n \n \n \n \n Forwarding Telegram from Cape d'Aguilar reporting supposed seizure of a Junk by a Chinese Customs' Launch in British waters. Nothing further heard of this.\n \n \n \n \n Junk Tak Shing Li-Reporting the boarding of, by a Chinese Cruiser in British waters. The Master of the Junk was charged.-\n \n \n \n \n (1.) With furnishing untrue particulars of his Junk at Shau-ki Wan Harbour Office; and\n \n \n \n \n (2.) With using his Clearance for another purpose than that for which it was obtained at Shau-ki Wan Harbour Station on the 26th May, 1880, contrary to Section XX of Ord. 6 of 1866. Sentenced to 24 hours' imprisonment with hard labour, and Junk and Cargo to be forfeited. (M. M. Case No. 64).\n \n\n24th October, 1882.\n\nMemo. on the illegal collection of taxes on opium in Hongkong for the Chinese Government, their nature and amount, with observations on the proposals under Chefoo Convention.\n\nAt 109 Praya Central, Fuk Cheung Wo Hong, there is a Collectorate where \"Regular Duty\" can be paid on opium intended to be imported into China.\n\n\"Ching Shui\"\n\nOf\n\nAt 70 Wing Lok Street, Fuk Cheung Hong, a tax called Hoifong can be paid; and at 120 Bonham Strand, there is a Collectorate of Lekin.\n\nThese Collectorates issue receipts, which are just as valid as those granted on the mainland of China, and at present the taxes collected are the same as those collected at Kap-shui Mun, the station at the entrance of the Canton River, and are much less than the taxes collected at Canton on opium taken in Foreign Bottoms.\n\nThe taxes now collected here, and at Kap-shui Mun, on opium shipped in junks, are, on Bengal Opium (Patna and Benares) per chest of 40 balls:----\n\n \n Hoppo's or Regular Tax..\n Lekin,\n Hoifong,...\n \n \n \n Tls. 27.8.0\n 20.7.0\n 34.8.0\n \n \n Total Tls.\n 82.8.0-$115.\n \n \n \n \n On Malwa:---\n \n \n \n \n \n Hoppo's duty,\n Lekin...\n Hoifong...\n \n \n \n \n Tls. 24.0.0\n 17.2.5\n 34.0.0\n \n \n Total Tls.\n 75.2.5-$104.51\n \n \n \n\nSome time ago, the rates were higher than at present, Bengal paying taels 19 for 40 balls or chest,\n\nand Malwa paying taels 111.6.7.\n\nOpium taken into Canton in Foreign Ships, pays at present:—\n\n \n On Bengal Opium (i.e. Patna and Benares) one chest 40 balls, 120 catties:---\n \n \n \n \n Hoppo's Duty,\n Lekin,\n Nga Tip,\n Hoifong,\n \n \n Difference in Sycee; Charity for poor and sick,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tls. 36,0.0\n 19.2.0\n 5.0.0\n 58.0.0\n \n \n \n 5.0.0\n \n \n \n \n \n Total Tls.\n 126.9.0-$175.28\n \n \n \n \n \n On Malwa, on 100 catties:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Duty,\n Lekin,\n Nga Tip,\n Hoifong,\n \n \n \n Difference in Sycee, Charity for poor and sick,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tls, 30.0.0\n 16.0.0\n 7.0.0\n 56.6.6\n \n \n \n 5.0.0\n \n \n \n \n \n Total Tls.\n 114.6.6-$159.25\n \n \n \n \n\n457", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326403, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "page_number": 438, "title": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "content_text": "**opinion** of the Acting Captain Superintendent \n\nof Police, it is necessary. \n\nThat; if it clearly appears to \n\nthe Police that an attack in force \n\ncommencing on any house or building \n\nwith a view to its sacking or destruction, \n\nand that the Police are unable without \n\nassistance to repel the attack, \n\nthen \n\nthe Military are to be called upon to assist: \n\nthe moment the Military \n\nare called \n\non to assist, the Riot Act shall be \n\nread \n\n9. \n\nby \n\na Magistrate in English, and \n\nalso, if possible, in Chinese. \n\nThat in case the Police \n\ncertified that attempts in force \n\nare being made to set \n\nfire to buildings, \n\nor boats, or ships, the \n\nMilitary \n\nare \n\nto be called upon to assist in the \n\nsame manner.\n\n10. \n\nThat the Magistrate who \n\nreceives \n\nCopy \n\nEnclosure 2. \n\nC. O. 19555 \n\nRECD. \n\nREGS 18 NOV 84, \n\n434 \n\n## Minute by the Colonial Secretary \n\non a \n\nconference held with certain Members of the Native Community \n\nregarding the strike and Riot. \n\nOn \n\nSaturday \n\nthe 4th October \n\ninstant, Mr. Foster, of the Pacific Mail Company, asked me on behalf of Mr. Li Tak-cheung, ex Chairman Jung Wa Hospital Committee to attend, unofficially, a meeting of \n\nChinese Merchants in Bonham's Strand, with a view to addressing the heads of the boat-people and \n\ncoolies out on strike. \n\nI objected, because, by complying \n\n10:22:35", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331039, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "content_text": "cleduction is fair and correct.\n\n44.\n\nAllusion has been made to a boy who was in my service at Sathangs. In reality, he came to light in the short period of three weeks.\n\nEvidence p. 248, May 13th, 15th. Three being arrested some six years ago for bribing Supreme Court for extortion. I may mention that I was in England at the time. I have heard since that the boy persistently maintained that he was deeply ...\n\n45.\n\nAllusion is made to the watchmen employed at Bonham Strand West pp. 169, 218, etc. I have only to observe that if I employed a similar number of men for a war, I should require a force of between 3 and 4,000 men.\n\nPage 221, O.C. 217, Fort. ... a table with packet of money bearing the name of Lokeng, May 14th.\n\nPage 221. The Magistrate writes to the Colonial Secretary recommending a special inquiry, May 27th.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent writes to the Colonial Secretary on the 28th and 29th May.\n\nThough the Exposure Office or Chief Police Office, May 27th.\n\nJune 10th. His Excellency, the Governor mentions a similar length of street, of about 550. Instead of one, the fact affording grounds suspicion that the corruption case and announce his intention to appoint a Secret Committee.\n\n10th June, Inspector Perry mentions the shop Sam Jai Po (pp. 46, 47%). I add that it was ...\n\nPage 221_O.C. 217 Fort.\n\n...\n\n \n\n was removed and re-format according to the rules, here is the revised output in HTML format as requested:\n\ncleduction is fair and correct.\n\n44.\n\nAllusion has been made to a boy who was in my service at Sathangs. In reality, he came to light in the short period of three weeks. Evidence p. 248, May 13th, 15th. Three being arrested some six years ago for bribing Supreme Court for extortion. I may mention that I was in England at the time. I have heard since that the boy persistently maintained that he was deeply...\n\n45.\n\nAllusion is made to the watchmen employed at Bonham Strand West pp. 169, 218, etc. I have only to observe that if I employed a similar number of men for a war, I should require a force of between 3 and 4,000 men.\n\nPage 221_O.C. 217 Fort. ... a table with packet of money bearing the name of Lokeng, May 14th.\n\nThe Magistrate writes to the Colonial Secretary recommending a special inquiry, May 27th.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent writes to the Colonial Secretary on the 28th and 29th May. Though the Exposure Office or Chief Police Office, May 27th.\n\nJune 10th. His Excellency, the Governor mentions a similar length of street, of about 550. Instead of one, the fact affording grounds suspicion that the corruption case and announce his intention to appoint a Secret Committee.\n\n10th June, Inspector Perry mentions the shop Sam Jai Po (pp. 46, 47%). I add that it was...\n\nPage 221", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333419, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "Our staff at present consists of:\n\n1 Superintendent.\n\n1 Assistant Superintendent.\n\n1 Do.\n\n1 Clerk.\n\n1 Engineer.\n\n1 Assistant Engineer.\n\n2 Engine Drivers, Chinese.\n\n3 Do., Europeans.\n\n2 Assistant Engine Drivers, Europeans.\n\n6 Stokers.\n\n1 Overseer of Water Works.\n\n1 Inspector of Dangerous Goods.\n\n1 Chinese Assistant Do.\n\n2 Foremen.\n\n4 Assistant Foremen.\n\n17 Firemen, Europeans.\n\n46 Do., Chinese.\n\n30 Do., Market Coolies.\n\n10 Chinese Contingent.\n\n15 Watchmen.\n\nFloating Engine.\n\n1 Assistant Foreman and Engine Driver.\n\n1 Chinese Engine Driver.\n\n1 Stoker.\n\n2 Seamen.\n\nSince the post of second Assistant Superintendent has been abolished and the joint appointment of Assistant Superintendent and Engineer has been made, a greater responsibility has fallen on the Acting Assistant Engineer, as the Engineer in his dual capacity is frequently called away to the scene of the fire, and must leave the Engines in charge of the next in command.\n\nLooking to the increased duties that devolve upon the Engineer and his Assistant, who now have to keep in an efficient state six steam engines and nine manuals, I consider the remuneration, which was voted at a time when there were only two steam engines, is somewhat inadequate to the increased duties and responsibilities.\n\nAt the Annual General Inspection in November last, a new feature was introduced in the form of competition at Fire drills for prizes, which acted as a stimulus to the members of the Brigades and gave them greater interest in their work; and amongst the Chinese particularly, this has resulted in bringing to the front some really valuable firemen. As an instance of the efficiency of the Brigades, I may mention that at the recent fire which occurred in Bonham Strand on a Sunday afternoon, within the space of a few minutes of the alarm being sounded, thirteen powerful jets of water were playing upon the burning houses.\n\nAt first sight our Brigade appears to be not only adequate as regards machinery, but also numerically, but when it is borne in mind that not more than half of the Europeans are available at any one fire, and that the hilly configuration of the Colony often requires two engines to do the work of one in order to reach the elevation required, it will be seen that the Brigade is under, rather than over, the necessary strength for a growing Colony like Hongkong.\n\nThe supply of water from the new Water-works (in course of construction) will materially assist in extinguishing fires in the upper levels of the Colony, and also in the early stages of all fires, if my suggestion with regard to telephonic communication is adopted. But the value of water mains must not be over-estimated, as in a case similar to that in Bonham Strand (referred to before) it would be impossible to concentrate such a body of water at any one given point from hydrants as could be obtained by steam Engines, and the superiority of salt water over fresh, for extinguishing fires is universally acknowledged.\n\nI cannot close this report without mentioning the able assistance I have had during the past year from the Officers of the Brigade. I may specially mention Mr. WAGNER, who has been acting as Engineer and Assistant Superintendent, Mr. RAE, the chief foreman, and Mr. CAMPBELL, Acting Assistant Engineer. These officers have devoted a great deal of time and attention to their respective duties and the present efficiency of the Brigade is in a great measure due to their untiring exertions.\n\nWe are greatly indebted to the Captain Superintendent of Police for the excellent order kept by his force at the various fires. The systematic working of the Brigade, and absence of malicious injury to hose and larceny of Government property, is greatly owing to the vigilance of the Police.\n\nSubjoined is a tabulated form showing the number of alarms of Fires, and estimated damage for the past year.\n\nThe Honourable F. STEWART, LL.D.,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJOHN S. BREWER,\n\nActing Superintendent Fire Brigade.\n\nDate.\n\nYEAR 1886.\n\nRETURN OF FIRES AND ALARMS OCCURRED DURING THE\n\n \n Date\n Time\n Situation of Fire\n Cause\n No. of Buildings destroyed\n Wholly\n Partly\n REMARKS\n \n \n 1 January\n ...\n A stack of grass at the back of Joss house at Shaukiwán\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n Some thousands of young fir trees were destroyed.\n \n \n ...\n ...\n A bed curtain in No. 42, Circular Pathway\n Carelessness with a lighted cigar\n ...\n ...\n ...\n A number of Chinese\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Grass on hillside West of Mount Davis\n Unknown\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney of No. 27, Gage Street\n Sparks from the Engine House\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Praya Central, Blackhead & Co.'s Store\n Carelessness with matches\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Saw dust in No. 21, Pound Lane\n Unknown\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Near Shaukiwán Market\n Accidental when cooking\n ...\n ...\n ...\n Burning Incense\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Grass above Tai-tam-tuk Water-Works\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 13\n ...\n Grass on the hillside at Mount Davis\n ...\n ...\n 66\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n A stack of grass at Shaukiwán\n ...\n ...\n 35\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n A matshed at Coffee Plantation\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 19\n ...\n Trap door No. 297, Queen's Road Central\n ...\n 1\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n A bed curtain and beddings in No. 41, East Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Matshed at Hungbòm Docks\n ...\n 1\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 26\n ...\n Cook-house No. 61, Praya West\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 30\n ...\n A stack of grass at Taikoktsui\n Unknown\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Grass on the hill near Parsee Point\n Do.\n ...\n ...\n 17\n ...\n \n \n 31\n ...\n Chimney of No. 4, Blue Buildings\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 19 February 2\n ...\n No. 186, Hollywood Road, (Po Lok Theatre)\n ...\n Whole Block\n 02\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Matshed at No. 2, Gap Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 5\n ...\n Stack of grass at Quarry Bay\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Wooden partition at No. 49, Wear Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney at No. 1, Seymour Terrace\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Stack of grass at Shankiwán\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Matsheds at Naval Yard, Kaulung\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney at No. 11, Cochrane Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Grass on the hill at Mount Davis\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney at No. 3, Taipingsbán Streer\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Matsheds at Belchers Battery\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 10\n ...\n No. 3, Wing Fung Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n No. 8, Wai Tak Lanė\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney at No. 5 Station\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Staircase of No. 149, Queen's Road West\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n No. 84, Queen's Road East\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n No. 116, Praya West\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Mosquito curtain in No. 266, Queen's Road West\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Wooden partition at Gilman Bazaar\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney of No. 235, Queen's Road Central\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n No. 56, Market Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney at Iongkong Club\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 6\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n 13\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 11\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 21\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n April\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 6\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n 35\n 'ZZ\n ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333420, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "No. \n\nDate. \n\nTime. \n\nRETURN OF FIRES AND ALARMS OCCURRED DURING THE YEAR 1886,--Continued.\n\n \n Situation of Fire.\n No. of Building destroyed.\n Damage.\n Cause.\n REMARKS.\n \n \n Grass on hillside near Aberdeen,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosquito curtain at No. 10, Jardine Bazaar,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Firewood in cook-house of No. 3, Hin Lung Lane, No. 50, Jardine Bazaar,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n No. 4, Square Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chimney at No. 224, Queen's Road West,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chimney of Medical Hall,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Firewood in the kitchen of No. 31, Gongh Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n A piece of cloth at No. 9, Wellington Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 41 May 30,\n 11.30 a.m.\n Third Street,\n \n \n \n \n 42 31,\n 8.30 a.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 43 June 30,\n 2.30 p.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 44 July 3,\n 7.30 a.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 45 3,\n Midnight\n \n \n \n \n \n 46\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 47\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 49 30,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 50 August 3,\n 12.45 p.m.\n No. 24, Circular Pathway,\n \n \n \n \n 51 13,\n 9.45 p.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 52 13,\n 5 p.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 53 14,\n Noon.\n \n \n \n \n \n 54 17,\n 8.30 p.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 55 20,\n 10 a.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 56 26,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 57 30,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 58 September 5,\n 9.30 p.m.\n Chimney of No. 21, Ladder Street,\n \n \n \n \n 59\n 8.\n \n \n \n \n \n 60\n 9,\n \n \n \n \n \n 61 1,\n 11 p.m.\n No. 3, Ezra Lane,\n \n Mat Screen.\n \n \n 62 12,\n 4.20 a.m.\n No. 824, Queen's Road West,\n \n \n \n \n 63 15,\n 4 p.m.\n Grass on hill near Cape D'Aguilar and Stanley Road,\n \n $3,500\n \n \n 64 17,\n 7 p.m.\n No. 41, Salt-fish Lane,\n \n \n \n \n 65 17,\n 6.30 p.m.\n A Kerosene Lamp No. 47, Hollywood Road,\n Lamp burst.\n \n \n \n 66 19,\n 4 p.m.\n Grass on hillside near Chai Wan,\n \n Trifling\n \n \n 67 27,\n 10 a.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 68 29,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 69 October 2,\n 5.45 p.m.\n Chimney of No. 10, Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n \n \n 70 6,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 71\n 6 a.m.\n Chimney of No. 18, Hollywood Road,\n \n \n \n \n 72 11,\n 9 p.m.\n Carpet in Hongkong Hotel,\n \n \n \n \n 73 12,\n 6.30 p.m.\n Grass on Mount Davis,\n \n \n \n \n 74 21,\n 10.45 p.m.\n A mosquito curtain in No. 5, Third Street,\n \n \n \n \n 75 22,\n 12.30 p.m.\n A matshed at Stone Cutters' Island,\n \n \n \n \n 76 22,\n \n No. 3, Kan Ü Fong,\n \n \n \n \n 77 23,\n 5.50 p.m.\n No. 3, Tuk Hing Lane,\n \n \n \n \n 78 November 2,\n 12.50 p.m.\n Grass on hill near Tai-tam-tuk,\n \n \n \n \n 79 2,\n 7.20 p.m.\n Some mats on No. 51, Caine Road,\n \n \n \n \n 80 6,\n \n Chimney of Tsimshatsui Station,\n \n $12,000\n \n \n 81 November 8,\n \n Chimney of No. 95, Second Street,\n \n \n \n \n 82 13,\n 10,\n No. 218, Hollywood Road,\n \n \n \n \n 83 10,\n 17\n A bundle of firewood in No. 10, West Street\n \n \n \n \n 84 11,\n 3\n Rattan shavings in No. 15, Tik Lung Lane,\n \n \n \n \n 85 18,\n \n A mattress in No. 74, Praya East,\n \n \n \n \n 86 20,\n 11\n Flooring of No. 88, Bridges Street,\n \n \n \n \n 87 20,\n 32\n Cook-house No. 6, Praya, Hunghom,\n \n \n \n \n 88 22,\n \n No. 17, Hollywood Road,\n \n \n \n \n 89 24,\n \n Horse Repository, Garden Road,\n \n $40,000\n \n \n 90 24,\n 5.40 p.m.\n A mosquito curtain No. 60, Praya, Yaumati,\n \n \n \n \n 91 26,\n 9 p.m.\n No. 106, Queen's Road West,\n \n \n \n \n 92 26,\n \n Chimney No. 36, Praya Central,\n \n \n \n \n 93 29,\n 5 p.m.\n A mosquito curtain No. 7, Circular Pathway,\n \n \n \n \n 94 December 5,\n 5 p.m.\n A mosquito curtain Square Street,\n \n \n \n \n 95 7,\n 37\n Hillside near North Fort,\n \n \n \n \n 96 11,\n 59\n Bed board at No. 23, Taipingshan Street,\n \n \n \n \n 97 13,\n \n Grass on the hill at Aberdeen,\n \n \n \n \n 98\n 15\n Chimney of No. 39, Pottinger Street,\n \n \n \n \n 99 16,\n 5 a.m.\n No. 91, Queen's Road West,\n \n \n \n \n 100 16,\n 33\n 12.30 p.m.\n Grass on hill between Chaiwan and Shekò,\n \n \n \n 101 17,\n 7 a.m.\n No. 223, Queen's Road West,\n \n $16,000\n \n \n 102 17,\n 8 p.m.\n Wooden partition at No. 20, Jervois Street,\n \n \n \n \n 103 19,\n 5.40 p.m.\n No. 67, Bonham Strand West,\n \n $18,000\n \n \n 104 20,\n 1.40 a.m.\n Mat-bags in No. 155, Praya West,\n \n \n \n \n 105 20,\n \n A coal godown in Ship Street,\n \n \n \n \n 106 22,\n 3 p.m.\n Cook-house of No. 42, Jervois Street,\n \n \n \n \n 107 24,\n 5 p.m.\n A matshed in Italian Convent's Garden at Kaulung,\n \n $80\n \n \n 108 25,\n 33\n 5.50 p.m.\n Chimney of No. 91, Praya West,\n \n \n \n 109 28,\n 7 p.m.\n 1st floor of No. 23, East Street,\n \n \n \n \n 110 29,\n 5 p.m.\n Grass on the hillside above Pokfulam Road,\n \n \n \n \n 111 29,\n 6.30 p.m.\n Grass on hill between Gap and Mount Kellett\n \n \n \n \n 112 29,\n 7 p.m.\n A mosquito curtain and some bed clothing in No. 49, Square Street,\n \n \n \n\nFire Brigade Department, Hongkong, 5th January, 1887.\n\nJOHN S. BREWER,\n\nActing Superintendent Fire Brigade.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333512, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 334, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "appear to forget that there are wide constitutional differences between a native of China and one who hails from Europe. They do not allow for the differences of habits, usage, mode of living and a host of other things between the two. They insist upon the theory of treating all nationalities alike however much they may differ from one another physically, mentally, and constitutionally. Hence arise the several provisions in this Ordinance and Bye-laws in question which I have no hesitation in characterising as wholly unnecessary. One might as well insist that all Chinese should eat bread and beefsteak instead of rice and pork, just because the two former articles agree better than the latter with an English stomach. One argument must here be stated and refuted. It has been stated by some advocates of this Bill that the Government is always adverse to anything like class legislation and that any recommendation of the Sanitary Board to that effect would not likely be entertained. This I must confess does remind one of old times when all class legislation was earnestly sought for to be abolished, but with what results I need not mention. Look over our local Ordinances, how many there are still in force which make clear distinctions between Chinese and Europeans. It would only be a waste of time to quote instances. As long as we govern the Chinese according to our promise given while this Colony was yet in its infancy, viz., to govern them as much as possible in accordance with their manners and customs, and to respect their religion and prejudices, we must of necessity modify our laws in order to meet their peculiar requirements. Besides, does not common sense alone indicate to us the advisability of legislating especially in many cases to suit circumstances and surroundings?\n\nFrom an economical point of view, the idea of sacrificing the millions of square feet at an average price of $6 to $7, per square foot is even more ridiculous. What is this enforced sacrifice for? Simply for the sake of a theory that the Chinese public require all such Sanitary improvements to promote their health and welfare. But I challenge the soundness of that theory. I say the Chinese in general do not require this sacrifice or even desire it. Let the Government ascertain the views of the Chinese public in this matter. I have often been told that I was almost always in a minority in the discussion of the various sections of this Bill, but I was and am confident that the public at large, without distinction of races, will support me in most of my contentions. I was often charged also with looking too exclusively after the interest of landlords, but I always denied that charge. I do not only represent the interest of landlords, and personally I am not a landlord, I care for the tenants as much as the landlords, and the poor as well as the rich. It is not for the welfare of the poor to have the valuable space occupied by their small rooms narrowed, in order to provide for a model of a privy, a superb kitchen and a sumptuous backyard of 10 feet wide, while at the same time the wicked landlords continue to charge the same rent or even a higher one for improvements and increased capital necessary to effect such improvements. I am not aware of any law, except in Ireland perhaps, which will compel landlords to lower their rent to an equitably low amount. Perhaps such law will be enacted here, but for the present at all events, all landlords, like everybody else, will want to get from 7 to 8 per cent net interest on their capital. What is the price of land now per square foot? In the central and most populous parts of Chinatown, like Queen's Road Central, and Bonham Strand, it is something like $9, or $10 or more, and even in the more distant and less valuable quarters, it is something like $3 or $4. Just fancy the position of the poor tenant if this Bill becomes law. He would be forced to pay an enormous rent for less space than before, plus all sorts of Sanitary improvements which, however good in themselves from a European standpoint, they do not care for, and which they think at least their constitutions do not require. They may say that they are habituated to such cities like Canton, Kowloon city, &c., compared to which Hongkong as it now stands is a paradise, a model of cleanliness, a perfect Sanitarium, and that if any more improvements are required, let those who advocate it pay for them and not they.\n\nHere two adverse arguments must be noticed. The first is that the Chinese are so ignorant of what is good for themselves that they must be taught, and forcibly too, by means of severe legislative measures. I hardly expected to hear of such an argument, if such it may be termed, at the end of the nineteenth century. It reminds one of the Star Chamber and the Inquisition. Those who advance this argument had better take care, lest some wiser heads might act upon the same principle and enforce something unpleasant upon themselves. Let me give a few illustrations of this dangerous but with some persons most plausible argument. (1.) The established religion of England is Protestant Christianity, the Chinese are mostly heathens, but as they are ignorant and should be taught, let us legislate for enforced Christianity. (2.) The Chinese doctors do not know anything about the European practice of medicine and the Chinese public constantly go to them for advice; but then they are so ignorant—let us legislate for the total expulsion of Chinese trained practitioners and forbid all Chinese under heavy penalties from consulting any one but European doctors. (3.) Many Chinese are inveterate opium smokers, that if long continued, must be injurious to their health as well as a waste of their money; but they are so dreadfully ignorant—let us legislate and force every one to abstain from opium smoking. I may multiply examples, but these will show what I mean. No European will deny that the Chinese urgently need reform in their religion, their system of medicine and their opium smoking habits, but who will advocate that such reform should be wrought by means of harsh and sweeping legislation? Their ignorance should be enlightened no doubt, but not by penal law.\n\nThe second argument is more reasonable and it is this, that as habitable rooms get smaller and rents go higher in directly opposite proportion, wages will get higher too and that will compensate the poor tenants. This would be perfectly true, I admit, if Hongkong were hundreds of miles away from China. But fortunately or unfortunately, we are close to the mainland, where thousands of poor Chinese are struggling for a bare subsistence. The labour market is always in excess of the demand, and there are many able bodies who are willing and even anxious to get their 10 or 20 cents a day. Those who stick out for higher wages on account of increased rent and less house accommodation will be supplanted by those who will be content with less. For example, if a man gets say $15 a month and has to pay $5 per month for two small rooms for his wife and children and $10 for food and clothing &c., but on account of higher rent he has to pay $6 for the same two rooms smaller than before on account of the sacrifice of building for backyard and other spaces, he would, according to the law laid down above demand $16 per month for his services. He would certainly succeed in this if there were no one to take his place for less, but let us say there are plenty who will take it for less, then what must the poor man do but to pay the $6, or resort to overcrowding or to stinting himself and his family of food and clothing. Now allow me to ask whether building four feet away from retaining walls, the leaving of a ten feet wide backyard and the establishing of a 3/6 feet brick privy and spacious kitchen, more necessary than food and clothing, or more desirable than overcrowding?\n\nI shall speak briefly of the unconstitutional and arbitrary way in which this Bill seeks to enforce its various provisions and Bye-laws. It does not provide for adequate compensation in every case. Surely if the public is to be benefited by a large sacrifice of property, the sacrifice should not fall on the shoulders of particular individuals but on all alike. It is always easy to make free with other people's property, but when the thing touches our own pockets we may not be quite so ready to carry out our best intentions and scientific views. I do not think it is a wise policy of any Government, especially when it is not of a representative character, to legislate arbitrarily concerning the property of its subjects, and particularly when such measures involve so large a sacrifice of property. It shakes public confidence and drives away capital, a state of thing which may not affect those who have no permanent interest in the Colony, but is sufficient to excite alarm in the minds of those who are permanent residents and have the future welfare of the Colony at heart. In connection with the question of compensation one curious argument was not infrequently advanced, viz., that since land has lately risen greatly in value, it is but just that the landlords who get the benefit of the rise should sacrifice something for the public good. On the face of it, this seems reasonable enough, but is it so? Are there no landlords who paid the present price for their land with hard cash? How many landlords are there now in existence who have held land for twenty years on the stretch? Even with these, are the risks they have run and the services they have rendered as pioneers of this settlement to go for nothing? Why should their profits be lessened more than any others? These are questions one has to answer before one can recommend this Bill for the consideration of the Legislative Council.\n\nI come now to the strongest argument in favor of this Bill, with its numerous Bye-laws. It has been repeated over and over again that in some large English towns similar Bills have been passed, and that this is an almost exact copy of them, most provisions having been copied word for word, and therefore it must be just and proper—going upon the principle that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. In effect whatever laws they may pass at home we must also pass here. I protest loudly against this kind of indiscriminate and servile legislation. If we are to adopt all English local Acts of Parliament as our law, why need we a separate Legislative Council? There is no doubt some English Acts which we shall all be glad to have introduced here, such as the Press law for example, still every new law should be modified and adapted to suit local surroundings and requirements. To my mind the very fact of the present Bill being copied from the local law of England is the strongest argument against its being passed here without a great many important modifications and alterations. Just compare this...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334264, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "He was a respectable person and it appeared that he had carried on business in Hougtong for 20 years.\n\nSgd. Edw. Ackroyd, Acting Attorney General.\n\n14447\n\nIREO?\n\nREGE 25 JUL 87\n\n82\n\nLS W, G. CAMERON,\n\nNo. 20 of 1887.\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong-kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the naturalisation of CH'AN KWOK YING (陳國英)\n\n[2nd June, 1887.]\n\nWHEREAS CHAN KWOK YING, a native of the Tsinghoi District, in the Chiu Chau Prefecture, now carrying on trade as an Importer of Siamese goods at 132, Bonham Strand, in the Hop Hing hong, has petitioned to be naturalised as a British subject within the limits of this Colony; and whereas it is expedient that he should be so naturalised:\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--\n\n1. CHAN KWOK YING, shall be, and he is hereby naturalised a British subject within this Colony, and shall enjoy within this Colony, but not elsewhere, all the rights, advantages and privileges of a British subject, on his taking the oath of allegiance under the provisions of the Promissory Oaths Ordinance, 1869.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 13th day of May, 1887.\n\nFRAMBLE.\n\nNaturalisation of CH'AN KWOK YING.\n\nARATHON SETH, Clerk of Councils.\n\nAssented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 2nd day of June, 1887.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nPage 071\n\nAc\n\nREGE(25JUL87)\n\nNo. 20 of 1887", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334593, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 415, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "I \n\nEnclosure 1,\n\nThe Most Honourable\n\nThe Marquess of Salisbury, H.T. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.\n\nSheweth\n\n406\n\nThe humble Petition of Jaw of Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong\n\nMercantile Assistant\n\nYour Petitioner is the Manager of\n\nthe Wing Hat shop of No. 67 Bonham Strand, Victoria aforesaid,\n\nof which shop Lau Shing and Ham Jun are the Owners and partners.\n\nThe said Lau Shing and Ham Jun are at\n\npresent absent from the said Colony.\n\nOn the 8th January 1886 the said Lau Shing and Ham Jun caused two civil Summons to be issued out of the Supreme\n\nCourt of this Colony,\n\none against Kam Jie for $200 and the other against Au Mui for $400, and judgments were on\n\nthe 15th January 1886 given in favor of the Claimants for the\n\namounts of their claims.\n\nExecutions on the said judgments\n\nduly issued and on the said 15th January Prohibitory Orders were served in both Suits on the Acting Consul for Germany in the said Colony, whereby he was prohibited from parting with certain property and proceeds of the defendants thereto, which belonged to the defendants.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334612, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 434, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\n425\n\nReport by the Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court.\n\nOn January 8th, 1886, Writs of Summons (A. 11 and 12 of 1886) were taken out in the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, through their Solicitors, Messrs: Motton + Deacon, by Low Sheong and Lam Yun (therein described as traders carrying on business in copartnership with each other under the style or firm of Wing Kat at No. 69, Bonham Strand (Victoria), against Lam Ju and Su Mui for $250 and $500 respectively for goods sold and delivered.\n\nOn January 15, 1886, the Plaintiffs obtained judgment for the amount claimed in both cases, and on the same day Writs of Execution were issued against the Defendants.\n\nAnd on January 16th, 1886, two Prohibitory Orders (correct copies of which are attached to the Petition herein) were served on Inaucie Naldermar George Stockhausen.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335257, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 539, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "We were also large number of lanterns with the Union Jack painted on them. On the Pedder's Street frontage of this hong we noticed a huge transparency representing a steam-launch. The house next door, where Messrs. Stolterfoht and Hirst, Messrs. Danby and Leigh, and Mr. Lamke have their offices, had lanterns outlining the arches of the verandahs with larger lanterns hanging in the centre, and flags at the top of the house. The Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Company displayed a gas illumination of a steamer, with a crown below, the letters V. R. on either side, and their flag on one side and on the other a monogram with the letters H. W. D. C. The building occupied by the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited, and the Co. had a large crown in lanterns standing up from the top of the building, and below it a transparency with \"50\" in large figures, with lanterns running along the outlines of the building. Messrs. Douglas Lapraik and Co. had their flagstaff rigged with coloured lanterns, and had the face of the building illuminated with similar lanterns, with sidelights standing at the balustrading of the verandah bearing the British Lion and the firm's house flag. Messrs. Wieler and Co. had their verandah arches filled in with masses of lanterns, and Messrs. Nam Hing Loong's godowns next door had a bamboo scaffolding erected in front, on which were hung lanterns and \"V. R.\" in a transparency.\n\nWe next come to the Victoria Hotel, which made an exceedingly fine display both on the Praya and Queen's-road frontage. On the Praya there was a brilliant 6 feet star in gas, two small transparencies of the Queen, framed with lanterns, with a \"V. R.\" on each side, with rows of lanterns filling up the centre opening of the verandah. In Pottinger-street Mr. Dorabjee had bamboos thrown across from the hotel to the opposite houses at short intervals, and each bamboo was closely hung with lanterns, forming an illuminated arcade. On the Queen's-road side there was the motto in gas, in large letters, \"God Bless the Empress of India\" with \"V. R.\" in monogram on either side; above the motto, in the centre, was an oil portrait of Her Majesty illuminated with a frame of gas jets burning in opaque globes. The interior and main entrance of the hotel were decorated and illuminated with handsome Japanese lanterns.\n\nReturning to the Praya and still proceeding westward we come to Mr. Kiley's, sailmaker, who had a large American flag floating from the top of the building, with another flag with a humorous device beneath it. On the front of the building were American flags in great profusion, a transparency of the American eagle, a portrait of Her Majesty, with Union Jacks draped at the sides, and a number of lanterns. Mr. Kiley seemed, however, to have paid more attention to the day than to the night effect. Ying Lok and Co., next door, had a mat erection extending the whole height of the house, containing figures and illuminated with glass lamps. On the opposite side of the roadway was a shed for one of the numerous Chinese entertainments. Wing Tai had a transparency over the arch of the verandah with the words \"Her Most Gracious Majesty's Jubilee. Wing Tai and Co.\" There was also a good display of lamps. The Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co.'s temporary offices had a 20 feet gas star with the figures \"50\" in the centre. This had a diamond frame of red lanterns, and there were red and white lanterns following the lines of the building, and strings of lanterns led down from the flagstaff. The design was an excellent one and looked well from whatever point of view it was visible. At the doorway were cylindrical lanterns, with \"Jubilee,\" \"V.R.,\" and the Royal Arms painted on them. Messrs. Wing Kee & Co., the shipchandlers, had a large matshed erected in front of their premises, with figures, and decorated with flags and illuminated by kerosine chandeliers, and a very fine and large transparency displaying the Royal Arms. A number of the Chinese hongs further westward were illuminated more or less, amongst which we noticed Tuck Lee's and Fook Kee's. At the Hankow wharf we noticed an oil painting of the steamer fixed at the top of the gate. The Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co.'s wharf had lanterns over the entrance, and the flagstaff at the end of the wharf was also decorated. The steamer lying alongside presented a gay appearance covered as it was with white and coloured lanterns.\n\nThe Harbour Master's Office had a large display of flags, rows of lanterns running along the face of the building, and in front the motto \"Vivat Regina\" in red letters on a blue ground and several anchors covered with gold paper.\n\nIt may be remarked here that the junk anchorage presented quite a gay appearance during the day, most of the craft having bright red flags flying, and at night some of them made a show of lanterns. The cargo boats lying along Praya Central east of Pedder's Wharf also made a notable contribution to the illuminations by the strings of lanterns they displayed.\n\nThe On Tai Insurance Office, of which Mr. Ho Amei is Secretary, had a fancy mat erection over the doorway with a portrait of the Queen, and a display of flags and lanterns. He also showed the V.R. monogram in gas.\n\nBonham Strand and Bonham Strand West were covered in with open matting and brilliantly illuminated with chandeliers carrying kerosine lamps, forming a handsome arcade. Under the arcade a good number of groups of Chinese figures were hung, and along the sides of the street pots of choice plants were placed. Amongst the numerous Chinese entertainments which afforded amusement to crowds of Chinese in the Western district we noticed one at this point in which a clumsy looking and muscular Chinaman performed quite surprising tricks with a pair of heavy cymbals, requiring both strength and dexterity, accompanied by a band of other instrumentalists.\n\nSt. Peter's Church had a 12 ft. cross on the tower, and lines of lanterns along the body of the building. The Sailors Home, in the same compound, had a line of gas along the top cornice and a 10 ft. anchor, also in gas, while the gateway was illuminated with lanterns with the V. R. and Union Jack. No. 7 Police Station, close by, was also elaborately decorated. \"God save the Queen\" was worked in flowers on a green ground over the doorway, surmounted by a crown, the whole face of the building being lit up at night by numerous lanterns of various descriptions.\n\nAlong the Praya from the Recreation Club's premises (where a row of lanterns on the bridge to the bath-house added not a little to the illuminations at night) Venetian masts had been erected at intervals of 35 feet as far as the Harbour Office, and a string of flags ran from one to the other the whole way, each mast being further decorated with a shield and group of flags and a banner. These masts were painted different colours, some red, blue, black, etc.\n\nAt Murray Wharf there was a gay display of bunting, and it was illuminated with lanterns.\n\nAt Pedder's Wharf a magnificent triumphal arch had been erected. The structure was covered with blue cloth, which formed a good groundwork for the decorations. From the top of the arch floated the Royal Standard, flanked by the white ensign. Over the arch was the motto \"God save the Queen\" in red letters on a blue ground, with shields bearing the figures \"1837\" and \"1887\" Below these were larger shields with \"V. R.\" on them and flags draped above. Numerous silver stars were fixed on the blue ground, and the whole was illuminated by rows of gas jets in white globes running along the top and round the arch. The side facing the sea was decorated in similar style and the whole effect was very fine. The wharf itself was gaily decorated with flags suspended from Venetian masts.\n\nThe illuminations and decorations along Queen's-road had received no less care than those on the Praya. We have already described the City Hall and the Bank. Spanning the road at the latter building was a triumphal arch similar to that at Pedder's Wharf, except that it was covered with red cloth with the mottoes in large red letters on a gold ground \"She has lived in our hearts,\" \"The People to their Queen.\" Great care and expense had been bestowed on these arches, of which altogether there were three of similar design, the other spanning the road at Murray Barracks, and they formed a conspicuous feature in the decorations.\n\nPage 533", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337493, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "# \nIn another case, six Chinese lives were lost. The fire broke out in a room on the first floor and communicated itself to the stair-case before the inmates above were made alive to their danger. There were no means of escape either by the roof or by windows and all six lost their lives.\n\nThe last incident that occurred was at an extensive fire in Bonham Strand, where, without a minute's warning, five houses fell outwards across the street resulting in the most serious injuries to **Mr. Ross** the foreman of the Volunteer Fire Brigade. A member of the Government Fire Brigade was also slightly injured, but to those who witnessed what took place, it was a mercy that no more harm was done than was actually occasioned, as there were at least six firemen whose position at the time seriously jeopardized their lives.\n\nIt may not be out of place at the commencement of another year to take stock of the existing condition of the Fire Brigade and of its adequacy to meet the requirements of the Colony.\n\n## \nAt the present moment the Fire Brigade consists of thirty-three Europeans of whom seventeen are firemen, six engine drivers, and the rest, superintendents, foremen, and assistant foremen, and of ninety-one Chinese firemen besides stokers and interpreters. The pay of the European firemen is four dollars and fifty cents a month and that of a Chinese fireman from one dollar and fifty cents to one dollar. The foremen, stokers, and interpreters are of course paid at a higher rate. The Brigade is further strengthened by the services of the **Hongkong Fire Insurance Volunteers**, the **Pawnbrokers**, and other bodies all of whom have been present on every occasion of a fire and have rendered most valuable services.\n\nThe head quarters of the Fire Brigade are at `No. 5 Police Station` in Queen's Road.\n\nWatchmen are stationed at the Clock Tower and at the Tower of the Fire Brigade Station, and upon an alarm of fire the bells are rung at the Central Police Station, at the Fire Brigade Station and at the Clock Tower. Three separate strokes indicate a fire west of the Harbour Office, two separate strokes a fire between the Harbour Office and the Murray Barracks, and one stroke a fire east of the Murray Barracks.\n\n## \nThe Engines are located at the Fire Brigade Station. They are four in number, not including the floating engine which is known as the `No. 1 Engine`. The latter is located in the harbour near `Yau-mati`. It is an invaluable engine and can throw four jets of some sixty feet high. It has recently been modified with a view to increasing its speed and it is now capable of steaming at a rate of about eight knots an hour.\n\nIn addition to the steam engines I have mentioned, there are also a certain number of manual engines stationed in different parts of the island. So far as the City of Victoria is concerned, there is one at Government House, one at the Central Police Station, one in Hollywood Road, one at the Harbour Office and one at `Saiyingpún`. There are also boxes with fire appliances in various parts of the Town.\n\n## \nPractically speaking however the main strength of the Brigade is at the Fire Brigade Station. At an alarm of fire in the City of Victoria, a telephonic signal is immediately sent to what is known as the `No. 2 Tank`. This tank is situated in Caine Road, and supplies the City of Victoria with water from the `Pokfulam Reservoir`. The water is distributed by two main pipes from which branch out smaller pipes throughout the Town. Its limits are broadly speaking Queen's Road at the foot of Gough Street to the west, Queen's Road to the north and the City Hall to the east. At frequent intervals are what are known as street fire plugs. They are distinguishable by iron plates level with the street, and on removing this iron plate, hose can be attached. Many of these plates have a raised knob on the top of them. The knob is to distinguish them from the other plates that are without them, and indicates that they are stop plugs, that is to say that they are merely for the purpose of shutting off water. Before this distinguishing mark was put, the greatest confusion often resulted, and much time was lost in waiting for water at one of these stop plugs, when there was none to come.\n\nThe `No. 2 Tank` is in its turn supplied from another tank at the western end of Robinson Road. This tank also supplies Caine Road and some other streets. These are the two chief distributions of water from the `Pokfulam Reservoir`. There are other subsidiary supplies which are strictly local. One is in `Glenealy Ravine` and supplies the Gaol and Police Barracks. Another is above the Government Civil Hospital and another near the Albany. `Wanchai`, as far as the City Hall, is supplied from the tank that is to be seen in the `Wong-nei-chung Gap`.\n\n## \nGenerally speaking the fresh water supply is very unsatisfactory. It is uncertain inasmuch as it is not always running, it is inadequate and its pressure is not uniform. Much of its possible pressure is also diminished by leakage throughout the houses in which it is distributed along its route to the fire and by other causes such as the friction of the pipes, and sudden changes in their diameter. In reducing therefore, the working of the Brigade to a system, it is impossible to regard the fresh water supply as other than a very poor adjunct, and in almost every instance recourse is had to the harbour.\n\nis able to afford a sufficient jet for houses placed between Queen's Road and the harbour. The rule therefore is to work direct from the harbour with all houses comprised within those bounds, but in the case of fires at a higher level than Queen's Road, the engines are distributed at intervals up the hill as far as may be required; they are connected the one with the other with hose and each engine pumps into the other until the level of the fire is reached. All this occasions great wear and tear of engines and hose and fire materials, and leaves only a very limited supply of water when the fire is reached, but it is inevitable so long as the fresh water supply is arranged as at present. Nor do I see that the increased supply of water from `Tytam` will much improve matters unless with it there is an increase of pressure, a uniformity of distribution and a certainty of water at all times.\n\nIt is impossible to insist too much upon the element of certainty. It is not as if fires could be met by arrangements devised for them at the moment. They must be treated in accordance with general arrangements applicable to all cases, and of these the first desideratum is water, and until one can base one's arrangements upon the certainty of a sufficient fresh water supply at any given point, the harbour must be regarded as the single basis of one's calculations.\n\nThe hilly nature of the site of the City of Victoria would seem to point to a system of high level tanks as being that best adopted for the requirements of the Town. In the case of a fire spreading up the hill it would be of immense advantage to be able to meet it from above and the constant growth of the Town up the hill points still further in this direction. Nor am I at all sure that with such a system, if properly devised and carried out, the necessity for land steam engines will not almost entirely cease to exist. The cost would of course be considerable and it may not be thought to be worth while to incur it. The proposed **Praya reclamation scheme**, however, if carried out, will necessarily bring this matter to the front, and in the meantime I would merely ask His Excellency's attention to the question and also to the consideration as to the extent to which the working of the reclamation scheme will interfere with the water supply from the harbour.\n\n## \nThe following is the arrangement at present in force with regard to the steam engines. Three of the engines proceed to the Praya. Two of them run out hose to the fire. The other stands by with fires lighted, but does not run out hose until the order is given. The fourth engine remains in the station in reserve. Each engine has its own hose reel, and the branch pipes have special marks to indicate to which engine they belong. In order that in the confusion the branch pipes may not be attached to the wrong hose, a slight delay takes place between the removal of each engine from the station, and the driver is under orders to see that his engine never starts without the proper hose reel accompanying it. With a view further to obviate any miscarriage from hurry or ignorance or neglect, duplicate branch pipes are supplied, two being attached to each engine and two to each hose reel. The branch pipe is frequently termed the nozzle, but strictly speaking the term \"nozzle\" is applicable only to the end of the branch pipes from which the water issues.\n\n## \nGenerally speaking the efforts of the Brigade have been directed rather to the simplification of duties and to the instruction of the men in a few broad elementary rules with regard to the running out of hose, the protection of the adjoining property, and such like matters, together with the provision before hand of all such arrangements as are likely to be of service on the occasion of a fire.\n\nOwing to the constitution of the Fire Brigade, which consists of Policemen who have in the first place to consider their Police duties, it is not possible to assign particular duties to individual firemen and it has been sought rather to familiarize each one with the elementary rudiments of Fire Brigade drill, and by a careful prearrangement and simplification of appliances and by general rules as to dealing with fires, to minimize the drawbacks occasioned by the impossibility of assigning special duties to selected individuals.\n\nAmong some of the principal changes that have been made in this direction, I may mention the substitution of a broad thread screw for the narrow thread that it was customary to use in the hose couplings. A great saving of time and labour has been effected by this change, and it has been found to be of the greatest possible advantage to the Brigade. Another change that has been found very valuable has been the institution of a light service in the form of what is termed a `Supply Cart`. This Cart can be drawn by two men, and contains all the necessary appliances for dealing with a fire at the outset. Inasmuch also as it has been found that very frequently a fire without actually spreading to an adjoining house, will ignite it inside to the extent of making it necessary to play water upon the incipient flames, the `Supply Cart` carries with it two hand pumps and two extincteurs, which have been constantly found sufficient to extinguish the flames, when without these appliances resort must have been had to a hose, with the consequent delay of stopping the engine, attaching a new length, and a great destruction of property by a deluge of salt water, even supposing the flames to have not made uncontrollable way in the interval.\n\nOther changes of a similar kind have been made, of which I have already mentioned the duplicate branch pipes, and in which I may include the institution of reserve hose reels to be taken to the fire.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337495, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "## FIRES AND ALARMS DURING THE YEAR 1887\n\n| No. | DATE. | TIME. | SITUATION OF FIRE. | No. of BUILDING DESTROYED, | DAMAGE. | CAUSE. | REMARKS. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Jan. 2 | 12 Midnight | A wooden hut in Garden Lane, | | Trifling | Unknown. | |\n| 2 | 3, 4 | 3, 43 | Grass on the hill-side at Mount Davis, | | Do. | Do. | |\n| 3 | 4, 8 | 37 | Grass on the hill-side above Kennedy Road, | | $10 | Do. | |\n| 4 | 5, 9 | 94 p.m. | A stack of grass at No. 207, Shaukiwan, | | $100 | Trifling | |\n| 5 | 6, 12 | 1 a.m. | A partition on the ground floor of house No. 199, Hollywood Road. | 1 | $1,400 | Incendiary. | |\n| 6 | 7, 12 | 12.15 a.m. | House No. 16, Sai Woo Lane, top floor, | | Trifling | Ignited by the burning husks. | |\n| 7 | 8, 13 | 4.50 a.m. | Some clothing in No. 39, Tank Lane, | | Do. | Accidental while cooking. | |\n| 8 | 9, 13 | 9.30 p.m. | A straw shed at the back of No. 146, Third Street, | | $14,000 | Upsetting of a kerosine lamp on a quantity of hemp bags. | |\n| 9 | 10, 14 | 9.30 a.m. | No. 142, Second Street, ground floor, | | Trifling | Unknown. | |\n| 10 | 11, 14 | 4 p.m. | The verandah of No. 115, Queen's Road West, | | None | Do. | |\n| 11 | 12, 15 | 5 a.m. | Gallery of the Ko Shing Theatre, | | $23,000 | Capsizing of a kerosine lamp on a quantity of paper, straw and shavings. | |\n| 12 | 13, 15 | 9 p.m. | No. 48, Queen's Road West, cock-loft, ground floor, | | None | Incendiary. | A large number of young trees were destroyed. |\n| 13 | 14, 16 | 3 | A quantity of mattings at the back entrance of No. 215, Queen's Road East. | | $2 | Accidental. | |\n| 14 | 15, 16 | 7 | A mosquito curtain at No. 172, Wellington Street, | | Trifling | Unknown | |\n| 15 | 16, 17 | 9 a.m. | Some papers and old baskets at No. 230, Queen's Rd. Central, | | None | Incendiary, | |\n| 16 | 17, 18 | 4.30 p.m. | A kerosine lamp at No. 117, Queen's Road Central, | | $30 | Accidental, | |\n| 17 | 18, 20 | 6.30 p.m. | Grass on the hill-side at Deep Water's Bay, | | None | Unknown | |\n| 18 | 19, 20 | 8.15 p.m. | A number of mat bags saturated with kerosine on the roof of No. 5, Bonham Strand. | | $5 | Incendiary, | The man who set fire to the bags on the roof was seen running away by a boy. |\n| 19 | 20, 21 | 11 a.m. | Some papers and a wooden box at Man Mo Temple, | | Trifling | Unknown. | |\n| 20 | 21, 22 | 5.8 a.m. | House No. 103, First Street, | | None | Do. | |\n| 21 | 22, 22 | 11.20 p.m. | A stack of grass on the hill above Man Ming Lane, | | Do. | Do. | |\n| 22 | 23, 25 | 2.45 a.m. | The chimney of No. 31, Lyndhurst Terrace, | | $25 | Do. | |\n| 23 | 24, 26 | 1 p.m. | Ground floor of house No. 59, Queen's Road West, | 1 | $3,000 | Do. | Was insured in Messrs. Siessen & Co.'s Office for $8,000. |\n| 24 | 25, Feb. 3 | 8 p.m. | Ground floor of house No. 3, Bonham Strand, | | $12,000 | Dropping of a kerosine lamp, | Was insured in Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co.'s Office for $5,000. |\n| 25 | 26, 13 | 53 | The grass on the hill-side at Kai Lung Wan, | | Trifling | Unknown. | |\n| 26 | 27, 17 | 5.40 a.m. | Ground floor of No. 129, Queen's Road West, | 1 | $2,900 | Accidental, | Was insured in Messrs. Schellhass & Co.'s Office for $3,200. |\n| 27 | 28, 22 | | Grass on the hill-side near Stanley, | | Trifling | Unknown, | |\n\n## FIRES AND ALARMS DURING THE YEAR 1887,-Continued.\n\n| No. | DATE. | TIME. | SITUATION OF FIRE. | No. of BUILDING DESTROYED. | DAMAGE. | CAUSE. | REMARKS. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 29 | Feb. 22, | 7.20 p.m. | Some clothing on the ground floor of No. 81, Hollywood Rd., | | Trifling | Incendiary. | |\n| 30 | 24, | 71 | A shed on the roof of No. 17, Salt Fish Street, | | Do. | Unknown. | |\n| 31 | March 4, | 3.45 p.m. | The shrubbery under one of the matsheds at the Race Course, | | None | Do. | |\n| 32 | 7, | 12.30 a.m. | Chimney of No. 68, Bonham Strand East, | | Do. | Do. | |\n| 33 | 9, | 5 a.m. | A wooden partition in house No. 22, Queen's Road West, | | $19,000 | Do. | |\n| 34 | 11, | | No. 15, Sz Mi Lane, ground floor, | | None | Incendiary. | |\n| 35 | 12, | 8.50 p.m. | A cooking stall in Chinese Recreation Ground, | | Trifling | Unknown. | |\n| 36 | 15, | \" | No. 76, Jervois Street, ground floor, | | Do. | Do. | |\n| 37 | 16, | ** | Chimney of No. 276, Queen's Road Central, | | None | Do. | |\n| 38 | 22, | 10 a.m. | Matsheds at Taitum Water-Works, | 14 | $550 | Unknown, | Property of Government. |\n| 39 | 23, | 4.25 p.m. | Two matsheds at Tsimshatsui, | | $10 | Careless use of fire, | |\n| 40 | 24, | 3.50 a.m. | No. 17, Wing Kut Street, | 1 | $2,500 | Upsetting a kerosine lamp, | Insured for $2,000 at Messrs. Schellhass & Co. |\n| 41 | 25, | 5.20 p.m. | Chimney of No. 135, Queen's Road West, | | None | Unknown. | |\n| 42 | 26, | 9 p.m. | No. 84, Bonham Strand West, | 1 | $1,800 | Falling of a kerosine lamp, | A large quantity of paper, a number of books saturated with kerosine were found, and also a chatty and a tin containing some kerosine. |\n| 43 | 27, | 10 a.m. | Wood-work in the cook house of No. 36, Bonham Strand West. | | Slight | Accidental while cooking. | Three small pigs roasted alive. Insured for $2,000. |\n| 44 | 27, | 12 a.m. | Grass on the hills between Stanley and Tai Tam Tuk, | | Do. | Incendiary. | |\n| 45 | 27, | 1 a.m. | No. 143, Queen's Road Central, | | None | Attempted arson, | A quantity of kerosine was found poured over the staircase. |\n| 46 | 31, | 4.30 p.m. | A kerosine lamp at No. 111, West Street, | | Do. | Accidental. | |\n| 47 | April 3, | 11.15 a.m. | Grass on the hill-side at Mount Davis, | | Do. | Unknown. | |\n| 48 | 5, | 2 p.m. | The chimney of No. 4, Wellington Street, | | Do. | Do. | |\n| 49 | 5, | 5.30 p.m. | No. 13, Tank Lane, ground floor, | | $70 | Upsetting a kerosine lamp. | |\n| 50 | 5, | | No. 8, Tai Tam Tuk, | | Trifling | Accidental. | |\n| 51 | 5, | | Grass on the hill-side at No. 2 Bridge, Pokfulam Road, | | None | Unknown | A number of young trees were destroyed. |\n| 52 | 5, | | Grass on the hill-side near Whitfield, | | Do. | Do. | Some young trees were destroyed. |\n| 53 | 5, | | Grass on the hill-side near Shaukiwan Village, | | Do. | Do. | Caught fire while some Chinese were worshipping at the graves, |\n| 54 | 5, | | Grass on the hill-side at Stanley, | | Do. | Do. | Three men were arrested and ordered by the Magistrate to pay the damage. |\n| 55 | 5, | | Messrs. Blackhead & Co.'s coal shed at Tsimshatsui, | 1 | $125,000 | Combustion of accumulated coal gas. | Insured for $20,000 in Messrs. Meyer & Co., and $20,000 in Messrs. Pustan & Co. |\n| 56 | 5, | | No. 37, Market Street, | | Trifling | Burning of joss paper. | |\n| 57 | 5, | 4.30 a.m. | A quantity of firewood on the ground floor of No. 19, Sheung Fung Lane. | | $7 | Accidental, | Caught fire while worshipping at graves. Caught fire while worshipping at tombs. A number of trees and shrubs were burned. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337497, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "# FIRES AND ALARMS DURING THE YEAR 1887\n## Continued\n\n| No. | DATE | TIME | SITUATION OF FIRE | NO. OF BUILDING DESTROYED | DAMAGE | CAUSE | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 113 | Nov. 20 | 10 p.m. | Partition of house No. 21, Stanley Street | | Slight | Carelessness with a lamp | |\n| 114 | 21 | 5.30 p.m. | Grass on the hill-side near Hoktsi | | None | Unknown | |\n| 115 | \"\" | | A quantity of firewood in the cook house No. 311, Queen's Road West | | Do. | Do. | |\n| 116 | \" | 8.15 a.m. | Some clothing and matting on ground floor of No. 2, Rutter's Lane | | Very little | Do. | |\n| 117 | 21 | 11 p.m. | A mosquito curtain in house No. 32, Third Street | | None | Incendiary | |\n| 118 | 23 | 9.15 p.m. | House No. 42, Queen's Road West | | Do. | Do. | |\n| 119 | 21 | 3.10 a.m. | House No. 13, Triangle Street | 1 | $150 | Unknown | The house was not insured |\n| 120 | 24 | 3.30 p.m. | Coals in one of the Kowloon Godown Company's sheds at Tsimshatsui | | Very little | Spontaneous combustion | Some old rags saturated with kerosine were found in the staircase |\n| 121 | 24 | 9.30 p.m. | Some dried grass at No. 16, Wing Fung Street | | | Unknown | |\n| 122 | 25 | | Matsheds at Taitám Water-Works | 12 | | Do. | |\n| 123 | 25 | 8.20 p.m. | Ko Shing Theatre | | None | Do. | This was a false alarm and a general rush was made for the doors |\n| 124 | \" | 9 p.m. | Beams of veranda of No. 348, Queen's Road West | | Not much | Incendiary | A considerable amount of damage was done to growing trees |\n| 125 | 26 | | Grass on the north-side of the bill below Mount Kellet | | | Unknown | A few acres of grass burnt and part of the wood and young plants slightly damaged |\n| 126 | \" | 3.30 p.m. | Grass on the bill-side near Kai Lung Wan | | | Do. | This was a false alarma. A general rush was made for the doors. Two men were arrested for raising false alarm |\n| 127 | \" | 8.15 p.m. | Ko Shing Theatre | | None | | Accidental, upsetting of an oil lamp |\n| 128 | 27 | 12 | A kerosine lamp on the ground floor of house No. 20, Graham Street | | Do. | Accidental | The house was not insured |\n| 129 | 27 | 33 | First floor of house No. 1, Nullah Lane | | $190 | | Accidental, bed curtain caught fire while worshipping |\n| 130 | 27 | \" | House No. 163, Queen's Road East | | $1,000 | Accidental, upsetting of an oil lamp | The house was not insured |\n| 131 | 28 | 8.45 p.m. | House No. 165, Queen's Road East | | $150 | | |\n| 132 | \" | 6.40 a.m. | House No. 4, Staunton Street | | $150 | Unknown | |\n| 133 | 29 | 7.30 p.m. | House No. 107, Wellington Street | | Very little | Do. | |\n| 134 | 29 | 7.40 p.m. | A basket of old clothing at No. 348, Queen's Road West | | None | Do. | |\n| 135 | \" | 8.30 p.m. | House No. 107, Wellington Street | | Do. | Do. | A piece of rag saturated with kerosine, some matches and a sticks were found burning at the foot of the staircase |\n| 136 | 30 | 3 p.m. | House No. 40, Wing On Street | 7 | $33 | Accidental | |\n| 137 | 30 | 7 p.m. | Messageries Maritimes Coal Godown, Praya East | | | | No fire, but the coal was smoking and it was removed |\n| 138 | 30 | 17 | House No. 55, Square Street | 3 | $16,000 | Incendiary | A few rags and shavings were discovered alight on the staircase |\n\n## Continued\n\n| No. | DATE | TIME | SITUATION OF FIRE | NO. OF BUILDING DESTROYED | DAMAGE | CAUSE | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 139 | Dec. 14 | 9.20 p.m. | Ko Shing Theatre | | None | | False alarm. Great confusion was caused amongst the audience. Two men were arrested for raising false alarm |\n| 140 | 1 | 9.30 p.m. | House No. 21, Pound Lane | | $200 | Unknown | Some shavings soaked with kerosine oil were found on the staircase |\n| 141 | 2 | 3 p.m. | House No. 55, Square Street | | | Incendiary | |\n| 142 | 2 | 4 p.m. | House No. 55, Square Street | | | Do. | |\n| 143 | ૐ | 4.15 p.m. | Chimney of No. 3, New West Street | | | Accidental | |\n| 144 | 17 | 8 p.m. | A bed quilt at house No. 336, Queen's Road West | | Slight | Incendiary | |\n| 145 | 1 | 6 p.m. | Grass on the bill near Táit'ámtuk | | | | |\n| 146 | | | Servant's quarters at Staunton Street | | | Unknown | |\n| 147 | 7 | 1.40 p.m. | House No. 116, Wellington Street | | | Incendiary | |\n| 148 | 8 | | Cook house chimney of house No. 31, Elgin Street | | | Unknown | |\n| 149 | 11 | 6.50 p.m. | A grass water-proof coat on the hill-side at Yaumáti caught fire while Wong Tai, a mendicant was wouring | | | Accidental while cooking | Wong Tai died subsequently |\n| 150 | 20 | 5 a.m. | A mosquito curtain at No. 88, Station Street, Yaumáti | | Slight | Accidental while smoking opium | |\n| 151 | 20 | 5.50 p.m. | House No. 5, Kau-ü-fong | | $1,500 | Accidental, falling of a kerosine lamp | The contents of house No. 15 were insured for $6,000 with Messrs. Schellhass & Co. |\n| 152 | 20 | 7.20 p.m. | House No. 34, Cochrane Street | | Slight | | |\n| 153 | 24 | 6.50 p.m. | Chimney of No. 22, Hing Lung Street | | None | Upsetting of a kerosine lamp | |\n| 154 | 26 | 7 p.m. | Some wood on the back premises of house No. 612, Hollywood Road | | Slight | | |\n| 155 | 28 | 1.30 a.m. | House No. 56, Bonham Strand | 16 | $30,000 | \" | Sevon people were perished |\n| 156 | 28 | 7.30 p.m. | A stack of grass near the Burning ground at Yaumáti | | | Unknown | |\n| 157 | 28 | 10.43 p.m. | The temporary Market at Hunghom | | | Do. | |\n| 158 | 28 | | Sheds | M | | Do. | |\n| 159 | 28 | | Matsheds and grass at Wántsai Gap | 73 | | | |\n| 160 | 28 | 7.50 p.m. | House No. 223, Queen's Road West | | None | Incendiary | A lighted joss stick and a handful of white cotton saturated with kerosine oil were found on the staircase |\n| 161 | 31 | 1 p.m. | Some books in a drawer at house No. 1, Square Street | | Do. | Carelessness with joss paper | Mr. Ross, the foreman of the Volunteer Brigade, sustained severe injuries. A woman was slightly burnt |\n\nFire Brigade Office, Hongkong, 13th January, 1888.\n\n**H. E. WODEHOUSE, Superintendent, Fire Brigade**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 339138, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "page_number": 574, "title": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "content_text": "572 Jervois St. and Bonham Strand described.\n\nI would mention, as an instance, the drains in Jervois Street and Bonham Strand. Instead of conveying the drainage of the district by the most direct way into the harbour, the sewers run nearly parallel with the Praya, discharging at Possession Point. As this district is low lying, the sewers are nearly level, and cause great trouble from silting up. I have mentioned, that I consider exactly similar trouble will be experienced with Mr. COOPER'S proposed intercepting sewers of flat gradients.\n\nMr. CHADWICK's description of Bonham Strand is as follows: \"Much inconvenience and expense is caused by the necessity for cleaning out periodically the portions of the sewers where they cross the low districts about Bonham Strand.\"\n\nI fail to see why, even granted that there be considerable deposits during the dry season in the large sized sewers of the lower levels, that this is a reason for not using the bulk of the sewers, already constructed, for the conveyance of sewage.\n\n### Objection (3.) No ventilation no reason for not using existing Sewers.\n\nMr. COOPER alleges, as a reason for not using the existing sewers, that no efficient means of \"ventilation exists.” This is obviously no reason for not so altering the present sewers, as the cost of making ventilators cannot be so expensive as the construction of new sewers and ventilators.\n\nMr. CHADWICK supports the statement that no efficient means of ventilation exists, in the following words, which naturally apply to the date of his report: \"There are no special ventilator openings either inlet or outlet, nor does the necessity for ventilation appear to have been recognized. The drains, which receive the water from the ravines above the town, have open outlets at their upper ends or intakes, and so they are to some extent ventilated. Where the drains do not run up the hill sides there is no proper ventilation. For instance, the drain along Old Bailey Street terminating in the Caine Road. In one instance, that in Peel Street, the natural ventilation of the sewer has been prevented purposely by the construction of a trap at the top, thus the uprising sewer gas has no means of escape except by untrapped house drains and gully holes.\"\n\nThe only attempt at ventilation, made up to the present date, are the few shafts built within the last year at the upper ends of the main drains, and it requires no argument to show, that these only ventilate a very little distance, and the open ends of the drains as before, were practically equally efficient, the only advantage gained by the shafts being the very small difference in the density of the gases for the additional height. These shafts, as I stated in my evidence before the Fever Commission, cannot ventilate any of the side junctions to the main drains, as the gases would then be called upon to descend the side branches and ascend the main drains.\n\nSir ROBERT RAWLINSON's opinion on ventilation is that: \"Sewers formed along steep gradients therefore require to have more care bestowed on the means of ventilation than other sewers laid along flat districts to prevent the dangerous accumulation of sewage gases in the districts. Ordinary main sewer ventilation should be provided in all cases at intervals not greater than 100 yards.”\n\nThe ends of sewers and drains at their lowest outlets must be so protected that the wind cannot blow in and force any sewage gases back to the streets and houses. Flap valves or other contrivances may be provided to cover and protect outlet ends of sewers and drains and so prevent the wind from blowing in.\n\nThis is a special requirement in the drainage of this city, as the upper levels are 400 feet above the Praya, and during the North-east Monsoon, when the drains are the foulest for want of rain water, the wind is blowing directly into the present open ends of all the outfall sewers.\n\n\"It has been suggested that free and open sewer and drain ventilation will so taint the atmosphere within and over a town as to cause houses at a lower level to pollute those situated on the higher levels. Any serious injury from this need not be feared, as with abundant means of ventilation, the air within the sewers, will be comparatively pure,\"\n\nSewer and drain ventilation are insisted upon over and over again in these suggestions, because the work is so important and is so generally absent or even wilfully neglected. \"There are many towns in which the sewers are not ventilated because the inhabitants refuse to have any open sewer ventilator at the street surface. This is a sad mistake, as a town, having unventilated sewers and house drains connected with them also unventilated, must have disease in excess.\"\n\nThe above remarks of Sir ROBERT RAWLINSON, in his Suggestions for typical drainage systems, prove the absolute necessity for ventilation of sewers.\n\nI was surprised to read the evidence of Mr. COOPER before the Fever Commission, that he considered serious harm would arise from openings in the streets in the present condition of the house drains, as it is obvious from the construction opinion of Sir ROBERT RAWLINSON that the sewers have to be ventilated at some time, and no amount of defective house connection can justify the absence of such ventilators, which any way must improve the air in the sewers.\n\nI do not agree with the statement of Mr. COOPER, that the gases would be drawn into the houses by reason of the air being warmer, as the temperature of the interior of the houses is usually lower than that of the open street, for the greater portion of the year.\n\n### Proposed Works.\n\nWith reference to the proposed works of Mr. COOPER, the words of his report are: \"After careful consideration of the whole of the foregoing facts and a close study of the locality, I am of opinion that the ends of efficiency and economy will be best met by: \n1. The construction of a new system of pipe sewers admitting only a limited quantity of surface water and by adopting outfalls for such a system at suitable points East and West of the City.\n2. The utilization of the existing drains for conveying the natural streams through the City and for carrying off surface and subsoil water.\"\n\nThe proposed works are, therefore, the carrying out of what is known as the \"Separate System.\"\n\n### Separate System recommended.\n\nWherever the Separate System is capable of being conveniently carried out, it is unquestionable the more sanitary system, and I strongly recommend its adoption for the Yellow areas, but I maintain, and hope to prove, that the Separate System is totally unsuited, not to say impossible, over the Red area.\n\nMr. COOPER mentions, as an objection to the use of the same sewers for sewage and subsoil, that in case of stoppage of foul water the sewage may back into the subsoil drains, and sewage gas escape through them into the houses. I entirely disagree with this opinion as a reason for not adopting the present sewers on the Combined System for the Chinese districts. The only places, where subsoil drains are required, are in the higher districts, which I propose to deal with under the Separate System; besides, efficient ventilation to the sewers would obviate any such nuisance.\n\n### Description of Chinese houses.\n\nThe entire area coloured Red is built over in a manner quite unknown at home. The width of a Chinese house is 15 feet from centre to centre of the side walls, leaving about 13'-6\" in the clear; they are either built back to back, or have a yard or lane of about 6 feet wide. By the New Building Ordinance, this width is slightly increased for lots acquired from the Government after the passing of the Ordinance, but that cannot therefore affect the present City.\n\nThe back yards are used for washing and domestic operations, and are the receptacles of the refuse of the houses. There is usually to be found the latrine of the house, and in days not long past, the well.\n\nMr. CHADWICK's description is as follows: \"As the upstair lodgers have no convenience of getting rid of their rubbish, much is stuffed down into the down pipes, choking it, causing it to leak and saturate the walls with the filthy fluid. For the same reason also the house drain is frequently obstructed.\"\n\nThe back yard measuring 13'-6\" by 6'-0\" is little better than a sink, and, compared with the average number of inhabitants, would not contain more area per head than an English kitchen sink.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 339145, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "page_number": 581, "title": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "content_text": "# CHADWICK'S Report\n\nferred to advise the reconstruction of defective house-drains as the first remedy and increased ventilation of mains as the second. Mr. LEIGH joins issue with us, and clamours for the increased ventilation of mains while he relegates the removal of the noxious house-drains and their substitution by properly built ones to a second place in the order of importance. To illustrate my point by a simile: Mr. LEIGH brings into the room a dead cat far gone in decomposition and then with his handkerchief to his nose begins to clamour about the defective ventilation of the room.\n\nOur reply is a simple common-sense reply; we say: \"As however wide we may open the door and window to improve the ventilation, the smell will not disappear, your best plan will be to remove the cause of smell first.\" With regard to defective house-drains however, it may be stated that the Public Health Ordinance, having now made sanitary reform compulsory, a marked improvement may be expected within the next few years in the drainage of native tenements, and this together with the ample ventilating facilities shown in Mr. COOPER's proposed pipe-sewers under the Separate System, will provide the true remedy for the evil odours complained of.\n\n## 11\nAt 5 of his letter Mr. LEIGH proposes to reserve exclusively for the passage of through-streams from the Mountain side,--all the present drains of a larger size which traverse the Chinese districts. No sewage is to enter these larger main drains, but duplicate sewers are to be built alongside of them for the escape of the local rainfall in the particular district subserved, and for the district sewage combined.\n\nThis looks to me very much like the Separate System, and if Mr. LEIGH acknowledges in respect of the larger main-drains the advantage of dissociating foul waters from storm floods, why not extend his support to the lesser drains which are only in one degree less subjected to the same conditions, and at once espouse Mr. COOPER's propositions? But Mr. LEIGH's proposition of large sized double-barrelled main drains down the same valley lines besides being clumsy and complicated will involve if adopted, an outlay so large as to represent in this particular feature alone, about one quarter of Mr. COOPER's entire estimate of cost, and if to this outlay we add the expense of providing new combined sewers in all those streets which at present do not possess them we shall find that Mr. LEIGH's estimates of cost will exceed those of Mr. COOPER with the difference that under the carefully elaborated plans of the latter we shall acquire a thoroughly comprehensive and effective system of town-drainage while under the crude and imperfectly thought out schemes of the former we shall have attained only a disjointed one of inferior value.\n\n## 12\nAs reference is made in more than one passage of Mr. LEIGH's letter to more recent drainage improvements effected under my supervision, it may remove misconceptions if I explain that these works have comprised the construction of new drains in streets where none existed before, the reconstruction of main drains on straight lines. Where in the earlier days of the Colony they had been built on tortuous lines (as for instance at Jervois Street and Bonham Strand which Mr. LEIGH describes as still existent though they were properly rebuilt as far back as five years ago) and the extension of the town drains higher up the hill where they terminate in open chimney shafts, and that all these works would not be by any means superseded or rendered useless for the purposes they were designed by the adoption now of the Separate System, inasmuch as sound drains are as great a necessity for the escape of storm waters as are sound sewers for the escape of foul-waters.\n\n## 13\nLong before Mr. COOPER's Separate System Project was submitted by me to the Colonial Government I had carefully weighed over in my mind all the considerations now put forward by Mr. LEIGH, and it was only after a very careful deliberation of all the pros and cons both in respect of the Combined System and the Separate System that I resolved to support as strongly as I was able the carefully prepared plan of Mr. COOPER. I am convinced that the Separate System for the Chinese districts of the City, with its proposed glazed stoneware pipe mains of limited diameter, laid in straight lines on moderately steep gradients and with all its accessories in the shape of ventilating grates, turning Chambers, Manholes etc, and its carefully determined volume of flow--is in the present circumstances of the Colony infinitely preferable to a continuation of the Combined System-under which we are tied to the conveyance of sewage through granite sewers of unduly large size, laid to unduly steep gradients and on lines that are full of bends and twists and which are constructed of a material less adapted to stimulate flow in the more level streets than the smooth glassy surface of stone-ware pipes. I came to my conclusions the more readily that I recognized how much there remained yet to be done in the reconstruction and repair of the actual net-work of granite drains before we could hope to make the combined system attain even a moderate degree of efficiency, all of which meant an expenditure of public money that would go a very long way to establish the Separate System in its entirety if we elected to adopt this rival system in lieu. Also I particularly considered the question of the interception feature of Mr. COOPER's scheme-with its system of over-flows--and the positions proposed for the out-falls, and have been convinced by a careful investigation of the float experiments that the points selected were the most judicious, furthermore I have considered in respect of the proposed new sea wall to be now built along deep water that due regard for the safety of that structure during typhoons requires that the number of sewer outlets should be as limited as is consistent with the efficiency of the sewerage arrangements of the town and I am therefore in favour of the smallest number of openings possible.\n\n## 14\nIn the foregoing remarks which relate purely to the native districts of Victoria, I have made no allusion to the higher or European levels because in respect of these I understand there is complete unanimity of opinion.\n\n## 15\nIn conclusion I would submit that I am of opinion no advantage will be gained by the acceptance of Mr. LEIGH's professional offer to furnish competing plans and specifications of his own for a Counter project of public drainage because his propositions while far more costly than he is aware of do not hold out to the Colony any promise of the same thorough and effective results that are apparent under Mr. COOPER's carefully prepared designs.\n\nSIR,\nHongkong, 23rd March, 1889.\n\n## Enclosure 3\n**J. M. PRICE, Surveyor General.**\n\n**PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, December 29th, 1888.**\n\nIn answer to your invitation of the 22nd instant I have now the honour to forward you the following observations on Mr. LEIGH's report on the Proposed Drainage of the City of Victoria.\n\nOn page 3 Mr. LEIGH states that the proposed scheme is diametrically opposed to that of Mr. CHADWICK.\n\nOn reference to Mr. CHADWICK's report I find on page 25 in discussing the advisability of admitting rainfall into the sewers he says: \"The principal argument for its admission is that downpours of rain clean the sewers.\" This is worthless.\n\nOn page 49 of Mr. CHADWICK's report, paragraph 11 reads as follows:- \"Plates I and II show methods of draining some common types of houses according to the principles just enunciated. Provision is made for the removal of slop water only, but, as stated in the report, drains fit for that purpose are fit for the conveyance of excreta also, so that when the time comes they can easily receive the additions necessary to fit them for this additional duty. No provision is made for removal of rain water which should be dealt with separately for the reasons stated in the report. The dimensions are, however, ample to receive a considerable quantity of rain to carry off all would be clearly impossible.\"\n\nAt page 33, in paragraph 207 of the same report Mr. CHADWICK says:—“The upper portions of the existing sewers, those above Queen's Road, are, thanks to their great fall, rather than to their design and construction, almost wholly free from deposit. Nevertheless, it would be well to render their inverts watertight, and to accelerate the dry-weather flow through them, by concentrating it in a semi-circular tile, laid on the invert.\" Mr. CHADWICK evidently did not entertain a very high opinion of the old sewers.\n\nMr. LEIGH on page 7 of his report quotes a speech made by the Surveyor General on the 5th of November, 1886, in which he stated that 44 miles of new sewers had been constructed and many other improvements carried out during the last three and a half years.\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 341979, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "page_number": 362, "title": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "content_text": "FIRES AND ALARMS DURING THE YEAR 1889,--Continued.\n\n \n No.\n DATE.\n TIME.\n SITUATION OF FIRE.\n No. of BUILDING DESTROYED.\n DAMAGE.\n CAUSE.\n REMARKS.\n \n \n 58\n Aug. 26,\n 4 a.m.\n House No. 203, Queen's Road Central,\n \n $1,500\n Accidental, Unknown.\n The contents were not insured.\n \n \n 59\n Sept. 14.\n 5 p.m.\n House No. 1, Wing Wo Street,\n \n $2,000\n Bursting of a kerosine lamp,\n Insured in the North German Insurance Company for $12,000 and in the North- ern Assurance Company for $22,000. A woman and a child lost their lives during the fire.\n \n \n 60\n \n 9.45 p.m.\n House No. 112, Queen's Road Central,\n \n $1,200\n Upsetting of a korozine lamp,\n ...A\n \n \n 62\n \n 2 p.m.\n House No. 210, Queen's Road West,\n \n $4,000\n Bursting of a kerosine lamp,\n None\n \n \n 63\n 21.\n 7 p.m.\n House No. 9. Graham Street,\n \n \n Accidental.\n \n \n \n 64\n 21.\n 9.55 p.m.\n House No. 174, Thirl Street, Grass on Mount Parker,\n \n \n Unknown.\n \n \n \n 65\n 23,\n 10 p.m.\n S. S. Jupan,\n \n \n Incendiarism, ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...\n Some chests of Opium were stolen and the cargo was set on fire.\n \n \n 66\n 27.\n 2 a.m.\n House No. 220, Queen's Road Central,\n \n $3.50\n Unknown.\n \n \n \n 67\n 29.\n 6.45 p.m.\n Chimney of House No. 9, Hillier Street,\n \n \n Careless use of lighted candles,... Unknown.\n \n \n \n 68\n Oct.\n 7.30 p.m.\n House No. 85, Wellington Street,\n \n \n Bursting of a kerosine lamp.\n False alarm.\n \n \n 69\n 6,\n 11.30 p.m.\n House No. 4, Graham Street,\n \n \n Unknown.\n \n \n \n 9,\n \n 4 p.m.\n House No. 117, Shaukiwan,\n \n $4\n Unknown.\n \n \n \n 10,\n \n 4.30 a.m.\n House No. 42, Battery Street, Yaumati,\n \n $1,500\n Falling of a kerosine lamp,\n Insured in Messrs. Naudin & Co, for $10,000.\n \n \n 12.\n \n 11.15 p.m.\n House No. 3, Fuk Luk Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13,\n \n 9.40 p.m.\n House No. 6, Tung Shing Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 74\n 14,\n \n House No. 32, Square Street,\n \n Slight\n \n \n \n \n 76\n 30,\n 2.10 a.m.\n House No. 154, Queen's Road Central,\n \n $8,000\n \n Insured in Messrs. Edward Schellhass & Co. for $10,000. Five inmates lost their lives.\n \n \n 77\n Nov.\n 6.30 p.m.\n A boiler-maker's shop in Battery Street, Yaumati,\n \n $50\n \n \n \n \n 78\n 4.\n 9.30 p.m.\n House No. 7, Nullah Lane,\n \n \n Carelessness while worshipping\n \n \n \n 79\n 5.\n 7.30 p.m.\n House No. 55, Queen's Road West,\n \n $1,000 $16,000\n Careless use of a lighted lamp. Unknown,\n Capsizing of a kerosine lamp, ... An old woman lost her life. Not insured.\n \n \n 80\n \n \n \n \n \n Unknown,\n Insured in Messrs. Dunu Melbye & Co. for $8,000 and in Messrs. Turner & Co. for $6,200.\n \n \n 81\n 12,\n 7 p.m.\n Chimney of house No. 10, Cochrane Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 82\n 14,\n 2 p.m.\n House No. 43, West Street,\n \n \n Breaking of a kerosine lamp.\n \n \n \n 83\n 14,\n \n Grass on hillside near Stanley,\n \n Trifling\n Unknown.\n \n \n \n 84\n 19,\n 2 p.m.\n House No. 258, Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 85\n 22\n 10 p.m.\n House No. 34, East Street,\n \n \n Unknown,\n \n \n \n 86\n Dec.\n 1.40 a.m.\n House No. 25, Yee Wo Street,\n \n Slight\n Incendiarism,.......\n Paper saturated with oil was found on the staircase.\n \n \n 87\n 26,\n 12.30 p.m.\n Matshed near Richmond Terrace,\n \n $70\n Careless use of fire.\n \n \n \n 88\n \n \n Matshed at Quarry Bay,\n \n $7\n Unknown.\n \n \n \n \n \n 6 u.m.\n House No. 121, Jervois Street, Grass on hillside of Mountain Lodge,\n \n \n Accidental\n \n \n \n 89\n 17.\n 9.20 p.m.\n Chimney of house No. 10, Wyndham Street,\n \n \n Unknown.\n \n \n \n 90\n 18,\n 12 noon\n Grass on hillside near Stanley,\n \n Slight\n Accidental.\n \n \n \n 91\n 20,\n 1.15 p.m.\n House No. 312, Queen's Road West,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 92\n 20,\n 1 p.m.\n House No. 27, New Street,\n \n \n Accidental while worshipping joss.\n \n \n \n 93\n 21,\n 10 a.m.\n House No. 122, Queen's Road West,\n \n $10\n Burning of joss stick and paper.\n \n \n \n 94\n 21,\n 9.5 p.m.\n House No. 37, Station Street, Yaumati,\n \n \n Unknown.\n \n \n \n 95\n 28,\n 6.30 p.m.\n House No. 334, Queen's Road Central,\n \n $3,000\n \n Insured in the Northern Insurance Company for $20,000.\n \n \n 96\n 24,\n 5 a.m.\n House No. 16, Jervois Street,\n \n \n Accidental.\n \n \n \n 97\n 30,\n 3.25 a.m.\n House No. 17, Bonham Strand Central,\n \n $20,000\n Unknown,\n Insured in Messrs. Siemssen & Co. for $6,000.\n \n \n 98\n 30,\n 5.45 p.m.\n House No. 365, Queen's Road West,\n \n \n Breaking of a kerosine lamp.\n \n \n\nFire Brigade Department, Hongkong, 28th February, 1890.\n\nH. E. WODEHOUSE, Superintendent, Fire Brigade.\n\nPage 359", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342791, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "page_number": 406, "title": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "content_text": "Brought forward- \n\n3 Contract No 1845 for constructing a new Sewer in Hollywood Road from Pound Lane to Bonham Strand \n\n \n DO\n 09\n 402\n 96457\n \n \n \n 1000\n 1500\n 1500\n 4000\n \n\nDo. 1885 for constructing new main Sewer below the Teim tea kui Police Station.\n\n \n 1000\n 68\n \n\nDo. 1885 for constructing new main Sewer below the Shek tong tsui Market\n\n \n 1334\n 3\n \n\nDo. 1886 for constructing a Sewer at Soo Kon Foo, East Point\n\n \n 1000\n 900\n 1900\n \n\nDo. 1886 for taking up and rebuilding 300 feet lineal of Sewer at the upper end of Centre Street\n\n \n 1000\n \n\n1886 for constructing 1128 feet lineal of Sewer from No1 Tank, Robinson Road, to Bonham Road\n\n \n 1056.75\n 2056.75\n \n \n 1300\n 1500\n \n\nForward.\n\n \n 62073\n 342073\n 2335648", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342883, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "page_number": 498, "title": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "content_text": "1882\n\nContract Payments.\n\nContract No 1889 for building Sewer and repairing Bird Street between Nellier Street and Cleverly Street\n\n494 750\n\nDo.. 1_ 1882 for Constructing a Sewer in Station Street\n\n380 330\n\nDo.. 1802 470 1180 13\n\nDo... # De.. Do 1882 for constructing & Sewers in Taipinshan Street_\n\n-1002 for constructing a Stone Drain in Bonhama Strand.\n\n1882 for reconstructing 200 ft. lineal of Sewer in Ladder Street between Square Street and Bridged Street, and repairing the steps and Roadway\n\nW 1_ 1889 for building 250 feet lineal of New Drain in Third Street\n\n43 11 — 1889 for reconstructing 120 feet lineal of Sewer and building a Retaining Wall in Commissariat Land\n\nDc1 1887 for Constructing 710 feet lineal of new sewer in Third Street between Pok poo lum Road and Battery Road.\n\nDo 60\n\n1882 for constructing a new drain in First Street between Centre street and Western street\n\nTotal\n\n800 500 1300 420 425 873.75 625 5573.75", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342893, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "page_number": 508, "title": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "content_text": "Brought forward.\n\n08.\n\nContract No 1801 for cleaning out and repairing the joints of the sewer in Wing Lok Street between Bonham Strand and the Praya.\n\n17\n\nTotal\n\n11 - TOT for building a fence wall, constructing surface channel, and reforming the Road from Queen's Road to Civil Hospital.\n\n7319\n\n504\n\n270\n\n7589\n\n288", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344965, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "content_text": "SCHEDULE B.-Continued.\n\n72\n\nA.\n\nB.\n\nC.\n\nD.\n\nE.\n\nF.\n\nG.\n\nH.\n\nB.\n\nM\n\nC.\n\nD.\n\nE.\n\nF.\n\nG.\n\nH.\n\n \n No. of\n Block No.\n Streets.\n Over-crowded or not.\n No. of Houses\n Houses in which Over-crowding exists.\n No. of Floors in which Over-crowding exists.\n No. of Persons.\n Amount\n REMARKS.\n \n \n Brought forward,\n \n \n \n 67\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Praya West,\n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 68\n \n Tung Lai Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Praya West,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 69\n 282322\n Morrison Street,\n \n 2,285\n 301\n 5,751\n 368\n 1,875\n \n \n \n Brought forward,\n \n \n \n 29\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tank Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 86\n \n Square Street,\n No\n 39\n 10\n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n 95\n \n Tank Lane,\n Yes\n 14\n 11\n 25\n 75\n \n \n \n \n 96\n \n Square Street,\n No\n 11\n 18\n 54\n \n \n \n \n \n 97\n \n Tank Lane,\n Yes\n 5\n 3\n 16\n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Square Street,\n \n 13\n 2 + 1\n 3\n 9\n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n Bridges Street,\n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 70\n \n Bouham Strand,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 72\n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lower Lascar Row,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n West Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 71\n \n Tank Lane,\n No\n 23\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kut Tsonng Lane,\n Yes\n 79\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wai Yan Lane,\n No\n 9\n 28\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Souza Lane,\n \n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 98\n \n Bridges Street,\n Yes\n 6\n 16\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rozario Street,\n \n 12\n 1\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tank Lane,\n \n 3\n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 99\n \n Rozario Street,\n \n 8\n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Market Street,\n \n 8\n 17\n \n \n \n Brothels exist in this Street.\n \n \n 74\n \n Queen's Road Central,\n Yes\n 50\n 10\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tank Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lower Lascar Row,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 100\n \n Bridges Street,\n No\n 39\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 92\n \n \n 113\n 28\n \n \n \n Brothels exist in this Street.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n 32\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 39\n 49\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 34\n 20\n 3\n 23\n 31\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n anco co to co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n 13\n 2\n 26\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 40\n 111\n 3\n 40\n 126\n \n \n \n \n \n Tank Lane,\n \n 16\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 73\n \n Caine Road,\n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n East Street,\n Yes\n 7\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 101\n \n Do.,\n European Dwellings.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n U Yam Lane,\n \n 18\n 21\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 102\n \n Castle Road,\n Do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 75\n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n 24\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Seymour Road,\n Do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lower Lascar Row,\n \n 21\n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 104\n \n Robinson Road,\n Do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ladder Street,\n \n 2\n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 105\n \n Caine Road,\n Do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 76\n \n Lower Lascar Row,\n \n 10\n 1\n 27\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Staunton Street,\n Yes\n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Upper Lascar Row,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aberdeen Street,\n \n 13\n 30\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 77\n \n Lower Lascar Row,\n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chung Wo Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Upper Lascar Row,\n \n 10\n 16\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wa in Fong, East,\n No\n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n East Street,\n No\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 78\n \n Do.,\n \n 8\n 7\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Do.,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n South, Do.,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n West,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 79\n \n West Street,\n \n 3\n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 107\n Hollywood Road,\n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Possession Street,\n \n 7\n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lower Lascar Row,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n West Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hollywood Road,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ng Kwai-fong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Tsung Lane,\n \n 16\n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 29\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 80\n \n Do.\n No\n 4\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n 4\n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wa Lane,\n No\n 7\n 21\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 108\n \n Circular Pathway,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tseung Hing Lane,\n Yes\n 6\n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 81\n \n West Street,\n No\n 4\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 82\n \n East Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 109\n \n Do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 83\n \n Upper Lascar Row,\n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hollywood Road,\n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bridges Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ladder Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Un Wo Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shek Cheong Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wa Hing Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kut Sing Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hollywood Road,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shing Wong Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Circular Pathway,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hillier Street,\n \n 30\n 67\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n No\n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n 3\n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5\n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 32\n 31\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n No\n 18\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n 20\n 58\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n 23\n 83\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n 4\n **\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n No\n 7\n 19\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 84\n \n Upper Lascar Row,\n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tan Kwai Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brothels exist in this Street.\n \n \n \n \n Hollywood Road,\n \n 12\n 31\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n U Hing Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 85\n \n Do.,\n No\n 12\n 34\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 110\n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n 12\n 30\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Square Street,\n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Circular Pathway,\n \n 28\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 40\n *7\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 86\n \n Hollywood Road,\n No\n 9\n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 111\n \n Jervois Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Taipingshan Street,\n Yes\n 2\n 4\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n Yes\n 52\n 29\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Square Street,\n \n 15\n 46\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n East Street,\n \n 12\n 36\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ***\n \n \n 808\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 87\n \n Do.,\n \n 77\n 21\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 88\n \n West Street,\n \n 12\n 38\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 22\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 89\n \n Do.\n \n 11\n 33\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hollywood Road,\n No\n 2\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n O youve\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hillier Street,\n No\n 4\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cleverly Street,\n Yes\n 3\n 7\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kwai Wa Lane,\n \n 12\n 36\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 112\n \n Jervois Street,\n No\n 20\n \n A\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n 17\n 53\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Morrison Street,\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 90\n \n Upper Station Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 91\n \n Do.,\n \n 7\n 21\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 113\n \n Bonham Strand,\n \n 21\n 63\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n 5\n 15\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jervois Street,\n \n 21\n 62\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 92\n \n Taipingshan Street,\n \n 9\n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n 35\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cleverly Street,\n \n 4\n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Taiping Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 114\n \n Burd Street,\n \n 7\n 22\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Caine Lane,\n \n 22\n 55\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jervois Street,\n \n 13\n 39\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Upper Station Street,\n No\n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hillier Street,\n \n 2\n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shiu Hing Lane,\n Yes\n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cleverly Street,\n \n 1\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 93\n \n Taipingshan Street,\n No\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 115\n \n Bonham Strand,\n \n 13\n 40\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n East Street,\n Yes\n 32\n 10\n 85\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Burd Street,\n \n 5\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 94\n \n Taipingshan Street,\n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hilior Street,\n \n 12\n 36\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Square Street,\n Yes\n 3\n 29\n 14\n 136\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n \n 16\n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n East Street,\n \n 8\n 5\n 20\n 61\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 爷爷\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Strand,\n \n 16\n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Carried forward,\n \n \n \n 2,890\n 381\n 7,524\n 473\n 2,430\n \n \n \n Carried forward,\n \n \n \n 3,532\n 475\n 9,374\n 599\n 3,286\n \n \n\nPage 72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344966, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "content_text": "SCHEDULE B—Continued.\n\n73\n\n \n A.\n B.\n C.\n D.\n E.\n F.\n G.\n H.\n \n \n No.\n Block or Streets.\n Over-crowded or not.\n No. of Houses.\n No. of Floors.\n Total Amount in which Over-crowding exists.\n No. of Persons.\n REMARKS.\n \n\n \n Brought forward,\n 117\n \n 413\n \n 515\n 11,571\n 641\n 3,519\n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n 118\n No\n 3\n 8\n 18\n 54\n \n \n \n \n Praya Central,\n \n \n 136\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n 119\n it\n 14\n 18\n 54\n \n \n \n \n \n Praya Central,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gilman Street,\n \n Yes\n 19\n 9\n 57\n 55\n 16\n 48\n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Do., Bazar,\n 120\n \n 19\n 10\n 57\n 49\n >\n 16\n 48\n \n \n Praya Central,\n \n \n 4137\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Praya,\n 121\n No\n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n 16\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Praya,\n \n \n 36\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wing On Lane,\n 122\n Yes\n 58\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gilman Street,\n \n \n 28\n 7\n 20\n \"\n 45\n 14\n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n 123\n \n 138\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Praya,\n \n \n 1\n \"\"\n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Strand,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n 128\n No\n 18\n \n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tung Man Lane,\n \n Yes\n 22\n \n 66\n 13\n 32\n \n \n \n Bonham Strand,\n \n \n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wing On Lane,\n \n \n 23\n \n 50\n 15\n \n 21\n 30\n \n \n Kwong Yuen Street, West,\n 139\n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Praya Central,\n \n No\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Man Wa Lane,\n 124\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Strand,\n \n \n \n ུམ མ\n \n \n \n \n \n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n 18\n \n ور\n \n \n \n \n \n Hing Lung Lane,\n \n \n 16\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tung Man Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kwong Yuen Street, West,...\n \n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n }}\n 140\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fraya Central,\n \n ལ་ ་ མ མ\n Yes\n 21\n \n 21\n 00:00\n 19\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 63\n 52\n 15\n 15\n \n \n Archway, East,\n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Strand,\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Praya Central,\n 125\n \n \n Yes\n 50\n \n \n \n \n \n Wing Lok Street,\n \n No\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Do.,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Strand,\n \n \n وو\n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n Jubilee Street,\n 141\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hing Lung Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lane of Jubilee Street, South,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n ེ ནི རྨ མ\n No\n 5\n \n 14\n \n 64\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 21\n \n 44\n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 49\n \n 20\n \n \n \n Wing Wo Street,\n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kwong Yuen Street, East,\n \n \n 93\n \n 45\n \n Yes\n \n \n \n 142\n \n &\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wellington Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n North,\n \n Yes\n \n No\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 48\n \n 27\n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n Wing Sing Street,\n \n \n 24\n \n No\n \n 24\n 72\n \n \n Praya Central,\n 126\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 143\n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n 39\n \n 24\n \n 7\n 21\n \n \n Wing Kut Street,\n \n \n 18\n \n 54\n \n \n \n \n \n Wing Wo Street,\n \n ନା\n \n \n 17\n \n 51\n \n \n \n 144\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Peel Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Graham Street.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Peel Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n 12\n \n 21\n \n 21\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n \n 9\n \n \n \n 127\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 128\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Strand,\n \n \n 17\n \n 21\n \n 15\n 45\n \n \n Jervois Street,\n \n \n 16\n \n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n Mercer Street,\n \n Yes, \n \n 12\n \n 32\n \n \n \n \n Lane, (no name),\n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 129\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonham Strand,\n \n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Burd Street,\n \n \n 77\n \n 4.\n \n \n \n \n \n Mercer Street,\n \n **\n Yes\n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n Hillier Street,\n \n No\n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 130\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Burd Street,\n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jervois Street,\n \n \n \"\n \n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n Hillier Street,\n \n \n 2+\n \n 42\n \n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n Aberdeen Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 131\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jervois Street,\n \n No\n 18\n \n 38\n \n \n \n \n \n 145\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stanley Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cochrane Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 146\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stanley Street...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wellington Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Graham Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 147\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stanley Street,\n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wellington Street,\n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cochrane Street,\n \n No\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 148\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wellington Street,\n \n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gage Street,\n \n \n プラ\n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n Tung Wa Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n B\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 211\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 19\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 82\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brothels exist in this Street.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 32\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n [Street.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 19\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 21\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n 22\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hillier Street,\n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 132\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jervois Street..\n \n \n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n \n \n \n \n 23\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23\n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 149\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wellington Street,\n \n \n 34\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 138\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wellington Street,\n \n No\n 47\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gage Street.\n \n \n 94\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ITT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gough Street,\n \n \n 19\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 150\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aberdeen Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 61\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n 7\n \n \n \n \n •\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 19\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n On Wo Lane,\n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kau U Fong South,\n \n \n 34\n \n \n \n \n {\n \n \n Do., West,. Do.,\n \n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Peel Street,\n \n \n 51\n \n \n \n \n 5\n \n \n North,\n \n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 134\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gough Street,\n \n \n 22\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 151\n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kin Sau Court,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wa On Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tung Shing Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Peel Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wellington Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gage Street....\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Graham Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wellington Street,\n \n \n 22\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 80\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n وو\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gage Street...\n \n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 22\n \n \n \n \n 64\n \n \n \n \n \n Graham Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n :ཡི ང མ མ བ ལ མ\n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 21\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Do.\n \n \n 23\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hollywood Road....\n \n \n 13\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 152\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aberdeen Street,\n \n \n 49\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wellington Street,\n \n \n 16\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gage Street,....\n \n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mi Lan Lane,\n \n \n 30\n \n Yes\n \n 16\n \n \n \n \n Cochrane Street,\n \n \n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shin Hin Lane,\n \n \n 48\n \n 12\n \n \n 185\n \n \n I On Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Praya Central,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gilman's Bazar,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Carried forward,\n \n \n 36\n \n མ ང\n \n 13\n 39\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n co or t\n \n \n \n \n \n Gutzlaff Street,\n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 21\n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n واو\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 22\n \n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 19\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n 57\n \n \n 10\n \n \n 55\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n Pak Too Lane...\n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chuk Hing Lane,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 153\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gage Street,...\n \n Yes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hollywood Road,. Peel Street,\n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aberdeen Street,\n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23\n \n \n \n \n 12\n \n \n 39\n \n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n 4,313\n \n \n 515\n \n \n 11,571\n \n 641\n 3,519\n \n \n Carried forward,\n \n \n 4,852\n \n \n 13,197\n \n 725\n 3,859\n \n\nPage 73", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "page_number": 542, "title": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "content_text": "# FIRES AND ALARMS, 1890,--Continued.\n\n| No. | DATE. | TIME. | SITUATION OF FIRE. | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED. | DAMAGE. | CAUSE. | REMARKS. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 110 | Nov. 12. | 4.45 pm. | Grass on hillside above Tai Hang Village, | | $250 | Unknown | A number of young trees destroyed. No Insurance. |\n| 111 | 15. | 7.30 pm. | House No. 69, Upper Station Street, | | Nil | Accidental while cooking food with wood shavings | Attempted arson. A man named Fung Kwan was arrested and sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment with hard labour by the Supreme Court. |\n| 112 | 20, | 1.15 pm. | House No. 35, Bridges Street, | | \" | | |\n| 113 | | | | | | Unknown | |\n| 114 | | | | | | Do. | |\n| 115 | Dec. 29, | 6.30 p.m. | 2, | | | Incendiarism | |\n| | | 10.15 pm | House No. 72, Boulam Strand West, | | $20 | Unknown | |\n| 116 | 11. | 8.60 pm. | House No. 324, Queen's Road Central, | | Trifling | Accidental | |\n| 117 | 11, | * p.m. | House No. 5, Wing Kat Street, | | $5 | Unknown | |\n| | | | House No. 324, Queen's Road Central, | | | Do. | |\n| 118 | 12 | * p.m. | Chimney of House No. 42, Lyndhurst Terrace, | | | Incendiarism | |\n| 119 | 13, | 5 pm. | Chimney of House No. 68, East Street, | | Nil | Do. | |\n| 120 | 15, | 4.15 p.m. | The Ko Shing Theatre. | 1 | | Do. | |\n| 121 | 15. | 6.15 p.m. | House No. 112. Queen's Road Central, | | $6,000 | Do. | Insured in the Northern Fire Insurance Office for $15,000. Kerosine Oil was poured on the staircase. |\n| 122 | 17, | 5.30 a.m. | House No. 321, Queen's Road Central, | | Slight | Incendiarism | |\n| 123 | 21. | ī pm. | | | | Unknown | |\n| 124 | 26. | 8.0 pm. | Grass on hillside at To Pa Tsai, British Kowloon, | | Nil | Do. | |\n| | | | Chimney of House No. 72. Bouliam Strand West. | | | Do. | |\n| | 31, | | Grass on hillside at Aberdeen, | | | D›. | |\n\nFire Brigade Department, Hong Kong, 27th October, 1891.\n\n## GEO. HORSFOOL, \nActing Superintendent, Fire Brigade.\n\n# FIRES AND ALARMS, 1890.\n\n| No. | DATE. | TIME. | SITUATION OF FIRE. | No. OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED. | DAMAGE. | CAUSE. | REMARKS. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Jan. 1, | | | | | Unknown | |\n| 9 | | ú. | Chimney of House No. 32, Chinese Street, | | Nil | Do. | |\n| 12 | | | House No. 7, Station Street, | | | Burning of crackers by children | |\n| 13 | 16, | 4.05 p.m. | Grass on hillside at Stanley, | | $1,000 | No Insurance | |\n| | | | | | | Unknown | |\n| 16 | 18, | 4.30 p.m. | Matshed in the Mau Law Garden, Yaumti, | | Trifling | Do. | |\n| | | | A Shed in High Street, | | Nil | Do. | |\n| | | | Grass on hillside near Military Sanatorium, | | Do. | Do. | |\n| 18 | | 5.50 p.m. | Grass on hillside at Aplichau, | | Nil | Do. | |\n| | | p.m. | House No. 84, Station Street, | | | Do. | |\n| | | | Honsa No. 33, Tung Man Lane, | | | Do. | |\n| | | | Grass on hillside near Stanley, | | Slight | Do. | |\n| | | 3 p.m. | Grass on hillside at Stanley, | | Nil | Do. | |\n| | | 1.30 p.m. | Matshed at Kung Clung Bag, | | | Accidental | |\n| 21 | | 12.20 p.m. | House No. 229, Praya West, | 1 | $500 | Unknown | No Insurance. |\n| | | | | | | | Insured in the Northern Insurance Office for $8,000. |\n| | 29 | 11 a.m. | Chimney of House No. 5, Caine Lane, | | Nil | Do. | |\n| 26 | 28, | | House No. 178, Queen's Road Central, | | NII | | |\n| 28 | | | | | | | |\n| 29 | | Midnight. | House No. 22, Bonham Strand, | 1 | $10,000 | Accidental | Insured in the Hongkong Fire Insurance Company for $10,000. |\n| | | 6 a.m. | House No. 8, Lyndhurst Terrace, | 1 | $4,000 | Unknown | Insured in Messrs. Naudin & Co. for $3,000 and Messrs. Norton & Co. for $1,000. |\n| 1 | Feb. 1, | 5.30 a.m. | House No. 61, Wellington Street, | | Trifling | Unknown | |\n| | 1, | 10 a.m. | Grass in the Cemetery at Mount Davis, | | Nil | Burning of joss paper while worshipping tombs | |\n| | 8 | | Matsheds at Mount Parker, | | $150 | Unknown | |\n| | 8, | 2.30 a.m. | House No. 216, Hollywood Road, | | Trifling | Burning of joss paper | |\n| 10 | 10, | 1.20 a.m. | House No. 18, Gage Street, | 1 | $300 | Unknown | |\n| | 10, | 10.15 p.m. | SS. Verona | | Nil | Do. | |\n| 11 | 11 | | House No. 48, Peel Street, | | | Do. | |\n| 13 | 13, | 9.45 a.m. | Chimney of House No. 3, Ng Kwai Fong, | | Nil | Do. | |\n| 14 | 14, | 1.30 p.m. | House No. 8, St. Francis Street, | | Nil | Do. | |\n| 18 | 18, | 6.30 p.m. | House No. 36, Peel Street, | 1 | Slight | Falling of a kerosine lamp | |\n| 19 | 19, | 6.30 pm. | Chimney of House No. 35, Pottinger Street, | | Unknown | Do. | |\n| 25 | 25, | 5 p.m. | Chimney of House No. 40, Hollywood Road, | | Trifling | Do. | |\n| 28 | 28, | 6 pm. | House No. 37, Second Street, | 1 | | Do. | An old woman was burnt to death. Insured in Messrs. Siomsson & Co. for $1,500. |\n| | March 2, | 1.30 p.m. | The Sun Tsoi Li Junk, in Victoria Harbour, | | $70 | Unknown | |\n| | 2, | | House No. 38, I Woo Street, | 1 | Unknown | Do. | |\n| 13 | 13, | | House No. 16, Pottinger Street, | | $5 | Accidental | |\n| 27 | April 4, | 9 p.m. | Chimney of House No. 27, Jardine's Bazaar, | | Nil | Unknown | |\n| | 27, | 4 p.m. | House No. 12, Tauk Lane, | 1 | $100 | Accidental | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346939, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "page_number": 543, "title": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "content_text": "## FIRES AND ALARMS, 1890, -Continued.\n\n| NO. | DATE | SITUATION OF FIRE | NO. OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED | DAMAGE | CAUSE | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 37 | April 30 | A Matshed at Old Magazine | | | Unknown | About 200 young trees destroyed. |\n| 38 | April | House No. 67, Queen's Road West | 1 | | Carelessness while worshipping | |\n| 39 | April | Grass on hillside at Apliehau and Little Hongkong | | Trifling | | |\n| 40 | April | Grass on hillside near Chai Wan | | Nil | | |\n| 41 | April | Grass on hillside near Stanley | | Do. | | |\n| 42 | April | Grass on hillside near Whitfield | | Do. | | |\n| 43 | May 2 | House No. 68, Bonham Strand | 1 | | Unknown | |\n| 44 | May | House No. 9, Albany Street | 1 pan. | | Do. | |\n| 45 | May | Chimney of House No. 45, Lower Lascar Row | | | Do. | |\n| 46 | May 19 | No. 16, Fat Hing Street | 1 | | Do. | |\n| 47 | May | House No. 7, Wing Shing Street | 1 | | Do. | |\n| 50 | May | House No. 10, Sui Hing Lane | 1 | | Do. | |\n| 51 | May | Grass on hillside at Kai Lung Wan | | Trifling | | |\n| | May | Grass on hillside at Mount Davis | | | | Several trees destroyed. |\n| | May 3, 1.30 a.m. | House No. 19, Albany Street | 1 | | Unknown | |\n| | May 7.30 p.m. | House No. 290, Queen's Road West | 1 | | Do. | |\n| | May 10.15 p.m. | House No. 33, Nallah Lane | 1 | | Do. | |\n| | May | Grass on hillside near Pokfulam Road | | Trifling | | |\n| | May i p.m. | Store of the Hongkong Dispensary | | | Unknown | |\n| 53 | May | House No. 26, Bakley Street, Yaumati | 1 | | Do. | |\n| | May + p.m. | House No. 15, Li Yuen Street | 1 | | Do. | |\n| 56 | May 9.03 p.m. | House No. 12, Kwong Yuen Street, East | 1 | $3,000 | Accidental | |\n| 57 | June 12.30 a.m. | | | Nil | Falling of a kerosine lamp | |\n| 58 | June | | | Nil | Unknown | |\n| 59 | July | | | | | |\n| 60 | July 12.20 p.m. | House No. 32, Square Street | 1 | $500 | | |\n| 61 | July 20, 7.30 p.m. | House No. 48, Second Street | 1 | Trifling | Nil | |\n| 62 | Aug. 2, 7.45 p.m. | House No. 136, Wellington Street | 1 | Nil | Do. | |\n| 63 | Aug. 5 p.m. | Coal Godown No. 60, Praya East | 1 | $41,000 | Unknown | Insured in 3 Offices for $41,000. |\n| 64 | Aug. 22, 5.40 p.m. | House No. 22, Gough Street | 1 | Trifling | Carelessness while worshipping tombs | Two men burnt to death. |\n| 65 | Sept. 5 p.m. | House No. 223, Hollywood Road | 1 | Nil | Upsetting of a kerosine lamp | |\n| 66 | Sept. | House No. 16, Wyndham Street | 1 | Trifling | Unknown | |\n| 67 | Sept. 8, 9.30 p.m. | Mesers. Blackhead & Co., Praya Central | | $30,000 | Incendiarism | |\n| 68 | Sept. 9, 7.50 p.m. | House No. 218, Queen's Road West | 1 | $100 | Unknown | |\n| 69 | Sept. 10, 12.30 a.m. | House No. 38, Gilman's Bazaar | 1 | Trifling | Do. | |\n| 70 | Sept. 22, 1.30 p.m. | Coal Godown of Messrs. Blackhead & Co. at Tsim Sha-tsui | | $100,000 | Accidental while burning joss paper | Insured in the Hongkong Fire Insurance Office. |\n\n## DESPATCH\n\n**24864** \n29 DEC 91 \n**Prison Rules & Regulations** \nC.O. Sends unived expices of wild obcountin thereon.\n\n## Minutes\nM・ Wingfield \nThe former papers show that these rules have undergone a good deal of doctoring, and their last state is about as bad as the first.\n\n...of a note that 326 & duplicate 283, which I cannot make head or tail. In instance, please look at rules 281 and 281. We are alleged to halt the exception of those heretofore mentioned.\n\nAgain look at 283. \"Convicted prisoners, every conceivable kind of prisoners mentioned in the foregoing rule having been mentioned\" \n\nWB & L (121)-15262--3000-5-91 \nGovernor. \nNo. Barker 371 \nLast previous Paper. 21 Nov 1891 \nDate. 1/306. \n35 zd aus 25.29Jan.\n\nCareless use of fire while searching for money.\n\nNoo. 24864 \n(Subject.)\n\nNext subsequent Paper.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353774, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "content_text": "162\n\n(Minute by Assistant Registrar General.)\n\nHONOURABLE REGISTRAR GENERAL,\n\nApparently the practice of injecting Morphia has arisen only within the last few months.\n\nInjections can be obtained at the following places:\n\n312, Queen's Road West.--A branch open about a month. 50 or 60 people go there a day.\n\n1, New Street.--Opened a fortnight. Plenty of patronage.\n\n1st floor, 2, East Street.--Opened 2 weeks. 60 or 70 a day. Fee at above places, 1 cent an injection.\n\n2nd floor, 18, Taipingshan Street.--Opened 3 weeks. Fee, 2 cents.\n\n2nd floor, 10, Kwaiwa Lane.--Opened in November. Number increased from 10 to 40 a day. Fee reduced from 2 to 1 cent.\n\n367, Queen's Road Central.--Opened in March. Number of patients increased from 20 to 60.\n\n98, Bonham Strand.--Opened 14 months. 40 or 50 a day.\n\n41, Stanley Street.--Branch of Kwaiwa Lane establishment.\n\n179, Queen's Road East.--Opened 2 months.\n\n104, Bonham Strand,\n\n85, Bonham Strand,\n\n65, Third Street,\n\n91, Queen's Road West,\n\n50, Praya West,\n\nShaukiwan and Yaumati, about eighteen places in which about one thousand persons receive injections twice a day.\n\nThere are a few, who no longer use it, who claim to have been completely cured of their opium-smoking habits by it; but others have tried it and afterwards gone back to opium-smoking.\n\nA coolie who would smoke 5 or 6 cents' worth of opium a day only pays 1 cent for each injection, so that he saves 3 or 4 cents a day and obtains an equal effect, while at the same time he is getting cured of the opium smoking.\n\nThe Morphia used is purchased at the dispensaries as a powder at $40 a lb., by one or two men, who dissolve it in water and sell the solution to the injectors. These inject the liquid under the skin, at the muscles of the arms, with small hypodermic syringes, which are also purchased at the dispensaries. The operator begins on a patient with a big dose, which he decreases daily, or once in two days, for about a month, when the cure should be effected.\n\nFew of those making the injections are even Chinese medical practitioners and none of them have had training under foreigners. The unrestricted use of such a drug by reckless and unqualified practitioners must be a great danger to the community and, like the unrestricted sale, seems to call for the imposition of some restriction as a safeguard. Whether Morphia in the shape of a powder comes under the Ordinance as a preparation of opium may be a question for the law officers to decide, or if the Opium Farmer wishes, he could take up a case as a test case.\n\nAbout 60.\n\n* Attached is a notice by a hospital, in Canton, recommending the adoption of the injection of Morphia.\n\nThe numbers given above cannot be relied on.\n\nThe ostensible reason for taking Morphine is to get rid of the craving for opium but even if a man doesn't want to do so he naturally prefers spending 3 or 4 cents on Morphia to 15 or 20 on opium.\n\nThe coolie class patronise these places. I should say that we won't be able to judge of the extent of this practice for another month or so. The writers put the number of people at between 1 and 2,000, who were no doubt all habitual opium smokers.\n\nA. W. BREWIN\n\nW. STANTON,\n\nW. QUINCEY,\n\nInspectors.\n\n(Minute by the Captain Superintendent of Police.)\n\nHonourable COLONIAL TREASURER,\n\nReport in accordance with your request.\n\nF. H. M.\n\n19.6.\n\n5th June, 1893.\n\n* Not printed.\n\n(Report by the Police.)\n\nCENTRAL POLICE STATION,\n\n19th June, 1893.\n\nCAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT,\n\nIn accordance with instructions received from you and Mr. BUCKLE we have made inquiries regarding the use of Morphia injections.\n\nThe injections of Morphia are made with the object of curing persons of their opium-smoking habits and the method is said to have been instituted by one of Dr. Kenn's students in Canton. It was commenced in Hongkong on a small scale last year, but it is only within the last two or three months that it has attained to its present extensive use. There are in the Colony, including Aberdeen,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354320, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 54, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "15\n\nNot of what had been seen. us to draw up a report for the Sanitary Board meeting that afternoon and requested one to be brief also that\n\nA report ecting is\n\nThe following joint letter from the Colonial Surgeon and the Acting Superintendent of the Civil Hospital was read :-\n\nGovernment Civil Hospital,\n\n1.30 pm, May 10th, 1894,\n\nSir,--In accordance with your letter today we have the honour to report that we have visited the Tung Wah Hospital and found there about twenty cases in one ward of the same disease which is now prevalent in Canton, namely, plague. There have been several deaths from the same disease and there will be more within the next 24 hours as several of these cases were very ill. Briefly the symptoms are--fever, sometimes very high, swelling of the glands in the groin, or neck, armpits, extreme nervous prostration, delirium, coma, and death. These are the common symptoms, but sometimes there are other, such as hemorrhagic spots, &c., which are, however, only occasional. There is not the slightest doubt as to the character of the disease. It is exactly the same as Dr. Lowson saw at Canton on Sunday with Dr Rennie. At present we have no time to write a full medical report, but we may mention that on Monday evening Dr. Lawson diagnosed a case in the Government Girls' Hospital as plague, and immediately isolated it.\n\nWe have to recommend:-\n\n(1)--That all house drains and main drains in the affected district be flushed at once and regularly flushed afterwards. They must also be disinfected.\n\n(2)--Houses in which cases have occurred must be disinfected in the usual way for other infectious or contagious disease.\n\n(3)--The clothing of all infected persons and their attendants should be taken charge of and thoroughly disinfected.\n\n(4)--On no account must an accumulation of patients be allowed in the Tung Wah Hospital, as this would inevitably cause a spread of the disease.\n\n(5)--The Hygeia must be removed and brought into the middle of the harbour, as near to the shore as possible, and at once. We feel sure that if a deputation of the leading Chinese be taken to the Hygeia and the situation is explained to them, and also the fact that the patients will be in the charge of their own countryman, no difficulty will be found in getting the affected people to go to the ship. These cases as a rule are too ill to object themselves and if any difficulty is caused then it must be met by the Government.\n\nP. B. C. AYRES,\n\nColonial Surgeon.\n\nJ. A. Lowson,\n\nActing Superintendent of Government Civil Hospital.\n\n| The Secretary, Sanitary Board.\n\nBLACK PLAGUE IN HONGKONG. DISCUSSION IN THE SANITARY BOARD. Last night, we published the documents of the Sanitary Board bearing upon the outbreak of a disease which has been named the 'black plague' in Canton and Hongkong. Appended we give the discussion which followed upon the reading of the special report submitted by Dr Ayres and Dr Lowson :-\n\nThe President said that in addition to the report just read he had a telegram from the Consul at Canton stating that the number of cases was increasing, but the mortality was decreasing.\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon said he understood there had been a heavy rainfall at Canton within the last forty-eight hours.\n\nThe President said he had not heard of it.\n\nMr Francis asked if it was a fact that three weeks ago six or seven deaths occurred in one house in Bonham Strand.\n\nThe President--I did hear that rumour and inquiries were made both by the Registrar General and the Secretary of the Sanitary Board, and it was found four deaths had occurred in that neighbourhood.\n\nMr Francis--Is it or is it not true that six or seven deaths took place in one house?\n\nThe President--There were no reports made to that effect.\n\nMr Francis--I am not asking whether reports were made. I know there were no reports, or I would have seen them in the ordinary course. Were there six or seven deaths in one house or not?\n\nThe President--There is nothing to show that there were.\n\nMr Francis--Have you made inquiries?\n\nThe President--Inquiries were made, and it was found there had been seven deaths in that neighbourhood, but not from plague.\n\nMr Francis--Were they registered?\n\nThe President--They were registered.\n\nMr Francis--From what cause?\n\nThe President--From various causes, but not from plague.\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon--This is not the first time this disease has occurred, within my memory, in Canton. The Chinese know the disease very well up there. There are thirteen cases now at the Tung Wah Hospital and four bodies of those who died from the disease. We are gathering information so that all the houses from which the cases came may be looked after.\n\nThey come from Market Street, Tank Lane, and Ladder Street, where there are old undrained houses and the drains will have to be thoroughly flushed out and the houses cleansed and whitewashed. The disease is one entirely of poverty and filth. It is a similar disease in Asiatic countries to typhus in European countries. There is no necessity for getting up a scare about it. Dr Lowson saw a large number of cases at Canton, but there has been no case amongst the attendants at the hospital there. Although there have been three or four hundred cases admitted there within the last week or ten days, not one of the attendants has been attacked. I think Dr Lowson might explain for the information of the Board the state of affairs in Canton.\n\nMr Francis--I would like to know whether there have been thirteen deaths in Tank Lane within the last forty-eight hours.\n\nThe President--No, not that I am aware of.\n\nMr Francis--Has any considerable number of deaths been reported to the Registrar-General from any particular place?\n\nThe President--Yes, there have been a number from Market Street and Tank Lane. If a person dies in his own house the death is registered and his address is given, but very often the Chinese of Hongkong when they are very sick are taken to the Tung Wah Hospital, and if they die there the death is registered by the Tung Wah authorities, and there is some difficulty in tracing where the person came from originally. We are now tracing the cases.\n\nMr Francis.--How is it the Tung Wah people have not reported these deaths from infectious disease?\n\nThe President--Is it infectious?\n\nMr Francis--If there is any doubt about it it ought to be treated as infectious,\n\n23\n\n51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354321, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 55, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "327\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon—I should treat it as an infectious disease, though I should not fear to go amongst it myself. Though there is a certain amount of contagion, I doubt whether it is very great. I should have no fear of nursing or attending a patient suffering from it. There is more trouble in being afraid of the thing. If you imagine you are going to get it, you probably will get it.\n\nMr Humphreys—You would not like to live in the house or district where it prevailed?\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon—I should not like to live in the house.\n\nThe President—Have you any further questions, Mr Francis?\n\nMr Francis—I want to ascertain whether these deaths have been known to the authorities and whether they have been covering it up. It has not certainly been brought before the Sanitary Board. How is it attention has not been called to so many deaths occurring in the same neighbourhood in so very short a time? It is careless.\n\nThe President—So far as covering up the disease is concerned, I can say there has been absolutely no attempt to cover it up, and directly the Government became aware this plague was in the neighbourhood, they communicated at once with the Sanitary Board, and I have just read the report of De Ayres and Dr Lowson. It was only today the Government became aware of the fact that this plague is in Hongkong. With regard to carelessness, that also I cannot accept. I do not see where any carelessness has been shown. If a death is registered from fever, it is impossible to know by intuition that it was from plague.\n\nAnd as these deaths were registered from various causes, no suspicion was excited until it was noticed there were many from one street, and then, when inquiries were made, it was found that not only had people died in that street, but that people had been removed from that street to the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\nMr Francis—How is it the Tung Wah people did not report the cause of death?\n\nThe President—They have reported what they considered the cause. Whether they were correct or not is a matter of opinion.\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon—I think the outbreak began about the beginning of this week. An Inspector had instructions to go through the houses in Bonham Strand, and if he found a case, he was to report it to me. But he could not find one. I think we did all we could. It was at my request the Government applied to Canton for information; and as we were not quite satisfied, De Lowson proposed going up. Since he has been back, these cases have been coming in. One case came in on Saturday, one of our own men. I could not say it was the plague; the symptoms were very modified, but still there were slight symptoms tending that way, and the disease could not be accounted for otherwise. Dr Lowson, when he saw it after his return from Canton, said there was no doubt it was the same. Now, after four days, the man is delirious.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police—I may say that these rumours of numerous deaths are greatly exaggerated. I was informed the day before yesterday that no less than forty people had died in Tank Lane. I made inquiries and I found the number of deaths was five. Two of them were children who died from convulsions. At the same time, I got a return from the Registrar General and found it tallied with my report. The scare in Bonham Strand was also found to be entirely unfounded.\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon—It was stated sixteen people had died in Tank Lane yesterday. You see how the thing becomes exaggerated.\n\nThe President—It seems to me what we ought to do now is not to discuss what is past, but what we are to do now we have this plague in our midst. Under the Public Health Ordinance, it is possible for the Governor in Council to declare any part of the colony infected by an epidemic, and I think perhaps that would be the most effective way of dealing with this, to declare the city of Victoria infected. The publication of this proclamation empowers the Board to make certain by-laws. In the report I have just read from the Colonial Surgeon and De Lowson, certain recommendations are made which appear to me to meet the difficulty. I do not know what members of the Board think of it. Perhaps they would like me to read the recommendations again.\n\nMr Humphreys—One thing we should be careful not to do is to make a scare of it.\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon—All I can recommend to the European community is to see that their back premises are in good order, a thing most of them are very careless about.\n\nDr Lowson (who was called upon by the President to give his opinion in the matter) said—Well, I went up on Friday night to Canton. I may say this report is not very complete. I only wrote it on the spur of the moment with Dr Ayres to let you have something to go upon this afternoon. On Sunday, I went with Dr Rennie to the infected districts and to the Chinese hospital, which was very well run, and where I saw a lot of cases—I should say between seventy and a hundred, including the dead bodies. I took careful notice of the symptoms and got a few facts from one doctor there and also from the manager of the institution. As Dr Ayres says, one of the attendants has been infected. At first, I was told, the mortality in the district was 30 per cent.; it afterwards fell to 30, but when I was there, it had gone up again to 55 or 60 per cent. At this hospital, from six o'clock the previous evening to the time I was there, there had been 36 cases, of which 22 had died. While there, the doctor said to me, 'Oh, I hear you have just got some cases in Hongkong now.' I said, 'I think you are mistaken.' But when I came back on Monday, I asked Mr Sercombe Smith if any cases had been heard of, and I remember Mr Rannie then told me what had been done by Dr Ayres and himself about sending an Inspector round the houses to find out. About midnight on Monday, the sisters asked me to see one of our boys who was ill. His appearance struck me at once as being peculiar, and I said I thought this was the plague. I isolated him. After seeing a few cases, I had absolutely no doubt then that it was plague. I went with Dr Ayres to see the case. Dr Ayres was a little doubtful at first, but after seeing the other cases at the Tung Wah, there is no doubt about it. I went to the Tung Wah this morning and saw more cases than there are now; some have died or the patients have been removed. I also saw some of the bodies which were being removed from the dead-house at the Tung Wah, and the great probability was they had died from that disease, as they had the same appearance as those I saw at Canton. Personally, I think—and most of the authorities say the same—that poison is probably developed from atmospheric conditions underneath the houses in a certain district, and that it is caused simply by poverty and dirt. In the ordinary sense, the disease is not infectious or contagious, but if healthy persons remain in the same atmosphere as infected persons for a certain time, there is a good probability of their catching the disease. The hospital at Canton was very nicely arranged, with plenty of fresh air, and the attendants took care to smell something in bags—sandalwood and aromatic substances—and they would not let these things go all the time I was with them, so that there is no doubt they are frightened of the disease, although they said no attendant had caught it. There is no doubt that by allowing these cases to stop down in Taipingshan and allowing them to accumulate, there must be a danger to the community, and that is why I suggest the Hygeia should be brought over at once and all possible danger removed. If all possible precaution is taken, nobody can be blamed if the thing goes on, but if the measures I have suggested are not carried out properly and efficiently, then you may have more of the disease, unless the rain comes. I believe a few days' good rain, which would wash out the filth, would also wash out the poison. It is probably more chemical than bacterial.\n\nMr Francis—What do you think should be done under section 33 of the Health Ordinance? Do you think any special measures should be taken with reference to the disposal of the dead?\n\n52", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354467, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 201, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "402\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND\n\nThere were then under treatment, thirteen cases on the Hygeia, and fourteen at Kennedy town, making a total of 27, as against 41 on the previous day.\n\ndying there after an illness of 24 hours. The symptoms were almost identical with those of the plague, and there is only too much reason to believe that this is the commencement of the disease in the hitherto uninfected eastern district. The agent of the Messageries Maritimes Company issued the following express on Wednesday: To order to avoid sanitary difficulties in further ports the steamer Oceanien, leaving at 2 p.m., will take neither passengers nor cargo.\n\n18th May: The continuation of the rain on Thursday was hailed with great satisfaction, and both plague and water famine, from which we have been suffering, will doubtless in a few days entirely disappear. There is some indication that the plague is already abating and that the conditions favourable to its development having been removed by the rain, the port will soon be declared free from the disease. The total number of deaths reported from noon on Wednesday to noon yesterday was 20, of which 2 occurred on the Hygeia, 9 in Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 in outside districts. There were only 10 new cases yesterday, 3 being admitted to the Hygeia, and 7 to the Kennedy town Hospital. 44 cases are at present under treatment,\n\nThe following circular has been issued by the Sanitary Board for the guidance of all concerned, and has been circulated among the police and sanitary officers:\n\nObservations to be made by officers conducting house to house visitation:\n\n1. See if the patient is feverish. \n2. Look for swellings (buboes) under the arms, on the groin, on the neck, above the elbow. \n3. Observe if the patient has an anxious expression and if he is walking with a tottering gait.\n\nThe rainfall registered to 10 a.m. on Wednesday, for the preceding twenty-four hours, was 0.26 inch, and for the twenty-four hours ending 10 a.m. on Thursday 2.23 inches. There were heavy showers later in the day.\n\nOur Saigon correspondent telegraphs that Hongkong has been declared an infected port and vessels arriving at Saigon are subjected to six days' quarantine.\n\nPRECAUTIONS AT MACAO.\n\nThe following order is published in the Macao Boletim Oficial:\n\nBubonic plague having appeared in epidemic form in the neighbouring ports of Canton and Hongkong and causing a considerable number of deaths amongst the Chinese population of those two cities;\n\nAt the Police Court on Tuesday there were several cases of failure to report the occurrence of the disease, and doubtless a few convictions and fines will make landlords more alive to the vital necessity of bringing the cases to the attention of the authorities without the slightest delay. Ning Kin and Lan Chuk, widows, the occupants respectively of Nos. 72 and 74, Market Street, were charged by Inspector Quincey before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse with neglecting to report the outbreak of plague in their houses. The Inspector stated that he visited the places and found men suffering from the disease, whom he had removed to the Hygeia. The symptoms were very pronounced at the time and there would be no difficulty in identifying the disease. His Worship fined the first defendant $2 or fourteen days' and discharged the second. Lai You Chang, a teacher, for a similar neglect in respect to a case at 10, Wai Tak Lane, was fined $5 or in default 14 days' imprisonment.\n\nThe fire engines on Tuesday were engaged in flushing the sewers and drains of the Taiping-shan district from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The water was pumped from the harbour by the floating engine up to the Hollywood Road level and from thence to the China Road. A good quantity of water was used. This operation will be continued to-day.\n\nDepartmental orders have also been issued calling upon the Chinese to keep their houses clean.\n\n19th May. It is regrettable to have to report that the plague has again increased and that both the numbers of deaths, admissions, and cases are larger than those of the previous day. It will be remembered that the returns on Thursday on the face of them showed a gratifying diminution of the disease, and the copious downfall of rain continuing it was confidently and naturally anticipated that this diminution would be even more pronounced yesterday. The official returns, however, up to noon on Friday show that in the twenty-four hours 25 deaths occurred, 7 were from noon on Thursday on board the Hygeia, 9 at Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 outside, as against a mortality of 21 on Thursday. The new cases were 29, viz, 12 on the Hygeia and 17 at Kennedy town, being an increase of 19. The total number of cases under treatment is 56 against 44 at the last report. This increase is not regarded by the authorities in a serious light, and no apprehensions are entertained that the disease is baffling the exertions made to stamp it out. In fact, the medical officers take a hopeful view and feel sure that the worst is now past. The increase is ascribed to the complete organisation which is operating for the detection of cases. On Friday twelve men from the Royal Engineers and twelve from the Shropshire Light Infantry were enrolled as special sanitary officers, which makes the staff numerically strong and adequate to the necessities of the work to be done. The house to house visitation is divided into sections, and it is almost impossible now that cases of plague can pass undiscovered.\n\nThe Manila authorities have prescribed 15 days' observation on all vessels arriving from this port.\n\nAt the Magistracy on Friday a hawker was charged with failing to report a case of plague which occurred in his house on the 17th inst. Defendant pleaded that he could not leave the premises, but Commander W. H. Hastings, before whom the case was heard, imposed a fine of $50 with an alternative of two months' hard labour.\n\n21st May,\n\nHaving received the advice of the Provincial Sanitary Board:\n\nI hereby order:\n\n1. That the supply of water to the public by boats stationed along the Praia Grande and in the inner harbour be continued with the greatest regularity.\n\n2. That the drains be flushed daily, especially in the districts occupied by the Chinese population, and more particularly the districts of Volong, San-kin, Sa-tong, Patane, Mong-ha, and the village of Barra.\n\n3. That the pavement of the slaughter house and its appendages be daily washed with salt water.\n\n4. That on the arrival of any vessel from Canton or Hongkong, including the steamers and launches of the regular lines, an officer of the Sanitary Board shall inspect the passengers, and especially the Chinese passengers, to ascertain if any of them are suffering from the bubonic plague or exhibit suspicious symptoms.\n\n5. That the commandant of the water police shall give the necessary directions in order that lorcha or other boats from Hongkong or Canton may not land any individual suspected to be suffering from the disease; and any case presenting its symptoms shall be detained on board until examined by an officer of the Sanitary Board, who shall be immediately informed.\n\n6. If any passenger be found to be suffering from bubonic plague, whether on board steamers or launches, such passenger shall not be landed; and if any case of the disease be found on a sailing vessel or boat propelled by oars the vessel shall be immediately to be immediately towed out of the harbour, and removed by a copious rainfall we may confidently anticipate the speedy disappearance of the evil result.\n\nGovernment Palace, Macao,\n\n15th May, 1894.\n\nThe Governor of the Province,\n\nJose M. da Horta e Costa.\n\nwork of soaching and disinfecting the localities\n\nfor development it was hoped that in a few days such an appreciable conquest of the disease would be achieved that no further danger need be anticipated. A certain section of the Chinese have now, however, attempted to frustrate all these efforts, and are determined to assert aggressively the ignorance and stupidity which peculiarly belong to the multitude of the natives. It will be remembered that one of the first acts of the permanent committee was to order the removal of all patients from the Tung Wah Hospital to the Hygeia, and the next wise edict was that no patients were to be sent there, but removed direct to the bulk. There was at the time much grumbling and opposition to this course, the patients themselves, with the instinct of their race, objecting, sometimes violently to their removal to the Hygeia and their treatment by Western skill and science. It appears that this feeling of resentment has been simmering and increasing during the past few days, and on Saturday it broke bounds and completely disorganised the work of cleansing, disinfecting, and investigating, which was in progress. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, a member of the Sanitary Board and also Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, has, with an intelligence which unfortunately does not belong to all his countrymen, lost the Government his hearty co-operation in the measures they have taken. Some of his colleagues on the Hospital Committee, however, imbued with anti-foreign feeling, have resisted this policy, and by their influence have created a strong opposition among the native population to the work which the authorities are prosecuting with such vigour.\n\nMay 24, 1894.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\n198\n\n4.3\n\nAnother case occurred yesterday among the Portuguese community, the patient being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nSingapore has imposed nine days' quarantine, including the time occupied by the passage, rioting, the Government having met the Tung Wah Hospital Committee in their demand that there be no further danger of a renewal of the.\n\nMEETING AT THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL\n\nA largely attended meeting of Chinese was held on Sunday at the Tung Wah Hospital, there being present about seventy members of the leading firms and some four hundred others. The Captain Superintendent of Police and the Colonial Surgeon attended the meeting.\n\nMr. Lau Wai Chuen occupied the chair. He said that many people had preferred a request that persons suffering from the plague should be allowed to be conveyed to Canton, if their relatives so desired, by special launches.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police replied that he was instructed to state that information had that morning been received from Canton that the officials there would not allow persons suffering from the disease to be landed there. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen interpreted Mr. May's reply to the meeting, who received it with strong marks of dissatisfaction. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, endeavoured to maintain order and said he would personally apply to the Government here and the officials at Canton in relation to the matter. He suggested that they should send a petition to Canton signed by all the leading firms of the colony.\n\nYesterday morning the sanitary officers reported a house supposed to be empty and made the horrible discovery that there were five corpses on the premises and four very serious cases, all exhibiting pronounced symptoms of the plague.\n\nYesterday morning one of the turnkeys in the Victoria Gaol reported himself sick and Dr. Marques, suspecting from the symptoms that the man was suffering from plague, sent him immediately to hospital. A prisoner in the gaol, who had been convicted for not reporting a case of plague, was also removed to the new Chinese Hospital for treatment.\n\nThe arrangements for the burial of victims of the plague do not appear to be quite satisfactory. A good deal of delay takes place before the bodies are interred, separate graves having to be dug in a rather rocky and refractory soil. The squatters on the land contiguous to this cemetery have petitioned the Government on the matter. Evidently a more suitable site ought to be selected.\n\nOn Saturday many of the houses visited were blockaded and the sanitary officers stoned, and in the afternoon all attempts to continue the house to house inspection had to be discontinued, the work being rendered exceedingly unsafe and difficult. A mob also collected at the Po Leung Kuk office and broke the windows, but was dispersed by the police before doing further damage. On Sunday, while a meeting at the Tung Wah Hospital was in progress, Mr. Lau was hurriedly sent for, news arriving that his hong was being wrecked. When Mr. Lau left the building he was surrounded by a howling mob of Chinese and had to be escorted by police to his residence. Mr. P. R. May, Captain Superintendent of Police, grasped the situation at once and sent a mounted contingent of armed Sikhs to the district, the presence of which fortunately prevented further disturbances.\n\nThe Government have so far met the Chinese opposition as to assent to the establishment of a temporary hospital under the management of the Tung Wah at the Glassworks, Kennedy town, to which all patients will be removed and where they will be treated by native practitioners, and the use of the Hygeia for the reception of plague patients will be discontinued.\n\nOn Sunday the house to house inspection was recommenced, the officers being protected by a strong police guard.\n\nSome cases have been reported on the mainland and proclamations have been issued prohibiting the immigration of Chinamen from Hongkong. At Haiphong several persons have fallen victims to the disease.\n\nThis suggestion was unanimously agreed to. The Captain Superintendent of Police said that rumours were current that people not suffering from the disease had been taken to the Hygeia and the Kennedy town Hospital, people who were not sick at all, but this could be at once disproved if any of those present would go with him to examine the patients, when it would be seen they were all sick people suffering from the plague. If those attacked were not segregated it would be impossible to prevent the spread of the disease, and he referred to the visitation of the plague in England two hundred years ago and the great mortality it caused. He suggested to the Chairman that he should advise the people that they should avoid overcrowding in their dwellings, and then the number of persons attacked by the disease would decrease.\n\nCONFERENCE AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nAn important conference was held yesterday at Government House for the purpose of discussing the new turn events have taken and considering the course of action to be adopted in the immediate future. His Excellency Sir William Robinson presided, and there were also present H.E. Major-General Barker, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart (Acting Colonial Secretary), Hon. N. G. Mitchell-Innes (Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Ho Kai, Dr. P. B. C. Ayres (Colonial Surgeon), Mr. F. H. May (Captain Superintendent of Police), Mr. J. J. R. Crook, Dr. James, Francis Q.C., Mr. J. A. M. S., Dr. Lan Wai Chuen. The meeting lasted for some time. The first business was the consideration of representations by the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board as to the inadequacy of the number of sanitary officers.\n\nApplication was made for the enrolling of 400 assistants for the work of cleansing and disinfecting.\n\nAt this stage of the proceedings a petition was presented from the residents in East Street complaining of the treatment they had received at the hands of the sanitary officers, entering their houses unexpectedly and frightening the children. The petitioners asked that attention should be given to this matter.\n\nAt this time news arrived that a mob was attacking Mr. Lau Wai Chuen's establishment in Bonham Strand, the Tung San Wo, and\n\nOn Sunday night everything was quiet and it was hoped there would be no renewal of the disturbances.\n\nThe decrease in the number of cases reported for the twenty-four hours up to noon on Sunday is, it is to be feared, due to interruption of the inspection rather than to any actual diminution of the disease.\n\nA notice was subsequently issued by the Committee of the Tung Wah Hospital stating that the Government has consented to allow all patients suffering from plague to be treated by the doctors of the Tung Wah Hospital. The notice also informs the people that they need not be alarmed by the visits of the sanitary officers, as any one found to be suffering from plague will now be removed to the Tung Wah's branch hospital instead of being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nAt the Police Court on Saturday there were some more cases of failure to report outbreaks of plague. Wong Chan, a married woman, was so charged. P.S. Moffat said that he visited the house of the defendant No. 64, First Street, at 11 a.m. on the 18th. In the first room visited he found a man lying dead, and another man (the husband of the defendant) was very ill in the same apartment. In another room in the Cookhouse he discovered a woman very ill lying under a bed, and in the cockloft a girl was seriously ill. All, both the dead and the living, had the symptoms of bubonic plague. Defendant pleaded that she was a very poor woman, and was fined $5, which she paid. Chan Chol, a shopkeeper at No. 6, Hung Lane, off Queen's Road West, was also charged with concealing a case. P.S. Smith said that he went into the premises and found a man suffering from plague. There were a number of persons present, who ran away on his arrival. A like fine was imposed.\n\nWe have heard of a somewhat curious case in connection with the plague. A few days ago a coolie was charged with cutting and wounding a companion and the hearing of the charge was remanded for a week by the sitting Magistrate, bail of $250 being allowed and procured. The following day the unlucky coolie was seized with the disease and died on board the Hygeia.\n\nThe Spanish Consul received the following official telegram despatch from Manila at 9:53 a.m. on Saturday: \"Hongkong has been declared an infected port, and vessels from thence are subject to fifteen days' quarantine.\"\n\nInformation has also been received that a proclamation will be issued to-day addressed to the Chinese explaining the objects of the preventative measures now being prosecuted and calling upon them to co-operate therein and assist the Government.\n\nMr. May stated at the meeting yesterday that he and his assistants had been welcomed and not obstructed in the different houses visited.\n\nThe following are the returns for the twenty-four hours to noon yesterday:\n\nHygeia, Kennedy town Hospital, City, Total, Decrease.\n\nAdmissions: 2, 3, 0, 5, \nDeaths: 3, 2, 0, 5, \nUnder treatment: 26, 20, 17, 63, 28\n\nThe Government, we understand, is fully prepared to support the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board to the utmost. There is a suspicion that jealousy between different sections of the Chinese is at the bottom of the recent disturbances and ill-feeling.\n\nTHE DISTURBANCES-POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS.\n\nMr. H. E. Wodehouse was yesterday morning engaged at the Police Court in hearing several cases arising out of the disturbances in Chinatown reported in yesterday's issue.\n\nYesterday Yea Kay, a hawker, was charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in Po Yan Street.\n\nPage 403\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354527, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 261, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "of the opinion that the type \n\n258\n\nAdmissions to the Chinese Temporary Hospital Kennedy Town\n\nof the disease is milder than formerly, but the number of cases is certainly not diminishing to the extent that was anticipated.\n\nHouse to House Visitation is being vigorously carried out and upwards of 300 persons are employed in visiting, cleansing, and disinfecting houses which have been occupied by plague-stricken patients.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nTom Lockhart's Obedient Servant,\n\nWilliam Robinson\n\nAddress\n\n11455 Rec? Lo Shir Kan 20 3 Jove's Lane Cast Pro 2 10 3: 18 Totting Hill Street\n\nWong Thin May ng dok Lang Pan Hii Ma po If Hing Chan Jai 20 18 Hollywood Road 44.5 26 Leung San Street West well. 21 84 Praya West 1st floor Wong Keung 22 099 Hollywood Road 62 You ma li 11 16 Taipingshan Street + Leung Bean 36 201 Hollywood Road 2nd By To Tukying 291 Bridge's Street bellas luk Tong 4. 2baine Lane Than Sheung 25 1 Bridge's Street bellar Lam Pean $9 36 Market Street than trung 50 18 Rozario Street 12 + floor Sine Po 51 brought by P. G. Hess Kwok Chin tai 10 9 Bridges Street Lo Fun Ma uin 29 390 Queen's Road Central 68 12 Li Sing Street 2nd floor Leung bhrung 28 So Market Street Hai Lay Fung Ti 7th floor 63 Bonham Strand 5th floor 8 Station Street 2nd floor Yeung bhak forg 18 31 Cochrane Street 55 3 Kat Sing Lane Kwok Mong Sham Kun. Lin Hong Fuk Leung Mai Li Mün Mok Chun Fang Lan Leung Thai #14 Isung Tau Street West 1st fl. 68 & Kat Sing Lane 16 bringing things 3rd floor 16 6 bheung Hing Street 6 1 Sui ting Lane 2nd floor 63 56 Market Street !!! \" 12 39 Bridge's Street\n\nTotal Admissions - 30", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354945, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 679, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "from the Governor to Fin R. Meade, Account \" from him particulars about the drains & the plague.\n\nThe Plague, he tells me, originated at Bonham Strand West / please look at the plan of Victoria Hongkong which shows it being brought in by February Chinese processionists who came in from the Canton provinces last year.\n\nHe did not explain how it is that it did not break out till May.\n\nThe centre of the epidemic however was further inland in the Taipingshan district, as marked in red, which is crowded with Chinese.\n\nThe main sewers of Victoria are being re-constructed, at great cost, by the Public Works department. \"That department has control over Crown property and public roads, but not over private houses, with which the Sanitary Board alone is competent by law to deal!\n\nThis Taipingshan district wants, Mr Cooper tells me, draining; its hoven ought to be paved; there are private lanes and alleys which are treated as backyards-\n\nForm K's New Station received from Time received. Clark's Signature. Station SMITE TO. Time sent. A.M. h. m. Service Form. 674\n\nThe Eastern Telegraph Company, Limited. C.O. Clerk's Share 13501 REC REGE 2 AUG 04 STATION, Z 41, & 42, PARLIAMENT ST., S.W. L J To We sent it intires, d'. intere. Lorson Wall, London. & 1894-\n\nC. O.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354946, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 680, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "from the governor to Sir R. Meade, dispatch\n\ngovernor from him particulars about the drains at the filogue.\n\noriginated at\n\nThe Plague, he tells me, originated at Bonham Strand West (please look at the plan of Victoria Hongkong) being brought in in February last by Chinese processionists who came in from Canton provinces - He did not explain how it is that it did not break out till May. The centre of the epidemic however was further inland in the Tai Ping Shan district, as marked in red, which is densely populated with Chinese.\n\nThe main sewers of Victoria are being reconstructed, at great cost, by the Public Works department. \"That department has control over Crown property and public roads, but not private houses, with which the Sanitary Board alone is competent by law to deal.\n\nThis Tai Ping Shan district wants draining; its houses ought to have been done; there are private lanes and alleys which are treated as backyards -\n\nPage 27\n\nMARKN\n\nVARI ALAN X,\n\nLONDON STATIONS:\n\nBRANCH STATIONS:\n\n8, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. 3, GREAT TOWER STREET, E.C. 41 & 42, PARLIAMENT ST., S.W. 37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C., and 2068, WINCHESTER HOUSE, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C.\n\nNo.\n\nThe following TELEGRAM Received at Prban\n\nELEGRAPH CO.,. NSTER OFFICE, RLIAMENT ST., S.W.\n\nDated\n\nTo\n\nAddress\n\nHongkong\n\nChaterbries\n\n5 my despatch 151\n\nfinal\n\nat the\n\n(675\n\nLIMITED.\n\nCHIEF STATION: 11, OLD BROAD STREET,\n\nTime\n\nC. O.\n\n13501\n\nD\n\nREC 2 AUG 34\n\n189\n\nvia\" Eastern, '\n\nlondon\n\nCouncil meeting\n\nAurora next contract\n\nsanction expenditure\n\nyou effectual additional\n\nthe supply\n\n80,000\n\ndollars\n\napprove\n\ninfected districts\n\ngenerally\n\ndestination of\n\nRobinson\n\nagain\n\nRecorded\n\none million\n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Paper.\n\nUPON WHICH THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED. The Telegraph Companies and Administrations through whose hands this will not be responsible in any case for anything done, or omitted to be done, beyond the limits of their Stations or Telegraphs; FAULTS OR DELAYS in the transmission or delivery of, nor for the NON-TRANSMISSION, MIS-DELIVERY or NON-DELIVERY OF whatever cause arising. Any complaint, however, will meet with every attention on being brought to the notice of the Company.\n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED VIA EASTERN.\n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356835, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 366, "title": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "content_text": "24. It has been no fault of Your Petitioner that the Plague visited the houses 17 Pottinger and 30 Chinese Streets. The epidemic having attacked both the better and lower class Chinese. The house 32 Raya Central referred to is one of the best class Chinese houses and could with but slight outlay be again adapted for European occupation. Still in that house and in similar class houses in the neighbourhood and in a street known as Bonham Strand West, which street is solely occupied by the principal Chinese Merchants, the Plague attacked the occupants and as it would appear at an earlier date than in the Taipingshan district.\n\n25. The Irrigueze Colony of Macao had daily communication with both Canton and Hongkong during the prevalence of the plague and in consequence had additional reason for being affected by it, but few cases occurring there would in itself show there was a cause for such plague being so rife here, and that cause as appears to Your Petitioner being the insanitary condition of the Chinese portion of the colony, but that owners of property should be made to suffer for the consequences seems to Your Petitioner altogether unwarranted.\n\n26. Your Petitioner has been a large loser in rents by many of his tenants having left their holdings during the time of the plague without payment of rents then due and subsequently by having many shops and floors unlet and still unlet.\n\n27. Your Petitioner is of opinion there was no greater need for the resumption of the Taipingshan District further than for whole streets of houses both adjacent to and distant from that district where the Plague raged, unless it be the authorities decided such resumption for other reasons, and as Your Petitioner can but conclude.\n\n28. Your Petitioner having paid the Rates for the said two houses, 17 Pottinger and 30 Chinese Streets, as demanded of him during the period such houses were vacant, contends he has a right to be reimbursed by the Government for the losses he has sustained by reason of his tenants' eviction.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357362, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "content_text": "but this was only one case of a hundred. The chopping air Jackson has referred to is supposed by some people to be needful. I venture to say that that is not so.\n\nThe Chinese are in no way in favour of chopping dollars. Every hong occasionally chops a thousand dollars as a sort of demonstration in order to be able to say \"We always chop our coins, and if you want us to exchange a bad dollar you must show us our mark upon it.\" The practice is now fast going out, and you may now go into Bonham Strand and that district without hearing the chop-marking hammer being used. There is now very little of it, and I feel sure that if Mr. Jackson and other bankers were to adopt a plan of discouraging this method, we should have a clean currency, and save thereby four-fifths of the trouble of shroffing. There is five times as much trouble in shroffing a thousand dollars which are chopped as there is in shroffing a thousand dollars which are clean. With chopped dollars you have to turn over both sides. I think, therefore, that this is, as Mr. Jackson has said, a good opportunity for putting our currency upon a fair basis, and that it should not be lost. I may say I have been waiting for this opportunity for forty years, and I am delighted that we have so powerful an advocate in the matter as Mr. Jackson. (Applause) Will you therefore allow me to propose this resolution. That the Chamber regards the advent of the British dollar as an opportunity for placing the currency of this Colony upon a satisfactory footing, that as a first step every means should be adopted to protect the new coins from the foolish practice of chopping and defacement, and that the Government be requested by the Committee to legislate to that effect in this Colony.” (Applause).\n\nMr. JACKSON-I beg to second Mr. Sharp's proposal.\n\nMr. SHARP-I could tell you a great deal more, but there is a review on, and I know you want to go there (Laughter).\n\nMr. SHEWAN-I would like to enquire whether it would not be illegal to deface the new dollar, it being a British coin.\n\nMr. JACKSON-To meet the special - as they think at how the special requirements of this colony, they have decided to allow it to be chopped and still remain a legal tender—the very thing we did not want. It will, as Mr. Sharp has said, defeat the one opportunity we have had of putting all coin upon a proper basis.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-Before I put the resolution I will announce the result of the ballot. The Committee elected will consist of Messrs. A. G. Wood (Chairman), A. McConachie (Vice-Chairman), R. M. Gray, N. A. Stobs, St. C. Michael sen., T. H. Whitehead, Douglas Jones, and J. J. Ball-Irving.\n\nMr. Sharp's resolution was then put to the meeting and carried.\n\n## TREASURY\n10096\nRECD 1 JUL 95,\n216\n\nPage 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357878, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "content_text": "## Section B.\n\nPolice Constable 2 LANGLEY.\n\n4 Chinese Constables.\n\n1 Sapper and 3 Riflemen.\n\nPlace of Muster.\n\nCentral Police Station or No. 5 Police Station.\n\nHours of Duty.\n\n7-10 A.M.\n\n3-6 P.M.\n\nHealth District No. 5.\n\nIn the absence of special instructions to the contrary, this detachment will make a daily visitation of all lodging houses and basements occupied as dwellings in this district. Other houses of the worst class also should, if possible, be visited daily. This detachment will also each afternoon attend to the special instructions concerning the arrival of River Steamers, which have been verbally communicated to P.C. LANGLEY by the undersigned. Special attention should be paid to the following basement dwellings:-\n\nStaunton Street, Nos. 33, 35 and 37.\n\nHollywood Road, Nos. 41 to 55, 63, 95 to 105, 107 to 119 and 125 to 137.\n\nGough Street, Nos. 31, 35, 37 and 39.\n\nThe European Police Constable in charge will please make the usual daily report.\n\nApproved,\n\n**W. C. H. HASTINGS,**\n\nActing Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\nNo. of Health District.\n\nII.\n\n**W. EDWARD CROW,**\n\nAssistant Sanitary Superintendent.\n\n## Section C.\n\nPolice Constable 103 GOURLAY.\n\n4 Chinese Constables.\n\n4 Sappers.\n\nPlace of Muster.\n\nHarbour Master's Office or No. 7 Police Station.\n\nHours of Duty.\n\n7-10 A.M.\n\n3-6 P.M.\n\nHealth Districts Nos. 6 and 7.\n\nWanchai Road, Jardine's Bazaar, Lamont's Lane, Yee Woo Street, Fletcher Street, Wing Fong Street, St. Francis Street, Tai Wong Street, Tai Wong Lane, Swatow Lane, Amoy Lane, Ui Hing Street, Albany Street, Nullah Lane, Tai Woo Street, Triangle Street, Wanchai Road, Praya East, Queen's Road East, Shik Kai Lane, Chit Lung Lane, How Fong Lane, Ship Street, King Sing Street, Hing Wang Street, Kat On Street, Kennedy Street, Holy Infant Lane, Mosque Street, Mosque Junction, Kai Un Lane, Wing On Street.\n\nIn the absence of special instructions to the contrary, this detachment will make a daily visitation of houses in districts Nos. 6 and 7 alternately morning and afternoon. As a general rule only houses of the worst class should be inspected. All lodging houses should, if possible, be visited daily, as well as the basements on the North side of Queen's Road. In the event of the latter being found in occupation as dwellings, the European Police Constable in charge will please notify the District Inspectors of Nuisances.\n\nThe European Police Constable will please make the usual daily report. He will be allowed ricksha hire when necessary.\n\nApproved,\n\nIII.\n\n**W. EDWARD CROW,**\n\nAssistant Sanitary Superintendent.\n\nIV.\n\n### Schedule C.\n\n**MEZZANINE FLOORS AND CUBICLES.**\n\n| Street | Allowed to Co-exist | Cubicles or Cocklofts Removed | Not yet Removed awaiting Decision | Total Notices served |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | | | 824 |\n| | 48 | 54 | | |\n| | 48 | 34 | 6 | |\n| | 10 | 14 | | 30 |\n| | 5 | 8 | 3 | |\n| | 3 | 15 | | 18 |\n| | 14 | 44 | 3 | |\n| | 9 | 12 | | 31 |\n| | 5 | 6 | 11 | |\n| | 11 | 37 | | |\n| | 14 | 17 | 11 | |\n| | 13 | 8 | | |\n\n**W. C. H. Hastings,**\n\nActing Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n### Schedule B.\n\n**Cases of Bubonic Plague reported during 1895.**\n\n| Date of Notification | Locality | Sex | Age | Removed to and treated at | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| April 29th | 191, Praya Central | Male | 12 | Tung Wa Hospital | Died there on admission April 29th |\n| 29th | 27, Stone Nullah Lane | | | Kennedytown Hospital | Died there April 29th |\n| 29th | 79, Queen's Road West | Female | 13 | Do. | Died there May 2nd |\n| May 6th | 2, Pound Lane | Male | 100 | Do. | Died there May 6th |\n| 4 | Wing Lok Street and S.S. \"Belgie\" | Female | 37 | Do. | |\n| | Li Yan Kü, Shelley Street | Male | Unknown | | |\n| | Graham Street | | | | |\n| | Stanley Street | 1 | | | |\n| | Tung Mau Lane | 5 | | | |\n| | Tan Wo Lane | 3 | | | |\n| | 20, Queen Victoria Street | 2 | | | |\n| | Queen's Road | 2 | | | |\n| | Pottinger Street | 15 | | | |\n| | Wo On Lane | 15 | | | |\n| | Li Yuen Street East | 1 | | | |\n| | Aberdeen Street, Bridges Street, Bonham Strand | 1 | | | |\n| | East Street, Elgin Street, Gough Street | 12 | | | |\n| | 28 | | | | |\n| | 1 | 8 | | | |\n| | 14 | | | | |\n| | R | | | | |\n| | 22 | 1 | | | |\n| | 9 | | | | |\n| | I | 4 | | | |\n| | 6 | | | | |\n| | Gilman's Bazaar | 13 | | | Died there May 12th |\n| | 13, Hollywood Road | 16 | | | |\n| | 17, Kwong Yuen Street East | 4 | | | |\n| | Kan Yu Fong | | | | |\n| | Kwai Wa Lane | 1 | | | |\n| | Lower Lascar Row | 3 | | | |\n| | Mercer Street | 22 | | | |\n| | Pool Street | 23 | | | |\n| 7th June, 1895 | | 1 | | | |\n\n**W. EDWARD CROW,**\n\nAssistant Sanitary Superintendent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357895, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "content_text": "There is nothing calling for remark with regard to the other members of the sanitary staff. Pressure of work has prevented me from presenting this report at an earlier date, and even although late it has had to be prepared somewhat hurriedly, so that it is not so complete as I should have wished.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nGentlemen,\nYour obedient Servant,\n**HUGH MCCALLUM,**\nSanitary Superintendent.\n\nTo the President and Members of the\n**SANITARY BOARD.**\n\n## Table A.\n\nReturn showing the houses the drains of which have been opened and inspected under the provisions of the Health Ordinance during the year 1894, and the owners thereof requested to re-drain them.\n\n| Lot, No. | No. of Houses | If plans submitted | If work completed |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Marine 64 | 7 | Yes | Yes |\n| Inland 797 & 816 | 24 | 10 Yes, 14 No | |\n| Kowloon Inland 109, 108, 107 & 106 | | | |\n| Inland 103 | 36 | Yes | |\n| Tai Wong Lane, Temple Street and Fuk Sing Lane | | | |\n| Second Street, Third Street and Pokfulam Road | | | |\n| Kwai Wa Lane, Hillier Street, Queen's Road Central | | | |\n| Jervois Street, Upper Lascar Row, Upper Lascar Row and Hollywood Road | | | |\n| Hollywood Road and East Street, Old Bailey Street, Hollywood Road & Sun Wai Lane | | | |\n| Wellington Street, Cochrane Street, Stanley Street | | | |\n| Second Street and Sam To Lane, Arbuthnot Road and Wyndham Street | | | |\n| Boubam Strand West, Heung Lane | | | |\n| Queen's Road West, Bonham Road, Praya Central | | | |\n| Jervois Street, Wai Tak Lane, Upper Lascar Row, Wellington Street, Ice House Street, Undell Street | | | |\n| Queen's Road Central, Praya Central, Pak Tsz Lane | | | |\n| Caine Road, Queen's Road West | | | |\n| Wautsai Road, Queen's Road Central, Queen's Road West | | | |\n| Second Street, Third Street, First and Second Streets | | | |\n| First, Second and Centre Street, Wing Kat Street and Praya Central | | | |\n| Queen's Road West, East Street, First Street | | | |\n| Wing Wo Street and Wing Shing Street, Pokfulam Road, Queen's Road West | | | |\n| Mi Lun Lane, Gough Street and I' On Lane, Hollywood Road | | | |\n| Tun Wo Lane, Queen's Road West, Western Street, Fuk Luk Lane and Third Street | | | |\n| Inland 102 | 2 | | |\n| Inland 252 | 11 | +7 | |\n| Inland 252, 253, 1256, 1257 & 1258 | | | |\n| Inland 236 | 2 | | |\n| Inland 3 and 11 | 16 | | |\n| Inland 52 | 8 | | |\n| Inland 52 | 3 | Yes, 2 No | |\n| Inland 52 | 3 | 4 Yes, 1 No | |\n| Inland 800 | 16 | ++ No | |\n| Inland 145 & 146 | 24 | | |\n| Inland 1191, 1192, 1157, 1158 & 1159 | 3 | 3 Yes, 3 No | |\n| Inland 1187, 1188, 1189 and 1190 | 10 | Yes, 1 No | |\n| Inland 1179, 1180 & 1182, 1183, 1184, 1193 | 9 | | |\n| Inland 609 | 2 | 6 Yes, 4 No | Yes |\n| Kauling Land | | | |\n| Shankiwán Land | 7 | | Yes |\n| Inland 195 | | | Yes |\n| Inland 138 | 10 | | |\n| Fuland 251 Land | | | |\n| Boat | 11 | 35 | 3 |\n\n## Table B.\n\n**MORTALITY STATISTICS,**\nFor the Year ended 31st December, 1894.\n\n### BRITISH AND FOREIGN COMMUNITY.\n\nThe whole Colony, Death Rate, Civil Population, 28.7 per 1,000 per annum.\n\nVictoria Registration District, Death Rate, Land Population,\n\n### CHINESE COMMUNITY.\n\n35.7 per 1,000 per annum.\n\n| District | Death Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| The whole Colony, Land | 18.4 |\n| The whole Colony, Boat | 12.1 |\n| The whole Colony, Land and Boat Population | 30.4 |\n| Kowloon Land | 31.8 |\n| Kowloon Boat | 15.2 |\n| Shankiwán Land | 33.7 |\n| Shankiwán Boat | 18.5 |\n| ... | ... |\n| British, Foreign & Chinese Community excluding Army and Navy | 30.3 |\n\n**SANITARY BOARD ROOM,**\n**HONGKONG, 1st February, 1895.**\n\n**HUGH MCCALLUM,**\nSecretary.\n\n**HUgh MCCALLUM,**\nSanitary Superintendent.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363610, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 444, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "by Inspector Witchell. Seventeen persons were arrested; first and second defendants were fined $100, and the rest $10 each. Morrison Street, No. 5, on 8th January. Inspector Witshell applied for warrant. Sixteen men were arrested. On the 24th January a warrant was applied for by Inspector Witchell for No. 3 and 5, Morrison Street. There was an arrest, but I have not made a note of the result.\n\nWere any others applied for? Bonham Strand, for instance? Bonham Strand was about seven months ago. It does not appear here; the omission may be an oversight.\n\nWere there any in Queen's Road or Tong Lane? Yes, on the 31st October, last year, at No. 89, Queen's Road West on the defendant's information. I should say, in explanation, that of course I will not swear that the defendant owed his information to his own sources.\n\nHis Worship--In the cases you have mentioned? In the other cases the information was furnished by the Inspector.\n\nTo which are you referring, then? I refer to the one in Queen's Road West. Two men were arrested; no gambling gear. 3rd November, last year, 57, Queen's Road West; six men and fan-tan gear arrested. On 8th December, Queen's Road West; seven men and gear. No. 85, Queen's Road West, on 21st May, and 89 on the same date; four men and gear in such case. No. 57 again on 14th May, four men and gear; 85, same date, five men arrested and gambling gear. Nos. 59 and 87, Queen's Road West on the 6th July; five men and gear arrested. In all these cases I have it down that they were reported by Inspector Witchell. I received various complaints about these houses--coolies gambling on the roof and so forth.\n\nDefendant--Do you remember at any time telling me not to trouble about coolie houses? I remember in connection with that house you reported to me in Jubilee Street.\n\nThe Magistrate--Telling him what--not to trouble about coolie houses?\n\nWitness--No, your Worship, I said I wanted to catch some of the long-coated gentlemen and not coolies. I meant that I wanted a decent seizure and not a lot of coolies.\n\nHis Worship--quite so; not coolies as in nearly all these cases.\n\nWitness--I am not particularly referring to these cases but to the majority of gambling cases.\n\nDefendant--Can you say whether the masters were fined and convicted in connection with those warrants which were executed? No, I cannot say.\n\nDefendant--You have visited Kwai Wa Lane, I presume? I have been in Kwai Wa Lane.\n\nIs there anything particular about these houses which would attract your attention to them as being gambling houses? No, I do not think so, but if gambling was going on in them there would probably be evidence of it. There is nothing in the houses per se to attract your attention, but if gambling was being conducted there would be evidence of it.\n\nYou know what happens when a European in plain clothes or uniform goes near these places? Yes.\n\nDo they leave any signs of gambling going on then? My opinion is that if gambling is going on in a house on any considerable scale a police officer who knows what he is about--he may not notice it the first day--would notice something odd about that house and that street.\n\nBy the rules and regulations no police officer is allowed to enter a house or to send anyone into a house to ascertain if public gambling is going on? No.\n\nYou say you raided No. 3, East Street and found a quantity of gambling accounts? Yes. Was there anything in these gambling accounts referring to Kwai Wa Lane? No.\n\nWhat accounts, if any, refer to me? There are accounts in the books.\n\nWhat entries? To the effect that money at the rate of $1 a day was paid to you.\n\nWill you kindly produce that book? Witness--Your Worship, I prefer not to produce that book.\n\nMr. Francis--I think, Mr. May, the book must be produced, and I would ask your Worship to direct that the entries be covered up and sealed except those relating to the defendant.\n\nDefendant--Your Worship, I think that is not correct. Any entries there which might be taken as referring to me might refer to other people. I think the entries should be read now in court so that there shall be a proper and just inquiry into it.\n\nWitness--Do you wish me to produce the book?\n\nDefendant--Yes. I demand that the book be put in, your Worship.\n\nWitness then left the box and fetched the book from his office. He produced it in court.\n\nThe Magistrate--That is the book? Witness--Yes.\n\nIt is the book which has been asked for? Yes. Defendant--Is that the book which refers to money stated to have been received by me? Yes. Is that the only book? That is the only book that refers to you particularly.\n\nDefendant--I should like to see the entry, your Worship.\n\nHis Worship--Certainly.\n\nMr. Francis--The entries can be translated and read.\n\nDefendant--I am entitled to see the entries.\n\nThe Magistrate (to witness)--Will you mark the particular entries in that book referring to the defendant?\n\nWitness--One entry is merely a repetition of the other.\n\nMr. Francis--How many entries are there altogether? I know there are two. The first entry is \"No. 12, $1.10.”\n\nDefendant--Your Worship, is Mr. May a legal translator?\n\nHis Worship--He is on his oath.\n\nWitness (continuing)--\"Paid to Cheng On.\" No. 2 entry is--\"No. 12, $1 paid to Cheng On.\" Three characters representing \"Paid to Cheng On\" are struck out. They are not illegible but simply crossed out, and underneath is put \"Entered in Kum's account.”\n\nMr. Francis--Are there any other characters in the book in any way referring to the defendant except those two? No.\n\nAre there any entries in the book which alter or modify the effect of those entries? No.\n\nIs it important for the administration of justice that the other entries in the book should not be disclosed? It is most essential.\n\nHis Worship--Those questions are being put on the demand made by the defendant that he should see the book in its entirety?\n\nMr. Francis--Yes. My application is that the other entries, which do not affect the defendant in any way, shall be covered up in such a way that neither he nor anyone else will have an opportunity of seeing what they are. Mr. May has sworn that it is essential for the administration of justice that those entries should not be seen, and I shall ask your Worship, after the book has been marked and the particular entries translated, to order it to remain in Mr. May's custody.\n\nHis Worship--The witness has stated that there are no other entries that refer directly or indirectly to the defendant, that there are no entries which in any way affect his position, and that it is most essential in the interests of justice that the book should not be--\n\nDefendant--Your Worship, it appears to me that this book has been tampered with already by the admission of the Captain Superintendent of Police himself in court. He says the entry \"Paid to Cheng On\" has been erased and another substituted.\n\nMr. Francis (to witness)--Was that erasure made when you seized the book?\n\nWitness--Yes.\n\nDefendant--The book will be put in?\n\nHis Worship--Yes, and you can see the entries, but as a very good reason has been given why the whole of the entries should not be put in I am inclined to limit————\n\nDefendant--Your Worship, there is more than one No. 12 in Hongkong.\n\nHis Worship--Certainly. I am not going into the question as to how the entries affect you. What the prosecution rely upon, so far as this book is concerned, are those two entries.\n\nPage 443", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 364028, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "content_text": "221 \n\nand said \"Give some bribes to No. 6\". I said Inspectors who \nare not in charge of the place only get $1 a day, and I am \nwilling to pay $1 a day. At that time Inspector No. 6 was not \nin charge of the place in which Wa Lane is situated. \nHe was in charge of the place between the \nCentral Market and Nam Pak Hong Street (Bonham Strand). \nAfter that I paid this money to Yeung Fat \nfor the Inspector up to the 19th of the 5th moon (18 June). \nI used to pay Yeung Fat once every five days. When the Inspector went home I did not pay money for him. I paid him \nagain on his return. From the time of his return up to the \n18th of June I paid the money. I cannot remember when he \ncame back. I remember that it was after the Plague that he \nleft for England. I paid money for the Inspector for several \nmonths before he went home. I cannot remember for how many \nmonths I paid money for him after his return. \n\nThe money was paid for the Inspector so as \nto avoid his arresting the gambling house. \n\nThe gambling house at Wa Lane was opened in \nthe year of the Great Plague. It was in the 6th moon of the \nplague year. \n\nI have not kept any gambling house previous \nto the one in Wa Lane. \n\nWhen Yeung Fat came to me to ask for money \nfor No. 6 he said that No. 6 had sent him. \n\nYeung", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366020, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 355, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "# STEAMER No. 4. (Land Engine by Shand and Mason.)\n\n348\n\nThis engine has been 16 years in service; the pump valve seats have been thoroughly overhauled and new valves fitted. It has been regularly tested for efficiency at the monthly drills, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 5. (Land Engine by Shand and Mason.)\n\nThis engine has been 12 years in service; it has been very little used for fires this year, but has been regularly tested at drill and is now in good working order.\n\nSeven Manual Engines and fittings are all in good order. The hose, reels, ladders and supply fittings are all in good order and condition.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nD. MACDONALD,\nActing Engineer, Government Fire Brigade.\n\n## List of Places where Fire Brigade Despatch Boxes are kept.\n\n| Location | Number of Boxes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Naval Dock Yard | 1 Box |\n| No. 1 Police Station | 1 |\n| Engine House at No. 2 Police Station | 1 |\n| Engine House in Albany Street | 1 |\n| Clock Tower | 1 |\n| Government Offices | 1 |\n| No. 7 Queen's Garden, Engineer's Mess | 1 |\n| Government House | 1 |\n| Central Police Station | 1 Box |\n| Government Civil Hospital | 1 |\n| Engine House at West Point | 1 |\n| No. Police Station | 1 |\n| Gas House, West Point | 1 |\n| Ko Shing Theatre | 1 |\n| Nain Pak Hong Fire Station | 1 |\n| Man Mo Temple | 1 |\n| No. 5 Police Station | 1 |\n\n## List of Telephones to which the Police can have access to communicate with Central Station in the event of a Fire breaking out.\n\n* Hongkong and China Gas Company, East and West Point, from 7 A.M. to 9 P.M.\n* Tung Wá Hospital, Po Yau Street.\n* Man On Insurance Office, Queen's Road West.\n* Hongkong Hotel, Praya Central.\n* Royal Naval Yard, Queen's Road East.\n* Mr. J. KENNEDY's Causeway Bay.\n\nThe Honourable F. H. MAY, C.M.G.,\nSuperintendent, Government Fire Brigade.\n\n## FIRES, 1887.\n\n| No. | DATE | SITUATION OF FIRE | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | | Wholly | Partly | |\n| 1 | January 12 | No. 16, Sai Woo Lane, | 2 | | 1,400 |\n| 2 | 13 | No. 142, Second Street, | 3 | | |\n| 3 | | Electric Light Company, Queen's Road East. | | | 14,000 |\n| 51 | 15 | No. 48, Queen's Road West, | | | 23,000 |\n| | 22 | Man Mo Temple, Hollywood Road, | | 72 | |\n| | 28 | No. 63, Wellington Street, | 20 | | |\n| | 26 | No. 59, Queen's Road West,.... | | | 3,000 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 35 | December 28 | No. 56, Bonham Strand, | 16 | | 30,000 |\n| | | TOTAL, | | | 267,125 |\n\nHONGKONG, 28th January, 1898.\n\nSIR-I have the honour to forward herewith a report on the state of the Government Fire Engines for the year ending 31st December, 1897.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 1. (Floating Fire Engine by Shand and Mason.)\n\nThis engine is new. It was finished on the 22nd January and commenced work in February. It did good service at the Fire on board the S.S. Belgic, on the 21st April and has been found very suitable for harbour work. The propelling engine is of sufficient power to maintain a speed of 9 miles per hour, so that little time is lost in reaching a fire in any part of the harbour. With the exception of a burst tube which gave out at the finish of the fire on the Belgic, the boiler and machinery have given every satisfaction.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 2. (Land Engine by Shand and Mason.)\n\nThis engine has been 19 years in service; the original boiler which was worn out was replaced with a new one this year supplied by Shand and Mason. It has been well tested at drill and found satisfactory, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER No. 3. (Land Engine by Shand and Mason.)\n\nThis engine has been 19 years in service and is now in good order; the boiler has been regularly cleaned and examined and the machinery tested for efficiency at drill.\n\n| No. | DATE | SITUATION OF FIRE | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | | Wholly | Partly | |\n| | February 10 | No. 3, Bonham Strand, | | | 12,000 |\n| | 17 | No. 129, Queen's Road West, | | | 2,900 |\n| | March 9 | No. 15, Tsz Mi Lane, | | | 19,000 |\n| | 10 | No. 76, Jervois Street, | 11 | | |\n| | 23 | No. 17, Wing Kat Street, | | | 2,500 |\n| | 24 | No. 34, Bonham Strand, | | | 1,800 |\n| | April 5 | Blackhead & Co.'s Godowns at Tsimshatsui, | 14 | 30 | |\n| | 30 | No. 273, Queen's Road Central, | | | 8,000 |\n| | May 4 | No. 35, Battery Road, | | | 600 |\n| | June 14 | A Carpenter's Shed at Kennedy Town, | | | 200 |\n| | July 3 | No. 28, Tank Lane, | | | 300 |\n| | 25 | No. 185, Queen's Road West, | | | 26,000 |\n| | August 23 | No. 311, Queen's Road Central, | | | 2,000 |\n| | September 15 | No. 39, Wing Lok Street, | | | 1,200 |\n| | 21 | No. 76, Queen's Road West, | | | 4,000 |\n| | October 5 | No. 9, In Kee Lane, | | | 1,500 |\n| | 7 | No. 5, Gage Street, | | | 3,000 |\n| | November 5 | No. 9, Sheung Fung Lane, | | | 100 |\n| | 16 | No. 259, Queen's Road Central, | 24 | 50 | 50,000 |\n| | 24 | No. 13, Triangle Street, | | | 150 |\n| | 27 | No. 1, Nallah Lane, | | | 190 |\n| | 28 | No. 107, Wellington Street, | | | 1,000 |\n| | 29 | No. 168, Queen's Road East, | | | 150 |\n| | 29 | No. 165, Queen's Road East, | | | 150 |\n| | 30 | No. 40, Wing On Street, | | | 16,000 |\n| | December 1 | No. 31, Pound Lane, | | | 200 |\n| | 11 | No. 15, Morrison Street, | | | 1,800 |\n| | 20 | No. 5, Kan U Fong, | | | 1,500 |\n| | 28 | No. 56, Bonham Strand, | 16 | | 30,000 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366021, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## FIRES, 1883\n| DATE | SITUATION of Fire | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | Wholly | Partly | |\n\n## FIRES, 1890\n| DATE | SITUATION OF FIRE | NO. OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | Wholly | Partly | |\n| January 1 | No. 77, Praya West | | 3 | 28 |\n| | No. 93, Bonham Strand | | | |\n| February 5 | No. 3, Gilman Street | | 10 | 500 |\n| March 12 | No. 147, Queen's Road West | 8 | | 700 |\n| | No. 151, Hollywood Road | 14 | | 5,500 |\n| | No. 7, Ship Street | | | |\n| | No. 229, Queen's Road West | | | |\n| | No. 139, Queen's Road Central | 27 | | 500 |\n| | No. 21, Centre Street | 9 | | 200 |\n| | No. 201, Queen's Road West | 22 | | 22,000 |\n| | No. 29, Graham Street | 10 | | 35,000 |\n| April 11 | | | | 9,000 |\n| January 18 | No. 7, Station Street | | | 11,600 |\n| | No. 33, Tung Man Lane | | | |\n| | No. 229, Praya West | | | |\n| | No. 8, Lyndhurst Terrace | | | |\n| | No. 28, Bonham Strand | | | |\n| February 10 | No. 18, Gage Street | | 12 | 400 |\n| | No. 8, St. Francis Street | | | |\n| May 2 | No. 186, Wing Lok Street | 24 | | 4,000 |\n| | No. 68, Bonham Strand | 13 | | 200 |\n| | No. 89, Queen's Road West | 27 | | |\n| May 11 | The Hongkong Dispensary | 9 | | |\n| | No. 81, Jervois Street | 19 | | 16,000 |\n| | No. 9, Chinese Street | 14 | | 400 |\n| July 7 | No. 55, Queen's Road West | 12 | | |\n| | No. 15, Ship Street | 17 | | |\n| | No. 12, Kwong Un Street, East | 31 | | |\n| September 9 | Blackhead & Co., Praya Central | | | |\n| | No. 38, Gilman Bazaar | 22 | | |\n| | No. 32, Square Street | | | |\n| June 18 | No. 58, Wing Lok Street | | #1 | 300 |\n| November 11 | No. 47, Bonham Strand | 19 | | |\n| | No. 339, Queen's Road Central | 21 | | 500 |\n| | No. 114, Jervois Street | 15 | | 1,000 |\n| December 15 | No. 69, Upper Station Street | | | |\n| | No. 112, Queen's Road Central | 15 | | |\n| July 21 | No. 42, Queen's Road West | 6 | | 25,000 |\n| | No. 138, Second Street | 22 | | 6,000 |\n| | Nos. 6 and 8, Peel Street | 23 | | 2,000 |\n| | No. 17, Jervois Street | 24 | | 10,000 |\n| | No. 19, Tank Lane | 26 | | 200 |\n| August 15 | No. 2, Cochrane Street | | | 20 |\n| | Jubilee Street | 17 | | 14,000 |\n| | No. 86, Hollywood Row | 19 | | 2,000 |\n| | No. 18, Lyndhurst Terrace | 28 | | 80,000 |\n| | No. 358, Queen's Road Central | 30 | | 5,500 |\n| September 26 | | | | |\n| | No. 110, Queen's Road Central | 31 | | 7,500 |\n| | No. 112, Queen's Road Central | 30 | | 27,500 |\n| October 4 | No. 21, Chung San Lane West | | 4 | 500 |\n| | No. 171, Queen's Road West | | | 10,000 |\n| | No. 114, Queen's Road Central | 22 | | 8,000 |\n| | No. 217, Queen's Road West | 30 | | 3,000 |\n| January 3 | Nos. 170 and 172, Third Street | | | |\n| November 3 | No. 46, Praya Central | | 2 | 8,000 |\n| February 8 | No. 353, Queen's Road West | | | |\n| | No. 18, Albany Street | 33 | | 100 |\n| April 6 | No. 53, East Street | 11 | | 1,000 |\n| | No. 99, Queen's Road East | 15 | | |\n| | No. 103, Bonham Strand Central | 17 | | |\n| | No. 39, Praya, Yaumati | | | |\n| | Aberdeen Village | 17 | | 10,000 |\n| | No. 41, Hillier Street | | | 1,800 |\n| May 3 | The Hongkong and China Bakery, Morrison Hill Road, East Point | | 150 | |\n| | No. 331, Queen's Road Central | 6 | | |\n| July 18 | No. 83, Jervois Street | | | |\n| December 21 | No. 113, Praya West | | | 25,000 |\n| December 19 | No. 280, Queen's Road Central | | | 4,000 |\n| | No. 72, Station Street, Yaumati | | | |\n| | No. 57A, Wanchai Road | | | |\n| TOTAL | | | | 359,770 |\n\n## FIRES, 1891\n| DATE | SITUATION OF FIRE | NO. OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | Wholly | Partly | |\n| | TOTAL | | | 359,770 |\n\n## FIRES, 1892\n| DATE | SITUATION OF FIRE | NO. OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | Wholly | Partly | |\n| January 3 | No. 197, Queen's Road West | 2 | 3 | 1,000 |\n| | No. 292, Queen's Road West | | | 500 |\n| February 9 | No. 242, Queen's Road West | | | 8,000 |\n| | No. 227, Queen's Road West | 4 | | 10,000 |\n| August 24 | No. 95, Hollywood Road | | 2 | 400 |\n| January 10 | No. 9, Queen's Road Central, Bonham Strand | | | 300 |\n| | No. 145, Bonham Strand | 20 | | 550 |\n| | No. 528, Queen's Road West | 13 | | 41,000 |\n| | No. 10, Wilmer Street | | | 100,000 |\n| | No. 81, High Street | 21 | | 3,000 |\n| April 1 | No. 26, Sai Wo Lane | 6 | | 500 |\n| | No. 17, Queen's Road West | 10 | | 80,000 |\n| | No. 104, Queen's Road West | 11 | | 100 |\n| | No. 174, Third Street | | 8 | 2,000 |\n| May 9 | No. 17, Tank Lane | 22 | | 250 |\n| September 16 | No. 203, Queen's Road Central | | | 6,000 |\n| June 21 | No. 29, Centre Street | 10 | | 203,600 |\n| | No. 1, Wing Wo Street | 12 | | |\n| July 11 | No. 112, Queen's Road Central | | 13 | |\n| August 11 | No. 91, Wing Lok Street | | | |\n| | No. 49, Queen's Road West | 18 | | |\n| | No. 220, Queen's Road Central | 12 | | |\n| | No. 48, Queen's Road West | | | |\n| | No. 9, Hellier Street | 25 | | |\n| October 10 | No. 42, Bartery Street, Yaumati | | | 1,500 |\n| September 15 | No. 154, Queen's Road Central | | 16 | 8,000 |\n| | No. 80, Queen's Road West | 17 | | |\n| | No. 333, Queen's Road Central | | | |\n| | No. 14, Jubilee Street | 30 | | |\n| November 18 | No. 7, Nullah Lane | 4 | | 1,000 |\n| | No. 16, East Street | 22 | | |\n| December 6 | No. 55, Queen's Road West | | 19 | 16,000 |\n| December 23 | No. 334, Queen's Road Central | | | 5,000 |\n| | No. 17, Bonham Strand | 33 | | 20,000 |\n| TOTAL | | | | 75,550 |\n\n## FIRES, 1889\n| DATE | SITUATION OF FIRE | NO. OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | Wholly | Partly | |\n| January 29 | No. 1, Rozario Street | 7 | | 3,000 |\n| | No. 92, Wing Lok Street | 9 | | 700 |\n| | No. 197, Queen's Road West | 6 | | 1,500 |\n| | No. 292, Queen's Road West | 12 | | 1,000 |\n| | No. 242, Queen's Road West | | | 11,500 |\n| | No. 227, Queen's Road West | | 4 | 12,000 |\n| August 24 | No. 95, Hollywood Road | 2 | | 1,800 |\n| | | | | 600 |\n| TOTAL | | | | 32,100 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366022, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 357, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "# FIRES, 1893\n## SITUATION OF FIRE\n| No. | DATE | SITUATION OF FIRE | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | January 7 | No. 78, Hollywood Road | 2 | |\n| 2 | January 18 | No. 79, Nallah Lane | 11 | 27 |\n| 3 | January 18 | No. 2, Square Street | | 105 10 17 20 |\n| 4 | February 11 | No. 68, Jervois Street, No. 101, Wing Lok Street | | |\n| 5 | March 6 | No. 22, Holland Street | 92 | 26 |\n| 6 | March 26 | No. 301, Queen's Road West | | |\n| 7 | April 9 | No. 87, Jervois Street | 13 | 25 |\n| 8 | April 10 | No. 15, West Street | | |\n| 9 | April 27 | No. 1, In On Lane | 10 | |\n| 10 | May 11 | No. 344, Queen's Road Central | 13 | |\n| 11 | June 12 | No. 496, Queen's Road West | 16 | |\n| 12 | June 16 | No. 28, Tsz Mi Lane | | |\n| 13 | July 3 | No. 191, Hollywood Road | | |\n| 14 | July 14 | No. 19, Gough Street | | |\n| 15 | July 19 | No. 280, Queen's Road West | | |\n| 16 | July 20 | No. 12, Tung Loi Lane | | |\n| 17 | August 16 | No. 837, Queen's Road West | | |\n| 18 | August 17 | No. 32, Queen's Road West | ** | |\n| 19 | August 25 | No. 155, Second Street | | |\n| 20 | September 5 | No. 7, Ezra Lane | | |\n| 21 | September 18 | No. 248, Hollywood Road | | |\n| 22 | September 30 | No. 127, Bonham Strand | | |\n| 23 | October 12 | No. 14, Li Shing Street | 23 | |\n| 24 | November 11 | No. 115, Praya West | | |\n| 25 | November 11 | No. 58, Square Street | 26 | |\n| 26 | November 16 | No. 5, Pan Kwai Lane | 53 | |\n| 27 | November 21 | No. 9, Tannery Lane | | |\n| 28 | November 30 | No. 314a, Queen's Road Central, No. 22, Tsz Mi Lane | 23, 26 | |\n| 29 | December 6 | No. 31, Wing Fung Street | | |\n| 30 | December 9 | No. 131, Bonham Strand, No. 11, Bonham Strand | 32, 38 | |\n| 31 | December 10 | No. 240, Queen's Road West, No. 99, Praya West | 35, 13 | |\n| 32 | December 25 | No. 100, Queen's Road West | 36 | |\n| | TOTAL | | | |\n\n## FIRES, 1894\n\n## FIRES, 1895\n| No. | DATE | TIME | SITUATION OF FIRE | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED DAMAGE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | January 6 | 7.45 p.m. | House No. 230, Queen's Road Central, House No. 4, Wellington Street | 12 | $800, $300 |\n| 2 | January 9 | 9.30 p.m. | | | $6,000, $4,000 |\n| 3 | January 18 | 5.45 p.m. | House No. 189, Queen's Road Central, House No. 15, Mercer Street | 18, 10 | $2,000, $9,000 |\n| 4 | January 21 | 9 p.m. | | 7 | $10,000, $6,000 |\n| 5 | February 6 | | | | $40,000 |\n| 6 | February 7 | 10 | 9.15 p.m., 1.10 a.m. | House No. 337, Queen's Road West, House No. 74, Bouliam Street | 1,000, $6,000 |\n| 7 | February 20 | 8,000 | 1.20 p.m. | | 2,000 |\n| 8 | March 2 | 6.40 p.m. | House No. 149, Queen's Road Central, House No. 3, Wai Tak Lane, House No. 228, Queen's Road West, House No. 7, Li Shing Street | H, 30 | $200, $12,000, $3,000, $19,000 |\n| 9 | March 11 | 24 | 8 p.m. | 17 | $2,000 |\n| 10 | March 12 | 26 | | | |\n| 11 | March 13 | 30 | 2.50 a.m. | | $700 |\n| 12 | April 6 | 3.25 a.m. | | | $1,500 |\n| 13 | April 15 | 12 Noon | | | $150 |\n| 14 | April 18 | 7 p.m. | | | $1,000 |\n| 15 | April 24 | 7 | 10.15 p.m. | | $20,000 |\n| 16 | June 14 | 3.05 p.m. | | | $300 |\n| 17 | July 29 | 4.50 a.m. | House No. 96, Boulam Strand, House No. 212, Queen's Road West, House No. 352, Queen's Road Central, House No. 1, Queen's Street, House No. 144, Queen's Road West, House No. 34, Bonham Strand, House No. 19, Jervois Street, House No. 76, Jervois Street, House No. 34, Wing Lok Street | Unknown | $3,000, $5,000, $5,000, $3,000, $1,000, $12,000, Not known, $5,000 |\n| 18 | July 29 | 2,800 | | | |\n| 19 | August 21 | 12.30 a.m., 1 a.m. | House No. 3, Station Street, House No. 70, Jervois Street | | $800, $22,000 |\n| 20 | August 22 | 400 | | | |\n| 21 | September 6 | 3.35 a.m. | House No. 4, Praya Central, premises of Messrs. Wieler & Co. | | $100, $4,000 |\n| 22 | September 28 | 30 | 5,000 | | |\n| 23 | October 24 | | | | $5,500, $20,000, $3,000 |\n| 24 | October 30 | 8.30 a.m. | House No. 12, Nullah Terrace, Quarry Bay | | $700 |\n| 25 | October 31 | 12.50 a.m. | House No. 169, Hollywood Road | | $3,000 |\n| 26 | November 6 | 8.20 p.m. | Matshed at Quarry Bay | | $500 |\n| 27 | November 15 | 11.15 p.m. | House No. 149, Queen's Road Central | | $100 |\n| 28 | November 21 | 12.45 a.m. | | | $1,000 |\n| 29 | November 21 | 7.35 p.m. | House No. 1, Praya West | | $8,000, $6,000 |\n| 30 | December 13 | 5,500 | 11.17 p.m. | A mat shed at Kun Chang | $200 |\n| 31 | December 13 | 10 | 4.30 p.m. | A squatter's hut on the Hillside at the back of Shankiwan Station | $25, $2,000 |\n| 32 | December 16 | 1 a.m. | House No. 110, Praya West | | $8,000, $5,000, $9,000 |\n| 33 | December 17 | 1 a.m. | | 14 | $400 |\n| 34 | December 28 | 1.35 a.m. | | 24 | $2,000 |\n| 35 | December 30 | 6 p.m. | | | |\n| 36 | December 30 | 1.10 a.m. | House No. 247, Queen's Road Central, House No. 283, Queen's Road Central, Houses Nos. 847 & 4, Queen's Road West, House No. 40, Queen's Road West | | $15,000, $4,000, $5,825, $5,000 |\n| | TOTAL | | | | $208,210, $297,980 |\n\n## FIRES, 1896\n| No. | DATE | TIME | SITUATION OF FIRE | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED DAMAGE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | January 2 | 1.30 a.m. | | | |\n| 2 | January 9 | 12.30 p.m. | No. 56 First Street | | $800 |\n| 3 | January 13 | | | | $400 |\n| 4 | January 14 | 5.45 p.m. | No. 13 U Lok Lane | | |\n| 5 | January 26 | 1.25 a.m. | | # | |\n| 6 | February 1 | 7.55 a.m., 1.40 p.m., 4.50 p.m. | No. 273 Queen's Road West, No. 26 Market Street, No. 57 Queen's Road West, No. 28 Upper Station Street, No. 86 Queen's Road West, No. 17 Salt Fish Street, No. 17 Upper Lascar Row, No. 136 Bonham Strand, No. 211 Hollywood Road | 6 | $1,200, $2,500, $1,000, $2,600, $6,000, $16,000, $6,000 |\n| 7 | February 25 | 8 | 9.35 a.m. | | |\n| 8 | March 3 | | | | |\n| 9 | March 9 | 4.00 a.m. | | | $1,500, $5,000 |\n| 10 | March 28 | | | | |\n| 11 | March 30 | 9.20 p.m. | | 11 | |\n| 12 | April 1 | 10.30 a.m. | | 17 | |\n| 13 | April 3 | 3.10 a.m. | | | $150,000 |\n| 14 | April 6 | 4.20 a.m. | No. 68 Wanchai Road | | $1,500 |\n| 15 | April 12 | 4.16 a.m. | | 13 | |\n| 16 | April 13 | 1.15 a.m. | | | |\n| 17 | April 17 | 7 p.m., 7.30 a.m. | No. 122 Queen's Road Central, House No. 367, Queen's Road Central, House No. 8, Wing Lok Street, House No. 288, Queen's Road West, House No. 21, Salt Fish Street, House No. 18, Wing Woo Street, House No. 49, Praya West | 12 | $55,000, $5,000, $8,000, $4,000, $8,700, $2,000, $3,000 |\n| 18 | May 1 | 7 p.m. | No. 116 Queen's Road Central | | $18,000 |\n| 19 | May 14 | 3.15 a.m. | | | |\n| 20 | May 15 | 3 a.m. | No. 137 Queen's Road West | | $4,500 |\n| 21 | May 15 | 2,500 | | | |\n| 22 | June 3 | 3 a.m. | No. 15 Jervois Street | | |\n| 23 | June 3 | 3.10 a.m. | No. 228 Queen's Road Central | | $20,000 |\n| 24 | July 1 | 10.25 p.m. | No. 123 Queen's Road Central | | $8,000, $500 |\n| 25 | August 14 | 10.30 a.m. | No. 59 Square Street | | |\n| 26 | August 21 | 3.45 a.m. | No. 68 Jervois Street | | $18,000, $200 |\n| 27 | October 2 | 2 a.m. | No. 9 Sai On Lane | | $800 |\n| 28 | October 3 | 11.30 p.m. | No. 21 West Street | | $200 |\n| 29 | October 11 | 6.20 p.m. | No. 2 Ship Street | | |\n| 30 | October 22 | 12.10 a.m. | No. 127 Queen's Road West | | $15,000 |\n| 31 | October 31 | 10 p.m. | | | |\n| 32 | November 30 | 7.40 p.m. | No. 115 Queen's Road Central, No. 82 Bonham Strand | | $4,600, $2,000 |\n| 33 | December 1 | 10 p.m. | | | |\n| 34 | December 1 | 11.20 p.m. | No. 207 Queen's Road Central, No. 183 Hollywood Road, No. 22 Queen's Road West | | $8,000 |\n| 35 | December 13 | 5.30 p.m. | | | |\n| 36 | December 19 | 8.45 a.m. | House No. 15, Cochrane Street | | $600 |\n| 37 | December 20 | 10.15 a.m. | House No. 31, Boleber's St., Kennedy Town | | $3,500 |\n| 38 | December 26 | 9.50 p.m., 1.10 a.m., 10.15 p.m. | House No. 238, Hollywood Road, House No. 115, Praya West, House No. 12, Sutherland Street, House No. 78, Jervois Street, House No., Tsz Mi Lane | | $2,000, $2,300, $50, $6,000, $1,290 |\n| 39 | December 28 | 3.30 p.m. | Licensed Cargo Boat No. 69 | | $4,500 |\n| 40 | December 28 | 3.10 p.m. | On board the British barque Glen Caladh, House No. 10, Ship Street | | Unknown, $600 |\n| 41 | December 29 | 2.10 p.m., 12.40 a.m., 3.30 a.m. | House No. 137, Wing Lok Street | | $7,000 |\n| 42 | December 30 | 8.30 p.m. | House No. 109, Queen's Road West, House No. 188, Queen's Road West, House No. 18, Now Street | 25 | $200, $1,000 |\n| 43 | December 30 | 1.00 a.m. | House No. 10, Queen's Road West, House No. 65, Bonham Strand | | $200, Trifling |\n| | TOTAL | | | | $105,595, $323,650 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## Co's launch, at daylight, clinging to some wreckage close to Green Island.\n\nNaylor had headed E.S.E., doing his best 11 knots, with Soper in 36 on the port beam, and Menzies Leslie in 72 on the starboard. The Harbarovsk, about a mile and a half ahead, was firing at him from her stern gun. The Borgo at prodigious speed (nearly 30 knots) had circled round and was coming down on his port bow, whilst the three torpedo boats were sweeping round for his stern and quarters.\n\nRunning on to get out of the fire from the Wivern he crossed from her port quarter over to starboard, and, in so doing, crossed the bows of the third Russian, one that had been making for the Wivern's starboard quarter. She had been masked from him by the Wivern. Seeing her companion successful in striking the Wivern, she had turned to port, and almost immediately afterwards 36 shot across her bows out of the blaze of the Wivern's fire. The Russian promptly blew up 36, striking her nearly amidships.\n\nAnxious to be rid of his most formidable antagonist, the Borgo, Naylor put his helm hard a starboard, and turning to port, keeping his search light steadily on the Destroyer, went at her full speed, raining a hail of shot at her. The Borgo gallantly responded, and they approached one another with frightful rapidity, their combined speed being 40 knots. The Destroyer had her funnels, signal-mast, conning-tower and guns knocked away; suddenly she plunged downwards, about 600 feet from the stern of the Wivern; her bows had been shorn clean off by a heavy shell from the foremost gun of the Wivern.\n\nBy the wheel to port of the Wivern, the three torpedo boats, with a speed of 16 knots, had been thrown further aft, and the one making for the port quarter brought her further forward on the port beam. Before the Wivern altered course after the destruction of the Borgo, the one on the port beam and the one astern rushed in close enough to fire their torpedoes into the port beam, and under the port quarter of the Wivern with fatal precision. The one abeam of the Wivern was sunk by her fire as she was backing off and turning to starboard.\n\nSoper, in 36, had seen the approach of the one on the port quarter; spinning round to starboard he ran at and torpedoed her, but too late to prevent her firing. The Revel blazed away with his three guns, and Leslie with his one three-pounder. The Revel had the superiority in speed, but not enough to make it safe for her to attempt to manoeuvre, at the distance to which they had now approached, Leslie going 20 knots and the Revel 24. Both fired their torpedoes simultaneously, about 80 or 100 feet apart, with magnificent precision, ripping one another's port sides out, and sinking in a whirlpool of steam almost alongside each other.\n\nThus ended the battle of Sulphur Channel, a veritable combat of Kilkenny cats. A solitary second-class Russian torpedo boat, with her funnel spouting fire from bullet holes, steamed off to the Harbarovsk. Whether any Russians from the vessels destroyed were saved we never learned. Seven only of our men survived, engineers, Morgan and Hunt; \n\n## In Victoria about midnight a fire broke out in Winglok Street\n\npart of the Fire Brigade were quickly on the spot. Two other fires breaking out across the street, it became apparent that they were the work of incendiaries. Bands of marauders also appeared, many of whom were armed and began looting. Mr. Hill, the Superintendent of Police, very properly and promptly ordered the Police, under Inspectors Hennessey and Kemp, to fire on them. Nineteen men were killed before order was restored. It being quite clear that the Fire Brigade could not cope with the conflagration, after some delay powder was procured and the services of two Sergeants of Engineers were called upon. The end houses abutting on Morrison Street and Hillier Street were blown up. All four blocks between these streets, from Bonham Strand to the Praya, were burnt or blown up. The loss of life was considerable. Robberies took place in several parts of the town. Burnslop, the residence of R. M. Dray, one of the wealthiest men in the Colony, known to contain much valuable plate, race cups, &c., and jewellery, was broken into, robbed and burnt. Dray was cut down and disabled on leaving his bedroom. Queensclere, belonging to the Hon. E. R. Delilios, was also robbed. Mount Austin Barracks, Ravenshill, and Ball's Court were robbed and set fire to. Nine men were shot at the latter place by the Police from No. 7 station. Attempts to break into Wong Ling's and Kuhn's stores in Queen's Road were frustrated, and several of the robbers killed. Inspector Mann, in the Eastern District, could only keep order by shooting freely.\n\n## THE BATTLE OF DEEP WATER BAY.\n\nAt 1:30 a.m., as arranged with the Commodore, General White (expecting the diversion by the Navy at 2), finding no other attacks developed, sent orders for Hush and Rox's men, with Farey's engineers and Harrington's Maxims, to move at 2 o'clock, the two last to come down by the Wanchai Gap Road. The order had been anxiously expected, and at 2 the men started with a cheer, the Maxims swinging and bounding along with almost as many men on the heel ropes to check them as on the drag ropes. Hush's men were first past Pokfulam, down by the Reservoir Road, with Rox's hard behind them.\n\nPassing through Aberdeen at a run, it was 3 a.m. before they first felt the enemy in the wood at the junction of the Wanchai and Aberdeen Roads, and a fierce combat took place. The enemy being constantly reinforced was driving the two companies of West Kents backwards on Aberdeen, till the Maxims getting into action and vol... \n\n- 13- \n## Page 14\n## Page 16", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369729, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## \n1896. Construction of Wanchai Service Reservoir (201,000 galls) \n1896-7. Aberdeen Sewerage & Waterworks including the construction of Filter Beds, Reservoir and Bungalow.\n\n1897-8. Construction of Service Reservoir (400,000 galls) and Bungalow at the Peak.\n\n1897-8. Construction of Filter Beds Service Reservoir (Sewers galls) at Bowen Road.\n\n1898. Removal and renewal of stormwater drains in Bonham Strand, Wong Lok Street.\n\nIn making this application, I would respectfully beg you to consider placing me upon the same salary footing as the other Executive Engineers in the Department, in consideration of the very great increase in both my work and responsibilities as outlined above.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour most obedient humble servant,\nM. Brook.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371368, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "content_text": "FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR 1898.\n\nDr.\n\nLOAN ACCOUNT.\n\nCr.\n\nTo Inscribed Stock Loan at 3½% interest, to be paid off on the 15th April, 1943, £341,709.15.1\n\nBy Sinking Fund. £8,854.8.1\n\nASSETS AND LIABILITIES, ON THE 31ST DECEMBER, 1898.\n\n \n\nASSETS.\n\n$\n\nLIABILITIES.\n\n$\n\nC. Subsidiary Coins, 315,000.00 | Drafts drawn by Crown Agents, in transit, 82,000.00\n\nSubsidiary Coins in transit, 650,000.00 Military Contribution, 60,370.34\n\n \n\nDeposits not available, 407,080.70\n\nArrears of Taxes, 21.87\n\nRefund of Taxes, 2,500.00\n\nArrears of Crown Rent, 40,433.92 Officers' Remittances, not yet paid, 26,613.00\n\nMoney Orders, not yet paid, 12,881.99\n\nAdvances to be recovered, 48,885.07\n\nTransit Charges, 5,900.00\n\nSuspense House Service, 5,461.75 Pensions due to Civil Officers, 15,900.00\n\nDo. to Police, 11,000.00\n\nPrivate Drainage Works, \n\nOverdrawn Balance, 292.30 251,005.77\n\nTOTAL LIABILITIES, $876,444.22\n\nBalance, 213,358.39\n\nTOTAL ASSETS, $1,089,802.61\n\n$1,089,802.01\n\nBalance of Assets over Liabilities, $213,358.39\n\nLess Balance of 1893 Loan, $123,884.14\n\n \n\nThe sales that seem likely to be effected this year are the follows:\n\nA lot in Mongchutsui to be sold - $13,000.\n\nLand behind the Telegraph office bi75 4. f. 175 - \n\nA block at Wing Lok Street 30.875 reclamation 8500 5. f. 178. 68400.\n\nHouse and land in Bonham Strand - \n\nLand at Jai hok-lim applied for - 23000.\n\nHow - 24.000 booor s. f. of land above, Pokfulam conduct.\n\nCoove s. f. of land - 022 Barker Road\n\nExtension of Hung Hom dicks 15 acres - 7.200\n\n7.200\n\nTreasury, Hongkong, 13th March, 1899.\n\n$ 90,024.25\n\nA. M. THOMSON, Acting Treasurer.\n\nImall lots in various localities - 150.000\n\n7323.675.00\n\n10.000.00 levied forward $83.675.00 Carried", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "## \n\n305 \n\nThe Committee, having regard to the importance of securing a good site for the Market, and the necessity for pushing on the building of a New Market and of a New Harbour Office as soon as possible, the Acting Harbour Master withdrew his objection to the site opposite the East end of Winglok Street and the Committee unanimously decided to recommend the Government to carry out in its entirety Scheme No. 3 in the Director of Public Works' Memorandum above referred to, a scheme which, in addition to providing excellent sites for the buildings referred to, renders possible a very great sanitary improvement by the prolongation of Jervois Street into Bonham Strand West.\n\n23th July, 1900.\n\n(31.) 7th May,\n\n# \nR. D. Ormsby, C.E.\nH. Francis W. Clark, M.O.H.\nO. P. Chater.\nR. H. Taylor, Ag. H.V.\nWei A Yuk", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377840, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 309, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "# \n## 307\n\nThe total cost of scheme No. 1 may from these figures be put down as follows:-\n\n(a) Value of site.... $408,900.\n(b) Acquisition of extra land. $79,800.\n(c) Cost of buildings.. $158,100.\n(d) Temporary provision for market during construction. $2,000.\nTotal: $648,800.\n\n## 9\n\nScheme No. 2 is to erect a new market on the site in front of the Harbour Master's Office, with a second market on the site of the present offices, to build a new Harbour Office on a site 350 feet farther east, on completion of both to take down the present Western Market, to construct a new street through from Jervois Street to Bonham Strand West and to sell all the surplus land on each side of this street.\n\n## 10\n\nThe areas and value of land required to carry out this scheme are as follows:-\n| Site | Area (sq ft) | Rate ($/sq ft) | Value ($) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| In front of Harbour Office | 13,800 | 13 | 179,400 |\n| Existing Harbour Office | 8,500 | 15 | 127,600 |\n| New Harbour Office | 13,200 | 13 | 171,600 |\n| Property to be acquired for new street | ... | ... | 72,930 |\n\n## 11\n\n## 12\n\nThe estimated cost of a new market on the site in front of the Harbour Office is $139,000. The estimated cost of subsidiary market on the site of Harbour Office is $35,000.\n\n## 12\n\nThe total cost of scheme No. 2 may, therefore, be put down as follows:-\n| Item | Cost ($) |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) Value of sites. | 453,000 |\n| (b) Acquisition of land. | 72,980 |\n| (c) Cost of Market buildings. | 174,000 |\n| (d) Cost of new street.. | 30,000 |\n| Total | 729,980 |\n\n## 13\n\nAgainst this total must be put the value of the remaining portion of the old Western Market site at ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 396457, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "page_number": 537, "title": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2.\n\n| Lot | Area in Sq. Ft. | Crown Rent | Owners' name | Address | Date of commers | Term of Sale or exaking | As now proposed | | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | Jerm of Crown Renta Pemuim at | | |\n| 3 | 10,000 | 15 | Ag Kai | 1:334 Des Voeux Rd. | 9. 4. 94 | 14 years | 8-4-11 | 138 | 1,500 renewable |\n| 2 | 10,000 | 2/35 | Wong Yooi Chu | 46-50 Wing Lok St. | -do- | -do- | 138 | 1,500 | |\n| 953 | 11,960 | 33,3647,48 | U wo-stang | 4 238 -do- | 21-4-18 | 165 | 1,794 | | |\n| 934 | 13,824 | 955 | Li Chung Chong | 247 Des Voeux Rd. | -do- | 190 | 2,074 | | |\n| 956 | 15,148 | 29 449 | U wo-stang Poon Sti Sing | 52 Wing Lok St. | -do- | 209 | 2,272 | | |\n| 957 | 8,040 | 65-67 | | | | 156 | | | #600 pre ore 164 for Sq. Ft. |\n| 958 | 5,940 | 32 | | | | 248 | 2,706 | | |\n| 959 | 24,200 | 333 3830-52 | u wo stang | 144 | 6-4-1 | 82 | 891 | | |\n| 964 | 35,200 | | | | | | | | |\n| 960 | 5,830 | 58 | Ma Cheung Chin Poon Sti Jung | 7 Mercer St. | 8-4-18 | 485 | 8,910 | | |\n| 961 | 1,235 | 29-30 | | 156 Wing Lok St. | | | | | |\n| 965 | 1,525 | 36-38 | Ag King Ting | 11 Pottinger St. | 10-8-4 | 229 | | | |\n| 965 | 330 | 17 | | | | 13 | | | |\n| 965 | 330 | 33 | | | | | | | |\n| 966 | 330 | 68 | Cheap Fat | | | | | | |\n| 970 | 330 | 50 | | | 8-4-11 | 1 | | | |\n| 973 | 330 | 67 65 | | | | \" | | | |\n| 975 | 330 | 50 | | | | \" | | | |\n\n## Lots coloured green on plan.\n\n| Lot | Area in Sq. Ft. | Crown Rent | Owners' name | Address | Date of commers | Term of Sale or exaking | As now proposed | | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | Jerm of Crown Renta Pemuim at | | |\n| | | | Wong You Iut | G. A. Telegraph Co. | 9.4.94 | 1 year | 8. 4.96 | 78 years | Prenewable. |\n| 34 | | 50 | Since found agrees to | 1.73. Bonham Strand | | 10 years | 8.4.07 | 50 | \"/ |\n| 967 | 530 | 43 59 | Chan You | | | | | | |\n| 971 | 360 | 28 42 | Tam Yar | #47 Portland St. | | | | | |\n| 972 | 330 | 16 19 | Le Lam Po | | 9.4-97 | to years | #1 | 1 year | |\n| 974 | 330 | 17 | Chan Po | | | 21 years | 8-4-0 | 07 8-4.98 | |\n| | | | Isoiu | | | | | 8-4.18 | 07. Lob. Rus 28/3/05. |\n\n## Lots coloured brown on plan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406321, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "Chan Tat Hing, called:-\n\nThe answer to the second charge is: (Quotes).\n\nQ. Your name is Chan Tat Hing ?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. And you are master of the Ting Heung tea house, Bonham Strand East ?\n\nA. I am.\n\nQ. Do you keep books ?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. Is that (indicating) a book of your firm ?\n\nA. Yes, it is.\n\nQ. Is that a regular account book ?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. And are entries regularly put into it, in the course of business ?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. Would you please turn to the 16th April 1905, 3rd moon, 12th day.\n\nA. \"Paid for buying foreign ham, money 3 taels 9 mace, candarins\".\n\nQ. And were you in the shop on that day ?\n\nA. I was.\n\nQ. Who called ?\n\nA. This Inspector here.\n\nQ. This Inspector came, did he come ?\n\nA. He came in the forenoon at 11 o'clock.\n\nQ. Did he come with an Interpreter ?\n\nA. He did.\n\nQ. What did the interpreter tell you in his presence ?\n\nA. The interpreter said, and the Inspector was present, that the Inspector told me to buy a foreign ham.\n\nQ. And did the interpreter say that a man would call for it later ?\n\nA. He did.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406326, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "Sercombe Smith:- \n\nAt the time he saw him \n\nA. \n\nHe always has on uniform when he comes. \n\nMr Hewett:- \n\nA. \n\nIr Sercombe Smith:- \n\nQ. \n\nMr Hewett:- \n\nr Atkinson:- \n\nA. \n\nQ. 326 Do you know which Sanitary District you are in? Are you in No 6 or No 9 District? \n\nI have heard that it is number six.\n\nQ. What is No 11 Bonham Strand, - is that in No 6 District? \n\nYes, Sir.\n\n(To witness) And do you recognise Mr Kelly as being Inspector in charge of your District, and as being responsible to see your house is kept clean? \n\nYes.\n\nAnd so, do we understand that if the Inspector of your District comes and tells you that he wants you to give him ham or beer, it is to your advantage to do it? \n\nYes.\n\nQ. You think you must give presents to the Inspector? Is that what you mean? \n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. And that if you don't, he can make it very troublesome for you, is that what you mean?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. If you have to clear out your restaurant, perhaps for the best part of the day, does that mean a very great loss to you? \n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. And so you lose a good deal of business, during that day? \n\nI cannot carry on business.\n\nAnd therefore, you think it is cheaper to pay for a dozen beer, or a ham, and save that loss? \n\nA. Yes.\n\nAnd therefore you do it? \n\nYes.\n\nHave you ever been proceeded against by the Sanitary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406329, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 334, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "Atkinson:- \n\nally:- \n\n24.\n\nprosecuted on small notices.\n\nBut you were not the actual prosecutor ↑\n\nNo.\n\nSir Sercombe Smith:- \n\nWhy did you not bring the papers up, Mr Kelly ?\n\nYou had plenty of time.\n\nA.\n\nSir Gompertz:- \n\nolly:- \n\nA.\n\ngoals? gines dose a nách\n\n$ 15\n\nSir Hewett :- \n\nSir Sercombe Smith:- \n\nKelly:- \n\n** 1 ANAft word a\n\nwver ban ★N SAMae on furt\n\nSir Hewett:- \n\nKelly: \n\nSir Hewett:- \n\nDr Atkinson:- \n\nBecause I did not know.\n\n329\n\nCould you produce those papers ?\n\nI could not be positive, but I think it was No 1 or No 11 Bonham Strand Mast. There are two places.\n\nThere is generally a special Inspector told off to prosecute.\n\nYou say you have reported this man ?\n\nYes, I have reported him on several occasions. The prosecuting Inspector came round to have a look, and the place has been cleansed.\n\nSo far as you know, this man has not been punished on any report by you that his place was not clean ?\n\nI would not swear to that. I don't know whether it is No 1 or No 11 Bonham Strand. There was No 1, a bake house, and the other No 11.\n\nMight I suggest that we send down to the Sanitary Department, and get the papers. They might be able to tell us.\n\nI suppose the report would go direct to the M.O.H. After I send it to the Senior Sanitary Inspector.\n\nWhat was the date ?\n\nKelly:- \n\nSir Sercombe Smith:- \n\nKelly:- \n\nEarly in 1905, or late in 1904. I took over in 1903.\n\nSir Sercombe Smith:- \n\nThe Interpreter:- \n\nKelly:- \n\nA.\n\nI will tell you when you took over. You were on No 7 Health District from 17th December 1902, to 27th December 1905.\n\nThe 16th April was a Sunday, the 22nd June was a Thursday.\n\nHe said I always went there in uniform.\n\nYes.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 351, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "The Chairman :- \n\nHas it been passed ?\n\nTsang Tim told me that the Inspector had told him to go up to the Inspector's place.\n\nDid he tell you anything more ?\n\nA. No.\n\n(To Kelly) Have you any questions ?\n\nNo questions.\n\nInspector Carter says it will take him an hour to find these notices. He has some thousands of notices every month. (Referring to message sent to Mr Carter re Bonham Strand East).\n\nBut there is a prosecution book. Is it not entered in the prosecution book ? I understood there was a prosecution book. I have seen such a book.\n\nThat will do with this witness.\n\nWitness withdraws.\n\n(To Kelly) Have you got any witnesses ?\n\nNo, Sir.\n\nWell, you have heard the evidence that has been given. You can make any statement beyond the reply that you have here.\n\nI have one or two questions I would like to put to Mr Kelly.\n\nWe will have his statement first.\n\nI have not much to say, Sir. Barring that from the scavenging contractor is a deliberate lie from the top to the bottom. As regards the ham and that, I admit that I have received them up at the house, but he stated there that I went down at 12 o'clock on Sunday morning in uniform. That is a thing I never did on a Sunday, barring early morning duty, and that is from 6 to 9 in winter, and from 5.30 to 8.30 in summer. And, in regard, I might state again, that I have also made that man wash his place out every Friday, the same as I make every other licensed premises do, and the same as I", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406351, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "(COPY)\n\nEnclosure 2.(4)\n\n14\n\n351\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHong Kong, 26th November, 1908.\n\nSub-enclosure 1.\n\nSub-enclosure 2.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor proposes to suspend you from the exercise of the functions of your office as District Inspector on the following grounds:-\n\n(a). Receiving from the Wuk On Firm or Shop of No.209, Des Voeux Road Central, 1st floor, a monthly sum of $20 from May to December, 1905, both months inclusive. Copies of the entries of such sums in the books of the said Wuk On Firm or Shop are enclosed together with translation of those entries.\n\n(b).\n\n(c).\n\nSub-Enclosure 3.\n\n(1).\n\n2.\n\n(e).\n\nOn or about the 10th day of June, 1908, receiving from the said Wuk On Firm or Shop the sum of $10. A copy of the entry of such sum in a book of the said firm or shop is enclosed together with a translation of that entry.\n\nObtaining from the Tin Heung tea-house, No.11, Bonham Strand East, the following articles on the following dates without paying for them:-\n\nOne dozen beer on the 12th of April, 1905.\n\nOne dozen beer on the 30th of June, 1905.\n\nOne dozen beer on the 14th of September, 1905.\n\nOne dozen beer on the 4th of October, 1905.\n\nOne dozen beer on the 11th of October, 1905.\n\nCopies of the entries of these articles in the books of the said Tin Heung tea-house and of translation of such entries are enclosed.\n\nOn two or three occasions about July and August, 1905, obtaining from the Ho Hop egg shop, No.10, Wing Sing Street, a quantity of eggs at the rate of 10 cents a dozen, the market price then being 15 cents or 18 cents a dozen.\n\nDemanding from one Tsang Tim of No.9, Third Street, 1st floor, a sum of $40 about the end of the 4th Chinese moon of this year (May, 1908).\n\nI am also to instruct you to state in writing the grounds on which you rely to exculpate yourself from these charges and to require you to furnish that statement to me by noon on Wednesday, the 5th day of December next.\n\nMr. S. Kelly,\n\nSanitary Inspector.\n\nSd.\n\nI am, etc.\n\nT. Sercombe Smith,\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409498, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 564, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "# RETURN of OFFICERS who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties\n## prepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907,—Continued.\n\n| Name of Officer giving Security | Exact Titles of all Appointments (either permanent or temporary) now held by him | Nature of the Security given | Names, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond | Title of Office in respect of which the Bond is given, as stated therein | Date of Bond | Amount of Bond |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| A C. Follo | First Clerk, & Shroff, MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. CIVIL HOSPITAL. | Deposit Notes of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for $200 | | | 6th April, 1903 | $200 |\n| B. Chapman | First Clerk, SANITARY DEPARTMENT. | Deposit Note of the Chartered Banks of India, Australia & China for $200, Jangkang. Shanghai Bank for ... | | | 10th July, 1897 | 1,000 |\n| Sung Teng Man | | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally. | Song Yu Nam, Owner of house, No. 19 Bonham Strand West; Lai Tak, Master of the Mau Chan Shing, No. 19 Bonham Strand West. | | 6th May, 1905 | 1,000 |\n| Grad Wasanals, Tsoi Hin Ting | | Do. | Sir C. P. Chater, C.M.G.; H. N. Mody. | | 8th October, 1901 | 1,000 |\n| Lai-Wan INCITAN kalimana aktie | | Do. | Li Lai, Master of the Kam Yok Teabouse, No. 90 Des Voeux Road; Tsoi Lin of Kwong Sam Ki, No. 173 Des Voeux Road. | | 4th August, 1906 | 500 |\n| Sul Cattia Dejala | | Do. | Leung Shing, Master of Shing Kee, No. 362 Queen's Road West; Ching Yuen, of Hung Yuon, No. 6 Kwong Yuen Street East. | | 8th August, 1906 | 200 |\n| Chan Shiu Kai | Shroff and Tallyman at Cattle Depot, Kennedy Town. | Deposit Note of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for $200 | | | 5th December, 1899 | 200 |\n| Wong U | Tallyman at the Slaughter-house Depôts, Kennedy Town. | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally. | Paug Shau Chum, No. 209 Queen's Road East; Shai Non In, Master of the In Cheung Wo, No. 184 Wellington Street. | | 2nd March, 1904 | 200 |\n| Mui Nam Ying | Tallyman & Cattle Depôt, Kennedy Town. | Do. | Li Nau Shopkeeper, No. 57 Jervois Street; Wong Pong, Shopkeeper, No. 536 Queen's Road West. | | 8th August, 1906 | 200 |\n| | | | Mui Tae Yau, Master of the Kwong Lun Wo, No. 143 Wing Lok St.; Ho Shin, Master of the Kwong Tak Fung, No. 193 Queen's Road East. | | 14th October, 1904 | 200 |\n| | | | Li Wai, of the Shun Iling, No. 52 Gage St.; Wong Pong, Master of Kwong Wo, No. 536 Queen's Road West. | | 30th January, 1908 | 200 |\n| Tsoi Wai Long | Storeman | Do. | Tai Wing Wo, of the San Kwong Man Loi, No. 94 Connaught Road Central; Mak Tak, of the Yan Wo, No. 33 Wing Lok St. | | 15th July, 1904 | 200 |\n| Yung Kai U | Shroff at the Kennedy Town Slaughter-house. | Do. | Yung Tik Ting, Compradore Gilman and Company; Yung Sui Fo, Compradore J. D. Hutchison and Company, | | 9th February, 1905 | 5,000 |\n| Li Ngai Man | Assistant Shroff at the Kennedy Town Cattle Depôt. | Do. | Shek In Num, Master of the Kwong Kee, No. 32 Connaught Road Central; Man Yut To, Master of the Ngai Sang Company, No. 110 Wanchai Road. | | 5th March, 1906 | 2,000 |\n\nPage 558", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414490, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 401, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# \n## Name of Building. \nVictoria Gaol. \nAssistant Supdt.'s Quarters. Warders' Quarters. Supreme Court. \nPost Office and Treasury. Wanchai Stores. \nPlague Coolie Quarters. \nHarbour Office. \nCentral Market. \nBotanical & Forestry Department! \nSuperintendent's Quarters \nGardeners' Cottages. \nGovernment Laundries. \nNo. 1 Police Station. \nNo. 2 Police Station. \nVolunteer Head Quarters. \nVictoria School. \nOld Vaccine Institute \nSokonpo Market and Latrine. \n(now Forestry Store). \nWanchai Market. \nWanchai School. \nRefuse Enclosures (3). \nTank Lane Latrine. \nNo. 4 Police Station. \nDespatch Box, Robinson Road. \nGovernment Civil Hospital- \n\"A\" Block. \n\"B\" Block. \n\"C\" Block. \n\n- 14- \n\n## Extent of Damage. \nThe roof over C III Ward in a state of collapse. Other roofs badly damaged and general repairs are necessary to doors, &c. \nDamage to roof, gutters, jalousies, &c. \nDitto. \nThe tiling to roof on West side of Land Office stripped and small repairs are necessary to windows, &c. Small repairs to roof over Supreme Court. Damage to roof, guttering, jalousies, &c. \nMatshed badly damaged and roof to Compradore's Quarters damaged. \nMatsheds badly damaged. \nDamage to sashes, jalousies and roof, \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDamage to windows and brickwork. \nRoof damaged and repairs are necessary to sashes, doors, &c. \nDitto. Ditto. Ditto. \nThe corrugated iron has been torn off and blown into the sea. \nRoof tiling damaged. \nRoof badly damaged. 3 new sash frames, 7 new sashes and 5 new jalousies required; small repairs. Roof damaged. \nRoof damaged and general repairs to jalousies, windows, doors, &c. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \n\n## Name of Building. \nMountain Lodge. \nVictoria Hospital. \nMount Gough Police Station. No. 6 Police Station. Government Villas. \nGovernment Pavilions. Stanley Police Station. Aberdeen Police Station. \nBay View Tsat Tsz Mui Police Station. Kowloon City Police Station. Kowloon British School. \nWater Police Station. \nRicksha Shelter, Kowloon. \nObservatory, \nKowloon Disinfecting Station. \nGreen Island Lighthouse. \nCape Collinson Lighthouse. \nWaglan Cattle Depôt at Mataukok. Market at Sai Wan Ho. New Time Ball Tower. \n\n## 15 - \n## BUILDINGS OUTSIDE THE CITY. \n## Extent of Damage. \nA considerable amount of plate glass broken. 9 teak sashes damaged beyond repair. Wall around main building down. Tiling to roofs damaged. Jalousies &c. damaged. \nLandslip at rear of Coolie Quarters. Coolie Quarters badly damaged and will have to be reconstructed. Damage to tiling to main roofs, &c. Roof, jalousies, windows, &c. damaged. \nDitto. Ditto. \nDitto. \nMatshed blown down. Roof and windows damage. Remove landslip. Damage to roof, windows, doors, &c. Slight damage to roof and windows. \nDamage to roof, jalousies and doors. Ditto. and verandah. \nRepairs to ceilings, doors, windows, &c. Damage to roof. \nRoof badly damaged. Damage to flagstaff, jalousies, windows, &c. \nRenew a portion, blown down, and lay new felt to the existing portion. \nMatshed blown down. Roof to Magnetic Hut badly damaged. Fence blown down. \nRoof to Quarters and Engine Shed badly damaged. Several doors and jalousies damaged. \nRoof to powder depot badly damaged. Windows to Telephone room blown in and sundry small repairs to jalousies, &c. \nRoof slightly damaged. Verandah roof blown away. \nSmall repairs to jalousies, &c. \nGeneral repairs. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nTrap door on roof blown away, window frames considerably damaged and glass blown out. \n\n## Name of Building. \nCoolies Quarters. \nMedical Staff Quarters. \nLunatic Asylum. \nMaternity Hospital. \nSalyingpun Market. \nNo. 7 Police Station. \nCoolies Quarters, Pokfulam. \nPublic Mortuary. Shektongtsui Market. \nAnimal Depôt, Kennedy Town. \nNew Western Market. \nNo. 5 Police Station. Despatch Box Shelter, Collinson Street. \nDespatch Box Shelter, Bonham Strand. Despatch Box Shelter, Fat Hing Street. Bath House, Pound Lane. Possession Street Latrine. Bacteriological Institute. Old Western Market. Opium Searchers' Hut. \n\n## Extent of Damage. \nZinc eaves gutter badly damaged. Damage to roof, jalousies, &c., of Coolie Quarters. \nSlight damage to roof, windows, &c. \nDamage to roof, zinc guttering, jalousies, windows, &c. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDamage to roofs and brickwork. \nSlight repairs to roof. \nDamage to roof, windows, jalousies, &c. \nDamage to roof and door. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nSlight damage to roof. \nRoof badly damaged and small repairs, \nDamage to roof, windows, jalousies, &c. \nDitto. \nBadly damaged. New iron piles, braces, ties, &c. required, tiling to roof badly stripped. \n\n## Name of Building. \nSha Tin Gap Block House. \nTai Po Police Station. \nSau Tin Police Station. \nPing Shan Police Station. \nCheung Chau Police Station. \nTui Ho Police Station. \nSegregation Camp, Lai Chi Kok, \n\n## BUILDINGS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES. \n## Nature and Extent of Damage. \nCompletely destroyed. \nMatsheds blown down and tiling to roof of Station badly damaged. \nRoof, jalousies, sashes and sunblinds damaged. \nP.W.D. Matshed blown down. \nRoof and jalousies damaged. \nRoof to outbuildings badly damaged. \nMatshed at front of Station blown down and slight damage to roof of Station. \nRoof of Verandah carried away and damage to jalousies, &c. \nSuffered a good deal of minor damages and the North ends of sheds 9 and 10 are blown out. (These sheds were covered with mat roofs which offered little resistance to the wind.) Most of the glass is broken and many window frames are destroyed. The main framework and the roof woodwork has stood the stress very well.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414492, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 403, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## BUILDINGS MISCELLANEOUS\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chapel, green house & sexton's quarters at Colonial Cemetery | Ties damaged in the roofs of the Chapel and sexton's quarters; glass broken and casement windows blown down in the green house. |\n| Matshed fernery at Colonial Cemetery | Blown down. |\n| Matshed for sexton at Kai Lung Wan Cemetery | Do. |\n| Matshed for sexton and Watchman at Cheung Sha Wan Plague Cemetery | Do. |\n| Custodian's matshed at Wonguchi-chong Recreation Ground | Damaged. |\n\n## PIERS AND SEA-WALLS\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Harbour Muster's Bamboo Pier | Entirely blown away, |\n| Queen's Starne Wharf | Mat covering blown down. |\n| Temporary Murray Pier | Shore end blown away. |\n| Blake Pier | Matshed shelter blown down. Damage to railing and standards, etc. |\n| Kowloon City Pier | Damaged. |\n| Cheung Sha Wan Plague Cemetery Pier | Entirely washed away. |\n| Bamboo Pier at Green Island Gunpowder Depôt | Blown away. |\n| Tsim Sha Tsui Police Pier | Slightly damaged; a flight of steps was washed away and other minor items. |\n| Pitched slope at end of Arsenal Street | Damaged. |\n| Pitched slopes in Cadogan Street and adjoining Marine Lot 293 | Slightly damaged. |\n| West abutment of the Bridge at Bowrington Canal | Damaged and stones dislodged. |\n\nPage 19\n\n## PARTICULARS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY DAMAGED BY RAINSTORMS OF 18-25TH JULY OR BY TYPHOON OF 27-28TH JULY, 1908\n\n### Damage due to Rainstorms of 18-25th July when 16.20 inches of rain fell.\n\n| Location or description of property | Particulars with reference to Collapse |\n| --- | --- |\n| No. 26 Leighton Hill Road | The Verandah in front of No. 26 collapsed about 4 a.m., July 26th, no one injured. No apparent cause for collapse. |\n| Beaconsfield - temporarily occupied by Registrar General's Office and Sanitary Dept. | The retaining wall to the East of Beaconsfield collapsed shortly after midnight on the 25th of July. No one was injured. The collapse was apparently owing to the soil having got thoroughly saturated owing either to drain leakages, or defects in paving. The wall itself appeared to be very badly constructed at this point. |\n| Nos. 72-74 Bonham Strand West | The Kitchen roof North, and West wall of No. 72 collapsed prior to Typhoon, on the 27th July. No one injured. Cause of collapse defective walling, building was an old one. |\n| Rural Building Lot 6-Gough Hill Road | A portion of the retaining wall of the Tennis Ground on Rural Building Lot 6 abutting on Gough Hill Road collapsed on July 24th. The collapse was caused by the heavy rain getting behind the wall. |\n| No. 87 Stone Nullah Lane | A portion of the end wall and roof collapsed here on the 24th July. No one injured. The wall was defective and gave way, causing the roof to collapse. |\n| Abertholwyn \", Peak Road and May Road | Large portions of the retaining walls in front and in the rear of this house fell. Some of these blocked May Road for a length of about 50 feet and demolished about 40 feet of the Government boundary wall between May Road and \"Clovelly\". No one was injured. Large masses of earth fell with the retaining walls. |\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS RAINSTORM DAMAGES\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Notice Boards on Wongneichong Recreation Ground | All blown down and damaged. |\n| Headstones at Colonial Cemetery | 64 headstones including those belonging to the Naval and Military were blown down and otherwise damaged. |\n| Nullahs below Barker Road | Broken. |\n| Bank at Colonial Cemetery | Collapsed. |\n| Bank at rear of Braeside | Do. |\n| Bank at Forbes Street | Do. |\n| Gas Lighting | Lamp glasses, mantles, shades, posts, &c., broken, caused by rain and wind. |\n| Nullah at Aberdeen adjoining the Paper Mills | Wall partially collapsed. |\n\n### DAMAGE DUE TO TYPHOON OF 27-28TH JULY\n\n| Location or description of property | Particulars with reference to Collapse |\n| --- | --- |\n| Nos. 40-42 Market Street, Hunghom | The rear walls on the first floors collapsed. No one injured. These are old buildings and the walls were in a defective condition. |\n| Nos. 62, 64 and 66 Kowloon City Road | The roofs, party walls and West flank wall collapsed. These were old stone buildings with very defective walls. |\n| Nos. 36, 38 and 40 Portland Street, Mong Kok | The flank, party walls and roofs of these houses collapsed on the 28th. A considerable loss of life occurred. Cause of collapse, defective walling- the buildings had been tied together previously with iron tie rods. |\n| Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Fook Shing Lane, Yaumati | The whole of the 8 houses were practically demolished with the exception of the kitchens. A considerable loss of life occurred. These houses were old ones and, as they occupy a sheltered position, the collapse must be ascribed to the defective condition of the buildings. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415274, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 563, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 3\n## 23 JAN 09\n\nTo His Excellency \nSir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, **K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.** \nGovernor of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies \nand Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\n### In the matter of Nip Koon Man\nof Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Manager \nof the Kwong Yuen Tai firm carrying on \nbusiness as Merchants and Commission \nAgents at No. 48 Bonham Strand West \n(3rd floor) Victoria aforesaid.\n\nand\n\n### In the matter of Ordinance No.10 of 1886\n\nThe humble Petition of the above named **Nip Koon Man**. \nRespectfully Sheweth:-\n\nThat Your Petitioner is a native of China resident in the Colony of Hongkong and is 37 years of age.\n\n1. That Your Petitioner arrived in this Colony in or about the year 1886 and became apprenticed to a firm of Chinese Merchants in this Colony.\n\n2. That Your Petitioner has for the last 22 years ordinarily resided in this Colony and during that time has occupied several positions of responsibility and trust in various Chinese firms in this Colony.\n\n3. That Your Petitioner is now and has been during the last three years Manager of the Kwong Yuen Tai Firm Merchants of No. 48 Bonham Strand West Victoria aforesaid.\n\n4. That Your Petitioner has at all times respected and obeyed the laws of this Colony and has always endeavoured to live as a peaceful citizen thereof.\n\n5. That your Petitioner is a member of a Committee appointed by the Registrar of Hongkong for the purpose of superintending and improving the sanitary conditions of the Bonham Strand District at Victoria Hongkong and is Treasurer of the said Committee.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416534, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 699, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "3\n\n692\n\n2\n\na trade that has been recognized by, and legislated for, by both the British and Chinese Governments. Such drastic methods as are feared in Hong Kong would, it is contended, be unfair in every respect, whether as regards dislocation of the finances of the Colony, the interests of British subjects engaged in the trade, or the wrong which would be done to Chinese residents who have embarked their capital on the security of existing legislation.\n\nIt is gravely doubted, moreover, whether the sudden closing of the opium houses in Hong Kong (or anywhere else) would have the seemingly expected result of suppressing the use of opium. On the contrary, it is believed that the first result would be the creation of an illicit traffic, which would not only discredit the Colony, but would put a further burden upon its resources in the shape of a preventive service at the moment when these resources are being diminished.\n\nWhile acknowledging the evidence of sincerity on the part of many high officials in China in their desire to free the people from the opium habit, the Committee would wish for better evidence than is at present available that the authorities are honestly endeavouring, or are able, to enforce the prohibition of cultivation. It may be regarded as certain that, so long as the poppy is grown, the use of opium will be continued.\n\nThere appears, therefore, serious reason to fear that too sudden and drastic action in the design of stopping the practice would produce economic and administrative difficulties altogether disproportioned to the practical result.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nDear Sir,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nC. J. DUDGEON, Chairman,\n\nChina Association, Hong Kong, to General Committee.\n\nI INCLOSE, for your perusal, a Report which has been drawn up by Mr. Cousland, the Secretary of this branch of the Association, giving his views upon the causes of that marked depression which has existed in this Colony for some time past. I venture to think that they may prove of interest.\n\nHong Kong, April 4, 1908.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nM. STEWART, Chairman.\n\nSuggested Reasons for the Arrested Prosperity of Hong Kong.\n\nIN reviewing the trade of the Colony of Hong Kong from year to year, it is rather disappointing to find that for the past two or three years the general note has been one of depression. This feeling, which originally was confined to only a few classes of trade carried on in the Colony, seems to have spread until at present complaints are almost universal, and it is acknowledged by all that the state of affairs is not what it should be.\n\nApart from the individual experiences of the merchants, there are other indications of lessened activity in trade within the Colony. The district in which most of the merchant trade is carried on, that including Bonham Strand, Winglok Street, and Jervois Street, showed at last census a decrease in population of about 16 per cent. from the previous one. A few years ago it was well-nigh impossible to obtain a shop or warehouse for immediate entry in those streets, each vacancy being keenly competed for. Now there are said to be ten houses vacant in Bonham Strand and Winglok Street, and no doubt a comparison of the rents ruling then and now would confirm the fact that there is a decreased demand for business premises.\n\nGranted, then, that the depression is real, and that, whilst it has continued for some time, there seems little immediate prospect of a change, it is natural to look for some reason or reasons to account for it, with a view to finding out whether or not anything may be done in the way of remedy.\n\nSeveral local causes have been suggested. There is no doubt but that large sums were lost during the Russo-Japanese war in attempts at running the blockade and through speculation in food-stuffs. There was also a period of wild speculation in yarn, which ended in the practical extinction of almost all the old dealers. These and other speculations have certainly been responsible for a large wastage in capital. But at present there is no complaint from the Chinese that money is dear. Capital seems to be freely available for all legitimate trading, although it may be scarcer for any speculative ventures. It is therefore hardly correct to ascribe to the above causes any great diminution in the volume of the trade carried on in Hong Kong.\n\nSanitary and other restrictions affecting the Chinese living in the Colony, and those placed on Hong Kong consequent upon the existence of plague, have also been mentioned in this connection. The former, which, if they attained their object, would lessen the bad effects of the latter, can, however, have really little effect on actual trade. They may affect the city as a residential quarter, they might even have a depressing effect on local industries, although this hardly seems to have been the case, but when it comes to actual merchant business, it seems improbable that Regulations as at present existing, or any others on similar lines, could stifle the commerce carried on by the Chinese. Any restrictions imposed for the sake of the general health of the community can be as nothing compared to the many advantages the Chinese merchants enjoy here under British rule. The quarantine to which vessels from Hong Kong are subjected may at times be detrimental to certain classes of trade, but it is only for part of the year, and business has been very much better at times when plague was more evident than it has been of recent years.\n\nLocal causes do not, however, explain a lack of demand from consuming centres, and it is of this that the Chinese yarn, piece-goods, and flour merchants bitterly complain.\n\nOne reason has thus been suggested to account for the present depression, and in order to see in how far it may be a true one, it is necessary to consider what position Hong Kong occupies as a trading centre. To begin with, it is not a consuming district. The population is comparatively small, and the percentage of the imports used here is really insignificant. The Colony has grown to its present size and occupies the position it does because it was found to be the most convenient and suitable port for landing, storing, and distributing goods intended for South China, Formosa, Manila, and even some other places farther afield. In fact, to some shippers in Europe and America, Hong Kong became synonymous with China, and transhipment and distribution were made from here to Singapore and the Straits in the south, and all ports up to Vladivostock in the north. Its splendid harbour, the freedom from all customs restrictions, and the security afforded by naval and military protection—these and other advantages combined to establish in Hong Kong a merchant trade of great magnitude. But it would seem as if these were not so highly esteemed now as heretofore. It is said that business which would have formerly passed through Hong Kong as a matter of course is now done direct with the consuming centres, and on investigation, there seems to be some measure of truth in this assertion.\n\n\"The Returns of Trade and Trade Reports, 1906,\" Part I, Abstract of Statistics (Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs), give the value of the trade between Hong Kong and China for eight years. The Colony's share in the trade of China as a whole is a decreasing one, and although the actual value of the imports from Hong Kong has increased 20 per cent. during that period, it has been stationary for four years, and that of itself is an unhealthy sign. But, so far as China is concerned, these statistics issued by the Customs are of little value when the object is to find out whether actual trade is being carried on here or not. Ocean steamers do not as yet call at the Treaty ports, and as cargo for these places is still transhipped at Hong Kong, the entries in the Returns show it as imported from this Colony. It is only by looking into each class of business individually that we can see what is really taking place.\n\nThe branches of trade which have already left Hong Kong are many, and in most cases, it is difficult to see how they could have been retained. The Japanese have taken the Newchwang trade, which used to be in Hong Kong hands, and have also captured that carried on between Japan and Singapore and the Dutch Indies, with a detrimental effect on the sugar trade with Java. Rice now goes direct to Peru from Siam, instead of through Hong Kong. Kerosene oil is imported to the Treaty ports in bulk, instead of being distributed here. Flour, which used to be imported here and distributed far north and south, is shipped direct to Shanghai, Chefoo, Tientsin, and Vladivostock; and Singapore now draws direct on Australia for the requirements of the Straits. There\n\n[2967 -1]\n\nB 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418264, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908", "content_text": "China Association, Hongkong,\n\nDear Sir,\n\nto General Committee.\n\nHongkong, 4th April, 1905\n\n213\n\n18229\n\n21 MAY 081\n\nI enclose for your perusal a report which has been drawn up by Mr. Coubland, the secretary of this branch of the Association, giving his views upon the causes of that marked depression which has existed in this Colony for some time past. I venture to think that they may prove of interest.\n\nI am, etc.,\n\nBUGGESTET RIA SOP'S\n\nFOR THE ARRESTEDY\n\n(Signed) M. STEWART.\n\nChairman.\n\nPROSPERITY OF HONGKONG.\n\nIn reviewing the trade of the Colony of Hongkong from year to year, it is rather disappointing to find that for the past two years or three years the general note has been one of depression. This feeling, which originally was confined to only a few classes of trade carried on in the Colony, seems to have spread until at present complaints are almost universal, and it is acknowledged by all that the state of affairs is not what it should be.\n\nApart from the individual experiences of the merchants, there are other indications of lessened activity in trade within the Colony. The district in which most of the merchant trade is carried on, that including Bonham Strand, Winglok Street, and Jervois Street, showed at last census a decrease in population of about 16% from the previous one. A few years ago it was wellnigh impossible to obtain a shop or warehouse for immediate entry in those streets, each vacancy being keenly competed for. Now there are said to be 10 houses vacant in Bonham Strand and Winglok Street, and no doubt a comparison of the rents ruling then and now would confirm the fact that there is a decreased demand for business premises.\n\nGranted then that the depression is real, and that whilst it has continued for some time there seems little immediate prospect of a change, it is natural to look for some reason or reasons to account for it, with a view to finding out whether or not anything may be done in the way of remedy.\n\nSeveral local causes have been suggested. There is no doubt but that large sums were lost during the Russo-Japanese war in attempts at running the blockade and through speculation in foodstuffs. There was also a period of wild speculation in yarn, which ended in the practical extinction of almost all the old dealers. These and other speculations have certainly been responsible for a large wastage in capital. But at present there is no complaint from the Chinese that money is dear. Capital seems to be freely available for all legitimate trading, although it may be scarcer for any speculative ventures. It is therefore hardly correct to ascribe to the above causes any great diminution in the volume of the trade carried on in Hongkong.\n\nSanitary and other restrictions affecting the Chinese living in the Colony, and those placed on Hongkong consequent upon the existence of plague, have also been mentioned in this connection. The former, which if they attained their object would lessen the bad effects of the latter, can, however, have really little effect on actual trade. They may affect the city as a residential quarter, they might even have a depressing effect on local industries, although this hardly seems to have been the case, but when it comes to actual merchant business it seems improbable that regulations as at present existing, or any others on similar lines, could stifle the commerce carried on", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427008, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "content_text": "From the Bopham enclosure\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\n1\n\n92\n\n24442\n\nacce\n\nPrecio NOV 10\n\nAfter going carefully into the matter with the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, I have come to the conclusion that a new market for the sale of meat: pork, beef, and vegetables, fruit, and salt fish is urgently required. The present site is undoubtedly the best on which to erect a new market. The idea of opening up the present site as a continuation of Jervois Street appears quite unnecessary. It is not one which the occupants of houses in Jervois Street at least desire. As a matter of fact, if my proposals are approved, large avenues can be provided in the new market and it should be possible to run carts into the market for the transport of meat from at least 2 sides and thus incidentally, a thoroughfare from Jervois Street, through the market to Wing Lok Street will be made available.\n\n2. Queen's Road and Bonham Strand East are at different levels, a two-storied market will thus be entirely suitable as in the case of the Central Market. It is proposed to remove all the present unsightly buildings which form the Western Market and which are indicated on the attached plan. All the shops and stalls (on the Eastern and Western sides) and the avenue leading from Queen's Road to Bonham Strand East will be removed and two new two-storied buildings on the site of the sheep pens at the Kennedy Town Cattle Depôt should take their place. One half of the market can be taken in hand at once, preferably the Eastern portion as a considerable part of the Western section is unoccupied and can be utilized by license-holders evicted from the Eastern Division. The two-tiered construction will leave ample room for broad avenues, one running from Queen's Road to Bonham Strand East and one from Morris Street running East and West through the centre of the space allotted to shops and stalls. Access to the upper floor will be by sloping concreted ways leading up on all four sides as shown in plan 3. On the south, the way will be practically running in from Queen's Road, on the remaining sides...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427009, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "content_text": "From the Bonham Strand level. If funds are available it would be advisable to resume one house at the corner of Bonham Strand East and West, adjoining shops 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 1 and 2 on plan A. By making a fourth entrance to the market the Western stalls on the market should let just as well as the Eastern ones.\n\n3. Latrine accommodation should be provided on both floors preferably in the space on each floor marked 2 Plan B and under the space marked X. Coolie quarters should be built on the site of the present coolie quarters over the Morrison Street entrance, site Y Plan B.\n\n4. By adopting this scheme the area available for stalls will practically be doubled. The present revenue of the market is roughly $1,500 per mensem. The new market when completed should bring in a revenue of not less than $2,250 per mensem as at present the accommodation for vegetables stalls is insufficient, there is no accommodation for fruit and the salt fish stall-holders who for some years have been turned out of the market would be allowed to return. I am unable to estimate the cost of the building but the total return which would not be less than $27,000 per annum would make a handsome return on the capital expended.\n\n16th January, 1910.\n\n(sd.) E. D. C. Wolfe,\n\nH. S. D.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427252, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "content_text": "334\n\n1\n\nOrt.*6 wit mo pottin ob a'on-die wevon odt ninetaixINDA to Jtto erT Viethoot Isinolob offt Cane (00-mertetnof oper 、ontfo¤ to duobrotnioqu? młod190 1 sad? bro0 aʼre wote\" tolstein erit to exodonit ez-ohin sdh bas\n\nC .5.1.0.EST OF .7C $ MUY LAW **? ro མ་ ADO OF info-ind prof -:wold botom\n\npursue the thieves, then other thieves pounce down and take away a great portion of the goods. In the case of sandalwood. they will shove quantities into the harbour and then demand 40 cents a picul to fish it out again. There has always been some of such thieving bus two months ago it became very rife. The same is done with dried mushrooms. He instanced some cases that had occurred. Asked by the Officer Administering the Gov?n\" he -ment if had reported them he said he had not, but that those in charge of the Godowns had blown whistles and no Police had come. He said the thieving is still going on. Mr. Badeley said he would put extra Police on in the day time. Mr. Chan continued that he had been in Hongkong for 50 years and had not seen such occurrences before. He added that there were a number of cases of burglary and housebreaking effected by ontrahce through the roofs of houses. About a week ago thieves had stolen a box of clothing from the Man Hat Cheung in Bonham Strand.\n\n,ler-uż gmroat .*- 1. Badeley suggested that perhaps it was the coolies engaged in unloading goods along the Praye, who stole the goods. Mr. Chan said not. It was the work of thieves.\n\nben memurtevo odz paktoratafióA *60** 0 0 *73% od Dinon ti teid als of bocante her Iground-nentatges ca *d out*in00 o'morvinés colten!0 odle del nagonib of Incau fr ugofob ng+ mi ortizo has noornenfvel to notathroo dasa57 4 -inofob adt bo.: ba' bue og alob to bruseno 10 me to bele ast ca fow 28 Golfo to Zurobiozni oquë n'adqe bue adoroon fum The deft toto at the en or Eatonon-zestelgok out banned pre .urn of hat Gottismo od: 20 azodhon offs talv 180\" eric es,load maiifront qnod o bag ebola short two droge od morit abile ni možzor unides good theo*fe het folder *mol at tale roita močni deo/fin ent nra ut bodale Loviy baroo suttim-anak dyk net say to quin-ando nulo 28 avant oris mrols ahoeg to gaffanda dare. nsw oxoift tadt blas miort habna maior choos a 't mort Innra aeveLIT two bon cho.m nd“ galibant at home to erode MI Lanreb-D oath oximet 2.\n\n*r. Wei Yuk said that a gang headed by b riads was conducting those thefts.\n\n3. Mr. Chan wont to say that there were 3 or 4 shops in Salyingpun which receive stolen rice and other stolen goods. Te promised to enquire their names and to report them confidentially. Mr. Badeley asked if the articles referred to are of such a nature as to bender identification possible. Mr. Chan said they were not.\n\n4. Mr. Ng Hon-tse said he lived in Caine Road close to Sir Paul Chater's former house. During the past 12 months two robberies had happened at his house. On the first occasion 2 boxes of clothing were stolen. On the second a trea-sure box containing jewellery worth some thousands of dollars. Both", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430537, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 90, "title": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "content_text": "Hon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nI attach a tracing showing the area of land belonging to Government, hatched round the edge in red. The four houses referred to by the H. S. D. are shown cross-hatched in green.\n\nA rough valuation, based on the rateable value and deducting the value of the building, gives the following results:-\n\n \n House No.\n Area. S.F.\n Value of land.\n Price per s.f.\n \n \n 11\n 526\n $14,000\n $26.61\n \n \n 13\n 455\n $11,870\n $26.09\n \n \n 15\n 455\n $14,210\n $31.23\n \n \n 17\n 461\n $15,755\n $34.17\n \n \n Total\n S.F. 1,897\n $55,835\n $29.45 per s.f.\n \n\nThe sum involved may be between $50,000 and $60,000. The lots are very shallow (30 feet) and it is therefore unlikely that the value of the houses will be enhanced by their reconstruction as the B.O. requires 25% of the lot area to be devoted to open space.\n\nIt may readily be gathered from the enclosed plan how great an improvement would be effected as regards market purposes if these houses were resumed. It will be seen that, except narrow outlets to Morrison Street and Queen's Road, the only frontage the market building will possess is on Banham Strand. Under such circumstances, the lighting and ventilation of a two-storied market will be a troublesome matter, entailing the sacrifice of much space. I have indicated on the plan a possible arrangement of the building, but it may have to be greatly modified when the detailed plans are undertaken.\n\n26th. September, 1910.\n\n(Sd.). Chatham,\n\nD. P. V.\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 392, "title": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "content_text": "Extract from Taun Wan Yat Po, Hongkong, 27 NOV 1912.\n\nTelegrams exchanged between Chau Lo and Liu Chung Hoi.\n\nA telegram from Hongkong reads as follows:-\n\nTo\n\nThe Governor, the General, the Commissioner of Finance, the Chamber of Commerce, the Provincial Assembly, and the News Association.\n\nAt 8 this evening, at the meeting of the Representatives of the various Guilds it was resolved that from the first day of the 9th. moon (10th. October, 1912) Canton notes should be taken as the standard and accepted in accordance with their face value, and that the various Guilds should themselves draw up a scale of fines to be imposed for any breach of this requirement and appoint special officers to deal with the matter. Thus since Hongkong will co-operate with Canton in the maintenance of the note currency, the face value of Canton notes will be restored and the Financial stress relieved. Indeed this blessing to Kwong Tung is the result of the Hongkong Merchants' efforts.\n\nChau Lo.\n\n5th. (October) 1912.\n\nA reply from Liu, the Commissioner of Finance, reads as follows:-\n\nTo\n\nMr. Chau Hoi Pun, care of Tai Ki, Bonham Strand.\n\nThe strenuous assistance given by the money dealers in Hong-kong in the maintenance of the note currency shows their enthusiasm and patriotism and I beg that you will convey to them my sincere thanks\n\nLiu Chung Hoi.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442223, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 350, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "## Chapter 11: Appendix\n\nRegulation 15. In addition to the above regulations, further particular regulations will be made in accordance with the commercial regulations for the guidance of the Society.\n\nRegulation 16. Additions and cancellations may be made from time to time in the above regulations at a meeting of the members of the Society, when found necessary.\n\nRegulation 17. The regulations of the Society will be enforced from the date on which they have been approved by the Board of Industry and Commerce.\n\n### Officers appointed\n\n| Position | Name | Votes |\n|---------------|---------------|-------|\n| Director | Lau Chu Pak | 28 |\n| Assistant Director | Chan Kang U | 11 |\n| Secretaries | Chen Kwei Mau | 19 |\n| | U Pan San | 13 |\n| Treasurers | Tam Hok Po | 11 |\n| | Li Po Kwai | ... |\n| Investigating Officers | Ip Lan Tsun | 13 |\n| | Wong Wong Fo | 9 |\n\nChan Kwai residing at Wing Cheung \"o, No. 67, Bonham Strand East.\n\nPage 348 \n\nJ.A. 81 110 10136.\n90 15917\n1 110, Deco indus 9.\nTi luae ad w^ Zinot \n3014390 \nok doado 2.09) \nJeni va", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449476, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 158, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "才 \n\ntraffic. \n\n155 \n\nA sum of $6,000 has been entered for the paving with mastic asphalte of Bonham Strand West which is occupied by some of the leading Chinese firms in the Colony. \n\nItem 21, $24,000, makes provision for the construction of a short length of road to connect the road leading to the houses recently erected on Inland Lot 1947, Leighton Hill, with the Leighton Hill Road. \n\nItem 22, $83,000, is provided to continue and complete the improvement of the Wong-nei-chong Road as far as its junction with Wong-nei-chong Gap Road necessitated by the erection of several houses on lots adjoining the road. \n\nAs regards items 23, 24 and 25 I would refer you to my remarks to the Council. \n\nDrainage. The provision of $5,000 (out of a total cost of $89,400) for training the nullahs at Mount Kellett is the result of complaints received from residents in the locality, of mosquitoes infesting the neighbourhood. \n\nOn the recommendation of the Sanitary Board I have inserted a sum of $7,000 for training the nullahs at Aberdeen where malaria has been prevalent. \n\nThe sum entered under item 26(d) is for the continuation of nullah-training in the vicinity of Magazine Gap as an anti-malarial measure. \n\nThe extension of two nullahs east and west of Inland Lot 1926, Wong-nei-chong Village, for which $9,700 is provided, is necessitated by the proposed erection of buildings for residential purposes in the locality. Of the amount inserted, $1,500 is for compensation for buildings to be removed in consequence of the projected work. \n\nLighting. \n\nA sum of $8350 has been included for the electric lighting of the public streets in Shaukiwan which are at present unlit.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461049, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "content_text": "# Distribution List\n\nTo Hoi Hau \n1000 copies\n\n| Location | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Keng U Hospital, Macao | 4600 |\n| Spirit Revenue Bureau, Canton | 18900 |\n| To Swatow | 4600 |\n| Kowloon Canton Railway | 1000 |\n| To members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce | 200 |\n| Queen's Road Central | 400 |\n| Jervois Street | |\n| Bonham Strand | |\n| All clubs | |\n| Queen's Road West | 100 |\n| A | 11 |\n| | 100 |\n| Th | 500 |\n| Wing On St. | 50 |\n| Des Voeux Rd. | 300 |\n| H | |\n| M Praya & Bonham Strand W. | 200 |\n| Tantsai & Tellington St. | 400 |\n| First St. | 100 |\n| Hollywood Road | 250 |\n| Wing Lok St. | 100 |\n| To other gentlemen | 100 |\n\nTotal: 42890\n\n+ Delivered from Post Office: 3 boxes, ... 50,500 copies\nLeft undistributed: 7,610\n\nIp Lan Tsun \nSecretary to Ch. Chamber of Commerce \n28.3.16.\n\nTo \nThe Hon. Secretary for Chinese Affairs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477907, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "# JUDGMENT OF THE LORDS OF THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL, DELIVERED THE 17TH DECEMBER, 1917.\n\n## Present at the Hearing:\n\n* **LORD SHAW**\n* **LORD PARKER OF WADDINGTON**\n* **LORD SUMNER**\n\n[Delivered by **LORD PARKER OF WADDINGTON**.]\n\nBy an indenture dated the 17th September, 1909, and made between Pang Kit Cheong (thereinafter called the vendor), of the one part, and a person therein described as \"Tong Shun, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, Trader,\" and thereinafter called the purchaser, of the other part, it was witnessed that, in consideration of 26,500 dollars then paid by the purchaser, the receipt whereof the vendor acknowledged, the vendor assigned unto the purchaser all that piece or parcel of land being Inland Lot No. 556, then known as No. 104, Bonham Strand, to hold the same unto the purchaser for all the residue of the term created by and subject to the payment of the rent and the performance of the lessee's covenants and conditions reserved and contained in the Crown lease therein mentioned. And the purchaser thereby covenanted with the vendor that the purchaser would during the residue of the said term pay the rent and perform the covenants in the said Crown lease reserved and contained, and indemnify the vendor against all actions, claims, and demands on account of in respect of the non-payment of the said rent or the non-performance of the said covenants and conditions, or any of them. The indenture was executed by both parties and witnessed by Mr. Hodgson, a solicitor.\n\nThe vendor was at the date of this indenture the legal owner of the leasehold property expressed to be thereby assigned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 479204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 180, "title": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 5th February, 1919.**\n\nMy Lord,\n\nIn continuation of Sir Henry May's Confidential Despatch of 16th April, 1917, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that a formal application was received on 13th December, 1918, by the Registrar, Supreme Court, for the filing under section 252 of the Companies Ordinance (No. `58 of 1911`) of the documents necessary to enable the Bank to operate in the Colony.\n\n2. The Acting Manager of the Hongkong Branch states that it is the intention of the Bank under instructions from the Head Office in Peking to build suitable premises on a prominent site in Queen's Road Central and to undertake all kinds of banking business here. At present, until the conditions of the Companies Ordinance already referred to are complied with, only such business as can be dealt with by Native Banks including the payment of Chinese Loan Interest Coupons is transacted, with a staff of about fourteen accommodated in a temporary office in Bonham Strand East. As the law stands, there is no ground for objection to the proposal.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord,\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\nhumble servant,\n**Maud Hviem**\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nThe Right Honourable \nVISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B., \n&c., \n&c., \n&c.\n\nPage 180\nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481762, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 494, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "Enclosure in Keking +146/1916.\n\nSir,\n\nHongkong, May 16th, 1919.\n\n104 10+\n\nWith reference to my letter No.146/1916 of December 6th, 1916, I have the honour to forward for your information a copy of a despatch which I addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies dated February 5th, 1919.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(sd) Claud Severn.\n\nENCLOSURE IN ABOVE.\n\nConfidential.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nHongkong, February 5th, 1919.\n\nIn continuation of Sir Henry May's Confidential despatch of April 16th, 1917, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that a formal application was received on December 13th, 1918, by the Registrar, Supreme Court, for the filing under Section 252 of the Companies Ordinance (No.58 of 1911) of the documents necessary to enable the Bank to operate in the Colony.\n\n2. The Acting Manager of the Hongkong Branch states that it is the intention of the Bank - under instructions from the Head Office in Peking - to build suitable premises on a prominent site in Queen's Road Central and to undertake all kinds of banking business here.\n\nAt present, and until the conditions of the Companies Ordinance already referred to are complied with, only such business as can be dealt with by Native Banks - including the payment of Chinese Loan Interest Coupons - is transacted, with a staff of about 14 persons located in a temporary office in Bonham Strand East. As the law stands, there is no ground for objection to the proposal.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(sd) Claud Severn.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488116, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "page_number": 469, "title": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nI thought the band would not be necessary. They assured me this was the best law they had ever read. Amongst other bodies, the Chinese Chambers of Commerce in this Colony, numbering 15, have signed this petition on behalf of 70,400 members. It is very difficult to find out how many people are represented by this petition. I am told today that it is 230,000. I dare say a lesser number might be correct, but I think 136,000 is the minimum figure. Also, 103 guilds of masters and workmen, representing 79,800 men, wish to offer this petition to Your Excellency and the members of this Honourable Council, and in presenting it to the Council, they beg me to ask you not to listen to evil advisers but to tell you, Sir, that having read this Bill, they find that you, the Governor, holding justice in your hands, have decided to deal with the people of this Colony as though they were your little red babies. It is a very voluminous petition.\n\n## \n\n4\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL**-I beg to move the second reading of a Bill intituled **An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the recovery of possession in certain cases and to restrict the rents of certain domestic tenements**.\n\nThe need for some legislation on this subject has been widely recognised. The main objects are to protect tenants from unreasonable increases of their rent and from arbitrary termination of their tenancies; in other words, to keep a roof over the heads of present occupiers and to protect them from excessive exploitation. It has been pointed out, Sir, that the Bill will also have another subsidiary effect in that it will tend to check the recent rash speculation in house property which must, if continued, have led to constant increases of rental, resulting in increased cost of living and discouragement of trade. The Bill has been very widely discussed and much help has been derived by the Rents Committee and the Government from the various letters, petitions, reports, and other communications received. I would like to say that concrete proposals such as were received on this present Bill are always welcome. I would like to acknowledge too, the very great assistance I have received in the drafting of the Bill from the hon. member who represents the Justices of the Peace.\n\nThe Government, Sir, are fully alive to the general and theoretical objections to legislation of this kind, the undesirability of interfering with the ordinary working of economic laws, and the danger of discouraging new buildings, and that is why - as you yourself have said, Sir - the Government held their hand for a considerable time. But the situation has become so acute that it has been decided that some action is necessary. As a matter of fact, I do not think the Bill ought to discourage new building because any new buildings finished after the Ordinance comes into operation will be entirely outside its scope.\n\n1\n\nI would like, Sir, if I may - it will not take more than a few minutes - to refer again to the policy of the Bill and show how it proposes to work. The two possible causes, I suppose, of the present shortage of housing accommodation are, first of all, the influx of strangers - refugees - into the Colony and, secondly, the failure on the part of builders and property owners to keep pace with the normal development of the Colony. I do not know how far that second cause affects the result, or whether it is an appreciable cause at all, but I will assume, for the moment, that it is one of the causes of the present shortage. The situation created by the working of these two causes has been aggravated and made intolerable by two subsidiary factors,— one, the speculation in house property, which tends to drive up rents all the time, and, secondly, the greed of certain landlords. The Bill attacks these two subsidiary factors without which the position created by the two main causes would not have been felt so severely. The two weapons which it uses are the provision of a standard rent and the principle of no ejectment. While the Bill remains in force, the standard rent alone will be payable, and as long as the tenant pays that rent, and complies with the other terms of his tenancy, he cannot be turned out. With regard to the influx of strangers from elsewhere, the Bill provides that the present occupiers, who are permanent residents of the Colony, shall not be turned out of their houses to make way for people coming in from outside. It is not possible to attack the other main cause, i.e., the failure of the property owners to keep pace with the regular normal development of the Colony, because, of course, we cannot create houses by Ordinance, but we hope we have encouraged new building by providing that any houses built after this Ordinance comes into force shall be entirely unrestricted as to rentals and they will thus get preferential treatment over existing houses. Certain proposed amendments have been published in the Gazette, but the general principle and scheme of the Bill remain unchanged.\n\nVarious suggestions have been made for carrying out the object of the Bill which the Rents Committee and the Government have been unable to accept. One was a proposal that the standard rent should be the pre-war rent with the addition of a certain percentage. That I have dealt with in paragraph 3 of the Objects and Reasons of the original Bill; I would only repeat that it would be extremely difficult, in fact, it would be impossible, to fix one percentage for the whole of the Colony. It would have to vary in districts and for different classes of property.\n\nA Rents Board has been suggested, and possibly that would be the fairest method if the Rents Board were omniscient and were permanently sitting and could work sufficiently quickly, but there would be great uncertainty, the delay would be great, and there would be great expenditure of public and private time. I should very much doubt whether the decisions of that Board could be made so uniform as to be equally fair in all cases. At all events, it is not a scheme which we felt could be produced at such short notice.\n\n86\n\nAnother proposal which was made in the very able report of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce was that the second subsidiary factor, that of speculation in land, should be checked by providing that no rent should be raised for one year after the purchase of house property. That would be a much greater and longer interference with ordinary economic laws than the interference proposed by this Bill, because it would last for nearly two years, it would be also very difficult to keep track of the rents charged because, under the scheme which it is a part of, it is proposed that landlords should still have power to evict in certain circumstances. When a tenant was turned out and a new tenant came in, the latter might not know what the late rent was and he might be charged a much higher rent. It would be impossible to keep track of all these rents, and the provision, I have no doubt, would be very largely evaded.\n\nIt was suggested, also, that the collection of \"shoe money\" should be prohibited, but we felt that in a Bill already rather exceptional, it would be unwise further to disturb existing practices by prohibiting a custom which, bad as it may be, is certainly widespread. While the Bill remains in operation, there is no reason why anyone should be forced to pay any excessive \"shoe money\" because the weapon in the past for the exaction of \"shoe money\" has been the threat of eviction, and if a man pays the standard rent, as long as the Bill remains in force, that man cannot be turned out. I hope the publicity given to the Bill will result in tenants realising this fact.\n\nAgain, it was proposed that one of the subsidiary factors which I spoke of just now, i.e., the greed of certain landlords, and chiefly of farmers of house property, should be checked by providing that farmers of house property should be allowed to collect from the tenants below them only a certain percentage of what they themselves pay to their superior landlord. We found that that was unworkable; different rates would have to be fixed for different parts of the Colony and different kinds of property in the same district. Some property would be perfectly safe; I do not suppose that tenants on the Peak or Bonham Strand often abscond without paying their rent, but in other parts of the Colony, it is a real danger. The buyer, if he is buying a house to live in, is either a resident here already or he is someone from outside. If he is a resident, he has a house in which he is living now and can continue to live. If he is a stranger, then I would say the permanent residents have a greater claim to our consideration. Again, if the purchaser is buying in order to acquire business...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488518, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 259, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## \n252 \n16 \n\nto be reduced to not more than 2 feet 6 inches above ground level, which in turn meant special wheels and springs, etc., then again we found that with the engine throttled right down, the generator gave a voltage of 305 which had to be reduced to 65 volts by the aid of a solenoid in order not to overload the elevating Motor.\n\nGenerally speaking however this combination has proved quite a success.\n\nThe combined cost of ladders and chassis was roughly £2,300.\n\nSince the War Messrs. Magirus have developed the design of their ladders further and the three operations of raising, extension and turning is actuated from one position only (and not three as at present) and moreover the use of electric motors and current is dispensed with, as the whole thing is operated from the propeller shaft of an ordinary petrol chassis. I have had no experience with these myself, but the mechanical features appear commendable.\n\nThe length of our ladders when fully extended is 85 feet.\n\n## Hook Ladders\n\nThese are made of carefully selected ash, well seasoned, straight grained, and free from knots, the wood-work being made up in our own workshops.\n\nThe hook, which is a chrome nickel steel stamping is purchased from Messrs. Vickers, River Don Works, Sheffield, but is milled and finished here. The shroud into which the hook houses is of nickel steel.\n\nThe standard length is 13 feet 4 inches, and the weight approximately 26 lbs.\n\nThe cost as specially made by us is at present £10 each.\n\nI do not think there would be any difficulty about your purchasing one if you feel so disposed.\n\n## Hose Drying Tower\n\nThese are usually triangular in shape, of skeleton design and of a height not less than 60 feet, and can be used as a drill tower.\n\nThe hose is raised and lowered by means of pulley blocks with ropes (called hose whips) rove through.\n\nNo artificial heat is used.\n\n## Brass Fireman's Poles\n\nThese are used somewhat extensively here, and are of material assistance to those riders above ground floor, in effecting a smart \"turn out.\"\n\nOur system is \"one pole-one floor,\" and they are not dangerous if the openings are properly protected. Cost about £60 each floor.\n\n## Automatic Station Doors\n\nOur doors are generally 11 feet wide by 11 feet 6 inches high.\n\nThe door is a four-fold door with the upper panels glazed, and the lower solid. The hanging leaves are 2¾ inches thick, and the folding leaves 2 inches.\n\nThe hinges used for the hanging leaves are \"Collins 2 feet 3 inches long and ordinary butte for the folding leaves.\n\nThe automatic arrangement is supplied by Messrs. Thomas Try & Co., Ltd., of 37, Great Pulteney Street, London, W. 1.\n\nOur total cost is about £180.\n\n## Automatic Hose Couplings\n\nThese we very seldom use, in fact only with 3¾″ hose on the floats. The type is the 'Surelock.'\n\nOur ordinary hose couplings are of 2¾″ with a machined round thread of 3½″ pitch, which are quite satisfactory for our use.\n\nThey are absolutely fool-proof, and have neither springs, catches nor other accessories, which accumulate defects.\n\nMessrs. Shand Mason & Company, of Upper Ground Street, Blackfriars Road, London, S.E. 1, would no doubt supply you with a sample pair.\n\n| SIZE OF MAIN | \n| --- | \n| No. | Inches |\n| 5 | 12 |\n| 10 | 12 |\n| 7 | 12 |\n| 10 | 10 |\n\n17 \n\n— \n\n18 \n\nYours faithfully,\n\n**(3.)** A. R. Dryer, \nChief Officer, L.F.B.\n\n## APPENDIX (D)\n\n## GROUP HYDRANTS, HONGKONG\n\n| POSITION | SIZE OF MAIN | No. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Junction of Wellington Street, Lyndhurst Terrace and Pottinger Street in Pottinger Street. | | 13 |\n| Junction of Hollywood Road and Lyndhurst Terrace. | | |\n| and Aberdeen Street. | | 55 |\n| In Ladder Street between Square Street and Hollywood Road. | H | |\n| Junction of Arbuthnot Road and Caine Road. | 11 | 11 |\n| Caine Road and Sing Wong Street. | | 17 |\n| Opposite University Hydraulic Laboratory in Bonham Road. | | 13 |\n| In Bonham Road close to main gate of University. | | |\n| Junction of Bonham Road and Pokfulam Road corner of University Road. | | |\n| Hollywood Road and Tung Street. | | |\n| and Pound Lane. | | |\n| and Queen's Road. | | |\n| Des Voeux Road West and Queen's Street. | | |\n| Queen's Road and Morrison Street. | | |\n| Wing Lok Street and Hillier Street. | | |\n| and Bonham Strand East. | | |\n| In Des Voeux Road, East of Wardley Street. | | |\n| In Queen's Road Central opposite City Hall, entrance at corner of Wardley Street. | | |\n| Junction of Ice House Street and Des Voeux Road. | | |\n| and Chater Road. | | |\n| Chater Road and Des Voeux Road. | | |\n| Pedder Street and Queen's Road. | | |\n| In Wongneichong Road opposite Jockey Club main pony entrance at bend of road. | | |\n| • Will be fixed within a fortnight. | | |\n\n20th May, 1921.\n\nR. M. HENDERSON, \nfor Water Authority.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492315, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 245, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "Table IX\n\n- 24- \n\nStatement of Assets of the Tung Wa Hospital on the 31st December, 1920.\n\nAssets.\n\nAmount.\n\nBy Balance,...\n\n \n House Property (original value) :— 2 houses in Bonham Strand and Jervois Street,\n 10,400\n \n \n 1 house in Wing Lok Street (including cost of additions to building),\n 8,108\n \n \n 10 houses in Aberdeen Street and Tang Wa Lane (including cost of additions to buildings),\n 14,900\n \n \n 3 houses in Connaught Road and Des Voeux Road,\n 17,386\n \n \n 7 houses in Queen's Road West (including cost of additions building),\n 30,368\n \n \n 2 houses in Bonham Strand West,\n 26,000\n \n \n 8 houses in Bonham Strand,\n 15,000\n \n \n 10 houses in Po Yun Street and New Street (at present used as Plague Hospital),\n 54,697\n \n \n 1 house in Des Voeux Road West,\n 32,859\n \n \n Total,\n 209,718\n \n \n Subscriptions not yet paid :— Firms,\n $ 250,655.47\n \n \n Individuals,\n $2,000\n \n \n \n $8,000\n \n \n \n 40.942\n \n\nReceipts.\n\nTable X.\n\n--\n\nEmergency Fund Account, 1920.\n\n \n \n Amonut.\n \n Ameant.\n \n \n Balance from account 1919,\n 36,033\n Boat-hire to 63 destitutes.\n 204\n \n \n Interest.\n 1,314\n Gratuity to Ko Wo.......\n 140\n \n \n \n \n Gratuity to Leung Cheng.\n 57,198.3\n \n \n Totul,.\n 57,378.72\n Balance,\n 57,378.72\n \n\n* Cents omitted except in the totals.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492979, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 332, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "PACIFIC SHIPPING.\n\nCANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIPS LIMITED\n\nHOME VIA CANADA\n\nHongkong to England\n\nShanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama, Vancouver & Montreal.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DOLLAR TELEGRAPH.\n\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1922.\n\nSAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.\n\nFor Baltimore via Genoa, Marseilles, Boston and New York. S.S. DIANA DOLLAR 1st November\n\nFor New York via Genoa, Marseilles, Boston and New York.\n\nPACIFIC SHIPPING.\n\nCHINA MAIL S.S. CO., LTD.\n\n(Incorporated in U.S.A.) OPERATING FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER STEAMERS\n\nAN UNSURPASSED HIGH CLASS PASSENGER SERVICE.\n\nFIRST CLASS FARE TO EUROPEAN PORTS\n\nMinimum Rate U.S.G. $577.07 Maximum Rate U.S.G. $620.56 First Class Accommodation Throughout.\n\nTrans-Pacific Service\n\nHONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO, Via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Yokohama & Honolulu\n\n \n NILE\n S. MANKING\n S.S. CHINA\n November 27th.\n \n \n From Hongkong\n Vancouver\n From Canada\n England\n \n \n Empress of Australia\n Oct. 25\n Nov. 17\n \n \n \n Empress of France\n Minnedosa\n 30th Sept\n Oct 31\n Nov. 6\n \n \n \n Nov. 2\n Nov. 18\n Dec 4\n \n \n Empress of Australia\n Nov. 30\n Dec 18\n \n \n \n Empress of France\n Dec 12\n Dec. 19\n \n \n \n Empress of Scotland\n Dec 25\n Jan. 3\n \n \n \n \n Jan. 17\n Jan 24\n \n \n\nFor Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver. S.S. HAROLD DOLLAR... 25th October.\n\nS.S. September 30th.\n\nFor Rates and Particulars Apply to\n\nCANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIPS, LIMITED.\n\nHongkong Office Tel. Central 732. Cable Address GACANPAC.\n\nTOYO KISEN KAISHA\n\nReduced Fare to Europe U.S.G$620.50 First Class Throughout.\n\nHONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO\n\nVIA SHANGHAI, THE ISLAND SEA JAPAN & HONOLULU.\n\nTHE PATHWAY OF THE SUN,\n\n \n TENYO M.\n 22,000\n Oct. 4. 4 p.m.\n \n \n KOREA M.\n 20,600\n Oct 18.\n \n \n SHINYO M.\n 22,000\n Nov. 21\n \n \n SIBERIA M.\n 20,000\n Nov. 13.\n \n \n TAIYO M.\n 22,000\n Nov. 26.\n \n\nCalling at Dairen.\n\nCalling at Keelung\n\nSOUTH AMERICAN LINE.\n\nHONGKONG TO VALPARAISO,\n\nMANILA, KEELUNG, JAPAN HONOLULU, HILO, SAN FRANCISCO SAN PEDRO, MANZANILLO, BALBOA, CALLAO\n\nMOLLENDO ARICA, & IQUIQUE\n\nTHENCE BY TRANS-ANDEAN RAILWAY TO BUENOS AYRES.\n\n \n ANYO MARU\n 18,000\n Oct. 18th.\n \n \n SEIYO MARU.\n (Omit Keelung)\n 14,000\n Nov. 19th.\n \n \n RAKUYO MARU,\n Citing call at Keelung.\n 17,500\n Jan 10th\n \n\nJAPAN-HONGKONG-JAVA SERVICE\n\nBETWEEN Kobe, Moji, Dairen, Hongkong, Batavia, Samarang & Sourabaya\n\n \n Steamer.\n Destination.\n \n \n PERSIA MARU\n Java\n \n \n PERSIA MARU\n Keelung. Moji, Kobe.\n \n\nNEW YORK LINE.\n\n(Freight Only)\n\nVIA SAIGON, JAVA AND SUEZ.\n\n \n Steamer.\n Tons.\n Leaving Hongkong.\n \n \n KEIYO MARU\n 12,000\n November 25th.\n \n \n WOYO MARU\n 12,000\n December 15th.\n \n\nFor full information regarding passengers, freight\n\nY. TSUTSUMI, Manager Tel. Central Nos, 2374 & 2375, Messrs. T E. GRIFFITH, LTD\n\nKing's Building Agents at Canton.\n\nSTRUTHERS & BARRY.\n\nManaging Agents-United States Shipping Board\n\nEXPRESS FREIGHT SERVICE.\n\nTO LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO FROM HONGKONG BY DIRECT ROUTE.\n\n \n 'Dewey'\n Due Hongkong 24th Oct.\n Leaves Hongkong 26th Oct,\n \n \n 'Elkridge'\n Due Hongkong 6th Nov.\n Leaves Hongkong 8th Nov,\n \n\nARGO ACCEPTED FOR TRANSHIPMENT AT SAN FRANCISCO TO WEEKLY SAILINGS FOR ATLANTIC SEABOARD PORTS.\n\nTHROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED TO U.S. & CANADIAN OVERLAND POINTS TO MANILA, SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, SAMARANG AND SOURABAYA.\n\nFor Full Information apply to\n\nSTRUTHERS & BARRY,\n\nL. EVERETT. General Agent for Japan-China-Philippines-Indo-China-Straits & Java.\n\n1st Floor, Powell's Building, Phone Central No. 3008.\n\nC. P. PRAI, Agent.\n\nYAMASHITA KISEN KAISHA.\n\n(THE YAMASHITA S.S. Co, Ltd.)\n\nREGULAR FREIGHT PASSENGER SERVICE KEELUNG, HONG KONG & HAIPHONG\n\nSailing from Hongkong.\n\nFOR HAIPHONG via Haihow & Pakhoi\n\nS.S. TAIKWA MARU\n\nTHE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.\n\nNORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD\n\nREGULAR FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE\n\nON THE BERTH FOR--\n\nPORT SAID, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, BREMEN\n\nS.S. WESTFALEN...\n\nSailing in October\n\nFor particulars Regarding Rates and Bookings Apply to\n\nTHE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.\n\nTel. Central 793-792 Gen. P. O. Building. Third Floor\n\nADMIRAL LINE\n\nPACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY Operating the following U.S. Shipping Board Steamers.\n\nSEATTLE & VICTORIA SERVICE-COURTESY-SPEED. PASSENGER & FREIGHT\n\nOctober 23rd.\n\nJAVA SERVICE\n\nHONGKONG TO AMOY, SINGAPORE & JAVA PORTS\n\nS.S GURJISTAN, To Swatow & Amoy.\n\nS.S. ARMANESTAN. To Amoy and Swatow.\n\nS.S. GORJISTAN. To Singapore, Batavia, Samarang and Sourabaya.\n\nS.S. ARMANESTAN. To Singapore, Batavia, Samarang and Sourabaya.\n\nFAST FREIGHT SERVICE Through Bill of Lading issued to all ports in United States & Canada\n\nCargo accepted on Through Bills of Lading for transhipment at San Francisco to weekly sailings for principal Atlantic Ports.\n\nCHINA MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.\n\n'XINUES BUILDING, TRUEPHONE. Passenger Dept.\n\nCentral No. 1934,\n\nIO HOUSE STREET. TEL.. FREIGHT DEPT. & Agent.\n\nCentral No. 2161.\n\nCable add. \"CHIMAIL\"\n\nBOSTON & NEW YORK,\n\n\"BLUE FUNNEL.\"\n\nJoint service of the\n\nOCEAN S.S. Co., Ld., & China Mutual S.N. Co., Ld.\n\nAND\n\nAMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE\n\n(Ellerman & Bucknall S.S. Co., Ld.)\n\n \n S.S. ANTILOCHUS\n via Suez Canal\n 5th Oct.\n \n \n S.S. CITY OF MELBOURNE\n via Suez Canal\n 15th Oct.\n \n \n S.S. BELLEROPHON\n via Suez Canal\n 25th Oct\n \n \n S.S. KENTUCKY\n via Suez Canal\n 5th Nov\n \n\n\"Leamore proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Cardoso Subject to change without notice\"\n\nFor freight and particulars apply to\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or THE BANK LINE, LD, HONGKONG.\n\nJohn Swire & Sons, Ltd)\n\nHONGKONG & CANTON\n\nREISS & CO.\n\nCANTON\n\nMESSAGERIES MARITIMES\n\nSERVICE CONTRACTUELS.\n\n(Mail service under contract with the French Government)\n\n \n Steamer & Dispacement\n Sailing Date\n Ports\n \n \n PORTHOS\n \n Fort-Said.\n \n \n ANGKOR\n \n \n \n \n ANGERS\n \n \n \n \n AZAY LE RIDE\n U 15 000\n On or about\n Vis Suez\n \n\nS.S. President Jackson .. For Seattle\n\nPresident Grant For Seattle\n\nPresident Jefferson.. For Seattle\n\nSPECIAL THROUGH RATE TO EUROPE G.$620,5 1,\n\nSailings every 14 days.\n\nVia Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama.\n\n \n From Hongkong\n Arrive Seattle\n \n \n Oct. 5,\n Oct. 24.\n \n \n Oct. 19.\n Nov. 7.\n \n \n Nov. 2.\n Nov. 21.\n \n\nMANILA SERVICE.\n\nS.S. President Grant\n\nPresident Jefferson\n\nPresident Madison\n\nNov. 6,\n\nSAIGON, SINGAPORE & SOURABAYA.\n\nS.S. LAKE FARRAR...\n\nOct. 3.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading to all United States and Canadian Overland Points; also via Panama Canal Lines to Atlantic Ports.\n\nPassengers and Freight Particulars, apply to\n\nTHE ADMIRAL LINE PASSENGER OFFICE.\n\nTels. Central 2477 & 2478..\n\nI.K. & Shanghai Bank Building, 4, Des Voeux Rd. C., G. Floor.\n\nSERVICE TO NEW YORK.\n\nNEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA,\n\n \n Da mialamt dat\n 15 000\n On or at t\n \n \n 20 bun\n \n \n \n \n COMMERCIAL LINE.\n Frau Port Leivues,\n LT. ST. LOUBERT BIE\n \n \n Havr. Dankie and\n LT. de MISSI~Y\n Antwerp\n \n \n (MEINAM\n COM. RAMEL I\n almont 29th Sentember\n \n \n mid October\n 1st part.\n November 1st part.\n \n \n ALSO SERVICE TO BORDEAUX,\n \n \n \n\nFor futur particular, etc. apply to\n\nCONSIGNATION-TRANSIT—\n\nREPRESENTATION.\n\nTelephone Central No. 740.\n\nA. JOBARD,\n\nActing Agent Queen's Building.\n\nCOMMERCIAL NEWS.\n\nPESSIMISTIC TONE IN GERMANY.\n\nThe Reicherb itsblatt (German State Labour Gazette) contains the following:\n\nForeign orders considerably fallen off in April and May; the number of reports from West and South Germany of the successful penetration of foreign competition into the domestic market is steadily growing England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Holland have in many Cases underbid the German industry in the domestic market, not only in coal, but also in iron, textile goods, glassware etc, and this at a time when the growing incapacitation of the purchasing power of wide classes of population already threatened the domestic consumption of the German industry.\n\nPRUSSIAN MINISTER ON TRADE DIFFICULTIES\n\nMr. Severin.. Home Secretary Prussia recently visited Stettin. where he declared a speech to a gathering of Govern. ors and Mayors of the province: In the nearest time the industry will have to pass through the same difficult conditions as in 1917 1919 Even should the stabilization of the mark be achieved, we shall not be able for many years to come to compete in World market\n\nA SINKIANG PORT.\n\nThe Chinese Government is reported to be considering a recommendation from the Governor that T...r:si be open-ed as a commercial port.\n\nTHE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS : \"MANIFESTO \" HONGKONG.\n\nCodes used: A. A.B.C. Fifth Edition). Engineering, First and Second Edition.\n\nWestern Union and Watkins, Betties and Marconi\n\nDork Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers.\n\nIron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians\n\nS.S. SATSUMA\n\nmenu spaer about October 15 a portuar app to\n\nKowloon Docks\n\nBARBER STEAMSHIP LINE INC.\n\nTHE ADMIRAL LINE\n\nAGENT\n\n4. Des Voeux Rd, C., HK, & S'hai Bats Bldg, Ground Floor.\n\nCentral\n\nKONINKLYKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ.\n\n(Royal Packet Navigation Co. of Batavia)\n\nTHE STEAMSHIP:\n\n“VAN OVERSTRATEN'\n\nwill be despatched 1st October to SINGAPORE PENANO and BELAWAN DELI\n\nOffers excellent Saloon accommodation All lower berths\n\non or about 2nd Oct.\n\nEnglish cuisine\n\non or about 2nd Oct.\n\nFOR KEELUNG via Swatow & Amoy\n\nS.S \"HOZUI MARU\"\n\nFor further particulars, please apply to-\n\nBranch Office.\n\n37, Bonham Strand. West Tel. Central No. 155.\n\nS. MITARAI, AGENT, Top Floor, King's Building,\n\nTel. Central No. 140.\n\nJAVA CHINA JAPAN LIJN.\n\nYork Building,\n\nChater Road\n\nTelephone Central N. 1571.\n\nLaunch of Oil Tanker \"PALUDINA The Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd..\n\nPlease Address Enquiries to the Chief Manager.\n\nR.M. DYER. B.Sc., M.IN.A.. KOWLOON PONT (HONGKONG)\n\nPage 150", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493017, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure /.\n\n351\n\nCopy.\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nThe S.S. \"GEORGII\" under French flag operated by Russian Volunteer Fleet, Hongkong, is at present on trip charter. She left here for Hoihow on 17th October, 1922, Charterer, Chow Ken Hoi, Bonham Strand West. She is stated to be loading salt for Canton. During the past six months this vessel has been on trip charter by various Hongkong firms and has entered the port 18 times.\n\nS.S. \"INDIGIRKA\" under French flag, operated by Russian Volunteer Fleet, Hongkong, is at present on trip charter. She left here for Keelung on the 12th October, 1922, charterer Suzuki & Co. She is stated to be loading coal for Canton. During the past six months this vessel has been on trip charter and has entered the port 15 times.\n\nS.S. \"SIMFEROPOL\" under French flag, operated by Russian Volunteer Fleet from Shanghai is at present running between Shanghai, Tientsin and Chinwangtao. She left Hongkong for Keelung on the 21st July, 1922. During the past six months this vessel has entered the port 3 times.\n\nS.S. \"SIMBIRSK\" under French flag operated by Russian Volunteer Fleet, is at present laid up in Kobe.\n\nThese four vessels under the French flag are controlled by Russian Volunteer Fleet (Paris). I understand there are 3 or 4 vessels in Vladivostock under the Russian flag which are also controlled by Russian Volunteer Fleet (Paris).\n\n(sd.)\n\nO. W. Beckwith,\n\nHarbour Master,\n\n21st October, 1922.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499743, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 147, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "# \n\nANGUS MACKENZIE states:- \n\nI am Captain of the S.S. \"Hong Hwa\", the local agent of which is Song Soon Hong, 14 Bonham Strand West, the owners being the Ho Hong Steamship Co., Ltd., Singapore. The ship flies the British flag, her port of registry being Singapore. \n\nShe is a passenger and cargo boat having accommodation for first, second and third class passengers. The ship usually runs between Hongkong, Singapore and Swatow. My ship left Singapore at 17.00 hours on the 7th January 1925 bound for Hongkong with a total of 357 passengers and a general cargo, there being no valuables or bullion shipped. Previous to leaving Singapore the ship was moored in the Singapore roads, the passengers being brought off in launches and sampans. Everything went well until the 13th inst. and we steamed the usual course. \n\nThere was a strong North-East monsoon blowing from the time we left until the morning of the 13th. \n\nAt 08.40 hours on the 15th January whilst I was taking breakfast alone on the lower bridge deck outside my cabin amidships, without warning, I was approached from behind and felt something cold pushed into my ears. I looked round and saw two Chinese pirates, each holding a pistol to my ears. One of them spoke fairly good English and said \"Hands up\". I complied and two more armed pirates then came up and took me to my cabin. One of them said \"Where are your revolvers\". I showed him where they were, in a locked drawer. He then ordered me to get the key which was kept in another drawer and I complied at the point of the revolver. He unlocked the drawer and took my two revolvers and ammunition out. I was then seized by the 4 pirates and led down to the starboard side of the boat deck amidships, where I saw the first, second and third Engineers, first and second officers and the Doctor, herded together with their hands up and 6 armed pirates keeping guard. The pirate who spoke English appeared to be the leader of the gang and came to me and said \"Are you the Captain?\" I said, \"Yes\". He said \"Come\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499754, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 158, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## \n152 \n\nme to the tween deck. He is about 40 years of age, tall, thin build, long face, dressed in black cotton clothing, wearing shoes, black socks, dark green felt hat, spoke Cantonese and Chiu Chau dialect, armed with a pistol. We keep no Indian or Chinese watchmen on board the ship. \n\nMr. Tang Man Pun, of the Sing Shun shop, Bonham Strand West, is the agent of this ship.\n\n(sd.) P. J. Shannon, \nLance Sergeant 197.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500213, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 617, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT\n\n**No. 354.-**Notice is hereby given that the Governor proposes to make an order under the Streets (Alteration) Ordinance, 1923, for the narrowing of the first scavenging lane, west of Battery Street between Nanking Street and Ningpo Street, Yaumati, to 6 feet in width measured from the west boundary of the existing scavenging lane.\n\nAny person objecting to the proposed order must send his objection in writing to the Colonial Secretary so as to reach the office of the Colonial Secretary not later than the 18th day of July, 1925.\n\nSuch objection must state the reasons therefor and specify the property with regard to the ownership or occupation of which such objection is made and the interest therein of the objector.\n\n**CLAUD SEVERN**, \nColonial Secretary \n19th June, 1925.\n\n布政司施告示事現擬按照一千九百廿三年更改街道則例頒發命令將油蔴地炮台街西便之第一條清掃小巷改爲六尺濶由該巷之西便界線量起如有不願此項命令者須於本年七月十八號以前將其不願之理由函寄到本署並須將其所管或所居住之屋業情形及權利詳明此布 \n19th June, 1925.\n\n## PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT\n\n**No. S. 174.** It is hereby notified that the following Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction will be held at the Offices of the Public Works Department on Monday, the 6th day of July, 1925, at 3 p.m.\n\nFull Particulars and Conditions may be obtained at this Office.\n\n| No. | Locality | Registry No. | Boundary Measurements | Contents in square feet | Annual Upset Rental | Upset Price |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Aberdeen, West of Aberdeen Reservoir | Inland Lot No. 88, Inland Lot No. 97 | As per sale plan | 13,530 | $32 | $13,530 |\n\nThe Purchaser of the Lot will also have to pay the sum of $25 for boundary stones required to define the Lot and $30 for the Crown Lease.\n\n19th June, 1925, \n**HAROLD T. CREASY**, \nDirector of Public Works.\n\n## THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS LIMITED\n\nWITH reference to the offer of new shares dated the 15th May 1925 (made to existing shareholders of the Company) by the terms of which the sum of $7.50 per share was to be paid on the 30th June 1925 and the sum of $5 on the 30th September 1925, the directors have decided, in view of the present condition of affairs, to extend those dates.\n\nThe date for payment of the first instalment of $7.50 per share is accordingly extended until the 30th September 1925, and the date for payment of the second instalment until the 31st December, 1925.\n\nAs regards shareholders who take advantage of these extended times, the new shares allotted to them will rank for dividend as from the 1st October 1925 in respect of half the nominal value thereof and as from the 1st January 1926 in respect of the full nominal value thereof.\n\nAny shareholder who makes payment prior to the due date will be allowed interest at 7% per annum on the amount paid by him from the date of payment until the due date.\n\nThis notice will not affect those shareholders who make payment on the original dates, i.e., as regards the first instalment on the 30th June and as regards the second instalment on the 30th September. The shares to be allotted to them will, in accordance with the original terms of the offer, rank for dividend on one half the nominal value as from the 1st July 1925 and on the full nominal value as from the 1st October 1925.\n\nBy Order of the Board, \n**J. H. TAGGART**, \nManaging Director.\n\n## NOTICE\n\nIN pursuance of Section 3 of the Fraudulent Debtors Ordinance, 25 of 1923, Notice is hereby given that Lo Cheung Yee Tong, Luk Wai Kee, Ng Wing On Tong, Hau Tak Tong, and Tung Hup Tong, all of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, carrying on business in co-partnership under the style or firm name of The Hup Hing Lung Cheung Kee Firm, of No. 19, Chung Ching Street, Victoria, Hongkong, pig merchants, are desirous of transferring the said business of the said Hup Hing Lung Cheung Kee Firm, to the Chung Wo Tong, (who are the transferees) of No. 275, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, aforesaid, on the 19th day of July, 1925.\n\nThe Transferees intend to carry on the said business at No. 19, Chung Ching Street, Victoria, aforesaid, and will not assume the liabilities incurred by the Transferors in the said business.\n\n**LO CHEUNG YEE TONG**, (X2) \n**LUK WAI KEE** (X2) \n**NG WING ON TONG**, (X3) \n**HAU TAK TONG**, (X1) \n**TUNG HUP TONG**, (X1) \nProprietors of the HUP HING LUNG CHEUNG KEE FIRM, (X4) \nTransferors.\n\n**THE CHUNG WO TONG**, (X5) \nTransferees.\n\n## (FILE No. 263 of 1925) TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1909\n\nApplication for Registration of a Trade Mark.\n\n## (FILE NO. 121 of 1925) TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1909\n\nApplication for Registration of Three Trade Marks.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that Tung Hing Tong, (E), of No. 87, Des Voeux Road West, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, proprietor of the Man Sang firm, (A), of Im Po, (C), Canton, in the Province of Kwangtung, in the Republic of China, Match Manufacturers, has, on the 17th day of April, 1925, applied for the registration in Hongkong, in the Register of Trade Marks, of the following Trade Marks, Nos. (1), (2), and (3):-\n\n(1) 民生 \n(2) 三猴祥 \n(3) 造廠生民東廣 (MADE IN CANTON CHINA)\n\nin the name of Tung Hing Tong, who claims to be the proprietor thereof.\n\nThe said Trade Mark No. 1 is intended to be used by the applicant in respect of Matches, in Class 47, and the said Trade Marks, Nos. (2) and (3) have been used by the applicant in respect of the same goods for upwards of 6 years now last past.\n\nFacsimiles of such Trade Marks can be seen at the office of the Registrar of Trade Marks and also at the office of the undersigned.\n\nThe said Trade Marks, Nos. (1) and (2), are to be associated with Trade Mark No. 55, of 1921, and with each other, and the said Trade Mark No. (3), is to be associated with Trade Mark No. 300 of 1922.\n\nDated the 5th day of June, 1925.\n\n**H. K. WOO**, Solicitor for the Applicant, \nNo. 4, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.\n\n## (FILE NO. 132 of 1925) TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1909\n\nApplication for Registration of a Trade Mark.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that The Fung Lee Hing Firm, of No. 65, Bonham Strand, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, has, on the 28th day of April, 1925, applied for the registration in Hongkong, in the Register of Trade Marks, of the following Trade Mark:-\n\n星月日標商三興利馮散油茶寶\n\nin the name of The Fung Lee Hing Firm, who claims to be the proprietor thereof.\n\nThe Trade Mark is intended to be used by the Applicant in Class 3, in respect of medicated powders, tea, and oil.\n\nDated the 5th day of June, 1925.\n\n**F. E. NASH**, Solicitor for the Applicant, \n10, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.\n\n## (FILE NO. ... of 1925)\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that Messrs. Taiwan Seichi Kaisha of Taipeh, Formosa, have, on the 20th day of August, 1924, applied for the registration in Hongkong in the Register of Trade Marks, of the following Trade Mark:-\n\nPAGODA \n塔\n\nin the name of Messrs. Taiwan Seichi Kaisha of Taipeh, Formosa, who claim to be the sole proprietors thereof.\n\nThe above Trade Mark is intended to be used by the Applicants forthwith in Class 39, in respect of papers.\n\nFacsimile of the above Trade Mark can be seen at the office of the Registrar of Trade Marks and also at the undersigned.\n\nDated this 1st day of May, 1925.\n\n**G. R. HAYWOOD**, \nSolicitor for the Applicants, \nNo. 4, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500238, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 642, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT\n\nNo. 354.-Notice is hereby given that the Governor proposes to make an order under the Streets (Alteration) Ordinance, 1923, for the narrowing of the first scavenging lane, west of Battery Street between Nanking Street and Ningpo Street, Yaumati, to 6 feet in width measured from the west boundary of the existing scavenging lane.\n\nAny person objecting to the proposed order must send his objection in writing to the Colonial Secretary so as to reach the office of the Colonial Secretary not later than the 18th day of July, 1925.\n\nSuch objection must state the reasons therefor and specify the property with regard to the ownership or occupation of which such objection is made and the interest therein of the objector.\n\n19th June, 1925.\n\n**CLAUD SEVERN**, \nColonial Secretary.\n\n布政司施 \n布告事現 \n督憲欲按照一千九百廿三年更改街道則例頒發 \n命令將油蔴地炮台街西之第一條清掃小巷改爲六尺由該巷之西便 \n界線量起如有不願此項命令頒發者須於本年七月十八號以前將其不願 \n理由繕函寄到本署並須將其所管或所居住之屋業情形及權利詳明此布\n\n19th June, 1925.\n\n## PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.\n\nNo. S. 174. It is hereby notified that the following Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction will be held at the Offices of the Public Works Department on Monday, the 6th day of July, 1925, at 3 p.m.\n\nFull Particulars and Conditions may be obtained at this Office.\n\n### PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.\n\n| No. | Registry No. | Locality | Contents in Sale | sq. feet | Annual Rental | Upset Price |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Inland Lot No. 88. | Aberdeen West of Aberdeen | As sale plan per No. 97. | 13,580 | $32 | $13,530 |\n\nThe Purchaser of the Lot will also have to pay the sum of $25 for boundary stones required to define the Lot and $30 for the Crown Lease.\n\n19th June, 1925.\n\n**HAROLD T. CREASY**, \nDirector of Public Works.\n\n## THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS LIMITED\n\nWITH reference to the offer of new shares dated the 15th May 1925 (made to existing shareholders of the Company) by the terms of which the sum of $7.50 per share was to be paid on the 30th June 1925 and the sum of $5 on the 30th September 1925 the directors have decided in view of the present condition of affairs to extend these dates.\n\nThe date for payment of the first instalment of $7.50 per share is accordingly extended until the 30th September 1925 and the date for payment of the second instalment until the 31st December, 1925.\n\nAs regards shareholders who take advantage of these extended times the new shares allotted to them will rank for dividend as from the 1st October 1925 in respect of half the nominal value thereof and as from the 1st January 1926 in respect of the full nominal value thereof.\n\nAny shareholder who makes payment prior to the due date will be allowed interest at 7% per annum on the amount paid by him from the date of payment until the due date.\n\nThis notice will not affect those shareholders who make payment on the original dates i.e. as regards the first instalment on the 30th June and as regards the second instalment on the 30th September. The shares to be allotted to them will in accordance with the original terms of the offer rank for dividend on one half the nominal value as from the 1st July 1925 and on the full nominal value as from the 1st October 1925.\n\nBy Order of the Board,\n\n**J. H. TAGGART**, \nManaging Director.\n\n## NOTICE\n\nIN pursuance of Section 3 of the Fraudulent Transfer of Business Ordinance, No. 25 of 1923, Notice is hereby given that Lo Cheung Yee Tong, Luk Wai Kee, Ng Wing On Tong, Hau Tak Tong and Tung Hup Tong, all of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, carrying on business in co-partnership under the style or firm name of The Hup Hing Lung Cheung Kee Firm, of No. 19, Chung Ching Street, Victoria, Hongkong, pig merchants, are desirous of transferring the said business of the said Hup Hing Lung Cheung Kee Firm, to the Chung Wo Tong, (who are the transferees) of No. 275, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, aforesaid, on the 19th day of July, 1925.\n\nThe Transferees intend to carry on the said business at No. 19, Chung Ching Street, Victoria, aforesaid, and will not assume the liabilities incurred by the Transferors in the said business.\n\nLO CHEUNG YEE TONG, (L.M.) \nLUK WAI KEE, (L.K.) \nNG WING ON TONG, (N.K.) \nHAU TAK TONG, (H.T.) \nTUNG HUP TONG, (T.H.) \nAND \nProprietors of the HUP HING LUNG CHEUNG KEE FIRM, (H.H.L.C.K.) \nTransferors.\n\nTHE CHUNG WO TONG, (C.W.T.) \nTransferees.\n\n## (`FILE No. 263 of 1925`) TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1909.\n\n### Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.\n\n(`FILE No. 121 of 1925`) TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1909, Application for Registration of Three Trade Marks.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that Messrs. Tung Hing Tong, of No. 67, Des Voeux Road West, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, proprietor of the Sam Cheong firm, and of the Man Sang firm, of Im Po, Canton, in the Province of Kwangtung, in the Republic of China, Match Manufacturers, has, on the 17th day of April, 1925, applied for the registration in Hongkong, in the Register of Trade Marks, of the following Trade Marks, Nos. 1, 2 and 3:-\n\n(1) 蔥生廠造 \n(2) 单猴祥 \n(3) SAFETY MATCHES 一造廠生民東廣 MADE IN OUR FACTORY MAN SANG\n\nin the name of Tung Hing Tong, who claims to be the proprietor thereof.\n\nThe said Trade Mark No. 1 is intended to be used by the applicant in respect of Matches, in Class 47, and the said Trade Marks, Nos. 2 and 3 have been used by the applicant in respect of the same goods for upwards of 6 years now last past.\n\nFacsimiles of such Trade Marks can be seen at the office of the Registrar of Trade Marks and also at the office of the undersigned.\n\nThe said Trade Marks, Nos. 1 and 2, are to be associated with Trade Mark No. 55, of 1921, and with each other, and the said Trade Mark No. 3, is to be associated with Trade Mark No. 300 of 1922.\n\nDated the 5th day of June, 1925.\n\n**H. K. WOO**, Solicitor for the Applicant, No. 4, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that Messrs. Taiwan Seichi Kaisha of Taipeh, Formosa, have, on the 20th day of August, 1924, applied for the registration in Hongkong, in the Register of Trade Marks, of the following Trade Mark:-\n\n**PACODA** 塔 \n\nin the name of Messrs. Taiwan Seichi Kaisha of Taipeh, Formosa, who claim to be the sole proprietors thereof.\n\nThe above Trade Mark is intended to be used by the Applicants forthwith in Class 30, in respect of papers.\n\nFacsimile of the above Trade Mark can be seen at the office of the Registrar of Trade Marks and also at the undersigned.\n\nDated this 1st day of May, 1925.\n\n**G. R. HAYWOOD**, \nSolicitor for the Applicants, No. 4, Des Vœux Road Central, Hongkong.\n\n(`FILE No. 132 of 1925`) TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1909. Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that The Fung Lee Hing Firm, of No. 65, Bonham Strand, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, has, on the 28th day of April, 1925, applied for the registration in Hongkong, in the Register of Trade Marks, of the following Trade Mark:-\n\n**散油茶寶三興利馮** \n**標商星月日**\n\nin the name of The Fung Lee Hing Firm, who claims to be the proprietor thereof.\n\nThe Trade Mark is intended to be used by the Applicant in Class 3, in respect of medicated powders, tea and oil.\n\nDated the 5th day of June, 1925.\n\n**F. E. NASH**, Solicitor for the Applicant, 10, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500365, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 76, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## \n| Name | Address | Age |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 陳 | Nga Chin Long, Kowloon City | 75 |\n| 陳林氏 | | +6 |\n| 戴林氏 | | 33 |\n| 陳翰林 | Main Street inside City | 45 |\n| 劉春 | Main Street inside City | 17 |\n| 五莲 | Hok Lo Tsun | 78 |\n| 黃川泉 | | 14 |\n| 黎樂村 | Nga Chin Wei | +6 |\n| 黎秋俠 | Ko Shing Street | 18 |\n| 曾達觀 | Bonham Strand West, 2nd floor | 4 |\n| | Des Voeux Road West | 68 |\n| | The Ta Yuen, Kowloon City | 127 |\n| | Main Street inside City | 52 |\n| | Main Street inside City | 54 |\n| 卓余氏 | Ta Tat Street | +C 32 |\n| 劉東光 | Ha Sha Po | 25 |\n| | Main Street inside City | 38 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500370, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 81, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## Petitioners' signatures\n## Addresses\n\n| Signature | Address |\n| --- | --- |\n| 李娇 | 168 Mffer Ri uk Village, Cleng Sharew |\n| 符譚 | 158 煜想 |\n| | Wong Uk Village 福連 x 115 |\n| | 每集 103 |\n| | 103 M |\n| 惠民 | |\n| 耀东 | |\n| 文杰 | No. 10 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong |\n| | No. 43 Bonham Strand West, Hongkong |\n| | 31 Filman Street, Hongkong |\n| | 24 H 18 Kennedy Road, Hongkong |\n| 富果 | Isang Foo Villa, Pokong Village, Karlson City |\n| | c/o The Wineus Road Central, Hongkong |\n| | 12. 10 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500973, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 8, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "14\n\nAMERICAN ORIENTAL MAIL LINE\n\n#TRANSPACIFIC-EXPRESS SERVICE\"\n\nSEATTLE & VICTORIA\n\nSHAN HAI-KOBE-YOKOHAMA,\n\nPRESIDENT JEFFERSON ...... September 6th, 5.00 pm.\n\nPRESIDENT GRANT... September 15th, 5.00 pm.\n\nEUROPE\n\nvia Seattle-Chicago-New York\n\nFirst Class on the Pacific. First Class on American or Canadian Railway, First Class and Second Class on the Atlantic. Choice of Trans-Continental Railways. Any Class on the Atlantic.\n\nThrough accommodation and Booking Arranged.\n\nFOR MANILA\n\nPRESIDENT JEFFERSON\n\nPRESIDENT GRANT\n\nAugust 29th, 3.00 p.m.\n\nSeptember 10th, 5.00 p.m.\n\nTRAVEL FIRST CLASS ON A FIRST CLASS STEAMER. Through Bills of Lading to all United States, and Canadian Overland points, also via Panama Canal Lines to Atlantic Ports.\n\nCopies of this paper on file in our Offices SEATTLE, CHICAGO, NEW YORK.\n\nFor passage and Freight Booking apply to\n\nAMERICAN ORIENTAL MAIL LINE\n\nOperated for\n\nUnited States Shipping Board\n\nby Admiral Oriental Line, Managing Operators\n\nHongkong and Shanghai Bank Building, 4th Floor, Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795. No. 4, Des Voeux Road.\n\nTWO-WAY SERVICE\n\nTo Manila, the Straits, Calcutta, Egypt, the Mediterranean, and New York\n\nWhether you're traveling east, or west, DOLLAR Line President Liners will carry you\n\nEastbound they afford two sailings each month.\n\nWestbound they offer four sailings each month, as far as Manila- thence to Singapore and beyond, a fortnightly schedule.\n\nWith most frequent and convenient service, these great oil-burning liners are notable for their speed and steadiness.\n\nAll staterooms are outside rooms, with real beds (not berths) and luxurious furnishings.\n\nDOLLAR Line cuisine is world famous.\n\nSTOPOVERS ALLOWED AT ANY PORT OF CALL\n\nEast: Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu\n\nWest: Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York- and on other ports round the world\n\nEASTBOUND\n\nNEXT SAILINGS\n\nPRESIDENT LINCOLN\n\nAugust 29, 5.00 pm.\n\nPRES. CLEVELAND\n\nSeptember 12, 5.00 p.m.\n\nWESTBOUND\n\nPRES. VAN BUREN\n\nSeptember 4, 8.00 p.m.\n\nPRES. CLEVELAND\n\nSeptember 1, 2.00 p.m.\n\nACROSS THE PACIFIC TO SAN FRANCISCO\n\nFOR PASSAGE OR FREIGHT RATES, APPLY TO\n\nDOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE\n\nHongkong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor, No. 4 Des Voeux Road, HONG KONG\n\nTelephones Central 2477, 2478 and 795\n\nAMERICAN FAR EAST LINE\n\nOPERATED FOR\n\nUNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD\n\nBy Struthers & Barry, Managing Operators\n\nREGULAR FAST FREIGHT SERVICE\n\nTO SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES FROM HONGKONG BY DIRECT ROUTE\n\nU.S.S.B. \"West Faralon\"...... Due Hongkong\n\nin port. Leave Hongkong 26th Aug.\n\n24 days to San Francisco-28 days to Los Angeles,\n\nU.S.S.B. \"West Cajoot\"...... Due Hongkong\n\nsin Sept. Leave Hongkong 7th Sept.\n\nYorgo accepted for transhipment at San Francisco to weekly sailings for Atlantic sea and ports.\n\nThrough bills of lading issued to C.A. and Canadian Overland points.\n\nTO MANILA, CEBU, ILOILO AND ZAMBOANGA.\n\nU.S.S.B. \"West Jester\" .................\n\nDue Hongkong 28th Aug. Leave Hongkong 30th Aug.\n\nTO SINGAPORE, ZAMBOANGA & CEBU.\n\nU.S.S.B. \"West Prospect\"\n\nDue Hongkong 10th Sept. Leave Hongkong 11th Sept.\n\nThrough bills of lading issued to all ports and served\n\nfor full information apply to\n\nSTRUTHERS AND BARRY,\n\nPhone Central No. 2018.\n\nL. EVERETT, INC.\n\nGeneral Agents.\n\n1st Floor Queen's Building\n\nJapan, China, Philippine Island, Indo-China\n\nD. Drame Sheppard\n\nFar. Agent.\n\nStraits Settlement.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925,\n\nNAVY NOTES.\n\nFLAG OFFICER CHANGES.\n\n(From the Army and Navy Gazette)\n\nCRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nA HUGE ARMS HAUL.\n\nPrisoner Gets Three Years.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\nAUGUST 24.\n\nGlamiabroch, British, Capt. D. X. Hood, 148 tons, in cargo and ballast, Song 3oon Hong, mooring\n\n1,144 tons. Saigon, Wo Fat Sons, Haldia, British, Capt. L. Lynch, in cargo.\n\nA Chinese seaman named Chunk Mak Thee appeared before Mr. Justice B.22, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday, charged with the possession of thirty-four revolvers valued at $1,500 and 542 rounds of ammunition on board the s.s. \"Genkracht\" on June 21 last.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty.\n\nNaan Sang, British. Capt. D. R. Kilee, 2,351 tons, Yokohama and Shanghai, J.M. & Co., Stonecutters.\n\nAUGUST 25.\n\nThe Crown case was conducted by Mr. Whyte-Smith who explained to the court that at 4.30 a.m. on the day in question a party of searchers went on board the ship, on the second deck, on the day in question a party of searchers went on board the ship, on the second deck, a Chinese revenue officer and others went in search for arms.\n\nOsaka Maru, Japanese, Capt. C. Kondo, 10,219 tons, Calcutta and Singapore, NYK., voxing A2.\n\nThe Admiral was in the board side a Chinese revenue officer and others went in search for arms.\n\nVulcanus, Dutch, Capt. 1. 3. Settle, 707 tons, Pulse and Saraboe, APC Company's Wharf.\n\nThe replies of the Admiralty to the requests put forward through the 1924 Welfare Conference contain but a small proportion of concessions, but this is not surprising.\n\nSo many of the requests involved additions to public expenditure, amounting in the aggregate to a considerable sum, that there was small hope of their being entertained favourably in the existing financial situation.\n\nIn one respect, the lower deck is not against the same snag as the Admiralty when the Board asks for money.\n\nPrisoner's Story.\n\nPrisoner went late the witness) on number one) on\n\nAdmiralty when the Board asks for money.\n\nCLEARANCES.\n\nAUGUST 25.\n\nAsaka Maru, Japanese, Meji.\n\nCheltenham, British, Amoy.\n\nCorona, Norwegian, Chiungwan\n\nTAO.\n\nChung Hing, Chinese, K. C. Wan\n\nDrafa, Norwegian, Shanghai.\n\nGairsoppa, British, Moji.\n\nGlenfaldek, British, Amoy.\n\nHin Sang, British, Sandakan\n\nHoi Nam, Portuguese, K. C. Wan\n\nShing Cheong, Portuguese, Macao\n\nTalthybia British, Co.\n\nVoleanus, Dutch, Anicy.\n\nAUSTRALIAN STRIKE.\n\nFEDERAL ACTION IN VICTORIA.\n\nNew Zealand Joins In\n\nMelbourne, Aug. 24.\n\nThe Federal Cabinet has held a special meeting to consider the question of new cruisers and torpedo craft, viz., where is the money to come from?\n\nIt does not follow that the welfare system is useless.\n\nOn the contrary, it has proved its value when handled judiciously, this fokia and told them to get on with their work as the ship sailed just 8 a.m.\n\nWhile in the bunker he saw the bags lying on the coals and was going to report them to the chief engineer.\n\nA second later he heard a shot fired behind him.\n\nThe strike was then begun and he thought it was some-jane from the Seamen's Guild going to bother him and so he dropped there and ran away.\n\nHe was arrested.\n\nCross examined he said the tokis or Heuler. which should be capable of good judgement have been in the stoke-hold and he told them to get on with their work.\n\nAsked where he should have been, prisoner said it was the business of the firemen and stokers at Auckland the settlement within the Empire to see that the furnaces were\n\nA mass meeting of British seamen was held to-morrow---.\n\nSydney, Aug. 24.\n\nThe Marine Transport Group has unanimously decided to support, food and house the striking\n\nof persons with small means in sight.\n\nHe had no idea that the men who caught him were revenue officers until they took him to the bunker again when they brought out the bags, established\n\nThe P. and O. line, s.s. Chitral, whose crew has refused to join the strikers, sails on August 20th\n\nThe departure: of the Orient line ss. Orama is\n\nindefinite: its postponement\n\nThe crew of the Rougelia has expressed\n\nOrders copies of the Committee's report and proposals.\n\nO Fuel Supplies.\n\nIn common with other Navies, that of Japan is handicapped by the uncertainty of oil fuel supply.\n\nThis seems manifestly the only reason to burn partly all and partly coal.\n\nThe nine vessels of the \"King\" class are understood to have eight of their twelve boilers adopted for oil firing, and the remaining four boilers are coal-fired.\n\nIt appears that Japan has to import at present about 1,600,000 tons of petroleum and benzine out there is beautiful scenery, and although the train service from Hexham is scanty, the roads are good, the air pure and strong, and salmon and trout fishing and hunting are plentiful.\n\nGuilty is lacking, schooner Maud en route to San Francisco, where she was to be sold, the Norwegian Vice Consul went aboard and took possession of her on behalf of the Norwegian Government.\n\nMarshall then hoarded the ship with an attachment order for over six hundred dollars, alleged to be owing in respect of fuel supplied before the vessel sailed in 1922.\n\nThe United States Marshal\n\nGreenwich Hospital Livings.\n\nWe share the regret expressed by the Rev. A. R. Dexter, R.N.,\n\nSTEVEDORING AND TRANSHIPPING,\n\nDischarging from and/or loading on steamer without undue delay.\n\nCoolies and/or lighters are supplied for landing into and/or shipping from Godowns.\n\nRates practically normal.\n\nFor particulars please apply to the Undersigned,\n\nTelephones; C-2189 and C-8485\n\nHIN FAT & CO., LTD.\n\nKwok in Wang\n\nManaging Director\n\n51. Bonham Strand West.\n\nTHE\n\nBLUE FUNNEL\n\nLINE\n\nREGULAR AND FAST\n\nFREIGHT AND\n\nPASSENGER SERVICES\n\nLONDON SERVICE\n\n\"PERSEUS\" KUMAZON BELENUS RHESUSER\n\nAt Sept. Malice, London R's & burg. 32nd Sept. Murveilles. London, R'dan & 'burgi att D Mamzeilen.\n\nLagdon B'day & H’barg. 12th Cez Loadno, Recuerdam & amic\n\nLIVERPOOL SERVICE\n\n\"TALARIUS\" 20th Aug.\n\n\"TITUS\"\n\nJa Sept.\n\nPACIFIC SERVICE. vis KOBE & YOKOHAMA\n\n\"AUTOLYCUS\" 33rd Sept.\n\n\"PRIONOTES\" 20th Oct.\n\nNEW YORK SERVICE\n\n\"TEUCRER\"\n\n\"LARYDOCHES\" \"LAUMEDON\n\nMaravillor, favre, Liverpool G'gow Goos, Plates, Lívsepnolæ Gunngow\n\nFloturi, Varoshvac &; Je co Victoria, Venousver & Stile.\n\n28th Sept. Hoston, New York & B'more is Sues i 19 Sept. Bostan, York & there\n\nZod Bept. toston, New York & Bare via Sos\n\nPASSENGER SERVICE \"HLOTUS\"\n\nLas Det BABYEDOM 18th Nav. \"PATRÜÇLES” lóch Den. \"ANTENOR\"\n\n13th Jan. 3rd Mar \"SARPEDON?” 7th April.\n\nSingapura, Marsilise & London. Singapore, Marssillon & Lendum.\n\nSingapore, Marseides & Londna. Singapore, Marseilles & don.\n\nSingapura, tarvefiler & Info Singapore, Marseiller ↑ Loudon.\n\nàlao cargo stnames with limited passaagar assurmodating ki pecially reduced fares.\n\nFor freight and gage rates and information apply to\n\nButterfield & Swire.\n\nAgents.\n\nOREGON ORIENTAL LINE\n\nOperated for\n\nUNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD E.F.C.\n\nby COLUMBIA PACIFIC SHIPPING COMPANY\n\nFOR MANILA. ILOILO & CEBU\n\nU.S.S.B. \"WEST O'ROWA”\n\nU.S.S.B. \"OAKRIDGE\"\n\n4th Sept.\n\n24th Sept.\n\n1st Det.\n\n* Also calls at Zamboanga.\n\nAll sailings subject to change without notice.\n\nThrough Bill of Lading is issued to all rail Overland Points in the U.S.A., also to New Orleans, Savannah, Galveston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, with transhipment at Portland, Ore, via Panama Intercoastal services.\n\nADDRESS\n\nRoom 26, Bank of Canton Building.\n\nDes Voeux Road Central,\n\nTelephone Central 4871.\n\nCANADIAN PACIFIC\n\nHOME VIA CANADA\n\nFuture Sailings to VANCOUVER\n\nvia Shanghai and Japan Ports and\n\nArrive\n\nSept.\n\nSept 21/SCOTLAND\n\nSept. 30\n\nArrive Southampton\n\nSept. 17\n\nGet 5E/FRANCE\n\nOct. 2\n\nOct. 2 MONTROSE\n\nOct. 14\n\nOct. 21\n\nOct. 30\n\nNov.\n\nChange of accommodation as those ATLANȚIO steamers actually held for sale i Üres së prěta of eaîl in the Oniens.\n\nFour Trans Continental Trains Daily from Vancouver\n\nStop-over allowed at all points\n\nBlunderd Sleeping Car-Comparisects --Drawing-Rooms Dining Cars\n\nCasesdlan Paside Hoists at Victorie, Vancouver, Bucky Younlalu Restrik, Calgary. Winnipeg, Montreal and. Quereo Develaton Expenes Travollers' Cheques issued at all Cacadian Pactão Ghes-Paysčio Evergadera.\n\nBuxxayo inaremos solā sa ai Ganadian Pacific Officer\n\nHONGKONG-MANILA--HONGKONG-SERVICE\n\nT.B\n\nFlongkong Aug. 24\n\nSept.\n\nArrive Manila\n\nAug. 28\n\nSept. 11\n\nISBYA Activa Manila Hongkong E/Canada Aug. 29\n\nAug. 31\n\nE/Russia Sept. 12\n\nSept. 14\n\nSteamers arrive MANILA early morning and sail in evening of following day.\n\nCANADIAN PACIFIC SERVICE THROUGHOUT\n\nPaakonser Department: Tel YR.\n\nFreight And Express Tel. 49.\n\nSolies, \"GAANPAC.** Cables: \"NAUTILUE.”\n\nDODWELL & COMPANY LIMITED.\n\nNEW YORK BERTH\n\nFOR NEW YORK & BOSTON via SUEZ.\n\nS.S. KENDAL CASTLE\"\n\nSails 2nd Sept.\n\nLLOYD TRIESTINO\n\nREGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE\n\nVICT FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE (FIUME)\n\nTAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING\n\nTO GENOA, ALL ITALIAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND DANUBE PORTS.\n\nREDUCED PASSAGE RATES TO BRINDISI, VENICE OR TRIESTE\n\n£66.\n\nNEXT SAILINGS\n\nCanto Agents\n\nJohn Mantera & Co., Ltd.\n\nOUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJI\n\nFrom Hongkong.\n\nM.S. \"ESQUILINO\"\n\nsail 26th Aug.\n\nS.3. “GERANIA\" ... (cargo only).....\n\nsails 10th Sept.\n\nS.S. \"DUCHESSA D'AOSTA“\n\nsulls 12th Sept.\n\nHOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE.\n\nFrom Hongkong,\n\nsal 7th Sept.\n\nSails 31st Sept.\n\nSAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION\n\nLONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-ia Singapore.\n\nDelombe\n\nSuez and Pers Bald.\n\nALES MAN\n\nMonday, 7th September.\n\nRIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES--Tie Saigon, Singepore,\n\nColombo, Durban & Lopetown.\n\nCANADA MARU\n\nBOMBAY via Singaya re & Celombo\n\nINDO MARU\n\nBANUKI MARU\n\nvi BAICON\n\nSEKIYO MARU\n\nWednesday, 9th September.\n\nTuesday, 15th September.\n\nSunday, 18th September.\n\nCALCUTTA, Tia Singejare, Purang & Rangoon,\n\nBANUKI MARU\n\nThursday, 27th August.\n\nVICTORIA SEATTLE TACOMA & TANCOOTER-era Shianglesi and Japan porta\n\nAFRICA MARU..(From Shanghai.)... Sunday, 6th September.\n\nHAIPHONG VI KOINOW & PANHOL.\n\nTAIKWA MARU\n\nFriday, 4th September.\n\nNEW YORK.-in Japan ports, Nau Franciare, Panamaq.\n\nJAPAN PORTS,\n\nHAMBURG MARU\n\nSEATTLE MANU KEELUNG V SWATOW & AMOY\n\nHOZAN MARC\n\nAMAKURA MARU\n\nTAKAO via SWATON & ANDY,\n\nKÖTSU MAKU\n\nTPKAD & KEELUNG.\n\nSOURABAYA MARU....\n\nBAIREN via GREFOO & TSINGTAO.\n\nRYUKO MADU...\n\nGINZAN MARU...\n\nFor further patio dare plezes apply\n\nRul. C. Now, 4088, 1099 & 4090.\n\nto\n\nWednesday, 8th September.\n\nWednesday, 2nd September.\n\nSunday, 8th Aug., 2 p.m.\n\nThursday, 3rd Sept., Noon.\n\nThursday, 27th Asg, 8 a.m.\n\nSaturday, 20th September.\n\nBeginning of September.\n\nBeginning of Reptember.\n\nOSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA\n\nM. TAKEUCHI Manager.\n\nTHE SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC\n\nCOMPANY, LIMITED,\n\nGOTHENBURG,\n\nRegular Freight Service for\n\nBarcelona, Valencia, Amsterdam, Vasburg, Copenbagen, Gothenburg and other Scandinavian Ports.\n\nWill leave ou or about. 10th October.\n\nM.V. \"NANKING\"\n\nSubject to shange without notice.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nGILMAN & CO., LIMITED.\n\nAgents.\n\nM.S. \"ESQUILINO\"\n\n5,8. DCCHESSA D'AOSTA\"\n\nNATAL LINE OF STEAMERS\n\nFROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS\n\n9.9. \"UMSINGA.”\n\nS.S. \"ENZUMBI”\n\nsiis 1st Sept.\n\nsuite Is Oct.\n\nRegular l'assenger and Cargo Service to South African Parte.\n\nThrough Bill of Lading issued from Hongkong.\n\nFor Fraight or Pussage on any of the above Lines apply to:- DODWELL & CO, LTD., Agents\n\nTelephone Central 1030.\n\nNANYO YUSEN KAISHA.\n\n(The South Sea Mail S.S. Co, Ltd.)\n\nTO JAVA\n\nvia Batavia, Samarang & Sourabaya.\n\nS.S. \"BANDOENG MARU”\n\nTO JAPAN\n\n31s1 Aug.\n\nvia Moji, Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya & Yokohama.\n\nS.S. \"MACASSAR MARU\".................\n\n7th Sept.\n\nCargo taken at through rates to all ports in Netherland-India.\n\nRailings subject to siteraljon,\n\nfor farther particulars please apply to--\n\nTel. Central No. 2206\n\nNANTO YUSEN KAISHA.\n\n2nd floor, Prince's Building.\n\nSOUTH CHINA\n\nMORNING POST, WEDNESDAY,\n\nINDO-CHINA\n\nSTEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.\n\nDENTISTICN\n\nSTEAMERS\n\nவு. Straits & GalOITENAMBANO Tri.. 28th Acz., 8 p.ro.\n\nYounus via Kone... . HOSANG Wed., 2nd Rept., Noon.\n\nSTAI & Courts...... POOKSANG.... Wed., And Bept., 8 p.m.\n\nSTRAITS & CALENTA KUESANG Tues., 9th Sept., 8 p.m.\n\nKoa via BRANGKA & MOJE...LAIBANG.\n\nRegnbur sullings are maintained as follows:\n\nFri., 11th Sept., 7am.\n\nSEAWOWALKERS JAPAN LINE.\n\nEVERT TEX LAUR\n\nSONDRONG WASILI LINE.\n\nHONGKONA-WAIPHONG DAN HONREONG-BORGANI MARDZORG--TIERÍSK TANK KONGKONG-BANTEOR DINE\n\nFor freight なぜ\n\nEVERLY\n\nELERY SATURDAY FROM BUTO FORTH EVERY SUNDAY FROM VOTE FORTR FVC WRIGHT. * OUT\n\nprasugo apply dis\n\nJARDINE MATHESON & CO., Ltd.\n\nTelephone Central 95.\n\nGeneral Manager..\n\nGLEN AND SHIRE\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF STEAMERS\n\nSTRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN Survies,\n\nOUTWARDS\n\nDe lykvog.\n\n\"GLENAMOY\"\n\n\"GLENGARRY\"\n\nHOMEWARDS,\n\np901.\n\nAUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nMALM & CO. GENERAL SHIPPING AGENTS- CHARTERS, PURCHASES AND SALES OF ALL SIZES OF STEAMERS, E. GOOD BUNKER COALS, BEST PRICES.\n\nSTAVEDGRING at Ordinary Rates.\n\nQuick Dispatch Guaranteed.\n\nCOOD CHINESE CREWS AT ANY TIME.\n\nTHE MALM LINE OF Passenger and Cargo honts From Hongkong to Wuchow, Nanning und Louchow.\n\nMALM & CO. SHPEGILDERS & ENGINEERS.\n\nYARD AT CHANG SHA WAN\n\nTel. C.4946,\n\nCode: Bentleys.\n\nCity Bangkep 29th Ang.\"PEMBROKESİKE\" 27th Aug. 31st Aug. ludon, Botserdwn & Fisuborg.\n\n\"GLENSHANE\" 220 Sept.\n\nvix Oran, \"GLENAPP\n\n1st Oct. GLENIFFER**\n\n6th Sept. London, Butterdam & ffanburg.The \"CARMARTHENSHIRE \"\n\ni\n\nvis Oran.\n\n\"GLENLUCE\"\n\n15th Oct. ist NOT.\n\nMurou eats are subject to change wilbout 10BÍ#2) or freight and further particulars aptly tor\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltd. ÅGETS. THE GLEN LINE, LTR.\n\nTeinphone Cauteni No. 21.5, wah x. 23 and 0, 3695.\n\nNYCK\n\nIYO MARU\n\nW\n\nsale:Neos NƯỚC 1, 21 TEAY10\n\nREPAIRS QUICK.\n\nCaut, FINN MALM\n\nShip and Freight Broker.\n\n2nd Floor, China Building,\n\nQueen's Road Central,\n\nHongkong.\n\nAUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL LINE, Ltd.\n\n\"CHANGTE\"\n\nThis vessel will sail hence on her maiden voyage on 25th September, at 4 p.m. MANILA, PORT BANGA, PHURSDAY ISLANDAND AUSTRALIAN PORTS.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading isSLYO PO ALI, AUSTRALIA, NEW AND and laghata Puzzs.\n\nNew VankET. IS VIFTER WITH THE PIPGFT AND Most UperG-PATE\n\nFinet AND SECOND CLASS l'azeryone ACCOMATODAYION. (Balling 80bfer an eatin\n\nCONSIGNEE NOTICES.\n\nAMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LIKE.\n\nNew Yor The Stee\n\nMALVERNIAN\" hovleg crvived, Consignes af Cargo by mormed that all goods being landed at trek into the barurdous and/or extra-hazardons Gudren of Hot's Wharf, whence\n\ndelivery ay he obtaine\n\nNo Cu wail be admitted after the Goods are left the Godowns, and sil Goods orating undelivered after 28th August, 1926, will be sub jert to Rent\n\nAll Clains it the Steamer unst be presented to the designed an or before th Septemi, 1825, they will not be recognised.\n\nA becken, cha dangel gends are n be hit in the dews, where they with he examined on any Tuesdays or Priùugs, between the beurs of 10.45 a.m., and Nan, withi the Pres Storage period of Ore Week.\n\nNo Fire instance as boet effected.\n\nHuf Lading wit be erranter- signed by\n\n1HE BANK LINE. LTD.\n\nGeel Agents.\n\nHongkong. Auest 28. 1925.\n\nTHE BEN LINE STEAMERS. LIMITED.\n\nFROM MIDDLESBRO, ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS,\n\nThe Steamship\n\nEÈKVENUE fasaigneon Cargo are hereby informed that z gonds are being jlandad at their ek so the hamme\n\ndans andoz szira anarcus - Jdowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whera, sador for the wharroz, delivery may be tiket.\n\nNu etaba w be dated stler the goods have left the godowns, and ell goa\n\nthe delivered after\n\nFor Freight and Parange, apply to BUTTERFIELD & SWIKE, Tel. C. 36.\n\nAgents.\n\nCHINA NAVIGATION CO.,\n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.\n\nFOR\n\nSTRIKEPA\n\nLTD.\n\nTO HALL\n\nWwa, Casroo & TraHVICHOW... 20th Aug., g.m\n\nEvelient Saloon accommodation urridakipe with Muscio Faust.\n\nNoguiar service four times weekly hatween Canim. Hongkong and nai laving Hongkong on Sundays in hang Tunya (vin A Thursdays (via Auto and Batunlays direct, exsand- In to Edingtao.\n\nGaige taken on through bills of Lading to all Yangtze and North Chts Ports.\n\nParents for baugasi de nui respira to tranship at Woosing.\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRK\n\nreet.\n\nili in subject to\n\nAll the '\n\nmust be presented\n\nUndersigne\n\non or buture 8th September, or they\n\nwill not be recognise,\n\nAll breken, chafed ad deranged goode are to be left in the godowns. whers they will be examined on the 20th fratait, at 10 m\n\nNo Fire Insu\n\neffecto.\n\nbas beam\n\nBill of Lading will be counter signed by\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agurta.\n\nHongkong, August 22, 1925,\n\nMAMBURG-AMERICA LINIE.\n\n\"FUERST CRUELOW,\" having arrived Conagages of Cargo by hut are hereby notified what all goods are being landed at ilver risk into the Lazurfous and/or extra hazarduur godowns of the Hongkong nad Kowloon Whorl and Godown Co, whence, and oe Tevin the Wharves, delivery can be obtained.\n\nNo claims will be admitted after the wonde have left a Godowns, and all goods remaining undelivered after 26 August, 1926, will be subject (20 FALL.\n\nVICTORIA SEATTLE & VANCOUVER vs Shanghai and Japan'нG, A'нow 'K. KAYING. 8th Aug., it a.m.\n\nThe Motorship or Steamship\n\nporka urong Bill of Lading ised to all Overiand Commino Painus le ... sud Canada.\n\nParugh passage cases (u Barone cia marios (1.6) 6. $ 420, G. LED, KAGA MAHU... Ditect Nagasaki... Sunday, 30th Arg, Midnight.\n\n...........Weintsday, 16th September.\n\nMARSEILLES LONDON & ANTWERP via finapan & Yes Baturday, 29th August, 11 a.m.\n\nKASHIMA NARU Saturday, 12th September, HAMBURG HA LONDON & ROTTERDAM\n\n.... ............................. Friday. Alat September.\n\nLIVERPOOL ADEN & MARSEILLES\n\nTUBA MARU\n\nSunday, 13th September.\n\nSIDNEY & MELBOURNE via Maglie & Parts\n\nTANGO MARU\n\nWednesday, 23rd September.\n\nAKI MARU\n\nWednesday, 2ial October.\n\nNEW YORK and/or BOSTON vis PANAMA,\n\nMAYBASHI MARUFriday, 11th Heptember, BUENOS AIRES da Ningapore, Durbić & Uspetoño, Delagos Bay and\n\nAlgoa Bay,\n\nKAMAKURA MARU Tuesday, 1st September.\n\nJAVA\n\nBENGAL MARU. Hunday, 6th September.\n\nBOMBAY via Singhpure and Caloto.\n\nSADO MARU”,\n\n............Friday, 11th September.\n\nCALCUTTA via Singapore & Raagoon.\n\nNAGASAKI KOBE & YOKOHAMA.\n\nAKI MARU.\n\nThursday, 17th September.\n\nSHANGHAI KOBE & YOKOHAMA.\n\nMNO MARE FUSHINI MASU TAMBA MARU\n\nHAKOZAKI MARU.\n\nFriday, 4th September.\n\nTuesday, 9th September,\n\n.........\n\nTuatay, 10th Septembar.\n\nTuesday, 22nd September,\n\nFor hurther information apviy to: Phons Capical No. 392, 993 & 2422.\n\nS. KINOSHITA. Waager.\n\nT.K.KLING\n\nHONGKONG SAN FRANCISCO LINE\n\nvia SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU\n\nConnecting a San Francisco with Southern Pacife, Sante Fe Western Pacific Railroads.\n\nSailing from Hongkong\n\nSHINYO MARU\n\nSIBERIA MARU (uit How\n\n***\n\nFaptember R.\n\nSectorabe 216.\n\nTAIYO MABU\n\nTENYO MARU.\n\nCreteber 4th.\n\nOctober 19th.\n\n+KOKEA MARU......\n\nNovember ard.\n\n#renoveda vj Niver and beattes alongside Mantaten wierf at Shanghai\n\nKOREA MARU sud SIBERIA MAKU proceed to Los Angeles from San Francisco with cargo only.\n\nREDUCED FAKE TO EUROPE, Firal inse 2120 Thin Clase un Atlantic £112 Second Class £80\n\nSOUTH AMERICAN LINE\n\nThe July direct service between Urient and South America via Japan, Hawaii, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Meztés, Panama, Peru & Chill.\n\nSailings from Hongkong\n\nSINTO MARU.......\n\nANYO MARU\n\nAug 206b, .October 7th.\n\nF. TSETSUJI, Manager, King's Building-\n\nAzent at Canton, Messze. T. B. GRIFFITH, LTD.\n\nTel. C, 2974 & 2375\n\nTelephone Centru B. 36.\n\nAGENTS\n\nCARGO AND BASGAON CAN Yi Insured at THE Verioz\n\nHorverrin & Swinn\n\nDOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.\n\nBONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA PORTS SERVICE.\n\nZEGUAR SERVICE of Wigh Clar Doast Steters having gond sacommodation for Best Olas Fesamtgers, Eletric Light and Fans in Stat root and Saloons ud Excellent Crimina\n\nFOR AMOY & FOOCHOW\n\nCall at Aravy for Pussengeza osky. AND RETURN\n\n(Coy hus 9 to In Mays]\n\nArrivals and Dentures from the Company's Weart (Rest Blake Vier) Hound Trip Tingots will be issued fron iongkong to Ronchow (Pagoda pohor\n\n\"Halskj at the Reduced Bate of #009 Julvling Man's while the s\n\nFreight and Parsage sypiƒ to:--\n\nare and return by the xenis ateumer, by the \"Kaining\", in Port\n\n-DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.\n\nGeortal Magom\n\nPRINCE LINE FAR EAST SERVICE\n\nBegular slugs to Boston andjor New York by fast freight steamers.\n\nFor BOSTON\n\nand\n\nNEW YORK\n\nS.S. \"GAELIC PRINCE\".2ud half September.\n\nFor freight and further particulars apply to\n\nFURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD\n\nInnorporated in Great Britain, Ring's Building.\n\nTelephuua Central No. $166.\n\nTelegrams: Furtprince\n\nTHE EAST ASIATIC CO., LIMITED, COPENHAGEN.\n\nThe M.S\n\n*TONGKING\n\n*\n\nwill be loading for ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN and athor Sendingcias porte at or about 15th of September.\n\nExpected cu Will leave homeward\n\nbound on or about\n\nor noo\n\nFurther sailinge :-- HASTA in optamber 3. \"A\" - - - ............ 13 mm. Matt ge 1.2. •ATRIKA\"... 10th May M.§. \"GANZAYA Hik Draga h\n\nSubject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars plezas apply to\n\nJOHN MANNERS & CO, LTD,\n\nAgenta.\n\nAll clamos umat reach us by 2ītu August, 1925, or they will not be recognised.\n\nAll damaged packages will be examined by Heners. Goddard Douglas Marine Surmayoga) et\n\n10 H.DL, un 26th August, 1926.\n\nNu Fire Insurance will be stinct?.\n\nBill of Lading will be countacsigo-\n\ned by\n\nJERSEN & CO.,\n\nAgents. Hongkong, August 21, 1995,\n\nN... LINE.\n\n(NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.) From Europe and Straits.\n\nThe Steamship\n\nSUWA MARU\" having arrived from the above ports, Consignage of Cargo ATE hereby in- formed that their Goods are being lezded and placed at their risk in Hongkong and howloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godutos as Kowloon, whence delivers may be obtained.\n\nThe shove stezce recurried to Hongkong the general TEN \"Toycoks Maru\" frora Japan oversized to Sigepore constating. Ituatiy ní Fulton gocas from Japan, and tiene goods\n\ndows of the Hongkong ano Kowloon Whert and Gadorn 65. Deliver? of sam will be granted after repayment to this Ufire of the charges interval at Singapor\n\nGoods not cleared by the 29th |August, 1925, will be subject in rant.\n\nDamaged Packages must be left in the Godown for examination by the Comigone's and the Co.'s representa\n\nves na any Tuesdays and Fridays, (at 2.20 p... within the free storage\n\nPeriod.\n\n·Tieve also been tanded into lov -\n\nAll dentist be presented within ten days of the teamòa's arrival bese after which date ther cannot be Joogalood.\n\nNo claims will be rmitted after įthe goods have left the Godeyiz.\n\nNo Fire Itanha buen effected.\n\nNIPPON YUSEN KAISHA Hongkong, 22nd Augest, 1925.\n\nAMERICAN PIONEER LINE.\n\nConsignees of all cargo ex thy sɔ. \"Dryden arrised at this on August 1, 1326, from Salveston, Teres via ports, are hereby notified that a futer exuntiantino of mil brokee. thufed and durunged care will be held on August. 2. 1328, 7. the premises of The Hongkong and Kowloon What and Godows Un, La. ity the Company's Surveyors, exars,\n\nAndersus and Ache.\n\nAMERICAN 13ONEER LISE By\n\nADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE, Agente.\n\nHongkong, August 26, 1926,\n\nPage\n\n166", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504089, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 585, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "Name of person paying. On behalf of. In payment of. Amount. Total.\n\nBrought forward $5,870.01\n\nTong Wong Shi Leung Lun Tong Wong Shi Leung Iu Mi 3rd Qtr. Rates 176/180 Third Street. $69.55 $69.55 Cash\n\nChung USang Yu Fu San Tsang Iu Ting Ku Kam Sham 2nd Qtr. Rates 1 & 3 Tal Yuen Street. $117.00 $117.00\n\n\" \" 572/582 Queen's Road West $497.25 $497.25 Cheque\n\nCrown Rent 1st year 1926 M.L.81 $192.00 $192.00 Cash\n\nWong Pak Wai Chiu Tak Yu Wong Yun Tong Lam But Kwan Wong Yun Tong 2nd Qtr. Rates 3 Sands Street $25.35 $25.35\n\n\" \" 28 Praya Kennedy Town $362.70 $362.70\n\nLung Kwok Sang Lung King Wan 1st Qtr. Rates 31 Bonham Strand 33 $162.50 $162.50\n\n\" \" 2/18 Swatow Street. $179.40 $179.40 Cash\n\nTotal $7,707.16", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506008, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-14 Illicit traffic in opium and drugs 4-12-1925 - 30-11-1926", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-498-14 Illicit traffic in opium and drugs 4-12-1925 - 30-11-1926", "content_text": "# Report on the examination of documents seized at 108 Des Voeux Road Central.\n\nAs a result of information, a search was carried out on the 1st floors of 108 Des Voeux Road Central, 49 Bonham Strand East, and 71 Wing Lok Street on August 27th. A large number of papers were seized, and one man was arrested at 108; the other floors were untenanted at the time.\n\nThe firm occupying 108 was called Kwong Hing Loong; it purported to deal in exchange, but no evidence of this was discovered. It had been started about the middle of 1925, apparently for no other purpose than to deal in opium, both Chinese and Persian. The partners were 21 in number: 6 belonging to Canton, 10 belonged to Hong Kong or were frequently resident here, 1 to Haiphong and Yunnanfu, though at one time resident here; the remainder belonged to Swatow.\n\nA branch or allied firm was maintained at 12 Rua do Castro, Macao; this firm apparently attended to the disposal of opium in the hinterland and exchanged cables with Bushire direct to avoid Hong Kong.\n\nThe Kwong Hing Loong was found to be the managing agents for the Yue Hing Steam Ship Co., a partnership of 4 persons, of whom 3 were also partners in the other firm. The other partner, Ho Lui Hap, was a native of Shanghai and apparently had had some connection with the S.S. Cochin Chine before.\n\nIn 1925, September, the S.S. Cochin Chine was sold by order of the Court here for $45,000; the purchaser at once resold her to the Yue Hing Steam Ship Co. for $65,000. The names mentioned in the document of sale were different from those found in the books of the Company. She was renamed Philadelphia, or in Chinese \"Tsun On\". The ship was at once placed in the hands of a shipyard for refit and left this port for Keelung on 7th October 1925. At Keelung, she took in a large amount of coal and left for the Persian Gulf. She left Bushire with Persian opium on 27th...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-14 Illicit traffic in opium and drugs 4-12-1925 - 30-11-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506013, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-14 Illicit traffic in opium and drugs 4-12-1925 - 30-11-1926", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-498-14 Illicit traffic in opium and drugs 4-12-1925 - 30-11-1926", "content_text": "# Exhibit \"A\"\n\nSheng Fook 49, Bonham Strand East, Hong Kong.\n\nto\n\nYu Hong C/O Superior Bushire.\n\nDated 21/7/25.\n\nYour two cables from Saigon and Sabang received and understood. There is no doubt that Yu Kai is acting the traitor. I am already taking precautions and making investigations about them (or him). Mr. Vai will attend to his own goods. But please do your best to assist him in every possible way in landing the goods. It is absolutely necessary to inspect the goods very carefully in order to avoid any mistake. These are special instructions.\n\n**(Signed) \"Ngah\"**\n\nPTOLIA.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-14 Illicit traffic in opium and drugs 4-12-1925 - 30-11-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506222, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926", "content_text": "# Report on the examination of documents seized at 108 Des Voeux Road Central.\n\n528\n\nAs a result of information, a search was carried out on the 1st floors of 108 Des Voeux Road Central, 49 Bonham Strand East, and 71 Wing Lok Street on August 27th. A large number of papers were seized, and one man arrested at 108; the other floors were untenanted at the time.\n\nThe firm occupying 108 was called Kwong Hing Loong; it purported to deal in exchange, but no evidence of this was discovered. It had been started about the middle of 1925, apparently for no other purpose than to deal in opium, both Chinese and Persian. The partners were 21 in number: 6 belonging to Canton, 10 belonged to Hong Kong or were frequently resident here, 1 to Haiphong and Yunnanfu, though at one time resident here; the remainder belonged to Kongmoon.\n\nA branch or allied firm was maintained at 12 Rua do Mastro, Macau. This firm apparently attended to the disposal of opium in the hinterland and exchanged cables with Bushire direct in order to avoid Hong Kong.\n\nThe Kwong Hing Loong was found to be the managing agents for the Yue Hing Steam Ship Co., a partnership of 4 persons, of whom 3 were also partners in the other firm. The other partner, Ho Lui Hap, was a native of Shanghai and apparently had had some connection with the S.S. Cochin Chine before.\n\nIn September 1925, the S.S. Cochin Chine was sold by order of the Court here for $45,000; the purchaser at once resold her to the Yue Hing Steam Ship Co. for $66,000. The names mentioned in the document of sale were different from those found in the books of the Company. She was renamed Philadelphia, or in Chinese \"Tsun On\". The ship was at once placed in the hands of a shipyard for refit and left this port for Keelung on 7th October 1925. At Keelung, she took in a large amount of coal and left for the Persian Gulf. She left Bushire with Persian opium on 27th...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "content_text": "130 \n\nIn my original statement, I was not referring to any particular individual. Then the ship was bought in April 1928, a man whom I knew as Pun Pau Sang at No. 81 Bonham Strand West, gave me all necessary orders about the ship. He died about the beginning of June. I received orders from a number of persons at the same address after his death, but I cannot say who was the actual manager or what the names of the persons who gave me orders were. No one person seemed to have authority over the others. In my opinion, they were all shareholders and had to consult each other. Cheung Cheung signed Articles as supercargo and travelled on the ship. I believe he came from Canton because while the ship was being refitted, he returned to Canton two or three times. While the ship was running, he lived on board, even when in port here.\n\nIt is now my impression that the principals in this smuggling syndicate travelled on the ship. I mean the compradore and the supercargoes. I have no reason to believe that Pun Pau Sang's family knew of the secret compartment on board the ship. Pun Pau Sang himself, I think, did know, but he died before the ship commenced running.\n\n15th November, 1928.\n\n**(Sd.) Shannon, Chief Detective Inspector**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517132, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 6.\n\n131\n\nDetective District Watchman Fok on states:-\n\nThen Pun Pow Shun died in the 5th moon this year his heir was Pun Chung Kat. This man now runs the medicine business at 81 Bonham Strand West. He resides at 9 Queen's Street, 1st floor. He is a native of Nam Hoi.\n\nTo Ki Cheung master of the Yu Hau Shop which is situated at No.9 Queen's Street, 1st floor is a native of Fukien.\n\nLam Sze Cham is a shareholder in the Wan Fung Yuen Californian Merchants Shop at 176 Wing Lok Street, 1st and 2nd floor. He resides on the premises. His family are in the country. He is a native of Sze Yap.\n\nChan Kou Hi resides at No.26 Queen's Road West, 1st floor end cubicle. I cannot find out what this man does for a living. He is a native of Pun U.\n\nI cannot trace the man Cheung Cheung.\n\n13th November, 1928.\n\n(sd.) A. C. Carey,\nActing Sub-Inspector.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517133, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 7\n\nSee Enclosure No.5.\n\n132\n\n**Director of Criminal Intelligence,**\n\nSir,\n\nPlease see further statement from Captain E. P. Smith, attached, also result of enquiries made by District Watchman Fok on. I did not ask for any further information regarding Lau Hon San as I have no doubt he is a British subject. I am satisfied from enquiries made that he had no part in the opium smuggling on the Wing Hung and in fact was not tolerated in the Compradore Department of the S.S. \"Wing Hung\" and seldom went on board the vessel. He was paid to lend his name as registered owner but otherwise had no say whatever in the management of the ship.\n\nCaptain Smith does not seem to have any clear idea as to whether the present proprietor Pun Chung Kat of the business at No.81 Bonham Strand West, was actively concerned in the smuggling or not. All he can say is that he met several persons at this address who gave him orders as to the management of the ship but who they actually are or what their names are he does not know.\n\nHe is now of the opinion that the principal persons actively engaged in the smuggling were the Compradore Lam Shi Cham and his brother Lam ?, Chan Kau Hi and Cheung Cheung (Particulars as regards native place etc. attached) but here again he is not sure of the names. The names given to His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton were taken from the articles and he...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517134, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "content_text": "## \n\n133 does not know if they are correct or not. He cannot say which of the two Lam's was the compradore. He admitted he was badly scared when giving his statement to the Consul and that his one idea was to clear himself of the suspicion that he was in any way connected with the smuggling. In my opinion it may be safely assumed that the compradore, his brother, and the two supercargoes were the persons actually concerned on board but his information as regards the persons at 81 Bonham Strand West is I think too vague to be of any use.\n\n**(Sd.)** 7. **Shannon**, \n**Chief Detective Inspector**, \n16th November, 1928.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517363, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-8 Attacks by Chinese pirates on shipping- awards for bravery 14-1-1929 - 21-12-1929", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-513-8 Attacks by Chinese pirates on shipping- awards for bravery 14-1-1929 - 21-12-1929", "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 1.\n\n39\n\n**Criminal Investigation Department, Deputy Superintendent of Police, (Kowloon).**\n\nlater Police Station, \n20th December, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nNot attached.\n\nWith reference to the attached I submit the following report:\n\nThe ship is a Chinese-owned ship flying the Chinese Flag; Canton is the port of registry; she is of 1044 net tonnage and is owned by the Yong Hang Hing Steam Ship Company, No.58A, Bonham Strand West. Mr. Nils Harring of Sweden is the master and only European employed on board; there are two Chinese deck officers and three Chinese engine room officers; the crew comprises 44 Chinese, which includes the Compradore Staff.\n\nThe ship is on the Hong Kong-Saigon run with no intermediate ports. On the outward voyage, there is very little cargo aboard the ship; on the inward voyage, she is generally full with rice. She has no passenger license but is allowed to carry twelve passengers; she is not searched by Police at Hong Kong. The Chinese deck and engine room officers are not certified \"Ocean-going\" navigators and engineers but have certificates issued by the Hong Kong Harbour Department for vessels under 60 tons.\n\nAt about 22.00 hours on the 10th December, 1928, the ship left Hong Kong for Saigon with a cargo of about 200 tons comprising flour, fruit, and vegetables. There were 11 passengers on board; at about 05.00 hours on the 11th December, when the ship was in a position Long: E.115.47 Lat: 21.42, being about 20 miles S.S. of Gap Rock, pirates traveling...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-8 Attacks by Chinese pirates on shipping- awards for bravery 14-1-1929 - 21-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523241, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-1 Illicit traffic in Chinese opium 7-12-1929 - 29-10-1930", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-522-1 Illicit traffic in Chinese opium 7-12-1929 - 29-10-1930", "content_text": "N°249.\n\n3\n\nhappy to. AC.\n\n52 174\n\nRECEIVED\n\n10 JUN 1930\n\nCOL, OFFICE\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nHONG KONG. 6th May, 1930.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's despatch No.46 of the 19th of February, 1930, forwarding a copy of a League of Nations Document relative to seizures of opium at Vancouver and St. John, N.B.\n\n2. With regard to the case of Lee Kee mentioned on the last page of the document, from the few particulars supplied nothing can be discovered in this Colony in regard to the Choi Wah Co., which is said to have sent the parcel containing the opium to Lee Kee. As the packet was apparently transmitted by unregistered book post no particulars in regard to it are on record in the Post Office.\n\n3. With regard to the rubber-stamp mark on the book, there is a firm styled \"Man Bow Sing\" at 13 Des Voeux Road West, second floor, in this Colony, but there is no evidence that this firm was the sender in the present instance or even that it is identical with the \"Man Bow Sing\" whose mark was on the book. No trace has been found of any firm styled \"Man Bow Sing\" in Bonham Strand.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nW.D. Southworth.\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLORD PASSFIELD,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-1 Illicit traffic in Chinese opium 7-12-1929 - 29-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529042, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 45, "title": "CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931", "content_text": "(3) \n45 \nKong for Canton about four months ago - reason unknown. \nInformation obtained from relatives of the Tseung On Fat \n(4) No.75 Bonham Strand West, ground floor.", "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": 531331, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "169\n\nCopy of this prospectus has been filed with the Registrar of Companies as required by Section 82 of Companies Ordinance, 1911.\n\nThe following have consented to be directors:\n\nInstone Brewer, Barrister-at-Law, Bank of Canton Building\n\nYeung Tat Po\n\nYau Farin Yip Wing Fong\n\nChúng Tat Châu\n\nMerchant\n\nLiu Yau Po\n\nLi Shiu Hong\n\nLi Ting Sang\n\nChas. W. Mok\n\nLi Shun\n\n11 Shanghai Street\n\n31 Bonham Road\n\n26 Lun Kwai Fong\n\n361 Nathan Road\n\n121 Caine Road\n\n64 Bonham Strand\n\n481 Nathan Road\n\n30 Des Voeux Road, Central\n\n361 Nathan Road\n\nAuditors will be appointed at the first general meeting of the Company.\n\nObjects of the Company are stated in the copy of Memorandum of Association set out in this prospectus and which forms part of it.\n\nCapital:- Articles 4 & 5 of the Articles of Association are as follows:\n\n4. The capital of the Company is $10,000,000 Hongkong currency divided into 50,000 cumulative preference shares of $100 each and 49,995 ordinary shares of $100 each and 500 founders shares of $1.00 each.\n\nThe rights following shall be attached to the shares aforesaid inter se subject as hereinafter provided, that is to say:-\n\n(a) The said preference shares shall confer the right to a fixed cumulative preferential dividend at the rate of 8% per annum on the capital paid up thereon.\n\n(b) Subject only to the right of the said preference shares to prior payment of the said cumulative dividend, the founders shares shall be entitled to 15% of all dividends whatsoever that may from time to time be declared and this sum shall be divided among the holders of the founders shares in proportion to the founders shares held by them respectively.\n\n(c) Subject as aforesaid the ordinary shares shall confer on the holders the right to a fixed cumulative dividend at the rate of 8% per annum on the capital for the time being paid up thereon.\n\n(d) Subject as aforesaid the preference shares shall be entitled to participate pari passu with the ordinary shares to the extent of an additional 4% per annum on the capital paid up thereon which additional dividend shall not be cumulative.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 534025, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 43, "title": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "content_text": "55\n\nRevenue.\n\n42\n\nTable XVII.\n\nREVENUE AND EXPENDITURE OF THE BREWIN CHARITY DURING THE YEAR 1931.\n\n \n Expenditure\n Amount\n $\n Revenue\n Amount\n $\n \n \n By Charity for Widows and Orphans\n 10,552.40\n \n To Balance from 1930\n 188,965.53\n \n \n \n By Subscription to Old Men's Home\n 2,400.00\n \n Subscriptions from Directors, Tung Wah Hospital and Kwong Wah Hospital, 1930\n \n 65.00\n \n \n By Salary for Accountant, Mr. Chan Yik Wan\n 1,900.00\n *\n Subscription from Directors, Tung Wah Hospital, 1931\n \n \"?\n \n \n By Salary for Clerk, Mr. Wong Shut Ming\n 100.00\n \n Subscription from Committee, Po Leung Kuk, 1931\n \n 31\n \n \n By Stamps\n 60.00\n \n Interest from Messrs. Lo Wu Ching and others for mortgage\n 225.00\n 780.00\n \n \n By Conveyance expenses for collecting interest\n 8.50\n \n Interest from Mr. Chan Tsat for mortgage\n 780.00\n \n \n \n By Printed matters by the Hing Shing Printing Co.\n 10.00\n \n Interest from Mr. Li Sze Ngai for mortgage\n \n 2,160.00\n \n \n By Balance\n 190,642.30\n 71.87\n Interest from Messrs. Lau Yung Yan and Tsoi Yung Chun for December\n \n 135.00\n \n \n \n \n \n Interest from Mr. Kan Iu Cho for mortgage\n \n 1,456.00\n \n \n \n \n \n Interest from Mr. U Nga Ping for mortgage\n 3,183.72\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Interest from Mr. U Nga Ping for mortgage of house No. 66, Bonham Strand\n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n Interest from Mr. Lau Kwai Nam for mortgage\n 660.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Interest from Mr. Kwok Hung Fuk for mortgage\n 790.57\n +3\n \n \n \n \n \n Interest from Mr. Lo Luk for mortgage\n 644.54\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Interest from Mr. Ho Nai Hing for mortgage\n 360.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Interest on War Bonds of Hong Kong\n 600.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Interest on current account with Shanghai Bank\n 394.62\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cash from Secretariat for Chinese Affairs for Shin Siu Sze\n 84.00\n \"\n \n \n \n \n \n Interest on fixed deposit of Wong Fung Sze with Shanghai Bank\n 27.35\n \"\n \n \n \n \n \n Wrong payment by Hongkong and Shanghai Bank out of the funds of the Tung Wah Hospital\n 500.00\n \n \n \n Total\n $203,783.20\n \n Total\n $203,783.20\n \n \n \n By fixed deposit with Messrs. Chan Tsat & Li Sze Ngai on mortgage of two houses in Temple Street\n $16,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n By Mr. Lo Wun Ching and others on mortgage of four houses in Temple Street\n 24,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n By Mr. U Nga Ping on mortgage of two houses in Bonham Strand\n 45,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n By Mr. Kwok Hung Fuk on mortgage of house property in Bonham Strand\n 15,000.00\n **\n \n \n \n \n \n By Mr. Kan Iu Cho on mortgage of house property in Wanchai Road\n 16,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n By Mr. Lo Luk on mortgage of house property in Whitfield\n 8,500.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n By War Bonds of Hong Kong\n 10,000.00\n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n \n By fixed deposit and interest of Wong Fung Sze with Shanghai Bank\n 1,394.73\n \n \n \n \n \n \n By deposit with Mr. Ho Nai Hing on mortgage of house property in Jervois Street\n 40,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n By deposit of Sat A. Li with Wing Hing Bank (after deducting five dividends amounting to $185.25)\n 134.85\n \n \n \n \n \n \n By current account deposits with Shanghai Bank\n 14,541.91\n \n \n \n \n \n \n By deposit with Tung Wah Hospital\n 70.81\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total\n $190,642.30\n \n \n \n \n \n\n(Sgd.) NGAN SHING KWAN,\n\nCHAN LIM PAK, Directors, Tung Wah Hospital.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544864, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 170, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## PIRACY\n\n10. There were three piracies on ships during the year as compared with one during 1932. None of these occurred on a British ship, the ships affected being one Danish, one Norwegian, and one French.\n\nThe Danish passenger steamer \"**Gustav Diederichsen**\", 1,353 tons, was pirated about nine miles East of the Nine-Pins when on a voyage from Hong Kong to Bangkok via Swatow. The **Gustav Diederichsen** belongs to Messrs. Jebsen and Company, and was chartered by the Chin Seng Hong of Bonham Strand West. She had wireless, but no grilles, guards, or scheme of defence. The ship sailed from Hong Kong at 4:30 p.m. on the 27th of February, having on board forty-nine passengers, of whom eight were pirates. The ship was not searched by Police, as it was stated in her clearance that there were no passengers. About 7 p.m. on the 27th February, the pirates took charge and sailed her into Mirs Bay to a point close to Ping Chau Island. At 6:30 a.m. on the 28th February, the pirates left in a ship's boat and went on board a small one-masted junk, taking with them three Chinese male passengers together with property of the officers, crew, and passengers to the total value of $5,741.50. The Chief Officer (Mr. R. Nielsen) was wounded in the abdomen when the pirates first showed themselves. Two of the pirates were later arrested and executed in Canton, and two persons were banished from Hong Kong.\n\nThe Norwegian passenger steamer \"**Prominent**\", 1,377 tons, belongs to Messrs. Karsten Larssen and Company, and was chartered by the Nam Tai Loong of Wing Lok Street. The ship has wireless but no guards, grilles, or scheme of defence except for two rifles and four pistols kept in the Captain's cabin. About 8 p.m. on the 23rd May, the ship sailed from Hong Kong for Saigon with eighty-nine deck passengers and one 2nd-class passenger, of whom about fifteen were pirates. The ship was searched before leaving Hong Kong. At about 1:30 a.m. on the 25th May, when about twenty-five miles north-east of the Paracel Islands, the pirates appeared from among the passengers and took charge of the ship. The officers resisted, and the pirates fired three shots, one of which wounded the Captain in the leg, while the Second Officer received a chopper wound. The pirates seized all the ship's arms and painted out the Chinese characters on the side of the ship and altered the colouring of the funnel. At 10:30 p.m. on the 26th May, the ship was steaming into Mirs Bay with no lights showing when she was sighted by No. 4 Police Launch, who signalled her to stop. Shots were fired from the Police Launch, which was warned that if it did not cease firing, the ship's officers would be murdered. About midnight, the pirates left the ship in a ship's boat, taking with them property of the officers and passengers valued at $4,054.00. However, in their haste to make off, no passengers were kidnapped. No arrests have yet been made.\n\nThe French passenger steamer \"**Commandant Henri Riviere**\", 1,525 tons, is owned by the Societé Anonyme Pannier of Haiphong, the local agents being the Sing Kee Coal and Shipping Company. The ship has wireless and four unarmed Annamite Guards, eight rifles, and three pistols with ammunition being kept locked in a cupboard on the bridge. The ship sailed from Hong Kong for Hoi How at 11 a.m. on the 24th November with fourteen second-class and one hundred and ninety deck passengers, between twenty and thirty of the latter being pirates. The ship was searched by Police before sailing. About 4 p.m. when the ship had reached a point thirty miles south-west of Gap Rock, the pirates took control of the ship and seized the ship's armoury and a pistol and shotgun belonging to the Second Officer. At 11 a.m. on the 25th November, the ship was stopped off Chilang Light, and the pirates commandeered a passing fishing boat in which they left the ship with four passengers and loot valued at $13,298.00, belonging to the officers, crew, and passengers, and landed in Hie Che Chen Bay just off Chilang Point. None of the pirates have been arrested.\n\nNative Craft. Two piracies on native craft were reported during the year as against four in 1932. On the 17th February, Sampan No. `2245.K` was pirated between Lung Shun Wan and Kau Sai by four men armed with revolvers and daggers, who sailed away in their own boat with loot valued at $231.00. No person was injured. On the 8th July, Trading Junk No. `T3825H` was pirated by eight men armed with two revolvers when in Chinese Waters off Deep Bay. The crew of the junk were landed near Tai O on Lantau, and the pirates sailed away in their junk with their cargo and personal belongings valued at $351.50.\n\nCompared with 1932, there was an increase of two cases in the number of piracies on ships, and a decrease of two cases of piracy on native craft.\n\n## SPECIAL BRANCH\n\n11. Following extensive raids in the Colony during the latter part of 1932, the local Communist Party was reduced at the beginning of the year under review to a state of inactivity. However, in the early part of the year, an effort was made to re-organise the Party, but this attempt was short-lived owing to the arrests of certain members of the \"Working Committee\".\n\nDuring the remainder of the year, there were no indications of any renewal of communist activity on a large scale in the Colony, although arrests of communists were made from time to time.\n\nOn one occasion, inflammatory documents were distributed in an industrial centre, but there were no communist demonstrations, and no strikes or serious labour troubles due to communist agitation occurred.\n\nPage 170 \nPage 171", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544972, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 278, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Table XXII. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE OF THE TUNG WAH CHARITY DURING THE YEAR 1933.\n\n| Receipts | Amount ($) | Expenditure | Amount ($) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| To Balance from 1932 | 190,792.85 | By Charity for Widows and Orphans | 10,076.14 |\n| Grant by Hong Kong Government | 16,000.00 | Subscription from Directors Tung Wah Hospital | 750.00 |\n| Grant from General Chinese Charities Fund | 18,000.00 | Subscription from Committee Po Leung Kuk | 275.00 |\n| Donations from: Taiping Theatre | 2,000.00 | Subscription from Mr. Lau Yuk Wan being refund of auditor's fee | 100.00 |\n| Ko Shing Theatre | 270.00 | Interest from Mr. Lo Luk for mortgage | 504.96 |\n| Lee Theatre | 140.00 | Interest from Mr. Kan Tu Cho for mortgage | 1,841.00 |\n| Subscriptions, Land Harbour | 14,598.45 | Interest from Mr. U Nga Ping for mortgage | 2,587.44 |\n| Shaukiwan | 10,516.20 | Interest from Mr. Chan Tsat for mortgage | 720.00 |\n| Kowloon City | 900.50 | Interest from Mr. Li Sze Ngai for mortgage | 720.00 |\n| Aberdeen | 717.70 | Interest from Mr. Lau Yung Yan for mortgage | 97.00 |\n| Fees from Eastern Maternity Hospital, Wanchai | 1,000.00 | Interest from Mr. Ho Nai Hing for mortgage | 1,620.00 |\n| Advance from Yaumati Public Square Fund | 30,000.00 | Interest from Mr. Ip Shau for mortgage | 2,160.00 |\n| Interest: On Hong Kong 6% Public Works Loan | 495.00 | Interest from Mr. Ng Yan Chan for mortgage | 1,892.00 |\n| On Fixed Deposit | 1,650.00 | Interest from the Confucian Association for mortgage | 610.00 |\n| On Current Account | 146.01 | Subscription to Old Men's Home | 50.00 |\n| Interest on War Bonds of Hong Kong | 750.00 | Salary for Accountant, Mr. Chan Yik Wan | 25.00 |\n| Interest on current account with Shanghai Bank | 81.52 | Salary for Clerk, Mr. Wong Shut Ming | 50.00 |\n| Interest on fixed deposit of Wong Fung Sze with Shanghai Bank | 42.67 | Stamps | 11.00 |\n| | | Conveyance expenses for collecting interest, etc. | 9.60 |\n| | | Printed matters by the Hing Shing | 27.20 |\n| | | Auditor's fee for Mr. Lau Yuk Wan | 50.00 |\n| | | Excess of interest refunded to Mr. Ng Yan Chan | 88.00 |\n| | | Balance | 193,110.28 |\n| Total | $205,932.22 | Total | $205,932.22 |\n\nBy fixed deposit with Messrs. Chan Tsat & Li Sze Ngai on mortgage of houses Nos. 7 and 19, Temple Street | 40,000.00 \nMr. Lau Yung Yan on mortgage of houses Nos. 13, 15 and 17, Temple Street | 10,000.00 \nMr. Kan Tu Cho on mortgage of house property in Wanchai Road | 20,000.00 \nMr. U Nga Ping on mortgage of houses Nos. 54 and 56, Bonham Strand | 6,000.00 \nMr. Lo Luk on mortgage of house No. 82, Whitfield | 1,465.29 \nMr. Ip Shau on mortgage of house No. 136, Hollywood Road | 12,142.25 \nMr. Ho Nai Hing on mortgage of house property in Jervois Street | ... \nMr. Ng Yan Chan on mortgage of house No. 103, Queen's Road, Central | 2.74 \nthe Confucian Association on mortgage of house No. 18A Stanley Street | \" \ndeposit with Tung Wah Hospital | 2,000.00 \nand interest of Wong Fung Sze with Shanghai Bank | \" \ncurrent account deposits with Shanghai Bank | 146,500.00 \nTotal.... | $198,110.28 \n\n(Sd.) LO YUK TONG, \n(Sd.) KAN TAT TSOI, \n**Directors of Tung Wah Hospital.**", "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": 544973, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 279, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Table XXII. \nOF THE BREWIN CHARITY DURING THE YEAR 1933.\n\n| Expenditure | Amount | \n| --- | --- | \n| By Charity for Widows and Orphans | $10,076.14 | \n| Subscription to Old Men's Home | $2,400.00 | \n| Salary for Accountant, Mr. Chan Yik Wan | $100.00 | \n| Salary for Clerk, Mr. Wong Shut Ming | $60.00 | \n| Stamps | $11.00 | \n| Conveyance expenses for collecting interest, etc. | $9.00 | \n| Printed matters by the Hsing Shing | $27.20 | \n| Auditor's fee for Mr. Lau Yuk Wan | $50.00 | \n| Excess of interest refunded to Mr. Ng Yan Chan | $88.00 | \n| **Balance** | **$193,110.28** | \n| Total | $205,932.22 | \n\nInvestments:\n- on mortgage of houses Nos. 7 and 19, Temple Street | $16,000.00 \n- of houses Nos. 13, 15 and 17, Temple Street | $18,000.00 \n- house property in Wanchai Road | $16,000.00 \n- houses Nos. 54 and 56, Bonham Strand | $45,000.00 \n- No. 82, Whitfield | $8,500.00 \n- of house property in Jervois Street | $40,000.00 \n- No. 136, Hollywood Road | $10,000.00 \n- of house No. 103, Queen's Road, Central | $20,000.00 \n- mortgage of house No. 18A Stanley Street inghai Bank | $6,000.00 \n- ... | $1,465.29 \n- ... | $12,142.25 \n- ... | $4.71 \n\n## Table XXIII. \nSummary of work done in the Dispensaries during 1933.\n\n| Dispensaries | Patients | Causes of death | Certifi-cates of death | Patients removed to Hos-pitals | Sent to Hosp. by Ambu-lance | Deal Infants brought to Dis-pensary | Gynaeco-logical cases seen by Lady M.O's. | Vaccin-ations |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- \n| ... | 48 | 27 | 69 | ... | 10 | F | TO | 30 \n| C 55 | 231 | 19.1 | 189 | 150 | 122 | 1,136 | 414 | 1,415 \n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 060'I | 472 | 1,398 | \n| Total for 1933 | 61,728 | 37,875 | 9,659 | 7,403 | † | ... | ... | ... \n| Total for 1932 | 165,661 | 126,716 | 322 | 899 | ... | ... | ... | ... \n| Total for 1933... | 148,163 | 119,237 | 312 | 501 | ... | ... | ... | ... \n| Westeru | 190 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... \n| Harbour and Shaukiwan | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... \n| Central | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... \n| Eastern | 153 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... \n| Shamshuipo | 5,339 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... \n| Hung Hom | 15,910 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... \n| Aberdeen............. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... \n| Kowloon City...... | 68 | 115 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... \n| * Carried out at The Tsan Yuk Hospital. | | | | | | | | \n\n† Gynaecological cases from Western Dispensary not included.", "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": 551345, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937", "content_text": "Enclosure No.3 in Canton despatch to Peking No.63 of 7th May, 1936.\n\nThe China Order in Council 1925 Sections 216 to 221\n\n**HONG KONG AND SWATOW COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED**\n\nRegistered office \n48A Bonham Strand West Hong Kong \n54 Kung Yat Road East Canton.\n\nCanton office\n\nStatement of nominal capital and amount thereof subscribed and paid up\n\nThe nominal authorised capital is $1,000,000 divided into 10,000 shares of HK$100.00 each. \n2500 shares of $100.00 each have been subscribed for and fully paid up.\n\nTo H.M. British Consulate, Canton.\n\nSigned \nWilkinson & Grist \nSolicitors for the Company \n2, Queens Road Central, Hong Kong. \n3rd January, 1936.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 4 in Canton despatch to Peking No. 63 of 7/5/36\n\n83\n\nThe China Order in Council 1925 Sections 216-221\n\n**HONG KONG AND SWATOW COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED**\n\nRegistered office \n49A Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong.\n\nCanton office \n54 Kung Yat Road East, Canton.\n\nList of Directors, address and nationality\n\n| Name in English | Name in Chinese | Address | Nationality |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Lau Weng Kee | | No.10 Yuen Yuen St., 2nd floor, Hong Kong. | Chinese |\n| Lam Shiu Hung | | No.48A Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong | |\n| Ma Chak Man | | No.48A Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong | |\n| Lau Sui Peng | | No. 89, Wongneichong Road, Hong Kong. | Chinese |\n| Chung Sau Fung | | No. 36, Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong. | |\n| Chu Cheng Chuen | | No.48A Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong. | |\n| Ma Pak Yuk | | No. 48A Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong | |\n| Lau Chang Kee or Lau Chang | | No.10, Yuen Yuen St., 2nd floor, Hong Kong | |\n| Lam Wai Cho | | No. 48A, Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong. | Chinese |\n\nTo H.M. British Consulate, Canton.\n\nSigned) Wilkinson & Grist \nSolicitors for the Company \n2, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong \n3rd January, 1936", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551347, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937", "content_text": "84\n\nEnclosure No.5 in Canton despatch to Peking No.63 of 7th May, 1936\n\n**The China Order in Council 1925 Sections 216-221**\n\n**HONG KONG AND SWATOW COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED**\n\nRegistered office\n48A Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong.\n\nCanton office\n54, Kung Yat Road East, Canton.\n\n**List of Shareholders**\n\n| Name in English | Name in Chinese | Address |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Low (Lau) Weng Kee | | No.10 Yuen Yuen Street, 2nd floor, Hong Kong. |\n| Lam Shiu Hung | | No.48A, Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong. |\n| Ma Chak Man | | No.48A, Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong. |\n| Lau Sui Peng | | No.89, Wongneichong Road, Hong Kong. |\n| Chung Sau Fung | | No.36, Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong |\n| Chu Cheng Chuen | | No.48A, Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong. |\n| Ma Pak Yuk | | No.48A Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong. |\n| Lau Chang Kee or Lay Chang | | No.10, Yuen Yuen St., 2nd floor, Hong Kong. |\n| Lam Wai Cho | | No.48A Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong |\n| Cheng Lai Yin | | No.48A, Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong. |\n| Lai Kee | | No.48A Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong. |\n| Lam Yiu Pek | | No.145, Wing Thai Road, Swatow. |\n| Shan To Chong | | No.6 Des Voeux Road, Hong Kong. |\n| Yeung Kee | | No.42, Bonham Strand West Hong Kong. |\n| Lam Hang Som | | No.145, Wing Thai Road, Swatow. |\n\nTo H.M. British Consulate, Canton.\n\n(Signed) Wilkinson & Grist\nSolicitor for the Company\n2, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong.\n\n3rd January, 1936", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937", "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 6 in Canton despatch to Peking No. 63 of 7th May, '36\n\nThe China Order in Council 1925 Sections 216-221.\n\n**HONG KONG AND SWATOW COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED.**\n\nRegistered office \n48A Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong.\n\nCanton office \n54 Kung Yat Road East, Canton.\n\nName and address of Chief local Representatives in Canton. \n54 Kung Yat Road East, Canton.\n\nMa Chak Man \nLow Weng Kee \n\n(Signed) Wilkinson & Grist \nSolicitors for the Company \n2, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong.\n\n3rd January, 1936.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-9 British protection of companies in China 26-3-1936 - 27-2-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565878, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "港香司公限有弟兄豹虎 號六十二街東成文\n\n八六三六弍話電\n\n號掛碼電\n\nEnclosure No.1\n\nHAW PAR BROTHERS, LTD.\n\n(Incorporated In The Straits Settlements.)\n\n8\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS \"HAWPAR\"\n\nTELEPHONE No. 26368.\n\n“HAWPAR”\n\nThe Honourable,\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nSir,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n26, Bonham Strand East,\n\n18th March, 1939.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your communication of 28th February 1939, relative to the assessment of 177-179, Wanchai Road, and respectfully submit that:-\n\n1. The powers of the Assessor to vary an assessment during a period for which a valuation has already been made and paid for, and to increase such assessment, are not defined, and can be stigmatised as arbitrary in their character. The original assessment on the part of the Government is in the nature of a contract and should not be capable of variation within a stated period, i.e., from 1st July 1938 to 30th June 1939.\n\n2. This being so, there can be no standardised system on which assessment calculations are based, all being left to the caprice of the officer concerned; nor are the Assessor's valuations consonant with those of local architects.\n\n3. The remedies referred to in paragraph 4, viz., \"Appeal in the Supreme Court in Summary Jurisdiction\" may prove cumbersome and costly, necessitating the retention of one or more barristers, whose fees, together with those of expert witnesses, coupled with Court Fees, may amount to more than the value of the property in dispute.\n\n1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565879, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "9\n\n港香\n\n司公限有弟兄豹虎\n\n號六十二街東威文\n\n八六三六弍話電\n\nHAW PAR BROTHERS, LTD.\n\n(Incorporated In The Straits Settlements.)\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS\n\n\"HAWPAR\"\n\nTELEPHONE No. 26368.\n\n號掛碼電\n\n\"HAWPAR”\n\nHONG KONG\n\n26, Bonham Strand East,\n\n4. It is difficult to understand that the period of appeal has elapsed, since the interim assessment is for a period ending June 30th, 1939, and the appeal to H.E. the Governor bears date of 30th January 1939.\n\nTen days is inadequate especially in this instance, as the work on the building was incomplete and the architect's figures were not available until October 31st, 1938 when Form 1 was completed and returned to the Assessor's Office on November 1st, 1938. To have submitted figures which were not representative of actual expenditure would have incurred the penalties set forth on Form 1.\n\n5. Your petitioner humbly maintains that less costly and cumbersome machinery be set in motion for the purpose of redressing grievances similar to those set forth in my letters of 24th November 1938 and 30th January 1939.\n\nUnder the circumstances, I have the honour to request that the Official Forms and the correspondence on both sides relating to this matter, be submitted to H.B.M. Secretary of State for the Colonies for further consideration, and for which purpose I respectfully submit the necessary six copies.\n\nI have the honour to be\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nHAW PAR BROTHERS LTD.\n\nYi Kwai Chung\n\nATTORNEY\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565882, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "No.V.59/35.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nCOPY\n\n12\n\n31\n\nASSESSOR'S OFFICE,\n\nHong Kong.\n\n31st October, 1938.\n\nNo.177 Wanchai Road.\n\nWith reference to the above alterations and additions, it is noted that you have not returned the Form 1, which was sent to you on 20th October, 1938, within the prescribed time of 10 days as required under the Rating Ordinance. By this omission you have forfeited your right to appeal against the assessment.\n\nI should be glad if you would kindly return the Form 1, duly filled in with the required particulars to this office, without further delay.\n\nUC/YYL:\n\nMessrs. Haw Par Brothers,\n\n26, Bonham Strand,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(sa) G. Polglase\n\nAssessor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565884, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "港香司公限有弟兄豹虎\n\n號六十二街東威文\n\n八六三六弍話電\n\n號掛碼電\n\nHAWPAR”\n\nCOPY\n\nHAW PAR BROTHERS, LTD.\n\n(Incorporated In The Straits Settlements.)\n\n14\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS\n\n\"HAWPAR\"\n\nTELEPHONE No. 26368.\n\n26, Bonham Strand East,\n\nThe Assessor,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nSir,\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n24th November, 1938.\n\n177/179 Wanchai Road,\n\nRelative to our conversation on the assessment of this property, I beg to remind you that the building was assessed for the year 1st July to 30th June 1939 at $4,800 by document dated 5th April, 1938 and issued from the Assessor's Office.\n\nUnder the circumstances I cannot understand why the assessment has been increased to $21,800 within the period already mentioned and unless the original figure is reverted to, there is no alternative but to appeal to His Excellency, the Governor in Council on what is in my estimation, an arbitrary calculation.\n\nAs already pointed out, the original building has not been extended in any form.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nHAW PAR BROTHERS LTD.\n\n(signed) Ip Kwai Chung.\n\nAttorney.\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565885, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "No. V59/1935.\n\nSirs,\n\nin\n\nASSESSOR'S OFFICE,\n\nHong Kong.\n\n30th Nov., 1938.\n\n177/9 Wanchai Road.\n\nI have to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated\n\n24th Nov., 1938, the contents of which have been noted.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nGP/YYL:\n\nSirs,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(sd) G. Polglase\n\nAssessor.\n\nMessrs. Haw Par Brothers Ltd.,\n\n26, Bonham Strand East,\n\nHong Kong.\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565886, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "16\n\n港香\n\n司公限有弟兄豹虎\n\n號六十二街東威文\n\n八六三六弍話電\n\n號掛碼電\n\nHAWPAR”\n\nHAW PAR BROTHERS, LTD.\n\n(Incorporated In The Straits Settlements.)\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS\n\n\"HAWPAR\"\n\nTELEPHONE No. 26368.\n\n26, Bonham Strand East,\n\n50th. January, 1939.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nThe Accountant-General,\n\nTREASURY.\n\nSir,\n\nI attach herewith cheque for $1544.17 in payment of\n\nRates Notice (Interim Assessment), from Nov. '38 to Mar. '39, in\n\nrespect of 177 - 179, Wanchai Road.\n\nIt is to be noted that this payment is made under\n\nprotest as representations are being made to His Excellency, the\n\nGovernor in Council on what is considered to be, the excessive\n\nand arbitrary nature of the sum involved.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nHAW PAR BROTHERS LTD.\n\n(pp) Ip Kwai Chung.\n\nAttorney.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565887, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "港香\n\n司公限有弟兄豹虎\n\n號六十二街東咸文\n\n八六三六弍話電\n\n號掛碼電\n\nHAWPAR\n\nCOPY.\n\nHAW PAR BROTHERS, LTD.\n\n(Incorporated In The Straits Settlements.)\n\n17\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS\n\n\"HAWPAR\"\n\nTELEPHONE No. 26368.\n\n26, Bonham Strand East,\n\n30th. January, 1939.\n\nHon: Mr. N. L. Smith,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nI have the honour to request that the attached petition\n\nbe submitted to His Excellency The Governor in Council for his\n\nkind consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nHAW PAR BROTHERS LTD.\n\n(ad) Ip Kwai Chung.\n\nAttorney.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565888, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "港香\n\n司公限有弟兄豹虎\n\n號六十二街東威文\n\n八六三六弍話電\n\nCOFY\n\nHAW PAR BROTHERS, LTD.\n\n(Incorporated In The Straits Settlements.)\n\n18\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS\n\n“HAWPAR”\n\nTELEPHONE No. 26368.\n\n號碼電\n\nHAWPAR\"\n\n26, Bonham Strand East,\n\n30th. January, 1939.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nSir Geoffry Northcote, K.C.M.G.\n\nsir.\n\nI have the honour to appeal to His Excellency the Governor-in-Council against the arbitrary assessment by the Government Assesser, of the Building at 177-179, Wanchai Road, which said property is used as a Godown and as a Newspaper Office.\n\nIt is respectfully submitted that an increase in the assessment value of from $4,800 to $21,800 is excessive, particularly so when it is pointed out that the building is one and the same structure notwithstanding the fact that there has been an additional outlay of $52,130 on the purchase price of $120,000 in renovations and extensions.\n\nIt is just a question of dressing the same individual in a new suit.\n\nWanchai Road is acknowledged to be not a salubrious locality.\n\nI consider that the assessed value is much too high for the following reasons:-\n\n(1) That the purchasing price of the old building is $120,000, which plus the cost of remodelling and alteration amounting to $52,130 totals $172,130. Basing my calculation @ 7% on the above figure, the annual income would be $12,049.\n\n1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565889, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "19\n\n港香\n\n司公限有弟兄豹虎\n\n號六十二街東威文\n\n八六三六弍話電\n\nHAW PAR BROTHERS, LTD.\n\n(Incorporated In The Straits Settlements.)\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS \"HAWPAR\"\n\nTELEPHONE No. 26368.\n\n號掛碼電 \"HAWPAR\"\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n26, Bonham Strand East,\n\n(2) That estimating the cost of building by its cubic contents,\n\nI find that the whole volume of the building is 531,400 cubic feet.\n\nTaking 30 cents per cubic foot as a basic figure for the valuation\n\nof the building which I think more than enough taking into\n\nconsideration the present rate of construction, the cost of the\n\nbuilding would be $159,420\n\nand cost of land 8,572 sq.ft. based on recent\n\ntransaction of adjoining lot @ $5 per sq.ft. $42,860\n\nTotal cost of building and land $202,280\n\nThis figure although higher than that stated in paragraph (1)\n\nrepresents the rate for dwelling houses with interior decoration,\n\npartitioning and equipment. In reality this rate for a godown like\n\nthe one in question, with very plain and simple construction is much\n\nabove the actual value, as the assumed rate of 30 cents per cubic\n\nfeet is obtained from recent price for the construction of the\n\nordinary European type of dwelling houses.\n\nFurther, the increase has been made within a period already\n\ncovered by payment to Government of an Assessment Form No.4 viz.\n\nfrom 1st July, 1938 to 30th June, 1939.\n\nThe assessment is deemed to be arbitrary in-as-much as the\n\nAssessor admitted that he could increase the assessment still\n\nfurther, thereby indicating that there is no stabilized basis upon\n\n2.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565890, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "港香司公限有弟兄豹虎 號六十二街東威文 八大三六式話電 號掛碼電 \"HAWPAR\" HAW PAR BROTHERS, LTD. (Incorporated In The Straits Settlements.) 20 TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS 'HAWPAR\" TELEPHONE No. 26368. HONG KONG... 26, Bonham Strand East,\n\nwhich such values are calculated, all being subject to the judgment of one individual public servant.\n\nIn this connection, Your Excellency is reminded that there are Boards to advise Government on matters of Education; Sanitation; Licencing; and it is respectfully advanced by your petitioner that an Assessment Board would be an advantage not only to Government but to the property owner who would have less cause for complaint and discontent which exist at present.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, HAW PAR BROTHERS LTD. (簽) Ip Kwai Chung. Attorney.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565892, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "COFY\n\nNo.938/1939.\n\nSir,\n\n22\n\n10:\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHong Kong.\n\n28th February, 1939.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of\n\n30th January, 1939, forwarding a petition addressed to His Excellency\n\nthe Governor in Council on the subject of the assessment of a building\n\nat 177-179 Wanchai Road.\n\n2.\n\nThis is not a matter in which an appeal lies to that authority\n\nand the proper course to be pursued by \"any person who is aggrieved by\n\nan interim valuation\" is clearly laid down in section 28 of the Rating\n\nOrdinance, No.6 of 1901. As the prescribed time limit for such action\n\nhas now elapsed your only remedy is to await the 1939 Assessment.\n\n3.\n\nYour attention to this procedure was expressly drawn in a\n\nsimilar case in 1937, and in particular in my letter No.3889/1933 of\n\n25th March, 1937.\n\n4.\n\nIn view of the adequate remedies provided by the existing law\n\nin the matter of disputes about assessments the Government is not\n\nprepared to consider your suggestion of a special Board to undertake\n\nthe duties now prescribed for the Supreme Court in Summary Jurisdiction.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(sd) B. Hawkins\n\np.p. Colonial Secretary.\n\nIp Kwai Chung, Esq.\n\nHaw Par Brothers, Ltd.,\n\n26, Bonham Strand East,\n\nHong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565894, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939", "content_text": "159/35.\n\n!\n\nMessrs. Haw Par Brothers.\n\n26, Bonham Strand,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n(COPY)\n\nG.R.\n\nFORM NO. 1.\n\nREQUISITION FOR PARTICULARS AS TO TENEMENTS\n\n- 1 NOV 1938\n\nTHE RATING ORDINANCE 1901-ASSESSMENT FOR THE YEAR 1938-1939.\n\n[s. 6, 4, 6 & 43.]\n\n1ST JULY TO 30TH JUNE.\n\nASSESSOR'S OFFICE\n\nG. POLALASE.\n\nAssessor.\n\nDated the 20 OCT, 1938\n\nRETURN OF HOUSES, BUILDINGS AND LANDS IN HONG KONG OF WHICH THE UNDERSIGNED IS OWNER OR OCCUPIER.\n\n \n No. of Assessment.\n STREET.\n Lot No.\n Name.\n No.\n Description of tenement\n \n \n 1\n 177 Wanchai Road.\n I.L's 443\n :616,4438\n R.P.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Newspaper Pans and Godown....\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sing Top Jih Pas. and bug Ann. Long Godown\n \n\n1. Whether dwelling house with outhouses and garden occupied therewith, or\n\n2. Warehouse or other building, etc.. separately occupied.\n\nAlterations & additions.\n\nIf godowns, state storage capacity.\n\nIf the tenement is sub-divided, state No. of sub-tenants and rent paid by each.\n\nTotal rent for the current month for the whole tenement. State if this includes rates and if any portion of the tenement is unoccupied.\n\n$350.00 per month including water rates and\n\nIf the tenement is sub-divided, what percentage from the total annual rent do you consider you lose from portions of the tenement being at times void?\n\nIf the whole tenement is let or leased, the period of tenure, when entered upon, and whether the premises are kept in repair by the owner or by the lessee at his own cost.\n\nPlease state the following particulars:-\n\n \n REMARKS.\n \n \n \n 1. Total cost of building and additions work including fittings, fixtures, decoration and architect's fees.\n \n \n \n 2. Total cost of site\n \n \n \n 3. Cost of land.\n \n \n \n 4. Crown Rent per annum.\n \n \n \n 5. Estimated annual cost of repairs.\n \n \n \n 6. Estimated insurance premium.\n \n \n \n 7. Area of land, including architects' fees\n $52130.00\n \n\nDated the 1st day of November 1938.\n\nNOTE. Every owner or occupier who refuses or neglects to furnish the particulars required, and every person who knowingly furnishes any false or incorrect particulars, is liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months. If the above information is not furnished within ten days, no appeal from the assessment will be allowed.\n\n(sd)\n\nIp Kwai\n\nSignature of Owner or Occupier or Agent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571367, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-586-5 Centenary of the occupation of Hong Kong 8-7-1940 - 26-1-1941", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-586-5 Centenary of the occupation of Hong Kong 8-7-1940 - 26-1-1941", "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST-HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, CENTENARY SUPPLEMENT\n\n## HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING THE STORY OF A CORPORATION\n\n**AUTHORISED CAPITAL** \n$50,000,000 \n**ISSUED AND FULLY PAID-UP** \n$20,000,000 \n**RESERVE FUNDS:** \n- **STERLING** £6,500,000\n- **HONGKONG CURRENCY RESERVE** $10,000,000\n- **RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROPRIETORS** $20,000,000\n\n**HEAD OFFICE:** HONGKONG.\n\n### Board of Directors:-\n- Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Chairman,\n- C. C. Roberts, Esq., Deputy Chairman.\n- J. K. Bousfield, Esq.,\n- A. H. Compton, Esq.,\n- Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell,\n- L. J. Davies, Esq..\n- C. Miskin, Esq.,\n- K. S. Morrison, Esq.,\n- Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearce,\n- Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields.\n\n**Chief Manager:** \nSir Vandeleur M. Grayburn,\n\n### BRANCHES:\n| Location | \n|---------------|\n| AMOY |\n| BANGKOK |\n| BATAVIA |\n| BOMBAY |\n| CALCUTTA |\n| CANTON |\n| CHEFOO |\n| COLOMBO |\n| DAIREN |\n| FOOCHOW |\n| HAIPHONG |\n| HANKOW |\n| HARBIN |\n| ILOILO |\n| IPOH |\n| JOHORE |\n| KOBE |\n| KOWLOON |\n| KUALA LUMPUR |\n| LONDON |\n| LYONS |\n| MALACCA |\n| MANILA |\n| MUAR (JOHORE) |\n| MUKDEN |\n| NEW YORK |\n| PEIPING |\n| PENANG |\n| RANGOON |\n| SAIGON |\n| SAN FRANCISCO |\n| SHANGHAI |\n| SINGAPORE |\n| SOURABAYA |\n| SUNGEI PATANI |\n| SWATOW |\n| TIENTSIN |\n| TOKYO |\n| TSINGTAO |\n| YOKOHAMA |\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS opened in Local Currency and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local and Other Currencies which will be quoted on application.\n\nSAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various sizes To Let. TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business undertaken.\n\n### HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK\n\nThe Business of the above Bank is conducted by the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules may be obtained on application.\n\nFor the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, \nV. M. GRAYBURN, \nChief Manager.\n\nJANUARY 25, 1941.\n\n## CENTURY OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS From A Barren Rock To A Splendid City\n\nWe deal here with the factual history of Hongkong: the early administration, old buildings, business and social developments, growth of amenities, and extension of roadways and transport. With the increase of population, corresponding with the growth of the Colony, have come many changes, and the progress of invention has brought more amenities and better health, improved transport, and many new structures. It is when we read here of the conditions which the early communities faced, that we realise best how much the change has been in the past hundred years.\n\nSpace has not permitted the use of much material which could perhaps have embellished this article; and most of the fact and commentary is necessarily confined to the earlier period of Hongkong history. It should serve however to give the reader, who sees the more recent developments before him to-day, a clearer picture of the past, and perhaps a vision of the future.\n\n## FROM MANSION TO SLUM\n\nWhen the British Government took face of Hongkong, it had to overcome a formidable task of development. The chief residential areas of those early days are now completely obliterated under shop and slum property. (The leading merchants and officials in residence on the Peak had not then been thought of) had their homes in an area adjoining Wyndham Street, D'Aguilar Street, Wellington Street and Hollywood Road; while the development of the Wanchai district, where a large pier and a number of godowns were erected, led to many residences being erected there.\n\nIt is interesting nowadays to recall that Spring Garden Lane, sounding so picturesque, commemorates the existence in the forties of several houses with gardens, and a small stream fed by a spring at the back, flowing from the hillside where Kennedy Road is now situated. This later became one of the most unsavoury quarters of the city; and the Praya East reclamation of fifteen years ago entirely changed the seafront.\n\nFurther out towards Happy Valley, the firm of Jardine, Matheson and Company, pioneers of the old days, erected their spacious godowns and storehouses at East Point, and their taipan's house on the hill at the back of the hundred others forming partly a floating and partly a piratical section of the residential population. There were late Mr. Lee Hyson's development, though some years ago unrecognisable by mains. The Chinese population settled on the island in 1840 was probably not much more than the 5,000 estimated in one of the old chronicles, with a few hundred others. The villagers cultivated some of the hill rice, vegetables much as they do to-day, and especially was this observed at Wong-nei-chong, at the upper end of Happy Valley, at that time nearer the sea-front and connected with the sea by means of a creek the remnant of which is seen to-day in Bowrington Canal.\n\nThe godowns date back to the early days. A large community existed at Shaukiwan, and old hamlets stood at ... \n\nAnother ... in the ... to-day at ...\n\nFormer Clock Tower at the top of Pedder Street\n\n## The First Permanent Buildings Are Erected\n\nWith the advent of the Civil Service departments, it became necessary to erect permanent buildings for their accommodation, and these were soon commenced. It is obvious that the earliest forms of accommodation, for such departments or institutions as needed housing at the very commencement of the British occupation, were sheds, barracks; the earliest being easily and quickly constructed.\n\nIn 1866 a new Harbour Office was completed on the seafront, at the junction of Wing Lok Street and Bonham Strand, and was reconstructed in 1873-74. The present structure was completed in 1906.\n\nWith the development of shipping, lighthouses were constructed. Cape Collinson light was completed in 1876; Gap Rock lighthouse in 1892.\n\n## EARLY HOSPITALS\n\n...\n\nPage 10 \nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-586-5 Centenary of the occupation of Hong Kong 8-7-1940 - 26-1-1941.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": 579344, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 23, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. 8.12.41\n\nDistrict. Time.\n\n \n 65.\n Stanley.\n \n \n \n 66.\n Water Police.\n \n \n \n 67.\n Police H. Q.\n \n \n \n 68.\n Hong Kong & Kowloon.\n 14.00\n \n \n 69.\n Emergency Unit, Hong Kong.\n 14.00\n \n \n 70.\n Hung Hom.\n 14.00\n \n \n 71.\n Sham Shui Po.\n 14.00 to 16.00\n \n \n 72.\n Tsun Wan.\n p.m.\n \n \n 73.\n Kowloon City.\n \n \n \n 74.\n Bay View.\n 14.00\n 15.00\n 16.00\n \n\n8. 8.12.41, 23 Station of the Hong Kong Electric, Government Stores Depot and Taikoo Docks. Pill boxes on the water front of the Government Stores and Hong Kong Electric buildings were found untenable and alternative positions had to be taken up by the Rajputs when they relieved the Middlesex. Japanese planes bombed forts at Stanley and Chung Hom Kok.\n\nAn Aldis lamp was installed at Tsim Sha Tsui for signalling with the Harbour Office in case telephonic communication broke down.\n\nAssistant Superintendent of Police, New Territories, reported safe arrival of New Territories North Police at Police Headquarters. They were sent to various stations and dispersal points. Mr. Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, New Territories, from then onwards assisted Mr. Thompson, Superintendent of Police in general charge of Hong Kong divisions.\n\nUnder Special Branch supervision divisional Police completed round up of about 22 Japanese males. They were assembled at Tsim Sha Tsui for Kowloon and the Gaol Clearing Station for Hong Kong and finally all transferred to Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nSquads sent out to control crowds at rice shops in Hollywood Road, Des Voeux Road, Bonham Strand East and Queen's Road Central.\n\nAir Raid on Kowloon Docks took place with slight damage and few casualties.\n\nFurther air raids on Sham Shui Po Camp, with no casualties, most of bombs falling into the sea.\n\nOfficer in charge destroyed 6000 gallons of kerosine at San Uk Ling. Senior Superintendent of Police Kowloon had previously consulted Col. Newhman, General Security Officer I, who stated that special arrangements were in hand by the Military Authorities themselves to destroy gasoline supplies at the Texas Oil Company, if and when necessary and that no Police action was required.\n\nSecond air raid on Kowloon City occurred with some casualties.\n\nPolice evacuated to the Red Swastika Building, Dragon Terrace, under orders from the No.2 Sub Area Commander. (This move had been decided prior to the war to take place if hostilities broke out as the station was too near the A.P.C. tanks.)\n\nCompletion of evacuation of Tai O and Cheung Chau and arrival of personnel at Tsim Sha Tsui reported to Assistant Superintendent of Police Kowloon.\n\nPolice Sergeant A.32 Dowman went to Customs Pass to locate Police liaison party who had not reported to Military Authorities. About an hour later the Police car was crashed into by a lorry. The latter went over the side of the hill and passengers were only extracted with difficulty. (Two killed). The Police liaison party was later found.\n\nNight. Station posts were manned as follows:- One Lewis gun and crew on first floor front verandah and two Thompson guns and crew on second floor rear verandah. Roof watchers posted at Royal Naval Institute and Imperial Tobacco Company building.\n\n21.15 Called to Shaukiwan to deal with looters from Taikoo Docks or other ships' gangs. Two shops near Sai Wan\n\n \n 75.\n Tai O and Cheung Chau.\n 19.30\n \n \n 76.\n Kowloon City.\n 19.30\n \n \n 77.\n Eastern.\n \n \n \n 78.\n Emergency Unit, Hong Kong.", "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": 595120, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-619-3 Marine Court of Inquiry to investigate stranding of S.S. HONG KHENG- proceedings 1-7-1947 - 31-7-1947", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-619-3 Marine Court of Inquiry to investigate stranding of S.S. HONG KHENG- proceedings 1-7-1947 - 31-7-1947", "content_text": "**SEAL)**\n\nA7\n\n## MERCHANT SHIPPING ORDINANCE, 1899\n\n**(No. 10 of 1899)**\n\n## WARRANT\n\nWHEREAS by Section 19(1) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, (No. 10 of 1899), it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever occasion may arise, by warrant under his hand and the seal of the Colony, to form a Court (which shall be called the Marine Court) to make investigations as to casualties affecting ships, or to inquire into charges of incompetency or misconduct on the part of masters, mates or engineers of ships;\n\nAND WHEREAS notification has been made of the occurrence of casualty to a ship, to wit the S.S. \"HONG KHENG\" being a ship of British nationality and registered at the Port of Singapore and in ownership of the Ho Hong Steamship Company (1932) Ltd. of Singapore (local agents the Ho Hong Steamship Company (1932) Ltd., 48a Bonham Strand West, Hong Kong), the said casualty having occurred at or about 4 a.m. on the morning of the 19th day of July, 1947.\n\nNOW THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers aforesaid, I, **DAVID MERCER MACDOUGALL**, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies DO BY THIS MY WARRANT FORM a Court (which shall be called the Marine Court) for the purpose of an investigation into the occurrence of the casualty aforesaid, the said investigation to be held in conformity with the said Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, and Regulations in Table G made thereunder and published at page 319 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, Volume I, (1937 Edition);\n\nAND I DO BY THIS MY WARRANT DIRECT that the Marine Court as aforesaid shall consist of the persons named in the Schedule hereto.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-619-3 Marine Court of Inquiry to investigate stranding of S.S. HONG KHENG- proceedings 1-7-1947 - 31-7-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 595260, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-620-1 Grant of land to London Missionary Society- to Nam Pak Hong Association 20-7-1948 - 21-8-1948", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-620-1 Grant of land to London Missionary Society- to Nam Pak Hong Association 20-7-1948 - 21-8-1948", "content_text": "# Secretariat file 32/661/47\n\n## No. 170.\n\nSir,\n\n54439/2/48 \nAny (2)\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG.** \n20th July, 1948.\n\nI have the honour to request your approval to the grant by private treaty to the Nam Pak Hong Association of an area of land measuring 1,400 square feet comprising part of the property now known as `135 Bonham Strand` in Victoria on the Island of Hong Kong.\n\n## 2.\n\nThe Nam Pak Hong Association, which is not a charitable organisation but a profit-making Association of Merchants formed about 1868, claims that the property known as No.`135 Bonham Strand`, a roughly triangular site of about 2,600 square feet, was granted to it about 80 years ago, and being anxious to reconstruct the building, had plans prepared by an architect to that end. Before embarking on the work of reconstruction, the Association endeavoured to clear up the obscure position of its title to the land. It was then discovered that the land on which the building stands is Crown Land, that the Association as occupant is a tenant at will of Government, and has no title to the land at all.\n\n## 3.\n\nIt seems that about 1868 the Association was allowed to build a private fire-station and meeting house on Crown Land. Some years ago the fire-station became redundant and ceased to be used for that purpose, but the tenants were allowed to remain in possession of the building which they had erected, and they continue to pay rent, rates, and property tax. The Hong Kong Association occupies the 1st floor as a committee room and office, while the ground floor is used in part as a station for the Nam Pak Hong district watchmen, and in part by a sub-tenant as a tailor's shop for which he pays no cash rent.\n\n## 4.\n\nThe reduction in area now proposed from 2,600 to 1,400 square feet is due to the desirability of providing a set back in the alignment of the building for the purpose of street widening, the proposed reconstruction offering a suitable opportunity to do this.\n\n## 5.\n\nThe Crown Lease would be for the usual renewable term of 75 years with a suitable building covenant, Crown Rent at the ruling rates being reserved. Subject to your approval, it is not proposed to give any concession in respect of premium, and a charge of $100.00 per square foot will be made, which is the price which the land might be expected to fetch if it were put up to public auction. While the Association would thereby regularise its title without any foreseeable sacrifice of the revenues of the Colony, it would, in recognition of its 80 years' uninterrupted occupation of the site, be protected from the possibility of losing it to speculative bidders at a public auction.\n\n## 6.\n\nI would appreciate an early indication of your approval to enable the Association to proceed with the reconstruction of the building.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, humble servant, \n**GOVERNOR.**\n\n## 27 JUL 1948\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE A. CREECH JONES, M.P.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-620-1 Grant of land to London Missionary Society- to Nam Pak Hong Association 20-7-1948 - 21-8-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]